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June 10, 2015
In an effort to better compete with major players such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft in cloud services, insiders indicate that Apple is developing a high-speed network and changing the way it builds data centers. While Apple has turned to network providers and tech suppliers in the past to support iTunes, iCloud, Siri and more, the company just announced a new streaming music service and is expected to launch an online TV service. Apple’s new initiatives will require faster, more efficient infrastructure to meet the increased demands for content delivery.
“User experience is very important to Apple, but delivery of its content is the one part of that experience it doesn’t control,” said Andrew Schmitt, an analyst at IHS Infonetics Research. “If they want to control and maximize that user experience, they’re going to have to control that last piece.”
“Apple’s push to build a stronger cloud infrastructure combines two initiatives: Building out a faster network and upgrading data centers,” reports Bloomberg. “While Apple hasn’t disclosed total costs, investments will run into the billions.”
Apple, the seventh-largest cloud infrastructure spender last year, is looking to own the pipes that connect its four large data centers with Internet hubs in select cities, say people familiar with the plans. The ultimate goal is to increase capacity and efficiency for delivering content and services without relying on cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft.
“Rather than buy off-the-shelf technology, the company has been working on ways to send data via fiber lines at hundreds of gigabits per second,” explains Bloomberg. “Apple is also exploring ways to meld its data centers and networks into one highly automated system, three of the people said.”
“Facebook says it has saved $2 billion using this software-defined data-center approach, which automatically assigns servers to handle demand, and turns down their power usage if they aren’t needed.” | <urn:uuid:2777fcdb-c50e-4adf-9973-327f72576520> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.etcentric.org/apple-building-a-faster-network-and-upgrading-data-centers/ | 2022-01-26T05:09:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.938988 | 418 |
A distinct cell population in macaque taste buds. Previously, we Bentazone site determined that transcripts for taste receptors and signal transduction components had been enriched inside the leading fraction of CV taste buds when transcripts for cell cycle and extracellular matrix proteins have been enriched inside the bottom fraction of CV taste buds, constant having a model in which mature taste receptor cells are situated within the prime portion even though developmentally immature taste cells reside in the bottom portion of CV taste buds . Utilizing longitudinal or tangential sections, TMEM44 signals localized to cells at the bottom and sides of CV (Fig. 3A) and FG (Fig. 3D) taste buds. By contrast, TRPM5 and PKD1L3 signals localized to cells toward the major and center region of CV (Fig. 3B) and FG (Fig. 3E) taste buds. Although TMEM44 cell nuclei are enriched within the bottom portion of CV taste buds (Fig. 3H), some TMEM44 cell processes labeled with keratin19 (Fig. 3G), a marker of taste bud cells , extended towards the taste pore area (Fig. 3I). TMEM44 transcripts in these cell processes most likely account for TMEM44 expression inside the leading portion of taste buds by microarray analyses (Fig. 2B). Sonic hedgehog (SHH), a growth element expressed in progenitor cells and crucial for cell fate and developmental processes is expressed in immature taste cells at the bottom of taste buds in rodents . TMEM44 cells (Fig. 3J) and SHH cells (Fig. 3K) have been both polarized toward the bottom of CV taste buds in macaques. Double label ISH revealed that TMEM44 signals partially colocalized with SHH signals (Fig. 3L) in cells at the bottom of taste buds. Moreover, a population of TMEM44 cells that didn’t express SHH was present above the TMEMM44/SHHpositive cells and towards the lateral region of taste buds (Fig. 3L). These information suggest that TMEM44 may be expressed in cells transiting from an immature (SHHpositive) to a mature (taste receptorpositive) state and may possibly represent an intermediate stage in taste cell improvement.TRPM5 Cells Express Genes Linked to Calcium Signalling: MCTP1, CALHM13, and ANOMCTP1 is predicted to encode a two transmembrane domain protein with intracellular N and Ctermini, and three calciumbinding C2 domains preceding the very first membrane spanning domain . C2 domaincontaining proteins are frequently involved in signal transduction and membrane trafficking events. MCTP1 transcripts had been expressed in FG and CV taste buds (Fig. 4A) and were enriched within the major portion of CV taste buds (Fig. 4B) by microarray analyses. There was an average of four.7 MCTP1positive cells per taste bud section in single label experiments. Making use of double label ISH, MTCP1 and TRPM5 labeled related taste cell populations (Fig. 4C , O) although MCTP1 and PKD1L3 labeled distinct taste cell populations (Fig. 4I , P).TMEM44 Is Expressed in Taste Cells Distinct from TRPM5 and PKD1L3 Cells and in the Bottom of Taste BudsTMEM44 is predicted to encode a seven transmembrane domain protein with an extracellular Nterminus and 17a-Hydroxypregnenolone Technical Information anPLoS A single | www.plosone.orgGenes in Taste Cell SubsetsFigure 1. Identification of distinct taste cell populations by histology. A , Double label in situ hybridization (ISH) for TRPM5 and PKD1L3. TRPM5 (A, D) and PKD1L3 (B, E) are expressed in unique cells inside the merged photos (C, F). G , Double label ISH for PKD2L1 and PKD1L3. PKD2L1 (G, J) and PKD1L3 (H, K) are expressed in similar cells within the merged photos (I, L). Identical benefits have been obtained using double label fluorescent ISH (A an. | <urn:uuid:030958a0-552d-4ad9-89a9-0eeff1a060b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.idhinhibitor.com/2020/11/03/10921/ | 2022-01-26T04:36:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.864875 | 900 |
Canadian customer find blueberry drying machine
One of Canadian customers come to our showroom and see the drying machines. He wants to find a blueberry drying machine. He used to use high temperature dryer which dry quickly but ugly. Our ike drying machine gentle drying at middle and low temperature (20℃~80℃). Aroma, appearance and bioactivity are largely retained. | <urn:uuid:7c5aba0e-361b-49e6-bd33-7dcf55185cbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.ike.cn/canadian-customer-come-and-find-blueberry-drying-machine | 2022-01-26T04:56:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.927499 | 81 |
Sustainability is an intrinsic part of our DNA: with our well-considered and supported CSR policy, we strive for three ambitious key objectives that focus on our social (People), ecological (Planet) and economic (Profit) impact. With this approach, we work on no less than 13 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On 27 October 2020, Voka officially recognised Jan De Nul NV as a figurehead of the United Nations' SDGs, with the UNITAR 'SDG Pioneer' certificate. The award ceremony took place during Voka's third Day of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and honoured the 88 Flemish companies that have received the Voka Sustainable Entrepreneurship Charter over the past 3 years. And so did Jan De Nul. | <urn:uuid:ee0105a9-baa0-4897-bae0-9df1f6eb4484> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.jandenul.com/news/sdg-pioneer-jan-de-nul-sets-example | 2022-01-26T04:37:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.946798 | 156 |
Hattie Bloomer Set - Cherry Hearts
Dress your little sweetheart in our Cherry Hearts! This adorable print features pink and red cherries in the shape of hearts, making them perfect for Valentine's Day and beyond. The Hattie Bloomer Set is a new style that features short, elastic sleeves and pink and red geometric smocking with red smocked hearts around the neck. Pair this Bloomer Set with our Hearts Knee Highs and Pink Bow for an extra special Valentine's Day look.
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Thanks Dave and David for your excellent service when we had a blowout in our Motorhome on Friday. Prompt and courteous service second to none. Thanks Dave for the extra effort to ensure we got back.on the road as soon as possible. We would highly recommend Dave and his team. Back home safely now thanks to the Daves.
Organized and easy to negotiate. On time delivery and make ways to deliver your car safe and secure as near as they can be at the delivery place. Goods in the car can be considered as long it wont obstruct the windows. Well recommended. I have got my car delivered from Tamworth to brisbane with no issue. | <urn:uuid:d9ba9a45-5ff4-46fe-9083-45b5d18cd7b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.localsearch.com.au/find/car-carriers/turill-nsw | 2022-01-26T05:34:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.984671 | 137 |
The CSEC announced today the the new arena deal is officially dead due to neither party doing anything to change the project before the start of the New Year. This leaves the Flames and the city of Calgary with no prospects as of now for a new arena for Calgary's sports teams or entertainment.
"The Project Framework Agreement, which governed the funding, design and construction of the Event Centre, required both Contributing Parties, being the City of Calgary and Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, to waive Construction Conditions on or before December 31, 2021. Neither Contributing Party waived the Conditions by December 31, 2021 which resulted in the termination of the Project Framework Agreement and all associated agreements."
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ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY BALL: The Allentown Symphony Association will hold is 65th annual Symphony Ball, "Cirque du Soiree," Feb. 7 at Lehigh Country Club. The black-tie evening begins with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner and music at 7:30 p.m. Back2Life will play dance music starting at 9. Tickets are $225; $300, benefactors (includes ball program book recognition); $2,250 for a table of 10. Reservations are requested by Jan. 23. Sponsorships available. Proceeds benefit music, outreach and education programs. Call 610-432-7961, ext. 104.
SNOW BALL: Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, with the Small Business Council and Capital BlueCross, present the 26th annual ball Feb. 7 at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center. The black-tie dinner dance features a silent auction fundraiser to benefit Main Street Lehigh Valley. Cocktails and hors d' oeuvres start at 6 p.m.; dinner is at 8. Live music and dancing runs 9-11. Tickets are $375 per couple; $4,000 for a corporate table of 10. Info: 484-226-0128 or http://www.lehighvalleychamber.org.
GIRL SCOUT COOKIE BENEFIT: The new "Girl Scout Cookie Crunch" is 1-3 p.m. Feb. 8 at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. The event will feature local chefs who create appetizers to decadent desserts each featuring one of the eight Girl Scout Cookie brands, including Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Patties, Caramel Delights or Shortbread. Proceeds benefit the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania and the ArtsQuest Arts Education Fund. Tickets are $35; $30, ArtsQuest members; $21, active Girl Scouts ages 17 and under. Info: http://www.artsquest.org, 610-332-3378.
MASQUERADE BALL: Celebrate Valentine's Day and support downtown Easton Feb. 14 at the Masquerade Ball presented by Friends of Easton, PA, at the Bank Street Annex on Northampton Street. The "after-dinner" starts at 8 p.m. and includes music, dancing, drinks and desserts and a "romance-themed" silent auction. Proceeds support the Easton Ambassadors program. Tickets are $50 and include a $20 voucher to a participating restaurant. Info: http://www.friendsofeastonpa.org.
HAVE A HEART: Project Child is hosting its Ninth Annual Have a Heart for Children dinner dance March 7 at Hotel Bethlehem. Proceeds benefit initiatives designed to reduce child abuse in the Lehigh Valley. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. and includes hors d'oeuvres, dinner and dancing to the music of the Philadelphia Funk Authority. For tickets, $75, go to http://www.projectchildlv.org or call Amy Brenfleck at 610-954-9561 x 334.
HIGH NOTES GALA: The Allentown School District Foundation will host its 5th Annual High Notes Gala, "Give Back to the Future" on March 28 at Miller Symphony Hall. The evening will be a celebration of Allentown School District students and the accomplishments of the ASD Foundation over the past five years. High Notes will feature hors d'oeuvres starting at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Rodale Room and On-Stage, followed by an 8 p.m. performance by middle and high school students, accompanied by students presenting excerpts from their schools' spring musicals. The Foundation also will award more than two dozen summer camp scholarships. Tickets are $150 ($90 tax deductible). Businesses and sponsorships are available from $250-$10,000. For gala tickets or sponsorships, go to http://www.allentownsd.org or contact Stacey Prohaska at [email protected] or call 484-765-4093. Tickets to the performance only — $20; $10, students — are available at Miller Symphony Hall at http://www.millersymphonyhall.org or call 610-432-6715.
GALA FOR ANIMAL RESCUE: Last Chance Ranch will host its Boots, Barks & Bowties Gala at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem at 5 p.m. April 11. The event, a fundraiser to support expansion plans at the Quakertown-based animal rescue ranch, will include live music by Steve Cofield & Sweet, an open bar, hors d'oeuvres, live and silent auctions highlighted by a trip to Anguilla, and more. Established in 1989, Last Chance Ranch rescues and rehabiitates horses and domestic animals, including dogs and cats, and educates about humane and responsible treatment of animals. Tickets are $80, adv.; $95 at the door. Donations for the auction and sponsors also are needed. More info: http://www.lastchanceranch.org or contacts Jackie Burke at [email protected] or 215-538-2510. | <urn:uuid:26ca3b0b-65c7-4993-afee-06162412e5cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-scene-save-the-dates-0125-20150124-story.html | 2022-01-26T04:43:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.874704 | 1,103 |
Zistos' HDTS-5AR-MC16-2.5ZIR Tactical Motorized IR Zoom System includes an articulating motorized pole, a five-inch display, and the ZistosHD 10X IR Zoom camera. This tactical surveillance tool is ideally suited for looking into attics, basements, crawlspaces, and windows. The Zistos HD IR Zoom camera operates in color mode with illumination turned off and switches to black-and-white mode when the IR illuminators are turned on. The detachable telescoping pole with remote motorized camera mount attaches to the ZistosHD handle, creating total system reach of 16 feet.
From event security, to search and rescue, to border patrol and beyond, the AccuRad PRD offers the next generation in radiation detection. | <urn:uuid:139ec88a-895c-4b59-9bab-1e755f9fb748> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.policemag.com/533728/tactical-motorized-ir-zoom-system | 2022-01-26T05:50:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.87091 | 167 |
Madam Walker was a woman who transformed herself in a very American, rags-to-riches way.
She used her wealth and philanthropy to contribute to Black schools and colleges, she gave the largest gift the NAACP had ever received to it's anti-lynching fund... Madam Walker's life was one of transformation and re-invention.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story.
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization.
Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.
I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from. | <urn:uuid:689f77d8-dbfb-4f84-9340-221842ab840d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.readimo.com/en/tags/Transform | 2022-01-26T05:36:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.960268 | 361 |
Relays are an essential part of any electrical system, and consist of an electrical device that normally works by a signal or current activating an electromagnet in one circuit, which then opens or closes another circuit. They provide the electrical isolation and reliable signal switching for all sorts of plant and machinery, including sensitive electronic assemblies such as Programmable Logic Controllers.
Many types of relay are used to ensure a safe and reliable interface between low voltage process peripheral devices, and more advanced level control systems using higher voltages. Many interface relays come with simple plug-in connections using standard or logic sockets, and can be used to switch either AC or DC loads.
Like many other components, relays are modular in design and can be ordered separately, as coupling relays with plug-ins, and can have either solid state or semiconductor outputs. Semiconductor outputs are particularly suitable for solid state systems due to their low power consumption, and some versions have a test button or an LED to show the switching state.
Rowse Automation's catalogue of relays includes Electrically Operated Switches and Plug In Relays in a variety of configuration options, up to the Complete Relay Units. These comprise an 11-Pole industrial relay, plus a relay base unit and mounting bracket or arm. Optional variants can be purchased in 24V AC or DC, 110V and 230V AC, with three or four CO contacts. Additional versions offer plug-in relays with Logical Isolation, so that terminals for the coil and terminals for contacts are isolated on separate levels. | <urn:uuid:6bb06010-5ab4-4fa5-b610-420c37a30862> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.rowse-automation.co.uk/control-signalling/relays-timers | 2022-01-26T05:01:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.917487 | 319 |
The dynamics around legislation to create an Outdoor Heritage Fund have taken a turn to the interesting. Last year an initiated measure to create the fund which would have no cap on revenues, and no oversight from the state’s elected leaders, was kept off the ballot by petition fraud perpetrated by a group of NDSU football players. But the possibility for the measure, which would have potentially diverted hundreds of millions of dollars into a fund controlled by a board of special interest groups who could spend it with few limitations, spooked state leaders who introduced a watered down version of the bill to be passed during the session.
That bill, HB1278, was introduced by Rep. Todd Porter (R-Bismarck), and would cap the revenues for the fund at $30 million per biennium and give the State Industrial Commission final say on how the money is spent. But conservation activists, wanting more money and less input from elected leaders, quietly tried to scuttle Rep. Porter’s bill in favor of one offered by Sen. Tyler Axness (D-Fargo) which would enshrine the board in the state government and raise the cap to $100 million.
Rep. Porter, not surprisingly, was ticked and stripped three of the conservation groups granted a seat on the board in his bill out of the legislation:
Rep. Todd Porter, R-Mandan, is the prime sponsor of HB1278. Porter said he was disappointed by a measure introduced by Democrats that would amend the state’s constitution to create the fund.
“It raised a lot of eyebrows among various groups,” Porter told the committee. He said various conservation groups in the state tried to kill HB1278.
Porter’s original bill would have included Ducks Unlimited, the North Dakota Natural Resources Trust Fund, Pheasants Forever and an at-large conservation group on a 12-member advisory board.
Under Porter’s bill, the state Industrial Commission would have the final say in how the funds, capped at $30 million a biennium, would be distributed to state, local or tribal agencies, nonprofits or political subdivisions for projects.
Porter offered an amendment to his bill Thursday, taking Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever and the Land Trust off the advisory committee established under his bill.
Porter told the Tribune he believes the three groups tried to kill his bill.
The positions those groups would have held on the board would become at-large seats.
I’m still wondering why Republicans would be backing this idea at all. Dumping money into fund to be spent by special interests is poor public policy. We shouldn’t be enshrining political activism in state government. What’s next, a board to fund activism on the abortion issue? The gun rights issue? Where does this end?
I understand that Republicans are afraid that these groups, who have very deep pockets (they had millions in their coffers to pass their measure last year), will pass something much worse on the statewide ballot, but that’s an argument for Republicans opposing the ballot initiative. Not introducing something that is only less bad in the legislature.
Republicans are selling Rep. Porter’s version of the bill as one that limits keeps the conservation activists in a box, but it’s clear that they’re not going to settle for being in that box and given that they’re already talking about workarounds for things like the prohibition on buying up private property, it’s time to put this bad idea to bed.
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Valdés, who served as Chile’s minister of foreign affairs and later as the country’s ambassador to the United States, is the George W. Ball Adjunct Professor for spring 2019. In giving this semester’s George Ball Lecture, Valdés reviewed the state of the relationship between the U.S. and Latin America and how polarization and the role of China have made things tense.
Earlier that day, hours before Valdés stood at the lectern, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton had declared the Monroe Doctrine “alive and well.” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had just come back from Chile and Peru, where he had pressured them to denounce Chinese presence in their countries. Indeed, in recent weeks President Trump has threatened to cut aid, close borders and attacked the president of Colombia, likely his greatest ally in the region.
Valdés said that Latin America is adjusting to being in the U.S. administration’s spotlight.
“We are overwhelmed by the attention,” he said, to laughs from the crowd.
Offering an overview of recent decades, Valdés suggested that after the Cold War ended, the United States had disengaged from its traditional role in Latin America. As communism faded and competition began to rise in Latin America, free trade opened up with other parts of the world. Latin American nations chased the dream of autonomy by diversifying and opening up to free trade—and China, in particular, took advantage of the opportunity to invest.
“The common trait in the foreign policy of Latin American countries is autonomy—not just national, but also regional,” said Valdés.
Most countries in the region have gained autonomy over the last 20 years, he added. But polarization, the emergence of conservative regimes in the region and in the United States, and the competition between the United States and China has put Latin American in a precarious position.
“China is too important,” said Valdés.
Chinese projects, trade and investments are now critical to the region’s economies, Valdés explained, so American demands that Latin American countries distance themselves from China put them between a rock and a hard place.
But more than the struggle between China and the United States, Valdés said, it is the Venezuelan crisis that will define Latin American relations in the coming years. American threats to send the military would amount to regime change, he said; this possibility has led the Lima Group—which he said is the only functional multilateral organization left in Latin America—to distance itself from the crisis.
Valdés said he worries that if the United States acts in such a manner in Venezuela, efforts at regime change will follow elsewhere—most likely in Nicaragua and Cuba. This would not sit well with Latin American countries seeking more control over their own affairs, setting up a struggle between Latin America and the United States for control over the region.
To avoid this fate, Latin America must take the lead in Venezuela, said Valdés, arguing that whatever the outcome, at least the region will have made the decisions for itself.
The consequences of the American and China struggle for dominance, particularly in technology and trade, and the handling of the Venezuelan crisis will go a long way in determining the region’s relationship with the rest of the world.
That critical moment “for the future of our hemisphere will happen this year,” Valdés concluded.
— Claire Teitelman MPA ’19
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Before you become a school counselor, you should make sure that you understand what these counselors do every day on the job. They work in elementary, junior high and high schools to help students going through troubles at home and at school. You might help students with their college applications, notify the principal when you identify signs of abuse or run programs that teach kids that bullying is wrong. School counselors generally need to meet some specific requirements that include a college degree.
Earn a Degree
The first step associated with becoming a counselor is going to college. Not many schools in the country offer an undergraduate degree program in school psychology, but you will find hundreds of schools that have general psychology programs available. These programs often require that you take classes in social, abnormal, behavioral, clinical and other types of psychology. This teaches you more about how the human mind develops, different factors that impact behavior and methods of treating those with psychological problems. You may also do some type of student teaching experience that lets you observe counselors actually working in local schools.
Go to Graduate School
The only way you can become a school counselor is if you go to graduate school. Graduate school gives you the chance to improve your skills and learn everything you need to know about working with students in a school setting later. Most of these programs require that students complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of classroom work, and some require that you do an internship in the field as well. Graduate school should also have some type of a thesis. You’ll choose a topic such as bullying, college admissions or physical abuse and create a detailed paper or research project on that topic before you graduate.
Even if your grad school does not include any fieldwork, you’ll usually need to train in the field before working as a counselor. Some states will even partner you with an experienced counselor who acts as your mentor. You can pick up tips on working with students, ask questions you might have and get feedback about any projects or plans you implement. This training period can last anywhere from six months to several years. Many states let you work conditionally as a school counselor until you pass an evaluation performed by your mentor later.
Obtain a License
The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median wage of school counselors at more than $53,000 a year. Before you can become a school counselor and start making that much, you must have either a certificate or a license in your state. The requirements for getting a license or certificate vary in each state. Some states will look at the grades you earned in college, but others place more importance on whether you have any on the job training. You should expect to take a background check as well. Most states forbid those with a criminal record from working in schools.
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Megan Brown Discusses FTC’s Expansive Approach to Cybersecurity Enforcement
Megan L. Brown, a partner in Wiley Rein’s Communications, Litigation, and Appellate practices, was quoted yesterday in a Fedscoop article about the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) efforts to expand its authority to regulate cybersecurity practices in the private sector.
“The FTC has already signaled that it sees a broad role for itself in data and cybersecurity,” Ms. Brown told Fedscoop. “The agency has been aggressively investigating and bringing cases, using an expansive approach to its legal authority.” She added that recent, high-profile data breaches “provide the agency with more rhetorical ammunition as it stakes out its territory.”
“The agency seems content to let enforcement actions set general expectations for private industry,” Ms. Brown said. “While this case-by-case approach tends to foster uncertainty about the adequacy of compliance measures, the private sector should expect more investigations and information requests, particularly in the aftermath of a high-profile incident.”
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Perhaps because they’re untouched by humans, desolate places can be some of the most beautiful. Beechey Island is one such example. From its steep snow-capped cliffs to its sharp shale beaches meeting the rounded cove of turquoise water, it’s a destination demanding respect. It’s certainly a pretty place, but the first impression it gives off is a palpable sense of sadness.
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The report is based partly on emails allegedly written by a top border official, Border Patrol Assistant Chief Eduardo Sánchez, warning that the expulsions violate U.S. policy and could endanger the Trump administration's entire quick deportation strategy.
“Recently, we have identified several suspected instances where Single Minors (SM) from countries other than Mexico have been expelled via ports of entry rather than referred to ICE Air Operations for expulsion flights,” Sánchez wrote in an email obtained by the Times.
If confirmed, the report would provide evidence for claims made by many immigration and border activists, who regularly accuse border authorities of cutting corners and violating internal and external regulations.
"Human rights advocates and government watchdogs have long accused Border Patrol of repeated failure to follow basic rules for the protection of children and migrants," said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy counsel at the American Immigration Council.
"The agency has long struggled with a culture that views rules to protect migrants as somehow soft and contrary to the agency's militaristic ethos," said Reichlin-Melnick.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials did not immediately return a request for comment on this story.
Apart from violating policy and an international agreement, summary expulsions of unaccompanied minors would imply that U.S. authorities have sent children alone into Mexico's border cities, where kidnapping and human trafficking are major criminal concerns.
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The CDC order expulsions, known as Title 42 expulsions, have quickly become the preferred method of deportation used by CBP at the border — out of 54,771 undocumented immigrants encountered by CBP at the southwest border in September, 48,327 were processed and expelled under Title 42.
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It's a task we've all performed, setting the table. Sometimes it's just a chore, but sometimes setting the table gets us excited. When we're having a special meal with special guests, then setting the table is part of the experience, makes the event even more meaningful. And, oh! - the details we pay attention to!
The table itself, will be covered with a white linen tablecloth, of course, with an intricate design sure to attract the guests' attention - and even that of family members invited for the occasion.
We'll probably put some candles on the table.
We'll put out the best china plates. At each place a large dinner plate, and on top of it a smaller salad plate. Above them and to the right, the crystal drinking glass and a crystal wine goblet.
The cloth napkins come next, to the left of the plates, and on top of them a salad fork and a dinner fork. The knife and spoon, of similar design, go on the right.
Finally we put the bread, the salads, water, wine (a Merlot, perhaps), the appetizers. After all, putting out the first course is part of setting the table. And the smell of the soup and the roast coming from the kitchen indicates the table is indeed set and all we need are the guests.
Now, can you imagine what a negative impression we would make on the important guests - dignitaries, celebrities, whoever it might be - if the table was not set, the food not prepared? On the other hand, imagine how we would feel if, after all that preparation, after setting the table just so, the guests did not show up?
The code of Jewish Law is called the Shulchan Aruch - literally, the Set Table. And with good reason. It lays out, in a very ordered fashion, the laws governing the life of the Jewish people. It's worth knowing how the "table" of Jewish law is "set up," what is its structure.
Its four sections are:
- Orach Chayim - covering the spiritual duties of daily life: prayers and blessings, laws of Shabbat and holidays, etc.;
- Yoreh De'ah - covering non-cyclical aspects of life, such as kashrut, charity, honoring one's parents, mezuza, visiting the sick, etc.;
- Choshen Mishpat - covering business transactions, such as loans, sales, partnerships, qualifications for judges, etc.;
- Even HaEzer - covering relationships between man and woman, such as marriage, divorce, engagement, etc.
The table has been carefully set. All the details - the "tablecloth," the "place settings" and "silverware," the "glasses and goblets," and the "meal" - knowledge of Jewish law, of what the Torah requires of us - is ready to be served.
But the "set table" - the Shulchan Aruch - is waiting for the very special guests - you. For to this banquet, every Jew is invited. Indeed, the "meal" will seem incomplete, all the preparations, all the effort in "setting the table" will not be perfect if you, if each and every Jew, does not come, sit down, and partake, even, at least, of the "appetizers."
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In the opening lines of this week's Torah portion, Lech Lecha, G-d commands Abraham to "go out" from his land, from his place of birth, to a land which He will show him. What can we to learn from this very first commandment to Abraham, that we can apply to our own lives as well?
The first and most fundamental requirement of every Jew is to "go out" - to be in a constant state of ascent, developing and elevating both our inner potential and our surroundings.
But the very next thing that happened to Abraham after heeding this command and going to Israel appears to be the exact opposite of development and elevation: "And there arose a famine in the land, and Avram went down into Egypt." Thus, Abraham had to leave Canaan and journey to Egypt, during which time Sarah was forcefully taken to Pharaoh's palace. Although G-d protected her from harm while there, she nevertheless underwent the hardship of the whole incident.
How does this obvious descent fit into the aforementioned theme of ascent and elevation, and our task of climbing ever higher?
On a superficial level, Abraham's and Sarah's hardship was a step down, but on a deeper level it was merely a part of their eventual elevation and triumphant return. The purpose of the descent was to achieve an even higher ascent than was possible before. When they returned to Canaan they were "very heavy with cattle, with silver, and with gold."
Just as Abraham's descent was part of the greater plan of ascent, so it was with the generation of his descendants to follow. The Jewish people have found themselves thrust into exile after exile, only to return to their Land and achieve even higher spiritual heights than before. Galut (exile), although appearing to us to be a negative phenomenon, actually carries the potential for the highest good. And now that we are in the last days of the final exile, we approach an era of unprecedented spirituality and goodness, for although the First and Second Temples were eventually destroyed, the Third Temple is to stand forever, and our coming Redemption will have no exile to follow.
We therefore draw encouragement from our ancestor Abraham's descent into Egypt and eventual return to Israel: We must remember that the darkness which seems to prevail in the world is only external, and is part of G-d's greater plan for the ultimate prevailing of good over evil and the coming of Moshiach.
Adapted from the works of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Voting with All Your Heart
by Gloria Goldreich
Each year, as the leaves begin to turn, the airwaves begin to buzz with news of upcoming election campaigns. Again and again we are reminded of the great privilege of democracy: We are urged to go to the polls and fulfill our obligation as citizens of the United States.
Inevitably, when I listen to all these messages, I think of my father, for whom voting was more than a privilege and an obligation - for him it was a sacred act. It is then that I recall my father's adventure on Election Day 1944, when war still raged in the world and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was running for his 4th term as president.
In his early twenties, spurred by his family's vulnerability in an era of Polish autocracy that imposed strictures on the educational and economic opportunities of Jews, limited their civil rights and indeed threatened their very lives, my father left his home in Partsevah, Poland, to seek a new destiny in America.
Profoundly religious, a talmudic scholar by training, he scrupulously observed Shabbat and the mitzvot (commandments) even in the most arduous of circumstances - in alien cities, amid people whose languages he could not understand and whose ways were foreign and, in all probability, frightening to him.
When he finally reached the United States he was overwhelmed with joy. This new land was a haven to be cherished, the concept of a government of the people, by the people and for the people an ideal to be revered. His framed citizenship papers occupied a place of honor in the small room where he studied Talmud each Shabbat. An American flag was displayed on holidays and he listened to President Roosevelt's fireside chats with the same absorption he accorded to a learned discourse on the Torah.
A self-made man who had established a respected fur business on East Broadway in New York, my father worked long hours. There was only one exception to this schedule. Each year, on the first Tuesday in November, he arrived home in the early afternoon. Voting was a ritual, requiring careful preparation, not unlike his preparations for the celebration of Shabbat.
He changed to the clothing my mother had laid out for him - clean undergarments, a snow-white shirt worn with his gold cufflinks, the good suit he usually wore to synagogue on the holidays and his best tie.
We lived in a two-family house on a tree-lined street. My maternal grandparents occupied the ground-level apartment. On the morning of Election Day, my grandfather took special pains with my father's dress shoes, shining them to a high gloss. He also carefully brushed my father's best hat and his own black Homburg.
Like my father, my mother and her parents also dressed with care for the expedition to the polls, a two-block walk to P.S. 209.
I ran ahead to them, to open the side door of the school, full of my own importance.
A police officer, his shield glittering with authority, stood next to the flag and watched as voters filed in to register. He was a pleasant-looking man, and he nodded respectfully to my English teacher, thin Mrs. Cunningham. She noticed me and smiled.
"This is the little girl who wrote the poem about the flag, Pat," she told the police officer, pointing at my poem on the wall. He smiled at me and I think it was then that he noticed my father and my grandfather, who were preparing to sign the registration ledger.
"Gentlemen," he said, "you'll have to remove your hats."
My father looked at him in bewilderment.
"Why should I remove my hat?" he asked.
"It's a sign of respect to the flag."
My father's face became flushed. His eyes grew dangerously bright behind his thick glasses. He was a reticent man, but when he spoke his voice was firm, with conviction.
"I wear my hat because I am a Jew. I cover my head to show respect to G-d," he said in his heavily accented English.
My grandmother trembled. Uniforms frightened her. She looked pleadingly at my grandfather but he ignored her.
My mother, whose English was flawless, turned to the officer. "My husband is a religious man. He traveled for more than a year from Europe to reach this country and never once did he break the laws of our religion."
"Hey," said the officer, "I'm not asking him to eat pork. I'm just asking him to take his hat off. He's an American."
My father nodded. He smiled as he sometimes did when he played chess with an opponent who had just made a crucial but unwise move.
"It is because I am an American that I do not have to take off my hat," he explained. "This is a free country. The flag tells us that we are free," he continued. "In a free country a Jew can wear his hat. That shows respect to the flag of freedom. And now I sign the book. And now I vote."
The officer stared at him, as though considering the validity of his response, and then, ruefully, he smiled. So did Mrs. Cunningham.
My mother, my grandmother and my grandfather stepped forward and they too signed the registry, their faces bright with pride. One by one they disappeared into the voting booths. I heard the click of the levers. I watched as my father exited and held his hand out to the police officer, who shook it vigorously.
Each year, as I wait in line for my turn to vote, I think of my father and the policeman called Pat and Mrs. Cunningham. It is then that I regret that I did not dress with more care for this solemn and important occasion. But never do I miss an election. My father's legacy remains intact.
Reprinted with permission from Hadassah Magazine
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Excerpt of a letter of the Rebbe dated 22 Teves, 5709 (1949),
freely translated by Rabbi Eli Touger.
Greetings and blessings,
...Question: Can it be said that man's free choice is merely a figment of his imagination, but in truth his deeds are predetermined?
Reply: Heaven forbid to say that, for:
Free Choice is a great fundamental principle and the pillar of the Torah and its commandments.... Without it, what place would there be for the entire Torah? Under which judgment would He exact retribution from the wicked or reward the righteous? "Will the Judge of the entire earth not execute justice?" (Rambam, Mishneh Torah)
On a deeper level, according to the explanations of Chassidus, the true concept of free choice is that when everything is taken into account, a positive and a negative choice are equal for him. For example, when a person is starving and is presented with two choices: a burning fire and a table filled with delicacies for a king, he has the possibility of either satisfying his hunger or throwing himself in the fire. This, however, is not the true concept of free choice that earns a person reward. To cite a second example: An animal can cast itself into a river and drown or go to pasture in a lush field. In all matters such as these, there is no true concept of free choice and hence, no relevance to the issue of reward and punishment, because the person or the animal is compelled by its nature.
The same concepts apply with regard to the entire creation. None of the animals or plants have the potential to change their mission at all (see Tanya, chs. 24, 39). The only exception to this rule is man, for he has been given the license and the potential to contradict his Creator's will, as explained in Tanya, ch. 29. The inner reason why man has been granted this potential is that man's source is from such a high level that no one can hinder him from doing what he wants, as explained in Likkutei Torah....
Question: It seems as if the concepts of G-d's omniscience and man's free choice contradict each other, as questioned by Rambam, loc. cit., and other sources.
Reply: To preface: There are contradictory concepts that cannot co-exist unless one of them is nullified entirely or both of them would not apply in the same context simultaneously. For example, regarding the concept under discussion, the concepts of free choice and Divine decree are contradictory. Therefore one of them (Divine decree) is entirely nullified or at least does not apply in the same context as free choice applies. For example, as explained above, the concept of Divine decree can apply to the nation as a whole and that of free choice to particular individuals.
There are, however, other concepts that even though they themselves do not contradict each other, it is possible to use one as support for the idea that the other is not true. In such an instance, it is possible to say one of these three options: either, as above, that
- one of them will be negated entirely, or
- they will not apply in the same context simultaneously, or
- although both are true and apply simultaneously in the same context, they are not contradictory because the proof suggested is not correct.
To apply this to the concept at hand: G-d's omniscience does not contradict the concept of free choice. To explain: I possess clear knowledge that if, tomorrow, I throw a stone in the air, it will ultimately fall to the ground. This knowledge itself is not a contradiction to the theoretical debate whether the stone has a choice whether to fall to the earth or remain in the air. For even according to the supposition that the stone has free choice, the stone may choose to fall to the earth, but my knowledge is only a logical support for the thesis that the stone does not have free choice. The support works in the following manner: Since my knowledge is clear, without a doubt, if you would say that the stone has free choice, how is it possible for me to know which choice the stone will make? But it is possible to say that although it is not understood how it is possible for me to have foreknowledge of the choice the stone will make, the fact that I have such knowledge is not clear support for the idea that the stone does not have free choice.
Or to cite a second example: Reuven, who sees the future, can relate what will happen to Shimon who is found at the other end of the world (and thus Reuven can have no effect on him whatsoever) and what Shimon will do in the future. Reuven's statements do not affect Shimon's choice. Instead, Reuven knows that Shimon will use his free choice in this-and-this manner; i.e., Shimon's free choice changes Reuven's knowledge and not the opposite. The choice is the reason; and the knowledge, the result. His knowledge that precedes Shimon's choice is just like the knowledge of an ordinary person that comes after the choice. Obviously, the latter does not represent a contradiction to free choice. For in that instance, the choice was free because it was not influenced by the knowledge. On the contrary, the knowledge is dependent on the result of the choice.
This, as it were, reflects the manner in which G-d knows. As our Sages say: "The Holy One, blessed be He, knows what will come to pass." If you ask, since our choice is free, how is it possible for G-d to know beforehand what one will choose? To this, Rambam answers that G-d's knowledge is not like our knowledge and we have no way of knowing how G-d knows...
Reprinted from I Will Write it In Their Hearts Vol 4
Why is the Hebrew letter "shin" on the front of the mezuza cover?
"Shin" is the first letter of one of G d's names, "Shad-dai" - Alm-ghty. It is also an acronym for "Shomer Delatot Yisrael - Guardian of the Doors of Israel." Thus, it is appropriate to be on the mezuza cover. In addition to being on the mezuza cover, the word Shad-dai is also written on the back of the mezuza parchment itself.
Rabbi Shmuel M. Butman
In this week's Torah portion, Lech Lecha, we read G d's blessing to Abraham: "I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth; if a person will be able to count all the grains of dust in the world, then your offspring also will be countable."
The Baal Shem Tov gave another reason why Jews are compared to the "dust of the earth." For, just as there are treasures hidden deep within the earth, there are beautiful "treasures" hidden within every single Jew.
Along these lines, the Lubavitcher Rebbe was once asked by a group of visiting academics, "What is the purpose of a rebbe?"
The Rebbe answered, "Concerning the Jewish people, it says, 'And you will be for Me a land of desire.' A Jew is like land, earth. Within the earth one finds many treasures. But one needs to know how to look for them and how to take them out from the depths of the earth. One who doesn't know how to search will look in the earth and find only dirt and mud, or rocks and stones.
"The same is true with a person. One psychologist digs in a person's soul and finds dirt and mud. Another finds rocks and stones. The purpose of a rebbe is to find the treasure, the G dly soul that rests within every Jew."
May each one of us find, recognize, and reveal, the G-dly soul within ourselves and others thereby enhancing the unity of the Jewish people and hastening the revelation of Moshiach, NOW!
And Malkitzedek, King of Shalem, brought out bread and wine, and he was a priest of G d, most high (Gen. 14:18)
Rabbi Mordechai of Lachowitz would say, "Malkitzedek 'brought out' introduced and led a new path in the worship of G d. Even when a person 'eats bread' and 'drinks wine,' he has the ability and potential to be a 'priest to G d, most high' one who serves G d."
At eight days old shall every male child be circumcised (Gen. 17:12)
A Jewish male enters into the covenant of Abraham at the tender age of eight days, before he can possibly understand the significance of the act, because brit mila (circumcision) involves the essence of the soul, which exists on a level far above human understanding and comprehension. The mitzva binds the soul to G-d, Who is also beyond our understanding and comprehension.
And the souls that they made in Charan (Gen. 12:5)
A person who takes pity on a poor man and sustains him is credited with having "created" that person, as we learn from Abraham our forefather: "The souls that they made" refers to the multitude of guests to whom Abraham offered his hospitality and brought into his tent.
And told it to Abram the Hebrew ("Ivri") (Gen. 14:13)
The word "Ivri" comes from the root word meaning, "side," for Abraham stood alone on one side, while all the world opposed him.
Look now toward the heaven and count the stars...so shall your seed be (Gen. 15:5)
Just as the stars in the sky appear from afar to be tiny specks of light, yet, in actuality, each one is an entire world, so, too, are the Jews: In this world Jews may be the object of scorn and derision, yet, in truth, the Jewish people are great and mighty, the foundation of the world's very creation.
(Baal Shem Tov)
About two hundred years ago lived a very righteous man named Rabbi Naftali of Ropshitz. In addition to having mastered all of the works of the great Sages of previous generations, including the mystical teachings, he loved to help others. His custom was that every morning he would return home from prayer, put down his prayer shawl and Tefilin, and immediately leave his house again. He would go from door to door collecting charity for those in need and then return home once again. Only after distributing the money he had collected to the poor people who gathered each day at his house would he sit and have something to eat. It wasn't easy work; the rich didn't easily part with their money and the less rich didn't have much to part with, but he was happy that he could serve G-d through this all-important commandment.
One day after he finished his rounds, distributed the money, and was just about to wash his hands to eat bread, he heard someone knock. He turned around and saw that there was another poor man who had pushed the door open a crack and was peeking through. The rabbi went to the door, opened it and said, "I'm sorry, you'll have to return tomorrow. I've handed out all the money I have." But the sad look on the poor man's face made him put down his towel and set out to collect money again.
However this time he really had problems. At each door he got an angry stare and sometimes even a few angry comments. The rabbi collected only a fraction of what he usually got but he happily returned home, gave the grateful man the money, bade him good day, and again went to wash his hands for the morning meal (though it was already nearly lunchtime).
But, just as he was about to pour the water on his hands, he heard the unmistakable sound of someone standing behind him loudly clearing his throat.
He turned around and there was yet another man who had let himself in. "I know, Rabbi, I know. I came late, right? Well, I know you are busy; I don't want to bother you, G-d forbid. I'll come back tomorrow. I only want someone to tell my problems to. I won't take long. I promise."
The rabbi nodded. "My wife is not in good shape, the doctors say that soon her life will be in danger. My daughter is getting older and I have no money for a wedding. And finally my entire house fell in yesterday," At this point the man began weeping and Rabbi Naftali again put down the towel, told the man to sit, put on his coat and went out collecting again.
But this time it was completely different. When the owner answered the first door (for the third time that day), instead of cursing Rabbi Naftali, he greeted him with a smile and open arms. "I'm so sorry that I gave you that bitter look before," he apologized. "Now I see that you must be a real tzadik (righteous person) if you are willing to visit me again after what I said to you. You must think only of the poor and not of yourself at all! And instead of giving the usual ruble I'm giving you ten rubles!"
So it was at the next house and all the homes thereafter. But this time, when Rabbi Naftali arrived home, he wasn't so happy. He gave the man who was waiting the money and said, with a bit of a frown, "Listen my friend, the money is yours. I assure you I'm not going to take it back. But tell me the truth. Your wife isn't sick and that story about your daughter and your house falling in, it's not true, is it?"
The man hemmed and hawed and finally answered sheepishly, "Well, Rabbi, I wasn't exactly lying. Maybe I exaggerated a little, but I didn't really lie. You see, my wife is pregnant and it says in the holy books that when a woman goes to give birth her life is in danger. You can break Shabbat to get help."
"And what about your daughter's wedding?" asked the rabbi.
"Well, it's true that now she is only five-years-old, but I always say 'Why wait until the last minute,' right Rabbi? About my house, the rocking chair that a neighbor gave my wife broke, which made me feel just terrible!"
Then the visitor thought for a second and asked, "Tell me Rabbi, how did you know? How did you know I wasn't telling the truth, and if you knew then why did you go collecting for me?!"
Rabbi Naftali answered simply: "Every time I collect money to distribute for charity, it is never an easy task as there is always an obstacle to holiness. But this time, when I collected for you specifically, everything was easy, in fact, too easy. I thought to myself, 'Something is wrong here. Somehow I must not be doing a mitzva.' So I figured the simple solution is that you must not really need the money as desperately as you said."
Concerning Moshiach, Isaiah prophecizes, "With equity shall he rebuke the meek of the earth."(Isaiah 11:4) A personal obligation rests upon every individual Jew to arouse his fellow to the practice of good deeds. When instead a person adopts an attitude of humility and argues, "Who am I to arouse my fellow? What kind of a spokesman am I?" - he deserves to be sternly rebuked. These "meek of the earth" will be rebuked by Moshiach, though here too he will find extenuating circumstances.
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Bethesda’s conference started off with a lot of touchy-feely “we are Bethesda” community appreciation. I think because of how bad last year’s “If you don’t like Skyrim, stop buying it” fiasco went. It’s really nice to be appreciated, but please, let’s get into some meat and potatoes. Which sounds delicious, honestly. Hold my beer while I get some.
Elder Scrolls Blades
Project Leader, Craig Lafferty and Art Director, Matt Carofano discuss releasing the biggest update yet. It features new jobs, solo arena battles, a custom jewelry system, a brand new dragon questline, and more. While this update is available now, today, for free, on Google Play and the App Store, Arena Mode is coming this fall, and features PvP, guilds, and visiting your friend’s town.
Here’s the part I’ve been waiting for: Blades is coming to Nintendo Switch! The Switch version of Blades is cross-play and cross-progression with the Mobile version. You can start on Mobile tonight, and all your progress will carry over.
Project Leader, Jeff Gardiner and Co-Studio Director, Tom Mustaine introduce the new update to Fallout 76: Wastelanders.
Wastelanders is anticipated to fundamentally change the game. You’ll see the return of human NPCs, new main quests, full dialogue trees, consequences for your actions, and some new weapons and gear. The new update is free for existing players, and will be available this fall.
“Year One was about the vault doors opening, and all of you settling the wasteland. Year Two is about people coming back to reclaim it.” — Tom Mustaine
The NPCs have their own stories and goals, and your choices matter, just like in previous Fallout games.
There’s a new game mode coming, as well. It’s called Nuclear Winter, where you find Vault 51 and try to run it as overseer. The vault is in chaos, and needs a new leader. With so many people vying for that role, the only clear method to choose is massive, 56-player, free-for-all, fight to the death. That’s right, kids…. BATTLE ROYALE! The sneak peek will be coming June 10th. You’ve got camp building, you’ve got wasteland monsters, you’ve got shooting people in the back with a crossbow, and you’ve got… of course… nukes.
For a limited time, Fallout 76 will have a free trial. From June 10-17, you can get into the wasteland and give it a shot. With all the flack that 76 got at launch, with people up in arms about it being a crappy Fallout game, this looks like a good attempt at redemption. They’ve made great strides to recreate 76 in a close image to what fans were expecting (especially with this new update), and the free week online will give us a chance to see for ourselves without potentially wasting the cash on a download. We would also get to play the battle royale mode sneak peek and see if it’s actually worth it.
Founder of Tango Gameworks, Shinji Mikami and Creative Director, Ikumi Nakamura talk about their upcoming action-adventure thriller, where you’re up against the supernatural. People are disappearing, and you need to find out why. While exploring the world, you’ll encounter many strange things, and need to determine if it’s normal or paranormal. No release date was announced, but it looks super spooky!
Elder Scrolls Online
Studio Director, Matt Firor gives us a little more about the most recent update, where we got to enjoy the land of Elsweyr and the new Necromancer class. We’re still sitting in the Season of the Dragon. Earlier in the year, there was a video to explain how dragons came to Elsweyr, but it ended on a cliffhanger. Bethesda showed us a follow-up trailer to supposedly bring that mystery to a close… but that also ended in a cliffhanger! How did dragons get here? What happened? I thought that one was killed, so why is it flying off? Hopefully we’ll get another video again soon to help get us some closure. Or maybe they’ll just make a movie.
In the video, you see the leader of the new Dragonguard characters, Sai Sahan. He’ll be featured in the new story DLC called Dragonhold, which will finish off The Season of the Dragon. More info on Dragonhold will be revealed later this summer, but in August we’ll get to see a new dungeon adventure called Scalebreaker. We still don’t have a ton of info on this DLC, but we do know that it features two new dungeons that face you off against more dragons!
This is like a Saturday morning cartoon, but on your mobile phone. This is a modern recreation of the old 90s PC game by the same name, where you play boy genius, Billy Blaze, who protects the world with his superhero alter ego, Commander Keen. In this new adaptation, you play as twin geniuses with very similar names. Billy and Billie build gadgets from household items to fight the bad guys and save Earth from aliens. In Story Mode, you can collect power-ups and explore Mars. You can also go 1v1 in Battle Mode. Battle Mode is closer to Capture the Flag, where you go in real time against another player to race through an alien landscape and collect checkpoints, eventually reaching the flag. The soft launch is this summer, so keep your eyes open on the app store and GOogle PLay. Visit GoKeen.com for more info and to receive in-game rewards.
Elder Scrolls Legends
A collectible card mobile game, you can either do a quick match or game all night. The trailer showed someone getting into the game in a coffee shop, then being transported to a bar in Tamriel. He finds his way to a back room for a one-to-one match with a mysterious woman. They play for a bit, then he gets a calendar alert and is suddenly back in the cafe. BUT WAIT. THERE’S NOW A DRAGON. Maybe this is how dragons got to Elsweyr. Some kid decided to mess with the world with dimensional travel via a mobile card game. If you were really into Gwent, you’ll probably dig Legends. It’s available on the App Store and Google Play now.
The next expansion of Legends, Moons of Elsweyr, will be available on June 29th, for PC, Mac, mobile, and tablet.
Rage 2 is seeing new content, as well.
You’ll see new enemies, new gameplay modes, new cheat codes, like Bloody Mess, which creates a stain where your enemy was, and Low Gravity, which allows for super jumps. We can also expect a pilotable mech suit, and some sweet new rides: the skull motorcycle, and The Armadillo.
And the new expansion called The Rise of the Ghosts will bring in a whole new enemy faction, new weapon abilities, and new areas to explore.
Executive Producer at Machine Games, Jerk Gustafsson tells us that we’ve got two new Wolfenstein games coming, which take you back to Europe.
Coming this July, we’ve got Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot. A VR game where you play as a hacker working for the French resistance, you hack into and pilot Nazi war machines and use them against the Nazi scum who made them.
We’ll also be seeing the launch of Wolfenstein: Youngblood. With Youngblood, you’ll get more weapons, more ways to customize your playstyle, and more Nazis to kill. You can even kill them with a friend, with the new 2-player co-op mode. Set in the 80’s, you play as twin sisters who are off to rescue their father from Nazi-occupied France. Help the French Resistance liberate themselves from the Nazis in this epic FPS, releasing July 26th, this year, on Xbox, PS4, Switch, and PC.
Game Director, Dinga Bakaba, and Art Director, Sebastien Mitton from Arkane Lyon announced a new FPS that they claim will be something innovative and artistic. Taking place in Black Reef during a “time of madness,” you have two rival assassins, Colt and Julianna. Colt considers himself and those around him as trapped in an endless cycle, while Julianna believes that this is a place where we’re all free. Her goal is to protect the cycle, while his is to break it. The only way for that to happen is for one to kill the other.
Executive Producer, Marty Stratton, and Creative Director, Hugo Martin tell us they’ll see us in Hell with this highly anticipated new Doom title!
Explore Heaven and Hell in this newest iteration of Doom, as you strive to save the world from demons. More monsters, more gore, and more brutal death animations. Also new to Doom is the multiplayer experience, Battlemode. Two player-controlled demons, one slayer. Fight to the death. Each demon has different move sets, abilities, and strategies.
Doom Eternal finally shakes the joke of being called “Eternal” because we have to wait an eternity for it to come out. It has a release date of November 22nd, this year. Let’s hope it’s not another Duke Nukem Forever and the date stays in place!
The Doom Eternal Collector’s Edition comes with a wearable helmet, so be sure to snatch that up ASAP with a preorder.
As far as the Bethesda announcements go, we have a ton of great games, some not so great games that might have turned into great games, and a weak middle finger at the games we wanted actual info on: Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. Here’s hoping for more info on those later in the year, but I won’t hold my breath. What are you most excited for? Let me know in the comments! | <urn:uuid:14a7b45e-ca26-4206-b5b8-a28d9e85dd87> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.nerdnewssocial.com/e3-2019-d2b/ | 2022-01-27T14:52:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.935138 | 2,168 |
Like Walt Disney, Johnston loved steam trains and owned many throughout his life. One of these, a steam locomotive he named "Marie E.", was later sold to John Lasseter, who continues to maintain and operate it. Brad Bird also worked with and admired both Johnston and Thomas, so much so that he gave them both cameo parts in The Iron Giant and The Incredibles.
- The official Disney Studios press obituary (via Cartoon Brew)
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On the border of Virginia and North Carolina just off US RT 29 there is a small gas station that does a fair amount of business for a Wednesday afternoon in mid-July. I know this because I’ve just spent the last few hours here. My bike is doing its best impression of a statue. I am sitting in a decreasing pool of shade from a highway sign trying not to sweat too much. The last hour was spent tearing my bike down with a limited tool kit trying to figure out why I have no electrics. I finally concede defeat and call roadside assistance who assure me they will be here soon. The tow truck will take me to a dealer that should be able to help me get back on the road.
Over the years I’ve read several motorcycle travel stories where the authors assert that it’s the delays in a trip that make the journey interesting. These interruptions usually are the best stories. Every good road trip account I’ve heard or read is about the stops more than the riding. I’m fascinated by riders tales of around-the-world and around-the-country adventures. Where they went, what they saw, what they needed to do to get from where they were to where they wanted to go. Is it the adventure in foreign lands that entices me? Sure that’s part of it. Stories of far off, and not so far off, places and sights I probably will never see draw me in. More than that though, it’s the bumps in the road. It’s the stories of the places people stop, the people they meet there, and what they experience. That’s the heart of it. A unique experience being shared. On my motorcycle trips and wanderings the best, and most often repeated, stories my friends and I share are about the pauses, the struggles, and the strange things that happen on or around a motorcycle once it has stopped.
The tow truck driver is here now and we strap down the bike to the back of a flatbed tow truck. I’m lucky the driver is also a motorcycle rider. He understands how to strap down a bike correctly. We are soon on our way to a dealer about 30 miles away from the gas station. On the way we talk about the bikes we’ve owned, trips we’ve taken, and other bikes he’s towed. We cover a bit of ground in our short conversation. He’s mostly a sport bike rider and likes to stay around town. Right now he’s in between bikes but has a line on a GSXR that a buddy of his is giving up on the cheap. I can hear the excitement in his voice when he thinks about being able to ride again.
So much of what I hear in conversation at work or have when I’m out with friends is regurgitating information gathered from sound bites and headlines. In our busy lives, and because of the onslaught of information thrown at us every day, it’s an easy pattern to fall into. Glean a little information from the news headlines, twitter, facebook, etc. Then meet up with a friend, reiterate the soundbites and maybe discuss them a little. This is what passes for conversation. I think this is more information sharing than conversation. There’s a place for this type of discussion but I find too often that it’s taking the place of people sharing their own experiences with each other.
When my riding buddies get together and talk we recount stories of the time our friend got a flat tire outside Gatlinburg, TN. The time our boots melted when we tried to dry them out around the fire after riding all day in the rain. The fajitas we made at Mt.Pisgah campground off the Blue Ridge Parkway after a long day of riding. We rarely talk about the multiple miles we rode on a trip, except to maybe comment on a nice section of road. I’ve rarely gone on a ride longer than an hour and not come back home without something interesting (or even frightening) to talk about.
The tow truck pulls up next to a building sandwiched between several houses on a neighborhood street. The only indication that it’s a motorcycle dealer is the faded sign and motley assortment of scooters and ATVs lined up in the mostly gravel parking lot. This is not what I expected when the woman from road side assistance said I’d be going to a Kawasaki dealer close by. The only other dealer in the area couldn’t make room for me for 2 weeks and this dealer could look at my bike today so I don’t have much of a choice. I help unstrap the bike and wheel it into the service bay at the back of the building. The service area looks more like my buddies garage who can’t seem to throw old bike parts away. It’s complete with an old 50’s era fridge, 80’s era boom box belting out 90’s era music. The mechanics are nice guys and take the bike right in. I’m not encouraged when their first question is “What kind of bike is that?” The closest motorcycle they have in their stable to my Concours 14 is a used Ninja last seen with Tom Cruise astride it in Top Gun.
Fortunately the basic workings of bikes are the same. Based on the ATVs, Minibikes, and “custom” motorcycles waiting to be serviced, these mechanics are accustomed to improvising and thinking outside the box. They locate the source of the problem in a very short time. The issue is an overheated (partially melted) fuse behind the battery due to a bad ground. The mechanic replaces the fuse and files down the powder coat on the frame so the ground can get a better contact. Things look like they are going well until he has to drill out the screw he just torqued the head off. After fixing the screw, he reattached the ground and the bike fires right up. With well wishes on a safe journey, and an apology for the broken screw, I’m off. Total cost: $20.00.
I arrive at my hotel three hours later than I expected. After unpacking I walk over to the rally I was trying to get to all day, grab an adult beverage, and find a few friends. We catch up and spend the rest of night telling stories about our adventures over the past year. I have a few (and one new one) I’m just itching to share. My story prompts the telling of other stories about on-road fixes. 20 uses for baling wire, best fixes involving duct tape, the multiple virtues of vice grips, and many more. The story telling and conversation go on late into the first night, and the next. Great conversation is easy with friends, especially when you have good stories to share. | <urn:uuid:e8ad5866-f4c9-435b-8194-fe5d24dd9f90> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://7acesmotolog.com/2014/01/07/interruption/ | 2022-01-27T14:04:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.963658 | 1,435 |
Stirring, dissolving, dispersion, emulsification and homogenization for the following the industries: food and beverage, cosmetics, paint/coatings, pharmaceutical, chemical, glue/adhesive, plastics/polymer and cement/construction. Used for pilot scale in manufacturing.
Bright LED digital display for speed, real-time torque tendency LED indicator bar, and integrated timer
Stirring from 6 rpm to 2000 rpm with speed accuracy of 1 rpm and maximum torque from 20 Ncm to 200 Ncm, depending on model. Stable torque at any speed, and volume capacity ranging from 25L to 100L
Sealed aluminium housing with IP54 ingress protection rating. Keyless Chuck for simple, one-hand operation, and brushless motor for quiet operation and main power switch
Compact design for easy handling, simple knob control, lock button to prevent unintentional setting changes, and full protection for overload, overtemperature and overcurrent conditions | <urn:uuid:327ed4b2-156a-448f-9c6b-afbe76e20003> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://amlinstruments.co.uk/product/ohaus-overhead-stirrers-achiever-5000/ | 2022-01-27T15:15:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.85573 | 200 |
The B2B focused three-month long accelerator starts in September.
Nestholma lands this time in Oulu to start an accelerator with BusinessOulu
Oulu, branded as the Northern capital of Scandinavia, gets its first B2B accelerator as BusinessOulu and Nestholma bring together their knowledge and networks to launch a three-month program for corporates and startups. The companies can present their ideas in various fields such as in health and wellness, smart city and home, banking and insurance, cleantech, IoT or industrial internet.
The application period deadline is on the 20th of August and the accelerator starts in September 2015.
The accelerator takes advantage of Nestholma’s venture accelerator model that has been developed to help startups and large corporations to work together. The aim of the program is to help to in building a new type of ecosystem in Oulu where large and small companies can build international success stories together.
“It’s great to see this accelerator model to come to Oulu. The B2B collaboration will speed up the creation of new fundable innovations and businesses in Oulu. The collaboration with startups will benefit the established companies as it will help them to find new business and partnership opportunities,” says Juha Ala-Mursula, the Director of BusinessOulu. | <urn:uuid:7ff24d80-024a-4c56-97ff-1ad317377a2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://arcticstartup.com/business-oulu-and-nestholma-launch-an-accelerator-in-oulu/ | 2022-01-27T14:58:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.941225 | 274 |
A Virtuous Result
A Talk by Heart-Master Da
September 8, 1987
“I would say, as a general criticism of those who were previously considering themselves to be devotees, that they did not do the work of true hearing in the context of the first three stages of life.”
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Anyone who is prepared to practice at the 1.3 level should have made sufficient use of all the given means for self-observation, in other words, the functional, practical, and relational disciplines and the group reality consideration process. Anyone who is founded in true hearing must have examined himself or herself in detail using these various means, because true hearing is not just a matter of mental insight.
Just as the confession of the student who is moving on to level 1.1 is a heart-confession, a confession of the being, so also true hearing is not just a change in the mind or an idealistic impulse, but a real capability based on self-observation to the point of most fundamental understanding of the self as self-contraction. Evidence of this must be in place.
Presumably anyone who is seriously considering the possible transition to practicing stage 1.3 will feel that he or she is basing his or her life on the primary impulse to self-transcending God-Realization, and presumably any such individual will also be established in the life-conditions, or disciplines. You will have to make a judgment in each case, however, about whether or not individuals have sufficiently examined themselves altogether by making use of functional, practical, and relational disciplines and group reality considerations. Look at each case. The confession of true hearing must be real. In The Dawn Horse Testament I described true hearing, so you should measure your confession against that confession. Would it be useful to read that here?
Heart-Master Da reads from His manuscript of the revised Dawn Horse Testament, chapter 19.
“When the self-Contraction, or The Complex Avoidance Of Relationship, Is Thoroughly Observed In The Context Of The First Three Stages Of Life, and When (By That Process) It Is Understood Most Fundamentally, So That it Is No Longer The Motive Of one’s life (but The Inherent Motive Of The Heart Is Felt Instead), Then All The limiting and self-Defining Patterns Of the conditional body-mind Have Become Comprehensible.
In That Case, The Effort Of egoity (or The Complex Avoidance Of Relationship) Is No Longer An Uninspected Automaticity (Hidden From The View Of Consciousness, or Heart-Vision). Therefore, Once the self-Contraction Is Understood Most Fundamentally, the self-Contraction itself Is No Longer Necessary, and The Basic Capacity To Release (or To Directly Feel Beyond, or Function Prior To) The Patterns Of self-Contraction In every kind of relationship or circumstance Has Been Regained. The Purpose Of self-Observation (or The Reality Consideration Of the conditional self) Is To Become Thus Truly Awakened To The Heart-Motive, Which Is Unqualified Relationship, or Love (Feeling Toward, Feeling Through, and Feeling Beyond), Rather Than To Accumulate Elaborate ego-Descriptions (or Merely Symptomatic and conceptual self-Descriptions) That Change Nothing When They Are known. Therefore, When (and Only When) True Hearing (or Most Fundamental self-Understanding) Awakens (Via The Ordeal Of Detailed and Ever-Deepening and Really Effective self-Observation), The Third Period Of The First Practicing Stage Of The Way Of The Heart Can Begin (or, Indeed, It Has Already Begun).”
Therefore, the qualification for the transition to practicing stage 1.3 is true hearing. Practice in the context of the fourth stage of life eventually follows, but what follows most immediately is the practice of demonstrating true hearing in the context of the first three stages of life until basic equanimity is established in relation to all of those conditions, or to all the species of the self-contraction in the context of the first three stages of life.
Therefore, the process that must be accomplished at level 1.3 is a basic human matter, not a Spiritual matter. If that basic human matter is accomplished, then the transition to the fourth stage of life, or practice of the Way of the Heart in the context of the fourth stage of life, will occur naturally, even inevitably.
True hearing itself is not sufficient for transition to the fourth stage of life or practice of the Way of the Heart in that context. Rather true hearing must do its original work. I would say, as a general criticism of those who were previously considering themselves to be devotees, that they did not do the work of true hearing in the context of the first three stages of life. Therefore, the foundation for the transition to practice in the context of the fourth stage of life was not established. Instead of using the foundation of true hearing, through the conscious process, in the context of the fourth stage of life, you abandoned it and tried to generate your practice based almost entirely on the process of receptivity and conductivity of the Spirit.
You thereby falsified the Way of the Heart, because the Way of the Heart is founded on the conscious process. Conductivity in any form, including Spirit-conductivity, is secondary to that process. You will not have the arms of the conscious process, founded on true hearing, if you do not first awaken to true hearing and then do the work of hearing in the context of the first three stages of life.
Therefore, what is uniquely added at practicing stage 1.3, based on true hearing, is the work of true hearing, generally, or most basically, through self-enquiry. This can be engaged in the meditative setting and also in random moments, in all occasions wherein the self-contraction is observed.
As the individual matures in 1.3, he or she would show signs of practice in the context of the fourth stage of life. When such evidence begins to appear, the devotee community may extend an invitation to such an individual to participate in occasions of sacramental worship of the Divine. Those occasions do not involve sacramental devotion to the True Heart-Master, but rather, as with children in our community, individuals practice devotion to the Divine, the Divine Person, or the Divine Mystery.
Thus, the devotee community should create special sacramental occasions to include mature 1.3 practitioners to allow for the feeling address to the Divine Condition, as a preliminary to the true devotee stages, wherein the one who is Teacher is also approached as the True Heart-Master. It is only in the devotee stages that sacramental association with the True Heart-Master begins.
Only in the context of “seeing” and “Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga” are such gestures appropriate, because they have nothing to do with cultism. They have everything to do with the Spiritual Process and a right understanding of the Great Transmission and the significance of the True Heart-Master as Agent and as Realizer.
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Today’s fish is one of the most stunning in the Caribbean! The Scrawled Filefish. It has long been a favourite of divers due to its amazing colours and friendly disposition and is a real treat to see underwater.
The Scrawled Filefish, also known as the Scribbled Filefish, Broomtail or Leatherjacket, are the largest members of the Monacanthidae family. This family, the filefish, holds just over 100 species and while they are found all around the world over half are found in Australian waters. They are related to triggerfish, which is why they share some of their physical characteristics such as the spine on the tops of their heads.
What’s in a name?
The Scrawled filefish gets its name from the patterns along its body, looking like it’s been drawn all over with a bright coloured pen. The scientific name comes from 2 Greek and Latin words; aluterus meaning ‘not free’ or ‘detached’ and scriptus meaning ‘written’. We will explain the detached part later but the name filefish come from the rough skin that these fish have. Some sources say that the skins were used to sand boats and other wooden things in ancient times.
Scrawled Filefish. Habitat and distribution.
This species is circumtropical, meaning it can be found in tropical waters all around the world. While they can be found in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific, I found them to be more common in Caribbean waters, especially around Mexico and Belize. They can also be found pretty much everywhere from reefs, lagoons and pinnacles to wrecks and seagrass beds. They have also been observed in the open sea following the floating mats of sargassum weed. As a shallow water fish they are not regularly found much deeper than 30m but are most common in the sub 15m range.
Scrawled Filefish. Looks that kill.
The Scrawled filefish is an incredibly impressive fish to behold! They are a diamond shape with small pectoral, dorsal and anal fins but a large caudal fin (tail). This looks like an old broom when fully splayed, which is where the name Broomtail comes from. On the top of their heads there is a spine which can be raised and lowered based on the mood of the fish. This is also used to stick themselves into cracks and crevices or in the throat of something trying to eat it. It also has a lower spine on its chin to help with this, giving it the appearance of an anchor. One of the differences between filefish and triggerfish is that the fish needs to keep this spine erect whereas the triggerfish can lock them into a groove in their skulls. However, like triggerfish, they swim using the dorsal and anal fins on the back half of their bodies. They tend only to use their tail fins for a quick burst of speed.
The patterns on these fish are absolutely stunning and one of the reasons that photographers love them. They are a sandy gold colour with black spots all over them and vivid electric blue lines along their lengths. These blue lines really stand out when you see them underwater but much like an octopus or a cuttlefish they are able to change their background colouration very quickly, bleaching out or adding darker patches as it needs. Whilst working in public aquariums I noticed they would flash dark and pale when it was time to feed them. That means these colour changes may also be used for social interaction although I couldn’t find any sources to back up my hunch. There’s another project for our amateur scientists out there! Juveniles of the species are short and squat, with a background of bright yellow. The spots they have are much larger and darker and are not fixed, as they grow the spots will move to their adult locations.
Scrawled Filefish. Lifestyle choices.
Scrawled filefish are a solitary species but they can be found in pairs of very small groups when they breed. We have talked a lot about different breeding methods in this series and it’s time for another one! Female Scrawled filefish will lay their eggs on a surface such as a rock crevice or a depression in the sand where the male will then fertilize them. The adults will then guard the eggs until they hatch, both cleaning them and attacking any intruders that get close. Once the eggs hatch there is no parental care but they are looked after very well up to that point. It is the largest filefish species, growing to a maximum length of around 110cm and hitting around 2.5kg, although this doesn’t stop them using their colour changing skills to blend into their environment.
Life on the reef.
As these fish are found in so many different locations they can be observed acting differently in most of the places they are found. They are diurnal, meaning they are active during the day, and often found on their own. They like to hide amongst the reef, or wherever they are living, by changing their colour to blend into their surroundings; from bleaching to hide on sandy bottoms to increasing their blacker areas to hide in seaweeds.
The Scrawled filefish is omnivorous and will eat almost anything they can find using their strong jaws and specialised sharp teeth. This includes seaweeds and seagrasses, tunicates, gorgonians, sea anemones and small crustaceans and molluscs. They will also scavenge from larger things if they can find them.
I love these fish! I have been very fortunate to see them on almost every dive whilst in the Caribbean and on plenty in the Indo-Pacific. When I have seen them they have been hiding amongst the seaweeds or gorgonians with their large eyes roving around to watch as I approach. They would then appear from their hiding spaces and present side on in a way to seem much larger than they are and flashed colours at me. This makes sense as from the front on these fish seem small as they are laterally compressed, making them look thin. Taking pictures of them proved fairly easy, as they were presenting their fantastic patterns for me to shoot and allowing me to grab lots of different colour flashes.
The bottom line.
I travelled with Prodivers in Mexico, staying in Tulum, to see these fish. They always add a touch of magic to a dive and a splash of colour to your photos. It is worth approaching slowly and calmly to ensure you don’t spook them and just enjoy the show they will put on! | <urn:uuid:5e15af5c-07a9-48ad-9476-408fc201699b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://blog.scubatravel.com/findex-with-jim/scrawled-filefish-aluterus-scriptus/ | 2022-01-27T15:32:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.977312 | 1,369 |
It’s the first original feature project for Bad Robot since they signed their $250M+ deal with the Burbank lot back in September.
Logline is under wraps but the project is described as a supernatural revenge-western hybrid. The Pinkertons were a private security guard and detective agency established in the U.S. by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War. One of the Pinkertons, a relative, was featured in David Milch’s HBO series Deadwood: Sarah Paulson’s character Alice Isringhausen was related to the Pinkertons, and ruffled feathers with the town’s saloon owner and kingpin Al Swearingin.
Casey recently penned F9 for Universal, and the upcoming mob thriller Leo From Toledo which goes into production this spring with Joe Carnahan directing, and Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo starring. | <urn:uuid:7f0d45a1-b5a6-4e85-8ecf-23b8aa971813> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://deadline.com/print-article/1202873512/?KeepThis=1&TB_iframe=1&height=500&width=750 | 2022-01-27T15:13:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.95866 | 218 |
Gunmen have killed four men who were involved in the maintenance on a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni.
The men, two workers, a driver and a security operative, died at a facility in Nembe, Bayelsa state, which feeds oil and gas to the Brass export terminal, Solomon Ogbere, a spokesman for the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, said.
“During a routine work some gunmen yesterday attacked some contract workers working on a repair work a Nembe axis of Obama flow station killing two contract workers and a driver,” Ogbere said on Sunday, adding that one of his men was also killed and two others who sustained injuries are receiving treatment.
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2 discussions and 2 responses
I need responses to the 2 discussions and 2 responses 1 each to each student.
Week 3 Discussion:
Criteria Please respond to the following:
Criterion or criteria is the principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.One example of criteria is SAT scores and how they are a key tool in deciding whether or not a student gets into a particular college or not. Also and probably the most important is finance criteria. If the defined word criteria is the principal or standard by which something may be judged or decided how often is criteria used when making large financial decisions. A mayor of a major city would need to examine criteria before presenting a proposal for a new school to fix roads or structures around town. Criteria can also be used in the process of qualifying for something. A friend of mine is a police officer he had to take a physical as well as several mental tests. If I was interested in becoming a police officer I may ask my friend do I fit the criteria or what is the criteria to apply meaning what do I need before applying or being accepted into the academy.
I’m struggling with the topic of my justification report as I usually do trying to find something that doesn’t exist I guess I don’t have the imagination I did when I was a kid. The topic I’m thinking about exploring is employee break room costs. For instance the CEO of the company has put me in charge of managing the vending machines coffee machines the packets or cups for the coffee machine. Pretty much all that a coffee station/break room would entail the paper products as well as the appliances. My job is to find out how to save the company money in that department along with making sure everything is in working condition. My job will extend outside of the break room a little bit as well because there are water coolers and other stations that need to be managed as well. I will do research weekly to find out what items or things we could do as a company to save money while keeping employee moral high. I chose this this criteria honestly because it was all I could think of at the time. I feel like I would be better at this if I was actively working because I would have a better idea of what goes on or I could do the assignment based on what I do everyday. I haven’t worked in almost 4 years due to injury so this is all I came up with. Another reason I chose this is because it seemed like easily accessible information prices of items what it costs the company in bulk and how we can save money by switching delivery services.
Discussion Wk 4:
Preparing Reports and Proposals – ResearchPlease respond to the following:
My justification report is on the benefits of having an extended lunch break. My current job allows their employees to have a 30 minute lunch break but my argument is to extend this break between 45 minutes to an hour.
When recovery is insufficient an individual has to invest additional effort at work which may cause strain and lead to accumulating strain reactions in the long term. Recovery therefore plays a significant role in counteracting strain caused by job demands and helps in maintaining well-being and energy at work. (S. Marjaana)
Marjaana S. Ulla K. Jessica de B. Kalevi K. & Sabine G. (2016). Recovery during Lunch Breaks: Testing Long-Term Relations with Energy Levels at Work. Scandinavian Journal Of Work And Organizational Psychology Vol 1 Iss 1 (2016) (1) doi:10.16993/sjwop.13
Sianoja M. et al. (2016). Recovery during Lunch Breaks: Testing Long-Term Relations with Energy Levels at Work. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. 1(1) p.7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16993/sjwop.13
Wk 5: Discussion
Incorporating Graphics Into the Justification Report Please respond to the following:
wk 6: Discussion:
Week 6 Discussion
Putting it All Together – Revising the Justification Report Please respond to the following:
Response to student:
I think one of the more important aspects of revising anything is making sure the grammar elements are correct. Grammar can make anything written either good or completely unreadable. A second thing I want to make sure is left out of my justification report at least until I’ve come to a conclusion is to use bias-free language. When you’re writing a justification report you should remain unbiased for the most part if it seems like you are favoring one side or another your report can become unusable. Finally structure is an important aspect when it comes to writing reports essays almost anything not a text message or an e-mail. Structure goes hand and hand with grammar grammar allows for the writing to flow coherently. If a paper or report isn’t structured correctly it can make it really difficult to follow and cause readers to lose interest fast. Proofreading is a great way to find mistakes in a report or paper and is recommended in almost every written thing. One way I like to make sure everything rolls together is to have other people read it. Not just one have several people read it and most of the time if there is a mistake they will find something you didn’t. The more eyes the better. Proof reading solves issues such as grammar and structure but can also be used to fix my 3rd issue which was to not come of as biased to one side or the other. | <urn:uuid:b10c8fa6-6789-45b1-8f7c-81cafdf33703> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://essaymodel.com/discussions-and-responses-4/ | 2022-01-27T13:51:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.960565 | 1,137 |
PST file extension is commonly used by Microsoft products to manage Personal folders. These personal folders hold information including contact, email, local messages, calendar, and others. This is used as a reference for these Microsoft applications to acquire accurate data. This is mostly liked to emails setup under POP3 settings where information is linked from the provider. PST files are limited to 2GB.
During the earlier release of Microsoft Outlook '97, personal folders were written in ANSI format. Information for application such as Windows Messaging, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Microsoft Exchange Client are stored on files with this extension.
Outlook using POP3 mail server download email messages from the server and store it locally to a host computer using the default file Outlook.pst. PST files are very important in organizing and backing up email information. A contact list can be created using this extension to be pointed to a different location with it the directory where it will be used as the new placeholder for email information.
One major issue with PST files is security. Many computer viruses and worms are able to penetrate installed security software and are able to open PST files and scan them to gather information, causing some risk of divulging contact list and other relevant information without the owner?s knowledge.
Aside from other Microsoft product, Mozilla Thunderbird is able to support PST files for import facility.
Typical PST application file locations:
- "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /pst "%1"
Frequently used application names to open PST files:
Frequently associated Windows objects:
If you downloaded a PST file on Android device you can open it by following steps below:
To open PST File on iOS device follow steps below:
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Foreign countries are targeting and compromising U.S. contractors so frequently that the Department of Defense asked NIST to develop custom security guidance.
It's no secret that foreign nations have recognized that one of the best pathways to hacking and stealing U.S. government technology is by targeting its industrial base. Foreign countries are targeting and compromising U.S. contractors so frequently that the Department of Defense asked the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop custom security guidance to address the problem.
A draft version of that new guidance publicly released June 19 lays out 31 new recommendations for contractors to harden their defenses and protect unclassified (but still sensitive) government data that resides on their networks from advanced persistent threats (APT) or government-sponsored hackers. Such data can range from Social Security numbers and other personally identifying information to critical defense program details.
The recommendations include processes like implementing dual-authorization access controls for critical or sensitive operations, employing network segmentation where appropriate, deploying deception technologies and establishing or employing threat-hunting teams and a security operations center to continuously monitor system and network activity.
NIST already has basic security guidelines in place for protecting unclassified information on contractor systems, but Ron Ross, a computer scientist at NIST and co-author of the new draft publication, said a series of attacks on the unclassified networks of the defense industrial base in the last 18 months has given China and other nations a windfall of military secrets and technology that has forced DOD officials to re-examine contractor cybersecurity requirements to specifically address the threat from foreign governments.
In addition to the NIST guidelines, DOD has also taken steps to beef up participation in information sharing programs and rolled out new cybersecurity certification standards for its contractor base in recent months.
"This information becomes a very valuable target for adversaries, and we absolutely have to be able to stop these cyberattacks on these critical programs or we're going to lose our competitive advantage, we'll lose our military advantage," said Ross.
The recommendations were also crafted under the assumption that such APT hacking groups -- as their label infers -- are quite persistent and resourceful, able to adapt and find alternate pathways into a targeted network no matter what protections are put in place. The guidance was designed to further three interlocking goals: create penetration resistant architecture, facilitate damage limiting operations and create resiliency and survivability in the likely event that such groups are eventually successful.
"We wanted to be able to say what happens when the APT does penetrate our initial defenses," Ross said. "How do we respond to that once they're in the system, how do we limit the damage they can do?"
The Department of Defense incorporates the more basic NIST security guidelines in its Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation System supplement, making them mandatory for approximately 65,000 primary and subcontractors who work with DOD. However, the new enhanced guidance is expected to have a narrower impact, as it's designed to be applied on a case-by-case basis to a small fraction of defense contractor systems and programs that have high-value assets or hold critical defense program information.
Fulfilling such requirements can be costly, and low cybersecurity literacy has also contributed to poor compliance rates by industry.
In a 2018 survey of small and mid-sized defense contractors, 45% said they hadn't read NIST's basic guidance on securing controlled unclassified information systems, despite the fact that DOD made following such requirements mandatory in 2016. Many of the respondents reported that the NIST document was difficult to understand and had concerns about the costs associated with compliance, sometimes underestimating the price of implementing such protections by as much as a factor of 10.
Implementing all the new enhanced protections against APT threats can be "a heavy lift" financially, but they are still necessary, said Ross.
"The problem is that when you want to stop an adversary throwing their A game at you, you've got to come with you're A-plus game, and that's not easy to do," he said. "It's not cheap, it's not inexpensive to protect these assets, but the downside is losing this critical data, which is priceless in many cases."
The guidance does account for this reality, noting that "nonfederal organizations may not have the necessary organizational structure or resources to satisfy every requirement and may implement alternative, but equally effective security measures to compensate."
Overseers in Congress have paid increasing attention to the issue. The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes a provision that would require DOD to develop a new framework to improve cybersecurity practices among its contractor base and brief Congress on the plan by March 2020. It would also force military leaders to pay more attention to smaller vendors and conduct regular audits to ensure that primary contractors actually do have security visibility throughout their supply chain.
"The committee is concerned that prime contractors are not overseeing their subcontractors' compliance with these cybersecurity requirements through the entire supply chain and that the Department lacks access to information about its contractors' subcontractors," the committee wrote in a report on the bill.
The new NIST guidance will go through a public comment and revision period. While a typical NIST publication takes up to a year to finalize and publish, Ross said this particular topic is such a high priority for DOD and other agencies that they're hoping to cut that timeline in half and publish a final version within the next six months.
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The late UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian is getting an honor afforded to less than a dozen people in history. On Wednesday night, after the Runnin’ Rebels’ game against Boise State finishes, the lights of the Las Vegas strip will dim to pay tribute to the coach who put Vegas on the college basketball map.
Tark’s UNLV teams embodied the the city’s eventual slogan — “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” — so it’s only natural that he’s sent off with a classic desert tribute. Tark, who died last week at age 84, was a throwback — a great sporting character everybody had a favorite story or quote about.
Mine: “I always like to get transfers, especially from the Pac-10. They already have their cars paid for.”
Tark’s 1991 Rebels were defending national champions and one of the most dominant teams in college basketball history. The Larry Johnson-led squad is still the last since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers to enter the Final Four with an undefeated record, but a shock loss to Duke ended hopes of a back-to-back title and a historic undefeated season. In those two years, Tark’s Rebels won 13 tournament games. In the 23 years since, the Rebs have three tournament victories.
Other people to get the honor of a dimmed Vegas strip are Elvis Presley, Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr., Vegas staple George Burns and Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. (The strip has been darkened for other events, such as 9/11.)
What’s happening Wednesday is a tremendous honor, but it’s too bad they couldn’t turn the wattage up on all the neon, brightening the city like Tark did when he was the NCAA’s lone wolf out in Vegas for 19 years. Or they could have draped a white, terry cloth towel over the city, if only for a moment. | <urn:uuid:4af5dfba-e1ce-4f8d-8c54-84c65ef71020> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/02/jerry-tarkanian-las-vegas-lights-dim-frank-sinatra | 2022-01-27T15:35:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.95801 | 421 |
For ten years I worked in the Islamic community of Australia as a teacher and mentor to newly qualified teachers. Amongst the many things I learned whilst working there. There were 2 very important lessons that I have taken forward with me throughout my career.
1. You can never influence a child if his parents and the community are not on the same page. If you want to empower a child and make him feel that he is valued and worth something, you’ve first got to empower the community and rubbish the racist bigotry that’s paddled in the trashy media of the world.
2. If you want to make a child believe that he can be something and that he should come to school everyday instead of skipping class and going to the mall, you’ve must let him know that you care about him. You’re not there for the money. You’re there each and every day because you care about him and his future. And you want to bump into him in ten years “Hey Hassan, how are you?”
“I’m great sir, I’m at UTS studying medicine!”
This actually happened to me last week to a young man that when I asked him what he wanted to be at 7 he said “A gangsta sir!”
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Section 1: The Holy Scriptures
- We believe both Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, infallible, God-breathed, inerrant in the original writings, and the supreme and final authority of faith and practice.
Section 2: The Godhead
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), identical in nature, equal in power and glory, and possessing the same attributes and perfections.
Section 3: The Total Depravity of Man
- We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and is and shall remain essentially and unchangeably depraved apart from divine grace.
Section 4: The Person and Work of Christ
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God in order that He might reveal God, fulfill prophecy, and redeem man. To this end He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, thus receiving a human body and a sinless nature.
- We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice, and that this redemption is made sure to us by His actual resurrection from among the dead. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God, where He now fulfills His High Priestly ministry as Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate for His people.
Section 5: The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
- We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Trinity who convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. He also in this present age regenerates believers in Christ, baptizes them into the church, the body of Christ, indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows spiritual gifts upon each one, and fills those who are dependent upon Him.
Section 6: Salvation
- We believe that salvation is the gift of God, brought to man by grace, and received through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins.
- We believe the Scriptures teach that regeneration, or the new birth, is that change wrought in the soul by the Holy Spirit, by which a new nature and spiritual life not before possessed, are imparted, and the person becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus.
Section 7: The Keeping Power of God
- We believe that all who truly receive Christ as Savior are kept by the power of God secure forever and shall never perish, this being vouchsafed by the sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit.
Section 8: The Responsibility of the Believer
- We believe that all believers should seek to live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Lord and Savior, and that separation from sinful pleasures and practices is commanded of God.
- We believe that it is the obligation of every believer to witness by life and by word to the truths of the Holy Scriptures and to seek that the gospel be proclaimed to all the world.
- We believe that it is the responsibility of all believers to remember the work of the Lord in prayer and active participation, and to support it with their means as the Lord has prospered them.
Section 9: The Church
- We believe that the church, which had its beginnings on the day of Pentecost, is the body and bride of Christ, and is a spiritual organism made up of all born again persons, irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations.
- We believe that it is the responsibility of each believer, as a member of this spiritual organism, to affiliate with a local organization as a testimony of his relationship to Christ, for his own edification and growth, for fellowship with others of like-mind, and to further the evangelization of the lost.
- We believe that Jesus Christ is the Lord and Head of the church, and that every local church has the right under Christ to decide and govern its own affairs.
Section 10: The Personality of Satan
- We believe that Satan is a person who is the declared enemy of both God and man; he is the Devil, the Evil One, and the accuser of the brethren.
Section 11: The Blessed Hope
- We believe in the personal imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ in the air (a pretribulational rapture of the church) to take His church to be forever with Himself to share His glory. This blessed hope set before us in Scripture involves the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the translation of those of His own who are alive and remain unto His coming. Before entering an eternal state of glory, we believe Jesus will rule for a literal 1000 year period upon the earth (a premillennial view of eschatology)
Section 12: The Eternal State
- We believe in the resurrection of the dead, life hereafter, and the association of the faithful with Christ everlasting.
Section 13: The Church Ordinances
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of water baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to be observed until His return, not as a means of obtaining salvation, but as evidence of obedience.
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I met Kristin at the lowest time of my life.
I had been to three other counsellors and received no help and it seemed hopeless that counselling was going to help me. Kristin helped me immensely at coping skills and brought me out of the downward spiral. She helped me get through and deal with my anxiety. She didn’t just listen but gave me so many tools to help with my anxiety that I to this day use whenever I have moments of anxiety and it helps me get through it.
She has been the best counsellor I’ve ever had.
Thanks to her I feel in control of my life again.
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Every semester, I am amazed at the connective tissue that runs through the texts I place on the syllabus and the themes that arise. No matter the class, I construct my courses around themes, all teachers do. However, when a class ends poignantly on a recurring theme, I find it a really serendipitous occasion. This semester, in my Ethnic American Literature course, we explored the ways that we, as individuals, construct our identities based on ourselves and on the ways that others view us, specifically when they place their preconceived notions upon us. We looked at this from the beginning of the semester through the end. We explored it in the ways that Manar navigates her identity in a new land in Mohja Kahf’s “Manar of Hama” to the ways that Long Vanh navigates his Afro-Asian identity in the face of the community and his own family in Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith’s The Land South of the Clouds.
We concluded the semester with Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro, a graphic novel that breaks down constructs of race and highlights the ways that society, especially those who want to maintain power, constructs one’s identity. Today, I want to look at a couple of moments from Incognegro and discuss how these moments add to the class’s discussions we have had throughout the course of the semester.
The first scene takes place immediately after Zane Pinchback’s transformation into Incognegro. After the page where Zane looks at himself in the mirror, straightening his hair, and preparing to pass for white, we see Zane going to Grand Central Station to catch a train to Tupelo, MS. The page contains four panels, and over the course of the panels, Zane goes from the streets of Harlem to a subway train to Grand Central Station. As he moves through these spaces, he provides a narration over the course of the panels. He says,
That’s one thing that most of us know that most white folks don’t, that race doesn’t really exist. Culture? Ethnicity? Sure. Class too. But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting, playing roles. That what white folks never get. They don’t think they have accents. They don’t think they eat ethnic foods. Their music is classical. They think they’re just normal. That they are the universal, and that everyone else is an odd deviation from form. That’s what makes them so easy to infiltrate.
In his narration, Zane’s comments lay bare the ways that whiteness works to hold onto power. The ways that whiteness works to construct systems that oppress others. Zane mentions the “rules,” deploying similar language that Ernest Gaines uses when discussing the “rules” that structure life and societal interactions in South Louisiana in his novels.
Along with this, Zane points out what Lillian Smith did in “Buying a New World With Confederate Bills” (1943) when she wrote, “It is just possible that the white man is no longer the center of the universe. It is just possible that even German nazis, British imperialists, and white southerners will have to accept a fact that has been old news to the rest of the world for a long, long time.” Zane, like Smith and countless others, points out that whites do not think of themselves as “white,” as distinct. Instead, we view ourselves as “the universal,” the “norm.” Yet, that is not the case. We have only made it the case in order to exploit and suppress others.
Before we can move forward as whites, we must recognize our position. We must recognize that we have created adjectives. We have created images. We have created hierarchies. All of these, and more, work to benefit us, no matter if we are wealthy or poor. We have benefitted because we have positioned ourselves as normality and others as some deviation from the norm. This construction hinders our work towards equity and equality because it posits that if someone does not adhere to these “norms” then that person is unworthy or inferior. This is why I always go back to Frank Yerby’s condemnation of adjectives when he told James Hill, “I reject adjectives. Adjectives, which are the enemy of nouns, don’t mean anything.”
All of this leads me to the panels that lie underneath Zane’s narration. He talks about how easy it is for him to infiltrate white spaces due to white narcissism and our view that we are the center of the world. Working through the social constructions of race, we see Zane, in the first panel, walking along a street in Harlem, He is one of many African Americans strolling down the concrete. We see detail here. Each person has a level of detail that mirrors Zane’s. In the second panel, we see Zane on a subway car. An Orthodox Jewish man stands behind a pole in the middle of the panel, half obscured from our view. Zane sits with Blacks and whites on the right hand side of the panel. Less detail appears on passengers’ faces than the previous panel.
The third panel shows Zane walking up the steps from the subway station to the street. It is here that he talks about whites having accents, ethnic food, and viewing ourselves as “the universal.” Here, the detail continues to fade from the image. We still see Zane’s mouth and eyes, and the mouths and eyes of others; however, they are not like the faces in the first panel. The ones in the first panel have multiple lines, showing expressions, wrinkles, shadows, and more. In the third panel, we only see lines and dots depicting parts of the faces, not the details we encounter in the first panel.
An outward view of Grand Central Station appears in the fourth panel, and we see countless people walking around on the street and into the station. Here, Zane states, “That’s what makes them so easy to infiltrate.” In this panel, individuals’ details are nonexistent. Instead, they appear as merely lines, devoid of expressions, faces, and more. The removal of these details serves two purposes. One, it proves Zane’s point of how easy it is for him to infiltrate white spaces. Along with this, it showcases Zane’s comment that whiteness views itself as the norm. No variety exists. No deviation exists.
The people become a mass of humanity, blurring together as the walk the streets. This aspect drives home the entirety of Zane’s narration and calls upon readers to acknowledge their whiteness and that we are not the universal; rather, we are part of the universal humanity, a part that has accents, ethnic food, music, and other things that other members of humanity have. These do not make us superior. They make us human, along with everyone else who inhabits this whirling sphere as it hurtles through space.
In the next post, I will look at another scene from Incognegro. Until then, what are your thoughts? As usual, let me know in the comments below, and make sure to follow me on Twitter at @silaslapham.
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We are into the approach to the Solstice, its coming very soon. The light although decreasing until that point in time in the Northern Hemisphere will increase rapidly with the Solstice. The energies being presented to us at this Solstice are great, beautiful and intense. If you are bathed in the great and beautiful, fantastic!! If you are not getting all the great and beautiful but a full on hit of the intense, it is a good time to go into your heart and find the stillness that is there. This stillness will allow you to let the energies coming in to flow over and through you. The energies are highlighting deeply held beliefs and ideas from your energy field, jiggling them loose to allow more light to be present.
Nora Herold and her gang (http://www.noraherold.com/) offered a lovely meditation on the December 1st teleconference. Check out the recording of the teleconference for the original meditation. This is my version of the meditation:
Sit quietly and breathe into your heart center. Allowing your breath to quiet you and bring you to a still place. From the stillness allow the light that is ever present for you to move with your breath. Inhale the light into the center of your chest, your heart center, and as you exhale allow the light to go to those parts of you that are hungry for the light. Allow those parts of you to receive the love and light that they have denied themselves. Quietly sit and breathe. Fill yourself with the light and love that is always there for you. Allow yourself to be a beacon for yourself and the world you walk in. When you are ready, go about your day, and know that you are held in light and love and just as you are held, so all are held in light and love.
Thanks for letting your beautiful light shine! Much love, Linda
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What does all-inclusive mean?
All-inclusive means that you pay one price and it includes all of your skiing, meals, accommodations, skis, airport transportation, and avalanche rescue gear, including an avalanche airbag backpack. There is no nickel-and-diming you with our packages or add-ons. Many operations do not include in the price of your package your meals, skis, lodging, transportation, avalanche airbag backpack, radio, harness, avalanche transceiver, shovel, probe… If you do not have an all inclusive package these additional items can add up to a significant bill at the end of your ski week that you may not have expected or are prepared for. Alcohol, massages and guide and lodge staff gratuity are not included.
What does the vertical feet guarantee mean?
When we guarantee 30,000 – 90,000 vertical feet, or 8 hours of Hobbs it means that if you do not reach that amount of vertical feet or Hobbs time you get a credit or refund on the amount you did not ski/could not ski. This also means that you are not being charged for skiing or helicopter time you never used. There is no guarantee you will ski the vertical feet your package offers, but if or when this happens it will likely be do to poor weather and no fly conditions. When this is the case you get a credit towards a future trip, or a refund, the choice is yours. This works in favor of you the guest, because you get something back for the time you could not ski. Helicopter ski operations often do not offer refunds or credits, or very limited refunds/credits because of the high cost involved in running a helicopter skiing business. Our vertical feet guarantee is there to be fair to our guests. The goal of every company is to ski you out of your package so no refunds/credits need to be given, and then you buy additional runs or flight time. This is good business, so you cannot blame them (or us), though we want to offer more to our guests, such as a fair refund and credit policy. Please see our Terms and Conditions page for all the details.
What package is right for me?
It depends on time, your budget, how much you love to ski, and how many ski friends you have. A private package is the ultimate way to go heli skiing, it always has been and always will be. The helicopter is yours, no sharing involved, you have rented the helicopter. You have been given the keys to a Ferrari, so to speak. If you can, get a group of like minded and like ability friends and/or family together sign up for a private trip. Our seven day package is great because it offers you seven days of skiing. This helps you get your ski legs under you, gives you extra time in case of weather delays, and you can get use to the Alaska environment – it is big. The three day package is nice because if you can’t take the whole week off from work, or have family obligations you won’t be gone too long. Our four and five day package will fill the gaps between the other packages. Even show up a day early or stay an extra day if possible for additional skiing, weather delays or just to see more of Alaska. If you are planning to come to Alaska, always try to stay and ski as long as your schedule allows. Also, look for early and late season deals; you can get big savings by booking a trip at the start or towards the end of the scheduled season. And no, the snow quality is not compromised at all at different times of year. You can’t predict the weather, so go with what your schedule and budget allows. The deepest powder of the year can be February to April and everywhere in between.
How does small group heli skiing work, or is organized?
Small group means that the helicopter carries four guests or less, accompanied by one or two guides. We do not use the 212 or 205 helicopter, which carries up to 10 guests and 2 guides. We use the AStar which can carry one pilot and up to five other people (weight restrictions apply). The way small group heli skiing typically works is up to four groups (never more, almost always less for us) utilize one helicopter, and ski within the same area or zone. This means that the helicopter will be “shared” by the groups. There is a system, and it is organized, the helicopter always flies with a purpose, and blade time is not wasted, nor can it be on extraneous flights. A group consists of your guide, and up to a maximum of five guests (never more, almost always less). The helicopter is always active, moving groups from run to run, and keeping everyone skiing as much as possible. Groups are organized by skiing ability, as well as by keeping you, and your friends and family together. We can accommodate single individuals and groups of any size. Remember we limit the number of guests we host each week, which means you ski more, have less wait time, have better customer service, all of which greatly enhances your experience.
Do I need to bring my own skis? Avalanche safety/rescue gear?
If you have skis that you really like by all means bring them, we encourage it. It may take some time to get used to skis you have not skied before, or maybe you just end up not liking them very much. We do include top of the line powder skis for all of our guests if you do not have powder skis or do not want to travel with skis. We can save you the trouble of packing and lugging your skis by providing you with powder skis (again, this is included in your package, not $40.00 extra dollars a day like some operations charge). We do recommend your skis be at least 100 mm wide underfoot, 110 mm or wider is better, and rocker is a big plus. You must use the avalanche airbag backpack we provide as well as our transceiver, shovel, probe, harness and radio. Please do not bring your own. If you snowboard or telemark, you then need to bring your own gear. Bring your ski boots, camera, ski clothes, snacks you may be addicted to and cannot live without, and your toiletries and you should be good to go. We do have a retail shop as well to purchase some cool gear Attire is casual around the lodge.
When should I arrive?
If your schedule allows we always encourage folks to arrive the day before your trip is scheduled to begin and stay a day after. Alaska is a cool place and this may give you extra time to take in the sites, go fishing, or an extra day of heli skiing. We will pick you up in the late afternoon to early evening of the first day of your package, and get you back to Anchorage on the evening of your last day. Make sure you schedule your flights accordingly to maximize your time. Our airport pick – ups and drop – offs are at a scheduled time. If you want rent a car, they are inexpensive and you can drive right to our lodge on a well maintained highway. Just take highway 1 to our front door. We are 115 miles from the airport (2.5 hours drive). Read our Itinerary/Typical Day Page to help give you an idea of what to expect.
When is the best time of year to come heli skiing in Alaska?
Whenever your schedule allows is the best time. We offer trips starting in February and run until May. You cannot predict the weather months in advance, so book your trip when your schedule permits. The snow is very consistent in Alaska, and it is not a cold, dark place, like many people have been told (ok, it is a little dark and cold in December, but we are not skiing then anyways). February typically offers powder galore without looking very hard (meaning all aspects and elevations), and moving into spring offers longer days and more spring like temperatures. Early season and late season packages also offer reduced prices (and amazing skiing), so check those out to save a few bucks. It is all good.
How is the food?
Great and plentiful. All of your meals and snacks are included in our packages.
Alcohol is not included.
Do we ski in the trees? What is the terrain like? Do I need to be an awesome skier?
Alaska heli skiing primarily takes place in the alpine; meaning no trees, also skiing on glaciers is very common and a unique experience. Skiing in Alaska is like nowhere else, that is why you come to Alaska. Don’t worry, we have terrain that will suit your ability. The size and scale of Alaska can be daunting, and it is hard to wrap your mind around it until you have experienced it. We cater to skiers who are strong intermediate or better. Be honest with yourself and your abilities, we don’t ski groomers. When you heli ski in Alaska, you are in a back-country environment/off-piste. If you are a shaky intermediate, take some lessons and improve your skills. If you are a strong intermediate, you will have a great time. You do not need to be a rock star, and if you are that is great, but by no means a prerequisite. Leave the attitude at home, listen to your guide, and prepared to have your outlook on skiing changed forever.
How many runs will I ski a day?
We don’t count runs for our package skiers, we count vertical feet, a better and more fair system in our opinion. That being said, you will likely ski between 6-10 runs a day (some days may be less, some days could be more), it may not sound like a lot of skiing, but it is. If you can ski 12 runs in AK in a day that is A LOT of skiing and a HUGE day. Please do not compare 8 runs of skiing at your local ski resort to 8 runs of heli skiing, it is not the same thing, not even close. Again, we count vertical feet skied so we don’t care how many runs we ski in a day, we just go skiing, it is more fun that way.
Do we fly every day?
Most importantly with Majestic Heli Ski – we fly more than anybody in Alaska! Over 80% of the time we are heli skiing.
Our location is slightly inland of other operators and we have the highest heli ski lodge in all of Alaska, this means we have more consistent snow and the most flyable days of any heli ski operation in Alaska. We just have more options when the storms clear because we are not right on the coast where the clouds tend to linger. Our packages are designed so we ski every day, but; Helicopters typically need nice weather to fly heli skiers. Poor visibility is bad for helicopters (and skiers), and can greatly increase the risk. Due to this fact you will have days when you will not be able to go heli skiing, such as when it is snowing, strong/gusty winds, poor visibility/flat light, and low cloud ceiling. You need to be patient and wait for appropriate flying weather and ski conditions. Just because you see a blue hole does not mean that conditions are suitable for heli skiing. We are dealing with Mother Nature, be patient, and expect the unexpected. Again, be prepared to have days when you cannot go skiing for safety reasons because of the weather or snow stability. Helicopter skiing is nothing like a ski resort, there are no chairlifts, rope lines, trail markers…this is a wild and natural environment, that is why you go heli skiing-to get away from ski resorts. Cut the guide some slack, and enjoy not being at work. On these days we may go for a sightseeing tour, ice climbing, cross-country skiing, or enjoy the day at the lodge. When you ski in big mountains where it snows a lot, there are days you cannot fly, but it sure will be good when you do.
How long are the runs?
It depends. Some runs may be 1,000 vertical feet and other runs may be 5,000 vertical feet. Contrary to belief and some advertisements, not every run you ski in Alaska is 5,000 vertical feet, and yes, there are runs that are that long, but not every run. Just have fun while skiing, a good run is a good run. It is the smile on your face that counts, not the change in elevation.
What if I snowboard?
Snowboarders are welcome with open arms. You should be a strong intermediate and ready to have a great time. We also welcome telemark skiers.
Is it steep?
It can be, or not – we are typically skiing what would be black diamonds or double black diamonds at your local ski resort with a few blue squares as well (this is just to give you a general idea, Alaska is not like any ski resort). The snow quality is often quite amazing in Alaska, and the amount of snowfall and the moisture content can allow skiing in steep terrain, and produce great powder conditions. The terrain we choose to ski is based on a number of factors; avalanche hazard, flight times, weather, time of day/year, and your ability, just to mention a few of the things that go into the decision making process of what and where to ski. Skiing a run in Alaska is not the same as skiing that black diamond run at your local hill you may have skied hundreds of times before. We will always do our best to choose runs within your ability and are fun, that is the point after all.
What if I have never skied powder before?
Sweet, your mind will be blown. Do not worry if you have not skied powder before, all of our guides are also instructors. Our guides are not here to show you how great of skiers they are, but are here to take you to terrain and snow quality that you want to ski, and will allow you to have the best time possible. Powder is the easiest facet of skiing to learn. If you can ski groomers, bumps, or pretty much any hard blue run at any ski resort you are more than capable of skiing powder in Alaska. Our powder skis will also help.
Am I fit enough? Will I hold my group back?
To get the most out of your trip you should arrive in ski shape. Heli skiing is physically demanding, so go for a hike, ride your bike, or better yet get out there and ski. It never hurts to take a lesson or two before your trip. We group like minded and like abilities together. If you show up with your family or friends you will be grouped together. Group size is typically 4 guests, with one guide per helicopter.
Vertical, Hobbs or # or Runs
We do not count runs for our multi-day packages, we count vertical feet. We use the Hobbs Hour Meter (flight time) for our private packages. Single Day packages are 6 runs, regardless of vertical feet.
Helicopter skiing seems expensive?
The good news is that the value is extremely high in heli skiing. If you were to price a week of skiing at your favorite destination resort, and compare that to a week of heli skiing, you may be surprised that heli skiing is very similar in price, most likely it is even less expensive. Your dollar is of much higher value in heli skiing than resort skiing. We all love ski resorts, that is where we get our fix, spend every day off during the winter, and have countless great memories, but there is no comparison between heli skiing and resort skiing. The simple answer is helicopters are expensive. Any operation involving aircraft involves a price tag due to insurance, maintenance, fuel, personnel, safety equipment, and the cost of the machine, just to name a few things. A helicopter (Astar/407) can cost up to and over 3 million dollars at the helicopter dealership. The thing about a helicopter is it is the greatest chairlift in the world. Also overhead is expensive, the heli season is only 3 months long (not a lot of time to make money), and the number of guests per season is relatively small (there is money in volume, and there is no volume in heli skiing). These reasons are also what makes heli skiing so special. Remember; a helicopter is going to pick you up, take you to the top of the mountain and drop you off, you are going to see amazing scenery, have unbelievable skiing, then the helicopter is going to pick you up, and you are going to do that over, and over again. That is well worth the price.
Should I purchase trip cancellation insurance and trip interruption insurance?
Yes, it is a great idea, even though we have the best credit policy in the industry. This gives you extra protection in case you have to cancel, no fly days, you injure yourself, become ill, poor weather…Check into both of these policies as well as medical and evacuation insurance, and ask the right questions to make sure you have the right policy in place for a heli ski trip. Call your local insurance agent, search trip insurance, or ask us about it as you inquire about your trip
Do you offer day trips?
Yes. Although we recommend multi – day packages because you are in Alaska and you are here to go skiing!
Am I too old? What is the age limit?
You are never too old! Our most mature guest to date was 78 years old. As far as taking children or young adults it depends on their maturity level, and how much they would appreciate a heli ski trip. Taking kids who are 12 years and older is not out of the question.
Does the helicopter land, or do I have to jump out?
The helicopter always lands, there is never any jumping out of the helicopter.
Does helicopter noise/vibration trigger Avalanches?
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Before the war was the uprising. The military conflict between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian government is escalating – and with it the number of casualties, among combatants and civilians. Socialists in Russia and Ukraine are trying to build social and labour movements around internationalist and anti-war principles, participating in so-far-modest efforts to launch a peace movement, and arguing about how best to do so. Central to these discussions are activists’ assessments of the Ukrainian uprising that in February brought down president Viktor Yanukovich, and of the left’s successes and failures in that
movement – because it was that uprising that triggered the response by the Russian government, which protected the exiled Yanukovich and annexed Crimea, and by Russian nationalist and fascist forces who joined the armed irregulars that control parts of eastern Ukraine. This report by KIRILL BUKETOV of the Global Labour Institute first appeared in Russian on the Left Opposition site. GL.
On 12 April 2014 a conference on The Left and the Maidan was held in Kyiv, which brought together activists from anarchist, socialist and communist organisations that had been involved in the Maidan movement in late 2013 – early 2014. (“Maidan” = square, after Independence Square in Kyiv where the movement began.) The initiative to hold the conference came from the Left Opposition organisation (Liva oppozitsiya), the Centre for the Study of Societies (Tsentr doslydzhennya suspyl’stva), the Centre for Social and Labour Research (Tsentr sotsyal’nikh i trudovykh doslidzhen’) and the social critique magazine Spil’ne (The Commons). It was supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The conference provided an opportunity for left-wing political activists to take stock of their participation in the mass movement, analyse the mistakes they had made, and discuss possible further actions.
The large number of participating activists who represent the various political groups and initiatives evolving as a part of the Maidan movement is in itself clear evidence against the alleged absence of the left in the Maidan movement. The discussion was built around the question of why the left had failed to take some organisational form and become as visible a factor of the Maidan as their right counterparts.
The Left Maidan: the beginning
The Maidan movement was changing rapidly and dramatically with every day. Started as a protest action against the refusal [by Yanukovich] to sign the EU Association Agreement, it was transformed into a movement against the deceitful and corrupt nature of the former government, and then against police violence and attempts to impose antidemocratic laws.
At the initial stage, left activists did not attach much importance to the protests, seeing slogans for European integration as alien to them, and limiting their involvement to infrequent small-scale actions that would put forward social demands and criticise the EU’s anti-social policies.
Yet, the moment the authorities resorted to violence and blood was spilt, the situation changed radically. Things were taking a serious turn; the square was no longer a gathering place for European integration supporters, but became a gathering place for those who opposed tyranny. It was at that moment that the Left’s attitude to the protests changed. Although nobody was prepared for such a turn of events, of course, least of all the left. “Previously, we had been doing some circle work to educate and enlighten people, but we had no experience of taking part in a mass movement and protest actions” (Nina Potarskaya said at the conference).
The public context was changing with breathtaking speed. A general anti-fascist action in Kyiv was scheduled for 19 January 2014, to commemorate Stanislav Markelov and
Anastasia Baburova who were killed in Moscow in 2009. Yet, on that day the police began brutally beating up protestors, which brought more and more people out into the streets. It would have been simply unnatural for the Left to stay away from a movement against police violence. “Combat actions began, and we had to change the format of our activities; indeed, it would be unthinkable to just hop around the square taking pictures with your camera when wounded people fell all around you, people who needed help” (Nina Potarskaya).
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The Maidan was a broad democratic movement directed against the corrupt authorities of Yanukovich’s regime, and in terms of its political colouring it, of course, was not left, just as it was not right either. If we are to trust the polls, 93% of the Maidan participants were distant from politics. Only 7% had a political position and belonged to one political group or another. Among those 7%, socialists had their niche.
In this broad mass movement, each of its political wings had a chance to manifest itself and act in line with their own tactics. But, having joined the Maidan later than others, the Ukrainian left found themselves in a predictably weaker position than their opponents from the right. At the same time – unlike, for instance, the Russian left who have constantly been in open street conflict with right extremists and set up their own self-defence structures – Ukrainian socialists proved to be unprepared to oppose blatant aggression and the organised violence of the right.
This forced the left Maidan to fold their black and red banners, turn a blind eye to the presence of right-wing ultras and to adopt the tactics of involvement in the general democratic processes through active agitation within the broad civil movement. “The important thing was to get our message across to people rather than identify oneself [as the left]” (Irina Kogut). “Proclaiming oneself openly as ‘left-wing’ would only serve to provoke violence from the organised right-wing groups, making it impossible to do one’s work” (Nina Potarskaya).
“We made an attempt to announce the formation of the Anarchist Squadron, but 70 uniformed nationalists turned up at the meeting and we had to fold, and start working within the Students’ Assembly” (Bogdan Biletskyi). Yet the Assembly was fully controlled by the anarchist students’ union Direct Action, and all of the Assembly’s slogans were social ones. Socialist agitation was under way at the Assembly, there were lectures, socially relevant films were shown.
The spirit of freedom
So, Maidan was not left-wing in terms of its composition but it was left-wing, libertarian in spirit. It was driven by protest against corruption and tyranny, against humiliation and oppression, by masses of people who felt their dignity had been offended by their rulers’ lies, and who suddenly became aware of themselves as a single nation. It was the emerging protest against their personal enslavement and the aspiration to become free that were bringing more and more people into the Square.
And it was not only the anti-authoritarian motivation and nature of the Maidan that spoke of its left-wing essence, but also its modus operandi. The Maidan used methods that we [the left] traditionally consider to be our own: direct participation, self-organisation, direct actions, rejection of leaders, and a resounding NO to the steering and pacesetting role of parties. “The Maidan led to the toppling of tyranny and triggered the development of direct participation and self-governance, which, in essence, is the socialist way” (Alexey Simvolokov).
“Self-organisation sent mediators, both state and political ones, packing. They were rejected. The way that mediators were given the sack pushed the masses to the left, towards society’s greater control over political institutions and the state” (Nadezhda Shevchenko). At the same time, the totalitarian left, who have become used to leading and steering, did not benefit from the sacking of mediators. The majority of them were critical of the movement. The Communist parties used their mass publications to discredit the Maidan, building upon the idea that the power had been seized by a fascist Junta, while some rushed off to create and support “anti-Maidans” in the south-east of Ukraine.
One of the conference participants titled his presentation The Maidan as a Triumph against Communism, interpreting “communism” in Stalinist terms. This resulted in a big discussion. One can argue about nuances, but the really evident thing was that walking onto the Maidan carrying a portrait of Stalin was not only senseless but also unsafe. By the way, the same applied to carrying a portrait of Hitler as well. The Maidan, by its very nature, had no room for symbols of tyrannies and despotic dictatorships.
The Left Maidan
Those who joined the Maidan protests represented anti-authoritarian, democratic left groups that could not remain uninvolved. “We had to be there; indeed, this protest as such has social roots, it is the result of social problems” (Vladimir Chemeris). “From the very beginning the Maidan had the support of the free trade unions affiliated to the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine. Trade unions are the foundation, the first stage of the working class self-organisation, and we, machine-builders of Dnepropetrovsk, perceived the Maidan as, first and foremost, a social protest. But later on it was the whole country out, taking on the tyranny; the workers who had come with us quickly became politicised” (Alexey Simvolokov).
There were quite a large number of the left on the Maidan and they had opportunities to develop their own initiatives and agitation. Left Oppositionactivists were agitating under a red banner and later prepared a 10-point list of social changes based on Lenin’s April Theses and provisions of Trotsky’s Transitional Programme. “The document was distributed in the Ukrainian language in the Ukrainian House and was approved as a programme that was in line with the interests of the Ukrainian people” (Zakhar Popovich).
“The Women’s Squadron (Zhinocha sotnya) engaged in criticising sexism in the Maidan and agitation against right-wing ideology” (Nina Potarskaya).
The Students’ Assembly was opened in the Ukrainian House on 28 January, and its contents were absolutely left-wing. The Assembly coordinated students’ and youth initiatives, drafted the programme for a Free University, organised protest actions, recruited volunteers to medical aid teams, worked on visual arrangements in the Maidan” (Nina Khodorivska).
One the most important projects implemented by the Maidan Left was the Hospital Watch (Vakhta likaren’). “It was an anti-police project rather than just a humanitarian one” (Irina Kogut). In the hospitals there was a need to organise protection of the wounded and those who had suffered from police violence. Yanukovich’s policemen were seeking such people out in hospitals and mobilisation for their protection became a political issue; the idea behind this work was to give people some experience of resistance to police brutality and to the state. The initiative involved around 25 activists, all of them were leftists and carried out anti-governmental agitation in dozens of Kyiv hospitals. Every day the Hospital Watch was joined by over a hundred volunteers who were constantly replacing each other.
Ideas and self-identification
The main task for the Left in the Maidan was not to identify themselves as such but rather introduce socialist meanings and ideas into the movement. Now we find ourselves bombarded with criticisms and accusations that the Maidan Left have contributed to the right-wing provisional government’s ascent to power. This point is invalid; the Maidan as a phenomenal, broad, mass movement should not be associated with either the new Ukrainian government, or professional politicians, or individual parties which were a part of it. Besides, there are no non-oligarchical leaders in Ukrainian politics and, whatever the outcome of the Maidan, there just would not be any room for the left in any government. Any Ukrainian government would be a right-wing one.
And the left did not work in the Maidan for the sake of oligarchs. They did all they could to involve as many people as possible into various anti-authoritarian forms of public organisation, promoting a critical attitude to the ideas of fascism, homophobia, and sexism, as well as to liberal economic programmes. “About a half of the Maidan Left were anarchists,
who never seek taking power or being involved in the authorities. We simply work towards the development of non-governmental institutions as an alternative to the State” (Nina Khodorivska, Irina Kogut).
The results of this work will surely manifest themselves in the near future, when life has returned to its peaceful course and an enormous mass of workers will feel on their necks the strangling noose of the “economic aid” programmes offered by the international financial institutions.
Historical responsibility of the left: where have we failed?
It is evident that the Maidan became a real challenge to the Ukrainian left. Never in the past has the country experienced such an upsurge of people’s activism resulting from the need to defend their freedoms in the face of the government’s armed aggression. The situation was changing by the minute; there was no time to discuss strategies and tactics; everyone just did what he or she believed to be required. Today, during a respite of sorts, one can critically look back, make an initial analysis of what did not work in order to better prepare for new mass manifestations.
The weakness of the Maidan was insufficient involvement of trade unions and the working class. Only 5-7% of all Maidan participants could be categorised as workers, which, come to think of it, is natural: participation in a public protest is extremely complicated for workers. “Workers work, they cannot afford to stop working and risk losing even that meager income for their families” (Yurii Samoilov).
So, it is quite logical that the bulk of the protest movement was formed by students, pensioners, office clerks, civil servants, small entrepreneurs, etc. Furthermore, none of the Kiev left bothered to start agitation in workplaces, to try to bridge the protests and the workers’ community. The free trade unions’ call for a general political strike just hung in midair.
Next, all the participants pointed out that despite a large number of the left involved in the Maidan there was practically no coordination among them. Having joined the protests later than the right wingers, the left instantly rushed into the thick of it and did not have time to create their own organisational structures – unlike the right-wing sector which managed to do that. “The lack of coordination among the left initiatives – the groups of marxists, social-democrats, and anarchists – was a big problem” (Bogdan Biletskyi).
The third area where the Left have failed to find their bearings has to do with soaring separatist actions in south-eastern Ukraine. Taking into account that protest movements in all regions were based on popular dissatisfaction with the corrupt regime of Yanukovich, and deterioration of people’s social situation – and that Yanukovich was equally hated in the Crimea and in the Volhynia [in north west Ukraine, bordering Poland] – it was the left who were in a position to formulate a programme of a people-friendly social order, that could enjoy equal support throughout Ukraine.
But the Maidan was focused on the idea of national and democratic identity, rather than the idea of social justice. “The Crimean Maidan should have talked to the Crimeans in the language they could understand” (Alexey Arunyan). The lack of loudly proclaimed social demands in the Maidan, demands that could unite the country’s east and west, contributed to the annexation of Crimea and emergence of “anti-Maidans”.
Whatever turn the situation takes next, it is imperative for the left to consolidate in order to create a left-wing political project so that they could oppose the right-wingers who are now in power and the growth of Ukrainian chauvinism in an organised manner. “We must clearly formulate our position vis-à-vis right-wingers and completely dissociate ourselves from them” (Nadezhda Shevchenko).
This is needed in order to preserve and defend the democratic values of the Maidan, the freedoms that are already being suppressed by the new authorities. “The Maidan quietens down, yet the anti-oligarchic idea has not taken root and people are force-fed with entirely different meanings of the events” (Igor Panyuta). “In fact, the new government itself is the most consistent ‘anti-Maidan’” (Alexey Simvolokov).
The struggle must be continued under social slogans. Popular indignation is already on the rise these days, due to the dramatic deterioration of the social situation. We see spontaneous pickets flaring up at bus stops when people protest against fare rises. There will be more of such social protests in the future and they will grow into a mass social movement. We must be ready for it. And our programme should not be about changing one president for another, but rather changing the whole system of social and economic relations in Ukraine.
Internationalism should underpin all our actions. In any war the working class is used as cannon fodder, while oligarchs get richer on people’s blood and tears. We must agitate against war, formulating this as the most urgent task for the working class of Ukraine and Russia.
Note from the author. These are notes about the conference The Left and the Maidan. The conference heard different, often quite opposite, opinions. The text does not presume to fully cover the conference discussions; rather, it is a number of subjective conclusions of the author that reflect his personal point of view, support for which he found in numerous inputs from the participants. All quotes are made from memory. The author apologises for the impossibility to verify the exact wording of the statements. Translated by Eugene Kuprin, published here 16 June 2014.
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Protein spray was a product born when it became evident to me that many home colour consumers were finding their hair colours over depositing. Over depositing is an issue that occurs when a colourant is applied to either porous or very dry hair. Unlike instances where the cuticle is sealed shut (as explained with Precolour Clarifier), porous hair has a cuticle that is either damaged or has been permanently forced open by excessive chemical treatment or heat. Therefore, when an individual applies a colourant product to the hair, it is sucked directly into the cortex (the hair’s central area) and processes too fast. This phenomenon not only causes patchy and dark colour (over depositing), but also leads to serious damage of the hair fibres, because the chemicals applied have penetrated the hair too quickly.
Ammonia is a highly alkaline ingredient that is used in many permanent hair alteration treatments (lightening, colouring and perming). To evoke significant structural change to hair, it must be placed into an alkaline pH and the cuticle layer raised wide open. Ammonia can fulfil the function in technical hair treatments. This is particularly necessary with grey coverage (in colouring) and 7 level lightening (as found with bleaching). Similarly, perms and relaxing treatments will also process via high alkaline solutions. However, once hair has been treated with high alkaline solutions and the cuticle layer raised open to enable chemicals to bypass and evoke change, the cuticle can never fully close again. Depending on how far the cuticle raised in the first instance, or if indeed the alkaline solution destroyed it, the hair will become porous to varying degrees.
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A bleeding gingiva, which is swollen or which is easily colored, should be of interest to you. The diseases that affect the gums are common and they even become the main oral problem in adults.
It is important to know that the gums are protective: they support the teeth and protect the tissues that attach teeth and jaw. If your gums are not healthy, there is a risk of losing your teeth and generally, altering your health. If you suppose to have any of the gum diseases, there are some very simple solutions to apply.
What is a gum disease?
The disease is an inflammation of the tissues that hold the tooth. This inflammation is due to the accumulation of bacteria between the gums and the teeth. At the beginning of the disease, we speak of gingivitis (when only the gums are affected). When the bones surrounding the tooth are affected, it is called periodontitis. This disease affects 80% of adults.
Gums bleeding: how to treat them?
There are two types of bleeding:
- Recurrent bleeding: this is usually gingivitis of bacterial origin . Bacteria settle on the tooth surface and create plaque. The gum is weakened and this can cause haemorrhage
- Acute bleeding: Bleeding can also be occasional without you having an infection.
When a gum bleeds, it is usually a bacterial inflammation. Plaque should be removed using a dental spray or brushing teeth more regularly. A tartar toothpaste will be preferred to prevent plaque or the use of an antiseptic mouthwash. If the bleeding continues, it would be best to consult your dentist.
Swollen gums or inflammation of the gums: the solutions?
A swollen gum is also a symptom of gingivitis. Dental plaque is usually responsible in this case. Adopt a good oral hygiene to limit the infection and consult a dentist. Do not stay with swollen gums if the problem persists.
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Symptoms of gingivitis include:
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DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a 4-year-old girl accidentally shot her 4-year-old cousin to death with a loaded rifle she found under a bed at a relative’s home on the city’s west side.
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As I sit here writing this, the news of Carrie Fisher’s death has just broken.
Best known as Princess/General Leia in “Star Wars,” Fisher was also an outspoken, smart, funny, talented, unapologetic woman who was also a strong advocate for substance abuse and mental health. 2016, truly the Heath Ledger’s “Joker” of years, has taken another outstanding artist and left us all feeling even emptier than we thought we could feel. From Prince to David Bowie to Alan Rickman to now Carrie Fisher, the cavalcade of untimely deaths of beloved celebrities has felt like a nasty and vindictive addition to the year of Trump and Brexit.
2016 is finally over, and after all we’ve been through, it’s hard not to feel like Sideshow Bob stepping on rake after rake after rake. And yet, as I look through all the amazing pieces written for The Tempest in this past year and reflect on how lucky I am to be joining you as the Pop + Trends Editor, I don’t see a year of despair. I see a year of resilience and courage.
2016 was the year that made art more important than ever. We need stories from all kinds of different voices and viewpoints. We need cultural commentary that points out injustice and shines a light on those of us who are usually forgotten or ignored. We need entertainment that helps us escape but also holds us up and brings us together. And if there’s any generalization we can make about women, it’s that we refuse to let our stories be silenced.
Let’s take a look back on a part of 2016 that might actually be encouraging. These are some of my favorite articles from the past year, and no matter what happens I can’t wait to meet the challenges of 2017 with all of you.
As anyone who follows us on Snapchat knows, I am big into comics about women. “Ms. Marvel” is a fantastic book that stars a young Muslim woman, Kamala Khan, as the superhero Ms. Marvel. This interview with the writer, G. Willow Wilson (who is also an author, journalist, and essayist), by Laila Alawa covers everything from inclusion in the comics industry, to Kamala’s Muslim faith, to advice for young women looking to follow in her footsteps.
Is it okay to admit that, trolls and harassment notwithstanding, Twitter can be pretty great? There were a lot of election hashtags gimmicks over the year but I love a goofy one like this by Life + Love Editor, Nadia Eldemerdash.
Never stop being weird and silly, Internet!
One of my favorite things about The Tempest, is that on any given page you can see articles celebrating art in all its diverse forms. Bollywood has been a major force in the international film scene for years, but a lot of people have assumptions about what Bollywood movies are or are not.
I love how this article by Tasneem Mandviwala highlights Bollywood films tackling important social and cultural issues.
As we continue to make strides in representation, it’s equally important to speak out when mainstream media continues to perpetuate harmful stereotypes or ignores social problems for the sake of a white-dude friendly joke.
“Mail Order Bride” was the perfect example of NBC not thinking very hard about what they were doing, but also of people getting organized and speaking out. I think we’re all better off for this particular show not existing, a development covered by Cecilia Nowell.
5. I attended a special screening of “Hidden Figures,” the movie on the forgotten women of NASA, and it was AMAZING
This was such a cool event, I can’t help but include one of my own pieces in this roundup. If you’re reading this, “Hidden Figures” is out in theaters and I can’t encourage you enough to go see it. It’s such a heartwarming film about Black women thriving and achieving despite whatever odds are thrown at them.
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The focus of the campaigning leading up to the referendum on UK membership of the EU has been too narrowly economic and misrepresentations abound on both sides, writes Frank Turner SJ. The opportunities for scrupulous consideration of the issues and for authentic political debate have been missed, and now ‘the character of the debate threatens the EU whatever the outcome on 23 June.’ Which areas of interest and importance has the public forum struggled to accommodate?
The referendum on 23 June poses the question: ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?’ That question is fair, not loaded. However, it demands a simple, unqualified, almost crude answer: no one may answer ‘Remain’ or ‘Leave’ …. but only ‘on certain conditions’. However complex the issue, such simplicity of formulation is unavoidable in referenda, which seem to be a poor instrument to resolve complex questions. There are excellent reasons for living not in a direct democracy but in a representative democracy.
I would argue a double position. The EU, with all kinds of necessary qualifications, is a good and necessary institution. (This is a claim about the EU itself.) Second, the UK should remain a member. (This second proposal does not make sense without the first, The Vote Leave campaign hotly denies it, and unfortunately the Government has hardly defended it).
The following argument will also have a double character:
1. Economic arguments are always and rightly important in politics: but debates such as this one, about membership, are primarily political;
2. The narrowness of focus in the current fierce and often polemic debate is not only regrettable but destructive.
Economics and politics
For decades, the EU was popularly known in Britain as the ‘Common Market’. Successive British governments have viewed the EU primarily through the prism of economics. Economic questions always lie at the heart of elections, and parties will not be elected without being thought economically competent. But there is more to democracy than economics, and economic logic (especially the logic of the market) has little to do with democracy.
In the economic sphere I believe that the EU’s ideal of the ‘social market economy’ is more fully human and more consistent with Christian social thought, than that of the ‘free market economy’. The ‘free market’ discounts equity and justice in favour of growth and profit (in the pious but vague hope that eventually the markets will somehow correct themselves). I see no reason to promote growth indiscriminately, in the absence of fairer distribution and greater social equality. Rapid growth in crude GDP terms only entrenches inequalities of power which render the poor actually worse off than before. The American social theologian Joe Holland liked to say, ‘The economy’s doing fine, it’s just the people having a hard time’.
I know of no document which contrasts a free economy with a free-market economy more concisely than Pope St John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus of 1991. He attributes to the state,
the task of determining the juridical framework within which economic affairs are to be conducted, and thus of safeguarding the prerequisites of a free economy, which presumes a certain equality between the parties, such that one party would not be so powerful as to reduce the other to subservience. (§15, emphasis added)
Thus economics is a far broader sphere than market thinking. The British political achievements for which I’m most grateful – the NHS, the provision of excellent public libraries, subsidised growth of third-level education – have an essential economic dimension, but were established against market resistance and are now under renewed threat from market forces.
The market is an instrumental good. In a social market economy, promoting the market is to be balanced by preserving those goods, goods greater than the market itself, which the market threatens: solidarity with the vulnerable; social justice (in the form of ‘social inclusion’); a kind of rebalancing, for example through the redistribution of the EU’s structural funds to poorer states, and to the poorer regions of more prosperous states.
This general discussion is relevant to our topic because the British Government insistently calls for ‘EU reform’, though the changes it demands are rarely what I would regard as ‘reform’ at all. The UK already has protocols exempting it from measures which preserve the necessary tension here noted, between market and non-market goods: the Social Chapter of the Treaty of Maastricht and some labour provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (even though labour rights are under deep threat in the global economy), which the UK deemed to be ‘too costly for business’. I prefer the EU’s attempt to balance the interests of business and of the broader society to British ‘reform’. Membership of the EU helps restrain some of the worse instincts of British governments.
The EU, however, is not primarily an economic association. The economic structures put in place from 1950 onwards did not have the primary goal of maximising economic growth. Through political action they sought to unite the economies of warring states in such a way that war would in future be unthinkable between them.
It is salutary to remember that from 1900 to 1950, some 60 million people died by violence on the European continent; from 1950 to 2000 about 1 million. The EU cannot claim sole credit for that contrast: but its original and primary purpose was to establish a structure – binding together the central industries of the warring states – that would soften the most lethal nationalisms of the 20th century. Despite occasional but terrible failures along the way (as after the break-up of the former Yugoslavia) it has achieved this end. No one thinks Britain or France will now go to war with Germany or Italy.
That peace dynamic still operates. The EU integrated several countries emerging from the Soviet system into the EU not for economic reasons (the EU became more economically vulnerable as a result) but to incorporate what Pope John Paul II called ‘the two lungs of Europe’. In this way the EU significantly enabled the post-Soviet political reconstruction of Europe. Peace in Europe trumped economics.
The politics of sovereignty
I wrote of the ‘lethal nationalisms’ of the 20th century. Those nationalisms persist. They appeal to the principle of state sovereignty. China’s claim, for instance, that any outside intervention in its internal affairs (to defend human rights, or press freedom) is ‘interference with its sovereignty’, turns the state into an unchallengeable ultimate (that is, theologically speaking, an ‘idol’). On the contrary, states have obligations beyond themselves: by international and humanitarian law, by treaty, and by the sheer reality of human interdependence and human need.
The UK is not inherently isolationist. It is proud of the ‘special relationship’ with the USA. Its traditional structure of partnership has been the Commonwealth, which explains some of the original opposition to its joining the EU in 1973. The UK is commendably generous in maintaining its level of support for the global development goals. Yet when it comes to the EU (and now, especially, to the referendum debate) the nationalist perspective emerges with great force. In Westminster you would regularly hear a question about how some EU policy affects the UK. You would never hear anyone ask how some proposed UK policy would affect the EU.
This perspective is not unique to the present Government. Under Labour, the UK strongly supported the entry of Turkey into the EU, but for British reasons. The UK wished the broadest possible membership to promote the enlarged scope of the single market, and Turkey’s market of some 75 million people was attractive. Yet Turkey’s entry would – conveniently for Westminster – rule out any project of deeper political union.
The founders of the EU believed that shared sovereignty (which involves a measure of willingness to moderate unilateral demands) is not loss, but enrichment. I think many Britons, and their government, assume that shared sovereignty is lost sovereignty. Sovereignty is taken to be a zero-sum game. I do not believe that. In fact (and as neither side in the debate cares to point out) the EU combines the modes of shared sovereignty and member-state sovereignty. The ‘competences’ of the EU institutions are strictly limited. The Commission (a kind of enhanced civil service, non-elected) serves the EU as a whole. The nationally elected Parliament embodies representative democracy, and in the Council, heads of state, prime ministers and thematic ministers represent the states themselves, both as partners and competitors. (Significantly, the UK consistently prefers to work through the Council.)
In terms of economics, globalisation renders sovereignty almost a fiction. Global corporations effortlessly play off one country against another on labour rights, taxation and environmental protection. Foreign-owned multinationals help determine levels of investment and jobs in the UK, as a consequence of a process in which national institutions and businesses have been both privatised and globalised. What is national sovereignty, when Britain’s energy security is largely dependent on the French and Chinese governments deciding whether or not Hinkley Point nuclear power station will be built, and between them owning the project? Or when the survival of the UK’s steel and motor industries depends on decisions taken in India, Germany and Japan?
Formal sovereignty is therefore very different from autonomy. Outside the EU the UK would be more naked than before in resisting states and transnational corporations far more powerful than itself.
In terms of politics, the greatest challenges of the modern world simply cannot be addressed without supranational structures of partnership and governance: climate change, refugee and migratory flows, the taxation of transnational corporations. It is too much to expect ‘solutions’, and the refugee crisis in particular could overwhelm all established systems of governance. But any adequate response will require common action and shared commitments.
The quality of the public debate
The Government’s referendum campaign recognises the last point above. Mr Cameron has said that he has little positive esteem for the EU but it would be cold outside. International trade, for example, is the only sphere in which the UK consistently acts as a member of a larger EU bloc, in order to enable competition with China, India, the USA. President Obama noted that it would take the USA 5-10 years to negotiate a new trade deal with the UK, since the USA would certainly continue its attempt to reach an agreement first with the EU itself, its largest trading partner.
Thus the official Government pamphlet, issued last month to every UK household, begins, ‘The UK has secured a special status in a reformed EU’ [emphasis in original], and sums up in five points:
- we will not join the Euro;
- we will keep our own border controls;
- the UK will not be part of further European political integration;
- there will be tough new restrictions on access to our welfare system for new EU migrants;
- we have a commitment to reduce EU red tape.
All these points are negative. The last of them is nothing less than demeaning: what the UK regards as ‘red tape’ may include vital regulations on environmental protection, food safety or labour rights – in a world where labour rights are everywhere threatened by transnational corporations. The pamphlet also includes one statistic which, while technically correct, is shamefully intended to mislead. Facts sometimes disguise truth rather than express it.
The campaign of Vote Leave is still more blatant in its falsehoods and misrepresentations. The latest copy of its campaign pamphlet is entitled ‘Vote Leave, take back control’. It repeats four times the claim that we ‘send’ or ‘hand over’ £350 million per week to the EU. Once it varies this phrase: ‘The EU costs us over £350 million a week. Enough to build a brand new, fully-staffed NHS hospital every week’.
Those two expressions mean different things. The phrase ‘send’ refers to the gross amount contributed, whereas the phrase ‘costs us’ refers to net contribution allowing for what the UK receives: this net sum is estimated as £120 million per week, a contribution which most economists think is less than the UK gains from its access to the single market. Second, no one can say that any ‘savings’ would be mainly directed towards hospital building, as the campaign implies.
Again, the pamphlet alleges repeatedly that ‘the EU Court’ or ‘the European Court’ or ‘EU judges’ control life in the EU. ‘The European Court will be in charge of our borders, immigration, asylum and even our intelligence services’. This claim is nonsense. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has the task of interpreting EU law to ensure it is applied in the same way in all EU countries. It settles legal disputes between national governments and EU institutions. It can also be used by individuals, companies or organisations to take action against an EU institution, where they believe their rights to have been infringed. The Law itself is determined not by the Court but by treaty.
Similarly, when the Vote Leave pamphlet claims, ‘The Eurocrats are just waiting to get our referendum out of the way before pushing ahead with the new treaty to take even more money and power’, it fails to note that any new treaty would need to be agreed unanimously by the member states. No law can be imposed on the UK which it has not itself accepted by treaty.
As a final example take the crucial and fraught topic of immigration, inevitably at the centre of debate. The pamphlet urges, ‘Let’s take back control of our borders: a quarter of a million EU migrants come here every year – a city the size of Newcastle’. The UK is not part of the Schengen border-free area and has control of its borders. It was shown too that this figure of 250,000 conflates migrants who come to live in Britain and short-term seasonal workers who leave quickly.
In debating ‘Brexit’ recently before a Christian audience with a prominent ‘Brexiteer’, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, I met the Vote Leave tactic of firing off such a barrage of unsubstantiated allegations that some mud was bound to stick. It was impossible to pick up all the distortions even if one was adroit enough to spot them: trying to do so would also ensure that debate was focused solidly on Vote Leave’s preferred territory. I take two examples of absurd claims which were presented that evening as reasons for Christians to reject the EU:
- ‘The EU, originally of Christian inspiration is now an “apostate state”.’ It is surprising how many distortions can be packed into one contention. (i) Some of the founders were Christian, some not; (ii) the EU is not a state at all: therefore it was never ‘a Christian state’ and by definition cannot be – in the insulting term – ‘apostate’; (iii) nor would one wish the EU (or indeed a state, any state) to be ‘Christian’. The EU’s citizens include substantial minorities of Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and of those without any religion. Further, Benedict XVI, in his visit to the UK in 2010, repeatedly acknowledged the rightful validity of the secular state.
- ‘The EU finances abortions in Africa.’ Well, the EU finances sexual and reproductive health programmes (vital especially in regions of high mortality at childbirth), in which abortions may be carried out in accordance with the law of the country concerned: just like the UK’s own Department for International Development. Our own Government ‘finances abortions’ in just about every maternity hospital in the UK.
Dismally, therefore, we are faced with overwhelmingly self-interested arguments from the Government and even cruder counter-claims from Vote Leave. At the level of personal values, the attitude of existing in a state of permanent dissatisfaction, of always wanting more, poisons relationships and the springs of joy. I admire many politicians and don’t regard the life of politics as a sphere where we are content to operate out of our worst egoistic selves, and I am sad that the British debate embodies this bitterness, this almost lack of generosity and openness to others. Not only that, but the character of the debate threatens the EU whatever the outcome on 23 June, for the logic of univocal national self-interest is contagious and prevents committed collective action.
Vote Leave’s campaign, if successful, will configure the UK as a state which (if it indeed survives without breaking apart itself) refers all political questions to its direct self-interest. The Government asks not how can we gain a fair agreement, but how can ‘we’ gain over against everyone else. I don’t want Mr Cameron’s ‘special status’ in the EU, I want equal status. So the Government argues for the position I strongly support, the UK’s continued membership of the EU, for reasons that I don’t like at all, seeking a combination of maximum benefits for itself and minimum commitment to others.
I hope we stay in, for our own sake and for the sake of the EU. But I also hope we are willing to be a different kind of member, sharing both benefits and costs. I want us to seek the good of the EU in which the UK’s own good is included.
Frank Turner SJ worked from 2005-14 at the Jesuit office in Brussels that reflects and comments on the affairs of the European Union. He is now a Fellow in Political Theology of Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and is the Delegate for the Intellectual Apostolate of the Jesuits in Britain.
It wishes to undermine the claim that UK could leave the EU but still negotiate a trade deal. ‘Less than 8% of EU exports come to the UK while 44% of UK exports go the EU’. Evidently the rest of the EU’s exports to a single state will be a far smaller proportion than Britain’s exports to 27 states, 450 million people!
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The Woman and the Dragon
12 Then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains and the agony of giving birth.
3 Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.
5 She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. And her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place to care for her for 1,260 days.
7 Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. 8 And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. 9 This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.
10 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens,
“It has come at last—
salvation and power
and the Kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ.[a]
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters[b]
has been thrown down to earth—
the one who accuses them
before our God day and night.
11 And they have defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by their testimony.
And they did not love their lives so much
that they were afraid to die.
12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens!
And you who live in the heavens, rejoice!
But terror will come on the earth and the sea,
for the devil has come down to you in great anger,
knowing that he has little time.”
13 When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. 14 But she was given two wings like those of a great eagle so she could fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness. There she would be cared for and protected from the dragon[c] for a time, times, and half a time.
15 Then the dragon tried to drown the woman with a flood of water that flowed from his mouth. 16 But the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that gushed out from the mouth of the dragon. 17 And the dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against the rest of her children—all who keep God’s commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus.
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I will build 5000 sustainable homes including council houses and affordable homes.
As someone who grew up in a council flat, I understand the value of a secure home and my strategy for West Yorkshire will help to deliver more genuinely affordable homes. I will take advantage of brownfield and infill sites, work with a range of social, community, co-operative and local authority housing providers to build 5,000 affordable homes with sustainability at their heart.
I will work with Co-operative and community-led groups across West Yorkshire to ensure the 500 homes currently planned are built, and accelerate ambitions by working with these groups on supplying land and accessing finance. I will ensure eco developers can fulfil their vision of creating low carbon, community-owned homes.
I will work with all housing providers to ensure we get the right mix of housing for our older people. I will establish a Dementia Ready Housing Taskforce to ensure all our older people’s housing and related services are dementia friendly.
I will undertake an audit of accommodation available for those fleeing domestic violence, and ensure that there is sufficient accommodation for all those that need it.
As Mayor, I will work with disability groups and housing providers to develop a strategy to ensure there is an adequate supply of houses built to inclusive design standards, and work with local authorities to review the enforcement of building standards and the adaptation of existing houses. I will work to deliver a West Yorkshire Accessible Housing register.
Many people who want social housing cannot access it, and are forced into the private rented sector. I will instruct the Co-operative Development and Community Wealth Building Unit to work on developing a not-for-profit West Yorkshire Social Letting Agency.
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Yesterday His Holiness Pope Francis addressed himself to the Roman Curia for the annual Christmas greeting.
He mentioned Industriae ad curandos animae morbos, that is, “Initiatives (for superiors) to cure illnesses of the soul”, a work of Jesuit formation by Claudio Acquaviva, S.J. (+1615) who was the 5th Superior General of the Jesuits and is known as their “second founder”. There was recently issued a new version in Italian. I mentioned that I would like to see that and a whole bunch of you found it on line and sent me the PDF. Thanks! I right about you: the smartest readers anywhere. Wanna see it? HERE
The Pope said that he had had to read this book. Industriae may be at the core of what Francis did in 2014 when he rather viciously beat the tar out of the audience. This year he offered “remedies”.
I have been going through the work. It is very interesting. I may use it as a kind of examination of conscience.
I found especially interesting Chapter IX. Chiusura e mancanza di chiarezza… “Lack of openness and lack of clarity”
Here is a sample from IX:
3. Know that no other defect more than this one open the door to Satan, spirit of shadows, which operates freely, as it wishes and without any obstacle on this type of soul, easily persuading it; and know that there is no other defect more than this which closes the door on all remedies. Therefore, being opened up he will easily defeat all temptations; otherwise, remaining silent, he’ll be defeated. | <urn:uuid:3298f6f8-3e40-42f5-9426-e0ce8d9f3e89> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://wdtprs.com/2016/12/book-which-pope-francis-mentioned-in-address-to-roman-curia/ | 2022-01-27T15:33:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.972711 | 357 |
West Midlands Police is using extra powers to stop and search people in their fight against knife crime in Westside and other areas of Birmingham city centre.
The new Section 60 powers will allow officers to stop and search people they suspect to be involved in violence, or carrying weapons, without the need to have reasonable grounds.
Chief Inspector James Spencer, of West Midlands Police, said: “We’re fortunate to be part of one of the biggest and best cities in the country and we want everyone to safely enjoy all it has to offer.
“It means we won’t tolerate violence and is why we are taking action in response to recent stabbings, robberies and weapons being brought into the city.
“Today we’ll be using section 60 powers in and around the city centre to help us do this. This allows us to stop and search people we suspect may be involved in violence, or carrying weapons, without the need to have reasonable grounds.
“Every time someone carries a knife or other weapon they run the risk of ruining lives, not only others but their own too.
“It’s illegal to carry knives or any other weapons and it can lead to a criminal record and prison sentence which impacts on education, employment and travel.”
Chief Inspector Spencer explained that the force will be organising stop and search scrutiny panels for the public to provide feedback on the new measures.
He added: “We appreciate the impact of stopping people under section 60 and we’re keen to hear from you about how we exercise these powers. We’re continually looking to learn and improve.
“It’s through your support and sharing information we can help ensure Birmingham is a safe place for all.”
Mike Olley, general manager of Westside BID, said: “We welcome this action by our police partners to help us make Westside an even safer place to be.”
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"Manga Man" Falling From The Sky
Dylan Xiong and Lai Yumeng's sweet love story
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I like to know what I’m buying before shelling out cash, which is why I’m giving you this here free excerpt from my book, Schooled. The essay, “When You’re a 22-Year-Old Teacher and Your Students Are 18,” is actually the first of the book, and I thought if you enjoy it, maybe you’ll enjoy the others? Maybe you’ll even buy a copy of the book for yourself (or your favorite teacher or anyone who likes to read)? If you’re an educator, maybe you’ll contact me so we can work together on Professional Development ideas or Act 48 fun? Not trying to tell you how to live your life, just throwing some suggestions out there.
Anyhoo, here’s that excerpt:
“When You’re a 22-Year-Old Teacher and Your Students Are 18”
Hall Duty, 2004.
Because my colleague had to cover another class, I was canvassing the halls solo that day. It was eerily quiet, the usual suspects nowhere to be found. I’d grown accustomed to multiple trips around the building—front to back, up and down the steps—and learned that changing into comfortable sneakers was a necessity. Heels stashed under my desk back in the classroom, I was business on top and Nike runners on the bottom as I walked the halls of our high school that day.
In retrospect, it made sense: a young-looking female, tennis shoes, hair pulled back in a low ponytail. I should’ve seen it coming.
Rather, I should’ve seen her coming.
Passing the copy center, I continued down the long empty corridor, removed from the steady lineup of classroom doors. As I rounded the corner leading to the gym’s back entrance, the most remote part of the building, I heard a quick shuffling behind me. She grabbed me by the arm just above the elbow, spinning me around to face her. Stunned, I couldn’t find words; there was no time. Her hot breath flooded my face, our noses mere inches apart. “What do you think you’re doing? Get back to class!”
Sighing loudly, I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, hi. Barbara? We’ve been through this. I work here. I’m a first-year teacher.”
This was the eleventeenth time our school nurse had intercepted me in the hall with accusations of cutting class. I’d run out of fucks somewhere around our third confrontation.
Barbara released her death grip and took a few steps back, studying me. Her eyes widened in surprised amusement to find me on the receiving end of her mistake once again. “I just keep thinking you’re one of the students!” I fought the urge to roundhouse her. This level of stupidity was ridiculous. Not to mention the fact that she put her hands on me—again. She’s lucky I wasn’t one of the students, because I’d seen enough of them throw down with one another in those very hallways and one even try to fight our principal. Either our nurse was unaware of her handsy repercussions or she just didn’t care. I was leaning toward the latter.
So many bizarre and blatantly inappropriate things happened during my first year of teaching, most of them simply because I was a young woman. Beginning a career at the age of 22 is a daunting task for anyone, but when your subordinates are only a couple years younger, and when those subordinates are actually juniors and seniors in your English class, situation and circumstance are complicated in a way I never learned about in college.
Like the day my students were working in pods. To accommodate the desks, I had to move a cluster of them close to the door. The move was against my better judgment, as I was all too familiar with the risks of desk-to-door proximity. No teacher in America can compete with the temptation that is The Hallway. I’ve seen students break their necks for just a quick peek into the enticing abyss outside the classroom. Voices, footsteps, the bang of a locker—teachers don’t stand a chance. And if someone knocks on the door? Mayhem.
Unfortunately, I had no choice that day; the pods were a necessary evil. I ran interference as best I could by physically standing between the students and the door, but because it was approximately 105°F that September, the door and windows had to remain open if there was any chance of survival.
P.S. Ms. DeVos, please do something useful like equipping schools all over America with air-conditioning. Or resigning. Thank you.
One of the usual hall wanderers was in full effect that day. I didn’t realize it, but he was lingering just outside my classroom and any time I stood in front of the door, specifically when I bent over a desk to help students, this young man was . . . how do I put this delicately?
He simulated . . . no.
He pretended to . . . not quite right.
He . . . okay, fine. I’m just gonna say it.
He air-humped me. And I was completely oblivious, chatting up students about the author’s purpose in the text. Not until one of my female students quietly motioned toward the door did I catch him in the act.
Lesson #80,023 we do not learn in college: the proper way to handle a student simulating a sex act on us.
I’m generally quick-witted and rely on humor to diffuse uncomfortable situations (shoulda seen me at my grandmother’s funeral! I was a riot, I tell ya!), but even I couldn’t find the funny in a student sexually harassing me. I was livid! My anger didn’t stem from the fact that I was the teacher; I was a person, one who had shown those kids nothing but kindness and respect, and this is how they repaid me? Many of my students were only a few years younger than me, making it super difficult to establish my authority in the first place. I was quickly meeting my limit for bullshit. Between the school nurse’s antics and parents not realizing (or believing!) I was their kids’ teacher, and now this student’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision, I was ready to snap.
I stood in the doorway, watching the air humper book it down the hallway, and said nothing. There was no joke appropriate for the situation, and it wasn’t just me who felt it. The whole atmosphere in the class had shifted; students who had been snickering got right with the Lord real quick and sat quietly, eyes down. That sense of powerlessness made me feel, in a word, worthless. I had no control, and that was not the proper pecking order—I was supposed to be in charge. My students were looking to me to fix it, or at least react, and I couldn’t. As they filed out of class, their looks of pity brought me to tears. They felt bad for me, and it was humiliating. I had worked so hard to create a safe, mutually respectful culture in my classroom, and one stupid act erased it.
So, during my planning period, I decided to do something I rarely did: I went to see my assistant principal. Seldom did I defer behavioral issues to administration; I preferred handling problems with students on my own, mindful that it was part of what helped create my classroom’s culture. Me showing up red-faced in Mr. Pickmen’s office was rare, and therefore enough to get his attention. Once I explained what had happened, we talked about the possible consequences. Three days’ out-of-school suspension was a given for the student’s behavior, but how did I want to handle the rest? I had every right to file a police report, Mr. Pickmen told me. He didn’t sway me one way or the other; he simply informed me of my options. I paced his tiny office, wearing holes through the carpet.
“I don’t think I want to involve the police.” I sat down.
Whaaaaaaaaaaat?! I silently screamed at myself. A student pretends to hump you while you’re teaching, and you don’t want to file charges? You were clearly targeted because you’re a woman and young and new, and you don’t want to teach the kid a lesson? What will your inaction tell the other females in the building?
“That is your decision,” Mr. Pickmen said evenly. He called the student to his office.
When the student saw me, he wouldn’t even look at me. He knew why he was there and offered an apology right away.
“Are you sorry for your behavior or that you got caught?” Mr. Pickmen’s previously calm demeanor disappeared; he turned into an investigator grilling a suspect, enunciating every syllable as though they were the last the student would ever hear. “This woman has shown you nothing but respect. She gives her time and her energy to this school every single day, and this is how you treat her? You were new to our district a few years ago. Do you remember how hard it was to be new? It’s no different for an adult, new to a job.”
Damn. No wonder his name was on a plaque and stuff.
The student apologized again.
“Why? Why are you sorry?” my assistant principal pressed. I was sweating and I wasn’t even the one in trouble.
“I’m sorry for doing what I did. It was wrong.”
“Tell me what you did,” Mr. Pickmen kept at him. “What did you do?”
I wanted to squeeze my eyes shut and evaporate into thin air; instead, I stared at the wall. I didn’t want to hear the kid say it. Turns out, he couldn’t. Either the gravity of the situation or his conscience kicked in, and he couldn’t say the words.
Mr. Pickmen lowered his voice. “Do you know why you can’t say it? I do. Because it feels wrong saying those things in front of a teacher, doesn’t it? If it feels wrong to say it, you know it’s wrong to do it. Now,” he said, turning to me, “do you want to press charges?”
The student looked like he was going to vomit. I straightened my shoulders and pretended I wasn’t about to do the same. I forced eye contact with the kid: “I know it’s my right to press charges; what you did is sexual harassment and it’s absolutely unacceptable. Do you understand?”
“Even though it’s my right, I’m not going to.”
The kid exhaled.
Mr. Pickmen continued, “Even though it’s her right, she’s not going to involve the police. Do you understand there are other teachers in this building who would gladly have you kicked out for doing what you did?”
“I’d say you’re pretty lucky.”
“After your three-day suspension, I will be escorting you back to that class and you will apologize to everyone. You disrespected and embarrassed all those students, not just their teacher. Now get your things from your locker and get out.”
I wanted to kiss Mr. Pickmen’s shiny bald head in that moment. I’d been afraid to ask for his help, and assumed deferring to him would compromise the authority I had tried so hard to establish, but as I walked back to my classroom that day, I felt strangely empowered. Mr. Pickmen had given me choices and supported whatever I chose. He put the ball in my court and let me be a part of the solution. I wasn’t deferring; I was deciding, and that is the epitome of authority.
While it was frustrating to engage in the same conversations over and over with the nurse, parents and students because of my age, I began to recognize the value in them. Each conversation helped build a new relationship, and it was through those relationships that I was able to solidify a reputation for being hard but fair, a reputation I certainly needed if I wanted any chance of effectively teaching people only a couple years younger than me. Finally, I stopped viewing my age as a detriment and understood how it had been helping me the whole time: Being such a young teacher gave me a unique perspective, one that allowed me to better empathize with students. After all, it wasn’t that long ago I was the kid doing dumb things, praying some kind soul would grant me a second chance. Thank the maker social media wasn’t all the rage when I was a teenager, that’s all I’m sayin’.
Even though a bunch of my colleagues were aghast I hadn’t pushed for stronger consequences to address such foul behavior, I stood by my decision. Passing the buck never works when dealing with kids, and that is what our students are: kids. Kids learn from their mistakes and since I’m in the business of teaching, it makes sense not to write them off for making one. | <urn:uuid:ee9105fd-d748-4d05-8319-9b1354016a4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://whencrazymeetsexhaustion.com/excerpt-from-stephanie-jankowski-schooled/ | 2022-01-27T14:16:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.979707 | 2,926 |
Party identities are the clearest they have been in modern American politics — the Republicans swinging to the right, the Democrats to the left, locked in a bitter war with each other.
Caught in the middle, American voters will front the ballot box on November 6 in a different way to usual.
Rather than picking the individual candidates that resonate with them from either side, many are vowing to vote only for Democrats, or conversely Republicans, in the "mid-terms" (the off-year election that falls halfway through presidential terms).
The result will be seen as either a protest vote, or one of support, for the ultimate political personality, Donald Trump.
In a sense, this will be America's first true parliamentary election — closer to that of Britain or Australia — in which voters choose sides, not individuals to represent them.
Since the 1860s, American politics has been dominated by a two-party system, the Republicans and the Democrats. It has been common during the 20th and 21st centuries for the houses of Congress to be controlled by one party, while the White House is controlled by another.
The voting patterns reflected a number of things. First, more Americans vote in presidential election years than in mid-term election years, and that usually means independent voters — those who register without stating which party they support — have a greater say in choosing a president.
Presidential candidates make their cases on a national basis, while individual candidates for Congress focus on the issues in their districts and their states.
For decades, the two parties seemed close enough in outlook that many Americans felt comfortable voting for a mix of candidates from each, meaning that Congress and state legislatures had a healthy mix of representatives from each party.
The whole thing was held together by consensus, or what more cynical observers might call a "quid pro quo". Democratic presidents needed to cajole Republicans to pass their most cherished initiatives, as Barack Obama did with a national health care plan in 2010.
Republican presidents reached out to Democrats at times for assistance. Ronald Reagan was known for his friendly ties to Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, although Mr O'Neill bristled at the thought that they were too cozy.
Only in the last quarter century, since Republicans won control of the US House and Senate in 1994, has that bipartisan sensibility begun to erode.
A referendum on Trump
From the outside looking in, it's easy to understand why the world thinks the United States is polarised, and the public discourse seems that way.
Mr Trump has kept up his heated rhetoric in the wake of the shootings of 11 Jewish Americans on Saturday in Pittsburgh, and pipe bombs allegedly sent last week by one of his fervent supporters to key Democratic leaders.
In truth, there are plenty of moderates left in the US, even though it is not fashionable in the heat of this battle to claim the middle ground. Right now, however, they have no champion, meaning the polarity gets much of the attention.
One of the most often-repeated phrases on social media is that the election will show "what America is made of." It's used as often by Mr Trump's supporters as it is his opponents.
One thing is clear: although he is not running, the election will be a referendum on Mr. Trump himself. And while it may be uncomfortable for some people to vote in the fashion of the British from whom America broke free, that is exactly what many will do.
Minority parties never a key force
To be sure, America is not at all likely to become a place where small parties are able to prosper or grab significant numbers of votes.
In fact, when third parties become involved in US politics, there have often been unintended consequences.
In 1912, the Progressive Party nominated former President Theodore Roosevelt, amid dissatisfaction with the policies of his Republican successor, William Howard Taft.
Even though Roosevelt remained personally popular with many Americans, some were suspicious of his decision to run as the nominee from the Bull Moose Party, as it was nicknamed.
At the time, no American president had served more than two terms, even though they were allowed by law to serve four, and Roosevelt faced accusations that he was unable to let someone else steer the ship.
In the end, he and Taft split Republican voters, leading to the election of Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
In 2000, consumer advocate Ralph Nader ran as the nominee of the Green Party, collecting 2.74 per cent of the popular vote.
That might seem miniscule, but it also was the year that the election was won by Republican George W. Bush, by the thinnest of margins amid legal challenges that went all the way to the Supreme Court. A number of Democrats still believe he was a spoiler that cost Vice President Al Gore the presidency.
More recently, in 2016, independent US Senator Bernie Sanders, running as a Democrat, won the primary contests in several states. Many of his supporters never embraced the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, which may have been a factor in her loss to Republican Trump.
Weakening the centre?
Last year, Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson wrote that the country was already being governed by a shadowy parliamentary system. And he didn't think it was going to work out that well:
"We should not be surprised that there is confusion and paralysis," Samuelson wrote. "For decades, the United States governed itself by a system that favoured centrist consensus — not always wise, to be sure — whereas our invisible parliamentary system does just the opposite. It empowers the fringes and weakens the centre."
The two-party system, after all, has managed to endure through wars, social upheaval, and now, the tumult of the Trump administration.
That was the point of the American Constitution itself, wrote Alexander Hamilton in No. 15 of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787:
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."
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Food Security in Sitka: The Sitka Local Foods Network
Born of a need and desire voiced by the Sitka community to have more access to healthy, locally produced foods, The Sitka Local Foods Network is a non-profit organization working to support a thriving local food system in their community.
During the 2008 Annual Sitka Health Summit, community members identified a need for better access to healthy, locally produced food as a community health priority. The Sitka Local Foods Network was created to support the development of a community market, community greenhouse, and community garden program to promote a local food system.
The Local Foods Network currently focuses on the following five priorities:
1. Creating and operating the Sitka Farmers Market
2. Expanding local community and family gardens
3. Planning and building a Sitka Community Greenhouse and Education Center
4. Promoting the responsible and sustainable use of traditional foods (subsistence foods)
5. Providing educational opportunities, technical expertise and encouragement
The Local Foods Network successfully coordinated and operates the Sitka Farmers Market. With the help of a local Master Gardener the Network also operates Fellowship Farm, a small plot of land in town that provides fresh produce for sale at the Farmers Market. Volunteers help work to maintain the garden in exchange for produce that they help to grow. Profits made selling the produce goes directly back into the garden to pay for seeds and growing supplies.
Sitka Local Foods Network provides an educational service to the community by coordinating workshops and classes to teach community members the skills necessary to gather, grow, and preserve their own food supply. The Local Food Network partners with community members and the UAF Cooperative Extension to provide these educational services.
The Local Foods Network is currently exploring funding options to construct a community greenhouse that would serve multiple purposes for the organization. The greenhouse could help to lengthen the growing season for Fellowship Farm’s produce, provide a suitable environment to grow plant starts in early spring, produce bedding plants to sell at the Farmers Market, and provide a facility for health practitioners to utilize horticultural therapy for patients as well as an educational center for classes and workshops.
The Local Foods Network is also involved in making locally caught commercial seafood more accessible to community residents. In addition to Sitka Conservation Society’s Fish to Schools Program, the community of Sitka supports Alaska’s Own, a Community Supported Fishery (CSF) program. Operating under a model similar to that of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), consumers purchase a share of their choosing and receive locally caught commercial seafood as it comes into season.
Sitka Local Foods Network is motivated by and focused on food justice; making nutritious local food easily accessible and available to community residents. The organization is also keenly aware of national policies currently in place that challenge their goal of making the healthy choice the easy choice when it comes to food and nutrition. The Sitka Local Foods Network aims to help make Sitka a resilient community by facilitating access to a secure, healthy, and locally-based food system.For more information on this project see the Sitka Local Foods Network website | <urn:uuid:1eb5e997-3a8f-43f8-abb5-c8aa2d60c78e> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.alaskawatershedcoalition.org/2013/10/food-security-in-sitka-the-sitka-local-foods-network/ | 2022-01-27T14:38:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.948167 | 632 |
1930s Grindley Large Bowl & Matching Dessert Plate.
Big Art Deco bowl - fruit bowl or serving bowl - decorated with bright yellow and blue flowers on a pale yellow background with orange rims. Pottery is Grindley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England. Date of manufacture would be late 1930s. Large bowl measures 7 cm high by 24 cm diameter - the width including the handles is 26.5 cm. The small dessert bowl or cereal plate is 3.5 cm high and 16.5 cm diameter. Both items are in excellent condition. Very decorative.
ITEM REF: 13308
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Pharmacy Technician Forum FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Officially launched in 2018, the Pharmacy Technician Forum is a membership home exclusively for pharmacy technicians. The Pharmacy Technician Forum serves as a direct voice to ASHP to advise the Board of Directors on actions to advance the roles of pharmacy technicians, to elevate the technician profession, and to create benefits and services to support the technician members of ASHP.
ASHP has long supported the advanced role of pharmacy technicians by creating professional practice policies supporting technician licensure and establishing technician education and training standards. Creating an ASHP membership home for pharmacy technicians was the next step to recognize pharmacy technicians for their vital contributions to enhance the direct patient care efforts of pharmacists. By further elevating the pharmacy technician workforce, pharmacists can meet health care demands to provide direct patient care services and optimize medication therapy outcomes.
- To recommend professional and interprofessional healthcare policies related to pharmacy technicians and the healthcare workforce to best promote safe, optimal and effective care
- To advise on pharmacy technician member benefits and services, including the educational and training needs of pharmacy technicians
- To inform ASHP of practice issues and best practices related to pharmacy technicians
- To develop pharmacy technician leadership within ASHP
Learn more about the Pharmacy Technician Forum Mission, Vision, and Strategic Goals.
It is important that pharmacy technicians identify with ASHP as their membership home. As a result, technician members receive a variety of benefits and services to include:
- Free unlimited access to PharmacyTechCE which offers more than 40 hours of T-designated CE to help meet requirements of PTCB certification, including law and medication safety
- A dedicated website landing page and resources, visit www.ashp.org/technicians
- Member-only access to technician-specific web resources and webinars
- Digital access to the world’s premier pharmacy journal, AJHP
- Membership to any or all ASHP Sections
- Specialized email Newslinks
- A dedicated technician network on ASHP Connect
- Exclusive member discounts on ASHP meeting registrations, publications and other products
- An established social media identity
- Other benefits and services as recommended by pharmacy technicians
Since the launch of the Forum, the new reduced technician membership rate represents more than a 30% discount from the previous technician rate, and more than an 80% discount from the pharmacist rate. Individual technician membership rates can be found here.
Institutional membership rates are available and open to all organizations regardless of the size of their pharmacy technician workforce. Please contact Customer Relations at 866-279-0681 to learn more.
Five (5) volunteer pharmacy technician members are appointed to serve on the Executive Committee
- The Executive Committee represents a diverse pool of knowledge and practice expertise
- The Forum has an appointed ASHP Board Liaison and Staff Liaison
- The Executive Committee meets in-person at the ASHP Summer Meetings and Midyear Clinical Meeting, and regular meetings are held virtually throughout the year
- The Forum has four technician member advisory groups and an Educational Steering Committee. Visit the PTF Advisory Groups and Committees page to learn more and get involved.
The Executive Committee remains dedicated to develop and expand engagement activities for technician members. The annual call for nominations for the Pharmacy Technician Forum Executive Committee is announced in the fall of each year. Applications for the Pharmacy Technician Forum Advisory Groups are accepted February through May 1 every year. We also encourage you to check out www.ashp.org/technicians, sign-up for the new Technician Newslink to stay updated on important Forum activities and information, and network with Forum members on ASHP Connect.
The Chair of the Pharmacy Technician Forum Executive Committee represents the Forum in the ASHP House of Delegates.
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Falling from a deer stand is the last thing that seasoned hunter Tommy Brown had on his mind that crisp fall morning in 2005. Living in South Carolina his entire life, hunting came as naturally to him as eating grits with shrimp. Tommy has always been drawn to the land, and working as an appraiser has been the perfect career fit for him. Anyone who knows Tommy will immediately tell you that he is a true outdoorsman. He named his only son Woods. As far as Tommy was concerned, there was no name better suited for a son.
I’ve known Tommy for more than 30 years, but until the day I wrote this article, I never knew he is a Vietnam combat veteran. That’s Tommy Brown. Being a warrior didn’t define him, and he found no reason to bring it up. His easygoing style is only upstaged by his happy, charming personality and contagious smile.
In a few months, Tommy was looking forward to celebrating his first anniversary with his soul mate, Carman Stone Brown, a beautiful young lady. Most people don’t get second chances at love, but this was a romance that was undeniable.
My husband had hunted with Tommy many times over the years, mostly for ducks and doves. But this year, it was all about hunting for legendary whitetails during firearms season in Brown County, Illinois, where Tommy was to experience, for the first time, hunting monster bucks quite unlike the comparatively diminutive whitetails we see in South Carolina. Yeah, Brown County . . . the fact that Tommy’s last name is Brown made his eyes twinkle a bit more as if he needed any extra twinkle that day!
Climbing up those frosty rungs into the deer blind was a thrill that Tommy had anticipated for months, and he felt blessed as the night sky, filled with bright stars, morphed into early light. He thanked God for this amazing creation and relished the time to sit quietly and take in the beauty before him. That single morning Tommy saw more bucks than he had seen in several seasons at home in South Carolina.
As the hours passed, he soaked up the sights and sounds around him, not wanting to miss a thing. A flock of turkeys kept him entertained as they pecked their way through the food plot, and his excitement intensified when a doe ran out under his stand as a huge buck with a broken rack that looked more like a mule erupted from the woods in an unwieldy chase after her. The buck was in heavy pursuit, nostrils flaring, tongue hanging, and set on claiming that doe. “I have a feeling I’m not in South Carolina anymore,” he told himself with a laugh.
Hunting for a 150-inch class deer or better was the plan, and the host had told Tommy that when things “slowed down” he should climb down and move to another stand several hundred yards in the woods behind him. Grabbing a light pack and your rifle is all you need to do when hunting the mild temperatures in the South Carolina woods. However, it was quite different on this hunting adventure.
Because he was expecting to spend the entire day in quite cold temperatures, Tommy’s bulky clothes, over-packed knapsack, rifle, and the two-way radio he carried set in motion events that no one would have ever imagined when he decided it was time to move to the other stand. Disregarding his host’s suggestion to clip his gun to the cord provided, Tommy began his descent, gun in hand. The “box” blind was wrapped in camouflage netting and as his feet stepped to the third rung, his backpack snagged the netting. He made a quick twisting motion to free himself, and after that one movement, he felt a distinct sensation of floating backward, and the inevitable impact! Silence.
Sometime later, he awoke dazed and confused, and as he opened his eyes, he felt like his body had imprinted into the ground. Panic set in when he realized he could not move, and fully aware of his perilous situation. His body felt crushed from the fall, but Tommy was thankful that he could feel his toes wiggle. Try as he might, his right side would not respond to his brain’s commands and terrible pain signaled his injuries were severe.
“I began to yell for help,” Tommy told me. “I saw the radio, which had fallen out of my pack, lying to my right. I was going to have to reach over my busted side and drag myself to it. After yelling and crawling, I managed to grab it and heard myself screaming: ‘Mayday, mayday! Help, help, please!’” No one answered, and Tommy had that sickening feeling come over him, knowing the dangers of hypothermia and shock. He prayed.
While Tommy lay helpless in the worst pain he had ever imagined, he would learn later that the hunter nearest to him had killed a trophy buck and had gone to retrieve his quarry. To make matters worse, his host was hunting out of radio range. Minutes felt like hours as his mind raced while his body was frozen in time. He thought about his beautiful wife, Carman, and how much he loved her. He drew his strength through prayer and focused on surviving and getting back to the life he loved. After all, he was a warrior, and warriors never give up. He mustered up the strength to make another attempt to reach someone, anyone.
Just as he frantically radioed again for help, Carman’s uncle Jerry, who was in radio range, had been critiquing a buck, and deciding it was not a shooter, he turned the radio back up, only to realize someone was in serious trouble. A scratchy but clear “Mayday! Mayday!” came over that radio. That someone calling was Tommy Brown, and time was running out.
A rescue helicopter was transporting another hunter from a neighboring property and was too far out of range to help get Tommy to the hospital. When the medics finally arrived, they cut off Tommy’s clothing and loaded him onto a piece of plywood on the back of an ATV. Tommy was in a daze, drifting in and out of consciousness during the long, grueling, and seemingly endless ride over rough terrain. He was shot full of morphine, but that did not keep him from realizing the extent of his injuries. After what seemed like an eternity, they reached the awaiting ambulance.
They arrived at the nearest hospital but were quickly shuttled to the capital city’s hospital when doctors determined that Tommy had a broken humerus, two broken ribs, and cracked vertebrae. The journey out of the backcountry where they’d been hunting to get to medical attention lasted 12 hours after the fall, and Tommy is sure that there were at least that many morphine shots.
Tommy miraculously recovered from his injuries. He is the lucky one, as he later learned that the other injured hunter, who was airlifted, is now a paraplegic. “I fully recovered, but at the touch of a tree stand rung, my senses heighten and I concentrate on every single move—particularly descent. There is a well-used cord on all of my stands, and this former lone hunter checks in with someone after getting on the ground. I feel that only by the grace of God, I was not killed or permanently injured. I returned to the ‘scene of the crime’ two years later and took the deer of a lifetime—182 inches. To God be the glory.” His stand was named “911,” for obvious reasons.
Every time I climb into my deer stand, I can’t help but think of Tommy Brown. When someone you know and care about goes through a life-changing event like this, it has a way of doing just that. Every step I take is cautiously measured. My cell phone is always in a zippered pocket. If there is bad reception, I carry a walkie-talkie for backup. I never hunt solo—I don’t need to prove anything. There is always someone in a deer stand somewhere close by who knows where I am and when I am getting down from my stand. Of course, it is always a great idea to wear a harness. You could say that his story has made a huge impact on how I hunt.
There are not many things that Tommy Brown enjoys more than hunting, and his deep desire is to pass along his story so that other hunters may stay safe doing what they love and cherish. Hunt safe, my friends! | <urn:uuid:0b8ca090-8278-4d7a-98a3-c783c67848ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.camo365.com/impact-a-horrific-fall-from-a-deer-stand/ | 2022-01-27T15:34:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.989934 | 1,811 |
Car hire tips Moraira
Good tips about car rental in Moraira. They will help you to find a car hire in Moraira, and ensure that everything runs smoothly, and you can focus on enjoying your holiday. Read: 15 tips for affordable car hire in Moraira
- Rent a car in Moraira online – In most cases it is much cheaper to book a car online, than wait to hire a car when you have landed at Alicante or Valencia Airport. If you wait to the last minute, prices will be higher, less cars to choose from, and you may have to settle for a rental car that does not fit you and your family on your holiday.
- Book your car early – As with airplane tickets it is advisable to book your car hire in Javea as soon as possible. A good rule is to book a car when you know when you are flying to Alicante or Valencia. If you book your car early on internet you will save a lot compared to if you wait until closely to departure. During holidays and festivals this is particularly important because of the lack of rental cars in Javea.
- Do not forget the size of your luggage – Many believe that the cheapest rental cars are the smallest, and this is also the car type that is ordered most of. What many do not consider is that the whole family should sit comfortably, and in addition to that it should be plenty of space for luggage. Choose a midsize car with more space. Surprisingly enough, it could be at least as cheap as a small car.
- Be prepared and save time – Make sure you bring a copy of your order on car hire in Javea, reservation number, driver’s license, passport and credit card. Car companies have high demand and very often you can experience a big queue. Do you have this ready when it’s your turn, you will save time.
- Check your car when you pick it up – This is an important. Even when you are in a hurry or feel tired, it is worth taking the time to check the car carefully. You are responsible for the damage to the car. Make sure all scratches and dents are mentioned in the contract. Otherwise, they may try to charge you for damage done by the previous tenant. Same goes for the interior. Use your mobile to make a video and take pictures around the vehicle. Then you have evidence of what condition the car was when you got it. | <urn:uuid:d15aa9d9-e852-48ff-b670-8fb4438112d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.carhiremoraira.com/ddemo/ | 2022-01-27T13:48:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.964403 | 505 |
A meritocracy is a kind of evolution, a social evolution. Like biological evolution, its business is to reward the survivors, and winnow out the weak. It is a hard game but the rules are set by Nature herself.
For all its advantages over less obviously fair systems of resource allocation, like systems based on dynastic rule, one disadvantage of a meritocracy gives license to those who do well in it to pat themselves on the back a bit for their good genetics and intelligence (forgetting the role of luck). It does not encourage charity – it believes that there really are ‘deserving poor’.
But perhaps meritocracies aren’t so different to dynasties after all. For if meritocracies are a good principle, why keep them only one generation deep when they can be inter-generational? Dynasties are simply meritocracies that are allowed to build up the merit from generation to generation. The opportunity to do so is itself part of the reward which a meritocracy provides to encourage us to strive. Evolution certainly passes on its rewards in this way, allowing species to accumulate their advantages.
Unlike a meritocracy though, evolution acts unevenly on organisms. Sometimes the competition is fierce, such as when landmasses join and a region is flooded with a new species; or when the climate changes and resources become scarce. But for many other times the competition wanes and organisms can become more experimental and exuberant, such as often happens on islands where e.g. dodos can experiment with flightlessness in the absence of predators. Most of these frivolities will quickly become extinct when the competition increases again, but occasionally some new idea is hit on which gives a significant advantage, a new weed emerges to conquer the world.
Possibly these little evolution holidays are essential to the development of complex new traits. Endless competition for resources is not a constant factor in any ecosystem, for sometimes resources are abundant. So it should also be in a meritocracy – as well as the competition in the marketplace of ideas, there needs to be a safe place for experimentation.
Funnily enough this happens naturally if you allow dynasties to exist, as the rich create and inhabit a playground which is free from the competition under which everyone else must work. It also happens in the modern world within certain institutions – or with the apparatus of a beneficient state – perhaps one which provides a living wage – which takes the heat off the need to constantly engage in the struggle to succeed. The advantages of social apparatus over dynasties is that dynasties essentially rely upon the slavery of much of the population, whereas a social safety net enslaves no-one.
Where meritocracies fail I think, is where they fail to address that need for some space to play. Life needs room to innovate, there need to be good times as well as hard times. It’s a misconception that only through constant struggle will the best be brought out of us. This is the lie that is behind austerity movements, and the cutting of state safety nets. The argument for such cuts, when you get down to it, is that people must be left to make their own way by merit alone, there is no helping hand. But this is a myth – for a properly functioning system we must make resources available. Otherwise we will quickly revert to dynastic rule – and of course that seems to be happening with the vast inequalities of wealth that are now the norm in the west. Perhaps this is the natural consequence of the market-meritocracy that has existed in the west.
But a meritocracy is not the only way evolution can happen to society. The alternative is if instead of struggling against each other, we join together in the struggle against the wider universe – against the challenges posed by the Earth’s capacity to support our growing population for instance. For this we must come together and think as a single brilliant organism, and leave behind the sordid game of keeping each other down as we scramble to be at the top of the muck pile. | <urn:uuid:5c8efc67-e666-461c-8a3b-d3a4e0ff7042> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.forkword.com/plog/?p=1104 | 2022-01-27T14:02:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.959692 | 826 |
25 Best Programming Languages for Mobile Apps & Top Mobile App Development Tools & Frameworks
Mobile applications are great assets to improve the market value of your business. They ensure easy interaction and improved customer service. Hence, mobile apps development benefits businesses in reaching customers and increasing sales and revenues.
It’s a fact that the increasing usage of apps in daily life has increased the demand for mobile application development. You can find apps for education, bill payments, messaging, health, e-commerce, and more.
The foremost step in the development of mobile apps is choosing the right technologies and tools. The right programming languages for mobile app development for Android and iOS depend upon the platform, type, and application complexity.
Herein, we compiled a list of the top 20 technologies that are mostly used for mobile apps development.
20 Best Programming Languages For Mobile Apps Development
Developers can share the native code and data across multiple platforms. It is an ideal choice for apps development on both Android and iOS operating systems.
Objective C is one of the best programming languages for iOS apps development. The third-party frameworks and easy connection of private API make the development process simple.
The drawback of Objective-C over Swift is that it cannot support the latest features and requires extended coding.
Swift is faster, readable, and easy-maintained than other coding languages. It is mostly used for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS apps development.
Swift has dynamic libraries, and it ensures less error-prone and efficient memory management. This open-source language has gained a large supportive community and plenty of third-party tools.
Python is the most popular programming language for mobile app development for Android and iOS. It is used as the backend technology. Its simple syntax, libraries, and toolkits make it a high-level and interpreted programming language.
The user-friendly data structures, performance, numerous third-party modules make python a favorite technology for app developers. Python is used to develop cross-platform mobile applications for Android, iOS, and Windows.
PHP is an open-source programming language that needs database access to compile. The smooth integration and easy-to-learn features make PHP perfect for beginners.
You can develop e-commerce and content-heavy applications using PHP. It helps to write code lines for server-side scripting, command-line, and coding applications. It has a built-in security feature that protects that makes it a more trustworthy language. PHP works seamlessly with popular databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
The development of web-based applications needs HTML5. It is a markup language that uses tags to present the content on the webpage. Popular web apps like Google Docs and Google Drive use this markup language. Easy and clean coding is the advantage for the app developers from HTML 5.
The role of SQL language in mobile development is to update and retrieve data from the database. It is a quick and reliable way of communicating with the database. SQL prevents the need to write heavy code for data access control, manipulation, and data query.
Java is the preferred language for Android mobile app development. It is an object-oriented programming language that can run in a browser or virtual machine. The reusability and portability of the code make Java a platform-independent language. Java is easy to handle because of the vast documented libraries, tools, and community support.
It is a powerful language for developing gaming apps for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. It has in-built libraries and compliers to script and run the code. It is the ultimate choice of app developers because of the block-structured programming language and high execution speed.
C# is fast, quick to deploy, and easy to use. It is majorly helpful in cross-platform and web apps development. Using this object-oriented programming language, one can develop gaming applications, education, enterprise, and software like AutoCAD, Office 365, and Visual Studio.
Ruby is one of the best programming languages used to develop cross-platform and native apps for iOS and Android. The language is cost-effective, easy to manage, and flexible. It is the most used coding language by startups because of the low development time.
Rust is the trending programming language for developers who crave speed and stability. It is a multi-paradigm language developed by Mozilla in the year 2010. The syntax of the language is the same as C++ but offers more safety and performance.
Lua is the best choice to improve the response time and portability of the application. This simple programming language is used for developing embedded applications. The simple syntax makes it very easy to learn and script for the developers. You can build a range of applications from gaming to the web using Lua.
ActionScript built for interacting with flash apps like videos and small interactive modules in the web pages. It is an object-oriented programming language used for website development and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform. It is a suitable language for database applications and basic robotics.
Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language that helps developers to write compressed code. It is one of the newest programming languages developed to address the defects in the Java language.
We can pull the huge documented libraries from Java easily and vice versa. It is ideal for video transcoding, data processing, real-time information processing, and communication.
jQuery is used in web development and primarily for front-end development. It is HTML 5 based client interface system designed for responsive websites and apps. The features like fast deployment, cost-effective, light framework, uniform UI/UX make it a favorite framework over others.
It is an easy and quick way to develop mobile applications from scratch. There is no need to write code for the modules. You can drag and drop or customize from available pre-built templates.
It is developed for kids to put the media documents together in creative ways. It allows them to add new elements like storytelling, games, and animation. Scratch help in learning high-level languages like Python and Java.
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IntSummaryStatistics getSum() method in Java with Examples
The getSum() method of IntSummaryStatistics class in Java is used to get the sum of records in this IntSummaryStatistics.
public long getSum()
Parameter: This method do not accept any value as parameter.
Return Value: This method returns the sum of the records in this IntSummaryStatistics.
The sum of values is 150
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Gospel Conversations is an independent initiative dedicated to understanding the historical, philosophical and practical context of the gospel. We hold a monthly events, which publish as a podcast and on youtube. We hold an annual conference. We publish wring in pursuit of what the great theologian Jonathan Edwards called ‘the infinite enlargement’.
Essentially we want to take God out of the religious box, and position Him as Lord of Creation. That means recovering a much bigger picture of God and his project than a merely ‘religious’ program whereby the Christians are rescued from the earth and escape to heaven. In a real sense, there is no end to this exploration as we are pursuing what the great theologian Jonathan Edwards called ‘the infinite enlargement’.
Secondly, we want to learn in a ‘conversational forum’. This means that we take an inquisitive open approach structured by questions. We invite dialogue and discussion, as this is the best way to really learn and make sense of things. Tucked in behind this approach, we have a view of truth: we believe that God is revealing Himself dynamically and throughout history, rather than giving us a finite set of propositions encased in the Bible like an archive. Sure, God has set up the main principles of our faith in the events of Scripture, but we are writing the next chapter of the Bible in our 21st-century lives, and that means we don’t have answers on a plate but need to actively explore and build our views.
We'll let you know when we publish a talk, if there is an upcoming event, or if we have a new resource we are excited to share. | <urn:uuid:801f4d29-71bb-4a30-89ca-756f0cc8ea54> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.gospelconversations.com/about | 2022-01-27T15:28:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.947557 | 351 |
Frequently asked questions
This section contains some of the questions and concerns that people often have about heart failure and its management.
Click on any of the questions below for a general answer. If you can’t find the question you’re looking for, it may be listed in the section on Questions to ask your doctor.
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Soejima Glassware originated from Saga clan research laboratory where a glass kiln was set up to produce glass in the middle of the 19th century in Saga Prefecture. Founded in 1903, Soejima Glassware Co., Ltd. is the only manufacture that inherited the techniques and the tradition of Saga Glass. In the beginning, they produced mainly practical items such as dispensing bottles and lamp shades. However, with the changing times, a wave of mechanization took over the industry. It was during this period, that they shifted their business to production of craft products in order to preserve their hand-blown techniques which have been cultivated over the years. It was around 1970, when the current president Mr. Taro Soejima took over the company. He is an artist and he continued his pursuit in making art objects even while he is managing the company. Since then, their product came to be known as “Hizen Vidro”.
Soejima Glassware features free-blowing which is a glass forming style characterized by exhaling air into a molten portion of glass without using any mold and the method is designated as an important intangible cultural heritage of Saga Prefecture. Also, the forming technique called “Japan blowing” using two blow pipes is a skilled technique which requires more than 10 years to master. Soejima Glassware is the only manufacturer that inherited this technique and the “Hizen Kanbin”, a bottle for warming up sake, is a popular product that is made by using this technique.
Currently, the sons of Mr. Taro Soejima, Takao and Masanori are working in sales and as an artisan in the company respectively. The “Jomon series” which applies rope patterns on the entire surface of the glass is a long-selling product of over 40 years. It is one of the main products which represents the company’s aim of creating glassware beyond generations. In addition, they continue to work closely on community-based activities such as holding workshops where anyone can experience these traditional techniques. | <urn:uuid:e84b6d5d-d488-4506-8bdb-114a87193495> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.kogeistandard.com/company/soejimaglass/ | 2022-01-27T13:57:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.977117 | 432 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Does my dog have to stay while it trains?
Generally, yes. But I do offer a train-with-the-trainer program, where you may work with me to train your own dog. Contact me for details.
I am a "board and train" facility, so all of the dogs in my program live on site full time while they are training. I find this to be extremely beneficial to dogs and their owners. Many people who take their dogs to obedience classes find that their dog might behave well and respond nicely in class, but during the week when it’s time to reinforce the training at home, many dogs respond differently. Because you are not a professional dog trainer, owners often don’t know how to effectively correct and address the behaviors and come back to training having not made progress on the previous week’s concepts.
When the class moves on to the next concept, the dog and owner are left behind, unable to effectively establish obedience. Living on site ensures that your dog is being trained efficiently at least 5 days a week and because, I am a professional trainer, I can effectively communicate with your dog and provide appropriate corrections at the ideal times. You receive more complete and usable training.
Will My Dog Remember Me?
Yes! I have never had a dog forget its owner! Consider that soldiers go off for 12-14 months on deployment, return home, and their dogs still remember them. A 2-4 month stay is minimal in comparison--your dog will absolutely know who you are at visits and pick up. I guarantee it!
Can I visit my dog while it trains?
Yes. I like to have your dog for about 3 weeks before your first visit just so that we can allow your dog to become accustomed to the routine, build a bond with me, get to know the other dogs, and begin to feel successful in training. After your dog's first 3 weeks I welcome you to visit as much as you’d like. Most people like to visit their dogs once a month. Because my programs are established on a month by month basis, you can see a whole new level of training established each month. I provide a family-friendly atmosphere and encourage you to bring your children and to visit your 4-legged family members.
Do you teach me how to use the training?
Yes. at the pickup I like to have you take the leash to work your dog in basic obedience, then send you home with transition homework and an ecollar. I provide you with a handler's course upon your dog’s graduation from training. You should plan to spend about an hour with me when you pick up your dog, depending upon the program your dog completed. In addition, I send you home with a handler’s course form that is a nice reminder of the commands corrections and body movements. I see my training programs as a lifelong insurance policy for good behavior. That’s because once your dog trains with me I provide continuing behavior and training support for the life of your dog through free telephone and email training consultations. I also provide free one-on-one training sessions with you and your dog at my home for the life of the dog. So if you arrive home and find that you need help with a certain training concept, or even 2 years after training a new behavior develops that you don’t know how to address, just contact me! I am here for you!
Do I provide my own food?
Food is included in the price of training; I feed Purina Pro Plan Sport- Performance If you would like to provide your own food, please provide it in an airtight plastic container with your dog’s name on it.
Are there any additional fees?
If your dog requires vaccinations, heartwood or flea and tick preventative during it's stay, plus there could be travel fees for transportation to and from the vet depending upon what your dog is here for.
Do you have particular breeds that you do and do not accept?
I specialize in training Labrador Retrievers but I accept most breeds for obedience training. I do not accept aggressive dogs, or dogs who require regular brushing or haircuts, as this becomes too time consuming to manage.
Does my dog need to be neutered or spayed to come to training?
No. Most of the dogs in my training programs are not spayed or neutered. We are equipped to safely address heat cycles in females and often board females in heat so that their owners don’t have to deal with the mess. I feel that dogs should be allowed to mature sexually before spay and neuter surgery in order to fully behaviorally mature, in addition to several health benefits. For this reason, many customers find my boarding facilities an excellent solution for allowing their dogs to fully mature. | <urn:uuid:ed67ae59-db6c-4e3f-8551-eee129a2ab2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.legendworkingdogs.com/faq | 2022-01-27T13:33:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.966789 | 991 |
Maileg Hiker Mouse Big Brother S/S22 *Preorder
Your Maileg mouse will become a truly treasured toy. These beautiful mice are a mix of Scandinavian design and old fashioned nostalgia. The mice are made from cotton, linen and a leather tail. These timeless toys are ideal for handing down for the next generation to love.
Big brother mouse is ready for a camping trip. He now has magnets in hands to hold the cups and flasks! He is wearing orange shorts, a blue stripy top, checked hat and a green sleeping bag.
Collect all in the range with big sister hiking mouse, tent, boat, rechargeable torch, vintage picnic set and lantern light!
You will love the detail in every Maileg mouse.
*Expected Delivery Mid April
Size : Big sister / Big brother mouse
Height : 12cm Width: 4cm
Age: 3yrs and above
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At Martin Haugh Financial, we lead with a dynamic planning process that takes a closer look at your financial situation and helps identify problems, opportunities and important upcoming decisions.
As a firm, we aim to provide cutting edge solutions upon evaluating what you need and the goals you have in mind. We quarterback a team-based approach to help you implement your decisions, with a talented staff coordinating your entire financial picture.
We all want to be living on Easy Street, right? You know ... when you have the money and time to do what you want, and are prepared for the future, whatever that may bring.
Like many big goals in life, getting to Easy Street isn’t impossible. It’s a journey that happens over time. You just need to take the first step. Then take the next step. And the next.
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You may have just received a grant, a pre-seed funding round, went to the bank, or decided to use your own savings to build a startup. You may be a serial founder, industry expert, graduate, or simply a young professional tired of spending their life paying back a mortgage at a 9 to 5 job. Does any of the scenarios sound familiar?
At this point, you’ve already gathered some funds. Unfortunately, a grant or pre-seed funding can't be spent entirely on a product. There are other expenses, and keeping them balanced is like juggling a dozen balls at once. You are in a position where the investor expects you to deliver a product or service at specific conditions and certain timelines – and more often than not, it turns out that building a relatively simple mobile or web app may absorb much more resources than expected.
In this article, I’m about to outline some cost optimization practices that’ll certainly help you not to blow your startup budget out of proportion.
Being a startup is a condition, not an excuse
It’s a common belief that standard market rules do not necessarily apply to the startup ecosystem. Early-stage founders often expect that the services offered to the corporate world will be cheaper in their case just because the company they established is listed on Y Combinator instead of NASDAQ. The problem is that services such as setting up AWS environments or mobile prototyping using InVision are delivered by top professionals with extensive experience in a given field. Their hourly rate won’t change because of the startup’s budget limitations.
Instead of increasing the estimated cost of software development right away, I’d recommend adopting a careful and responsible attitude towards resources. Initially, you might be tempted to invest in a bigger team – but remember that software development is about quality over quantity. A small but experienced team is usually sufficient to launch a successful MVP as it provides more value and displays higher velocity.
Instead of cutting corners by looking for developers willing to work for half of the standard market rates, acquire an experienced team and make the best use of their time. Skilled IT experts are more acquainted with various libraries, tools, 3rd party integrations, so the learning curve is minimal throughout the project. Their knowledge also allows you to be transparent about the budget. With financial limitations at the back of their heads, experienced developers can come up with money-saving recommendations like:
Let’s get rid of live chat at this stage, so we’ll save plenty of hours on WebSockets.
Instead of building two native apps, let's involve Flutter and Rive to meet the expectations at lower commitment.
Having experienced developers on board from the beginning also influences future costs. One example is that of the architecture, whose shape is determined by developers’ initial decisions. Then, the clarity of the code simplifies the handover once you’re able to hire first in-house engineers. I could go on about the benefits, but you should get the point by now.
It all sounds very well but employing experienced staff requires some preparation too. Before acquiring senior staff, ensure you can provide them with a proper working environment: development, testing & production environment, ticketing & time tracking, communication channels. You can also enquire if this team already has some established working standards in place. It’s just like in soccer; contracting top-notch players won’t turn them into a vigorously defending & attacking team on its own.
Make your statement and make it strong
Have you ever visited a website or a LinkedIn profile of a startup, and after a few minutes of checking it out, you still didn’t know what this company is doing? Was it because of a poor copy or maybe a vague business idea? If it was the latter, too bad – because it’s an absolute must for a startup building a digital product to explain what it’s all about, what problem it solves, and who can potentially benefit from it.
Startup cost optimization starts when you realize that your prospective users aren’t, let’s say, all football fans, but a group of people aged 25-35, living in big cities, educated and interested in sports, looking for amateur sports events in their neighborhood, watching Netflix, and living in rented apartments. Sounds specific? It should, as your target audience needs to be researched rather than being based only on your private life observations.
User personas created during product design workshops at Merixstudio
Understanding your prospective users allows you to define and prioritize features of the highest necessity. For example, Instagram initially allowed people to publish only photos taken with the app, whereas Uber didn’t allow placing orders in advance. Now that both companies are no longer early-stage startups, they offer users much more.
For that reason, almost every User Experience designer – me as well when it comes to budget optimization tips – would recommend creating a user persona for your product. A persona helps determine which functionalities are key and which level of accessibility and what kind of devices you should focus on from day one.
It’s recommended to have at least 2-3 personas before launching the design process. To create them, you’ll need information that can be gathered through interviews and surveys. And guess what – you can do it (almost) for free! Tools like Google Forms allow you to run a survey among local university students, members of a Facebook group, rock music fans visiting local vintage stores, you name it. What persona characteristics should contain is widely explained in this video.
Once you deal with the target audience, ensure that the developers working on your product can see the big picture. Understanding the business and market context will accelerate the development process and make their work more effective. Of course, not every engineer will become a healthcare expert overnight, but some basic knowledge will help them understand the functionalities they’re working on.
A roadmap to find the way and Agile process to change it when needed
With validated ideas and well-described users, you’re in a perfect position to start planning the development and product design process. Assuming that you’ll acquire an external designer, it would be beneficial to provide them with benchmarks so that they can get a grasp of your expectations. Thanks to tools like InVision, you may launch the prototyping phase before involving software engineers.
There’s a common belief that while building a digital product, savings made on designs should come first. I couldn’t agree less. Speaking from my own experience, I believe money can be best saved when the development of low-priority features is postponed.
Deck of features and some high-level mockups in place allow the dev team to perform an estimation process, which is crucial from much more than one angle:
- The experienced dev team will most likely turn requirements into stories or a list of features. This is the origin of a proper project backlog, which can be easily transferred to your project management tool like Jira or Trello.
- Having defined activities and tasks, you can start planning your project in terms of duration and manpower commitment. This way, you’ll learn how many people you need and how big invoices you may expect in the upcoming months.
- Estimates also help to make decisions regarding QA commitment, Unit Tests coverage, and other important matters to be explained later on.
An estimate in place gives you an idea of how much you will spend – but you shouldn’t be too attached to it. I haven’t heard of a software project where the requirements haven’t evolved during the development process. This may be caused by changing business surroundings, trends, or your competition. Sometimes, switching the order of tasks will do (e.g. let’s develop a student dashboard instead of a knowledge base first); other times, the adjustments of the entire idea may be required.
Anyways, having a well-prescribed deck of functionalities with some tech recommendations in place will help you manage the project even in situations where some of the features need to be changed. It’s like dealing with a long grocery list, where you aim to prepare meals for 12-14 people. You’re already in the supermarket when one of your friends calls you asking whether she may bring her new boyfriend, who’s allergic to gluten. You do not resign from starters and salads, but you need to reconsider your deserts. So you need to pick different groceries, right in the middle.
Staying on the topic of change, let’s proceed to discuss Agile. Modern software engineering projects are performed by self-managed teams, where each specialist is responsible for updating the ongoing deliverables. To perform effectively, it’s crucial to come up with an optimal team setup, so that the IT experts can contribute and deliver tasks in a certain order. In one of the most common schemes, the stakeholder(s) would define business requirements to be turned into designs by the UX/UI designers and in software by the engineering team. Each bit of software shall be tested by QA specialists and then deployed for the final users. IT projects may consist of 10, 100, or even 10000 tasks, and in proper order each one of them should be processed through this ‘conveyor belt’.
To secure the quality and velocity of the work, it’s recommended to come up with possibly highly predictable tasks that can be performed by the engineering team in 8 to 20 hours each. A crucial aspect is reviewing and providing feedback on deliverables, hence the stakeholders’ – including yours – commitment is highly appreciated also during the development itself. Some features may be adjusted at a very late stage, just like the abovementioned grocery list.
To maintain high velocity, self-managed teams are meant to stay in touch and perform Agile ceremonies, like dailies, retrospectives, sprint plannings. Experienced teams shall involve clients and stakeholders in their daily based work.
Another aspect to consider when optimizing startup budgets is testing. Let me make a simple comparison. Imagine you’re building a house. If you don’t have enough tests, you’ll end up with a flooded basement and a leaking roof. Overtesting, on the other hand, will turn your house into a nuclear-proof fortress – a place that’ll keep you safe and sound but hungry because you’ve spent all your savings on security.
Investment in tests, especially in budget-sensitive endeavors can be also compared to the Laffer curve. in mid 70ies, American economist, Arthur Laffer made a comparison proving that no tax revenue is raised at the extreme tax rates of 0% and 100%, and that there is a tax rate between 0% and 100% that maximizes government tax revenue. Just like in taxation (at least from the government's perspective), we may expect a certain level, between 0 to 100, which will be optimal for a particular project.
Relationship between phases of development and testing as represented by V-model
Forecasting the most optimal approach may be impossible; however, introducing some Quality Assurance standards will undoubtedly help you save money by reducing the number of bugs. For this reason, if you review the estimation spreadsheet and see 24-40% code coverage listed there, resist the temptation to see it as a useless tax and perceive it as a benefit instead. Also, remember that the Agile workflow allows adjusting tests coverage throughout the process.
Understandably, experienced development teams can come up with recommendations concerning the basic level of tests. Among the aspects they’ll take into consideration while suggesting levels of tests are:
- Accessibility, meaning browsers and devices the service should be available on. Can we reduce test coverage by eliminating some of them, for example, iOS? Do we need to meet HIPAA requirements (we always should but sometimes we may not afford it)?
- Implementation of 3rd party integrations or external APIs. Testing APIs is usually associated with additional effort, which pays back, especially during longer projects.
- Security-related tests. Some tests of particular payment methods or data exchange are necessary due to local law regulations as well as commonly introduced business standards. Leaking data or unsuccessful payment processing may cause much greater costs than the additional 5-10% spent on proper testing of a crucial part of the system.
Many Quality Assurance specialists recommend starting with at least manual functional tests and eventually extending the coverage as the level of recognized regression increases. Regression is a situation where a functionality or software fragment that worked fine turns out to be buggy and requires fixing. Just like cough, a first showing ‘bugs’ may be a signal to slightly increase the coverage of tests & QA specialists' commitment. Testers’ support helps developers focus on new features and see things that they didn’t initially notice. Besides functional issues, QA specialists also prevent security-related issues from occurring – which may be crucial in services requiring sensitive data.
Another factor is the matter of unit tests, which are usually performed by the developers behind the code. Properly executed unit tests may require additional testing of ~80% of the codebase, which may increase devs’ time spent on this task by 40%. Of course, in many cases, such coverage is not a necessity; bear in mind, though, that finding balance between over- and under testing may be crucial in balancing the costs.
Gathering and handing over the requirements are just baby steps in the product development circle. As a founder, you should see both the details and the big picture. For instance, features that are exciting but of relatively low importance may prove expensive to implement – and you need to be able to let go of them at the early development stages so as not to blow the budget out of proportion. Another example is noticing how being committed everyday communication improves the performance and velocity of your engineering teams, which also reduces the final costs of development.
Long story short, to optimize development costs, you don’t have to resign from the best industry practices. On the contrary, I’d recommend turning them into your credo from day one – especially if your project is budget-sensitive.
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Using RNA and DNA extraction with whole-genome sequencing, 79 samples from broiler chickens with tenosynovitis were analyzed by scientists at University of California–Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. This revealed that 91% of samples contained at least one other virus, while 60% contained more than one ARV genotype.
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COP26 president Alok Sharma has called on the UK offshore wind industry to use its “purchasing power” to accelerate Britain’s – and the world’s – transition toward net zero.
Speaking by video-link to delegates of RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind conference in London, Sharma – who gave up his role as UK energy secretary to focus full-time on the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November – said the the sector’s “story of success” should be communicated to “international partners… to unlock the potential of offshore wind to decarbonise their power supplies”.
“We’ve grown the largest offshore wind sector in the world, creating entirely new industrial hubs and good green jobs, which is helping us to reach net zero by 2050,” he said.
“I urge all companies here to support our wider COP26 efforts by driving action across your supply chains, encouraging your suppliers to commit to net zero and working with them to reduce emissions.”
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Police Scotland is in talks with a number of Scottish universities about the proposal, which it says would make policing “more inclusive and accessible”.
But while the qualification will not replace the traditional route of entry, it is still likely to be controversial.
Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham said:“We are currently exploring options for entry into the organisation that offer flexibility to enable a career in policing for a wide variety of people. The aim is to make a career in policing more inclusive and accessible to members of our communities who wish to pursue the role of police officer.
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Under the current selection process, recruits must pass the Standard Entrance Test (SET), which is made up of questions on language, numbers and information handling. There is also a fitness assessment centring on the “bleep test”.
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First: about ground
The earth’s surface is a dynamic system. It provides a solid foundation but is nonetheless in constant motion - although very slowly and barely perceptible at most times. On this foundation we build our houses, our roads, our dikes, and we use it as a storage room for renewable energy.
But the ground moves
Ground movement in itself is not necessarily problematic, but if some areas move faster than others, or in opposite directions, this causes stress. The impact of this stress can be catastrophic: think about collapsing bridges, leakages of toxic gasses or earthquakes.
Buildings, roads, bridges, dikes, pipelines: the impact of ground deformation on civil infrastructure is substantial and associated costs are rising. Research institute Deltares estimates that the total bill worldwide mounts up to many billions of dollars annually.
The climate factor
Problems caused by ground movement are increasing due to climate change on the one hand and the growth of the world's population and economic activities on the other hand.
In the Netherlands, we experience more often prolonged periods of dry weather with high average temperatures and low average rainfall. As a result, the moisture content of clay and peat soil is reduced and the soil shrinks, causing a downward movement (subsidence). The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency estimates the social costs of soil subsidence up to 2050 at €22 billion for the Netherlands.
The impact on your business
If your company wants to use the ground’s potential in a safe and effective way, it’s crucial that you understand both how the earth’s surface is developing ánd how it is reacting to your interference.
- You have to carry out inspections more frequently to check the status of your infrastructure
- Increased cost (more inspections raise the costs on the one hand and more maintenance needs to be carried out on the other hand to prevent structural damage and dangerous situations)
- You have more work with limited resources: you need to make decisions on how to allocate your budget and the number of staff available for maintenance
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This is where we come in. By collecting, analyzing and interpreting big data, we are able to tell you how and when the ground is moving in order to predict when and where it will move again. We can identify and understand the stress that is caused by ground movement. This enables us to forecast future events and allows your company to make timely decisions on the choice between different actions to minimise or remediate that impact.
How do we do that?
At Survey Intelligence, we do believe that whatever the question, the answer is always in the data just waiting to be revealed. We start by gathering facts and not to discard any available data in order to increase the chances of understanding. In order to so, we use a wide array of data including seismic, gravimetry, GPS but also satellite data and we re-organising it in a way that is easy to understand.
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Who: The Atlanta Dream (6-0) take on the Seattle Storm (5-1) in an interconference game.
The Dream are led by Angel McCoughtry, who is scoring 24.0 points per game. Sancho Lyttle (15.3 ppg/10.5 rpg) and Erika de Souza (13.5 ppg/11.0 rpg) are averaging a double-double per game for Atlanta. Seattle has Lauren Jackson who is scoring 20.3 points per game. Sue Bird is scoring 10.2 points per game and averaging 6.5 assists per game.
What: The first of two regular season games against the Seattle Storm. Atlanta is 1-3 all-time versus the Storm. The two teams split the difference last year, each winning at home. The second of those two games was a 91-84 double overtime loss at Key Arena in Seattle on August 29 where the Storm scored 11 points in the second overtime period.
Where: Key Arena in Seattle, Washington.
When: Tipoff is at at 9:30 pm Eastern time, Tuesday, June 1st. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.
Why: As the league begins its second month of play, the WNBA brass couldn't have designed it better. The top team in the Eastern Conference and the top team in the Western Conference play on national television. The winner of this game becomes the early season favorite to win it all.
Atlanta is coming off six straight wins. Every team that has started the season with at least six straight wins in the 13-plus years of the WNBA has gone to the WNBA Finals - and with the way the Dream are playing, one can't blame the schedule or some other statistical aberration. The Dream are winning games by nine points per game, their 86.8 points per game is second only behind the Mercury, which has the same running, gunning style. But the biggest difference is in rebound differential. The Dream average 41.6 rebounds per game and their opponents only average 32.5 rebounds per game. The Dream run, but they also muscle, and Sancho Lyttle and Erika de Souza are deadly in the post.
The Storm, on the other hand, are no slouches. The Dream might win by 9.2 points per game, but the Storm are right behind them with an 8.0 points per game differential between the Storm and their opponents. The Dream might have early MVP candidate Angel McCoughtry, but the Storm have three-time MVP Lauren Jackson, a more all-around player than McCoughtry. The 29-year old Jackson is at the peak of her career, and her 20.3 points per game and 8.0 rebounds per game aren't far off her career averages.
Both teams, furthermore, are deeper than just one or two marquee players. Camille Little is playing like a Top Ten player this season, averaging almost four more points a game than her career average. (Every year, Little's points per game have increased - she's shooting 45 percent from the field and averaging 11.2 points per game this year.) Tanisha Wright has similarly blossomed over her last two years. Alison Bales of the Dream might be the Sixth Woman of the Year. After taking a year off, she seems to have recovered both her shooting and her enthusiasm.
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Talking to Tofowomo sandwiches you between nobility and commitment. For the Ile-Oluji, Ondo State native, Covid-19 has been more than an eye-opener, it has usurped people’s way of life, which includes the daily earner to band owners like Shuga. At the moment, where live bands gigs have slimmed down for over eight months, events considerably picking up and money is tight in that circle, men like Tofomowo have found alternative sources of income to augment and carry on with the life of giving as best as they can.
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For Tofowomo, money is not a source of motivation; focus is the key: the drive that continues to push him as far back as his days of little beginnings. Before he became a household name in the entertainment industry, Tofowomo sold firewood amongst other things to eke out a living. As big as he is now, he also wants to sell packaged plantain. Can you beat that?
As a people, the issue of trust came to the fore when he spoke about his business, drive, and passion. He reminisced on how he has been roughly dealt with by people he once trusted.
“Minding your business” is one mantra he lives by. Rather than look at Aliko Dangote’s wealth, he strongly believes in looking deeper within himself and advised others to find that strength to look inwardly from time to time.
‘‘The actual goldmine is in your mind,’’ Tofowomo said.
Speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic, he stated that “an entertainer without a disposable income is useless.” Instead of wasting time on social media like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc, Shuga advised young people to take time to mediate.
Speaking of spirituality and spiritual gates, he remembered with nostalgia how his father taught him Psalms 23, 51, and 91.
“My father made me recite it every day,” he said. According to him, his father made him understand there’s a limit to which he can protect him as a man but with God, his protection is always available.
“Let us examine this scenario,” he said. “My father told me humans are like a radio set. Like every radio set, there’s a frequency through which they pick up the frequency of the radio waves with the right conditions.”
“He said because we don’t tune in to God’s airwaves as his radio, that’s why we don’t hear from him.” Tofowomo believes there’s an architect responsible for the creation of all things. From being a vegetarian of about six years, he has come to the knowledge of light and sound.
Talking of Association of Band Owners of Nigeria (AMBON), his brainchild, Tofowomo recalled his mentor, John Kellogg, who used to be a member of the American music group, Cameo, who is now a business professor. He said his mentor chose him after reading his profile.
“How did you make up all of these things without any proper business training?” was the first question Prof. John Kellogg asked.
Kellogg was interested in making Tofowomo better. He taught him about the music business. Tofowomo was able to use his God-given wisdom to build peace and unity between two rival groups and other bands in Nigeria.
“Can a band play all the live shows in a week?” he wondered.
With that in mind, he’s in the process of revamping the industry with professional codes and regulations. To this end, he noted that they need the help of the government to help with regulatory measures. Tofowomo sees this effort as a double-edged sword, even if it comes off as an afterthought. Like every other thing Nigerian, implementation of the process is where he expressed true fears of a likelihood of having the process hijacked or thwarted. A quick reference to the erstwhile President’s creative industry fund running into millions of dollars that flew through the windows of powers that be drove his point home.
Tofowomo highlighted technological problems and how bad network services are the bane in giving consumers of his service a near-live experience with the epileptic nature of paid-for services. | <urn:uuid:f0396d8a-e90b-4a48-aef9-f41d6cd4334a> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/12/13/akinloye-tofowomo-entertainment-is-engraved-in-my-dna/ | 2022-01-27T14:35:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.976573 | 1,289 |
We’ve all fallen victims to workplace stress. Long work hours, deadlines, work-family conflicts and sleep deprivation. The amount of stress with workplace responsibilities can be overwhelming, and can (over time) present itself as physical ailments. Weight gain and GI issues are two stress-induced ailments that with chronic stress can become very problematic. Consider these 2 warning signs your calling to begin a stress management practice ASAP!
Warning Sign #1: You’re putting on weight
You have a consistent work out routine but weight seems to be pilling on. Sure, you’ve had a few more glasses of wine but how else would you manage the stressful workday? Your waistline is increasing but it’s not the wine directly that’s to blame. It’s your stress!
High levels of stress alter appetite regulation. There are many contributing factors but one that plays a significant role is a hormone called ghrelin. Grehlin is a hormone which promotes appetite and also plays a role in regulating anxiety and mood. Increased stress increases ghrelin levels making you hungry, cranky and anxious.
As a result, you reach for highly palpable foods. This includes greasy, sugary, high-calorie foods like pizza, chips, and donuts (mmmmmmm donuts!!). Now, you’re overconsuming food, or as we like to call it “stress eating.” Because stress is also linked to binge eating and restraining food intake, you may soon find yourself in the vicious cycles (Stress, eat more, restrict food intake, binge and repeat). These altered eating patterns will slowly start increase that number on the scale.
Warning Sign: # 2: Your Gut is turning against you!
You eat pretty “clean” for the most part but lately, your stomach has been very unhappy. You’re taking more bathroom breaks than usual and you feel like your burping up fire. Guess what? It’s not your diet, it’s your stress levels! Diarrhea and abdominal pain are just the beginning signs of much larger digestive issues. When you experience high stress levels, your brain communicates this information to your 2nd brain, your gut. Any dysfunction in this brain-gut axis leads to increases in intestinal permeability, visceral sensitivity, and pro inflammatory mediators. These responses can set the stage for several diseases including GERD, Peptic Ulcer, and IBS.
You can manage your overconsumption of food by eliminating high calorie foods from your home. You can ease your stomach by including more gut friendly foods, but ultimately, the best remedy is stress management. Weight gain and GI issues will continue if the stressor persists. Through trial and error, find a meditation practice, exercise or other activity that works well to lower your chronic stress. | <urn:uuid:b9ebd933-688c-46b3-a25c-f95b020ee9f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.trifitwellness.com/two-warning-signs-of-severe-workplace-stress/ | 2022-01-27T13:51:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00638.warc.gz | en | 0.94748 | 584 |
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