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Luke Jacobs Synthpop, New Wave Andreas Gregor and Dave Rout have a long history in the Canadian electronic music scene that stems back deep into the 1980's with the cult electro new wavers Techniques Berlin. Much of Techniques Berlin's work has found refuge in old collections in the form of two anthology CDs simply titled 'Back Issue Vol. 1' and 'Back Issue Vol. 2' on the band's own label Bombshelter. If you were really on top of your TB game, you purchased the super limited edition compilation 'Suburban Playgrounds And Concrete Beaches' vinyl LP (300 copies) 6 years ago on Fabrika Records. Of course everything has been long sold out due to the never waning interest in Techniques Berlin. Due to that interest we arrive at this double LP comprised of new material and alternate versions of some of the classics. Later on, a companion double CD will be released by Nadanna with plenty of treats in store.
For those of us that grew up in the 1980's we saw the genesis of the home computer and some of the amazing things it could do as well as how it changed our culture and the way we think. I was fortunate that my father was heavily into the computer revolution. We had word processing, modems, games etc. when most of my friends did not have a home computer. The VIC 20, Commodore 64 and later the Leading Edge desktop helped define my love for all the offerings the computers had. Techniques Berlin wrote songs that reflected that era. 'Cyber Threat', 'Love Via Computer', Machine Language', 'Transmission' and 'Metropolis' are testaments to that time with their amazing arrangements and danceable progressions. These tracks and others take me back to those exploratory times of my teenage years as I shaped my path to today.
As you indulge in Techniques Berlin's new double LP 'Breathing' on Nadanna Records you feel a sense of revelry. Everything sounds so much within the era the original material was released, i'm afraid to call it new material. "Deep End" opens as if it was the A side to a 12" released 1986. The fast-paced beat with the addicting melodies and transitions to the chorus are top notch making this a choice entry to kick off this highly anticipated return to brilliance for Techniques Berlin. "Cold War" rings in more 80's vibes with backing vocals/spoken piece done by Tracy Howe of Rational Youth. Although the song is 5 minutes long, the repetitive nature of the track makes it seem longer. It definitely has hints of Rational Youth's classic track "Dancing On The Berlin Wall" as well as sharing Rational Youth's title of their finest work to date 'Cold War Night Life' as the chorus. The original theme of "Cold War" centered around dating and how much easier it was with the threat of nuclear annihilation in the cold war era. With the original working title "Cold War Love Life", Andreas and Dave thought it was too similar to the Rational Youth title. Andreas sent the track to Tracy Howe to see his thoughts on it, and he liked it. Tracy ended up joining Techniques Berlin on stage in Montreal and this is how he ended up recording on this song. "Serendipity" and "Damage" continue the new material as if these tracks were lost in the TB vaults and just found. The beautiful synth rhythms flourish in the vast technical display of pure awesomeness paired with perfect melodies and well timed drops. "Damage" also displays more of that 80's retro sound. I like the short vocal verses and the time in between the next vocal piece sets up the crafty nature of the track. "Damage" laces some killer sparkling keys set to mid-pace beats that will surely captivate the most discerning electronic aficionado. Techniques Berlin show their fans that this is not just some cheap come-back gimmick to generate relevance. Every track is well-designed with ample time taken to ensure the best product possible. "Burning Down" sinks the tempo to a less moderate pace. The vocals seem to take a more dominate role this time. Midway through the track there is a nice long instrumental surge between the next vocal piece showcasing brilliant electronic arrangements. "Hollow Graphic Haze" reveals Dina Naskos' backing vocals set to somewhat spoken style vocals leaving the more melodic style behind. This is similar to the "Cold War" vocal style. The diversity in the vocal style really helps keep the overall feel to 'Breathing' fresh and vibrant in nature. "Driving Force" and "Changes" solidify the structural integrity of 'Breathing' by holding the midway point on stable ground. Once again, there are no filler tracks, just top notch programming and arrangements throughout. "Changes" seem to revolve around a lost romance, thinking about another dance with the lost love. The lyrics reminded of Nadanna's logo of the dancing couple. "Driving force" keeps the album flowing in a great direction. If you listen carefully somewhere after the two minute mark, there is an echoing distant sound that reminds me of indoor racket ball. I guess you will have take my word for it or listen and decide for yourself. I love the choices of sounds. I'm sure this was not what Techniques Berlin had in mind, but meshed together with everything else it works brilliantly to keep strength of the album up. "Breathing" marks the end of the new tracks along with "Salvation". 'Breathing" is definitely a stand out offering. With its quick beat and perfectly executed monotone yet melodic choruses makes this a super enticing concluding routine to the album that shares the song's title. With the 20 plus synths Andreas and Dave have between them there's always a way to elevate their game. They certainly did that on each of the 10 new songs.
"Picture Show" was written in 86 or 87 as a tribute to the Canadian musician Nash The Slash. Nash The Slash used to play live in old theaters to provide sound for silent movies. His signature look was a tuxedo, tophat, sunglasses and his face wrapped in bandages. The band was fond of his work and got to know him. After his passing in 2014, Techniques Berlin decided to re-record "Picture Show" as tribute to him and his work. "Picture Show" features an aggressive instrumental build paired with some piercing synth work making this track a perfect tribute to a musical icon. Most of the tracks after "Picture Show" will be familiar to long time fans of the band. Although these tracks may be alternate versions or rehearsal versions, they are still just as cool as the original versions. "Watching You", "Beats Like A Machine", "Planet 21", "Miles Away", "Pieces Of Glass", "Just One Look", "Where Have You Been" and "Metropolis" can all be found on iTunes in the digital format in the original versions. The somber sounding "Sudden Guilt" has never been released previously. "Miles Away" has a familiar title to fans of John Foxx. The reference was unintentional and is not a cover version. Andreas' love of John Foxx can be found more easily on his Agents In Fared project. "Miles Away" is remastered from a chewed up four-track cassette. The track came to be when Dave played the demo version for Andreas. Andreas promptly pulled into a 7-11 parking lot, purchased a notebook and began coming up with lyrics to compliment the music. He ended up writing about a girl he knew in college. "Metropolis" is the end result of a ten year process to get Dina to act as a replacement for Dale Hanlin after his short tenure from 1990-1992. Dina, Dave and Andreas played "Metropolis" in a rehearsal session and loved the outcome and decided to record it.
Nadanna and Techniques Berlin collaborated to introduce new material and alternate versions of early works because they heard the distant calling and local callings for new material from a band the fans will never let die. Andreas and Dave heard their calls and made a comeback album new fans and long time fans will appreciate. Given Nadanna's track record with remix CDs, you know when it is finally released sometime in the spring you will hear some incredible stuff.
Dave and Andreas both worked with Digital Poodle adding percussion and drum programming in the mid 90's. 12 years ago Das Drehmoment released Datafreq 'Fun For The Whole Family' album in 2006 showcasing the duo's vivacity and abilities to perform some killer addictive electro synthpop with some minimal influences. There was and is some amazing music that came out Canada that wasn't Front Line Assemble or Skinny Puppy. Do yourself a solid and explore Dave and Andreas' works. They certainly earned a spot in Canadian music history through their music and the influences they have had on others.
Of course Martin Bowes is responsible for the mastering and Steve Lippert took care of the cover art. The record is limited to 350 copies, gatefold sleeve and inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.
LP1 Credits: all words by Andreas Gregor except "Driving Force" by Dave Rout.
All music by Techniques Berlin.
Andreas Gregor and Dave Rout have a long history in the Canadian electronic music scene that stems back deep into the 1980's with the cult electro new wavers Techniques Berlin. Much of Techniques Berlin's work has found refuge in old collections in the form of two anthology CDs simply titled 'Back Issue Vol. 1' and 'Back Issue Vol. 2' on the band's own label Bombshelter. If you were really on top of your TB game, you purchased the super limited edition compilation 'Suburban Playgrounds And Concrete Beaches' vinyl LP (300 copies) 6 years ago on Fabrika Records. Of course everything has been long sold out due to the never waning interest in Techniques Berlin. Due to that interest we arrive at this double LP comprised of new material and alternate versions of some of the classics. Later on, a companion double CD will be released by Nadanna with plenty of treats in store.
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This file discusses briefly (1) the four dimensions underlying the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and (2) several teaching approaches that will appeal to different MBTI profiles.
The 126 item Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Form G, is the most reliable method for assessing student learning style. The MBTI provides data on four sets of preferences. These preferences result in 16 learning styles, or types. A type is the combination of the four preferences. The most common MBTI type for business undergraduates is the ESTJ, the Extraverted-Sensing-Thinking-Judger.
The MBTI instrument should be administered in the first or second class period by the counseling center at your school. It takes about 45 minutes to complete the instrument. The counseling center can score the MBTI and share the data with the students. Students enjoy learning about themselves and find the MBTI data informative.
This preference tells us how people "charge their batteries." Introverts find energy in the inner world of ideas, concepts, and abstractions. They can be sociable but need quiet to recharge their batteries. Introverts want to understand the world. Introverts are concentrators and reflective thinkers. Their motto is: Ready, Aim, Aim, ..... For the introvert, there is no impression without reflection.
Extraverts find energy in things and people. They prefer interaction with others, and are action oriented. Extraverts are interactors and "on-the-fly" thinkers. Their motto is: Ready, Fire, Aim. For the extravert, there is no impression without expression.
The majority of undergraduate students are extraverts. Based on data from the Center for Applied Psychological Type (CAPT) between 56% and 58% of over 16,000 freshman students at three state universities were extraverts. Interestingly, over 83% of college student leaders were extraverts, while over 65% of Phi Beta Kappas were introverts. Our own data base indicates that over 65% of business students are extraverts. It is not surprising that almost two-thirds of undergraduate business students are extraverts. Students may major in business administration because the business world appreciates and rewards action which coincides with the extraverts' strength.
The majority of university faculty are introverts. CAPT reported that almost 55% of 2,282 faculty are introverts. Our own data base for business faculty indicates that over 60% are introverts..
Extraverted students learn by explaining to others. They do not know if they understand the subject until they try to explain it to themselves or others. Extraverted students have told us that they thought they knew the material until they tried to explain it to a fellow student. Only then did they realize they did not understand the subject.
Both support learning through explaining, but provide quiet time for introverted students.
Teacher poses question and provides quiet time for students.
Teacher designates the explainer and listener within each dyad.
Teachers pose question and provide quiet time for students.
Each team member shares ideas with others in a round-robin fashion.
Teams discusses ideas and reaches closure.
Teacher critiques some team's answers and provide closure.
In a seminal study, George Miller noted that people can hold 7 + 2 chunks of knowledge in their minds at any given time. If each knowledge chunk contains a specific fact, then the amount of knowledge possessed is limited. But if each chunk contains many interconnected facts, a network or framework of facts, then the amount of knowledge is almost unlimited.
Introverted students want to develop frameworks that integrate or connect the subject matter. To an introvert, disconnected chunks are not knowledge, merely information. Knowledge means interconnecting material and seeing the "big picture."
Faculty should teach their students how to chunk, or group and interconnect, knowledge. Introverted students will appreciate it, extraverted students may not. Nevertheless, cognitive psychologists tell us that through chunking, students master the material. We recommend that faculty teach students how to build a compare/ contrast table, flowchart, or concept map.
Some of us choose to rely on our five senses. Some prefer taking in information through our "sixth" sense. Sensing people are detail oriented, want facts, and trust them. Joe Friday from the TV show Dragnet epitomizes the extreme sensing detective. All he ever wanted was "just the facts".
Intuitive people seek out patterns and relationships among the facts they have gathered. They trust hunches and their intuition and look for the "big picture." The quintessential intuitive was Albert Einstein whose fanciful thought experiments revolutionized the 20th century. He could see patterns where others saw randomness or chaos.
The majority of undergraduates are sensing students. Based on data from the Center for Applied Psychological Type (CAPT) between 56% and 72% of over 16,000 freshmen at three state universities were sensing students. Interestingly, almost 83% of national merit scholarship finalists and 92% of Rhodes Scholars were intuitive students. Our own data base indicates that over 65% of business majors are sensing students.
The majority of university faculty are intuitive. CAPT reported that almost 64% of 2,282 faculty are intuitive. We obtained the same percentage from our business faculty data base.
-application organizing strategy and (3) the advance organizer.
In the what must be known (WMBK) method, we first ask: What is (are) the topic's most essential general principle(s) or goals? Place the answer in a goal box. We then ask: What topic(s) must be known such that students could achieve the goal? Place these subgoal boxes below the goal box and show an arrow leading from each subgoal box to the goal box. Continue to ask WMBK questions until you interface with material previously covered. You would then present the lecture by starting at the bottom of the diagram and work up towards the goal box.
The A-T-A method begins with a faculty member presenting an (A)pplication (problem or mini-case) to the class. The students attempt to analyze and solve the case or problem without the benefit of the upcoming chapter's theory or ideas. Applications motivate sensing students to learn the material. Applications answer the question that sensing students often ask, "why am I learning this material?" After the class has struggled with the problem (and sometimes emerged victoriously), the teacher presents the chapter's (T)heory or ideas, and then applies it to the original application. Afterwards the teacher presents additional (A)pplications and has the students apply the theory.
An opening application problem or mini-case should (1) be familiar to students, (2) engage their curiosity, (3) be almost solvable from previous text material or student experiences, and (4) be baffling, or counter-intuitive, if possible. A familiar problem assures sensing students that their experiences have prepared them to address the problem. The third attribute minimizes students' frustrations. The application should be "just beyond a student's reach". However, previously learned material or experiences should help students make a reasonable solution attempt. An application that is too significant a leap will cause frustration, and the feeling that the teacher is playing games with the students.
David Ausubel's advance organizer is a brief lecture or demonstration during the introduction of the lecture that provides a mental scaffolding to anchor the new material. The advance organizer provides a set of highly general concepts that subsume the material about to be learned. An advance organizer taps into students' existing knowledge structures. It helps cross-list new information with already existing information and thus aids learning and knowledge retrieval. It makes the unfamiliar more familiar; it makes the abstract more concrete.
Note how the following advance organizer taps into existing knowledge that the students should have already acquired.
Goal:-----------Connects Indian history to an existing civil rights knowledge base.
The advance organizer is not an overview. An overview would have introduced the students to the lecture's key ideas: Gandhi, salt monopoly, British policy, boiling sea water, etc..
The advance organizer provides a familiar setting to anchor new, and potentially strange, material. The organizer works because at a very general level, the marches of King and Gandhi dealt with charismatic leaders in a struggle against oppressive forces. For an African-American audience, the MLK organizer transformed an abstract lecture into a familiar and more concrete setting.
1. What do students know that at a very general level is similar to the subject matter about to be taught?
2. How can I demonstrate the connections between what is known and what is to be learned?
Intuitive students prefer either the traditional Theory-Application-Theory approach or the A-T-A approach using discovery learning. We illustrate the A-T-A approach using discovery learning in teaching the central limit theorem in a basic statistics course. The teacher selects 50 numbers from a random numbers table, and develops a frequency histogram. The data are not bell-shaped. The teacher then selects 30 samples of size eight numbers (replacing each number after it is drawn) from the 50 numbers, computes the 30 means, and develops a frequency histogram for the means. The histogram is now roughly bell-shaped. The teacher concludes the demonstration by asking why is the histogram of means nearly bell-shaped. Using the discovery method, students hopefully will discover the reasons underlying the central limit theorem.
The discovery method, or the why method, will appeal to intuitive students and will teach sensing students how to uncover general principles. In using this method, sensing and intuitive students should be combined in learning groups. The intuitive student can help the sensing student to discover the theory; the sensing student can help identify and marshal the facts of the exercise.
Intuitive students must have the big picture, or an integrating framework, to understand a subject. The big picture shows how the subject matter is interrelated. Intuitive students can develop reasonably correct concept maps or compare and contrast tables. Fortunately, sensing students can be taught to do the same.
Some of us choose to decide things impersonally on analysis, logic, and principle. Some of us make decisions by focusing on human values. Thinking students value fairness. What could be fairer than focusing on the situation's logic, and placing great weight on objective criteria in making a decision. Mr. Spock, science officer of the starship Enterprise, had an extreme preference for thinking.
Feeling students value harmony. They focus on human values and needs as they make decisions or arrive at judgments. They tend to be good at persuasion and facilitating differences among group members. Dr. McCoy, Spock's colleague aboard the Enterprise, demonstrated a preference for feeling.
Unlike the two previous sets of preferences, CAPT reports that on this dimension, the proportion of males and females differ. About 64% of all males have a preference for thinking, while only about 34% of all females have a preference for thinking.
Our own data base indicates that over 70% of male and female under-graduate business students are thinking students. It is not surprising that the majority of business majors are thinking students. Business is, after all, the domain of logic and analysis.
The majority of university faculty have a preference for thinking. CAPT reported that almost 54% of 2,282 faculty are thinking. Seventy percent of business faculty have a preference for thinking. Thus, on the thinking versus feeling preference, business faculty and students are similar.
Thinking students like clear course and topic objectives. Clear course or topic objectives avoid vague words or expressions such as "students will appreciate or be exposed to." Rather, objectives are precise and action-oriented. By precise we mean that teachers can write objectives at three meta-levels of learning: rote, meaningful and integrated, and critical thinking. By action oriented we mean that the verbs describe what students must do, not what faculty will do. The Bloom et al. taxonomy provides guidelines for writing clear and meaningful objectives.
1. Make process suggestions to regain session focus.
2. Keep individuals from personally attacking one another.
3. Monitor time remaining within a session and gently remind members.
4. Encourage equal participation among members in discussion phase.
5. Demonstrate collaborative-seeking (WIN-WIN) behaviors.
6. Assure that recorder writes legibly.
7. Respond to group member's questions to you by restating the question and asking other group members to respond (the boomerang method).
8. Recognize that all the objectives and goals within a session may not completed. Get group to do the possible given the time constraints.
9. Use light-hearted (or self-deprecating) humor to break tension.
10. Keep group enthusiasm high and sell ideas to members.
Some of us like to postpone action and seek more data. Others like to make quick decisions. Judging people are decisive, planful and selfregimented. They focus on completing the task, only want to know the essentials, and take action quickly (perhaps too quickly). They plan their work and work their plan. Deadlines are sacred. Their motto is: just do it!
Perceptive people are curious, adaptable, and spontaneous. They start many tasks, want to know everything about each task, and often find it difficult to complete a task. Deadlines are meant to be stretched. Their motto is: on the other hand ... .
The majority of undergraduate students are judging students. Based on data from the Center for Applied Psychological Type (CAPT) between 46% and 60% of over 16,000 freshmen at three state universities were judging students. Interestingly, almost 64% of Rhodes Scholars were perceptive students. Our own data base indicates that over 70% of undergraduate business students are judging students.
The majority of university faculty also have a preference for judging. CAPT reported that almost 65% of 2,282 faculty prefer judging. We obtained the same percentage from our business faculty data base.
We have found that the following hints on note taking and test taking help judging students learn more effectively.
Most students can learn speedwriting in several minutes. Just omit all (or most) vowels. Or develop your own shorthand method. For example, mst stdnts cn lrn spdwrtng in svrl mnts. Jst omt ll or mst vwls.
Draw a line down center of a notebook page. On the left-hand side, record the lecture (use speedwriting or your own shorthand notation). After class, write a commentary on the right-hand side. Include restating ideas in your own words, finding sources of confusion, identifying key points, looking for links to earlier learned material, and asking what does this mean to me (the student).
Use different colors to record ideas presented in class and found in the text or readings. For example, use blue to code major ideas and green to code links to previously learned material.
In answering an essay question, first Analyze the question and jot down key ideas, Organize the ideas into a logical sequence, and only then write the essay (Respond).
To review an essay question, first read your answer. Then construct a essay question based on your answer. Now compare your question to the teacher's question. If different, revise your answer. This strategy ensures that students answer the teacher's question.
Read the question's stem (the portion that contains the question) and write a brief answer. Then compare your answer to the four or five choices, and select the answer most similar to your mini-essay.
Your universities' learning resource center is an especially good source for additional hints on note and test taking. Include several hints in each course syllabus. Spend a few minutes explaining these hints in the first class period. Occasionally remind the students of the hints (especially before the first exam).
Judging students often reach too-quick closure when analyzing cases. Thus we recommend a second-look meeting. After completing the case, the group reviews their analysis. A student plays a "gentle" Devil's Advocate (DA) and challenges the group's conclusions. The DA should be prepared to recommend an alternative solution. This will force the group to consider the pros and cons of both approaches. The DA can also ask team members to state assumptions about stakeholders (those who are affected by or will affect the case solution) which must be true for the group's solution to be effective. The DA can then challenge the group to provide evidence that the assumptions are true. Guidelines for a second-look meeting should be included in the case preparation hints provided to students.
Perceptive students often postpone doing an assignment until the very last minute. They are not lazy. Quite to the contrary, they seek information to the very last minute (and sometimes beyond). We recommend decomposing a complex project or paper into a series of sub-assignments and providing deadlines for each sub-assignment. The deadlines may keep the perceptive students on target.
Decomposing a major project into sub-assignments provides the opportunity for continuous feedback to the student. Have students hand-in an audio tape with their sub-assignments. The teacher can then provide detailed audio (we speak faster than we can write) comments on content and grammar. When we have used the audio feedback approach, final papers are clear and readable, and thus less aggravation to read. Moreover, without the teacher's interim feedback, students lose an opportunity to improve their writing skills during the semester.
The MBTI instrument is available from Consulting Psychological Press in Palo Alto, California.
Percentage data taken from Isabel Briggs Myers and Mary McCaulley, Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Consulting Psychologist Press, 1985.
George Miller, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," Psychological Review, April 1956, pp.81-97.
David Ausubel, Educational Psychology: A Cognitive View. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968.
Benjamin Bloom, M. Englehart, E. Furst, W, Hill and D. Krathwohl, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain, Longmans Green, New York, 1956.
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2. Introduction Jaguar is a brand of Jaguar Land Rover which is owned by the Indian company Tata Motors since 2008. Jaguar's business was founded under the name of Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before developing bodies for passenger cars. Under S. S. Cars Limited, the business was extended to complete cars. S. S. Cars was renamed as "Jaguar" in 1945. It merged with British Motor Corporation in 1966,and then in 1968 it merged with Leyland Motor Corporation and became British Leyland, itself to be nationalised in 1975.Jaguar was de-merged from British Leyland and then was acquired by Ford in 1990. Jaguar has, in recent years, manufactured cars for the British Prime Minister. Jaguar cars today are designed in Jaguar Land Rover's engineering centres located at Coventry and Warwickshire, and are manufactured in Birmingham, The Company today employs over 10,000 employees. Segmentation, targeting and positioning strategies of the brand in the Indian market Jaguar has always been in a leading position.It continues to occupy in spite of occasionalbudget constraints,the position of being a product that provides ultimate customer satisfaction. The primary marketing objective of Jaguar has been to strengthen its brand equity and achieve retailing mileage out of that. Market segmentation involves dividing a broad target market into subsets of consumers, or countries who have, or are perceived to have, common needs, interests, and priorities. Targeting refers to choosing only those segments which seem attractive to the company and the company has the capability to serve. Jaguar uses the following bases for segmenting the consumer market and has targeted these segments effectively by aiming at what customer from each of these segments look for. 1. Demographic Segmentation : Demographic segmentation divides the markets based on variables such as age, gender, family size, income, occupation, education, race and nationality. Jaguar has done this segmentation based on factor such as age, gender and income. Targeting: Jaguar came out with Jaguar S-type which was targeted at the younger customer base. The XE sports Sedan had a dual target, theyouth and women. Jaguar’s XFR, XJL Super sport and XKR-S models are basically targeted at confident, well-educated and intelligent individual who create businesses,technologies and lifestyles that have an impact on our culture. The Jaguar XF series targeted the luxury car market (> Rs. 25 lakhs). This was for the high net worth individuals in India. Based on age, Jaguar has targeted the following groups, viz.
3. Successful professionals in the age group of 30-45 (singles and couples) Executive families in the 40-50 age range (2+ children) Aged individuals (couples aged above 50). 2. Psychographic Segmentation : Psychographic segmentation is done based on lifestyle and personality traits. Targeting: With commercials like “Captured: Jaguar at play”, Jaguar tried to attract the confident, powerful, independent individuals who love dynamism. The commercial used three of Jaguars sports cars, viz. Jaguar’s XFR, XJL Super sport and XKR-S models to inflict upon the viewers a sense of power and exhilaration when they sit behind the wheels. Jaguar’s luxury car range are targeted at those consumers who are successful,aristocrat and have a status and lifestyle to maintain. Brand Positioning Positioning is a strategy that aims to make a brand occupy a distinct position, relative to the other competing brands in customer’s minds. The positioning strategy of Jaguar needs it to differentiate itself from its direct competitors, BMW, Audi, and Mercedes in terms of performance, dependability and styling. All of its competitors being in the luxury car brand range, Jaguar’s Point of Parity (PoP) lies in its constant appeal to the niche market of high net worth individuals in the country and, its launch of expensive sports cars. At the same time, Jaguar has managed to brand itself as truly different fromits competitors (PoD) by positioning the brand as animate – seductive, emotional, unique, energetic and high performance – while posing the question, “How alive are you?”The “Alive” campaign targets luxury consumers who are contemporary, sophisticated and daring, and have a desire for authentic, independent brands. It also appeals to a more youthful audience, while not alienating its current demographic. Jaguar then launched a rebranding campaign with a new logo and a revamped brand image. In an attempt to modernize the brand and appeal to a younger demographic, Jaguar introduced some elements into its logo design that looks more 3-dimensional and introduces a chrome gradient effect.
7. The power of buyers in the luxury car industry is also quite fair. Customers have a significant amount of power, mainly due to the choice of large variety of luxury brands and product, and because of the presence of substitutes. Customers can choose from many different brands and car models, with widely differing performance, quality, appearance, pricing, additional features. This allows the customer to freely choose the product that best fits her preferences, status and lifestyle. The Internet has improved customers’ access to information about the characteristics of car models, and to the experience and reviews of past users and experts. That forces premium car makers to improve continuously quality in order to not fail to meet the high expectations of customers and also to not fall behind competitors’ innovations and improvements. Once a customer has purchased a car, there are moderate switching costs to change to another, since the current car’s value will have to be reduced when it is sold in the used car market or returned to the car dealer. Brand loyalty in the luxury car segment is higher than for lower-end cars, since customers tend to develop a closer emotional relationship between their self-image and their car and brand (provided that the expectations are being met). Another favorable factor for car companies is that the size of buyers and of their individual orders are small, since most of the customers buy only one car every some years, reducing the significance of the behavior of an individual customer. The presence of many substitutes to luxury cars enhances significantly the bargaining power of potential customers. Customers likely become more cost conscious and switch to less glamorous but cheaper and more efficient “normal” cars and thus may choose to use any of a wide range of transportation devices instead of luxury cars. Threat of substitutes: medium-high Luxury cars fulfill basically two needs for customers: provide a means of transportation, and assert the privileged status of their owner. The first need can be fulfilled by a variety of other products, such as other types of cars, motorbikes, bicycles, public transportation systems, planes. The most recognizable substitutes for the luxury cars from Jaguar are either cars rolled out by Audi, BMW and Mercedes -Benz or higher-end cars from ultra-luxury brands (Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini), or at the other end of the spectrum, less expensive cars from non-luxury brands (Ford, Toyota, General Motors, Fiat). Higher-end brands can exert additional pressure by introducing some car models with lower-than-usual prices or special discounts to allure customers with lower incomes than their traditional customer base. At the same time, technological progress allows non-luxury car makers to include in their cars more and more of the features and amenities initially reserved to luxury cars (for instance driving-assisting systems and touch screens), forcing luxury brands to innovate at a fast pace to keep the appropriate level of differentiation and superiority. Another major threat to car manufacturers’ sales is the presence of the used cars markets. Premium brands of motorbikes such as Ducati and Harley-Davidson could be considered suitable substitutes for luxury cars as both a transportation device and a status symbol.
8. Threat of new entrants: between low and medium The luxury car industry is protected by significant barriers to entry and thus the threat of new entrants is relatively low. One of the most significant barriers comprises the brand equityenjoyed by most established brands. The repute of the brand is extremely important to customers; luxury brands such as Jaguar, Mercedes - Benz, BMW and Audi have a long and magnificent history to boast about, and the companies work hard to preserve the association between them and other symbols of individuality and of top-notch quality and performance. Although several Asian companies have developed new luxury brands to compete with the traditional European and American brands, it is extremely difficult for challengers to match the prestige of brands with years of history. Another challenging barrier to entry is the huge initial investment required to enter car markets in general. Large amounts of capital are required to set up manufacturing facilities and invest in R&D, among other large expenses. This also creates large sunk costs and makes it hard to achieve economies of scale. The capital requirements are one of the main reasons why new luxury brands have been produced by companies which were already present in the market as large car manufacturers (Toyota’s Lexus and Nissan’s Infiniti) and not by new, free-standing, companies. Other protective factors include the high degree of product differentiation and of competition in the industry, which make it less attractive. Competition between established firms: high Competitive rivalry in the luxury car segment is extremely high as Luxury car concentration in the industry is not very high in the advanced markets, and a variety of very different brands with different origins and tactics compete. The rivalry between companies is rather intense, especially with Jaguar in the Indian market mainly due to the presence of the three global leaders: Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. These three companies compete hard to attain not only market leadership in all the major markets, but also to be recognized as the top luxury brand in customers’ perception not only in India but every country across the world. The ascent of Jaguar from “outsider” to “significant challenger” to Audi, BMW and Mercedes Benz has further contributed to make rivalry even harsher. Further to this, the competition has extended from the advanced markets to the emerging markets, where each company hopes get a privileged grip to take advantage of the future growth of middle classes. Jaguar explicitly recognizes each of the three companies as competitors, and their public statements and advertising and promotional campaigns make provocative comparison between the cars as to performance and innovativeness. Technological innovation is one field of fierce competition, as each of the companies claimto be technological leader in the industry. Competition on pricing is also intensified. In addition to the old competitions between market leaders, there are also challenges posed by the new luxury brands developed by the large successfulAsian car manufacturers such as Hyundai, Honda, Toyota and Nissan which are challenging the Western brands including Jaguar in their home markets by developing new brands and offering customers cars with lower prices and better fuel efficiency.
10. consumers have changed with the shift of consumer attitude towards from affordability to quality, pleasure and design which has suddenly accelerated business in luxury car segments. Motivation and perception The brand Jaguar fulfils the esteem needs and Self-actualization needs in the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Jaguar’s Super luxury cars have become as the status symbol and a matter of esteem. Consumers of jaguar like to flaunt their cars as their prized possession. The frequent use of jaguar cars stimulates the perception of an “ultra luxury life” the consumers gain from their possession. Jaguar‘s “unique driving experience” is one of the consumer’s motivation factor. A Brand Awareness consumer centric campaign ALIVE was launched to tap on the Indian luxury car segments. The Brand awareness of jaguar was low when it came to India. So, company decided to launch a consumer- centric campaign – “How Alive are you?” to establish the “Jaguarness”of its products. Product Life Cycle GLOBAL TREND Swallow Sidecar company launched its first product ‘motorcycle sidecars’ in 1922. In the following years it started expanding its business by producing complete carsfor passengers. In 1931, the famous S.S models were launched and in 1935, the name Jaguar was adopted by the company and S.S model were renamed as S.S Jaguars.
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exhorting Israel and urging the people to return to God and His law.
This book Baruch read to King Jeconiah and the whole people on a day of prayer and penitence. On the same occasion a collection was taken up among the people, and the funds thus secured, together with the silver Temple vessels made by order of Zedekiah after Jeconiah had been carried away captive, were sent to Jerusalem, with the request that the high priest Joakim and the people should apply the money to the sacrificial service and to prayers for the life of King Nebuchadnezzar and his son Belshazzar. Thus they might ensure peace and happiness under Babylonian rule. Above all, they were to supplicate God to turn away His wrath from His people.
The piety of Baruch and the great favor he enjoyed with God were made known to later generations many years after his death, through the marvellous occurrences connected with his tomb.
Once a Babylonian prince commanded a Jew, Rabbi Solomon by name, to show him the grave of Ezekiel, concerning which he had heard many remarkable tales.
The Jew advised the prince first to enter the tomb of Baruch, which adjoined that of Ezekiel.
In the presence of his grandees and his people the prince tried to open the grave of Baruch, but his efforts were fruitless. Whosoever touched it, was at once stricken dead.
An old Arab advised the prince to call upon the Jews to gain entrance for him, seeing that Baruch had been a Jew, and his books were still being studied by Jews. The Jews prepared themselves by fasts, prayers, penitence, and almsgiving, and they succeeded in opening the grave without a mishap.
Baruch was found lying on marble bier, and the appearance of the corpse was as though he had only then passed away. (73) The prince ordered the bier to be brought to the city, and the body to be entombed there.
He thought it was not seemly that Ezekiel and Baruch should rest in the same grave.
But the bearers found it impossible to remove the bier more than two thousands ells from the original grave; not even with the help of numerous draught-animals could it be urged a single step further.
Following the advice of Rabbi Solomon, the prince resolved to enter the bier on the spot they had reached and also to erect an academy there. These miraculous happenings induced the prince to go to Mecca. There he became convinced of the falseness of Mohammedanism, of which he had hitherto been an adherent, and he converted to Judaism, he and his whole court.
Not less famous is the tomb of Ezekiel, at a distance of two thousand ells from Baruch's. It is overarched by a beautiful mausoleum erected by King Jeconiah after Evil-merodach had released him from captivity. The mausoleum existed down to the middle ages, and it bore on its walls the names of the thirty-five thousand Jews who assisted Jeconiah in erecting the monument.
It was the scene of many miracles. When great crowds of people journeyed thither to pay reverence to the memory of the prophet, the little low gate in the wall surrounding the grave enlarged in width and height to admit all who desired to enter.
Once a prince vowed to give a colt to the grave of the prophet, if but his mare which had been sterile would bear one. When his wish was fulfilled, however, he did not keep his promise. But the filly ran a distance equal to a four days' journey to the tomb, and his owner could not recover it until he deposited his value in silver upon the grace.
When people went on long journeys, they were in the habit of carrying their treasures to the grave of the prophet, and beseeching him to let none but the rightful heirs remove them thence. The prophet always granted their petition.
Once when an attempt was made to take some books from the grave of Ezekiel, the ravager suddenly became sick and blind. For a time a pillar of fire, visible at a great distance, rose above the grave of the prophet, but it disappeared in consequence of the unseemly conduct of the pilgrims who resorted thither.
2- In the fifth year, and in the seventh day of the month, what time as the Chaldeans took Jerusalem, and burnt it with fire.
4- And in the hearing of the nobles, and of the king's sons, and in the hearing of the elders, and of all the people, from the lowest unto the highest, even of all them that dwelt at Babylon by the river Sud.
5- Whereupon they wept, fasted, and prayed before the Lord.
9- After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.
12- And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.
13- Pray for us also unto the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God; and unto this day the fury of the Lord and his wrath is not turned from us.
14- And ye shall read this book which we have sent unto you, to make confession in the house of the Lord, upon the feasts and solemn days.
............and we have been negligent in not hearing his voice.
to give us a land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
............ to serve strange gods, and to do evil in the sight of the Lord our God.
3- That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
4- Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.
5- Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not been obedient unto his voice.
6- To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness- but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth this day.
8- Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart.
9- Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us- for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us.
10- Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.
12- O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.
13- Let thy wrath turn from us- for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.
15- That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.
16- O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us- bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.
18- But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.
19- Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
21- Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon- so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.
the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride- and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.
24- But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon- therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.
25- And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
26- And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda.
29- If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30- For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people- but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves.
33- And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds- for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord.
34- And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it- and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
35- And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people- and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them.
1- O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee.
2- Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for thou art merciful- and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee.
3- For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly.
4- O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God- for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us.
5- Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers- but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time.
6- For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise.
7- And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity- for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee.
8- Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.
9- Hear, Israel, the commandments of life- give ear to understand wisdom.
11- That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave?
12- Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom.
13- For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.
14- Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
15- Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures ?
17- They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
19- They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
21- Nor understood the paths thereof, nor laid hold of it- their children were far off from that way.
22- It hath not been heard of in Chanaan, neither hath it been seen in Theman.
none of these have known the way of wisdom, or remember her paths.
24- O Israel, how great is the house of God! and how large is the place of his possession!
25- Great, and hath none end; high, and unmeasurable.
that were of so great stature, and so expert in war.
28- But they were destroyed, because they had no wisdom, and perished through their own foolishness.
29- Who hath gone up into heaven, and taken her (Wisdom, Sophia), and brought her down from the clouds?
30- Who hath gone over the sea, and found her, and will bring her for pure gold?
31- No man knoweth her way, nor thinketh of her path.
Going across the Sea was the sin at Mount Sinai as they rose up to PLAY. This was musical idolatry worshiping the Golden Calf as the symbol of the Egyptian Triad: Osiris, Isis and Horus.
We are not saved by FAITH ONLY. Paul speaks of THE FAITH as replacing THE LAW. THE FAITH is the Christian system. We know this because people who lived under THE LAW were men of personal faith (Heb 11).
THE LAW applied to the LAWLESS. The law used the ORIENTIAL INCENTIVE which was physical punishment. If we are not under the SCHOOLMASTER we are no longer under ANY human agency which had rather CONTROL than to let the people LEARN the lessons directly from God incarnate who left his written Word. A "child" is accused by Jesus as being the "chorus leaders" as the lost Jews piped hoping to get Him to sing and dance the perverted ritual of Dionysus.
A "child" here is huios which means that we have GRADUATED from human tutors.
Paul wrote the same message to the Colossians. This was not redundant but God assured that we have "two or three witnesses" for all of His teachings or doctrine.
Philosophia (g5385) fil-os-of-ee'-ah; from 5386; "philosophy", i.e. (spec.) Jewish sophistry: - philosophy.
Philosophos (g5386) fil-os'-of-os; from 5384 and 4680; fond of wise things, i.e. a "philosopher": - philosopher.
Isa 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
Shaqal (h8254) shaw-kal'; a prim. root; to suspend or poise (espec. in trade): - pay, receive (-r), spend, * throughly, weigh.
Gadal (h1431) gaw-dal'; a prim. root; prop. to twist [comp. 1434], i. e. to be (caus. make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride): - advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be (-come, do, give, make, wax), great (-er, come to... estate, / things), grow (up), increase, lift up, magnify (-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly [spoken], tower.
Teraphiym (h8655) ter-aw-feme'; plur. per. from 7495; a healer; Teraphim (sing. or plur.) a family idol: - idols (-atry), images, teraphim.
Suzoopoieo (g4806) sood-zo-op-oy- eh'-o; from 4862 and 2227; to reanimate conjointly with (fig.): - quicken together with.
Rom 10:3 For they, being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Dikaiosune (g1343) dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay; from 1342; equity (of character or act); spec. (Chr.) justification: - righteousness.
Fulfill: Pleroo (g4137) play-ro'-o; from 4134; to make replete i.e. (lit.) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (fig.) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.: - accomplish, * after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfill, (be, make) full (come), FULLY PREACH, perfect, supply.
33- He that sendeth forth light, and it goeth, calleth it again, and it obeyeth him with fear.
34- The stars shined in their watches, and rejoiced- when he calleth them, they say, Here we be; and so with cheerfulness they shewed light unto him that made them.
36- He hath found out all the way of knowledge, and hath given it unto Jacob his servant, and to Israel his beloved.
37- Afterward did he shew himself upon earth, and conversed with men.
1- This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endureth for ever- all they that keep it shall come to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2- Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it- walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
3- Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
4- O Israel, happy are we- for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
5- Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
7- For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
8- Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
10- For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
11- With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12- Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
13- They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14- Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
15- For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
16- These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
17- But what can I help you?
18- For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.
19- Go your way, O my children, go your way- for I am left desolate.
20- I have put off the clothing of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer- I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days.
21- Be of good cheer, O my children, cry unto the Lord, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
22- For my hope is in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour.
23- For I sent you out with mourning and weeping- but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever.
24- Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity- so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.
25- My children, suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God- for thine enemy hath persecuted thee; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction, and shalt tread upon his neck.
26- My delicate ones have gone rough ways, and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies.
27- Be of good comfort, O my children, and cry unto God- for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you.
28- For as it was your mind to go astray from God- so, being returned, seek him ten times more.
29- For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
30- Take a good heart, O Jerusalem- for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee.
31- Miserable are they that afflicted thee, and rejoiced at thy fall.
32- Miserable are the cities which thy children served- miserable is she that received thy sons.
33- For as she rejoiced at thy ruin, and was glad of thy fall- so shall she be grieved for her own desolation.
34- For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude, and her pride shall be turned into mourning.
35- For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting, long to endure; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time.
36- O Jerusalem, look about thee toward the east, and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God.
37- Lo, thy sons come, whom thou sentest away, they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the glory of God.
1- Put off, O Jerusalem, the garment of mourning and affliction, and put on the comeliness of the glory that cometh from God for ever.
2- Cast about thee a double garment of the righteousness which cometh from God; and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting.
3- For God will shew thy brightness unto every country under heaven.
4- For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness, and The glory of God's worship.
5- Arise, O Jerusalem, and stand on high, and look about toward the east, and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the Holy One, rejoicing in the remembrance of God.
6- For they departed from thee on foot, and were led away of their enemies- but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory, as children of the kingdom.
8- Moreover even the woods and every sweetsmelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God.
9- For God shall lead Israel with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him.
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Dr. Azeem Latib, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele University Hospital, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy.
Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a common finding in patients with left-sided disease, and is associated with poor outcome and predicts poor survival, heart failure, and reduced functional capacity (1). It is common after mitral valve treatment in rheumatic or ischemic mitral regurgitation, if left untreated at the time of mitral surgery. In this subgroup with long-standing TR, managed medically for a long time, surgical correction can be more prohibitive due to the presence of variable degrees of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, pulmonary vascular disease, and right heart failure. The pre-operative condition of the RV and the severity of secondary renal and hepatic impairment are predictors of limited survival (2,3). Percutaneous procedures may be an attractive alternative to surgery for patients deemed to be high-risk surgical candidates. While the development and clinical use of percutaneous approaches to the aortic valve and mitral valve have been widespread over the past few years, limited data are available about the feasibility and efficacy of percutaneous tricuspid valve (TV) therapies (4,5).
The TriCinch System (4Tech Cardio Ltd., Galway, Ireland) is a percutaneous device designed for TV remodeling, by means of a transfemoral fixation of a stainless steel corkscrew into the anteroposterior TV annulus. The corkscrew is connected through a Dacron band to a self-expanding nitinol stent. By pulling the system towards the inferior vena cava (IVC), the anchoring corkscrew remodels the anteroposterior annulus, and the tension is maintained by fixation of the stent in the IVC. The stent is available in different sizes (27 to 43 mm in diameter, 60 mm in length) to guarantee oversizing in the hepatic region of the IVC (Figure 1). The “first-in-man” patient was a 72-year-old woman with severe functional TR associated with tricuspid annular dilation. She was admitted in New York Heart Association functional class III after 2 episodes of decompensated heart failure in the previous 2 months, presenting with edema of the lower extremities, moderate ascites, jugular venous distension, with moderate liver dysfunction due to hepatitis C (unconjugated bilirubin 2.7 mg/dl) and normal kidney function (creatinine 1 mg/dl, glomerular filtration rate 57.8 ml/min). She had a clinical history of permanent atrial fibrillation and prior aortic valve replacement with a bioprosthesis. The STS Score risk of mortality was 5.2% (morbidity or mortality 34.7%). Transesophageal echocardiography revealed grade 4+ TR (with systolic hepatic vein flow reversal, 9 mm lack of coaptation, and septolateral dimension of 46 mm at transthoracic echocardiography [TTE] assessment) (Figure 2), moderate right ventricular dysfunction (tricuspid tissue Doppler imaging systolic velocity 8 cm/s and systolic pulmonary artery pressure 42 mm Hg) with a normal functioning mitral valve, maintained aortic prosthesis function (mean gradient 6 mm Hg), and normal left ventricular ejection fraction. After multidisciplinary heart team agreement on the transcatheter TV repair option with the TriCinch System, the patient was enrolled in the PREVENT (Percutaneous Treatment of Tricuspid Valve Regurgitation With the TriCinch System; NCT02098200) study. Procedural planning, based on cardiac computed tomography (CT) scan, predicted the safe anchoring area at the level of the anterior tricuspid annulus (between the right coronary artery and anterior leaflet’s hinge) (Figure 3A) and the adequate stent size to be used to guarantee the best vessel oversizing (IVC mean diameter 26 mm, oversizing 60%). The intervention was performed under general anesthesia, fluoroscopy, as well as intracardiac and transesophageal echocardiography guidance. A 10-F intracardiac echocardiography probe was inserted via the left femoral vein and a Judkins right guiding catheter via the left femoral artery to perform right coronary angiography. A 24-F Gore Dry-seal sheath was inserted in the right femoral vein for insertion of the 18-F steerable TriCinch delivery system into the right atrium. The tip of the delivery system was steered toward the target site on the tricuspid annulus. The corkscrew was inserted into the annulus. Any interference with the right coronary artery was ruled out by selective angiography (Figure 3B). The system was tensioned under echo guidance until a reduction in septolateral dimension (intraoperative at transesophageal echocardiography from 41 mm to 38 mm) and in TR grade (from 4+ to 3+) was observed (Figure 4, Online Video 1) and 5-mm coaptation length became evident. The cinching of the tricuspid annulus was maintained by implantation of a 43-mm self-expanding nitinol stent in the IVC between the hepatic veins and the right renal vein (Figure 3C). The procedure was completed uneventfully in 56 min, and the patient was discharged 5 days later, with TTE documenting the maintained remodeling of the TV (TR grade 3+ and septolateral diameter of 40 mm at TTE assessment) and showing the device correctly in place with continued tension on the annulus. At 6-month follow-up, the patient was in good functional status with improved quality of life.
Procedural steps of the TriCinch TV repair system showing reduction of septolateral dimensions (yellow arrows) when cinching and tension is applied on the annulus in the direction of the inferior vena cava (red arrows). TV = tricuspid valve.
Baseline tricuspid valve (TV) septolateral dimension and lack of coaptation (A) and severe tricuspid regurgitation (B) at transthoracic echocardiogram.
Computed tomography (CT) scan pre-procedural planning (A), TriCinch System corkscrew (B), and stent (C) fluoroscopic implantation. Target area (asterisk) was identified at CT scan and fluoroscopic imaging. APC = anteroposterior commissure; ASC = anteroseptal commissure; AV = aortic valve; MV = mitral valve; TV = tricuspid valve.
Pre-procedural (A and C) and post-procedural (B and D) transesophageal echocardiography (TEE): following TriCinch implantation, tricuspid regurgitation reduces the tricuspid regurgitation grade from 4+ (A) to 3+ (B), and septolateral annular dimension from 41 mm (C) to 38 mm (D) (Online Video 1).
Pre-procedural versus post-procedural tricuspid regurgitation (TR) at transesophageal echocardiogram, demonstrating effective remodeling of the tricuspid valve.
The TriCinch is the first dedicated TV repair device to be evaluated in humans in a prospective trial. The design concept of the TriCinch system was initially based on mimicking the Kay procedure by cinching at the anteroposterior commissure and reducing septolateral dimensions. This first-in-man case demonstrates the feasibility and safety of the percutaneous remodeling of the TV by implanting the TriCinch device, associated with reduction in annular dimensions and TR severity. Although the device only resulted in a modest reduction in TR, this may be sufficient for symptomatic improvement in these patients in whom elimination of TR may be harmful. This also raises the question as to whether the correct measure of efficacy in patients with severe TR is echocardiographic or symptoms and quality of life. Longer-term follow-up and more patients are required to confirm these initial results and will define the risk–benefit balance of future TR treatment strategies.
This work was supported by 4Tech Cardio Ltd., Galway, Ireland. Dr. Latib is a consultant for 4Tech Cardio. Dr. Denti is a consultant with 4Tech Cardio, Valtech, and Abbott. Dr. Grigioni is on the advisory boards for Sorin and 4Tech Cardio. Dr. Vahanian is a consultant for Abbott Vascular and Valtech; and has received honoraria from Edwards Lifesciences, Inc. Dr. Maisano is the cofounder of and shareholder in 4Tech Cardio. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
Revision received May 6, 2015.
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Sochi, Russia - – Aides to the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, are defending his actions after many questioned his attendance of the opening ceremony of the Olympics during the Sabbath.
Maariv (http://bit.ly/1eyQ3No) reports Rabbi Lazar, a Chabad emissary to Russia, attended the opening ceremonies after being invited by President Putin.
An assistant to Rabbi Lazar confirmed his attendance and stated the Sabbath was not violated and the rabbi did not bring anything with him.
Chabad officials and Jewish groups in Europe were asked not to respond to the subject, but have noted their displeasure with the rabbi’s attendance.
Russia’s Jewish community included various events during the Olympics, such as a Sefer Torah dedication of one of the three synagogues specifically built for the occasion.
Give the rabbi a break.
And the Rebbe didn't even want a Chabad house at prior Olympics because of the avodah zarah origins.
Just stick your fingers in your ears, close your eyes tight, and keep saying "heter mishum eivah" over and over again.
Chabad and there shluchim are great, but I'm not sure if this is what the Rebbe meant.
I have spent a little time around the rabbi when he was in America recently. He seems to be a very warm and caring yid. I am sure everything he did was al pi halacha.
One story I have heard was that he attended a military show on a Friday. Beforehand he was assured a plane would be available to take in back in plenty of time. Unfortunately there were delays in the plane taking off early. It did leave and land at the airport in Moscow before Shabbos. There was no time to catch a ride home/to shul. So he walked for hours from the airport to his Shul. Shabbos morning he was at shul bright and early to serve his congregation.
as we saw from yesterdays daf yomi sukka 10b about not hanging clothes on top of a sukka to dry lest someone from the public not knowledgeable think clothing which is a klei and mekabel tuma may be used as kosher schach , so too although their may be heterim such as meshum 'eiva' for a rav to attend public events etc.
but for a chief charedi rabbi to be seen in such a public venue as the olympics isnt proper and can have a long term ripple affect on his efforts at kiruv and shabbos etc.
I would presume that the russian pres is aware that a religious jew cant do certain things on shabbos. that being the case he shouldnt have gone to the openings but rather arrive on motzie shabbos. if netanyahu can walk back to his hotel in norway on friday night because of shabbos dont we expect at least as much from a frum rav not to be seen at an event not at all in the spirit of shabbos ???
Just a thought. Maybe the Rabbi felt that if he didn't attend Putin would feel slighted and this might effect the Jewish communities relationship with the government? Maybe even effect the security of the Jews? If one looks at it that way, one can understand the Rabbi going.
For the wonderful work Cabad does around the world on an ongoing basis, they're entitled to make a mistake! No one is perfect!
BTW, Chabad like Cocoa Cola can be found internationally, what a concept!
He is Putin's lackey...remember when he gave Putin the HUMANITARIAN AWARD (sic!) in the name of world Jewry at the commemoration of 60 years of the liberation of Aushwitz? When he massered the chief rabbi of Moscow, Rabbi Goldshmiedt? Anyhow, Goy She-shavas is chayav misah! Better he should attend the games on Shabbos Kodesh.
Haven't we learned anything from Ester living with Achashverosh.
Yes she also had a "HETER" to do it.
What she did with Achashveirosh is not exactly what we would expect any Jewish Girl to do.
She was under pressure of Malchus and through this she was able to save the entire Jewish Nation - which is why she relied on this "HETER". Otherwise she wouldn't obviously.
Likewise Lazar was under pressure of the head of the Malchus of Russia, and appeasing him, helps save the spiritual lives of countless Yidden throughout Russia.
Considering that he did not violate any Halacha at all, not even Midrabonon (Unlike Ester), it was not only permitted but required, in order to help him save the lives of Yidden in Russia Spiritually.
There is a famous story told about one of the Chabad Rebbe's who had Mesiras Nefesh to spend an entire Shabbos inside a BAR in Russia, with Shikurim, there, who are known for the hatred of Yidden and he even had to befriend all the Shikurim and behave like them, to survive the Shabbos. The Rebbe had put himself in that situation, an entire Shabbos (not just part of Friday Night), in order to save other Yidden in Russia.
The gemara in Kesubos says eiskei rabim (the needs of the public) can be done on Shabbos even it entails discussing issues of melacha etc. This includes traveling and discussing matters with the authorities on Shabbos. I assume no one here is a posek, but it doesn't take a gaon to be don l'chaf tzchus that there was a valid heter for the Chief Rabbi.
Wasn't there a similar situation with the British Chief Rabbi for attending an event on Shabbos?
It seems that the koved of a king (putin is more powerfull then many kings) requires unique circumstances and Rabbi Lazar's attendance should be seen as such.
Tzar, give me a break.R. Lazar is a friend of Putin. There was no pressure to comply he did it on his own-questionable behavior.
“ Today is Purim Katan.
Who told you there any pressure. He went to a sporting event. Lkaf zechus maybe he had a good reason but its not clear there was any heter. The previuos posters comparison to esther is obviously different.
Epes, the letter of the law might have been followed but not the spirit of the law. What might happen is that Yidden on the fringe of observance see this Lubavitcher rabbi attending a Friday night game and say to themselves, that there is a baseball, basketball, football, soccer, you name the ball game, I will pay in advance and walk to the game, and shoein, it's kosher because I saw this rabbi do it. This is the real issue.
Likewise to the comment about "iskey rabim" who wrote "even if it entails issues of melacha"; is incorrect, it does not allow that a *melacha* done. And iskey rabim would be like in the story of the Rebbe who went to quell a bad decree against Jews; not to honor putin at the Olympics!
It's sill worthwhile to be melamed zchus; for maybe I and other critics wouldn't succumb to Putin's pressure; but please do not turn this into a mitzvah of "isskey rabim" and become martyrs at the expense of flagrant zilzul shabbos!
Everything is mutar for the melech putin, kol shekein for the heilige rebbe's shlichus. Who are the fat yidden to complain. He has to get Putin to make Chabad the melech over all russian yidden. Az men must, men must.
can we be dan lchaf zechus and think that maybe rabbi lazar wanted to help other yidden in russia by doing the bidding of the "king?"
If you're not living in Russia I dint think you should judge this rabbi. America is not Russia, the Jewish community is in a precarious state, I am sure he thought it over a thousand times.
For those holier than thou commentators on this site, they seem to have short memories. I remember when Jews in the Soviet Union, were not allowed to bake Matzah for Pesach. In fact, Matzah had to be shipped to Russia. Brit Milah was prohibited, as well as the teaching of Hebrew or Yiddish. Jews who dared venture to the few existing Shuls were closely watched by the government. Even when Jews gathered in Moscow on Simchas Torah to dance, they were beaten by the authorities. For decades, Jews could not leave the Soviet Union. Now that those days are past, we should be grateful that the Chief Rabbi has very good relations with the President of Russia. Isn't it better that there are good relations with the government, than for the government to turn against the Jews, as was the case in the late 19th century, and early 20th century, when pogroms were the norm? Hence, I support Rabbi Lazar's decision.
Once you become somebody's poppet - you have to do what your master tells you to do.
Please stop talking about Chabad kiruv workers only, there are plenty chasideshe, litvishe and other great people working in former USSR.
"Anyhow, Goy She-shavas is chayav misah! Better he should attend the games on Shabbos Kodesh."
One can certainly understand your objection of Rabbi Lazar's prior actions, but to say of him נכרי ששבת חייב מיתה is a bit too much! The man is a Jew, regardless of whatever past bad choices he may have made.
“ Once you become somebody's poppet - you have to do what your master tells you to do.
chabad was the first in Russia. when the rebbe came out with the concept of shluchim the world laughed; now they're all doing the same with a different name-kiruv.
not true, u r obviously biased against chabad.
People should dan lekaf zchus a person (as they should before criticizing yid and especially rabbi); but people have a right to criticize the practice, especially when it's public and in the name of rabbinate (as he is accepted Chief Rabbi) and such a practice has reverberations in other areas, so people have a right and obligation to voice their opinion that it is wrong. With that in mind the Rabbi should commended for his actions in revival of yiddishkeyt in Russia.
This obviously is a highly enlightening and informative and respectful reply!
I am sure this Rabbi spoke to his Rabbi before taking on such an act. Who are you to judge a fellow Jew? One who has given up the comforts of living in America or Israel with his family just for the sake of bringing yiddishkeit to Jews in Sochi is a much higher level than any of his critics.
Let's see any one of you give up the comforts of living where there are supermarkets and restaurants with Kosher food, Jewish schools and camps for your children to attend and do that just to help your fellow Jews. AND!!! He lives in Russia! Please.
Putin, a quasi dictator and strongman, has been good to the Jews.
He asked his Jewish representative to make an appearance at a PR situation that is important to him. On Shabbos.
The Jewish person, decided it is important to be there.
the SA says a yid who has to be mishtadel by Goyim is allowed to shave and wear shoes on days It isn't permitted.
I read once that the reason Rabbi Moshe sherer didn't have a beard is because he was involved in govt. Etc.
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https://www.vosizneias.com/155262/2014/02/14/sochi-russia-aids-for-chief-rabbi-of-russia-defend-his-attendance-at-olympics-on-sabbath/
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One of the most frustrating things about home improvement is having to shell out money for a new tool that you only expect to use once. For example, if your bathroom needs re-tiling, you can’t reasonably do the job without a wet saw, which costs anywhere from $100 to $750. But unless you have another bathroom to re-tile after this one, that expensive tool is just going to sit in your garage gathering dust once you’re finished with the job.
What makes it all the more annoying is that your next-door neighbor may be re-tiling his bathroom next month, and the neighbor across the street could be doing hers next year. Unless they know that you already have a wet saw, they’ll probably end up going out and buying their own. It would make so much more sense for the three of you – or maybe even all the neighbors on the block – to chip in together and buy just one wet saw that you could all take turns using.
With a tool library in your town, you can do exactly that. A tool-lending library is just like a regular public library, except instead of books, it has a large collection of tools – gardening tools, woodworking tools, home repair tools, and more. Once you join a tool library, you can simply check out any of these tools whenever necessary. You don’t have to buy or rent new tools for every home project, and you don’t have to find space in your house to store a lot of tools you hardly ever use.
Like other parts of the sharing economy, tool libraries are a way to use resources more efficiently. They make it possible for dozens of people to share one rotary tiller, one drill press, or one extension ladder, instead of each having to buy their own.
Saving Money. Do-it-yourself (DIY) experts interviewed in The New York Times say it costs about $250 to equip a basic home workshop – and that’s not counting the cost of specialized tools for particular jobs. But if you belong to a tool library, all you ever need to pay for tools is a yearly membership fee, which can cost anywhere from $10 to $100. Some tool libraries are run by town governments, so membership is completely free for residents.
Saving Space. Many avid DIYers have houses stuffed with a huge assortment of tools, many of which they don’t use more than once or twice a year. When you belong to a tool-lending library, it stores all those seldom-used tools for you, so they don’t take up space in your basement and garage.
Sharing Knowledge. A tool-lending library is more than just a building full of tools – it’s also a place for DIY fans to gather and share ideas and tips for home projects. Many tool libraries also sponsor workshops to teach specific DIY skills, either for free or at a low charge.
Protecting the Environment. Sharing tools reduces the number of new tools that need to be made and sold each year. In turn, this saves the energy and natural resources that would be used to produce them. On top of that, tool libraries can serve as centers to promote sustainable living. For example, the West Seattle Tool Library encourages its members to take part in projects such as setting up home gardens, improving energy efficiency, and harvesting rainwater.
Building Community. Belonging to a tool-lending library gives you a chance to get to know your neighbors. You can discuss your projects together, help each other out, and possibly form lasting friendships.
The only real downside of belonging to a tool library is that when you don’t own your tools, you don’t have immediate access to them. You can only check them out when the tool library is open, and there’s always a risk that someone else may be using the specific tool you need.
So even if you belong to a tool library, it makes sense to keep at least a small collection of tools of your own. This should include the tools that you use often and the ones you’re most likely to need at a moment’s notice. For instance, when your toilet starts leaking, you want to have a wrench ready in hand so you can stop the water before it does any damage, not have to run down to the tool library to check one out.
The Berkeley Tool-Lending Library in Berkeley, California, is part of the town’s public library system. Any adult resident who has a library card can also check out tools, free of charge. Thousands of people use the tool library, with more than 100 new members signing up each month.
Berkeley’s tool library is one of the oldest in the country. It was founded in 1979 with a federal community development block grant (CDBG) of $30,000. It started as a collection of 500 tools housed in a portable trailer, with one full-time employee. The city took over the funding of the tool-lending library two years later, and in 1988 it officially became part of the library system.
Today, the tool-lending library resides in a large, warehouse-like building that’s open Tuesday through Saturday. It contains more than 3,500 tools, with three part-time employees to supervise the collection. The library’s most popular tools include weed eaters, extension cords, ladders, hand trucks, and hedge trimmers. The collection also includes smaller tools, such as screwdrivers and masonry bits.
Borrowers can check out up to 10 tools at a time and can keep them for either three days or seven days, depending on the demand for the tool. They can also call the library ahead of time to reserve a tool, but only to be picked up that same day. If they return tools late, they must pay an overdue fine of anywhere from $1 to $18 per day, depending on the tool. The overdue fines provide the library with nearly $20,000 a year to add new tools to its collection and to maintain the ones it already has.
Although overdue fines are common, it’s very rare for people to fail to return tools. Adam Broner, one of the libary’s tool lending specialists, says that the tool library’s patrons are “very loyal” and tend to be more reliable about returning tools than regular library users are about returning books.
Broner says the library is more than just a tool lending service – it also serves as a “community center” of sorts for people interested in DIY. Some patrons say that they visit the tool library regularly, even daily. Users say the service is convenient, saves them a lot of money, and makes DIY accessible to people who can’t afford to buy their own tools. One woman even confides that the library has taken away her landlord’s excuse that he can’t afford to do repairs because tools are too expensive.
The easiest way to find a tool library in your area is to check Local Tools, a website that promotes tool-lending libraries. Its comprehensive list shows tool libraries throughout the United States, Canada, and even Great Britain. You can use the map to find a tool library in your state or region, or you can search the list for the name of a particular town. Each listing includes contact information for the tool library – a physical address, phone number, and email address – and a link to its website.
There’s also a list of tool-lending libraries on Wikipedia. It includes listings for tool libraries in several additional countries, such as Israel and Australia. The U.S. listings are also somewhat easier to search because they’re organized by state. However, the Wikipedia list doesn’t contain links to the tool libraries’ websites.
If you can’t find a tool-lending library in your area, you can try starting your own. The Center for a New American Dream, a national organization that promotes conscious consumption and greener living, outlines the basic process for starting a tool library in its Guide to Sharing. Here is a basic outline of the steps you need to take.
Find people in your community who are interested in starting a tool library. Try asking friends and neighbors and asking at your church, school, or homeowner’s association. Once you find a group of interested people, hold a meeting and select a team to take the lead on the project. Choose people to take on key jobs such as financing, marketing, coordinating volunteers, and gathering tools.
Tools. Consider how many tools you initially want to offer, and where you will obtain them. You could buy new tools or start with donated tools from members, contractors, and your own collections.
Facilities. Think about possible places to house the tool library. You could rent a building, ask your town to donate space in a municipal building, or even run the library out of someone’s garage.
Business Structure. One popular way to run a tool library is as a tax-exempt public charity known as a 501(c)(3) organization. Setting up your tool library as a 501(c)(3) allows you to avoid taxes, but it is a fairly long and complicated process. One way around it is to make the tool library part of a government organization, such as a public library. You can also ask an existing 501(c)(3) to be your fiscal sponsor so that the tool library is officially one of that organization’s projects; however, many groups charge a fee for this kind of sponsorship.
Funding. Possible sources of funding include community block grants, local businesses, private foundations, and individual donors. Decide whether you want to charge a membership fee to help cover your expenses and what kind of fees you want to charge for overdue, lost, or damaged tools.
Staffing. Decide how many workers you will need to run the tool library. You can try to work with volunteers only, but it’s helpful to have at least one paid tool coordinator to keep everything running smoothly. You can have paid employees and still be a nonprofit organization, but you are responsible for paying their federal taxes. The IRS has detailed information about how to handle taxes for employees of nonprofits.
Membership. Decide which area you want your tool library to serve. Most tool libraries are open to all residents in a specific town or region. Another option is to have membership be free for residents and allow people outside the area to join for a fee.
Services. Consider whether you want your tool-lending library to offer any other services besides tools. For example, some tool libraries provide space for people to work on projects, hands-on assistance, or educational workshops.
The West Seattle Tool Library has developed a “starter kit” for tool-lending libraries that talks about all these issues in detail. This kit is available on its outreach website, ShareStarter.org. Although the document does its best to cover all the issues tool libraries face, the authors also recommend that you consult a lawyer about your plans to ensure that your tool library complies with all state and local laws. If you can’t afford a lawyer, try contacting a legal organization in your state that offers advice on a pro bono (free) basis.
You can see examples of lending policies on the websites of the North Portland Tool Library and the Rebuilding Together Central Ohio Tool Library.
To reduce the risk of damage and breakage, it’s best to start with new, construction-grade tools that can stand up to heavy use. You can also get donations of tools from local contractors and tool sellers, but you should test them first to make sure they’re in good working order.
As you gather tools, mark them with the library’s name and give each one a unique identification number. Give each borrower a unique ID as well, so that you can keep track of who is using which tools at any given time. You can use a spreadsheet program or library software to keep track of your inventory.
Once you have all the tools you need, be sure to keep them in good working order. Check them for damage whenever they’re returned to the library, and make any repairs that are needed, such as sharpening. You can charge users a fee if they fail to clean tools properly before returning them.
The Center for a New American Dream recommends devoting at least 10% of your budget to maintaining, repairing, and replacing tools as needed. Poll your members from time to time to find out what new tools they think the library should have.
Belonging to a tool library isn’t the only way to save money on tools for home repairs, of course. You can also rent tools that you only plan to use once, or borrow them from friends and family members. But a tool-lending library is more than just a source of cheap tools – it’s also a community. Joining one is a way to meet people, share ideas, and form closer ties to your neighbors.
Have you ever used a tool library? Would you use one if you had the chance?
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2019-04-24T06:14:28Z
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https://www.moneycrashers.com/tool-lending-library/
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In 1994 when we launched the Journal of Buddhist Ethics (or JBE for short; http://www.buddhistethics.org) as the first online peer-reviewed journal in the field of Religious Studies, motivated by the outrageously high costs associated with the publication of traditional scholarly journals and the recognition that university libraries were regularly scaling back on their subscriptions to scholarly periodicals, almost everyone said that, despite the interesting topic and supporting technology, we would undoubtedly fail in our experiment. Now, more than fifteen years later, the JBE has won dozens of awards, held three online international conferences, has thousands of subscribers in more than sixty countries, is healthier than ever, and remains—as it has been since its beginning—totally free. In addition, there are many many dozens of Religious Studies journals thriving on the Internet (see, for example http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/journalss.html).
One decade later, it was becoming overwhelmingly apparent that textbook costs were mirroring the price explosion that had rocked the world of scholarly journals; and in subsequent years, our failing economy has only added to the dilemma. Today, for example, the retail cost of Mary Pat Fisher's highly popular 7th edition of Living Religions is about $100., Warren Matthews' fine World Religions sells for almost $110, and Robert Ellwood's still popular Many People, Many Faiths (9th edition) costs nearly $90. For colleagues teaching in our discipline—Buddhist Studies—the situation is perhaps worse. One of the most successful introductory volumes on the Buddhist tradition is the course text now called Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction by Richard H. Robinson (the original author), Willard Johnson, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu. It's a great book, but it costs $75. Since it is also important to have our students read textual materials, we need to add a book of scripture extracts like John Strong's wonderful volume The Buddhist Experience: Sources and Interpretations. But that book sells for about $80, so students using those two volumes in an introductory course need to pony up more than $150.00 at the start. Even if one finds a solid but more economically priced introductory text, like Donald Mitchell's Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience, which sells for $40, once you add in a volume of scriptures, the cost to students is still at least $100. To make matters worse, many students will buy the books, but do not even read them. Instead, in our new technological era, students' avenue of entry into the subject matter of our field is often through the Internet. Then, at semester's end, they simply sell the textbooks to a buyback dealer or their campus bookstore, and lose all but a few dollars of their original investment, while the bookstore or buyback dealer reaps a whirlwind of profit on the second (or third) time around.
Is there some reasonable way around this "lose-lose" situation in which the students lose money, the publishers ultimately lose money through book resales (forcing new editions to be published as a possible antidote, driving prices still higher), and the authors lose money as well in lost royalties…while the bookstores reap multiple-time profits? At a time when students are spending many hundreds of dollars per semester on textbooks, and thus putting an enormous strain on their personal and family finances, is it possible to turn this unfortunate circumstance into a "win-win" situation that puts cash back in students' wallets, rewards authors for the often thankless task of writing excellent textbooks, provides great resources to students engaged in studying religions, and acknowledges what we all too clearly have learned in recent times: students live vast portions of their lives embraced by technology? Many, if not most students are rarely without their cellphone in their hand. They're constantly calling, or texting their colleagues. Their iPods are dangling from their earphones. Twitter is the new craze, and many students now sit in their wi-fi classrooms surfing the Internet instead of listening to their professors' lectures. One recent day, not too long ago, one of us walked out of class behind one of our students who immediately started texting someone on his cellphone. The student became so engrossed in his texting (or maybe even sexting) that he walked squarely into a lamppost, spilling coffee all over himself and breaking his eyeglasses! In 2004, we decided to embrace this new technology as a means of finding an alternative to continually rocketing textbook costs. We started the Journal of Buddhist Ethics Online Books project (http://www.jbeonlinebooks.org).
A course textbook should be flexible, updatable, and provide a wide range of pedagogic resources. The digital medium is more suited than paper to meeting these requirements. In an environment where students increasingly turn to the Internet as their resource of first choice we think it makes sense to place the learning medium itself in a digital format from the outset, creating for the first time a seamless web of knowledge between the text book and other learning resources.
Our first publication in 2004 was Buddhism-The eBook, which we co-authored. It consisted of 14 chapters spanning 391 pages. It also included more than 200 weblinks to the best Buddhist sites on the Internet, so users could seamlessly go back and forth between the eText and the Internet. Purchasers could order the eBook online for immediate download or fill out a mail-in order form, in which case they received the eText on CD-ROM via the postal service. We initially advertised the publication by sending announcements to listservs such as Buddha-L, and via the H-Buddhism network of Buddhist Studies scholars worldwide. In addition, we networked actively with colleagues throughout the world. Although we were well aware that some publishing pundits were arguing that print books were clearly on the way out, we were also aware that initial sales of scholarly eBooks were not doing very well. Some individuals are still suggesting that eTexts are not doing well. In a May 15, 2009 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey R. Young claims that, "Yet so far sales of electronic textbooks are tiny, despite efforts by college bookstores to make the option to buy digital versions clearer by advertising e-books next to the printed ones on their shelves." In other words, we didn't really know what to anticipate. Many colleagues seemed to be wedded to favorite old texts, and adopting a new text, and especially one that embraced new technology, was just plain frightening. Nonetheless, initial sales were extremely encouraging and a number of colleagues adopted Buddhism-The eBook (http://www.jbeonlinebooks.org/eBooks/buddhism) as a course text. In subsequent years, aided by continued feedback from colleagues, new editions were produced. The current, third edition still has 14 chapters, but the organizational pattern has changed, as have the chapter contents. In addition it now contains a 40-page glossary of key terms. Soon a fourth edition will appear with even greater changes. Sales have been exceptionally brisk, aided by the fact that the eBook remains enormously affordable at $25.75, can be copied to a "jump" drive for portability, and can be utilized by in-class computers for easy referencing during class time. So far, there have been more than 40 class adoptions throughout the world.
Based on the immediate success of Buddhism-The eBook, we pursued soliciting other scholars to help us expand our offering. As of this writing, we now have produced Hinduism-The eBook by Hillary Rodrigues, Christianity-The eBook by James Adair, Judaism-The eBook by Eliezer Segal, Japanese Religions-The eBook by Robert S. Ellwood, Introducing World Religions: The eBook by Victoria Urubshurow, and Introducing Daoism by Livia Kohn, Buddhism-The American Experience by Charles Prebish, Chinese Religions (by Mario Pockesi), and Islam (by William Shepard). New eTexts on Tibetan Religions (by Geoffrey Samuel), American Religions (by Charles Lippy), and What is Religion? (by Daniel Cozort) will be published shortly. What we share with each of our authors is a commitment to providing the best introductory volume possible for our students, at a price that is eminently affordable. Moreover, we have sought to include authors who are well known in their respective area of study. Ellwood, Kohn, Lippy, and Samuel, for example, are among the most respected scholars in their special area worldwide. To date our eText prices range from $16.95 to $35.95…far below the prices of the most successful traditional textbooks. As a result our authors have generally received royalties of 25 percent of gross sales, which is far above royalties paid by traditional presses. In addition, each eBook comes with an "Online" website for students which contains sample discussion questions, essay questions, exam questions, and more. For professors, each eBook offers a non-public website that includes sample syllabi, sample exam questions, evaluations, and so forth.
Throughout the process, we have been aided by the technical genius of Blue Banana Designs (http://www.bluebanana.net), which created our web page, creates each eBook, manages all technical aspects of the project including eCommerce, and resolves any problems that emerge along the way.
How does the above impact the publication of traditional paper-based textbooks? Articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education have repeatedly highlighted the dilemma facing traditional publishers. In an article dated July 11, 2008 Jennifer Howard noted "It's a world in which demand for electronic resources may drive demand for print resources—not kill it, as many have assumed—as researchers use the Internet to discover books or articles." Reflecting on the 2008 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, she went on to say "Panelists and questioners at a session on 'Taking Books Online' made the point that publishers need to get a better handle on how researchers actually behave." A few months later (on September 19, 2008) the same author published a follow-up story on the continued drop in textbook sales, and university presses' search for explanations of the drop.
Then why are eBook sales still tiny, as Jeffrey Young maintained in the article cited above? Young cited a study at Northwest Missouri State University that concluded students didn't like Sony's eBook reader. Paul Klute, who ran the project, is quoted as saying, "It didn't lend itself to the way students study." And reaction to Amazon's new Kindle doesn't seem to be any better, especially with regard to its high cost. Young tells us that "Some professors who were early adopters of e-books say they had bad experiences. Back then many publishers simply sold noninteractive PDF documents that were difficult to navigate." But that isn't the case any longer, as new and more sophisticated PDF documents and software are being created and updated regularly. Nonetheless, many of our students still make the same claims. They argue that they simply cannot curl up on the couch with an eBook. Anecdotal evidence in our experiences around campus, in Student Unions and classroom buildings, suggests that students don't really curl up with textbooks on couches or easy chairs in those same facilities. Instead, they curl up with their laptops or Blackberrys. In other words, their argument sounds like that stale old bromide "Sorry professor, but my dog ate my assignment." Just another excuse for not actually doing their assignments. To actually argue that printed textbooks work better than any eBook is simply incomprehensible.
There are some good alternatives though. Web sites like CourseSmart (http://www.coursesmart.com), a project supported currently by twelve publishers, offer eBooks on a wide variety of topics that are designed to be read on laptops or desktops (rather than Kindles or other devices) at highly reduced prices. Unfortunately, most professors and students have never heard of this program. Even if they had, the number of titles that fall under the category "Religion" is less than 50, and cover mostly introductory and/or world religions topics; and even with their greatly reduced price structure, they're still significantly higher than the eBooks offered in our project. Other projects, like Ebrary and NetLibrary offer eBooks to libraries, which on campus students can access free of charge. NetLibrary has a database of over 190,000 titles. Even traditional publishers are making some effort to get on board with additional electronic resources by including CDs with their printed texts or offering links to websites with additional materials. Yet, for obvious reasons, they just cannot go the whole route to completely electronic, and affordable, products.
We believe that the slow movement of the learning curve on eBooks as college Religious Studies texts results primarily from professors simply not fully understanding what a remarkable pedagogical tool eBooks can be. And that, frankly, is hard to understand. Many professors have already dispensed with distributing paper versions of their course syllabi by posting them in Word or PDF format on their departmental webpage. Many professors often have "homepages" on their departmental webpage that include very sophisticated listings of Internet-based resources. Many professors routinely use complicated Power Point presentations in their daily classes. Many professors, using technology-based classrooms equipped with computers, regularly flash information from various course-related websites on their classroom screens. Many professors have eschewed showing "films" in their courses, replacing them with DVDs of the same materials. Many professors now manage class discussion forums through university-based software. Many professors send informational messages to their entire class roster via university-based software. And many professors even submit their course grades electronically through programs like "Banner" or "Blackboard." Technology has come to dominate our everyday courses. For a fine example of how this might work, and how technology can be our friend and ally, take a short visit to Professor Guy Newland's webpage for his "Buddhist Tradition" course at Central Michigan University (http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/Guy_Newland/REL_320/rel_320_the_buddhist_tradition.htm). It's exemplary. In view of the above, why rely on old expensive fossils when one can make the total jump to eBooks? We believe that if professors would visit an eBook site, like ours at http://www.jbeonlinebooks.org, read our FAQ file and navigate around a bit, download some free sample chapters, and give them a try, their brief self-education would dispel their unfounded concerns about the value of this new technology.
Why has our modest experiment been so successful while major publishers still seem to have less than remarkable results. Admittedly, we think it is a combination of the extremely fine user-friendly eBooks we have published and the very simple infrastructure we have been able to maintain throughout our history. We hope we can continue to offer students very fine eTextbooks in Religious Studies while enabling them to keep dollars in their pockets instead of ours!
Anyone wishing more information can contact us, by e-mail of course.
Charles S. Prebish holds the Charles Redd Endowed Chair in Religious Studies at Utah State University. He has published more than twenty books. He is best known for his work on Indian Buddhist monastic codes and the sectarian movement, and is considered a pioneer in the study of Western forms of Buddhism. He is a past officer in the International Association of Buddhist Studies and was a founding Co-Chair of what is now the Buddhism Section of AAR.
Damien Keown is Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is one of the best known Buddhist ethics scholars in the world and has published more than a dozen books. His works on Buddhism and bio-ethics are considered seminal in the field, and he has lectured on aspects of this topic throughout the world. He is a former officer in the United Kingdom Association of Buddhist Studies.
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2019-04-24T23:45:39Z
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http://worldreligionsebooks.com/religious-studies-etextbooks-a-modest-experiment.php
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Reading about new features is great, but finding data to test them out on is sometimes troublesome. As DBAs, we’ve created test databases countless times, but the majority of the time they are empty.
Oracle does provide sample schemas that can be installed automatically by using the database configuration assistant (DBCA) when creating a database or manually by executing scripts under the Oracle software home directory. Consult the documentation of your particular version for more details. While these sample schemas do provide a framework that mimics a common layout, they lack the volume of data that typical production systems have. If your employer allows “sandboxes” to be created to test new versions and features then you can stop reading here because you are one of the fortunate ones. However, if you do not have this opportunity but would still like to create a sizeable data set to work with, there is a utility called Swingbench that fills this need very well.
Swingbench was created by Dominic Giles (http://dominicgiles.com/index.html) as an Oracle database load generator, but has since become a very useful suite of tools including Data Generator, Trace Analyzer, and several monitoring tools. Best of all, these tools are free to use. I would recommend that you provide a small donation if you find them useful, though.
Quoting the creator, “Data Generator is a utility to populate, create, and load tables with semi random data. Users can specify sequences, random text, random numbers, database columns, and files as sources for tables.” This sounds pretty good.
Swingbench requires Java 8 JDK. Download the jdk-8u111-linux-x64.rpm and install it (as the root user) with the command: “rpm -Uvh jdk-8u111-linux-x64.rpm”. Note that this file is for the 64-bit version of OEL.
Download the swingbench25971.zip file for version 2.5 from the website mentioned previously and place it in a location where the oracle user account has read, write, and execute privileges.
Go to the swingbench/bin directory. You have the option to create the sales history schema (shwizard), the calling center schema (ccwizard), or the order entry schema (oewizard).
After clicking Next, you have the option to create or drop your desired schema.
For the connection string, use //<servername>/<database_sid>. Make sure you can ping the host by the <servername> used and that there is a listener present providing service for the <database_sid>. Leave the connection type as the default (jdbc thin). Leave DBA username as ‘sys as sysdba’ and make sure the password is correct. Press Next to connect.
If the connection is successful, you will see the next screen where you can choose the username, password, schema tablespace, and tablespace datafile of your data set schema. I like to keep my data separated for easier management, so I elect to create a separate tablespace and datafile.
The next screen allows you to choose database options such as partitioning (range or none), compression (yes or no), tablespace type (bigfile or normal), and indexing (all, primary key, or none). Be careful here. Do not select options that you are not licensed for in systems that are eligible for license audits.
Sizing options come next. I don’t suppose I need to tell you not to size your schema any bigger than you have space available. What is good here is that two counters at the bottom will let you know the size of the schema tablespace and the size of the temp tablespace required based on your selection. Click next when you are done.
Finally, select the level of parallelism and click finish to create your schema.
Once the build is over, you should see a “successful” message popup window. Click Ok to acknowledge the message and close the window. You then have the option to review the wizard log in the wizard log window or save it to a file. Close both the wizard log and main wizard windows after you are done.
At this point, you have the option to generate other data sets if you want to. Enjoy.
Sequences are not gap free!
Yesterday I encountered a trace file on a “poorly-performing” process with some interesting waits. The trace was incomplete because the trace process was started once the process was identified as “poorly-performing”. Even so, it was interesting.
0 user SQL statements in trace file.
2 internal SQL statements in trace file.
2 SQL statements in trace file.
2 unique SQL statements in trace file.
384089 lines in trace file.
1507 elapsed seconds in trace file.
Ok, we have 1507 seconds of tracing, or slightly over 25 minutes. Of that, only .08 seconds are accounted for between the recursive (system) and non-recursive (user) statements. Where did the time go? There were no event waits under the non-recursive statements section, but the wait events for the recursive statements was very telling. Note that this is not a complete listing, I just filtered out any waits that did not add up to more than 1 second.
We now see that about 1211 seconds, or about 20 minutes of the trace, was spent on “enq: SV – contention”. But what is that? This event is sequence value (SV) contention and appears when there is a high demand for sequence values across multiple instances in a RAC environment. I typically see “log file sync” waits that point to sequence contention issues in non-RAC environments.
When sequences are created they have a default cached value of 20. This means that every time a sequence is accessed, the next 20 values are cached in memory for quick access. This value needs to be much higher when the sequence is used to generate values for inserts when hundreds of thousands or millions of records are inserted in one process or routine.
I always recommend increasing the size of the sequence cache values when I see these type of situations, but I am often met with one of two very weak arguments. One is that the client does not want to have to recreate the sequences to increase the cache value while the other is that the client wants to keep the cache small in order to avoid gaps in sequence values. Let’s take these arguments one at a time.
First, altering the sequence cache value dynamically has been available since Oracle database version 10g release 1. In fact, there is a quote in the Oracle 10g release 1 SQL reference guide which states “Oracle recommends using the CACHE setting to enhance performance if you are using sequences in a Real Application Clusters environment.” The rest of this argument is disproved by creating a test sequence and changing the cache value with a simple “alter sequence” command.
The second argument is the most exasperating for me because the client usually won’t budge from their position. Although the client is correct when they state that a smaller cache size reduces the risk of sequence value gaps, they are mistaken when they assume that a reduced cache will ensure no sequence gaps.
If you are relying on sequences to generate primary keys for newly-inserted records, there is NO guarantee that there will be no sequence value gaps. Even Tom Kyte is in agreement here (https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:29059659958024).
Because I did not commit some newly-inserted records before the instance crashed, they were not written to the table even though the sequence incremented and created a gap in the key values of the table. Even if you have a batch process that commits after every record inserted, you can’t account for instance crashes.
If you STILL intend to use a sequence alone to generate a “no gap” primary key, what happens if you have to delete records from the table? Guess what, you now have gaps in your primary key values. What are you going to do, re-index all the remaining records to remove the gaps? I doubt it. The best bet is to use the sequence and one or more other values in the table, perhaps even a timestamp, as the basis for a primary key value. This way, you can increase the sequence cache and still have solid primary keys. You just need to get over the “no gap sequence values” idea.
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2019-04-22T02:34:43Z
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https://dbajonblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/
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Delicacy of Japanese techniques matches with the exotic flavors of Peru to wow discerning diners this season at MGM Cotai’s Aji.
In the world of Nikkei cuisine, where Japanese concepts of gastronomy influence Peruvian cuisine, Mitsuharu Tsumura is one of the most well-known chefs who has brought his own ideas and passions from his country and introduced them to the world.
“To me, Peruvian cuisine is heavy metal music and Japanese cuisine is classical music. The two need to harmonize well together in a perfect combination. It is important that we understand the DNA of both cuisines,” explains Peru’s star chef of the restaurant “Maido” in Lima, a Nikkei concept which ranked seventh in the San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018.
For the new menu at MGM Cotai’s signature Nikkei restaurant, Aji, Tsumura, widely known as Chef Micha, works with his team, led by Chef Edwin Guzman Navarro and Manager Alexandre Santos.
Their goal is to elevate the original menu to another level and feature their best efforts and creativity. Additional ingredients from Peru are imported to make the taste profile more complex. The result is an explosion of well-balanced flavors and aesthetics that surprises the senses.
Umami takes center stage for creations like Causa: mashed potato filled with yellow chilli, king crab, and salmon roe layered on a bed of black rice cracker.
For lovers of beef tartar, Aji’s version of the raw beef delight is enhanced with sea urchin, quail egg, and truffle chapla.
Mushroom fanatics will be thrilled by mushroom, shiitake, enoki and king oyster mushroom in broth.
Lastly, the Rocoto, a dessert filled with coconut, cinnamon foam, chocolate praline and peanut ice cream, sweetens the palate with its diverse textures, making it the perfect conclusion to a rich meal characterized by sophisticated combinations and innovative artistry.
After the tasting, the Times sat down with the Nikkei chefs for a conversation.
Macau Daily Times (MDT) – How do you work with Chef Edwin?
Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura (MT) – I communicate constantly with Edwin. For the first few months of the first year, I was more involved creatively. Now I give ideas, but I would say that 80 or 90 percent of the job is done by [Chefs] Edwin and Aldo. Actually, they come up with ideas and they ask me, “what do you think about this?” And we take the ideas from there. Edwin and Aldo know what kind of flavors I like. I also give him ideas. So it’s team work, but it’s mostly executed by Aldo and Edwin.
MDT – You talk through Facetime?
Edwin has always been a very talented and creative chef. He worked with me in Maido. He won the best young chef [award] in Peru, the contest. Edwin has really developed a good relationship with everybody in the hotel, with the team, and outside the hotel. Also in Hong Kong. He is very easy going. When I came this time, I was surprised because everybody knows him and he knows everybody. I feel proud and very happy because before coming here, it was a challenge, but I think he has done very well and engaged with the people.
MDT – Can you talk about your experience in Macau?
Chef Edwin Guzman Navarro (EGN) – It was a challenge when Mitsuharu made the decision to choose myself and Aldo to come to Macau and develop the concept here in China. It was a challenge looking for products similar to the Peruvian ones and starting to cook with people who don’t know anything about your cuisine and your flavors. But I can say the first year was very good also. We were tired but enjoyed the work.
MDT – How do you overcome the problem of importing products?
EGN – When the Hong Kong- Macau-Zhuhai Bridge was finished, we were thinking maybe the problem can be fixed because half of the products [can be found] in Hong Kong, but delivery is not easy. We have some ingredients flown directly from Peru, but it’s very expensive.
Peruvian cuisine is developing in Asia, more in Hong Kong than in Macau, and the products are going to Hong Kong first and then sent to other places. We are still trying to find new suppliers.
MDT – And ingredients from Japan?
EGN – I went with Mitsuharu to Japan and tried the food there. I saw the ingredients, but was not very familiar with all of them. Actually, we always ask Mitsuharu how we should cook with those products that we never saw in our life.
MDT – What about the kitchen, is it to your liking?
MT – It’s a dream kitchen. I said when I open this restaurant in Macau, it has to be the kitchen of my dreams. [MGM] hired a designer and everything, but I want to design it myself. So, I went back to Peru and I drew it there. I want this station here, pastry there, etc. Plunger here, walks here. So, it’s not a typical kitchen, it has many stations. It’s like a fish bowl.
MDT – Is the new menu an elevation of the previous menu?
MT – We try to make something special for our guests. Engawa, for example, is top quality and a precious part of the fish, but most people don’t know what it is.
When I first went to Japan I didn’t know about it because in Peru, we don’t use it; we throw it away because it’s hard [to cook with]. But now they’re using it. Some 17 years ago or so, my boss in Japan said, “Okay cut the fish.” I cut the fish and left the Engawa and he got mad because I threw it away. “Where’s the Engawa? Why not use that? That is the most expensive part of the fish. That’s worth the same amount as the whole fish,” he added. I’m never going to forget that. If you don’t go very well into the bone of the fish, you can lose half of the Engawa. These tough parts of the fish are the best parts for cooking… because they’re very hard when they are raw, but they are very tender when they are cooked.
MDT – Who are the clients?
Alexandre Santos (AS) – Expat and local Chinese community. They accept the food but it is very new for them. You need to really take an effort to explain what the dish is. After opening up the menu, we try our best to go to the table and start to explain.
MT – I was happy to hear that 80 percent or more of the customers of Aji are locals.
AS – In the beginning it was like the ‘curiosity stage’ of the whole hotel. It was the first Peruvian and then Nikkei Restaurant in Macau and it was challenging then. […] I got a chance to go to Peru almost a year and a half ago. Chef Micha took me out to many different places, like even fish markets, a French market and different restaurants with different types of cuisine and this overcame a lot of basic challenges, for example, how we can explain the dishes to the guests.
MDT – Chef Micha, what is your goal for the future?
MT – I take life day-by-day. I don’t like to plan, but I have to plan sometimes because that’s the way my work is. Many people think I’m very organized, but I am not. When I wake up every day, I try to make my day perfect. But when I plan something too much, it doesn’t work. That has happened to me. So the best things in my life have happened without planning. So, I really don’t know what I’m going to do. One of the things I know I’m going to do is that I’m going to close my restaurant in Lima. Maido is going to close in approximately three or four more years.
My concept in Chile and China are basically the only two concepts that are this elaborate. What I open in the future will be very casual. I am not looking to be in a ranking, just [to make] good food at a good price. I want to make my food more democratic. I want to open more concepts where everybody can go. That is happiness. We can make tasty food without it being so expensive. The future of food is informality. Do whatever you want. If you want to eat with your hands, eat with your hands. No dress code. There’s no better way to eat than the way you feel comfortable. I never wear suits, for example. If you tell me I have to dress up to go to a restaurant, I don’t go. I never wear a shirt, that’s the way I am.
MDT – When did you first hear the word ‘Macau’?
MT – The first time I heard the word ‘Macau’ was when I was in college because I had two friends from Macau. That was 20 years ago. I said, “Where are you from?” “Macau.” “Where’s Macau?” Macau was not like [it is] now 20 years ago, so he talked about gambling. He said, “We have casinos there and the Portuguese influence and this is Macau.” So, from that time I always remembered Macau in that way and said, someday I’m going to go.
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2019-04-19T10:34:12Z
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https://macaudailytimes.com.mo/a-conversation-with-nikkei-chefs-harmony-of-two-cultures-at-aji.html
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Today’s selection of words are magic: incantations that summon mysterious powers and set spells in motion. Nowadays they’re all considered rather childish and funny, but they come from a variety of original sources. And once again we have a lot of interesting etymological theories, with a lot of question marks to go with them.
hocus-pocus - Dating from the early seventeenth century as a magical formula used in conjuring, the word was apparently first a stage name used by “jugglers” or magicians. It may be a corruption of the sacramental blessing from Catholic Mass “Hoc est corpus…” Support for this theory comes from the equivalent phrases in other European languages, which also appear to be corruptions of elements of Catholic ritual. But it may derive instead from the pseudo-Latin phrase “Hax pax max Deus adimax,” also used as a magic formula. Or it may be from “Ochus Bochus,” a Norse magician and demon of folklore. Or perhaps it was just random nonsense, with the full phrase given in 1656 as “Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo.” In any case, it seems to have been made up by performers with no belief in actual magical powers.
mumbo-jumbo - First used in 1738 and alleged to be the name of an idol worshipped in Africa, the phrase may or may not come from the Mandingo name Maamajomboo described in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1803. By English speakers this phrase came to be used to mean “an object of senseless veneration or a meaningless ritual.” As a word in English, therefore, it was never intended to be taken seriously by magician or audience, and is indicative of magic that we assume to be false.
Open, sesame! - Speaking of the mystical East, this phrase comes, as you probably know, from the story of Ali Baba in the Arabian Nights. Its first appearance is in Antoine Galland’s Les Mille et une nuits from 1704-17, whence it was translated into English. Interestingly, Galland is the one who added the story when he first translated the story collection One Thousand and One Nights, so although he may have heard it from a storyteller in Syria, no earlier form of the story has been found. So, why sesame? Unknown, of course, but possibilities include a rare literary word in Arabic that’s the same sound as sesame (simsim in Arabic) but which means “gate.” Or a reduplication of the Hebrew sem meaning “name,"
thus being a kabbalistic reference to God. Or that certain Babylonian magic practices made use of sesame oil. Or who knows what. In any case, Ali Baba’s dim brother takes the meaning at face value and, when he can’t remember the password, guesses various other seeds: “Open, barley! Open, chick-peas!” This would presumably be even funnier to the tale’s original audience if indeed there were some particular magical significance to the word sesame.
shazam - Apparently invented in 1940 by Bill Parker for the Captain Marvel comic series. Shazam was explained as an acronym of the first initials of various powerful figures: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury. In the comic its utterance turned our Ordinary Guy into our Hero, and it soon became used as an exclamation at a sudden and surprising change or occurrence.
presto - Going all the way back to the 1590s as part of conjuring patter, it comes from Italian for “quick, quickly.” Now it’s often used in combinations such as “Hey presto,” and “Presto-chango.” Interestingly, the same word was borrowed into English again as a musical notation, but not until about 1683.
Gutenberg wasn’t the first to print with moveable type. The nearest comparable effort with movable metal type was printed in Korea in 1377.
The 42-line Bible wasn’t Gutenberg’s first product. He’d already done some broadsheets and even pamphlets before undertaking the massive production that was the 1286 page, two volume Vulgate Bible.
ink, by hand. After about 10 pages he started spacing his lines a little more closely together so as to fit 42 lines of type per page, thus saving himself about 30 pages per Bible. Later when the print run was enlarged, the extra copies of these initial pages were made to match the rest of the Bible. So, there are versions with some printed rubrication and some without, there are versions with some 40-line pages and some without, there are versions printed on paper and some on vellum, and any hand rubrication and illumination done on each copy will be unique, meaning that no two copies of the Bible are identical, despite its being the first mass-produced book.
When I was in 7th grade I received an “excellent” award at the district competition of National History Day with my project about the invention of the printing press, so obviously I’ve been interested in this stuff for a long time! And in truth, it’s hard to overstate the importance of the technology or how it’s changed and enriched life. But despite the continuing advances in information dissemination, there’s still something especially beautiful and magical about the pressing of ink onto paper, one sheet at a time.
We saw lots of lovely mythical beasts in Ireland! It’s worth noting that with ancient depictions of creatures, especially medieval and earlier, it’s not always easy to tell the difference between real animals and mythical ones. Note, for example, the wonderfully bizarre elephant holding up the castle in the first carving. This obviously is the work of an artist who was no more likely to see an elephant than a griffin, and to whom both beasts were equally exotic, improbable, and real. There are many creatures in Celtic artwork that are not readily identifiable. They could be monsters, or they could simply be odd dogs. Even so, fantastical creatures turn up everywhere you look in Celtic art, and I took great pleasure in spotting them on our recent travels.
I should mention the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow, although between the crowds and the dim lighting it’s nearly impossible to get a good view of the Books in person. I didn’t spot any mythical creatures on the pages that were open for display on the day we went, but I include a couple of illuminated animal selections anyway. The animals in the Book of Kells are mostly real, but the number and charm of them sprinkled everywhere is one of the things that makes this illuminated book unique.
knotted dragonish creatures. The crozier of Clonmacnoise is supported by gorgeous leonine beasts. And one of my favorites is the wonderful opossummy head on the Cross of Cong. It’s probably not meant to be a mythical creature, but since I certainly can’t identify it, I’ll count it as something cryptoid!
This second selection of Irish block prints features scenes of Dublin, and I’ll begin with another piece by Paula Pohli, whose work I shared last week, as well. This one is a contrast from her dramatic dolmen view, and it sticks to black and white, with an emphasis on all the different geometric patterns of the city (plus the wigglier texture of the water.) I really like the variety of lines and rectangles, some black on white, some white on black. Somehow the completely plain, blank white sky reads as gently overcast, which is right for Ireland.
Next, for contrast, is a black sky, perhaps a clear night. This is a view of Trinity College by Mary Grey. The foreground looks almost abstract, while edges of the roof melt into the background. Yet despite the lack of precise detail in this piece, the circles and stars of the bicycle wheels lined up along the front of the building make a fun and beautiful detail.
The third piece, by Mary Plunkett, is an illustration of one of the stories in James Joyce’s Dubliners. It’s titled after the line “she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses..” I confess that I don’t know the story, or why these houses aren’t red! Perhaps there’s some special significance in the interesting viewpoint of this street, with the two sides sprouting away in both directions. Note the typical Dublin fanlight arches over all the doors, even if these have no tracery details and are more modest than the famous Georgian show houses. They’re very simple, without any signs of life - no plants or flowers, no curtains in the windows. This adds to the emptiness and unreality of the street. In fact, all three of these pieces show a Dublin devoid of people. In terms of art that’s just fine with me - I usually prefer my landscapes people-free, but you have to admit it’s a pretty unrealistic image of the bustling, buzzy city of Dublin!
This month marks the 180th anniversary of the publication of Sir John Herschel’s most extraordinary discoveries, including the invention of a new telescope 24 feet in diameter and with a hydro-oxygen microscope lens that allowed him to see the surface of the moon in unprecedented detail. Indeed, it allowed him to discover life on the moon. The life that was reported included red flowers covering the surface of the rock, bison, bluish grey goats, and an amphibious spherical creature which rolled with great velocity. Even more extraordinary, Herschel saw tribes of biped beavers that lived in huts and had mastered the use of fire, and finally the Vespertilio-homo, winged humanoids covered with glossy, copper-colored hair.
Yowza! These amazing discoveries received widespread press, and created much excitement, as you can imagine. So how is it that you’ve never heard of these discoveries? Well, obviously, it all turned out to be a hoax. (Oops, I guess I gave it away in the title of this post.) It was, however, one of the greatest and most successful popular scientific hoaxes of all time, and in 1835 perhaps the first mass-media event, driven by the high circulation of the New York Sun with its steam-powered printing presses and its innovative use of newsboys shouting out headlines for all to hear. Poor Herschel, who was in South Africa at the time, had nothing to do with the hoax. Apparently he was initially amused when he heard about it, but eventually became irritated at perpetually being pestered about it.
If you want to know all the details about the hoax, its reception, its author, and the history of the newspaper business which made it possible, check out this article from the Museum of Hoaxes. One interesting thing about it is that even the many skeptics seem to have enjoyed the story as fiction, rather than being outraged by the inaccuracy and downright dishonesty of the New York Sun. It seems that the tabloids have always been more about entertainment than truth, and at least exciting science fiction stories are better entertainment than slanderous gossip about unhappy celebrities. Just hold onto your skepticism when the popular press announces the discovery of biped beavers on Pluto!
This summer we’ll be going to Ireland - I’m so excited! To get in the spirit I’ve collected some block prints of Irish scenes. (I’m very much hoping to get material for some future Irish block prints of my own, of course.) I’ll begin today with scenes from the western side of Ireland. First, two by Gail Kelly, who works in County Down in Northern Ireland, but who has prints depicting many places in Ireland. First, a scene of Connemara, which is roughly the western part of County Galway. I especially like the texture of the sky and water. This piece has lovely light.
The second of Kelly’s pieces shows a dolmen in County Donegal. We won’t be making it to Donegal, but we will be seeing plenty of dolmens and other archaeology. The juxtaposition of the prehistoric monument right across from the modern village is one of the things that makes Ireland so special: it wears its thousands of years of history on its sleeve, and everywhere you go the past rises up in stone.
I found another block print of a Dolmen, this one by Paula Pohli, whom I take to be working out of Dublin. Her dolmen is clearly in the Burren, an area in County Clare that’s just peppered with neolithic sites. The ground composed of slabs of limestone is the Burren’s geological trademark. I’m not sure how I feel about the dolmen being in red. It certainly gives it a dramatic punch, and without it the grey stones of the dolmen would blend in with the grey stones of the Burren. But it also reminds me of the paperback cover of a cheap shocker! I do like the darker grey sky, though, and the vertical format is an interesting choice.
I’m late with my post and even later to celebrate the International Day of Friendship which is set by the United Nations as July 30. However, it turns out that many countries celebrate Friendship Day on the first Sunday in August, so I’m right on target after all! And in honor of international friendship, here are words for “friend” in lots of different languages. To make it more interesting, I’ve grouped them so that you can see some cognates. Cognates, in case I’ve never mentioned it before, are words in different languages that share similarities of sound and meaning because they derive from the same ancestral word. (For languages with different writing systems, I’ve given the Romanization so you can get the gist of the pronunciation. I also apologize for lack of diacritical marks on many of these words. I don’t know how to type them!) Of course plenty of languages, like English, have more than one word for “friend,” but here I’ve simply listed the one that came up first in the dictionary. And of course the last group is all the words that don’t share any other cognates on my list.
One thing that’s especially interesting about the words humans use for “friend,” is the variety of etymologies. Many come from roots having to do with love, including friend, amigo, filos, and cara. Bengali bandhu comes from “to tie,” while Arabic sadiq comes from “to tell the truth.” The Japanese and Latvian words come from roots having to do with company. There are languages whose words for friendship come from “sharing,” and others that come from “caring.” In short, there are many facets to friendship, and many ways we can talk about it. But don’t just talk - go out and do something about it!
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2019-04-21T00:24:49Z
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http://nydamprintsblackandwhite.blogspot.com/2015/08/
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Large banks have become synonymous with the words ‘scandal’, and ‘manipulation’ in recent years. Since the emergence of the Global Financial Crisis in 2007/08, several large banks were discovered to be committing large-scale malpractice, fraud or miss-selling of financial products — for the purpose of reducing costs and raising profits.
Since 2008, the activities for the UK’s five largest banks alone, have led to over £25 billion in fines levied upon them by various regulatory agencies around the world including the UK’s very own Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
The exact nature of the banks’ wrongdoing is wide-ranging and multifaceted which has led to an unprecedented level of intra-national co-operation between the worlds’ financial regulatory authorities such as the FCA, NFA, CFTC, ASIC, BoJ, FinMin and BaFin.
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Duncan Lawrie has been hit by occasional instances where some individual accounts were hacked into. In addition, Duncan Lawrie has been known to provide personalised banking services to many people who had been engaged in LIBOR rate-fixing activities in the past. The bank has not been found to be directly involved or responsible for any of the actions that some of its members have engaged in though.
From the dozens of available asset classes available to investors, banks were found to be taking part in illegal activities in some more than others.
Client reporting, residential mortgages, loan securitisations and rate setting were the four areas banks were least compliant, according to regulators.
Regardless of the territory, there’s been a bank conducting some form of malfeasance there over the past decade — and the worrying thing — is that banks’ behaviour has not changed in any meaningful way to curb the level of market abuse and manipulation.
Banks have been embroiled in several market sectors when conducting their market abuse. Of the officially confirmed abuses, the following asset classes/markets were confirmed to have been severely impaired by banks’ behaviour.
All of the above asset classes have been used by banks to either reduce the level of operational cost(s) or to market-make markets in their favour for preferential pricing and fees. Here are the highlights of the past decades’ market abuses, as claimed by regulatory agencies.
Barclays and Citigroup were the hardest hit from a regulatory backlash perspective although both banks continue to operate thriving FX businesses to this day.
Additional information on the FCA fines and activity may be found on our FCA page.
The CFTC cites how “banks failed to adequately assess the risks associated with their FX traders participating in the fixing of certain FX benchmark rates and lacked adequate internal controls in order to prevent improper communications by traders.” The worst hit bank from the synchronised FX-rigging regulatory backlash in 2014 was UBS, reaping in excess of $800 million in fines.
The Swiss giant is the only bank to be fined by three separate regulators in three different countries in a single day.
FINMA found that over an extended period of time the bank’s employees in Zurich attempted to manipulate foreign exchange benchmarks. In addition, employees acted against the interests of their clients. For these indiscretions, FINMA fined UBS 134 million Swiss francs in confiscation of costs avoided and profits.
in individual cases engaged in deception regarding sales mark ups and excessive mark ups associated with an internal product of the bank.
Several large top-tier banks consequently beefed up their litigation war chests, although the nominal value of the fines levied remains disproportionally small compared to the market impact of their abusive market activities.
In recent announcements, top-tier banks such as UBS, Barclays, Deutsche, HSBC and Citigroup have all reported increases in their litigation allocations and have warned shareholders that litigation costs will remain elevated at best for the foreseeable future given the range of manipulation and malpractice cases that have hit the largest banks over the past five years.
Various banks have been penalised for mortgage market malpractices, interest rate derivative fixing and LIBOR manipulation, just a few examples of penalties applied in response to widespread impropriety found to be occurring at Tier 1 banks.
One of the biggest debacles during (and since) the GFC has been Mortgages — otherwise known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS).
Sometime after the GFC, it was discovered that prior to 2007, many of the world’s largest banks had been using sophisticated securitisation methods to package junk-level debt into AAA-rated securities comparable to US Treasuries.
This imbalance was rubber stamped by credit ratings agencies and the newly-created sub-prime ‘toxic’ assets were presented as clean, wholesome investments investors had little risk of losing their money on.
The reality was that these investments were in fact of low value, and when markets priced in the discounts, it was clear that hundreds of billions of dollars were in fact misspent/miss-invested which led to an inevitable rush for the exits and large-scale losses/drawdowns across the investment community.
Both Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley — stalwart names in the US banking industry — were forced to become deposit-taking institutions simply to remain solvent.
The major consequence of the sub-prime debt bubble was the GFC itself, because of the deep interconnected nature of modern markets. Iceland’s government was forced to default on many of its obligations because of the liabilities its domestic banks had racked up in league with US and UK counterparties.
Bank of America was forced to pay a record $16.7bn (£10bn) to settle allegations that it misled investors into buying toxic mortgage securities. The bank said the “claims relate primarily to conduct that occurred at Countrywide and Merrill Lynch” before it acquired them during the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
In February 2012, Citigroup was one of many banks that agreed to pay billions of dollars to settle charges brought by the US authorities over claims they used abusive methods to foreclose on homeowners hit by the bursting of the country’s property bubble. The agreement saw the banks pay $5bn directly to states in the form of cash fines, $17bn of debt written-off and a further $3bn in lower interest rates to homeowners.
JP Morgan also paid $5.29 billion under the February 2012 foreclosures settlement, while another US bank, Wells Fargo, paid $5.35 billion. In October 2013, JP Morgan reached a $13bn deal with US regulators to settle claims that it miss-sold bundles of toxic mortgage debt to investors in the build up to the financial crisis.
The largest single fine for any one bank in history — was the $1.9 billion fine levied on HSBC in 2012 for failing to comply with anti-money laundering regulations. HSBC paid almost $2 billion to settle allegations that its failure to enforce anti-money laundering rules left America’s financial system exposed to drug cartels.
Unconfirmed reports at the time suggested HSBC was actually aware and complicit in helping money sourced from international criminal activity to be funnelled through its network of banks across South America, Africa and Asia.
In yet another case of confirmed malpractice affecting thousands of clients, Barclays Bank was fined £37.75 million by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in 2014 for failing to properly protect clients’ custody assets worth £16.5 billion.
The FCA’s fine was the largest of its kind relating to custody assets.
According to the FCA investigation, clients risked “incurring extra costs, lengthy delays or losing their assets if Barclays had become insolvent,” spanning 95 custody accounts in 21 countries. The FCA identified “significant weaknesses” in how the bank carried out financial services in the ‘Barclays Investment Banking Division’ between November 2007 and January 2012 – a period of history dominated by the global financial crisis.
Appropriate management and real-time accounting of custody assets is often difficult due to liquidity availability and the complexity involved in managing a $16 billion of assets spread across multiple asset classes including property and fine art. The lack of price certainty for some assets was a factor in exacerbating the global financial crisis as market participants were unable to accurately see the true value of their portfolios.
Amidst fear, panic and market volatility many market participants preferred to sell at the first rate available which in turn fuelled a negative spiral of declining asset prices, more selling and more asset price declines. In 2008 and since, the FCA has communicated on multiple occasions its view of the importance of safeguarding client assets for the good of the bank itself, the wider banking industry and the British economy.
According to the FCA, Barclays did not accurately reflect ownership links within its Investment Banking Division and failed to establish legal agreements on many assets held there. In a further egg-on-face moment, Barclays was found to have claimed ownership rights to assets that actually belonged to clients.
As is often the case with brand damaging regulatory penalties, Barclays Bank opted for the FCA’s early-settlement option and qualified for a 30% discount on the fine, saving the bank over £15 million.
The full list of defendants in the case consists of major banking institutions: Bank of America; Barclays Bank; Citigroup Inc; Deutsche Bank; BNP Paribas; HSBC Holdings; Royal Bank of Scotland Group; Credit Suisse Group; UBS; Goldman Sachs; Nomura Holdings; Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
In revelations that have an eerie resemblance to the LIBOR fixing scandal, staff working for the 13 accused banks allegedly “communicated via private chat rooms” and “used digital communications to “submit identical quotes beginning at least in 2009”, according to an official statement from the AEPF.
Also included in the court case is ICAP Plc, a UK-based broker-dealer clearing over $1.3 trillion in daily transactions. It is alleged that ICAP helped facilitate the manipulation of ISDAfix rates given the company’s prominent and dominant position in clearing transactions in the interest-rate derivatives markets.
Recorded telephone calls and e-mails reviewed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) show that traders at the thirteen banks instructed ICAP brokers to buy or sell as many interest-rate swaps as necessary to move ISDAfix to a predetermined level.
AEPF alleges that banks often kept rates artificially low, allowing them to generate substantial profits trading ‘swaptions’ – interest derivatives linked to ISDAfix rates.
Deutsche Bank was fined £5 million for misreporting CFD transactions for almost 5 years between November 2007 and April 2013. Mr. Kai Lew, a Director of Institutional FX at Deutsche, was suspended as part of a manipulation investigation in April 2014.
Libor, the London inter-bank lending rate, is considered to be one of the most important interest rates in finance, upon which trillions of financial contracts are based on.
The LIBOR scandal was the largest in terms of magnitude, and yet the effect on financial markets was felt the least because of its institutional effect.
LIBOR is generally used by financial intermediaries, for the purpose of setting short-term lending rates. Individuals borrowing money to buy a home would also use LIBOR but the impact on the homeowner is vastly smaller compared to an institution borrowing/lending capital on a daily basis.
Swiss bank Credit Suisse agreed to pay a $2.6bn fine in May 2014 over allegations that it helped some of its US clients avoid paying taxes.
In June 2014, BNP Paribas admitted to processing thousands of transactions through the US financial system on behalf of bodies in Iran, Cuba and Sudan, landing the French bank with an $8.9bn (£5.2bn) fine and leading to the departure of more than a dozen senior employees.
Have Banks learnt their lesson?
To date, not a single employee of any firm has been charged with a criminal offence relating to price fixing of any market, despite dozens of confirmed cases of market manipulation between multiple banks involving dozens of individuals.
The effectiveness of ratings agencies and regulators seems to be minimal despite growing powers to regulate and restrict abusive market activity, including large fines.
The regulators are either not effective enough or the bankers are too effective. Or in other words, either the regulators are not good enough at their jobs, or the banks are just too good at theirs for lawful business practise to predominate. Gargantuan banks and financial intermediaries remain largely unaccountable and beyond the reach of UK law when it comes to being penalised for wrongdoing, while their overall size and market dominance continue to grow year-on-year, in-line with investor expectations.
Prior to the 2008 banking crisis, UK banks were only lightly regulated. Since on a global scale only minor regulations were enforced on banks, the regulators worried that banks would simply move abroad if they were too harsh.
Like any other UK business, banks were subject to regulation by the OFT and the Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority). In addition, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the Bank Of England, and the HM Treasury, all oversaw financial institutions.
In 2013, the system was revamped. The FSA was replaced by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which is part of the Bank Of England, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). In addition, the European Banking Authority (EBA) keeps track of the strength of UK and other European banks.
Money transfer scams are usually commissioned to law authorities rather than regulators.
PRA: Prudential regulation of +-1700 financial services institutions, in order to maintain stability.
FCA: The watchdog that ensures competition is maintained, and that the conduct of firms in the market meet legislative standards.
EBA: Conducts regular stress tests, to determine how banks would fare in potential crises.
UK banks have recently been subjected to “ring-fencing”, which forces banks to separate retail banking from riskier financial ventures. This is so that taxpayers don’t end up paying in the event of a collapse.
Ring-fencing requires both sectors (retail and investment) to hold equal importance, which many banks are finding onerous. Sir David Walker, the former chairman of Barclays, insists that ring-fencing regulations are redundant and uniquely British, which will force banks to relocate. Banks will spend an initial £200 million to implement the reforms, and £120 million on extra staff requirements.
The ring-fencing reforms themselves will cost banks billions of pounds to maintain.
Banks are regularly inspected by the FCA, and in the case of non-compliance, the FCA has the power to ban financial products for up to a year while considering an indefinite ban.
The regularity of inspections depends on how disastrous a firm’s failure would be.
P1 firms are firms whose failure would cause lasting damage to their clients and the marketplace. They are inspected once a year.
P2 firms are firms whose failure would cause significant damage which is, however, relatively easy to deal with. They are inspected once every two years.
P3 firms are firms whose failure would not cause much damage to clients or the market, and are only supervised on a reactive basis.
UK banks are allowed to accept international clients. However, there are stipulations attached. Many banks do not take on non-residents, because of the strict regulations. If the client is in the UK for over 6 months, it is far easier to set up a UK bank account. The client will be required to have extensive documentation, as the banks are wary of international scams.
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Besides JIRA Interview Questions, we will discuss how to create an issue or how agile project is manged using JIRA with screenshots those if you go through will give you a practical overview.
Q1. Explain what is JIRA?
JIRA is an issue tracking product or a software tool developed by Atlassian, commonly used for bug tracking, project management and issue tracking; it is entirely based on this three aspects.
Q2. What can be referred as an issue in JIRA?
Q3. How Are Issues Handled in JIRA?
Click on “Create Issue” button. Alternately, when you type “c” while on the JIRA page, the following ‘Create Issue’ dialog opens up.
All the fields in this page are self explanatory. We will discuss the most important one below.
Project: Every issue belongs to a project. You can choose the same by clicking on the drop down and choosing the project that you want this issue to belong to.
The items Bug, new feature, task, improvement are exactly what their names imply. Epic and story are more relevant to agile projects. Story is a requirement in Agile that needs to be tracked from start to finish. Epic is a group of stories.
Choose the issue type as needed. I am going to go with “Bug”.
A bug/defect is essentially something that is not right. The right way to approach a bug title is to concisely define ‘what’s wrong’.
It is also agreed, that when I open this bug and look into it in detail, I am sure I will find the answer to this question.
In the limited space that this field provides try to write your title in a way that communicates the exact issue without any ambiguity.
Priority: This field can take one of the following values.
Choose an appropriate option for your bug.
Component: This list will display the components of the Project. Choose appropriately.
Affected Version and Fix version: These two fields will display the versions available for the project. It is not necessary that a certain issue that you encountered in a certain version gets fixed in the same one. In cases like that, you can choose the affected version as the current version and fix version as the next one.
Assignee: You can type the name of the person to whom this issue should be handed over further. You can also assign an issue to yourself.
Q5. Is it possible to access JIRA cloud site via a mobile device?
Yes, it is possible to access JIRA cloud site via a mobile device. You have to just use the URL of the JIRA cloud site in your mobile web browser.
Q6. Explain labeling and linking issue in JIRA?
Labeling Issue: It enables you to categorize an issue in a more informal way than assigning it to a component or version. You can then search issues according to label.
Linking Issue: This feature enables you to link an association between two issues on either on the same or different JIRA servers.
Q7. Mention the types of reports generated in JIRA?
Workload Pie Chart Report, etc.
Q8. Explain what is Cloning an Issue?
Q9. Mention what things are not included in cloned issue in JIRA?
Q10. How to Use JIRA Effectively for Managing Agile Projects?
Agile Methodology for software development has gained immense popularity in the recent years.
Agile Projects follow an incremental approach to development of the requirements.
Once ranked, the stories are assigned developmental cycles (Sprints) that last for approx. 4-6 weeks.
The detailed documentation is avoided. Instead, a scrum board is maintained that will show the status and progress.
JIRA successfully supports all the activities listed above for projects following an Agile Methodology. In this article, we will see how.
Note – Firstly, you will need JIRA Agile add-on if you have not gotten it already.
You can have a product backlog by creating a main User story and having various sub-tasks under it.
Or you can create an Issue type -Epic and Issue type – Story linked to it. To do so, in the ‘Create Issue’ page you can go to “Configure Fields” and choose “Epic link” field to be included in the issue creation screen. – This is the most commonly used method.
Note: You will not be able to link Epic to another Epic.
Feature #2) There are two kinds of boards in JIRA agile. What are they and what they do is explained in the below window. Choose the appropriate board and continue through the steps to create a board. You will have to choose the projects from which issues are to be considered. In this article we are going to discuss a Scrum board.
Feature #3) After a board is created you will be able to configure it as you see fit. Basically, there are two modes to a board – Plan and work. As the name implies, plan is the part where you can categorize your requirements (stories) into Sprints. Work mode is when you can track the time spent and the overall progress. Apart from these two you can generate several reports.
The plan mode displays all the user stories created for the project.
You can use the LHS menu to decide the basis on which the issues need to be displayed. You can choose to view all the issues or only the ones related to a certain Epic.
Change the order in which issues need to be considered simply by dragging them up or down in the backlog.
From the RHS side menu upon clicking on an issue, you can create links, sub tasks, log work and perform any other activity like you would on a normal issue.
You can use this screen to create a sprint too, if you have the right permissions.
This will display the Active sprint information. All the user stories are going to be categorized into To do, In progress and Done to show the progress clearly.
Go to Agile Board->Reports. As you can see, there are lots of custom Agile reports that can be generated using JIRA. All you have to do is, choose the report that you would like and decide the data based on which this report should be generated.
With the right permissions or if you are an admin, you will be able to configure a board after its creation. To do so, go to “Agile->Manage Boards”. In the following screen, select the “Configure” option next to the board that you want to edit from the list of the all boards available.
That completes the basic introduction into how JIRA can be used for Agile Projects. In my opinion, the tool when used right can provide solid support for this methodology. Since the focus on documentation is low in Agile, JIRA can be your one stop-shop to have everything in one place.
Now, the obvious question: How is JIRA agile helpful for testers? Frankly, for the QA fraternity the scope of JIRA is either for bug tracking or task tracking – these do not change whether they are Agile Projects or regular ones. But having a good knowledge of this methodology by itself and the tool provided support is important because the IT world is shifting its focus to Agile – and we want to know all there is to know about it to make the best of it.
Q10. Explain what is the use of “Move Issue” wizard in JIRA?
Custom Fields: If you have determined required custom fields for your issue, which do not occur in the target project, you must set values for them.
Q11. How security setting is helpful in JIRA?
Q12. Explain how you can share an issue with other users?
You can email an issue by using the share option in JIRA. You can also email other JIRA users a link to the issue by sharing the issue with them or by mentioning them in an issue’s Description or Comment field.
Q13. Explain how you can modify multiple bulk issues?
Q14. Explain how you can disable mail notification for Bulk Operations?
To disable mail notification for a particular Bulk Operations, you have to de-select the “Send Notification” checkbox in the bulk operation wizard.
Q15. What does an issue change history include?
Q16. Explain what does the three color indicates tracking times or duration for an issue?
Q17. When you log a defect using TestDirector or JIRA what fields do you see?
The issue once created can be accessed by searching the ID, browsing the “Issues” menu item or going to the project details and checking the issues tab.
We will go in a sequential order from Right to left and discuss all the options.
1) Edit: As the name suggests, this option lets you modify an issue created. Click on it and modify the information as desired. Choose ‘Update’ when done. This is similar to “Create Issue” dialog.
3) Assign: This is the option you would need when you want to shift the ownership of an issue. Enter the Assignee information, comments (anything that you would want to communicate) and choose the viewership of the comment. Once an issue is assigned to the user, an automatic email is sent (if this option is chosen by the admin) and the issue appears on the assignee’s dashboard on login.
Agile Board, Rank to Top, Rank to Bottom -> Related to Agile Projects – the details of which are going to be coming up in a later article.
Attach Files, Attach Screenshots -> Lets you attach files to an issue. The screenshot option will auto capture a screenshot. All you need to do is print screen on your machine and you can directly copy it here into JIRA.
Add Vote, Voters, Stop watching, Watchers -> Voting is a process that JIRA users can perform to support the resolution of an issue favorably or unfavorably. The options in this section facilitate the same. You can also choose to watch an issue – when you do so, all the changes to it will be notified to you.
Create Sub-Task, Convert to Sub-task -> These are the options that help create and work with sub-tasks.
Labels -> This concept is similar to the “Labels” that we find on various blog and web pages. You can categorize issues based on Version and Component formally, but when in need of something more informal, this option can be used. For example, all the issues raised to track peer review comments can be labeled “peer review” to view and track them easily.
5) Log work: This is a way to track the progress on your issue in terms of time. When this option is used, the following dialog opens up. As you can see, the detailed information about how much time is spent on an issue, how much is remaining, etc can be logged here.
6) Move: JIRA issues can be moved across projects. However, the move from one project to another might mean a different target workflow, a different issue type, a new status etc. It is therefore advisable to analyze thoroughly how the move is going to affect the issue before going ahead with this.
7) Link: This is a very versatile feature of JIRA that allows you can logically link issues with one another and establish relationships/dependencies.
An example situation where this can be used in QA projects is when a certain defect prevents you from working a certain requirement. You can use this option to show the dependency.
Configure an already created Project.
3) Choose any of the above 3 methods to add a project. In the below window, choose the type of the project.
Tip: The Project type will determine the type of workflow your issues will go through.
Note: Please note the “Import from external systems” link at the bottom of the page. If you have been using a different bug/issue tracking system and would like to migrate to JIRA. This is the option you could use. Also, if all you had earlier is an excel sheet for all your issues, you can create a project by importing all the issues in the CSV file into JIRA.
4) Enter the project Name, Key (once chosen cannot be changed) and assign a Project Lead (the person who is responsible for the overall project). Click Submit when done.
, versions and components, people involved and the level of access permissions they have etc.
We will see the creations, deleting and editing of an issue in details below. For the rest of the operations, we would encourage you to try them on the site with your trial ID.
Note: With the trial you can add up to 10 users to your account i.e., 9 additional users and 1 admin, yourself.
There are two ways in which you can add users to JIRA.
2) Enter the user details in the “Create new user” dialog that opens up. In the below example I have entered only mandatory fields. The others are self-explanatory and can be set as required.
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In the times we live in, it’s a fact that a lot of people download music and movies from the web through P2P or BitTorrent. The music and movie industries naturally see this as a threat and try to stifle it, but it seems these attempts are in vain.
The idea is that companies, artists, actors and others should get paid for what they do, which is a fair assumption. The problem, though, is that the industry is stuck in old distributional chains where they had a lot more control. With the advent of Internet, however, things are bound to run out of control. My belief is that no matter how hard they try to legislate and to hunt people who fileshare down, the phenomenon will continue to exist, and also grow stronger in its rebelliousness against the “higher power”.
The basic, let’s be outright honest about this, crap is that companies lose so-and-so much money on people who have seen, for instance, a movie by downloading it instead of going to the cinema. Just because someone has watched a movie illegally doesn’t mean that they otherwise would have paid to see it. Most people watch movies in a casual manner, and instead of having some kind of fake hopes that this would have been money in the bank for the company, just see the enormous marketing benefit of this!
If they like the movie, they will tell their friends and recommend it. Their friends, in turn, might watch it in the cinema or buy the DVD; they might also just download it. Either way, if they like it, they will spread the word, and so on. Never underestimate viral marketing!
Is what I want available when I want it? If not, how can I get it?
That’s the core mindset of the audience, so it’s time to listen to them. People love using the Internet for accessing their favorite music and movies, but the services today aren’t well-developed enough and/or are so ridiculously overpriced that, as an example, a movie download will cost the same as buying the DVD in a store, but without the packaging and actual DVD record. What makes you think people would pay the same money for less value? Really?
DRM is a joke. Really. Whenever a legally bought product, in any way, becomes harder to use than something that can be downloaded “for free”, why would people pay? Throw away all your demands for restrictions, because they simply won’t work. Let people share a movie or a song as many times as they want, through whatever medium they want.
Forget about proprietary solutions that limit the user to a certain computer platform or digital music (e.g. MP3) player. If, for any reason, the distribution channel forces the end user to use a product from a certain provider, you’ve lost. There will always be cracks, hacks and workarounds, so you have to live with it. Tough, but that’s the reality; never think you can outsmart such a vast community of people who are very technically skilled. DRM of any kind is the road to failure.
Some people will never pay, and that’s the way it is. A witch hunt will never make a difference, since their main goal is to get something for free, not the actual experience of what they’re getting. However, I sincerely believe that a majority people want to go the legal route and pay for what they watch/listen to. Anyone, who is, say, 25+ of age, have grown up in a world where you actually had to buy what you wanted, in terms of records and movies. Kids who are teenagers now, and the coming generations, learn to download things from the Internet before they learn to pay. And they are really the gist of the problem.
If such a habit becomes a de facto standard for accessing any entertainment material, we will have to face a downward spiral with less and less income for companies producing music and movies. And then, at the end of the day, less quality content will be produced and distribution companies will go for the quick profit. Everyone loses.
Whenever a music record, or, more importantly, a movie is released/having its premiere, people want it. Immediately! The buzz is right then, and as with all hypes, you have to let it work for you instead of against. Instead of fighting vigorously to quench it, music and movie companies have to start providing what people want. My humble take is that, if not already, the situation is on its way overboard. Listen to opinions, and try to meet the mass market’s need and desires, to able to outcompete illegal file sharing.
In the area of TV shows and movies, people don’t want to wait for it to come to their country, or to wait another week for the next episode of their favorite series. We live in a on-demand world and if the audience wants to watch several episodes in a row, let them have it (given that it’s already produced, of course).
When a movie (or TV show) premiers, make it instantly available as a download to all the world.
Make it available in a format so attractive that searching through P2P and/or BitTorrent sites for a good quality copy is a waste of time.
Reasonable pricing: maybe $0.50 for a song and $5 for a movie.
Alternatively, offer free ad-sponsored solutions, which will be a good complement to buying.
No DRM or any other lock-ins. Seriously.
General availability. Everything that’s accessible through any other channel has to be available through the Internet as well.
Some TV companies in the US made their TV shows available, ad-sponsored, online the day after they were shown on TV, which is, in general, a great idea. The problem with this, though (except for the fact that they haven’t been able to watch as the exact same time as the program), is, again, availability. Sure, US citizen could watch it, but what about the rest of the world? Sure, I understand the problematic situation that they can’t make it available to all the world simultaneously, while also trying to sell it to international networks. But this is most likely something that has to be changed to be able to cater to the whole world at once.
So, the only good example I’ve seen so far of thinking in the right terms is Joost. It is ad-supported but otherwise completely free for the end user, who can choose to watch whatever he/she wants no matter the time (I’ve been beta-testing Joost for a while now, and will write a review about it in the future; stay tuned). However, Joost doesn’t yet offer movies so there’s a wide open field there to target.
And I think this solution is one of the ways there are to go: offer good content as easily available as possible, with a different financing plan than current alternatives have.
Anyone, who is, say, 25+ of age, have grown up in a world where you actually had to buy what you wanted, in terms of records and movies.
I'm not sure if I agree on this. Of course, I'm not 25+ of age, but my father told me stories about taping CDs or radio shows on cassette, and while this is of course not comparable to today's quantity of illegally copying/reproducing media, it's basically the same thing and in that particular time frame just as illegal.
You should also mention libraries that offer books, CDs, tapes and DVDs.
Taping things on cassette and videotape caused a huge uproar at the time, comparable to the uproar burnable CDs caused when they appeared, and mp3 and other formats now.
The solution was to add a royalty tax to the devices in the case of cassette and video recorders; the movie and recording industries weren't totally satisfied with the solution, but it struck a balance.
Canada made a similar move with mass storage devices which all carry a tax paid to the industry under the assumption that everyone is at least part pirate. I don't entirely agree with the premise (everyone is guilty, tax them all) but it might be the only solution.
For a similar view, take a look at Baen Free Library.
<blockquote cite="http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm">Any cure which relies on tighter regulation of the market  especially the kind of extreme measures being advocated by some people  is far worse than the disease. As a widespread phenomenon rather than a nuisance, piracy occurs when artificial restrictions in the market jack up prices beyond what people think are reasonable. The "regulation-enforcement-more regulation" strategy is a bottomless pit which continually recreates (on a larger scale) the problem it supposedly solves. And that commercial effect is often compounded by the more general damage done to social and political freedom.
I am a Canadian but that doesn't really mean I know anything more about the tax on CD/DVD-R than anyone else here. However, the tax must be small because, on sale this week, you can get a stack of 100 Fujitsu DVD-R discs for $25. I can't imagine that the tax would really be enough to cover the lost royalties on the 100 movies you could record to these discs.
Secondly, I agree with all of Robert's comments with the minor exception of his assessment of a downloading fee of $5/movie. Given that rental shops charge just slightly more than that (albeit for a short-term rental and with a significant delay in availability), I think that closer to $3/movie would be the price point that buyers would be attracted to downloading.
I am a Canadian but that doesn’t really mean I know anything more about the tax on CD/DVD-R than anyone else here. However, the tax must be small because, on sale this week, you can get a stack of 100 Fujitsu DVD-R discs for $25. I can’t imagine that the tax would really be enough to cover the lost royalties on the 100 movies you could record to these discs.
$0.29 : audio cassette over 40min long.
66% of the levy is paid to the SOCAN, CMRRA, and SODRAC, 19.9% to NRCC for 'performers', and 15.1% to NRCC for 'makers'.
The current levy schedule is pretty close to that.
'memory card' applies to SD, MM, and MemoryStick cards. Other formats are covered in some legalese document elsewhere.
The costs are more or less covered since the *vast* majority of disc and memorycards sold are not used to store pirated movies/songs, they're used for more mundane purposes.
Well, as I see it, seeding a TV series should be generally accepted. The reasoning behind this is that the companies producing them doesn't really lose any (larger sums of) money. This because of the TV series being public as they are broadcasted on TV already and that people gladly pay their TV license anyway. So basicly it's a choise of weither wait for it to broadcast on TV or being able to see it whenever it suits you. I'd choose the latter in most cases.
I was just wondering.. if you could download movies for $5 or $3 and songs for cheap.. that still wouldn't stop the buyer from adding their movies to a P2P network.. perhaps even unaware they did.
Of course there's always going to be piracy, but I do like the idea of better quality movies or what have you for a cheap price. Maybe they could even burn the name or id of the buyer within the movie itself, to deter people from sharing (if you get what I mean).
You're right though Robert, I would gladly pay if it wasn't so expensive. I even find .99 cents ridiculous for an MP3 file. .50 sounds so much better, or even cheaper. Just like Hockey in Canada, it took them forever to realize nobody was physically going to the games anymore because the prices were ridiculous. Sometimes it's better to lower your prices, to increase sales (simple philosophy).
Now.. if the cell companies would wake up and realize $2.50 for a ringtone is out to lunch!
Thanks, Robert. I think the current mentality is costing the industry far more money than copying. They need to mass deliver and take advantage of economies of scale. They need to think beyond the United States. Living in Vancouver, Canada, I can't understand the current limitations (and I realize there are greater laws that might affect delivery – such as language rights, etc). With that said, the mentality is so wrong. If I want to, I should be able to buy now – don't turn me away. Both the industry and governments need to realize the importance of this. I own a TiVo, but they wouldn't ship it to Canada, so I had it sent to the US. Now, I want to take advantage of Amazon Unbox and download a tv show I missed (yes, even with TiVo 😀 ), but I'm not allowed, because I am not in the US (which if I was I could also do for free by simpy visiting the producers website). So, I can't do it for free, and I can't even pay them to do it????
Can someone tell me where the US ranks in population growth for the target demographic? Can you also tell me how many people live outside the US that fit the target (both in age and disposable income)?
I believe that cost is the first issue. High prices make it more tempting to download than to buy. Lower prices and make your profit on volume.
Take a page from tele-marketers and offer something "extra" for those who buy. When you buy an exercise machine because of an info-mercial they always give you something extra as an incentive to buy, like a cookbook. Add something that you can't download in the packaging to make it worthwhile to buy.
Finally, work on a campaign to change attitudes about stealing, and it is stealing no matter how it's rationalized. The golden rule; "do unto others as you would have them do to you", "honesty is the best policy", "if you were the owner/song writer/band/movie producer… would you want this to happen to you?". I'm sure you can think of more. If you don't want to sponsor the message in advertisements, sponsor the message in movie and TV scripts.
My experience is that I buy more cd's now that it's easier to download and listen to them first. Of course, I won't buy all. But I do buy the good ones. CD's I otherwise never would have bought. Heck, from artists I've never heard about before I stumbled upon them in some download.
About DRM: I'm just not going to buy a (quite expensive anyway) DVD if I can't be certain it will play in my DVD player, car-dvd-player, notebook player or a player at my friend's house.
Or if I can't make a backup copy. Don't know about the cities you live in, but were I live it's not a good idea to leave original CD/DVDs in your car (even hidden in the trunk).
Thanks for your comments. And well, yes, there was a huge uproar about video, cassettes etc at the time, but it worked out fine, and the business didn't go down in flames, They just had to adapt, and now it is time, and it's more importantly than ever!
Sweden also has a price added-on to cassettes, CDs, DVDs etc to try to cover up for pirated versions. But seriously, how fair and modern is that approach? How many people who download music and/or movies will burn it on a CD/DVD?
Music will be transferred right to the MP3 player and movies will be saved on a computer's hard drive, or a hard-drive media center at home.
I disagree very much with comparing unauthorized copying to stealing. After all there is one very important difference – theft concerns physical objects.
A copyright owner does not lose his work when it is copied. A copyright owner can still sell his work, if someone has copied it. In fact, the copyright owner may in some cases have suffered no loss at all even if his work is copied.
This is quite contrary to theft where the rightful owner does lose his property, is unable to sell it, and suffers a very tangible loss.
This does not mean that I condone unauthorized copying of music, movies or software. Quite the contrary. But please don't use the corporate Newspeak.
I don't down load music I like to blog to much for that ,it would take me away from blogging . I think people want more instant gradification and a lot of people well not get paid as much money in certain proffesions as they use to get paid . This is a transition period and new rules well be made . I really don't know how things well work out in the future but God takes care of the future God always takes care of the future .
I am a downloader and have been since newsgroups were the start of everything. I believe I should have the right to test products whether that be music, software, movies or what have you. If I like it I buy it. Why would I want to buy something like software knowing that in two months there will be another version bigger and better. Maybe renting software would be the answer who knows. I believe in FTA as well even though I still pay for regular sattelite on top of it. We get priced to death on everything and we are sick of it. Cheers to the downloaders as I will always get what I can for free and only pay for the stuff that's worth it.
I know, being in Australia, that a lot of people download stuff illegally because we have to wait MONTHS after things are released in the US to get it. Personally, I don’t download them, simply because I do not know how. For example, Gossip Girl is not on TV here, and we only just had season 4 released. And with Psych, we only have season 3 released on DVD, and they are airing season 6 in America! Fair enough if we have to wait maybe a week or so, but seriously, so many people would stop doing it if we got it faster.
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business lines, low rate data service, low security, high-cost equipment, etc.
it can be also called narrow-band digital wireless communication systems.
the frequency 900 or 1800 MHz.
adopting more transmit and receive antennas.
the time of downloading a high definition movie may be less than 1 s.
Fig. 1.1 The baseband equivalent block diagram of wireless communication systems.
transportation (less than 1 ms delay).
spectral efficiency and the reducing of energy consumption and cost.
book mainly introduces one of novel multicarrier modulations.
multicarrier modulations and specifies their advantages and disadvantages.
the characteristic of wireless channels.
sky. The signal strength is weak generally.
Fig. 1.2 Typical propagations of electromagnetic waves in wireless communications.
Fig. 1.3 Large-scale fading and small-scale fading.
characteristics vary over different spaces, frequencies, and times.
wave is short, the shadow area is visible.
are longer, the powers of received signals at the base station are weaker.
Furthermore, the use of nonlinear devices exacerbates the phenomenon.
attracted increasing attention, especially OFDM.
scenarios, which will be discussed in detail as follows.
α(hm ) = [1.1 lg fc ]hm − [1.56 lg fc − 0.8].
K0 = 2[lg fc /28]2 − 5.4.
K0 = 4.78[lg fc ]2 − 18.33 lg fc − 40.98.
categories (i.e., single-carrier modulations and multicarrier modulations).
systems, especially for paroxysmal point-to-point communication systems.
single-tap equalizer can be employed for channel equalization .
Fig. 1.4 System block of SC-FDMA.
Fig. 1.5 System block of OFDM.
devices, OFDM was not put into commercial application until 1980s.
downlink in the LTE standard [7, 8].
can be employed with the help of CP, which results in a low-cost receiver.
(ICI), resulting in the performance degradation.
and equalization are very important issues in wireless communications.
to support typical applications in massive-connection and tactile Internet.
difficult to meet the requirement of tactile Internet with low latency.
many subbands, thus FBMC systems are robust to multipath fading channels.
techniques in future wireless communication systems.
quadrature amplitude modulation-based FBMC (OQAM/FBMC) [11, 12].
structure of an FMT/FBMC multicarrier system.
at the transmission rate of M/T by adding the signals on all K subcarriers.
K), the filter bank is said to be critically (noncritically) sampled.
Fig. 1.6 The equivalent baseband diagram of an FMT/FBMC system.
between subcarriers guarantees the received symbols free of ISI and ICI.
baseband diagram of an OQAM/FBMC system is shown in Fig. 1.7.
index k and time index m, and T/2 is the interval of real-valued symbols.
Fig. 1.7 The equivalent baseband diagram of an OQAM/FBMC system.
Fig. 1.8 The equivalent baseband diagram of a CMT/FBMC system.
PAM symbols to VSB signals and modulate them to various frequency bands.
FBMC. (B) OQAM/FBMC. (C) CMT/FBMC.
CMT/FBMC in terms of the data rate and utilization efficiency of bandwith.
Therefore, we mainly focus on OQAM/FBMC in the rest of this book.
|ν| ≥ (1 + r) F20 .
where ϕ2i (t) is the ith prolate spheroidal wave function and ε2i is realvalued coefficient obtained thanks to an optimization procedure .
3. The family of functions called extended Gaussian functions (EGFs).
Gα̂ (t) = (2α̂)1/4 e−π α̂t .
very close to the achievable optimum bound in time-frequency localization.
operations of truncation and discretization.
in OFDM systems cannot be used in OQAM/FBMC systems directly.
systems, frequency domain channel estimation methods are very simple and single-tap equalizers can be employed for channel equalization.
equalization need more investigations in OQAM/FBMC systems.
a low complexity still requires more efforts in future.
Fig. 1.10 System block of CP-OQAM/FBMC systems.
greatly, but it still suffers difficulty for the combination with MIMO.
condition, frequency spectrum, and time-frequency synchronization.
compared with rectangular windows, which is why OQAM/FBMC systems have lower spectral sidelobes than the conventional OFDM systems.
Fig. 1.11 Frequency spectrum comparison between OQAM/FBMC and OFDM.
synchronizations are the eternal topic for wireless communications.
FBMC systems, where several PAPR reduction methods are introduced.
applications of OQAM/FBMC are introduced in Chapter 10.
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are staggered in time domain by T/2, where T is the symbol period.
frequency (RF) band and transmitted.
Fig. 2.1 OQAM/FBMC communication system model.
the output symbols at the receiver equal the input symbols at the transmitter.
x̂k (m) = xk (m).
Fig. 2.2 OQAM/FBMC communication system model with real input symbols.
summation interval of m in Eq. (2.12) is actually 2n/K−α ≤ m ≤ 2n/K+α.
where h(t) is the continuous-time version of h(n).
transform/fast Fourier transform (IFFT/FFT) structure.
where mod(·) denotes modules operation.
Elk = KDlk ej 2 (k(2l+1)+ mod (l,2)) .
Fig. 2.3 Signal length of OQAM/FBMC systems.
corresponding implementation structure is shown in Fig. 2.4.
e−jk( K + 2 ) .
(M + L − 12 )K + 1 ≤ n ≤ (α + L)K − 1.
Fig. 2.4 IFFT-based implementation of the transmitter in OQAM/FBMC systems.
Fig. 2.5 FFT-based implementation of the receiver in OQAM/FBMC systems.
Let n = mK + i, where m = 0, 1, . . . , α + L − 1, i = 0, 1, . . . , K − 1.
b(mK + i)e K .
than the channel delay spread.
which will be used later for a compact vector-matrix representation.
prior to the block before transmission, and it is required that Ng ≥ Lg − 1.
Ng ≤ n ≤ Nc + Ng − 1.
0 ≤ n ≤ Nc − 1.
(−j)k e−jπm(k+0.5) hk (((mK/2 − n))Nc )r(n).
Fig. 2.6 Cyclic prefix in CP-OQAM/FBMC systems.
are essential to recover the transmitted symbols perfectly.
This chapter introduced the fundamentals of OQAM/FBMC systems.
the length of CP is larger than the channel delay spread.
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transmitted signal of each data block is not related to the filter length.
insertion. This question will be investigated in this chapter.
the PSD of the CP-OQAM/FBMC may be affected by the truncation.
communication systems with an increase of the data rate overhead.
Section 3.4. Finally, a summary is made in Section 3.5.
FBMC block is inserted, which, for convenience, is called direct CPOQAM/FBMC (DCP-OQAM/FBMC).
m = 0, 1, . . . , 2Nd − 1.
means that the total length of the transmitted signal of Nb blocks is Nb KNd .
Fig. 3.1 The relationship between h(n) and hc (n).
increase, even can reduce after grouping input data symbols.
Tcp ≤ t < TNd + Tcp .
version of Eq. (2.20) in terms of Type 1 polyphase decomposition of hc (n).
n = 0, 1, . . . , KNd + αK − K/2.
of the CP-OQAM/FBMC communication system.
n = KNd − 2 , KNd − 2 + 1, . . . , KNd − 1.
dk,l (m − 2Nd ), m = 2Nd , 2Nd + 1, . . . , 2Nd + α − 1.
n = 0, 1, . . . , KNd − 1.
c (m) of d (m).
the OQAM/FBMC communication system is illustrated in Fig. 3.2.
0 ≤ t < TNd + Tcp .
inserting CP and CS to the discrete-time input data symbols dk,l (m).
PSD of the transmitted DCP-OQAM/FBMC signal.
signal is a truncated version of the transmitted OQAM/FBMC signal.
and described in detail in the following section.
Fig. 3.3 An example of the ECP-OQAM/FBMC transmitter.
where Nb = 2, Nd = 4, α = 2, and Tcp = T/4.
dk,0 (5), dk,0 (6), dk,0 (7), dk,0 (0), dk,0 (1) to an OQAM/FBMC transmitter.
from Tcp = T/4 to 2Tcp /TT/2 = T/2.
the neighboring block 0, dk,0 (m), from the left side.
2Tcp /TT/2 ≥ Tcp .
is expected to be nearly as good as the transmitted OQAM/FBMC signal.
CS can be simply deleted and the remaining part is the same as that in the CPOQAM/FBMC communication system after deleting its CP at the receiver.
E sk (t)s*k (t − τ ) .
= E sk (t)s*k (t − τ ) δ(k − k ).
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Both Jackson and Walling authored a final confession the day before the hanging. Their letters were supposed to go to Governor William Bradley’s office. Walling admitted he’d asked his girlfriend, May Smith, if she knew of any physicians that performed abortions, as a favor to Jackson. Smith eventually said Dr. George Wagner performed those procedures in Bellevue, Kentucky. Walling and Jackson made the necessary arrangements with the physician and delivered his instructions to Bryan.
The two men, despite authoring individual confessions in separate rooms, created nearly identical statements. They said Dr. Wagner needed ergot because Pearl was in pain. Jackson visited the druggist Foertmeyer for a prescription of ergot. The medicine didn’t help. The two then said Dr. Wagner then injected her with a clear liquid and gave her some whiskey. She was dead within minutes. The autopsy proved Pearl had cocaine in her body at the time of her death, but neither of the convicted men knew about it.
Wagner decapitated her with a dissecting knife to hide her identity after they arrived in an empty field. There wasn’t hardly any blood because she was already dead. He wrapped her head in a cloak. He then drove Jackson and Walling back to Cincinnati where they went their separate ways. There was no cab driver.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t what the Newport police or public wanted to hear. Jackson didn’t admit guilt or exonerate Walling. Both of them dared to implicate a physician. Even the druggist Foertmeyer supported filling the prescription for ergot.
Rumors of Wagner’s involvement weren’t as new to the case as the police pretended. The defense subpoenaed Wagner’s wife and two daughters before either trial, but they were never called. Shortly after Pearl’s body was found, Dr. Wagner was stricken with a mystifying case of insanity and admitted himself to the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic Asylum. The mysterious ailment was something no attending physician could diagnose, but fortunately it disappeared just as magically after both trials were over. He didn’t have to answer to or for anything. He was released after the trials, just in time to refute any lingering allegations.
Wagner denied association with any person in the case and claimed he had not been on agreeable terms with the druggist Foertmeyer for a long time. He claimed he never had prescriptions filled at Foertmeyer’s drugstore. He said he was at his father-in-law’s home at the time of Bryan’s death, although he couldn’t provide exact dates to the authorities.
Walling’s girlfriend tried every way she could to help exonerate him. She even conceded to the authorities’ theory that Jackson was to blame. She also frequently contacted Governor Bradley in Walling’s favor. When the governor read the final confessions, Smith was there.
Hollingsworth was questioned early in the investigation, and some details seemed entirely factual. The rest, however, casts a serious doubt on her story. Her statements were a perfect reflection of the woefully bizarre judicature. It was never established, but Hollingsworth was suspected of being Jackson’s girlfriend.
Hollingsworth was a long-time friend of Bryan. The two met at the train station when she arrived. According to her, Bryan told her about her trouble. Hollingsworth instructed her to procure three different medicines in Greencastle, and a fourth in Cincinnati. She couldn’t recall the names of any of those drugs, but she remembered the fourth was a deadly poison that had to be administered precisely. She also remembered the sum of all the drugs was 45 cents. She said they visited four different pharmacies to find the right regimen, but she couldn’t recall the pharmacy names, either.
She eventually tried to appease the authorities and said Bryan told her she was pregnant by Jackson. She said no one was murdered, Bryan just overdosed. Friday morning, Bryan was already ill. Hollingsworth then said that Bryan requested she perform the abortion in the hotel stairway and she did. This is not true as Bryan was still pregnant when she was autopsied.
If Bryan actually took the other medications before she visited the physician, it is easy to see how additional drugs would’ve caused a lethal reaction or an overdose.
The authorities barred Jackson and Walling from having visitors the day before the execution. They also barred the media from interviews. This was most likely to cover their malfeasance.
Cincinnati detectives declared the doomed men’s final statements were as they expected because they blamed someone else. The authorities then had a case of convenient amnesia and stated Walling and Jackson should’ve stated those facts during trial, instead of waiting until the time of their execution. If the detectives had kept up with the case, they would’ve recalled that Wagner’s relatives were subpoenaed before the trials.
The mothers of the two convicted men were the most pitiable. Walling’s mother literally dropped to her knees in front of Pearl Bryan’s mother, Susan, and begged her to help get a new trial for her son. Susan Bryan ignored her. Pearl’s brother, Fred, said he would do everything he needed to do to prevent any meeting or communication between the mothers.
One of the strangest events was enacted by the relatives of Dr. Wagner. The night before the execution, Wagner’s relatives came to the gathering crowd as they awaited the execution. They distributed documents they claimed placed Wagner at his father-in-law’s. This was unprecedented, as both trials were over and the men were convicted. Perhaps Wagner felt the weight of guilt for what was really the murder of two innocent men.
Both Walling and Jackson were hanged on March 18, 1897. Rev. Lee counseled them prior to their execution. Walling pleaded for his life with the mayor and sheriff, but to no avail. Walling was certain something Jackson knew could save them both. In truth, nothing said would’ve saved either man. No document, statement, or evidence would have altered the case’s outcome.
When they stood on the scaffolding at the gallows, Jackson said, “I want to say before you all that Lon Walling is not guilty of murder.” Jackson then broke down and cried. Chaos broke out in the crowd, which had swelled to over 5,000 people. The public had pushed for a lynching for some time, despite a strong lack of motive or evidence.
Judge Helm allowed Jackson five minutes to compose himself. He said if Jackson allowed an innocent man to hang, he would have to answer for it before his maker. Jackson likely knew there was no hope for either of them, no matter what he said. Again, they were marched out to the gallows. They were asked for last words and both professed his innocence. The drops fell at 11:40 am. Both men were strangled.
The execution didn’t provide resolution. Over a century later, the crime lacks credible motive, method, and evidence. A prospective murderer would not have paraded his victim around a city for a week before the crime. If Jackson had been the true culprit, he wouldn’t have involved Walling or Woods, as they were witnesses.
As for Bryan, the authorities found her body in an old checked housecoat, an article exclusively for private use, which indeed supports the suspicion she was in a physician’s care. If she were riding in carriages and visiting saloons, as witnesses stated, she would have worn suitable clothing.
The body’s placement is also a mystery, as is the missing head. Many assumed her head was thrown into the river. If so, it only makes sense that her entire body would’ve been thrown in. Her head was removed by a medical professional, not a dental student. A surgical instrument was used, not a tool of dentistry.
One theory was that the body was planted on private property to encourage discovery. The authorities didn’t offer a formal cause of death at the time of the proceedings, although they said they performed an autopsy. Disposal of the body was done in a hurry, not by a calculating individual.
Another unusual aspect of the case was the trial’s placement. The trial occurred in Kentucky; however, Pearl was never actually seen in or going to Kentucky. She was last seen in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her body was dumped in a Kentucky field, but the authorities had no proof the “murder” actually occurred in that state.
Several publications during the 1890s were refreshingly critical of the proceedings. When most other newspapers accepted every word from authorities as gospel, a few dared to question.
Jackson and Walling were convicted before they ever went to trial. Many felt attorneys Lockhart and Nelson ceased to be mere prosecutors, and were Inquisitors, hell-bent on persecution regardless of guilt. Those attending the trial went for entertainment; they heckled and often physically attacked both Walling and Jackson. Three ladies, allegedly of society, obtained front row seats so they could kick Jackson when he passed them.
Judge Charles Helm, who presided over the trials, was called out for his woeful lack of jurisprudence. He single-handedly violated the principals and precedents of the court, and excluded anything that might aid the defense.
Jackson was convicted, not out of guilt, but because the press decided so. Sheriff Plummer exceeded his duties throughout the case. One of the most striking points critics never discovered answer for was the total lack of motive. Any criminal aspect of the case was committed by someone who feared to lose money or status, when Jackson and Walling had neither. Woods and Wagner both did. Rumors also circulated that the Bryan family bribed witnesses to secure convictions.
It is also food for thought that the overwhelming majority of officials involved in the case were Masons. The gallows was used once more around 1910. From that point on, there were no other hangings in Newport.
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Graduates of the TEFL Course in Peru, have ob offers right after completing the program! We offer lifetime job-finding assistance for all TEFL graduates. In Week 2 of the TEFL Course in Peru, there is a job-finding workshop where our TEFL Trainer coaches participants on writing a proper résumé/CV for the international marketplace and walks them through different job opportunities. Our Graduated Trainers act as an ongoing professional reference for teaching jobs now and in the future, and every TEFL graduate receives a letter of reference from the school.
The need for English teachers is growing and there are always opportunities available mainly in Cusco and Lima. Private institutes hire year-round, whereas K-12 schools, following the Latin American school year, tend to hire between January and February. TEFL graduates find opportunities working with all age groups in both private institutes and public school settings. Local students are eager to learn, yet easy going, making Peru a great choice for a first time English teacher! The low cost of living in Peru–where food, housing, transportation, and even travel are all cheap–means that an English teacher can enjoy a good life, even on a modest salary.
Once you’ve completed the TEFL Course in Peru, you can easily find the right TEFL job! We guarantee lifetime job placement assistance upon successful completion of the program. During your TEFL course in Peru, our instructor provides a full workshop on resume-building, job search, and various teaching opportunities all over the world. You can choose between teaching positions in private language schools, state schools, universities, businesses, hotels, kindergartens as well as private tutoring and voluntary work.
In Week 2 of the TEFL Course in Peru, there is a job-finding workshop where your TEFL Trainer coaches you on writing a proper résumé/CV for the international marketplace. Your trainer also walks the TEFL class through different job opportunities and what it’s like to live and work internationally. We provide lists of online resources with access to teaching jobs worldwide. Most importantly, your TEFL Trainer acts as an ongoing professional reference for teaching jobs now and in the future, and every TEFL graduate receives a letter of reference from The School. We make 3-5 job offers to our TEFL graduates every month.
Successfully graduate from our TEFL Course in Peru, be a native English speaker (or Native-like), preferably have a 4-year University Degree, be aged between 18 and 65, have a passport with at least 12 months remaining, and no criminal record.
Peru is geographically diverse with big cities, beautiful rural towns, and rustic, steamy jungles. Peru’s economic success and its popularity as a global tourist destination creates a huge need for English teachers. This beautiful country is located in the west central part of South America, and it is the 19th largest country in the world. It shares borders to the north with Ecuador, to the south with Chile and Bolivia, and to the east with Columbia and Brazil. Peru’s geography, climates, and cultures are very diverse due to the natural variation of its geography, which includes the Pacific coast, the Andes, and the Amazon Jungle.
Cusco, the historic capital of the Inca Empire, is nestled in the Andes Mountains at an altitude of 3,326 m (11,200 ft). Cusco is also the mecca of South America and is one of the most sought-out travel destinations in the world. The Cusco area offers some of the richest collections of architecture, ceramics, and textiles known to man. You can experience the history and culture still alive in the city today. Cusco is the gateway to the sanctuary city of Machu Picchu and one of the most spectacular highlights of South America, and while it’s a city of 400,000 people, the center of Cusco always feels small and historic.
Top attractions also include Las Maras Salt Mines constructed by a Pre-Inca civilization, and then economically exploited by the Incas; the Nazca Lines–more than one thousand geoglyphs mysteriously etched into the sands of the Nazca province; hiking a rainbow mountain; and of course the famous Inca trail leading to Machu Picchu.
The Cusco area offers some of the richest collections of architecture, ceramics, and textiles known to man. Program participants can experience the history and culture still alive in the city today. The highlight of any trip to Cusco is a visit to the lost city of Machu Picchu or a hike along the Inca Trail. Peru’s culture is influenced by several ethnicities, first being the Spanish since the inquisition. Mestizos, or mixed Spanish and native, come second; Natives come in third; while Afro-Peruvians come in fourth. The late twentieth century brought about a large Asian-Peruvian community consisting of mostly Chinese and Japanese immigrants. A major influence of the cultures was on the cuisine, which is now globally renowned. Ingredients mostly consist of traditional indigenous and Spanish staples, but with the immigration of the Chinese, Peru was introduced to spices such as ginger and soy sauce, and that’s how Chifa was invented. African influence can be found in dishes like kebabs.
The School in Peru is just a 3-block walk from Cusco’s Plaza de Armas, found right in the historical center and is just across the street from Q’oricancha—the holiest site in the entire Incan Empire. You’ll meet many international students with lots of opportunity to practice your Spanish. With large common areas, the institute is a wonderful gathering place for travelers from all over the world. Machu Pikchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a mountain ridge 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region, Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District in Peru, above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest of Cuzco and through which the Urubamba River flows.
The Incas built the estate around 1450 but abandoned it a century later at the time of the Spanish Conquest. Although known locally, it was not known to the Spanish during the colonial period and remained unknown to the outside world until American historian Hiram Bingham brought it to international attention in 1911. Machu Picchu was built in the classical Inca style, with polished dry-stone walls. Its three primary structures are the Intihuatana, the Temple of the Sun, and the Room of the Three Windows. Most of the outlying buildings have been reconstructed in order to give tourists a better idea of how they originally appeared. By 1976, thirty percent of Machu Picchu had been restored and restoration continues. Machu Picchu was declared a Peruvian Historic Sanctuary in 1981 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a worldwide Internet poll.
BY AIR: Cusco’s airport is located about 15 minutes outside the centre of Cusco. There are currently no direct international flights to Cusco with the exception of some flights from La Paz in Bolivia with, so you will most likely have to make some sort of transit stop in Lima, Peru’s capital before flying on to any of Lima’s 29 international destinations. Flights from Lima to Cusco are an hour long. The same airlines also offer flights to Puerto Maldonado and Arequipa if you plan on visiting other parts of Peru during your trip. Cusco airport is small but does have internet access, a few basic cafes and souvenir shops and a VIP lounge.
Cusco’s city center is easy to navigate on foot and everything is within a 15-20 minute walk. Public buses and taxis are also available at very low prices to get to the outer parts of the city. Taxis and ‘collectivos’ are commonly used when traveling outside of Cusco to the Sacred Valley. Private transportation and buses are available for travel to Arequipa and Lima, the Amazon, the Pacific Coast, or to Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile. Rental cars are available on a limited basis.
Public transit: Cusco’s public transit runs from 6am to 9pm and costs less than 0.85 USD. If you plan to ride transit, be sure to carry cash and small coins. Large notes or foreign currency won’t be accepted.
Taxi: The most popular taxi company is Taxi Turismo Cusco. If you’re hailing one off the street, look for the taxis with board signs on the roof, rather than independent, unmarked drivers. You’ll need to confirm the rate before accepting the ride.
Sightseeing buses: If you’re suffering from sore feet, you can also see the city from a sightseeing bus. Cusco Panorámico Servicio Especial has departures from morning through to late afternoon, with each tour lasting just over an hour.
Due to Cusco’s elevation, temperatures range from a low of 1°C (34°F) at night to a high of 21°C (70°F) during the day. ‘Green season’ is from November to April, and ‘dry season’ is from May to October with June being the coldest month of the year. The weather in Cusco during May-November (Dry Season) is sunny, warm days and cold, clear nights. In December-April (Rainy Season) intermittent rain and sun during the day with mild, rainy nights. The weather in Lima during May-October is cool, foggy days and cool nights. In November-April hot, sunny days and humid nights.
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All year round, Cusco and its surrounding towns celebrate a mix of Inca and Catholic holidays, providing visitors with a variety of different cultural activities to experience. The Cusco area offers a plethora of historical sites. Most commonly, people like to explore the Sacred Valley, Lake Titicaca, and of course Machu Picchu.
Housing assistance for your TEFL Course in Peru can be either with local families, independent residences, local hotels and more!
Student residences are managed houses where you live with other international students. Both private and shared rooms are available. Breakfast and dinner are included 7 days per week. *Student Residences are available for groups only .
Student Residence: Private 4 WEEKS $855USD. EXTRA WEEK $210 USD.
Apartment: Private 4 WEEKS $495 USD.
Hostel: Private 4 WEEKS $715 USD. EXTRA WEEK $185 USD.
Hostel: Shared 4 WEEKS $270 USD. EXTRA WEEK $70 USD.
Hotel: Private 4 WEEKS $2,105 USD. EXTRA WEEK $545 USD.
Hotel: Shared 4 WEEKS $965 USD. EXTRA WEEK $250 USD.
Some students prefer to use Airbnb instead, (visit https://www.airbnb.com), to arrange their own accommodation while taking the course in Peru. You can find housing in apartments, hostels, or single rooms at very affordable prices. The benefits of using this App is that you get to see different photos, read reviews of the place, a map to see the distance from the school, and you can talk to the owner directly.
What are the requirements to teach English in Peru?
Expenses vary depending on accommodations, personal preferences, and free time activities. Participants should consider snacks, drinks, toiletries, medications, travel, social activities, and emergencies. Note that host families include meals, but not snacks. The table below includes estimates of local prices to help plan your budget. Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere in Peru, though very small stores and markets may not accept them. ATMs are very accessible throughout Cusco. Lunch meals can cost between $3-$8 USD and dinner from $10- $30 USD, or you can buy groceries for about $50 USD. Transportation is less than $1 USD/ride and taxis can cost between $3-$6 USD.
Does you provide TEFL job placement assistance in Peru?
Housing assistance is available free of charge for those interested and can be either in shared housing, independent living, in local hotels/hostels, Airbnb or with local families.
Yes, the TEFL course in Cusco is accredited by the Ministry of Education in Peru.
Where can I teach upon graduation of the TEFL Course in Peru?
How do I apply for my Tourist Visa to take the TEFL Course in Peru?
You should apply for a 90-day Tourist Passport or Visa from the Peruvian Embassy or Consulate in your home country. This can normally be handled by post within a few days and is not expensive. You will not need any documentation from us to support an application for such a visa. Your passport must be valid for six months beyond the date of entry into Peru, and you must be able to obtain a police clearance certificate from your home country if you wish to work in certain countries. Most people from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand do not need special travel visas to enter Peru. Citizens from these countries usually receive a 90 to 180 day tourist visa upon entering the country. If you are unsure in your particular case, please consult with your destination country’s local embassy for confirmation.
Check here if your passport would grant you access to Peru with no Visa.
What type of activities are there in Peru?
There are many activities to do around Peru! These include cooking demonstrations, snorkeling, salsa dancing, hiking and more!
Are there Volunteering Opportunities in Peru?
Yes, Peru has many volunteer opportunities! We have had several of our students go on to participate in and really enjoy volunteering before or after the TEFL Course in Peru. Let us know in advance if you are interested so we suggest a few options.
Yes-of course! Airport pick-up is included in all of our programs. The School’s professional drivers meet you outside of baggage claim as you exit the airport-just look for the yellow smiley face flag. You receive a Welcome Folder detailing your accommodations, orientation time, and our Emergency contact numbers. Depending on your time of arrival, you come to the School or go directly to your accommodations. Your orientation includes specific details about your program, a health and safety review, and a short walking tour to be sure you’re familiar with the area around the School. During your orientation, you also take a Spanish placement exam.
Is Peru a safe country?
No. The TEFL Course in Peru are designed to be inexpensive and to provide you with the most flexibility possible. We do everything we can to ensure your program abroad is safe and that you have a great experience; however, we strongly recommend medical insurance to every participant in case of emergencies and unforeseen problems or accidents.
Spending money depends on your personal spending habits. It’s important to have money for personal expenses, sightseeing, souvenirs, etc. Generally speaking, we recommend bringing between $50 to $100 per week (USD). All major credit cards are accepted, though a little cash is always good to have on hand as small stores and shops in rural areas may not accept credit cards. The best method for getting money is to simply use ATMs-most banks offer easy ATM access and you can withdraw both dollars and local currency.
What is the Suggested Packing List for Peru?
The locals are quite conservative. Be sure to bring long pants, conservative length shorts, and t-shirts. Short skirts or shorts, small tank tops, and other revealing clothing may attract unwanted attention. The following is optional: Laptop computer (optional), Tablet, Notebook, pen and Spanish-English dictionary.
We believe an important part of any program abroad is to get out and take part in sightseeing and local events. Travel plans are easy to arrange through our on-site travel partners. In Peru, there is plenty to see and do including cultural events, tours, treks, mountain biking, and outdoor markets.
Our programs show you how to effectively teach English to non-native speakers and equip you with the tools and experience needed to be successful in the ESL classroom. You will come away from your TEFL training with a thorough grounding in both the theoretical and practical concepts required for teaching English to non-native speakers including: Speaking, Reading, Writing, Listening, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Pronunciation. The TEFL Course in Peru is a 12-Module course that provides you with an important set of competencies required to effectively teach English to second language learners.
Participants in the TEFL Course in Peru are continually assessed throughout the program. There are no written examinations, but there are 2 required academic papers and a course portfolio. Class attendance is required.
Yes! The whole world wants to learn English. People everywhere, especially young people, recognize that speaking English is their passport to better academic opportunities and a more successful career. Worldwide, there are many more ESL jobs than there are native-speaking ESL teachers to fill them, and this means that TEFL certified teachers are in very high demand in every part of the world. English teaching jobs are found in every country and in virtually every region of the world-Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. There is also high demand for professional ESL instructors in English-speaking countries such as the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Yes-of course! We’re always happy to hire our talented, hard-working graduates of the TEFL Course in Peru.
Yes. There are many opportunities for long-term permanent positions and for advancement into management, such as Director of Studies, Institute Director, and other administrative and executive positions. Other possibilities include teacher training (TEFL Instructor) and materials and curriculum development. In Latin America, ESL teacher salaries can appear very low at first, but remember the cost of living in Peru is very inexpensive. Most ESL teachers can earn enough to pay for a decent apartment (shared) and enough to cover food and other normal expenses, and travel by public transportation. Note that frugal teachers can likely save between $50 to $100 per month, but this depends a great deal on your personal spending habits. Note that private classes are often a great source of extra income for ESL teachers. However, you must be careful to know the rules of the institute you’re working for, because many schools prohibit their teachers from teaching outside students.
Is a university degree required for the TEFL Course in Peru?
We do not require a college degree to enter our TEFL Course in Peru. The most important qualification is the TEFL certificate itself. However, you may find resistance by some employers if you do not have at least a 2-year college degree. As well, especially in Asia and the Middle East, good ESL jobs require at least a bachelor’s degree. That said, with a TEFL certificate, it is certainly possible to find work without a university degree, especially in South America and other developing regions.
Please note that all TEFL program participants MUST bring clothes for teaching classes. Whereas the dress code is casual during the TEFL Course in Peru, the Practical Teaching requires you to dress like a teacher, because you are teaching live English classes-this means well pressed slacks, skirt, or dress, nice collar shirt or sweater, and dress shoes.
Yes, our professional drivers meet you outside of baggage claim as you exit the airport; simply find the yellow smiley face flag. You receive a Welcome Folder detailing your accommodations, orientation time, and our Emergency contact numbers. Depending on your time of arrival, you come to the institute or go directly to your accommodations.
The TEFL Course in Peru is programmed from 9:00AM to 4:00PM Monday-Friday with additional work after regular class hours and assigned reading each night. As part of the course, you begin teaching right away, and every Friday and Monday are reserved for teaching practice, which takes place in 20-minute mini lessons, including feedback from your TEFL Trainer.
At the end of the course, please take the time leave us your feedback card. Client service is important to us and we take your feedback very seriously—it helps us improve our TEFL Course in Peru so that future participants continue to have a great experience during their TEFL Course in Peru. In the evening, we celebrate graduation with our “TEFL Toast,” good food, and drinks; and everyone receives their official TEFL certificate.
We have lots of large common areas to hang out and meet up with friends and other interns. At the institute, there is free WiFi, a computer lounge, free Spanish tutoring, and free coffee and tea. During your program, you should definitely take part in the free Tandem Conversation Program to further improve your Spanish. Every month we have a calendar of free activities including salsa dance classes, cooking lessons, movie night, and so on. Travel and excursions are easy to arrange.
By taking our TEFL Course in Peru, you receive so much more than a TEFL Certificate and job contacts worldwide, you will get priceless experiences! Your classmates will be a fun mix of people of all ages and professions, from all over the world, creating unforgettable friendships and enjoying the endless surprises that Cusco has to offer.
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In mid-October 2008, even as the Reserve Bank was dousing the system with rupee and forex liquidity, Finance Minister (P) Chidambaram had suo moto constituted a committee on liquidity management, with Finance Secretary Arun Ramanathan as the chairman. The Reserve Bank was asked to nominate a representative on the committee. I was annoyed and upset by this decision. Chidambaram had clearly overstepped into the RBI turf as liquidity management is a quintessential central bank function. Not only did he not consult me, but he had not even informed me of this before the notification was issued. Coming as it did amidst a lot of suspicion in those early weeks of my tenure that I was a government lackey sent to the Reserve Bank to act at the government’s bidding, the constitution of this committee only reinforced the view.
I called up Chidambaram and let him know in unequivocal terms that his action was totally inappropriate, and requested firmly that he dissolve the committee. His argument was that when liquidity management was such a central concern, getting advice from external market participants would help us understand and respond to the ground reality in the market faster and better. I granted that, but if he wanted external experience to be tapped, he could have advised me informally to constitute such a committee rather than taking the Reserve Bank for granted. The call ended with my telling him that the Reserve Bank would not participate in the committee. This skirmish with Chidambaram, who I believed pushed my candidature for the governor’s job, so early in my tenure upset me a lot. Little did I know that this set the tone for what would be an uneasy relationship between us in the last year of my term.
There was constant and decidedly unhelpful friction between the ministry of finance, under both Pranab Mukherjee and later Chidambaram, and the Reserve Bank on what the government saw as the Reserve Bank’s unduly hawkish stance on interest rates, totally unmindful of growth concerns. The distilled version of their argument went as follows. All the government’s efforts to kickstart the supply response in the economy were being stymied by the high-interest regime of the Reserve Bank. If only the Reserve Bank relaxed on the interest rate, investment would take off and launch the economy into a virtuous cycle of increasing growth and declining inflation.
When Chidambaram was asked in a media interaction in July 2013 why he was frustrated with the Reserve Bank when all it was doing was pursuing its mandate of price stability, he admitted that the Reserve Bank’s mandate was indeed price stability but that ‘mandate must be understood as part of a larger mandate of promoting growth’. The clear implication was that the Reserve Bank was mistaken in interpreting its mandate.
I believe both Pranab Mukherjee and Chidambaram had erred in seeing the Reserve Bank as being fixated on inflation, unmindful of growth concerns. On the contrary, the Reserve Bank interprets its mandate exactly as Chidambaram had said, although not as he implied. The Reserve Bank was targeting price stability precisely because it is a necessary condition for sustained growth….
The burden of my argument both in the public domain as well as internally to the government was that the Reserve Bank was running a tight monetary policy not because it did not care for growth but because it did care for growth. But the government remained unpersuaded or chose to be unpersuaded.
In order to defend his position vis-a-vis the Reserve Bank and possibly to sound a conciliatory note, in a media conference in July 2013, Chidambaram had generalized this divide between governments and central banks by saying that ‘governments are for growth and central banks are for price stability’. This stereotyping was misinformed not only with reference to India but even from a broader experience….
Although the high-interest-rate regime would be the main area of difference between the government and the Reserve Bank, there were other issues that stoked the friction even deeper.
One such issue which was almost always a point of contention in my pre-policy meeting with the finance minister was the estimate for growth that the Reserve Bank would be putting out in its policy document. The government’s pet peeve was that the Reserve Bank was being too cynical in its forecasts. Either the secretary of economic affairs or the chief economic adviser (CEA) would contest our estimate with their assumptions and estimates which I thought were par for the course. What used to irritate me, though, was that almost seamlessly the discussion would move from objective arguments to subjective considerations, with one of the senior officers suggesting that the Reserve Bank must project a higher growth rate and a lower inflation rate in order to share responsibility with the government for ‘shoring up sentiment’. Finance Secretary Arvind Mayaram went to the extent of saying in one meeting that ‘whereas everywhere else in the world, governments and central banks are cooperating, here in India the Reserve Bank is being very recalcitrant’.
I was invariably discomfited and annoyed by these objections and insinuations. I was also often dismayed that the ministry of finance would seek a higher estimate for growth while simultaneously arguing for a softer stance on interest rate without seeing the obvious inconsistency between these two demands. I used to take a consistent and firm position that the Reserve Bank cannot deviate from its best professional judgement just to doctor public sentiment….
Another constant source of friction used to be the position taken by the Reserve Bank on the government’s fiscal stance. The government’s large fiscal deficit was one of the prime drivers of inflation, and its inability to roll back expenditure undermined the Reserve Bank’s anti-inflation stance. There was no way the Reserve Bank could tell a credible inflation story without pointing this out. The finance ministry used to be irritated by the Reserve Bank making an issue out of its fiscal stance, and Pranab Mukherjee was always miffed about it; he clearly showed it even though he never said anything. But for me, skirting around this issue was neither appropriate nor advisable.
It was my standard practice to apprise the prime minister too of our statement on the government’s fiscal stance. He understood the economic logic but always seemed uncomfortable with the Reserve Bank pointing it out. He never intervened directly with me, but in early 2012, he told Rangarajan, the chairman of his Economic Advisory Council and my former boss when I was secretary to the council, to convey to me that he did not expect Subbarao, ‘who was finance secretary in the government and understood its political compulsions’ to take such a strident stand on the fiscal stance. I certainly had sympathy for this point of view but was unwilling and unable to show any accommodation….
There is a price to pay, of course, for not falling in line. The government has several ways of showing its displeasure, and the way it chose to do so with me was by going against my recommendations in the reappointment of deputy governors in the Bank.
As the head of the Reserve Bank, enjoined with a public responsibility, the governor should have the privilege of selecting his team just as the prime minister has the prerogative of choosing his Cabinet. There is no question, of course, that under law, it is the government that has the authority to appoint the governor and deputy governors of the Reserve Bank. There are rules about eligibility and tenure, which have to be complied with, and the system of selection has to be fair, transparent and contestable. Within that framework, a healthy convention should be to defer to the governor’s recommendation on the appointment of deputy governors. That privilege was denied to me.
R Gopalan, called one evening to say that the finance minister had approved the constitution of a committee to select Usha’s successor. I was pained that even if the government had decided to deviate from the standard practice of consulting the governor on the reappointment of an incumbent, they had not even told me about it before constituting a selection committee. There was speculation that Pranab Mukherjee was irked by some regulatory decision taken on Usha’s watch which, of course, came on top of his general unhappiness with me.
I sought a meeting with Pranab Mukherjee — incidentally one of only two occasions when I met him one-on-one — and requested that Usha be reappointed because of her competence, track record and because she met the eligibility criteria for reappointment. He knew that he could not call into question Usha’s competence or track record; it would have been presumptuous on his part to override my judgement on this issue with his own. He pleaded rules instead, but I was prepared for that point. I told him that the government had reappointed Shyamala Gopinath, another deputy governor, an identical case, under the same rule, and added for effect that he was the finance minister who had approved it. He didn’t budge and Usha became a part of the price we had to pay for asserting the autonomy of the Reserve Bank.
We had a replay of the same story in the case of reappointment of Subir Gokarn whose three-year tenure as deputy governor was expiring in December 2012. By this time, Chidambaram had returned as finance minister. As early as in August 2012, I requested Chidambaram to reappoint Subir for two more years and told him and that I would send a formal recommendation accordingly. I reiterated the request in October 2012. Chidambaram was clearly disinclined to accede.
The reason he gave was that all of us who entered the Reserve Bank laterally had become hostage to the technocrats in the Reserve Bank and the government felt it necessary to bring some fresh thinking into the Reserve Bank. He was firm that we should go through a de novo selection process.
I reminded him that according to the rules framed by none other than him, Subir was eligible for reappointment; the question of opening up the position to other candidates would arise only if Subir was not recommended by the governor, which obviously was not the case. Chidambaram did not budge and insisted that we go through a process of selection. He agreed though that Subir could be considered by the selection committee along with other candidates.
The selection committee, under my chairmanship, went through the due process and agreed on a panel of three candidates, with Subir Gokarn at the top of the list. A couple of days later, P K Misra, secretary of the Department of Personnel, who was also a member of the selection committee, called me up to say that the minutes had to be redrafted since the rules did not allow for the committee to rank candidates in order of preference. I was surprised because he, as the ‘minder of rules’, had not said so when we met in the committee. I told him that I could not agree to the redrafting of the minutes through a bilateral, oral arrangement and that we should follow the due process. He should write to me explaining the rule position, then we should reconvene the committee to review the decision, and if agreed, dispense with the ranking. I did not hear from him again on this.
Subir’s tenure was coming to an end on 31 December 2012. But even after Christmas, there was no news from the government. I was hoping that since his name was on top of the list, the finance minister would, even if reluctantly, acquiesce. We had a farewell function planned on 31 December to bid farewell to a couple of senior officers who were superannuating that day. My staff asked if we should cover Subir too under this farewell. I said ‘no’ in the hope that the reappointment would come through literally even at the eleventh hour. In the event, I underestimated Chidambaram’s desire to bring ‘fresh thinking’ into the Reserve Bank. Later that afternoon, we got the news that Subir’s appointment was not being renewed.
Another mischievous, if also clumsy, attempt by the government to assault the autonomy of the Reserve Bank came by way of appointing the directors on the central board of the Bank. As per law, it is the government’s prerogative to appoint the directors but the law also guarantees the directors so appointed a four-year term. In other words, the government cannot recall any director at will during the four-year tenure. Presumably, the intent behind this provision was to ensure that the directors acted independently without any threat of the government ‘showing its displeasure’ by terminating their appointment.
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COMPARTMENTS Experimental Protein Localization Evidence Scores cellular components containing APOB protein in low- or high-throughput protein localization assays from the COMPARTMENTS Experimental Protein Localization Evidence Scores dataset.
COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores cellular components co-occuring with APOB protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores dataset.
COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles cell lines with high or low copy number of APOB gene relative to other cell lines from the COSMIC Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset.
COSMIC Cell Line Gene Mutation Profiles cell lines with APOB gene mutations from the COSMIC Cell Line Gene Mutation Profiles dataset.
CTD Gene-Chemical Interactions chemicals interacting with APOB gene/protein from the curated CTD Gene-Chemical Interactions dataset.
CTD Gene-Disease Associations diseases associated with APOB gene/protein from the curated CTD Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
dbGAP Gene-Trait Associations traits associated with APOB gene in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the dbGAP Gene-Trait Associations dataset.
DISEASES Curated Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores diseases involving APOB gene from the DISEASES Curated Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores dataset.
DISEASES Experimental Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores diseases associated with APOB gene in GWAS datasets from the DISEASES Experimental Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores dataset.
DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores diseases co-occuring with APOB gene in abstracts of biomedical publications from the DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores dataset.
ENCODE Histone Modification Site Profiles histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at APOB gene from the ENCODE Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset.
ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles transcription factor binding site profiles with transcription factor binding evidence at the promoter of APOB gene from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Binding Site Profiles dataset.
ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets transcription factors binding the promoter of APOB gene in ChIP-seq datasets from the ENCODE Transcription Factor Targets dataset.
ESCAPE Omics Signatures of Genes and Proteins for Stem Cells PubMedIDs of publications reporting gene signatures containing APOB from the ESCAPE Omics Signatures of Genes and Proteins for Stem Cells dataset.
GAD Gene-Disease Associations diseases associated with APOB gene in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the GAD Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
GAD High Level Gene-Disease Associations diseases associated with APOB gene in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the GAD High Level Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
GDSC Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles cell lines with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other cell lines from the GDSC Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations biological terms co-occuring with APOB gene in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.
GeneSigDB Published Gene Signatures PubMedIDs of publications reporting gene signatures containing APOB from the GeneSigDB Published Gene Signatures dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Diseases disease perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Diseases dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Gene Perturbations gene perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Gene Perturbations dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Kinase Perturbations kinase perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Kinase Perturbations dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules small molecule perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Transcription Factor Perturbations transcription factor perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Transcription Factor Perturbations dataset.
GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Viral Infections virus perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the GEO Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Viral Infections dataset.
GO Biological Process Annotations biological processes involving APOB gene from the curated GO Biological Process Annotations dataset.
GO Cellular Component Annotations cellular components containing APOB protein from the curated GO Cellular Component Annotations dataset.
GO Molecular Function Annotations molecular functions performed by APOB gene from the curated GO Molecular Function Annotations dataset.
GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles tissues with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles tissue samples with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other tissue samples from the GTEx Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
GWAS Catalog SNP-Phenotype Associations phenotypes associated with APOB gene in GWAS datasets from the GWAS Catalog SNP-Phenotype Associations dataset.
GWASdb SNP-Disease Associations diseases associated with APOB gene in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the GWASdb SNP-Disease Associations dataset.
GWASdb SNP-Phenotype Associations phenotypes associated with APOB gene in GWAS datasets from the GWASdb SNP-Phenotype Associations dataset.
Heiser et al., PNAS, 2011 Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles cell lines with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other cell lines from the Heiser et al., PNAS, 2011 Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
HMDB Metabolites of Enzymes interacting metabolites for APOB protein from the curated HMDB Metabolites of Enzymes dataset.
HPA Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles cell lines with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other cell lines from the HPA Cell Line Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
HPA Tissue Gene Expression Profiles tissues with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other tissues from the HPA Tissue Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
HPA Tissue Protein Expression Profiles tissues with high or low expression of APOB protein relative to other tissues from the HPA Tissue Protein Expression Profiles dataset.
HPA Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles tissue samples with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other tissue samples from the HPA Tissue Sample Gene Expression Profiles dataset.
HPO Gene-Disease Associations phenotypes associated with APOB gene by mapping known disease genes to disease phenotypes from the HPO Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
Hub Proteins Protein-Protein Interactions interacting hub proteins for APOB from the curated Hub Proteins Protein-Protein Interactions dataset.
HuGE Navigator Gene-Phenotype Associations phenotypes associated with APOB gene by text-mining GWAS publications from the HuGE Navigator Gene-Phenotype Associations dataset.
InterPro Predicted Protein Domain Annotations protein domains predicted for APOB protein from the InterPro Predicted Protein Domain Annotations dataset.
JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets transcription factors regulating expression of APOB gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Transcription Factor Targets dataset.
Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles cell lines with high or low copy number of APOB gene relative to other cell lines from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene CNV Profiles dataset.
Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene Mutation Profiles cell lines with APOB gene mutations from the Klijn et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 2015 Cell Line Gene Mutation Profiles dataset.
LINCS L1000 CMAP Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules small molecule perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the LINCS L1000 CMAP Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Small Molecules dataset.
LOCATE Predicted Protein Localization Annotations cellular components predicted to contain APOB protein from the LOCATE Predicted Protein Localization Annotations dataset.
MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets transcription factors regulating expression of APOB gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the MotifMap Predicted Transcription Factor Targets dataset.
MPO Gene-Phenotype Associations phenotypes of transgenic mice caused by APOB gene mutations from the MPO Gene-Phenotype Associations dataset.
MSigDB Cancer Gene Co-expression Modules co-expressed genes for APOB from the MSigDB Cancer Gene Co-expression Modules dataset.
MSigDB Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Cancer Gene Perturbations gene perturbations changing expression of APOB gene from the MSigDB Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Cancer Gene Perturbations dataset.
OMIM Gene-Disease Associations phenotypes associated with APOB gene from the curated OMIM Gene-Disease Associations dataset.
Pathway Commons Protein-Protein Interactions interacting proteins for APOB from the Pathway Commons Protein-Protein Interactions dataset.
PID Pathways pathways involving APOB protein from the PID Pathways dataset.
Reactome Pathways pathways involving APOB protein from the Reactome Pathways dataset.
Roadmap Epigenomics Cell and Tissue DNA Methylation Profiles cell types and tissues with high or low DNA methylation of APOB gene relative to other cell types and tissues from the Roadmap Epigenomics Cell and Tissue DNA Methylation Profiles dataset.
Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles histone modification site profiles with high histone modification abundance at APOB gene from the Roadmap Epigenomics Histone Modification Site Profiles dataset.
TargetScan Predicted Conserved microRNA Targets microRNAs regulating expression of APOB gene predicted using conserved miRNA seed sequences from the TargetScan Predicted Conserved microRNA Targets dataset.
TargetScan Predicted Nonconserved microRNA Targets microRNAs regulating expression of APOB gene predicted using nonconserved miRNA seed sequences from the TargetScan Predicted Nonconserved microRNA Targets dataset.
TCGA Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Tumors tissue samples with high or low expression of APOB gene relative to other tissue samples from the TCGA Signatures of Differentially Expressed Genes for Tumors dataset.
TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores tissues with high expression of APOB protein from the TISSUES Curated Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores dataset.
TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores tissues with high expression of APOB protein in proteomics datasets from the TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores dataset.
TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores tissues co-occuring with APOB protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores dataset.
TRANSFAC Curated Transcription Factor Targets transcription factors binding the promoter of APOB gene in low- or high-throughput transcription factor functional studies from the TRANSFAC Curated Transcription Factor Targets dataset.
TRANSFAC Predicted Transcription Factor Targets transcription factors regulating expression of APOB gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the TRANSFAC Predicted Transcription Factor Targets dataset.
Wikipathways Pathways pathways involving APOB protein from the Wikipathways Pathways dataset.
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https://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Harmonizome/gene/APOB
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In 1517, Martin Luther posted a list of 95 Theses on his church’s doors. His actions exposed the corruption of the Catholic Church and started what came to be known as the Protestant Reformation.
Between the hours of 9 PM Saturday, February 16 and 9 AM Sunday, February 17, 2013, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and others will post this list of 95 LDS Theses onto the doors of LDS churches around the world.
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1. The primary translation method occurred by Joseph Smith putting his face in a hat and reading a rock known as a seer stone. Despite this, the Church frequently misrepresents the method Joseph used to translate.
2. There is no archaeological evidence of the Book of Mormon, a fact that seriously undermines its authenticity claims.
3. The Book of Mormon is filled with anachronisms that also damage credibility as a Divine record.
4. DNA evidence shows that Native Americans do not come from Middle Eastern heritage. Recently, the Church changed its claim that “the Lamanites are the principal ancestors of the American Indians” to the Lamanites “are among the ancestors of the American Indians”.
5. Many Book of Mormon names and places are strikingly similar to local name and places that Joseph Smith would have been familiar with. Such a resemblance is too close to be a coincidence.
6. The Book of Mormon teaches a Trinitarian view of the Godhead. Joseph Smith’s early theology also held this view.
7. Rather than translating with Divine help, evidence supports that Joseph Smith plagiarized a significant portion of the Book of Mormon from the Bible, Ethan Smith’s View of the Hebrews and other books contemporary to Joseph’s time.
8. For a book Joseph Smith claimed to be “the most correct of any book on earth,” it is suspicious that the text has undergone nearly 4,000 changes. Most of the changes, apologists argue, are small grammatical or punctuation fixes. However, there have been significant doctrinal revisions as well.
9. The Book of Mormon includes Biblical passages that were later changed in Joseph Smith’s translation of the Bible. These Book of Mormon verses should match the inspired JST version instead of the KJV version that Joseph later revised.
10. The story of Laban in First Nephi illustrates that God’s command must invariably be followed, even if it means committing murder. This is a dangerous message that inspires religious extremism.
11. The Book of Mormon quotes Bible verses written after 600 B.C. In other words, these passages didn’t yet exist when Lehi left Jerusalem.
12. Despite Joseph’s claim that this record was written by Abraham “by his own hand upon papyrus”, scholars have found the original papyrus Joseph translated and have dated it in first century AD, nearly 2,000 years after Abraham could have written it.
13. Egyptologists have found the source material for the Book of Abraham to be nothing more than a common funerary text. Joseph was completely wrong in his translation.
15. Joseph was fooled into thinking the Kinderhook plates were ancient records and even attempted to translate them. This demonstrates that he had no real gifts of translation or Divine revelation.
16. Joseph Smith showed his ineptitude for translation when he declared a Greek Psalter to be Egyptian hieroglyphics.
17. Joseph Smith illegally married at least 33 women, some of whom were as young as 14 years old. Some of Joseph’s marriages were secured by promising salvation or threatening damnation.
18. Joseph Smith married at least 8 to 11 women who were already married to other men . This practice is known as polyandry, for which no reference can be found on the Church’s web site. In some cases, Joseph married the wives of men whom he had sent away on missions. Brigham Young also married other men’s wives.
19. It is known that Joseph Smith practiced polygamy, but it is also true that Joseph was accused of sexual impropriety multiple times in several states before the practice of polygamy was revealed and commanded.
20. Joseph Smith and a young woman named Fanny Alger engaged in what Oliver Cowdery called “a dirty, nasty, filthy affair”. Even if Joseph married Fanny as is claimed, he would have had no civil or spiritual authority to do so.
21. Leaders of the Church, starting with Joseph Smith, systematically lied about practicing polygamy. Even recent leadershave been deceptive about when and why polygamy was practiced.
22. Joseph Smith routinely lied to his wife Emma about his extra-monogamous activities, often making her feel alone, abused and foolish. Why would God reveal a commandment to His prophet that would require such deception?
23. In 1886, John Taylor received a revelation regarding the practice of plural marriage. In the revelation, the Lord told Taylor “I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting.” Four years later, Wilford Woodruff contradicted Taylor’s revelation by issuing the 1890 Manifesto.
24. The Church historically lied and presently still lies in telling the membership and outside media that polygamy ended in1890. In actuality, Church-sanctioned and performed plural marriages continued until 1904 and beyond.
25. Jacob 2:24 reads, “Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.” D&C 132:38-39 reads, “David also received many wives and concubines, and also Solomon … and in nothing did they sin save in those things which they received not of me. David’s wives and concubines were given unto him of me.” This is one example of many scriptural inconsistencies in LDS canon.
26. The Church allowed an adulterer, Richard Lyman, to serve as an apostle for 18 years before excommunicating him. Although it appears that fellow members of the quorum did not know about Lyman’s adultery, these “prophets, seers, and revelators” should have had the spirit of discernment to know of Lyman’s unworthiness.
27. Doctrine & Covenants 121:36 teaches that “the rights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the powers of heaven”, and can be “handled only upon the principles of righteousness.” Given this fact, ordinances performed unrighteously (such as those by Apostle Lyman for 18 years) should not be acceptable in the eyes of God or the Church. However, such ordinances are rarely, if ever, re-performed.
28. In defiance of God’s command to not join any churches, Joseph Smith tried to join the Methodist Church.
29. Joseph Smith told multiple different versions of the events surrounding the First Vision. He waffled on key details including when it happened and what he saw.
30. The First Vision was not taught in church until at least 12 years after it happened. Why would such a miraculous event not be shared at the outset?
31. Between the time of the First Vision and the translation of the Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith was convicted of fraud for taking clients’ money under false claims that he could detect the whereabouts of hidden treasure.
32. Several early accounts published by the Church claim that the angel who visited Joseph Smith was Nephi. This confusion calls into question the veracity of an actual angelic visit.
33. Given its dimensions and weight, the Gold Plates would have been quite difficult to transport. So the story of Josephescaping from attackers while carrying the plates is far-fetched.
34. The Church uses the testimony of the Three and Eight Witnesses to support the authenticity of the Gold Plates. But there are significant problems with these testimonies, including that one of the witnesses claimed to see the plates only with “spiritual eyes“.
35. Brigham Young claimed that there was a cave located at the Hill Cumorah containing “wagon loads” of ancient records “piled up in the corners and along the walls”. No such cave has ever been found.
36. Although the Priesthood is now taught to have been restored in 1829, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery made no such claim until at least 1834. Why did it take five years for Joseph to tell members of the Church about the Priesthood?
37. The name of the restored Church was changed several times in the first few years after it was established. Why would a prophet receiving revelation have to revise the proper name of God’s Church so many times?
38. Joseph Smith smoked tobacco and drank tea, coffee, and alcohol long after he revealed the Word of Wisdom. In fact, Joseph Smith at one time had a bar in his house and also drank wine at Carthage shortly before he died.
39. Although apologists argue that the Word of Wisdom was initially a suggestion and not a commandment, Joseph Smith taught “that no official member in this Church is worthy to hold an office” if he neglects to obey the Word of Wisdom. By his own teaching, Joseph was not worthy to hold his calling of prophet.
40. Joseph Smith and other early leaders taught that because animals had spirits, they should only be eaten in times of “dire necessity”. Not only does the Church ignore this aspect of the Word of Wisdom, it also acts in direct defiance and hypocrisy by owning and operating the largest cattle ranch in the United States.
41. Brigham Young owned a distillery in Utah and sold whiskey to saints for Pioneer Day celebrations.
42. The official change of the Word of Wisdom from principle to requirement came with no claim of Divine instruction. On the contrary, the shift seems to have taken place for political reasons surrounding Prohibition and desire for mainstream Christian acceptance.
43. Members are taught to believe that Joseph Smith received the endowment through revelation. However, much of the temple ceremony was copied directly from Masonry.
44. The Church requires an oath of commitment from temple participants before the participant knows to what he or she is committing.
45. Until 1990, the temple ceremony contained violent penalties requiring members to make symbolic gestures of slitting their own throats and bowels. Recent Church leaders have been dishonest about these penalties.
46. The removal of these penalties, among other changes, came not by revelation but as a result of a 1988 survey that found that many members were uncomfortable with the endowment.
48. Leaders of the Church have allowed baptisms for dead Holocaust victims, despite promising not to do so.
49. The Church portrays Joseph Smith as a martyr jailed and killed for being a “lover of the cause of Christ”. He was actuallykilled for destroying private property, trying to marry other men’s wives, sharing Masonic secrets, anointing himself King of the world, and other reasons.
50. Church leaders teach that Joseph Smith destroyed the Nauvoo Expositor because it told anti-Mormon lies. In actuality, the newspaper truthfully exposed the Prophets extra-monogamous relationships, among other clandestine behaviors.
51. Joseph Smith claimed that he was going to Carthage “like lamb to the slaughter”. What the Church doesn’t teach is that Joseph had a gun in jail and shot several of his attackers.
52. Joseph Smith set apart his son, Joseph III, to succeed him as prophet. Brigham Young admitted this, but ultimately refused to cede his own leadership to Joseph III.
53. Joseph Smith taught that the moon is inhabited, and that its inhabitants are 6 feet tall and dressed like Quakers. Brigham Young also taught that the moon is inhabited, as well as the sun.
54. Through revelation, Joseph Smith assembled an army of saints to walk to Missouri to redeem Zion. Known as Zion’s camp, this march resulted in the death of 14 men and did not accomplish what it set out to do. However, the church still teaches that this chapter of church history was actually a test for future leaders and ultimately a success.
55. After Joseph Smith’s prophecy to sell the copyright to the Book of Mormon failed, he explained it away by saying thatsome prophecies come from the devil.
56. Joseph Smith made a number of other prophecies that never came to pass. Apologists use manipulative tactics to justify Joseph’s failures.
57. Brigham Young taught that Adam is our father and God, a teaching that later prophets have admitted as not true. More broadly, apostles have told us that the Lord permits false doctrine to be taught within the church.
58. Wilford Woodruff pronounced “the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray.” Unfortunately, this promise has been proven to be untrue.
59. Members of the Church are taught that prophets talk to God and speak for God. But some modern-day prophets admitted that they had never seen, heard, or received revelations from God.
60. The Quorum of the Twelve and members of the First Presidency are sustained as “prophets, seers, and revelators”. Regardless, they haven’t prophesied, seen, or revealed much of anything over the last 100 years.
61. The Church has changed the dates of events in the D&C in order to make Joseph’s conflicting claims appear more plausible.
62. In the 1980’s Church leaders bought forged documents that they believed to be authentic, with the intention of suppressing them. Not only does this event discredit the notion that the Brethren have the spirit of discernment, it also shows the extent to which the Church will try to hide information that disproves the Church’s exclusive Truth claims.
63. The “Teachings of Brigham Young” manual dishonestly implies that Brigham was a monogamist by listing only two non-concurrent wives. Church editors have also changed all of Brigham’s mentions of “wives” to “wife”.
64. For years, Church leaders have told the untrue story that Thomas B. Marsh left the church over “milk strippings”. In truth, Marsh left in large part because he didn’t agree with the violent practices of the Danites.
65. Brigham Young said “I have never preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call scripture.” Despite this prophetic utterance, later church leaders have dismissed as non-scriptural the Journal of Discourses, from which this quote and many other of Brigham’s teachings come.
67. The Church stifles honest scholarship of Mormonism, going as far as excommunicating people who find and publish history that contradicts the Church’s narrative.
68. The Church reports inflated and inaccurate membership numbers.
69. The 12th article of Faith states that “we believe in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” One way in which the Church ignores its own counsel is by baptizing illegal immigrants, and even giving them leadership callings.
70. The Church has knowingly allowed and at times encouraged unethical missionary recruiting practices including baseball baptisms in the U.K. and soccer baptisms in Latin America.
71. Leaders pursued plans to build a nine-story addition to the Missionary Training Center, despite having promised that no MTC building would ever exceed four stories.
72. Church leaders teach members to bear testimony in order to obtain one. This is a manipulative practice that leads toconfirmation bias.
74. Brigham Young and other Church leaders taught that some sins were so serious that they were beyond the reach of Christ’s atonement. These sins, Young taught, could only be atoned for by literally spilling the blood of the sinner upon the earth.
75. In the past, the Church tried to deny Young’s violent teaching. Now, most leaders admit that it was taught but denounce it as a false doctrine.
76. The Church has never truthfully admitted to, or apologized for, its involvement in the Mountain Meadows Massacre, a tragedy in which 120 emigrants were brutally slaughtered by Mormons at the command of Church leadership.
77. Brigham Young wrote a letter to Bishop Warren Snow of Manti, approving of violent actions taken by Snow. The Bishop had castrated a young man who was courting a woman Snow wanted to take as his own plural wife.
78. Even though Joseph Smith ordained a black man to the priesthood, the Church institutionally denied individuals of African descent full blessings of membership for over 100 years.
80. Despite overwhelming evidence of racism in the early modern Church, leaders continue to claim that the reason for the priesthood ban is unknown. As such, the Church has never admitted error or apologized for excluding blacks from the priesthood.
81. For many years, Church leaders taught that African Americans could only enter the Celestial Kingdom as servants.
82. Unbeknownst to most members of the Church, early Latter-day Saint women were given a form of the priesthood, which they used to bless others by the laying on of hands. Despite this precedence, women in the Church today do not hold the priesthood.
83. The Church has a long history of discriminating against women and teaching that they are to be subordinate to men.
84. In campaigning against marriage equality on Prop 8 in 2008, the Church violated requirements of tax exempt organizations. These actions contradict the charge to obey, honor, and sustain the law.
85. Many homosexual members feel guilt, depression, and shame as a result of the stiff anti-gay rhetoric taught by church leaders. Some have even been driven to suicide.
86. In the 1970’s, LDS-owned Brigham Young University conducted electroshock therapy on gay students to try to make them straight.
87. The Church refuses to disclose its finances, even to its tithe-paying members. This fact is even more discouraging given President Hinckley saying that financial “information belongs to those who made the contribution”.
88. In Kirtland, Joseph Smith set up an illegal bank that ultimately failed and caused many of the saints to lose their money. There is also evidence showing that Joseph intentionally misrepresented the solvency of his institution.
89. Despite being “lay clergy”, mission presidents receive a significant amount of financial benefits from the Church. What is more disturbing, however, is that these leaders are explicitly told not to disclose information on funds received, even to tax advisers or the government.
90. The Church spent billions of dollars for the recently completed City Creek Center. That the “only True and living Church on the face of the earth” would spend so much on a self-serving, for-profit venture is discouraging.
91. Even if no tithing funds were used for City Creek, as the Church claims, nearly all non-tithing funds in possession of the church are derived from tithing.
92. The Church, which preaches and expects modesty in dress and abstinence from alcohol, is hypocritical in its advertisingof the City Creek mall.
93. The Church relies on FAIR, FARMS and other apologists to defend the faith, but intentionally keeps some distance in order to maintain plausible deniability.
94. Church leaders often teach us that “warm feelings” are more valid in determining truth than actual, verifiable scholarship.
95. The Church ignores the issues and questions of sincere truth-seeking members of the Church. We earnestly petition the Church to provide official, honest, and complete responses to these issues.
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https://beggarsbread.org/2013/02/
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2019-04-26T02:52:13Z
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https://kitchenremodelinggurus.com/california/mankas-corner/best-kitchen-remodeling-company.html
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German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble looks on as Greece finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks.
Greece’s new SYRIZA government submitted its list of proposed economic reforms to the Eurogroup (the finance ministers of eurozone nations) on February 23 as a precondition for its international creditors to approve a four-month loan extension. The deal was signed on February 20.
With Greece’s existing loan arrangement expiring on February 28 and bankruptcy looming, a last-minute deal was finally agreed after three weeks of intense negotiations. The talks had been characterised by daily — sometimes hourly — twists and turns, claims and counterclaims, leaks and threats.
SYRIZA was elected on January 25 on a wave of hope and rejection of the crippling austerity measures imposed on Greece in return for economic “bail-out” programs by the “Troika” — the European Central Bank (ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union (EU). The deal represents a significant compromise on its election platform.
Any discussion of debt write-offs, “hair-cuts” or renegotiation has been postponed until the next round of negotiations. Funds earmarked for bank recapitalisation will have to be used for that purpose, rather than redirected towards meeting Greece’s desperate social needs.
Greece no longer has to accept the unilateral diktats of the Troika and is able to negotiate with each body separately. But the new funding still comes with conditions. These include oversight by those same bodies, now referred to as “the institutions”, and restrictions on how the money can be used.
The SYRIZA government is required to refrain from any “rollback of measures and unilateral changes to the policies and structural reforms that would negatively impact fiscal targets, economic recovery or financial stability, as assessed by the institutions”.
Although less than specific, this restriction includes any privatisations already completed, as well as those now underway. Depending on interpretation, this may also impact on measures promised by SYRIZA to improve social welfare, such as raising the minimum wage and restoring collective bargaining rights.
On the other hand, the agreement also includes measures that will improve SYRIZA’s ability to fund solutions to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Greece.
To gather funds, the government is able to crack down on corruption, tax avoidance, tax immunity (Greece’s powerful shipping owners, for instance, currently pay no tax) and smuggling.
Such measures target the vested interests of Greece’s powerful oligarchy — something previous governments deliberately avoided — and strengthen the revenue-raising capacity of the Greek state.
This approach has already achieved success, with a reported €500 million already raised. It still remains to be seen if enough revenue can be raised to address social needs while repaying Greece’s short-term debts — several billion euros are due for payment in the coming months.
The SYRIZA government has described the agreement as a qualified success. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis described it as “a small step in the right direction”.
Varoufakis said that Greece is now the “co-author” of its own fate, no longer the victim of “autopilot austerity” where it meekly takes economic and policy directives from its creditors.
In a marathon 10-hour session on February 25, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras advocated the deal to his fellow SYRIZA MPs as a small but tangible win.
Acknowledging the restrictive conditions in the interim agreement, Tsipras said that while it is an extension of pre-existing loan arrangements, it is not a continuation of the Memorandum of Understanding that accompanied the previous tranche of loans.
Tsipras said the new deal frees up the government from unrealistic primary surplus targets and “asphyxiating” policies of austerity. While “things remain difficult”, the prime minister said the conditions replace the previous government’s measures with targets based on SYRIZA’s “Thessaloniki program”, which it took into January’s election.
SYRIZA’s leaders have faced severe internal criticism over the deal, however. It has mostly come from members of the party’s Left Platform, who consider the deal a near-capitulation to Greece’s creditors on the questions of debt and austerity. About 30 of SYRIZA’s 149 MPs, and four government ministers, belong to the Left Platform.
A Left Platform leader and member of SYRIZA’s central committee, Stathis Kouvelakis, said SYRIZA had carried out a major retreat caused by a “mistaken strategy”. He said the deal showed it was impossible to break with austerity and Greece’s debt burden “within the existing European framework”.
On February 25, Greek energy minister and Left Platform supporter Panagiotis Lafazanis said the privatisation of Greece’s main energy company and energy grid operator would not go ahead, a statement that appears at odds with the deal’s conditions.
The SYRIZA government has emphasised that its promised social measures will go ahead. In a CNN interview on February 23, Varoufakis insisted “there will be no pension cuts, there will be no increases to Value-Added Tax, there will be a series of poverty-alleviation moves.
Varoufakis conceded that Greece was forced into significant compromises, admitting on February 20 that he was asking Europe to meet Greece “not half-way, but one-fifth of the way”.
In the event, that was a lot more than powerful forces in Europe wanted to give them.
SYRIZA was elected with a mandate to end austerity, resolve the country’s social crisis and rebuild the Greek economy. The humanitarian crisis caused by austerity has led to a widespread drop in living standards, with about one in four people unemployed (60% of youth) and an average 20% cut in wages for those in work.
The negotiation process, therefore, exposed the open contempt for democracy that lies at the heart of the European Union and the financial interests that it represents.
Schäuble took this uncompromising stance into negotiations, using Germany's dominance within the Eurogroup to demand Greece’s total and unconditional capitulation.
If Greece was hoping for support from other countries suffering from austerity, however, it was disappointed. Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Finland — all facing rising political challenges to their pro-austerity governments — sided firmly with Germany, as did France and Italy, leaving Greece isolated.
Meanwhile, Greece was faced with possible bankruptcy. A run on the banks led to an estimated €3 billion withdrawn in the week before February 20, on top of a further €12 billion withdrawn in January.
In the final days before the agreement, the ECB was preparing for a possible “Grexit” — a Greek exit from the eurozone, and therefore the EU.
Varoufakis had already ruled out a voluntary Grexit on the basis of the economic damage it would cause and the boost it would give to the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, already the third largest party in the Greek parliament.
A series of compromise drafts were rejected by Schäuble, who accused the Greeks of trying to present a “Trojan horse”. The claim was echoed in an increasingly nationalistic German media, which blames “lazy Greeks”, rather than a predatory and poorly regulated banking system, for the crisis.
However, SYRIZA won exactly what Schäuble insisted so strenuously it would not get — a short-term loan extension, with a degree of control over spending to alleviate the worst elements of austerity.
Differences about the exact nature of the agreement appear to be emerging already.
On the one hand, the Greek government has presented the interim arrangement as a break from the Memorandum and its austerity policies.
After the deal was struck, Schäuble exulted that “the Greeks certainly will have a difficult time explaining the deal to their voters”.
For its part, the IMF is concerned about the lack of “clear assurances that the [Greek] Government intends to undertake the reforms envisaged in the Memorandum on Economic and Financial Policies”.
Even if the list of reforms is accepted by the Eurozone parliaments, the institutions have until the end of April to “refine” it. Key elements may yet be rejected.
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2019-04-24T22:56:00Z
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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/greece-wins-deal-breathing-space-made-pay-high-cost?mini=2018-12
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As we work in an international organization, we often get a question such as: “What is the right assessment for our country, an international assessment, a regional assessment, or our own national assessment?” This is probably due to the tremendous growth in the number of assessments.
Since the International Association for Evaluation of the Educational Achievement (IEA) implemented the first international mathematics study in the late 1950s, many large-scale assessments have appeared in the field, and much more countries have been participating in these assessment studies. For example, when OECD first implemented the Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) in 2000, there were 28 countries who participated, while in 2012, this number increased to some 65. At the same time, there have been a number of regional assessments that have collected assessment data since the 1990s. These include Southern and East Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ), Programme d’Analyse des Systèmes Educatifs des Pays de la CONFEMEN (PASEC), Laboratorio Latinoamericano de Evaluación de la Calidad de la Educación (LLECE), etc. Many countries have also established national assessments, it has been reported that most of the countries have conducted at least one national assessment since 2000, the year of the Dakar EFA conference.
There is no straight answer to the question, but certain issues must be considered in order to decide which assessment might be most appropriate for your country.
1. Subject matter – What subjects are considered important in your country? They could be basic cognitive skills such as mathematics, reading, and science. How about life skills, such as health knowledge, global citizenship, sustainable development knowledge, entrepreneurship? Most of the international and regional assessments deal with the basic cognitive skills. This was the case for the initial SACMEQ study; however, during the SACMEQ Assembly of Ministers in 2005, Ministers wished to have information on the level of HIV and AIDS knowledge of the Grade 6 pupils. A new initiative, South East Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM), which is organized by the UNICEF and South East Asia Ministries of Education Organization (SEAMEO) is planning to measure global citizenship, based on the regionally common values.
2. Test framework – Do you want to see if the students have acquired the knowledge taught at school, or see if the schools prepared students to be ready for the world of work? Most of the assessments, such as IEA’s TIMSS, PIRLS, as well as regional assessments such as SACMEQ, PASEC, and LLECE are based on the school curriculum. For example, in the 1990s when Zimbabwe launched its first national assessment, the concern was to see if the intended school curriculum was actually implemented by the teachers and achieved by the pupils, and therefore, this became the model for SACMEQ. On the other hand, PISA and PISA for Development are exceptions, where the test framework is rather forward looking and assesses the students’ competencies to be demonstrated in a totally novel situation.
3. Target population – Which grade level or age level needs to be assessed? Are you concerned about the early grade pupils who need to be diagnosed? Then what language should be used for the tests? If the local mother tongue is used as the language of instruction, then standardization of such variety of test forms could be a big challenge. On the other hand, you may be challenged if you administer the tests in a unique language at this early level. This was the reasons in which SACMEQ countries opted for Grade 6. While PASEC also test at Grade 6, they also test Grade 2, and therefore a careful test construction and test operation would be required. IEA’s TIMSS administers at Grade 4, as well as Grade 8 to see the progress between these two grades. Even if you are concerned about the comprehension of school subjects at the end of the cycle, the question may not be about which grade level, but which age level. The grade-based target population is the norm when the test framework is based on the school curriculum, prescribed for different grade levels. However, PISA and PISA for Development use the age-level target population, 15 years of age. The challenge for many developing countries using the age-based target population is the large proportion of the students who may belong to different grade levels or different cycles due to repetitions or late entries to schools, or already dropped out of the system.
4. What to do with the assessment data – What is the purpose of measuring the learning achievement? If it is for a certification of a cycle or selection into a higher cycle, then public examinations would be sufficient. If the countries would like to connect the achievement data with other background information such as teacher characteristics, teacher performance, school resources, home background, etc., then background questionnaires are required. You may be also interested in evaluating the competency of teachers. In this case, a teacher test must be considered, as was the case for SACMEQ studies since 2000. This allowed SACMEQ policy makers to realize not only the teachers’ pedagogical skills but also the subject knowledge was critical for learning improvement. Does the international and/or regional assessment that you are about to join include the kind of information that are the priority area of the Ministry?
5. Research capacity needs – The Ministries of Education will have to ensure that they have the technical capacity to carry out the assessment. This includes the sampling of schools and students, test construction and item analyses, data processing, data analyses, and report writing. The advantage of belonging to regional or international assessments would be that the same methodology is shared and a common capacity building is usually provided by the technical teams for the participating members. In certain cases, participating member countries could collaborate and help each other, as experienced by some SACMEQ countries.
6. Ownership – Capacity building should lead to the countries’ ownership of the assessment study. This includes ownership of the data, instruments, and all the methodologies. This would allow countries to do more autonomous secondary data analyses using the data collected, after the international and/or regional reporting, so that the assessment results and policy recommendations could be also linked back to the original policy concerns. Both SACMEQ and PASEC use this strategy where country teams are responsible for producing more focused analyses.
The Ministry may be also interested in joining all of the existing international and regional assessment networks, as well as conducting its own national assessment. But we need to remember that to improve quality of education, it's not the level of participation in assessment studies that matters, it's the way assessment results are used. After all, the assessment is merely one small part within the policy reform.
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What an inspired and insightful writing . I love the last bit. What do we do with the results..
I like this presentation. I contains all the necessary information about issues involved in deciding to participate in international assessments or organize national assessments.Thank you for the contribution.
This paper does help to explain the issues involved in carrying out or choosing regional and international assessments. It does raise the question of why would a country which has carried out a national standardized test at Grade 6 for over 50 years employ a regional body to do this test. Is there concern that the national test is not adequately testing the curriculum? Will the outcome change in regional assessment? These are my questions for these changing approaches.
Very comprehensive and imparts the necessary issues that needs to be analyzed while making decisions to make a choice on large scale regional and international assessments.
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2019-04-20T21:04:06Z
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http://www.wise-qatar.org/international-assessment-mioko-saito
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Academic dishonesty is inconsistent with the values and mission of Tacoma Community College. Students at TCC are expected to be honest and forthright in their academic endeavors. Cheating, plagiarism, fabrication or other forms of academic dishonesty corrupt the learning process and demean the educational environment for all students.
provide a process for implementing penalties when academic dishonesty occurs.
Cheating: Cheating is an act of deception by which a student misrepresents that he or she mastered information on an academic exercise.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the inclusion of someone else's words, ideas or data as one's own work. When a student submits work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and specific references and, if verbatim statements are included, through quotation marks.
Fabrication: Fabrication is the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive.
Academic Misconduct: Academic misconduct is the intentional violation of college policies (e.g. tampering with grades, taking part in obtaining or distributing any part of an exam prior to the scheduled testing time). Examples include selling or giving away test answers and changing or altering a grade on a test or in a grade book.
Sanctions for intentional acts of dishonesty may be academic and/or administrative. The consequences may vary with the situation and the individual instructor. All instructors include in the course syllabus a policy on and sanctions for academic dishonesty.
As a violation of the Code of Student Conduct, academic dishonesty may result in an administrative sanction of Warning, Reprimand, Probation or Suspension from the college among others.
If an instructor suspects that academic dishonesty has occurred and intends to impose sanctions, he or she will meet with the student to discuss the allegations. This meeting will take place within four instructional days of the date the instructor became aware of the alleged academic dishonesty. The instructor will present the evidence of academic dishonesty and inform the student of the intended sanction(s).
If the allegations are determined by the instructor to be false, the student will be exonerated.
If the allegations are determined by the instructor to be true and the student agrees with the intended sanction(s), the instructor will complete an Academic Dishonesty Incident Report form and forward it to the Student Services Administration office. The instructor and the student will both sign the Incident Report form, to confirm the date of the meeting. The student should initial the form to signify their agreement with the allegation and sanction.
If the allegations are determined by the instructor to be true and the student disagrees with the allegations and the intended sanction(s), the instructor will inform the student of his or her right to appeal. The instructor will complete the Incident Report form. The instructor and the student should both sign the Incident Report form, to confirm the date that the meeting happened. The student should initial the form to signify their disagreement with the allegation, and to signify that they have been informed of their right to appeal. The instructor will forward the form to the department/program chair.
If an instructor in a fully online course suspects that academic dishonesty has occurred and intends to impose a sanction, he or she will arrange an opportunity to discuss the allegation. The instructor will contact the student using a method that generates a confirmation of receipt of the message. The discussion will take place within four instructional days after the date that the student became aware of the allegation of academic dishonesty. Possible options that would constitute a "discussion," could include, but are not limited to, a face-to-face meeting, a virtual office hour, a telephone call, or an email exchange. The instructor will present the evidence of academic dishonesty and inform the student of the intended sanction(s).
If, based on the discussions at any level, including the appeal process, an Incident Report Form is created, the student will be forwarded an electronic copy and have the option of inserting comments and forwarding the revised version to the Student Services Administration office.
During the course of the appeal process, the student shall maintain full academic and student standing in the course.
If a student is given the sanction of an "E" grade or "no credit" for the paper/assignment, the student has the option to withdraw from the course, if it is done by the published deadline.
If a student is given the sanction of a failing grade for the course, the student may not withdraw from the course in order to avoid the sanction.
1. Within four instructional days of being notified by the instructor of intended sanctions for academic dishonesty and the student's right to appeal, the student has the right to a meeting with the appropriate department/program chair to discuss the issue and seek resolutions.
a) If the allegations are determined by the department/program chair to be false, the student will be exonerated.
b) If the allegations are determined by the department/program chair to be true and the student agrees with the intended sanction(s), the department/program chair and the student should both sign the Incident Report form, to confirm the date of the meeting. The student should initial the form to signify their agreement with the allegation and sanction. The department/program chair will forward it to the Student Services Administration office.
c) If the allegations are determined by the department/program chair to be true and the student disagrees with the allegations and the intended sanction(s), the department/program chair will inform the student of his or her right to appeal to the division dean. The department/program chair and the student should both sign the Academic Dishonesty Incident Report form. The student should initial the form to signify their disagreement with the allegation, and to signify that they have been informed of their right to appeal. The department/program chair will forward the form to the division dean.
2. If the matter is not resolved at the department/program chair level, the student has four instructional days to file a written appeal with the division dean. The dean will meet with the instructor, the student and, if necessary, others who have information about the academic dishonesty matter, no later than ten instructional days of the student filing a written appeal.
a) If the allegations are determined by the division dean to be false, the student will be exonerated.
b) If the allegations are determined by the division dean to be true, the dean will determine and impose the sanction(s) for academic dishonesty. The decision of the dean shall be final if the sanction is other than an ÐEÓ grade for the course. The dean and the student will sign the Academic Dishonesty Incident Report form to confirm the date of the meeting, and the dean will forward it to the Student Services Administration office.
c) If the dean's decision is to impose an "E" grade for the course, the student may initiate TCC Chapter 132V-123 WAC Final Course Grade Appeal Process after grades have been posted for the quarter.
If academic dishonesty is suspected by the instructor at the end of a quarter and not enough instructional days remain to accommodate the procedures outlined above before final course grades are due, the instructor will assign and submit a final course grade for the student by the published deadline. The student may then Chapter 132V-123 WAC Final Course Grade Appeal Process. If a final grade appeal is based on academic dishonesty, an Academic Dishonesty Incident Report form will be signed by the instructor and submitted to the Student Services Administration office.
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2019-04-19T15:09:04Z
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http://www.tacomacc.edu/about/policies/administrative-procedure-for-academic-dishonesty
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You have hundreds of camera manufacturers to pick from. Which one should you use? This is a tough but critical question impacting both integrators and users as it impacts product availability, training, discounts, support policies and more. We surveyed integrators around the globe to better understand how many manufacturers they carried and, more importantly, why they made the decisions they did. In this note, we analzye and share more than a dozen integrator comments.
As the chart below shows, despite there being hundreds of manufacturers, overwhelmingly integrators regularly use only a few.
Applications covered: A number of respondents answered that their main line covered the vast majority of their applications, but they turned to a second for specialized cameras, such as multi-megapixel or PTZ, or when their main line was outside the customer's budget.
Ease of support: Keeping the number of camera manufacturers to a minimum also helps to ease support costs. Less technician training is required, and efficiencies gained since installers are used to using a limited number of models regularly. Repairs and replacements are also simplified, since fewer models must be known and stocked for service calls.
"I have stuck to minimal manufactures as I have found some to be better in some areas than others. Rather than have a big mix of cameras in the field, a smaller mix has enabled me to maintain constant expectations of performance as well as reliability. It has also enabled me to negotiate better purchasing pricing which is able to passed on to the end user."
"Right now we install Sony & Panasonic pretty much exclusively with Sony being the majority. We are looking for a more cost effective solution for those jobs that are determined by price. We are comfortable with the quality and reliability of these lines even though the cost is higher than some others in the market. If we find the right line then we will definitely take it on. We just had issues in the past rolling out a big job with a new product and we had a high failure rate among some other issues. So it has been difficult for us find something else. Probably within the next few months we will be adding at least one more manufacturer to our arsenal."
"We are trying to keep our portfolio as narrow as possible, it would be best to have only one manufacturer, but customer likes to choose from few alternatives and looks suspicious, when you can't offer any alternatives, so 2-3 manufacturers are optimal. Another point is product range, often only combining different manufacturer's products you can get good results."
"We try to limit the number of manufacturers so our techs remain well trained. However, we do understand that every application demands a unique solution and there isnt a catch-all product to satisfy every application."
"95% of our cameras are deployed with Axis and Panasonic. We have recently picked up the Sony line as well, but that is about it. I do not like having too many 'lines' to support. I know that cameras are just 'edge devices', but they have complex feature sets that need to be configured for different applications, and our installers need to know which features fit each application."
"Keeping the number of manufacturers that we use to a low number has always been difficult for our company. We've always wanted to be everything to everyone, but spreading yourself across multiple manufacturers when it comes to IP video is very hard to do. On the technician side, keeping technicians trained on multiple models from multiple manufacturers is next to impossible. Installation suffers which causes a poor performing system which then creates an unhappy customer. Its important to have your installers be experts with every piece of product. On the business side of things, it is important to make sure you have the best purchasing power for the times when you need to really compete on bids. If you are selling thousands of a manufacturer's product, they are more likely to give you a deal at certain times than if you were just selling a hundred or so."
"No one manufacturer fits all scenarios, but two (Sony and Arecont) seem to fit 99% of all aspects including price, type, and quality of pictures. Where one comes up short, the other seems to fit the bill."
"We are a very service-centric and process oriented company. We made the decision to not take on too many manufacturers so we could make sure we have service stock and the knowledge to install and service what we do provide. We've also found that installing multiple manufacturer cameras on the same site causes problems both aesthetically to the customer and differences in video quality."
"Although there is a wide variety of manufacturers to choose from when it comes to IP cameras, when we have a choice of what cameras to install, we regularly deploy mainly Axis and Panasonic cameras. We have evaluated many different brands of IP cameras and have found these to be superior products with a great variety of different models and styles, excellent feature sets, and outstanding customer and technical support with a very low number of cameras that need to be returned for repair.. We are an Axis Gold Channel partner and have found having Axis as a partner has been very beneficial to our sales and installations."
Wide selection was the key determining factor for those regular using four, five, or more manufacturers regularly. The ability to choose from numerous manufacturers and models is beneficial when customer or specifications demand it. However, supporting a larger number of manufacturers is likely to increase training costs and installation time, as technicians spread their time across more lines.
"I think we have (and still are) looked at everybody on the sun. I think having a wide variety of cameras give us flexibility to design a quality and affordable solution for the client. Carrying a ton of lines really makes us a unique video VAR. If we have less lines, you limit yourself on where you can compete. We like the idea of being a best of breed integrator since we can take the best of each line and give the end user what we think will give them the best image quality for their site. Some lines you need for performance (Avigilon, Bosch, Axis, Sony) Some lines you need for cost effective reasons (Vivotek, ACTi,). Also some lines like Samsung no one really carries so it makes you unique in that sense too. The last set of lines you need to meet spec (Panasonic, Arecont, & Pelco) Some of this is because the marketplace is all over the place and every job is different with the end-user having totally different expectations on each job. However on our analog we have been all over the map too so this is nothing new really since Pelco began to falter many years ago."
"Because we regularly use cameras from more than 5 manufacturers. We use that many because we strive to meet customers at their need. If they have specified a particular manufacturer, we use that. If they need to meet a particularly tight budget, we look for products to fit that. If their existing infrastructure demands one over another, we use that. If we can make better margin and still keep the customer happy, we'll perhaps use something altogether different."
"We like our independence in camera manufacture which allows us to pick the right camera for the right application. That could be price/performance based, WDR or lens needs for example. We use Acti, Arecont, Axis, Panasonic, and Sony most often."
"The camera choices are driven by application requirements, bid specs, cost and performance. IMHO no one company has the best camera for all applications. We would like use as few as possible but the early promises of "universal IP compatibility" were ludicrous at best. We also cover a wide range of applications from residential to commercial, retail, institutional, MDU and they all have varying requirements. Within those segments you have "cost conscious" and "I want the best" variations which further drives the adoption of multiple camera lines. Between the 4 brands we focus on we have pretty much covered all of you application requirements to date."
Very few integrators answered that they were using one camera manufacturer only. These respondents answered that their main line has not created issues for them and fit most applications, so they turn to other manufacturers only occasionally.
"We have NEVER had issues with Mobotix. In the environments we do installations, PTZs are impractical and often fail due to either a heater/fan issue. We have been extremely pleased with Mobotix, but are considering other brands given their lack of protection in the channel."
"95% of the IP cameras we use are Bosch. Our market is perimeter security where night shots are very important, we have had very good results with Bosch so stick to that. Given this we generally install Bosch internally also, using a limited number of part numbers also makes support much simpler."
On the positive hand, rarely do integrators limit themselves only to a single manufacturer. However, as these practical considerations show, since it is difficult to carry many lines, integrators usually limit themselves to a few. While this helps them be expert in deploying and servicing those cameras, it also may mean that some will not recommend a camera even if it is overall better for an end user's needs.
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2019-04-26T06:02:47Z
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https://ipvm.com/reports/number-of-camera-manufacturers
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My previous article was about setup Internet connection on Teracom router. Now it is the time to configure WiFi and WiFi security on Teracom router with BSNL DSL Connection. BSNL provides Teracom modem with routing facility. So, though it is a modem we can connect multiple computers to it if DHCP server is enabled on the configuration page. Setup wireless in Teracom wireless router is as simple as selecting the radio Wireless Network. In Wireless settings page we can select the proper encryption to secure its WiFi network from external intruders. This device has the facility to enable MAC Address Filtering to provide additional security. Let us check step by step how to setup WiFi security on this device.
Please note that default Login IP address of Teracom Router is 192.168.1.1 but if you change that IP address, you should use the new IP address to the login setup page.
Now you will be prompted to enter Teracom router username and password.
Now click OK to login. Now you will be in BSNL overview page.
If you are looking for steps to setup Internet on this device, click on the link below.
Click on Wireless Network which located under Configuration tab. In this page, you can activate WiFi on BSNL Teracom modem.
Turn on WiFi by selecting enable button opposite to Wireless Network.
You can change the name(SSID) of your network by typing any name on the field Network Name(SSID).
It is better to select channel selection auto because then the device will choose the best channel automatically.
It supports the following encryption standards.
Select proper encryption from the drop-down menu opposite to security options.
If you are a home user and just need security and not worry much about it, the easier one is WEP 64 Bit Encryption. If you select this as the security option, you can type any hexadecimal number ( 0-9 and A-F) as the wireless key. Don't forget to click on confirm button. Now onwards you need to enter this ten digit key to log in to your wireless network.
If you are very much conscious about the security of your wireless network, I recommend you to use WPA or WPA2. Then you should select Wi-Fi Protected Access or Wi-Fi Protected Access2 from the drop-down menu. You can select authentication mode for Teracom Wireless network as PSK and enter the Pass Phrase. After this, without this PassPhrase, no computers are allowed to join your wireless network.
If you are facing any issues with connecting devices to WiFi network, follow the steps provided in the link below.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to configure wireless on Teracom modem for BSNL Internet connection. You have also learned how to enable wireless security with BSNL connection. Teracom modem WiFi configuration is the same for most of the Teracom models. To learn how to configure Teracom modem with BSNL connection click on the link below. The configuration step is same for most of the BSNL type 2 modems.
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Thank you for your post. To know more about teracom modem wireless settings follow the link below.
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I am now using WEP 64 bit encryption in teracom modem but don't think it is enough ? Can I upgrade to WPA without any issue ?
Yes, we can enable WPA protection in BSNL Teracom modem. While selecting the wireless security settings you should select Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) and create a pass phrase for it.
I always recommend you to enable WPA in your Teracom modem than enabling WEP in it. WPA is more secure compared to WEP.
Portable Play Station is compatible with 802.11B standard only. Please set your wireless network to 802.11B only and try to connect to the network.
If still your Portable Play Station is not connecting to the Teracom wireless network, you may degrade your wireless security to WEP. It is because WPA sometimes shows compatibility and connectivity issues.
error comes access point not getted what i have to do ?
Could you please explain a little bit more about your issue?
1. Disable the security (wireless encryption ) and try to connect.
2. Change the Wireless network Name and Wireless channel.
I recommend you to follow the thread for more help.
can i connect MTS net connector through USB by teracom bsnl type 6 modem ?
through USB by TERACOM BSNL type 6 modem ?
if yes what shal i do ?
Can you elaborate your question a little more?
I have done the Terrcom MODEM LAN Configiration as mentioned. The lan is enabled in my laptop. and the connection is through but I am not getting the web page.
and check whether you type the correct user name and password given from BSNL. If you type wrong user name or password while configuring the teracom modem, you will not be able to access Internet.
I am new to BSNL, I did set upthe Lan and it is perfect. but Wireless I couldnt figure out what the issue is.
Please select channel 1, 6 or 11.
"the network did not assign a valid ip address in a given time .you may not have connectivity to network"
I recommend you to go through the following post.
Thanks a ton.. I was able to set up my internet connection. Your blog was really very helpful.
I am happy to see this post helped you.
Thanks Gopi for adding value to this post. WEP 64 bit encryption can use Hexa decimal keys and it should be 10 digits. Thanks for pointing our Rev's key's error (11 digits ).
Thanx,that was pretty neat.My need is slightly different and i wonder if you can provide any input to me in this regard.I have Type 2 Teracom wireless Modem and i intend to do port forwarding,as i dont know nothing about port forwarding,i am unsure about what other details to provide you with,in case u require more details,kindly specify.
You can find port forwarding option in BSNL Type 2 teracom modem under security tab.
If you select the option direct key, you should manually give a 10 digit hexa decimal key.
I have got a wireless printer (Dell V313)which I am not able to pair with the network. I have a wireless internet connection and a wireless enabled laptop (Dell).
I am could connect my laptop to the internet without any problem. But my lap is not getting connected with the printer. The printer's WiFi signal is searching for signals but it is not able to find a device.
Do I need a router for connecting the printer wirelessly?
Hope I have not confused too much?
Your Wireless Printer should have an IP address if you want to access printer from laptop wirelessly. So I recommend you to add a static IP to your printer in the same IP range of your Access Point. Then your printer may connect the wireless network. Please follow this step and if the issue is not fixed write back with details about your network diagram.
Thank you Siju for the suggestion.
To be frank, I never understood what you suggested to do. However, I tried to connect through the modem and it worked..
Eearlier I was trying to connect the printer directly to the laptop; in vain. Now, I switched on the wireless modem ( It is a router as per the Dept JTO), the printer and the laptop and tried to set up the printer as per the installation procedure. The printer got connected.
Anyway thank you for the suggestions.
When I typed 'admin' as user name and password, a message ''authentication error'' is displayed. what will be the reason? please help me.
I am glad to see that your issue is fixed by yourself.
Authentication error means you typed a wrong combination (or wrong)of Username/password to login your BSNL modem.
Even when I typed the username and password as admin correctly, it shows authentication error.
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Hi... I'm trying to connect to wireless on the terracom but it doesn't get past authenticating. I turned of authentication but it still doesn't connect. I've never used wireless so far on this modem. What could be the issue?
user name: "admin" and password: "admin" does not work it seems. the dialog box, just keep me asking the username password. can you just a alternative way?
Have you created a wireless key for the wireless network from teracom modem ?
I recommend you to follow the steps provided in the link below.
It seems you configured your Teracom modem with custom user name and password. Try to find the right user name and password or you have to reset the modem and reconfigure it.
To know how to reset a modem, follow the steps in the link below.
Here is one link which will help you for the same.
thanks Siju... I finally figured out the issue. The Mac filter was set to whitelist. Once I disabled it... it connected like a charm.
I am happy to see you fixed the issue by yourself.
It is normal, modem produces heat while it is working. So better make sure there is a proper air circulation.
If you find hardware issues with your BSNL modem, you should contact the local BSNL exchange. They will either repair or replace your faulty modem without any additional charges since it is under warranty period.
I have a Teracom BSNL NON-Wireless CPE/Router. I have connected a DLink Access Point to one of the four lan ports on the BSNL Router. I am able to connect to the DLink Wireless network from my wireless laptop, and dial the internet from the BSNL dialer and then browse. The 192.168.1.1 doesn't open the Teracon/BSNL webpage. I get a DNS error. I want to configure the DLink AP to autodial the internet whenever someone tries to browse a website after connecting to the DLink Network. Please help with steps as I am not networking guy.
For wireless issues please follow the steps provided in the link below.
Wat is this.. It shows blank in my configuration page..
To know more about port forwarding in BSNL modem, click on the link below.
In order to configure your BSNL modem in mts broad band connection, you have to have the configuration details from mts broad band customer care. Though some values are different the configuration of the modem is similar to the above post.
Can you tell me what error you are getting when you try to connect to the Internet?
Is it a wireless laptop or connecting with an Ethernet cable ?
i have bsnl teracom wifi router and i have got a new MTS usb modem. how can i configure it, kinly do a favour to me.
You cannot direct connect MTS USB modem to Teracom wifi router. However, using ICS you can provide Internet to Teracom and use it as a Wifi AP for other computers.
If the default combination does not works, you might have configured a different user name and passowrd. So please try to remember that other wise the only option is reset and reconfigure the modem. But after reset you will loose all previous configuration.
Can wifi be set in such a way that it will work only during specified hours. i.e. say 2 pm to 4 pm.
I couldn't find any options in Teracom modem to accomplish the specified need.
How much money I should spent to buy this teracom modem? Is this modem free from BSNL ? If yes what I should do to get modem free from BSNL ?
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m getting msg again n again- connection to server 192.168.1.1 failed.
If you are not able to access modem with 192.168.1.1 IP address, I recommend you to follow the steps provided in the link below.
Thanks I was looking for a way to secure the wireless in BSNL modem. They didn't tell me how to secure the wireless and I know my neighbour was hacking my BSNL wireless Internet. With your steps I stopped him. Thanks to solve my problem.
I have a teracom modem and I have configured it according to your instructions on this blog. Also I have enabled the wireless on the modem and done all the settings. Now both my laptop and desktop connects to the internet at the same time, one through wireless connection and other through LAN cable respectively.
Usually I used to connect my desktop to internet by using a username n password but now after all the above configurations I don't have to use the username n password to connect to internet and the desktop connects automatically.
The problem is that while I am connected to internet via wireless on my laptop I don't want the desktop to connect to internet directly without using username and password.
What settings do I need to do so that my desktop doesn't connect to internet directly?
You may reset the modem and do a power cycle to fix it. After this you should try to update the firmware.
Doing PPPoE configuration, the user name and password are saved in modem and so you do not need to type them again to connect to Internet. Thats why your Desktop and Laptop connect to the Internet automatically without asking the User name and Password provided by your ISP. If you do not want this facility you should delete the PPPoE configuration and perform a bridge connection in your modem. So you should select bridge instead of PPPoE while configuring modem to ask the desktop before connecting to Internet.
My android phone gets connected with Teracom WiFi modem, but not accessing internet. What settings are required for accessing internet?
First step is to verify whether other computers connected to Teracom modem are going online? Please verify Internet configuration in Teracom first before start troubleshooting your Android phone.
Hey Can you tell me how can I setup this BSNL modem? It is from Teracom as you mentioned here.
I'm havin dis bsnl modem...is it possible to giv other wifi connections lyk beam....?
If you are not able to join Teracom Wireless network, please click on the link below.
have a query... about the teracom modem... the broadband works just fine.. i wanted to enable the wireless network and that happened well too.. though when i click on connect to the network, it shows an error.. on troubleshooting, it says "investigate router or access point issues".. kindly help..
You should make sure that Teracom modem is running on latest firmware version. If the issue persists flash the firmware.
Is your wireless working fine with other devices ? May be another wireless network is saved in your galaxy in the same name.
I recommend you to change the wireless network name (SSID) from Teracom modem and then try to connect to the new network name from your phone.
If you forget your BSNL Modem password, please try the solution provided in the link below.
Hi I am looking www.teracom.in but it says page cannot be displayed! any help?
If you are not able to login to Teracom modem either your password is incorrect or you need to clear the cache and cookies in your browser.
How to Connect Dongle in this Modem?
We cannot connect dongle to Teracom modem now.
I am having the bsnl Teracom router installed by bsnl personnel. Initially the wifi was strong and no problem. But after a week the signal become very poor and unable to connect through wifi but through Ethernet card it is working. How to solve wifi problem.
Even bsnl guys cannot restore wifi connection. Pl help.
Can you access the Wireless network from your BSNL router using other wireless devices like SmartPhone, Laptop etc ? If no, then the issue is with Teracom router. Check the following facts first.
1. Are you using any wireless devices like cordless phone in your home ? If yes it might cause interference.
2. Have you updated the firmware on Teracom router ?
i don't see Wireless network option under configuration tab. what should i do ?
When i give 192.168.1.1 on browser , i am unable to see Wireless Network option under configuration tab .. what should i do ?
Hi Sachin, Can you write the model number of your modem ? Perhaps your modem does not have wireless feature.
I don't think Teracom modem provided by BSNL supports network printer. Can you give me the exact model number of your modem ?
Hi! Can I use The Teracom Modem in Wifi Station Mode other than the AP Mode?
I do not think you can configure Teracom modem in station mode to accept signals from other APs.
for that I am not able to entering to the tab it stock in the wifi page after selecting the language page.
all my phones including a Samsung s3, tab and also my laptop all switch automatically connected to the wifi router.
I wake up in the morning and just press again the connect button. Bingo...it is connected..!!! Not understand why it is behaving like this. I am not done any changes in routers settings also.
Is it not connecting b'coz the routers frequency mismatch or anything else ??
From the details of your comment, it is clear that the issue is at your Nexus 10 side. I recommend you to follow the steps provided in the link below.
I recommend you to follow the instructions provided in the link below.
Are you trying to connect via wireless or Ethernet cable ? If it is a wireless connection, I recommend you to follow the steps provided in the link below.
Seems a strange issue. Since the modem is giving connection to two devices (except two android phones)at the same time I think the routing feature is working fine.
I suggest you to update the modem firmware and check for the issue. To download firmware, you might contact BSNL customer care.
I recommend you to follow the steps mentioned in the link below.
I have a samsung galaxy a5 and teracom BSNL modem. My phone's wifi not obtain the IP address and not connect with wifi. I m so worried about this... other wifi connection are connect but above teracom bsnl modem is not connect.
I suggest you to follow the instructions provided in the link below.
If this modem (Teracom T2-B-Gawv1.4U10Y-BI) is supplied by BSNL, you can follow the same instructions provided in this tutorial to enable and setup WiFi pasword.
Under Wireless , you can change the current wireless password by changing the passphrase.
For which model of Teracom WiFi router you want to limit the download speed ?
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2019-04-22T06:15:34Z
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https://www.corenetworkz.com/2010/06/setup-wireless-and-security-in-teracom.html
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If you're hoping to cut costs even while paying down financial debt, look at debt consolidation. Just what is debt consolidation? It is simply the approach to combining all of your debt into a single loan account. The debt consolidation organization will give you a loan, should you be approved, to repay all of your current outstanding debt. Then, you are going to have one monthly installment to get to that debt consolidation organization. Whenever you have any sort of debt consolidation loan in Homosassa, you'll then have only one interest rate, which is likely to save more cash than you may realize. Those who notice a sizeable difference in their rates of interest should consider the significant benefits associated with this method.
There are many Florida debt consolidation loan options available to look at, and you should try to know all you are able on them. This method is used by a lot of consumers that are looking for help with debt because a singular lending product is much simpler to manage than a number of balances. You do not have to keep pace with a variety of due dates, either. You can have only the one for your one single debt consolidation loan. For people with a lot of balances you also greatly boost your chances of overdue payments, and even missing one. Debt consolidation reduction considerably decreases that threat.
Homosassa residents save a substantial amount of money through the consolidation option. Consolidating debt results in having just one account, which has paid the rest, which means having just one small interest rate. Get ready to be stunned by what you save on interest. It is not uncommon for people to save thousands by doing this, although if you just save a couple of hundred, you'll end up on top. Needless to say, thoughtlessly taking any sort of financial loan is imprudent, and you ought to complete the math to ascertain if you really will save any cash (and if yes, what amount), before you actually agree to anything.
There are a variety of reasons why you should take a look at consolidating debts to eliminate debt. The next task is to educate yourself regarding the approach and ways to qualify. Some people will find they are ineligible for this kind of loan.
You will not be qualified without decent credit scores. No lender will likely be comfortable with loaning a really sizeable amount of money to anybody with a history of not paying off debts in a timely manner. If you have established in past times that you honor your economic responsibilities, you will subsequently be thought of as a lower risk, and a lot more likely to acquire a consolidation loan package.
Is your credit score sufficient? Debt consolidation loans in Homosassa can generally be acquired by those with an outstanding credit rating of at least 700. Next, we're going to go over the other things which could influence whether or not you are okayed for a consolidation loan, even with outstanding credit ratings. Credit score really means very little if you don't have a source of income. There won't be any loan approval with no regular earnings and great credit standing.
Your credit standing and income source are going to do very little for you, though, if you don't recognize how to proceed now to try to get approval for a Homosassa, Florida credit card debt consolidation loan. Step 1 will be to look into exactly which financial obligations will be involved in the consolidation approach. It is something you're going to be asked about, and you will wish to be prepared. Knowing the total amount of the consumer debt you intend to consolidate is likewise important.
Decent interest rates are important in terms of deciding upon and taking a debt consolidation reduction loan company package. The interest rate has to be small enough to save you cash with time, so if it's not, you won't profit much. There are various banking companies and loan company lenders who will give very competitive rates, so do the essential research.
There are other issues to consider to be aware of too. You need to learn the loan's terms and conditions. The payment date and sum of your payment will be in the terms. And so will your interest rate, your repayment plan, and any fees applied for late payments.
Loan providers can normally be located in the Better Business Bureau (BBB), that can help you to confirm that the lender you're looking at is certified and legitimate. Rankings in the BBB are based on customer comments, expert services, and product or service caliber. Normally, you must never go with a loan company with anything below an A- score. Any company with an A rating can be relied on to make certain you're satisfied with the services and products.
When a consumer has decided upon the right loan consolidation company for her / his specific requirements, it is time to turn focus on the financial loan application process. The two main alternatives for submitting a consolidation loan application form: face to face and on the web. With either approach, you will need to present certain evidences of id plus your month-to-month or gross annual income. You must be ready to display proof you are whom you allege you are and that your income is exactly what you declare it is. Furthermore, you will want to be prepared to supply any kind of necessary information regarding the debts to be consolidated.
Your choices for sending your debt consolidation loan application form will not be restricted to the net. Lots of people significantly prefer the solutions that many financiers offer of telephone applications and postal mail applications. You can choose to employ any application method you would prefer: world wide web, phone, or postal mail.
Once you've placed the debt consolidation loan application, you are likely to wait a few days or so for a response. As you wait for a response, the lending company starts to work on checking out your information and credit. Next, you get to see if you are accepted for the debt consolidation reduction loan you have requested. You could get a call, a note, or an email from the debt consolidation loan company. You will be got into contact with in the same manner in which you filled out the application.
Accepted? Congratulations! So now, you must sign a few agreements and loan forms. You must sign the documents to make progress, but you mustn't do it if you haven't read them diligently to begin with, or if you aren't satisfied with what you have read. Fine print is where many less well liked terms are tucked away, so you should read that as well. It may look like too much, but it is far better to know for sure when considering putting your signature on anything at all, even though you'll be running with a reputable and well known company. If you're comfortable and confident, then sign your name on the paperwork, and allow the lender to take care of the rest. You won't need to stress about the open accounts any longer, since the loan company is going to apply the loan directly to them. The accounts that are resolved with a consolidation loan will start to send you a letter to let you know that your balance was paid. Always hold on to these kinds of letters. You might need them.
If you do not receive consolidation options, you're not alone. Plenty of people have to cope with consumer debt in combination with below outstanding credit, and are similarly discouraged to find a dead end in consolidation solutions. You won't be authorized for a debt consolidation loan with a rating of beneath 650. There is great news. In spite of a bad credit score, it's not out of the question to overpower your troubles with consumer debt. There are many opportunities you could explore.
One option that you may possibly be thinking about if you have a lot of debt that you just do not feel that you are likely to have the ability to repay at any time in your own lifetime is to consider debt settlement in Homosassa. Settlement is the option for folks who suffer from less than excellent credit scores and massive amounts of debt. With the settlement process, some of your debt might actually be wiped out, instead of consolidated. The objective is for the lenders to accept a agreement that benefits them just as much as it is advantageous to you. The debt settlement organization does this by interacting closely with all those establishments that you must pay back money to, in addition to specializing in the benefits for all involved. Moreover, you may wind up spending less month after month than you were before searching for debt help solutions. Thus, you're able to more easily come up with quick installments, and after a while, your credit standing will strengthen.
Obviously, working with a debt settlement organization will cost you some money. Most companies charge you a set percentage of the total amount of financial debt that is settled, which could amount to be quite substantial. Don't let this put you off researching the debt settlement method. You might find it is truly the best for your situation.
Absolutely no one strives to wind up staring going bankrupt in the eye, but it does happen. The word, 'bankruptcy,' is commonly affiliated with avoidance. If you're facing a bankruptcy proceeding being a sincere option, then you're surely confronted with financial devastation, and you are at the place in which you are ready to agree to the considerable damage to your credit ratings. Be expecting it to give rise to your ineligibility for loans for a long time. By declaring bankruptcy, you reveal to loan providers that you will be unable to settle the obligations which you sustain.
Your credit ranking will rapidly become a casualty of the personal bankruptcy process. Do not a bit surprised whenever after processing your Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you have a strike of 2 hundred or 300 credit rating pts. For years, there'll be no loans or approved credit report checks for you.
If you think about the expense of filing and also the expenses of recruiting legal counsel, a bankruptcy proceeding can even be very costly. Legal counsel can get you through the process in the least amount of time, without having mistakes, and without the need of struggling with the complicated actions. When it comes time to settle on a legal professional, think about the cost when making your decision. Different attorneys charge various prices. Many will desire a set cost, and some will need a portion of the debt total.
There exist, of course, a number of good things about this approach, as well, or not anyone would choose it. First and foremost, you could negotiate deals with a lot of the lenders to have bad debts forgiven or paid off with your personal property and assets rather than coming up with significant monthly payments along with accruing copious amounts of interest fees throughout your lifetime. You should also remember that not every financial debt is likely to be controlled with consumer bankruptcy. You can consider your education loans one of the debt which won't be dealt with through the bankruptcy proceeding.
What's more, if you're contemplating individual bankruptcy as an alternative to assist you to manage your debt in Homosassa, you should also consult with a consumer debt counselor first to help you make sure this really is, actually, your best option. You need to exhaust all the other possibilities by seeking out any other way of responding to what you owe. A credit debt counselor can deal with this.
Certainly, there are plenty of choices for handling financial debt. Don't take action until you're assured, but don't hesitate to deal with the issue. This is one way to a financially sound, free of debt future.
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https://www.edebtconsolidationloans.org/florida/homosassa/index.html
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Nexusguard’s Q3 2017 Threat Report shows that 55 percent of DDoS attacks in the Q3 of 2017 were multi-vector attacks, blending UDP-flood, NTP amplification and other attack vectors.
The survey analyzed more than 9,600 attacks. This number is 10 times more than the previous year.
“To protect against these types of attacks, organizations need to develop coordinated efforts to uncover new threats, remedy affected apps and ensure mitigation methods can flex and suppress growing attacks,” Kasman added.
As per the reports, China accounted for almost 21 percent of DDoS attacks worldwide in the third quarter. US stands at 5 percent.
Another survey conducted by Imperva’s Global DDoS Threat Landscape shows that attacks on bitcoin exchanges represented 3.6 percent of network layer DDoS attacks during the quarter.
The survey was conducted after analyzing 5,765 DDoS attacks. There is also rise in the number of high packet rate network layer attacks, in which the packet forwarding rate exceeded 50 Mpps or even 100 Mpps.
“This is a cause for concern, as many mitigation solutions are ill equipped to process packets at such a high rate,” the report notes.
AlertSec ACCESS is a patent pending technology designed to check that devices are encrypted before access to a network is granted.
Laptop theft can lead to data breach. OptumRx, the pharmacy care branch of a health services and technology company in Minnesota suffered data breach due to the theft incident. An unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in Indianapolis, Indiana as per the reports. OptumRx mentioned that laptop belonged to an unnamed vendor who provides home delivery services to patients.
Affected information included names, health plan names,addresses, prescription drug information, and prescribing provider information. For some individuals, dates of birth may have been exposed.
It also confirmed that Social Security numbers, credit cards, and other financial information was not involved.
Company did not specify the number of affected individuals. Also, Office of Civil Rights data breach portal didn’t mention the number of individuals affected by the security incident.
OptumRx has now contacted local authorities and launched an outside investigation. It has also mailed notification letters to potentially affected individuals.
The company is also working with local law enforcement. Vendor is asked to put in place additional levels of protection for its laptops. One free year of identity theft protection services is also offered to individuals. It is supplying each with a one-year subscription to LifeLock.
With this service, LifeLock actively monitors an extensive online network for attempts to use your personal information. Whenever suspicious activity is detected, user will receive an alert via email or phone.
It also provides services for missing wallet. It has asked users to just call— anytime, anywhere—and LifeLock will help cancel or replace the contents to stop fraudulent activities. Coverage under this scheme includes credit and debit cards, Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, insurance cards, checkbooks and travelers checks.
Impersonating can be done and Identity thieves can redirect your mail, containing financial information and providing a fraudulent new address. LifeLock monitors these such kinds of requests and notifies the user.
Identity thieves also get involved in illegal buy, sell and trade sensitive personal information on black market Internet sites. LifeLock now patrols over 10,000 criminal websites. Any suspicious activity is notified to the user.
LifeLock works with bank to reduce emailing to affected individuals to avoid identity theft.
Sign in to your secure member portal at LifeLock.com is available all the time.
Alertsec is the full disk encryption service that delivers a mobile data protection system for all information stored on laptops used throughout your organization.
Heath information was potentially compromised when laptop was stolen from doctor’s car. Around 400 patients are notified about the recent data breach. The incident took place at the Medical College of Wisconsin. According to the Medical College spokesperson, that a document with private information on about 400 patients was stolen from the vehicle, while a laptop with data on one patient was also taken.
“Firm policies are in place prohibiting the downloading of patient information to portable media, as well as the secured transport of documents containing patient information,” read a Medical College statement obtained by WDJT. “We sincerely regret that this unfortunate event occurred.
The purpose of this policy is to address the appropriate protection and encryption of all MCW Electronic Protected Information (EPI) when it is stored, transferred or accessed on any mobile device. Full mobile device encryption and related controls are required to access MCW’s electronic network or information through another means.
All Workforce members must protect MCW EPI. Workforce members using a Mobile Device owned by a workforce member, an external entity or one provided by MCW, to access or store EPI must have encryption using an institution-approved tool.
On personally owned devices (i.e. BYOD), should a workforce member choose not to permit MCW’s MDM tools and supporting processes on their personal device, access to MCW’s secured resources will be limited as outlined in procedure below.
Suburban Lung Associates in Illinois may face a protected health information (PHI) breach after its medical record was found in the dumpster. Local CBS affiliate news station reported the incident. It found out that number of patient charts was thrown in the trash that contained PHI such as patients’ medical histories, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses.
According to the reports, CBS affiliate discovered that the dumpster belonged to Filefax, a company that stores and transports medical records. The news station broadcasted news with inputs from dumpster driver. The women driver explained that Filefax had allowed her to take the papers a week prior and she had made ten trips with 1,000 pounds of Suburan’s medical records.
Filefax avoided news reporter after the incident. News station has alerted Northbrook police of the unsecure medical information, and police then ordered Filefax to secure the dumpster in their facility.
Hospital mentioned that its security policy mandates that the vendor destroy all medical files. They also said that they believe in protecting patient’s information at priority and this breach is isolated incident. The Illinois Attorney General and US Department of Health and Human Services are now investigating the breach.
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Medical Practice has notified 3000 patients who have suffered data breach due to employees who tried to contact them with intention of starting own business. Still there are conflicting reports about the involvement of a business associate (BA) and the dates of breaches. Information which was affected included patient names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and health conditions.
On or about July 24, 2014, Owensboro Medical Practice, PLLC, and its business associate, Research Integrity, LLC, learned that a spreadsheet containing protected health information was wrongfully copied and removed from the offices of Research Integrity by a former employee. This occurred despite the fact that only properly authorized persons at Research Integrity had access to the spreadsheet.
Owensboro Medical Practice and Research Integrity are both investigating the incident and taking steps to ensure that patient information is secure. The companies are also pursuing the return of all hard copies of all information from the spreadsheet, the deletion of all computerized versions of such information on a permanent basis, and permanent injunctions against the persons or entities who had possession of the data from utilizing such data in the future.
White Lodging Services, a hospitality company that manages 168 hotels in 21 states under Hilton, Marriott, and Sheraton brand names, is investigating a suspected credit and debit card breach. It has suspected 14 hotels along with some hotel restaurants and lounges where the possible breach happened at point of sales systems. It suspected below establishments.
Sheraton Erie Bayfront, Erie, Pa.
Holiday Inn Midway, Chicago, Ill.
Marriott Denver South, Denver, Colo.
Marriott Indianapolis Downtown, Indianapolis, Ind.
Marriott Richmond Downtown, Richmond, Va.
Marriott Louisville Downtown, Louisville Ky.
Renaissance Broomfield Flatiron, Broomfield, Colo.
Radisson Star Plaza, Merrillville, Ind.
Information about the breach first came to notice when security journalist Brian Krebs reported, Marriott properties operated by White Lodging Services based in Merrillville, Ind was affected by the unnamed card processors tied to fraud involving hundreds of credit cards to a number of this property. He reported location of other affected hotels as Austin, Texas, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Louisville, Ky., and Tampa, Fla., among other cities.
White Lodge spokeswoman Kathleen Quilligan told The Times of Northwest Indiana, “An investigation is in progress, and we will provide meaningful information as soon as it becomes available,” White Lodge is owned by Dean White 90, whose Forbes estimation is $1.9 billion. His company manages 168 hotels under variety of brand names.
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A health data breach at Saint Louis University (SLU) affected 3,000 patients. Few SLU employees received a phishing scam mail and gave out their account information by mistake.
About 20 SLU email accounts were accessed by the phishing culprits. These email accounts had protected health information (PHI) of about 3,000 people and about 200 Social Security numbers as well. According to the spokesman, employees’ financial information was the main target of the scam. And while no unauthorized financial transactions occurred, 10 employees changed their direct deposit information.
Affected students were offered one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection and restoration to affected students.
The University discovered that some SLU employees provided their account information in response to a sophisticated phishing email scam they received.
A full-scale investigation was started immediately after the University learnt about the incident. Employees who were targeted by the email scam were notified, and their accounts were secured. While about 10 employees had direct deposit information changed, no unauthorized financial transactions occurred.
As it appeared the main target of this scam must have been the direct deposit information of these employees. However, during the investigation, the University learned that the incident also resulted in unauthorized access to about 20 SLU email accounts belonging to approximately 3,000 individuals which contained their personal health information. This was mostly limited to diagnosis, procedure and medical chart information. The email accounts contained about 200 people’s name and Social Security Numbers. At present, there is no evidence to suggest that someone accessed any of the personal information in the emails.
All individuals whose information was in the email accounts affected by the incident are being notified by the University. SLU has also notified law enforcement officials and has engaged the services of a global leader to avoid such incidents in future.
University is providing the affected individuals with one year of free continuous credit monitoring and identity theft protection and restoration. Instructions for signing up for these free services are enclosed in the notification letters.
Data breach incidents are increasing at fast pace and their impact is affecting millions of people. California being one of its victims, the personal information of millions of individuals were exposed in data breaches last year.
Personal information of 2.5 million residents of California were exposed in 131 online data breaches in 2012, as indicated by a recent study done by Attorney General of California. However, more than half of these incidents were easily avoidable.
In a report released by the Attorney General Kamala Harris she revealed that out of 2.5 million California residents affected by data breaches in 2012, 1.4 million would have been fine if the companies had encrypted their data. If the exposed data had been cloaked earlier these incidents would have never been reported under existing state law.
According to some other findings in 2012, average of 22,500 people were affected in each breach. Majority of data leakage incidents were reported in retail industry followed by the insurance and financial sectors. More than 100,000 people were involved in five of the reported data breaches, more than half of breaches involved SSN.
“Data breaches are a serious threat to individuals’ privacy, finances and even personal security. Companies and government agencies must do more to protect people by protecting data.” Harris said in a release.
Harris gave some suggestions for companies and agencies, explaining them that data encryption should always be used to secure the data. She asked them to train their employees and contractors to improve the overall security in an organization. However, some experts in IT security industry declared awareness training to be a waste of money and time.
She further proposed to improve the readability of breach notices, better the access to resources for victims of breaches involving Social Security and driver’s license numbers, and the passage of legislation mandating notifications of breaches involving the exposure of online credentials, such as usernames and passwords.
French game maker Ubisoft has admitted that hackers have breached its networks, gaining access to usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The incident likely affects millions of people worldwide.
User access control is a cornerstone of information security management. Everybody needs it and does it. Yet in practice it’s poorly conceived, implemented and managed. It’s one of those elephants in the room: a problem that is highly significant, but difficult to tackle so business is reluctant to acknowledge it. If it wasn’t for compliance and internal audit the situation would be even worse.
A number of theoretical models have been developed over the years but they don’t deliver in practice. We’ve got ACLs, Capabilities, MAC, DAC and RBAC, none of which work in a medium or large enterprise. There are several reasons for this.
Firstly, the models are too simple. Access control is too rich a subject to be determined by a single label or capability. Deciding whether a user can have access to an enterprise system is far from simple. It depends on who they are, what they are, how important they are, where they are, what they are doing, to whom they report, and what other access they might already possess. This requires unambiguous policy rules and reliable decision processes, supported by smart application front-ends, all of which are in short supply.
Secondly, we rarely have enough knowledge in one place to make this work. Neither systems owners nor administrators have perfect knowledge of who does what across the enterprise and what access they require, especially in an organization that is continuously acquiring, divesting and restructuring business units.
Thirdly, we don’t pay enough attention to administration. It’s too often poorly resourced and equipped. Cost savings can easily be made by streamlining processes and implementing better tools but this requires enterprise-wide cooperation and it’s rarely at the top of any business unit’s agenda.
Fourthly, we are constrained by legacy systems and infrastructure which complicate the problem space and restrict the solution space. Ambitious visions quickly fade into the distance.
An inescapable fact is that we can’t control a complex situation with simple controls. Today’s access requirements are a sophisticated blend of numerous factors. Access rights depend on multiple user characteristics that can be surprisingly hard to define measure and monitor.
The end result is that it doesn’t get done properly. Instead we fudge it. We do the minimum we can to keep it going and rarely get around to developing the rich policies, knowledge base and streamlined processes needed to build a sustainable, effective access control system.
In fact it’s much easier to close the back doors, through vulnerability management and penetration testing rather than to secure the front entrance. But compliance is catching up with the thousands of wrong profiles, toxic combinations and dead registrations. Sooner or later we will have to put aside the easy, quick wins and face up to the long-standing elephant in the room.
Prevention is better than cure. Prevent your systems from attacks with Alertsec Xpress.
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To Cite: Geramizadeh B, Nikeghbalian S, Janghorban P, Malekhosseini S A. Isolated Tuberculosis of Transplanted Liver, A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Hepat Mon. 2013 ; 13(5):e6691. doi: 10.5812/hepatmon.6691.
Introduction: Recipients of liver transplantation are prone to different types of infections such as tuberculosis (TB).
Case Presentation: Herein we report a 59-year-old man with liver transplantation due to HBV cirrhosis who developed isolated hepatic TB, 18 months after OLT (orthotropic liver transplantation). He has been successfully treated with anti-TB regimen and now after 12 months he is completely symptom-free.
Conclusions: Organ transplantation and treatment of transplanted patients with immunosuppressive drugs would prone them to various unusual infections. One of these is unusual primary involvement of liver by tuberculosis which has been extremely rare in the previous reports.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects 0.47-2.3% of adults with liver transplantation (1) and the overall incidence is three times more than general population (2). Post-transplant TB is more frequent in Asia and Africa (3). It can be reactivation of a latent or primary post-transplant infection (4). Post-liver transplant TB can be either pulmonary or extra pulmonary such as lymph node, meninges, genitourinary and etc. (5). Post-liver transplant tuberculosis affecting transplanted liver has been rarely reported, most of which have been part of disseminated diseases. However, isolated hepatic tuberculosis in a transplanted liver is extremely rare and to the best of our knowledge three previous cases have been reported in the English literature (6-8). Herein we report our experience with such a case that has been successfully treated and also we will review the other previous cases of isolated hepatic allograft TB.
A 59-year-old man underwent OLT in March 2010 for HBV cirrhosis. His pre-transplant work-up including PPD test (purified protein derivative test) and chest X-ray were negative. In his past medical history, he has been diabetic for the last 5 years which has been on insulin therapy. He received a liver from a cadaveric, blood group identical young man, victim of a car accident. According to his family, the cadaver had completely been healthy, with no prior disease. Patient’s post-transplant period was unremarkable and left the hospital in less than 10 days. During a year after transplant, he had no specific problem until August 2011, i.e. a month before admission when he developed anorexia, easy fatigability, malaise, night sweat and low grade fever. Physical examination showed: BP = 150/70, PR = 80/min, RR = 16/min, and T = 37.7 ⁰C. Other findings were mild icteric sclera and pale conjunctive.
Table 1 shows the laboratory examination findings: WBC= 6900/ml, and Hb = 9 gr/dl. Liver function tests (LFT) showed elevated ALT (60IU/L, normal < 40) and AST (55 IU/L, normal < 40). Alkaline phosphatase was also mildly elevated (385IU/L, normal 65-300).
Quantitative PCR for EBV and CMV were negative. HBS-Ag was negative and HBS-Ab titer was 15 mIU/ml. HBV copy number was zero. At that time he was receiving Tacrolimus (1 mg/day, per oral (PO)), Sirolimus (2 mg/day, PO),Mycophenolate mophetil (1 gr/day, PO), Lamivudin (100 mg/day, PO) and HBV Immunoglobulin (HBIg) once/week intramuscularly (7). Liver biopsy was performed which showed caseating granuloma with positive acid fast bacilli (Figure 1). Chest and abdominal CT scan were unremarkable.
Diagnosis of TB was made and anti-TB therapy was started, composed of ethambutol 1200 mg/day, rifampicin 600 mg/day, and isoniazid (INH) 300 mg/day. Meanwhile tacrolimus was discontinued, and 5 mg/day (8) Methyl prednisolone was added to the drugs. After a short period sustained reduction of liver enzymes was noticed and also the patient’s general condition showed significant recovery. After 12 months of anti TB therapy he is completely well, laboratory findings are normal and drugs are gradually decreased to be followed for any further problem. He is still on the previous immunosuppressive regimen and there has been no episode of rejection during the last 12 months.
Immunosuppressive therapy in transplanted recipients increases the incidence of tuberculosis, because of suppressive effects against the cell mediated immunity (9). Most cases of post-transplant tuberculosis in the literature have been among the renal transplant patients and reports of post liver transplant tuberculosis are not common (10). Isolated TB in the allograft liver is extremely rare and until now only three cases have been reported (6-8). Table 2 shows clinical characteristics of previous and current cases of isolated TB in the transplanted liver in detail.
Two of the previous cases as well as our case have been in the patients above 40 years of age who have been transplanted by a cadaveric liver (6, 8). However, the patient reported by Kiuchit et al. From Japan has received the liver from her mother (who finally turned out to be PPD positive). In the adult cases of allograft TB, the diagnosis has been made in 8 to 18 months, but in the pediatric cases, this duration was much shorter i.e. 3 months post transplantation (6-8). All of the previous cases were PPD negative before transplantation, so it seems that they have got the infection from the graft (6-8). However, pre-transplant PPD test may underestimate the infection, because cirrhosis as chronic disease may result in cutaneous anergy which declines the sensitivity of the test, especially in our case with a history of diabetes mellitus (3). Addition of pre-transplantion chest imaging would be helpful (1). It is also important to perform PPD test and chest X-ray in the donor if it’s feasible (living related transplant) (3). Most common presenting symptoms have been fever and night sweat which in combination with abnormal LFT has led to perform a liver biopsy (7, 8). The intensity of immunosuppression is a possible risk factor for the development of post-transplant TB i.e. OKT3 or anti-T lymphocyte antibodies (4). However none of the previous post-liver transplant tuberculosis cases has been receiving these types of medication. Presence of other accompanying diseases such as diabetes (as in our case) is also another predisposing factor (4). Tissue biopsy is critical for the establishment of the diagnosis (1). All the previous cases have been diagnosed by liver biopsy or fine needle aspiration and the presence of acid fast bacilli and caseating granuloma (6-8). Treatment of the hepatic TB in the allografts of previous cases has been successful by anti TB regimens composed of INH, refampin, and ethambutol. In none of them INH hepatotoxicity has been reported despite of at least 6 months of therapy (6-8). It is very important to monitor the patients with liver transplant on both anti TB and immunosuppressive drugs, in order to prevent graft rejection and maintain an effective anti TB therapy, because of high mortality of untreated TB in a transplant recipient (11). As a conclusion high degree of suspicion is necessary for diagnosis of post-liver hepatic transplant TB and should be considered in the patients with fever and night sweat as well as abnormal LFT.
We would like to appreciate the Pathology staff of Namazee hospital.
Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This case emphasizes on the possibility of every rare infection in unusual sites in the transplanted patient. The occurrence of infections in the allografted liver should be considered as a possible cause of rising of liver enzymes after liver transplantation.
Authors’ Contribution: Bita Geramizadeh: Collecting the data and writing the paper, Saman Nikeghbalian: Collecting the data and surgery , Parisa Janghorban: Collecting the data, Seyed Ali Malekhosseini: Collecting the data and Surgery.
Financial Disclosure: There is no financial support.
Funding/Support: No funding/support was present in this case report.
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Window wells provide security and safety standards for all those homeowners who have them installed in their basements. In the market, one can find plenty of window wells that are made specifically for safety purposes for you and your family. A good example of window wells that are big enough to allow an adult to use them as escape routes are the egress windows. During emergency situations such as fire, floods or robbery, you and your family members can use these windows as exits to safety. In order to comply with safety standards, all homeowners are required to install egress windows in most states to act as fore exits during emergencies.
The natural beauty of window wells and their covers make them very appealing. Most people should install them into their basements since they add to the appeal of their basements. Most people have them installed due to their safety benefits and seldom think of them beautifying the interior of their basements. One can find a wide variety of window well designs in the market which they can choose according to their taste. Custom window well covers are also available for one to choose from depending on the color or style they want. Doing so will help your family to be safe at all times, add beauty to your basement and comfort as well.
Egress windows also help to bring in wind and air into the basement. One can always choose to install an egress window in their basements instead of having an airless and dark basement. Ventilation is thus improved as clean air will get into the room. This makes it more comfortable for your family to spend time in the basement peacefully.
Homeowners should always ensure that they leave their egress windows locked. Leaving them open might cause intrusion by robbers who use them as entry points to your home. It is also crucial to protect your window well properly in order to prevent issues of leaking or flooding.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 13, 2019 by blue.
A nicely built sports activities pitch and a first-class floor nicely enhance the usual of the game being performed and the players’ performance. Non league via to expert golf equipment and their ground staff purpose to provide the exceptional wearing experience inside their budgetary constraints.
Professional recommendation can ensure you get the fine pitch inside your finances and could help keep away from destiny overall performance issues, which can encompass poor floor drainage, sunken areas, excess compaction, and bad root growth.
A sports activities floor contractor can provide one of a kind production and preservation alternatives. These need to cater to your clubs necessities at the same time as handing over you a project to the best requirements and with minimal disruption to the membership.
When choosing your sports turf contractor search for accreditations or institutions they have from professional bodies which relate to pitch specifications, standards of work and substances used. These can be from the IOG or LDCA as examples.
Strip the existing floor the use of a GKB Combinator or Koro Field Top Maker.
Football or Rugby pitch drainage technique to include predominant drain and laterals, backfilled with drainage gravel and sand.
Spread and laser grade sports activities sand / rootzone.
Final ground guidance using a Blec Rotor Rake.
Apply a pre turf or seed fertiliser.
Surface installation with soccer turf or sports seed.
A bowling inexperienced drainage solution the use of a chief and laterals backfilled with washed drainage gravel.
Laser grade a gravel over the whole crown inexperienced bowls surface.
Install concrete channels round the edge of the playing surface.
Laser grade rootzone across the floor.
Surface installation with Bowling Green turf.
Strip the existing floor using a GKB Combinator.
Install cricket wicket primary drainage answer the use of a first-rate drain and laterals again packed with washed drainage gravel and drainage sand.
Spread a gravel carpet to create a drainage layer.
Spread and laser grade topsoil.
Spread and laser grade heavy loam topsoil.
Final ground practise by hand raking.
Apply a ryegrass Cricket sports seed.
This entry was posted in Home and Garden on January 9, 2019 by blue.
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Gardening services facilitates one accomplish responsibilities inside the lawn which might be difficult for just one character to carry out. Some offerings which might be also offered on line through the internet include maintenance which may be executed as a one off venture or in a form of a package deal. Another is lawn waste removal wherein the company consists of out waste collection or garden duties on a monthly basis. Third, is the laying of latest patios, decking, and paths. Fourth, there may be hedge trimming, grass cutting, and lawn care. Fifth, is weeding, digging, and mulching. Mulching is a system wherein composted bark is applied over the soil to preserve moisture and also to save you the growth of extra weeds. Finally, sixth is tree maintenance which incorporates pruning, elimination of stump, removal of dangerous timber, and dismantling of bushes for different purposes.
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What is Car Gap Insurance For?
In the event that you have obtained another or utilized auto with an advance, you likely owe more than the book estimation of the auto for the initial a while you pay on your advance. In the event that you didn’t put down a huge initial installment or on the off chance that you moved over an advance from your old auto, you may owe a considerable amount more than your auto’s esteem. You are presumably eager to acknowledge this reality since you are truly simply influencing auto installments, to have an auto you like, and realize that you will get the auto paid off in time. However, the truth of the matter is, most autos lose 20% of their esteem the moment you drive them off of the auto part.
In the event that you purchase a $20,000 auto, the real estimation of that auto may drop to $16,000 rapidly. You have recently endured the 20% shot. Notwithstanding, mischances happen. On the off chance that you have a mishap, or your auto is stolen, you might be approached to agree to the book esteem. That implies, despite everything you owe $4,000 more on an auto you can’t utilize!
Auto Gap Insurance shuts the hole between an auto’s esteem and your credit. You typical auto protection will in any case pay off the auto’s esteem. The auto hole protection arrangement will compensate for any shortfall. Presently some complete auto approaches may pay the financed esteem, however most don’t. Make certain to take a gander at your strategy or request that your operator ensure.
Where do you Buy Car Gap Insurance?
When you purchase an auto, your merchant will offer you an auto hole protection strategy. He or she may even offer to roll the cost into your advance. In any case they will charge you a superior cost. A few people buy auto hole protection along these lines since it is basic, or in light of the fact that they don’t understand they even have an alternative!
In any case, you do have a decision. You don’t have to pay $700 or $800 for auto hole protection from an auto dealership. You can purchase a similar arrangement on the web, specifically from the insurance agency. Online auto hole protection strategies sick cost not as much as half as much as auto hole protection from the merchant. You could pay $399 rather than $700 to $800!
Your other decision is to locate a far reaching auto protection strategy that will cover your auto’s financed esteem. You can call around, however it is less demanding to utilize a web based citing framework. Search for a protection citing framework that is BBB affirmed and has an expressed security approach.
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Graduate School Personal Statement Template.
Wіth dіffеrеnt ѕсhооlѕ, you’ve gоt tо send thе bаnk statement only аѕ long аѕ уоur аррlісаtіоn іѕ аррrоvеd. Evеn thоugh a personal statement may bеgіn wіth a hook,” оr angle, tо grаb the rеаdеr’ѕ attention, thе very fіrѕt раrаgrарh of an еѕѕау соuld іnсоrроrаtе a rеvіеw оf thе arguments аnd dаtа thаt will bе dіѕрlауеd іn thе rеmаіndеr оf thе text. People tоdау create реrѕоnаl ѕtаtеmеntѕ for numerous unіԛuе reasons.
Cаrееr рlаnѕ аrе gооd fоr рrасtісаllу аnу career. Prоvіdіng аn еxрlаnаtіоn by means оf a letter оf іntеnt іѕ аn official mеthоd of ѕееіng your рrороѕаl through. It’ѕ rіѕkу tо plagiarize a statement on thе internet, оr hіrе a реrѕоn to соmроѕе thе entire statement for уоu. Folks рrераrе personal ѕtаtеmеntѕ fоr mаnу rеаѕоnѕ, including аdmіttаnсе tо соllеgе or when ѕеаrсhіng for a nеw jоb. Gеnеrаllу, a реrѕоnаl ѕtаtеmеnt ѕtаrtѕ wіth a vision. Sо уоu knоw уоu hаvе tо соmроѕе the ѕtrоngеѕt, mоѕt реrѕuаѕіvе реrѕоnаl statement уоu’rе able tо. Nоt fосuѕіng ѕuffісіеntlу оn your іntеndеd іnѕtіtutіоn іѕ аnоthеr bіg оvеrѕіght that mау hurt уоur hеаlth саrе rеѕіdеnсу personal ѕtаtеmеnt.
An асtіоn ѕtаtеmеnt is uѕuаllу fоund in someone’s реrѕоnаl statement. It іѕ lосаtеd somewhere іn thе middle оf a personal ѕtаtеmеnt. Inѕtеаd, уоur statement оught tо bе directly rеgаrdіng thе nation and program in which you’re іntеrеѕtеd. A реrѕоnаl statement, оn thе flір ѕіdе, іѕ a ѕоrt оf еѕѕау thаt rеlауѕ аutоbіоgrарhісаl іnfо аbоut іtѕ author. Yоu may аlѕо hire a реrѕоn to соmроѕе a реrѕоnаl statement for уоu. You dоn’t knоw anything аbоut thе folks thаt аrе rеаdіng your private ѕtаtеmеnt. It’ѕ роѕѕіblе fоr уоu to utіlіzе an еxаmрlе реrѕоnаl ѕtаtеmеnt in various methods, еvеn іn the event thе significant aim tо utіlіzе an іnѕtаnсе is tо make аn еffесtіvе and eye-catching personal ѕtаtеmеnt.
Thе lеttеr is a sort оf соvеr lеttеr. A соvеr lеttеr рlауѕ аn important раrt іn convincing the committee mеmbеrѕ whісh you’re a dеѕеrvіng саndіdаtе for the ѕсhоlаrѕhір. If уоu аѕk later, еxресt to оbtаіn a ruѕhеd letter thаt dоеѕn’t hаvе thе іdеаl rесоmmеndаtіоn thаt might hаvе bееn. Yоu have to ѕtісk tо ѕоmе ѕіmрlе еtіԛuеttе as іt іѕ a request lеttеr.
Your letter ought tо bе direct. A reference lеttеr іѕ lіkе a rесоmmеndаtіоn lеttеr from еmрlоуеr. If уоu require the letter ѕооnеr and hаvеn’t been іn a роѕіtіоn tо сrеаtе that tуре оf rарроrt, don’t worry. You mау still uѕе thеѕе tірѕ tо fіnd thаt lеttеr оf recommendation. A recommendation letter frоm еmрlоуеr саn еаrn a substantial dіffеrеnсе іn a саndіdаtе’ѕ рrоbаbіlіtу оf obtaining a nеw job оr a ѕеаt іn a trusted еduсаtіоnаl institution.
Studеntѕ аrе are аntісіраtеd to bаlаnсе thеіr ѕсhооl wоrk with dіffеrеnt thіngѕ such еxtrасurrісulаr pursuits and possibly еvеn jоbѕ. Ovеr the durаtіоn оf thе calendar уеаr, the ѕtudеnt takes 8 dіѕtіnсt сlаѕѕеѕ. Yоungеr ѕtudеntѕ thаt аrе аttеndіng соllеgе fоr thе vеrу first tіmе could benefit from thе соnvеntіоnаl lеаrnіng аtmоѕрhеrе.
Aѕ a mаnаgеmеnt ѕtudеnt who’s about tо grаduаtе frоm college, I wаnt to іnԛuіrе about thе chance оf ореnіngѕ іn your еѕtееmеd fіrm. If you аrе aware thаt you’re lіkеlу to be аррlуіng tо grаduаtе school and you wіll require recommendation letters lаtеr оn, іt’ѕ wise tо bеgіn working оn buіldіng a superb rapport wіth a professor оf thе ѕubjесt you wаnt to рurѕuе furthеr.
In thе mаjоrіtу of cases, thе school dесіdеѕ thе positioning of thе name аnd graduation year patch. Personal schools wіll typically rеԛuіrе mоrе tіmе frоm tеасhеrѕ оutѕіdе thе school dау with numеrоuѕ pursuits. If уоur tеасhеr оr рrоfеѕѕоr has nоt dеѕіgnаtеd a good dеаl іn the mаnnеr of specifics, уоu’rе lіkеlу tо get tо dо a tіnу bіt оf еxtrа wоrk durіng thе brainstorming step.
Aѕ ѕооn аѕ you hаvе gathered all of the іnfоrmаtіоn, аnd decided whо ѕhоuld wrіtе your letter оf recommendation for grаduаtе ѕсhооl, you’ll gеt one thаt wіll ѕurеlу be аdd vаluе tо t аdmіѕѕіоn рrосеdurе. A fаntаѕtіс rеѕоurсе of рrіvаtе ѕtаtеmеnt assist must tаkе іntо thе аuthеntіс dеѕсrірtіоn оf уоur реrѕоnаl аrtісlе mоrе than anything еlѕе. Thеrе аrе рlеntу оf rеѕоurсеѕ of аrtісlе еxаmрlеѕ on thе web, nеvеrthеlеѕѕ, nоt аll them trulу offer uѕеful guіdеlіnеѕ.
Wіth thе aforementioned іdеаѕ, уоu will dіѕсоvеr thаt thе рrосеdurе fоr writing a letter оf intent fоr соllеgе is nоw much simpler. Fоr іnѕtаnсе, іf аn application lеtѕ уоu knоw tо write аbоut уоur career оbjесtіvеѕ, you would wrіtе a much various еѕѕау thаn іn саѕе the application had аѕkеd уоu to spell out уоur gоаlѕ wіth respect to coursework. Fоr thе large раrt all аррlісаtіоnѕ submitted to grаduаtе schools іn unіvеrѕіtіеѕ аll over thе соuntrу hаѕ to be accompanied bу mеаnѕ of a реtіtіоn lеttеr.
Letters are juѕt раѕѕе. Fоrmаl lеttеrѕ ѕtіll hоld an еxtrеmеlу іmроrtаnt рlасе іn the іnduѕtrу wоrld. In ѕuсh a ѕіtuаtіоn it would bе prudent to draft twо іndіvіduаl lеttеrѕ tо ѕtееr clear оf ѕuсh a сіrсumѕtаnсе оr соnfuѕіоn. Instead, іt is роѕѕіblе to аlѕо еlесt fоr resignation lеttеr vіа еmаіl. Aѕ soon аѕ you have dоnе thаt, you’re аll ѕеt tо compose a resignation letter that’s fоrmаl. Bеаr in mіnd, ѕоmе еmрlоуеrѕ саll for a resignation lеttеr for аn area of the exit рrосеdurе to dеmоnѕtrаtе рrооf thе resignation was vоluntаrу.
A rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеr not оnlу needs to inform аn еmрlоуеr thаt уоu’rе lеаvіng, but аddіtіоnаllу, it nееdѕ tо ѕuррlу information rеgаrdіng уоur final mоmеnt. Thоugh ѕоmе іndіvіduаlѕ bеlіеvе thаt іt’ѕ unрrоfеѕѕіоnаl, a rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеr via email іѕ еntіrеlу vаlіd tоgеthеr wіth ассерtаblе. Rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеrѕ hаvе tо bе wrіttеn in a роlіѕhеd and expert wау. They ѕhоuld fоllоw рrоfеѕѕіоnаl buѕіnеѕѕ lеttеr style whісh includes thе current date, a fоrmаl ѕtаtеmеnt of уоur intentions аnd your ѕіgnаturе. Writing аn official rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеr аѕѕіѕtѕ thе employer to realize thаt you’re rеѕіgnіng frоm уоur rоlе. Cоmmunісаtіng to уоur boss by writing an оffісіаl rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеr саn рrоvе tо bе uѕеful tо a реrѕоn.
Even if you’re leaving duе tо stressful оr unассерtаblе work conditions, іt іѕ essential to kеер the сhаrасtеr of the rеѕіgnаtіоn lеttеr роѕіtіvе, even іf уоu feel negative. On the flір side, thеrе аrе a few incorrect rеаѕоnѕ to ѕtор. For еxаmрlе, if the еxрlаnаtіоnѕ fоr thе employee revolving door аrе аѕѕосіаtеd with оrgаnіzаtіоnаl culture, the еmрlоуеr will bе соnѕіdеrіng еxрlоrіng where thе root оf the іѕѕuе lіеѕ.
Your оwn реrѕоnаl іnfо, уоur рrіvасу іѕ іmроrtаnt. Mаkе ѕurе уоu mаkе thе іnfоrmаtіоn уоu’rе looking for. It’ѕ hіghlу personalized wіth еxtrа іnfоrmаtіоn gіvеn bу thе uѕеr thеmѕеlvеѕ. It is роѕѕіblе tо also hаvе уоur contact іnfоrmаtіоn, lіkе уоur рrіvаtе number and еmаіl address fоr individuals tо ѕtау іn соntасt wіth уоu.
This article talks аbоut vаrіоuѕ fоrmѕ of еmрlоуmеnt lеttеrѕ аn employee ѕhоuld аlwауѕ аѕk thе еmрlоуеr. It іѕ аn official method оf communicating tо the еmрlоуее thаt the resignation wаѕ accepted. When аn employee ѕuссеѕѕfullу соmрlеtеѕ the рrоbаtіоn реrіоd, then thе provider would lіkе tо retain thе employee іn thе buѕіnеѕѕ and so nееdѕ a Cоnfіrmаtіоn letter. Following your rеѕіgnаtіоn was ассерtеd you nееd tо be sure thаt уоu іnfоrm your employer about thе present соndіtіоn оf thе projects you’re hаndlіng ѕо whісh уоu саn proceed ассоrdіnglу. Other employers may wаnt tо check оn your wоrk history, so mаkе аn еffоrt tо lеаvе through a ѕlаtе that’s clean. Second, potential еmрlоуеrѕ wіll rесеіvе an орроrtunіtу tо lеаrn уоur nature аnd work еthісѕ. Lіkеwіѕе the HR dераrtmеnt саn аѕk thе wоrkеr tо rесеіvе a сlеаrаnсе certificate frоm her оr his department head.
Thе trаvеl business іѕ саuѕіng a bіg negative environmental іmрасt аnd ruіnіng thе places we’re trуіng tо vіѕіt. If thе оrgаnіzаtіоn is unаblе tо rесеіvе 90% оf thе amount then it’s not роѕѕіblе fоr thеm to соmmеnсе аddіtіоnаl organization. It mау bе nесеѕѕаrу or ѕау уоu might fееl mоrаllу obligated to рrеѕеnt уоur еmрlоуеr the fасtоrѕ for why уоu’rе opting оut of thе оrgаnіzаtіоn, but іt mау nоt be ѕо in thе еvеnt оf your сuѕtоmеrѕ. Many оthеr соmраnіеѕ mіght орt to сhесk іn уоur еmрlоуmеnt record, thеrеfоrе make аn аttеmрt tо leave by having a ѕlаtе thаt’ѕ сlеаn. It іѕ роѕѕіblе to аlѕо ѕаfеguаrd your іndіvіduаl assets bу іnсоrроrаtіng уоur buѕіnеѕѕ еntеrрrіѕе. Wіth some suitable рlаnnіng аnd careful thought уоu’ll be аblе tо minimize thе key rіѕkѕ, and wоrk уоur way tо a position where уоu аrе аblе tо safely hаnd іn thаt resignation lеttеr.
Whіlе еvеrу сіrсumѕtаnсе іѕ unique based on personal соndіtіоnѕ, there are a number of gеnеrаl guіdеlіnеѕ to fоllоw whеn рuttіng оnе tоgеthеr. Bеfоrе dесіdіng whеthеr to provide a rеаѕоn bеhіnd leaving, consider your individual circumstance and thеn whаt уоu wоuld like tо ѕау.
Nеvеrthеlеѕѕ, remember I dоn’t actually knоw your ѕресіfіс сіrсumѕtаnсе оr реrѕоnаlіtу. Thіѕ decision hаѕn’t been an еаѕу оnе.
Thеrе was nо futurе wіthіn іt. In the еvеnt thе rеаѕоnѕ are associated wіth tаlеntеd fоlkѕ leaving for grеаtеr job opportunities, the оrgаnіzаtіоn mіght nееd to rесоnѕіdеr іtѕ еmрlоуmеnt packages and рrоmоtіоnаl practices tо stay соmреtіtіvе tо rеtаіn ѕuреrіоr еmрlоуееѕ. I had tо lосаtе another jоb оr spend thе rеmаіndеr оf my lіfе blаmіng thіѕ undеrtаkіng. Thіngѕ wеrеn’t gоіng so wеll аt wоrk аnd I wаѕn’t dоіng any critical рrераrаtіоnѕ tоо. Though уоu might hаvе оthеr реrѕоnаl or wоrk commitments, іt’ѕ іmроrtаnt to gіvе at thе vеrу lеаѕt a nоtісе period of two wееkѕ. Once уоu locate thе perfect one, gіvе іt thе duе hard work аnd realize thе mаgіс hарреn! My trаvеl blоg focus ѕhоuld сhаngе.
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Working in mental health is a privilege. We help people so much. As a mental health professional, you want to have tools and techniques to help a wide range of patients. Hypnosis should be one of those tools, an approach that can enhance and energize the many useful approaches in our helping profession. If you see clients who need personal growth, greater resources, and more emotional resiliency, then this workshop is designed for you. If you want to feel more confident and flexible, then this workshop is designed for you. And if you want personal growth as well as professional competency, then this workshop is certainly designed for you.
This course will extract critical insights about hypnosis that you can begin assimilating right away. We will focus on both formal trancework and informal hypnotic language that you can use to calm a nervous patient, to focus a distracted one or energize a depressed one. It is a myth to think that we have to always do formal hypnosis to get value from a hypnotic approach.
Because hypnosis is heavily weighted toward language skills that require practice, this workshop runs Friday evening, May 13 from 5:00 PM until 9:15 PM, and Saturday May 14 from 8:30 AM until 4:45 PM. When you attend this workshop, you can feel confident that you have plenty of time to practice the language of influence and helpful suggestion. You may wonder if you will be able to actually apply the skills right away, since the seminar is defined as an introduction. That is a good question. If you have attended workshops with Dr. Lynn Johnson before, you know that you leave those workshops with plenty of useful tools you can start using right away.
At the end of this workshop, Dr. Johnson will re-create an organization: The Utah Society of Clinical Hypnosis, offering ongoing discussion and skill building to members. Attending this workshop entitles you to be a member of this new organization.
5:00 PM: Introduction – trying to define the mystery of trance.
What is hypnosis: different definitions from different points of view. Myths of hypnosis.
Standard suceptibility scales: Stanford and Harvard scales. Informal tests of hypnotizability.
Indirect and permissive approaches. Using language skillfully.
How you can know the client is in hypnosis. Hypnotic phenomena. Levels of hypnosis.
6:00 PM: Practice and skill building at inductions.
Practice at direct and indirect approaches.
The direct approach: Use with good subjects, quicker to use, can work well.
Eye roll, arm catalepsy, other inductions.
Help for the “unhypnotizable” client: Useful options that empower interventions.
Defining hypnotic depth: Light, medium, deep.
Hypnotic phenomena: What are they, how to achieve them.
Fractionation and deepening: Demonstration and practice.
8:00 PM: Application to psychotherapy.
The principle of limiting your practice of hypnosis to things you’d appropriately treat without hypnosis.
being the hypnotist and the client.
8:30 AM: Debriefing and orientation: Often after practicing hypnosis, people experience some very intense dreams.
Arm levitation induction theory and practice; dyads practice; discussion.
Practice deepening and eliciting phenomena. Linking phenomena to problem solution.
Pain management skills: regression, suggestion, indirect suggestion, imagery, analgesia skills.
10:30: Further skills on utilizing hypnosis for therapeutic outcomes.
11:30 – 12: 30: Lunch on your own. If you bring a bag lunch, Dr. Johnson will provide an informal discussion about Dr. Milton Erickson and his experience with the master.
12:30: Hypnosis and relationships: Enhancing connection with trance experiences and post-hypnotic responses.
2:00 – 4:30: Clinical consultation and practice.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Dr. Lynn Johnson had personal training with Dr. Milton H. Erickson, considered the greatest hypnotist in history, and has worked closely with many of Erickson’s students. After meeting with Erickson he began using hypnosis in his practice and continued that for over thirty-five years. He originally organized the Utah Society of Clinical Hypnosis (USCH) and was the president for the first five years. While the society ceased to function many years ago, Lynn hopes to reinstate and energize the USCH as a source of clinical skills and practice. Those who attend will be invited to help establish a new USCH. Lynn is a popular teacher and psychotherapy innovator.
Our guarantee: If you are not satisfied with the workshop by the end of Friday night, you can receive a full refund with no questions asked.
THIS WORKSHOP IS APPROVED FOR 11 HOURS OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, NURSES, AND CLINICAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS THROUGH COMMONWEALTH SEMINARS. The fee for this 11-hour workshop is $239. Register online and earn a $10.00 discount. Pay by credit card or PayPal.
The course will be held at the Larry Miller SLCC campus, 9750 S 300 W Sandy, UT 84070. We cannot guarantee on-site registration. The space and resources are restricted to the number of students Dr. Johnson can handle. If there is any onsite space, the registration will be $259. So please register early while you know there is space available.
Our guarantee to you: if you are not convinced by the end of the Friday night session that you will have practical tools you can use in your own practice, you will receive a full refund. We want you to be happy with what you learn and confident in its usefulness.
The enrollment in this class is limited.
We cannot accommodate more than our room will hold, and more than Dr. Johnson can offer personal attention to.
We recommend that you enroll early.
Once the class has closed, we will offer a waiting list, but we cannot guarantee when the course will be offered again.
We realize that Friday evening and all day Saturday is a big commitment and in return, we promise you an experience that opens doors and gives you greater confidence and flexibility with your clients.
NOTE: Continuing Education credit for this program is awarded by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) for the following professions.
-Psychologists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education credit programs. CES maintains responsibility for this program. Psychologists receive 11 hours of continuing education credit upon completing this program.
-Social Workers: CES, provider #1117, is approved as a Provider for Social Work Continuing Education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. CES maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB approval period: 10/15/15 through 10/15/18. Social Workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social Workers participating in this course will receive 11 clinical continuing education clock hours.
-Clinical Mental Health Counselors/Licensed Professional Counselors: Commonwealth Educational Seminars is entitled to offer continuing credit to Professional Counselors in the following states: AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, ME, MA, MO, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI, and WY. CES maintains responsibility for this program. CMHCs/LPCs in the states listed will receive 11 CE hours of credit.
-Nurses: As an American Psychological Association approved provider CES programs are accepted by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Every state Board of Nursing accepts ANCC approved programs except California and Iowa, however CES is also an approved Continuing Education provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing, (Provider Number CEP15567) which is also accepted by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Nurses completing this program receive 11 CE hours of credit.
-Marriage & Family Therapists: Commonwealth Educational Seminars is entitled to offer continuing education credit to Marriage & Family Therapists in the following states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, ME, MD, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, VA, WA, WI and WY. CES maintains responsibility for this program. Marriage & Family Therapists in the states listed will receive 11 CE hours of credit.
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Bankruptcy can be complicated and it is normal to have questions. The following is a list of common questions about Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and some general answers. You will likely have specific questions based on your specific situations, so call George C. Selby, Esq. for a free consultation.
5. What is means testing?
Means testing is a method of determining a person’s eligibility to maintain a chapter 7 case. Under means testing a person whose current monthly income from all sources multiplied by 12 exceeds the median annual income, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, for the person’s state and family size, must show that he or she has a disposable monthly income of less than $124.58*. If disposable monthly income is greater than $207.92*, there is a presumption of abuse in filing a chapter 7 case. If monthly disposable income is between those two numbers, then you must determine whether the debtor could repay at least 25% of unsecured debt over the course of a 60-month period. If a debtor is deemed to be able to pay, their case will be dismissed or converted to chapter 13 unless special circumstances exist.
6. How is means testing carried out?
Every person who files a chapter 7 case must file a Chapter 7 Statement of Your Current Monthly Income (Official Form 122A-1) and a Chapter 7 Means Test Calculation (Official Form 122A-2). These forms, when completed and filed, show the person’s current monthly income and the current monthly expenses that the person is allowed to claim. The person may also be questioned about his or her income and expenses at the meeting of creditors. From these sources a person’s current monthly disposable income is calculated. This figure is then used to determine the amount of the monthly payment that the person can afford to make to his or her unsecured creditors. If the person’s monthly disposable income is greater than $207.92*, the person will almost always be disqualified from maintaining a chapter 7 case and the case will be dismissed or, with the person’s consent, converted to chapter 13.
7. How is it decided whether a person is ineligible for chapter 7 under means testing?
The Chapter 7 Statement of Your Current Monthly Income (Official Form 122A-1) and a Chapter 7 Means Test Calculation (Official Form 122A-2) filed by the person will initially show whether the person is able to make monthly payments to unsecured creditors in the amount required for ineligibility. If so, the clerk of the bankruptcy court will send a notice to all creditors that a presumption of abuse has arisen in the case. The United States trustee then has until 10 days after the meeting of creditors to file a statement as to whether a presumption of abuse exists in the case. Then the United States trustee or any creditor can move to dismiss the case. The bankruptcy judge will ultimately decide whether the case should be dismissed.
8. What is a presumption of abuse and how does it affect the case?
9. Who is eligible for a chapter 7 discharge?
(1) A person who has been granted a discharge in a chapter 7 case that was filed within the last 8 years.
(2) A person who has been granted a discharge in a chapter 13 case that was filed within the last 6 years, unless 70 percent or more of the debtor’s unsecured claims were paid off in the chapter 13 case.
(3) A person who files and obtains court approval of a written waiver of discharge in the chapter 7 case.
(4) A person who conceals, transfers, or destroys his or her property with the intent to defraud his or her creditors or the trustee in the chapter 7 case.
(5) A person who conceals, destroys, or falsifies records of his or her financial condition or business transactions.
(7) A person who fails to satisfactorily explain any loss or deficiency of his or her assets.
(8) A person who refuses to answer questions or obey orders of the bankruptcy court, either in his or her bankruptcy case or in the bankruptcy case of a relative, business associate, or corporation with which he or she is associated.
(9) A person who, after filing the case, fails to complete an instructional course on personal financial management.
(10) A person who has been convicted of bankruptcy fraud or who owes a debt arising from a securities law violation.
10. What types of debts are not dischargeable in a chapter 7 case?
(6) Debts for intentional or malicious injury to the person or property of another, if the creditor files a complaint in the bankruptcy case.
11. Who should not file a Chapter 7 case?
12. Is there anything that a person must do before a chapter 7 case can be filed?
Yes. A person is not permitted to file a chapter 7 case unless he or she has, during the 180 day period prior to filing, received from an approved nonprofit budget and credit counseling agency an individual or group briefing that outlined the opportunities for available credit counseling and assisted the person in performing a budget analysis. This briefing may be conducted by telephone or on the internet, if desired, and must be paid for by the person. When the chapter 7 case is filed, a certificate from the agency describing the services provided to the person must be filed with the court. A copy of any debt repayment plan prepared for the person by the agency must also be filed with the court. In emergency situations, the required credit counseling may be conducted after the case is filed.
13. How much is the filing fee in a chapter 7 case and when must it be paid?
The filing fee is $335.00 for either a single or a joint (husband and wife) case. The filing fee is payable when the case is filed. However, if the person filing can show that his or her income is less than 150 percent of the official poverty line and that he or she is unable to pay the filing fee, the court can waive payment of the filing fee. If the person filing is unable to pay the entire filing fee when the case is filed, it may be paid in up to four installments, with the final installment due within 120 days (use Official Form 103A). The period for payment may later be extended to 180 days by the court, if there is a valid reason for doing so. Unless payment is waived by the court, the entire filing fee must ultimately be paid or the case will be dismissed and no debts will be discharged.
14. Where should a chapter 7 case be filed?
A chapter 7 case is filed in the office of the clerk of the bankruptcy court in the district where the debtor has resided or maintained a principal place of business for the greater portion of the last 180 days. The bankruptcy court is a federal court and is a unit of the United States district court.
15. May a husband and wife file jointly under chapter 7?
Yes. A husband and wife may file a joint case under chapter 7. If a joint chapter 7 case is filed, only one set of bankruptcy forms is needed and only one filing fee is charged. However, both husband and wife must receive the required credit counseling before the case is filed and both must complete the required financial management course after the case is filed.
16. Under what circumstances should a joint chapter 7 case be filed?
A husband and wife should file a joint chapter 7 case if both of them are liable for one or more significant dischargeable debts. If both spouses are liable for a substantial debt and only one spouse files under chapter 7, the creditor may later attempt to collect the debt from the nonfiling spouse, even if he or she has no income or assets. In community property states it may not be necessary for both spouses to file if all substantial dischargeable debts are community debts. The community property states are Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin (and Puerto Rico) (with Alaska being an opt-in community property state).
17. When is the best time to file a chapter 7 case?
(1) Don’t file the case until all anticipated debts have been incurred, because only debts that have been incurred when the case is filed are dischargeable and it will be another eight years before the person is again eligible for a chapter 7 discharge. For example, a person who has incurred substantial medical expenses should not file a chapter 7 case until the illness or injury has been either cured or covered by insurance, as it will do little good to discharge, say, $100,000 of medical debts now and then incur another $100,000 in medical debts after the case has been filed.
(2) Don’t file the case until the person filing has received all nonexempt assets to which he or she may be entitled. If the person is entitled to receive an income tax refund or a similar nonexempt asset in the near future, the case should not be filed until after the refund or asset has been received and disposed of. Otherwise, the refund or asset will have to be turned over to the trustee.
(3) Don’t file the case if the person filing expects to acquire nonexempt property through inheritance, life insurance or divorce in the next 180 days, because the property may have to be turned over to the trustee.
(4) If an aggressive creditor has threatened to attach or garnishee a person’s assets or income, the case should be filed immediately to take advantage of the automatic stay that accompanies the filing of a chapter 7 case (see Question 18, below). If a creditor has threatened to attach or garnishee the person’s wages or if a foreclosure action has been filed against his or her home, it may be necessary to file the case immediately in order to protect the person’s interest in the property.
18. How does the filing of a chapter 7 case by a person affect collection and other legal proceedings that have been filed against that person in other courts?
19. How does filing a chapter 7 case affect a person’s credit rating?
It will usually worsen it, if that is possible. However, some financial institutions openly solicit business from persons who have recently filed under chapter 7, apparently because it will be at least 8 years before they can file another chapter 7 case. If there are compelling reasons for filing a chapter 7 case that are not within the person’s control (such as an illness or an injury), some credit rating agencies may take that into account in rating the person’s credit after filing.
20. Are the names of persons who file chapter 7 cases published?
When a chapter 7 case is filed, it becomes a public record and the names of the persons filing may be published by some credit-reporting agencies. However, newspapers do not usually report or publish the names of consumers who file chapter 7 cases.
21. Are employers notified of chapter 7 cases?
22. Does a person lose any legal or civil rights by filing a chapter 7 case?
23. May employers or governmental agencies discriminate against persons who file chapter 7 cases?
24. Will a person lose all of his or her property if he or she files a chapter 7 case?
Usually not. Certain property is exempt and may not be taken by creditors unless it is encumbered by a valid mortgage or lien. A person is usually allowed to retain his or her unencumbered exempt property in a chapter 7 case. A person may also be allowed to retain certain encumbered exempt property (see Question 34, below). Encumbered property is property against which a creditor has a valid lien, mortgage or other security interest.
25. What is exempt property?
Exempt property is property that is protected by law from the claims of creditors. However, if exempt property has been pledged to secure a debt or is otherwise encumbered by a valid lien or mortgage, the lien or mortgage holder may claim the exempt property by foreclosing upon or otherwise enforcing the creditor’s lien or mortgage. In bankruptcy cases property may be exempt under either state or federal law. Exempt property typically includes all or a portion of a person’s unpaid wages, home equity, household furniture, and personal effects. Your attorney can inform you as to the property that is exempt in your case.
26. When must a person appear in court in a chapter 7 case and what happens there?
The first court appearance is for a hearing called the “meeting of creditors,” which is usually held about a month after the case is filed. The person filing the case must bring photo identification, his or her social security card, his or her most recent pay stub and all of his or her bank and investment account statements to this hearing. At this hearing the person is put under oath and questioned about his or her debts, assets, income and expenses by the hearing officer or trustee. In most chapter 7 consumer cases no creditors appear in court; but any creditor that does appear is usually allowed to question the person. For most persons this will be the only court appearance, but if the bankruptcy court decides not to grant the person a discharge or if the person wishes to reaffirm a debt, there may be another hearing about three months later which the person will have to attend.
27. What happens after the meeting of creditors?
28. What is a trustee in a chapter 7 case, and what does he or she do?
29. What are the responsibilities to the trustee of the person filing the case?
30. What happens to property that is turned over to the trustee?
31. What if a person has no nonexempt property for the trustee to collect?
32. How are secured creditors dealt with in a chapter 7 case?
Secured creditors are creditors with valid mortgages or liens against property of the person filing. Property that is encumbered by a valid mortgage or lien is called secured property. A secured creditor is usually permitted to repossess or foreclose on its secured property, unless the value of the secured property greatly exceeds the amount owed to the creditor. The claim of a secured creditor is called a secured claim and secured claims are collected from or enforced against encumbered property. Secured claims are not paid by the trustee. A secured creditor must prove the validity of its mortgage or lien and must usually obtain a court order before repossessing or foreclosing on encumbered property. Encumbered property should not be turned over to a secured creditor until a court order to do so has been obtained, unless the property is encumbered only to finance its purchase. The debtor may be permitted to retain certain types of encumbered personal property (see Question 34, below).
33. How are unsecured creditors dealt with in a chapter 7 case?
34. What encumbered property may a person retain in a chapter 7 case?
A person may retain (or redeem) certain encumbered personal and household property, such as household furniture, appliances and goods, wearing apparel, and tools of trade, without payment to the secured creditor, if the property is exempt and if the mortgage or lien against the property was not incurred to finance the purchase of the property. A person may also retain without payment to the secured creditor any encumbered property that is both exempt and subject only to a judgment lien that is not divorce-related. Finally, a person may retain certain encumbered exempt personal, family, or household property by paying to the secured creditor an amount equal to the replacement value of the property, regardless of how much is owed to the creditor.
35. How may a person minimize the amount of money or property that must be turned over to the trustee in a chapter 7 case?
(5) accrued earnings and benefits, (6) tax refunds, and(7) sporting goods.
It is usually advantageous to take steps to ensure that the value of each of these assets is as low as possible on the day and hour that the chapter 7 case is filed. By doing this the person will not be cheating or acting illegally; he or she will simply be using the law to his or her advantage, much the same as a person who takes advantage of the tax laws by selling property at the appropriate time.
Cash. If possible, the person filing should have no cash on hand when the chapter 7 case is filed. Further, if he or she has received cash or the equivalent of cash in the form of a paycheck or the closing of a bank account shortly before the filing of the case, the funds should be disposed of for valid purposes and receipts should be obtained when disposing of the funds in order to prove to the trustee and the court that the funds were validly disposed of prior to the filing of the case. Money possessed or obtained shortly before the filing of a chapter 7 case may be spent on such items as food and groceries, the chapter 7 filing fee, the attorney’s fee in the chapter 7 case, and the payment to creditors whose claims the person intends to reaffirm and continue paying after the filing of the chapter 7 case. Payments should not be made as gifts or loans to friends or relatives, however, as the trustee may later recover these payments.
Bank Accounts. The best practice is to close out all bank accounts before filing a chapter 7 case. If a bank account is not closed, the balance of the account should be as close to zero as the bank will allow and all outstanding checks must clear the account before the case is filed. If the person filing has written a check to someone for, say, $50 and if the check has not cleared the account when the case is filed, the $50 in the account to cover the outstanding check will be deemed an asset and will have to be paid to the trustee.
Prepaid Rent. If a person’s rent is paid on the first day of the month and if the person’s chapter 7 case is filed on the tenth day of the month, the portion of the rent covering the last 20 days of the month, if not exempt, will be deemed an asset and will later have to be paid to the trustee. If possible, the person should make arrangements with the landlord to pay rent only through the date that the case is to be filed and to pay the balance of the rent from funds acquired after the case is filed. If this is not possible, the case should be filed near the end of the rent period.
Landlord and Utility Deposits. Unless they are exempt, the person filing should attempt to obtain the refund of all landlord and utility deposits before filing a chapter 7 case. Otherwise, the deposits, or their cash equivalents, will have to be paid to the trustee, unless the deposits are exempt.
Accrued Earnings and Benefits. In most states, and under the federal law, only a certain percentage (usually 75% or thirty-five times the federal minimum hourly wage, whichever is larger) of a person’s earnings are exempt. Therefore, the trustee may be allowed to take the nonexempt portion (usually 25%) of any accrued and unpaid wages, salary, commissions, vacation pay, sick leave pay, and other accrued and nonexempt employee benefits. Normally, then, the best time to file a chapter 7 case is the morning after payday. Even then, if the pay period does not end on payday, the person may have accrued earnings unless special arrangements are made with the employer. If annual leave or vacation pay is convertible to cash, it should be collected before the chapter 7 case is filed, as should any other nonexempt employee benefits that are convertible to cash.
Tax Refunds. In most states, a tax refund is not exempt and becomes the property of the trustee if it has not been received by the person prior to the filing of a chapter 7 case. Therefore, if a tax refund is expected, a chapter 7 case should not be filed until after the refund has been received and validly disposed of. Even if the case is filed before the end of the tax year, if the person filing later receives a refund, the trustee may be entitled to the portion of the refund earned prior to the filing of the case. The best practice, then, is to either file the chapter 7 case early in the tax year (but after the refund from the previous year has been received) or make arrangements to ensure that there will be no tax refund for that year.
36. May a utility company refuse to provide service to a person if the company’s utility bill is discharged under chapter 7?
If, within 20 days after a chapter 7 case is filed, the person filing furnishes a utility company with a deposit or other security to ensure the payment of future utility services, it is illegal for a utility company to refuse to provide utility service to the person after the case is filed, or to otherwise discriminate against the person, if its bill for past utility services is discharged in the person’s chapter 7 case.
37. What should a person do if he or she moves before the chapter 7 case is completed?
38. How is a person notified when his or her discharge has been granted?
39. What if a person wishes to repay a dischargeable debt?
A person may repay as many dischargeable debts as desired after filing a chapter 7 case. By repaying one debt, a person does not become legally obligated to repay any other debts. The only dischargeable debt that a person is legally obligated to repay is one for which the person and the creditor have signed what is called a “reaffirmation agreement.” If the person was not represented by an attorney in negotiating the reaffirmation agreement with the creditor, the reaffirmation agreement must be approved by the court to be valid. If the person was represented by an attorney in negotiating the reaffirmation agreement, the attorney must file the agreement and other required documents with the court in order for the agreement to be valid. If a dischargeable debt is not covered by a reaffirmation agreement, the person filing is not legally obligated to repay the debt, even if the person has made a payment on the debt since filing the chapter 7 case, has agreed in writing to repay the debt, or has waived the discharge of the debt in a waiver that was not approved by the bankruptcy court.
40. How long does a chapter 7 case last?
41. What should a person do if a creditor later attempts to collect a debt that was discharged in his or her chapter 7 case?
42. How does a chapter 7 discharge affect the liability of cosigners and other parties who may be liable to a creditor on a discharged debt?
43. What is the role of the attorney for the person filing a chapter 7 case?
(1) Analyze the amount and nature of the debts owed by the person filing and determine the best remedy for the person’s financial problems.
(2) Advise the person filing of the relief available under chapter 7 and the other chapters of the Bankruptcy Code, and of the advisability of proceeding under each chapter.
(3) Assist the person in obtaining the required pre-bankruptcy budget and credit counseling briefing.
(4) Assemble the information and data necessary to prepare the chapter 7 forms for filing.
(5) Prepare the petitions, schedules, statements and other chapter 7 forms for filing with the bankruptcy court.
(6) Assist the person filing in arranging his or her assets so as to enable the person to retain as many of the assets as possible after the chapter 7 case.
(7) Filing the chapter 7 petitions, schedules, statements and other forms with the bankruptcy court, and, if necessary, notifying certain creditors of the commencement of the case.
(8) If necessary, assisting the person filing in reaffirming certain debts, redeeming personal property, setting aside mortgages or liens against exempt property, and otherwise carrying out the matters set forth in the statement of intention.
(9) Attending the meeting of creditors with the person and appearing with the person at any other hearings that may be held in the case.
(10) Assist the debtor in attending and completing the required instructional course on personal financial management.
(11) If necessary, preparing and filing amended schedules, statements, and other documents with the bankruptcy court in order to protect the rights of the person.
(12) If necessary, assisting the person in overcoming obstacles that may arise to the granting of a chapter 7 discharge.
The fee paid, or agreed to be paid, to an attorney representing the person filing in a chapter 7 case must be disclosed to and approved by the bankruptcy court. The court will allow the attorney to charge and collect only a reasonable fee. Most attorneys collect all or most of their fee before the case is filed.
*Remember: The law often changes and each case is different. The above is meant to give you general information and is not legal advice. You should contact a bankruptcy attorney to obtain answers regarding your specific situation.
Still have questions? We are here to help! Call Selby Legal now at (845) 419-3383 for a free consultation.
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Collectors are allowed to collect a debt. But, they have to follow the law.
They break these laws all the time. The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act are the biggest. Each violation on this list gets you damages and your attorney’s fees paid by the collector. Learn to spot these violations and share!
Calling your cell phone without permission. I talk at length about this on that page, so if you are getting collection calls to your cell phone, read that article or call. They pay $500 per call if they broke the rules.
Calling your cell phone after giving them permission, but later taking it away. For example, you originally did business with the company, and you put your cell phone number on the loan application. They later start calling you on your cell phone. These phone calls or legal. However, the first time you tell them to stop calling, all phone calls will be a legal.
Calling your home phone too much: There is no hard and fast rule about how much a collector can call your home phone line. Does it seem like a lot of calls? If yes, assume they went too far.
Hanging up without knowing who it is: DC can’t just call and hang up over and over again. This is unfair and is illegal. There is a limit, so there is no hard and fast rule. But, ask yourself this question, does that seem fair?
Calling before 8 a.m.: They can only call during certain hours under federal law. Depending on what state you live in, you may have even more time of quiet, but not less. These hours are the same in Georgia.
Calling after 10 a.m.: This is the latest a debt collector can call you. Anytime later and they broke the law. That’s not cool and is a violation of law.
Leaving a message that is overheard by a third party. You have a right to privacy. You have a right for your private information to stay private. If they are leaving messages on a home phone’s answering machine and your mom hears that they are collecting on you – that is a collector’s violations.
Telling you to pay for a spouse’s debt: This is untrue. In America, you are only responsible for your debts and your children’s debts, but not your spouse’s debts. For example, your husband goes to the emergency room and gets service. They send a bill, but he does not pay it. Can they call my wife? Yes. Can they make her pay the bill she does not owe? No, they can’t.
Telling you to pay for a parent’s debt: The Georgia law matches the federal law here, as well. You are not responsible for your parent’s debt unless you agreed to that before hand. You have to watch out for this one.
Telling you to pay for a grandchild’s debt: This violation happens a great deal. You are taking care of your grandchild, and the next thing you know you are denied credit. What for? Because a medical debt that is not your bill? That is wrong and illegal.
Telling you to pay for a stranger’s debt: Of course, they won’t say it like that, but … Credit bureaus are all mixed up at times and make mistakes. What you actually think is identity fraud might just be Equifax mixing you up with another person. It happens all the time. 60% of people have credit report errors in Georgia.
Telling you pay for a debt that you don’t owe: Debt collectors love to do this.
Telling you to pay for a debt you do owe, but in the wrong amount. A debt collector will often make this mistake.
Threatening to garnish your wages: Garnishing wages is when the court takes your paycheck directly from your employer to pay a bill to someone that has a judgment against you. No one can garnish your wages until the sue you and beat you. Any talk before then is wrong and illegal. Debt collectors have paid millions of dollars for this lie they tell over and over. Be on the lookout for talk about garnishing wages. If you are told this by a collector, write down the time and number of who called. After that, call my office for a quick lawsuit for illegal activity.
Threatening to sue you unless they already were going to (the collection agent won’t know). This one takes some leg work, but they are a collector that regularly sues or does not. I would talk to a lawyer to help you figure this one out. Local finance companies may always sue or never sue. It depends.
Threatening jail time for not paying: This is illegal for so many reasons. First, you can’t go to jail for not paying a collector – ever!!! Wait, unless it’s the government – they crazy. If a collector ever tells you that you will go to jail, you are talking to a liar. In fact, I don’t think you are talking with a debt collector. You may be talking with a scam artist. Don’t pay without talking with a consumer lawyer. If they are violating this law, they either have no leadership or direction at work, or they are fake.
Calling your work and telling them you owe money: Wait! They can call UNLESS you tell them they can’t call during work. So, if you tell them they can’t call and they do call, that is illegal. I will get you paid. If you never told them that they can’t call, then they can call looking for you. BUT, they can’t say it is about a debt. The problem is when the company name is like ABC debt collection.
Telling anyone but your spouse that you owe money.
Asking anyone but you or your spouse where you are more than once.
Charge you a convenience fee on your debt collection bill.
Charge you a service charge on a debt collection bill. This is very similar to the above violation, but they are the one’s keeping all of the money.
Automatically debit your account for more than one month without having something in writing. This means that every month you can give them permission, but you can’t give them two months of permission at once.
Sue the wrong person. Law firms and debt collectors sue the wrong person all the time. This is wrong.
Sue the right person for the wrong amount.
Sue the right person, but can’t prove they were the right business to sue.
Debt collectors are people who collect debts owed to others regularly under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act or FDCPA. As a Georgia FDCPA attorney, I have found that many types of businesses violate the law. Debt collectors include lawyers, collection agencies, and the corporations that buy delinquent debts only to try to collect at full value.
Many larger debt collectors are governed by the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau.
The Act however covers both personal, household and family debts, which includes money owed by you through an auto loan, a personal credit card account, your mortgage and your medical bill. The FDCPA does not cover debts incurred by you while running a business.
One last thing, identity theft can also create claims under these laws, as well.
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When someone in your family has an addiction, life can be a real struggle for you, as well as everyone else in your family. However, the problem can be taken to a new level when it is your grandparent with the addiction. The same is true if you're a parent, and you're concerned about your child's grandparent having an addiction. Either way, this is someone you have been close to your entire life, most likely. Grandparents are people we look up to, and we expect that they will be a source of stability in our lives.
Even so, drugs and alcohol can be brutal, and they frequently "choose" their victims among the people we love the most.
The question is, what should you do about this problem? You may be wondering if there really is anything you can do. You're desperate to find an answer, and you'd love nothing more than to wave a magic wand and make this issue disappear for good. Unfortunately, that's not at all the way that it works, and it's important for you to know the steps you should take in this situation.
At Northpoint Recovery, we know the pain you're feeling right now. The fact that you have an addicted grandparent most likely weighs on you night and day, and you feel as though you're stuck at caring for someone who has no desire to change or get better. Knowing how to properly identify an addiction, learning as much about addiction as you can, and finding out how to get your grandmother or grandfather the right kind of help are the key things that you need to be concerned with right now.
In the U.S., there are 2.5 million elderly individuals who struggle with substance abuse.
As many as 11% of senior hospital admissions are because of drug or alcohol problems.
14% of elderly emergency room visits are due to substances.
20% of elderly psychiatric hospitalizations are due to some type of addiction.
The highest rates of alcoholism in the United States are because of widows over the age of 75.
Elderly individuals are hospitalized for alcohol related issues just as often as they're hospitalized for heart attacks.
Benzodiazepines are the most commonly abused prescription medications among the elderly.
There are 17 million prescriptions for tranquilizers written for seniors every year.
These statistics might surprise you, but it's clear that drug and alcohol addiction is a bigger problem among seniors than most people realize.
At times, it may feel like you're all alone in the situations you're dealing with because of your grandparent's addiction. However, there are many others just like you who are all facing the same issues.
You might be aware that your grandparent is using substances, but the fact is that sometimes the line between abuse and addiction can be somewhat blurred. It can be hard to figure out if a loved one is struggling with an addiction, but there are some key signs you can look for to help you determine whether or not this is the case.
He or she is secretive about drinking or drug use.
There seems to be a ritual assigned to drinking before, with or after eating a meal.
Bouts of memory loss or confusion.
Frequent and chronic health issues that could be related to substance abuse.
Finding empty liquor or beer bottles.
Frequently taking prescription medications, even when they don't seem to be necessary.
Drinking alcohol while taking prescription drugs.
Losing interest in favorite activities or hobbies.
If you notice any of the above, it's possible that your grandparent does have an addiction. If you need more information, it can also be helpful to take a family addiction quiz that can help you understand even more about the possibility of addiction.
They may have recently lost a spouse and become a widow or widower.
They may be missing their children because they've grown up and left home.
They may have recently retired from a job they've had for a long time.
They may have had to move into a new, smaller home.
They may have lost touch with many of their closest friends.
They may be experiencing problems with their health.
As more and more challenges are thrown their way, it can be difficult to cope, and substances provide seniors with a way to escape what they're going through. Even so, it's also important to remember that some elderly people will actually become addicted to some types of drugs by accident. Certain types of prescription drugs (such as Xanax or Vicodin) can easily lead to addiction, even when they are being taken appropriately. If your grandparent has been prescribed one of these medications for a long period of time, addiction is actually quite likely.
Those in the elderly population are at a great risk when they make the decision to start using drugs or alcohol, and they are usually unaware of these risks. You're right to want to help your grandparent get the help that he or she needs.
It makes sense that you would want to talk with your grandparent about getting help for the addiction, but you need to know that you will be met with some resistance. A drug or alcohol addiction is serious, and your grandparent may feel that it doesn't make any sense for him or her to get treatment at their age. Regardless, you need to know how to have this important conversation.
To begin, make sure you choose a time when your grandparent is sober. It won't benefit either of you if you have the conversation when he or she is under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Before you sit down to have the talk, have a plan in place so you know what you are going to say. Avoid blaming your grandparent for the addiction, but talk about how it's affecting you both, and stress the need to get professional help. Above all, remain calm and make sure your grandmother or grandfather knows that your concerns are coming from a place of love.
If your grandparent is resistant to what you have to say, that is to be expected. Many times, families will talk about these issues with elderly family members over and over again, but the behaviors don't change. If that seems to be what happens in your situation, then it's important for you not to keep dwelling on it. Instead, you may want to consider having an intervention.
During an intervention, you and other members of your family and possibly close friends will sit down with your grandparent and talk about your concerns. The meeting will be overseen by an interventionist who will make sure everyone stays on topic. You'll have the opportunity to talk about your concerns, and others will too.
Interventions are very powerful, and your grandparent will be able to get help right afterwards if he or she wants to. If not, then you'll be instructed about various boundaries you will need to put in place to encourage your grandparent to get help.
Getting individual therapy from a professional counselor who will help to address the reasons behind the addiction.
Group therapy that allows for peer counseling, which has been so helpful in the lives of others with addictions.
Detox services, if that is deemed to be necessary.
Making plans for ongoing treatment.
It's common for families to ignore their own needs when they have a family member who is suffering with an addiction. However, this is something you want to avoid. It's important for you to get professional help for yourself as well. This might mean making an appointment with a counselor so that you can talk about everything you're going through. It could also mean going to an Al-Anon meeting, which is an organization that offers help to the families of addicts through peer counseling. There are Al-Anon meetings all over the United States, and finding one near you is very easy.
The worst thing you can do is to choose not to take care of yourself during this time. You've been through so much, and getting help for yourself is vital to your own health and happiness.
It's so hard to deal with the situation when you have a grandparent who has an addiction to drugs or alcohol. This is someone you have always had the utmost respect for, and you have so many fond memories together. Knowing that this individual is struggling with an addiction is heartbreaking, not to mention extremely frustrating for you. You may watch your grandparent suffer, and feel compelled to do something about it, but there is only so much you can do unless your grandmother or grandfather makes the decision to get professional help for the addiction.
At Northpoint Recovery, our goal is always to offer assistance to anyone who comes to us in need of help. There have been many elderly individuals who have walked through our doors because they desperately needed addiction treatment. We offer senior rehab, which is designed to specifically meet the unique needs of someone who is a little bit older. The type of substance abuse treatment that works well for the younger population isn't always right for the elderly, and we've taken the steps to ensure that all of our patients receive targeted treatment that helps them in the various ways that will benefit them the most.
Is senior rehab something you're interested in learning more about? Do you have an addicted grandparent in need of rehab or an intervention? Regardless of what your needs are, we want to help you. Please contact us to get started.
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2019-04-20T10:38:55Z
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Possessing a beautiful elegance she shines on the silver screen. Her cute style and delightful look leaves the audience spellbound. Just like her name she makes the audience ‘desire' for her onscreen presence.
Tamannah Bhatia was born on 21st December 1989 in Mumbai to Santhosh and Rajani Bhatia. She has an elder brother, Anand. She did her schooling in Maneckji Cooper Educational Trust School, Juhu, Mumbai. She is currently pursuing her graduation (B.A.) in arts through distance education.
The graceful swan of Tollywood, Tamannah Bhatia, the Mumbai girl checked her luck in Tollywood with Sri but received her success with Happy Days.
She thrilled the youth with her smile in Happy Days, flattened the hearts with her mischief as 'Geetha Subrahmanyam', proudly made her mark as 'That is Mahalakshmi' with 100% love and exposed her divinity through Badrinath. She made her presence an eye feast in every movie and made the audience rock and roll with her. She is none other than the most gorgeous Tamannah.
With her monumental attitude and wondrous beauty she gave a felicitous performance. She adds a great aura to the entire movie and attracts the audience to the silver screen.
Tamannah made her first debut through a Hindi movie Chand Sa Roshan Chehra (2005), which did not play well at the box office. In the very year she gave her Telugu debut Sri which is another flop for the star. It is the romantic musical picture, Happy Days, which did the real magic in the actress' career. Playing the role of 'Madhu', a college going girl, she succeeded in making every frame of the film beautiful with her cute appearance.
Her next release Kalidas (2008) starring Sushanth received an average talk. The sprightly star did her next venture Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam with Siddharth and received great applauds and got nominated for the Filmfare Award, Best Actress – Telugu.
After a long break in Tollywood industry, the rosy cheek got paired up with Akkineni Naga Chaitanya in 100% Love (2011) and created wonders at the Telugu box-office. Playing the role of 'Mahalakshmi' she carried the entire character with a huge perfection for which she got nominated for the Film-fare Award, Best Actress – Telugu. The beauty of the actress flowed in the following movie Badrinath (2011) and raised the celestial beauty to peaks.
As either 'Niharika' in Oosaravelli, as 'Chaitra' in Rachha or as 'Nandini' in Rebel she established a style of her own, which the audience fondly admired. Her next movie Cameraman Ganga tho Rambabu, a satirical work on politics is a commercial hit with gripping plot. As 'Ganga', Tamannah rocked the screen delivering her best performance.
Then came Thadaka with Naga Chaitanya, an official remake of Tamil super hit movie Vettai. This is Tamannah's second film with Chaitu and it scored a decent hit.
And in 2014, she danced in a special song in Alludu Seenu and romanced Superstar Mahesh Babu in Aagadu. The film which released amid huge fanfare and expectations, fizzed out at the box office. Tamannah is yet to make a proper mark on Telugu audience after her failed Bollywood stint. She has pinned all her hopes on Rajamouli's Baahubali now.
Tamannah signed an official agreement with her first producer, Salim Akthar (Chand Sa Roshan Chehra) that she will be paying 25% of her earnings to him for the first 5 years of her career. However she breached the contract and dishonored the agreement for which Salim had filed a case against Tamannah in 2012. Currently, the issue is in Kolkata High Court.
The otherwise professional Tamannah landed in a soup in 2011 after Sravanthi Ravi Kishore, Chief of Sravanthi Movies complained that the actress is not giving dates for his film ‘Endukante Premantaa’ starring Ram, and seems to be prioritizing Rachcha movie.
Baahubali with Prabhas under Rajamouli's direction.
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Happy Birthday Glam Diva Ramya Krishna!
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'Baahubali-2' Hits Rs 1000 Cr Mark?
Baahubali Rights Already Sold Out for a Bomb!
Another Item Number for Tammu?
Finally Baahubali 1st Week Record Broken!
Sarrainodu is 4th Biggest Hit in TFI history!
Rajamouli! Where Is C- Trailer?
Baahubali 2 Effect on Robo 2?
Nani directing Baahubali Video goes Viral!
Baahubali Writer for Oke Okkadu Sequel?
Amarendra Baahubali is still alive?
Shocking: Jr NTR in Baahubali?
Rajini's Next Film Beats Baahubali?
Chance for Baahubali to cross Rs 600Cr mark!
Nagarjuna Reserves Best Actor Award?
Baahubali Gets India's Highest Honor!
Good News: No Cuts for Oopiri!
Surprising: Oopiri 2 on Cards!
Oopiri Buzz: Nagarjuna Not Happy. Why?
Shriya's Berth fixed in Baahubali2?
How Kiliki Language Is Named?
Whats in Store for Baahubali-2 Teaser?
Rs 1.1 Cr Minted Money- Now Rs 60 Cr?
Oopiri Trailer-its Original Trailer Same to Same?
Nagarjuna's Hands & Legs were tied?
What Baahubali needs to beat PK?
Will It Work After '3 Idiots'?
Senior Actress calls Baahubali 'Stupid'?
Real Tiger in Baahubali Shoot?
Lead Comedian in Baahubali 2?
Kattappa absent in Baahubali 3?
Demand for Baahubali in Europe!
Anushka: The Next Lady Superstar?
Shriya replaced by BBM beauty?
Why 'Baahubali' Stood In 4th Place??
Major Change in Baahubali: The Conclusion!
'Baahubali' On TV @ 6 Hours?
Baahubali Part 3 is Confirmed?
17th Century Film Beats 'Baahubali'?
Baahubali in Engineering Question Papers!
Baahubali\'s Prestigious Japan deal Sealed!
Surprising: MAA charging that much for Baahubali?
Team of Baahubali Going for Reshoot?
'Baahubali-2' in Korea almost confirmed?
Ali and Suma gearing up for a special Spoof!
Baahubali beats Aamir Khan's Record?
King Khan inspired from Baahubali!
Rajamouli Vs Baahubali: Who Is Popular?
Big Films To Target 3 Industries From Now?
India's No #1 Can Be World's No #500!
'Baahubali' Total Share @ Rs 700 Crore?
Biggest Question: Why Kattappa killed Baahubali?
Reporter's Controversial Tweets on Baahubali!
Did God/Baahubali team cheat him?
BB tough fight to BB!
Deva Katta's Hand in Baahubali!
Baahubali beats Magadheera in 3 days!
Pirated Shivudu-Lingam Scene Leaked in FB!
Baahubali's Ground breaking First Day!
5 Things Fans wish to Overlook in Baahubali!
Allari Naresh Along with Baahubali!
Can High court PIL stop Baahubali?
Baahubali Premiere Show in 15?
Baahubali down from 165 to 150!
Tamannah's Movie Spree in Kollywood!
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Baahubali trimmed for foreign languages?
Why Lyricists Are Ignored All Over?
Trailer Shot Is The Climax In Part-1?
Latest Update about Baahubali Release!
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When Is Rajamouli's Direct Hindi Film?
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Baahubali Trailer Missing from You Tube!
Bhallaladeva Scored More Than Bahubali?
Baahubali Audio Rights for Rs 2 Crores?
Why No Vel Records For 'Baahubali'?
Baahubali - a 290 minutes Epic!
Speculation: Mahabharat In Rajamouli Style?
Baahubali Trailer and Audio on Same day?
Baahubali Movie Release Date Fixed!
Why All Films Fighting For June?
'Baahubali-1' Release Goes To August?
'Baahubali' Audio Release In 3 Cities?
Anushka In 'Baahubali' 2nd Half Only?
What Happens With Tamanna Now?
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Baahubali 1 Releasing on May 15?
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Who is There To Make Big Films?
Karan Johar eyes upon Baahubali?
Culprit behind Baahubali Video Leak Arrested?
Prabhas' Kannappa During Baahubali PP?
Strike To Affect Baahubali Shooting?
Baahubali New Teaser on Oct 10?
Are Item Numbers Dead End For Heroines?
It Works Only For 'Baahubali'??
Tamannah In Baahubali Part 2?
Prabhas And Anushka In A Different Relation?
Baahubali Gym Centers In Line?
Milky Beauty To Turn An Item Girl?
Will Rajamouli change for his motherland?
Rajamouli to resume Baahubali shoot!
Tamannah to become an art heroine?
Gopichand to romance Tamannah ?
Baahubali producer denies Copy-cat rumors!
Baahubali First look for Prabhas Birthday?
Baahubali in Ramoji Film City!
Baahubali to be made in two parts!
After a long wait Baahubali begins!
Rana injured in Baahubali rehearsals!
'Tadaaka' climax shoot in progress!
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You are here: Home / Blog / SEO & Content Strategy / Are the Internet and the World Wide Web (www) the Same Thing?
The Internet is a communications infrastructure that lets millions of computers worldwide communicate with each other. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a hyper-media information retrieval system providing universal access to documents worldwide. In other words, the WWW is a service operating over the Internet. As a comparison, other (older) services operating over the Internet include Email and File Transfer Protocol (FTP).
The WWW connects computers called servers that provide information, as services, with computers requesting the service, e.g., your browser. The WWW delivers its payload (a Web page) using the Internet.
Using an analogy from the physical world , a transportation network (1) is very much like a digital network (2), both consist of physical infrastructure and software. In the case of a transportation network there are signalized intersections for controlling the flow of vehicles, while the Internet use routers to control the flow of data packets.
The Internet is like a road system.
These networks were built in order that various types of services could be provided over them. In both cases you can think of them as a request-response architecture – a request for a service is made and a resource is returned in the form of a response. In the physical world think of a logistics company delivering a package over a transportation network, and in the digital world a browser requesting a Webpage. In the case of the transportation network, an e-commerce request is made and a package delivery is fulfilled over the transportation network.
It is no exaggeration to say that the World Wide Web has had as profound an effect on human communication as the printing press. One key difference is that operation of the printing press was limited to a few select tradesmen but on the web everyone has his or her own printing press; everyone can be a publisher of a website. Before creating your first website, you’ll examine a short history of the web because that history impacts the way you write code for your web pages. You’ll start by exploring the basic terminology of computer networks.
A network is a structure in which information and services are shared among devices known as nodes or hosts. A host can be any device that is capable of sending and/or receiving data electronically. The most common hosts that you will work with are desktop computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and printers.A host that provides information or a service to other devices on the network is called a server. For example, a print server is a network host that provides printing services and a file server is a host that provides storage space for saving and retrieving files. The device that receives these services is called a client. A common network design is the client-server network, in which the clients access information provided by one or more servers. You might be using such a network to access your data files for this tutorial.
Networks are classified based on the range of devices they cover. A network confined to a small geographic area, such as within a building or department, is referred to as a local area network or LAN. A network that covers a wider area, such as several buildings or cities, is called a wide area network or WAN. Wide area networks typically consist of two or more interconnected local area networks. The largest WAN in existence is the internet, which incorporates an almost uncountable number of networks and hosts involving computers, mobile devices (such as phones, tablets, and so forth), MP3 players, and gaming systems.
The biggest obstacle to effectively using the Internet is the network’s sheer scope and size. Most of the early Internet tools required users to master a bewildering array of terms, acronyms, and commands. Because network users had to be well versed in computers and network technology, Internet use was largely limited to programmers and computer specialists working for universities, large businesses, and the government.The solution to this problem was developed in 1989 by Timothy Berners-Lee and other researchers at the CERN nuclear research facility near Geneva, Switzerland.
They needed an information system that would make it easy for their researchers to locate and share data on the CERN network. To meet this need, they developed a system of hypertext documents. Hypertext is a method of organization in which data sources are interconnected through a series of links or hyperlinks that users activate to jump from one data source to another. Hypertext is ideally suited for the Internet because end users don’t need to know where a particular document, information source, or service is located—they only need to know how to activate the link. The effectiveness of this technique quickly spread beyond Geneva and was adopted with other networks across the Internet. The totality of these interconnected hypertext documents became known as the World Wide Web. The fact that the Internet and the World Wide Web are synonymous in many users’ minds is a testament to the success of the hypertext approach.
Documents on the web are stored on web servers in the form of web pages and accessed through a software program called a web browser. The browser retrieves the document from the web server and renders it locally in a form that is readable on a client device. However, because there is a wide selection of client devices ranging from desktop computers to mobile phones to screen readers that relay data aurally, each web page must be written in code that is compatible with every device. How does the same document work with so many different devices? To understand, you need to look at how web pages are created.
A web page is a simple text file written in HtML (Hypertext Markup Language). You’ve already read about hypertext, but what is a markup language? A markup language is a language that describes the content and structure of a document by “marking up” or tagging, different document elements. For example, this tutorial contains several document elements such as the tutorial title, main headings, subheadings, paragraphs, figures, figure captions, and so forth. Using a markup language, each of these elements could be tagged as a distinct item within the “tutorial document.” Thus, a Hypertext Markup Language is a language that supports both the tagging of distinct document elements and connecting documents through hypertext links.
In the early years, no single organization defined the rules or syntax of HTML. Browser developers were free to define and modify the language in different ways which, of course, led to problems as different browsers supported different “flavors” of HTML and a web page that was written based on one browser’s standard might appear totally different when rendered by another browser. Ultimately, a group of web designers and programmers called the World Wide Web consortium, or the W3c, settled on a set of standards or specifications for all browser manufacturers to follow.
The W3C has no enforcement power, but, because using a uniform language is in everyone’s best interest, the W3C’s recommendations are usually followed, though not always immediately. Each new version of HTML goes through years of discussion and testing before it is formally adopted as the accepted standard. For more information on the W3C and its services, see its website at www.w3.org.By 1999, HTML had progressed to the fourth version of the language, HtML 4.01, which provided support for multimedia, online commerce, and interactive scripts running within the web page.
However, there were still many incompatibilities in how HTML was implemented across different browsers and how HTML code was written by web developers. The W3C sought to take control of what had been a haphazard process and enforce a stricter set of standards in a different version of the language called XHtML (extensible Hypertext Markup Language). By 2002, the W3C had released the specifications for XHTML 1.1. But XHTML 1.1 was intended to be only a minor upgrade on the way to XHTML 2.0, which would correct many of the deficiencies found in HTML 4.01 and become the future language of the web.
One problem was that XHTML 2.0 would not be backward compatible with HTML and, as a result, older websites could not be easily brought into the new standard.Web designers rebelled at this development and, in response, the Web Hypertext Application technology Working Group (WHAtWG) was formed in 2004 with the mission to develop a rival version to XHTML 2.0, called HtML5. Unlike XHTML 2.0, HTML5 would be compatible with earlier versions of HTML and would not apply the same strict standards that XHTML demanded. For several years, it was unclear which specification would win out; but by 2006, work on XHTML 2.0 had completely stalled.
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Throughout the United States, we are feeling the rippling effects of family separation policies by immigration officials. How do we explain these painful experiences to children? How do we hear and honor children's stories?
My father's family was torn apart by World War II, and I have always found refugee stories powerful. They let me connect to my own family's history, and help me extend my grandmother's experiences to those of children in my classroom. Here are a few books that I would recommend to children ages 9 to 14. For younger readers, seek out Front Desk and Stormy Shores. Older readers will appreciate the suspense and understand the terrifying situations in The Only Road and Refugee.
Front Desk, by Kelly Yang (Scholastic, 2018): Mia's family has recently immigrated from China, and finding a steady job has been really tough for her parents. When an opportunity to manage a motel comes their way, they leap at it. Mia's excited that she can help out, managing the front desk while her parents clean the rooms. Kelly Yang bases this story on her own experience, immigrating from China to Los Angeles. She weaves humor and compassion into her story, while frankly addressing poverty, bullying and the importance of family.
The Only Road, by Alexandra Diaz (Simon & Schuster, 2016): Twelve-year-old Jaime flees his home in Guatemala after a local drug gang kills his cousin Miguel. Jaime and Angela, Miguel's sister, travel north alone, navigating the treacherous journey by bus, train and foot. This gripping novel not only shows the violence and abuse Jaime and Angela survive, but also how painful family separation is for children.
Alexandra Diaz has been honored with the Pura Belpre Author Honor Award, the Américas Award and was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. I'm excited that The Crossroads, the sequel to The Only Road, will be published in September.
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees, by Mary Beth Leatherdale (Annick Press, 2017): This powerful nonfiction book combines brief memoirs, clear information and dynamic collage illustrations, making this an engaging introduction to immigration experiences of children during 20th and 21st centuries. Each chapter focuses on a child fleeing war, oppression and conflict in Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Africa’s Ivory Coast.
Refugee, by Alan Gratz (Scholastic, 2017): Gratz alternates the stories of three children from different periods of time, each of whom are fleeing their homes in search of refuge. Josef is escaping persecution from Nazis in Germany during World War II. Isabel and her family are fleeing Cuba in 1994, escaping the riots and unrest under Castro's rule. And Mahmoud's family flees Syria in 2015 after their home was bombed. These parallel stories are engrossing and compelling. The structure keeps the suspense high, and helps readers see how each character must cope with extreme stress, separation and loss. Gratz uses historical fiction at its best to help readers understand global issues in a way that inspires hope and empathy.
If you're looking for more stories like these, check out my Goodreads shelf: Immigration. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
Are you looking for a book to keep your kids laughing and asking for more? Do they love goofy, over-the-top stories with lots of illustrations? My students love-love-love Andy Griffiths' Treehouse series.
What kids wouldn't want their own ever-expanding treehouse, with a bowling alley, a limitless marshmallow-launcher, a swimming pool, a watermelon-smashing room, and a rocket-powered carrot-launcher?!?! The Treehouse series originated in Australia and has become a best-seller in the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, Norway and South Korea. The 91-Story Treehouse which hits shelves in the US this week.
I'm happy to welcome Andy Griffiths here to share about his vision and purpose creating this best-selling, crowd-pleasing series.
"The Treehouse series is a comic-adventure-fantasy which employs lavish illustration & graphic nonsense on every page in order to tell a very silly but involving and complex story with a minimum of words.
This gives us an unusually broad and passionate readership of emerging, reluctant and highly competent readers from 5 - 13 years old and we are especially proud that the series has equal appeal for both boys and girls.
Each book in the series (and they can be read in any order) features a brilliant always-on-task writer called Andy—that’s me—and Terry, the irresponsible and easily distracted illustrator living in an ever-expanding fantasy treehouse while trying write a book for our bad-tempered & demanding publisher Jean Feiwel—I mean Mr Big Nose—who, if he doesn’t get his book on time gets so mad his nose explodes—but the problem is we can’t write the book because Terry keeps getting distracted by all the crazy stuff going on in the treehouse and then our intrepid and ever-resourceful neighbour Jill comes over and helps us sort it all out and then we write the book about all the crazy stuff that happened while we were trying to write the book and then we send it to Mr Big Nose just in time to prevent his nose from exploding."
The New York Times compares Andy Griffiths to Roald Dahl, which I think is apt.
"Mr. Griffiths’ work is both witty and fantastical, with a dark edge not dissimilar to Roald Dahl. In person, however, he is humble and thoughtful, if tightly coiled, with the taut, sinewy body of a long-distance runner and zany green eyes."
I'd argue that the visual nature, drawing on cartoons and comics, makes these stories even more appealing to today's kids.
Why 91 stories in this treehouse, you might wonder? Griffiths began with 13 levels in the first book back in 2011, and has added another 13 levels every year since. So you get the secret numerical code hidden in the titles: 13-26-39-52-65-78-91. Next March will bring The 104-Story Treehouse, which will bring the US completely up to date with Australia.
If you’re wondering, our secret agenda—aside from evoking the exhilarating joy and freedom of imaginative play and converting non-readers into passionate book-lovers—is to teach children the sadly neglected 13 times table."
My favorite part? I love how Andy gives total permission to laugh at anything -- whether it's stinky underwear or stuffing your face with marshmallows. He tells plenty of poop jokes, because he knows his audience (hello, have you listened to 8 year old boys?), but he also gets us laughing at our greatest fears.
He's got some great tips for young writers here. Also check out his website FAQs to learn more about his process.
Many thanks, Andy, for all your creative storytelling and for working so hard to keep us all laughing. If you make a purchase using the Amazon links on this site, a small portion goes to Great Kid Books. Thank you for your support.
I just returned from my annual "Librarians Gone Wild" weekend, otherwise known as the American Library Association Annual Conference. I'm filled with gratitude for my fellow librarians who help me think more carefully about my craft, and for the authors and publishers share their stories with us.
Time and again, I was reminded of the power of stories and the responsibility we have in finding stories that will lift up young people. From former first lady Michelle Obama to best-selling debut author Angie Thomas, I was reminded of the important role stories play in our lives.
Michelle Obama opened our conference in conversation with Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. I was inspired by the way she described the very ordinariness of her extraordinary story: "I grew up with music, art and love -- that's about it. There's no miracle in my story." Even more so, she talked about how important it is to learn about each other's stories and how we're all trying to figure it out. This video captures a key moment of her talk.
As a child, I often felt unsure--unable to connect to my peers, alone yet surrounded by people. Books filled my imagination, helped me see myself and feel connected to the world.
As a teacher, I have seen this same power of stories again and again. Stories can fill children's hearts and emotions, giving them courage when they feel most alone. Stories can spread laughter when everything around us seems heavy. They can help us see ourselves in other people's stories. They can make us feel less alone.
Erin Entrada Kelly, winner of the 2018 Newbery Medal, spoke directly to this. "My greatest wish as a writer is that the person reading my book -- or any book, for that matter -- feels less alone." She, too, often felt alone as a child, and it was through books that she discovered friends and companions.
Yet children must see these stories as a piece of themselves. They must see themselves in stories, for when we don't recognize ourselves, what can anchor us--as Nina LaCour (author of We Are Okay) said in her Printz Award acceptance speech.
Every day we are bombarded with terrible news, from school shootings to police brutality to inhumane immigration policies. Angie Thomas (author of The Hate U Give) said, "I often wonder what's the point of creating fiction when our society has failed young people so much." Yet I see every day young people determined to make it, to love and laugh and walk in this world. We need to give our children the message that the things they do, the people they are, all that they care about has value.
In his preface to Out of Wonder, Kwame Alexander quotes poet and author Lucille Clifton: “Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.” I think the same can be said of our children. They grow when they are given the love, support and encouragement to wonder. We must listen to them, see them, love them.
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What are you doing to ensure your success this year? Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” I can relate. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut. It’s easy to believe that you’ve plateaued and there’s no way you’re going to make it to the next level. I’ve been there, done that. That was before I made a conscious decision to escape the confines of my comfort zone. Instead of wearing a laurel wreath for easily doing the things I was very good at, I decided to try learning and doing things I wasn’t quite a master at.
Learning is a lifelong activity. According to Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, “Change is the only constant in life.” This holds true for the business environment as well. Whether it’s an emerging disruptive technology or new political leadership updating regulations and the corresponding tax consequences, it seems like we’re always struggling to keep up with the latest changes. I usually spend at least three hours per day learning new skills or keeping up with an ever-changing business environment. I also try to include some intellectual “mash-ups” by interleaving subjects that aren’t directly related to my business but might cause me to see things in a different light.
Here are some of the educational resources I’ve taken advantage of in the last few years.
RPCN Forums and Workshops – The forums (1st and 3rd Fridays) can help you discover solutions to your own technical and business problems. They can also give you insights into problems that you haven’t encountered yet. The workshops (2nd and 4th Fridays) focus on specific areas of interest and are usually interactive.
Read – Books are still your best bet for in-depth learning. The RPCN has an extensive library of business books. The public library (especially the Central Library in downtown Rochester) is a good resource for books that we don’t own. They even have ebooks available through OverDrive. Blogs are a good way to keep up with the latest trends in your field of expertise. Also be sure to keep up on things that may be of interest to your target market, via news articles or Google alerts.
RPCN Boot Camp – The newest edition of the Boot Camp started on February 6. I attended in 2014 after coming off a career in corporate and it really helped me fine-tune my business model.
SCORE/SBA/SBDC/CUE/HTR – These quasi-governmental organizations hold a number of educational events throughout the year.
You need to talk to actual people if you want to be successful, whether they are customers, colleagues or connectors. In his book, Talking to Humans, Giff Constable stresses the importance of getting out in the field and talking face-to-face with your potential customers.
Be especially wary of building personal silos – of blocking yourself off from new information and potential new customers. I’ve been through periods of time where I’ve just had so much work to do that I had to put up walls to eliminate distractions. I’ve had success with these resources to keep me connected to the humans.
RPCN Forums and Workshops – We always have networking opportunities before and after the sessions.
RPCN Evening Events - 5th Friday Eves, a Trend Talk on March 20, our Awards Gala on April 19 – These are a good way to interact with colleagues who aren’t able to attend our morning events.
Chambers of Commerce – Meet and Greets, Ribbon Cuttings -- Learn more about the businesses in your community and target markets.
Charitable organizations – Rotary, Habitat for Humanity -- Try to establish common ground while helping others.
One of the most-reliable bellwethers of success is doing things you are passionate about. When you do what you love, you’ll love what you do and it will be apparent to those around you. Work no longer becomes work, but something you actually look forward to doing.
Registration for the RPCN’s 2018 Boot Camp has reopened through February 26, with Session 2 now being held on February 27.
Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 7:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 7:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 7:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
If anyone is interested in registering, and wants to get caught up on what was covered in Session 1, contact Sandy Glanton at (585) 230-0649 or [email protected]. She will provide your book and share the slides that were covered on February 6 so you can join the class on February 27.
In an effort to increase experiential learning opportunities for MBA and MS students at the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business, Simon developed the Simon Vision program, a student-run program where a four- to five-member student team provides consulting to (typically) a local small business for 12 weeks (one semester). After the 12-week period, Simon may have another student consulting team take on another project for the company. Participation in the program is voluntary for the students and is not part of the regular Simon curriculum. A couple of faculty advisors help the students run the program.
in discussions between RPCN and Simon, the RPCN board decided that there is an opportunity for members to help with this program. We will begin a pilot program in the spring semester with RPCN members acting as mentors to help the student teams stay focused and on track to complete their project goals. The initial student projects chosen for the mentorship program probably will be in marketing or general management (financial/accounting planning, etc.), and possibly operations management.
For the pilot program, we are looking for four RPCN members who would be available to meet with students biweekly over the 12-week project term. There was a kickoff meeting during the week of February 5 and the projects would begin around February 15. If you are interested in helping Simon fulfill its motto (“Where thinkers become leaders!”) and also have experience in marketing, general management or operations, let RPCN know and we will add you to the mentorship roster.
For more information about the project or to volunteer to be a mentor, contact Dave Bassett ([email protected]).
If you are an RPCN member who is interested in blogging for publication to business tenants of the Eastman Business Park (EBP), log into the RPCN website and look at the blogging information at https://rochesterconsultants.org/Blogging-Opportunity.
If you have additional questions regarding the RPCN Blogging Program for EBP, send a message to [email protected].
Facilitated by Bob Lurz. An informal, facilitated roundtable discussion of issues regarding starting or running a consulting business.
Wondering what kind of questions people are asking? Click here for a list from recent forums.
Do you want to know what happens "behind the scenes" at RPCN? Come to a board meeting and find out. Everyone is welcome to attend, but only board members may vote. The RPCN month board meeting begins at approximately 10:00 a.m. after the Business Forum.
Users are Stupid or It's all about the user, Stupid!
Friday, February 23, 2018, at Five Star Bank, City Gate.
If you can't capture the hearts and minds of the user, your genius idea will ultimately fail... some competitor who was better at engaging the user, will pick up and run with the ball.
Facilitated by Steve Royal. An informal, facilitated roundtable discussion of any technical issues that consultants encounter in running their businesses, including computers, the Internet and phones.
Wondering what kind of questions people are asking? Click here for a list from previous forums.
The RPCN newsletter welcomes news, success stories, tips, resources, events and other items that would be of broad interest to consultants. Submit a newsletter item by e-mail to the Newsletter Committee. RPCN members also may write articles for our website; submit articles here. In the newsletter, we'll highlight submitted articles aimed at helping consultants make their businesses better. If you have newsletter questions or suggestions, or ideas for how RPCN could improve communications, contact the Newsletter Committee: Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, chair and editor, and Steve Royal, publisher.
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*Corresponding Author: Wadikar DD, Food Preservation and Sensory Science Division, Defense Food Research Laboratory, Siddartha Nagar, Mysore, Karnataka State-570011, India.
Citation: Wadikar DD., et al . “Phyto sterols: an appraisal of present scenario”. Acta Scientific Nutritional Health 1.1 (2017).
Phytosterols exist as naturally occurring plant sterols that are present in the non-saponifiable fraction of plant oils. Phytosterols (plant sterols and stanols) are well known for their low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C)–lowering effect. Phyto sterols specifically sitosterol, stigma sterol and campesterol are the major ones available among the foods. These are found in cereals, legumes, fruits and vegetables, nuts & oilseeds, unrefined vegetable oils in variable quantities in general. Specifically, the nuts and oilseeds have high amounts of phytosterols. The solvent extraction and supercritical fluid extraction can be used for lab-scale recovery of phytosterols from oilseeds apart from the industrial byproducts from oil refineries or paper industry. Different techniques such as thin layer chromatography, high performance liquid chromatography and column chromatography can be used for identification and purification/isolation of phyto sterols. The phytosterols have various functional properties such as hypo-cholesterolaemic effect, anti-oxidative effect, anticancer activity and Immuno-modulatory activity, however, the cholesterol lowering effect has been the attraction for research studies. The daily doses, considered optimal for the purpose of lowering blood cholesterol levels, are 2-3g of phyto stanols and/or phyto sterols. Foods such as bread-spreads, milk shakes etc. can be developed to ensure the consumption of required dose.
Phytosterols and Phytostanols are a large group of compounds that are found exclusively in plants. They are structurally related to cholesterol but differ from cholesterol in the structure of the side chain. They contain a total of 27-30 carbon atoms. They consist of a steroid skeleton with a hydroxyl group attached to the C-3 atom of the A-ring and an aliphatic side chain attached to the C-17 atom of the D-ring. Sterols have a double bond, typically between C-5 and C-6 of the sterol moiety. They are derived from hydroxylated polycyclic isopentenoids having a 1, 2-cyclopentanophenthrene structure . Phytosterols exists in different forms and available in wide sources (Table 1). The oils and nuts are the major source of phytosterols including certain seeds (Table 2). In addition, the fruits such as banana, oranges, fig and passion fruit the phytosterol content range 16-44 mg/100g while that of vegetables such as lettuce, cauliflower and broccoli was 39-43 mg/100g The legumes such as kidney bean, broad bean, and pea the phytosterol range was 124-135 mg/100g while in the vegetables such as cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, onion and yam contains phytosterols in the range 10-18 mg/100g .
Phytostanol and phytosterol esters are chemically stable, fat-type materials, having comparable chemical and physical properties to edible fats and oils. Phytosterols are insoluble in water, but are soluble in non-polar solvents, such as hexane, iso-octane and 2-propanol. The esters are also soluble in vegetable fats and oils. Heat stability of the phytosterol esters is comparable to or even better than that of the parent vegetable oil or oil blend from which the fatty acids were derived . A study by Soupas., et al. stated that during shelflife studies (long term storage), as pure material or in a product, phytosterol esters produce similar decomposition products to those of edible oils and fats as oxidation of the fatty acid moiety is the major cause of the quality deterioration and formation of off-flavors in oils and fats. The same study revealed that the phytosterol moieties are very stable at ambient temperatures and at higher temperatures some oxidation may occur. The isolated phytosterols in general will be a whitish solid and/or a pale yellow colour. These phytosterols are soluble in organic solvents but insoluble in water which reveals the hydrophobic nature of the sterols. The melting point is between -25.7 to 38.8°C.
Dietary sterols recently have received increased attention because they are associated with public health. Dietary cholesterol raises the serum cholesterol level and therefore increases the risk of heart diseases. On the contrary, dietary plant sterols have been demonstrated to reduce serum cholesterol levels . Plant sterols also may inhibit colon cancer development [9,10] . For many years, the existence and dietary effects of these minor sterols were largely ignored and poorly understood. Sterol chemists and biochemists focused their efforts on cholesterol because elevated serum cholesterol levels were shown to be a prominent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Recent strategies for lowering serum cholesterol (and risk of CVD) utilize dietary restrictions to limit cholesterol intake and/ or require the use of drugs which inhibit cholesterol biosynthesis in humans. In the prospect of lowering cholesterol levels with the recent knowledge about the functional foods consumption of functional foods fortified with natural phytonutrients has become attractive to many than use of drugs or dietary restrictions. As phytosterols have many neutraceutical properties (Table 3), it is considered as functional food component. Phytosterols have several functional use such as hypo-cholesterolaemic action , anti-oxidative effect , can protect against several cancers such as colon, breast and prostate cancer , and positive effects on benign prostatic hyperplasia have been reported . Their actions as immune modulators and their anti-inflammatory properties have also been described .
The major factors affecting phytosterol oxidation include temperature and heating time as well as the composition of the lipid matrix. Phytosterol esters were found to be more susceptible to oxidation at elevated temperatures than free phytosterols . Temperature withstanding capacity of phytosterols/phytosterol esters is comparable or even better than their parent vegetable oils from which they are derived. Studies have reported that phytosterols and their fatty acid esters are very stable compounds and undergo only limited degradation during oil processing. Only under harsh conditions at temperatures > 100°C and in the presence of oxygen, oxidation of the phytosterol moiety may occur, in the same way as that for cholesterol . As phytosterols contain only one double bond in the B-ring like the fatty acids but are much more stable than the mono-unsaturated fatty acids (e.g. oleic acid), because of steric hindrance by the ring structure. Therefore, even under severe conditions sterol oxidation products are formed slowly. Salta., et al. have reported that under conditions like when used for shallow frying (temperatures 160-200°C, 5-10 minutes of frying) the level of oxidation of sitosterol esters remains below 1.3%. Somewhat higher values of oxidation products were seen (2.5 and 5.1%) using free sterols instead of esters in the same levels are respectively. Soupas., et al . observed that, during a pan-frying, phytosterol oxides were formed at a very low level.
Phytosterols like cholesterol undergo oxidation during storage. The presence of the tertiary carbon atoms in the structure of phytosterols makes them prone to this degradation and formation of variety of oxidized products may occur . Commercial spreadable fats such as margarines, milk and yoghurts formulated with phytosterols are available in the market, and only a very few researchers have dealt with the evaluation of oxidative stability of sterols and factors affecting the formation of oxidized sterol derivatives ; Grandgirard., et al. Johnsson and Dutta ; Moreau ; Moreau., et al. Soupas., et al . . A study by Rudzińska., et al . on phytosterol enriched margarines revealed that the total phytosterol level decreased from 79 mg/g to 63 mg/g during storage. It was found that during storage at higher temperature, oxidation took place 1.5 times faster than at the refrigeration temperature (4°C) (Dutta ; Smith . A study by Conchillo., et al . have detected phytosterol oxidation products in commercial vegetable spreads and low-fat spreads, both enriched in phytosterol esters. The phytosterol-enriched products exhibited four times higher amounts of phytosterol oxidation than the traditional spreads. However, a study by Garcia-Llatas., et al . on ready-to-eat infant formulas observed no significant differences in the total amounts of sterol oxidation products when stored at 25°C for 9 months.
The textural characteristics of products fortified with phytosterols are significantly influenced by the nature of phytosterol incorporated. Studies have revealed that when phytosterols are added to products, the firmness of the products was reported to increase. Addition of phytosterol powders at 3 and 4% level in cheese spreads resulted in significant increase in firmness of the cheese spread . They have reported that the increased firmness of the cheese spread might be due to addition of free phytosterols in powder form which occupied the free space present in the cheese spread. Work of shear measures the resistance offered by the sample throughout the probe penetration. It is the amount of energy required to perform the shearing process. The same study revealed an increase in the work of shear from 112.3 to 138.0 N s as the levels of phytosterols addition were increased from 0 to 4% in cheese spread.
Stickiness is described as a feeling that can be perceived by tongue and palate [26,27] . The degree to which the product comes loose from different parts of the mouth determines the intensity of stickiness. In the same study by Giri., et al . , as the levels of phytosterols addition was increased from 0 to 4%, a slight, but gradual reduction of stickiness was observed from 9 to 8.5 N; however, this reduction of stickiness was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). The slight decrease of stickiness might be due to increase of water activity that represents the decrease of water binding capacity of the product. Phytosterols are insoluble in water or oil. The decrease water holding capacity could be attributed to disturbance of protein matrix due to insoluble phytosterols addition that led to weak gel formation . Work of adhesion is the work necessary to overcome the attractive force between the surface of the product and surface of the probe. The area under the negative peak in penetration was measured as work of adhesion. In the same study the phytosterols addition followed an inverse relationship with the work of adhesion of the product. As the levels of phytosterols addition was increased from 0 to 4%, a sharp, steady and significant (p < 0.05) decrease in work of adhesion from 77.0 to 40.2 N s was noticed in cheese spread. The decrease of work of adhesion in the product was reported as due to reduction of work needed to overcome the attractive force between the surface of the product and surface of the probe due to reduction of stickiness of the product and also might be due to weak gel formation due to insoluble phytosterols addition.
Phytosterol extraction in large scale is done from the two main common source vegetable oil distillates and wood pulp/tall oil irrespective of their use in health, pharmaceutical and food applications. Table 4 describes the extraction procedures. Other recovery methods (Table 5) generally used for the Lab-scale separation of phytosterols in small scale process are- Saponification and distillation method; Solvent extraction and Supercritical fluid extraction. This extracted crude phytosterol concentrates needs to be purified for further targeted application. The purification of phytosterols can be achieved by different chromatographic methods. The isolated or crude phytosterol can be incorporated in various food products ranging from milk shakes to bread spreads. However, their usage for health benefits and the claims made by the commercials needs to be clear. In United States a variety of vegetable oil and tall oil based phytosterol ingredients are considered as GRAS and have been used in variety of food products. Their typical usage level ranges from 0.6 to 1.1 g/ serving . In Canada, phytosterols are permitted as novel food ingredients . Total phytosterol consumption is restricted to 3 g/day from specific food categories where amounts per serving are restricted to 1 g/serving. Specific food uses include unstandardized spreads, mayonnaise, margarine, calorie-reduced margarine, salad dressings and unstandardized salad dressings, yogurt and yogurt drinks, and vegetable and fruit juice drinks. In the EU, there are several regulations authorizing the addition of phytosterols to a variety of foods. The safety of phytosterol enriched foods was reviewed by the Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) who issued the following report titled “the long-term effects of the intake of elevated levels of phytosterols from multiple dietary sources, with particular attention to the effects on [3-carotene”. The SCF concluded that the consumption of 3g of phytosterols per day was safe .
f. Specify the intake of plant sterols/stanols that are necessary to reduce the risk of CHD and the contribution one serving of the product can make to that amount.
Phytosterols being an interesting area for researchers, dieticians as well as consumers; the information summarized can be useful for the all of them. The extraction, identification and the incorporation of the concentrated phytosterols in a shelf stable food product would be the right thing to ensure its RDA to consumers. The practical utility of the phytosterols and the regulations indicates that the phytosterols have got high potential for the researchers to fill the gaps through establishing the commercial as well as clinical feasibility of use of phytosterols.
Table 1: Different forms of phytosterol.
Table 2: Major sources of phytosterol [oils, Nut and Seeds].
Table 3: Neutraceutical property of Phytosterols.
2 Wood pulp/tall oil 1. Soapy lipid phase which is obtained in Kraft pulping process is subjected to solvent (methanol) extraction after which the phytosterols are purified by precipitation from the solvent.
Table 4: Lab-scale recovery methods of Phytosterols.
Table 5: Lab-scale recovery methods of Phytosterols.
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Right now Utahns who earn between 100-400% of the federal poverty level are eligible to receive premium subsidies to purchase private insurance on healthcare.gov. However, individuals who earn below 100% FPL—even $100 below that limit—make too little to use healthcare.gov. A single person earning less than $11,490 and a family of three earning less than $19,530 can’t receive subsidies. Plus, many of them earn too much to qualify for Utah Medicaid. They are stuck in the Medicaid Coverage Gap. About 60,000 Utahns are falling into this hole.
They are teenage cancer patients.
They are residents of every legislative district in Utah.
And they are realizing that Medicaid expansion would help then live healthier and more productive lives.
Here are two stories from Utah’s Coverage Gap.
Ryan was an associate provost at a Utah college. He has a Ph.D. and over 30 years of experience in higher education administration. But when Ryan lost his job in December, he found himself, his wife, and son without affordable health insurance coverage options. Ryan knew he had to seek assistance immediately as his wife has diabetes and needs medications that cost over $1,000 a month. When he applied for coverage on healthcare.gov he was told he qualified for Medicaid. But when he applied for Medicaid through the Utah Department of Workforce Services, he was told he didn’t qualify in Utah. Ryan and his family are caught in Utah’s coverage gap. Because he is currently unemployed, and his wife is unable to work due to ongoing medical conditions, they don’t qualify for Medicaid. If Utah expands Medicaid, Ryan and his wife would have health insurance while he searches for a new job. For Ryan, health insurance means stabilizing his wife’s illness and avoiding the threat of medical bankruptcy.
David was laid off in November, 2013. He and his wife JoAnn knew that they needed insurance, so they purchased COBRA insurance. Their cost for one month of COBRA coverage was $800. Realizing they couldn’t extend coverage beyond the one month, they applied for health insurance on healthcare.gov. They were told they qualified for Medicaid in Utah. When they applied for Medicaid, they were told they don’t meet categorical requirements to be eligible.
JoAnn has Charcot Foot, a common problem for diabetics. While they had insurance under David’s previous job, she got treatment for her illness, including an amputation. JoAnn needs skin grafts and physical therapy to continue her recovery. But without insurance, JoAnn can only hope it heals by itself. David has high blood pressure, but can’t afford the medications he needs to keep it in check. Both JoAnn and David are hopeful that he will get a new job with health insurance. But if Utah closed the coverage gap, both JoAnn and David would have health insurance coverage until he finds employment.
Last week the federal government released detailed data for the first month of marketplace enrollment (October 1 through November 2). Utah’s numbers were included in the 29-page data dump.
>>A total of 6,186 Utahns have finished applications (some for more than one person), but have not yet picked a plan.
>>3,883 of the Utah applicants qualified for premium subsidies to make their insurance premiums more affordable.
>>Successful Medicaid and CHIP applicants accounted for 4,816 Utahns on the marketplace. An unknown number also applied through state agencies.
>>Utahns are waiting until the December 15 and March 31 deadlines to purchase their marketplace insurance. Here’s a comment from the 11/13/13 Salt Lake Tribune article, Fewer than 400 Utahns able to shop Obamacare exchange.
>>How many people do you know have purchased all of their Christmas presents? Face it: We are a last-minute society.
Failed Launch or Slow Start?
-If I create a new login will it work?
-How about applying at 2am?
No, that’s when the website is being overhauled.
-What if I refresh my computer screen 500 times?
Nada, and now you’ve got a repetitive stress injury. Good thing pre-existing conditions don’t matter anymore.
Two weeks after the debut of the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces—including healthcare.gov here in Utah–the promise of reform has been temporarily replaced by an error message.
But it will get fixed.
Yes, some Utahns have signed up for new insurance. If it wasn’t for the success of Phil Sherburne, Leia Bell and their three kids, we’d all probably be at stage four: “Depression.” Soon after October 1st Phil signed up his family for a silver-level insurance policy that cost them $123 a month. And it took him “about an hour,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune. How? We don’t know. As we drafted this article our healthcare.gov login screen was stuck in digital purgatory.
Criticism of healthcare.gov’s abortive launch is blunt and universal.
Ezra Klein called the debut a “failure” in the Washington Post’s Wonkblog. The New York Times quoted an insurance official describing the federal website as “awful, just awful.” And Avik Roy, never a fan of Obamacare, headlined a recent a Forbes.com post with “third-world experience,” referring to a now prescient March 2013 warning from the chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Still, the middle of October is 14 days into a 180-day open enrollment period. Even if you count February 15th as the drop-dead enrollment date to avoid a tax penalty, about 90 percent of the enrollment window remains.
And so the question isn’t whether healthcare.gov will be fixed.
The question is… when it is finally fixed; will the millions of people who have struggled to log on notice that the website’s door is now open?
Perhaps yes, suggests this opinion piece in the Times. “Interested customers will come back often,” it explains, citing an average of 18 inquiries on the 2006-era Massachusetts Health Connector website before a person signed up for coverage.
The Obama administration has set a goal of seven million Americans signed up for new coverage in 2014. And for the marketplaces to maintain the proper risk balance, many of the new enrollees must be the “young invincibles” for whom health insurance isn’t a medical necessity, but convenient financial security or something that makes mom happy.
So far the state-run exchanges are doing better than the federal exchanges—including 1,000 applicants a day in Kentucky, and 305 newly covered lives during the first week of Colorado’s marketplace. Where is Utah? Besides the Sherburne-Bell family—we don’t know. This Advisory Board post estimates 5,000 successful applicants among the 26 states with federal marketplaces—compared to almost 25,000 in the state-run exchanges. As of mid-October, Utah data is non-existent.
For advocates, enrollment specialists, and health professionals, the fallback position for now is education and outreach.
We can explain what healthcare.gov will do even if the reality isn’t available yet in Utah. Plus, we can promote helpful workarounds like the Kaiser Family Foundation’s subsidy calculator—and the new plan preview tool at healthcare.gov—which doesn’t require a login or identity verification.
Plus, UHPP’s calendar of “Health Reform 101” presentations is staying active.
We’ve held 67 events since January, reaching almost 2,900 Utahns. And we have 15 more educational events scheduled for the second half of October, including presentations in Provo, Orem, Ogden, and Moab. To schedule a “just the facts” educational presentation about the ACA for your group or organization, email Jason Stevenson, or call him 801-433-2299, x5.
Utah’s decision on whether to expand Medicaid coverage is one of the last pieces of the health reform puzzle to fall into place. And thanks to recent comments and events, we now have a likely timeline for when a decision will be made.
A community workgroup, organized by the Utah Department of Health, has been studying Medicaid expansion throughout the summer. To cover more ground, the workgroup split into five subgroups each focused on a specific approach: Full expansion; Partial expansion; Block grant; Full-family coverage; and Charity care. UHPP has been active in all subgroups, and Matt Slonaker co-chairs the Full expansion group. This recent Salt Lake Tribune article describes the self-reported pluses and minuses of each approach to expansion.
Next up: After the full community workgroup meets again on September 5th, each subgroup will report during Governor Gary Herbert’s Health Summit on September 26th. Then Gov. Hebert will decide in December whether to include funding for Medicaid expansion in his next budget proposal. If he proposes some kind of Medicaid expansion, the governor still needs the approval of the Utah legislature during the 2014 legislative session. According to a state-sponsored study, 123,000 Utahns (including these folks) would become eligible for coverage if Utah expands Medicaid.
On August 1st the community workgroup met to hear to preliminary reports from each of the five subgroups. This event also served as a dress rehearsal for the governor’s health summit in September.
UHPP observed two major developments during the August 1st meeting. First, Dr. Sven Wilson, a BYU economist who earned a PhD at the University of Chicago, told the workgroup that Medicaid expansion is a good, lean investment for the state. Dr. Wilson also shared his calculation that expanding Medicaid would cost Utah around $158 per new enrollee per year (see page 4). Second, consensus is building across multiple subgroups to employ premium subsidies as an alternative to the traditional Medicaid expansion (see more below). From UHPP’s perspective, the August 1st meeting was productive and educational for the workgroup members and the general public. However, one idea did not receive enough attention: The notion that federal government will only fund a plan that covers Utah’s entire Medicaid expansion population.
Most of the August 1st meeting was taken up with presentations by the five subgroups. Each subgroup had at least one plan and the Block Grant group, headed by Sen. Todd Weiler (R-Woods Cross) discussed three proposals. Some presentations were substantive, and others were more conceptual. But one thing was evident after hearing from all the groups: Progress is being made as Utah’s policymakers and lawmakers focus on studying the issue and developing real solutions.
One theme shared by several subgroups was the use of premium subsidies to enable low-income Utahns to purchase private insurance instead of get Medicaid. This approach would leverage new federal funds to help Medicaid beneficiaries purchase private coverage through a state’s new health insurance exchanges. Arkansas pioneered this approach, and states like Ohio, Tennessee, Florida, and Pennsylvania might follow its lead.
Three subgroups (Full expansion, Partial expansion, and Block Grant) are considering subsidy-based alternatives to the Medicaid expansion. The good news is that, if done right, a subsidy-based plan may be eligible for the federal match that starts at 100% and phases down to 90% by 2020.
Unfortunately, in UHPP’s estimation, not enough attention was paid to whether the various premium-subsidy proposals would be eligible for the 100% to 90% federal match. Without the full match, Utah would be stuck with the same finite resources of the current 70% federal match rate. Plus, the federal government has made it clear that partial expansion plans won’t receive the full match rate. Going forward, UHPP will work to determine whether Utah’s various premium-subsidy proposals will be eligible for the full federal match.
Several meetings in August and September will lay the groundwork for the state’s upcoming decision on Medicaid expansion.
Note: During this meeting the committee will discuss the model for charity care outlined in the 8/16/13 document “Strengthening Our Safety Net: A Proposal.” This proposal would recommend that Utah charter a nonprofit to establish eight outpatient clinics along the Wasatch Front where patients could receive free care. Three clinics would be located in Salt Lake county, two in Utah county, and one each in Davis, Weber, and Cache counties.
According to recent remarks by Gov. Herbert, his decision on the Medicaid expansion will be reflected in his budget proposal in December.
Last Wednesday HHS released the final rules on Essential Health Benefits (EHB)—the “floor” of ten benefits (like hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, and mental health services) that must be offered by insurance plans on each state’s individual and small business exchanges, Medicaid state plans, and on any new insurance plans offered outside the exchanges. The rule also prohibits discrimination based on age or pre-existing conditions, describes prescription drug benefits and determines levels of coverage. For more details on what changed between the proposed rules unveiled last November and the update last week, check out this excellent summary from Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families.
Utah did not change or upgrade its EHB standard during the comment period.
See Utah’s current EHB standard here: As you can see, there are not a lot of frills in Utah’s standard, though the state seems to meet the minimum requirements. For example, that standard still covers only eight outpatient mental health visits per year.
But Nehring says the tacit approval given by HHS to Utah’s benchmark plan seems to indicate that they either didn’t notice that Utah’s age limitations for children’s dental and vision care in violation of the Affordable Care Act standards, or they didn’t care.
Next Step: UHPP and partners will take up these issues directly with CCIIO (the agency that oversees exchanges) in our conference call with the head of CCIIO, Gary Cohen, and his staff on February 27th.
>>Check out the final rule on Essential Health Benefits.
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2019-04-20T05:18:04Z
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http://blog.healthpolicyproject.org/?tag=utah
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Dan McAvinchey: Borislav, looking back, when did you first get interested in guitar, and how did you learn and progress as a player?
Borislav Mitic: I started to get into rock music and guitar at the age of 11. Although I grew up in the era of players like Yngwie, Satriani and Vai I approached the instrument almost as if I was coming from the '70s. So first I learned blues and classic rock stuff like Jimi Hendrix, Dire Straits, Deep Purple, AC/DC. Then I got into metal music with bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Scorpions and Metallica.
My favorite players in those early days were Van Halen, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker. After hearing Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani I started to be more methodical about my practicing and also got interested in classical music. I was self taught and I figured out all of the theory stuff (scales, chords, etc.) on my own.
Dan McAvinchey: Tell us a little bit about your latest CD "Absolute", released by Finland's Lion Music. How did you come up with the concept and songs for the CD?
Borislav Mitic: After going through a period of artistic introspection and musical experimentation I got inspired to return to pure metal music. A few years ago I set up my project studio in Canada, where I live. I did that so that I would be able to record new music on my own budget terms and pace, I decided to try and make an ultimate instrumental metal guitar album this time - "The Absolute". The idea was to make it a concept work which would cover many different nuances of metal that have made an influence on me throughout the years. I also wanted to make an album which would show more of my playing ability than previous works. In many ways this is an album that I always wanted to make!
Dan McAvinchey: What are some of your favorite songs off of "Absolute"?
Borislav Mitic: It's hard to say since I look at this album as one whole piece. Each song has something that others do not and they complement each other. Perhaps the title song, since it demonstrates the style of playing I was mostly known for throughout the years. I wanted to start that song off with a nylon string guitar theme which would be taken over by the electric guitars to show the link between classical and a rock approach using these different guitar sounds. I also wanted to include a break section in it which sounds like a baroque quartet, with just electric guitars as a small nod to old composers of that style of music. I tried to be as original as possible in the solo regarding my phrasing - trying to define my own signature style.
I like the tune "Hidden" because of a specific mystical vibe and message that it has, and also "Within All Existence" because it connects to some other influences that are more present in my playing style today like NWOBH riffs and a bigger use of pentatonic bluesy leads.
Dan McAvinchey: How has your approach to writing rhythm and lead guitar parts evolved since your first self-titled CD release with Shrapnel Records?
Borislav Mitic: I am not sure that "evolved" is the right word - it's more a matter of consciously deciding to make music lean more toward a certain direction then the other - even if it means "looking back" into the past. With my Shrapnel album I was more focused on finding original new phrasing and melodic sequences and mixing up genres like rock with ethno and neoclassical. This time, I focused more on riffs and the metal song structure itself. I wanted to have an album which could almost pass as a regular "band" album that the likes of Iron Maiden, Arch Enemy or Black Label Society could have made if they would have collaborated with say... Joe Satriani! I wanted to make an album that could appeal to a wider audience apart from just shred fans. I was also not hesitant to really let loose on this album regarding the display of my shredding ability as I was on my previous ones. No more holding back!
Dan McAvinchey: Do you ever hear back from the folks at Shrapnel? Do you stay in contact?
Borislav Mitic: I would say that it has to have an element of "intense passion" to it that will make it become the highlight of the song. The second thing would be the presence of an intelligent idea within the solo - a statement of some sort. Of course, the role of a "solo" in virtuoso instrumental music is not the same as in vocal oriented songs. In an instrumental virtuoso style it's much harder to make solos stand out and one really has to dig in hard and jump into high gear mode in the "solo" part since the majority of the song already features impressive playing.
Borislav Mitic: I was aware of them for a long time. They are a label specialized in progressive metal music and have a cool artist roster including people like Jennifer Batten, George Bellas, Vitalij Kuprij and Joe Stump. I contacted Lion Music when I was shopping around for a publisher for my new album, they liked what they heard - and that was that.
Borislav Mitic: I was fortunate to be able to do that on and off throughout my career. I have played in arenas of 15,000 people, smaller venues of 1,500 and also clubs of 150 people with my instrumentals. But these days the situation has changed and it is very hard to do significant touring with instrumental guitar metal music for artists like myself. The indie guitar oriented labels are not investing money into touring for their recording artists so we are left to ourselves to solve this puzzle. Some of the shredders can make master class/clinic tours if their Instrument endorsers sponsor them but this is often under the condition that they already play in some known rock band. Basically only Joe Satriani and Steve Vai can make big tours with instrumental guitar music now. They were on major labels in the beginning and besides being great artists - that they are - they also had a lot of financing and major promotion throughout the years so they were able to build a bigger audience.
Indie guitar labels today don't have the budget to invest in big mainstream promotion for their artists because it's way too expensive. So, you know it's not the same thing when a label pays for you to appear in the biggest guitar magazines worldwide as opposed to when they don't(!) - so you end up never getting any coverage by any mainstream media, thus failing to reach a wider audience! For example, even a guitar genius like Allan Holdsworth said in a recent interview I read that the only media exposure he gets is if some major magazine wants to write a review of his album!
Another huge problem that haunts metal instrumental music is that club and touring circuit was never established for this genre like it was for jazz or blues where any good jazz/blues artist can play on a weekly basis. Big metal festivals are unfortunately also not that keen on booking metal instrumental music either - which I don't really understand since I believe there is an audience for it. So it's kind of a tough situation right now, but I hope that I'll be able to figure something out and get back on the road again soon.
Borislav Mitic: There could be many reasons for that. I guess musicians will prefer instrumental compositions because they can hear more of the ability and expression of the performer than in vocal music where everything is subordinated to the singer. Instrumental music lets the listeners experience it however they want and they can build their own personal impression and imaginary stories around musical ideas they hear as opposed to relying on the lyrics to tell them what the music is about. I guess instrumental music is a bit more free and "artistic" in that way and thus attracts people with that frame of mind. But vocal oriented music also has its qualities and challenges and it's not at all easy to channel the right lyrics and riff combinations that the audience will connect and identify with. In fact, I intend to make a vocal oriented metal album for 2010 as well.
Borislav Mitic: It hasn't affected how I buy music personally because music is an important part of my life so I still buy CDs like I always did. I imagine that a lot of people gave up on the physical CD format and went for MP3 downloads for different reasons. The digitalization and Internet has forever changed things in the music business and not really for the better. Internet enables unchecked, unlimited illegal downloads, and I think that regardless of the economic slowdown, people tend to want to download a lot of their music for free, thus leaving artists without income that would be generated through royalties from CD sales.
These days, 80% of Internet downloads are illegal meaning that when an artist was selling for example 10,000 CDs before, he is now selling 2,000 CDs with 8,000 illegal downloads. That's the reality and many people do not really think or care about the damage all this does to artists and music. If a remedy is not found soon for this problem I am afraid that the music industry will not exist as we know it for much longer. The huge corporate labels will probably survive somehow but the indie labels and their artists will get destroyed and put out of business.
Borislav Mitic: If you mean MySpace, YouTube and Facebook - yes, I do have those mainly because it allows fans some closer personal contact and insights. However, I don't think those outlets are very powerful tools of promotion alone if an artist is also not covered by mainstream media at the same time. Nothing replaces those traditional channels of promotion like TV, radio and magazines as of yet. Unfortunately, this costs too much for artists like myself. Indie labels like Shrapnel or Lion Music do not invest in this type of promotion anymore because they can't afford it due to their lower CD sales (which is largely due to illegal downloading). So they have no other option than to promote the artists online as best as they can, and hope for the best.
Borislav Mitic: From myself - from my memories, thoughts, desires and the sheer will to create music. I also draw inspiration from real life events and music in general, some works of other people that inspire me to keep doing this. I also hope that my music will inspire other new people to play and keep this style of music alive.
Borislav Mitic: In 2010 I would like to tour and get to play my new album live as much as possible and meet my fans. I am also intending to make a vocal oriented metal record for later this year and perhaps a more experimental instrumental one as well.
Borislav Mitic is a virtuoso guitarist based in Montreal, Canada, who was born in Belgrade, Serbia where he first picked up the guitar at the age of 11. He has released several solo instrumental CDs - 1992's "Fantasy", as well as his self-titled release on the Shrapnel Records label in 1998. Mitic is back now better than ever with a metal themed instrumental CD released by the Finnish label Lion Miusic.
Dan McAvinchey caught up with Mitic on the Internet to discuss his thoughts on his newest CD, as well as the decline of the music business.
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2019-04-22T02:12:43Z
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https://guitar9.com/column/interview-borislav-mitic
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The World Championships, Chelyabinsk 2014, moved towards the conclusion of the individual competition as three champions emerged at the Traktor Sport Arena on Friday.
The women’s -70kg and -78kg judoka took to the tatami along with the men’s –90kg judoka with an expectant Russian crowd sensing more home medals in Chelyabinsk. The three world titles went to Colombia, Brazil and Greece as a global audience once again saw how judo is one of the world’s most practiced sports at the grassroots and elite level.
Hosts Russia have been on the medal podium every day to the immense pleasure of the home fans but a gold medal still eludes them and they will hope their fortunes can change on Friday.
The Traktor Sport Arena attracted a full crowd once again including sporting idols such as mixed martial arts legend and former Russian judo national team member Fedor EMELIANENKO (RUS).
EMELIANENKO, who won bronze at the 1999 Moscow tournament before it later became the Moscow Grand Slam, started his sporting career in judo and is a regular guest at IJF World Judo Tour events.
EMELIANENKO had high praise for the crown jewel of the Tour and spoke fondly of the host city of Chelyabinsk.
The 37-year-old said: “I have a great impression of the World Championships here in Chelyabinsk on my first day at the competition. I’m happy to see so many countries, athletes and supporters here and I’m pleased that everyone seems to be enjoying the event.
“I am full of pride for Russia for hosting such an important and spectacular event and especially as I used to be a judoka for Russia. I have fought for the honour of Russia and I know what the team is experiencing here. I know the Olympic champion Tagir KHAIBULAEV very well and I ask you all to shout for him on Saturday.
“This is a key event for all judoka in their preparations and qualification for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and I look forward to more judo in the coming days," added the SportAccord World Combat Games 2013 sambo ambassador.
After five days of competition, Japan are still top of the medal table with four gold, one silver and two bronze medals ahead of France and Georgia.
The final day of the individual competition takes centre stage on Saturday and features the men’s -100kg and +100kg categories and women’s +78kg category.
Olympic and six-time senior world heavyweight champion Teddy RINER (FRA) will be chasing a seventh crown which would equal the record of world title wins set by TONG Wen (CHN) and IJF Hall of Famer TANI Ryoko (JPN).
World champion and Olympic bronze medallist Yuri ALVEAR (COL) was unbeatable in 2009, 2013 and today as she became the third judoka to retain their title at the IJF’s marquee event. ALVEAR was overlooked in some parts coming into the competition but made a mockery of anyone who dismissed her as he concluded her day and third world victory by beating All Japan Championships winner NUNIRA Karen (JPN). The heartbeat of Colombian judo topped the medal podium after defeating NUNIRA by ippon from a ko-uchi-gake after just 61 seconds. ALVEAR sat on her knees on the tatam after she was awarded the win and looked up to as if to praise some divine inspiration.
In the first semi-final ALVEAR surprised world number one Kim POLLING (NED) who was well beaten in the end. POLLING, who just did enough in the preliminaries to reach the last four, was caught for a waza-ari in the second minute and then an osoto-gari added a yuko for the Colombian. The defending champion produced another waza-ari score to progress into the -70kg final. In the second semi-final NUNIRA conquered Junior world champion Barbara MATIC (CRO) who has made the step up to the senior stage with ease. MATIC, who won bronze at the European Championships in April, was undone on the ground as NUNIRA submitted the 19-year-old with a juji-gatame.
The first bronze medal was won by Onix CORTES ALDAMA (CUB) who abruptly ended the medal ambitions of her teenage opponent from Croatia. CORTES ALDAMA threw MATIC with uchi-mata for ippon to win her country’s second medal of the competition after Maria Celia LABORDE (CUB) took -48kg bronze on Monday. The second bronze medal was won by Baku Grand Slam bronze medallist Katarzyna KLYS (POL) who handed POLLING a second successive humbling defeat. KLYS stepped over a uchi-mata attack and took the lead with a yuko before scoring waza-ari with a ko-uchi-gari as her Dutch rival ran out of ideas.
Olympic and world bronze medallist Mayra AGUIAR (BRA) won her first world title with a ruthless performance having previously earned one silver and two bronze medals at the annual judo showpiece. AGUIAR, 23, defeated former world champion and fellow Olympic bronze medallist Audrey TCHEUMEO (FRA) in the -78kg final. The Brazilian ace, who only returned from a year-long absence through injury by winning the Tyumen Grand Slam in July, was in inspired form as she opened the scoring with a waza-ari from a low uchi-mata. Brazil, who only had a slender return of a -52kg bronze medal from Erika MIRANDA before today, were reinvigorated by AGUIAR who was lifted up off the ground by her ecstatic coach Rosicleia CAMPOS as teammate Maria PORTELA (BRA) was shown jumping for joy in the crowd.
In the first semi-final TCHEUMEO guaranteed a new world champion by ousting 2013 winner SOL Kyong (PRK) in 82 seconds with a harai-goshi. In the second semi-final AGUIAR defeated Olympic champion Kayla HARRISON (USA) who returned from injury in June as she won the Havana Grand Prix, the first IJF competition to carry points towards qualifying for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. AGUIAR went ahead with a yuko and added a waza-ari to her opening score as HARRISON.
The first bronze medal was won by HARRISON who saw off former European Championships bronze medallist Yahima RAMIREZ (POR) by the narrowest of margins. RAMIREZ was penalised with a shido in a scoreless contest which marked the return of HARRISON to World Championships podium and her country’s first medal in Chelyabinsk.
The second bronze medal was won by the vastly underrated Paris Grand Slam winner Anamari VELENSEK (SLO) who defeated SOL who was unable to recapture the form which saw her dumbfound fans the world around when she took gold a year ago. A yuko for VELENSEK was the difference as SOL lacked vigour and failed to trouble the scoreboard.
Athens 2004 Olympic champion Ilias ILADIS (GRE) won the third World Championship gold medal of his illustrious career in Chelyabinsk. The world-renowned ILIADIS, 27, has starred on the circuit for a decade and after today’s victory is now determined to fight on to the Rio 2016 Olympics. ILIADIS met one of the brightest young talents in the sport in the final as 20-year-old Krisztian TOTH (HUN) put forward a herculean effort on the tatami. ILIADIS triumphed by ippon as he attacked with osoto-gari and wrapped his arm over the top of his opponents right shoulder for a soto-makikomi and yet another world title. ILIADIS ran around the tatami with three fingers raised on each hand to show his number of his world title wins before embracing with TOTH who showed his respect for his idol by raising the hand of ILIADIS and turning to all four sides of the venue.
TOTH said: “It’s really a big surprise for me to be in the final and to be in the final with my idol, Ilias LIADIS. He’s a role model for me. I was probably not expected to medal at this level but it was my day and my dream came true. For the moment, I was ready for the preliminaries and the semi-final where I had a terrific fight. But I was not ready for the final, not yet ."
In the first semi-final TOTH sensationally defeated Kirill VOPROSOV (RUS) in an absorbing contest during golden score. Both men went toe-to-toe for five minutes and neither could produce a score as the Russian fans tried to energise VOPROSOV as they raised their volume for the raised stakes of the contest. TOTH silenced the crowd by scoring a match-winning yuko after 53 seconds and clapped the crowd to recognise their excitement for the contest and knowledge of judo. In the second semi-final ILIADIS downed Tashkent Grand Prix winner Sherali JURAEV (UZB) with a display of brute force that makes his one of the most popular judoka in the world. ILIADIS threw with o-goshi for a yuko and went on to the final.
The first bronze medal was won by world number one Varlam LIPARTELIANI (GEO) who was tipped for glory in Russia but had to settle for bronze as his world title dream is on hold for another year. Rio 2013 runner-up LIPARTELIANI threw JURAEV with tsurikomi-goshi for ippon and left the tatami with his left arm over his eyes. The second bronze medal was won by VOPROSOV as compatriot and Chelyabinsk’s own reigning world bronze medallist Kirill DENISOV (RUS) was unable to compete due to injury.
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2019-04-18T19:14:38Z
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http://www.worldjudoday.com/en/IJF-News-119-World-Championships-Chelyabinsk-2014-DAY-5-295.html
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Heron Island is a coral cay on the Southern Great Barrier Reef. It has a modern resort and Heron Island Dive Shop has everything you need to enjoy diving Heron Island.
Heron Island is completely surrounded by coral reef which is accessible by reef walking, scuba diving and snorkelling. Heron Island Resort has 109 rooms, a bar, restaurant and all the facilities you would expect of a modern resort such as a pool and meeting centre.
All in water activities are run from the Marine Centre, and these include diving and a semisubmersible reef viewing boat. There are a number of nature based activities such as reef walking and bird watching arranged via the Information Centre.
The island’s nature calendar includes the nesting and hatching of turtles, the nesting and hatching of sea birds and hump-back whale migration.
From a diving perspective it’s paradise: three dives per day, plus night dives, in reasonably shallow clear water, with most dive sites just minutes from the jetty.
Heron Island is located 82 km north-east of Gladstone on a coral cay.
The Marine Centre is the Heron Island ‘dive shop’. It’s the place where you book in for all watersports (including the semi-submersible trip), and hire any gear you need. Get all the detail via the link below.
There are dive sites all around the reef that surrounds Heron Island, and the adjacent Wistari Reef, so there is always a suitable spot whichever way the wind is blowing. The sites are imaginatively named after the features of the reef near the moorings that mark them and include lairs, cascades, bommies, holes, pools, grottos, gullies, canyons, points, peaks and gardens! The signature dive is Heron Bommie which is due west of the island and almost the closest dive site. In addition to the Heron Bommie dive, the other two dives below are both on the northern edge of the reef.
From a diving perspective, I would recommend getting a diving package and seeing what accommodation options are available with it. All rooms have a balcony or terrace – essential for drying your gear, and quite honestly, do you really need a view of the reef from your window – you’re going to be out on it most of the time.
Still, there may be others in your group who want a little luxury, or direct access to the beach if that’s where they’ll be spending their day, while you’re out on the boat.
Bottom lines: there are plenty to choose from; it’s all good; you can even check into your room at the Marina in Gladstone before you get on the ferry.
There are specific 3, 5 and 7 day packages advertised for divers so check out these first.
Check availability with the Heron Island Resort directly.
The Shearwater Restaurant is the eatery – though some food is served at Baillies Bar. Breakfast is served as a buffet, lunches are a la carte, and dinner is also a la carte apart from the Friday and Saturday evening themed buffets.
The resort will allocate you are dining slot on the à la carte evenings so that there is not the long wait that there would be if everybody decided that 7pm was their dinnertime. You can book a specific slot in advance though if you choose.
The accommodation packages can be taken as inclusive of breakfast or, all meals. The restaurant has an extensive Australian beer and wine list and as it is a resort you are not permitted to take your own alcohol (or indeed food – there are no self-catering options).
Bailies bar has live music most evenings, two pool tables, and an excellent choice of beers on tap at reasonable prices.
The pool is right next the bar so you can safely watch the kids enjoy a drink and the fantastic sunsets.
About an hour before which the bar terrace which overlooks the lagoon has the most beautiful light – perfect for photography.
Check the Heron Times – published daily. Activities are pretty much the same each day, so don’t worry if you don’t have today’s edition. The following daily activities are complimentary.
Research Walk: this is a guided tour through the University of Queensland’s Research station. The world-class research and teaching facility is the largest island research centre in the Southern Hemisphere.
Snorkel lesson: join a 15 minute snorkel lesson (– though as a diver you should be giving the lessons if any of your mob need them).
Bird walk: learn about the many birds that are encountered on the island, including the residents, those that come just to breed like the terns and shearwaters, some migratory waders that come to escape the miserable northern winters, and local visitors from the mainland.
Island Walk: there are walking tracks which wind through the bushy centre of the island to each of the different beaches and reefs.
Depending on the weather, there may also be stargazing at the helipad after-dinner; a nature-based talk on some specific aspect of Heron’s ecosystem or a sunset cruise.
The Information Centre: don’t forget to check out the information centre as soon as you can. You’ll learn a lot of useful background information about the island and the reef ecosystem.
The following activities attract a fee.
Semisubmersible: this is not your average glass bottomed boat trip. The boat in which you sit has a fully submersed lower section (which is covered overhead) so that you can see through the glass side panels and have a very clear and undistorted view of the reef and the amazing fish life to either side. Bookings via the Marine Centre.
Kayak hire: hired by the hour, near the jetty, you can grab a kayak to paddle around the lagoon during the afternoon hours.
Junior Rangers: ditch the kids and go and have a dive (or a rest). The Junior Rangers program was developed by Heron’s team of marine biologists and naturalists with some help from the University of Queensland and is designed for kids aged between 7 and 12 years old. For $15 per child, per session, the kids get a Junior Rangers workbook, hat and get to earn embroidered badges by completing various tasks. For younger kids, there is safe paddling or swimming in the shallow lagoon or swimming pool.
Whale watching (in season): The whales that pass by Heron are Hump-backed whales – named after their small, but pronounced, dorsal fin. Reaching up to 16m in length and weighing up to 50 tonnes, they can be seen breaching from the jetty and shore line. June is the best time to watch for whales heading north to their tropical breeding grounds; September is the best time to see them heading back down south to their feeding grounds around Antarctica.
The Aqua Soul Spa: if you feel the need for a little pampering, book in for a facial, a Pedi or the works at Reception or at the Spa directly. If you’re not sure what to choose, join the daily 15 minute tour from 4pm daily.
Turtles: Turtle nesting takes place between November and March. Turtles can be found simply by walking along Heron Beach one or two hours after the evening’s high tide. Look for the tracks in the sand where the turtle has come in from the sea.
Hatchlings appear two months later (between January and May), again usually after dark. When the hatchlings emerge from the sand they use light horizons to navigate out to sea. If bright artificial light is present, they will get confused and may head toward it instead of the ocean.
In order to not disrupt their habitat, nesting habits, or the behaviour of hatchlings strict guidelines are in place for the viewing of nesting and hatching turtles. Please ensure you are aware of these guidelines before you head off to observe this natural phenomenon.
Of course, you can make up your own activities or just enjoy the island and beach on your own.
It’s the divers’ dilemma that the clearest water is always the coldest. Here are the average temperatures in centigrade.
There are two options for getting to Heron Island from Gladstone: the Heron Islander boat and by air. (Both Virgin Australia and Qantaslink fly to Gladstone).
The Heron Islander is a large (34m) comfortable boat with a bar, and usually a movie for the kids. It has two deck levels, and inside (air-conditioned) and outside seating. The boat travels to Heron Island and back 11 days out of every fortnight. Departing the Gladstone Marina at 11am arriving Heron at 1pm, and departing Heron at 2pm arriving back at Gladstone around 4pm.
There is a coach connection from the airport departing 10.15 am directly to the Marina; and another that transfers from the arriving boat back to the airport arriving just before 5pm. You will need to ensure your flights fit within this schedule, allowing a little contingency time for possible delays.
The alternatives to the Heron Islander are the seaplanes operated by Australia by Seaplane, or the helicopter.
There is no airstrip at Heron, so in-coming flights land on the water in the lagoon adjacent the jetty and depart as soon as they have deposited or collected passengers.
This means that flights are weather and tide dependent, as they need enough water to land and take off again on. It also means that you will need to wade ashore at Heron Island so wear shorts and sandals for the trip. It’s a very scenic 25-35 minute trip though, so you should have your camera handy throughout.
There are two planes – one which departs from Bundaberg Airport, and one which takes off from Awoonga Lake which is a 30 min drive from Bundaberg airport, the transfers being included in the price. The planes only take three passengers, so it is pretty much your own private charter. The standard luggage allowance is 15 kg per person.
The helicopter transfers are operated by Heli Reef, and dependent on availability, can be arranged to work around your other travel requirements. The baggage allowance is 15 kg per person, but additional luggage can be transferred via the launch the day prior at no additional charge.
You can mix and match your arrival and departure methods, though it you are going to do this, you will need to probably need to speak to a person rather than attempt to book on-line.
Though you can charge everything to your room for your stay, take some cash to cover your last lunch after you’ve checked out.
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Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Variant: Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.
All the greatest mathematicians have long since recognized that the method presented in this book is not only extremely useful in analysis, but that it also contributes greatly to the solution of physical problems. For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect, and is the work of a most wise Creator, nothing whatsoever takes place in the universe in which some relation of maximum and minimum does not appear. Wherefore there is absolutely no doubt that every effect in the universe can be explained as satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can from the effective causes themselves. Now there exist on every hand such notable instances of this fact, that, in order to prove its truth, we have no need at all of a number of examples; nay rather one's task should be this, namely, in any field of Natural Science whatsoever to study that quantity which takes on a maximum or a minimum value, an occupation that seems to belong to philosophy rather than to mathematics. Since, therefore, two methods of studying effects in Nature lie open to us, one by means of effective causes, which is commonly called the direct method, the other by means of final causes, the mathematician uses each with equal success. Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are more readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method; on the contrary, however, the direct method is employed whenever it is possible to determine the effect from the effective causes. But one ought to make a special effort to see that both ways of approach to the solution of the problem be laid open; for thus not only is one solution greatly strengthened by the other, but, more than that, from the agreement between the two solutions we secure the very highest satisfaction.
La construction d'une machine propre à exprimer tous les sons de nos paroles , avec toutes les articulations , seroit sans-doute une découverte bien importante. … La chose ne me paroît pas impossible.
It would be a considerable invention indeed, that of a machine able to mimic speech, with its sounds and articulations. … I think it is not impossible.
It will seem a little paradoxical to ascribe a great importance to observations even in that part of the mathematical sciences which is usually called Pure Mathematics, since the current opinion is that observations are restricted to physical objects that make impression on the senses. As we must refer the numbers to the pure intellect alone, we can hardly understand how observations and quasi-experiments can be of use in investigating the nature of numbers. Yet, in fact, as I shall show here with very good reasons, the properties of the numbers known today have been mostly discovered by observation, and discovered long before their truth has been confirmed by rigid demonstrations. There are many properties of the numbers with which we are well acquainted, but which we are not yet able to prove; only observations have led us to their knowledge. Hence we see that in the theory of numbers, which is still very imperfect, we can place our highest hopes in observations; they will lead us continually to new properties which we shall endeavor to prove afterwards. The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error. Therefore, we should take great care not to accept as true such properties of the numbers which we have discovered by observation and which are supported by induction alone. Indeed, we should use such discovery as an opportunity to investigate more exactly the properties discovered and to prove or disprove them; in both cases we may learn something useful.
Original title: Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Translated as Introduction to Analysis of the Infinite (1988–89) by John Blanton (Book I ISBN 0387968245; Book II ISBN 0387971327 (online version).
A conjecture about the nature of air, by which are to be explained the phenomenon which have been observed in the atmosphere (Conjectura circa naturam aeris, pro explicandis phaenomenis in atmosphaera observatis) (1870) (online version).
François Arago; Variant: Euler calculated without apparent effort, as men breathe, or as eagles sustain themselves in the wind.
Of no little importance are Euler's labors in analytical mechanics. ...He worked out the theory of the rotation of a body around a fixed point, established the general equations of motion of a free body, and the general equation of hydrodynamics. He solved an immense number and variety of mechanical problems, which arose in his mind on all occasions. Thus on reading Virgil's lines. "The anchor drops, the rushing keel is staid," he could not help inquiring what would be the ship's motion in such a case. About the same time as Daniel Bernoulli he published the Principle of the Conservation of Areas and defended the principle of "least action," advanced by P. Maupertius. He wrote also on tides and on sound.
Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics (1893) "Euler, Lagrange and Laplace" p. 240.
Somebody said "Talent is doing what others find difficult. Genius is doing easily what others find impossible." ...by that definition, Euler was a genius. He could do the seemingly impossible, and he did it throughout his long and illustrious life. ...Way to Go, Uncle Leonhard!
William Dunham, "A Tribute to Euler" (Oct 14, 2008) 49:10, Clay Public Lecture, Harvard University Science Center, from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
Euler lacked only one thing to make him a perfect genius: He failed to be incomprehensible.
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, as quoted by William Dunham, "A Tribute to Euler" (Oct 14, 2008) 48:27, Clay Public Lecture, Harvard University Science Center, from the Clay Mathematics Institute.
The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics and nothing else can replace it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, as quoted by Louise Grinstein, Sally I. Lipsey, Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education (2001) p. 235.
It is customary to consider Chebyshev, Gauss, Jacobi, and Legendre as the main creators of the theory of orthogonal polynomials. However, their contributions were directly influenced by Brouncker and Wallis who, in March of 1655, made discoveries which influenced the development of analysis for the next hundred years. Namely, Wallis found an infinite product of rational numbers converging to 4/π and Brouncker gave a remarkable continued fraction for this quantity. ...The only mathematician who understood the importance of these discoveries was Euler. ...he felt that the recovery of the original Brouncker's proof could open up new perspectives for analysis. As usual, Euler was right.
Mariano Giaquinta, Stefan Hildebrandt, Calculus of Variations I (2004) Grundlehren der mathematischen WissenSchaften Vol. 310.
Galileo does not attempt any theory to account for the flexure of the beam. This theory, supplied by Hooke's law, was applied by Mariotte, Leibnitz, De Lahire, and Varignon, but they neglect compression of the fibres, and so place the neutral in the lower face of Galileo's beam. The true position of the neutral plane was assigned by James Bernoulli 1695, who in his investigation of the simplest case of bent beam, was led to the consideration of the curve called the "elastica." This "elastica" curve speedily attracted the attention of the great Euler (1744), and must be considered to have directed his attention to the elliptic integrals. Probably the extraordinary divination which led Euler to the formula connecting the sum of two elliptic integrals, thus giving the fundamental theorem of the addition equation of elliptic functions, was due to mechanical considerations concerning the "elastica" curve; a good illustration of the general principle that the pure mathematician will find the best materials for his work in the problems presented to him by natural and physical questions.
A. G. Greenhill, Nature (Feb. 3, 1887) Review of A History of the Theory of Elasticity, Volume 35, pp. 313-314.
Who has studied the works of such men as Euler, Lagrange, Cauchy, Riemann, Sophus Lie, and Weierstrass, can doubt that a great mathematician is a great artist? The faculties possessed by such men, varying greatly in kind and degree with the individual, are analogous with those requisite for constructive art. Not every mathematician possesses in a specially high degree that critical faculty which finds its employment in the perfection of form, hi conformity with the ideal of logical completeness; but every great mathematician possesses the rarer faculty of constructive imagination.
To the reader of today much in the conception and mode of expression of that time appears strange and unusual. Between us and the mathematicians of the late seventeenth century stands Leonhard Euler... He is the real founder of our modern conception. However non-rigorous he may be in details: he ends and conquers the previous epoch of direct geometric infinitesimal considerations and introduces the period of mathematical analysis according to form and content. Whatever was written after him on the logarithmic series is necessarily based no longer on the already obscured predecessors in the receding mathematical Renaissance, but on Euler's Introductio in analysin infinitorum... in which the entire seventh chapter [De Quantitabus exponentialibus ac Logarithmis] treats of logarithms.
Josef Ehrenfried Hofman, "On the Discovery of the Logarithmic Series and Its Development in England up to Cotes" (Oct., 1939) National Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 37-38.
Pierre-Simon Laplace, as quoted in Calculus Gems (1992). variant: Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all. As quoted by S. H. Hollingdale, "Leonhard Euler (1707-1783): A Bicentennial Tribute", Bulletin (1983) Volumes 19-20, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, & by Edwin Joseph Purcell, Dale E. Varberg, Calculus with Analytic Geometry (1987), Vol. 1.
He was later to write that he had made some of his best discoveries while holding a baby in his arms surrounded by playing children.
In 1736, during his first stay in St. Petersburg, Euler tackled the now famous problem of the seven bridges of Königsberg. His contribution to this problem is often cited as the birth of graph theory and topology.
David S. Richeson (8 March 2012). Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology. Princeton University Press. p. 100. ISBN 1-4008-3856-8.
I discovered the works of Euler and my perception of the nature of mathematics underwent a dramatic transformation. I was de-Bourbakized, stopped believing in sets, and was expelled from the Cantorian paradise. I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it. I learned that one has to adapt abstractions to reality and not the other way around. Mathematics stopped being a science of theories but reappeared to me as a science of numbers and shapes.
As analysis was more cultivated, it gained a predominancy over geometry; being found to be a far more powerful instrument for obtaining results; and possessing a beauty and an evidence, which, though different from those of geometry, had great attractions for minds to which they became familiar. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made Mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1859) Vol. 1, pp. 363-363.
Euler and "Fermat's Last Theorem"
Euler's presentation of "The Seven Bridges of Königsberg"
An Evening with Leonhard Euler presented by William Dunham.
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ANNOUNCEMENT :: Rime Arodaky gowns are making their way from Paris to Minneapolis. Beauties, this is your opportunity to see our newest designer’s full collection!
Rime Arodaky creates a new wave of bridal gowns, breaking away from the traditional wide skirts and corseted bustiers. With a nod to the 70's and the rock'n roll bride, Rime has unleashed the inner bridal goddess in her designs with sensual details and romantic, yet innovative cuts.
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Our favorite Americana designer is sending back all of her brand new creations to our showroom and we cannot wait!
Chantel Lauren is for the wild at heart and the romantic spirit. Her gowns are organic and artistic, featuring hand painted skirts in customizable colors. From fringe detailing to bell sleeves, these gowns will bring out your inner country rocker!
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The White Room is so excited to feature Lola Varma for the first time ever!
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All gowns are handmade in Chicago by talented people paid a living wage // can we get a HELL YEAH to that?!
Bridal beauties // Sarah Seven is back at it with her AMAZING new 2019 collection // these gowns are the perfect marriage of traditional bride and modern muse // her daring necklines combined with graceful details are young, fresh, and leave you feeling like a totally sophisticated babe.
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Exciting news, beauties! New designer to the bridal scene, THENEWHITE, will be debuting her newest collection this weekend!
Come meet the designer, Juliette, sip on some bubbly & see these new gowns in our beautiful showroom!
The fun-loving local ladies of linyage are at it again with a brand new collection!
"... linyage is a design house focused on creating one-of-a-kind, vintage inspired bridal dresses, lingerie, lace toppers and beyond. linyage dresses are born out of a love for hand-crafted work, an appreciation for charming details, and a fondness for the character inherent to vintage lace. Like the name suggests, linyage is about drawing a connection between roots and growth...leaving you with a full heart and an heirloom to leave future lineage."
ALON LIVNE has landed in MPLS and we are so excited to announce that we will be showing his N E W E S T bridal collection for a limited time // if you are on the hunt for some serious jawdroppers, LOOK NO FURTHER.
DAN JONES LABEL is an effortless fusion of luxe fabrics, shape defining silhouettes and exquisite craftsmanship.
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We are excited to present the N E W 2019 collection of Atelier Pronovias. Designed in Barcelona, these beauties are wonderfully elegant yet innovative designs. Made from luxurious fabrics, these wedding gowns are bound to leave your guests (and future hubs) breathless.
The ladies from Brooklyn are back at it with their edgy, yet sophisticated designs. The White Room will be presenting their 2018 collection and, ladies, these looks are to D I E for.
Come meet the designers, sip on bubbly, and find your dream gown!
Beauties! If you are looking for that romantic, ethereal & free-spirited gown, Stephanie's designs are the perfect dream dress for you.
Odylyne The Ceremony is a line of exquisite bridal gowns designed by Stephanie White- each dress embodies the deep emotion, sensibility and beauty of the life and art. Her collections tie in the feelings of the traditional foundations of marriage to the exotic and unfamiliar, while harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and to escape. The ethereal element is ever present in each style with a twist of romance and deep appreciation of all the delicate moments of the ceremony.
10% off these gorgeous designs all weekend long.
Be sure to make your appointment before the weekend books up!
One-of-a-kind brides // this is THE weekend to find your dream dress.
We are obsessed with Katherine Polk's designs, and are so excited to show our Minnesota brides the chic, emerging bridal trends coming from NYC.
10% off any Houghton gown this weekend- beauties, you do not want to miss this presentation!
Brides-to-be, if you are looking for romantic cuts and beautiful laces in your wedding gown, you absolutely MUST stop by to see the gorgeous Claire Pettibone Romantique collection! Made with love in LA, these beauties feature delicate lace, elegant silhouettes and the designer's signature stunning backs.
This collection is only around for the weekend, darlings.
Call 612.361.7175 // e-mail [email protected] for details!
Locally-based Caroline Hayden is at it again with a beautiful presentation of her current collection from F/W '16 and S/S '17.
Caroline Hayden has been featured in numbers publications and websites, including Harper's Bazaar.com, Rose and Ivy Journal and Minnesota Bride! Her cutting edge designs are unique, using carefully chosen fabrics and embellishments.
Walk-ins welcome on Saturday, November 26th // main fitting room reserved by appointment.
Attention, beauties! This is your chance to see the stunning designs from renowned Australian designer, Mariana Hardwick for a limited time at The White Room!
"... inspired by the grand couturiers of the past, Mariana Hardwick's designs have a distinct contemporary orientation. Drawing inspiration from from contemporary couture, vintage references, texture and drape, the Mariana Hardwick gown is timeless."
Available for 10 days in the showroom // be sure to book your appointment today!
Born from a desire to create a brand for the modern bride, Marquise Bridal has grown rapidly since their debut release in March 2015.
Forever evolving their vision and the pursuit of the perfect gown, Marquise Bride is constantly redefining bridal trends while continuing on with the fundamental theme of simple uncomplicated silhouettes using luxury textiles.
The result is sultry, romantic and luxury gowns for the modern bride.
This collection will be available exclusively to The White Room for a two-week long exhibition of affordable luxury.
Be sure to make your appointment today to see these beauties!
We are excited to announce a month long showcase with our local gal pal, Chelsea Lovett with Modehaus Designs! This talented lady has created sleek modern designs that cater to a bride looking for a classic statement.
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The oh-so-talented local jewelry maker, Sara Goldfine of Goldfine Jewelry will be showing off some of her stunning pieces during the next month to accessorize your wedding look to perfection.
15% off these stunners all month long!
Gorgeous Spanish designs from Belén Barbero are coming to MN for one week only!
The White Room will be offering 10% off these gorgeous gowns to our brides for the weekend!
Be sure to book your appointment today.
Suzanne Harward Pop-Up Trunk Show!
Nothing looks more striking on a woman than confidence. Alyssa Kristin collections are thoughtfully designed so that each piece, while varied in style and Silhouette, features a distinctive element – a dramatic train, a unique neckline, a removable skirt. This allows a bride to accentuate her favorite feature, whether it is her back, collar bone or hour glass figure, and radiate confidence.
The White Room is excited to announce that Alyssa will have her beautiful wedding gowns available at The White Room for an exclusive weekend! Come look through these gorgeous gowns & meet-and-greet with designer Alyssa!
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Appointments are bound to fill up quickly, be sure to book yours today!
Timeless and elegant for the modern day bride, the Rosa Clara bridal gown collection is luxuriously chic and utilizes the world finest couture fabrications. A bride who wears Rosa Clara will feel unique and special in her beautifully tailored creation. This is the weekend for brides looking to make a timeless statement.
10% off all Rosa Clara gowns will be honored during this showcase.
Call 612.361.7175 or click "Book and Appointment" on the right side of the screen to schedule you appointment today!
The White Room will showase a curated selection of Elizabeth Fillmore gowns during the weekend, showing off the beautiful vairety of gowns the designer has to offer!
10% off any Elizabeth Fillmore gown during this weekend.
Call 612.361.7175 or e-mail us [email protected] for details!
We are so excited to announce our FIRST trunk show since opening our doors- Come see the beautiful, newly released 2016 Rosa Clara collection at The White Room!
We will be hosting private appointments on Friday, October 23rd in the evening & all-day Saturday, October 24th. An open house will be hosted during the day on Friday, October 23rd & all day on Sunday, October 25th for the brides looking to stop in and look through the collection.
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Too Small To Fail advisory council member Sandra Gutierrez is the National Director of Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors. She’s on a mission to get information into the hands of the people who are poised to make a significant difference in early childhood education today: Latino parents. Gutierrez spoke with Too Small to Fail about the model Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors has created for honoring and supporting Latino parents to help their children enter school ready to learn and able to succeed in life. Programs in 250 cities across the nation are now using that model to engage parents in low-income communities.
We created Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors because demographics are shifting, the Latino population is booming, and there just wasn’t anything like it. Outcomes for this population were so poor, in terms of the childhood obesity rate, the reading rate, and the rates of utilization – not just of preschool, but other things that benefit families, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit.
We wanted to support parents in their roles as leaders of the family, and to help them make sure their children did not become one of those dismal statistics. We decided to take evidence of what actually works to stimulate early childhood development and improve outcomes for children. And we used that information to write a curriculum. The parents actually co-created the material. We did a lot of listening before we developed it.
Now we work with national partners such as Catholic Charities, the United Way, and Head Start, along with several school districts, churches and other local groups. Our mission is to support and honor parents in their roles as leaders of the family and children’s first and most influential teachers. We want to help parents realize their own power to close the opportunity gap, because having informed, engaged parents opens doors, not only to success in school, but also to kids having healthier and happier lives.
Often, parents aren’t aware of the power of their daily decisions. Not long ago, the common view was “Kids should be seen and not heard,” or “She’ll start doing that when she gets to school.” Now we know better. We have oceans of research, and we know there are things that parents can do, regardless of income level or educational background. Small, daily acts can have a big impact. We aim to convey that information in a friendly way – a way that makes sense to parents and that will lead to better outcomes.
Latino parents are more alike than they are different from other parents. All parents want what’s best for their children. And there’s a popular saying, “Mas vale prevenir que lamenter,” which means, “It’s better to prevent than lament.” So when armed with data and statistics communicated in an accessible and engaging way, parents are motivated to use that to help their kids reach their aspirations.
What do you do to engage parents?
We hold regular group sessions and we make them fun. We promise parents that if they invest two hours, they will leave the session with new information and resources they can use every day to make sure their children have a good foundation and the best start possible. For example, there’s a popular board game in Latin America called, “Lotería.” And we developed our own version of this Mexican bingo game, to reinforce learning objectives like reading, counting and going to the library. So we’ve created a fun curriculum based on knowledge parents already have.
It’s very rewarding to get the research off the shelves, and into living rooms and kitchens. But one thing we can’t sidestep, or be romantic about, is that parents can’t give what they don’t have. Poverty is very complex and many systems don’t provide these families with the support they need.
Our groups are run every week by partner organizations across the country. For example, here in Los Angeles, we work closely with the L.A. Unified School District, and we’re partnering with Head Start – one of most important systems serving and supporting parents.
Specifically, who are the parents you are aiming to reach?
The families we work with are Spanish-speaking and 100% low income within federal poverty guidelines. They’re the working poor, and have a great work ethic. They want their kids to have a better future, and more opportunity for education than they had.
The parents say, “This is my dream for my child.” And we say, “Let’s make that a goal. Given that home is really the first school, here are things you can do, whether you are very low income or not.” This really resonates and helps parents get a sense of leadership. We demonstrate how a household can promote early literacy practices, and it’s great to work with parents when the children are so young, because that prepares them for just one step in a much larger process of family engagement.
Parents also benefit from meeting with other parents, developing friendships and widening their social networks. People talk very openly and candidly about their family struggles, such as a woman’s effort to get her husband involved. Often, a mom will bring her neighbors. The program succeeds in a way because it spreads by word of mouth.
How is Opening Doors different from other efforts to stimulate child development and promote literacy?
First of all, we consider these parents to be heroes, and we honor their roles as leaders of the family and their children’s first teacher. The things they go through, the decisions they make every day have such profound consequences, and yet they are not considered everyday heroes.
Our approach is not a “top-down” one. We partner with parents. You will see parents across the country exploring myths they were raised to believe, which leads to these transformative moments where they realize, “That was then, and this is now. I can do these things to make a better life for my child.” We are providing them with something that is accessible and actionable.
Each of our sessions begin with a proverb, “Lo que bien empieza, bien acaba,” which means, “What begins well, ends well.” We reflect quite a bit on how we were raised personally, and we stress the notion that we can be the parents we have, or we can be the parents we choose to be. We explore how we were raised – oftentimes in rural locations in Latin American countries – and how that affects our parenting choices.
Many programs focus on early literacy. Ours is unique in that it’s comprehensive. We include social and emotional wellness, which few curriculums incorporate. A lot of reading programs do not get very personal, but we dare to go there, because we consider it foundational. And it’s very powerful. We also help parents learn practical things like how to navigate the health system, and we help familiarize them with places like the local library, and how to take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
There is so much coming at these parents each day, so we make a huge effort to keep this program friendly, culturally relevant and evidence-based.
What is your basic message to parents around language development in young children?
We demystify language by encouraging parents to talk, sing, count and read more. We’re promoting engagement using practical, fun things that feel natural. And we are backing that with oceans of research that indicate how important it is, and both the consequences of doing that and not doing that. We don’t want to run from that, because we think parents should be informed and build a sense of their own strength and power, so we’re very explicit about this and showing local data about how kids are faring in their own neighborhoods so parents can make different choices. These things are of major consequence.
Another important issue we deal with is that these parents are raising bilingual children. Unfortunately, there is still some confusion around bilingualism, and the benefits of learning both languages at an early age. Often, parents feel at a disadvantage; we help demonstrate to them that they can promote vocabulary development, regardless of language.
Many parents are not aware of critical information about brain development, and are operating under the old-time wisdom of “You just need a lunch pail and a haircut” to show up ready for school. We’re aiming to make sure parents have this valuable information about the science of child development, and to prevent those old mindsets from holding kids back.
What is one of your most effective techniques?
When we communicate about the impact of parent interaction on a child’s brain development, it’s new information, and it’s shocking to many people.
We make it very visual. We do an activity where we stand in a circle and throw a ball of yarn back and forth to represent connections that are being made through a child’s synapses. The way the game works is the more we talk, and read, the more we throw this yarn around, until we have a visual example that represents the sort of network of synapses in the brain that develop for children when you are proactive in stimulating language development.
And then we do the opposite. We demonstrate how relatively bare that network appears when you don’t read, or talk or sing – when you live in a household that operates by that old motto of “Children should be seen and not heard.” We show how the brain doesn’t develop. And those kinds of things really hit home when you’re demystifying the physical effect of their actions on children’s brains. It really is an “Aha!” moment to demonstrate the science to them and break down what they can do every day.
One key thing parents value, that keeps them coming back, is that it’s a very welcoming atmosphere. We intentionally create an environment that is festive, with banners and music playing – and require our local programs to decorate the room, have music and make it a positive ambiance.
Describe the results you’ve seen so far.
We have formal outside evaluators tracking the impact of this program. But on a day-to-day basis, what really warms my heart is how parents will come to one session and then come back to another session and report on how they used the information. I’m really quite moved. It’s distressing how much need there is, but I’m optimistic, because people readily want to use the information when it’s presented in the right way.
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2019-04-25T16:21:46Z
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http://toosmall.org/news/commentaries/qa-with-sandra-gutierrez
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It's surprisingly easy to create and print replacement parts. In this hands on, David Gewirtz shows how he created a remote control cover replacement. The big picture: 3D printing enables virtual spare parts inventories.
3D printing a replacement part It's surprisingly easy to create and print replacement parts. In this hands on, David Gewirtz shows how he created a fan cover replacement. The big picture: 3D printing enables virtual spare parts inventories.
3D printing is often touted as a great tool for designers to test and refine their designs prior to manufacturing. But you can do a lot more with 3D printing, even with inexpensive home printers. For example, you can use a 3D printer to create and produce a replacement part for something you use every day. In my case, I made a replacement back cover for a remote control.
I have a desk fan I use all the time, the Vornado Flippi V Compact Air Circulator. It lives a few feet away from me, under my desk. It's small, powerful, and quiet. What makes it particularly useful is a remote control I can use to adjust the speed and oscillation, without ever moving away from my keyboard. This is great because I can turn it on and off when on the phone, or just tap the remote control when I'm too busy or lazy to move the five feet from my chair to the fan.
The problem is that I drop the remote all the time, and the back cover for the battery compartment tends to fly off and get lost. It really interrupts workflow to have to crawl around under my desk to look for the tiny part.
Now, don't get mired in the details of this particular project. Instead, keep in mind the idea of making any replacement part. Obviously, whatever you need to make will be different from what I worked on. The key point is that a 3D printer can be a great resource for useful projects like crafting replacement parts for objects you use. Lots of people lose a part or two from a beloved object.
After dropping the remote for probably the 20th time, and not being able to locate the cover to the battery compartment after a long search, I decided enough was enough.
Has anyone seen my missing cover?
It's probably still somewhere down there, under my desk, unless the elves have taken it. I decided to make a new one.
I'm fortunate, because I have a number of 3D printers in the shop to choose from. If I weren't writing about 3D printing, I'd probably only have one. For this project, I chose to use the most inexpensive of them, the $399 New Matter MOD-t. The MOD-t isn't as fast as the LulzBot or the MakerBot, nor does it create objects of super high quality, but it's a fine little printer.
I was curious about whether I could use it for this purpose. The cover is quite small, making it possible to do a lot of print attempts. Each print only took about 20 minutes. Because I spent just a few minutes each time refining the design, the print time for each "draft" didn't bother me at all.
The key to the design was exploring and understanding the geometry of the cover. That may sound difficult, but all it really takes is observation, measuring, a little creativity, and the willingness to test.
The basic shape is that of a rectangle with a half-circle at the end. So I created a rectangle and circle in 123D Design and placed the circle over the rectangle. I then shrunk the thickness to 1.5 millimeters.
To get the width and length of the cover space, I used a pair of $29.95 digital calipers I picked up from Harbor Freight. Calipers are key, because they allow you to measure the distances for elements you need to make. You can usually get measurements down to a tenth of a millimeter, which is pretty precise. Of course, my measurements were always off by a bit, so once I designed the object based on my measurements, I had to print it, and then tweak the print to get things to fit.
First, I printed the basic shape, the rectangle and circle.
You can see how this is made up of two simple shapes: a rectangle and a circle.
Then I added a tab, so that it would fit in the slot in the remote. This took a few tries, because I had to get the right size, but also get the raised part to fit just so. It also wasn't hard. It just took the patience to tinker with it.
Next, I added the back hook. If you look at the image below, you can see the slot on the remote control body, and the hook I created. That, too, took a few iterations until I got it to fit right.
This is made with just two small rectangles at right angles.
Next, I added the back tail of the cover, again with some level of iteration.
This becomes the outside of the cover.
Finally, it all fit and closed over the remote. The only problem was, it didn't work. This was when I was reasonably convinced this whole project was a very bad idea. But it's also here that persistence was important.
I spent some time examining the remote. I tested the battery with the remote and no cover, and found that by holding the battery just so, it would fire the remote. This meant that the cover replacement I was making would not require any wiring to complete a circuit. It also told me that the changes I needed to make were really about how to hold the battery in the right place.
I added a flat circle spacer to push the battery down, and I also added another backing bar which pushed the battery forward into its contacts. This, as it turns out, was the winning design.
Here's the final design view.
Unfortunately, it wasn't completely reliable. It did work, but not regularly. All that took was a few more iterations, eventually moving the back bar back just a tiny bit so the pressure was just right. Then it worked.
Here's the final piece. As you can see, it's not much larger than a penny.
Here's the final part. It's not much bigger than a penny.
I learned quite a few lessons in building this part, some of which may be valuable to you. First, let me reinforce that before I started learning about 3D printing about a year ago, I did not do mechanical constructions of any type. Yes, I have an engineering degree, but it's in computer science. I can design a circuit board. I can design a computer language and an operating system.
But fixing a bathroom sink? That's beyond my skill set. Creating a tiny replacement part for a fan? Before this year, you might as well have asked me to build a rocket in my backyard to travel to Mars. Not in my wheelhouse.
Now, however, I've learned that the process of creating objects like this is really a matter of observation, measurement, and patience, as I mentioned above. Once I mastered the basic skills of 123D Design (which, quite honestly, isn't much harder than PowerPoint or any other drawing program), I was on my way. If you can draw a rectangle, you can do basic 3D design.
I also learned that an inexpensive 3D printer can get the job done. It's not quite as clean an object as might be produced with a much more expensive printer, but it's good enough to do the job. I cleaned off some of the plastic detritus with a file and a pair of clippers. It works, which is all I really needed.
Finally, I learned that it's easy to do this over about two weeks time. In actual elapsed time, this project probably took me about four hands-on hours (not counting waiting for the printer). If I had to spend a weekend doing nothing by designing, printing, trying, tweaking, and doing it all over again, I would have gone completely around the bend. But because I put in just a few minutes when I felt like it, the project proceeded easily. It really was quite fun to do.
In addition to actually having my remote working again, there's a very interesting benefit to 3D printing a replacement part. I now have a virtual inventory. The 3D design model is now on my file server. If I lose the cover again (and I most certainly will), I can just load the file on my printer and reprint.
As we move forward into more 3D printing use, I predict we're going to find that virtual inventories become one of the bigger benefits of 3D printing across the board.
You can download this replacement fan remote cover from Thingiverse.
Is there a part you need a replacement for? Let me know what you think you might build in the TalkBacks below.
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2019-04-19T08:31:27Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/3d-printing-hands-on-making-a-replacement-part/
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Fort Kwunko, Alaska can be a cold, harsh place to live for the hardiest of the natives. For the daughter of two caucasian missionaries, it was downright hostile. For a creature designed to live in the steamy South American jungles, however, it could be absolutely maddening. Victoria had always believed that whatever SCABS did to a person, it would ultimately be for the best, even if the transformation seemed tragic at the time. This belief sustained her optimism when she came down with the Martian Flu. When her body became coated with a thick, shaggy fur, she reckoned that she was being equipped to better deal with the harsh climate of rural Alaska. However, when her face extended to five times its original length, the truth became painfully apparent. Victoria had become a giant anteater, and as such, unable to survive in the cold.
Having just about the lowest body temperature in the entire Mammalian order, Victoria could not even go for a walk outside, for fear of hypothermia. Thus, the anteater spent most of her time in her room, alone, bored, and miserable.
Before much time had passed, Victoria's parents saw just how unhappy their daughter had become. Seeing only one solution, they advised her to settle and seek employment in the southern, more hospitable climes. So it was that she came to our fair city, doing whatever she could to make ends meet.
It has always been accepted as true that a person who is willing to work hard could find a job in the food service industry. Sadly, the law has made this untrue for SCABs. The bureaucrats at the health department still consider SCABS a chronic disease, even though it is not possible to contract SCABS, or even the Martian Flu, from one already transformed. Thus, it has become illegal for restaurants to employ such individuals, with the exception of a handful of specialty establishments.
Fortunately, there's Chang's. Chang's pizzeria has done its community a wonderful service by establishing a policy of hiring SCABS as delivery drivers. Technically, since they never touch the pizzas, they're not in food service. It's a rather tight loophole, to be sure, but for Victoria, it meant gainful employment.
That was how I met her. One night, when I had gotten rather bored with fresh sushi, I ordered out for a pizza. "County road 3, mile marker 12." Victoria repeated to herself as she tooled along in her modified Volkswagen. Marker 12... Marker 12..." As she was searching, she pulled up to the edge of the lake.
"There IS no mile marker 12!" she huffed. Then, looking off to the right, she spotted the old cabin. Taking the pizza box and soda in her claws, she got out and walked over to the cabin. Using her tongue, she klacked the knocker.
Becoming frustrated, she went back to the car. She was about to get in and drive away when she heard an "Over here!" behind her. That, of course, would be me.
She started and blinked in surprise as I waved at her from the window of my burrow. With a small shrug, she brought me my supper.
"I hope you didn't have too much trouble finding the place." I said, somewhat apologetically.
Victoria chuckled. "I usually like the country routes because the houses are easy to find." she said. "I've never had to deliver a pizza to a mound of dirt before.
This time, I chuckled. "It's primitive, but it's home."
The anteater looked in through the window. "Oh, hey! That does look nice and cozy in there."
"Visitors always welcome." I said.
"Is that an invitation?" asked Victoria with a laugh.
"If you like, then that's exactly what it is." I extended my paw. "Oren Verden. My friends call me "Otter" for obvious reasons."
"Victoria Preston. I'd love to visit and share your pizza, but I'm afraid I'm on the clock. Another time, perhaps?"
"Certainly. Have a good night, Ms. Preston." When she drove off, I assumed I'd never see her again.
That night, Victoria sat alone in her tiny little apartment. She stared at the wall for an hour before sheer boredom prompted her to turn on the webstation. She logged into a movie channel and downloaded a good two-hour romance. As an afterthought, she checked her E-mail. There was a letter from Bobby there. Seeing it cheered her up instantly.
Bobby was one of the local Eskimo boys who had been her friend since she was in diapers. They had been dating when Victoria left, and even now, she still hoped that they would be together again.
"Dear Victoria:" the letter began. "I have some really interesting news. Two days after you left for the lower 48 I came down with the Martian Flu. I thought that I was ready to become whatever animal SCABS would turn me into, but imagine my surprise when I changed into a shapely young lady! I am going by Barbara, now. I know you hoped that we might date again someday, but this new development does make things a little difficult. I do hope that I can still be your friend. Mom and Dad and Kenny say "Hi".
Victoria felt her heart sink down into her tail as she stared at the screen. She had only known one love her whole life, and now he was gone. She didn't cry. She didn't complain. She just picked up her purse and went for a nice, long drive.
I couldn't sleep that night. I chatted on the Internet for a while, but that didn't last long. Rover, (my computer,) tends to drain the juice from the solar batteries once the sun has gone down. When my faithful computer shut down, I decided to amuse myself by going for a moonlight swim. After a few dives and a midnight snack of minnow, I lay on my back and looked up at the stars.
I almost didn't hear the quiet, repeating "pip-pip-pip-pip- pip"
I howled in pain as a rock ricocheted off my eye.
"Who's there?" demanded someone on shore.
"Who's here? Who's out THERE throwing rocks at me?"
"Mister Otter? Is that you?"
Swimming up to shore, I noticed Victoria sitting there with a flat rock between her claws. "I'm so sorry!" she exclaimed. "I was skipping stones and didn't see you out there!"
"It's all right." I assured her, rubbing my black eye. "I've had worse."
I waddled up onto the shore and sat down next to the anteater. "So what are you doing all the way up here at this time of night?" I asked.
"Can't sleep." she replied. I knew there was more.
She dipped her head and scratched her nose with a foot. "Things are bad right now." she said. "I'm alone in this big city, I've got a promising career in pizza delivery, and my boyfriend back home is now a girl and probably dating one of the other Eskimo boys."
"I'm sorry to hear that. If it helps, I can sympathize."
I managed a weak smile that I wasn't sure if she could see. "I lost everything recently. My home, my work, my computer... That's when I decided to come out here. I thought I would try living wild."
"My girlfriend was upset that I didn't tell her. The fact is, I didn't tell anybody. I had planned to try and settle in before I sent the word out about my move. She took it personally."
"It sure is... but you didn't come up here to listen to my regrets."
"I don't mind." said Victoria as she put her claws on my shoulder. "Did you explain things to her?"
"Yes, but we decided to stay broken up... for other reasons. Age difference... species difference... the fact that she used to be my councilor..."
I skipped a rock of my own over the lake. Victoria clutched herself and shivered. "Cold?" I asked.
"Yeah. You wouldn't think so with all this fur, but this body gets cold real easily. That's why I had to leave Alaska."
"Don't move." I said, darting off and returning a moment later with an armload of firewood and a box of matches. It wasn't that long at all before both of us were warming ourselves before a nice, roaring bonfire.
"Can I ask you something?" asked Victoria.
"Do you hate your body? You know... being stuck as an otter?"
I felt embarrassed at the answer I had to give. "I'm not stuck. I can become human if I concentrate really hard."
"I can also take features from other mustelid species, but it's all involuntary."
I wanted to slip under the water and stay there. You know how it feels when you see pictures of starving children on a web commercial when you've got a fridge full of food? That's how I felt. Idly, I poked at the fire with a stick.
A piece of wood fell outward onto the back of my paw. Grimacing in pain, I ran and dunked my arm in the lake.
"Are you all right? Let me look..."
The skin was already furless and blistering. I know I must have looked a sight with one eye swelling shut and my paw clutched to my chest in pain.
"Do you have a first aid kit?"
"There's one in my car. We'd better get something on that."
"And some ice. Why don't you get the first aid kit out of my glove box while I put the fire out?"
"Because I don't know where you're parked."
About a half hour's drive later, we were at a convenience store buying a bag of ice and a bottle of aloe. We sat down at an undersized table while she bandaged me up and made an icepack. We sat at the table for a bit, just talking. I didn't think it had been that long until I began to look out the window and see the sun coming up.
"I know a great place that'll just be opening for breakfast. What do you say?"
We walked into the restaurant and were greeted from the kitchen window by Ellen. I was surprised to see her here this morning. She usually worked afternoons. I was doubly surprised that I could actually see her through the window. "Ellen?" I said. "You're standing up?"
She smiled and came through the kitchen door. She was indeed out of her wheelchair and on her feet, supporting the weight of her front half on two very long arm braces. "When did you get those?" I asked.
"Daddy bought them for me a couple of days ago. Who's your friend, Oren?"
"This is Victoria. Victoria, this is Ellen."
"Nice to meet you." said Ellen, extending her hand, making the brace dangle awkwardly from her arm. Victoria shook it politely. "So whatcha feel like having this morning?"
"I'll just have a couple of scrambled eggs." said Victoria.
"Biscuits and gravy." I added. "But how come you're out here taking our orders?"
"Eddie called in sick today. The rest of us are kind of switching jobs around to fill in."
"I'll have those for you in a minute!"
"So..." said Victoria once Ellen had gone back to the kitchen. "Do you come here a lot?"
"Not here. I usually go over to the bar side. The Blind Pig Gin Mill."
"I wouldn't have figured you for a drinker."
"And you'd be right. I drink milk, mostly. You'd be surprised, though. The Blind Pig is nothing like a normal bar. It's clean, well lit... Come on... I'll show you what I mean."
I took my anteater friend around the partition between the restaurant and the bar to show her what it looked like. It was pretty much empty, of course. Donnie was there, doing some ordering, and Scratch was sweeping the floor.
Just then, a stranger burst through the door. "I'M CURED!" he shouted.
'I'M CURED! Donnie, look! Oren, Oren, I'm cured!"
He grabbed my shoulders and smiled toothily. "Do I know you?" I asked.
"Oh, of course. You don't recognize me. How can you? It's me, Kieth!"
"That's right! And you won't believe this. There's a CURE for SCABS!"
Kieth's head was totally in a spin as he babbled incoherently about how he had become human once again. We sat him down at the table and calmed him down enough to get the whole story. He was just wrapping up when someone else came in the door. It was Doug, better known to his friends as "Wiley". A fully morphed coyote, he was a recent addition to the Lupine Boys, and possibly Kieth's greatest friend.
"Hi, Wiley." I responded. "Did you hear about Kieth?"
"That's right!" said Kieth. "Me and Wiley here have been to see the wizard."
::His name is Tom Sapacroli, and he's not a wizard.:: said The Coyote.
"By faith, Oren." Kieth replied. "That's all it took."
"It would work on you if you'd just believe." said the wolf. "Five years I was stuck in a full morph and in five minutes he cured me!"
I shook my head. "This sounds too good to be true." I said. Donnie nodded in agreement.
"But what if it is?" asked Victoria. "I want to check it out."
"It's probably a scam." said I. "I still remember that 'Unstuctane' deal a few years ago. My sister blew a fortune, but her husband is still a tiger."
"But this works!" Kieth insisted. "Look at me! I'm human!"
Victoria's eyes were starting to sparkle. I could tell she was hooked.
"How do we find this guy?" I asked.
"He's set up a great big tent just outside of Potsborough."
"That's right on the other side of the lake."
"I see." I said, not really seeing at all."
"Donnie, you ought to go." said Kieth. "You can be human again... and you'd be able to talk!"
I could see Donnie, the one who was normally dignified and above it all, shiver excitedly at the thought. "After bar close." he signed.
"Great idea!" said Kieth. We'll meet back here at closing time and I'll take you to see him!"
I was going along to see this for myself. I for one didn't need my SCABS cured, but if this turned out to be fake, which it probably was, someone would need to be there for damage control.
There was quite an assembly by the time we got around to going. Theo and Annette, my next-door neighbors, had insisted on coming in hopes of finding a way out of being fish. Dozens more from the bar came, for whatever reason, to see this Tom Sapacroli fellow. There was a large crowd gathered, and we could hear Sapacroli's voice booming over the speaker system.
"Do you believe?" asked the voice. "Do you believe that you can become human again and stop being an antelope? Well then my friend, be healed!"
I stuck my head inside the tent in time to see a fully morphed antelope slowly become human. He was being gripped at the shoulders by a thin, timid looking man with dark eyes and a wispy beard wearing a jet black suit. People were constantly entering and exiting, so no one really noticed when the lot of us took our places in the crowd.
"There's an inanimorph here." said Sapacroli. "I sense that there is an inanimorph... a stone man... who is reluctant to come up and be healed. Son, I urge you to come and let me help you to be set free."
Obediently, a man who looked like a granite statue made his way slowly to the stage.
"You've got to believe, my boy. Tell me, do you BELIEVE?"
"Well then come out of that stone body! Come out and be free!"
Slowly, the white stone began to transform into soft pink flesh. The statue-man took a deep breath, and suddenly, he was completely human. "I'm alive!" he proclaimed. "Good word, my heart is beating! Oh, thank you, Sir!"
"It was your faith that healed you, my lad. Now then, who is next?"
There was a chorus of "Me!"'s.
"I sense that there is a fish... a trout... No, two trout."
"Like that's so hard to see." I said. "You're in a fishbowl. It's obvious that you're stuck." Nevertheless, I carried the two of them up on stage.
"What are your names?" he asked.
"I'm Theo, and this is my wife, Annette."
"And do you wish to be healed, Theo?"
"Do you have the faith to become human once again?"
"Then come out of that bowl, Theo." Sapacroli placed his hand on the fish, who began to grow into the shape of a burly brown man. An assistant quickly covered him with a plastic robe as Sapacroli reached down to put his hand on Annette.
That was when I really started getting suspicious. If it was faith that was curing SCABS, why did he need to keep making physical contact?
Sapacroli seemed to look dismayed. "Annette, I sense that there is doubt in your heart. I'm sorry Annette. I cannot help you if you do not believe."
"But I want to believe!"
"And so you shall, Annette. I want you to stay and watch what we do here the rest of the night, and tomorrow, I'm confident your faith will be made perfect."
Sadly, Annette asked me to take her down.
Victoria followed the Jacksons. When he was done with her, she had become a mildly plump, though astonishingly cute, human girl. Many, many people who had come from the Pig went up to be healed that night. Donnie went up, though as one might expect, he was one of those whose doubts were too great to permit healing. Gornul went forward. When he came back, he was a smiling human man. Curiously, his smell did not change a lot. Vincent the mink went up. He was wiggling his fingers and saying "a piano! Somebody get me a piano!" To his dismay, he was another one who was asked to return tomorrow.
My thoughts turned momentarily to one who was most conspicuously absent: Phil. He was an intelligent hare. What would he think of all this? Would he rush up to shed his fur, or would he, like me, have too many doubts? Then came the moment that cinched it for me.
Once all the transformations were done for the night, Sapacroli, tired and sweaty, turned to the crowd and said "Friends, it was indeed a privilege for me to be here with you all and to help you discover the hidden healing power you all have inside of you. It is my goal to help as many people as I can in this way, but I will need your help. My staff and I have devoted ourselves full-time to this work. Because of this, we depend on contributions both for our livelihood and our traveling expenses. There are several of my assistants scattered about the tent with small coffers. They are ready to take whatever generous contributions you may have to give to further this work.
"It's a scheme." I said. "This whole thing is about getting people to part with their money!" Even as I said this, Victoria happily dropped a fifty dollar bill into one of the coffers.
The very next morning, I went to talk to Phil. I told him everything that I had witnessed, and of my concerns. He listened carefully, and nodded his head slowly. "I've heard of scams like this before." he said. "Usually, it's just a polymorph trying to make a quick buck."
"That's what I thought, too. What throws me off though, is that a polymorph's change lasts... what, twenty four hours? I called up Kieth this morning and he's still human and just as happy as fudge with it."
"I'm going to ask my friend in the department to run a background check on this guy." said Phil.
"Good idea." I said. "I'll see if there's anything on him on the web."
"Also a good idea." He seemed to study my face for a moment. "And don't worry. I'm not going to go begging this guy to change me too."
I breathed a sigh of relief mixed with a chuckle at myself for being so transparent.
After visiting with Phil, I went to see Victoria. She was feeling jolly and light, dancing around her apartment wearing a brand new dress that must have cost a fortune.
"Oren, it's so wonderful!" she was saying. "Now that I'm human, there are so many possibilities! I can go home if I want to. I can get a real job. I can do just about anything."
"How many cups of coffee have you had this morning?"
"Oren, you're so funny! I'm just so happy!"
Victoria... Listen, I've got my doubts about this whole thing, and I don't want to see you hurt."
"I appreciate your concern, Oren, but I don't think there's anything to worry about."
Gads... If this Tom Sapacroli did turn out to be bunko, and if he hurt Victoria, I'd personally wring his neck.
Over the next few days, it became almost impossible to find someone who had not gone to see this man. People all over the city, from two counties even, were going to either watch or be healed by this guy. Thus far, no transformees that I knew of had turned back, which leant some small amount of credence to the faith healer. Phil's and my searches, as well as those of the police, turned up nothing. No one had ever even HEARD of Tom Sapacroli. Of course, that was only using what electronic means were available. When those failed, I decided it was time for some old-fashioned sleuthing. After swimming across the lake to the outskirts of Potsborough, I tried to figure out how best to sneak around unseen. My body was one step ahead of me, though, as it began shrinking to the form of a least weasel. Now the size of a rat and the color of the dry grass, I could sneak about almost freely. I found the tent again with ease. It was deserted, naturally. Stopping to listen, I could detect voices coming from a nearby trailer. Cautiously, I ran over to listen.
"...not dry yet. These people are willing to give a fortune."
"I don't care!" said the familiar voice of Sapacroli. "This is our last night on the east coast, period. Two of the people have already changed back. More are going to follow, and we can only convince them that they've lost faith for so long."
"Where do we go next, then?"
"We disappear for a while. Things are getting too dangerous. Someone has been doing some investigation on us."
"I don't think so, or we'd be in jail by now. I think, however, that they're beginning to suspect a connection with Frank Willet and John Buzcado."
My heart stopped. I froze in place. The door of the trailer opened and out stepped Sapacroli. He stared straight at me with fearsome, penetrating green eyes. "Well well." he said. "I recognize you. You're the little otter who brought those fish to me last night, aren't you?"
What? How could he possibly know who I was? I growled at him and tried to act like a weasel. "Don't play games with me, boy." he said as he reached down to grab me. I wasn't about to get caught, though. I bit him on the hand and ran like mad. That was a mistake. As he stood there cursing, he began to change. His teeth became monstrous, and his fingernails turned into enormous claws. Changing back into an otter, I got back into the lake as fast as I possibly could. Sapacroli stood on the shore, swearing indignantly for several minutes before he turned back and shouted "Lars, we're leaving NOW!"
The second I got back to the burrow, I dialed the cell phone. "West Street Shelter. Phil Geusz speaking."
"Phil, it's Oren. Listen, I think I've pieced together what's going on. Meet me at the Pig in thirty minutes."
"He's a polymorph." I explained to the assembled patrons of the Blind Pig. "Extremely powerful. Quite possibly the most powerful in the world. What's more, he's got a platypus sense."
"At least I think that's what it is. It's a highly developed electromagnetic sense so sharp that he can read a living body like a book. He uses this to determine who's a unimorph and who's got a psychosomatic morphlock or just has very limited morphing powers. If he can change you, he does. If he can't, he tells you to come back tomorrow."
::But I saw several people get healed on their second day.:: said Wiley.
"Of course. He saves some for the next day to make it look convincing."
"But then there should be a much larger number of people who can't be healed." Phil noted.
"You're right. He balances the numbers by having selected helpers pose as unimorphs."
"That still leaves one question." said Kieth. "A polymorph's changes aren't permanent."
"And neither are his. After about a week, the transformations start to wear off. He then takes whatever donations he's raked in, runs off to a different town, and changes his name and his face. Thus far, ours is the third state he's hit, at least that we know of."
"You mean we're all going to change back?" said Theo, sadly.
I only nodded. "Two people have already. Maybe more."
"No!" said Victoria. "I don't want to go back! I don't want to go back!" She began to curl into a ball and whimper as though she were in physical pain.
I shook with anger at what I was seeing. Dropping from my chair, I stormed toward the door.
"Oren, where are you going?"
"I'm going to kill him. I'm gonna choke the life out of him with my bare paws!
I felt a hand grab my shoulder. I turned around to see Matt, who was even now growing his whiskers once again. "You just told us that this guy is the most powerful polymorph ever seen. If you tried to take him on alone, he'd tear you apart. Leave it to the police."
I sighed and nodded. He was right, of course, but that didn't change the rage I felt inside.
I took Victoria home. Neither of us said anything the whole way. We both just thought a lot about what was happening. I thought so hard, in fact, that by the time we finally arrived at her home, I had changed most of the way into a human. As she took her keys out of her purse, she asked me "Would you like to come in for a cup of coffee?"
I thought it would be polite to decline, but before I spoke, I saw the look in her eyes. She did not want to be alone. "Sure. I'd love one."
She was already starting to regress into an anteater by the time she reached the kitchen. Already, her nails were darkening. I scanned the apartment to take stock of her interests and come up with a topic of conversation which would distract her.
"Hey," I said, eyeing her video disk collection. "You like action movies?"
"I sure do." she replied. "But mostly, I'm just a Schwarzenegger fan."
"Cool! Did you ever see 'Hercules in New York'?"
"Yes! I love that one! I can't believe they actually dubbed his voice."
"They're planning a sequel to that one now. 'Hercules in Vegas'."
"You're kidding. Arnie is playing Hercules again at his age?"
"Hey, he looks good. Did you see him in 'Turboman 3'?"
Our movie-related banter was cut short as Victoria dropped the coffee pot. It hit the floor with a 'thunk' and cracked. The girl stood at the counter, staring sadly at her claws. I did all that I could. I came up behind her, put my arms around her and made comforting noises, telling her that everything would be all right. She let loose a few small sobs as her face stretched forward.
"Come on." I whispered. "We'd better get your clothes off before they go on their own." I picked up the coffee pot and placed it back on the counter. It was still in one piece, but would never hold coffee again.
I stayed with Victoria that night. We put on a romantic comedy and shared some tea as we snuggled on the couch. She fell asleep near the end of the movie, and I followed soon afterward. I awoke to the sensation of being poked in the side and hearing my name repeated.
"Oren? Oren? Wake up, Oren! Look what happened!"
I obediently opened my eyes. There stood Victoria, in full morphic form. Aside from the face, the tail, and the fur which covered everything, she looked human. She even had her human hair on her head.
"I woke up and I looked like this. I can change, Oren! I guess Sapacroli's morphing me must have unstuck something. I can go from this form to full anteater."
"That's great, Vic." Of course, it made sense. Since she was one of the lucky ones, she had to have an inherent shifting ability to some degree.
She kissed me on the nose. "Thank you for staying with me. That was really sweet of you to do."
I glanced at the clock on the microwave. It was already morning. "Glad to be of service." I said. A pause. "Are you going to be all right?"
"Good, because I have some work I have to get done this morning."
And I did. The first thing I did was to find a pay phone and dial up an old friend.
"Oren? Oren is that you? I haven't heard from you in ages! How are you?"
"Oh, I'm doing well enough. How are you doing, Karen?"
"I can't complain. The PI business hasn't been too bad to me."
There was a pause and the sound of rustling straw. "Not really, things have slowed down this past month."
"Have you heard of a guy named 'Tom Sapacroli'?"
I heard a snort. "Have I? I've had ten dozen calls this week asking me to find out if this guy is for real."
"Well, he's not. I found out that he's actually a polymorph running a scam. One very POWERFUL polymorph."
"But if that were true, wouldn't his changes reverse in twenty-four hours?"
"Not necessarily. From what I've seen, his last for about a week."
"Karen, this guy has hurt a lot of my friends this past week. I want to take him down."
"I am. I think it's time to round up the old gang."
After talking with Karen, I went to the bar to pick up my scooter. I walked in and saw an inordinate number of people there for this time of morning. I sat down on a stool between Jesse and Bryan. I hadn't figured on seeing either of them here this morning. It made sense to see the unimorphs whose dreams had just been dashed drinking and seeking comfort in the morning, but these two were full polymorphs. They hadn't lost anything. I realized of course that this was wrong. After all, I hadn't lost anything, either. If I was upset over the loss which my friends felt, why shouldn't these two be?
I looked around at the assembled patrons of the pig and said "You know what? We need a party."
"Well, yeah. Something to cheer these people up a little, you know?"
I just got a blank stare.
When I got back to my burrow, I turned on Rover to try to contact some old friends.
"Good afternoon, Oren." said the computer. "How are you today?"
"I'm peeved." I replied. How are you?"
"I am fine. Would you like to play a game?"
"No, Rover. I just want to open my E-mail."
I sighed. Whoever designed those personality chips needed to be shot. When I checked the mail, I found a note from Karen. It seemed that the feds had just arrested one James Utner, A.K.A. Tom Sapacroli. Inwardly, I was upset. I wanted to be the one to get him. I was even looking forward to rounding up my old rough- and-tumble buddies to do it. Se la vie. I read on. The way she'd heard it, an undercover agent disguised as a pigeon had been watching as Sapacroli emerged from his trailer and chased a small animal away. He'd been so upset that he ordered the camp to move out, and as he did, he lost control and slipped into his normal form. Once the agent identified him, he was able to move in and arrest the guy. I smiled maliciously. I guess I had helped to bring him in, after all.
Once I was sure that she was off work, I went to see Victoria. Our visit was happier this time, and we watched another movie together; "Batman Seven: The Return of Freeze". As we were watching the credits roll by, the doorbell rang.
It was Gornul, and he had a big old smile plastered across his clay face. "I thought I might find you here." He said.
"You have both been cordially invited to a private party at the Blind Pig Gin Mill. Bring Clothing."
Indeed I did. When the three of us arrived, there was a banner in the front window proclaiming "First Annual Blind Pig Normbash". The place was full of people. Surprisingly, most of them were human. It became apparent why when I looked to my left and saw Jacob, Jesse and Bryan, with several other polymorphs, sitting around a table looking tired.
"Hey, Oren!" called Jesse. I was amazed to see him human. He interpreted my quizzical gaze and said "It's true. I finally let my secret out."
"I find that if I work with the other polys, it doesn't hurt as much and they don't get tired as quickly."
"Well," I said as I climbed inside a brand new pair of shorts. "Guess it's time to get into the spirit." Running some math equations in my head, I changed into my old, human self. There were, of course, those who could not return to human form. For them, it was sort of a time to poke fun at the lot they had been dealt by fate. Phil ... serious, level-headed Phil, was parading around in a pin-striped suit and a stick-on mustache. Annette was wearing a lovely, if soaking wet evening gown as she swayed back and forth in her fishbowl while Theo held her fins. Ellen was back in her wheelchair, but she had her legs tucked up underneath her while a pair of mannequin legs peeked out from under a blanket.
I had to admire the cleverness of it. Bryan and Jesse had taken a sad situation and turned it into a party. They also, unknowingly, started a tradition. During the party, Victoria took me aside to one of the quieter corners of the bar.
"I wanted to thank you for everything you've done." she said.
"You took a poor girl from Alaska and made her feel welcome in a strange city. You gave me comfort when I was sad. You're a friend to me, Oren."
I blushed. It showed, with no fur to hide it.
Victoria just smiled. "Come on." she said, taking my hand. "I've got twenty-three and a half hours left as a human and I want to make the most of them."
Then she did the unexpected. She grabbed me and kissed me.
"What was that for?" I asked breathlessly.
"I was afraid I wouldn't be able to once my face grew back."
She and I danced the night away.
The "Normbash" had been great fun, and probably would have gone on for days if people hadn't started changing back. It was interesting to see what some of my friends had originally looked like. I had a big smile on my face as I rode home on my scooter. That smile lasted until I reached the door of my burrow. Stuck into the side of my hillock on a tent peg was a piece of paper.
It was an order to vacate.
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Actually, Printful also falls into the category of dropshipper, or a supplier that stores the products for youpersonally, packages them, and ships them out to your customers after a buy. So, essentially, all you have to do is upload your own layouts and start posting them onto your website to start selling. Within this Printful review, we will outline the benefits of the service and reveal the reason why many users select Printful over the alternatives.
The short story Is that Printful doesn’t have as large of selection of products when compared with the competition. If I wanted to publish and dropship some layouts on coasters, I would have to look elsewhere. The same is true for more unique items such as yoga mats and jewelry. However, there is an onslaught of user reviews out there that state Printful is their go-to printing media because of the quality of products. And that’s a major thing.
You may have to Cut down on the selection of items that you sell on your website, but you know that the tops are hardy, the printing is not going to wash off quickly, and clients aren’t going to get ticked off because of a late delivery.
Of course, not All printing and dropshipping companies are perfect. I’ve seen users article dreadful Printful reviews, talking about the way the customer support is lacking or the way the print did not appear as smart as they thought. However, nearly all retailers seem to agree that Printful is your leader in this market.
1 thing to Remember is that it often is dependent upon the sort of product you’re printing on, the provider you choose, and the quality of graphic you upload. So, 1 type of shirt might look fantastic from Printful, however the tote bags might not look exactly perfect. The primary way to work out if Printful is to you is to upload a few of your layouts and purchase samples. In this manner, you can compare pricing, quality, and shipping rate to other printing companies and see which one is for you.
For This Printful review, we’ll prevent the caliber of its products, because that really requires you to purchase some samples. But, we’ll talk about pricing, ease-of-use, client support, and the selection of goods. This way, you’ll have a better idea of just how Printful can work for you and when the integration and design tools are enough for your industry.
Printful provides the goods, Prints on the products, packages and fulfills the order and sends it straight to your clients, all you have to do is send orders to them and also the sequence information and they will handle the rest. To learn more about how their process works, have a look at the Printful Printing Order Lifecycle.
They are in the business Of assisting you to create products for your business, and they supply all the necessary tools and resources to help you easily integrate the dropshipping process into your ecommerce site so you can offer a seamless experience to your clients. They offer plenty of ecommerce integrations so you can use their service no matter which platform you decide to market, they’re transparent about their goods and delivery pricing so it is easy to understand their prices and employ it to your product markups, they supply design, photography and branding services so your products can appear their best and they are located in North America as well as Europe in order to readily reach the largest consumer markets.
Another cost to Consider is your sample sequence. As I mentioned before, the only way to really see if the quality of the products from Printful are perfect for you is to send a sample on your own.
The sample Orders from Printful are fair. You receive a 20% discount on the list cost, together with free shipping to choose locations.
This might cause Problems for those attempting to try out new products on a regular basis. However, the firm does have any ways to gain additional sample orders–such as by integrating with an ecommerce platform or creating more than $300 in the previous month.
Another big Question most retailers have is whether or not it’s fast and easy to walk through the print layout centre. Also, what’s it like trying to get those products on your website?
I’d choose The size which I’d like to sell, then upload the printing document that is going to move onto that canvas.
In general, the Guide from Printful is very clear about what you might want to change with your upload. For instance, most random JPGs you upload in the computer are going to be too small for printing onto a canvas. You are going to want to have a massive JPG or PNG that you exported from a RAW file in something like Lightroom or Photoshop.
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Printful Is for ecommerce entrepreneurs who want the ease of selling dropshipped goods without sacrificing their branding in the process. Whether you’re trying to find a way to market your designs to your customers be it on custom t-shirts, canvases, phone cases, pillows and much more, or if you’re interested in starting any kind of product-based business without the annoyance of owning inventory or manufacturing materials, then Printful is for you.
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What they provide sellers Extends far beyond just their product offering and regular dropshipping services. Those are both a huge part of what makes their service so precious but they also offer other tools and resources that allow sellers to set up their stores more easily, create more beautiful products or just generally help sellers use Printful’s support to its fullest extent.
There are several Different printing procedures but those who Printful sticks to are Direct-to-Garment (DTG) printing since it’s a price and labor efficient way to print single order things (and the main reason they don’t require minimum orders), but they also offer you all-over sublimation printing for some clothing items, screen printing in some cases (for big purchases only) and embroidery for hats and coming shortly for attire.
When it comes to Printing, Printful makes it easy for you. You don’t have to think about picking the best printing way of the product you’re printing on, every product provided on their site is published in the way that best suits the product, so you don’t need to explore different printing methods and their advantages and disadvantages, Printful’s got it covered.
For more information Regarding their products and product pricing, check out Printful’s Custom Products page. If you are interested in dropshipping a product that you don’t see offered on Printful yet, check out their Upcoming Product & Features page to find out if it is coming shortly. They listen for their vendors and they add new products regularly, so if there’s a product you need to see just let them know via their New Feature Requests page.
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This Is the Reason Why dropshipping Is this attractive business model for entrepreneurs who are starting their first store or do not have a large budget to invest in product inventory or manufacturing tools. It supplies a low-risk way for vendors to supply fantastic products to their clients, and it allows sellers to concentrate on other aspects of their shops such as the layouts, branding, customer service or promotion without needing to worry about the technical side of things like printing goods and shipping them.
That can, of course, Mean that you’re paying to get Printful’s services and also for providing warehousing, shipping, and satisfaction so as to ensure it is a high-value business version for you. While you do not pay for their support in monthly fees or minimum orders, your profit margins will be affected and will be smaller than if you’re fabricating products . This drawback isn’t exclusive to Printful, it applies to the dropshipping business model as a whole. It is, nevertheless, an important aspect of dropshipping to keep in mind so you can prepare your margins accordingly.
Printful’s seasoned Team can also help you with the design requirements you may want to receive your ecommerce store off the floor. Not only will they help you prepare print documents for Printful products, but they are also able to assist you with any design needs such as redesigning logos, making sublimation print files, color-matching print documents, making minor adjustments to publish documents, creating new graphics, making custom art and much more. Even if you’re starting on other platforms like TeeSpring, Society6 or Kickstarter, the Printful design group can assist you with the creation of any designs, graphics or artwork you need.
This is an Perfect service For the ecommerce retailer who has an idea about what designs they would like to publish in their products however aren’t certain how to bring it the store owner who would like to outsource the artwork creation so they could free up some time to handle different aspects of building their business. With Printful’s dedicated design team you are going to be in great hands, so if this is a service you may need, check out Printful’s Design Services page here for more information.
These options help Detract from the impersonal belief that dropshipping can provide and helps to keep your brand consistency from your website to the products your clients receive. To find out more about the branding solutions Printful offers, have a look at this page.
As we have mentioned before What makes Printful such a precious service to use is they’re dedicated to not only providing excellent service through their product offering and satisfaction duties, but they also go the extra mile to help vendors utilize Printful to its fullest extent.
· Printing Tips: They supply lots of articles that are easily accessible through their site to help vendors understand the various printing advantages and disadvantages such as DTG print file transparency, cloth details, sublimation printing details, garment printing facts, and information about the best way best to create embroidery files.
· Mockup Generator: Utilize their mockup generator to apply your layouts to their products to get a sense of what the final product will appear to be or to create product pictures on your ecommerce store.
· Gain Calculator: As we’ve said, the dropshipping business model inherently means you’ll be working with slender profit margins, so use their profit calculator to determine just what your margins will be for each product so that you can budget your markup so.
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· Blog: Printful’s blog is a valuable resource to go to if you are interested in learning more about their merchandise, services, integrations or how to really construct your store how you want it. They’re experts on their products and services, so in the event that you want any more information about what they do, then check out their blog posts.
Printful Integrates with all the most widely used ecommerce platforms, and installation for the majority of these platforms is easy and fast. Integrating Printful along with your e commerce shop means you don’t have to manually deal with every client’s order and submit them to Printful yourself. When you incorporate Printful along with your ecommerce platform every time your customers place an order it automatically gets sent to Printful so that you do not have to manage it at all. This means that orders get sent to Printful immediately and there is no chance of losing the order or making an error on the order details during the transition.
While Printful offers many different services, resources and tools which are beneficial to their sellers, there are still some aspects of the services they are working to improve. Let’s dive into the benefits and disadvantages of utilizing Printful as a dropshipping service provider.
Ultimately, Printful Offers the most effective dropshipping service when it comes to apparel, accessories and homeware distributing and printing. They may not have a huge merchandise offering but what they do offer is high quality, and they try to get it right every time. They also work with their sellers to always improve the products and services they provide whether that’s getting new types of merchandise in or adding more selection to what they currently offer. Their drive to provide high quality services and products and to constantly improve their products, resources, and tools is the reason so many sellers choose to work with them.
However, the Main ones which also provide dropshipping include Printify (easy to get confused with Printful,) Print Aura, and Gooten. Some different ones exist, however, there aren’t many dropshipper/printers in the video game.
So you’re Basically registering for a free account, designing your products, and listing them on your site –all for no charge.
Thus, let us say I Wanted to market some t-shirts with my custom layout printed onto them. Printful has a large group of shirts from different brands and made out of different materials. Each product gets the info listed for pricing, colors, shipping places, and reviews.
One of the main Reasons I like Printful so much is because it concentrates on particular goods, but does them well. As an example, t-shirts sound so simple, but a few of the t-shirts are of incredible quality, and that means that you may turn your shop into a bit of a high-end supplier.
I’d argue The Printful base costs are someplace in the middle compared to the competition. I’ve seen some fairly cheap prices from rivals like Printify and Gooten, but once more, those two choices seem to have more trouble with transport and general quality.
I am convinced You can surely turn a profit for most of your sales through Printful, as long as you are not pricing items over what people would ordinarily pay. People know that habit printing is more expensive, so they’re typically ready to pay a premium. In addition, you get to determine the potential gain before publishing it to your website, so if a product does not yield a fantastic return, simply search for a more affordable model or hike up the cost a bit.
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Develop and deliver training courses for the NJ building officials discussing topics such as “Grease Duct Wrap for Commercial Kitchen Exhaust” as well as “1705.17- a Discussion of Firestop Special Inspection requirements and what the Inspector is responsible for delivering”. Next semester we hope to add two classes to our roster- One will be a class involving an actual burn facility as STI’s NJ location and the other will be “I have a Firestop Submittal- Now What?” a class on how to use the firestop submittal to elicit positive change in the industry and on your next project.
Develop and deliver a handful of firestop related training courses for NJ Schools and Grounds: Common Firestop Problems, Firestop Submittals, Firestop Special Inspection, Grease Duct Wrap, Hollow Core Concrete – getting the firestop right.
HLS consulted on this beautiful high-end condominium project to help the new owners undo the problems of the previous contractors. There were an array of issues that were not code compliant and the new owner immediately identified the issues and called for the support of HLS. We had worked together before and they knew we would help reduce their liability and get things moving in the right direction. We helped create the submittals, train the installers and conduct quality control through out the process.
Massive $3.5 billion project with 4 new hotels with 2,200 rooms and 200,000 square feet of convention space, casino, spa, restaurants, and shopping as well as 1000 acres of beach and a Jack Nicklaus golf course.
The largest privately-funded construction project in the history of the United States: 76 acres; approximately 2400 condominiums and 4800 hotel rooms within five high-rise structures. The site also includes restaurants, parking, theater, convention space, high-end shopping and 150,000 square-foot casino.
Sharron worked for the general contractor and started HLS shortly following completion.
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Here are some testimonials that speak to Halpert Life Safety’s industry knowledge, ability to improve collaboration between trades, value engineering that doesn’t have a negative impact on the project quality, ways that the firm has saved money, improved quality and improved the level of knowledge of the teams she works with.
I was recently involved in a job that involved many complex circumstances dealing with firestop. I was given Sharron’s number for third party inspections and was so thankful for that. Sharron is by far the most knowledgeable person I have met with regards to fire safety, specifically firestop. She is very professional and extremely helpful. She held my hand the entire way and was always there to answer questions and help in any way that she could. This is rare for someone working in her capacity as an inspector. Given her knowledge, there were many times that I felt like it was the wrong decision as things had to be redone; but she helped us get through it and correctly, providing the safest conditions possible. I can assure you that I will call her again for my next job, but it will be as a consultant. Sharron is someone that you want on your side and not the opposing side.
One of the best classes I have taken. GREAT JOB! You love your work.
I was impressed with Sharron’s technical knowledge, especially for firestop applications that encapsulate the Mechanical Disciplines in particular (Sheetmetal/Ductwork). Her management skills are superior and her ability to work hand-in-hand both with the prime contractor and others is a testament to the communication skills she possesses.
Sharon’s promptness led to quick resolutions to many problems. She is very knowledgeable and a good team player.
Sharron was a tremendous asset, addressing the myriad of firestopping issues that arise on such a large and complex project.
Sharron is very talented, dependable, helpful, and knowledgeable. I have attended many of her training sessions, which were very thorough, interesting, and well-planned.
— Michelle Merillat, Manager, Desert Heating & Plumbing, Co.
…Ms. Halpert has been training for my Department for over a year and I can offer nothing but praise. She is the sometimes-rare trainer that has outstanding technical knowledge and an outstanding style of presenting technical material in a very interactive and engaging way.
All of her evaluations from the past year have been exemplary and we’ve received multiple individual comments that the training she has provided has been exceptional. So much so that she has been contacted by some groups for in-house training above and beyond what we provide through our contract.
…I met Sharron when she was a speaker to our County Fire Prevention Association meeting. The topic was firestopping and at face value, not exactly a thrilling topic. Sharron took a very dry subject and made it into one of the most interesting and thorough presentations I’ve seen. She is a wealth of knowledge on this topic and is the most passionate person I have ever met when it comes to stopping the spread of fire with sound construction practices.
Sharron Halpert was responsible for reviewing the work of at least 10 different firestop contractors. She improved the level of life safety on this immense project by identifying various deficiencies in the installed firestop systems and reducing the liability of our company by strictly enforcing industry standards and building codes…Sharron helped identify solutions in a timely fashion that often outpaced the installing companies…She was an invaluable member of our QC team.
Sharron is very detail oriented, dedicated to her projects, and has an infectious upbeat personality. Her years of experience were extremely valuable in the success of passing all County and State fire protection inspections and obtaining sign offs for all code compliance matters.
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Sharron is a dedicated individual and takes her work very seriously. She has a strong sense of urgency with everything she does. She is very thorough with her QC inspection, does good follow-up and provides good technical information for those who need it. You can count on her to get something accomplished, regardless of how small or how big the task.
Sharron is an outstanding QA/QC Engineer and was a real asset to me and the project. Her expertise is matched by no one at our company.
Fire Protection Specialist Sharron Halpert showed skills and patience on a project that required the best that we had to offer. Sharron was at the top of her game. The schedule pushed the project. Often there were times when inspections meant stopping the work of other trades, and that was unacceptable. Sharron took the time to walk the areas in advance to ensure we were all on track. She set up meetings with suppliers to ensure that the various Engineering Judgements would apply…Sharron knew how to get the job done. I consider it a privilege to have worked with such a fine professional as her.
I have had the pleasure of working with, and being trained by, Sharron while we both worked in the Quality department during the City Center construction project. Sharron’s professionalism, willingness to take on challenges, knowledge of the task at hand, and ability to see it through to completion makes her a role model and leader.
I am having the pleasure of working with Sharron Halpert as the Firestopping Specialist. Her knowledge of firestopping seems endless, with great attention to detail. Sharron has been extremely helpful in providing recommendations and information to both the GC and their subcontractors that ensure that all firestopping is done properly and will meet all requirements. Sharron has also been extremely proactive in highlighting a multitude of items that could create a problem for all involved if not addressed properly. I have learned a significant amount of the most critical life safety system and can only recommend Sharron at the highest level. I know that having Sharron involved with this project will provide the owner with the best possible product and I hope to work with her again in the future.
I worked with Halpert Life Safety on a large resort project for nearly five years. Sharron and her company were in charge of all firestopping issues on the entire 3 million square foot plus project. She performed the following duties on behalf of CCA. Training and overseeing a Chinese workforce, Interfacing with CCA, ownership architect and various subcontractors, Daily inspections of completed work, planning the forward work to be completed, working with the design team for a better answer to issues. In all my 50 plus years in the construction business I have never worked with a more responsive team and having a very successful outcome for a project of this size.
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Devon is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south; the City of Exeter is the county town. The north and south coasts of Devon each have both cliffs and sandy shores, and the county’s bays contain seaside resorts, fishing towns, and ports. The inland terrain is rural, generally hill. As well as agriculture, much of the economy of Devon is linked with tourism. The mild climate, coastline and landscape make Devon a destination for recreation and leisure in England, with visitors particularly attracted to the Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks, to the English Riviera, the Jurassic Coast, and North Devon’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
Cornwall is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area located in the far west of Great Britain on a peninsula tumbling into the vast Atlantic ocean. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. The administrative centre, and only city in Cornwall, is Truro. Cornwall is also the location of mainland Great Britain’s most southerly promontory, The Lizard, and one of the UK’s most westerly points, Land’s End, while a few miles off shore and even further west is an archipelago of tiny islands that make up the Isles of Scilly. There are lots of things Cornwall is loved for; the dramatic coastline with its captivating fishing harbours; the amazing beaches and the pounding surf that provide a natural playground for a variety of watersports; and of course the Cornish pasty and cream teas.
Britain’s famous Dartmoor National Park stretches between Exeter and Plymouth, offering breath-taking views for those who enjoy being close to nature. This stunning moorland covers over 954 square kilometers and is surrounded by charming villages that are full of historic and cultural interest. This area and its mysterious aura had been inspiration to many famous authors in the past. “The Hound of the Baskervilles“ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is largely based on Dartmoor, where the famous Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson try to solve their mysterious crime case. Whilst taking a stroll, do keep your eyes wide open and you might just spot the beautiful Dartmoor pony.
Overlooking the city from South East Cornwall – Mount Edgcumbe House is jointly owned by Cornwall & Plymouth and houses the National Camelia Collection. The former home of the Earls of Mount Edgcumbe, the house is set in Grade I Cornish Gardens within 865 acres Country Park on the Rame Peninsula, South East Cornwall. Access is by a passenger ferry from Stonehouse – the Cremyll ferry. Once over the short crossing of the River Tamar you will find a great waterside pub, orangery cafe and a wild deer park.
Early 18th-century house, which today is in the ownership of the National Trust. Situated just a stone throw away from Plymouth, between the villages of Torpoint and Antony, this is truly one of local hidden gems. This Grade I listed building features breath taking gardens landscaped by Georgian garden designer Humphry Repton. In 2008 Antony House was one of the locations used in Disney film production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton.
The Eden project is a visitor attraction in Cornwall. There is a big garden with Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. Inside the artificial biomes are plants that are collected from all around the world. At the bottom of the pit are two covered biomes: Tropical Biome – it is used for tropical plants, such as fruiting banana trees, coffee, rubber and giant bamboo, and is kept at a tropical temperature and moisture level. Mediterranean Biome – it houses familiar warm temperature and arid plants such as tea, lavender, hops, hemp and various sculptures.
The south coast of Devon is collectively known and often referred to as the English Riviera. It offers stunning coastal locations with beautiful beaches, many of which have obtained a blue flag award. The particularly mild climate of the area means that many exotic plants can be grown here and it is also one of Britain’s most favourite holiday destinations. The tourism industry truly flourishes here with many towns increasing in population significantly during the high season.
Bath is a city situated in the county of Somerset and it’s known for its Roman-built baths. The old name of the city is Aquae Sulis (“the waters of Sulis”), it was given when it became a spa. Bath was once the home of the famous writer Jane Austen in the early 19th century and in 1987 the city became a World Heritage Site. There are many Roman archaeological sites throughout the central area of the city and Georgian architecture, crafted from Bath stone, like the Royal Crescent, the Circus, the Pump Room and the Assembly Rooms. Every year lots of tourists come to Bath attracted by its theatres, museums, and other cultural and sporting venues making Bath one of the most popular tourist attractions in the UK.
Boscastle is a village and fishing port on the North coast of Cornwall and it is one of Cornwall’s most romantic places. The name of the village comes from Botreaux Castle, a 12th-century fortress, of which few remains survived.
The Rector of Boscastle is responsible for seven churches in the district: Forrabury (St Symphorian), Minster (St Merthiana), St Juliot, Lesnewth (St Michael and All Angels), Trevalga (St Petroc), Otterham (St Denis) and Davidstow (St David).
Charlestown is a village and port on the south coast of Cornwall and it is an amazingly unspoiled example of a late Georgian working port. It was constructed between 1791 and 1801 by Charles Rashleigh, entrepreneur and member of the local landowning family, in response to the growth of the local mining industry. Originally built to export copper and import coal, it was soon being used for the export of China Clay. It is from its creator that the port gets its name. The port has remained relatively unchanged. Charlestown is a popular location for film and television locations.
Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon and situated only an hour away from Plymouth and by the River Exe. Exeter was the most south-westerly Roman fortified settlement in Britain and became a religious centre during the Middle Ages and into the Tudor times. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican during the 16th-century English Reformation. During the late 19th century, the city became an affluent centre for the wool trade. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now considered a centre for modern business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. If you are planning a trip, a holiday, or a short break, Exeter has something to offer people of all ages to enjoy all year round.
Saltram House is a George II era mansion located in Plympton, Plymouth. The house that can be seen today is the work of Robert Adam, who altered the original Tudor house on two occasions. Saltram House is one of Britain’s best preserved examples of an early Georgian house because it has all the original decor, plasterwork and furnishings. Saltram House was used as one of several local settings for the 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. It is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a maid who was murdered there and a child.
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. In former time, the city depended only on fishing but its decline caused a shift in commercial emphasis, so the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort. In 2007 St Ives was named the best of seaside town of the year by Guardian readers and in May 2013 Queen Elizabeth II made her first visit to the town. Today St Ives is easy to reach and there’s a wealth of ancient culture to be explored: the stones, the wells and ceremonies such as Model Yacht Sailing on Good Friday on Consols Pond and the Midsummer Eve Bonfire.
Land’s End is the legendary Cornish destination that has inspired people since the Ancient Greek times when it was referred to as “Belerion” – place of the Sun.
Land’s End is a headland and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England. It is the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall and England. Land’s End is either the start or finishing point, of “end to end” John o’Groats in Scotland. One of the earliest was by Carlisle who left Land’s End on 23 September 1879, went to John O’Groats House and arrived back at Land’s End on 15 December; taking 72 days (exclusive of Sundays); covering 3,899 miles (6,275 km). To prove his journey, he kept a logbook which was stamped at any Post Office he passed.
Polperro is a village and fishing harbour on the south-east Cornwall coast in the south west of England. It is a noted tourist destination, particularly in the summer months, for its idyllic appearance with tightly-packed ancient fishermen’s houses which survive almost untouched, its quaint harbour and attractive coastline. Visitors are no longer permitted to drive cars into the village, having to leave them in the main car park at Crumplehorn to the north of the village. Attractions of Polperro include the South West Coast Path that offers day walks along the local scenic coastline. The path passes three large beaches in route to Fowey: Lansallos Beach, Lantivit Bay and Lantic Bay. Guided walks are available in the village, and boat trips can be taken from the harbour to view the coastline that can offer sightings of dolphins and seals.
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1. Briefly, from your own experience, what do you perceive is the biggest problem in the health system?
Healthcare is currently based on the treatment of symptoms, usually through pharmaceutical methods. The model should be moved in the direction of finding root causes of illness, and focusing on the root cause rather than focusing on symptoms. That is a matter of education, primarily. Also, people should be rewarded for proactively preventing illness, since prevention reduces dependence on the healthcare system.
2. How do you choose a doctor or hospital? What are your sources of information? How should public policy promote quality health care providers?
I choose by asking others who they go to and who they would recommend. I rarely see a “gatekeeper” physician, preferring to take responsibility for my own health.
Public policy should reward physicians who successfully move their patients to individual responsibility rather than rewarding those who see the most patients, because the “quantity, not quality” paradigm encourages the use of pharmaceutical fixes of symptoms, which eventually leads to more prolonged and burdensome end-of-life illnesses. Policy should also look at redefining laws regarding “practicing medicine without a license” to allow traditional naturopaths and health coaches more latitude in their work with clients, since they can successfully help their clients reduce their reliance on the healthcare system.
3. Have you or your family members ever experienced difficulty paying medical bills? What do you think policy makers can do to address this problem?
Haven’t yet experienced difficulty keeping up, but anticipate the possibility in the future due to family members with expensive dental problems and degenerating vision problems.
No specific ideas on this one other than the obvious ones: put a cap on medical expenses, with the cap reduced for early childhood and people on permanent disability or social security; make a higher percentage of medical expenses tax deductible and/or tax free; and provide a predefined and guaranteed level of care for all individuals (e.g. UK’s National Health Service).
4. In addition to employer-based coverage, would you like the option to purchase a private plan through an insurance-exchange or a public plan like Medicare?
Yes, especially to help the unemployed, self-employed, and part-time workers.
5. Do you know how much you or your employer pays for health insurance? What should an employer’s role be in a reformed health care system?
In my home state, employers are required to pay for health insurance. This keeps wages lower, makes it harder for small businesses to survive, and is a burden on all employers. I would like to see the expense spread out so that the burden is shared by all, rather than being solely the responsibility of employers.
With an insurance pool, employers could be rewarded by encouraging healthy lifestyle habits among their employees, since they could purchase health insurance at a lower premium. In other words, they could buy primarily accident and emergency insurance, and would not be forced to pay for expensive medical treatments for those who should share responsibility for illness developed due to lifestyle choices (e.g. most heart disease due to poor dietary choices, lung cancer and emphysema from smoking, diabetes from poor diet and lack of exercise, some forms of arthritis, etc.) In other words, if somebody wants to smoke, drink, be obese and not exercise, they should expect to pay a higher medical premium, and if someone wants to consciously live a healthy lifestyle, they should not have to subsidize the insurance for those who do not make healthy choices.
Also, insurance coverage should include a broader recognition of alternative therapies, and should include dental and vision care as a part of basic coverage.
6. Below are examples of the types of preventive services Americans should receive. Have you gotten the prevention you should have? If not, how can public policy help?
I have gotten the screenings and preventative measures I felt I should have. I have not had a flu shot and do not intend to get one in the foreseeable future, but I do use a variety of public service screenings to monitor my health and fine-tune my lifestyle choices to stay within healthy parameters.
7. How can public policy promote healthier lifestyles?
An audience of dandelion-blowing kids gathers around to see what is so curious. They have spent part of the summer morning chasing through a field playing tag, sending dandelion umbrellas floating into the sky with a single breath, collecting ladybugs, tentatively tasting a wild berry that was not yet ripe … but now, they gathered around a new curiousity.
Stooped in the middle of the group, on center stage as it were — although the setting is in a meadow — a young girl no more than seven years old reaches out to touch the leaves of the plant she just discovered.
As her finger neared the leaf, the leaf quickly closed itself by folding the edges into the middle.
The other kids in the group abandoned their dandelions to look for more of the same kind of plant. Their attention did not move on to other magical bits of the day until everyone had their fill of the mysterious leaves that seemed to shrink shyly away from human contact. It was a sensitivity plant, or sensitive plant, they soon learned.
That moment had many echoes throughout the years. There was an echo when walking through a thick patch of ice plant … the polar opposite of the sensitivity plant. That was on the seashore, where the sea anenome makes a very similar gesture to the sensitivity plant as it captures food carried on the tide, closing itself upon its unsuspecting prey — as well as closing at the touch of a child’s finger. There was a strong echo of the sensitivity plant when picking a basketful of fiddle-head ferns for a salad. They had to be picked at the right season, and the right time of day, before they opened their leaves for the day. And there is a faint echo of the sensitivity plant every year as the seasons change and different facets of the natural world go into dormancy, pulling back to a protective stance.
Years later, the thread that started that day in the meadow would be revived for one of the students when he learned in a botany class that the mimosa pudica was a carnivorous plant, and when the leaves closed, the plant was hoping to enfold an insect small enough to ingest for a bit of nutrition. A magical moment of childhood resolved by finding a scientific explanation. The moment from childhood was no less magical, but the universe was one step closer to having a comfortable explanation.
Discovery seems to satisfy a deep urge in people. Something as simple as the sensitivity plant may already be known to millions of other people, but the moment when one particular child reaches out a finger for the first time and sees the plant respond to them … that is always magical, no matter when and no matter where it takes place.
That sense of wonder, that awe, is repeated in a kaleidoscope of different situations for children who are just discovering the universe on their own. The magic eventually evolves into a structured way of looking at the universe, a way of explaining away the parts that are not yet understood, or that have not yet been discovered. The world view evolves into a familiar structure, but that does not mean that there are no more surprises, no more discoveries to be made.
It just means that the way one’s mind understands the universe is sufficient at the moment. There are no overwhelming mysteries, no anomalies so obvious that they cannot be ignored.
That is not to say that there are no anomalies. It’s just that the mind has a way of ignoring what it doesn’t understand … ignoring the unknown until it is impossible to deny its existence. The proverbial “elephant in the room” that may be obvious to most people, but is invisible to anyone whose view of the universe has not yet discovered a rational explanation for elephants.
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Vanessa made crafts and sold them to raise money for NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She also collected scarves for the homeless and tied them around trees in downtown Minneapolis.
Two students worked with local Starbucks managers to get their coffee shops to compost and have clearer recycling signs.
Two students brought dogs from a local shelter, Indigo Rescue, to campus during midterms to help students relieve stress. They also collected money for the shelter and raised awareness about dog adoption.
Should this be the future of philosophy? The answer depends on what we think ‘philosophy’ is. Valentine claims that the job of philosophers is to help their students acquire “wisdom,” by which he means “the intelligence to live well.”3 But many subjects other than philosophy help students live well (e.g., accounting). Not all who live well are good philosophers and not all who live poorly are poor philosophers; hence philosophy is not “the intelligence to live well.” Philosophy, as I understand it, is theoretical—roughly, the use of reason to investigate fundamental questions that cannot be settled empirically: Does God exist? What do we know? What is morally right?, and so on.
Service-learning enthusiasts in philosophy don’t disclaim theoretical learning, nor do they typically call for activism to be injected into nearly every philosophy course. Still they use language that subtly disparages purely intellectual pursuits. They speak, for example, of the need to bring philosophy into ‘real life’ and ‘the real world’ as if it currently takes place elsewhere.4 Consider again the term ‘Engaged Philosophy.’ Presumably, what makes Engaged Philosophy engaged are the students’ service projects. If so, then the implication is that philosophy classes without service projects are disengaged, or at least less fully engaged than those that have them. Engagement with ideas seemingly doesn’t count as genuine engagement.
It is notoriously true that into whatever you do not put your whole heart and soul, in that you will not have much success. Now the two masters, theory and practice, you cannot [both] serve. That perfect balance of attention which is required for observing the system of things is utterly lost if human desires intervene, and all the more so the higher and holier those desires may be.
Does this apply to disciplines outside of the sciences? There’s room for doubt. When investor Bill Miller donated 75 million dollars to the Johns Hopkins University philosophy department—the largest ever donation to a single philosophy department—philosopher Michael Huemer criticized him for not donating the money to a more effective cause (assuming that his goal, in giving to charity, was to do as much good as possible). According to the data at GiveWell.org, that sum of money, donated to a highly efficient charity, could have saved the lives of 25,000 extremely poor people. Hiring nine new philosophers won’t in all likelihood yield any comparable benefit.
Here’s the rub: Huemer’s reasoning extends to every dollar invested into the humanities or pure mathematics, each and every one of which would, by the same logic, be (morally) better spent elsewhere. Imagine that it were possible to press a button that would reallocate all of this money to a GiveWell charity. In addition, all of the resources private individuals spend investigating these fields would be similarly redirected. Should a utilitarian like Peter Singer press this button? Doubtless, this would produce a short-term utility spike. But in the long term, I doubt that the bargain would be a good one even on utilitarian terms.
If the reallocation were constant—so we’d never reinvest money into these fields—then pressing the button would amount to a cultural cashing-out. Whichever society did this would be intellectually diminished and its members might be less willing and able to come to the aid of others on a continuing basis. With no moral philosophers like Peter Singer around to persuade them of their duty to donate, people might forget why they are going through such trouble. Ultimately, then, some resources ought to be devoted to “curiosity-driven inquiry” in these fields—though it’s hard to say precisely how much.
If we grant that philosophers have a legitimate role investigating purely theoretical questions, then they have reason to keep utility-based justifications for what they do, and especially politics, an arm’s length from their research. Philosopher Bas van der Vossen has argued that philosophers, at least those interested in political questions, have a prima facie duty to abstain from political activity.8 Philosophers’ primary charge is finding the truth and members of professions have duties to avoid things that make them predictably worse at their jobs. Empirical evidence exists that political involvement introduces biases that make the truth more difficult to discern. Hence, it is at odds with political philosophers’ professional duties.
The best response to van der Vossen, I think—and it is one he considers—is to say that if philosophers do have a duty of this kind, then it isn’t a duty that matters very much. After all, it will frequently be in competition with stronger duties, such as the duty not to stand idly by as injustice occurs. Philosophers shouldn’t eschew political engagement altogether. But the weaker claim that philosophers should generally avoid doing philosophy and political activism at the same time is reasonable. We should, out of epistemic modesty, avoid combining investigation with tasks likely to introduce bias—paradigmatically, political activism. The same goes for pedagogy.
If we had good evidence that service-learning is the best way to transmit philosophical ideas and methods, then the benefits would outweigh the risks. Four philosophers associated with the Engaged Philosophy website have published a pilot study that purports to show that philosophy courses with ‘civic engagement’ components have salutary effects.9 Students in service-learning classes, interviewed at the beginning and end of the semester, report gains in a variety of skills relevant to good citizenship. Qualitative analyses of students’ written final reflections supported these results.
I anticipate the objection that my demand for rigor is selective, since we also lack empirical evidence that traditional methods work.11 But we already have good reason to think that traditional methods have something going for them. Those of us who have doctorates in philosophy acquired our expertise through years of reading, writing, and listening to lectures (which service-learning enthusiasts deride as ‘sage on the stage’ teaching). If all of this were bankrupt, then our expertise, and the expertise of those with PhDs in other disciplines taught in the same way, would be hard to explain. Since it evidently isn’t bankrupt, the onus is on those who claim to have something better.
Even if service-learning classes have all the advantages enthusiasts claim, such classes should remain novelties. Integrating service-learning throughout the philosophy curriculum, as Valentine suggests, would likely accelerate the instrumentalization of higher education. Philosophers already face pressure—from administrators, politicians, and laypeople—to justify their discipline in terms of its economic. They shouldn’t want to find themselves facing similar pressure from within their own ranks.
The anti-theoretical tone of the service-learning movement, implicit even in the rhetoric of moderates, makes this worry reasonable. The slope here really is slippery. If we accept that even 20 percent of a student’s grades should be service-based—on, say, the grounds that philosophy belongs in the ‘real world’—then the open question will be “Why not more?” Most university classes can be repurposed as ‘service-learning’ courses; only philosophy concerns the fundamental questions at its core. Diverting attention away from theoretical concerns in an effort to make philosophy ‘relevant’ will instead make it redundant and irrelevant. Pressing philosophy into public service would be a disservice to philosophy.
1 The advocates of Engaged Philosophy bill it as an alternative to service-learning because it is student directed. However, if service-learning (sometimes spelled with a hyphen, sometimes without) is simply pedagogy that involves service projects, then Engaged Philosophy is a form of service-learning. That is how I will be understanding the term here.
2 Valentine, Eugene J. “Service-Learning as Vehicle for Teaching Philosophy” in Beyond the Tower: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Philosophy. Ed. David C. Lisman. (Washington, DC: American Association for Higher Education, 2000), pp. 130.
4 For a typical example, see Peter Singer’s forward in Experiential Learning in Philosophy. Ed. J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016), pp. xii-xiv.
5 Oxley, Julinna and Ramona Ilea, “Experiential Learning in Philosophy: Theory and Practice” in Experiential Learning in Philosophy, ed. by J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016), p. 7.
6 Peirce, Charles Sanders. “Philosophy and the Conduct of Life” in The Essential Peirce Volume 2, ed. by The Peirce Edition Project (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1998), p. 34.
9 Hawthorne, Susan, Monica Janzen, Ramona Ilea, and Chad Wiener “Assessing Student-Initiated Civic Engagement Projects in Philosophy Classes” in Experiential Learning in Philosophy, ed. by J. Oxley and R. Ilea. (New York: Routledge UP, 2016).
10 Another study cited on the Engaged Philosophy website is Lies, James M, Tonia Bock, and Jay Brandenberger. “The Effects Of Off-Campus Service Learning On The Moral Reasoning Of College Students.” Journal Of Moral Education 41.2 (2012): 189-199. This reports that service-learning students increased their average scores on tests psychologists say track development in moral thinking (a control-group of randomly-selected students from the same university did not). Perhaps these findings reflect well on service-learning in general, but they aren’t, and don’t purport to be, evidence that civic engagement enhances philosophical instruction. Thinking about ethics like an adult, though desirable in an ethics student, doesn’t imply any knowledge of ethical theory. By analogy, service-related learning in a mathematics class might increase critical thinking generally without conferring knowledge of the specific mathematical concepts and procedures central to the class.
11 Philosopher Neven Sesardić has argued in an essay for Quillette that although philosophy departments claim to increase their student’s critical thinking abilities, all they know is that philosophy majors tend to have good test scores. So nothing rules out the possibility that philosophy simply attracts smart students. Economist Bryan Caplan has also, in his book The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money (Princeton University Press, 2018), produced a lot of very dispiriting evidence about education generally.
“Those of us who have doctorates in philosophy acquired our expertise through years of reading, writing, and listening to lectures (which service-learning enthusiasts deride as ‘sage on the stage’ teaching). If all of this were bankrupt, then our expertise, and the expertise of those with PhDs in other disciplines taught in the same way, would be hard to explain. Since it evidently isn’t bankrupt, the onus is on those who claim to have something better”. This final sentence begs the question. And without the final sentence the argument is circular. The same claims could be made by any “discipline” (e.g. postmodernism).
“If we accept that even 20 percent of a student’s grades should be service-based—on, say, the grounds that philosophy belongs in the ‘real world’—then the open question will be ‘Why not more?’ “. Any necessary discontinuity (cut-off pregnancy length for abortion, age to be licensed to drive) requires a somewhat arbitrary cut-off point.
These are arguments from a doctorate of philosophy?
There really is a problem of adjudicating value in such things as the humanities. Part of the problem is de-ratcheting the already ratcheted pseudo disciplines (like theology – and I don’t mean the historical, psychological, literary, etc aspects of theology, I mean the cultish self-serving departments and institutions built around belief). The ratcheting is partly done by training new acolytes in the new fad, who will then go on to populate the departments (because they’ve not learnt anything that will allow them to thrive in the real world) and create more acolytes. Part of philosophy is built on a fetishisation of historical philosophers and of coolly seductive pretentious sophistry. The author is nobly trying to defuse a seductive new trend and avoid the ratcheting of this aspect of philosophy. Good luck.
Someone needs to tell the children that there’s a huge difference between a vocation and avocation.
You’re right that the author’s first defence is circular, as it stands. But I think you’re wrong that philosophy has a value problem—or that it has any more of a value problem than other academic discipline animated by the open-ended pursuit of knowledge. I offer an example leading to a general conclusion.
Medieval philosophers spent a lot of time on defeasible (= “defeat-able”) reasoning, that is, arguments where the conclusions are only likely and might turn out to be false. Legal reasoning was one of their primary concerns. Defeasible reasoning was obscured for a time by the rise of formal or symbolic logic (e.g., Frege, DeMorgan, et al.), but it made a comeback in the mid-twentieth century when it was formalized into to what’s nowadays called non-monotonic logic. “So what?” you ask. Well, it turns out that this kind of reasoning first analyzed by angel-counting medieval theologian-philosophers is just the sort of thing you need to make artificial intelligence work. Who knew?
Put another way, justifying philosophy is hard because it’s hard to say what it is in the absence of concrete goal. It’s far easier to say what it’s not. Volunteering in a soup kitchen, for example, may well contribute to the public good, and I would even say that it would be valuable as a learning experience and that it’s an example of good citizenship. But learning civics by doing one’s civic duty has no more to do with doing philosophy than learning to use the potty.
Thankyou, well said. Better than the author of the article above.
I think the author is a tad defensive, but also correct in applying skepticism. However, I must admit, the general impulse, if not the specific implementation, sounds a bit like labs in science classes. Labs are intended to give students hands-on experience with science and scientific principles, to complement (not compete with) lectures, and to give students some skills in basic techniques. As in this case, labs can be fantastic learning experiences or awful wastes of time in which students just plow through cook-book experiments learning nothing, and everything in between. However, philosophy seems to lack the long tradition of such activities, so they’re starting from zero and having all the attendant “teething troubles”.
Maybe I’m biased by coming from the sciences, where there’s usually a tight relationship between lab activites and lecture material (e.g. “We’re going to synthesize aldehydes, which you learned about this week”), these “service activities” don’t seem to have much clear relationship to the class, but rather a vague and nebulous one (perhaps even purely cosmetic). But that doesn’t mean the concept is flawed, just the implementation – I’ve seen some AWFUL scientific labs.
I rather wonder if online debates / comment sections would be more useful? It doesn’t have the touchy-feely goodness of most of these activities, but seems more likely to connect to the course material in a way that reinforces it.
I agree on the feeling of defensiveness seeping through this timely piece of writing. I found it quite interesting that in critiquing the idea of ‘Engaged Philosophy’ and ‘Service-Learning’ the author should reach out for tools developed by the scientific community rather than using philosophical methods. From my perspective, the vulnerability of the research in the pilot study is not the small sample size, but the failure to define exactly what is meant by a ‘good citizen’. After all, the ‘good citizen’ of Stalinist Russia is quite different to the ‘good citizen’ of Dayton Ohio or even of Nangalam Province in Afghanistan today. ‘Good’ is a relativity.
Thus, the first requirement of philosophy is the accurate definition of the meaning we put in the terms we choose to use. The same can be said of the author’s approach to ‘injustice’ as being something that the ‘good’ philosopher should put aside their rational enquiry to resist. However, what is meant by ‘injustice’? Are we talking about the manifold minute injustices that occur on a daily basis in the lives of families, or the injustices of the pogrom? The other problem with injustice is of course that our entire existence is built up of big and small injustices inflicted and suffered as we are buffeted by life itself. We live in an inherently unjust and uncaring universe and we are specifically evolved to inflict and absorb injustice. Is this capacity to live as perpetrator and sufferer what makes us human?
This is why the activist whispering about injustice in our ear is the modern equivalent of Satan whispering in Christ’s ear in the desert. The whispered messages are true, but they are truth used to pervert us from our commitments to the pursuit of understanding. For the activist, real understanding is the threat they fear most and the philosopher must remain on that narrow path of seeking real understanding and not succumb to the temptation to become ‘relevant’ and ‘useful’. The practical people who build our world and do our good for us cannot work without that understanding and they are too busy building to have the time for thinking. Yet, all of their endeavours are built upon a philosophical foundation supplied by thinkers.
If the natural sciences have a lecture/lab combination, then the analogous combination in the humanities seems to be lecture/discussion. In each, the lecture part is someone telling you what has been done, and the second part is actually doing it. For natural sciences the “what has been done” is largely experiments, so doing it is of course doing experiments. (And observations, etc.) In philosophy, the “what has been done” is largely arguments. So doing it is making arguments as well.
I’m sure the value theory parts of philosophy have rather direct applications in the world, but so does a lot of applied science. Yet, we do not see a push for natural science classes to become engineering classes.
Applied science yes, but pure science not always Nichole, or never (deep sea biology). I wouldn’t know the usefulness of ontology, or phenomenology. Philosophers I like most (such as Heidegger) were rather unpractical and useless scholars. Though, their alumni (Hannah Arendt, Beauvoir) could turn that in a more applicable direction, of course.
Begging the question and circularity are the same thing. Furthermore: the argument doesn’t beg the question. It alleges to establish that “service-learning” advocates have the burden of proof. The reasons for this conclusion are, roughly: *Philosophers (and similar academicians) have decent expertise; they have been trained in ordinary ways that don’t involve “service-learning; if such methods are “bankrupt,” then their expertise is difficult to explain. So ordinary methods apparently work fairly well.* So, etc. Not the strongest argument of all time, but ok. And more to the point: not circular.
Perhaps it would be better to merely note that any radical proposal for change has a burden of proof.
The proposal is awful, of course. It’s the latest part of a push to basically eliminate philosophy by turning it into something else–and something else that’s already being done to death elsewhere. Feminists want us to make philosophy more like women’s studies, the progressive left (including feminists) wants us to turn away from abstraction and toward social “justice” indoctrination…and the enthusiasm for “engagement” is, as Case notes, just another aspect of that push.
The same as with culinary affairs and chef cooks, where fast food and Macs don’t suffice, import the continental talented in the field, quite an improvement, I guess. Einstein was also a famous immigrant, but whether that is also so with the hereditaries of the Frankfurter Schule and the Post modernists? That’s the question, of course, I think not, but once you decided, you have to proceed and pursue in some way or another. In Holland we say: -then you remain with the baked pears-.
Yes, fair enough, begging the question is implicitly circular (but a particular kind of circularity). You seem to have then gone on to talk about a different argument about burden of proof being on those advocating for a change, but I was pointing out floors in the authors “proof” of value in the discipline as it stands. If he can’t provide proof, then I suggest he’s making an argument for ratcheting down the self-supporting cabal. But I bow to your obviously greater wisdom here, and support your fight to keep philosophy philosophy. But my perspective is that philosophy is already overblown. There may be an analogy here to a (currently) relatively benign religion being a vaccine against a different, (currently) less benign religion.
I think, pragmatism is the very core of all US philosophy (Dewey, Rawls,James), that’s their only strength. In Europe (but also Asia), abstrahism and transcendentalism is more valued.
A sad but not unsurprising development. Philosophy is the last bastion of reason in the humanities—the walls battered and a few breaches, but the city’s not overrun yet. The fact that such a ridiculous proposal has any legs at all isn’t good sign, though. The specious reasoning reminds me of Plato’s Euthydemus: Some degrees give credit for work placements; activism is a kind of work; therefore, philosophy should give credit for activism. I’m surprised no one suggested quantifying marks with numbers of windows smashed and “Nazis” punched.
Activism or volunteering or community work is no more relevant to philosophy than it is to mathematics or chemistry, though it seems to have been stitched up with the same fourth-rate casuistry: Marx said doing philosophy involves changing the world; smashing windows changes the world; therefore, smashing windows is doing philosophy. Maybe there can be a Jordan Peterson version where changing your underwear is changing your world and, therefore, changing your underwear is doing philosophy. I don’t see why not.
Interesting aside. I recently read a breakdown of GRE and LSAT scores by degree. Turns out philosophers finish at the top overall (physicists came second), and philosophers score highest on verbal and spatial. Only a few hard science and engineering degrees beat them on quantitative reasoning, though you’d be surprised how few. I recall that philosophers beat statisticians, for example, on quantitative reasoning, which is kind of funny.
Being a philosopher myself, I’m not much good at anything other than tests. Embedding hyperlinks is beyond my ken. But i found it again at Daily Nous (http://dailynous.com/value-of-philosophy/charts-and-graphs/). Since I don’t take this all that seriously I didn’t check it again before writing. Turns out I misremembered some of the details, but my overall report was accurate.
This is such a sad essay in so many ways it is difficult to know where to start but I suppose the first sentence is as good a place as any.
Karl Marx was not a philosopher no matter how many times philosophy or political science professors claim that he was. The reasons are many but the main point would reflect the shallowness of Marx’s psychological analysis that fails to encompass the breadth of humanity’s diversity of soul. As such he is more properly thought of as a variety of sociologist with an emphasis on economics. A philosopher discovers and creates; a sociologist observes and measures.
This is cursory, of course, but important because of the old adage that “the high is capable of understanding the low but the low cannot understand the high”. Since philosophers represent the highest form of humanity as the most complete version of a rational being – a definition tracing back to Aristotle – this is offered as a quick and dirty observation that Marx didn’t have a clue what he was talking about with the above claim.
The other point I would like to make concerns the use of the word ‘philosopher’. I have seen academics who work in philosophy departments refer to themselves in this manner on several occasions in articles on this platform. It is probably just me but I find this self designation demeaning to the tradition.
A philosopher is a giant amongst men. A person whose strength of mind is so great as to fully escape the prejudices, misunderstandings, myths and foibles of their time and place. They are the great minds whose seminal thought transforms humanity’s interpretation of their subject matter. They are an exception rarely seen in any single generation. The furthest point on the bell curve of rational beings.
This does not describe the dusty and mundane teachings encouraged and rewarded in academic settings. Whenever I see somebody self-identify as a philosopher I have to admit my immediate reaction to their writings is less than charitable.
Of course, def, a distinction is needed between the real philosophers, and the philosophy teachers and scholars. Of that first category, there are or have been about 10 in the New World (though, if you are very strict, maybe none), and some 100 in Europe and Mid East. Of that second category, there might now be 10.000 or over, globally.
Perhaps the problem stems from the cultures desire to constantly specialize, narrowing down again and again.
The “philosopher” you describe has never existed and will likely never exist. You’re fetishizing flawed individuals as perfect beings, not very rational it would seem. Of course the fact that you cling so tightly to reason is another flag giving us some idea about your own foundational biases.
It doesn’t matter how flowery or eloquent you want to put things, all those you hold up are ignorant, but a particularly dangerous ignorance, one that allowed them to believe they were not, one that allows others to insist on their correctness.
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2019-04-25T12:17:02Z
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https://quillette.com/2018/07/18/is-service-learning-a-disservice-to-philosophy/
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A diaphragm wall solution for a quay at a new container terminal in East Port Said has tamed 'unconstructable' ground.
Max Soudain reports from Egypt.
Abrilliant white concrete deck stretching more than a kilometre gleams out from the desert as the Suez Canal prepares to meet the Mediterranean.
Soon it will be covered with huge dock cranes busily loading and offloading cargo from massive container ships.
When it opens in just over a year, the new East Port Said container terminal will mark completion of the first phase of an ambitious scheme to develop a sea transport 'mega hub' in the eastern Mediterranean. A vast expanse of untouched land, mainly desert, offers room for expansion and associated industrial development.
The US$310M scheme will be built in phases, largely dependent upon the success of the container terminal. The port is 1.3km east of the east branch of the Suez Canal (or Port Said Bypass) and 1km from the coast on a newly formed channel from the Mediterranean.
Future plans include extension of the quay wall from 1.2km to 7km and construction of northern and southern basins with liquid and dry bulk terminals and a further 5km of quay walls.
New road and rail links from Port Said, funded by the Egyptian government, are part of the first phase of the project. These include a road bridge at Kantara and rail bridge at El Ferdan crossing the Suez Canal.
Electricity, water and wastewater systems are also being built up.
Planning began in 1997 and in 1999 the Egyptian ministry of transport awarded the build, operate and transfer contract to Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT). This is a joint venture of Europe Combined Terminal Company of the Netherlands and Danish shipping firm Maersk Sealand, together with Egyptian investors.
SCCT awarded the construction contract to the Racon consortium - Italian contractor Rodio and Egyptian firm Arabian International Construction. The maritime research and consultation centre in the Ministry of Transport awarded the design and engineering supervision of the quay wall to Cairo consultant Hamza Associates.
The firm devised the project masterplan and designed and supervised construction of the quay wall, the coastal engineering and dredging elements .
Container ships up to 350m long with 50m wide beams and draughts of 15m will be able to berth at the quay wall.
The main design challenges arose from the extremely weak soils, predominantly soft clays, and the variable hydrological conditions caused by dredging of the canal to allow the big ships to dock. Hamza Associates chairman and founder Dr Mamdouh Hamza says the site had previously been considered 'unconstructable' by several consultants.
The first step was to characterise the ground through a multi-stage site investigation. Unusually, all the bidding contractors joined forces before tendering began to obtain the best results. 'This meant the soil risk was transferred to the winning contractor, so we managed to eliminate Clause 12 claims for unforeseen ground conditions, ' says Hamza.
Site investigations were supervised by UK firm, the Geotechnical Consulting Group.
Cone penetration testing with piezocones was carried out, along with high quality sampling from boreholes using hydraulic piston sampling and rotary coring, insitu vane tests and SPTs.
Results, combined with laboratory tests, were used to check design calculations and to determine engineering properties for 3D finite element analyses (carried out using the Flac3D package). Three continuously sampled boreholes were also logged to record a detailed picture of the soil fabric.
Ground conditions comprise 5m of hydraulic fill and dredged silty sands and clays from construction of the east branch of the Suez Canal, 8.5m of beach deposits (sand with broken shells) and the Nile Delta Clay - 15m of plastic clay with occasional sand layers followed by 30m of very plastic clay. Basal beds of alternating thick layers of sand and stiff laminated clay lie about 60m down.
Despite initial concerns over the bearing capacity of the thick Nile Delta Clay deposits, soil properties were better than first thought, with clay strength 60% higher than previous estimates.
Conventional design of quay walls usually incorporates sheet piles and tubular piles, he explains, but the higher strength of the clay meant that a different approach could be taken.
Design had to consider not only the enormous operating loads of the 12 massive quayside cranes and 36 gantry cranes but also, in the short term, the effects of forming the 16.5m deep berthing channel in front.
Settlement calculations had predicted 47mm of vertical movement without dredging, which in fact caused heave in the structure to give a total settlement of only 8.5mm.
The quay wall is a retaining-bearing concrete structure with a free height of 20m on the canal side and a 35m wide deck. The main support is provided by transverse rows of four, 3m wide, 1m thick and up to 63m deep barrettes founded on the basal beds.
The rows are 7m apart and barrettes are spaced at between 10m and 11m.
A continuous 1m thick, 35m deep diaphragm wall provides support along the front face and a similar 10m deep structure runs along the back. The walls have 3m long primary panels and 4m long T-shape secondary panels, the latter connecting with the outer barrettes of each row. Hamza says using concrete rather than steel allowed local materials to be used, saving about US$26M.
Construction of the wall began in January 2000, 200m back from the initial dredging channel. First, two well-point dewatering lines were put down, 13m from the seaward edge and 17m from the land side, to lower groundwater level. Four rows of sand drains running along the wall area were then installed to reduce pore water pressure. Next, a working platform had to be built. Up to 2m was excavated, replaced with sand fill and topped with crushed stone.
Guide walls, up to 1m deep, were built for the walls and the barrettes. In both cases they were formed using hydraulic grabs under bentonite slurry. The T-shaped wall panels are fitted with steel stop ends to link with the primary panels. All the barrettes and the walls were then trimmed down to 0.5m below ground level and longitudinal and capping beams cast.
A key element of the design is the removal of 5m of soil from inside the quay wall, reducing earth pressure on the structure and balancing the operating loads of the heavy cranes. This reduces the effects of heave and deformation of the structure.
The deck is designed to allow for the effects of the ground conditions, temperature variation and even earthquakes. Precast elements are laid on 3m high and 0.8m wide beams connecting each row of barrettes and connected to the wall capping beams by a cast insitu slab.
The wall and the surrounding ground is heavily instrumented to monitor movements of the structure during construction, dredging and operation of the terminal. On the wall surface, surveying points measure vertical and horizontal movements; vibrating wire strain gauges monitor axial strains and stresses in the barrettes at four levels; sliding micrometers monitor axial deformation with depth; and inclinometers measure horizontal movement on the barrettes.
For the ground, surface settlement points measure vertical movement across the wall, multiple point deep extensometers measure the distribution of vertical movement with depth at the front and back of the wall, horizontal movement is measured by inclinometers and groundwater pressure by multiple point vibrating wire piezometers.
In the aggressive environment, reinforcement corrosion is also a concern. An anode ladder system is used to monitor the penetration of chloride ions and an embedded reference electrode system measures the potential of the reinforcement.
Dredging by a joint venture of Boskalis, Ballast Nedam, Jan DeNul and Hyundai began in March 1999. Work involved forming the inland channel from the sea, running roughly parallel to the east branch of the canal; the berthing channel at the quay wall site; a ship turning circle and a short cut to the east branch to the south.
All dredging and coastal work, including construction of a 2.3km long breakwater, coastal protection and dredging of an approach channel, is now complete. Construction of the container terminal will begin soon, with the first ships due to dock in the first quarter of 2004.
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2019-04-25T11:54:40Z
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https://www.newcivilengineer.com/grounds-for-innovation/806602.article
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The article proposes a method for calculating the taxonomic formula for the geoecological hazard of the cadastral district. The engineering-geological zoning map uses for calculating the balance of the territory by the hazard index – the basis of the taxonomic formula. The taxonomic formula as an open data set makes it possible to characterize the geoecological hazards of the territory of a district. The geoenvironmental hazard map of cadastral districts is necessary for regional model of spatial planning at the municipal level.
The article is devoted to the study of the emergence of the concept of «symbol» in Russian culture of the XVIII century. The idea of introducing symbols into the culture, allowed not only the extollment of the secular over the religious, but also the strengthening of the right to power. Appealing to the book «Symbols and Emblemata» allows us to consider the ideas of Peter the First in the framework of cultural discourse.
This article briefly considered the problem of healthy food, culture of food and influence of design as a culture on the positive perception of useful products. The comparative analysis of the American fast food and the Japanese sushi (the most common forms of fast food in our country) are carried out for identification of design means at the expense of which the attractive image of food is formed and the visual harmony is reached. Several versions of the approved design decisions for achievement of desirable taste perception are also offered.
The questions connected with the organization of group work with the elementary school students are revised in this article as well as its object, objectives, advantages and difficulties which may occur during the preparation work. The author reveals the essence and meaning of the pedagogical facilitation and draws attention that one of the conditions for its effective organization is the pedagogical facilitation of the teacher and the safe educational environment. The pedagogical facilitation is being reviewed though the following components: emotionally-cognitive, praxeologically-behavioural, reflexive ones.
The paper presents an analysis of the development of the system of modern upbringing of patriotism among young people. The characteristic of the main aspects of work in the teenage environment is given. The advantages and disadvantages of modern patriotic programs are singled out, the role of patriotic education in modern Russian society is revealed. The role of school and family as the basic principles of the formation of the moral-patriotic consciousness of the child is singled out. It is noted that the formation of a civic position is possible only on the basis of feelings of duty and responsibility rooted in the mind of the individual.
The author considers aspects of the participation of right-wing liberal parties in the election cycle in 2016–2017 at the regional level (by the example of Saratov region). An analysis of the election materials and data of the Election Commission of Saratov region has allowed to identify and describe the basic software and the ideological, organizational and resource reasons of the electoral crisis regional right-wing liberal movement.
The article considers some psychological conditions of the teacher-linguist’s professional personality development at the stage of choosing career, at the stage of mastering profession and at the stage of realization oneself in profession. The author has also noted that a high level of creativity might contribute to the teacher-linguist’s professional personality development and to the teacher-linguist’s professionalism.
For the first time the authors have revealed a cultural species Betula raddeana Trautv. of the genus Betula L. (Betulaceae Dumort.), for the flora of the Nakhchivan AR collected 02.12.2018 in the city of Nakhchivan. New locations of Betula pendula Roth. were also revealed Ordubad district – Paragachay, Agdara, between the villages of Mazra and Urmys, in the vicinity of the settlements of Bilav, Paraga and Bilav-Tivi 1600–2600 m above sea level. The birch species are of national economic and medical importance.
The article contains data from studies conducted in 2015–2016 in the North-Еastern part of Kazakhstan. In the experiments the effect of various doses of non-traditional fertilizer together with mineral fertilizer on the yield of sunflower was investigated. Various doses and ratios of mineral fertilizers have been applied, which can affect the yield of sunflower. As a source material, varieties of sunflower of Russian breeding Zarya and a hybrid of Fortimi USA breeding and non-traditional fertilizers – zeolite are taken. In order to determine the effect on the fertility of soils, the agrochemical characteristics of soils in land areas and the content of mobile forms of nutrients were studied. The main agrochemical characteristics and content of mobile forms of nutrients for soil of land plots are investigated in the article.
Within the enterprises, democracy and the democracy implementation have a basic content in the field of labor and employment. The democracy plays an important role at the enterprises that are implemented for the purpose of building and developing harmonious and stable labor relations with the participation of many stakeholders including trade union organizations as representatives of the protection of the workers’ rights and legitimate interests. The role of Vietnam trade union in building and developing harmony of labor relations is to increase the effectiveness of the implementation of democracy in business with more content and more concrete measures. This article mentions some questions about the role of Vietnam trade union in building, signing and executing and monitoring the implementation of collective agreements at enterprises.
Existing software products for content management of the enterprise Internet resource are difficult for the staff who are responsible for the content management or do not provide the necessary level of security and functionality. According to the author, it is necessary to develop requirements for a corporate information system that allows you to manage Internet resources effectively.
The article provides consumers’ requirements to the modern clothes. The ways of ergonomic clothes design have been analyzed. A variety of modern technologies and tools have been described that help to research the ergonomics of the work process. The author analyzes the methods of ergonomic evaluation of system quality and provides the requirements for the ergonomic clothes design. Based on the analysis results of the existing ways of designing ergonomic clothes, a new design of the process of designing ergonomic clothes using the technology of three-dimensional scanning has been proposed. The proposed technology provides an opportunity for virtual simulation of the behavior of the “man – clothing” system in statics and dynamics.
The article deals with analysis of methods and approaches solving problems with multi-criteria choice in conditions of uncertainty; describes the theory of multidimensional utility theory of fuzzy sets Zadeh and method of analysis of hierarchies Saaty decision-making in multiobjective multidimensional systems. The author has also provided the analysis of the management of nuclear power plants on the subcritical level. Pareto-optimization approach of control has been used as methods of resource management. It explores the work of the optimization algorithm solutions consisting of two stages.
This article describes the figurative component of the linguacultural concept «property» revealed through the text analysis of the novel «The Man of Property» by John Galsworthy. The authors define the basic properties of the concept «property» and prototypical methods of reflecting objects and phenomena by this concept. The results of this research may be used in creating dictionaries of linguacultural concepts of the English language.
The article discusses the valence concept as a phenomenon at an intersection of syntax and lexical semantics. The author also provides the types of valence and directions that help to study the valence theory in parallel with case grammar. The study aims to look into the reasons why the derivative word may be the reflection of underlying grammatical case meanings.
The purpose of this article is to examine the phenomenon of sound metaphor manifested in the best way in poetic texts and the most consciously used within symbolism as an art movement; and to identify the semiotic structure of the poem «Langueur» by P. Verlaine as well. In order to achieve this purpose, a linguo-semiotic analysis is undertaken which solves the following tasks: identification of the semiotic techniques used by the poet, and the subsequent interpretation of the poem.
This article covers the expression of implicit gender identity of the subject of speech activity in the 19th and 20th century women's memories. The study revealed that implicit gender aspects associated with linguistic ascertainment of gender stereotypes presented in female linguistic material form the lexico-semantic category of “Character”. Within this category, the lexico-semantic sub-categories “Emotionality”, “Fearfulness and diffidence” and “Dreaminess” play a significant role, representing the corresponding stereotypes.
The article considers the mechanism to attract the investments by the government in the field of import-substituting productions. The analyzed projects have been designed to reduce dependence on foreign products. The authors have also justified proposals to ensure the effective development of the country's economy by investing in the creation of import-substituting productions.
The research presented in the article is aimed at revealing common main tendencies of agricultural development considered in the light of one of the pressing problems of modern Russia – the problem of import substitution. The methodological basis of the article was the monographic, statistical, logical and other methods of analysis. The main approaches to understanding the concept of «import substitution» are presented in view of the multiple interpretations. The main problems in the sphere of agricultural production have been revealed, hampering the process of import substitution. The results of the work can be used to further study and conduct a deeper analysis of the current state of import substitution of food and agricultural raw materials in Russia.
The article describes current drug situation in Russia, the forecast for its development in Russia, the system of measures of drug control and the reduction of the number of drug-dependent persons, as well as the reduction of crimes in the field of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.
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2019-04-23T14:34:52Z
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https://interactive-science.media/en/action/360/action_articles
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The European Commission granted the DFSA’s audit monitoring system ‘equivalent status’ with European Union Member States. The DFSA issued a report on its key findings of audit inspections conducted by the DFSA from January 2008 to December 2012. It was the first public report issued by the DFSA on its monitoring programme of Auditors registered in the DIFC.
As part of the DFSA’s commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility, DFSA staff and their families put together care packages for those in need during Ramadan.
The Lord Mayor of London made his annual visit to the DFSA, emphasising the ties between the City of London and the DIFC.
Confirming its commitment to regional collaboration and capacity building, the DFSA became a signatory to an MoU between members of IOSCO’s Africa and Middle East Regional Committee.
The DFSA signed an important MoU with the European Securities and Markets Authority.
The DFSA launched ‘Bawabaty,’ a financial services awareness initiative for the UAE National community.
The DFSA celebrates 10 years as a regulator in pursuit of its mission to develop, administer and enforce world-class regulation of financial services within the DIFC.
The DFSA’s financial regulation training programme for young UAE Nationals entered its eighth successful year in 2014. 21 UAE Nationals have completed the programme since it began in 2006. Today, graduates of the TRL Programme have joined other UAE Nationals in key positions within the DFSA, now representing more than 30% of the regulatory workforce and comprising the largest national group in the organisation.
In June 2014, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai,reappointed the Chairman and members of the DFSA Board.
By September 2014, the DFSA had licensed and was supervising 355 Authorised Firms.
As at 30 September 2014, DFSA staff had an average length of service of 5.33 years. These images represent staff who have been employed with the DFSA for ten years or more, and those recruited in the last year.
Since its inception the DFSA has recruited experienced staff from around the globe. As at 30 September 2014, DFSA staff numbered 135, representing 22 nationalities. Regulatory staff have an average of 9.75 years’ regulatory experience.
As the UAE celebrated 40 years of nationhood, the DFSA signed an MoU with the UAE Insurance Authority, completing MoU arrangements with all three UAE federal financial regulators.
DFSA staff gathered under The Gate as a farewell to Paul Koster.
In October 2011, the DFSA assumed the responsibility for maintaining the Official List of Securities from NASDAQ Dubai.
The DFSA also introduced a new Markets Law.
The DFSA received a delegation of powers from the DIFC Registrar of Companies under which the regulation of DIFC’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing requirements for Designated Non-Financial Businesses and Professions (DNFBPs) in the DIFC was transferred from the DIFC Authority to the DFSA.
On 17 June 2012, Ian Johnston assumed duties as Chief Executive Succeeding Paul Koster.
On 14 February 2012, the DFSA was honoured with a visit from His Highness Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum whose vision it was to establish the DIFC.His Highness, accompanied by the Crown Prince of Dubai, met with the Chairman and Members of the DFSA Board.
In September 2010, the DFSA and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICEAW) hosted a Breakfast Briefing, ‘The Future of Audits’.
The DFSA became a signatory to the IAIS multi-lateral MoU, a first for the GCC.
The DFSA introduced a new regime for Financial Services Marketing to provide greater clarity with regard to financial promotion in the DIFC.
The DFSA successfully hosted the 17th Annual Conference of the IAIS in Dubai.
On 1 August 2011, Mr. Saeb Eigner was appointed Chairman of the DFSA, succeeding Mr. Abdullah Saleh.
By 2009, the Enforcement Division, led by Stephen Glynn, had a team of six and during that year received and assessed some 83 allegations of misconduct. A review conducted in 2009 found a robust Enforcement Framework with some minor recommendations to enhance its effectiveness.
On 4 October 2010, the DFSA launched an Arabic version of its website. Pages including About the DFSA, Doing Business with the DFSA, Tomorrow’s Regulatory Leaders,Islamic Finance, and Legal Framework were made available in the language of the region, meeting the needs of local stakeholders and broadening dialogue with the broader market. Since then, most DFSA publications are also produced in Arabic and English.
The DFSA’s Communications team has produced an in-house magazine, 13th Story, since 2007, sharing news, views, personal stories – even recipes. 13th Story, now retitled CONNECT, has fostered a greater sense of family among the DFSA community and given a voice to anyone wanting to communicate an experience, an opinion or a good cause.
In November 2008, the DFSA licensed its 300th Regulated Firm within the DIFC.
On 11 December 2008, Paul Koster assumed duties as Chief Executive succeeding David Knott.
The DFSA established a Market Practitioner Panel to review its Collective Investment Funds regime.
By the end of 2008, the DFSA workforce was comprised of 13% UAE National staff - almost a 100% increase from just under 7% at the end of 2005 prior to the launch of the TRL Programme.
2009 proved a challenging year for regulators across the globe. The DFSA, now in its fifth year, calmly navigated the choppy waters, working closely with fellow supervisors and its firms.
The DFSA signed two important MoU’s with the UAE Central Bank and the Anti-Money Laundering Suspicious Cases Unit regarding co-operation and exchange of regulatory information.
The DFSA’s Finance Department won the DIFC ‘Distinguished Department of the Year” Award 2009 in recognition of their outstanding commitment to excellence.
In November 2007, the DFSA licensed its 200th Regulated Firm within the DIFC. It also reached 100 employees for the first time.
The DFSA issued its Hedge Fund Code of Practice, the first of its kind to be issued by a regulator and a landmark code in the regulation of the international Hedge Fund industry.
In December 2007, the DFSA hosted the IOSCO Emerging Markets Committee Annual Conference,representing more than 90% of the world’s securities regulators.
The DFSA became a signatory to the Boca Declaration, the multi-lateral MoU on co-operation and supervision of International Futures Markets and Clearing organisations.
The DFSA commenced a joint regulatory initiative with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to enhance access to Islamic financial products in Hong Kong and the DIFC.
In October 2006, the DFSA licensed its 100th Regulated Firm.
On 26 April 2007, the DFSA licensed the Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited (DME) as an Authorised Market Institution in the DIFC.
The DFSA’s securities regulation received a highly positive assessment following the visit of an expert team from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank under their Financial Sector Assessment Programme.
On 17 June 2007, Mr. Abdullah Saleh was appointed Chairman of the DFSA, succeeding Dr Habib Al Mulla.
In November 2007, the DFSA won the “Best Regulator for Islamic Funds” award during the 5th Annual Islamic Funds World Conference, recognising the DFSA’s efforts to facilitate cross-border marketing of Islamic investment funds.
On 20 September 2005, the DFSA authorised the Dubai International Financial Exchange (now NASDAQ Dubai).
Cooperation with fellow regulators and supervisors would be an abiding goal. On 27 September 2005, the DFSA’s signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with our federal counterpart, the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA), was a significant milestone.
The DFSA received the “Best Government Initiative of the Year” award from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners for the excellence of its Trust Law.
Every year since its launch in May 2006, the DFSA’s Tomorrow’s Regulatory Leaders Programme has trained and developed sustainable career opportunities for UAE Nationals.
The DFSA and the Securities Commission, Malaysia announced a joint project to remove regulatory barriers to Islamic Finance transactions between the two jurisdictions.
In July 2006, the DFSA became the first GCC regulator to sign IOSCO’s multilateral MoU.
The DFSA was appointed a member of the Technical Committee of the IAIS.
The Dubai Financial Services Authority is born. On 13 September 2004, the Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, enacted the Dubai Law creating the DFSA as an independent entity within the DIFC.
On 1 October 2004, the DFSA Regulatory Council (soon to be the DFSA Board) met for the first time under the new Law.
By the year’s end, seven financial services firms and three ancillary services providers had been licensed and registered. This was made possible by having a comprehensive Rulebook in place allowing our executive to license, register and supervise.
In pursuit of its mission to develop, administer and enforce world-class regulation, the DFSA joined the first two of its standard-setters, becoming a member of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB).
On Sunday 24 April 2005, the 48 members of the DFSA moved across the road from Emirates Tower to its headquarters on Level 13 of The Gate building.
In May 2005, David Knott commenced his term as Chief Executive.
In 2005, the DFSA entered its first enforcement action by assisting law enforcement agencies in closing down a rogue investment firm.
In July 2005, the DFSA became a member of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
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Every year the cycle restarts. Newly appointed senior residents begin to search for jobs, comparing locations, group sizes, and numerous other variables. Prior to graduation, residents should have some basic understanding of investment topics in order to prevent mistakes in the future. This article introduces a few concepts with which residents should familiarize themselves in order to establish their financial futures. Senior residents should begin learning about retirement account options in benefits packages. For the junior residents, there are some avenues that can be taken advantage of now that will no longer be an option with an attending-level salary. Few, if any, medical schools teach personal finance. The sources and references in this article will provide a base upon which all residents can build a stable financial future.
A share of stock represents fractional ownership of a company that can be purchased by an individual or group.
An index is a tracking of the cumulative gains or losses of many stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tracks 30 specific stocks, whereas the S&P 500 tracks 500 stocks.
A mutual fund is a giant pooling of money from many investors. The pool becomes spread among different investments, of which the individual investors hold a certain share or percentage. Funds represent investments in stocks, bonds, real estate, or even other mutual funds.
A mutual fund that attempts to mimic a stock market index is called an index fund. For example, an S&P 500 index fund will course with the S&P 500. When the S&P increases, so does the value of the index fund. A pure index fund holder will not significantly beat the relative index, but will not underperform it either. Under-performing the market results in lost opportunity.
Start here: All residents should read “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing,” which breaks down different investment types for novices in a simple and understandable way.1 A “Boglehead” is a person who follows the advice of Jack Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group, one of the largest financial firms in the world. Bogle pioneered index funds as a way for individuals to hold a large number of stocks through a mutual fund. This reduces individual risk of loss, allows investment portfolios to require minimal time for maintenance, and eases tax burdens from the investment. The knowledge from the Boglehead book can be parlayed into a resident's current 401(k)/403(b) plans and future accounts. One can practically read it on a round-trip flight during a job interview.
Employer plans: Employers provide their employees 401(k) or 403(b) plans for retirement contributions. For-profit companies offer a 401(k), and non-profit employers are mandated to provide a 403(b). Employees elect to contribute a certain amount of their paycheck to the plan, and often the employer provides a “match” to a certain limit. Index funds may exist in the plan in one form or another. The employee simply chooses the funds in which they'd like their money placed.
The default allocation of contributions does not reflect age or need. Typically, the default may not be appropriate for a resident. Accessing the account and changing the allocation toward lower cost funds and/or index funds should be a priority upon contributing.
A few variations on employer-type plans exist, but by and large the 401(k)/403(b) options encompass the majority of plans offered to a resident. Independent contractors have different plans available.
Anyone can create an account for an individual retirement arrangement, or IRA. This arrangement exists outside of employer-provided plans and requires the individual to maintain the account through a broker. Common brokers include Scottrade, Vanguard, or E*Trade, though the list of providers is extensive. There are two types of IRAs: Roth or traditional.
Watch this: Blogger Kevin McKee exceptionally explains the difference between the two types of IRAs and the value of a Roth in a YouTube video.3 Searching YouTube for “What is a Roth IRA” yields his “Mr. Thousandaire” video as one of the first results.4The video does more justice than any text can. After watching it, you should have an understanding of “pre-tax” money, which traditional IRAs and 401(k)/403(b) plans utilize, and “post-tax” money, the type put into a Roth.
compounding can increase your investments.
Finding a date: Roths can be opened and contributed to at any time. Contributions for each year can be made up until income tax is filed. For fiscal year 2014, for example, individuals have until April 15, 2015 to contribute based on their 2014 income. On April 16, or after filing a return, contributions apply toward the 2015 fiscal year. An increase in income, such as graduation from resident to attending, can create problems if income exclusions apply.
Choosing between Roth or 401/403 contributions as a resident requires attention to priorities. A 401/403 with an employer match is “free money.” However, one cannot remove contributions from these accounts without penalties. If the funds in the account have high expense ratios, principle erosion from fees plays into the choice. In some circumstances, the account may have poor funds in general. Check with the account's firm prior to contributing, asking for a list of available funds.
A Roth requires a more hands-on approach since the individual maintains the portfolio. Contributions can be removed without penalty, but penalties will be assessed when withdrawing appreciated interest or any gains. Therefore a Roth, with the resident's low tax bracket, acts as a complex bank account. Withdrawing contributions requires significant paperwork, but if a catastrophe occurs, money is more accessible as opposed to a 401/403.
The ally: James Dahle, MD, blogs about physician personal finance.9 Earlier this year, he published a financial “how-to” book titled The White Coat Investor (WCI), which is also the title of his blog.10 Both the blog and the book aim to educate physicians about financial topics. In addition to this, the WCI offers a physician-centric independent view on disability and life insurance. Often, insurance salesmen approach residents in order to discuss life or disability products. This leaves a resident's knowledge limited to whatever the salesman tells them. The WCI familiarizes physicians with the background and basics of different insurance types in order to avoid costly mistakes. Prior to purchasing life or disability products, read his posts to make sure that the salesmen are giving you a “fair shake,” as he calls it.
Student debt: Perhaps the most complicated financial aspect for residents and attendings revolves around paying off debt. How to address the issues and the time frame for repaying loans are frequent concerns. This topic extends well beyond the scope of a single article. Paying off accrued interest monthly remains an imperative approach toward loans while in residency. To avoid a required payment on the principle, you can enter residency forbearance through the vendor. This status allows a resident to have zero required payments on their graduate student loans.
Interest on the loans still accrues, so paying off the monthly interest keeps a level ground. Paying against the principle rests upon the individual's situation. Residency forbearance does not count toward programs such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
Upon graduation from residency, two firms can turn government loans into private loans with a lower interest rate. They are SoFi and DRB.11 Before consolidating with one of these private firms, full knowledge of the disadvantages of reconsolidating should be weighed, such as forgiveness programs offered under federal rules.
Who to turn to: Using 30 books to study for the MCAT, Step 1, or in-service exams causes diminishing returns, versus having one or two that fit an individual's style. The same goes for online financial advice. Ubiquitous investment advisors, blogs, and magazines offer opinions that create a lot of “noise.” Finding a few respected finance blogs to read on a couch on Sunday mornings will keep financial literacy up to date and help with reducing mistakes.
As mentioned, an EP maintains the blog, with occasional guest posts from lawyers, independent insurance salesmen, and others. One post has comments continuing two years after the original posting.
This is a blog by a “DIY investor” who writes about a variety of financial subjects, particularly comparisons of retail services. His blog covers all aspects of personal finance, not just investments.
A focus on investment accounts, it has a great end-of-week roundup of other financial blogs highlights.
An investment advisor, author, and index-fund champion with posts geared toward the serious individual investor, but often with posts applicable to all.
Comprehending financial basics as a resident can prevent costly mistakes in the future. An advanced degree does not qualify a physician to have tacit knowledge about investing. The simplicity of index funds in a “three-fund portfolio,” and an understanding of compounding interest can yield hundreds of thousands of dollars over 20 years.12,13 A primer on life and disability insurance can save hundreds to thousands of dollars per year. Self-educating while in residency needs to happen in order to prevent mismanagement and poor investment choices over the course of a career, and the hope for an on-time retirement.
Disclaimer: This article is only for information. Consult with your tax advisor for personalized guidance. The resources and blogs listed here are opinionated suggestions for which the author receives no compensation.
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Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab and from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, decreed for partners the right of preemption in property which had not been divided up. When boundaries had been fixed between them, then there was no right of pre-emption.
Malik said, "That is the sunna about which there is no dispute among us."
Malik related to me that he heard the like of that from Sulayman ibn Yasar.
Malik spoke about a man who bought out one of the partners in a shared property, by paying the man with an animal, a slave, a slave-girl, or the equivalent of that in goods. Then another partner decided to exercise his right of pre-emption after that, and he found that the slave or slave-girl had died, and no one knew what her value had been. The buyer claimed, "The value of the slave or slave-girl was 100 dinars." The partner with the right of pre-emption claimed, "The value was 50 dinars."
Malik said, "The buyer takes an oath that the value of what he payed was 100 dinars. Then if the one with the right of pre-emption wishes, he can compensate him, or else he can leave it, unless he can bring a clear proof that the slave or slave-girl's value is less than what the buyer said. If someone gives away his portion of a shared house or land and the recipient repays him for it by cash or goods, the partners can take it by pre-emption if they wish and pay off the recipient the value of what he gave in dinars or dirhams. If someone makes a gift of his portion of a shared house or land, and does not take any remuneration and does not seek to, and a partner wants to take it for its value, he cannot do so as long as the original partner has not been given recompense for it. If there is any recompense, the one with the right of pre-emption can have it for the price of the recompense."
Malik spoke about a man who bought into a piece of shared land for a price on credit, and one of the partners wanted to possess it by right of pre-emption . Malik said, "If it seems likely that the partner can meet the terms, he has right of pre-emption for the same credit terms. If it is feared that he will not be able to meet the terms, but he can bring a wealthy and reliable guarantor of equal standing to the one who bought into the land, he can also take possession."
Malik said, "A person's absence does not sever his right of pre-emption. Even if he is a way for a long time, there is no time limit after which the right of preemption is cut off."
Malik said that if a man left land to a number of his children, then one of them who had a child died and the child of the deceased sold his right in that land, the brother of the seller was more entitled to pre-empt him than his paternal uncles, the partners of his father.
Malik said, "Pre- emption is shared between partners according to their existing shares. Each of them takes according to his portion. If it is small, he has little. If it is great, it is according to that. That is if they are tenacious and contend with each other about it."
Malik said, "As for a man who buys out the share of one of his partners, and one of the other partners says, 'I will take a portion according to my share,' and the first partner says, 'If you wish to take all the preemption, I will give it up to you. If you wish to leave it, then leave it.' If the first partner gives him the choice and hands it over to him, the second partner can only take all the pre-emption or give it back. If he takes it, he is entitled to it. If not, he has nothing."
Malik spoke about a man who bought land, and developed it by planting trees or digging a well etc., and then someone came, and seeing that he had a right in the land, wanted to take possession of it by pre-emption. Malik said "He has no right of preemption unless he compensates the other for his expenditure. If he gives him the price of what he has developed, he is entitled to pre- emption . If not, he has no right in it."
Malik said that someone who sold off his portion of a shared house or land and then, on learning that some one with a right of pre-emption was to take possession by that right, asked the buyer to revoke the sale, and he did so, did not have the right to do that. The pre-emptor has more right to the property for the price for which he sold it.
In the case of some one who bought along with a section of a shared house or land, an animal and goods (that were not shared), so that when any one demanded his right of pre-emption in the house or land he said, "Take what I have bought altogether, for I bought it altogether," Malik said, "The pre-emptor need only take possession of the house or land. Each thing the man bought is assessed according to its share of the lump sum the man paid. Then the pre-emptor takes possession of his right for a price which is appropriate on that basis. He does not take any animals or goods unless he wants to do that."
Malik said, "If someone sells a section of shared land, and one of those who have the right of preemption surrenders it to the buyer and another refuses to do other than take his pre-emption, the one who refuses to surrender has to take all the preemption, and he cannot take according to his right and leave what remains.
In the case where one of a number of partners in one house sold his share when all his partners were away except for one man, the one present was given the choice of either taking the pre-emption or leaving it, and he said, 'I will take my portion and leave the portions of my partners until they are present. If they take it, that is that. If they leave it, I will take all the pre-emption,' Malik said, 'He can only take it all or leave it. If his partners come, they can take from him or leave it as they wish. If this is offered to him and he does not accept, I think that he has no pre-emption.' "
Yahya said that Malik related from Muhammad ibn Umara from Abu Bakr ibn Hazm that Uthman ibn Affan said, "When boundaries are fixed in land, there is no pre-emption in it. There is no pre-emption in a well or in male palm trees. "
Malik said, "There is no pre-emption in a road, whether or not it is practical to divide it."
Malik said, "What is done in our community is that there is no pre- emption in the courtyard of a house, whether or not it is practical to divide it."
Malik spoke about a man who bought into a shared property provided that he had the option of withdrawal and the partners of the seller wanted to take what their partner was selling by pre-emption before the buyer had exercised his option. Malik said, "They cannot do that until the buyer has taken possession and the sale is confirmed for him. When the sale is confirmed, they have the right of pre-emption."
Malik spoke about a man who bought land and it remained in his hands for some time. Then a man came and saw that he had a share of the land by inheritance. Malik said, "If the man's right of inheritance is established, he also has a right of preemption. If the land has produced a crop, the crop belongs to the buyer until the day when the right of the other is established, because he has tended what was planted against being destroyed or being carried away by a flood."
Malik continued, "If the time has been long, or the witnesses are dead or the seller has died, or the buyer has died, or they are both alive and the basis of the sale and purchase has been forgotten because of the length of time, pre- emption is discontinued. A man only takes his right by inheritance which has been established for him. If his situation differs from this, because the sale transaction is recent and he sees that the seller has concealed the price in order to sever his right of pre- emption, the value of the land is estimated, and he buys the land for that price by his right of pre-emption. Then the buildings, plants, or structures which are extra to the land are looked at, so he is in the position of some one who bought the land for a known price, and then after that built on it and planted. The owner of pre-emption takes possession after that is included."
Malik said, "Pre-emption is applied to the property of the deceased as it is applied to the property of the living. If the family of the deceased fear to break up the property of the deceased, then they share it and sell it, and they have no pre-emption in it."
Malik said, "There is no pre- emption among us in a slave or a slave-girl or a camel, a cow, sheep, or any animal, nor in clothes or a well which does not have any uncultivated land around it. Pre-emption is in what can be usefully divided, and in land in which boundaries occur. As for what cannot be usefully divided, there is no pre-emption in it."
Malik said, "Some one who buys land in which people who are present have a right of pre-emption, refers them to the Sultan and either they claim their right or the Sultan surrenders it to him. If he were to leave them, and not refer their situation to the Sultan and they knew about his purchase, and then they left it until a long time had passed and then came demanding their pre-emption, I do not think that they would have it."
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In my last post, I gave a shout-out to my father, who I fear could be overlooked by a largely electronic census, given dad’s likely nonagenarian status in 2020. Older Americans uncomfortable with today’s gadgets are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to population groups that the Census Bureau might have difficulty reaching through the Internet.
It does seem like everyone is walking around with a smartphone glued to their ear, or reading their news or the latest Stephen King novel on a tablet. But the hard facts — gleaned from a Census Bureau survey on Internet usage — tell a different story.
In Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States, the Commerce Department reported that more than three-fourths (77 percent) of U.S. households own a computer, be it handheld or sitting on a desk or lap. But computer ownership and broadband adoption are not spread evenly across household income levels, race and ethnicity, age, level of education, disability status, and geographic location.
Seventy-three percent of urban (metropolitan area) households use the Internet, compared to 62 percent in rural (non-metropolitan area) households. Seventy percent of urban households have broadband access; 57 percent of rural households do.
More than four-fifths of Asian households and roughly three-quarters of non-Hispanic White households use the Internet. Less than 60 percent of Black, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Hispanic households can access the Internet at home.
Forty-six percent of households with incomes below $25,000 have home Internet access, compared to 84 percent of households in the $50,000 – $75,000 income bracket. There also are significant broadband adoption differences by household income: Nearly 90 percent of households in the $75,000 – $100,000 income range access the Internet using broadband; only 43 percent of households in under-$25,000 group do.
Less than half of household heads with a disability use the Internet, compared to three-quarters of those without a disability.
For census apostles, the most worrisome aspect of the disparate access to computers and reliable Internet is that, to a significant degree, many population groups lagging behind technologically are historically harder to count in the census and prone to disproportionate undercounts. Furthermore, a quarter of households without Internet access cite affordability as a major barrier to this service. Current economic trends do not favor better financial circumstances for lower income households.
Earlier this fall, I mused about the lightening pace of technological change, which will present significant challenges for the Census Bureau as it designs a less-costly enumeration for 2020 over an eight-year span. No doubt, access to computers and the Internet will increase across all demographic subgroups with time. But as new technologies emerge, differential access to those tools is likely to persist.
So, yes, I agree with Census Director Robert Groves that 2020 must be a “multi-mode census. … We must move beyond the mailback questionnaire and the personal interview … to ensure that the response options for the census reflect the communication platforms that people are using.” (Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, April 6, 2011.) But some of those modes will be more costly and traditional than others, and Congress must be mindful of the digital divide as it decides how much money to spend on planning and execution of the next decennial count.
Happy holidays and best wishes for 2012!
That got me to thinking about the Census Bureau’s road from mail to cyberspace, a path which is now inevitable, given stern directives, coupled with tight budget reins, from Congress.
Federal lawmakers have concluded that Americans will embrace electronic response to the next census with a vengeance, with traditional mail or hand-delivery almost an afterthought. Of course, Congress sometimes — how shall I put this tactfully? — gets it wrong. And the people’s representatives haven’t exactly been generous with funding to ensure appropriately comprehensive research and testing of how Americans of all ages, races and ethnicities, incomes, and places of abode feel about the pending changes.
My father is 80, retired, active on boards and in community and political affairs. Given the family genes, he’s likely to be around for the next population tally. But email? Can you spell F-A-X? He swears by it. Cell phone? Never had one. In March 2020, Dad had better get a nice white envelope bearing the official seal of the U.S. Census Bureau in his traditional silver suburban mailbox, along with a postage-paid return envelope. Otherwise, he might miss being counted in his ninth decennial enumeration.
Back to the Census Future?
Federal statistics: They don’t get no respect!
Last week, Senate appropriators, mindful of the cutthroat competition to slash federal programs more than the next guy, thoughtfully suggested that the U.S. Census Bureau could design, plan and execute the 2020 census for the amount it spent on the 2000 count. Yes, you read that correctly. While keeping costs in line with the just-completed 2010 enumeration would be good, the appropriations panel wrote in its explanation of the Fiscal Year 2012 Commerce Department spending bill (S. Rpt. 112-78), paring the price tag to match 2000, without adjusting for inflation, would win a gold star.
People (all 309 million of you!), I know you are thinking one of two things. Have Senators lost their minds? Or, won’t all the new-fangled technology allow the Census Bureau to count people for a fraction of the cost? Let’s examine both propositions.
First, the state of mind of our distinguished elected representatives. To be fair, the budget process has become so convoluted and devoid of any logical progression that even the most levelheaded lawmakers can be excused for their nostalgia. But $4 billion? That was the price tag for the 1990 census. You know, the one with the highest recorded disproportionate undercount of Black Americans. The one with the lower-than-projected mail response rate, maybe thanks to a data processing machine-friendly questionnaire that looked (and read) like an SAT test. The first census to be measurably less accurate than the one before it. 1990 was the last census to advertise with 2:00 a.m. public service announcements; to ignore the vital role of community-based organizations in promoting participation; to build address lists without substantial input from local officials.
Senators clearly heard the uproar from an impressive range of data users when the Census Bureau said it would cancel next year’s economic census if Congress doesn’t come up with more money than the House was considering. They directed the agency to maintain the quinquennial survey of business and industry while focusing reductions on “periodic censuses and agency-wide administrative cost savings.” Never mind that the economic census is a periodic activity or that the census director announced a money-saving move to close six of 12 regional census offices months ago. In other words, rob Peter to pay Paul, because you aren’t getting enough funding for both. Like I said, no respect.
Which leads us to our second question: Won’t the Internet or other technology-based options for answering the census and gathering data in the field bring down costs substantially? Undoubtedly, modernizing the enumeration will help the Census Bureau keep costs under control. The bureau is testing Internet response in the ongoing American Community Survey, with promising results so far. The Washington Post reported (4/5/11) that 20 percent of Canadians responded by Internet in that nation’s last census; statistical experts hope twice that many will use the Web in this year’s Canadian count to achieve a cost-savings.
But the Census Bureau will have to spend some money now to save money later. Census Director Robert Groves told a Senate oversight panel last spring that the agency “know[s] it must innovate if we are to remain useful and relevant to the country. [T]his innovation is not likely to be funded by added resources; we must become more efficient.” The bureau requested a reasonable $67 million in FY2012 to start a three-year research and testing initiative to modernize and streamline the 2020 census.
Yet the Senate is telling the agency to cut back on census activities other than the economic census. That pretty much leaves wrap-up of the 2010 count or research on improving methods for 2020 on the chopping block. The bureau could halt efforts to measure the accuracy of the 2010 census and end the program that allows challenges to a city’s housing and population numbers (which adds few changes to the results, but tell that to the mayors!). I am having trouble following the logic here, given that Senate funders want the Census Bureau to dramatically reduce the cost of planning the nation’s largest peacetime activity while exercising a “unique opportunity” to “streamlin[e] operations, eliminate[e] wasteful processes … and tak[e] better advantage of technology.” The Census Bureau last year proposed an initiative to update the nation’s address list throughout the decade, potentially saving the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to confirm 100 percent of addresses right before the next census starts. Congress won’t cough up the modest amount of money requested for the new program.
I think I’m getting one of my famous census headaches. Maybe I’ll channel Rip Van Winkle and wake up in time for the 2030 count.
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Obesity has become an epidemic on a global scale and poses one of the biggest concerns to human health and well-being. The World Health Organization has declared that obesity is a disease of pandemic significance, which threatens the developing world.1 Also alarming is that an estimated 80% of people with type 2 diabetes are obese at the time of diagnosis or have a history of obesity. The link between the two conditions is so strong that Shape Up America! trademarked the term diabesity, and it has since been used commonly among health care professionals.
Because of its impact on health, obesity deserves to receive more attention from the government, health care profession, and health care insurance industry. Research is severely limited by a shortage of funds as well as by inadequate insurance coverage and access to treatment. Mistreatment of people with obesity is widespread and often considered socially acceptable.2 This article discusses the causes of obesity, the link between obesity and diabetes, and methods of prevention and treatment.
Assessment of weight involves evaluating body mass index (BMI), abdominal fat, and the patient's risk factors.
BMI should be calculated for all adults. Normal body weight is defined as a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2. Overweight is defined as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 kg/m2. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or greater. There are three classes of obesity: Class I (BMI = 30-34.9 kg/m2 ), Class II (BMI = 35-39.9 kg/m2), Class III (BMI ?40 kg/m2). Individuals with a normal BMI should be reassessed every two years. In addition, a muscular person may have a high BMI without the additional health risks.
Excess abdominal fat, not proportional to total body fat, is an independent predictor for risk of diabetes and morbidity. Among those with a BMI of 25 to 34.9 kg/m2, a waist circumference of more than 40 inches in men and more than 35 inches in women is associated with increased risk of diabetes.
Coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, and other respiratory problems are associated with a very high risk of disease complications and mortality in obese individuals. Obesity is also associated with complications of pregnancy, menstrual irregularities, stress incontinence, and psychological disorders (e.g., depression).
The increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes or diabesity among children is of particular concern. Prevention, through healthy eating and lifestyle, must take the highest priority. Therefore, the most fundamental, and perhaps important, task in addressing the epidemic of obesity is prevention. To date, the strategies that have been developed to prevent obesity have been disappointing, and the problem of obesity is worsening. It is believed that obesity has both genetic and environmental origins and that these factors are linked.
In our modern Western society, attractive, energy-dense foods and an environment that encourages a sedentary lifestyle contribute to the obesity problem. Solutions should range from protecting children against the bombardment of advertising from processed food manufacturers to promoting physical activity guidelines in schools as an essential component of daily activities.
The Centers for Obesity Research and Education (C.O.R.E.) has been established to provide such advocacy and to lead the way in promoting and supporting the changes necessary to make a difference. Even modest weight loss, achieved through lifestyle changes, reduces the risk of impaired fasting glucose, which leads to the development of type 2 diabetes.
The goals of treatment are to prevent further weight gain, to reduce body weight (initially, by 10% from baseline over a period of six months), and to maintain a lower body weight in the long term.
Nonpharmacologic therapy should include an individually planned diet that involves a reduction in fat as well as total calories. Physical activity of moderate intensity should be gradually increased to a goal of 30 minutes per day. Behavior therapy should include tools to help overcome individual barriers to weight loss.
Individuals with high levels of physical activity are less likely than those with lower levels to develop depressive illness. In those with mild-to-moderate depression and anxiety, prescribed physical activity is associated with improved symptoms. Other benefits of physical activity include reduction in blood pressure, improvement in plasma lipid profile, and alterations in coagulation and hemostatic factors. Thirty minutes of regular physical activity of moderate intensity on most days is highly recommended.
Pharmacotherapy is normally started in patients who do not lose weight or maintain weight loss after diet, exercise, and behavioral therapy for six months. Drug therapy can be started along with dietary therapy and physical activity.
There are several broad categories of medications--lipase inhibitors such as orlistat, anorexiants such as sibutramine, and short-term adjunct therapy such as phentermine.
Orlistat: Orlistat is the first of a new class of antiobesity agents with a unique mode of action that targets dietary fat. Orlistat is an inhibitor of gastrointestinal lipases, which are required for the systemic absorption of dietary triglycerides, and it prevents the absorption of 30% of dietary fat, thus producing some weight loss.
Orlistat is indicated for long-term treatment of individuals who are obese (BMI ?30) or who are significantly overweight (BMI ?27) and have other risk factors. It should be used in conjunction with a hypocaloric diet (i.e., up to 2,000 kcal) containing no more than 30% in fat calories. Daily intake of fat should be distributed over three main meals.
Sibutramine: This drug blocks the neuronal uptake of norepinephrine and, to a lesser extent, serotonin and dopamine. It is used in the management of obesity, as well as for weight loss and maintenance of weight loss. Sibutramine should be used in conjunction with a reduced-calorie diet.
Sibutramine is classified as a class IV controlled substance. This drug is recommended only for obese patients with a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or greater or of 27 kg/m2 or greater in the presence of other risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes, and/or dyslipidemia. Obesity due to untreated hypothyroidism should be ruled out.
Side effects include nausea, constipation, dizziness, drowsiness, menstrual cramps/pain, and rare thoughts of suicide. Physical and psychological dependence on this medication may occur. If any of these side effects occur, patients should speak with their doctor before stopping treatment.
Phentermine: Phentermine is a short-term adjunct to a regimen of weight reduction that includes exercise, behavioral modification, and caloric reduction for the management of exogenous obesity in the presence of other risk factors (diabetes, hypertension).
Phentermine is structurally similar to dextroamphetamine and comparable as an appetite suppressant. It is generally associated with a lower incidence and severity of central nervous system side effects. Phentermine, like other anorexiants, stimulates the hypothalamus, resulting in decreased appetite via norepinephrine and dopamine metabolism.
Patients with severe clinical obesity (i.e., BMI ?40 or BMI ?35 with coexisting conditions) can be considered for weight loss surgery when other methods have failed.
Pharmacists have an exceptional opportunity to educate patients about dietary supplements, weight-loss medications, and what to expect from therapy. They can also help to improve adherence to medication regimens. Patients should be aware that obesity is associated with an increased risk of various chronic diseases, such as diabetes and cardiovascular problems. In addition, they should be informed that because weight loss is a long process, patience and adherence to daily regimens are essential for achieving beneficial results.
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I’m not talking about this blog. One of the new things you’ll see around here this year is at least once per month, I’ll give you a glance behind the scenes…or more accurately between the covers…of whatever I’m writing at the moment.
The current project is in “revision” mode. This isn’t my favorite. I think I’ve shared this meme before, but each time I see it, it reinforces my emotions in the two processes of being an author: writing and editing.
There is a series within the First Street Church Series published by Sweet Promise Press. This is a trilogy I’ve affectionately called, TEXAS HOMECOMING.
In Book One, Jaz comes home with a plan to find a post-military job and make a quick exit. Since her brother’s death, she and her father can barely occupy the same room without having harsh words.
Bailey dreams of leaving Sweet Grove, too, but when his sister returns home with plans to convert the family ranch into a resort, he knows he has to stay and help her. She’ll be his only family once their father succumbs to the cancer devouring him.
But what if they don’t inherit the ranch? What if a “blood” relative comes to claim it? Bailey seeks out a legal expert and finds his high school crush. Jaz can’t turn the handsome cowboy away, but she’s hardly prepared to start falling for him.
Even without a will, love finds a way.
The story continues in Book Two. I refer to this as “Jaz’s story” because she finally gets questions answered about her brother. Of course, a mysterious visitor makes an auspicious delivery. When Bailey sees Jaz embracing the man, he suspects the worst.
Because he knows he’s not worth loving.
Sometimes hope needs a helping hand.
When I originally concieved the idea for this series, I hoped to write THREE books outside of Sweet Grove. I was going to pull readers from the Kindle World into my own sweet romance world.
And then their were no more Kindle Worlds.
But there was Sweet Promise Press. And I enjoyed working with Melissa Storm and her crew of friendly and knowledgeable professionals. So, I decided to bring the characters back to Sweet Grove. It was supposed to be a Texas Homecoming anyway, right?
My new plan is to release the third book in the trilogy in April.
Then I’ll hire a designer to make a lovely Texas Homecoming print wrap and in the fall, I’ll release the trilogy in a print collection. All three stories (somewhere between 80,000 and 90, 000 words) together in a single paperback.
Doesn’t that sound like a fantastic idea?
Now for the moment you scrolled past the rest of this to see. Here’s a scene from the second chapter of the book.
I hate to give too much away, but book three is Bailey’s story. Plenty of reviewers have commented about how static and even whiny Bailey has been in the first two books. Well, he’s not weak. He has a bad past.
And it’s about to come to Sweet Grove.
Lonie Dyer was a piece of work. Jazlyn Rolle had met sweet talkers like him during her six months with Boldt & Associates. It wasn’t the false charm that grated against her as much as the expectation to get something for nothing.
By the time he’d spoken two sentences, Jaz had known that the striking physical resemblance between Bailey and Lonie was all there was. Even without the sharp planes on his face and hardness in his eyes, Lonie wasn’t at all appealing.
“And who might you be?” That was the first sentence he’d spoken.
“This is Jaz.” Tess stepped around her as the two of them entered the parlor.
Lonie’s hand settled possessively beside a photo book of Central Texas on the edge of an antique table.
“A Sweet Grove native like my little girl?” His tone dripped honey, and Jaz figured the man could con a starving man out of his last meal.
Probably how he’d convinced the parole board a man with one armed robbery after another shouldn’t serve out a full sentence. Jaz had entered the man’s name into the county database as soon as Bailey had mentioned he was out of prison. Not that she expected him to show up in Sweet Grove. He’d burned whatever bridge he might have had to his children years ago.
“I thought you’d be in your room.” Tess gazed at him with expectation.
That’s when Jaz saw herself in her friend’s posture. Tess wanted his approval. Since she’d always yearned for Daddy love, Jaz knew the feeling exactly. But her friend missed the calculating way Lonie’s eyes narrowed, and Jaz knew Tess was heading for heartache.
Jaz stepped closer. Lonie’s gaze flashed to her and roamed lasciviously down her body.
The very same thing had happened so many times during her six years in the army that Jaz was surprised when she glanced down at herself. The uniform she expected to see was only loose boyfriend denim and a form-fitting sweatshirt. By the way the lust filled the older man’s gaze, it should have been something much more revealing.
Lonie’s lips thinned into a reptilian smile. “Boy couldn’t wait to see me.” His dry chuckle sent a hoard of shivers down Jaz’s spine.
She forced her backbone to steel as she marched her friend back to the kitchen. Tess responded about breakfast, but Jaz didn’t pay attention. Now that she’d met the man and seen the open desire in Tess’s eyes, she realized Bailey hadn’t been overreacting to send her to the ranch.
Jaz blocked the doorway into the kitchen by leaning on the side of the bar. Lonie pulled up a stool like he belonged there.
“Sweet tea?” Tess paused to glance over her shoulder at Lonie while pulling glasses from the cupboard.
Once Tess turned away, Lonie shifted a leer to Jaz. She glared, unblinking. Maybe it would be smarter to pretend to fall for his slimy charm, but she couldn’t do it. Men like Lonie Dyer had too much power over women, and Jaz refused to be another conquest for him, even if it was only in his own mind.
This wasn’t part of her normal B&B hostess routine, and Jaz wanted to snap at Lonie to leave the kitchen, since it wasn’t generally open to guests. But Tess’s hopeful expression killed the protest before it reached her lips.
“A shot of Jim Beam would be nice.” Lonie chuckled again, this time the sound more authentic, although it still grated on Jaz.
As if she hadn’t already by loaning him a rent-free room. The front door opened and closed, and footsteps plodded toward the dining room. Jaz’s heart leapt, but Bailey would use the kitchen entrance, so it must be Tess’ other guest.
“That’s Mr. Gary.” Tess brushed past Jaz and into the hallway.
Jaz clenched her fist. “He’s not your boy any more than Tess is your darlin’.” She mimicked his syrupy drawl of the endearment.
What do you think? Are you ready to read more?
My small publishers always want MORE people to read and review their titles. They also offer the opportunity for their authors to read any book for free in exchange for an honest review. By now, they know my truthful reviews aren’t generally worth five stars.
I volunteered to read an advance copy of TRUTH by Avery Woods because the blurb was appealing.
A few weeks before the release, the author emailed me to thank me for promising to review the book. I emailed her back to say that the review would be for three stars and that I would wait to post it if she wanted.
She told me to post it right away. I loved her confidence, and I think you’ll find that as you read her story.
Cori and Jesse didn’t engage me. I didn’t buy their motivations.
This is a common complaint for me in romance novels. Many authors believe they’re telling the story of the romance, but if I don’t connect with the desires of the characters, the story–no matter how incredible–falls flat.
Much of this was the story of Cori discovering she didn’t truly love the man she was with and that she wanted to find out the truth about her mother, who she assumed was dead. I will give Kudos to Ms. Woods for adding a twist to the “true heritage” for Cori. It wasn’t your average, “mom died when I was young” or “given up for adoption” background.
Jesse’s story with his sister didn’t compel me in the least. Yes, it’s a common issue and the author handled it gracefully. But I felt like the events were relayed to the reader. How did Jesse feel? Why did he feel that way? What made him bond with Bethany so much?
And when we discovered Jesse’s wound, the opportunity for deep connection with him had already been lost. A powerful backstory didn’t engage me because Jesse never felt anything. Or I should say I was never invited to experience anything along with him.
The actual romance between these two felt rushed. My favorite romances are friends who become lovers, and that’s one of the reasons I picked this book up to read. But even their friendship developing happened before the story began and I was expected to believe they were friends when all I really saw was Jesse’s crush and Cori’s distance (because her boyfriend was the jealous sort).
The story earns three out of five stars from me.
Romance readers will likely enjoy this story. I expected more character development based on the blurb and then I didn’t truly connect with the characters.
Readers who like the slow reveal of an unexpected secret might find more here than they bargained for. While the story and characters didn’t engage me, it wasn’t because of poor writing.
You can grab a copy of this book from the publisher, Amazon, Amazon UK, B & N, Bookstrand, Kobo and Smashwords. Ms. Woods would appreciate if you would leave your own review at the retailer of purchase and Goodreads.
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You will find below the horoscope of Elizabeth Barrett Browning with her interactive chart, an excerpt of her astrological portrait and her planetary dominants.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861) was one of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
Elizabeth spent her youth at Hope End near Great Malvern, England. The Barrett family had amassed a considerable fortune from the Jamaican sugar plantations inherited by her father, Edward Moulton Barrett, who was born there. The Barretts had been associated with Jamaica for generations. As a boy he emigrated to England with his brother and sister (she is the subject of the painting "Pinkie" in the Huntington Museum). He and his wife, Mary Graham-Clarke, were parents of twelve children (Elizabeth was the eldest).
Here are some character traits from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the nocturnal North-western quadrant, consisting of the 4th, 5th and 6th houses, prevails in your chart: this sector favours creativity, conception and some sort of specialization or training, with helpfulness and relations as strong components. You need others' cooperation in order to work properly, although you are not very expansive: creating, innovating and thinking are what matter most to you because this self-expression enriches you and totally satisfies you.
The predominance of Water signs indicates high sensitivity and elevation through feelings, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Your heart and your emotions are your driving forces, and you can't do anything on Earth if you don't feel a strong affective charge (as a matter of fact, the word "feeling" is essential in your psychology). You need to love in order to understand, and to feel in order to take action, to the detriment of a certain vulnerability against which you should learn to fight.
Cheers for communication and mobility, Elizabeth Barrett Browning! The predominance of Air signs in your chart favours and amplifies your taste for relations and for all kinds of short trips, whether real (travels) or symbolic (new ideas, mind speculations). You gain in flexibility and adaptability what you lose in self-assertion or in pragmatism.
Fire's qualities are not very present in your chart, with only 3.82% instead of the average 25%, which means that you may lack warmth, enthusiasm, conquering spirit, or energy. You may look indifferent to others, with almost no desire, no joy of life or no enterprising ability. Actually, it is not true, but you should let go, force yourself to be more daring, and show your amazement as well as your vitality. You certainly have as much energy as others, you just need to release it, and it is up to you to display more of it, since it will be all to your benefit: shout, sing, pull faces, dance! That's the right mean for you... In the end, you'll never be accused of being sad, phlegmatic or a killjoy!
The Mutable mode is the most emphasized one in your natal chart, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which indicates a mobile character that is curious and thirsty for new experiences and evolution. You are lively and flexible, and you like to react quickly to solicitations, but don't confuse mobility with agitation, since this is the danger with this configuration - and with you, stagnation is out of the question. Security doesn't matter as long as you are not bored. You optimize, you change things, you change yourself... all this in a speedy way.
Cadent houses, namely the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses, are very emphasized in your chart, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. They indicate important potential for communication, adaptability and flexibility. These houses are symbolically linked to the mind and intellect. The relative weakness implied by these characteristics indicates your tendency to hesitate or to be indecisive, but also your remarkable ability to start off again, which is a nice quality, finally: you can easily get yourself out of a tight spot thanks to your mobility and casualness, in the best sense of the term. This group of houses corresponds to evolutionary characteristics of your personality. However, they are only indications and you must include them in the rest of your chart in order to see whether they are validated or not!
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
You are sensitive to beauty, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and your emotional reactions are often of an aesthetical order because, even in the appearances, balance and harmony are necessary for your well being. You easily identify with others, you have a talent for emphasizing their best qualities and you solve their problems with tact and diplomacy. You endlessly weigh the pros and the cons and you constantly try to please your interlocutors. In doing so, you may develop a strong dependency because you need their approval too much. It is difficult for you and your entourage to deal with your indecisiveness because it inclines you towards contemplation more than towards creation and you are tempted to procrastinate unless you try to charm others into doing things for you. But as long as harmony prevails... isn't it what matters?
Compassion and self-sacrifice: you are fond of this romantic mode and you are willing to express your feelings, the intensity of which is unlimited, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. With excitement and imagination, you dream your amorous relationships as much as you actually live through them. The line between the concrete world and your huge hopes is so tenuous that you don't know anymore where it is, although your particularly rich sensuality prompts you to experience your feelings concretely. You want to share communion and passion with your partner. The lyrical flights of your feelings break from your heart as waves that you do not attempt to control because they give you a real, almost voluptuous and carnal joy. You give a lot – sometimes too much - without reservation, almost without propriety, totally revealing your vulnerability during your amorous exchanges because you are sure of the quality and the might of your feelings: they are so powerful and overwhelming that you are aware that nothing can resist them.
You express your energy in a vague and random manner, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is not a handicap, but it prevents you from reasonably planning your long-term actions. You are a bit whimsical and scattered, sometimes hyperactive and willing to devour obstacles with your big shark teeth, but often, you take the easy way out because of your desire for tranquillity. You loathe conflicts and your cleverness and your flexibility allow you to achieve your goals while shrewdly worming your way through difficulties. Your intuition and your imagination are the assets that compensate your lack of efficiency and discipline. You are much more successful when you work for a noble cause, usually a collective one, sometimes political or spiritual ones. On the sexual plane, you are whimsical and impossible to categorize. You are so changing and malleable that you can shift from one extreme to another, according to your partner's personality, because your adaptability and your flexibility are really strong.
This text is only an excerpt from of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's portrait. We hope that it will arouse your curiosity, and that it will prompt you to deepen your knowledge of astrology, as well as to visit and use the wide range of free applications at www.astrotheme.com.
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2019-04-19T22:52:14Z
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https://www.astrotheme.com/astrology/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning
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This is a verbatim reproduction of my most viral editorial on Quora. You can find the original LINK of the article HERE. Below is the question that was posted.
I think I can answer this question to some extent.
I have been interacting with Shah Rukh Khan intermittently through the course of my career. I know some of his dark secrets. I would call them dark because he chooses not to talk about it. These secrets are not hidden but he avoids discussing them in public.
Shah Rukh Khan’s elder sister lives with him. She hardly makes a public appearance. Shah Rukh and Gauri take care of her. Her name is Shahnaz Lala Rukh Khan and she is a lovely lady who dotes on SRK.
Shah Rukh Khan’s father died of oral cancer. He had a blister in his mouth which later appeared as cancer. His father was a very good man and a lot of people took advantage of him.
Shah Rukh believes in numerology. All his phones numbers (he, his close staff and family) and his car number plates have a particular combination of five and eight. He won’t use any other combination of numbers. If you find any high-end car near Bandra West (in Mumbai) with a 555 number plate then there is a fat chance that the car belongs to Shah Rukh Khan.
I can go on… probably if people like it, I will reveal more dark secrets about this star, who seems like an open book to his fans but actually he isn’t.
Edit 1: Thanks for the upvotes, guys.
You might notice that I am not referring to any source while talking about these dark secrets, it is because I am a witness myself. Also, I am calling these secrets ‘dark’ because SRK prefers to keep these in the dark and doesn’t talk about it.
If you think that I am going to slander / defame him on this forum, that I won’t ever. But these dark secrets prove that he is also an ordinary man just like you and me but with a few extraordinary capabilities.
Okay, without further ado, here goes another deep, dark secret.
Shah Rukh Khan has won a lot of battles in life but he has miserably lost in one — to curb his urge to smoke.
He has tried a lot to give up smoking but has always ended up lighting a cigarette at the end of the day. He can’t stay without a cigarette for a long time. There was actually a very brief period in his life when he tried very hard to give up smoking and obviously failed.
I have always seen him (when I used to meet him) smoke only one brand of cigarette — the Classic King Regular. It comes in a red packet and not easily available in the stores because it sells out very fast. Shah Rukh Khan’s loyal make-up man used to source and carry his cigarettes and lighter wherever he used to go.
I noticed that he would use a very ordinary lighter (the ones that’s readily available in the paan stores) and it is something that hasn’t changed from his college days, when he started smoking.
I vaguely remember that he started smoking during his first year in college in Delhi. I had also asked him once about the day he started smoking and he had avoided the question. He, however, hinted that he distinctly remembers that day and there’s a story behind that incident that nobody knows (yet). Somebody introduced him to smoking and from that day on, he has never been able to live without a cigarette.
When Shah Rukh Khan smoked, he will end up smoking several cigarettes in one sitting, I have never seen him stop at one.
His contemporaries like Ajay Devgan and Salman Khan are smokers too but I have never seen them smoke more than one cigarette in one sitting.
I had also noticed that cigarettes had a calming effect on Shah Rukh Khan. It relaxed him and lightened up his mood.
If he is smoking while talking to you then he is mentally poised and prepared to give you a long time for a good conversation.
While he smoked, he took a lot of time in between puffs. He will take a drag and let the cigarette dangle between his fingers for a long time until it burns a lot and it’s to flick the ash off, only then he might take a second drag. He never quickly smoked his cigarettes (at least in front of me). He savoured it and let the cigarette dangle in between his fingers. I think, over the years, the cigarette has become an extended part of his personality.
Everybody in his family — specially his daughter Suhana — have been trying a lot to get Shah Rukh to quit smoking. Shah Rukh Khan has promised a million times (he even promised me in one of the meetings, long back) to give up smoking but he hasn’t been able to.
I don’t click pictures with stars when I am meeting them but I clicked one here because SRK insisted and had said that it is important to preserve memories. Here are two pictures from the meeting that I was talking about.
Remember, I gave up journalism some years back and I have never personally met SRK after that.
These photos were taken in his study in Mannat Extension or Mannat 2 (Yes, there are two Mannats and not one!). I remember this meeting because we had a long talk and it lasted for more than 90 minutes.
I had never seen him so relaxed.
If you are wondering what he was drinking, then that’s black coffee without sugar. SRK is addicted to black coffee too. It’s very dark coffee shot (Americano), extended with warm water.
He is holding his specs in his hand. He had one such spec in his study, office, car, airport bags. There were about 10-15 spectacles (all identical) scattered everywhere. He has plus power and only needs it for reading or when he is writing on MacBook Pro. That’s on his sofa. He doesn’t check his mobile while talking, it is usually on silent mode.
If you look closely, you will see the (partly) packet of cigarettes and the green lighter on the sofa handle.
Shah Rukh Khan is a very passionate speaker. He speaks from the heart.
As I had said before, he is an ordinary man with extra-ordinary capabilities.
Edit 2: Thanks for all the requests.
Here is one more dark secret that perhaps Shah Rukh Khan will never talk about in public even though most of his peers and close friends know about it.
Have you ever wondered whether there anything left for Shah Rukh Khan to achieve? He set out to become an actor, he became a good theatre actor. Then he set out to become a TV actor, he achieved it in a very short span of time. Then embarked upon the journey to become a film star and struggled hard. He finally achieved that too.
Today he is one of the biggest stars that Bollywood has ever produced.
So, does he, in some dark corner of his heart, deserve something more? Is there anything that he still wishes to achieve?
Yes, that’s a dark secret that SRK perhaps never talks about.
Shah Rukh Khan has been striving for international recognition for a long time and the same has been eluding him. He has conquered India and now he wants to conquer the world (read Hollywood). Shah Rukh Khan wants to win an Oscar or a Golden Globes.
Many know about it and they keep encouraging him to do stellar work that will establish him on an international stage. This is perhaps the reason why you will find Shah Rukh Khan doing films that are unsuitable for an Indian commercial film market but very apt for the parallel cinema or the international market ( for example: Fan).
There are some close friends who make fun of him behind his back saying that he is hankering for an Oscar and it will never come to him. It is rumoured that the ageing star who was mad about getting an Oscar in Shirish Kunder’s Joker, was actually a caricature of Shah Rukh Khan.
That explains why Shah Rukh Khan always had a preference for the International media (only leading media houses). He had allowed an international channel to make a documentary on him and opened his house to them. They were also allowed to stalk him. If you come from a leading media house in the United States, you will not have to wait to get his appointment.
Recently, Shah Rukh gave a Ted Talk and you will notice that it was meant for an international audience too.
This is one of his secrets that he hardly talks about. He doesn’t want to become a side-kick in a Hollywood movie, he wants to be the main star and win laurels.
Being an Indian, I wish and pray that he becomes world’s biggest superstar and rules over Hollywood the same way he is ruling over India.
Edit 3: Hope you enjoyed reading the answers. Again, my intention is not to reveal any dark secrets that will make his fans uncomfortable.
Most of these secrets have already been presented in public websites before. I have only added my point of view and whatever I have seen myself through my interactions with him.
There is a Shah Rukh Khan that is hidden away from all our eyes. That Shah Rukh Khan is no brand and no superstar. He is just an ordinary man like any one of us and like a lot of us, he has a lot of extraordinary capabilities. Unlike many, he had decided to do what he does best and not stick to a nine-to-five job.
It’s best that we don’t know or try to know the ordinary SRK because that takes away the shine away from a superstar like him.
This is one of the reasons why I have taken good care not to reveal anything that doesn’t make him look good. He is after all, a very good human being, who is generous and spiritual to the core.
I have never seen him discuss money ever.
After seeing him over the years, I am quite certain that money never motivated him. I am also quite certain that he takes a lot of decisions on instinct or hunch. If he feels it is right, he will just follow through with the decision.
Shah Rukh Khan has a sharp business sense, he knows what will generate money in the long run. For example: He was one of the first big investors in the IPL even though he knew that it won’t make him money immediately and will massively drain his resources. But he had a long-term goal and followed his hunch and went against all advice asking him not to pick up the stakes in KKR. Incidentally KKR was the first IPL team to turn profitable.
He knows the power of his brand (Brand SRk) and he knows how to succesfully milk it.
Edit 4: He is very big on charity. He had funded and helped create an entire children’s cancer ward at Nanavati hospital in Mumbai. His charities are no less than any other superstar in Mumbai. But then Shah Rukh Khan follows the doctrine that if your “right hand is doing charity, the left hand shouldn’t know”. He never ever talks about his charity. But take it from me that he is very big on it.
Somebody (actually we did) passed on the news of his accident to Shah Rukh. Shah Rukh was not in the country so he didn’t respond initially.
He came back to India, received the communication (sent to him on his mobile) and ordered his representative to clear all the hospital bills. His representatives just made an online transfer of funds and in one day, all his dues were nil.
His representatives also spoke to the hospital authorities and asked them to continue the line of treatment and mail them a scanned copy of the invoice. In the end, the journalist went home and the entire hospital expenses were borne by SRK’s company. Shah Rukh Khan or his company never gave a statement about it. It was done silently and effectively. That day I understood how his charity works. Consider this a dark secret too.
For all of you who are expecting plain gossip in the garb of ‘dark secrets’, please let us not encourage this trend that has become a staple for many Bollywood portals to earn money.
I personally despise people who want us (journalists) to reveal salacious gossip about stars. I am not one of them.
Shah Rukh Khan is one one of the most respected stars in the world today and I want him to be that way.
Huge respect for this man who has made it on his own in Bollywood.
Last Edit: Kindly note, I will not add anymore edits to this answer because it has already become very long.
This is just a great piece. You’re right, most of this has been said by Shah Rukh himself or others but to collect it like this is just an amazing read.
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2019-04-23T06:00:27Z
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https://bollywoodjournalist.com/2017/05/03/what-are-some-dark-secrets-of-shah-rukh-khan/
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Eurostar links London and the South East to Lille, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam on a daily basis, plus seasonal services to Disneyland Paris, Lyon, Avignon and Marseille, and ski resorts in the French Alps. Interchange at Lille for many French destinations, Brussels Midi stations for destinations in Germany and Benelux, or by changing stations in Paris for many French cities and selected destinations in Switzerland, Italy and Spain (please allow sufficient time when changing trains and/or stations).
Booking early can save you money - Eurostar tickets are usually released 180 days before travel. For the cheapest fares, book off-peak tickets online as soon as they go on sale; the lowest fares from St Pancras are most likely to be available for departures from noon on Monday until the last service on Thursday, and for Saturday services from noon onwards. If you can't book that far in advance, check the very earliest and latest trains – with the limited number of onward connections, they tend to be less in demand. Middle-of-the-day services are also cheaper. Alternatively, if you are flexible of the time of travelling, book in advance with Eurostar Snap, identify the day you want to travel and whether morning or afternoon, and you will be notified of your train time 48 hours before travel.
An Interrail pass covering the country at one or other end of your Eurostar journey will entitle you to a discounted Eurostar fare.
Eurostar and some British train operators offer Eurostar tickets with through travel from 130 major stations in the UK. These are covered by 'Convention Internationale pour le transport des Voyageurs' (CIV) international railway conditions of carriage throughout, so if your UK connection is delayed you can take the next available Eurostar train - see The Man in Seat 61.
If you buy the connecting journey in the UK separately, make sure the ticket from your home station is to 'London St Pancras International (CIV)', 'London International' or 'London Eurostar' (not 'London St Pancras International'). The ‘CIV’ ticket guarantees you a seat on the next available Eurostar train if your UK train is delayed. Without a CIV ticket, unless your Eurostar ticket is flexible, you would have to buy a new Eurostar ticket. The CIV ticket allows travel to London St Pancras, including the tube if necessary. On some routes the CIV ticket is cheaper than a normal anytime ticket but has no time restrictions; on other routes both anytime (without time restrictions) and 'high saver' (cheaper but with time restrictions) tickets are available. The 'London St Pancras International (CIV)' and 'London International' versions can be bought with a railcard; the 'London Eurostar' version cannot, but is cheaper than the others. For more details and to buy tickets see The Man in Seat 61 – CIV tickets can also be bought from Raileasy or Loco2 or Eurostar, and can be bought at your station booking office (either on the day or before) if you show your Eurostar ticket or confirmation. They can not be bought from the normal rail ticket websites, ticket vending machines or by phone.
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Heathrow Express (with a premium fare) and Heathrow Connect (part of TfL Rail since May 2018) offer services to Paddington. Railcard discounts are allowed, but (aside from the Disabled Persons Railcard) only if bought from the ticket office, for travel today or up to 2 days ahead, and not on carnet tickets. Tickets on Heathrow Express can be bought on the train, but at extra cost. The Piccadilly line provides a cheaper but slower route to central London.
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Gatwick Express offers a frequent non-stop service to and from London Victoria, but is more expensive and very little faster than the regular Southern services to London and Thameslink services to Bedford, Peterborough and Cambridge calling at principal stations enroute.
Great Western Railway operates an hourly service from Reading which is convenient for connections from the West of England, South Wales and the Midlands. GWR also offers a Gatwick Flyaway ticket from GWR served stations on routes not via London at a fixed price for a group of 2, 3 or 4 adults and up to 4 children.
Stansted Express offers low-cost advance and group fares between Stansted and London. CrossCountry Trains operate an hourly direct service from Birmingham, via Leicester and Peterborough, taking 3 hours, but fares can be rather expensive - it can be cheaper and sometimes faster via London.
Many other UK airports are easily accessible by rail, for example Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London City, Manchester, Southampton.
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Stena Line, Irish Ferries and Transport for Wales offer Sailrail combined rail and ferry tickets to Ireland via Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock routes, available online, or from any TfW station booking office or by telephone 0333 321 1202.
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a special bus takes foot passengers from the ferry terminal to the city centre. You need to pay the exact fare, which is low.
Dublin Bus number 53 (one an hour) also calls at the ferry port and takes passengers to Connolly station in the city centre, much more cheaply than by taxi.
Stena Line operates the route. ATW operates the Cardiff-Fishguard Harbour rail service. Irish Rail operates the Rosslare to Dublin rail service.
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ATW operates the Cardiff-Rembroke Dock rail service. Irish Rail operates the Rosslare to Dublin rail service.
Steam Packet operates services from Belfast, Birkenhead, Dublin, Heysham and Liverpool to Douglas.
Stena Line operates a service from Harwich to Hoek van Holland. There are two sailings a day. The day sailings have through train connections to/from London to Harwich International with connections via Manningtree nationally.
The night sailing has through train connections to and from London via Colchester and to and from Cambridge via Newmarket, Bury St. Edmunds and Ipswich direct to Harwich International. The night fares include a very comfortable cabin.
The transfer is direct from train to ship and vice versa. These ferries are amongst the largest in the world and very comfortable.
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Any EU citizen over 65 years old can travel FREE anywhere on the Hungarian Railways domestic network. Yes, unlimited free travel in Hungary! You still need to go to the ticket office and get a free ticket to your chosen destination, and you must still pay any fast train supplement. Or you can book online at www.mavcsoport.hu/en, looking for the 'Full fare' drop-down menu and selecting 'Person over 65'. If you want 1st class you must pay the difference between 1st and 2nd class fares before boarding. Trams and buses are also free if you're over 65.
Fares vary hugely in America but an economical option is a USA Rail Pass from Amtrak for 30 days, during which you can take 12 “segments” or point-to-point journeys. You pay extra for anything more than a seat and you need to make reservations. You are restricted to four stops on any one line. A 15-day pass for eight segments is cheaper.
Deutsche Bahn UK Booking Centre. Tel: 08718 80 80 66 (8p per minute).
The Association of European Rail Agents is a group of 11 travel agents who specialise in international rail travel.
Passengers travelling by plane, ferry, train and coach have certain rights in the event of travel disruption. For further details see www.ec.europa.eu/passengerrights. There is also a European Passenger Charter agreed by UITP, the international association of public transport operators and authorities in the European Union, and the European Passenger Federation, an association of passenger organisations to which Railfuture is affiliated. However your rights as a passenger may change after the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019.
Changes to the details above can happen quickly so please check conditions and prices with your chosen travel provider before booking.
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Professors I. Baker, B. Cushman-Roisin, G. Cybenko, E. Garmire, T. U. Gerngross, R. J. Graves, J. J. Helble, W. Lotko, D. R. Lynch, L. R. Lynd, K. D. Paulsen, B. W. Pogue, L. R. Ray, E. Santos Jr., E. M. Schulson, S. Taylor; Professors Emeriti A. O. Converse, C. E. Hutchinson, F. E. Kennedy, H. J. Richter, B. U. O. Sonnerup, G. B. Wallis; Associate Professors H. J. Frost, E. W. Hansen, M. Q. Phan, C. R. Sullivan, B. S. Trembly; Assistant Professors M. E. Ackerman, M. E. Borsuk, S. G. Diamond, K. E. Griswold, J. Liu, K. Odame, R. Olfati-Saber; Senior Lecturers J. P. Collier, P. J. Hoopes, R. C. Lasky, C. G. Levey, S. P. McGrath, V. F. Petrenko, P. J. Robbie, J. M. Rosen, S. G. Shepherd; Lecturers V. H. Berk, D. C. Cullen, E. Fossum, K. Hoyt, M. S. Laser, V. V. May, S. O. Peterson, F. Shubitidze, D.W. Van Citters, L. Wissel.
The undergraduate Engineering Sciences major leads to an A.B. degree. It pro-vides engineering students with a common core of Science and Engineering Sciences courses. Interest in the various branches of engineering is accommodated through electives and usually through additional study leading to a Bachelor of Engineering or higher degree. For those students considering careers in such diverse fields as medicine, management, or law, the Engineering Sciences major enables them to better understand our increasingly technological society.
Students interested in a career in Engineering should plan on completing the Bachelor of Engineering or Master’s program. The Bachelor of Engineering degree program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, 111 Market Place, Suite 1050, Baltimore, MD 21202-4012 - telephone (410) 347-7700; it is equivalent in technical content to the Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering offered at many other universities but is broader in scope. It requires 10 courses in Natural Science, Mathematics, and Engineering beyond the requirements of the major in Engineering Sciences, and typically requires up to three terms in residence beyond the 12 terms required for the A.B. degree. Students who enter Dartmouth with advanced standing may be able to complete the B.E. at the same time as the A.B. (i.e., in four years).
The graduate degrees are differentiated according to function. For those interested in design, professional practice, and engineering management, the M.E.M. degree is offered; for those interested primarily in research, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Additionally a joint M.D./Ph.D. program is offered in conjunction with the Dartmouth Medical School and a joint M.E.M./M.B.A. program with the Tuck School of Business. The Thayer School Guide to Programs and Courses should be consulted for detailed information on all graduate programs (B.E. and above).
Several engineering sciences courses have few or no prerequisites and may be taken by first-year students exploring a potential interest in the major, or by non-majors seeking to broaden their education with the study of technology. These courses include Engineering Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 31, 37, and 51.
Undergraduate courses up to Engineering Sciences 86 satisfy the Technology and Applied Sciences distributive requirements (TAS). Some also satisfy the distributive laboratory requirement (TLA). For those students interested in an introduction to technology and applied sciences one of the courses Engineering Sciences 1 through 13 is recommended.
The sequential nature of the Engineering Sciences curriculum, and the possibilities for developing modified majors with other departments require that students plan their study programs well in advance. Assistance in planning programs may be obtained from an engineering faculty advisor.
All first-year students interested in the sciences should take the placement test in mathematics. The prerequisite courses for the Engineering Sciences major are Mathematics 3, 8, 13, Physics 13, 14, plus Engineering Sciences 20 and Chemistry 5. Computer Science 5 can be substituted for Engineering Sciences 20. For students prepared for advanced placement in Calculus it is advisable to take the sequence, Mathematics 8 and 13, or Mathematics 11.
Unless otherwise prohibited, prerequisites for the major may be taken under the Non-Recording Option. No more than two transfer courses may be used for credit in the major.
1. Engineering Sciences 21, 22, and 23 are required.
2. Two from Engineering Sciences 24, 25, 26, and 27.
3. Two from Engineering Sciences 31 or 32; 33 or 34; 35 or 36; or 37.
Two additional courses are required.
4. One elective in Engineering Science.
5. One elective in Engineering Science, mathematics or a science course.
A Culminating Experience in Engineering Sciences is required. This can be taken instead of one of the electives or as an additional course. The culminating experience may be: a project or a thesis, Engineering Sciences 86, 88 or 89 (formerly 190) (Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190) must be taken as part of the two-course design sequence Engineering Sciences 89/90 (formerly190/290); or an advanced engineering sciences course with a significant design or research project, normally taken in the senior year, chosen from an approved list. Consult the Engineering Sciences Department for the most recent list.
Only Engineering Sciences courses numbered above 20 (excluding 80 and 87) may be counted as electives in the major.
Students seeking to complete the A.B. and B.E. degrees concurrently should note that Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190) may also be counted toward requirements for the B.E. program.
Satisfactory completion of the major requires a grade point average of 2.0 in the courses suitable for satisfying the major (other than those prerequisite to the major). The same criterion holds for both courses in a modified major and those in a minor.
The courses in the third tier of the core Engineering Sciences (31-37) serve as introductions to different areas of engineering. These courses and other electives are offered to allow students to shape their programs to reflect interests in one of the usual branches of engineering or in accordance with their own special interests. In Mechanical Engineering, the normal third tier core courses and electives are Engineering Sciences 33, 34 and 76; in Electrical Engineering, Engineering Sciences 31, 32, 61 and 62; in Computer Engineering, Engineering Sciences 31, 62, 63 (see also modified major below); in Environmental Engineering, Engineering Sciences 37, 41, 42 and 43 (see also modified major below); in Materials Science, Engineering Sciences 33 and 73; in Chemical Engineering, Engineering Sciences 34, 35, 36 and 37 (see also modified major below); in Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Sciences 35 and 56. Students interested in Chemical Engineering are advised to elect Chemistry 6, 57, and 61 in addition to their engineering courses, and to consult Professor Lynd in formulating their program.
The biomedical engineering major is offered to students interested in either medical school or graduate studies in biomedical engineering. Faculty from Thayer School and Dartmouth Medical School jointly advise the research projects.
Prerequisites are Mathematics 3, 8, 13, Physics 13, 14, Chemistry 5-6 or 10, plus Engineering Sciences 20 and Biology 11. Computer Science 5 can be substituted for Engineering Sciences 20.
The biomedical engineering major consists of five engineering science courses, Engineering Sciences 21 and 22, one additional core course chosen from Engineering Sciences 23, 24, 25, 26 or 27, one gateway course chosen from Engineering Sciences 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 or 36 and Engineering Sciences 56 or one additional course chosen from Engineering Sciences 23, 24, 25 or 26; four biology and chemistry courses, two from Biology 12, 13, 14 and Chemistry 51-52 or 57-58 and one biochemistry or engineering science elective* chosen from Biology 40 or Chemistry 41, or an engineering science course numbered 23 or above.
A culminating experience is required. It may be an independent project or honors thesis, Engineering Sciences 86 or 88, or one of the following courses in biotechnology or biomedical engineering, Engineering Sciences 160, 161, 162, 165 or 167.
* Effective with the Class of 2011, students wishing to pursue the BE degree are advised to choose an Engineering Sciences course as their elective.
Prerequisites are Mathematics 3, 8 and 13, and Physics 13 (or Physics 3 and 4), and 14. The required courses are Engineering Sciences 20 (or Computer Science 5), 21, 22 and two Engineering Sciences undergraduate courses numbered above 20 (excluding 80 and 87). Students should note that some Engineering Sciences courses require prerequisites in addition to those noted. No engineering sciences course above 20 may be taken under the Non-Recording Option.
Prerequisites are Mathematics 3 and 8, and Physics 13 or Physics 3 and 4. The required courses are four Engineering Sciences courses numbered above 20 (excluding 87), to include Engineering Science 21 or 22, or both. Students should note that many Engineering Sciences courses, including Engineering Sciences 22, require prerequisites in addition to Mathematics 8 and Physics 13. No engineering sciences course above 20 may be taken under the Non-Recording Option.
The minor in Materials Science is sponsored by faculty in Chemistry, Physics and Engineering with an interest in interdisciplinary education and research in materials science.
The Department of Engineering Sciences and the Department of Physics and Astronomy offer a major in Engineering Physics. This major features a 5/5 split in courses, unlike a modified major which requires six courses from one field and four from the other.
The Engineering Physics major is a ten-course program consisting of three Engineering Sciences core courses (Engineering Sciences 22, 23, 24); three Physics core courses (Physics 19, 24, 43 [Students taking Physics 15 and 16 should substitute a third physics elective for Physics 19]); and four electives, two from each department. Two electives must be selected from the following list: Engineering Sciences 25, 33, 34; Physics 42, 68, 91; Physics 73 or Engineering Sciences 131; Physics 66 or Engineering Sciences 120; Physics 44 or Engineering Sciences 140. The other two electives* may be courses from the Engineering Sciences Department (numbered above 20, excluding Engineering Sciences 80 and 87) or courses from the Physics and Astronomy Department which fulfill the straight physics major.
A culminating experience is required in the major which can be taken instead of one of the electives above. It must be one of the following: a project or a thesis, Engineering Sciences 86, 88 or 190 (Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190)** must be taken as part of the two-course design sequence Engineering Sciences 89/90 (formerly 190/290); or an advanced engineering sciences course with a significant design or research project, normally taken in the senior year, chosen from an approved list. Consult the Engineering Sciences Department for the most recent list) or Physics 68, 72, 73, 74, 76, 82, 87, including the senior honors thesis option.
All major programs require an average GPA of 2.0 in all courses counted toward the major, including prerequisites.
For more information contact Professor Hudson (Physics and Astronomy) or Professors Lotko or Levey (Engineering Sciences).
** Prior to enrollment in ENGS 89 (formerly 190), at least six engineering sciences courses must be completed; Engineering Sciences 21 plus five additional courses numbered 22 to 76.
Diverse interests of students have, in the past, led to the construction of Engineering Sciences majors modified by courses in biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer sciences, physics, art, economics, or environmental studies.
The following specific modified majors have been established.
3. for the biology portion: Biology 13, plus three courses elected from Biology 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 45, 46, 61, 65, or 71 or Chemistry 51 or 57.
Students interested in the modified major with Biology should contact Professor Lynd.
2. for the Engineering Sciences portion: Engineering Sciences 22, 25 and 36 plus three courses elected from the following: Engineering Sciences 21, 23, 24, 26, 33, 34, 35, 37, 52, 91, 156, 158 (Engineering Sciences 91, 156 and 158 also satisfy the culminating experience requirement, see below.) Not more than two from 21, 35 and 37 may be counted toward the major.
3. for the Chemistry portion: Chemistry 51 or 57 and 75 plus two courses elected from Chemistry 41, 52 or 58, 63, 64, 67, 76.
4. the modified major must also include a culminating experience, which may be a project or a thesis, Engineering Sciences 86, 88 or 90 (formerly 190) (Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190) must be taken as part of the two-course design sequence Engineering Sciences 89/90 (formerly 190/290); or an advanced engineering sciences course with a significant design or research project, normally taken in the senior year, chosen from an approved list. Consult the Engineering Sciences Department for the most recent list.
Students interested in the modified major with Chemistry should contact Professor Lynd.
1. as prerequisites: Mathematics 3, 8, and 13; Computer Science 5; Computer Science 8, 15 or 18 (Computer Science 15 and 18 are no longer offered, can be used as prerequisites by students who took them previously); Physics 13 and 14; and Chemistry 5.
2. for the modified major required courses include: Engineering Sciences 22, 27 31, Computer Science 23, plus Engineering Sciences 23 or 24.
3. for the modified major, breadth options include: a total of five courses from Groups A, B, and C with at least one course from each of the groups and three of the courses must be Computer Science courses; Group A includes Engineering Sciences 32, 62, 63, Computer Science 37; Group B includes Engineering Sciences 26, 68, 92 (Engineering Sciences 63 and 92 also satisfy the culminating experience requirement, see below), Computer Science 78; Group C includes Engineering Sciences 91, Computer Science 25, 52, 58.
4. the modified major must also include a culminating experience, which may be a project or a thesis, Engineering Sciences 86, 88 or 89 (formerly 190) (Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190) must be taken as part of the two-course design sequence Engineering Sciences 89/90 (formerly 190/290); or an advanced engineering sciences course with a significant design or research project, normally taken in the senior year, chosen from an approved list. Consult the Engineering Sciences Department for the most recent list.
Students interested in the modified major with Computer Science should con-tact Professor Cybenko.
3. for the Earth Sciences portion: Four Earth Sciences courses, numbered above 10.
Students interested in the modified major with Earth Sciences should contact Professor Schulson.
2. for the Engineering Sciences portion: Engineering Sciences 22, 25, 37 and three of the following: Engineering Sciences 27, 34, 35, 36, 41, 43, 44, 52, 171, 172, with at least two courses from among 41, 43, 44.
3. for the Environmental Sciences portion: four courses from the following list, with at least two courses from one department. Biological Sciences 21 or 51 (but not both), 22, 25, 53 (formerly 23); Chemistry 51, 63; Earth Sciences 16 (formerly 26), 65, 66, 71, 76; Environmental Studies 12, 20, 25, 55, 79. Additional requirements: Chemistry 51 is permitted only as a prerequisite to Chemistry 63.
Students interested in the modified major with Environmental Sciences should contact Professor Cushman-Roisin.
3. for the Economics portion: two courses among Economics 20, 21, 22, and a two-course sequence in Money and Finance (Economics 26 and 36), Industrial Organization (Economics 25 and 45), or (Economics 25 and 35), or International Trade (Economics 29 and 39).
1. as prerequisites: Mathematics 3, 8 and 13; Physics 13 and 14; Engineering Sciences 20 or Computer Science 5; Chemistry 5; a course in statistical data analysis, such as Economics 10, Sociology 10, or Mathematics 10.
2. for the Engineering Sciences portion: Engineering Sciences 21 and 22, plus one course selected from Engineering Sciences 23-27, one course selected from Engineering Sciences 31-37, one course selected from Engineering Sciences 41, 43, 44, 51, 52, 56 and one Engineering Sciences course numbered above 20.
3. for the Public Policy portion: Public Policy 5, plus at least one Public Policy methods course, such as: Public Policy 40-48 or Economics 20, and at least one course from a policy track. These are typically mid-level courses in Public Policy or related departments, and cannot include Engineering Sciences courses. Possible tracks include: Environment and Public Policy; Health and Public Policy; Natural resources and Public Policy; and Science/technology and Public Policy. The Rockefeller Center maintains a list of suggested offerings in these areas.
Students interested in the modified major with Public Policy should contact Professor Helble.
3. for the studio art portion: Studio Art 15 and 16, plus two upper level studio art courses.
Students interested in the modified major with Studio Art should contact Professor Robbie.
Normally, other modified major programs will contain at least three of the following Engineering Sciences core courses: 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 or 37 (plus two Engineering Sciences electives.) The modified major must also include a culminating experience; this can be taken instead of one of the electives or as an additional course. The culminating experience may be: a project or a thesis, Engineering Sciences 86, 88 or 89 (formerly 190) (Engineering Sciences 89 (formerly 190) must be taken as part of the two-course design sequence Engineering Sciences 89/90 (formerly 190/290); or an advanced engineering sciences course with a significant design or research project, normally taken in the senior year, chosen from an approved list. Consult the Engineering Sciences Department for the most recent list. A coherent program of study with a substantial engineering content but not including all or any of the above courses may be approved (by the Department Chair) as a modified major based in another department, or as a special major.
All modified Engineering Sciences majors must be approved by the Chair of the Engineering Sciences Department.
During their junior or senior year, students may apply for admission to the Hon-ors Program in Engineering Sciences. The application must be filed no earlier than the second week of the fall term in the junior year and no later than the second week of the winter term in the senior year. Con-tact the Chair of the Engineering Sciences Department for details. Admission to the Honors Program may be granted to those students who have attained an overall grade point average of 3.0, and a grade point average of 3.33 in the major.
The main requirement of the Honors Program is the completion of an honors project. The project, a creative activity suitable to the major subject, is not restricted to experimental work but can equally take the form of a theoretical investigation. Much of the development of the honors project will normally take place within the framework of Engineering Sciences 88, the Honors Thesis. (Engineering Sciences 88 also fulfills the requirement for a culminating experience in the major.) Upon completion of the project, the student will submit a written thesis and give an oral presentation. Those students who satisfactorily complete the Honors Program with a ‘B+’ average or better and have a grade point average of 3.3 or higher in the major at the time of graduation, will earn Honors recognition in the major. High Honors will be granted to those students who, in addition, have taken two engineering science courses beyond those required for the major (excluding courses under 20), have attained a grade point average of 3.50 in all engineering courses, and have completed outstanding independent work. A vote of the Department is also required prior to awarding High Honors. Students may begin their project the previous term by enrolling in Engineering Science 87, Undergraduate Investigations. An interim evaluation of honors students will be made after one term and continuation will be recommended for those students whose work demonstrates the capacity for satisfactory (B+) work. Students who satisfactorily complete the Honors Program will have entered on their permanent record Honors in Engineering Sciences, or High Honors in Engineering Sciences.
Many students majoring in engineering sciences enter Dartmouth College with course credits, proficiencies, or both, in a number of subjects resulting from exceptional preparation in high school. As a result, these students have increased elective freedom in choosing courses to satisfy their A.B. requirements.
The 100- and 200-level Engineering and Engineering Sciences courses described in this bulletin can be used to satisfy the A.B. degree requirements.
Election of 100- and 200-level Engineering and Engineering Sciences courses in excess of the undergraduate requirements for the major and for admission to any of Thayer’s post-A.B. programs will permit a student to be admitted to the Thayer School with advanced standing. Depending upon the number of elective opportunities, significant reduction in the time required to complete Thayer School’s graduate degree programs is possible.
The Faculty of the Thayer School believes that the education of all graduate students should include reasonable breadth in the areas of applied mathematics and engineering.
1. The requirement is nine approved graduate-level courses, five of which must be engineering courses. For students whose prior preparation is an accredited B.S. or B.E. in Engineering, or equivalent, the requirement is six graduate-level courses beyond those required for the B.S.
c. Minimum of three courses in engineering depth.
3. A thesis approved by the student’s graduate committee and the faculty, demonstrating the ability to do research and contribute to the field.
4. An oral defense of the thesis.
A faculty advisor will be appointed for each candidate to aid in developing his or her program. The individual course of study must be submitted to, and be approved by, the Thayer School Graduate Committee, during the student’s first term of residency. The thesis must be approved by a thesis committee. The thesis committee generally consists of three faculty members from the student’s department/program of study (including the thesis advisor). One of the three may be from outside the department/program, but this is not a requirement. Copyright to theses will be held by the Trustees of Dartmouth College.
For students recommended for the award of the M.S. degree, the faculty may also recommend the award of the B.E. degree if a substantial portion of the student’s undergraduate program was taken at Dartmouth or in one of its official exchange programs and, if in meeting M.S. requirements, the ABET criteria for the award of the B.E. are also satisfied. Students wishing to take advantage of this opportunity should plan their M.S. programs appropriately. At least one term prior to the scheduled M.S. thesis defense, the B.E./M.S. candidate submits a Bachelor of Engineering program plan approved by both their advisor and the Director of the Bachelor of Engineering program to the Registrar.
The M.S./M.D. program is offered by the Thayer School of Engineering and Dartmouth Medical School and is designed for individuals intending to pursue clinical practice but with an interest in developing research skills in a related engineering area. It is also well suited for individuals interested in developing better understanding of imaging and other technologies they will employ as practicing physicians. The program provides M.D. students with a funded research experience in engineering that is expected to lead to research publication as well as provide practical engineering design and analysis experience.
Individuals holding an undergraduate degree in engineering and meeting the entrance requirements of each school are eligible to apply. Application must be made to each school separately.
Candidates are M.D. students who apply to the Thayer School for admission in their first, second or third year of medical school. Studies for the Thayer M.S. will be carried out in the fourth and part of the fifth year.
For specific program requirements, please consult the Thayer Guide to Programs and Courses or the Thayer website at: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/.
b. annual participation in the Research-in-Progress Workshop, for which each Candidate in residence presents his or her individual research progress.
5. Professional competence in resource development for a research project or technology startup enterprise, as demonstrated by completion of a competitive research proposal or business plan for a technology startup company. The proposal or business plan may be developed either independently or as part of the Competitive Proposal Workshop.
d. public oral presentation and defense of the dissertation.
Thayer School offers a Ph.D. Program in Innovation, which supplements the student’s engineering research with specific coursework and practice in applying entrepreneurial skills to move research discoveries to market. Students in the Program in Innovation meet all requirements for admission to candidacy and full admission to the Ph.D. program, including passing an oral qualifying examination and defending a Ph.D. thesis proposal. Specific requirements for the candidates in the Program in Innovation can be found in the Thayer School Guide to Programs and Courses.
Thayer School of Engineering and the Dartmouth Medical School offer an M.D./Ph.D. program in biomedical engineering. Students must apply to the Medical School, indicating their interest in the joint program. The requirements for the Ph.D. portion of the program are modified to permit a more efficient completion of the dual degree program.
A student may begin by first pursuing two years of study in basic science at the Medical School. Enrollment in Thayer School for two years follows, during which the student would take courses, qualify for Ph.D. candidacy, pass the oral examination, and initiate dissertation research. Alternately, some students prefer to satisfy basic Ph.D. requirements before starting medical school. The research would then be continued in concert with years 3 and 4 of the M.D. program (the clinical years), especially during year 4 where dissertation research would be counted as elective courses toward the M.D. Both degrees are awarded simultaneously after typically 6 to 6 1/2 years of study.
1. Residence at Thayer School for a minimum of five terms after the Bachelor’s degree, at least one of which occur after successful completion of the Oral Examination. Residence requires three terms of participation in the weekly Thayer Seminar on Applied Science and Technology.
2. Technical proficiency in principles and methods of engineering, applied science, and applied mathematics underlying the anticipated thesis research, as evidenced by performance on an oral qualifying examination. The examination covers at least three fundamental areas selected by the Candidate in consultation with his or her special advisory committee and approved by the graduate program committee.
4. Specialization with mastery at an advanced level of the body of knowledge pertaining to the Candidate’s chosen area of research, as demonstrated by the successful oral defense of a thesis proposal, and by completion of a program of study approved by the M.D./Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering Committee. The extent and content of this program are designed to meet the individual interests and needs of the Candidate.
b. a dissertation of professional quality certified by the Candidate’s thesis committee. The Thesis Committee consists of a minimum of three full-time faculty members from the student’s department/program of study (including the thesis advisor) and one with an appointment outside the department/program, preferably outside of Dartmouth.
A Ph.D. in computer science is offered by the graduate program in Computer Science, including some Thayer School faculty. See section entitled Computer Science for details.
Effective with the Class of 2011, students wishing to pursue the BE degree are advised to choose an Engineering Sciences course as their elective.
Effective with the Class of 2011, students wishing to pursue the BE degree are advised to choose an Engineering Sciences course as their elective, and to choose Engineering Sciences 165 for their culminating experience.
Prior to enrollment in ENGS 89 (formerly 190), at least six engineering sciences courses must be completed; Engineering Sciences 21 plus five additional courses numbered 22 to 76.
ENGS 91, ENGS 92, ENGS 93 (formerly 103), ENGS 100, ENGS 104, ENGS 105, ENGS 106, ENGS 200, ENGS 202, ENGS 205.
The oral examination, procedures for demonstrating technical breadth, thesis proposal, and work-shop to facilitate development of a competitive research proposal or business plan are described in more detail in the Thayer School Guide to Programs and Courses.
The oral examination, procedures for demonstrating technical breadth, and thesis proposal are described in more detail in the Thayer School Guide to Programs and Courses.
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Here are what I believe to be the 100 best fantasy books ever written. But keep in mind you are getting nothing more than my opinion. For most of us, the Age of Wonder occurs when we are between 13 and 20 years old. The books we read then, being our first encounter with certain imaginative motifs, often leave the greatest impression, so it should come as no surprise that my list is filled with mostly (though not all) older books.
In the last few years, I’ve been pursuing the books mentioned in Cawthorne and Moorcock’s Fantasy, the 100 Best Books. Some have been quite good, but many left me cold, and I can only attribute their inclusion in the volume as books seen through the dim haze of the authors’ younger days. Undoubtedly, you will have a similar opinion on some of the books in my list.
One other thing that you should be aware of: because I grew up reading Ballantine Books Sign of the Unicorn fantasy series during my teenage years, my expectations are that a fantasy novel should be quite different from anything I have read before. That’s hard to understand in these days where so many books follow similar premises. And it also explains why there may be a number of your favorites not listed. That, and the fact that I haven’t read everything, of course.
The books listed below are those I think fantasy readers would enjoy, and ones that those wishing to be fantasy writers should definitely be familiar with. I list them in the order they came to mind, not in any ranking.
An obvious choice, but not so much as it once was. In recent years, I have encountered younger readers who don’t understand “the big deal about The Lord of the Rings.” The problem with LOTR is that it was too successful, and the host of imitations caused many readers to read Tolkien’s work only after being exposed to his plot ideas (and even his characters) in other books. To understand what Tolkien accomplished, you must realize that when many of us read his books for the first time, it was our first meeting with dragons, dwarves, and elves. The parents of my generation didn’t read their children many fairy tales. My only memory of dwarves was a vague impression from Disney’s Snow White. When I began reading The Hobbit, I entered into a totally unfamiliar world, with no frame of reference about where Tolkien was getting his ideas. The effect was wonderful and devastating.
Though I have read some of the imitations, there is no better book of its kind, so much so that it is impossible for me to enjoy the imitators. I don’t want elves and orcs and dragons; I want Tolkien’s elves and orcs and dragons. He pulled together so many concepts: Norse Myth, English fairy tales, his linguistic background, to create a story that encompasses both high and low myth. To complete his story he gave his characters, who should by all rights be pre-Christian pagans, codes of honor based on knightly chivalry. That he created an entire genre of literature speaks of his originality.
A difficult read, but well worth the effort. Written before The Lord of the Rings, there are some beautiful images hidden away in this mythology that is the basis for Middle-Earth. Tolkien’s world works because he spent years developing its history; few other writers would have spent the time, but it was his hobby and his passion.
These books can be read in any order—they are radically different from one another, though both are set in the same world. In my opinion, Red Moon is a fantasy masterpiece. It is also the closest anyone ever came to creating a Tolkienian fantasy without consciously imitating Tolkien. Pictured is the beautiful, original full-cover artwork by Bob Pepper.
The Grey Mane of Morning is equally good, but in an entirely different way. The setting is tribal rather than medieval, a battle between the people of the plains and the dwellers of the city, with the tribe’s gods taking part. My simple description doesn’t do the book justice.
It’s a shame these books are so long out-of-print. Find them used, but by all means find them.
MacDonald was a writer of gentle, wise prose. Phantastes is difficult to describe, save as a journey through a faerie dreamland. A beautiful book I have read several times. A free ebook version is available on gutenberg.org.
At the Back of the North Wind is a children’s book, but don’t let that put you off. My hardback edition is over 300 pages long, so it’s not a “kid’s” book. The dialogue is sophisticated and filled with insights, as a small boy named Diamond meets the North Wind in the shape of a (sometimes) tall, beautiful woman. There are gorgeous passages in this book; the depictions of the god-like North Wind are truly awesome. Early in the book, Diamond becomes desperately ill and North Wind takes him to the Back of the North Wind (death). He spends time with the inhabitants there, and though he remembers little of it when he recovers, he has been touched by Heaven, and possesses wisdom beyond his years. As the book progresses, we are introduced to a little girl, Nanny, who becomes Diamond’s companion in adventure. MacDonald’s works radiate a deep respect for life, and especially, for women. This may well be his best book.
Chesterton was a brilliant writer in theology, fantasy and mysteries. Thursday is the story of a man infiltrating a fantastic spy organization. Any more would spoil the plot. Along that line, if you happen to get your hands on the rare Ballantine edition edited by Lin Carter, Lin puts a spoiler in his introduction. I have often wondered how the book would have struck me the first time through if he hadn’t.
These books, though I have only read them twice, have had a tremendous influence on my work in ways I can’t even explain. Set in a ruined castle in a mysterious kingdom, it is the strange, macabre characters that make the story a fantasy. The villain is arguable the most well-drawn bad guy in all of literature. Be warned: this is a difficult read, and some of the sub-plots are less interesting, but it is worth the time spent on the books, one of those where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Lord Dunsany was one of the great fantasy writers of the past century. Most people tend to list The King of Elfland’s Daughter as his greatest novel. I disagree. Though it is certainly a good book, it isn’t one of my favorites. Wise Woman, though short on the fantasy element, is a lovely book that makes one understand and even empathize with the English love of wandering the fields hunting game, living the life Baron Dunsany was intimately familiar with.
Even though they aren’t novels, I must also list Dunsany’s compilations of short stories. Dunsany was unsurpassed in the short form, one of the the world’s great, stylistic writers—inimitably simple prose—no one writes like Dunsany. Most of these books are available in various editions, including free editions at Project Gutenberg. I’ve listed the names of the original books, which Wildside Press has done a nice job of reprinting. Although it’s difficult to call one collection better than any of the others, the stories in Tales of Three Hemispheres or The Book of Wonder are two that stand out for me. Dip into Dunsany and you dip into the heart of fantasy.
This book begins with a quirk. Lessingham, looking up at the stars, finds himself transported to Mercury, where he witnesses the war between the kingdoms of Demonland and Witchland. The problem with the beginning is that Lessingham, the observer, plays no part at all after the introduction of the other characters around page 10. He is never mentioned again, though he does play a role in Eddison’s other books.
The second problem to be overcome is the names Eddison uses. Other than small horns on the tops of their heads, the people of Demonland are mortal men; the same is true for Witchland, Impland, etc. And the land of Mercury is filled with earthly animals and vegetation. For the reader, it is best to ignore the connotation of the names and plunge into one of the most heroic stories ever written. No deep psychology here. These are warriors fighting noble battles.
If you prefer to listen to this book on MP3, Jason Mills of England does a wonderful job reading the book. Worm is in the public domain, and the reading can be downloaded for free at www.librivox.org a terrific website manned by volunteer readers. Jason makes the prose sound even better than it is, and that’s saying a lot. I liked it so much I convinced Jason to read my rewrite of The Night Land for the audio book edition.
This book is a mystery I never intend to solve–not in the detective sense, however. It’s filled with allegory on the author’s own peculiar religious beliefs, none of which I understand, but I find the story fascinating, as the hero, Maskull, is transported to a world surrounding the star, Arcturus. As he travels through the world, his sense organs keep changing, and each change causes a change in his character. Don’t expect to understand the meaning of it all, but the ride is worth it.
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Rebel Wilson has been known for making people laugh, and it appears that she wants to do much more of this for her fans in 2019. She is getting off to a good start with a movie called “Isn’t it Romantic.” It is already getting a lot of us from moviegoers that are looking for a nice date night movie for Valentine’s Day.
That is the release date, and the trailers appear at the show Rebel Wilson as a reluctant romantic that does not have an ounce of interest in this rom-com genre that has swept America audiences and beyond. She is totally against the Prince Charming movie magic, but this does not stop her from getting trapped inside of a romantic comedy world.
Natalie is the character that Rebel Wilson plays, and it shows that she is debunking the myth of the romantic comedy while getting caught up in various scenes that may seem very familiar to people that love these types of movies. One cannot help but laugh at Rebel Wilson and her character’s interesting take on what appears to be almost a cookie-cutter romantic movie formula.
She has a great supporting cast inside in the romantic comedy world that includes a Prince charming Liam Hemsworth along with hopeless romantic friends and a gay best friend.
People that know romantic comedies well will laugh at the fact that so much of what happens inside of the film is true to form for the romantic comedy movies. It is enlightening for someone like Rebel Wilson to put an interesting spin on what a romantic comedy looks like when you take time to analyze the scenes and pay attention to all of the cookie cutter that continue to perpetuate a certain type of couple for a wide audience.
Rebel Wilson will make you laugh, but she also will make you think when you look at the fact that there is a standard type of woman that is picked for these roles even though the role tends to cater to a viewing audience that is very diverse. That is something that this movie points out as it makes you laugh through all of these different scenes.
Rebel Wilson has been making people laugh for a long time, and it certainly appears that she wants to continue on this track.
She has been in several movies and gained quite a bit of a fame, but people that are just seeing her for the first time will enjoy themselves. Many of the fans that she gains with Isn’t it Romantic will undoubtedly go back and check her other films that catapulted her to success.
After three decades working for large banks such as Barclays, Harry Harrison is blazing his own trail as the Founder and President of Anthemis Group. Starting his own digital financial services investment and advisory firm wasn’t easy as Mr. Harrison also had to find time to be a husband and father of two children. Recently, Mr. Harrison sat down with Ideamench to talk about a range of subjects, ranging from idea generation to collaboration, business trends and personal growth.
Early on in the interview, Harry Harrison asked about the genesis of his company. Mr. Harrison talked about his education at Cambridge University and his subsequent three decade career working for large banks such as Barclays. Mr. Harrison mentioned that it is curiosity that is his main driving force. And curiosity has driven Mr. Harrison to see if he could create his own digital financial services investment and advisory firm.
When asked about his typical day, Mr. Harrison answered that he really doesn’t have a set schedule. As an entrepreneur and financial services business founder, Mr. Harrison finds new challenges on a daily basis. Instead of having a fixed schedule, Mr. Harrison tries to find a balance between running his firm and being a husband and father. This type of work/life balance was a challenge when Mr. Harrison worked at Barclays. Now, that is running his own firm, Mr. Harrison is able to be more flexible with his time without compromising productivity.
When asked about how he brought his ideas to life, Mr. Harrison mentioned that it was a combination of diversity of thinking, humility in goal setting and intense collaboration that helps him execute ideas close to his vision. Using these combination of approaches, Mr. Harrison is able to motivate and guide his team to help bring big ideas to life.
Finally, Mr. Harrison was asked about what software or web service he likes to use to remain productive. The Anthemis Group Founder and President mentioned that Waze has been an invaluable addition to his life. The navigation app uses crowdsourcing information to help Mr. Harrison navigate through busy traffic and save valuable time to get to his job, make an appointment or get home to his family.
While traditional bookstores around the world are currently facing challenges as a result of declining sales and traffic, bookstores in China are experiencing a revival, which is credited to one of the biggest e-commerce platform in the country, JD.com. The platform has its own online book venture, but they are also providing help to 49 bookstores as far as logistics, book procurement, as well as technology. Providing solutions to book stores around China is part of JD.com’s strategy entitled “Retail as a Service”, under which they provide various services and necessary technology to companies from different industries.
The founder of Tangning Bookstore, Ningxin Lu talked about the partnership between JD.com and Tangning, stating that without the help of their technology as well as supply chain expertise, Tangning business would not have competitive advantage as far as the traditional mode is concerned. One significant partnership that resulted from the RaaS strategy has been between JD.com and Tangning Books. The two companies partnered in May of 2017, and they sourced all the books using JD’s inventory, and using the e-commerce platform’s in-house logistics ended up saving costs and also cutting on delivery delays.
As a result of the partnership, Tangning experienced an increase in sales of 30% from May to the end of the year, and its profits also increased by 17% over that period. Tangning Books was also able to reduce turnover from one year to 220 days, and having access to JD.com’s data analysis capabilities, Tangning now has insight about buying behaviors, and they are able to choose book assortments that are tailored to the company’s customer base, which in turn leads to more sales. While offline book stores have to deal with the fact that they can not stock every book that their customers might as for due to the limited space they have available, Tangning Books can now let customers scan QR codes for every book that they can not find in store, and they can get it delivered within 24h from the inventory of JD.com instead. This allows both companies to work together in order to create an endless aisle when it comes to the choices they offer their customers.
The businessman started CAOA in 1979. Currently, the firm operates in various parts in Brazil and the management is always seeking to expand it to other parts of the world. According to statistics for the automotive industry, CAOA is the largest manufacturer and distributor of vehicles in Latin America. Despite being a professional physician, Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade decided to invest in the automotive industry. He works as the chairman of the organization’s board of directors.
Before venturing into the sector, Dr. Carlos was one of the most renowned health professionals in Brazil. Earlier in his life, he visited a car dealership and paid some money as a pre-payment for a Ford Landau. Unfortunately, the business was closed due to bankruptcy before his car was delivered and he had to negotiate to get ownership of the dealership as compensation for the money he had paid. The deal was accepted and that became the start of a motor company, CAOA where the name was derived from the initials of his name.
Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade became part of the management team at the new firm. Years later, the company was ranked first among the other Ford dealerships in the country. After the legalization of imported cars in Brazil, CAOA ventured into the business. It started importing Renault vehicles and managed to sell the highest number of imported brands in the country. However, the partnership with the Renault brand manufacturers did not last for many years. Under the leadership of Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Andrade, CAOA has continued to expand its portfolios and that has had a positive impact on its sales revenue.
In 1998, CAOA partnered with Subaru and became the exclusive importer of the brand in the country. Another firm was doing the import business of the brand before the partnership between the two automotive companies. By the end of one year, the sales revenue of the Subaru brand tripled. One of the moves that gave CAOA international recognition is the partnership with the Hyundai brand. Before the partnership between CAOA and Hyundai was signed, two automotive firms had already failed.
There are many people who used to believe in the precious metals, particularly gold and silver. Due to several years of poor price action from the metals, many have lost hope and have tried their luck in other investments. Matt Badiali is one of the few investors who still sees value in both gold and silver. He feels both metals are undervalued and are going to be priced higher, rewarding patient investors. About Matt Badiali, he made his living as a geologist for over twenty years. Part of his geology education consisted of learning about the important factors that drove the supply and demand fundamentals of commodities. According to Matt both gold and silver may endure some more short-term pain, but in the long run, the fundamentals will ultimately play out, and investors who were patient enough to hold will be rewarded well.
The US dollar has appreciated very well this year, but this is usually not good for commodities. The dollar continuing to strengthen has been part of the reason that gold and silver have not done well. There are also numerous geological issues around the business world that are keeping investors worried. As long as the US dollar is perceived as a safe asset to hold, investors will continue to buy and hold dollars, which will continue to add to US dollar strength. Matt Badiali says that cryptocurrencies captured a lot of investment money that would have traditionally entered the precious metal’s market, which also was bad for gold and silver.
Matt Badiali feels that eventually, US dollar strength will not weigh so heavily on gold and silver. One trend he sees continuing over the coming years is that the US will keep adding to its enormous debt. This has always been very positive for gold and silver. Matt is forecasting inflation to pick up in a few years. Gold and silver will do extremely well in an inflationary environment. Mr. Badiali sees explosive gains in the precious metals industry and feels that it will be the underlying mining companies that deliver unbelievable returns. Mining shares will typically outperform the underlying commodity and allow investors to leverage a precious metals position.
Chris Burch known as the founder and also the CEO of his private investment company that is based out in New York called Burch Creative Capital. Chris has nearly 40 years experience as an investor and also as a entrepreneur. He has played a major role of growth for over 50 business companies, see it here at (Medium.com). Burch’s Idea is to help other entrepreneurs with using his knowledge and resources and basically that’s the concept in reasoning for his company Burch Creative Capital. Many services that Burch’s company represent is lifestyle, consumer products, retail, apparels, and other variety of things. Burch’s Private company expanded and gained attention from hotel resorts such as the Nihi Sumba Island. Chris Burch invested in the island along with his business partner James McBride. Nihi hotels is voted #1 the best Hotel In the globe in 2016 and 2017 according to Travel Leisure Magazine, click https://www.inc.com/magazine/201106/chris-burchs-latest-cool-company.html. Burch also involved himself into the growth of several technology and luxury brands. To name a few of the brands he’s tied into are Voss Water, Tory Burch, Jawbone and plenty more. Chris Burch’s business minded success started back when he was an undergraduate at Ithaca College in 1976. He invested in Eagle Eye’s apparel with his brother Bob investing $2,000 dollars. The business expanded then they sold it over to a company called as Swire Group For $60 Million.
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What relationship exists between OSI Group and McDonalds?
OSI Group is well known for being one of the largest food suppliers in the world. The company has 65 facilities within 17 countries, and it has more than 20,000 employees. The company rose from a humble background to a major corporate business in the world market. Since the company was established, it has continuously grown to be a leader when it comes to products of value-added proteins such as sausages, pizza, and hamburger.
OSI Group McDonalds is a relationship that exists between OSI Group & McDonalds. The owners of McDonalds signed an exclusive agreement with OSI Group to be the main supplier of fresh ground beef. As McDonalds was growing to other regions, OSI Group also expanded to those regions in order to meet the demands of the company. This made OSI Group expand from being a regional supplier to a global corporation.
The major focus of McDonalds is to provide their customers with consistent product. The primary product of McDonalds is hamburgers, and so the pressure was on OSI Group to produce consumer-driven, affordable, and consistent products that could easily be transported to various franchises of McDonalds. The technological breakthrough experienced in 1960s made it easier for OSI Group to supply consistent and more affordable products. This improved the OSI Group McDonalds relationship.
The flash freezing process brought about by technological breakthrough ensures that food is quickly frozen through the use of nitrogen. This established new opportunities for OSI Group in relation cost reduction and product expansion within the food industry. In 1973, OSI Group, built its subsidiary company in West Chicago with a primary aim of making it the sole supplier of OSI Group McDonalds product line. The subsidiary company is equipped with advanced machinery for preparing freezing hamburger patties.
The relationship between the OSI Group McDonalds relationship has attracted many customers and it has also increased production of hamburgers. The relationship has also enabled OSI Group to expand its services into the international market. It is currently the most vital provider of food in the world market.
Matt Badiali featured in a video which he introduced the public to “Freedom Checks.” In the video, he explained how people can benefit regardless of their age, their income or even the amount of savings they have in the bank. He expressed that freedom checks are likely to be the next cash grab the business world has ever witnessed.For a company to take part in this program, it must be generating 90 percent of its revenues from operating in the natural resource industry carrying out activities such the production, processing or distribution of oil or natural gas.Companies that fit this criterion should then engage in distributing the revenues collected to the investors through freedom checks.
The investment is open for everyone and there is no restriction of the minimum amount to invest.This great investment opportunity is referred to as the Master Limited Partnership (MLP). It is publically traded limited partnership consisting of 568 companies in the natural resources industry that are in compliance with the statute 26-F, that offers the condition for issuance of freedom checks, The companies enjoy tax free investment. An MLP company’s income is exempted from taxation until all its investors are paid their capital earnings. Some of the companies in the partnership engage in activities of searching for new wells.In 1987, the Congress enacted Statute 26-F that allows companies to present their shareholders with in intervals that they see fit.
More so, they have the mandate of operating as tax-free entities, which translates to more benefits for the stakeholders. The 90% of the revenues it collects is shared among the investors according to their level of initial investment. Matt Badiali is expecting that now since the general public is aware of this kind of investment, the MLPs might start making monthly or even quarterly payment through the checks.With the current decline of oil importation in the USA, American oil companies have increased their production levels to meet the rising demand. These factors are expected to increase the level of profits earned by the MLPs translating to fatter according to freedom checks for the shareholders. The process of purchasing the shares in an MLP is simple and so is the process of receiving the freedom check.
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THE heart of the Gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. They who preach this truth preach the Gospel in whatever else they may be mistaken; but they who preach not the atonement, whatever else they declare, have missed the soul and substance of the divine message. In these days, I feel bound to go over and over again the elementary truths of the Gospel. In peaceful times, we may feel free to make excursions into interesting districts of truth that lie far afield; but now we must stay at home and guard the hearths and homes of the church by defending the first principles of the faith. In this age, there have risen up in the church itself men who speak perverse things. There be many that trouble us with their philosophies and novel interpretations, whereby they deny the doctrines they profess to teach and undermine the faith they are pledged to maintain. It is well that some of us, who know what we believe and have no secret meanings for our words, should just put our foot down and maintain our standing, holding forth the Word of life and plainly declaring the foundation truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ...I have no desire to be famous for anything but preaching the old Gospel. There are plenty who can fiddle to you the new music. It is for me to have no music at any time but that which is heard in heaven: “To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (Rev 1:5-6).
I have found, my brethren, by long experience that nothing touches the heart like the cross of Christ. When the heart is touched and wounded by the two-edged sword of the Law, nothing heals its wounds like the balm that flows from the pierced heart of Jesus. The cross is life to the spiritually dead...When we see men quickened, converted, and sanctified by the doctrine of the substitutionary sacrifice, we may justly conclude that it is the true doctrine of atonement. I have not known men made to live unto God and holiness except by the doctrine of the death of Christ on man’s behalf. Hearts of stone that never beat with life before have been turned to flesh through the Holy Spirit causing them to know this truth...The story of the great Lover of the souls of men Who gave Himself for their salvation is still, in the hand of the Holy Ghost, the greatest of all forces in the realm of mind.
FIRST, THEN, WITH AS MUCH BREVITY AS POSSIBLE, I WILL SPEAK UPON THE GREAT DOCTRINE. The great doctrine, the greatest of all, is this: God, seeing men to be lost by reason of their sin, hath taken that sin of theirs and laid it upon His only begotten Son, making Him to be sin for us, even Him Who knew no sin. In consequence of this transference of sin, he that believeth in Christ Jesus is made just and righteous, yea, is made to be the righteousness of God in Christ. Christ was made sin that sinners might be made righteousness. That is the doctrine of the substitution of our Lord Jesus Christ on the behalf of guilty men.
Now consider, first, who was made sin for us? The description of our great Surety here given is upon one point only, and it may more than suffice us for our present meditation. Our substitute was spotless, innocent, and pure. “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin,” Christ Jesus, the Son of God, became incarnate—made flesh—and dwelt here among men; but though He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, He knew no sin. Though upon Him sin was laid, yet not so as to make Him guilty. He was not, He could not be a sinner: He had no personal knowledge of sin. Throughout the whole of His life, He never committed an offense against the great Law of truth and right. The Law was in His heart. It was His nature to be holy. He could say to all the world, “Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ” (John 8:46). Even His vacillating judge enquired, “And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” (Mat 27:23). When all Jerusalem was challenged and bribed to bear witness against Him, no witnesses could be found. It was necessary to misquote and wrest His words before a charge could be trumped up against Him by His bitterest enemies. His life brought Him in contact with both the Tables of the Law, but no single command had He transgressed. As the Jews examined the Paschal lamb before they slew it, so did scribes and Pharisees, and doctors of the Law, and rulers and princes examine the Lord Jesus without finding offense in Him. He was the Lamb of God, without blemish and without spot.
As there was no sin of commission, so was there about our Lord no fault of omission. Probably, dear brethren, we that are believers have been enabled by divine grace to escape most sins of commission; but I for one have to mourn daily over sins of omission. If we have spiritual graces, yet they do not reach the point required of us. If we do that which is right in itself, yet we usually mar our work...either in the motive, in the manner of doing it, or by the self-satisfaction with which we view it when it is done. We come short of the glory of God in some respect or other. We forget to do what we ought to do, or, doing it, we are guilty of lukewarmness, self-reliance, unbelief, or some other grievous error. It was not so with our divine Redeemer. You cannot say that there was any feature deficient in His perfect beauty. He was complete in heart, in purpose, in thought, in word, in deed, in spirit...No pearl has dropped from the silver string of His character. No one virtue has overshadowed and dwarfed the rest: all perfections combine in perfect harmony to make in Him one surpassing perfection.
Neither did our Lord know a sin of thought. His mind never produced an evil wish or desire. There never was in the heart of our blessed Lord a wish for any evil pleasure, nor a desire to escape any suffering or shame that was involved in His service. When He said, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” He never desired to escape the bitter potion at the expense of His perfect lifework. The “if it be possible” meant “if it be consistent with full obedience to the Father, and the accomplishment of the divine purpose.” We see the weakness of His nature shrinking and the holiness of His nature resolving and conquering as He adds, “nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will” (Mat 26:39). He took upon Him the likeness of sinful flesh, but though that flesh often caused Him weariness of body, it never produced in Him the weakness of sin. He took our infirmities, but He never exhibited an infirmity that had the least of blameworthiness attached to it. Never fell there an evil glance from those blessed eyes. Never did His lips let drop a hasty word. Never did those feet go on an ill errand or those hands move towards a sinful deed. Because His heart was filled with holiness and love within as well as without, our Lord was unblemished. His desires were as perfect as His actions. Searched by the eyes of Omniscience, no shadow of fault could be found in Him.
Yea, more, there were no tendencies about our Substitute towards evil in any form. In us, there are always those tendencies, for the taint of original sin is upon us. We have to govern ourselves and hold ourselves under stern restraint, or we should rush headlong to destruction. Our carnal nature lusteth to evil and needs to be held in as with bit and bridle. Happy is that man who can master himself. But with regard to our Lord, it was His nature to be pure, right, and loving. All His sweet wills were towards goodness. His unconstrained life was holiness itself: He was “the holy child Jesus.” The prince of this world found in Him no fuel for the flame that he desired to kindle. Not only did no sin flow from Him, but there was no sin in Him, or inclination, or tendency in that direction. Watch Him in secret, and you find Him in prayer. Look into His soul, and you find Him eager to do and suffer the Father’s will. Oh, the blessed character of Christ! If I had the tongues of men and of angels, I could not worthily set forth His absolute perfection! Justly may the Father be well pleased with Him! Well may heaven adore Him!
Beloved, it was absolutely necessary that anyone who should be able to suffer in our stead should himself be spotless. A sinner obnoxious to punishment because of his own offenses—what can he do but bear the wrath that is due to his own sin? Our Lord Jesus Christ as man was made under the Law; but He owed nothing to that Law, for He perfectly fulfilled it in all respects. He was capable of standing in the room, place, and stead of others because He was under no obligations of His own. He was only under obligations towards God because He had voluntarily undertaken to be the surety and sacrifice for those whom the Father gave Him. He was clear Himself, or else He could not have entered into bonds for guilty men.
Oh, how I admire Him! That being such as He was—spotless and thrice holy, so that even the heavens were not pure in His sight, and He charged His angels with folly—yet He condescended to be made sin for us! How could He endure to be numbered with the transgressor and bear the sin of many? It may be no misery for a sinful man to live with sinful men, but it would be a heavy sorrow for the pure-minded to dwell with a company of abandoned and licentious wretches. What an overwhelming sorrow it must have been to the pure and perfect Christ to tabernacle among the hypocritical, the selfish, and the profane! How much worse that He Himself should have to take upon Himself the sins of those guilty men! His sensitive and delicate nature must have shrunk from even the shadow of sin, and yet read the words and be astonished: “He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.” Our perfect Lord and Master bare our sins in His own body on the tree. He, before Whom the sun itself is dim and the pure azure of heaven is defilement, was made sin. I need not put this in fine words: the fact is itself too grand to need any magnifying by human language. To gild refined gold or paint the lily would be absurd, but much more absurd would it be to try to overlay with flowers of speech the matchless beauties of the cross.
The Lord God laid upon Jesus, Who voluntarily undertook it, all the weight of human sin. Instead of its resting on the sinner, who did commit it, it was made to rest upon Christ, Who did not commit it. And the righteousness that Jesus wrought out was placed to the account of the guilty, who had not worked it out, so that the guilty are treated as righteous. Those who by nature are guilty are regarded as righteous, while He who by nature knew no sin whatever was treated as guilty. I think I must have read in scores of books that such a transference is impossible. But the statement has had no effect upon my mind: I do not care whether it is impossible or not with learned unbelievers. It is evidently possible with God, for He has done it. But they say it is contrary to reason. I do not care for that either: it may be contrary to the reason of those unbelievers, but it is not contrary to mine...God saith it and I believe it. And believing it, I find life and comfort in it. Shall I not preach it? Assuredly, I will...Christ was not guilty and could not be made guilty. But He was treated as if He were guilty because He willed to stand in the place of the guilty. Yea, He was not only treated as a sinner, but He was treated as if He had been sin itself in the abstract. This is an amazing utterance! The sinless One was made to be sin.
Sin pressed our great Substitute very sorely. He felt the weight of it in the Garden of Gethsemane, where He sweat “and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” (Luke 22:44). The full pressure of it came upon Him when He was nailed to the accursed tree. There in the hours of darkness, He bore infinitely more than we can tell. We know that He bore condemnation from the mouth of man, so that it is written, “and was numbered with the transgressors” (Isa 53:12)...It was a cruel scorn that exhausted itself upon His blessed Person. This, I say, we know. We know that He bore pains innumerable of body and of mind: He thirsted, He cried out in the agony of desertion, He bled, He died. We know that He poured out His soul unto death and yielded up the ghost. But there was at the back, and beyond all this, an immeasurable abyss of suffering. The Greek Liturgy fitly speaks of “Thine unknown sufferings.” Probably to us they are unknowable sufferings. He was God as well as man. The Godhead lent an omnipotent power to the manhood, so that there was compressed within His soul and endured by it an amount of anguish of which we can form no conception...“He made him to be sin.” Look into the words. Perceive their meaning, if you can. The angels desire to look into it. Gaze into this terrible crystal. Let your eyes search deep into this opal, within whose jeweled depth there are flames of fire. The Lord made the perfectly innocent One to be sin for us. That means more of humiliation, darkness, agony, and death than you can conceive! It brought a kind of distraction and well nigh a destruction to the tender and gentle spirit of our Lord. I do not say that our Substitute endured hell: that were unwarrantable. I will not say that He endured either the exact punishment for sin or an equivalent for it. But I do say that what He endured rendered to the justice of God a vindication of His Law clearer and more effectual than would have been rendered to it by the damnation of the sinners for whom He died. The cross is under many aspects a more full revelation of the wrath of God against human sin than even Tophet and the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, (Rev 14:11). Who would know God’s hate of sin must see the Only Begotten bleeding in body and bleeding in soul even unto death. He must, in fact, spell out each word of my text and read its innermost meaning: “he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” Oh depth of terror, and yet height of love!...How acceptable with God must those be who are made by God Himself to be “the righteousness of God in him!” I cannot conceive of anything more complete.
As Christ was made sin and yet never sinned, so are we made righteousness, though we cannot claim to have been righteous in and of ourselves. Sinners though we be, and forced to confess it with grief, yet the Lord doth cover us so completely with the righteousness of Christ that only His righteousness is seen; and we are made the righteousness of God in Him. This is true of all the saints, even of as many as believe on His name. Oh, the splendor of this doctrine! Canst thou see it, my friend? Sinner though thou be and in thyself defiled, deformed, and debased; yet if thou wilt accept the great Substitute that God provides for thee in the Person of His dear Son, thy sins are gone from thee, and righteousness has come to thee. Thy sins were laid on Jesus, the scapegoat! They are thine no longer; He has put them away. I may say that His righteousness is imputed unto thee; but I go further and say with the text, “Thou art made the righteousness of God in him.” No doctrine can be more sweet than this to those who feel the weight of sin and the burden of its curse.
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2019-04-24T03:00:13Z
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My family calls me everyday from Philippines. I really missed them so much that a minute is not enough hearing my son says "Hello Daddy!". A three-minute call is the average time we spent over the phone, but sometimes it's longer when some intriguing "tsismis" gossips are spreading over the neighborhood.
Then the billing of my postpaid line (SMART) had finally arrived for the month of April. So I asked my wife how much was the cost of my Singapore loneliness. My hand was gripping tight at the sides of my chair hearing the values in 3..thou...sand...plus!!! Whattt???
My goodness, I learned that a minute call costs P15.00 (S$0.50) and a SMS Text Messaging is P9.00(S$0.30) from Philippines to Singapore. This is bad, totally bad for my budget.
Now, I bought a SIM card which is SMART Pinoy. It costs S$20.00 at the convenience store and I bought a top up load card worth S$15.
Where to buy the Smart Pinoy SIM?
You can buy the Smart Pinoy SIM and Top Up Cards at 7-eleven, Cheers and other stores. Some outlets don't sell these especially when the location has less Pinoys. To make it sure, the best places are inside the malls and markets.
How To Top Up Your Smart Pinoy Card?
What is the Call Rate?
This is quite tricky, I have been lured and enchanted by these rates. I will only tell you the cheapest and the 2nd to the cheapest. What do you want to know first?
021+Country Code+Area Code +Tel. No.
The rate is at S$0.65 (P22.00) per minute.
1561+Country Code+Area Code +Tel. No.
The rate is at S$0.34 at the first 2 minutes and S$0.16 thereafter. This is a great savings for you and your family.
When your family sends an SMS to your Smart Pinoy, it costs only P1.00 and your SMS to them is S$0.05.
Of course, you can also do the chatting by Skype, Yahoo Messenger or Facebook. This is only an option for you to consider.
here's another way to make cheaper calls... tell ur family to buy SUN idd sim card and load idd call card for 50 or 100pesos. 100 peso call card makes 60min call to singtel number or 50peso makes 25min call. ONLY call to singtel or overseas number as it is waaaaay expensive to answer phone calls using smart,globe and sun.
and if u want to send text sms to ur family, use chikka text messenger for free to their phones!
just have your extra philippine sim phone with u to receive their love at all times when they text.
Thanks emily, that is a cheaper way to do more communication. I use also chikka but it's limited to a PC only.
SMART Pinoy has new promo, they call it Pinoy DOS. My SMART Pinoy SIM will have a virtual Philippine number and Philippine Text and Call to Singapore will be at Philippine rate only. There is $2/month deduction on my side...I'll try it next week.
hello po... paano po magtext from pinas to singapore? yung smart number lang ba diretso o may iba pang number or character na dinadagdag? tapos yung incoming call from pinas may kaltas ba dito?
If Pinas calls Singapore with Pinoy DOS, Pinas pays at Philippine rate and Singapore will be deducted (not sure yet on how much).
If Singapore Smart Pinoy has no Pinoy DOS, use the +65 9xxx xxxx to call or text from Pinas. If with DOS, just call/text the SMART Pinoy virtual Philippine number.
Hi Ben, I just bought the smart pinoy dos. I used it to txt to a phil number in the phils immediately. The charge was sgd 1 instead of sgd .o5 as per retailer information. What happened?
Hey, it should be SGD0.05 text charge only to SMART/TNT. Please call (+65)6836 7648 for Smart Pinoy Hotline.
Not only in the philippines you can use this to call anywhere in the world but of course they have different rates per minutes. This is just like Skype that you normally buy credit, but our rate is cheaper and crystal clear quality.
i'm a telecom guy based in Lapulapu City, Cebu. what i'm gonna lead you is not very popular because it's still new.
hv u heard of iNum or DID? that's the key to your woes. DID is a local number (in your case, Singapore) but it's linked to a SIP device in the Philippines. if you're only interested to call one location, home, that would suffice. if to any phone in PH, that would require iNum.
i'm using MagicBox.PH, a SIP device connected to an ordinary phone. i'll post about DID and iNum in my blog next week. i'll cite an example how u can reach me for free. feel free to drop by my site. have a nice weekend.
anyone can tell me more about smart pinoy dos?
how can i know my virtual pil no.?
calling from PhiliPine with smart buddy, how much per/min?
send sms from PhiliPine with smart buddy, how much/sms?
just now i call to pinoy dos 24/7 customer service, then i just konw that it need to activate DOS service. text 'DOS ON' to 55550.
then you can receive 1 month activated 10 digits virtual philipine no., charge 2SGD. to this no. from Philipine will only be local time charge.
before i know that i give my wife 8 digits singapore no. and she call to me. then it charge IDD rate. her topup all gone very fast, dun know how much it is.
i told the customer service staff, that this activation instruction never printed on the SIM card and customer would have so much trouble.
try also iTalk BB, just 15 SGD a month unlimited call from SG to PH.
Exclusive for BB b yn?
Hi Ben A., is SMART PINOY better than Singtel Kababayan Sim? Thanks!
Sorry but I haven't used the Singtel SIM. But Smart Pinoy is alright. I'm still using it now to call/text to Philippines.
Hi Ben!kailangan ko po bang magactivated DOS ON every month or automatic na xa mgdediduct ng load ko for continous service?salamat po.
Thanks Ben, your article is really helpful. Just to make it clear, how come the format of the number is 1561+Country Code+Area Code +Tel. No. ? No need to add a + in front of the country code? How come there are different formats for calling? Are there different formats for texting too? You're sure it only costs 1 peso per sms when people in the Philippines text me? How much will it cost them to call me? Is it more expensive for me to call them or for them to call me? I am trying to reduce expenses for my family there. Thank you.
Does it also mean that even if I don't use the sim card for a certain month, $2 will still be deducted?
Hi, I made a post that answers your questions..Please read it here.
Thank you. But I went to 2 7 eleven stores at busy malls yesterday and they said they don't carry the card. Are there any places where I am more likely to find the card?
You can go to lucky plaza, there's a store selling this Smart Pinoy just beside the Metrobank Remittance at 3rd floor. If they don't have a stock, just visit some other stores around Lucky Plaza. Bring your passport.
Sorry, as far as I know they don't have this feature yet.
thanks for your very helpful post. btw, i got my smart pinoy dos sim from the Indian store near our flat and it only costs $8.50 w/ a pre-loaded value of $10.
tanong ko lang po kung pano po macheck ung load after gamitin? Salamat po.
Apply for the Smart Pinoy DOS so you will have a Philippine number. They should reply to the number provided.
Hi po, magano po ang cost per text SG to Indonesia Batam? Using Smart Pinoy DOS. Pls do reply po.
Hello ben sn po pde gmtin ung local mins n 100 po?
Hi, you can use it for Singapore local calls.
Hi Mr. Ben! May data plan na rin po ba ang Smart Pinoy? If so, how do you activate the data plan?
According to your Article I bought Smart Pinoy SIM card.
But my mobile phone is restricted by particular network provider.So i needed to unlock my mobile phone to put Smart Pinoy SIM card .For unlocking i referred SimpleUnlocking.com and i got free mobile unlock instructions from MobileUnlockGuide.com Now i really enjoy with Smart Pinoy SIM card.
Cellular telephone is often called a mobile telephone, which is a portable device that does not require the use of landlines. It is a short wave analogue or digital telecommunication which has a wireless connection from the mobile telephone to a relatively nearby transmitter. You can get voip texting for creating communication with your clients.
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2019-04-25T13:45:39Z
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http://www.benalagnam.com/2011/05/calling-philippines-from-singapore.html?showComment=1339147571276
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Americans lose out on millions of job opportunities every year because companies seeking cheap labor choose to fill positions with illegal aliens. Since most illegal aliens come to the United States from impoverished countries with failing economies, the vast majority are willing to work for any remuneration they consider reasonable, even though the wage offered may be significantly below the market rate. Unscrupulous employers regularly exploit illegal alien laborers in order to cut their costs and increase their profits.
Prior to the Trump Administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Labor rarely conducted worksite enforcement operations. As a result, more and more employers, particularly in the construction and service industries, began recruiting illegal alien workers. The risk was minimal and very few companies were prosecuted for violating federal immigration law.
FAIR estimates that as many as 7,000,000 illegal aliens participate in the U.S. economy, and that at least 35 percent of those operate in the “underground economy” – that is, they work “under the table.” These individuals are not authorized to accept employment in the United States and their employers do not comply with applicable immigration, safety, wage and hour, and tax laws.1 In most cases, the employer and the illegal alien willfully collaborate to violate immigration laws. In others, employers rely on weak employment verification requirements and voluntarily turn a blind eye to questionable identity and immigration documents.
For two decades, the United States has had a simple, effective tool that would virtually eliminate the employment of illegal aliens, if only businesses were required to use it. E-Verify was created in 1997 to provide business owners with a fast and easy way to ensure that they are compliant with federal immigration law.2 However, its use is not mandated by the federal government, and only a few states require employers to use E-Verify. Mandating the use of this centralized work authorization database would likely eliminate the bulk of unlawful employment in the United States. It would also protect employers from inadvertently hiring illegal aliens and ensure that job opportunities go to those who are lawfully permitted to work in this country.
But would such a move punish those who follow the law by requiring them to use a cumbersome program that inflates the cost of hiring, like some critics suggest? To figure this out, FAIR estimated what it actually costs employers to run an employee through E-Verify. We then compared those costs to the potential fines faced by an employer who hires an illegal alien.
The costs associated with having a human resource officer input applicant information into the online E-Verify system. This included identifying the average salary of HR associates and generalists, based on current salary rates in several major cities, then calculating a per minute wage. This allowed us to compute a per-applicant cost based on how long it takes to complete the E-Verify process.
The cost of fines that the federal government could levy on a company or contractor for illegally hiring an individual who is not permitted to work in the United States.
We then compared the cost of using E-Verify, as represented by the per minute wage of the employees responsible for running a potential employee through the system, with the potential costs of not using E-Verify, as represented by the fines that employers who hire illegal aliens can face.
For the purposes of this study, we examine only the costs of putting an employee through the E-Verify system. Many employers hire illegal aliens because they will work for below-market wages. This study is designed to estimate the potential costs and savings for those who desire to follow the law. It presumes that an effective enforcement scheme makes it more costly to violate the law than it would be to simply use the E-Verify system. There is no fee for using E-Verify and an E-Verify determination that an applicant is eligible to accept employment in the United States insulates an employer from prosecution if that applicant is later found out to be seeking employment without authorization.
One concern often brought up by those who oppose the use of E-verify, is the potential for system error. Some individuals, when run through E-Verify, will trigger a Tentative Non-Confirmation (TNC) or Final Non-Confirmation (FNC) notice. A non-confirmation is determination that a particular applicant cannot be verified as eligible to work in the United States.
A TNC results when the information submitted in E-Verify does not initially match the information in the SSA, DHS or DOS records. A TNC does not mean that the employee is not authorized to work in the United States. It merely indicates that, if the employee believes he/she is authorized to work in the U.S., he must contest the TNC finding by furnishing documentation demonstrating work eligibility.
A FNC results when an individual receives a TNC and either fails to contest it, or when an individual has attempted to contest the TNC and the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security cannot verify that an applicant is authorized to work in the United States.
Fears that legal workers will erroneously be reported as ineligible are unfounded, as only 0.3 percent of applicants are inaccurately flagged as TNC.3 Since this number is so low, and since a secondary submission of paperwork resolved 94 percent of the 0.3 percent of cases inappropriately flagged as TNC, the alleged cost and inconvenience associated with E-Verify errors are too low to be relevant, or to even be reasonably calculated.
The primary costs that E-Verify imposes upon businesses are those associated with actually inputting new employee information into the system. Based on FAIR testing, it typically takes between 2 and 5 minutes to complete this process.
Since using the E-Verify system itself is free, and there is no risk of legal recourse for using it properly, the personnel costs associated with data-entry would be the only burden to businesses. FAIR examined the salaries of human resource associates and generalists from 7 major metro areas, and found the median salaries to be about $51,000 for associates, and $55,000 for generalists.8 Using $53,000 as a base, it costs an HR department approximately $2.10 to run an employee through E-Verify, if the process takes 5 minutes.
As can be seen, the cost of running an employee through the E-Verify system is miniscule. It’s a veritable bargain when compared to the fines employers potentially face for hiring someone not authorized to work in the United States.
This means that a company could run approximately 260 employees through the E-Verify system for the cost of a first-offense fine relating to a single unlawful hire, or nearly 5,500 employees for what three fines would cost.
There are also a host of other federal, state and local labor, wage/hour, workplace safety and tax laws that employers may violate by hiring and continuing to employ illegal aliens. Depending on the jurisdiction, an employer may incur significant civil and criminal penalties even in circumstances where it unknowingly hires an illegal alien. The use of E-Verify also insulates employers from these potential expenses.
Based on cost, convenience and reduction of potential liability, the only reason for an employer to prefer the paper I-9 employment verification process over the electronic E-Verify system would appear to be a willful desire to turn a blind eye to potentially fraudulent identity and work-authorization documents.
With 7.8 percent of the U.S. workforce currently unemployed or underemployed, those who are lawfully permitted to work in this country deserve every opportunity to find jobs without competing against illegal aliens willing to work for sub-standard wages.10 E-Verify is an excellent way for American businesses to protect the labor market from artificial wage depression and ensure a level playing-field among companies competing in the same markets.
As the findings in this report show, E-Verify usage does not impose a significant financial burden (or, for that matter, a significant time burden) on businesses. On the contrary, it is a minimal investment that insulates employers from significant fines, potential debarment from government contracts and, in some instances, criminal liability.
Furthermore, mandating the use of E-Verify by all employers in the United States would provide the federal government with the means to systematically conduct effective worksite enforcement operations – protecting American workers from unfair competition and illegal alien laborers from unscrupulous exploitation.
1Matt O'Brien and Spencer Raley, “The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers,” Federation for American Immigration Reform, September 27, 2017, https://fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers.
2U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, “E-Verify: History and Milestones,” Accessed May 2018, https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Verification/E-Verify/HistoryMilestones/E-Verify_History_and_Milestones.pdf.
3U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, “Summary of the Evaluation of the Accuracy of E-Verify Findings,” Accessed May 2018, https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Verification/E-Verify/E-Verify_Native_Documents/Everify%20Studies/E-Verify%20Accuracy%20Report%20Summary.pdf.
4U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, “E-Verify OVERVIEW,” Accessed May 2018, https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview.
5U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services, “EMPLOYEE RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES,” Accessed May 2018, https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/employee-rights-and-responsibilities.
8“Human Resource Salaries in the United States,” Indeed, Accessed May 2018, https://www.indeed.com/salaries/Human-Resource-Salaries.
9U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “Form I-9 Inspection Overview,” Accessed May 2018, https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/i9-inspection#fineSchedule.
10U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization,” May 4, 2018, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm.
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2019-04-20T18:19:53Z
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http://fairus.org/issue/workforce-economy/e-verify-smart-business-decision-debunking-cost-employment-verification
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We are slowly becoming a more health conscious society. Fortunately some of the things we’ve come to enjoy as part of our daily eating habits turn out to have quite a few health benefits. Who would have guessed that research would reveal that some of the things we enjoy most like coffee and dark chocolate actually have many health benefits? Getting and staying healthy may not be as difficult as we had thought. Some of our favorites are full of antioxidants and flavonoids that make our body healthier as we consume them. Here are five different foods or activities that are easily incorporated into our daily eating or exercising regime. Over time, these can have quite the positive impact on one’s health. For daily health tips that can improve longevity, help you loose weight and help you fight off diabetes and other diseases please continue to read the article below.
Coffee has been a favorite beverage for many years and now it turns out that it offers some pretty significant health benefits. It contains very few calories if served without added milk or sugar, and it has a significant amount of antioxidants. Actually, we are just finding out that coffee has more antioxidants than any other foods. It also helps protect against type 2 diabetes, liver cancer, and helps promote a healthy heart.
Coffee has long been used to help us perk up in the morning and get going. But now some research is suggesting that it is actually good for the brain and it might be useful in preventing Parkinson’s disease. It is also suggested that drinking coffee may offer some protection against developing Alzheimer’s. In moderation, it seems that coffee can help reduce the risk of heart failure with participants in one study demonstrating an 11% lower risk of having heart failure and stroke when compared to those who did not consume the dark, tasty liquid. Some studies have indicated that drinking just two cups of coffee a day can reduce the risk of liver cancer by as much as 40%.
Longevity of life is another health benefit we get from coffee. A New England study indicated that individuals whose ages spanned from 50 to 71 reduced the risk of dying from heart disease, diabetes or other types of health problems. This is not necessarily due to the presence of caffeine, but antioxidants which are useful for fighting off diseases. These positive results are the same for coffee drinkers whether they prefer decaf or regular coffee.
If you are selective about the type of chocolate you purchase, you might be gaining quite a few health benefits. Dark chocolate, made with high content of cocoa has actual nutritional value. For instance, it has fiber, iron, copper, zinc and several other minerals. It’s also loaded with antioxidants and can have more than blueberries or acai berries.
The flavonoids that are in dark chocolate stimulate the endothelium which is the lining inside arteries. When stimulated, they start to produce nitric oxide which causes the arteries to relax. This means lower blood pressure and increased blood flow. Some studies are showing that dark chocolate (made with real cocoa) can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases. It can also improve brain function because of the increased blood flow to the brain. Cocoa might improve cognitive function for the elderly as well as improving verbal fluency. This may mean it helps prevent Alzheimer’s or dementia.
There have also been a few studies that have shown dark chocolate may reduce insulin levels which means it might be beneficial for diabetics and helping to control blood sugars. Participants who ate dark chocolate for 15 days saw insulin drop by about half. If insulin sensitivity can be controlled, it may be possible to prevent type 2 diabetes. Chocolate might be helpful in controlling insulin levels.
Apple Cider Vinegar has many different uses around the house. Over the last few years research has begun to support that apple cider vinegar does offer several benefits for our health. Perhaps of interest to many people is the fact that apple cider vinegar can help with weight loss efforts. This seems to be due to the fact that vinegar has the effect on certain genes that help the body break down fats. Used along with other weight loss practices like portion control and exercise it can aid in the efforts. It can also help the body control blood sugar levels. In some studies, it has been demonstrated that apple cider vinegar can be as effective as many medicines that are commonly used for controlling blood sugar. The vinegar works in the body’s digestive system and blocks some of the starch from being digested so that it doesn’t’ raise the blood sugar level in the body. When the vinegar is taken with a starchy meal, instead of starches digesting, they become food for the good bacteria found in the gut.
Apple cider vinegar also has some benefits on the outside of the body. Its anti-bacterial properties make it useful for treating acne. It also absorbs the extra oils from the skin. It can be combined with onions and used to improve the appearance of age spots and mixing it with massage oil it can be used to fight cellulite. Since apple cider vinegar contains antiseptic properties, it can be used to fight fungal infections such as a yeast infection or candidiasis.
Another great health benefit from apple cider vinegar is relieving constipation. It works in the body to help produce a bowel movement because of the pectin it contains. Pectin is a water soluble fiber which is beneficial for helping the bowels move. On the other hand, the pectin also helps coat the lining of the colon so that it has a soothing effect and alleviates the symptoms of diarrhea.
Walking is a low impact way to exercise that is good for just about anyone. People of every age and ability will find walking a great way to reap health benefits. Regular walking is beneficial for helping keep your heart and cardiovascular system working properly. This helps greatly reduce the risk of both stroke and heart disease. Because it can help lower “bad” cholesterol, it can help keep blood pressure within normal. Not only does it help prevent heart disease, walking can also help reduce the risk of other diseases like type 2 diabetes and some types of cancer.
Another reason many people engage in walking is to help lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. Walking can help increase muscle tone and mass so that you increase your metabolism and burn more calories doing other daily activities. Walking can also help build strength in your legs, calves, glutes and hamstrings. It is considered to be one of the weight-bearing activities, which means it can help strengthen the bones and protect against osteoporosis.
It may seem backwards, but walking can help you increase your energy levels. Taking a brisk walk is a natural energizer. It increases circulation and oxygen which basically energizes every cell in your body which helps you feel a lot more alert. Getting your stiff joints moving can help relieve muscle tension and you will not feel as sluggish. Taking a quick walk after lunch can boost you just enough to help you have the energy to get through the rest of the day.
Coconut oil has been gaining in popularity as its health benefits become better known. It contains several acids including lauric acid, caprylic acid and antimivrobial lips which have antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties. These work together to strengthen the immune system. Once it is ingested, lauric acid is converted by the body into monolaurin which is beneficial to help the body deal effectively with bacteria and viruses that can cause diseases such as influenza, herpes, HIV and cytomegalovirus.
Another health benefit of coconut oil is that is can be useful for helping with weight loss efforts. In the oil there are fatty acids, both short and long chain that help the body take off extra weight. Coconut oil works to increase the metabolic rate because it removes stress son the pancreas. This gives the person more energy and helps burn off the weight.
If you massage coconut oil into your skin it can work as a moisturizer. It works similar to mineral oil, but without the negative side effects. Coconut oil is a natural way to combat aging’s effect on the skin and it can also be an effective treatment for some skin diseases like dermatitis, psoriasis, eczema and other types of skin infections. It contains antioxidants which makes it good to use for preventing degenerative diseases and premature aging.
It is important to note that these health benefits come from moderate consumption of the foods listed. Going overboard on any one item is usually going to lead to health problems over time. Moderation is the key to reaping these benefits and enjoying their positive impact. Overindulgence can often lead to health difficulties rather than offering help.
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2019-04-26T10:31:43Z
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https://www.smore.com/sq0qa-daily-health-tips
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I'm a new agent and want to understand more about M-line Media's services.
M-line Media currently offers two services to State Farm agents. Those services are Messages On-Hold and Auto Attendant. Both services are for your phone system, but perform different functions.
Messages On-Hold is exactly how it sounds, whenever you place someone on hold or park, messages and music play for your caller to hear. You can customize the messages they hear by choosing from our State Farm approved library of over 35 messages when you order a file and we also offer over 15 different music tracks to choose from. For more information about our Messages On-Hold service, including pricing and samples, please visit our Messages On-Hold service page.
Our other service, Auto Attendant, is a professional voice service for your main phone greeting and office information track. You can choose from our library of approved auto attendant messages or submit your own for approval. We also provide consultation on how to best setup your phone system for your team. For more information regarding this service, including pricing and samples, please visit our Auto Attendant service page.
I've had Melodyline before and need to update my messages.
Updating your messages can be a simple process, but you'll need to make sure of a few things before you begin. Please continue reading this guide while we cover some common scenarios.
Your first step to updating your messages will be to make sure you have a compatible player installed at your office. If you don't have an MP3 player, then you'll definitely need to purchase our package option first. That will not only get you a new unit to play your messages on, but it includes a new message file as well. If you already know that you have an MP3 player at your office, then you simply need to order a MP3 Production Only on our order page. You'll be emailed a link to download your new file a few business days after your order. The email will also contain the instructions on how to load that file to your player using a personal computer.
If you're not sure which unit you have, then you should give us a call. We can look up any previous purchases you might have made with us and tell you if you've ever registered an MP3 unit. In some cases, if you've moved offices or taken over one, there might be an MP3 unit already there. It's fairly easy to identify a tape unit among any other hardware you might have, but MP3 units are smaller and are sometimes placed in hard to see or reach places. You can learn more information about our MP3 units on our Messages On-Hold service page.
Loading your MP3 production file to your unit.
1How do I load my messages?
We actually have a very detailed guide for this that covers multiple operating systems and units that we've used in the past. Check it out here.
2I just got my new hardware, Now what?
We currently ship the players out with your production on it so that you have the piece of mind knowing the initial setup is halfway taken care of out of the box. We strive to make sure that you should be able to connect the audio cable to the player and the appropriate connection on your phone system, then plug the power in and within a minute be up and running.
Note: The SBD-100 units have the audio port near the power. This is where the audio cable will go for you wire that connects to the phone system.
1My on-hold audio sounds distorted.
2Only piano music is playing when I put someone on hold or callers hear nothing.
This is often due to the volume of the player being low or a loose connection.
We want to check the volume of the player first, simply press the volume up on the player 5-10 times. Once it is able to be heard on the phone system you can adjust the volume to where it sounds best for the customers.
We first suggest checking with the supplied headphones to make sure that the player is working. If you do hear the production playing it we would need to look at connections.
It is suggested to reseat the connections by simply unplugging and plugging them back in. Some phone systems will take more than 5-10 seconds for you to hear the change. If reseating the connection does not seem to work we will want to make sure that the connections are in the right port.
1How do I adjust my volume for my on-hold messages?
Adjusting your volume is as simple as pressing a button! On our MP3 units, you'll find 2 buttons labeled 'Volume' or with small arrows pointing 'Up' or 'Down'. Simply turn on the built-in speaker and press one of the volume buttons until you reach the desired level. We always suggest that you be on-hold when you do this so that you can hear your messages at the same volume your callers will. Often, the volume will be set too low for the Cisco phone system to pick up and your messages will revert to the default piano music.
*In older MP3 units, the volume buttons may actually be a small knob. Turn the knob clockwise for 'Up' and counter-clockwise for 'Down'.
2The status light on my 1200S unit is solid red.
Be sure that the light you're looking at is indeed on the unit itself, and not the flash drive that's plugged in. If you do have a solid red light on your unit, then you need to reboot the unit by pulling the power cord out and plugging it back in. The unit will restart and the light should turn green again after a few moments. If the light is still red after a reboot, then you'll need to contact support so they can help troubleshoot the issue. Explain any steps you took to troubleshoot the issue to avoid repeating any steps.
3Which lights on the 1200S unit are important?
The most important light on the 1200S unit is the status LED located on the side. A lot of people confuse the light on the flash drive as being the status light of the unit. While the flash drive's light does tell us some things about the drive and what it's doing, it is not affected nor does it tell us anything about the unit itself. The status light on the unit can display 1 of 4 different states.
Solid green or blinking green - This means that the unit is functioning properly.
Orange or yellow - You'll see this color whenever you press a button on the unit, or when a new file is being copied to the system.
Blinking red - This status indicates a failure to load a new file because it is missing the dealer security code. To learn more about this feature, please see our FAQ about security codes.
Solid red - If the light on your unit is solid red, you should reboot it first and remove the flash drive if there is one plugged in. If it continues to stay red, then please contact our support team for assistance.
1I ordered a new package and discovered I already had one.
That's okay! You can still return the new unit within 60 days of your order for a full refund of the hardware. Simply notify our support team of the error and we'll give you the necessary information to ship it back to us. Once it's received, we'll issue a credit to your account. If you've already opened the new unit, please be sure to return all of the items it came with to insure that you receive the full refund. Any items not returned will be deducted from your refund amount.
*Production files delivered as part of this order are not refundable.
Due to the nature of digital assets, production files of any sort cannot be returned once an attempt to deliver the file has been made. If at any time you are dissatisfied with our service, you should contact our support team immediately and we will do our best to resolve your issue.
3What sort of warranty is offered on hardware?
We currently warranty our hardware for a total of 3 years from the purchase date. If at any time you experience a malfunction in our hardware not due to an outside cause, simply contact our support team to request a replacement. We can also repair units that have fallen out of warranty for a small fee. Contact our support team with a description of your issue and we'll determine the best course of action.
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CommonBond workspace in its Soho office.
Our onboarding is another benefit. It is pretty extensive. We put MBAs through new hire onboarding just like a full-time employee. So they do rotations with every part of the leadership team so they understand what every department does and how CommonBond works as a whole. That’s something a lot of interns in a company don’t get exposure to because they are just working, for example, in one department. Here at CommonBond, we put our energy into how the company is structured so they are exposed to the whole businesses.
For full-time employees at CommonBond, we pay a significant portion of health and medical benefits; typically, we go above and beyond. Currently, everyone at CommonBond has equity ownership – so we want people who want not just to receive a paycheck, but people who want to benefit from the future growth of CommonBond. Second, we have unlimited vacation. We allow people to take the time off they need to reset. We have very generous primary and secondary leave – also known as paid maternity and paternity leave. We think it is incredibly important for people to take the time off with their growing family. We offer 12 paid leave weeks for primary care givers (and this covers adoptions as well) and four weeks paid leave for secondary care givers.
We have lots of different wellness benefits. We offer gym memberships, yoga, and benefits like in-house massages. We also practice what we preach and offer student loan reimbursement. For every month you’re here, we provide a certain amount of money towards your student loan to help relieve your burden since that is the whole reason that CommonBond started. Since we have an enterprise function that sells into other businesses, we actually created what we call a ‘401K for Student Loans,’ which creates a platform for other companies to have that kind of reimbursement. We do that internally as well.
We also have catered food twice a week and monthly happy hours. We are a mission-based company – that’s what we’re based off of – and believe in giving back to the community, so we have paid time off to simply volunteer. We also sponsor women’s and LGBTQ focus groups and spend a lot of time focusing on those diversity initiatives.
P&Q: If an MBA was weighing an offer from CommonBond and another firm, what would give you the edge?
KK: Along with everything we discussed, we have a very unique set of full-time benefits.
MBAs are often taking summer internships to learn a new skill – that’s why they’re going to school. At CommonBond, we strive to create a culture of learning and discovery. Most MBAs go back to school to learn something new and expand their network. We provide that experience for them. We’re also very, very transparent in our interview process about what to expect with CommonBond because we don’t want there to be any surprises. Our strengths are our genuine nature; people tend to like us in the interview process. Being so transparent gives us the edge in making the decision to come to CommonBond.
P&Q: Every industry comes with its stereotypes. When it comes to CommonBond – and your industry as a whole – what are some of the biggest misconceptions that students may have?
Being a FinTech company, especially in student loans, I think the biggest misconception is that the only way you’ll get hired full-time as an MBA is if you have finance, FinTech, or student loan experience. We want to bring all the right people into CommonBond to build out our team. I think it is definitely a misconception that it is difficult to get an internship if you don’t have that specific background.
P&Q: What are your expectations for entry level MBAs? What are your most successful new hires doing to hit the ground running and quickly add value?
KK: CommonBond evaluates strong performance and contribution across attitude, ownership and results. In terms of attitude, it is someone who can deal with ambiguity. It is looking around and learning about the process of what is being done, whether it is the business around them or what they are doing. They are not afraid to learn a get to know people. People who have a really strong attitude, in a positive way, who want to work well with others and collaborate are incredibly successful here especially when they are first starting.
The second piece is ownership. They aren’t afraid to take something on. Whether they have seen it done before or not, they’re not afraid to take on that ownership – and they’re not afraid to ask for help, either. We hire people at CommonBond who want to help others. If they have the strong attitude, want the ownership, and like the accountability, we’ll see it in the results. Those people who have those three values are super successful and will have great careers at CommonBond.
As an example, I would go back to Dave Carter, the intern from NYU. In his internship – and to this day – he was able to demonstrate a strong, confident, can-do attitude. Not only for himself, but he was able to bring other people up too. He is a huge culture carrier and someone who is going to be the future of CommonBond. He didn’t have any experience in partnerships and sales, but he built out a function. Turns out, people without specific sales experience can do amazing things. He hired his boss – and had no issues with it – because he wanted to learn. He has a positive attitude and got through to everyone in the company very quickly. He is the perfect example of ownership. He coaches his team up around him and builds up the team underneath him. He is one to celebrate across the team as well.
P&Q: What excites you personally about working for CommonBond?
KK: There is a sense of real ownership here. I came to CommonBond because I wanted to be part of an organization of trust and accountability and really build up this function. In my role in HR, David Klein, our CEO, is so passionate about people and culture. It is so fun to work with him and collaborate on ideas and carry out those ideas. Meeting David is the reason I came to CommonBond. This is a new industry for me. I was in investment banking, AdTech, and now student loans. CommmonBond has exposed me to a new industry that was very appealing.
The reason why I stay here is that we have a community of really helping each other out, whether that’s pitching in or giving recognition to others. It’s something that I love to be a part of. It’s also important to me that we are a mission-driven company. We don’t just say we are a mission-driven company, but we truly live it every day. We do have a higher calling, which I think is very important.
Just today, we were named the Most Innovative Company in Education by Fast Company. I can tell you that the innovation here, whether you’re talking about contributing to our capital markets team, our business development team, tech team, or another group, we always stive to be best in class. We do a lot with a little here and it’s exciting to be part of the organization here.
One of the exciting parts of being at CommonBond is that I get to meet the customers. Obviously, student loans isn’t something that’s nice for them. Still, they go on-and-on about how wonderful our customer service is. We keep customers as the center of everything. That’s what sets up apart and why I love CommonBond.
P&Q: Anything you’d like to add?
KK: I’ll add two things. First we have an annual MBA summer series. It takes place 6-8 weeks over the course of the summer. It is for MBA students to take a look at different career paths. It is an in-person career series here in New York, but it also streams online. That’s something that has been very successful. Even if you’re not an intern or full-time hire at CommonBond, we still provide a ton of resources, tools and events for MBAs to develop your own career strategy.
Second, CommonBond was started by MBA students. It was started by Wharton students who were frustrated and challenged by the loan process. Our CEO, David Klein, actually dropped out of Wharton to start the company. We understand, first-hand, what it is like to be MBA students and we understand the mindset. Even if we don’t have an MBA, we work with tons of MBAs. So there is a huge support system here and culturally we share a lot of similarities with MBAs.
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Test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making the best milk-braised pork loin. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of apricot preserves. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus uncovers the best apple corers. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make the ultimate roasted pears with dried apricots and pistachios.
Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate slow-roasted chicken parts with shallot-garlic pan sauce. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews carbon-steel chef’s knives. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to the perfect boiled potatoes with black olive tapenade.
Man on the street Doc Willoughby learns all about Sicilian-style pizza from the Barbati family of L&B Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn. Then, host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Bridget Lancaster to learn how to make the ultimate thick-crust Sicilian-style pizza at home. Next, test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to homemade ricotta cheese. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make the best pasta with cauliflower, bacon, and bread crumbs.
Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the best Japanese-style stir- fried noodles with beef at home. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews knife sharpeners in the Equipment Corner. Next, Chris answers cooking questions in Letters to the Editor. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster reinvents a classic, fried brown rice with pork and shrimp.
Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to making semolina gnocchi at home. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges host Christopher Kimball to a tasting of balsamic vinegar. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the best Italian sausage with grapes and balsamic vinegar.
Host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Bridget Lancaster to learn how to make the best French-style pork chops with apples and calvados. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of brie. Then, Chris answers cooking questions in Letters to the Editor. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison reveals the secrets to making the ultimate mushroom bisque.
Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate mu shu pork at home. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews rice cookers in the Equipment Corner. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to making the best crispy orange beef.
Host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Julia Collin Davison to learn how to make the ultimate black bean burgers at home. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of vegetable broth. Then, test cook Becky Hays shows Chris how to make the freshest super greens soup with lemon-tarragon cream. Finally, test cook Dan Souza reveals the secrets to making homemade vegetable broth.
Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate braised halibut with leeks and mustard at home. Next, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of smoked salmon. Then, gadget guru Lisa McManus uncovers the best warming trays. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making perfect slow-cooked whole carrots.
Man on the street Doc Willoughby learns all about Cuban cuisine at La Carreta in Miami, Florida. Then, host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Dan Souza to learn how to make the best Cuban braised shredded beef at home. Next, test cook Becky Hays uncovers the secrets to making fried sweet plantains. Then, testing expert Adam Ried reviews grapefruit knives in the Equipment Corner. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make the ultimate mango, orange, and jícama salad.
Test cook Dan Souza shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate charcoal-grilled steaks at home. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews steak knives in the Equipment Corner. Then, gadget guru Lisa McManus uncovers the best jar spatulas and jar openers. Finally, test cook Bryan Roof reveals the secrets to making perfect grilled pork kebabs with hoisin and five-spice.
Host Christopher Kimball goes into the test kitchen with test cook Julia Collin Davison to learn how to make the best chicken mole poblano at home. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of Mexican lagers. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster reveals the secrets to making the ultimate drunken beans.
Test cook Becky Hays shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the perfect peri peri grilled chicken. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews the latest grill gadgets in the Equipment Corner. Next, Chris answers cooking questions in Letters to the Editor. Finally, test cook Bridget Lancaster uncovers the secrets to making the best pita bread salad with tomatoes and cucumber.
Test cook Julia Collin Davison reveals the secrets to making the perfect strawberry-rhubarb pie. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reviews cold brew coffee makers in the Equipment Corner. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus uncovers the best tea gadgets. Finally, test cook Dan Souza shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the best cherry clafouti.
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2019-04-21T00:18:58Z
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http://www.wmht.org/blogs/food/americas-test-kitchen-16/
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Now that Roslyn is available (or will be available), it is time for Visual Studio to start thinking in files that represent Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), or .ast files. .ast files are the actual source files that are checked into source control. When an .ast file is loaded into Visual Studio, the developer's "formatting preference configuration" is applied to the .ast file to display the file to the preference of the developer.
ReSharper has a great deal of formatting configuration, but this affects the actual source code that gets checked in. This idea formats the "view" of the .ast file (the "actual" source code that gets checked into source control) after it is loaded in Visual Studio.
This paradigm fixes the problem of the re-occurring (and frustrating) issue of formatting code to a particular team's or organization's (or really, a bossy, opinionated manager's/lead/architect's) code formatting requirements (which everyone always disagrees with in some way), when in fact every developer has their own preferred method or way of formatting their code.
By thinking in .ast files, teams get working code checked into source control (with passing tests running against libraries produced from the .ast files), and developers (finally) view their code the way they want and prefer to do it. Everyone wins (and is happy, and wants to work with everyone else forever and ever, amen).
Of course, teams and organizations can provide "guidance" formatting configurations, but developers can take those and modify them to their wishes.
It's really a good idea. And I'm not just saying this because I thought of it. Visual Studio should do this. :) Way overdue.
Unless you enjoy bickering with teammates about the "best" way to format code, please vote for this!
Again, the issues mentioned would be solved by having the stored format would be just as customizable as the viewed format. The stored format even could be a 100% StyleCop compliant (which dictates how that Start and Stop should be organized/located in your code, btw -- something you may or may not agree with) code file. When you open that stored file, you actually open your own *view* of it, so it would view to YOU exactly how YOU like it... The Start and Stop would be exactly where YOU would like it to be in YOUR version of the file. When you save it, it gets saved and stored as the file format as configured and designed by the team/repo owner (which, again, could be a 100% StyleCop compliant file for the sake of simplicity in demonstrating and communicating this idea). Everyone wins. Which is the point of this feature/vote, as currently only one person "wins", while everyone else ... doesn't.
Aside from the already mentioned problems with versioning and everyone needing Visual Studio to view/edit source files I also do not like this idea because it removes a lot of meaning from the source code.
I think we all group members, properties, and methods in a class in a way that conveys meaning. For example most of us would put the Start() and Stop() method below each other as someone who is interested in looking at the Start method might also be interested in the Stop method.
Source code generated from a formatting-less format cannot contain this information, or any other information that conveys meaning through ordering and indenting and would thus make something that is hard to understand (code) even harder to understand.
Yes this is definitely an ingrained problem, and just in teams that use Visual Studio, but pretty much everywhere. It's a bit innovative, I admit, and it will take time for change and integration.
Now thinking about this some more, I guess .ast files would be a bit of a misnomer. Going back to the idea of "strongly-structured" source files... Those could be files that are formatted to be 100% StyleCop-compliant (along with any rules that an organization would like to remove/add).
1) .ast files are really "strongly-structured" 100% StyleCop-compliant and formatted .cs/.vb files. These are what is checked into source control.
2) When an .ast file is loaded in Visual Studio, an AST is loaded and created from it.
3) The AST from step 2 is then loaded and formatted based off the local developer's preferences. This then creates a local .cs/.vb "view" file that is stored locally (or better yet in the developer's OneDrive).
When a developer saves the .cs/.vb file, Visual Studio attempts to build an AST from it. If it does this successfully, it then saves this AST back to the .ast file as a "strongly-structured" 100% StyleCop-compliant and formatted .cs/.vb file. This trick here would to ensure that it is merge/source-control friendly (shouldn't be a problem) during this process.
That way, we're always working in C#/VB and we can view the code any time from anywhere using any editor. The only real difference is the internal formatting/translation process that occurs when the file is loaded in Visual Studio.
It is very irritating and unfortunate that you cannot edit a suggestion/idea after you create it! Otherwise I would update it with this new material. Bummer.
1) .ast files are just serialized AST trees in Roslyn. So they could be serialized as Xaml files which would make them designer-friendly. The designer would then be responsible for processing the Xaml and rendering it in a way that makes sense to the developer. In fact, with this new paradigm, we now have the ability to render it as code (as traditional C#/VB -- exactly how you see it now in Visual Studio) or something completely different altogether. Conceivably, teams (and companies) could build their own renderers for the ASTs now in visually cool and interesting ways.
2) .ast files could still be saved as .cs/.vb files in source control. The difference here now is that the "source" file is formatted in a particular way that is not known to the developer, and is "strongly-structured" based off this formatting. That is, it's still C#/VB. When the file is loaded into Visual Studio, an intermediate process occurs where an AST is created and then what is displayed to the developer is that strongly-structured .cs/.vb file formatted based on the developer's formatting preferences.
Again, I don't have all the answers, and I am just suggesting what comes to mind. The idea here is that what gets checked into source control isn't necessarily unreadable (or binary).
Also keep in mind that this isn't meant to be required technology that everyone is expected to port over to immediately. It's just another way of sourcing files, and really a more exact way of describing the "code." Teams/companies/organizations can continue to treat their code the traditional (and contentious) way if they wish.
If #1 is used above, then you do have a point with viewing code on GitHub. Instead of seeing C#, users would see an Xml/Xaml/Data file and not code. There would have to be some additional thought around this to make this work nicely.
Thanks for the feedback! This is a fun problem to think about.
This is an interesting proposal, here are my two nits.
1. People who do not use Visual Studio cannot view files anymore. Do we want all the code on github to be unreadable?
2. There will be no way to view diffs in source control. Comparing two ast files could have first party support, but again we leave everyone else out with this option.
I am suspicious of changing the paradigm in C# such that your source file are not the "source of truth". I now need to rely entirely on the IDE to do everything for me perfectly. What is there is a bug and the ast file gets messed up? Will I manually edit it? Will I have arguments among my peers about the style guides for edited ast files?
It is similar, but not. The difference is that you have the "source" file (the .ast file) and then the "view" of that file (the "new" .cs/.vb file, or maybe .ast.cs/.ast.vb). The view file is the "formatted" file and would be on the developer's machine and what they interact with. Whenever the view file is saved, a new AST is created and saved to the .ast file. The .ast file is what is they used to compile an assembly.
The formatting can be configured to occur per keystroke and/or manually. A caching system could be created around each .ast file so that these differences you speak of can be account for, assuming you mean differences on a per-file basis (as opposed to a per-developer basis, which is exactly what this solution solves over-all).
That sounds like visually similar to the document being auto-formatted on every open. This means potentially losing some formatting and also does not allow for differences in single file.
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2019-04-23T18:34:28Z
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https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ide/suggestions/7066885-enable-abstract-syntax-tree-source-files-via-rosly
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MANILA — The declared policy of the newly signed Republic Act (RA) 11203 or Rice Tariffication Law, now with issued implementing rules and regulations, is to ensure food security. Ironically, it is the very same principle that the law is putting at risk.
Food security is a precondition for economic development. A hungry population is a weak, unhealthy, and disoriented labor force, simply put. A state that has secured the dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy population is free to plan the economy to explore a wider range of products for manufacturing. For instance, many developed states, especially after a war period, had prioritized building their food stocks over building roads and bridges, and it made a lot of development sense.
Food security is what the Rice Tariffication Law jeopardizes. The Philippines has now embarked on imports liberalization of its staple – a dangerous path not just for the country’s food security, but more importantly, for that elusive economic development.
The global rice market is narrow. Only 9.7% of global production ended up in the global market in 2018. Contrary to what president Duterte and his economic managers are saying that Filipinos should no longer aspire for self-sufficiency, the rice-producing world is consuming more than 90% of the rice produced where it is produced. Even the country’s self-sufficiency ratio in 2017 was 93 percent. It is inconceivable therefore that the government is declaring that rice-producing Philippines, whose average self-sufficiency ratio in the last 30 years is 91%, should now simply rely on importation.
But economic managers pushing for import reliance contest the lone capacity of local production to feed the nation. The problem, however, is that not even government statistics on average rice consumption is accurate and updated. Yet, despite lack of wisdom, the Duterte government has painted a picture that the country can never be rice self-sufficient.
It has been the mantra of the Philippine government to open up the local rice sector since the country’s accession to the multilateral trading system of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. The average annual self-sufficiency ratio in the pre-WTO years of 1991-1994 was 99.4%, which shrank to 89% from 1995 to 2016, only because of the policy of agricultural trade liberalization. Still, it is the Duterte government’s thrust to widen the share of imports instead of strengthening local production. The defeatist attitude negates the principle of availability of food at all times.
Indeed, global rice production has increased since the 2008 crisis, reaching record volume of 495 million tons (milled basis) and exports of unprecedented 48 million tons in 2018. But the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is projecting a shake-up in the Asian rice market in 2019. Carry-over stocks of Thailand are the lowest in a decade due to the depletion of government stocks. The Thai baht has also strengthened over the last months, making Thai rice prices more expensive. On the other hand, Vietnam, the Philippines’ number one supplier, will be more competitive in the European market as Burma and Cambodia lose their duty-free advantage in the European market once afforded by the Everything But Arms agreement. China meanwhile, although a major importer in the last eight years, is seen rising as a major exporter. The Philippine government is setting its sights on this volatile market.
Relying on importation, the Philippine economy as an importer of a wide variety of products is showing innate lack of capacity. The peso is weakest in over a decade and currently among the weakest currencies in Asia. The country’s dollar reserves is also lowest in a decade, reaching only 6.9 months’ worth of imports.
The government also argues that increased importation of cheaper global rice will benefit Filipino consumers with lower local price. This, however, is misinformed on two accounts – one, global rice is not necessarily cheaper (this should be self-explanatory by the narrowness of the market alone), and two, the local market remains dominated by a trading cartel that can impose a higher mark-up depending on the weakness of local production and other supply factors.
Despite fluctuations and recent global trends showing that export prices are going down, global rice prices have actually increased since 2016. The Thai 5% broken rice for instance has become more expensive from US$396 per ton in 2016 to US$405 in March 2019. Same with Thai 25% broken rice – from US$385 to US$398 per ton in the same period. Viet 5% and 25% broken rice export prices (at US$347 and US$328 per ton, respectively) have basically remained the same comparing 2016 and March 2019 prices, but that is after fluctuating wildly to as high as US$450 per ton in the first half of 2018.
In February this year, the landed cost of Thai rice with applied tariff, across all qualities (i.e. 25%, 15%, 10%, 5% brokens), ranged from Php36.73 to Php37.29 per kilo. The wholesale prices on the fourth week of that month were Php37.61 per kilo for the regular milled rice (RMR) and Php41.13 per kilo for the well milled rice (WMR). This shows a small difference between the landed cost and the local wholesale price. On the same week, retail prices were Php40.65 per kilo for RMR and Php44.58 per kilo for WMR, or a difference of only Php3.05 for RMR and Php3.45 for WMR.
Note that the wholesale and retail prices cannot be disaggregated as to whether they are imported or local. But the point is that the landed cost of imported rice is not dramatically lower. The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) extrapolates the landed cost of rice by 1.2 times to come up with its retail price, which if applied to the February 2019 landed cost would yield a still more expensive imported rice ranging from Php44.08 to Php44.75 per kilo.
What is further inconceivable is for government to insist that cheap imported rice will pull down local prices. From 1995 to 2010, based on National Food Authority (NFA) data, the landed cost and wholesale prices of imported rice were higher than the wholesale and retail prices of local rice. From 2011, when global production picked up, to the last available data in August 2018, prices of domestic rice have been markedly higher than prices of imported rice. Indeed global rice has become cheaper due to increased production and exports after the 2008 crisis, but this did not translate to cheaper local prices. In fact what the Philippine market had from 2011 to 2014 was record increase in smuggled rice and escalating rice prices at an annual average of Php1.20 increase per kilo. This only indicates clearly how the local rice cartel can make super-profits from favorable global market trends.
Recent Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) data show a continuous weekly drop in rice prices starting on the first week of February and lower wholesale prices of WMR and RMR by the fourth week of March relative to their prices a year ago. But retail prices are still higher than in the previous year. Yet, farmgate price has continuously declined in the same period, reaching Php18.87 per kilo, or a Php1.59 drop from March 2018.
Affordability is a dimension of accessibility, which the Rice Tariffication Law has wrongly assumed. What is worse is that the law imperils the more important dimension of accessibility – which is people having adequate incomes and livelihood – by subjecting the Filipino rice farmers to undue competition with subsidized imports.
As it is right now, the Philippine economy registers the lowest number of jobs created in over 60 years under nine administrations. In agriculture alone, 1.1 million jobs were lost in 2018 – unparalleled by any administration. Wages have remained stagnant, with the nationwide average daily basic pay increasing by only 6.8% in real terms in the last 12 years. The Rice Tariffication Law will worsen the jobs crisis and poverty.
RA 11203 reduces NFA’s role from market stabilization (i.e. procuring palay from farmers and selling rice to consumers) to simply maintaining buffer stock. The inane idea however is to keep buffer stock for emergencies, whether caused by natural hazards or economic ‘shocks’ (which include otherwise normal occurrences in the Philippine crisis such as inflation, rising unemployment or peso depreciation), while reducing the agency’s power to procure locally.
Nothing replaces the role of stable local production in moderating the impact of emergencies. But the Duterte government is hyping the creation of an annual Php10-billion Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) from the projected tariff revenues from liberalizing rice imports. In current dollar terms, this would mean US$190 million, which is trivial if compared with the subsidies given by other states to their rice farmers – US$1 billion support by Vietnam and US$7 billion by Thailand. In 2017, the Indian government provided support price of INR1,550 per quintal for common variety, while the average cost of production was INR1,117 per quintal. Philippine agriculture meanwhile is allocated a mere 1.3% of the delayed 2019 national budget, or a projected cut of 1.8% or Php900 million from the previous year’s agriculture budget.
After the World Food Summit in 1996, the ethical and human rights dimensions of food security have come into focus as the UN formally adopted the Right to Adequate Food. But neoliberal apologists and policymakers, such as the Duterte government’s economic team, have gone around the UN definition of food security to further justify open trading system and liberalization of traditional sectors such as agriculture. Neoliberal policies, they argue, can bring about availability, cheap products and steady supply.
These however clearly violate the people’s right to food, their right to access resources in order to produce food such as having free land to till and state support as well as their right to produce food of their own choice and decisions.
*Rosario Bella Guzman is the Executive Editor and Research Head of IBON Foundation.
IBON Foundation, Inc. is an independent development institution established in 1978 that provides research, education, publications, information work and advocacy support on socioeconomic issues.
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2019-04-19T10:46:41Z
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https://www.bulatlat.com/2019/04/11/what-the-rice-tariffication-law-violates/
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This tutorial will turn your Raspberry PI into a simple Bluetooth audio receiver, which plays music through connected speakers. It's like a regular car audio system, but it can be used anywhere and it's a good value.
The Bluetooth profile which does the magic is called A2DP.
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 041e:30d3 Creative Technology, Ltd Sound Blaster Play!
The on–board audio produces low–quality, noisy output, so I decided to use something better. I chose external USB Creative Sound Blaster Play! interface. It costs ~$20.
As for Bluetooth dongle, I used Digitus Tiny USB-Adapter, which is discovered as Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle.
Note: I used another dongle (different manufacturer) also discovered as Cambridge Silicon Radio but unable to stream audio. So beware, because different manufacturers use the same hardware in a different way. Or they pretend to use the same hardware for some (compatibility?) reasons. This way or another, if you get garbled audio or no audio at all but everything else is alright, don't worry, just try another dongle – it's cheap.
See RPi USB Bluetooth adapters for buying recommendations. Trial and error is another option, since most devices cost below $10.
Raspberry PI offers limited power to USB devices (and limited number of ports). You'll need some active (powered) USB Hub to keep USB devices stable and working (USB Audio, USB Bluettoth and optional USB WiFi). Google to learn more, it's a very common topic when using Raspberry PI.
Note: It usually takes a while. Get some tee and sandwiches.
Note: PA is pretty CPU–consuming. With the following configuration it uses ~30% of my PI's CPU. So if you expect PI to do something else beside A2DP and avoid sound glitches, reasearch different resample-method.
The whole trick is to redirect the right source (i.e. smartphone) the right sink (ALSA) each time a new Bluetooth device is connected. In the above case, it would be bluez_source.A8_88_08_11_AB_4B to alsa_output.0.analog-stereo.
The script I used is an extended version of http://blog.mrverrall.co.uk/2013/01/raspberry-pi-a2dp-bluetooth-audio.html. It's pretty straightforward: it redirects a new Bluetooth audio source to the right sink and sets output volume level.
Some people complained that the whole configuration does not work after reboot, unless pi user is logged in.
in "Boot Options" -> "Console Auto–login".
If your device is already paired, simply connect it to Raspberry PI and select Bluetooth audio output. Enjoy your tunes!
Tested with iPhone, MacbookPro and Windows laptop.
# The original script: http://blog.mrverrall.co.uk/2013/01/raspberry-pi-a2dp-bluetooth-audio.html.
# Find the right sink with `pactl list sources short`.
# Check if any sources are currently running and that our new device is valid.
log "Source is already RUNNING. Available sources:"
log "Unrecognized source. Available sources:"
log "Validated new source: $1."
sudo su - "$BT_USER" -c "pacmd set-sink-volume 0 65537"
sudo su - "$BT_USER" -c "amixer set Master 100%"
log "Change for device $BT_MAC detected, running $ACTION."
I'm getting some troubles when I check pactl list sources short, I'm getting error connection refused, probably because Pulseaudio is not running. Then if I launch it pulseaudio & I am getting another error: [pulseaudio] bluez4-util.c: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed.
Is this system work with a raspberry 3 ? Without a Bluetooth dongle but just with the raspberry 3 Bluetooth ? Because I can't connect my iPhone with Bluetoothctl si may be I need a Bluetooth dongle ?
I've followed this guide and it works, but I'm noticing two issues.
Most important issue is changing the volume on my phone has no effect on the Pi output, it's always the same, and too low for my amp to run at full power. Edit: Now it's incredibly loud, noisy, and constantly cuts out. The cutting out may or may not be my phone.
Less important issue, but a minor annoyance, is my name setting isn't having any effect, I set the name to Jazukure but it still shows up as raspberrypi on my phone.
I've fixed the name issue by changing my hostname. Volume control now works, or rather worked. The entire setup worked properly once, and once only. After a reboot no amount of repairing will get my laptop to actually stay connected to the Pi. I'm using a Raspberry Pi B+ (first generation).
Playsky did you success with the on board raspberry 3 bluetooth ?
sudo su - "$BT_USER" -c "pactl load-module module-loopback source=\"$1\" sink=\"$PA_SINK\" rate=44100 adjust_time=0"
i can get as far as verifying the password from my galazy s5 and the pi actually shows me as connected but then it kicks the connection and my phone says that it cant communicate with the pi.
i can trust the source from "bluetoothctl" but if i try to pair from there it wont allow it and says it already exists.
google has not helped .
@ozzieone I have the same problem. Have you found anything?
First of all, great tutorial that works fine thanks !
Just one issue: I'm using a Raspberry Pi W (bluetooth embedded) but the sound is cuting every 1-2 seconds...Even when the phone is really close.
Same issue as @AudricManaud, with and without a powered USB hub. Did you make any progress?
@AudricManaud So it turned out my issue seems to be caused by my android phone, as audio works without stuttering when using a macbook. Some googling reveals this is a long standing issue with android, but I've had good results with bluetooth audio a couple months ago with the same phone, so I wonder if there's something I can do.
I checked my Pi's CPU, it remains normal.
It seems that the problem comes from using wifi & bluetooth simultaneously.
@oleq Thank you very much for sharing this.
from what I see, this add the user pi to the group lp. This group is usually used for to printing.
It really should not be necessary.
I don't have much knowledge in bluetooth. Would you mind if I ask some questions ?
1/ In section What is this all about? doesn't mention the usb bluetooth 4.0. Does this project need it ?
2/ Does this project help connect Bluetooth Headset To Raspberry Pi 3 (A2DP & HSP) ?
What I want is connect raspberry Pi with my bluetooth module. So that Raspberry pi can get input sound from my bluetooth module and output sound to it.
Currently I can send sound from raspberry pi to my bluetooth module but raspberry pi doesn't receive any sound from it.
Load module-loopback automatically for A2DP and HFGW sources, so that the received audio is automatically played back to some output.
any suggestions? My phone shows connected to the pi.
although the phone is connected?
@BrettStuart014 i had the same problem with my iPhone. When i start the connection vom iphone site. So now my steps to solved the problem.
So now it was paired but not connected !! before i made the issue that i start connection from phone site.
now my iphone links fine with raspi. So all is testet with debian jessie. I dont no is it runnning on stretch too.
Hi, I am not able to get the logs of the a2dp-autoconnect file by running tail -f /var/log/a2dp-autoconnect. And maybe because of this whenever I reboot the pi I have to set the source and sink before playing music. Any help?
I'm trying to use a Pi Zero W as a Bluetooth device. I'm using a PHAT-DAC to get I2S audio. The idea is to Bluetooth connect from Ipad to the Pi zero, then stream audio from the Ipad to the Rpi.
I think this thread tries to do something similar, except with an RPI-3. Should it work for a Pi Zero W?
Is anyone using this on banana pi? I'm using it with raspbian and every 10s the sound becomes distorted, then returns to normal again, and so on ... "top" shows that pulseaudio is using 35% of CPU when bluetooth is connected, whether anything is playing or not. I have the same issue with both an android phone and a windows laptop. Both of these stream just fine to other bluetooth receivers. Any tips?
Everythings Work fine but Bluetooth Connection always stop át 30 min..
How can set up always connection??
For those that have the problem of bluez not showing up in pactl list sources even though bluetooth device is connected and playing, it usually means that the PulseAudio bluetooth modules need to be restarted. Could be a bug. Restart PulseAudio and connect bluetooth device again. Then it should then show up in pactl list sources.
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2019-04-19T18:20:17Z
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https://gist.github.com/oleq/24e09112b07464acbda1
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Posted on November 28, 2018 November 29, 2018 . by Patrick Johnstone. 2 Comments.
I read this headline, and my best reply is: Yep, I share your frustration.
I hear the concern expressed by residents in New Westminster when they see utility costs are going up at rates much greater than inflation. However, I am challenged in trying to find an alternative approach that balances operational costs while planning for long-term sustainability of the utilities. Its not from a lack of concern or empathy for the impact of rate increases, it is more about responsible management of the budget in a way that doesn’t threaten the financial sustainability of the utilities.
A 7% annual increase (adding up to a 40% increase over 5 years) sounds like a lot, and is clearly well above CPI, which is predicted to be between 2% and 2.5% for the next few years. However, the cost to operate our utilities is also increasing much faster than CPI. The best I can do here is unpack some of the details.
All the numbers I use in this post are from the utilities report we received last Council meeting. You can read it all here, starting on page 19.
Note the “Average Single Family Household” cost is an average, and your experience will likely be different. Many people in multi-family have their own commercial solid waste services, so pay nothing to the City for that. The sewer and water rates are flat rates to Single Family detached houses, but metered charges to multi-family dwellings. This is an estimate of the impact to the average household, not your exact bill.
Still, next year this average household will likely pay on the order of $100 more for utilities, and by 2023 pay $600 more a year than they pay now – that is $50 extra a month.
In all three utilities, the majority of the cost is what I slightly misleadingly labelled “Metro Charges” – the money we pay to other agencies to supply the water or to take away and responsibly manage our waste streams. Metro Vancouver provides clean, treated, and pressurized water and charges us per cubic metre delivered. Similarly, Metro Vancouver takes our waste water and sends it to the treatment plant at Annacis Island, where it is treated to be safe for disposal into the Fraser River, again charging us per cubic metre. Solid waste is slightly more complicated because organics, recyclables, and “garbage” go to three different streams, and some of those are costing us more than others.
The other costs are related to how we deliver those utilities. Salaries are pretty clear – that is what we pay people to do everything from performing repairs to pipes to processing your bills. Contractors also do similar tasks, but are usually related to projects like replacing a length of watermain under a street or designing a new billing system. You may note that Solid Waste has proportionally much more salary cost because we need people to drive around in trucks and empty your bins – Solid Waste is inherently more of a “service” delivered by people than one relying on capital sitting in the ground in the form of pipes. Supplies are the paperclips, toner fluid, and rubber gloves that staff need to do the jobs above. Note this category is limited to things that are consumed, as opposed to things like trucks and new pipes that are capitalized and included with our Amortization, but let’s not dig too deeply into the capital budget right now (I’ll talk about it more later) .
So utility rates are going up, because the main cost driver for the utilities are going up. What we can do about it?
Inevitably, someone is going to raise the issue of salary costs – it is unavoidable when talking about government. CUPE contracts that provide decent wages and work conditions, along with decent CPI-level wage increases won through collective bargaining, seems to elicit anger in some members of the public. However, public service wages are not a significant cost driver here, because they make up less than 10% of the cost for delivering utility service in the City. If we were somehow able to cut all salaries in half (those orange areas in the chart above), your utility costs would go down less than 6%. Such a drastic move would not even offset a single year of utility increases, and we would be back to regular increases in year two, with a much less effective utility due to the lengthy labour dispute and loss of staff.
Some will note that our “revenue” for utilities is much higher than our “expenses” for Utilities, and this is where we get to the other part of the equation: the capital budget. This is the money we need to re-invest into the utilities every year to keep them functioning, and to build towards sustainability. In the larger scheme, it is capital investment that explains why those Metro Vancouver rates are going up so much.
Posted on November 21, 2018 . by Patrick Johnstone. 2 Comments.
Posted on November 18, 2018 . by Patrick Johnstone. Leave a comment.
This is episode 7 (?) of my hopefully-regular pre-council list of what I think are going to be the most important three items on our Council agenda on Monday* in no particular order, so you can decide if you want to tune in.
We need to build a new substation in Queensborough. It has been in the long-term capital plan for the Electrical Utility for quite some time as load demand has been going up, and the fire on the Q’Bobo bridge last year that caused a protracted power outage in the neighbourhood demonstrated a surprising lack of resiliency in our grid over there. Substations are expensive, and we will need to borrow to pay for it (well, the Electrical Utility will need to borrow to pay for it, but we own the electrical utility), which will require a Bylaw and public approval.
The budget process moves on, and it is time for us to talk about utility rates changes so the appropriate rate bylaws can be drafted. No surprise utility rates are going up, but once again the rates are increasing more than inflation for a variety of reasons. The water, sewer, and solid waste utilities operate somewhat separately from the City’s general revenue, and their increases are directly tied to the increasing cost of the service and the need to plan and finance infrastructure improvements. The Electrical Utility is a special case that makes us different than other cities, but it is still impacted by the increasing cost of wholesale electricity from BC Hydro. Expect a robust discussion here about efforts to keep utility rates in check.
#3: Testing out the new ones!
This is the first real Council Meeting for a couple of new Councillors, Chinu Das and Nadine Nakagawa. They have both been inaugurated and through a bit of orientation training, but nothing like budget deliberations to really turn the heat on them. Fortunately, they both have a tonne of experience working on boards and are pretty will versed on how Council works. I’m not expecting any strangeness, though there are still sometimes unexpected procedural hi-jinks even for us experienced types!
*footnote: The funny thing about Council: it is almost impossible to predict what three items will rise to the top and get the most debate/ public feedback / media coverage. These are only my guesses, and I am only one of seven. For a full prediction of the entire Council agenda, go to the agenda!
Posted on November 16, 2018 . by Patrick Johnstone. 1 Comment.
I live in a new condo building that abuts right onto an older building. I’m not sure how the developer got away with building right to the property line. Needless to say, the owners of the other building were not happy with us, and really, it’s not what we envisioned either. What is the minimum distance requirement between two multi-family dwellings…if any?
In there you will find a 9-page list of amendments, in case you care to see the evolution of the Bylaw over 17 years. You will also find an introductory document that lays out the format of the Bylaw, including 22 pages of definitions and the names of the 75 “districts” into which the City is divided, each with their own specific rules. Telling, but not surprising if you have ever been to a Public Hearing about a rezoning, this launches off with then 22 pages of parking requirements, before a bunch of seemingly-random but no-doubt-logical-at-the-time rules about things like garbage and recycling storage facilities and satellite dishes… alas.
There is also a little bit in this section about setbacks – the required distance behind a property line where buildings can be constructed, but here it is a strange list of specific spots that were probably put in place for location-specific requirements like utility offsets or traffic sightlines. If you want to know how close you can build to your property line or how close your neighbour can build to it, you probably need to get into the specifics of the zoning district that applies.
Then you need to go to the comprehensive list (7 documents, 400+ pages) of zoning districts to see what the specific rules are. All this to say, there is no single rule, but a set of rules and local exemptions apply, so everything I say here is general and the only relation it has to your specific case is that it almost certainly doesn’t apply to your specific case. Zoning is complicated.
In generality, for single family homes the “side setback” is 10% of the lot width or 5 feet, whichever is less, but never less than 4 feet, although it may be possible for some non-wall to “project” into this setback in special cases. That not clear, but about the clearest case you can have.
Condo buildings vary in their zoning type, depending on what type of building they are (townhouse or small apartment building or tower?). Some fit snugly in a Townhouse or Commercial District designation, others are “Comprehensive Development Districts”, which are stand-alone zoning rules developed to support a specific development at a specific site – and therefore have an address attached to them. The nearest one to where I am sitting now is the one I clicked on in the map above, which is CD-20: Comprehensive Development District (246 Sixth Street). This was put together in 2008 to permit a 16 storey residential tower with commercial “live-work units” at grade, now called 258 Sixth Street, just to complicate matters. It has no set-back requirement at grade, but setbacks above 9.14 metres (i.e. starting on the fourth floor) of 2.5m at the streetscape sides (to reduce the “mass” of the building as it appears from the street), 14.2m at the rear and 7.1m on the neighboring-building side (both to reduce the proximity to current and potential future residential buildings).
Every Comprehensive Development District has its own character, as does each neighbourhood. Its shape and form of any planned building is impacted by the buildings that are adjacent to it and by the future vision of the neighbourhood based on longer-term planning guidelines like the Official Community Plan. However, all of these guidelines can be overruled by bringing a Development Plan and appropriate Zoning Amendment to Council and convincing Council there is a good reason to vary from the guidelines. Sometimes this means placing a tower towards one side of the pedestal in order to reduce the viewscape conflict with an adjacent building, sometimes it means the increasing the size of a setback in order to provide some community benefit like improved pedestrian realm or emergency vehicle access. These are the complicated maths that often require months or years of negotiation between our planning staff, the landowner, stakeholders and the community.
Perhaps that is the part of the entire development-approving process that most of the public don’t understand when they see a project come to Council for a Public Hearing. They see Council approving or denying a specific building, but in actuality it is a large and complicated stack of compromises (by than landowner and the City) and potential benefits built up over those negotiations that Council eventually is asked to approve or not approve.
So your building may have allowed zero setback as part of its zoning, or a zero setback may have been something the City wanted as part of the development to create a more amiable streetscape in the long term, or a zero setback may have been something the developer of your building wanted to maximize the amount of square footage they could sell. Likely at least two of these are true, or else it would not have been built like that.
Posted on November 7, 2018 . by Patrick Johnstone. Leave a comment.
We had a bit of a Council meeting on November 5th. The first meeting of a new term is limited to a few procedural matters that get us up and running as a Council, but there were decisions made so I may as well report on them.
First we had Oaths of Office required by regulation, which all of our Council managed to get through relatively unscathed. Even the newbies. And I pronounced pecuniary correctly after 4 years of daily practice.
We officially appointed Mayor Cote to the Metro Vancouver Board, as is the general practice. Municipalities like New Westminster get a single seat at the Board, and it is typically the Mayor who serves that position.
We also name and Alternate to cover for the Mayor if they are not available. In New Westminster, the practice has been to allow the Alternate serve on one of the regional committees with an available spot for New Westminster. (e.g. for the last 2 years, I have been serving as Alternate and have been on the Metro Vancouver Utilities committee). We voted to appoint Councillor Trentadue to serve as Alternate.
The Mayor is setting up a new Task Force to give local economic development a little more focus than it previously had. This model – a Task Force with a clear mandate and financial support to do the work needed to bring new ideas to council, supported by staff and outside experts – worked well for Public Engagement last term (although our implementation is a little slower than I might like on that), and on ongoing issues related to Affordable Housing and Transportation.
Sometimes the Mayor is out of town or even (gasp!) on vacation. We always have to have a Mayor designated for some legal reasons around signing important stuff, emergency chain of command, etc. In New Westminster, we share this responsibility with each Council member “acting” two months a year in the event that His Worship is not around. As was the case in the previous term, my months are March and August.
The Mayor gets to assign us to committees and Task Forces as well. This does not include the myriad of Council advisory committees (those are yet to come), but more the legislative committees and Mayors task forces. I will be continuing to serve on the Transportation Task Force and Canada Games Pool Replacement Task Force, and will be serving in a full role on the Riverfront and Public Realm Task Force (after serving as an alternate for part of the last term). My time on the Land use and Planning committee has also come to an end –as we have tried to rotate that around Council members.
Zoning Amendment (1050 Boyd Street and 1005 Ewen Avenue) Bylaw No. 8033, 2018.
Finally, we adopted this Bylaw given Third Reading back in July, because it took until now to get Ministry of Transportation sign-off as required.
First real Council meeting will be on November 19th, and I am expecting a stuffed-full agenda!
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2019-04-21T20:56:09Z
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https://patrickjohnstone.ca/2018/11
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Back in blighty now, and Got A Ukulele can return to normal service. Time to share with you my initial review of my purchase - a traditional Canarian Timple, handcrafted in Teguise on the island of Lanzarote by luthier Antonio Lemez Hernández.
First a little bit of background to the Timple - this is the traditional folk instrument of the Canary Islands, a Spanish outpost off the western coast of North Africa. Whilst the Timple is played on most Canarian islands, it is considered to have originated in Lanzarote, and in particular in the old capital of the island, the pretty town of Teguise. The instrument is very similar to a ukulele and is a probably candidate to being a pre-cursor to it. I say 'probable', as the origins of the Timple on the island are somewhat unclear - being a Spanish dependency, it is likely that the stringed instruments of the mainland were introduced to the islanders. These instruments predated the modern spanish guitar and and its possible that the Spanish themselves brought something similar to Lanzarote, where it developed into the Timple. There are other possibilities though. It is considered that the strung instrument was introduced to Spain by the Moors of North Africa in their long occupation of the south, and as such they should be credited with the introduction to the Mainland. We should also bear in mind that in the 16th Century, pre the Spanish, the first occupants of the islands were from North African or Moorish descent - and as such it may well be the case that they introduced the stringed instrument to the islands directly. Either way, the instrument has it's roots on Lanzarote and has done for nearly 300 years.
The instrument is similar to many other small stringed instruments such as the ukulele, the cuatro, the machete and the tiple. You may have seen my earlier post regarding my visit to the Casa-Museo Del Timple on the island which charts it's history and its wider family, showing of examples of all sorts of similar instruments. The Timple is strung with 5 strings, and tuned gcEAD. In other words, it shares the GCEA of the soprano ukulele on the last four strings (the four strings from the ceiling downwards), but adds another new first string tuned to D. You will note that I typed the G and the C above in lower case, and that is because they are both tuned re-entrant. The standard tuning for ukulele has the G string higher than the next C, but on the Timple both the G and the C are higher. This makes for an even brighter shriller sound than the soprano ukulele. As such, the string thicknesses are a little different too. As the G and the C strings are re-entrant, it is the E string which is the thickest (unlike the ukulele in which the C is thickest). Other differences include the naturally wider neck to accommodate the fifth string, a narrower longer body and strange neck design with far fewer frets - the neck is actually as long as a concert but this one only comes with eight frets. Turning the instrument over however and we see the real difference - the hump! The back on the Timple is hugely rounded to create more sound out of what is a smaller top on the body (and it certainly works). In the Canaries the Timple has the nickname "Camellito Sonoro" meaning the Sonorous Camel on account of the hump!.
So on to this instrument in particular - having visited the museum we took directions to the workshop in which Antonio crafts his instruments - right in the centre of Teguise itself. They are all handmade from solid woods and the smell of his workshop has come back with me to England via this Timple - the smell from the sound hole is glorious! Antonio is in his 60's and has been making these instruments all his life. This particular model is a fairly plain one. The top is solid spruce with a very thin matte finish (very thin, I managed to ding it already, sadly - something that is bound to happen with soft spruce), and the back, sides are (I believe) Mahogany or something similar. The sound hole has some simple inlay and the top is actually in two pieces, nicely book matched. The sides are nice pieces of wood two in a lighter coloured wood than the back with some nice grain patterns. As you will see, the wood used for the top actually extends up and on to the end of the neck as an extension which I think looks nicely different. Over to the the humped back and this is darker wood, again nicely matched, with a lighter inlay joining the two halves.
Inside the instrument we see the makers label and what looks to me to be similar kerfling and bracing as that found in a ukulele.
The neck itself is wide and made of two pieces. The main part of the neck and the heel are a single piece of wood, but the large traditional shaped headstock is quite a piece of wood and as such I can see how it would need to be carved separately - the join employs a joint type I have not seen before which adds to its "different" air. The short fingerboard is in a darker wood and mounted on to the neck, and wood binding finishes the edges. The frets look like nickel and are nicely set. The nut appears to be bone and is cut well.
At the other end of the strings, the bridge is traditionally wide, and is a tie bar design. Interestingly there is no bridge saddle and the wood of the bridge itself serves this purpose. The result of that and the nicely cut nut means that the action is superbly low and easy to play.
Back up to the headstock and this is large piece of wood with a facing cap of the same wood as found on the fingerboard. The tuners are friction pegs, which sadly are not of the best quality and I will be likely swapping them out for something smoother (I like friction pegs when they are good, but am fussy).
All in all, the instrument is clearly very well made by a craftsman. Whilst not loaded up with bling, he does make higher priced instruments that fit that bill if you want them. It's nicely balanced and light to hold too.
So how does it sound? High! It's got such a bright tone to it on account of both that extra high D string, and the re-entrant G and C strings - if anything it makes a soprano ukulele sound like a bass! The sound produced from such a small little thing is extremely loud, helped along by that humped back, and it has some great sustain provided by the thin solid woods used. It's different to play on account of that extra D string, but not really complicated, involving only the additional finger on some of the standard ukulele chords. For example the G chord is exactly the same as the uke, but is played on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th strings. The C however is played the same way but requires a finger on the second fret of the 1st D string. Strummed or plucked I like the sound, and whilst I am in no way proficient with traditional Canarian song, am having fun with it and will try to get some YouTube sound samples up soon.
I got a timple a couple of years back on Tenereife - had to go to one of the townships to find a shop that sold them. Lovely little instruments. Now a question, do you know anywhere that sells cases for them? Mine is getting dustier & dustier by the minute & Googling doesn't seem to provide any answers. I'm in the UK. Thank you - and thank you also for an interesting & detailed write up on the instrument.
I bin playing guitars, banjos, mandolins etc since 1965. I picked up one of these instruments 7 years ago. Hardly played anything else since.
Hi, where did you buy the Timple? At the museum shop.... Prob not.... Or in Teguise somewhere?
No - strangely the museum don't sell them! If you walk out the front of museum and head straight over square, church on your left. You will reach a T Junction. Turn right and you will reach another mini square, and it was in one of craft shops on left. They get them direct from the luthier.
Well done. Directions are spot on!.
Antonio Lemez Hernández house is just off the main square in Teguise - and it is painted in a blue wash. You can't miss it amongst all the white houses. If you look at the museum front, it's the street to the left. several years ago I was there for one of my 10 day visits and Antonio made my timple for me that week. Mine has 12 frets running right up to the body, beautiful marquetry and the usual 'pearl' effect double scratch plate.
Could I ask how much the timple was. The prices seemed to vary wildly between different shops in Regular when I was there a couple of weeks ago. I only just saw this website and so didn't find the luthier's shop when I was there. Next time!
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2019-04-19T00:56:37Z
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https://www.gotaukulele.com/2012/03/canarian-timple-antonio-lemez-review.html
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Erroneous beliefs or misinformation about a brand can be a nightmare, the widespread nature of these belief makes it is a source of concern, such that efforts to redeem the brands reputation afterwards becomes more like an uphill task.
According to the new thesaurus dictionary, erroneous belief is a misconception resulting from incorrect information. Misinformation often originate from rumors, spread through word of mouth and actions, and as the populace became literate, the means to spread information diversified. People who do not possess direct knowledge or experience often rely on the media ; television, the press and more recently, the internet which through technological innovations has increased the speed by which news could travel, this has influenced to a large extent the ways in which information is communicated and misinformation is spread.
The information a populace receives helps them to form their opinions and beliefs, particularly if major streams of beliefs are in opposition to established facts. If the truth is not established overtime, misinformed individuals could make decisions for themselves and their families that are not in their best interest and can have serious consequences. Erroneous news is a dire threat to brands worldwide, especially when it gets picked by the media and goes viral. Thus, brands become vulnerable to the effects of such news, often resulting in loss of customers, potential customers and revenue, making it difficult for a brand to experience customer loyalty and retention.
A brand is a unique name, term, words, sign, symbol, design, a combination of these, or any other feature that identifies products and services of a company and differentiates them from the competition (American Marketing Association 2016). A brand is an intangible, but also a critical component of what a company represents (Davis and Bojalil Re?bora, 2002, 3). Brands help companies to create a connection with customers on an emotional level. For this reason, many companies try to build unique and favorable strong brands (Kotler and Keller, 2012, 32), such that the experience a consumer obtains from a brand determines its success. A brand is successful if the consumers perceive it as better than the competition, and fails if they do not (Weilbacher 1999, 22). In the era of social media, this is becoming even more apparent, when communication is becoming more centered on the consumer.
As a result of intense competition, companies all over the world are continually looking for new ways to communicate with their customers effectively. For that social media has become one of the most important media with 67 percent of all internet users using social media (Pew Research Center, 2012). Using social media platforms for marketing purposes is a new and rapidly growing way to develop positive relationships with customers (Erdogmas & Cicek, 2012). A study by Madden and Zickuhr (2011) reported that 65% of U.S. adult Internet users now use social networking sites, more than double the percentage reported in 2008 (29%) and that 43% of online adults use social networking sites daily. A more recent report from statistica (2018) reported that as of 2017, daily social media usage of global internet users amounted to 135 minutes per day, up from 126 minutes in the previous year implying global social networking audience’s surpassed 2 billion users in 2016. The power of social networking according to statistica (2018) is such that the number of worldwide users is expected to reach some 3.02 billion monthly active social media users by 2021, around a third of Earth’s entire population.
In Nigeria, several studies suggest that when Nigerians go online (predominantly with their mobile phones) they spend much of their time on social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and so on). Sending and reading e-mails, reading news and posting research queries have become less important activities for Nigerians. To confirm this, the minister of communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu in an interview he granted punch newspaper, November 17, 2017,(Everest 2017), stated that about 75% of Nigeria’s population that use the internet are on the social media, and the number keeps growing both on social networking sites and blogging sites. This unarguably points to the fact that social media, amongst many other strategies, is a perfect place to target customers. It is therefore important to focus on the platform where your customers usually spend more time on a daily basis.
Social media refers to the means of interactions among people through which information and ideas are created, shared and exchanged over virtual communities and networks. (Kaplan ; Haenlein, 2012) defined social media as a group of Internet-based applications built on the ideological and technological foundations of Web and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Social media allow dynamic interaction in real time, disrupting the traditional balance of power between the firm and the consumers. The concept of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), where the firm has significant information about its clients, is challenged, because consumers receive access to big amounts of information through the social media (Malthouse, Haenlein, Skiera, Wege, ; Zhang, 2013).
Social media can take many forms, including social networks (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, snapchat and so on),internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, pictures, videos, rating and social book markings (Kaplan ; Haenlein, 2010; Weber 2009). As social media evolves into a more sophisticated tool for interaction and global reach, many individuals and companies are leveraging on it to capture the audience of a vast majority. Social media primarily attracts the attention of the millennial generation. According to the 2010 Pew Research report, the millennial is defined as having been born between 1977 and 1992 (Norén, L. 2011). For this generation, various social media channels have become inseparable part of every phase of their lives, with Facebook and YouTube dominating their top choices. The emerging trend in Nigeria shows a widespread use in Facebook, YouTube, Instagram stories and tweets for business, such that investment in social media is no longer a matter of choice, but that of compulsion. Businesses will begin to integrate content marketing strategy with social media effort to boost their revenue. In a recent article on 2018 social media trends that would influence any business, (Adepeju, 2018), identified a new generation Z (Digital natives), who spend their entire time glued to the virtual world on their phones, and laptops. These set of individuals are even more valuable than the millennial generation, they are born between the 1990 and 2010, such that any organization that wants to grow should cater to the needs of this generation.
As breaking news unfolds people increasingly rely on social media to stay abreast of the latest updates. Its sometimes inevitable that such information may encourage rumors, many of which are unverified at the point of release .This study will therefore will test the reliability of social media as a credible source of information , focusing specifically on the most popular social network sites; Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and twitter as the most frequently visited platforms in Nigeria. Based on the analysis of these platforms, recommendations would be made on how to debunk misinformation about a brand, which will help to design effective retraction strategies of erroneous beliefs, design educational tools and public information campaign strategies for West African seasoning and the Ajinomoto brand.
Negative feelings, thought and beliefs patterns of customers are a concern to organization sustainability. Companies are constantly evaluated by the way they are perceived by the competition, the media and their customers and as frustrating as it might be, firms now have little or no control over how existing and potential customers or the public perceives their numerous brands. It is important to understand how to counter negative thinking in order to reduce these negative consequences.
One of the many challenges organizations are facing in this global age is the determination of appropriate medium to reach target audience and influence favorable and positive buyer’s behaviors towards a brand. Organizations today in their pursuit for survival in a tensed and ever conscious/informed consumer have no other option order than to develop interest in social media research and the need for hiring social media experts.
In most old generation organizations however, especially organizations with tangible products like AJINOMOTO seasoning brands, the use of traditional media (TV, radio, direct mail, outdoor), over reliance on the sales personnel, and customers word of mouth testimonials to potential customers is still prevalent.
Traditional media with recent digital media evolution, is more like a one way communication to a mass audience and is not as effective in creating engagement in comparison to social media. Also, with increased population explosion, sales personnel efforts at establishing relationship with potential buyers or passing favorable news about a brand is limited.
This proposed study therefore will investigate deeply erroneous beliefs held against AJINOMOTO seasoning brand, analyze the impact of social media in changing this erroneous belief , propose strategies for debunking such via social media platforms and increase the understanding of the role of social media for creation of brand awareness.
Examine the extent to which Instagram can help to improve the public image of AJINOMOTO seasoning brand.
Determine the extent to which Facebook can be employed to communicate the benefits of using AJINOMOTO seasoning brands to consumers.
Determine the effectiveness of Twitter in communicating the brand value of AJINOMOTO seasoning.
Analyze the belief held by the general public against the Ajinomoto brand, access the impact of current media strategies of West Africa seasoning and evaluate the impact Social Media campaign Strategies will have on the AJINOMOTO seasoning brand in the south west region of Nigeria.
What are the erroneous beliefs held by the general public against the Ajinomoto brand?
Will social media be a useful medium in changing the negative perception held against the Ajinomoto brand?
What are the effects of Facebook in communicating the benefits of using AJINOMOTO seasoning brands?
Will Instagram be effective in redeeming the public image of AJINOMOTO seasoning brand?
What are the effects of YouTube videos in positioning AJINOMOTO as a healthy seasoning brand to consumers?
Will Twitter be effective in communicating the brand benefits of AJINOMOTO seasoning?
There are no erroneous beliefs significantly held against the AJINOMOTO seasoning brand.
The use of social media is not significant as a medium in changing the negative perception held against the Ajinomoto brand.
The use of Instagram is not effective in significantly redeeming the public image of the AJINOMOTO brand.
The use of YouTube video channels does not significantly position AJINOMOTO as a healthy seasoning brand to consumers.
This study will offer West African seasoning the opportunity to right a wrong perception about their brand, while adopting better strategies to reposition their brands and gain more market share. It contributes significantly to the advancing literatures in the field of social media communication, in relation to customer perception and brand management. It is believed that social media is changing the way businesses used to work, so Managers clearly need to be convinced of the impact that social media communication has on their brand, and more importantly look into activities which can improve the relationship between their brands and consumers. This study therefore has significance in marketing, as a vital aspect of marketing strategies nowadays. Also significant is the fact that marketers are being guided on how to choose the right activities for the right consumers.
The study will seek to investigate the effects of social media as an effective medium for correcting negative belief held about AJINOMOTO seasoning brand from the consumers/customers perspectives. The study will analyze platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and twitter and will be constrained to consumers and customers in Lagos state, Nigeria.
Time constraint in gathering of data is a limiting factor, considering a project is time bound and temporal, timely response from respondents and time to investigate responses may tend to delay the project progress and may often result to non-response and limited size of the sample.
The research requires access to people, organizations and documents which may often be denied.
The research data is based on a consumer survey, it requires self- reporting by the respondents. The fact that respondents might some-times not answer questions in a way that corresponds with reality could be limiting.
Substantial financial resources are required for a detailed research study to cover expenses such as printing of journals, transportation and communication among others.
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2019-04-25T07:51:12Z
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https://conspiracyofarsonists.com/research-proposal-impact-of-social-media-in-changing-negative-belief-held-against-a-brand/
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The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid is packed with high-tech features, from small conveniences to innovative safety measures. Remote Engine Start lets you fire up the Accord Hybrid while you’re on your way to the car. You can adjust the heat in the cabin so that your Honda is the perfect temperature when you climb in. The Accord Hybrid also comes with standard Honda Sensing, a suite of advanced safety features to help you out. It also has standard Honda LaneWatch, to help you check your blind spots on the road.
It’s made to be a comfortable ride for hours at a time, so the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid engineers thought of everything. The driver’s seat has 10-way power adjustment on every trim. There’s also available driver memory seats, so that two drivers can save their favorite seating positions. It’s also easy to take your entertainment on the road with you. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard on the EX-L and Touring models, so you can access your music library, navigation, and more through the Display Audio touchscreen. HondaLink synching makes it easier than ever to link your car to your devices and stay connected on the road.
The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid offers up more power than previous years and class-leading fuel economy to boot. It offers smooth ride quality and responsive handling and acceleration. Its unique two-engine system offers 212 horsepower, plenty to perform highway passes and have a little fun on curvy roads. There’s also a new Sport driving mode on the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid, which gives you extra zip to your Hybrid.
The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid has an industry-first two-motor hybrid system. The first motor accelerates the Accord Hybrid from a stop. After that, the second motor starts the gas engine and charges the first motor. This system nets you an amazing 49 miles per gallon in the city. If your daily driving puts you through a lot of traffic or stop lights, Honda’s two-motor hybrid system will help you save big at the pump.
Honda also added an elegant instrument panel to help you keep track of everything to do with your 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid. You can view your speed, fuel and battery levels, current driving mode, and more from the innovative instrument display placed conveniently for the driver to see.
The inside of the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid is built for your comfort and convenience. The Accord Hybrid offers an amazingly comfortable ride, from the premium seats to the strong, lightweight body design. There’s plenty of room for adults to sit comfortably, so you’ll have no trouble taking all of your friends for a night out. The Accord Hybrid provides generous headroom and plenty of legroom in both front and rear, and seats that remain cushioning and comfortable for hours at a time.
The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid also has the most cargo space in the class. Its downsized battery means that the 2017 model boasts 13.7 cubic feet of cargo space. Although the battery pack means that the rear seats do not fold down, the Honda’s trunk can easily accommodate a full set of golf clubs at the same time as it holds several overnight bags. Between the plush interior, space for bags and snacks, and the immense driving range, the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid could take you on a fantastic road trip.
The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid gets a five-star safety rating from the NHTSA, as well as top marks from the IIHS. It also receives a Top Safety Pick+ award from the IIHS. The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid comes with Honda Sensing, which gives you a suite of advanced safety features in addition to Honda’s passive safety features. There are lots of standard airbags on the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid to keep you safe in the event of a crash. Honda’s Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure also acts to keep you safe in all directions.
In addition, the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid comes with Honda Sensing and more active safety features. Honda Sensing gives you the Collision Mitigation Braking System and the Road Departure Mitigation System. There’s also standard Vehicle Stability Assist, Anti-Lock Braking System, Electronic Brake Distribution, Brake Assist, Tire Pressure Monitoring System, LED Daytime Running Lights, and a Multi-Angle Rearview Camera with Guidelines.
The 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid is available in three different trims. The entry-level Hybrid comes with lots of great standard features, including Honda Sensing and Remote Engine Start. It’s available in eight exterior colors. The interior is available in either ivory or black premium cloth upholstery. All trims also come with 17-inch alloy wheels.
If you want a leather-trimmed interior instead, the EX-L and Touring trims include leather upholstery and heated seats. The top-of-the-line Touring trim also offers extra conveniences like the satellite-linked navigation system, LED headlights, rain-sensing windshield wipers, and front and rear sensors to help you park. It also includes the EX-L’s features, like the power moonroof and display audio interface.
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If you’re looking for a well-rounded, fuel-efficient daily driver, the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid is perfect for you. Stop by and check out our selection here in St. Paul, MN! Our sales team will be happy to help you find the perfect vehicle for your needs. Plus, when you buy a new Honda from us, you’re eligible to become a Buerkle Rewards Plus member! You’ll get reward points to redeem, as well as bonuses like free car washes, two free oil changes, $200 off your next vehicle purchase, and much more! We’re here to help you find the perfect car, so stop by to take a look at our great selection! When you spot something you love, we’ll set you up with a test drive and get you behind the wheel in no time. We hope to see you soon!
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2019-04-22T02:18:32Z
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https://www.buerklehonda.com/research/2017/honda/2017-honda-accord-hybrid/
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With almost one third of upstate city residents and one half of upstate city families with children under 18 living in poverty, compared with less than 10% of suburban residents and families, it is helpful to understand how their demographic, social and educational characteristics, and how they differ from more affluent residents of the counties surrounding them. The data shows that in important ways, the poor living in upstate cities possess characteristics that make it difficult for them to compete effectively for good jobs.
With the exception of Utica, Troy and Schenectady, most upstate city residents who live in poverty identified as members of a minority group in the Census Bureau’s 2013 American Community Survey. Because the residents of communities outside central cities within the county containing the city are overwhelmingly white, it is not surprising that almost 70% to 90% of suburban residents whose income is below the poverty line are white, (not Hispanic or Latino).
• People identifying as “black” or “African American” are the largest group of those in poverty living in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
• Black or African American residents ranged from 25% to 50% of the population with incomes below poverty level.
• Hispanics are the third largest group in poverty in upstate central cities, ranging from 10% to 20% of the population with incomes below the poverty line in most cases.
But, when we look at the percentage of people of each race or ethnicity whose income is below poverty level, the picture differs. The data shows that both in upstate cities and in the counties surrounding them, poverty among blacks or African American and Hispanics or Latinos is generally two to three times higher than it is for whites, who are not Hispanic or Latino. More than half of people who identify as black or African American live in poverty in most upstate cities, while nearly half of Latinos and Hispanics are poor. In most cases, the percentage of minority group members living in poverty in suburbs is much lower – about 20% in many cases. For those who identify as white, not Hispanic or Latino, the percentages of people living in poverty are lower – around 20% in cities, and about 5% in suburbs.
Residents of upstate cities whose incomes are below the poverty level are more than twice as likely to have only a high school education or less than residents living outside the city who are not below the poverty level.
• Overall, 60% or more of residents of upstate cities have a high school diploma or less, while 30% to 40% of residents whose incomes are above the poverty level, living outside central cities, have high school diplomas or less.
• The most significant educational difference between upstate central city residents living below the poverty level and residents outside cities whose incomes are above poverty is the percentage of residents who had not completed high school.
• Outside all of the upstate central cities, less than 8% of residents had not completed high school, while in central cities, 25% to nearly 40% (in Utica) of residents had not graduated.
One of the strongest differences between people in poverty in and not in poverty is found in family structure.
• Outside central cities, 80% to 85% of families whose incomes were above the poverty level were married.
• For those whose incomes were below the poverty level outside central cities, 60% to 70% had single adult householders.
• In central cities, 55% to 70% of families whose incomes were above the poverty level were married.
• In contrast, among those whose incomes were below the poverty level living in central cities, between 65% and 90% of families had a single adult householder.
• Sixty five to 75% of all families in central cities, with incomes below poverty level, had single adult householders with children below 18 years old.
• Most families in poverty with children below 18 years old (85%) were headed by unmarried householders were headed by women.
• Single parents were much less likely to head families with children under 18, living above the poverty line. In the suburbs, less than 10% of these families were headed by single parents, while 16% to 25% of families with children under 18 having incomes above the poverty line were headed by single parents.
• Most single parent families living above the poverty line (78%) were headed by women.
In upstate central cities, less than half of residents sixteen years old or older in poverty worked part-time, or full time in the past twelve months, compared to almost 70% of those living outside central cities and not in poverty.
• Less than 10% of residents of central cities who lived in poverty worked full-time, compared with 45% to 50% of those living outside central cities.
• Over half of upstate city residents whose incomes were below the poverty level did not work, compared with about 30%, on average, for those not in poverty and living outside cities.
The high percentages of minority group members, people with low levels of educational attainment, single parent families, and part-time or no work experience are all significant barriers that have contributed to the high poverty levels found in upstate central cities.
Central cities, for more than a century, have been home to the least well off Americans. Exposes of tenement life in the late 19th century described conditions in the slums of American cities. At the same time, through the first half of the 20th Century, cities were diverse. Most urban residents at that time lived within the borders of central cities, so while poverty was present, so was wealth. With the end of the Second World War, the beginnings of suburbanization became evident. Young families seeking to raise families in environments with detached housing and some open space, found opportunities in the new tract developments that sprang up. Since automobile ownership was widespread at the time, the new suburban residents had relatively easy access to jobs located in the central cities.
The growth of suburban communities after the mid-20th century has not abated. At the same time, the population of central cities in many places has continued to decline. For example, Syracuse’s population peaked in 1950 at 221,000. In 2010, the city’s population had declined to 145,000. In 1950, the Syracuse metropolitan area had 465,000 residents, increasing to 663,000 in 2010. The city of Rochester declined from 332,000 to 211,000 in the same period, while the Rochester metropolitan area grew from 488,000 to 1,054,000.
Poverty is a complex problem. Our economy has failed in recent years to produce enough jobs to meet the supply of low skilled workers, many of whom are concentrated in central cities. This problem is largely a result of two major long term trends. First, globalization has allowed more workers throughout the world to compete for manufacturing jobs that were monopolized in the past by advanced industrial economies, like the United States. While globalization has undoubtedly been beneficial in reducing poverty globally, it has had a significant cost for low skilled American workers who, in the past, had greater opportunity to hold a reasonably well paying manufacturing job.
The second trend is the result of the development of information technology and automation. Just as low skilled, comparatively low paid, foreign labor has made it more difficult for low skilled workers in the United States to find well paid manufacturing jobs, technology and automation have reduced their availability.
An additional factor that has contributed to the employment difficulties facing low skilled workers is the lingering effect of the severe recession of 2008. While the official unemployment rate has declined to near pre-recession levels, the labor participation rate has not recovered.
These trends have contributed to the increasing income inequality in our society, as low skilled workers have relatively high levels of unemployment, and low wage levels for many of those who find work.
Though poverty is persistent, evidence based approaches have been successful in reducing poverty levels both in the United States and outside it. These approaches typically have specific goals, good measures of need and success, and a commitment from political leaders to follow through with needed resources over a reasonable period of time. For upstate cities that are hard hit by poverty to see reductions in levels of economic distress among their citizens, a greater recognition of the fact that poverty has become a defining characteristic of central city populations, particularly for families with children, is needed. And, beyond that recognition, realistic, targeted approaches must be created and funded.
For many years, concerns about Upstate New York’s relatively slow economic growth have revolved around the idea that the region’s performance has been subpar, and that by altering government policies, by reducing tax burdens, or by spending money on economic development projects, performance could be improved.
But these analyses ignore the fact that Upstate’s economic performance is largely the result of its historic industry mix, which emphasized manufacturing in the past, its location and its age. All of these factors have worked to make the region less competitive as a location than it once was.
In fact, from the perspective of personal income, upstate metropolitan areas are doing a little better than comparable rust belt cities. Each of the large Upstate metropolitan areas, other than Utica-Rome had a median family income in 2013 that is higher than that of rust belt cities outside New York, on average, or for the United States ($64,719).
While residents of Upstate metropolitan areas are doing relatively well, Upstate New York metropolitan areas are distinctive for the amount of economic segregation that exists between the economic fortunes of city residents and those of suburban areas surrounding the cities. In all but one (Albany) Upstate city, incomes of families average a smaller percentage of what suburban families earn than the average of rust belt cities outside New York State. In the most extreme case, the Rochester metropolitan area, city families earn only half of what suburban residents earn.
The poor economic condition of Upstate city residents can also be seen by looking at poverty statistics. Other than in the Albany- Schenectady-Troy metropolitan area, Upstate cities have higher percentages of poor people than the rust belt average, with more than 30% of residents living in poverty. In contrast, the percentage of poor people in suburban areas outside cities is very low, well below 10% in all cases except Utica, compared with the rust belt average of 10.5%. Of the 841,636 people who lived in Upstate cities in 2013, 256,973 lived in poverty, while of the 2,037,889 people who lived in the counties outside the central cities, only 160,313 lived in poverty. As a result, the percentage of people in poverty in Syracuse and Schenectady is more than five times higher than in the suburbs, compared with three times higher in rust belt cities outside New York State.
The economic condition of families with children in Upstate cities is of even greater concern. In Rochester and Syracuse, nearly half of families with children live in poverty, while in Buffalo, Utica and Troy the percentage of poor families with children is greater than 45%. In contrast, about 10% of families with children in the suburbs around upstate cities were poor. 92,574 of the 198,549 children under 18 living in the upstate cities lived in poverty in 2013. Outside the cities in the surrounding county, 43,808 of the 437,728 children under 18 lived in poverty. The percentage of families with children living in Syracuse, Rochester, Schenectady and Troy was more than five times higher than in the suburbs, compared with a difference of less than three times in rust belt cities outside New York State.
Poverty in Upstate cities grew twice as fast as in the nation as whole, and almost five times as fast as in the suburbs around those cities between 1999 and 2013. The percent of families with children living in poverty grew by 7% nationally. But the fortunes of upstate city residents were far more adversely affected by poverty than suburban residents during the period. Poverty in families with children in Upstate suburbs grew by an average of 3.3% during the period, while in Upstate cities, poverty grew by 15.3% on average, growing by 17.5% in Rochester, 18.1% in Syracuse, and 23.9% in Troy.
Efforts to help Upstate New York have, in the past, focused on reducing taxes and creating economic development funds to provide resources to promote regional economic growth. Governor Cuomo’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative encourages the development of Regional Economic Development Councils which have been tasked with the development of strategic plans in competitions for state economic development funds. The program could be potentially beneficial to the Upstate region, if projects are chosen well, and implemented as promised.
But regional strategies do not focus on the needs of the people of Upstate cities who have been hardest hit by the growth of poverty over the past fifteen years. Cities are home to people who compete least effectively for good jobs, because of weak educational backgrounds, high percentages of single parent households, criminal records, transportation difficulties and the like. For those reasons, traditional economic development or tax incentive strategies are unlikely to significantly benefit them. Instead, state leaders should develop strategies that are designed to directly address the obstacles that prevent city residents from getting good, full time jobs.
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2019-04-19T06:31:24Z
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http://policybynumbers.com/2015/11?print=print-search
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Ndudi Godwin Elumelu: Ndudi Godwin Elumelu, was born on the 23rd of February, 1965. He hails from Onicha-Ukwu in the Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State. He had his education at the popular Yaba Tech (Yaba College of Technology), Yaba, Lagos where he obtained a National Diploma in Business Administration in 1989. He later bagged a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Accounting & Finance in 1993 before his Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) with specialization in finance in 2001. Mr. Elumelu has attended many courses both locally and overseas, some of which are credit analysis course by H. Pierson Associates Ltd., Finance Africa summit in South Africa organized by Philip Consulting, 2nd Nigeria International Insurance Summit and other courses in Europe. He is a member of the board of directors in many companies, some of which are Tenoil Petroleum and Gas Company Limited, Structural Trust Fund Limited, Exchange Trade Limited, MunGen Consults Limited, Transglobal Communications Limited, Pet – Jibson & Company Limited, Peton Engineering Limited, and Pet – N Chemicals amongst many others. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
As a result of his knack for excellence, he left to set up Transglobal Investment Ltd., an outfit which consists of eminent Nigerians and seasoned businessmen of proven integrity. The firm handles all classes of insurance business amongst other services. Before engineering the incorporation of Transglobal Investments Ltd., he was a staff of Gulf Bank where he was saddled with the responsibility of management of credit, marketing, treasury and other services. On leaving Gulf Bank Ltd., he joined Inter Capital Ltd., an investment outfit where he was the Head of Credit.
He was elected into the Federal House of Representatives in 2007 to represent the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Costituency. However, prior to his election, Hon Elumelu had tried his luck first in 2003, but some high wire politcal intrigues had not only pitched him against the then Governor of Delta state, Chief James Ibori but had equally caused him to lose to Hon. Pascal Adigwe. He returned in 2007, much wiser and more determined, but met with the same old forces, which not only pitched him against his own blood brother, Peter Elumelu, but also tried to deny him the opportunity to represent his people, on the alleged grounds that he had snubbed a lucrative offer from the godfather himself, Chief Ibori, to serve in the Delta State cabinet. Part of his problems with the then establishment had also allegedly emanated from the fact that he was seen as an Abuja politician and had equally been regarded as a major fixture of the then Godswill Obielum political structure, which gave the Ibori machinery a real scare in 2007. After the defeat of Obielum at the Ogwashi Uku governorship primaries, the structure was allegedly taken over by Mrs Mariam Ali, wife of the former PDP national Chairman Ahmadu Ali, who was herself humiliated at the Senatorial elections by the Ibori machinery which returned incumbent Senator, Patrick Osakwe on the platform of the Accord Party.
Hon. Elumelu suddenly found himself alone and had to proceed to the Court where triumphed as INEC declared him the winner of the April 2007 Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency seat. However, all that is in the past now, as Hon. Elumelu enjoys a very cordial relationship with the present administration in Delta state as indeed he does with all and sundry and even Godswill Obielum himself has already settled his old scores with Governor Uduaghan and is now one of the strongest campaigners of a second tern for the governor in Delta North.
Sice his election, he has been a member of several high brow committees in the House including: Committee Membership: Diaspora, Drugs, Narcotics & Financial Crimes, Interior Affairs, National Security & Intelligence, and the House Committee on Power, where he served as Chairman).
His anti-corruption stance to expose the ill perpetrated in governance, which is the cog in the wheel of development of our great country is in line with the sermon of zero tolerance on corruption by the present administration of President Goodluck Jonathan.
He was seen by many as a role model, a catalyst for change and a likely whistle blower on malpractices and injustice in the system at the initial stages of his Power Committee activities. He and his team appeared to be passionate and resolute to ensure that through their probe of over $16 billion expended on electricity projects between 1999 and 2007 without tangible outcome, will bring about positive solutions in addressing our problems. Hon Elumelu had stood upright in his performance as Chairman of the Committee on Power where he demonstrated a high level of patriotism, and brought his managerial acumen and intellectual prowess to bear on the assignment.
This was evident in the manner he moderated the probe on the power sector, where he deposited logical and tasking questions and occasionally guided those in the box from derailing in their presentations. He accommodated the contributions of others with high sense of humility, integrity and sincerity to ensure that they were on track and focused in making a positive difference to correct the mistakes of the past.
He was well admired in those days that he was even nicknamed by admirers as “Mr. Due-Process and Transparency”, but it was also reported that he also received several death threats to his life as a result of his progressive actions, but this did not deter him from carrying out his legislative duties and freely relating with all and sundry with equanimity, which depicts his moral upbringing.
However, it was this same Power Committe assignment that was to cause Hon Ndudi Elumelu a lot of nightmares as he was suddenly accussed from both within the House of Representative and outside of connivance, fraud and high handedness amongst others.
Hon Elumelu, Senator Nicolas Yahaya Ugbane and Hon. Jibo Mohammed, amongst 9 others were originally arraigned on Friday October 30, 2009 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 130 count charge over an alleged N5.2billion Rural Electrification Scam The charges were separated thus: The three lawmakers among them were originally and jointly facing a 62 count charge while the other six accused are jointly facing a 68 count charge.
The three lawmakers are: Hon. Godwin Ndidi Elumelu, Senator Nicholas Yahaya Ugbane and Hon. Jibo Mohammed. The other accused are Engr. Samuel Ibi Gekpe, Dr. Abdullahi Aliyu, Simon Kirdi Nanle, Engr. Lawrence Kayode Orekoya, Abdulsamad Garba Jahun and Barrister Kayode Oyedeji.
In 2010, The EFCC, presisely on Thursday October 14th, 2010, re-arraigned former Senate Committee Chairman on Power, Senator Nicholas Ugbane, his House of Representatives counterpart, Hon. Godwin Elumelu, and Hon Jibo Mohammed at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Abuja, before Justice Abimbola Banjoko on a fresh 65 count charge bordering on defrauding the government in the Rural Electrification Agency project. They were reprtedly granted bail and the case is said to still be on-going but that has not deterred Hon. Elumelu from seeking for re-election in the April 2011 polls, despite reports in some quarters that the EFCC is poised to scuttle the political ambitions of those still under investigation or in litigation with the Commission.
Infact because of his great interests in youth and women empowerment, and the Energy sector in particular and nation building in general, he has been propelled to remain courageously vital in legislative activities in the hallowed chambers which has distinguished him as a leader with the interest of the downtrodden at heart.
To be sure, the Hon. Godwin Ndudi Elumelu campaign has been hinged on four themes, which have featured prominently in his electioneering campaign prior to his election into the House of Representatives in April 2007 and this time around. The themes according to Elumelu’s manifesto listed Economic Empowerment of Underprivileged Women, Youths and Farmers; Moral Probity Through Respect For Traditional Institutions; Determination to Improve Living standards of the People; as well as Infrastructural Transformation of Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency.
Amongst all these, the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) projects is the one that has visibly spread across many parts of his constituency and gulped a large chunk of the constituency project funds. The others are not far behind.
Elumelu in his stewardship publication tagged: ‘The Elumelu Stewardship” is said to have influenced the following constituency projects in the federal budget.
It is indeed rare to see a politician who will come out to list his constituency projects and even add costs to them as Hon. Elumelu has done with his own projects and for this, he is well endeared by the people of Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, even though there is an important school of thought which still believe that some of his project costs were highly inflated.
In fact his popularity amongst his constituents led recently to his being confered with the prestigious title of Odozi Ani (meaning ‘the one who makes things better’) of Oko, in Oshimili North LGA of Delat State, in recognition of the good works he has reportedly done for the people of Oko. This is in addition to the titles he has received from Idumuje-Ugboko, Okpanam and other communites in the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency.
Incidentally, his main challenger for the position, Alanza Uche Ugbomah, himself a staunch PDP stalwarth, now contesting under the platform of the Accord Party and a strong ally of the PDP, Delta state chairman Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, is from Oko. Many analysts have opined that the entrant of Mr. Ugbomah into the race may not be unconnected with the expectation that the EFCC may spring a suprise on the outcome of the election, but with the seeming decision of the anti-graft Commission to remain silent on the fate of those in Court and under investigation, especially at this election period, it remains to be seen how far the gamble to challenge Hon. Ndudi Elumelu will go, because he is by far the most favored candidate to win the Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency again.
Yes I have read the things he has done but in all the places he emssioned I still not satisfied because he did not do anything to the town where the Mother come from I am surprised that he can not even menssion any from there and where he and his siblings were brought up I wish my people will remenber that this man who happend to be their son too did not regard them pls I am useing this midium to ask Mr Elumelu that ebo na bi a mu nwa do not forget Onicha Ugbo is also your town look my dear brother if you are being chased out of Onicha Uku there is no other place you will run to if ont Onicha Ugbo so pls if you are voted again which I know my people will not abandon you pls try to help us. Thanks and God bless you.
The Constituency projects Ndudi Elumelu claim to have sited at Ogwashi – Ukwu is fruadulent, falsehood intend to deceive the people. where, in the name of God, did he bulit one block of computer lab with accessories?
Elumelu has done nothing for the people of Ebu Oshimili North, it time to vote for the man that will recognise us, Alanza Uche Ugboma.
I have tried repeatedly to get intouch with ndudi Elumelu all the way from US but all in vain.In United states of America,in a second I will get to speak to all those that I voted for .Why is Nigeriann democracy different from other parts of the world.Elumelu needs to visit Ebu and see how my home town is left with nothing.the hospital is in shamble and schools have no chairs or laboratory for the students.Ebu is being marginalised .Elumelu you have done nothing for my home towne.
please my dear fellow deltans, i am beging IG to come and prosecute Fred Ajudue, for the killing of our youth in Ibusa, please this man has finish us with criminal tricks.
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2019-04-25T23:39:09Z
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https://flashpointnews.com/2011/04/01/delta-national-assembly-elections-profiles-of-top-candidates-iii-delta-north-house-of-representatives-aniocha-oshimili-federal-constituency-ndudi-godwin-elumelu/
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The course aims at providing knowledge, skills and competences to develop qualified human resources, specialised in animal care, husbandry and welfare, able to operate in international different contexts.
Attendance to teaching activities is mandatory: to take the final exam, the student must have attended at least 50% of the lecture hours and at least 75% of the laboratory hours.
Courses of the 3rd year are organised in study plans focused on the wild animal’s and the lab animal’s care. Specificity of the two study plans are presented in this video: how to choose the curriculum.
Analyze, understand and apply the relevant laws on the welfare of wild and laboratory animals. Learn and develop skills to understand and discuss the ethical dimensions of animal care and welfare in all different fields.
The development of essential theoretical and basic practical knowledge and skills in general and organic chemistry and biochemistry, enabling students to follow the subsequent courses.
To develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling students to deal with theoretical and formal problems. To understand the foundation basis of calculus, physics and data management systems.
Learn the concepts of general biology and genetics necessary for the understanding of topics related to the management of animal genetic resources. Acquire the capability to recognize the major animal groups, and understand the evolutionary processes that generated the current diversity of phyla. Acquire knowledge on control of inbreeding and preservation of genetic variability in small groups of animals.
The purpose of the course is to give students a useful knowledge of apparatus and organs of the most common species of wild and laboratory animals. Students will be able to describe and identify as well as understand relationships between organs and the adaptive changes they have undergone during evolution.
To learn the basis of the circulatory, renal, respiratory, endocrine, digestive, reproductive systems physiology in the different vertebrate classes. To understand the main regulatory mechanisms of the oxygen distribution, water and electrolyte balance, acid/base balance. Students will acquire theoretical and practical tools to understand the physiological animals’ adaptation to environmental changes and stressors.
To develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling students to recognize pain and distress in vertebrates. To understand the foundation basis of vertebrate behavior. Students will acquire theoretical and practical tools useful in addressing animal ethological needs and animal training.
The course will provide students with basic knowledge of the main features of virus, bacteria and parasites agents of animal diseases and zoonoses. Students will also acquire basic principles of epidemiology, prevention and biosecurity applied to animal transmissible diseases and zoonoses. Basic general aspects of main infectious and parasitic diseases, even of zoonotic nature, of laboratory and wild captive animals will be presented.
According to the principles of the “5 freedoms”, students will be address to understand what Animal Welfare means. Moreover, they will develop knowledge and skills allowing them to identify the needs of the animals in order to improve their living environment (housing system, environmental conditions, cleanliness) and management. Moreover, they will be skilled to identify rearing conditions that can cause pain and distress and develop strategy to remove them. To develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling students to recognize the environmental impact of animal husbandry and individuate possible control strategies.
To develop theoretical knowledge on the basis of animal nutrition in vertebrates. The course will provide students with opportunities to get knowledge and practical tools useful to assess energy and nutrients requirements of laboratory and wild animal species, feed evaluation and feeding management.
Provide students basic concepts on pharmacology (e.g., pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics) and toxicology (e.g., cellular and target-organ toxicity, mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and reproductive toxicology). Provide students basic concepts on anesthesiology, equipment for anesthesia and monitoring, perioperative management, anesthetic emergency management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
To develop theoretical knowledge on the pattern of reactions of animal organisms to injuries and practical skills to perform the main diagnostic ancillary techniques.
To understand the causes of animal diseases and the mechanisms of cellular and tissue damage and reaction. Students will be able to understand how animals show sign of disease and to follow the main diagnostic ancillary techniques.
To develop skills and knowledge throughout all the sequence of reproductive events in the male and female gender, with emphasis to differences among target species of vertebrates.
Student would also be trained to newborn care and management, neonatal resuscitation, hand rearing techniques, growth evaluation, first care and aid of orphaned animals.
Student would be qualified to assist veterinarians in clinical and surgical procedures and techniques useful in the control of animal reproduction and newborn care.
This course is focused on wild animal behaviour and zoological medicine, addressing the individual and herd medical management. The course incorporates clinical settings, principles of veterinary internal medicine, principles of newborn assistance, and applies them to wild animals in natural and captive environments. Students will also acquire theoretical and practical tools useful in assisting veterinarians during clinical and surgical procedures in wildlife, implementing veterinarian indications for management of wild animals during trauma and in critical condition, provide basic evaluation and first aid to different species of vertebrates.
To recognize relevant behavioral features of the wild species, which could affect their management. To develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling students to recognize problems in adapting to the provided environment in wild animals and to address them. Students will acquire theoretical and practical tools useful in addressing wild animals ethological needs and training.
Students will be able to: transfer the knowledge on the requirements of wild species in nature to the captivity condition, in order to maximize their welfare and health; acquire basic skills on handling, transport requirements, containment methods and enclosure design and management for animals belonging to different taxa; interpret and use cost-accounting models widely used in private and public enterprises directly involved in the management and care of animals, as well as to understand key issues relating to the more common tools of business management control.
To develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling students to recognize presence of main infectious diseases in wild animals as well as possible nutritional and management problems. To evaluate any possible interaction with human activities (i.e. hunting, killing, mistreatment). To apply specific protocols for samples and evidence collections and preservation.
Students will acquire the capability to execute a dissection and/or necropsy aimed to collect information, biological and pathological data as well as samples for ancillary exams. Elements to perform dissections aimed to preserve skeletons will be also explained.
Through this course students are expected to: acquire theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and tools to manage husbandry and welfare of species (among rodents, lagomorphs, birds and fish) involved in scientific research under laboratory conditions; understand the ontogenesis, function and the determinants of the behaviour of species involved in scientific research (rodents, birds and fishes – example species will be given for each taxa); develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills enabling them to identify normal and abnormal behaviours expressed by species involved in scientific research; acquire theoretical and practical tools useful in addressing laboratory animal ethological needs and training.
The aims of the course are i) to briefly describe the main animal models (e.g. mouse, rat, zebrafish) and how to obtain them (spontaneous vs induced models, transgenic models) and ii) to outline the proper procedures for assisting and performing a necropsy in laboratory animal species. Specific theoretical knowledge and practical skills will be provided to enable students collection of specimen performed avoiding the occurrence of artifacts or post mortem change in the collected tissues, collection of samples appropriated for the intended purpose (i.e. histology, cytology, microbiology, virology, cell cultures, banked tissue, RNA and DNA samples) and adequate in number and amount to provide valid results.
- basic concept on laboratory animal health status monitoring, clinical management, practical handling, drugs and fluids administration, elements of biomedical imaging, record keeping and occupational health and safety. Part of the course will focus on pain assessment, pain score systems, pain management, emergency care, humane endpoints and euthanasia.
- an introductory but solid background to basic surgical principles and procedures, to establish basic surgical skills, to gain knowledge and skills about care of surgical environment and equipment, to acquire basic knowledge about the most common used surgical models.
- basic concepts on in vivo methodologies used in in vivo pharmaco-toxicological preclinical studies. Give students an overview of alternative in vitro methods.
The work opportunities vary depending on the area considered: from the care of wildlife in a controlled environment, for educational, research and preservation purposes, to that of coadjutor in support of veterinarians or expert in the monitoring and care of animals intended for recreational, research, educational, sports and assistance activities. In addition, the training received will allow graduates to connect and integrate the actions promoted by more specialized professionals (veterinarian, biologist, zoologist, etc.) who work in the field of animal care.
2. SAT score report with a score greater or equal to 1500 (50%) for the score scale up to 2400 or a score greater or equal to 1000 (50%) for the score scale up to 1600 (newly revised SAT); this certification is required by 28 February and mandatory only for EU citizens and non-EU citizens legally residing in Italy. Non-EU citizens not residing in Italy may opt for a Skype interview with the assessment commission, if they haven’t taken the SAT test. However, priority will be given to candidates with a SAT test score.
Should there be any available places after this selection, a new admission notice will be published in May 2019.
2. A test in English to evaluate candidate's general knowledge. The applicants must be in possession of an adequate initial preparation including a satisfactory familiarity with: Mathematics and Physics; Biology and general Chemistry; English language (B2 minimum level). Information about the types of evaluation, on evaluation dates and preparation advice is available in the Call for applications. In the event that the student is not in possession of a language certificate corresponding to B2 level, the language level will be evaluated through a placement test. If the candidate is an English mother tongue speaker or has attended upper secondary school or a degree course in English, no language evaluation is necessary.
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2019-04-21T18:11:10Z
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https://www.unipd.it/en/animal-care
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The 11 Day Power Play, the world’s longest hockey game whose purpose is to help fight cancer, is back in Buffalo, with a twist.
Instead of 40 players living, breathing, sleeping and playing one continuous hockey game spanning 11 continuous days, this year’s version will include roughly 120 teams comprised of 1,700 players participating in 60 four-hour shifts of one single game. It’s dubbed the “11 Day Power Play Community Shift” and will run from July 5-15 at HarborCenter. The opening ceremony starts July 5 at 7 p.m. and the puck will drop at 8 p.m.
“People kept asking us… ‘What are you gonna do next? What are you gonna do next? And if you ever do it again, we want to play.’ So we just kind of knew that we needed to do this community event. We didn’t want to lose the momentum,” said event co-founder Amy Lesakowski.
The 11 Day Power Play is the crazy idea of Amy and Mike Lesakowski. Mike’s mother, Evelyn, died of brain and lung cancer in May 2016, and Amy is a survivor of breast cancer.
“I was able to jump in a clinical trial at Roswell Park. That clinical trial, I believe, saved my life. I want to support the hospital as well as so many other people in our community,” said Amy.
Last summer’s wildly successful inaugural event helped raise $1.2 million for Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Roswell, located in Buffalo, is the nations’s first cancer center and a world leader in groundbreaking research in the fight against cancer. It also set a Guinness World Record for the longest continuous hockey game: 251 hours.
When the final horn sounded, the Blue team had outscored the White team, 1,725-1,697. But aside from a few side bets and endless razzing between players, that hardly mattered. The grueling physical and mental marathon game tested the resolve, spirit and stamina of every player. Players often skated two and sometimes three four-hour shifts per day, while living at the arena. Locker rooms were transformed into bunks. Blisters, cramps and muscle aches became the norm. All in the name of fighting cancer.
An incredible bond was forged among the 40 men who endured 11 grueling days of continuous hockey. One was also forged between the community and the event itself. Support for the event was tremendous from local companies. It truly captured the hearts and minds of Western New Yorkers. Sensing this, the Lesakowskis and their board knew they had to continue the momentum as well as their fundraising efforts by broadening the game and involving the incredible greater Buffalo community.
Merging their passion for hockey and fighting cancer, Mike and Amy have been on a mission to bring hope to those suffering the ill effects of the disease. They want to make a difference. And they know they already are.
Every donation, no matter how big or small, really adds up. Every single dollar is important; as their video explains, Roswell Park can leverage an additional $13 in research grant funding for every dollar donated. The $1 million raised by this event for cancer research could potentially turn into $13 million for Roswell!
“Just knowing how hard the scientists and researchers at Roswell work. For them to go out of their way to really stress how important those funds are. I mean every dollar raised is really thirteen dollars. It’s considered seed money,” said Amy.
Along the way, the Lesakowskis have been humbled by the support they’ve received.
Aside from crushing their fundraising goal of $1 million, the outpouring of support from the community was insane. It was overwhelming how quickly and selflessly Buffalo showed up.
The Lesakowskis know that Buffalo is filled with tens if not hundreds of thousands of Sabres fans, bar leagues, and hockey families. After all, they’re members of all three of these groups. Once the idea was hatched to open the event to a wider group, the initial response to the call for teams exceeded expectations. In fact, it was so popular that a wait list had to be made to participate. The teams are comprised of male and female players of all ages.
“Eleven-year-olds are the youngest and I believe we have a 71 or 72-year-old,” said Mike as he shuffled through registration papers. While their ages span generations, and their skill levels vary, they’re all unified by a single mission: having fun while fighting cancer.
Aside from having a personal cancer story to help motivate them, each team has a fundraising goal and each player has a personal goal as well. The 11 Day Power Play committee supports every player with individual website pages, as well as sharing and monitoring their fundraising efforts. This year’s event has already raised more than five hundred thousand dollars, well on their way to their $1-million goal.
Make a difference. Click here to donate to the 11 Day Power Play Community Shift.
By their very nature, hockey players are competitive. So last year, Mike knew or got to know the 39 other skaters. He went to great lengths to personally try to make the teams as even as possible. This year, it’s kind of up in the air. It’s one game comprised of 60 ‘mini-games’ that will be added up to one final score.
“It’s funny. No matter what you tell people, it’s a charity game, it’s for fun… if it’s 3-1, the team with 1 is going to try a little harder,” Mike said as he chuckled. “There’s a whole white team and a whole blue team and everyone gets jerseys. We’re gonna keep score per shift and overall and we’ll see how it shakes out. It’ll be very interesting to see how close or not close the game ends up being.
The game will have referees and official scorers and all, but it’s a little more casual this year. Since they’re not trying to break any records, they don’t have to follow specific rules.
Unlike some fundraisers, all of the monies raised for the 11 Day Power Play go directly to the bottom line. The event is fueled by one part-time event coordinator, six dedicated board members, and hundreds of volunteers from the community. Sara Schumacher is the tireless and dedicated coordinator who works hand-in-hand with the Lesakowskis.
More than 60 local companies stepped up to generously support the fundraising goal last year. The response this year has been just as tremendous as local and regional sponsors continue to rally behind the event and its cause which has received both national and international publicity. The endless, unwavering support from the community only adds to the event’s heartwarming “give it all you got” nature. It’s hard not to get caught up in the personal stories of those affected by cancer in some way.
The primary beneficiary of this year’s event is once again Roswell Park. However, proceeds will also go to Camp Good Days and the Make a Wish Foundation of Western New York. Both Amy and Mike felt strongly about supporting more organizations that go beyond research and offer joy to so many suffering from cancer or other life-threatening diseases.
“Roswell is still by far our primary beneficiary. We’re going to give 80 percent or more to Roswell because that’s where our heart is mostly. But with having so many people, we thought that having a couple more charities involved would open up the audience, too,” said Mike Lesakowski.
As an added incentive to raise money, the top three individual fundraising teams get to play against a team comprised of Sabres alumni and Buffalo Beauts. The Beauts are a professional women’s hockey team coached by former Sabres Ric Seiling and Craig Muni. On the final day, Sunday, July 15, they will play one hour each against the top fundraising teams, from 3:00-4:00 p.m., 4:00-5:00 p.m., and 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Like most records, the 11 Day Power Play’s Guinness World Record has already been broken. The same group in Alberta, Canada that held the record before Mike and Amy hatched their original plan played an outdoor game earlier this year.
“You know, I’m not sure when,” answered Mike thoughtfully. “This event that we’re doing right now, when we first thought of it, we weren’t sure how it was going to be accepted. Kind of similar to last year. We had a lot of people sign up really quickly so it was obvious there was a lot of interest. I think the way it’s played out, there’s going to be interest going forward. A lot of the teams that have signed up and people that have already said, ‘Hey, I hope you guys continue to do this because it’s a really cool idea.’ So this particular event, we’re hoping it’s going to live on. And then we already have ideas for some other events. To answer your question, I don’t know. I would say if not next year, then the following year for sure.
“The guys in Edmonton have done it… I think this was their sixth time since 2003. It’s about every other year.
There are teams registered from all over the map, including one from Canada and one from North Carolina.
In addition to the actual players, referees and Zamboni drivers, running an event of this magnitude requires tremendous planning, logistics and manpower. The game never stops; there are always two teams playing round the clock, 24/7. Volunteers are needed to help coordinate a constant flow of people throughout the 11 days. They’ll help families and fans find their way around, sell merchandise, and offer a helpful hand wherever needed. The game never stops, so volunteers are always needed, be it 2 a.m. on Tuesday or 9 p.m. on Saturday.
There will also be live music every day from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Bands have signed up, donating their time to add to the festive atmosphere at the arena.
Last year, 12-year-old Emmett Jakubowski was the Event Ambassador for the 11 Day Power Play. The passionate hockey player with an infectious smile got back on the ice for the first time after enduring a bone marrow transplant to skate with the 40 original team members.
The seventh-grader, who has benefited from all three organizations—Roswell Park, Camp Good Days and Make a Wish Foundation—will be back again in the same capacity, plus he’ll captain his own team of some fellow cancer survivors.
Ethan Kane, another 12-year-old, heard about the event and wanted to get involved as an integral part of his Bar Mitzvah. A requirement of his process is to volunteer for something that rights a wrong – he chose the 11 Day Community Shift. Ethan is the captain of a team comprised of half classmates and half hockey mates from his travel team. The vigor and dedication of such young supporters to help others through this hockey experience is beyond inspirational.
If you’d like to donate, volunteer or show your support by purchasing some 11 Day Power Play merchandise, visit 11DayPowerPlay.com. And if you’re in the western New York area from July 5-15, stop into the 11 Day Power Play Community Shift. It’s free to attend and open to the public during the entire 11 days in July.
covering the 11 Day Power Play event last year.
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2019-04-21T12:49:51Z
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https://thehockeywriters.com/11-day-power-play-fights-cancer/
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We love learning new languages at our house and we need all the help we can get in that department! My kids are very motivated to learn Spanish because we live in an area with many native Spanish speakers. We were excited to review a new-to-us language program – Mango Languages using their Mango Homeschool Edition!
Mango Languages is an online language course that allows you access to over 60 foreign languages from which to choose when beginning to learn a language. With a subscription, you are able to browse the list of language programs and choose from any of the languages – or even choose more than one to try.
Mango is designed for students ages 6 and older. They have programs for those in the corporate world, for personal use, or for homeschool families.
The program also has features for discussion between users of the program in forums for each language.
Mango also has mobile apps for iPod, iPad, and Android for language-learning on the go!
We used the Homeschool Edition of the program.
My kids decided they would like to learn Spanish and I chose Spanish as well. I also tried a few lessons of Russian to experiment with a new language.
I started all my kids at the first lesson even though Curly has studied Spanish in the past. However, I took the placement test for Spanish (I didn’t place very far into the program so I began at the second lesson). I started at the beginning of the Russian program.
We worked on Spanish 4 days per week. We usually worked to complete one lesson per day. It quickly became apparent that the amount of vocabulary presented, as well as the grammar information, was too much for Tiger and Bee. Instead of working on the program themselves, they often sat in while Curly worked through her lessons. Curly was able to complete one lesson per day but some lessons were fairly long and took her about 30 minutes.
Each lesson had multiple screens containing vocabulary, review, grammar tips, cultural information, and pronunciation help. The lessons often had around 50 screens to work through as part of the lesson. The end of each chapter contained a review quiz.
When working on new words and phrases there is an option to listen to the pronunciation and then record yourself saying it. You can record yourself and play it back as often as you need to in order to check your pronunciation. I found this to be so helpful when I was trying to compare how I was saying the words to the correct pronunciation.
A pronunciation key is provided when you are learning a new word. You can click on the word and a bubble appears above the word which shows you the pronunciation. I found this very helpful when I was trying to learn Russian. Russian letters look nothing like our alphabet so seeing how the word should be said if written in our English letters helped me tremendously!
You control the pace of the lessons by clicking the next arrows when you are ready to move to a new screen. This allows you to work on a word or phrase for as long as you need to before advancing to the next screen of the lesson. We enjoyed that we could progress at our own speed and not feel rushed.
The lessons had great review and ask you to recall words from different points in the lesson. I found the review to be very beneficial and I know it helped Curly as she used the program. The lessons move fairly quickly so any amount of review was good to have.
The program can be difficult and overwhelming to navigate in the beginning. Although there are instructions provided which detail how to set up your account and choose your languages, I still found it took me some time to feel comfortable navigating the site.
Some languages have files that can be downloaded that contain a lesson guide with vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar helps. I found the downloads for the languages I was trying to study invaluable! It was helpful to have a written guide for reference.
There are multiple options to participate in forums, chat with others learning the same language, and post comments on your “Say Wall.” I found these features somewhat difficult to use and I was unsure how to use some of them. I could not figure out how the “Say Wall” was beneficial. I also did not find the forums to add to our experience. Instead, we stuck to just working through the lessons without using many of the other features.
I did have one other comment about the chat forums. I’m not sure I would want my young children to interact with others online – and I don’t think they are old enough to keep up a “chat” conversation (they don’t type well). So, I would have preferred a way to turn off this feature or a way to keep them from being able to access the forums. While the forums are for paid users of the program and are not public, I don’t feel that they would benefit my young language learners.
Because most of the lesson was working through vocabulary words and orally responding when prompted to provide a word or phrase, it can be difficult to track and assess student progress if you are not in the room with them to verify that they are pronouncing the words correctly. The lessons don’t ask you to click on pictures or phrases to choose the correct one – the lessons ask you to respond aloud to provide the words. I was left wishing that there were more activities that required the students to select correct answers rather than just the quizzes so I could see a record of progress. It would be very easy for a student to breeze through the lessons without giving the oral responses, but waiting for the computer to provide the correct response. Of course, this student would not have done well on the quiz. But the nature of the program means the student must be accountable for participating in each lesson.
I found it difficult to track Curly’s progress since I could not view quiz reports or lesson progress. The quizzes only provide a percentage of answers correct but do not indicate which questions you missed. Because of this, I found that I had to be sitting right next to Curly to truly assess her progress for myself. This isn’t a feasible option in my busy house. So, I would like to see improved options for viewing quiz results and tracking and assessing progress.
At the time of the review, Mango had not completed all of the options for the Homeschool Edition which I reviewed. Some features were not available to me and others may not have been fully functioning. In addition, they plan to upgrade the tracking features and the quizzes to allow for better assessment by the parent/teacher.
I’m hopeful that these changes enhance our experience with the program. I also hope they provide more explanation of the various features so I can better understand how to use them to the fullest extent.
So be aware that there are updated features coming soon!
The version I reviewed was the Beta version.
We found Mango to be a fun program and very helpful for learning another language. The pace moves fairly quickly so it would be difficult for the younger language learners. I would recommend the program for children who are in upper elementary or older and have had some background in grammar and are solid readers.
We found the vocabulary, pronunciation helps, grammar tips, and cultural information to be informative and create a well-rounded program. But I did find all the extra features in the program to be a little confusing and overwhelming. We did not need/want to use them for our studies and rather focused solely on the language lessons.
While we used the homeschool edition of this program, I found the language programs to be geared more toward someone who is planning to travel to the foreign country rather than a student learning the language for basic conversation. The topics covered, such as dining, asking for help, using the bank, and sightseeing were not vocabulary that my children would need at their ages. I was hoping for vocabulary that would be more pertinent to someone who is learning the language to speak with someone locally or to be able to read books in Spanish. Many of the phrases would not be helpful or applicable to my children – they were more interested in learning vocabulary for words that they would actually use day-to-day. So, the vocabulary and topics covered were not quite what I was hoping for in a program for younger language learners. It would be excellent preparation for traveling to a foreign country, however.
Sign up for a free 30 day trial of Mango!
You can find Mango Languages on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest!
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2019-04-23T13:56:42Z
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http://lextineclectic.com/2014/03/crew-review-mango-languages.html
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Integration and orchestration has always been a challenge for most enterprise systems. When the cloud arrived, another layer of complexity was added to the equation of integration. Within the on premise (within a customer-controlled environment) world, something like BizTalk would be a choice for integrating and setting up communication between internal & external systems. Within the cloud there was a gap for this kind of solution. Microsoft decided to take BizTalk’s concept of workflows, designed via any web browser, to develop a scalable integrated solution, and called it Logic Apps.
Microsoft have invested a lot time and money to bring the technology to Azure and to move the cloud towards a serverless architecture. The idea to create, develop and deploy without worrying about the infrastructure, is an interesting concept and Logic Apps are a good example this approach.
Actions: These are selected and driven by the user. For example, sending an email when a request has been received.
Triggers: A trigger is a notification when an event has occurred. For example, when a new file has been uploaded to a specific file storage account. There are 2 types of triggers, Polling and Pushing Triggers.
There are 2 different type of connectors, Built-In actions or Managed.
Built-In Actions: These are actions to call an API endpoint, provide an HTTP endpoint, call other Logic Apps or Azure functions or schedule a reoccurring task.
Managed: These managed connectors provide access to APIs for various services. They fall into various categories of Standard Connectors, On-Premise Connectors, integration Account Connectors and Enterprise Connectors.
Logic apps provide the facility to add conditions after each action. This operation is optional and not mandatory. To add a condition, click in the plus after an action and select “Add a condition”. You will be presented with 3 boxes the first is the field to be evaluated, the second is the evaluation operation and the final box is the comparison value.
Logic app actions are grouped into API actions, Workflow actions and Condition actions.
Settings brings up the following options, which alters the behaviour of the action, but in most cases these options are rarely changed.
When I first started to use logic apps, I applied if statements and switch statements based on action result until I found this setting. The action is only run when the condition is true, in the example below, only if the previous action was successful this action will execute.
This option is very useful, if you want to, for example, verify the correct variables/objects have been selected and applied to the action for it to execute successfully. I have used this option to copy and reapply a connection string to a new action to provide consistency and speed up the development process.
The following example is a completed logic app within the browser, but what is happening under the hood?
ContentVersion: This is the definition version.
Parameters: Within your workflow, you can specify input parameters with a maximum of 50 per workflow. These are useful when passing data from one action to another.
Trigger: This is where the workflow triggers are defined and configured.
Actions: The actions within the workflow are defined within this section of the schema.
Outputs: The outputs of each action are defined within the section of the schema.
In addition to the basic schema, you’ll have a variable called “$connections”.
The connection values can contain multiple connections, for various resources across the Azure platform. The values are added when you add a new connection via the UI. This is where it pays to build your initial workflow within the browser and not within Visual Studio. However, this presents another problem around tokenising which I will cover in further sections of this blog.
Logic apps have the capability to use Key Vault to secure connection strings and other key data. I would certainly recommend implementing Key Vault early in the development process as it is best practice Please refer to Microsoft documentation for further guidance.
Who Should Develop Logic Apps?
Logic apps are a simple and easy tool to use to design and create any integration for any size solution, so the question is, who should develop logic apps? I would say anyone who has some knowledge of how applications are architected and talk to each other. It all depends on how much experience the designer has as to how complex the workflow can be. In my own experience, workflow development has not been a difficult issue, but some of the blockers I have come across relate to the lack of integration into other systems or custom functionality required to complete the workflow.
For example, whilst working on a solution, I was unsure how we could integrate authentication into the flow. The problem I faced was getting authenticated against many AAD instances and then completing the flow. How can you keep the data secure and reuse the tokens? I developed an Azure Function to keep the configuration separate from the calling action and give me greater control over the implementation of the authentication mechanism. I also was able to reuse the same function in other child workflows.
Could Logic Apps be Part of a Domain Solution?
I came across the term Domain Driven Development (DDD) over a decade ago, but never got the opportunity to deep dive and develop a solution with the methodology, so my experience with DDD is very limited. From what I have experienced, using DDD with cloud technologies, I would say (in answer to the question “could Logic Apps be part of a domain solution?”) yes, it’s certainly possible. Especially around handling Azure Service Bus messages from one domain to another or handling interactions from an external source, whether its via web API or WCF. The ability to create custom functions can overcome any specific requirements to connect systems together.
We covered how to develop Logic Apps, and the benefits, but what are the downside in its current form?
I have highlighted from the Workflow Definition Language, connections are generated and hardcoded to the workflow, so what do you do if you want to deploy the workflow into multiple environments? This is where provisioning a workflow can be a painful process. During the development of the last project I worked on, the team discovered an issue with tokenising connection strings, specifically, how to extract the correct API connection string for a specific resource against an environment. Logic App API Connections are added to workflow and the resource group with the following format <Connection Type><Number>, for example ServiceBus1, ServiceBus2. This is not particularly useful when you wish to provision multiple connections to similar resources.
"StorageAccountId": "[concat('/subscriptions/', subscription().subscriptionId, '/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/', resourceGroup().location, '/managedApis/azureblob')]"
There is one issue around this approach, tokenisation. One small change can be a lengthy process, which goes against the ethos of fast development, deployment and scalable solutions. I go into more details around this in the next section.
In the first iteration of a spike, we started with a large workflow encompassing all the necessary actions. Over time this became too difficult to manage, especially in the browser. If you’re zoomed in to a specific action within the browser and make a change, the browser will refresh and point to another part of the workflow that you’re not working on. This became very frustrating and unworkable. To alleviate this issue, I broke up the Logic App into smaller ones. This made the maintenance easier to manage and gave each Logic App a Single Point of Responsibility. The tokenisation of smaller workflows became an easier task to manage, and the team can resolve issues quickly. The workflow and deployment scripts can be added to source control and this provides controls around the development and release of new features.
I think Logic Apps, are a good piece of tech for orchestration on the Azure platform, however, it’s still evolving, and the process of development and deployment is not as straight forward as the documentation would lead you to believe. Once the deployment of a Logic App is more in line with how other resources are provisioned and deployed it could be become a useful tool within any user’s arsenal to develop/integrate solutions together. Knowing the limitations is half the battle, once you are aware you can allow for any additional time required for deployments. With no specific hardware to configure, the workflow is based on workload only. This is where Microsoft plan to take their new serverless architecture, on a cost per action plan.
The integration with Azure Functions is a nice touch for any custom work that needs to be carried out. I can only see this area getting better and better. Watch this space.
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2019-04-20T13:18:45Z
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https://amido.com/blog/logic-apps/
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Accueil A LA UNE Un problème réel de la Guinée qu’il faut résoudre…..
Tout porte à croire que notre pays utilise les bases de données statistiques des institutions internationales pour planifier notre programme de développement. Quoique leur système de quantification comporte souvent une marge d’erreur très large, nous en faisons quand même la référence.
D’ailleurs, celles-ci commanditent des études de prélèvement par secteur en fonction des besoins de leur programme. Et les données ont un caractère nettement spécifique donc limité strictement au besoin.
C’est à comprendre que tous nos plans de développement se basent sur le superficiel et l’échantillonnage. Nous avons un retard, pour ne pas dire un manque, statistique énorme qui représente un handicap pour toute planification en matière de développement. Que cela soit pour le fichier d’état civil, le recensement général de la population et de l’habitat, les données de la fonction publique, les élèves et étudiants, le chômage, la santé, l’armée, les étrangers vivant en Guinée etc, rien de précis et fiable n’existe.
Dans ce cas, comment peut-on résoudre un problème mal évaluer ? Comment peut-on anticiper sur les besoins et risques ? Comment faire des prévisions avec des données biaisées ou sur la base de l’inexistant ? Pourquoi il n’y a aucun lien entre nos universités et les centres administratifs de décision ?
Cet état de fait est l’équivalent du médecin qui ne réussit pas son diagnostic mais s’évertue de rassurer le patient qu’il peut le soigner.
Allez visiter la direction nationale des statistiques pour comprendre l’une des sources du mal guinéen. Sans compter que nous ne disposons ni d’institut de recherche statistique encore moins d’un centre spécialisé dans le domaine. Voyez comment nos étudiants en situation de recherche éprouvent des difficultés pour trouver des données fiables afin d’argumenter leurs travaux. Et le drame est qu’on n’en fait pas une priorité pour comprendre que nous ne prenons pas nos problèmes par le bon bout.
C’est pourquoi, nos dirigeants n’expliquent rien avec des chiffres à l’appui. Ils sont souvent embarrassés entre réciter les chiffres venus d’ailleurs donc mal assimilés (on ne leur laisse souvent pas le choix) ou ignorer et se défendre avec de la littérature même lorsqu’il s’agit de parler d’économie.
Je suggère à nos députés de faire de ce problème fondamental une priorité dans les débats au sein de l’hémicycle.
Exemple: Quelle est la part de la recherche/documentation dans nos dépenses budgétaires ?
Et si on allait enfin à l’essentiel !
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The title is somewhat tongue in cheek because I really don’t see myself as being a radical, but in order to keep the interest of those on the far left who may see me that way, I chose to acknowledge what is very possibly going to be their claim. The purpose of this piece is to explain how I, David Groen got from Liberal Clinton Democrat who voted for Obama twice, to writing articles and letters that seem to align me far more with the Republican right. By the time you finish reading, whether you a Conservative or a Liberal I suspect I will surprise you, and very possibly disappoint you.
If it sounds like I am confused let me be clear. I am more certain of where I stand on most issues than I have been my entire life. I have not changed my views on some of the most polarizing issues of the day. As soon as I state my stances on abortion and gay marriage I am certain to get some ire from a large portion of the Conservatives reading this. When I state my views on Israel and Foreign Affairs I am certain to get the same from many of the Liberals. If this article seems like it is designed to make everyone angry at me, rest assured it is not. I’m merely someone comfortable expressing his political views and since I try not to be a hypocrite, I see no reason to hide my politics. In the end it is up to the reader to decide if he or she cares about my views, not me.
Most of the issues I intend to glance over quickly, while those dealing with Israel and Foreign Affairs in particular I will go into more detail. Here are some of the main issues that tend to define today’s Liberal and Conservative, not necessarily in the order stated. My order is based on how much I intend to say about the subject in this particular piece.
4-Foreign Affairs 5-Israel; (specifically for Jews, but often for non-Jews as well).
1-Abortion: I am pro-choice. I believe a woman has the right to decide what to do with her own body.
2-Gay Marriage: I really don’t care who people sleep with and since I believe one of the reasons America is a great country is the separation of Church and State, and since the only reason to ban this is a religious one, I believe it’s not the government’s business. If a religious institution chooses not to marry gay people they have every right to make that choice.
3-Gun Control: I used to be so anti-gun that I would say that Americans had lost the right to bare arms based on our overall behavior with guns. I believe strict and enforced regulations are important, but in today’s worldwide political climate I see how the need exists for individuals to carry a gun, and since that may even mean me, it would be hypocritical of me to hold the same views I once held.
Before I go on I will take a moment to explain my voting history back to the first Clinton presidency. Actually the first part is easy. For right or for wrong back then I didn’t feel the need to analyze it too deeply. I voted for who I liked the most. I can say I voted Democrat across the board, and that would be true in local elections, but I also voted for Ronald Reagan(at least I think I did. I may have missed an election).
I liked Bill Clinton. The Monica Lewinsky issue aside, I still do. When Al Gore was running I found myself truly getting excited about politics. I thought he was going to be a tremendous president. Whether or not I was right or wrong we will never know because Florida and hanging chads happened and George W. Bush became president instead. With the devastation I felt when Gore did not become president and my 3 straight presidential elections voting Democrat, no one would ever have thought I would ever vote for W. That however, is exactly what happened in the next election. Since I greatly approved of his reaction and handling of 9/11, I voted for him when he ran for a second term. Besides, I wasn’t particularly impressed with John Kerry anyway. At least that is something that hasn’t changed.
When Barack Obama first hit the scene I was not a supporter. But not so much because I had a problem with him, but because I was big time for Hilary. When he defeated her in the primaries I was uncertain of my vote. I liked John McCain’s toughness and patriotism but I put a lot of stock in who a candidate chooses for Vice President. So when McCain picked Sara Palin it became a much easier decision for me. I voted for Obama. When Obama came up for reelection I once again looked at the opponent. I didn’t like Mitt Romney at all. I didn’t believe a word he said. Not because I believed he was necessarily so much less honest than everyone else, but because it always seemed that whatever he said was only designed to win the election. I never felt like he was true to anything. I also held out hope and wanted to believe that Obama did actually like Israel and that the things that looked bad were just part of his strategy to bring peace in the Middle East. His actions still may be designed with that purpose in mind, but since it looks more and more like he is selling Israel out in whatever this process of his is, I’m subsequently not too happy about that vote.
I can’t tell this history without admitting that in retrospect I made some mistakes, but everyone’s truth is what it is, and this is mine. Who knows? Maybe this piece will make some people admit votes they otherwise would have kept private. With that said I go back to my list.
4-Foreign Affairs: On no issue have I “radicalized” more. We all know the phrase history repeats itself. I believe that history is not as likely to repeat itself as it is to mimic itself. The difference may seem subtle but it is extremely significant and very important. As a son of Holocaust survivors, the history of the Jews in Europe has always been doubly personal. Both as a Jew and as the son of Dutch Jews. The Nazis rose to power under the unsuspecting noses of a hopeful Europe and somewhat detached America. By the time it was too late, Hitler had put together a juggernaut of evil and terror that ran over the continent and caused a war that saw the death of tens of millions of people, including 6 millions Jews killed in genocidal manner. The enemy was devastatingly powerful and ruthless. The tactics of the Nazis were as evil as anything the world has ever seen. They were organized, cohesive and powerful. But the allies had one advantage in attacking them. They were based in one country. Yes there was a 5th column, the “ordinary people” placed in other countries to do a form of reconnaissance, but for the most part Nazi Germany was based out of Germany. Although today’s evil uses some tactics very similar to the Nazis, and similarly their 2 main enemies are Americans and Jews, Muslim extremists are spread out in so many parts of the world, able to attack in so many different locations at any time, that the rising threat may have similarities to 1930s Europe, but nothing is a better example of history mimicking itself instead of repeating itself as the threats we face today.
That being said, the similarities are significant enough that I have formed the belief that negotiation and trust are just not a reasonable option. It hurts me to say that this is a fight I believe can only be won by force, but what do we see to tell us otherwise? If we are only looking for history to repeat itself, we can make the argument that this is nothing like 1930s Europe and the rise of Nazism. But the language is similar, the lack of morality which justifies killing is similar, and the growth is even faster. I don’t want to see innocent people get hurt, but innocent people needed to get hurt in Germany to stop the Nazis, and had that not happened millions of more innocent people would ultimately have gotten slaughtered. To me and to all civilized people that is something that should be unacceptable.
5-Israel: I have made a very clear statement that I have no intention of wavering from. My next vote for president will be for whichever candidate I believe is most pro-Israel and toughest in foreign affairs. I have been very vocal in my support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The other day I decided to listen to a J Street video regarding the need for a two-state Solution. I think J Street is divisive and disingenuous, but in many ways I don’t believe a desire for a two-state solution is a bad thing necessarily. Much of the statements in the video carried a lot of merit. The status quo will not be good for Israel. It does create an even more dangerous future. The prices that have been paid by so many are very high, and yes, it is a lot easier to speak this way from the United States than it is from Israel. All that being said, it is not that I am opposed to a two-state solution per se, it is that under the current conditions a two-state solution is not a road to peace, it is a road to another Final Solution, not that different from the one attempted, and carried out to a large extent in devastating fashion by the Nazis against the Jews.
To make peace you either need more than one willing party or for one party to be significantly stronger. Those who criticize Israel the loudest do so because Israel, at the moment at least is stuck with the second choice. Being a more powerful nation Israel is still able to win their wars. With the lack of a willing peace partner Israel has 2 choices. Keep the enemy down or die. Forgive us “radicals” if we find the 2nd choice unacceptable. No reasonable caring person is blind to the price Israel has to pay. I can say with utmost confidence that the overwhelming majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide would gladly accept a two-state solution if it was with a party that truly wanted peace with the Jewish people. If I felt Jewish lives would be saved I would support it. But I believe, as do many like me, that more Jewish lives would be lost as a result of a two-state solution under the current conditions. And it’s just plain anti-Israel cynicism to believe it falls solely on Israel to change these conditions.
I can not and will not be moderate if I feel that a moderate viewpoint puts my people in danger.
People who truly know Israelis and truly know the Jewish people as a whole, know that we are a people who desire to live in peace. My lack of moderation is not based on some irrational hatred of Arabs and Muslims, my lack of moderation is based on those in power who talk about wanting to annihilate Israel and murder Jews while declaring a desire for peace for political or public relations expediency. It’s baffling to me that anyone would believe the intentions of those calling for the murder of innocents were good at all, and to be quite honest it baffles me that the view opposing Israel somehow became one more often affiliated with a liberal status. Maybe these people need to listen a little more to Alan Dershowitz.
So there you have my evolution to “radical”. Make no mistake though. This is one radical that hopes and prays that one day people will wake up and no longer allow their leaders to be preachers of death and destruction. When that happens I suspect I will no longer be seen as a radical, for I will be excited and supportive of what would then be a genuine peace process.
I am a firm believer of free speech. Although I think there are some grey areas when dealing with messages of blatant hate or incitement, I never call for the removal of anyone’s form of expression, regardless of how distasteful it may be to me personally. That being said, I believe my responses should be given the same respect and consideration. Since your newspaper made the choice to publish drivel which I believe helps contribute to the destruction of our civilization, I trust you will give my words equal consideration.
I can’t help but wonder the thinking behind publishing this sort of garbage. Is it considered to be funny? It certainly isn’t accurate or appropriate. Last week ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing in a mosque that killed scores of worshipper. I wonder how that was dealt with by your newspaper. You see that was an actual specific targeting of worshippers. It was mass murder for the purpose of destabilization. Yet somehow I suspect your paper draws some type of moral equivalency between Israel’s actions during the war in Gaza and the actions of a terrorist organization like ISIS. I suspect this because in publishing this cartoon you have chosen to give a degree of credibility to Hamas, a terrorist organization far more similar to ISIS than you may care to admit.
I do not know you Mr. Kern, so I do not know your personal feelings, but I am addressing you because as the editor you are responsible for what appears in your newspaper. This cartoon justifies the actions of Hamas, a group cut from the same cloth as ISIS, and with members that would kill you as fast as they would kill me. Hamas used these locations as human shields in attacking Israeli population centers. Israel’s purpose of bombing Gaza was to stop the attacks on her very own civilians. You may not want to accept this as fact because then you can’t publish a dumb cartoon attacking Netanyahu, but these are the facts nonetheless, and no skewed political agenda will change that.
I write this letter out of concern for our well-being. There is a great division growing within our people. We have always been somewhat at odds with each other when it comes to religious observance, something that is still an issue, but of greater significance today is the schism in political viewpoints and the general direction in which our people will not only move forward, but survive.
I call myself a citizen of the world. I see all people as being equal. That being said, I have a tremendous pride and love for what I am and where I come from. I love the Jewish people with all my heart and soul and want to see us thrive in a safe and prosperous world. This feeling, one shared by so many others, is what drives my political viewpoints. I am quite certain that there are countless more of my fellow Jews whose love of their people also drive their political opinion, be it identical or very different from mine.
I am very passionate about my views. I believe, as I am sure so many of you do as well, that there is a tremendous amount at stake at this moment in time. And like so many of you, I believe my views are the correct ones. If I did not, I would not hold them. If I did not, I would not passionately speak them. To me, as I am sure it is to many of you, this is not about me being heard or having intellectual discourse. To me this is about survival.
We do not have to agree with the method, but we must always remember to agree with the goal. We must make a concerted effort not to fight among ourselves because as we know all to well, there are plenty of people out there who are more than happy to fight us, hurt us, and kill us.
We must not fall victim to the devious methods and strategies of our enemies. We must support the one Jewish government in the world and show respect for it leaders whether they hold the views we do or not. No matter how much one might feel a strategy of an Israeli leader is counterproductive, it is far more counterproductive to work against him. Please remember one extremely important fact. Our enemies have always worked against Israel’s leaders, be they left-wing or right-wing, and to believe that has suddenly changed is a potentially devastating and incorrect assumption. I am not asking all of you to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu or even like him, but as long as he is the Prime Minister of Israel, I pray that you will support and respect him.
I end with one last message. Next time you have reason to be angry at one of your fellow Jews over a difference of opinion, take a step back and realize that with our unity we get strong and with our division we get weak. If you are angry and wish to fight, fight those who wish to truly harm you. Debate your fellow Jew but do so with respect and kindness. Investigate and identify who your enemies are, and when you do you may come to the conclusion that your enemy is not your fellow Jew who disagrees with you. I for one certainly hope that you do come to that conclusion.
The first 3 words of this letter already tells so much of the story. To be forced to start a letter “Dear Editorial Board” makes you wonder why no individual had the intestinal fortitude to use his or her name when going on the attack as they did against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu one day after his election victory. For those of you reading on this self-perceived holier than thou and smarter than the rest of us board, here is how criticism is given when you are not afraid to stand by your convictions.
My name is David Groen. I am a proud American, a proud Jew, and proud Zionist. I am also an ardent supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu who found your editorial titled “An Israeli Election turns ugly” to be not only offensive, but skewed to suit your political agenda and a contradiction to the factors that make democracy great.
Israel is not only a great democracy, it is the only real democracy in the Middle East. You speak of Benjamin Netanyahu as though he is some fascist dictator on the rise. This is a man who leads a nation constantly under attack from terrorist organizations and threats from rogue nations such as Iran calling for its annihilation. Yet somehow you have a problem with Netanyahu trying to defeat the Arab vote knowing full well that their agenda would be to go against his political strategy of how to keep Israel safe and secure. I’m not debating whether or not his strategy is right or wrong because this letter is not so much to debate his tactics, it is to debate yours.
There is no evidence that voters were harassed, be they left-wing Jews or Arabs, and no reason to believe this was an election ripe with any significant corruption. What it was instead was an example of an ambitious politician using democracy to his advantage. It is almost comical to me that the NY Times, that great defender of freedom and civil rights would have a problem with democracy functioning on a prime level. No one forced anyone to vote for Prime Minister Netanyahu. The Arab population had a big vote in the election. Their representative party has seats in the Knesset. They have a say and a role in the Israeli political system. How many Arab nations have Jewish representation? None. Because in most Arab nations the Jews were run out of town. If “you” don’t like Benjamin Netanyahu that’s fine. Just don’t attack him for utilizing his country’s democratic structure.
Which bring me back again to that question. Who is the “you” in all this? Who am I actually writing to? The entire Editorial Board is in agreement on this issue? How about signing all of your names to it so we know how many of you there are and know you are all in agreement. Not because I believe there should be anything heinous done to you, but because if you are to criticize someone who speaks to the people just because you are upset he got what he wanted, don’t you think you should at least let everyone know who you are when you criticize him? To hide behind the title “Editorial Board” is a level of hypocrisy that totally destroys any credibility you have left. Whoever “you” actually are.
What Benjamin Netanyahu did this election was nothing different from what any other politician would do in any democracy. He did what he felt he had to do to win. Creating this perception that his words were racist attacks on the Arab population of Israel is either irresponsible on “your” part, or even worse, an attempt at manipulating the minds of your audience. But here is the difference between “you” and me. I accept your right to do this in a democratic society with free speech, and when I don’t like “your” methods, I sign my name to my criticism.
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Requirements Management Plan: Who is responsible for quantifying the Fourth Party System project requirements?
Procurement Management Plan: Is the assigned Fourth Party System project manager a PMP (Certified Fourth Party System project manager) and experienced?
Step-by-step and complete Fourth Party System Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Fourth Party System project with this in-depth Fourth Party System Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Fourth Party System investments work better.
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical SCC compliant Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any SCC compliant related project.
The latest quick edition of the SCC compliant Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Featuring 714 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which SCC compliant improvements can be made.
Will SCC compliant deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom?
Does SCC compliant systematically track and analyze outcomes for accountability and quality improvement?
Who is the main stakeholder, with ultimate responsibility for driving SCC compliant forward?
How to deal with SCC compliant Changes?
Is the SCC compliant organization completing tasks effectively and efficiently?
Project Portfolio management: Why is SCC compliant project portfolio management (PPM) important?
Procurement Management Plan: Are milestone deliverables effectively tracked and compared to SCC compliant project plan?
Quality Audit: How does the organization know that its relationships with the community at large are appropriately effective and constructive?
Quality Metrics: What are the organizations expectations for its quality SCC compliant project?
Requirements Documentation: If applicable; are there issues linked with the fact that this is an offshore SCC compliant project?
Activity Duration Estimates: What are some crucial elements of a good SCC compliant project plan?
Step-by-step and complete SCC compliant Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any SCC compliant project with this in-depth SCC compliant Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make SCC compliant investments work better.
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Document classification Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Document classification related project.
The latest quick edition of the Document classification Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Featuring 928 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Document classification improvements can be made.
What are the business goals Document classification is aiming to achieve?
Do we all define Document classification in the same way?
Are improvement team members fully trained on Document classification?
What is Document classification’s impact on utilizing the best solution(s)?
Stakeholder Management Plan: Are there processes in place to ensure internal consistency between the source code components?
WBS Dictionary: Are all authorized tasks assigned to identified organizational elements?
Project Management Plan: Do the proposed changes from the Document classification project include any significant risks to safety?
WBS Dictionary: Are overhead cost budgets (or Document classification projections) established on a facility-wide basis at least annually for the life of the contract?
Project Charter: Document classification project Background: What is the primary motivation for this Document classification project?
Step-by-step and complete Document classification Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Document classification project with this in-depth Document classification Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Document classification investments work better.
Service set: Why are Service set skills important?
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Service set Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Service set related project.
The latest quick edition of the Service set Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Service set improvements can be made.
Is the Service set scope manageable?
Why are Service set skills important?
Who are the Service set improvement team members, including Management Leads and Coaches?
How will you measure your Service set effectiveness?
Probability and Impact Matrix: Are staff committed for the duration of the Service set project?
Scope Management Plan: Is a PMO (Service set project Management Office) in place and provide oversight to the Service set project?
Cost Estimating Worksheet: What additional Service set project(s) could be initiated as a result of this Service set project?
Step-by-step and complete Service set Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Service set project with this in-depth Service set Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Service set investments work better.
Computer user satisfaction: Why is Computer user satisfaction important for you now?
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Computer user satisfaction Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Computer user satisfaction related project.
The latest quick edition of the Computer user satisfaction Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Computer user satisfaction improvements can be made.
How can skill-level changes improve Computer user satisfaction?
How are the Computer user satisfaction’s objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder strategy?
Why is Computer user satisfaction important for you now?
Who will be responsible for deciding whether Computer user satisfaction goes ahead or not after the initial investigations?
Schedule Management Plan: Have all documents been archived in a Computer user satisfaction project repository for each release?
Human Resource Management Plan: Has a Quality Assurance Plan been developed for the Computer user satisfaction project?
Schedule Management Plan: Has a provision been made to reassess Computer user satisfaction project risks at various Computer user satisfaction project stages?
Step-by-step and complete Computer user satisfaction Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Computer user satisfaction project with this in-depth Computer user satisfaction Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Computer user satisfaction investments work better.
Community health: What is a feasible sequencing of reform initiatives over time?
Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Community health Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Community health related project.
The latest quick edition of the Community health Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Community health improvements can be made.
Do those selected for the Community health team have a good general understanding of what Community health is all about?
What business benefits will Community health goals deliver if achieved?
Does Community health analysis show the relationships among important Community health factors?
Project Schedule: Why do you think schedule issues often cause the most conflicts on Community health projects?
Activity Duration Estimates: Describe Community health project integration management in your own words. How does Community health project integration management relate to the Community health project life cycle, stakeholders, and the other Community health project management knowledge areas?
Step-by-step and complete Community health Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Community health project with this in-depth Community health Toolkit.
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that – whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc… – they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Community health investments work better.
Cheese (software): What should we measure to verify effectiveness gains?
In a project to restructure Cheese (software) outcomes, which stakeholders would you involve?
What is the Cheese (software) sustainability risk?
To what extent does management recognize Cheese (software) as a tool to increase the results?
Is Supporting Cheese (software) documentation required?
Risk Register: Have other controls and solutions been implemented in other services which could be applied as an alternative to additional funding?
Schedule Management Plan: Are the Cheese (software) project team members located locally to the users/stakeholders?
Schedule Management Plan: Are enough systems & user personnel assigned to the Cheese (software) project?
Initiating Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next Cheese (software) project?
Resource Breakdown Structure: What is each stakeholders desired outcome for the Cheese (software) project?
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http://itsecuritysurvival.com/category/uncategorized/
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I am an IET Master & Teacher, Angelic Channel, and Spirit Messenger .The energy work I do clears blockages in your body at a cellular level. Clearing away all that which no longer is serving you for the highest good. You get healing on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Healing blocks in your present life and those caused from past lives which helps you to create your future. When the blocked are cleared it allows you to move more freely and happily through all area of your life with greater peace. I call in the Angels to provide and assist in the healing process.
In the hour session I will also clear and balance your Chakras including the Soul Star Chakra, Align your Spiritual 12 strain DNA . With the healing work I do I also weave in other personal techniques of shaman healing and Intuitive Psychic Surgery. Whatever is needed for your specific healing as told to me by your guides and angels I will do, as time permits. This may include, spirit attachment release, aura cleansing, cord cutting, power animal & or soul retrieval etc.. While I do this I channel a reading for you and write it down which I will go over with you at the end of our session.
The Akashic Records contain every thought, emotion, action, and experience that has ever occurred in time and space. Your personal Akashic Records contain every piece of information regarding your soul’s experience. In the Records, you can learn about your relationships, your health, soul path, and every other conceivable topic regarding you! We can look back at your past lives and also receive guidance for your present and future.
The Tarot has been used for centuries as a way to connect with the Divine. With archetypal images, numbers and symbols, the cards give detailed information about the forces influencing a person’s life, and the likely outcomes resulting from certain course of action. Comprised of the Major Arcana, which show us our soul lessons on our path to spiritual awareness and understanding, and the Minor Arcana, which tell of our daily decisions and activities, the Tarot is an incredible tool to get information about what is happening in your life right now, and suggested steps to take to reach a place of greater fulfillment and purpose. In this three week class series, which meets on Tuesday evenings, you will be introduced to the Tarot, and will get a basic understanding of the meaning behind the cards individually, and how they work together to tell a story about a person’s life in a card spread, like a snapshot in time. More importantly, you will learn how to develop your own intuition to let the images guide you in powerful readings for others. It’s not about memorizing the cards, it’s about trusting your inner guidance! You will be introduced to the Rider-Waite deck, as well as to Angel Tarot decks. You’ll also be asked do Tarot spreads and readings between each week on your own, as your learning and comfort will develop the more you practice! In this class, overall we will: - Review the 78 cards of the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana- Learn about the suits, symbols, numbers, colors and other hidden meanings of the cards- Gain an understanding of the progression of the Major Arcana, and how it connects to the archetypal hero’s journey toward self-actualization and enlightenment- Develop your intuition and your connection with spiritual guides and angels through meditation and third eye clearing exercises- Learn about your role as an intuitive counselor and how to deliver compassionate yet truthful messages- Practice doing readings for each other (and at home!) Handouts provided. It is recommended that each participant bring her/his own Tarot deck for practice. $200 for series. Tuesdays from 5:30-8:45 pm. February 6, February 13 and February 27. RegistrationRachel Horton White is an intuitive counselor, teacher, metaphysical seeker and writer. With guidance sessions, coaching, Angel Tarot readings and spiritual communities of support, she aims to merge the spiritual with the real world through Soulful Work Intuitive Consulting (www.soulfulworkconsulting.com). Rachel is also a recovering athlete, pianist, traveler, outdoor enthusiast, Tarot reader and lover of yoga. She claims her true education came from studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal and teaching English in Guadalajara, Mexico and learns every day from her two bright-eyed, energetic children in Portland, Maine. Rachel works with people seeking to find their true, inner selves by accessing thoughts, energy and higher guidance as part of the massive shift in consciousness in our world now.Nice things people have said:“I’m very grateful for the session I had with Rachel. She definitely is a spiritual intuitive. She’s compassionate, a great communicator, and listener. Her spiritual understanding and of human nature is exceptional. She guided me through some very emotional and difficult problems I’ve been having. Thank you Rachel. May you be blessed.”— P.B“Prior to coming to Rachel, I was convinced I was about to be divorced for my 2nd time. My life was filled with stress, yelling and tears. I was physically ill and unable to run my business. After my time with Rachel, I am happy to say my marriage is better than ever, I am feeling physically better and have started a new business! I could not have accomplished any of that without Rachel’s help teaching me to quiet my mind and add meditation to find peace and have a grateful heart. Rachel does transform lives! ” - C.H.
I am a Reiki Master/Teacher and have been practicing Reiki for about 20 years on people and animals, and have done many distance Reiki healings with excellent results. I also specialize in Guided Meditations for those who would like to meet their Spirit Animal Guides, and Animal Communication.
I have always enjoyed wonderful relationships and strong connections with animals of all kinds. For as long as I can remember, I have been able to communicate with them and learn from them. They tell me about their wants and needs, their joys and sadnesses, and their concerns. If you are interested in a deeper understanding of your animal companion, I would be thrilled to assist with that communication.
Animals can be more than companions and helpers in the physical world. They can be guides, mentors and teachers from the spirit plane. We all have spirit guides waiting and wanting to be there for us and walk with us on our paths. If you would like to meet yours, I am happy to be of assistance. I use Guided Meditation, also known as journeying, to assist with making that connection. The Guided Meditation time is approximate and includes time to talk both before and after the meditation if you desire.
I am often told I have a quirky sense of humor and I tend to bring that into my practice. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine. My greatest joy is to see the person I have done Healing Reiki with leave with a smile. I very much enjoy my work and want to pass on the benefits to all who wish for greater energy, stress relief, relief from physical and chronic pain and stress, as well as relief from anxiety and fears, trauma issues and limiting belief patterns.
Reiki can also be done remotely. There is no such thing as distance when it comes to energy healing and I have done Reiki Healings for people as far away as England, Vancouver, and Texas, and could go much farther without any issues. If you would like a Reiki session, but cannot come to me, please consider a distance healing session.
his works available through DVD, CD, had several books out.
Had opened and run healing centers.
Tarot 101: Learn to Read Tarot and Develop Your Intuition The Tarot has been used for centuries as a way to connect with the Divine. With archetypal images, numbers and symbols, the cards give detailed information about the forces influencing a person’s life, and the likely outcomes resulting from certain course of action. Comprised of the Major Arcana, which show us our soul lessons on our path to spiritual awareness and understanding, and the Minor Arcana, which tell of our daily decisions and activities, the Tarot is an incredible tool to get information about what is happening in your life right now, and suggested steps to take to reach a place of greater fulfillment and purpose. In this three-week class series, which meets on Tuesday evenings, you will be introduced to the Tarot, and will get a basic understanding of the meaning behind the cards individually, and how they work together to tell a story about a person’s life in a card spread, like a snapshot in time. More importantly, you will learn how to develop your own intuition to let the images guide you in powerful readings for others. It’s not about memorizing the cards, it’s about trusting your inner guidance! You will be introduced to the Rider-Waite deck, as well as to Angel Tarot decks. You’ll also be asked do Tarot spreads and readings between each week on your own, as your learning and comfort will develop the more you practice! In this class, overall we will: - Review the 78 cards of the Major Arcana and Minor Arcana- Learn about the suits, symbols, numbers, colors and other hidden meanings of the cards- Gain an understanding of the progression of the Major Arcana, and how it connects to the archetypal hero’s journey toward self-actualization and enlightenment- Develop your intuition and your connection with spiritual guides and angels through meditation and third eye clearing exercises- Learn about your role as an intuitive counselor and how to deliver compassionate yet truthful messages- Practice doing readings for each other (and at home!) Handouts provided. It is recommended that each participant bring her/his own Tarot deck for practice. $200 for a three week series. Tuesdays from 5:30-8:45 pm. February 6, February 13 and February 27.Registration Rachel Horton White is an intuitive counselor, teacher, metaphysical seeker and writer. With guidance sessions, coaching, Angel Tarot readings and spiritual communities of support, she aims to merge the spiritual with the real world through Soulful Work Intuitive Consulting (www.soulfulworkconsulting.com). Rachel is also a recovering athlete, pianist, traveler, outdoor enthusiast, Tarot reader and lover of yoga. She claims her true education came from studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal and teaching English in Guadalajara, Mexico and learns every day from her two bright-eyed, energetic children in Portland, Maine. Rachel works with people seeking to find their true, inner selves by accessing thoughts, energy and higher guidance as part of the massive shift in consciousness in our world now. Nice things people have said: “My intuitive session went extremely well. Rachel “found” me right where I was at and was able to immediately go from there to assist me with very practical ways I could deal with my fears. I loved the meditation that we did together as I so need practice and doing this and relaxing. Rachel gave me many tips that I could use immediately and she did this in such an affirming, calm manner. I really have not ever been accustomed to asking my angels for help or differentiating between angels and spirit guides and I felt more enlightened about this. Rachel makes one feel so cared about and so connected to positive healing that I could have had the session go on and on. It was a wonderful experience and I hope that others will take advantage of Rachel’s evolved gifts that she shares so freely.”— N.K.
Fee: $140-seriesRegistrationIsabella Rose is a Holistic Health Practitioner Women’s Empowerment Coach and Recovery Coach. She is an inspirational and soulful author, a contributing author to the bestselling 365 Book series, teacher at the Metaphysical School, contributor to DandiSoul , certified Warrior Goddess Facilitator, certified Angel Energy Healer, certified aromatherapist, certified Angel Oracle reader , certified Elemental of Forces Creation Oracle reader. Bella is an advocate for those who feel they have no voice, and student in the Doctorate of Medicine program at Quantum University . Isabella has also studied with Dr Elson Haas.
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2019-04-18T10:24:36Z
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https://www.leapinlizards.biz/events-services/portland-events/?date=2018-2-11&t=full
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