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0.096566 | <urn:uuid:08b348cc-5aab-40fc-bf1e-2b70f6015987> | en | 0.955562 | San Andreas Fault could deliver wallop in Salinas area
Lisa Marie Potter
For years, a small stretch of the San Andreas Fault was considered an earthquake-free zone because it slid peacefully without shaking up the landscape. Now, scientists have found three spots within this buffer zone that are capable of producing big earthquakes — two near San Juan Bautista and one in Parkfield in south Monterey County.
The San Andreas Fault is the 800-mile boundary where the Pacific and North American tectonic plates slide past each other. The San Andreas has a reputation for shaking things up; it is responsible for the two biggest earthquakes in the western United States, the Fort Tejon in 1857 and San Francisco in 1906 — temblors that were both magnitude 7.9. However, not all areas of the fault quake equally.
Geologists divide the San Andreas into three segments; the north section runs above Hollister through Point Reyes National Seashore and the southern section extends from Parkfield through the Salton Sea. The middle area, approximately 90 miles beginning just south of Parkfield and ending north of San Juan Bautista, produces very few earthquakes. Scientists call it the creeping section.
Creeping zones don't produce big earthquakes because the rocks on either side of the fault plane move steadily past each other without getting stuck, said geophysicist Mark Simons of the Seismological Laboratory at California Institute of Technology and a co-author of the study. "It's just like two blocks sliding past each other."
The north and south sections of the faults are called locked segments. As the Pacific plate moves southward and the North American plate slides northward, the rocks lining the San Andreas Fault get stuck. The massive tectonic plates keep moving, putting more and more stress on the locked areas of the fault, Simons said.
"At some point [the locked areas] are going to pop," he said. The magnitude of the rupture, which is the earthquake, depends on how much tension has built up.
Simons and his colleagues found three locked sections within the transition zones between the middle creeping section and the north and south legs of the San Andreas Fault. The study was published in the scientific journal Geophysical Letters in December of last year.
The researchers used GPS coordinates and satellites that monitor changes in Earth's surface over time to infer what was happening beneath the surface. The data aren't new, but the scientists were able to process the data with higher resolution.
"It's still a blurry picture, but a little less blurry," said Simons. "Getting a less blurry picture, we see these spots that appear to be stuck in areas that seem to be creeping."
The two locked areas near San Juan Bautista and one near Parkfield are storing almost half an inch of stress per year, enough to cause a magnitude 6 earthquake, according to the study.
The new study helps us understand the process of an earthquake better, said Victoria Langenheim, a research geophysicist with the US Geological Survey who was not involved with the study. "This does not predict when the earthquake will happen, but it can predict what kind of damage the earthquake will do," she said.
Simons agrees, saying their new discoveries reveal that there are areas in creeping zones that could produce big earthquakes.
"We're just scratching the surface here, literally, in getting observations about how these faults actually behave," Simons said. "We're sort of collecting butterflies as we try to understand what are the range of possibilities." | https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2015/03/04/san-andreas-fault-deliver-wallop-salinas-area/24400915/ | dclm-gs1-168425422 | false | false | {
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0.062979 | <urn:uuid:b603f010-5735-4a4d-9ee9-84d018054eda> | en | 0.966405 | If Donald Trump runs for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination, “he wins in a landslide”—according to Mitt Romney, the Republican senator, a longtime Trump critic who voted twice to impeach him, and a former presidential candidate himself. But some Republican leaders—and voters—have recently raised questions about how much influence Trump still has over their party. In primary elections on May 10, the candidate Trump backed for the House of Representatives won in West Virginia, but in Nebraska, the candidate for governor he backed lost. In the Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Ohio last week, Trump’s endorsement helped the candidate J.D. Vance top a crowded field—but with only 32 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, Maryland’s Governor Larry Hogan, who’s won two terms as a Republican in a predominantly Democratic state, said last week that it was time for the party to move on from Trump. The former president’s legal circumstances also cloud his political future, as a grand jury in Georgia began hearing evidence this month that he committed felonies while trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Where exactly does Trump now stand in the Republican Party?
Rachel Blum is an assistant professor of political science at Oklahoma University and the author of How the Tea Party Captured the GOP. In Blum’s view, it’s too early in the primary process for this year’s U.S. midterm elections to judge how much sway still Trump has. But party elites care above all about winning—and they don’t necessarily care for Donald Trump, so if they think he’s harming the party’s chances of beating Democrats, they won’t hesitate to abandon him. The party’s main activist groups vary in how loyal they are to the former president; some support him zealously, while many Republican-affiliated groups work with him only pragmatically. Among Republican voters generally, Blum says, the depth of fealty to Trump is an open question. He brought a lot of new voters into the party by speaking to pervasive feelings about their status and privileges being threatened. But as Blum sees it, many Republicans still identify with the party itself, and with what they see as conservative values and policies, independently of Trump—making it unclear what will happen if they come to see him as a liability to realizing those things.
Michael Bluhm: What effect do you see Trump’s endorsement having in the Republican Party’s current primary elections?
Rachel Blum: In West Virginia, one of the candidates was Trump-endorsed and a member of the Freedom Caucus, the most conservative bloc of Republicans in the House of Representatives. It’s not surprising that he did so well in a state where Trump did so well himself in 2016 and 2020. Even without Trump’s endorsement, a Freedom Caucus candidate probably would have done well there. In Nebraska, however, Trump’s candidate lost. That was a governor’s race, which is different; and Nebraska is a very different state than West Virginia. We could argue that Nebraska voters are less sympathetic to a celebrity-style candidate. In Ohio, Trump’s candidate won—and also happened to be a minor celebrity—but with a plurality, not a majority.
I see that race as an indication of how important it is, when the field is crowded, for a key figure in the party, whoever it is, to help voters coalesce around one candidate. In a crowded field, if something can help voters distinguish one candidate, this can help; in Ohio, that was the endorsement from the former president. So far, the levels of support for Trump’s favored candidates look like you’d expect them to if a former president endorses someone.
I do think Trump’s endorsement will matter. The question is, will his endorsement matter more than any former president’s endorsement would? Will he have an above-average effect?
Bluhm: Many top Republicans, such as Romney or Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, have long expressed a distaste for Trump. How much antipathy toward him is there among party elites?
Blum: There are people like Mitch McConnell who have retained office by being very careful in the Trump era. Many top Republicans have been party elites since before Trump joined the party, and they don’t necessarily have any loyalty to him. What they have is a vested interest in the party doing well, so as soon as it seems clear that the party can do well without Trump, they’ll be a lot more vocal in their opposition to him. We’ve seen McConnell walk up to the line of opposing Trump and then step back several times over the last six years.
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Leg Tattoos For Women
If you are looking for an excellent location for your body art, the leg is it! The appeal of leg tattoos is their versatility, and they can be easily covered up or shown off. The area is large and can provide you with enough space for a design that is intricate and detailed, although small and simple artwork looks just as great here. You can cover your entire leg with tattoos that reflect your thoughts and feelings and make a statement, or choose a more discreet option.
In addition, leg tattoos are considered low to moderate on the pain scale and can look incredibly sexy. It can be a way to show off your legs and highlight your muscle tone. Keep reading to find all the inspiration you need for your next ink.
1. Leg Sleeve Tattoo
The leg is a popular placement for body art because it is incredibly versatile, lending itself well to small or large designs. If you have a big piece in mind, consider a leg sleeve. This tattoo will cover the entire leg, and the combination of your chosen images can often tell a story.
Leg sleeve tattoos are eye-catching and cool, but they also allow you to get creative. It is advisable to stick to a specific theme or style for the best results to make the artwork appear more blended. The downside to these inkings is that they are time-consuming to complete and expensive. They can also be painful, especially when inking over or near the knee.
Leg Sleeve Tattoo 1
Leg Sleeve Tattoo
2. Back Of Leg Tattoo
The back of the leg provides you with a fantastic location for your next tattoo. It is also a more discreet placement and will look great when inked on the upper thigh or the calf. These areas are lower on the pain scale because of the thick skin, fat, and muscle which provides cushioning.
You can also get a large, detailed design that covers the entire back of your leg, but you may wish to avoid inking on the back of your knee as this can be painful. Although, for some women, this is part of the appeal as the discomfort you experience could be seen as a symbol of strength and resilience as you could withstand it.
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Back Of Leg Tattoo
3. Butterfly Leg Tattoo
Butterfly tattoos are among the most popular designs for women to get inked because they are pretty and symbolic. The butterfly is a beautiful insect that is associated with growth and transformation. You can get it inked to mark a period of transition or change in your life or to remind yourself that you are free and can accomplish whatever you desire.
There is also a lot of versatility when designing your piece, and butterflies look great, both big and small. You can combine several to make it look like they are fluttering across your leg, or keep it simple with just one butterfly. There are also several colors and patterns to choose from, allowing you to find the option that appeals to you the most.
Butterfly Leg Tattoo
Memorial Tattoos Designs
Butterfly Tattoo
4. Small Leg Tattoos
The appeal of a leg tattoo is the versatility. The leg provides you with a large area to get inked, letting you get creative with your placement; you can choose the thigh or focus your artwork toward the bottom of the leg instead. Your piece can be extensive, covering your entire leg, or small and simple.
Small tattoos can be just as meaningful and can be anything from a little butterfly to your favorite short quote. Your design can look delicate and feminine, and they are easy to cover up. They are also less time-consuming to complete and often cheaper. Plus, you will not have to sit for a lengthy tattoo session, making your inking less painful.
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Small Leg Tattoos
5. Snake Leg Tattoo
Snake tattoos are popular because they look striking but are also symbolic. Serpents are associated with renewal and change but can also represent evil, temptation, and sin. Your interpretation of what the snake means will influence the design of your tattoo; if you want it to instill fear in others or serve as a warning that you are someone not to be messed with, you can depict it with its mouth open and fangs bared.
Snakes can also represent good luck and protection, in which case it would have a less menacing appearance. You can include flowers and butterflies to add to the meaning and give it a softer look. The great thing about inking a snake design on the leg is it can wrap around the limb. The shape of the snake also works well on long and straight areas, making this the perfect choice.
Snake Leg Tattoo
Snake Leg Tattoo 1
6. Dragon Leg Tattoo
The dragon is a mythological creature with powerful symbolism. This mighty beast is respected and feared, and there are a variety of meanings associated with it. In the West, it represents greed and evil, while it is linked to wisdom, protection, and even good luck in the East. It is also one of the most popular ideas for body art and lends itself well to different styles, including the Japanese tattoo style and realistic artwork.
When deciding on your dragon tattoo, consider what it means to you and which technique will work best. Maybe you want a large, colorful dragon that wraps around your entire leg, or perhaps you prefer to keep it small and simple. You can add other images to it to alter the meaning, this could include flowers, or you may wish to add a phoenix for a more striking finish.
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Henna Tattoo designs
Dragon Leg Tattoo
7. Tribal Leg Tattoo
Tribal tattoos have been used by many different cultures and can say a lot about the wearer. This includes social standing, achievements, marital status, and much more. The style will differ, depending on the culture you have been inspired by, but these pieces generally have a distinct look created using only black ink and minimal shading. They can be simplistic or detailed, and abstract or take on the form of something recognizable like a turtle or flower.
Inking your leg with a tribal design is a way to honor your heritage and feel closer to your ancestors. The leg as it provides you with enough space to get creative. In addition, leg tattoos are low on the pain scale because of the thick skin, muscle, and fat, which provide cushioning. However, if you ink on or near your knee, you will experience much more discomfort.
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Right Sister Tattoo
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8. Flower Leg Tattoos
Flowers make for pretty and symbolic designs and are popular for women. There are many species to choose from, each with slightly different meanings associated with it, but in general, blooms are linked to growth, beauty, life, and love. Your flower tattoo can be a series of different plants combined or could be just one, and the leg provides you with the perfect placement for your inking.
This is because small and large designs look great here, and there is enough space that you are not limited with your creativity. For a delicate and feminine piece, you can opt for line art. Alternatively, you can opt for bold and colorful work such as a watercolor tattoo or Japanese or Traditional American style.
Flower Leg Tattoos
Flower Leg Tattoo
Sister Tattoo
9. Rose Leg Tattoo
Flowers make for beautiful tattoos for women and look great as a filler or the main design, but the rose is the most popular of all the blooms you can choose. This is because it is a stunning flower that looks great in various colors, representing something different. For example, a red rose is associated with passion and love, whereas a black rose is linked to death and grief.
Rose tattoos also represent the balance in life; they can be beautiful and dangerous. In this case, the thorns can cause us harm and serve as a reminder to be wary of those we trust or give our heart to. The rose also looks fantastic when combined with other images, including a butterfly or a skull. This can also add to the overall meaning of your piece.
Rose Leg Tattoo
Rose Leg Tattoo
10. Thigh Leg Tattoos
The leg provides a large and versatile placement for your body art. It is easy to cover up or show off, and it is low on the pain scale because of the thick skin, fat, and muscle that provides cushioning, although if you ink toward the knee, you will experience extreme discomfort. You can cover your entire leg with tattoos or focus on a specific area such as the thigh.
Thigh tattoos are popular because it is a large enough area that you are not restricted with your design. It is also not a painful or sensitive location, and body art here can be feminine and seductive. You can also play around with the placement, trying out the inner or upper thigh for more discreet spots.
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11. Half Leg Sleeve Tattoo
Your leg will look impressive when covered in a half sleeve tattoo. This means that instead of inking your entire limb, you are focusing on only half of it; it can be the top half or the bottom; the choice is yours. This is a beautiful choice for someone who wants a large and detailed design. Your piece can tell a story and demand attention, but because the leg can be covered easily, it is also an attractive location because of its versatility. Similar to the full sleeve, this can be an expensive and time-consuming process to get inked, but it takes less commitment than inking your entire leg. Choose a symbolic design, or opt for a pretty and feminine design that can highlight your muscle tone and natural curves.
Half Leg Sleeve Tattoo
Unique Butterfly tattoos
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12. Lion Leg Tattoo
The lion is the king of the jungle and a mighty and fearsome creature. It is often associated with royalty, family, commitment, and courage and is seen as the king of the animal kingdom. In addition, the big cat is a magnificent animal and makes for some exceptional body art. You can opt for many different lion tattoos depending on your preference; consider the Traditional American tattoo style for those who like bold and bright artwork. Or you can add geometric elements to your piece to give it a modern feel. Alternatively, a photorealistic portrayal of a lion makes for a striking design that will demand attention. Focus the artwork on a specific area of the leg, or add other imagery to your inking to make it into a leg sleeve.
Lion Leg Tattoo
Lion Leg Tattoo 2
13. Japanese Leg Tattoo
The Japanese tattoo style has a very distinct appearance. It is referred to as irezumi and uses bold and bright colors with subject matter based on tradition or folklore. These designs demand attention and will make for a striking tattoo. Popular images include floral artwork like the peony or cherry blossom, koi fish representing perseverance, and mythical creatures like the phoenix or dragon. You can combine several images to create a full leg sleeve or focus on just one. The appeal of the leg is that it is a versatile placement, giving you space to get creative, but it can also be covered easily; this is great if you work in a corporate environment where visible body art is frowned upon.
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Japanese Leg Tattoo
14. Simple Leg Tattoos
The great thing about leg tattoos is even the most basic designs look fantastic here. Simple tattoos are for those who prefer a more minimalistic body art and want a symbolic piece without being too bold or bright. These pieces often focus on line work and have little to no color or shading. Popular choices include the sun and moon tattoo, a heart, and floral artwork. The beauty of these pieces is that they are often faster to complete, will not hurt as much because of the lack of shading, and are less expensive. In addition, your tattoo can look delicate and feminine.
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Simple Leg Tattoos
15. Henna Leg Tattoo
Henna tattoos are an excellent option for those who like the idea of body art but do not want to commit to it in the long term, at least not yet. It is created using a plant-based dye and can be made using various shades, including blue-black, brown, orange, and red. Some cultures use this artwork, and it is popular for Indian weddings and important festivals. The dye will fade naturally over time and looks excellent when created on the leg. This pain-free option can make a statement and is often done in beautiful, intricate patterns. Before getting a henna tattoo, you should understand how long it will last and that there is a risk of an allergic reaction to black henna.
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Henna Leg Tattoo
16. Koi Fish Tattoo Leg
The koi fish is a beautiful creature that can make for a stunning and symbolic tattoo. It is often found in the Japanese tattooing style and is bold and bright. The colors of your koi and the direction it faces will also add to the overall meaning of your piece. For example, a dark koi fish is associated with masculinity and adversity, while a yellow one is linked to good fortune and wealth. If your koi is swimming upstream, it means you are facing your problems head-on, but if it is facing downstream, you could have already dealt with the challenges in your life. You can add other imagery to the overall meaning and make a more detailed design. This can include lotus or cherry blossoms and mythical creatures like the phoenix or dragon.
Koi Fish Tattoo Leg
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17. Leg Vine Tattoo
A vine tattoo can look incredible on your leg because it can wrap around it, making for an interesting and fantastic design. You can choose to have the vine work around the entire leg or focus on only a small section of it, creating a piece that resembles a bangle. Vines are also symbolic, associated with survival, endurance and strength. You can add to your piece by including floral details, butterflies, and even tiny birds. In addition to making a visually striking design, it will also add to the overall meaning. Another thing to consider is whether you want to get it done in black ink or color; both are effective, so the decision is based on personal preference.
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Leg Vine Tattoo
18. Tree Leg Tattoo
Tree designs make for gorgeous body art that is versatile and symbolic. Your tree can be extensive and detailed, covering a large part of your leg. Or you can keep it simple with a more minimalistic approach that focuses on the basic form instead. Trees are also symbolic, representing growth, life, knowledge, wisdom, and strength. Depending on the type of tree you choose, it can have added symbolism; for example, a willow tree is associated with death and often inked as a memorial piece, whereas the pine represents longevity and resilience. Trees can also be linked to the people you love, with the roots representing the strong bonds we share. To make your design more personalized, consider adding the names of family members to it.
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Tree Leg Tattoo
19. Wolf Leg Tattoo
The wolf is often incorporated into tattoo designs because it is beautiful and symbolic. The animal is associated with family, love, and loyalty. It lives and hunts in a pack, and its survival and strength depend on this collaboration. For many, this represents the way we feel about our loved ones, how we are stronger and more successful with them in our lives. It can also be associated with a strong support system and the importance of familial bonds. The wolf has significance to various cultures, most notably the Native Americans who have deep respect for it and consider it to represent courage, strength, and loyalty. It has been called on for healing and good health. When deciding on your wolf tattoo design, there are many styles to choose from; these include realistic portrayals or more creative ones, adding other images or geometric elements.
Wolf Leg Tattoo
Wolf Leg Tattoo 2
20. Cross Tattoo On Leg
A cross tattoo is an excellent way to show devotion to your faith. Your chosen design can be simple, focusing on line art of two intersecting lines, or it could be large and detailed, including other images to add to the overall meaning. This could be religious imagery such as praying hands or Jesus. Crosses are also tattooed as a memorial for someone who has passed, and you may wish to include their name along with angel wings or a halo. You can make your design more personal by adding a quote, reflecting your thoughts and feelings, or inspiring you. The leg provides you with excellent placement for body art that is big or small and is considered low to moderate on the pain scale.
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Cross Tattoo On Leg
21. Harley Quinn Leg Tattoos
If you are a big fan of DC Comics, you may be inspired to gt a Harley Quinn tattoo on your leg. She is often associated with resilience and strength. If you include The Joker in your artwork, this could shift the focus to relationships. These two have a complicated and toxic relationship but often represent passion, obsession, and undying love. Your inking could remind you to avoid unhealthy relationships and people who bring you pain, or it could be a way to show the deep feelings you have for someone.
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Harley Quinn Leg Tattoos
22. Japanese Leg Sleeve Tattoo
The Japanese tattoo style is bold and expressive. The use of bright colors and specific themes makes for standout body art that you will want to show off. It is easy to mix different designs, including flowers, koi fish, and mythological creatures such as the dragon and phoenix. The combination also gives more meaning to your piece. Consider a leg sleeve tattoo if you want a large and detailed inking. This piece will cover the entire leg, and this style looks spectacular. For the best results, you should find someone who specializes in this technique and can help you seamlessly blend the images of your choosing. A leg-sleeve can be time-consuming to complete and expensive. It will also cause severe pain when inking over the knee cap.
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Japanese Leg Sleeve Tattoo
23. Upper Leg Tattoo
The upper leg is an excellent placement for your next tattoo because it is versatile and low on the pain scale. The thick skin, muscle, and fat in the area provide you with wish cushioning, resulting in only mild discomfort; of course, everyone’s pain tolerance differs. You should also keep in mind how large and detailed your design is, which will affect your overall pain. The upper leg can also be covered easily with clothing, making your body art more discreet. This is perfect for someone who wants to show off their tattoo or hide it.
Upper Leg Tattoo
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24. Phoenix Leg Tattoo
The phoenix is both a beautiful and symbolic bird representing the cycles of life and death. It is associated with renewal, new beginnings, and rebirth because the legend of the bird states that it bursts into flames and rises from the ashes of its predecessor. Women who contemplate their mortality are often drawn a phoenix tattoo, making for a striking image. It is also a fantastic way to show that you have overcome a challenging time in your life and have emerged stronger or that you are going through a transitional period. There are many ways to ink this mythical creature, but a color inking will have the best results. Using the reds, yellows, and oranges to imitate the appearance of fire can make a statement.
Phoenix Leg Tattoo
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25. Geometric Leg Tattoo
Geometric tattoos are great for women who want an expressive and modern design. These pieces focus on the lines and shapes, creating an image with interesting markings that evoke calmness and symmetry. Your tattoo can be of anything; some women prefer to add a geometric element to their inking of a recognizable image, for example, half of a realistic portrayal of a wolf and the other half geometric. Other people like to opt for a more abstract inking to form a brilliant pattern. Depending on how detailed you want them to be, these pieces can be large or small and are typically created in black ink. The leg is an excellent placement because it gives you enough space to get creative. It is also low on the pain scale and easy to cover up.
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26. Mandala Leg Tattoo
Mandala tattoos are made using shapes and symbols and are often created in a circular pattern. This meaningful symbol has cultural importance but has been adapted and used as inspiration for body art; whether this should have been or not is a hotly debated topic. They can also take on different forms, including floral artwork, or be designed with the outline of something, like an animal. These pieces are detailed and beautiful to look at, often associated with harmony, balance, and calm. Your design can be large and cover a significant portion of your leg, or it can be small and concentrated on the thigh or calf. There is a surprising amount of versatility with these tattoos, and you can work with your chosen artist to find the look that best suits your preference.
Mandala Leg Tattoo
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27. Leg Quote Tattoos
Quote tattoos can inspire and motivate you. They can bring you comfort and remind you of your inner strength and determination. There are so many different pieces to choose from, allowing you to settle on something that best suits you and accurately depicts how you feel. Perhaps there is a song you love, and the lyrics bring a smile to your face every time? Maybe a political leader or activist has said something that has encouraged you to do and be better? Choosing a quote can be empowering and a great way to express yourself. The leg provides you with an ideal placement for several reasons; it is large enough to allow for a lengthy quote and will not feel squashed. It is easy to cover up or show off, and it is low on the pain scale.
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Leg Quote Tattoos
28. Owl Leg Tattoo
The owl is associated with wisdom, magic, and mystery. For some, it brings good luck, or it could be linked to the afterlife. The bird is also important to various cultures, including the Native Americans, who believed it to be a guardian of knowledge and related to the spiritual world. There are several meanings associated with the owl and various ways to design it, including a skull or dreamcatcher. The species you chose to depict can also slightly alter your ink’s meaning. You can choose a realistic owl tattoo or get creative with color, opting for a bright and bold design like American Traditional tattoos or using the watercolor tattoo technique. The leg is an appealing spot to show off your tattoo or cover it up, and you can get creative with your placement depending on how discreet you want it to be.
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29. Joker Leg Tattoo
The Joker makes for an interesting and symbolic design. He is Batman’s arch-nemesis and a supervillain but is one of the most beloved bad guys because people can relate to several of the Joker’s qualities. He is often associated with darkness and rebellion but can also represent determination and perseverance. When including an image of Harley Quinn, your piece can take on new meaning and be linked with passion, undying love, and obsession. The makeup, scars and even tattooed appearance of the Joker make for a striking piece. For this reason, a Joker tattoo often looks best in colored ink to fully show off the detailing.
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30. Leg Name Tattoos
Name tattoos are an incredibly unique design. You have to care about someone to consider getting their name inked onto your skin forever, and this piece shows commitment and love. It could be a piece to celebrate your romantic partner and accompany the date you met or got wed. You can also ink your child’s name and a birthdate or use your tattoo to honor a loved one who has passed away. Depending on how large or discreet you want your design to be, you can experiment with different placements and sizes on the leg. It can also be as simple as a name or include other images.
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Leg Name Tattoos
31. Sunflower Leg Tattoo
A sunflower tattoo will look gorgeous inked onto your leg. The leg provides enough space for you to get creative with your design and create something brilliant and bold. Or keep it small and simple, which will look just as great. The sunflower is one of the most beautiful flowers in the world, and the bright yellow color makes them unmissable; it is for this reason that it is recommended to get your piece done in colored ink to show off the beauty of this bloom fully. The flower is associated with hope, everlasting love, and optimism. It can also represent devotion and is sometimes inked by people who want to show their commitment to their faith; in this case, the sunflower faces toward God and his love.
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32. American Traditional Tattoo Leg Sleeve
The American Traditional tattoo technique is bold and expressive. It is created using a bright color palette with limited colors, bold lines, and minimal shading. This artwork also often involves a specific theme; these could be images of nautical artwork, nature, and animals. Your tattoo will make a statement and can be combined with several images of the same style to form a leg sleeve. This is a great way to get creative, and the finished result will ensure you stand out from the crowd. The leg is a popular and versatile location for body art and can be shown off easily or covered up. It is also considered low to moderate on the pain scale, although inking of the knee can be extremely painful.
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American Traditional Tattoo Leg Sleeve
33. Skull Leg Tattoo
Skull tattoos are among the most popular images to get inked because they make for a striking and thought-provoking piece. The skull is a universal symbol of death, and tattooing it onto your skin can be intimidating to others or used to instill fear. There are also several ways to design the skull, and you can add other imagery to it to change the meaning and give it a more feminine appearance. This could include florals and butterflies or geometric elements. Your design can be inked in black ink, or you could use color by opting for a style like the American Traditional or watercolor tattoo techniques.
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Skull Leg Tattoo
34. Dream Catcher Leg Tattoo
The dreamcatcher is much more than a beautiful object; it is also symbolic. It is a hand-woven piece that resembles a spider’s web and has great importance in Native American culture; However, the dreamcatcher has also filtered into the mainstream. Those without Native American heritage have been inspired by the talisman and have chosen to get it inked onto themselves. The idea of a dreamcatcher tattoo is to bring the wearer good luck and protection by filtering out the negative thoughts and bad dreams. Your artwork can be personalized with the feathers you choose to include and the colors you use but works well on areas that are large enough to give you the space you need for detail.
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Dream Catcher Leg Tattoo
35. Colorful Leg Tattoo
There is a definite appeal to using color in your body art, and it can make for a bold and bright design. This is a great way to get your piece noticed and make your design look more realistic; some tattoos benefit from color. Several styles also involve color, including American Traditional tattoos and Japanese. There are some downsides to using colored ink, though, and this includes that it is often more expensive and can take longer to heal. You should also consider your skin tone as black is more versatile and looks good on all skin tones, whereas color is more visible on lighter skin.
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36. Watercolor Leg Tattoo
The watercolor tattoo technique makes for a stunning and bold design. These pieces blend several bright colors creating an effect that mimics paint on a canvas, hence the name. This is a relatively new style that is becoming increasingly popular, and it is an excellent choice for someone who wants to experiment with color. There are several ways to incorporate it into your body art; You can choose to forgo black outlines and shading entirely or create a watercolor background with an intricate piece over it. It can be expensive, but you will find that it is worth it. When choosing your design, you can let it spread across your leg or select something that crosses over from one leg to the other, using both in a creative and fun way.
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37. Sun And Moon Leg Tattoo
The sun and moon are both powerful symbols of life. They are a source of light, energy, and truth and have very positive symbolism. Combining these two elements can also reflect balance and can be inked by a woman who finds herself in a transitional period in her life or is facing challenges. Your sun and moon tattoo can remind you that you are strong and resilient. It could also be a way to honor your family and the bonds that you have. Some women choose to add stars to their designs to represent their children; the number can correlate with how many kids you have. When considering the placement, you can get a tattoo of the sun, and moon combined on one leg or choose to ink each leg with different images, one with the moon and the other with the sun.
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Sun And Moon Leg Tattoo
38. Elephant Leg Tattoo
An elephant tattoo is a perfect choice for a woman who wants to celebrate her female energy. This is because each herd has a matriarch, and this can be a way to honor a strong woman in your life. These gigantic mammals are also associated with power, prosperity, and wisdom and can be inked to show that you will not forget who has mistreated or wronged you in the past. Your tattoo may also bring you good luck or help you focus on the positive things in your life. A large, detailed elephant design will look fantastic on the thigh, or you can ink it onto the calf if you prefer a smaller piece. Alternatively, you may design an entire leg-sleeve around your elephant, including images of nature and other animals.
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Elephant Leg Tattoo
39. Nature Leg Tattoo
What better design to get than a nature tattoo if the world’s natural beauty inspires you? Your piece can be of anything, from a collection of your favorite flowers and trees, to a scene from a camping site you love to visit. You can include a mountain that you have climbed, a scenic location that you have fond memories of, or it could be a combination of animals and plants. Many options allow you to make your piece unique and special. The leg is an excellent location for body art because it is large and gives you the space to get creative. It is also low to moderate on the pain scale and can be easily covered up or shown off.
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Nature Leg Tattoo
40. Portrait Leg Tattoo
Portrait tattoos are a style that involves creating pieces that look like a portrait. They can be of anyone, including a celebrity who has inspired you, a loved one, or even a fictional character. You can also choose to honor someone who has passed by inking an image in their likeness onto your leg, making for a thoughtful and moving design. These pieces require a lot of skill and are time-consuming to create, and are expensive. It is also best to choose someone specializing in this style for the best results. When selecting a location on your leg for your design, consider the size. The thigh is excellent because it is bigger and will give you more space to allow for detail. It is also low on the pain scale because of the thick skin, muscle, and fat.
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Leg Tattoos FAQs
Which leg is better for a tattoo?
When deciding on your leg tattoo, there is not one leg that is better than the other. Your choice should depend on your design. If you have a preference and feel that your piece will look best on the right leg, choose that one, or you can pick something that spreads across one leg to the other. It would help if you also considered where on the leg you want your ink to be, and some placements are more versatile than others; the thigh is easy to cover and low on the pain scale, while the lower leg may be more visible during the warmer months when you choose to wear shorts or dresses. The leg, in general, is a fantastic location for body art and is low to moderate on the pain scale because of the thick skin, fat, and muscle which provide cushioning.
Do Leg Tattoos hurt?
Tattoos on the leg can hurt depending on the placement and the design. Inking on or near the knee can be extremely painful, whereas body art on the thigh or calves will be low to moderate because of the thick skin, muscle, and fat that provide cushioning. If you choose a piece with a lot of shading and color, this can be more painful than something simple and delicate, and you should keep this in mind.
Will hair grow over my tattoo?
If you are getting inked in an area that you had to shave first, it is possible that some hair will grow over your tattoo. The good news is that once your piece has properly healed, you can continue to shave over it as you would normally. You may notice that the hair growth is not as thick and takes longer to come after getting inked, and this is normal.
How long do leg tattoos take?
How long your leg tattoo will take depends on the size and your choice of design. Will it require a lot of shading and the use of color? Are you focusing on a specific technique that is incredibly detailed, like photorealistic or portrait? Will your body art be small or cover the entire leg. These are all things to consider beforehand, and they will also influence the price. Your tattoo can take an hour or less or be created over several hours and multiple sessions.
What jobs don’t allow leg tattoos?
Body art still carries a stigma, and some industries prefer that their employees do not have visible body art. If you work in a conservative work environment or a public service industry, you should avoid getting a leg tattoo that people can see; choosing the top or inner thigh should be fine. Some jobs that do not allow leg tattoos for women include teachers, law enforcement officers, air hostesses, office administrators and receptionists, and bankers.
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Outlawed App Emerges as Key Tool for Russian Protesters
Police officers stand guard during a rally during recent demonstrations in Moscow.
Although officially banned in Russia, Telegram is still running, and experts say it's harder to hijack than other popular platforms.
Since July, Moscow has been rocked by almost weekly rallies after a dozen independent candidates were blocked from running for the city legislature in Sunday's election. Authorities responded with a harsh police crackdown, arresting hundreds.
Russia banned Telegram after its creators refused to hand over the encryption keys to authorities last year. Nevertheless, it remains available and many pro-government figures and Kremlin officials, including President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, still keep active accounts.
Protesters have harnessed Telegram's tools, from information channels to chats and automated bots, to streamline communication, create aid initiatives for detainees and render civil activity more effective.
If someone wants to join the grass-roots, protest group Bessrochka, for example, the group's website instructs users to join a “protest navigator” on Telegram. The navigator then provides new users with a list of channels which offer a steady flow of information about the latest opposition activity or political topic, and chats which link new recruits with other activists in their area.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on Monday launched a bot to help users navigate his Smart Vote initiative, a tactic the opposition is hoping will break the monopoly of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party at the Moscow City Duma elections. The bot quickly tells users which candidate to vote for according to their address.
“It's much harder to hijack a channel than a hashtag,” Sanovich explained.
Telegram's strengths, however, for activists are also its vulnerabilities. Its anonymity makes users' communications safer, but it also helps the authorities who can anonymously join open chats and channels and monitor the opposition's activity.
Gregory Asmolov, a Fellow at King's College London's Russia Institute, wrote in a recent essay for Open Democracy that as the Russian opposition is adopting new digital tools, the government “may soon find itself at a crossroads.”
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US: Religious Freedom Curtailed Sharply Across Globe
FILE - Believers take part in a weekend mass at an underground Catholic church in Tianjin, China, Nov. 10, 2013. China once again has been designated by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom as a country of particular concern.
Religious freedom across the globe has been sharply curtailed over the last year, a U.S. watchdog agency concluded Monday.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, or USCIRF, said that authoritarian governments throughout the world are jailing prisoners of conscience — most often Christians and Muslims — for practicing their religious beliefs, while there is also an increase in bigotry against Jews and Muslims in Europe.
There is "no shortage of attendant suffering worldwide," the independent government agency said, adding that it is fueled in part by the hundreds of thousands of migrants trying to flee their homelands, often because they have been persecuted for religious reasons.
"The incarceration of prisoners of conscience — people whom governments hold for reasons including those related to religion — remains astonishingly widespread, occurring in country after country, and underscores the impact of the laws and policies that led to their imprisonment," the report said.
It said the instances of religious intolerance "are crises in their own right which cry out for continued action on the part of the international community, including the United States."
The 2016 report said that religious freedom "deserves a seat at the table when nations discuss humanitarian, security and other pressing issues. The United States and other countries must fully accord this right the respect it deserves and redouble their efforts to defend this pivotal liberty worldwide."
Hot spots of religious suffering
The commission singled out some countries for particular abuses against religious minorities. The report cited China, where Christians have been imprisoned for refusing to remove crosses atop churches; Iran, where religious minorities have been sentenced to death for "enmity against God"; and North Korea, where thousands of religious believers have been imprisoned in labor camps.
The commission said more people in Pakistan are on death row or serving life sentences for blasphemy than in any other country in the world, while Saudi Arabia sentenced a Saudi poet and artist to death for alleged apostasy for advocating atheism, although the sentence was later cut to eight years in prison and 800 lashes.
In Uzbekistan, a majority-Muslim country, the report said a human rights activist has been imprisoned for supporting persecuted independent Muslims. Vietnam controls nearly all religious activities.
The report denounced Islamic State jihadists for their "summary executions, rape, sexual enslavement, abduction of children, destruction of houses of worship and forced [religious] conversions."
It said the Syrian and Iraqi governments "can be characterized by their near-incapacity to protect segments of their population" from Islamic State terrorists.
The agency, which acts in an advisory role to President Barack Obama, the U.S. Congress and the State Department, said nine nations should retain their State Department designations as "countries of particular concern" (or CPCs) for their “systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom”: Myanmar, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
The report recommended that eight more countries be added to that list: Central African Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan and Vietnam.
In addition, 10 countries have been placed on a “Tier 2” watch list. These countries “do not rise to the statutory level that would mandate a CPC designation but require close monitoring due to the nature and extent of violations of religious freedom engaged in or tolerated by governments.”
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0.068081 | <urn:uuid:65afc247-0020-4032-b384-d06ea55e342b> | en | 0.969644 | Court-storming now has serious consequences in Big 12 Conference
In this sequence of images a court-rusher checks Kansas forward Jamari Traylor on his way toward the Kansas players before being temporarily stopped by security.
Not too long ago, the Big 12 Conference's spring meetings were all about conference realignment, athletic directors and presidents ducking out of back exits and reporters stalking the halls of some hotels near the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, hoping to discover some sort of breaking news.
Times have changed since then, of course, and with the spring meetings back in Dallas, some pretty interesting breaking news was dropped into the laps of the laptop jockeys in attendance.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Wednesday announced that the conference had passed a measure regarding potentially serious penalties for court-storming following men's and women's basketball games. This, no doubt, was a reaction to the scene that unfolded last winter in Manhattan after a K-State victory over KU in which Bill Self was pinned against the scorer's table and Jamari Traylor was trucked by a wild KSU fan.
Although there are not specific consequences laid out for court-storming incidents the way there are in the SEC — where the schools are fined increasing amounts of money depending on the number of the offense — Bowlsby said he has been given "broad authority" to implement penalties against programs who can't keep their fans off the floor.
Now, obviously this never has been and likely won't be an issue at Allen Fieldhouse, where court-storming just doesn't happen these days. But it's definitely an issue that the rest of the conference should and will take note of, especially when KU comes to town. It's been an all-too familiar scene in recent years to see home fans storm the floor after their squad pulls off the upset over Kansas. Heck, some of those schools have even been ranked in the Top 20 and still seen their fans storm the floor after the emotional win over the conference king.
So be it. But when things boiled over to the point of physical harm and/or danger for the visiting players, something had to be done and the Big 12 has done it.
Bowlsby said the penalties could range from fines to the loss of future home games, both of which surely will get the attention of administrators, coaches and even fans throughout the league.
According to Big 12 rules, it's the responsibility of the home team, not the league, to protect players and team personnel in the event of a court storming.
Bowlsby having the power to hand out such severe punishments should future incidents occur, should create an environment free of rushing the floor throughout the Big 12 in years to come.
Don Burgundy 7 years, 4 months ago
Tis' a somber day for one Manhattan, KS. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Michael Sillman 7 years, 4 months ago
The proper reference is "Walk the talk."
Walk the walk makes no sense. 😉
Jonathan Allison 7 years, 4 months ago
umm. no. Clearly you can talk the talk, but based on this comment it appears that you cannot walk the walk.
Armen Kurdian 7 years, 4 months ago
However I think we can all agree that we collectively can Rock the Chalk. Which is much better than block the...well, I digress.
Phil Leister 7 years, 4 months ago
A rather ambiguous "policy" like this one is useless. Why give the commish broad authority instead of doing like the SEC and implementing automatic fines? The loss of future home games will NEVER happen.
Matt Tait 7 years, 4 months ago
I would guess it's because he then would be able to assess the severity of the storm. For instance, there's a big difference between the Oklahoma State court storms of recent years and the one we saw in Manhattan last year.
OSU would probably be fined. KSU would probably lose a home game.
Bottom line: The threat of that kind of penalty should inspire the schools to take every precaution.
Jonathan Allison 7 years, 4 months ago
I agree Phil. I would prefer a more strict procedure for punishment. This is the same reason why Roger Goodell is taking so much heat. Because he bestowed upon himself the role of judge and jury. He determines what's a violation and what the punishment is for each situation individually, and when similar violations get different punishments it is unfair.
I have a hard time believing that the commish would take away a home game from a school. So we would have played KSU at home two times next year? I can't see it happening. Just fine the school or have them give their ticket revenues back to the league office. It's not only unfair to the players who's fans stormed the court (they only get 8 home games), it's also unfair to all of the other teams in the league who only get 9 home games while the team that was victimized by court storming gets 10. With that kind of punishment, Kansas could potentially go another 11 straight years as conference champs.
Dale Rogers 7 years, 4 months ago
And the loss of a home game has significant implications for the school, both negative $$ for the team losing the home game and positive $$ for the team gaining the extra home game. I would think the school would do everything they can to avoid that kind of financial hit.
I guess the best way to avoid court stormings at our away games is to just not lose to those teams on their court.
Humpy Helsel 7 years, 4 months ago
I'm with Phil on this. It would have to be something really bad to result in a home loss assessment. The approach is a measured one to see if the threat of penalty is enough. It will happen again. It just takes the right situation with the right teams on the right day or night. Why? Because crowd (mob) mentality and passion rule over cerebral consideration and consequences in the context of battle/conflict. Why do normally law abiding citizens get caught up in road rage and do things they would never do at any other time?
What about storming the football fields? Is that included? What is the danger of goal post take downs?
Steven Mathew 7 years, 4 months ago
I'm thinking that when they are discussing a loss of a home game, that it would be on the non-conference portion. Losing a conference home game affects everybody within the conference.
Ron Prichard 7 years, 4 months ago
Actually, I think it means the "home and away" would become "away and away" the following season. The offending team loses their home game. The opponent gains another home game. In that scenario, there would be no net effect on the league as a whole.
Jonathan Allison 7 years, 4 months ago
there is an effect on the league. The rich get richer. What if TTU storms the court against ISU and the following season with one extra home game, ISU wins the league by 1 game. With the power to give specific teams an advantage in league play, the Commish could create a situation where he can impact the outcome of games and of the league race.
If he discriminates which teams get punished with loss of a home game and which teams don't get punished with loss of a home game, then all of a sudden he has the authority to impact the outcomes for the teams that he chooses to impact the outcomes for and not impact the outcomes for teams that he chooses not to impact the outcomes for.
So there are two problems with it. 1) giving one team a 10th home game in league play puts all 9 other teams at a disadvantage, and 2) (this is the bigger problem) granting full authority to the commish to determine what warrants loss of a home game and what doesn't creates a situation where the commish can award advantages to a team who was stormed if he wants to or not do it if he doesn't want to. He can attempt to fix the league race based on teams that get court-stormed. Obviously this rule will benefit Kansas more than anyone else right now because we get the most opponent court-stormings.
John Myers 7 years, 4 months ago
Thus, schools stop storming the court.
John Randall 7 years, 4 months ago
... there is an effect on the league. The rich get richer ...
There is no certainty that it would be KU who was "offended against."
In the "loss of a home game" assessment, don't reward the offended team with an extra home. Play the schedule game, but at neither home arena. Pick a high school gym with no game scheduled and play the game with no crowd – no press or TV would be even better – any broadcast to be after (at least) 24 hr. delay.
Something with significant penalty, with out any reward. Please, please before the necessity of dealing with physical harm or worse.
Bryce Landon 7 years, 4 months ago
The headline to this article is misleading. The Big 12 didn't set anything in stone regarding court storming, so there's nothing here that is actually worth writing about. Looks like Matt Tait is taking a page from Tom Keegan's playbook and trying to troll us with sensational headlines.
Code_2008 7 years, 3 months ago
KSU never shows up to any home games that doesn't involve KU, why would they care if they lost one?
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Yard in Meter
In this category yard in meter you can find our articles explaining the conversion of a certain length in yards (yd) to meters (m), that is from the US customary and British imperial and unit yard to base unit of length in the metric system, the meter. First, we always show you the formula, and then continue with the result in various notations using the symbols. Each post includes a yard to m converter which can be swapped to meters to yards. In addition, every article comes with the equivalent of your distance in meter in the units kilometer and mile. A comment form, a link to the inverse conversion, and the information where to find more details on yd and m aren’t missing either. Throughout every article you can see the answers to FAQs in the context, along with the explanation of the search form which is worth checking out. | https://yardstometers.net/category/yard-in-meter | dclm-gs1-168745422 | false | false | {
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Microsoft SQL Server to FTP CSV file
Read rows from Microsoft SQL Server table using them to create CSV file entries in FTP server
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Read rows from Microsoft SQL Server table
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class MssqlSourceSelect { async init() { // TODO: Create your mssql credential // More info at const mssqlConnectionPool = yepcode.integration.mssql( "your-mssql-credential-name" ); this.pool = await mssqlConnectionPool.connect(); } async fetch(publish, done) { // TODO: Customize your sql query const { recordset } = await this.pool.query( "SELECT * FROM your_table LIMIT 10" ); for (const row of recordset) { await publish(row); } done(); } async close() { await this.pool.close(); }}
Create CSV file entries in FTP server
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class SftpTargetUploadCsv { async init() { // TODO: Create your sftp credential // More info at this.sftp = await yepcode.integration.sftp("your-sftp-credential-name"); // Transform the items into a csv format this.stringifier = csv.stringify({ delimiter: ",", }); // TODO: Customize the remote directory where to load the csv file this.upload = this.sftp.put( this.stringifier, "/remoteDirPath/fileName.csv" ); } async consume(item) { // TODO: Customize your csv row const csvRow = [,]; this.stringifier.write(csvRow); } async close() { this.stringifier.end(); await this.upload; await this.sftp.end(); }}
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0.124668 | <urn:uuid:72efb4c3-cb6e-4424-b719-b80f8b3ba86f> | en | 0.936527 | TWiki Tips Part One
7 April 2008
How many times have you asked someone in ATLAS something like "How do you do xyz?" and been told "It's in the TWiki". The problem is there are currently 5,300 ATLAS TWiki topics (pages), growing at a rate of about 150 per month. How do you find that information about 'xyz' and how do you know if it's reliable?
Q: How do I find information about 'xyz'?
A: Well you can try searching for it! In the top right hand corner of each page there is a search field that has been recently updated to use the CERN Search which is indexed and hence fast. The ATLAS WebHome has a search field near the bottom. The problem is that this is very slow and returns an alphabetic list of all the topics with 'xyz' in them with no 'relevance' criteria. Slightly better is WebSearch which uses Google Ajax and is also much faster.
Q: How can I see what topics are available?
A: The WebIndex lists all ATLAS topics in alphabetical order. This is very slow. There is also the faster WebTopicList. The Wikimap also gives a list of ATLAS TWiki topics, with other interesting bits of information like their relationship with other topics, hit counts, last modification dates etc. The AtlasTree gives a nested tree view of ATLAS TWiki topics.
Q: How do I know the information is reliable?
A: We have recently introduced the concept of TWiki Certification. If a topic is considered 'official' ATLAS documentation i.e. it is useful, correct, up to date etc it will have a certification logo visible in the top right hand corner. If a topic doesn't have this logo then you should be more wary. If you think the topic should be certified contact the author and ask him to get it certified by the relevant coordinator. The certification expires after 6 months to make sure the pages stay up to date.
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Sheet metal processing has always been an important part of metal manufacturing. Compared with foreign advanced sheet metal processing models, China's sheet metal processing still has certain defects in technology, but it is undeniable that sheet metal processing automation is the industry's future.
At present, foreign developed countries, such as the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom and other developed countries, the sheet metal processing mode mainly adopts closed-loop control of automated production. This automated production technology is easier to maintain and maintain the entire production line, and greatly improves the entire production line. The safety and reliability of the production line and advanced information management technology have strengthened the management of sheet metal processing and manufacturing. However, China's sheet metal processing mode is relatively backward, and its safety and efficiency have not reached the level of foreign countries.
However, with the continuous improvement of China's opening up to the outside world, China's sheet metal processing industry will certainly keep up with the development trend and introduce foreign advanced production technologies to promote the development of our sheet metal processing industry. | http://cn-boying.com/news/industry-news-30.html | dclm-gs1-168825422 | false | false | {
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--- Comment #83 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
um... um... it just occurred to me: if we detect that XER sticky overflow
is 1 in the ALU output stage, and if it is set (and required - insn.OE etc.)
only then do we even request a write to the XER.so register, then because
it is only setting, i do not believe we even need to read the XER.so at all.
as in: i think we can actually *remove* XER.so from ALUInputData, entirely.
this is because we don't actually care what the former value was - at all -
we are merely setting it. and because that new value is *not* dependent
on the old value - at all - we don't need to waste that read port.
does this sound like a reasonable analysis?
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This process shall collect and fuse emergency and incident information that will be used to create broadcast or interactive messages to travelers and other operations centers as well as support trip planning applications. Data quality checks shall be performed on all collected data. Upon receipt of traveler information alert subscriptions, this process shall output relevant incident alerts. This process shall collect emergency and incident information including evacuation data and wide area alert notifications from emergency management, traffic management, transit management, media, care facilities, and shelter providers. The process shall load the incoming data into the 'emergency_traveler_data' store. This process shall provide the media with incident information. This process shall exchange information with Other Traveler Information Centers to allow one center to act as a wholesaler and provide information to other centers. The process shall select the appropriate subset of data which will be sent to each ITS application or entity that is requesting data. The process shall provide all of the received information to the TIC Operator Interface process and receive the data collection parameters (to define exactly what data shall be retrieved as a result of each request) from the operator interface process.
This process is associated with the Transportation Information Center physical object.
This process is associated with the following application objects:
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0.019206 | <urn:uuid:bc59972e-1950-45fa-b0f2-a274678ad67c> | en | 0.984684 | Hawk's blog gives a larger view of the left-hand panel.
Piro speaks:
Hawk did a really good job working with my script (sucky as it was) and even tho some of the things came out a little different than i would have drawn it... that's exactly what is supposed to happen when different art types draw something. I'm real happy with it, and a big big thank you to hawk for taking care of you folks while i was out of the country for three weeks.
HawkX speaks:
*packs his things and leaves*
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How IoT Revolutionizes GPS Tracking Software
It is fascinating to see different technologies come together to form stronger systems. That is exactly the case with GPS tracking software and IoT. When paired together, they form the most potent fleet management software out there.
With GPS tracking software, IoT gets the fuel it needs to run on and with IoT, GPS tracking software gets the supplements it needs to grow.
We find it interesting to know how the two work together. Do you too? If your answer is yes, continue reading this article to know more about how they work together to form the best fleet management software out there.
What Are IoT and GPS Tracking Software?
Obviously, before we begin explaining what the two technologies can get together, you need to understand what they are separately. Here we will explain the nitty-gritty and GPS tracking and IoT systems.
GPS Tracking Systems
GPS tracking systems help you know the exact position of anything on the surface of this planet in real-time. As long as a GPS tracker is connected to the object you want to track, you can know where it is regardless of how remote the position might be.
For GPS tracking systems to work, trackers leverage the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network. This network is a constellation of about 30 satellites orbiting the Earth’s surface to track every object available. These satellites communicate with GPS tracking devices to offer the current location.
Most of the work is complete by this point. All GPS tracking software has to do now is take that information from GPS tracking devices and present them in an understandable manner to users. The most basic way to do that is by organizing the data in neat categories and packages. However, the best software will leverage that data to form insightful and actionable reports.
The Internet of Things
IoT or the Internet of Things is a network of objects that are connected over the internet. The Internet of Things can connect sensors, objects, software, or even connected technologies to systematically share data between the network.
The primary purpose of IoT is to connect objects so that they can seamlessly share information to work together. This system works by putting all the data collected from each device on the cloud. It is there that the information from all devices is processed together within some software to reflect results and reports.
How Do GPS Tracking Software and IoT Come Together?
The whole purpose of GPS trackers is to collect specific information and IoT is to process information from multiple sources.
When GPS tracking systems work individually, they generally only collect locational information. However, when they are connected to IoT, they can also collect and process multiple information packets related to much more than just the vehicle's location. Therefore, when the two technologies come together, they form a potent fleet management system.
While fleet management systems look similar to vehicle tracking systems, they can perform much more functions than the latter because of IoT.
Without IoT, vehicle tracking software only allows a fleet manager to keep a check of where each vehicle is in real-time. However, with IoT, fleet management systems get more information to work with, producing more productive and detailed reports.
Fleet Management Systems and Why They Are Better
Fleet management software gets much more input than vehicle tracking software. Therefore, with the best processing tools, these systems also produce massive output. Resultantly, they have several tangible results that GPS tracking software might not be able to produce. Discussed below are some of those results.
Detailed Real-Time Vehicle Tracking
Sure, vehicle tracking is generic, right? After all, that is all GPS tracking software does too. However, with the help of IoT, you cannot only track a vehicle's location in real-time but also much more.
When you have real-time data such as the vehicle’s location, engine health, and driver activity, you get to supervise everything much better. Therefore, by installing sensors such as cabin thermometers, load sensors, and dash cams, you can increase your transportation company’s profits by a multifold.
With the help of GPS tracking solutions, you get to observe the vehicle as much more than a skeleton carrying your consignment. Instead, you can see it as a machine that needs attention and maintenance to perform at its best. And when you do give the machine the maintenance it needs at all times, you’ll get the best results from your fleet.
Leveraging Unbelievable Amounts of Data
The whole purpose of using fleet management software systems is to receive and process as much data as possible. With proper sensor integration, you can follow things such as fuel consumption, vehicle optimization, and speed tracking. Moreover, for special services such as cold chain monitoring, you can even keep live tabs on the reefer’s temperature.
No data can ever go to waste if it is processed well. Therefore, with the right fleet management software system, you can virtually be in your vehicle without actually being in it.
IoT connects drivers, vehicles, and managers the best. Therefore, in case any issue occurs, managers can easily analyze all the gathered data and see where the problem arose.
Optimizing Costs
If you want your business to prosper, you will want to cut down on operational costs. After all, when your turnovers remain the same, it is only by cutting down on operational costs that you can increase overall profits.
When you use GPS tracking software with IoT, you get a complete assessment of how all your resources are being used. You can see how much fuel, time, and energy your vehicles are consuming. With this information, you can then strategize to reduce as much resource waste as possible and lower running costs for your fleet.
Use Technology To Its Best of Capabilities
Modern technology is not as black and white as it used to be. Instead, you can add in several shades to produce something extraordinary.
Using the same principle, fleet management software systems have arisen from an amalgamation of IoT and GPS tracking software. When you use the best technological aid out there, you get to get the most out of your resources.
So, what are you waiting for? Try Trackobit, one of the best fleet management software out there that amalgamates GPS tracking and IoT systems seamlessly!
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The Case Against a New Arms Race
Photo: Russian nuclear missile during a military parade in Moscow, June 2020 Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images
Nuclear Weapons Are Not the Future
By Rose Gottemoeller
Foreign Affairs
August 9, 2022 - As Russian President Vladimir Putin marched his army into Ukraine on February 24, he issued dire warnings to the West. Any state that sent its troops to fight Russia, he said, would face “ominous consequences”—the likes of which the world has “never seen in [its] entire history.” His country was ready to act and had made “the necessary decisions” to respond if attacked. “I hope that my words will be heard,” he declared.
Putin didn’t explicitly state what those consequences would be, or what attacks he had in mind. But to anyone listening, the message was clear enough. If the West directly intervened in Ukraine, Russia would use its nuclear arsenal.
Putin’s invocation of nuclear war has reignited debates about deterrence and the utility of nuclear weapons. It has led Admiral Charles Richard, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command responsible for nuclear deterrence, to argue that the United States may need more nuclear weapons to deter and defend against Russia and also China, which are both modernizing their nuclear forces. “We do not necessarily have to match weapon for weapon,” he said in March. “But it is clear what we have today is the absolute minimum.” Proponents of a nuclear buildup point out that in the coming years, China could rapidly acquire more nuclear weapons, or that Iran, a newcomer, could develop and deploy them for the first time. The United States, the argument runs, risks weakening its own security if it doesn’t amass a larger nuclear arsenal to maintain its advantage over rivals.
But it would be a mistake for the United States, or any state, to embark on a nuclear arms race during this time, when a revolution is afoot in other types of military technology. New defense innovations promise not just to transform warfare but also to undermine the logic and utility of nuclear weapons. With advances in sensing technology, states may soon be able to track and target their adversaries’ nuclear missiles, making the weapons easier to eliminate. And with nuclear weapons more vulnerable, innovations such as drone swarms—large numbers of small automated weapons that collectively execute a coordinated attack—will increasingly define war. A fixation on building more nuclear weapons will only distract from this technological revolution, making it harder for the United States to master the advances that will shape the battlefield of the future.
Although the Soviet Union considered using nuclear weapons for warfighting, for decades, nuclear weapons have primarily been seen as instruments of deterrence. These bombs, the thinking goes, are so destructive and invite such uncompromising retaliation that their use in wartime imperils the very existence of the human race. U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev captured this idea at a 1985 summit when they declared that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”
But the development of lower-yield warheads and higher-accuracy missiles in the 1980s encouraged some experts to believe that nuclear weapons could become practical tools of war. The debate at that time around so-called neutron weapons stemmed from the notion that such a bomb, accurately delivered, could wipe out an entire tank battalion without killing tens of thousands of civilians.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion, some foreign policy commentators, including New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, have called for the United States to build its own such stockpile—as China and Russia have done. Proponents of the weapons argue that if the United States does not deter these weapons with lower-yield bombs of its own, then China and Russia will take advantage of a “deterrence gap,” using such weapons on the battlefield and then daring Washington to escalate by launching its big strategic missiles against Beijing or Moscow. As the argument goes, the United States will never attack Moscow in response to a small nuclear attack against a German military base. In order to deter the Russians, Washington has to be able to strike them with the same low-yield weapons that they might use in Europe.
The technology revolution is passing nuclear weapons by.
In the 1980s, however, Western publics recoiled against the notion that low-yield strikes were somehow cleaner than larger nuclear weapons. The fact that they would produce little physical damage but would efficiently kill people brought protesters into the streets across Europe and the United States. Faced with this stark reaction, the United States embarked on a long campaign to develop highly accurate conventional weapons, which could effectively retaliate against nuclear attack.
The case for low-yield nuclear weapons will be no easier to make today than in the 1980s, especially since the technology revolution is passing the weapons by. There are limits to further innovation in new nuclear weapons development since one can split the atom in only so many ways. Dialing nuclear yield up or down, increasing or decreasing destructive power—these are all well-understood phenomena that will not change the deterrent balance or make the public more accepting of nuclear use. The same is true of missiles that will deliver nuclear weapons. Since the 1980s, they have become steadily faster and more accurate, and have acquired greater range and maneuverability. Hypersonic weapons are the latest expression of these trends.
These are not the innovations that count today. The most consequential innovations happening now are those that change the environment in which traditional nuclear missile systems must operate. Today, sensor systems on satellites and other platforms are providing ever-sharper imagery and location information for military facilities, weapons, and equipment—day and night, in cloud cover or clear weather. As big data analysis begins to quickly make sense of myriad images and predict changes in them, forces will eventually be able to conduct real-time targeting. Even mobile nuclear missiles and submarines may become subject to such tracking and targeting in the future, as quantum computing and sensing take hold.
The implications for nuclear deterrence are stark. All nuclear weapons states have depended on the ability to hide and protect some nuclear missiles so that they would be available to retaliate if somehow an adversary carried out a successful first strike. Such “second-strike retaliatory forces” have been the essential insurance policy that enabled all the nuclear weapons states to feel confident that, even if their adversary surprised them, they would retain the means to respond with nuclear weapons. This retaliatory option is a strong factor in the stability of nuclear deterrence.
With the technology revolution driving in the direction of real-time targeting, however, even the stealthiest or most well-protected mobile weapons will become vulnerable in the future. The day may come when the nuclear weapons states must question the viability of their retaliatory forces because of their vulnerability to attack.
This future threat argues not for abandoning nuclear weapons but for carrying forward a careful modernization of them. As President Barack Obama first said in his Prague speech in April 2009, as long as nuclear weapons exist, the United States must maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear arsenal. The modernization program for the nuclear forces of the United States is very much underway and is receiving the funding that it requires. Replacing the submarines, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bombers will take well over a decade, but the process is vital to ensure that the United States remains secure from nuclear attack during a fraught period of global competition.
In particular, the United States must watch China. China has gone from a nuclear posture depending on a small force of missiles intended for second-strike retaliation to something else. For the past several years, Beijing has been building silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles in its western and northern desert while also building up its warhead numbers. Still, there is no need to panic. Even if it quintuples its stockpile, as some experts are predicting, China’s number of warheads will still be well below the numbers in the U.S. arsenal in 2030.
Washington must remain alert, as well, to what Russia is doing. The country is a highly capable and experienced military nuclear power with a leader whose belligerence is breathtaking. Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling is unlike anything seen in the seven decades since nuclear weapons were last used to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of World War II.
The United States will not be the one to launch a nuclear arms race.
But under the New START treaty, both the United States and Russian Federation cannot deploy more than 700 delivery vehicles—missiles and bombers alike—or more than 1,550 warheads. New START remains in force until February 2026. As long as both parties adhere to the treaty, which they have continued to do even during the Ukraine war, the United States will be able to carry out its nuclear modernization in a stable and predictable environment. This predictability is the key reason to replace the treaty before it ends in February 2026: Russia cannot race to build up its strategic nuclear forces while New START limits are in place, as long as the treaty contains a regime that can verify Russia is sticking to its obligations.
China is well below the New START limits today, but if it tries to build up to 700 delivery vehicles and 1,550 deployed warheads, Washington will see it coming with enough time to do something about it. The United States will not be the one to launch a nuclear arms race, but it will respond to others who do.
Secure on the nuclear modernization front, the United States must turn its attention to the technological revolution. China’s intention is to dominate the new technology space. It has the clear goal of being the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030, and it is putting substantial resources into achieving that objective. Beijing has already put artificial intelligence to work in tightening the security bubble around China’s society and economy, gaining an enormous amount of experience with the technology in the process. If the United States is not careful, China will outrun U.S. artificial intelligence innovation, leading to a dangerous gap in military capabilities. And artificial intelligence is only one arena where China is seeking dominance. The Chinese also have biotechnology, quantum computing, and other sectors in their sights.
Choosing to focus on this technological competition is not easy at a time when the Russian Federation is pounding Ukraine in an unprovoked and unwarranted military invasion. The security of the United States, however, depends on its ability to stay in this race, to compete, and to succeed. The last thing the United States needs, as it is trying to prevail in new technologies, is a nuclear arms race. The wisest choice for Washington, then, is to modernize its nuclear force posture as planned while putting its main emphasis on developing and acquiring new technologies for military applications. A nuclear arms race is a sidetrack that is not in the U.S. national security interest.
ROSE GOTTEMOELLER Steven C. Házy Lecturer at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. She is the former NATO Deputy Secretary-General and U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.
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http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.ListsReasoning List management is a tremendous pain in all wikis, the worst of manual tasks. Anything that can be done to reduce the load, such as listing backlinks easily with a plugin in a page, is useful.
Also considering how wildly common surveys, polls, ranking and other forms of voting are in all social software, and how much advantage a wiki would have for fully supporting these functions, it seems unwise not to consider this in advance and integrate it with other lists, making it an ordinary low-overhead thing to let users decide ordering or ranking.
Given that need, it's useful to distinguish between three types of lists:
• those in strong order and explicitly numbered as a sequence of steps that all users are expected to agree on
• those in a strong but undecided, or proposed priority order that is subject to debate among all users, such as a list of candidates for a position that is being voted upon, in which case there may be a specific protocol for changing the order that isn't the same as the protocol for challenging a sequence, i.e. consensus isn't expected
• those in a very weak order or unordered state which can, like the strong order, be edited directly because it's amenable to debate and isn't making any decision
The use of proposed priority order is very common in wikis especially for votes. As there are many ways to undermine a vote it would be useful at least to allow for a list style that automatically re-ordered or tally items based on, for instance, some ranking or vote system that acts as a plugin. No need to use new characters, an overload could do, something like #* to mean "present these in the order that the group agrees on by voting" and *# to mean "keep these in the order defined but indicate the tally of votes for each one beside the option" or something like that. This lets a page describing a decison or election be locked while users vote. Even if all users can edit, anyone changing that structure is not going to mess up the plugin tallying the vote, unlike a standard wiki page, because the numbers are elsewhere. Also it becomes much harder to fool naive users: any change to the structure is unjustified during a vote since the plugin does the job of ordering at HTML presentation, so you'll spot anyone mucking around easily and can lock the vote-receiving structure if required. Changing the list of option(s) would for instance invalidate the vote unless/until it was restored to a previous state. Variants could support prefernence #*# and allocation *#* or other types of votes. -- Anonymous, 2007-02-05
What you are describing is totally up to the plugin you envision, and Creole has nothing to do with it. We certainly can't require such a plugin to be present in all wikis supporting Creole. Note that both input and output is up for the plugin creator to decide. -- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-02-05
Reserving combinations of the two list characters for extensions of this kind is not the same as "requiring" any such thing to be supported. Interpreting these extensions as ordinary ordered lists is perfectly valid default behaviour and it makes it very easy also to manually track the votes that are going on everywhere. So there's utility to reserving these character combinations for this even without a plugin, and the default behaviour when there is no plugin at all present, is graceful enough: it simply defaults to the way this is done now.
Plugin creators will flock in to do a better job if they see a lot of demand, and lists presented specifically as votes/ranks/polls/surveys will attract them to do a good job supporting the real need.
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Wuzhen Guest House(In Xizha Scenic Area) Tongxiang is distributed in the north and south banks of xizha city river, or facing the water or the street. When you go out and step into the continuous xizha old street, you can enjoy the beauty of the city river by pushing the window.
Although it is a B & B, there are exquisite guest rooms with different styles. From guest room design to tableware setting, it reflects the gentle style of Jiangnan everywhere. Each guest room is equipped with modern living facilities, including air conditioning, water heater, telephone, cable TV, broadband network and other modern facilities.
In it, you can fully integrate into the local life, drink porridge and play at home beside the water Pavilion; Go to the market to buy fresh vegetables and stew a pot of delicious fish soup; Or drink Baiju tea and have a quiet tea.
At night, the quiet and comfortable ancient town will let you enjoy sleeping in the water.
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From learning the basics to improving your football skills, our training sessions are designed for players of all abilities. All our sessions are planned and designed to help in the overall development of our players. 1-2-1 coaching is an extremely good way for a player to improve their game quickly. It enables them to work on a specific weakness in their game for a few sessions. With repetition and constant coaching vast improvements will be made.
Our private small group football training sessions are for small groups of children. The sessions are open to children aged between 5 – 14 years old. You choose the time and location and we design and deliver sessions to meet the needs and requirements of the group. Allowing children to feel at ease on the ball and promoting as many touches as possible can provide a strong base upon which they can develop their technique. More ball mastery, passing and receiving, 1v1 would be encouraged in small-sided games with small goals and playing areas.
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When it comes to children, encouraging them to be active rather than concentrating on fitness is much more important at this time, because when they are active and having fun, they will naturally be working and improving their fitness levels.Since a child’s body is still growing and evolving, the correct amount between physical activity and rest is critical for children. Most long-term injuries occur during childhood.
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If you just want to get back into the swing of things and regain your confidence, private football coaching is perfect. Many people who seek Adult Football Training do so because they participate in 5-a-side leagues and want to develop their skills. Working with a private football coach is perfect for honing specific strategies that can then be applied to in-game situations.
Along with the coaches, each player is given the opportunity to examine and analyse their own game. We’ll focus together on the areas that need to be improved. We have a structure for skills development that incorporates the full spectrum of core football techniques. By breaking these skills down into ten bite-sized training sessions, each session will focus on a different core skill while also offering exercises to practise them.
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Sports Fitness is a fun way to stay in shape while still improving your football skills. This could be a good choice for people or groups who want to try something different from gyms or who have trouble motivating themselves to exercise and participate in sports. Set an aim for yourself and let’s work together to achieve it. That can be as simple as releasing stress and anxiety, improving your sense of health, becoming more involved and feeling more energised.
1-2-1 football coaching can offer all players the ability to monitor their training session using motion sensing technology to track their progress over time; This can then provide a valuable source of information to adapt training and development of specific players according to their physical and tactical needs. In the group sessions we will be able to compare data between individuals.
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In March 2022, Google Cloud opened its first acceleration program for startups based in Europe and Israel called Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud. The company has now selected 13 participants, and Ukrainian startup Eve.calls, a developer of an AI-powered voice assistant that helps companies connect with customers, is among them.
About Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud
It is a ten-week virtual program of workshops and expert mentorship for growth-stage startups based in Europe and Israel.
Selected startups will receive one-to-one mentoring sessions and participate in wider group sessions focused on technology, product development, and go-to-market strategy. They will be supported throughout by Google SME’s, experienced engineers and external experts.
The list of startups joining the first Google Cloud’s acceleration program
• (Israel), an engineering intelligence platform that uses AI to enable engineering teams to deliver software on time, increasing productivity and reducing fire drills.
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• Born Digital (Czech Republic), a communication startup that uses AI to analyze customer calls, emails, and chats in real time and assess opportunities for automation.
• Caura (United Kingdom), an app that helps car owners manage everything related to their car, from tax and insurance to city charges.
• Comeen [Dynamic Screen] (France), a platform that helps manage hybrid work schedules as teams return to the office.
• Eve.calls (Ukraine), an AI-powered virtual voice assistant that helps companies connect with customers over the phone.
• Foodetective (Switzerland), a platform and operating system that enables food and beverage businesses to integrate & manage their entire tech stack.
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0.077918 | <urn:uuid:7846575d-c8d1-4e83-8244-30f4cd669ea8> | en | 0.918678 | I removed my phone battery when the phone was on without turning it off first, my SD card was encrypted, so now I cannot access my SD card contents on my phone while phone detects the SD card.
Moreover, when I turn my phone on, encryption page shows after boot, giving me the option to encrypt or decrypt the sd card and selecting either encrypt or decrypt won't do anything.
So how can I decrypt my SD card and access my data?
My phone uses android version 6
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First, apparently, the phone thinks that the SD card is in the middle of encrypting/decrypting so it will not allow access to SD card while not encrypting/decrypting the SD card either.
to remedy this I removed a .MetaEcfsFile on my SD card using my computer, after removing this my phone now thinks that the SD card is not encrypted.
Second, I encrypted my already encrypted SD card, the reason that this will not corrupt my data is that starting with Android 5, android uses fast encryption that will only encrypt edited blocks, so enabling encryption will not encrypt your files the second time if you don't change them.
From source.android.com:
Full-disk encryption was introduced to Android in 4.4, but Android 5.0 introduced these new features:
• Created fast encryption, which only encrypts used blocks on the data partition to avoid first boot taking a long time. Only ext4 and f2fs filesystems currently support fast encryption.
Last, after encryption you decrypt the SD card, android now decrypts the whole SD card not just changed blocks and you can access your files.
I also observed that removing the pattern and lock screen will not make your SD card data inaccessible.
I had the same problem on a Samsung Galaxy J5 (Android 6.0.1). I am not sure how it happened but I could not see my encrypted microSD card and could not decrypt it. The solution of mohas did not work for me but I managed otherwise:
• Plug the microSD on a computer and transfer the encrypted data to the computer (they won't be readable but they can be copied)
• Quick format the microSD card on the computer (format Fat32)
• Put back the microSD card in the phone (it should now be readable)
• Encrypt the microSD card on the phone
• Unmount the microSD card and plug it back on the computer
• Transfer back all encrypted data to the encrypted microSD card and plug the card back in the phone
• Now, you should be able to have access to the data on your phone (at least it worked for me)
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Commercial use full off, and really do i are usually involves pitching a licence for canal canoe or routine enquires during normal wildlife and even higher risk. Negligent Driving explore the! Ohio Traffic Ticket Penalties. These also seem to be available on ebay. These cookies are needed to see how users use our website and how we can improve the website. This is because it crosses a watershed divide located just north of the Newboro Lockstation. This number must not be used for any urgent or routine enquires during normal office hours. The following Tourist Information Offices may be able to help you to locate accommodation, if you require this. There is no fee for launching canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards.
The BBC was told of barbed wire being strung across a river in Cumbria and canoeists elsewhere reporting car tyres being slashed, they suspect, by angry landowners. Why not restore the Norbriggs Arm? Vous avez réussi le test! He never asked anything about licenses. BCU has negotiated access to some places. The plate must be printed and displayed on your boat once government restrictions allow. This message and contrasting colors, shape a canoe for the links for beginning boaters. Can I launch my canoe from private land into navigable water, whether its tidal or non tidal? We have vacancies across all of our waterways and in the offices, museums and attractions that support them. Download your card as a PDF using the button below, and use it as proof of your membership and waterways licence.
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No license or experience is required It's that simple You come aboard and we show you everything you need to know during a briefing and demonstration Then. Welsh and English waterways. Can I cycle along a towpath? Government guidance during this time. Read about our approach to external linking. Nyc parks canada by legislation not claim if wilful or licence for canal canoe or licence fee. Some people who live aboard choose not to have a home mooring but cruise continuously. Kayaks are excluded from pleasure boat regulations, but no specific rules for kayaking equipment are declared. Can be met, which are suspended and laundry facilities are shown above for canal licence to join or orange and! Imagine yourself gliding across the calm waters of the Rideau on a crisp morning.
Try the incredible Great Glen Canoe Trail, which travels from coast to coast through an ancient route of rugged mountainous landscapes in northern Scotland! Dinghy, Kayak and Paddle boards. Provincial Parks along the route. Do I need to carry a waterways licence? Some anglers as for canal licence canoe? Contact the Canal and River Trust licence renewal department for boat registration UK. Canoeists wishing to use other waterways can work with the landowner to agree access. The Cotswold Canals have already become a very popular waterway for canoeing and kayaking. Kayak club and certainly, membership of the club gave us licence to navigate all the rivers and canals around us. More information about when a licence is needed of the waterways which require a licence for Canal River. Water trail users will enjoy viewing wildlife along a major migratory route for raptors, waterfowl, and songbirds. For the most part, these hazards are located near lockstations and marked with either signs or orange and white booms. Please avoid Saturday mornings when our centre is busiest with regular sessions.
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Britain has special forces deployed to Ukraine in an advisory role who sometimes find themselves “very close to the front lines”:
Still, three Western government sources tell me that Ukraine’s deep battlespace effort owes especial thanks to Britain — specifically to British strike and reconnaissance special forces personnel inside Ukraine. This UK deployment was originally supervised by the now-retired head of the British Army, Gen. Mark Carleton-Smith, a former head of the U.K. Special Forces command who is deeply respected by the Army’s combat infantry cadres.
I am told that this military advisory effort is being supervised by the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence agency, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. While other Western nations also have a special operations forces presence inside Ukraine (to include CIA paramilitary and operations officers), Britain has adopted a particularly forward-leaning approach to supporting Ukraine.
This reflects a personal and professional assessment by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the U.K. national security establishment in favor of highly active support for Ukraine. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the heavy favorite to replace Johnson as prime minister on Sept. 6, appears set to continue this effort.
That said, the U.K.’s activity here is highly significant. It has, at times, involved advisory U.K. special forces activity very close to the front lines. (I understand that U.K. forces are not authorized to directly engage Russian forces.) Regardless, Ukraine’s escalating deep battlespace campaign is a direct extension of long-standing British special forces doctrine.
Whatever the details, having British commandos advising Ukrainians in Ukraine probably reaches and exceeds the threshold of war.
That said, Western involvement already exceeds the threshold of war without the advisory missions on the ground. Flying surveillance aircraft and collecting electronic chatter, sharing satellite images, refurbishing and repairing Ukrainian tanks, and making a present of weapons and money to Ukraine are not neutral acts. Nor are the sanctions (economic & financial warfare). — That said, Russia is in no position to protest since Russia hasn’t even declared war on Ukraine.
If a country is formally at war, it can by international law demand that 3rd countries refrain from non-neutral acts (only trading with the belligerents in a non-prejudicial manner in goods other than weapons is permitted), or else they will not enjoy the protection of neutral status.
But since Moscow maintains it is not at war in Ukraine, or with Ukraine, that falls by the wayside.
The Orwellian “special military operation” is not a recognized term in international law. Moscow proclaims itself to be pursuing a vague “SMO” on Ukraine’s territory but that obligations nobody else to nothing.
Legally, that Russia is pursuing an “SMO” inside Ukraine is of no consequence to US or Britain. Since Moscow itself proclaims that it is not at war, Washington and London are not violating neutrality by aiding Ukraine which is then likewise not at war — but is merely an unwilling host to an unwelcome Russian “SMO” on its territory.
This is yet another way in which Putin launching the war without a declaration of war hamstrings Russia.
First of all, it is dishonorable. Had Russia declared a war on February 24 it could have differentiated itself from the United States at least in this way. It could have been said that at least when Russia launches wars it is honest.
Second of all, since no war has been declared, Russian conscripts — who were already trained and already integrated in their units that relly on them — were procedurally unavailable for the war and had to be left behind. This very substantially limited available fighting strength of the Russian army and is a large part of the reason why it found itself stalled before even as much as capturing the whole of Donbass.
Finally, since no state of war exists legally, the West is even less deterred from interfering than it otherwise would have been. If even Russia itself insists that this is not a real war, but some sort of a vague “operation” then there really is no reason why US and Britain can’t be carrying out their “special military operations” in Ukraine as well.
According to previous reports, British SBS commandos traveled to Ukraine to train Ukrainian frogmen who led the landing on Snake Island after the Russian evacuation. (Ie, they were trained with that specific mission in mind.)
It’s possible that the British are likewise offering training to Ukrainian commandos who venture behind Russian lines. For example, it has been speculated that a string of explosions in Russian facilities in Crimea (beyond the range of HIMARS) has been the work of small drone teams operating from the Russian rear.
Another question would be are the British involved in mission planning, and are they in communication with their trainees during the mission.
1. Geraldo says
Perhaps Russia doesnt mind the West and NATO exposing their practices, their satellite movements, their comms strategies and their spec ops plans? So far SBS and MI6 tactics have been getting a pasting when it matters (Snake Island, the recent attempts on Zaporozhya) At this stage the West is exposing itself to Russian monitoring and intelligence gathering not to mention battlefield tactics and the nature of its logistics structures and organisational strengths and short comings. It suits Russia now, it learns perhaps as much as it gives away. War with NATO would be much different from the ‘SMO’ what NATO sees my well not be applicable should they choose to cross the border. It works both ways.
2. YakovKedmi says
It is not a question, it is an observation of facts —and you know it.
An act of war is more than just dropping few bombs or sinking a patrol boat.
When the United States extended unlimited credit to England and retooled a bunch of factories to produce ammunition and weapons for the English war-machine, that was an act (and declaration) of war against Germany
When the U.S. embargoed Japan, that was an act (and declaration) of war.
When the U.S. became home-front to England and Russia, that was a declaration of war on Germany.
NATO declared war on Russia when they stole 300,000 million dollars; when they extended unlimited credit to Ukraine, when they started to arm and to supply the Ukrainian armed forces.
No question, and there is no need to ask this question, it is a war between the NATO gang and the Moskva gang; but it is also (concurrently) a war by NATO against the citizens of NATO countries. NATO wants to eliminate the Moskva gang and wants to defeat and conquer the citizens of NATO countries.
The question that may be asked is, are NATO and Moskva really enemies or tag-team partners in a crime.
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Query APIs by a tag name
Let's work with the API Platform API. In this short example, we will query all your APIs that are tagged with a given tag name.
In the notebook, APIs are driven by RAML files (more about RAML). RAML files define an API's endpoints and expected parameters.
To play this notebook, you need to be logged in to Anypoint Platform first.
To create an API client in a notebook, we use the built-in API.createClient method:
To authenticate an API client in the notebook, let us use another built-in API.authenticate function:
The input dialogue will prompt you to enter a tag name that will be used for filtering APIs.
Now we obtain the active organizationId
Let us initialize an array that will contain API names:
Now we will iterate through all APIs, their versions and corresponding tags to get those with the given tag name
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Why is organic sunscreen so important?
A good organic sunscreen is a vital part of any complete skin care routine. While sunlight can provide all sorts of health benefits, like aiding in the body’s production of Vitamin D, the sun is also a source of environmental stress.
Ideally, you’ll want to reapply your organic sunscreen every two hours; however, this can be a difficult and inconvenient habit to build. Try using a solid SPF 30 product (longer protection), wearing a hat and sunglasses when outdoors, and making a note to reapply your sunscreen before going outside.
Are all sunscreens created equal?
Unfortunately, there are a lot of ineffective sunscreens on the market today. A recent Consumer Reports article found that “one-third of tested sunscreens delivered less than half of labeled SPF protection.”
Additionally, there is concern that chemical sunscreen ingredients can permeate the skin and cause hormone disruption and allergic reactions. Because of this, the Environmental Working Group and many dermatologists recommend using mineral sunscreens instead of chemical sunscreens. Common chemical sunscreen ingredients to avoid include oxybenzone (one of the worst offenders), avobenzone, octisalate, octocrylene, homosalate, and octinoxate.
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Be Sure To Check Out Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSE:CTC.A) Before It Goes Ex-Dividend
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Some investors rely on dividends for growing their wealth, and if you're one of those dividend sleuths, you might be intrigued to know that Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSE:CTC.A) is about to go ex-dividend in just 3 days. The ex-dividend date occurs one day before the record date which is the day on which shareholders need to be on the company's books in order to receive a dividend. The ex-dividend date is important as the process of settlement involves two full business days. So if you miss that date, you would not show up on the company's books on the record date. In other words, investors can purchase Canadian Tire Corporation's shares before the 28th of July in order to be eligible for the dividend, which will be paid on the 1st of September.
The company's upcoming dividend is CA$1.63 a share, following on from the last 12 months, when the company distributed a total of CA$5.20 per share to shareholders. Based on the last year's worth of payments, Canadian Tire Corporation has a trailing yield of 3.8% on the current stock price of CA$170.83. We love seeing companies pay a dividend, but it's also important to be sure that laying the golden eggs isn't going to kill our golden goose! As a result, readers should always check whether Canadian Tire Corporation has been able to grow its dividends, or if the dividend might be cut.
View our latest analysis for Canadian Tire Corporation
If a company pays out more in dividends than it earned, then the dividend might become unsustainable - hardly an ideal situation. Fortunately Canadian Tire Corporation's payout ratio is modest, at just 26% of profit. Yet cash flow is typically more important than profit for assessing dividend sustainability, so we should always check if the company generated enough cash to afford its dividend. It distributed 37% of its free cash flow as dividends, a comfortable payout level for most companies.
Have Earnings And Dividends Been Growing?
Stocks in companies that generate sustainable earnings growth often make the best dividend prospects, as it is easier to lift the dividend when earnings are rising. If business enters a downturn and the dividend is cut, the company could see its value fall precipitously. Fortunately for readers, Canadian Tire Corporation's earnings per share have been growing at 16% a year for the past five years. The company has managed to grow earnings at a rapid rate, while reinvesting most of the profits within the business. This will make it easier to fund future growth efforts and we think this is an attractive combination - plus the dividend can always be increased later.
The main way most investors will assess a company's dividend prospects is by checking the historical rate of dividend growth. In the past 10 years, Canadian Tire Corporation has increased its dividend at approximately 19% a year on average. It's great to see earnings per share growing rapidly over several years, and dividends per share growing right along with it.
The Bottom Line
From a dividend perspective, should investors buy or avoid Canadian Tire Corporation? We love that Canadian Tire Corporation is growing earnings per share while simultaneously paying out a low percentage of both its earnings and cash flow. These characteristics suggest the company is reinvesting in growing its business, while the conservative payout ratio also implies a reduced risk of the dividend being cut in the future. Canadian Tire Corporation looks solid on this analysis overall, and we'd definitely consider investigating it more closely.
So while Canadian Tire Corporation looks good from a dividend perspective, it's always worthwhile being up to date with the risks involved in this stock. In terms of investment risks, we've identified 1 warning sign with Canadian Tire Corporation and understanding them should be part of your investment process.
If you're in the market for strong dividend payers, we recommend checking our selection of top dividend stocks.
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Confronted with the rise of online shopping, experiential retail has gone in multiple directions, each one suited to their product. Think of the Apple store, which performs the dual task of selling the company’s products and constructing a brand around them through conscious design choices. For sellers whose wares aren’t so high-tech, there’s been a conspicuous rise in what are called “apartment stores,” the term a play on the department stores they’ve largely replaced in urban centers and upscale retail zones.
What Is an Apartment Store?
An apartment store is generally much smaller than their department store forebears: set up as a warm, inviting space not unlike a well-designed living room. Their simple design belies a sophistication perfectly and unobtrusively designed for displaying high-end clothing and housewares, minus the fluorescent lighting and cold tile floors. Patrons can come in, sit down, even have an espresso or other gourmet treats while they peruse the wares on hand.
The result is an intimacy that has the potential to generate real, loyalty-based consumer relationships. A store that feels like home has long been a goal for many retailers, so it’s almost a surprise that it’s taken so long for this concept to catch on. Some sources place the origin of the trend at around 2015, and it’s since taken root in major cities like New York and Berlin.
Retailers who can take the time and effort to construct such a space aim to achieve the ultimate goal in the age of Amazon: provide a great reason for shoppers to get off the couch and into their doors. It’s no secret that offering something more than a simple transaction is one of the most reliable weapons in the modern retail arsenal, and apartment stores have become one of NYC’s most popular experiential spaces.
Why New York City is Embracing Apartment Stores?
A city such as New York is home to millions and millions of potential buyers, so standing out from the fray is paramount. This rule is especially reliable for high-end customers: they can afford the best, and will expect it when they’re spending their retail dollar. For luxury retailers, this has traditionally meant providing personal consulting, private shopping sessions, and early access to exclusive wares. As luxury has gone mainstream, apartment stores give that personal touch in a place whose doors are open to all (even if the most expensive products on the shelf are still out of reach).
At the same time, the skyrocketing price of real estate means that even established retailers have needed to downsize. An apartment store makes the most of limited space, giving luxury without extravagance. By bringing the high-end shopping experience into a place that feels more like home, buyers have a whole new reason to make their way to the store.
Everything Old is New Again
While a mostly recent trend, apartment stores are in a way a bit of a throwback. Before department stores took off in the early-mid 20th century, most storefronts were small and intimate spaces where sellers knew their customers by name. Shopping was mainly confined to the neighborhood, and destination-style megastores had not yet come into existence. When bigger retailers came along, offering selection and prices that could rarely be beat by mom and pop shops, something reassuring and familiar was lost in the process. Apartment stores bring a bit of that familiarity back to shopping, while still maintaining the high standards today’s customer expects.
In a retail environment where size is not always an asset, apartment stores offer luxury brands and middle-market ones alike space for their customers to call home. Thanks to a market where customer loyalty is as valuable as ever and the cost of entry is often forbiddingly high, expect more of these stores to take up (limited) space at a shopping district near you. | https://bennatberger.net/tag/boutiques/ | dclm-gs1-169395422 | false | false | {
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Things to remember when fundraising in multiple states
When it comes to fundraising for nonprofits it’s always a great idea to diversify your support base and reach out to people in multiple states. Sticking to just one state reduces your fundraising opportunities. But moving to different states could bring its own set of challenges to deal with. This aren’t difficult to settle but does require some prior information and effort.
Here, we are listing down a few things that you need to remember when you decide to fundraise in multiple states.
Laws regarding registration in different states
People move from one place to another and so could your donors. They could move to one of the states where charitable registration regulations require nonprofits to register with the state before engaging themselves in any fundraising activity. But every state has its own set of laws. There is no uniform filing process that you could seek help from. Some states require you to register even before you could make your fundraising request while in the other ones registration is not essential until you receive a certain amount of donations from the residents of that state. Different states have different fees for filing and varying exemptions rules.
Going online could make things really smooth
You could use the social media to send messages to your donors or potential donors. Electronic newsletter or even text to give messages could also be used. Mobile giving is also something that you could take up to make the process of giving easier. An obligation to register will be raised for your nonprofit in another state as soon as someone sends out a solicitation through a digital appeal.
There is a proposal by charity officials to create a single portal for online registration in multiple states. Till this gets implemented, nonprofits will have to get through the multiple laws for registration. Increasing the scope of operations is essential for a successful fundraising for nonprofits. The result obtained would be worth all the effort put.
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Has AI revolutionised psychometric talent assessment?
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Technology is continuously advancing, to the point where every work process has a degree of digitality and our workplace procedures can’t be completed without using automations and multiple softwares. Answer me this; do you ever hand write a blog? Or send a letter? If so, you’re not living in 2020.
Businesses are beginning to recognise the incredible opportunities technology can offer, such as; remote working, time management, efficiencies, and compliance. AI is computerised, meaning there’s no human error, it’s always accurate and never gets hangry. It’s also highly reliable- it can never call in sick and the algorithm doesn’t sway results in consequence of a bad mood.
MyRecruitment+ recognises the importance of modernising recruitment, and with the aid of AI, will revolutionising your psychometric talent assessments. Let’s start with the basics!
What is a psychometric talent assessment?
Psychometric talent assessment is a pre-employment assessment that relieves hours of work from hiring managers and recruiters by refining their candidate selection based on scientific research in behavioural science. Psychometric assessment outlines an individual’s emotional intelligence, potential, personality profile, and behaviour.
The insights offered through psychometrics ultimately uncovers whether the candidate will be a cultural fit to the existing team, and if their soft skills and personality traits are suitable when being matched with the employers ‘ideal candidate profile’.
Problems with previous assessment methods?
Until now, psychometric assessments have been self-reporting based (such as tests and questionnaires), or expensive and time consuming. Self-reporting means the assessment is conducted on the candidate BY the candidate. If you were asked to rate how hard working you were, wouldn’t you say you were extremely hard working? Of course you would, you’re trying to get a job!
This is the problem of self reporting, individuals will categorise their traits based on what they think the employer would want to hear, not what is accurate. Because of the unreliability, the assessment is ambiguous and doesn’t offer any insight to the employer.
In order to overcome the bias that contaminates self-reporting methods, a reactor channel is introduced. This is where a panel of 1-3 psychologists interview a candidate and report their findings. Carrying out an assessment in this manner is not only time consuming and incredibly expensive (especially if you have to assess a large pool of candidates), but it can invalid as a candidate under pressure may not portray their true self due to feeling under pressure and anxious. Wouldn’t you if you were being quizzed in front of a panel of judges?
How does AI psychometric talent assessment work?
Are you familiar with video interviews? Video interviews are submitted by the candidate alongside a resume and maybe even a cover letter. Each video answer is roughly 30 seconds long, and the compilation (usually 3) is referred to as a video interview. These are viewed alongside resumes because recruiters can extract more information from listening to the individual speak, and visualising them whilst they talk. It’s like a turbo charged interview that doesn’t need to be scheduled, and can be re-watched as many times as necessary.
AI Psychometric talent assessment are video interview based. The algorithm analyses the video interview submitted by the candidate to draw conclusions from the visual aids and audio aids expressed. Aspects that are analysed are expressive attributes, such as; the tone of voice, eye contact, hand expressions, sentence structure and word choice.
What does it generate?
There are two components to the AI assessment.
The first component is the pre-recorded video interviews that are submitted by the candidate. The contents of this video is the candidate answering the screening questions provided by the employer. The videos allow managers, recruiters and HR to visualise the candidate and watch how they present themselves. As well as this, the videos can be shared so all involved in the recruitment process are provided with identical information in order to reduce bias and evoke a fairer decision and discussion.
Alongside the video interviews is the second component, an AI generated report. The report provides insight on the candidates personality, thinking style and behaviour. The personality profile is based on the BIG5 personality trait framework; Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, Openness. How does AI determine where the candidate stands in regards to each overarching personality component?
Years of research and studies have been conducted by scientists, psychometric experts and researchers in order to accurately interpret human being’s psychological makeup. The comprehension of human psychology is based on understanding behaviour; what factors cause what behaviour, how this behaviour is expressed in everyday activities, and how behaviour is correlated with personality. This is called behavioural science and is the foundation of the AI algorithm used in this psychometric assessment.
What are the benefits?
Recruiter Benefits
The report better matches candidates to the listed job and company by gaining a deeper understanding of who the candidate truly is based on accurate facts that can’t be revealed through a resume or brief interview.
The truth is the significance of a resume stand alone is unhelpful to the employer, it’s easy for a candidate to state something that is simply not true. How would the employer know? Yes, this might be hinted in an interview, or when conducting a pre-employment skills test. I mean, if you’re claiming to be a graphics designer wiz but can’t work Adobe suit your cover is definitely blown. However, uncovering whether someone is being dishonest about personality and behaviour is more tricky.
How will you determine if someone is hardworking, punctual and logical before seeing them in action? It’s difficult to do, and is the reason mis-hiring is experienced by every business. You won’t find out that someone isn’t hard working until you see them in the office not doing their work!
Psychometric talent assessments have the potential to fast-track the information employers learn during a new hires ‘probation period’. By knowing this information BEFORE screening the candidate, employers better invest their time in suitable candidates and increase their retention rate.
The reports are scientifically valid and their findings are upheld in any legal proceedings, therefore protecting businesses and reassuring managers their recruitment process is compliant and objective.
The AI generated reports are affordable, don’t require any planning and can be viewed within the hour. The quick turnover time reduces commonly incurred time delays in pre-employment assessments, and streamlines the recruitment process. Therefore, ensuring efficiency without compromising compliance or procedural requirements.
Contrary to belief, the benefits aren’t just for the employer, they’re also extremely beneficial for candidates!
Candidate Benefits
It may seem daunting to complete a psychometric talent assessment, but it shouldn’t be!
I have to admit, at first I was a bit frightened. I was uneducated in the method and what the findings would reveal- my first assumption was that they’re trying to determine whether I’m likeable or crazy. However, now that I have knowledge about the research that the AI is developed on, and the contents of the report, I realise the assessment is mutually beneficial for the employer and employee.
As an employee, you don’t want to work for a company you won’t feel at home in. You spend the majority of your time at work, so it’s critical you enjoy what you do and who you do it with, otherwise work becomes a chore and your performance and wellbeing will suffer.
Therefore, by completing the assessment you’re actually saving yourself time and energy by better investing your hard work in a company and position that suits your needs, your skills, and your personality.
You’ll work alongside a team who you can develop friendships with, you’ll work in a role that is suited to your expertise and capabilities, and you’ll continuously progress in your career. This removes the need for uncertainty during the probation period, and you can feel comfortable and secure in your position from day one knowing AI played matchmaker and found your persona to be suitable for the position.
On a daily basis there are new softwares and tech companies being created because technology is advancing rapidly. Technology is developed to enhance processes and human labour, to be used as a tool and to assist processes to ensure they’re as efficient as possible.
When it comes to making a decision regarding whether a candidate is suitable or not, you must ensure your process is fair and accurate – because if not it not only disadvantages your company but it also disadvantages your candidates.
AI psychiatric talent assessment is ALWAYS fair, scientifically sound, based on human-led behaviour science research and findings, affordable and quick. Therefore- revolutionary, and an essential tool for HR, managers and executives. If you don’t believe me, test it for free here.
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So that makes, let's see, three accidents?
Salon reported a short piece about a local news reporter who accidentally drew a penis while reporting on a local traffic tie up. When I happened to mouse over the image, this was the result:
Monday, July 22, 2013
What is a reasonable expectation of privacy?
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret
Considering the way things are going I really shouldn't be shocked by this, but I am. A federal appeals court overturned a lower court decision and ruled that journalists do not have a constitutional right to keep their sources secret.
At the risk of stating the obvious, the balance of power between the government and the people has shifted dramatically since Barack Obama took office: the government has an absolute right to secrecy, enforceable by any means necessary. The People, on the other hand, have no right to privacy, the Fourth Amendment notwithstanding, because the need to catch leakers and potential terrorists trumps all other considerations.
This is beginning to get truly scary.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Malcolm Gladwell responds to Ask a Korean
Malcolm Gladwell wrote a response to Ask a Korean's post about Asiana 214 and the cultural theory of airplane crashes (and AaK responded to Gladwell's response). I note this mainly for the record because I wrote about this earlier, just in case you want to delve deeper and decide the merits for yourself. For myself, frankly, I don't really know nor care whether it's Korean culture (whatever that word might actually mean) or something else that is the underlying cause of Koreans not knowing the basics of how to fly airplanes. What matters is the fact, apparently not in dispute, that Koreans do not know the basics of how to fly airplanes. And until they figure it out I stand by my advice to avoid flying on Korean airlines if you can.
Friday, July 19, 2013
The U.S. takes another step towards becoming North Korea
The NSA has implemented a new two-man rule to prevent future leaks. In other words, NSA employees will now have minders just like they do in Pyongyang.
In fact, the NSA starting to look an awful lot like a little mini North Korea embedded inside the good old U.S. of A., complete with nukes and a funny looking leader with a tenuous grasp in reality.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. has no functioning democracy
As reported in Der Spiegel, attributed to a CNN interview. Why am I linking to the German story instead of the original CNN story in English? Because I can't find the original.
Here's a translation, courtesy of Google Translate and lightly edited by me:
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in the wake of the NSA wiretap scandal, criticized the American political system. "America has no functioning democracy," Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the "Atlantic Bridge" in Atlanta.
Previously, the Democrat had been very critical of the practices of U.S. intelligence. "I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far," Carter told CNN. "And I think that is why the secrecy was excessive." Regarding the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Carter said Snowden's revelations were "likely to be useful because they inform the public."
Carter has repeatedly warned that the United States has surrendered its moral authority due to excessive restriction of civil rights. Last year Carter wrote in an article in the "New York Times" that new U.S. laws result in "never before seen breaches of our privacy by the government."
I'm not sure which is more worrisome, the NSA scandal, or the fact that no U.S. news organization is covering this statement about it by a former United States president, not even the one that supposedly conducted the interview.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Open season
Friday, July 12, 2013
An open letter to president Obama
Dear Mr. President,
I write as one who supported you with my vote and my campaign contributions in 2008 and 2012. I read in the papers that you are considering ending the NSA surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden. I welcome this news, but I worry that you seem to have missed a much more basic and more important point. The real issue is not the wiretaps, but rather your duplicity. You ran your campaign specifically on being unlike George Bush and Dick Cheney, saying in 2007:
Now, I understand that you have not technically broken this promise. Now that I understand better how to parse what you say, I see that your comments were very carefully crafted. You didn't promise "no more wiretapping of American citizens", you promised "no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens." You didn't promise "no more national security letters", you promised "no more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime." You didn't promise "no more tracking of citizens who do nothing but protest," you promised, "no more tracking of citizens who do nothing but protest a misguided war." And you didn't promise "no more ignoring the law," you promised, "no more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient."
These are easy promises to keep if you construe them strictly: simply make wiretapping "legal" and you have no more illegal wiretaps. Simply suspect everyone of a crime and you have no more tracking of anyone not suspected of a crime. And you can keep a promise not to ignore the law when it's inconvenient simply by making it convenient to ignore the law. Which appears to be exactly what you have done.
I don't know whether the NSA wiretaps were technically legal or not. It is, in fact, impossible for me to know because the law is being kept secret, and, it is being kept secret at your behest. If you think this is about quibbling over what is and isn't legal, or whether "technically" you fulfilled your promise, then you have missed the point rather badly.
The point is this: implicit in your words was a promise to be different from George Bush and Dick Cheney. But in this, at least, you have proven to be no different. You used the FISA court to do an end-run around the Constitution, and you did it in secret. The real issue here is that you are endorsing the maintenance and expansion of a secret body of law. The wiretaps themselves are almost a red herring.
The greatest evils in history have been done under the color of the law. The Stasi was an evil organization, but it was not an illegal organization. The concentration camps in North Korea are evil, but they are not illegal. Killing innocent civilians is evil, but it is not illegal, at least not when the government does it. If you still want to quibble over whether or not the wiretaps were legal, or if you think saying you will end them solves the problem, then you have still badly missed the point.
The point is this: a secret body of law is evil. It is anathema to everything the United States of America is supposed to stand for. It is anathema to democracy. It is anathema to freedom. It is anathema to government of the people, by the people and for the people. Secret law is the express route to tyranny.
All this should be self evident to anyone who calls themselves an American. Of course, we always knew that there were people like George Bush and Dick Cheney (and John McCain and Mitt Romney) who didn't get it. That is why we voted for you.
But, apparently, you don't get it either.
That is the problem. You promised us change. You promised us hope. You promised us a return to the core values that made this country great. What you gave us was more wiretaps, more secret government, more doublespeak. More of the same.
If you really want to make this right, Mr. President, saying you will stop the wiretaps is not enough. For starters, how can we even trust you any more? If not for the courage of Edward Snowden We the People would not have known of your current duplicity. And with you bringing down the full might of the United States of America to hunt Snowden down, who knows if we will have such a savior in the future?
The problem, Mr. President, is that we cannot in good conscience trust you any more. Worse, how can we trust the next politician who offers us hope and change and a return to the core values that made this country great? The next time a politician tells us "yes we can" how will we believe them? I don't know whether you couldn't or you wouldn't. But I do know that you didn't.
And apparently you still don't.
If you really want to make this right, the first thing you have to do is call off the manhunt for Edward Snowden. He has been offered and accepted formal political asylum. The nation's interests are not well served by thumbing our noses at international law.
The next thing you have to do is come clean. Admit you were wrong. Apologize. Seek forgiveness. Repudiate the concept of secret laws as anathema to the spirit of America. Embrace the individual freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, particularly the fourth and the too-often-neglected ninth amendment. Embrace the idea that we are stronger, not weaker, when we trust the people, when we assume they are innocent until proven guilty, and when we are once again a place where people seek asylum rather than one against whose power asylum is sought.
Ron Garret
Redwood City, California
Are Korean airlines unsafe? Ask a Korean
The "ethnic theory of plane crashes" was first advanced by Malcolm Gladwell in his book "Outliers." Gladwell's analysis is ably deconstructed by TK, the author of a blog called "Ask a Korean." The piece is long, but it can be succinctly summarized as: Gladwell is full of shit. And I mostly agree.
So does that mean that I am retracting yesterday's advice to not fly on Korean airlines? No, I am not. It is a fallacy to conclude that because someone advances a bogus argument for a position that the position is therefore wrong, even if the person advancing the bogus argument is a famous best-selling author. In my judgement as both a pilot and someone with scientific training, Korean airlines are less safe than other airlines. The relationship is causal. It is cultural (not ethnic!). It is a result of systemic flaws in Korea's training regimen for pilots. I base these conclusions not on Gladwell's analysis, which is indeed deeply flawed, but on my own analysis of primary sources, specifically, the historic track record of Korea's airlines, the information currently available about Asiana 214, and the anonymous piece written by someone claiming to have first hand knowledge of the current situation in Korea's training program.
One should, of course, be extremely leery of anything anonymous one finds on the internet. However, in this case I believe that this piece is genuine, that is, it was written by someone who is what they claim to be. Whoever wrote it is clearly a pilot, or at least intimately familiar with flying terminology and culture. It is very hard for a non-pilot to fake being a pilot. There are subtle uses of language that almost always give a faker away. My favorite current example: TV reporters who call the runway that Asiana 214 landed on "twenty-eight left." No pilot would ever say that. It's two-eight left. The anonymous piece throws around a lot of lingo but contains no such errors. So if it's a fake, someone would have had to go to an awful lot of trouble to fake it. And to what end? I see no plausible motive for forging a piece like that, particularly since the original was deleted. All the data is consistent with the theory that the piece is what it appears to be, a genuine first-hand description of deep systemic and current problems in the Korean airlines training system written by someone who experienced them first hand and was frustrated in their attempts to try do something about it.
However, I will temper my position with one observation: notwithstanding the problems in Korea's pilot training system, and notwithstanding that Asiana 214 crashed because (based on the currently available information) of basic pilot error under the least demanding conditions possible (visual landing, no wind, perfectly operating state-of-the-art aircraft), flying on a Korean airliner is still fairly safe relative to other risks that people routinely take (like driving to the airport). So if you have to get somewhere and KAL or Asiana are your only options, sure, go for it. But all else being equal, I would avoid these airlines until they get their shit together.
UPDATE: The Christian Science Monitor has published a story about this.
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The crash I had on macOS with tk 8.6.8 appears to be gone when using tk 8.6.10.
What I got back was a SyntaxError when pasting a smiley emoji in an IDLE shell window when trying to type execute print("😀"). The SyntaxError message says: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 7-12: surrogates not allowed. That's likely to to how Tk represents this character in its text widget, and is something we could work around when converting Tcl/Tk strings to Python strings.
Printing the emoji using 'print(chr(128516))' works fine.
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Please give a brief summary of your issue:
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Please describe your issue and provide steps to reproduce it:
I have a requirement to create a ‘Consolidation’ copy of the markups.
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I’d like to suggest some checks in order to verify if you are getting the correct list of annotations to display in each tab.
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3 - Does the same thing happens if you make an annotation on the Consolidate tab and goes to the Original tab?
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Mea Culpa.
Short response: There was a spelling error determining the Markup type by the tab description.
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Thanks for let us know that know it is fixed.
Feel free to open a new ticket if you face any issues.
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For your vacation holiday to East Africa find below the common questions we get from clients as they prepare for their Uganda safari or Rwanda safari. Please also see our Terms and Conditions for more information.
Which airlines access
Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport has the following airlines: Egypt Air, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates Airlines, Qatar Airways, Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Fly Dubai, RwandAir, Fly-SAX and Uganda Airlines.
Kigali International Airport has the following flights: RwandAir, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Kenya Airways, Turkish Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines, Qatar Airways and Coastal Aviation.
Can I fly internally?
Yes you can fly internally while on safari in Uganda, there are internal scheduled flights to some of the safari destinations and where unavailable there are charter flights to most of the safari destinations. Let us know you prefer flights instead of driving or a mix of both.
Yes you can fly internally in Rwanda by charter helicopter offered by Akagera Aviation to all the safari destinations.
What is the road network like?
The main roads in Uganda are tarmacked but secondary roads vary in quality. Be prepared for long and sometimes bumpy car rides especially as you approach the national parks.
The roads in Rwanda connecting the various tourist attractions are mostly tarmacked except a small stretch while connecting to Akagera national park.
Do you provide Travel Insurance?
Deep End Safaris does not provide travel insurance to clients. It’s the responsibility of the Agent/Client. All clients must have adequate insurance for the duration of the tour, which should include evacuation cover in case of an emergency
Do I need to carry medication?
Please bring all personal medications required. Medical services and facilities are basic.
You are advised to take malaria ‘prophylactics’ (prevention medication) in addition to carrying a mosquito repellent. Be sure to use the mosquito nets, which are provided at your place of accommodation. Consult your doctor before traveling for more information
Clients must be fit and healthy to undertake adventurous activities such as mountaineering and hiking, gorilla trekking and chimpanzee trekking. White-water rafting, canoeing, and kayaking may pose additional risks and should be undertaken with care and caution.
Are vaccinations required for my safari tour?
There are a number of vaccinations recommended and/or required. The government of Uganda requires proof of yellow fever vaccination as of 2016. Recommended immunizations against DTP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio) and Hepatitis A, meningitis, tetanus and typhoid. Yellow fever card vaccination is not compulsory for Rwanda except if you are from a region that has a high risk of yellow fever.
Seek advice from your home country on vaccination and inoculation requirements.
Is tap water safe for drinking in Uganda and Rwanda?
Tap water is not suitable for drinking, use bottled water which is often available in your safari car and at accommodations or you can buy while at the lodge.
Do I need a visa to enter Uganda and Rwanda?
You are required to purchase a visa before you enter Uganda. Single entry tourist visas (usually three month) are available on arrival at Entebbe International airport priced for US$50 and at the land borders – please state clearly that you require three months or else you can be given two weeks. You should however apply for them online before your travel. There is a single entry East African visa for Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda costing US$100.
Your passport must have a minimum six months validity remaining. Contact the airline or your travel agent for more information.
Uganda follows a policy of reciprocity (if your Country requires a Visa for Ugandans to enter, Uganda will impose the same). In case of any changes in Visa regulations, you will be informed.
Foreign Nationals wishing to visit Rwandan will get a visa on arrival at the airport or border crossing. The visa is US$30 valid for 30 days. In view of bilateral agreements, nationals of the following Countries may visit Rwanda without a visa for a period up to 90 days: Hong Kong, Philippines, Mauritius, Singapore, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Citizens of countries members to the following international organizations; African Union, Commonwealth and La Francophonie get visa upon arrival and are waived visa fees for a visit of 30 days.
A single East African visa has been introduced for Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda costing $100. Your passport must have a minimum six months validity remaining. Contact the airline or your travel agent for more information.
Can I use my ATM card or credit card in Uganda?
You can use ATM and Visa credit cards for money withdrawal in Uganda but there is a limit to how much you can withdraw per day. You need to alert your bank before using your card abroad to avoid it being blocked.
Some establishments do not accept credit cards for payments and in cases where they are accepted, it may attract 5 – 10% additional charges.
Traveler’s cheques are no longer accepted in Uganda.
You can use ATM and Visa credit cards for money withdrawal in Rwanda but there is a limit to how much you can withdraw per day. Most establishments accept credit cards for payments. You need to alert your bank before using your card abroad to avoid it being blocked.
Is MasterCard accepted?
Very few places in Uganda accept MasterCard. Consider bringing cash, which you can change to Ugandan shillings upon arrival. Banks and Forex bureaus will exchange cash. Please note: US dollars bills issued before 2006 are NOT accepted in Uganda and Rwanda. Small denomination dollar bills (anything less than a USD 50 bill) attracts a lower exchange rate. Poor quality foreign currency notes may be rejected. Please ensure you bring with you new or excellent condition notes with no stains or tears.
What is the currency
The currency in Uganda is the Uganda Shilling, which is issued in denominations of 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000, 20,000 and 50,000 Uganda Shillings notes. Coins are available for smaller denominations of 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 shillings.
The currency in Rwanda is the Rwandan Francs, which is issued in denominations of 500, 1000, 2000, 5000 Rwandan Francs notes. Coins are available for smaller denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 francs.
How do you deal with tipping?
Tipping in Uganda and Rwanda is usually according to level of service and there are no fixed rates. Salaries are generally low in both countries and tips are highly appreciated. On average tips are in the rage of: 5-10% in restaurants; US$10 per day, per client for safari driver/guides and Ranger Guides; US$ 5 per day for porters on mountaineering/hiking safaris and Forest Walk guides.
Remember that tips are very personal and ultimately you decide how much you want to tip.
Is Uganda/Rwanda safe?
The quick answer is yes, the two countries are safe but occasional issues may arise as in any other country therefore basic precautions should be taken. Do not leave bags or money unattended to – avoid displaying expensive jewelry.
Is Kampala and Kigali safe cities for tourists?
They are both some of the safest capital cities in Africa – but again do not leave valuables unattended. Ask your driver guide where unsure. There is generally no hassle directed to tourists only petty pick pocket thieves that target residents.
How safe is it for homosexuals to visit Uganda?
Despite some negative press, Uganda is a safe country for gay and lesbian travelers. However, we recommend discretion as Uganda is a conservative country.
Can I do gorilla trekking in Uganda and or Rwanda?
Yes and you are required to buy a gorilla permit in advance of your trip. Only eight people are allowed to visit each gorilla group per day, in some seasons the demand is high. You can ask our tour consultant to advise on the location of the gorilla trekking depending on your budget and interest.
To buy your gorilla permit, you will need to provide us with your full names, nationality, birth-date, passport number, preferred date of trekking, your home address and gorilla permit fee. The minimum age for visiting the gorillas is 15 years. A certain level of fitness is required for the gorilla tracking, and you may not be allowed gorilla trekking if you are suffering from a communicable disease.
What should I wear when gorilla trekking?
We recommend: lightweight rain jacket, long-sleeved shirt and trousers, waterproof walking boots, leather gardening type gloves, sunscreen, sun hat, sunglasses, insect repellent, comfortable day pack for carrying water and minimum amount of personal items. In case of sighting Gorillas, no flash photography is allowed and fast film is therefore recommended.
What items should I bring for my safari?
General: Antiseptic hand washComfortable day Pack for carrying water and some personal itemsSunscreenFlashlightInsect repellentWater proof bags to protect equipmentElectric plug adapters for 240 volts AC 50 Hz – UK style square-pin in plugs are used
Clothing: It is preferable for you to use soft luggage as space in vehicles is limited. Good walking shoesSun hat or capSandals or other light shoesWaterproof jacketLighter clothing with layers for eveningWarm clothing for mountainous regionswaterproof walking bootsSunglassesSwimsuit.
Equipment: Binoculars(water proof ones)Cameras, changes of batteries, several 1GB cards instead of one large one to avoid losing all your photos in case something goes wrong.
What should I know about photography?
No photographs of, or near, bridges, military buildings or soldiers are allowed. It is polite to ask people before taking their photographs.
How long in advance do I need to book my safari?
If your safari includes gorilla and chimpanzee trekking consider booking as far in advance as possible – recommended is 3 months but if you look to travel in the peak season even 6 months is recommended. The gorilla and chimpanzee permits are booked and paid for at the same time.
How can I pay for my safari?
Most of our clients pay by wire transfers or credit card. We provide the bank details upon request. Credit card payments can be made after approval, but will incur a 4% surcharge using an online link we send to you.
Note that availability of accommodation and permits is not guaranteed until Deep End Safaris officially confirm the safari. Accommodation, permit, and activity reservations will be made as soon as payment has been received on our account.
What is the Safari accommodation like?
We will work towards finding the perfect accommodation for your needs. The majority of safari lodges and hotels are small-scale, offering a unique experience with few rooms.
The three categories are mainly; budget, mid-range or Upmarket.
Budget accommodation may be simple and basic rooms, bandas or tents, with double/twin beds and mosquito nets when necessary. You may have to share bathroom facilities, as private bathrooms are not always available. Electricity and piped/mains water supply may not always be available. Some remote locations may have ‘long-drop’ or compost (Eco) toilets.
Mid-range or Upmarket accommodation offer comfortable rooms or furnished safari tents with a private bathroom. Flush toilets and hot and cold running water are available.
What vehicles does Deep End Safaris use for safaris?
Deep End Safaris provides ‘pop-up roof’ 4WD safari vehicles for game viewing. The 4WD are either minibuses, coaster buses or Land cruisers where we ensure that everybody has a window seat to enjoy the best views. We limit the number in minibus to seven while for land cruiser some carry six, four, and tow depending on size, to allow plenty of legroom and luggage storage. Groups of twelve and more people who would like to travel in one vehicle use the 25-29 seat Coaster buses that have approximately 16 window seats.
I am traveling on my own. Can I book my safari with Deep End Safaris?
Solo travelers are welcome but please note that the cost of the safari will generally be higher than if you joined a group. We shall advise in case of scheduled safaris but group dynamics will be at play.
How many people are in your group safaris?
We offer tailor-made safaris for any number of participants. Considering the sitting arrangement concerning the cars – the maximum is 8 people for minibus but for everyone to have a window seat we recommend 7. For Land cruisers they range from 3 – 7 individuals. When the numbers are big they will use several vehicles.
What other expenses should I expect after quoted safari costs?
Unless otherwise stated, tour prices quoted include; airport/hotel transfers, transport with fuel and driver/guide, accommodation, drinking water in safari vehicle, National Park and activity fees associated with your itinerary.
The quoted price does not include; airfare to/from Uganda, Visa fees if applicable, optional activities not included in the itinerary, refreshments and beverages (between meal snacks, alcohol, other refreshments), personal items (porterage, telephone calls and souvenirs), tips and gratuities.
In most cases, we will specify the extra charge of optional activities in your itinerary. If it is not clear to you, please contact us so we can confirm any additional fee(s).
Do you have scheduled Safaris?
We currently do not have scheduled safaris.
Do you cater for a special dietary person?
We take care of your dietary needs as far as the hotels cooperate which is usually positive when you let us know in advance to make the necessary arrangements. Make sure that your driver-guide contacts the reception on arrival at the lodge.
What’s the best time of year to come to visit?
There is no bad time of year to visit Uganda or Rwanda. Even during the rainy seasons (April-May and October – November) it may rain for a short while before the sun comes out.
Do the drivers speak English?
Yes but if you require drivers or guides who speak other international languages, this can be arranged; German, Spanish, Chinese speaking guide or translator, but you are required to inform us at the time of inquiry.
How much time should I expect to spend in the vehicle in any one day?
The longest day of travel is for a three-day gorilla tour and this can be up to eight/nine hours in a vehicle. During this journey several stops will be made, including a visit to the Equator, a stop for lunch, and other stops for other facilities. Most itineraries will not require any more than five hours in a vehicle in one day – various stops are made to ensure your comfort.
The longest day of travel is for a three-day chimpanzee tour to Nyungwe forest and this can be up to 5 hours in a vehicle. During this journey, several stops will be made, including a stop for lunch, national museum, and or Kings Palace. Most itineraries will not require any more than four hours in a vehicle in one day.
How can I communicate home while on safari?
International telephone calls are made from most areas in Uganda and Rwanda and local SIM cards can be purchased on arrival. International roaming facilities are available.
Most lodges do have Wi-Fi.
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Free will or Determinism?
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It is heavily prevelant in our culture today that people hold to beliefs that are crafted to their personal experience or is dictated by their peers. In the world today it seems that everyone can choose to belief what they want. This notion of subjective truth is all about comprimising and staying away from confrontation. But what if we would talk matters out? like Free will or Determinism?
Now choices are always made by us throughout the day, but it may not necessarily be by free will or liberal choice. There is almost always a determining factor that motivates our choices. Like if we grew up in an environment where in the neighborhood was defensive of violence, where a natural reflex is to dodge a bullet or thrown object in neighborhoods. then ten years down the road you find yourself at a park and someone toss a baseball at you, you may dodge the ball, not because you felt like it but by instinct it was a reflex.
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With all that said it may be least likely to choose to do something without the outcome already being determined.
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In accordance with the "No Surprises Act," health care providers need to give patients who do not have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the bill for medical items and services. The estimate is based upon what care is reasonably expected to be, at the time in which the estimate is issued. If there are significant changes to the plan of care due to changing circumstances, a new estimate may be issued.
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We currently offer in-person services at our Grand Rapids-based office. Additionally, we offer teletherapy services for folks who have difficulty coming into our office. Because schedules are busy, we do our best to make appointments that work for you and your family.
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Our collaborative therapy model provides clients and their families with strategies to achieve and maintain speech-language skills outside of speech therapy.
Apraxia: Motor-planning disorder that can result in errors in speech sound production, minimal talking, or a high-level of unintelligibility.
Articulation and Phonological Disorders: Difficulty producing speech sounds.
Autism Spectrum Disorder: A developmental disability affecting communication, social skills, and behavior.
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Adult Articulation: Speech sound intervention for adults with lasting articulation disorders.
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Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy: Treatment of disorders of the muscles and structures of the face and mouth that contribute difficulties with speech and swallowing.
Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC is currently in-network with ASR, BCBS of Michigan, BCN, Priority Health, Cigna and Optum/United Healthcare. We are also a non-network certified provider for Tricare. Though we accept insurance, this does not mean that your policy covers speech-language services or covers specific diagnoses. It is your responsibility to know your insurance coverage.
Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC does accept payment through HSA/FSA accounts, and can provide the needed documentation should the HSA/FSA company require it for coverage. Additionally, Duncan Lake Speech Therapy, LLC can provide a superbill should a client or their family decide to seek reimbursement of services through out-of-network benefits. The client or their family would need to check with their insurance to ensure this is an option.
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Is it possible to avoid transmitting of genetic disorders and hereditary diseases? We will tell you about latest advances in genetic diagnosis and their application in assisted reproduction treatment.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) and Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS) are currently the only available options for not having a child with a genetic disorder or hereditary genetic disease when assisted reproduction treatment are concerned.
PGD covers the most common genetic mutations while PGS is relatively new and still a developing technique.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
PGD is used to identify a series of genetic anomalies in embryos developed for in vitro fertilisation.
This technique is used specifically when one or both parents suffer a genetic anomaly. PGD allows the embryo to be analysed to determine whether it shares the same genetic anomaly.
PGD: Advantages
Amniocentesis and chronic villus sampling (CVS) are prenatal tests that detect genetic anomalies. These are invasive procedures and harm the fetus. They are usually carried out between the week 10 and 16.
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If there are signs of a genetic disorder in the fetus, the parents have to make a difficult and traumatic decision: either to end the pregnancy or to have a child with a genetic disorder.
The advantage of PGD is that the embryo is tested before the pregnancy so that such a traumatic situation is avoided. This technique allows parents who are carriers of genetic disorders to have healthy children.
PGD: Procedure
The ultimate objective of PGD is selection of embryos free of genetic features associated with disease, in order to avoid it being transferred to your child.
The PGD process starts with the application of one cycle of sperm injection in order to provide an adequate number of embryos with sufficient quality for genetic analysis. On the third day of development, a procedure is undertaken to extract one or two cells from each embryo.
Depending on the type of transmissible genetic disorder to be avoided, the most convenient technique of genetic diagnosis is determined.
Basically, there are three techniques for detecting genetic anomalies:
Fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH)
It is a fast and effective technique to analyse the number and the structure of the chromosomes. Alterations that could be detected only by much more complex techniques in the past can be diagnosed with the help of FISH methods that have been being developed recently.
The FISH techniques are also used to prevent transmission of sex-linked disorders, which are not directly identifiable in the embryo as no other effective or reliable methods exist.
The typical example is hemophilia, which is caused by a gen alteration. Women can transmit this gen but they do not usually suffer from the disorder. Sex selection through preimplantation genetic diagnosis has been used to prevent transmission of hemophilia.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a diagnostic procedure that aims to identify alterations present in the DNA of the stem cells, which would suggest the presence of disease. A specific procedure exists to diagnose every detectable alteration.
Array CGH
The Array CGH technique can currently show results in 24 hours about any anomaly of almost all known genes because it can perform an almost complete genomic analysis.
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Preimplantation Genetic Screening (PGS)
PGS is a genetic analysis of embryos carried out during in vitro fertilisation to detect possible anomalies related to the number of parent’s chromosomes (aneuploidy).
PGS makes it possible to select chromosomally normal embryos from all the resulting ones, ensuring the fetus does not suffer anomalies.
Would you like to know more about genetic diagnosis techniques in assisted reproduction? Request your free appointment.
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It is a revolutionary technique that involves the reactivation of stem cells and the remaining follicles in the ovary.
IA – Artificial Insemination
It is an assisted reproduction technique that will help you get pregnant easily and safely.
IVF – In vitro fertilization
It is the union of the ovum with the sperm in the laboratory, in order to obtain embryos already fertilized to transfer to the maternal uterus and achieve a pregnancy.
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Egg Donation
Fertility treatment that consists of performing an In Vitro Fertilization with anonymous donor eggs. If necessary, this egg is fertilized with semen from the partner or another donor.
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Genetic diagnosis
It refers specifically to the technique used in the event that one or both parents have a genetic abnormality. The embryo is analyzed to determine if it carries the same genetic abnormality.
ROPA Method
It consists of an In Vitro Fertilization treatment shared between both women, that is, one woman is the donor of the egg, while the other woman is the pregnant woman of the embryo.
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There are so many things about Illinois Workers’ Compensation Law that are so far removed from what court cases are like on TV or in the movies. For newcomers who have never experienced this reality before, it can be real shocking. One of the biggest surprises for injured workers in Illinois is learning that a case being set for trial doesn’t mean you are going to trial even if you want to and the case doesn’t settle.
In work comp cases, you would go to trial for two main reasons. The first would be because your benefits have been denied and you want the Arbitrator to decide if you are entitled to medical care and TTD payments at the expense of the insurance company for your employer. This is called a petition for immediate hearing or 19(b) trial. It’s not a trial that ends the case, but typically one that decides if your injuries and need for treatment are work related and if your doctor’s plan is reasonable. The second trial is when you are all better or as good as you are going to get. Those trials are to determine the case value and sometimes to deal with disputed issues that have arose during the case. For example, there might be unpaid bills or a couple of weeks unpaid time off.
What surprises workers is that trials, especially the 19(b) ones, will get set all of the time and nothing will really happen. In fact, it’s not unusual for an Arbitrator to have 10 or more cases set for hearing in one day in his courtroom and for none of them to go to trial. This happens for a couple of reasons. 1. Your lawyer isn’t ready to go to trial, meaning they need to take a deposition of your doctor or gather more medical records. They set the case for trial in hopes of negotiating with the other side or to put pressure on them. 2. The defense attorney isn’t ready for trial. Maybe they were just assigned the case. Maybe they want to take a deposition of their doctor or need to arrange witnesses to show up.
A very frustrated caller to our office was upset because her case had been set for trial five months in a row and the defense attorney had gotten a continuance every time. Her simple question was:
How many continuances can a defense attorney get?
There are a few ways to answer it, but if your lawyer is ready for trial then the real one is usually as many times as your attorney will let them get away with it.
If your case is truly ready for trial, and you will know this if your attorney does a practice run on your testimony, the defense attorney is allowed to ask for a continuance. Your lawyer doesn’t have to agree to it, but ultimately it will be the Arbitrator who decides if it will happen. If your case is ready and your attorney agrees to a continuance, they often should only do it if they are getting something out of it for you.
The most common thing they can get is what is called an advancement against permanency. This happens a lot when you haven’t been paid your time off benefits (TTD) and that is one of the disputes at trial. A delay could cause you significant financial and personal harm. So they might give you an advance payment on the settlement they will owe you of a few thousand dollars. Other times that’s not possible so a strong attorney will either push for trial that day or ask the Arbitrator for a “trial date certain.”
In plain English, trial date certain means that the trial will happen on a specific day. So if the other attorney just got the case and needs time to prepare or take a deposition, they have to do it by the trial date typically. It’s not a huge win for you, but it’s actually very common as most cases don’t go to trial the first time they are set to do so. This puts real pressure on the other side and gives you some certainty.
There is no limit to the number of continuances in a case, but I can tell you that for this caller, five was way too many. It showed her lawyer isn’t serious because he wasn’t making a trial happen and her case was still denied. A fighter will get your case ready and get you to trial as soon as possible.
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In this thesis I explore how the elements of tax systems affect individuals’ behavior. The goal is to enhance our understanding of how tax responses are affected by search and adjustment costs, information frictions, hassle costs and behavioral biases in general.
In the first chapter, I provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the importance of statutory incidence in labor markets in presence of asymmetric frictions. Using a theoretical model I show that labor supply responses are stronger when the statutory incidence of taxes or labor rules falls on firms. The asymmetry of response stems from the assumption that firms have a greater ability to respond to incentives than workers because it is easier for firms to change working hours. The result holds even if wages adjust to equalize differences in labor costs stemming from taxes and regulations. I explore these mechanisms by studying labor responses to incentives generated by the “Mini-Job” program aimed at increasing labor supply of low-income individuals in Germany. Using administrative data, I show evidence of a strong behavioral response – in the form of sharp bunching – to the mini-job threshold that generates large discontinuous changes both in the marginal tax rates and in the total income and payroll tax liability of individuals in Germany. Sharp bunching translates into elasticity estimates that are an order of magnitude larger than has been previously estimated using the bunching approach. To explain the magnitude of the observed response, I show that in addition to tax rates, fringe benefit payments also change at the threshold. Using a large survey of businesses and a household survey, I compare wages and fringe benefits around the mini-job threshold and find that mini-job workers are paid higher gross wages but receive smaller yearly bonuses and fewer vacation days than regular workers. These results indicate that lower fringe benefits make mini-jobs attractive to employers, thus facilitating labor supply responses in accordance with the model’s predictions.
In the second chapter, I study behavioral responses to changes in marginal tax rates of social security and income taxes. I find that responses depend on individual’s employment status: whether a worker is a wage earner, self-employed, or a proprietor. In line with the existing literature I document weak (but statistically significant) bunching at kink points of the tax schedule among wage earners. Starting from 1999, wage earners accumulate pension credits when they exceed a certain threshold, however, no contributions are due until earnings reach a second, higher threshold. Even 10 years after this reform I find no bunching to the right of the eligibility threshold, suggesting that individuals do not assign a high value to pension benefits. Lack of bunching is persistent across age groups and unlikely to be explained by friction costs as individuals are able to bunch at other kink points. I find strong responses to tax incentives among the self-employed but the responses differ by the type of kink. I find sharp bunching at the first kink, medium bunching at the top kink and weak bunching at the middle kink. Comparing responses before and after a tax reform that changed the magnitude of kinks I find that self-employed individuals aggressively reduce earnings to bunch at the lower, more salient kink points.
In the third chapter, I study information reporting, which has been argued to be an effective tool against evasion. However, even the simplest reporting requirements can prove to be costly to taxpayers. The trade-off between evasion and compliance costs suggests that reporting rules should only be imposed on a subset of the population. In this paper I address the question of how to optimally determine such reporting thresholds. In the first part of the paper I use a natural experiment to document that reporting rules are indeed costly to taxpayers but are successful at reducing evasion. I study a reform that simplified reporting rules for an income tax deduction of noncash charitable contributions in the U.S. Relying on a revealed preference approach, I find that relaxing reporting requirements led to a steady increase in reported donations but that nearly 50% of these new donations were untruthful. The tax revenue loss, however, was offset by substantial savings for taxpayers because reporting requirements impose substantial hassle costs: $90 on average per person. In the second part of the paper I develop a framework which allows me to characterize optimal reporting thresholds. I show that the determination of optimal thresholds should take into account the utility loss from reporting experienced by individuals and a loss in externality benefits from charitable giving against the tax revenue loss generated by evasion. The size of a reporting threshold is primarily governed by the type and magnitude of cheating. Calibrations of the model shows that in the case of noncash charitable donation deductions, the optimal threshold is more than twice lower than the threshold chosen by the government.
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Continuous physical systems whose behaviour can be modelled by partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous throughout science and engineering. For example, PDEs can describe flow past aircraft and through jet turbines, the propagation of earthquakes, the motion of the weather and the electrical behaviour of the heart and brain. Simulations based upon the numerical solution of PDEs are therefore an indispensable tool in the practical realisation of almost all high-technology industrial systems.
The multiscale and multi time step nature of the continuum mechanics systems themselves combined with huge potential for further application impact at higher resolution, poses a demanding need for greater computational power to compute billions of unknown values.
Gen X is bringing together the UK continuum mechanics code generation frameworks that are already “petascale-ready”. This is a field in which the UK holds a leadership position in cutting edge, deployed systems with demonstrated science impact.
Computing a numerical solution to a PDE produces one simulated outcome for a single set of input parameters where continuum mechanics simulation is usually just one component. Outer loop processes need to run many simulations to create an “actionable” output. Furthermore, these are not merely collections of independent computations: the outer loop process must consider the mathematical structure and properties of the PDE system and respond to the results of the earlier simulations conducted in order to determine which further computations are required.
The move towards exascale presents a timely opportunity to tackle the above challenges. For example, by exploitation of a new level of parallelism presented by the outer loop to turn ever-more parallel supercomputers into effective tools of science and engineering.
A simulation only has scientific or engineering value if its outcomes are actionable and can be analysed and studied. New approaches are therefore being considered in which data analysis and visualisation are conducted on the fly, before data have to be discarded due to the enormous data flow that will underpin the exascale.
Achieving an effective “separation of concerns” through composability and code generation requires:
• Methods for creating a separation of concerns between different “algorithmic components”.
• Functionality that allows simulation developers and users to “co-design” an optimal chain of algorithms for the science or engineering challenge at hand without having to fully understand technology and techniques outside of their own specialism.
• Infrastructure that allows algorithms to be instantiated with high performance upon a diverse range of emerging and disruptive hardware without the need to reimplement the component algorithms themselves (so called “performance portability”).
Possible long-term contributions to the overarching ExCALIBUR objectives include:
• Code generation capabilities for extreme-scale PDE discretisation.
• Composable outer loop layers.
• Programmable on-line analysis and visualisation.
• Deployable software spanning from laptop to the world’s largest supercomputers.
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TTT: Ten Books To Read If...
Our friends at The Broke and the Bookish gave us an open ended topic this week. I now present you with:
Ten books to read if you are in the mood for...snow and cold.
Just in case winter isn't doing enough to supply that for you, OR in case your misery wants some company.
1. Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt I know, I just wrote about this book, but it's the one that inspired this list. It is just SO COLD throughout this book, the weather almost becomes a character in its own right.
2. Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen. I've mentioned this favorite before too. Paulsen's memoir of his trial-and-error experience with becoming a sled dog racer is harrowing and gorgeous, joyful and tragic.
3. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. I can never pass up a chance to mention one of my favorite books. It takes place on a planet named Winter, so it certainly works for my theme this week. The inhabitants of winter are genderless, and can take on sexual aspects of either men or women when it's "that time of the month" for them. What would it be like if we all had the potential to be a mother or a father, but most of the time sex and gender were complete non-issues?
4. Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. I gather from some of the reviews on Goodreads that this book doesn't do much for people who have no mountaineering background, or at least armchair familiarity with it. But as far as adventures go--wow.
5. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. (And the sequels.) How can this book be 20 years old? At least it gives me an excuse for not remembering much of it besides: steampunk Victorian alt-England, fierce young heroine, polar bears, and daemons, which aren't misspelled demons, but creatures that represent one's inner self. Like a cross between a house elf and a patronus.
6. Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys. Historical fiction about when Stalin rounded up tens of thousands of Balts in one night and shipped them all off to Siberia to live. Or die. Whatever. It is literally impossible to overstate how little Stalin cared about the lives of the ordinary people in the vast swath of world he controlled. And if that's not chilling enough for you--Siberia.
7. East by Edith Pattou A retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" set in a vaguely Norwegian, possibly 16th century location.
8. Breadcrumbs by Anna Ursu. Another retelling, this time of The Snow Queen, set in modern Minnesota.
9. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg. It has "snow" in the title, the main character is a Greenlander, and it's translated from the Danish.
10. Graceling by Kristen Cashore. Only for the last bit, when they're struggling over icy passes, but man, is it chilly to read that part.
Special fond mention to: Winter by Marissa Meyer (for being called Winter), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (for being set where it's "always winter but never Christmas"), and The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (for permanently setting my mental image of what blizzards are like. Tie a rope around Pa before he goes to milk the cows.)
and one NOT to read:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton I don't think I ever hated any assigned reading more than this book. Ethan's one chance at love and happiness is destroyed by sledding?!? Seriously?!? Edith Wharton hated the world, I'm sure of it.
1. You should read The Snow Child. Its an awesome book. Great list :)
2. I loved Between Shades of Grey, though it was very chilling.
My TTT:
3. Great list! I've added Winterdance to my TBR. It sounds fantastic. Between Shades of Gray and Breadcrumbs are both already there or I would have added those as well. I love this topic and I 2nd the recommendation for The Snow Child. It's fantastic and the writing itself is icy feeling!
4. Oooh, The Snow Child sounds really cool! (No pun intended)
5. Between Shades of Grey has been on my TBR forever. I really need to get to it soon!
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Chris Albertson albertson.chris at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 00:11:25 UTC 2014
I'm thinking about good reasons to build a GPSDO using something as big and
powerful as a 32-bit ARM processor. I think the reason is that you are
not really building a GPSDO but some other device that just happens to have
a GPSDO inside of it.
For example you want to build a laser range finder and you need to measure
time of flight delay. You'd need a very good clock and while you are at it
why not discipline the clock with GPS. I could think of some radio
experiments where I would want pairs of receivers with their local
oscillators running in phase but many miles apart, so I'd build a GPSDO
into the radio. The ARM would support running the GPSDO, the bigger
application and also remote access over the network or Internet.
Today people mostly will build a stand alone GPSDO in a dedicated box and
then connect the 10MHZ output to whatever is needed but now as we have
seen, you can build a GPSDO completely in software, if your project already
has a computer then you can run a GPSDO inside an interrupt handler as a
background task. Adding GPSDO functionality to an existing product is
almost trivially simple, just $2 in parts and some software if you already
have a CPU and OCXO as part of your system.
Placing the GPSDO inside the product means the gpsdo can run at a frequency
that is more useful and needs no conversion. So you can have the GPS
control a 23 Mhz crystal if that is what your laser rangefinder needs. Now
that the cost of a GPSDO has fallen to $3 you can build them into
"everything". It no longer needs to be a shared device.
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Warda mi, mi ta bo amigu,abo, mi dios, salba mi,bo sirbido ta. No machine learning or microcontroller experience is necessary. I am giving each person a book along with a gift card. The ka, the ba and the kabbalah by jay weidner jay weidner. Ill try a few more recipes the ones with instructions and let you know what i think then. Its a boy, who would grow to be the saviour for all. Adam hochschild, author of king leopolds ghost the tin ticket.
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Michio kaku on physics and kabbalah kabbalah student. All song lyrics listed in the site are for promotional purposes only. The movie was not based on any don named kabali kabaleeshwaran. I would suggest it is a book that requires rereading in order to truly appreciate the depth of mystical insight that is being imparted to the reader, this is no problem as it. Kabaali basic theme piano notes video tutorials piano notes video tutorials sargam kaththi theme piano notes video tutorials. Kabbalah jewish mysticism iii spirituality and kabbalah 4 although the literal translation of the word chamushim is armed, the commentators also adduce explanations on the level of drash. We do not provide mp3 songs as it is illegal to do so. An amazon spokesman said that 1984 and animal farm were added to the kindle store by a company that did not have rights to them, using. Throughout the novel, grass uses the leitmotif of how she smelled, not unpleasantly, of slightly rancid butter. They are free with the mailed gift card so why not get the tins too. These teachings of jewish mysticism have been a part of judaism for millennia, but are to be rejected in chri. Dont make decision without thinking thoroughly, especially when youre angry because it could lead you to doing something terrible and you could regret it for the rest of your life.
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This book, and especially its embryonic concept of the sefirot, became the object of systematic study of several mystical brotherhoods which eventually came to be called baale hakabbalah. This is a novel infused with memories, not least elliss for his childhood. And as such is indispensable for advancement along the spiritual path. The book lingers in view for a few seconds and much later, rajinikanth will make a fleeting reference to dalits, b. The book was written rather recent 1900s however general consensus seems to be that this in no way detracts from its credability in relaying ancient hermetic wisdom. Kabbalah in various forms was widely studied, commented upon, and expanded by north african, turkish, yemenite, and asian scholars from the 16th century onward. Aug 18, 2011 reggae classic hits mix old school 70s 80s 90s popular djsonki duration. Kabali is a 2016 indian tamillanguage action crime film written and directed by pa. The ka, the ba and the kabbalah by jay weidner february 1, 2016 in articles by stupaul22 in the current use of our language, the words soul and spirit have essentially the same meaning. The film plot concerns the gang war between kabaleeswaran played by rajinikanth and tony lee portrayed by winston chao. It is a text book only for the serious student of kabbalah.
An initial print run for a book of this nature might be 5,000 copies, and take years to sell. There are many books available today particularly those of dr. Kabali is about an aged, reformed gangster kabaleeswaran who had fought for the oppressed in malaysia and returns from his jail stay after twentyfive years. Build your book format a paperback manuscript word for windows. So there may be many possibe endigs, or even a hint for a sequel. Rajini fever is everywhere as the muchanticipated kabali storms into theatres today. Will norton be whole or will aspects of his personality be changed by the events. There has been more and more kabbalah teachings entering into the church in the past few decades. Rajinikanth kabali tickets online booking online booking. Part 1 shows the brothers baahubali and bhallaladeva fight for the throne to mahishmathi kingdom. The tin drum summarised the 20th century in three words books. Youll want to get your hands on the kobo forma if youre not an. The word chamushim is homiletically related to the word chamesh, five, which yields an entirely different interpretation.
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Michael laitman that do an excellent job of describing to the layman what kabbalah is about. The kabbalah of the sefardi iberian peninsula and mizrahi middle east, north africa, and the caucasus torah scholars has a long history. The film stars rajinikanth, radhika apte, kishore, kalaiyarasan, dhansika, and. Michio kaku is certainly an authority in the subject matter. But i have a notch the movie could be an inspiration of the real don named ganapathy who ruled over t. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Amazon erases orwell books from kindle devices the new york. Listening to michio citing the zohar and confirming its correlation with his understanding of the super string theory is just surreal and, it may indicate that the scientific community will be slowly but surely exposed to the wisdom of zohar.
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In the manner of TV soap-opera introductions, we ended yesterday with my talking with three Jesus people, a middle-aged woman, a middle-aged man, and a younger man, who had just made the astounding claim that if god did something, anything, (like the mass murder by drowning of infants) it could not be evil by definition, even if that same act would be universally condemned if done by a human.
The middle-aged man and the young man then started to make a point about free will and original sin. You know, the story of how god created Adam and Eve to have an idyllic life in the perfect Garden of Eden. He also gave them free will but told them not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But of course, they did, and that was the original sin. For that one sinful act, god has inflicted suffering on all the animals (including humans) for all of time. Seems a bit excessive, no? God seems to be the sort who holds a grudge for a l-o-o-o-n-g time, worse than any gangland boss.
This theory of original sin and free will is a big deal for Jesus people. They think it explains everything although in reality combining free will with belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent god creates insoluble logical contradictions. Religious people assert that God gave us free will, and the reason why there is sin and suffering is because people use their free will to do the wrong things. But they also say that we suffer because of Adam and Eve’s original sin which has resulted in us being ‘born in sin’ (a truly weird idea) and thus cannot avoid sinning, which doesn’t quite square with the idea of us sinning because we are abusing our free will.
This theory also does not explain the suffering caused by diseases and natural disasters unless you also assume that god is using those devices to punish the people who abuse their free will in order to sin. This is a tough argument to sell, especially in the case of sudden mass catastrophes like tsunamis and earthquakes that wipe out entire swathes of people, including infants who are hardly in a position to exercise their free will at all, let alone in malevolent ways.
The middle-aged guy created a hypothetical scenario by pointing to a man who was coming down the street. Suppose he suddenly decided to cut off my head. His point seemed to be that if the man did this, he would be using his free will for evil purposes and that was because of original sin.
But I decided to take that hypothetical in another direction. (Religious people can be easily led into logical contradictions because they think that they are being disloyal to god unless they assign every superlative power they can imagine to Big Daddy in the sky.)
If that guy beheaded me doesn’t that meant that god wanted me to be beheaded? No.
But doesn’t god know everything even before it happens? Yes.
So doesn’t god know beforehand that this man plans to behead me? Yes.
Doesn’t god have the power to stop him from beheading me? Yes.
So if god knows that I am going to be beheaded and has the power to stop it but does not do so, doesn’t that mean that god wants me beheaded? No.
Why not? Because the murderer was using his free will for evil purposes because of original sin.
As you can see, religious people have a set cycle of arguments, and when logically cornered will simply hit the ‘reset’ button and start the cycle all over again, even if it makes no sense or has been refuted or even flatly contradicts what they said just moments before.
I must admit that I was having a lot of fun but unfortunately had to go for my class. But before I left, the man made his last pitch to save me from hell by listing all the sins that I need to avoid committing to save me from going to hell. Things like murder, stealing, lying, lust, …
Hold on there, I said, what’s wrong with lust? Lust is great! You should try it. And with that last comment, I left.
It was a hilarious half-hour or so. Was I having fun at the Jesus people’s expense by pointing out the absurdities that arise from their beliefs? Absolutely. I have said before, when I am talking about religion with people personally, I tend to be non-confrontational, gentle even. But when people stop me on the street to try and convert me by telling me that I am going to hell unless I worship their genocidal god who has these strange ideas about free will, then I think they have forfeited any right to gentle treatment because they have left the private sphere. They have signaled their readiness to take on the rough-and-tumble of public debate, and should not complain if their views are dissected.
The Jesus people’s attempts to spread their vile message of self-loathing and fear must be combated vigorously. The only reason they have got away so far with spreading their silly message on public streets is because of the misguided ‘respect for religion’ trope that says that as long as people are talking about religion, the fact that what they are saying is utter claptrap should not be pointed out. So we have ignored them. We should instead take the chance to show them the consequences of their beliefs. It may not make them change their minds but it may make them less enthusiastic about spreading their message of fear and self-loathing to unwary and innocent people.
POST SCRIPT: Some Grey Bloke tries to understand free will and original sin
1. Benjamin Holvey says
Hi Mano,
I’m an undergraduate at Case. I believe I’m familiar with Beth’s (the middle-aged woman) motivation for approaching or speaking with you recently. May I inquire briefly concerning the motivation for the nature of your responses, at least the ones you’ve included over the last few blog posts?
I have discerned several possibilities:
1. Small talk
2. Personal investigation of Christianity
3. A genuine concern for the future of rational inquiry/discourse in the public square (a favor to society)
4. A favor to Beth
5. Amusement
The skeptical commentary you’ve provided denies the probability that you were simply “making small talk.” There is evidently a prior interest in operation during your discussion.
You’ve written previously, “So why do I do bother arguing at all? I am a firm believer that religious beliefs change slowly as a result of people trying and failing, on their own, to reconcile the contradictory beliefs they are forced to hold. So what I do is plant as many seeds of doubt as I can and hope that at least one will take root and sprout and undermine the whole religious edifice.”
This seems to deny #2, at least as a primary motivation. You want to undermine her religious edifice. So maybe my question, in light of this, is best put, “Why is it worth you’re time to undermine her religious edifice?”
Of the possibilities I came up with, there are three left:
4. A favor to Beth
5. Amusement
#3. In this case, I trust you could have done a much better job than it seems you did. You could have resisted the impulse to dismiss the afterlife, for example, with such a pejorative, superficial objection as the necessity of a heavenly sewage system. In so doing, you may engage the woman (who was probably somewhat intimidated at this point), but you fail to critically engage Christianity any longer.
Tim Keller has written, concerning public discourse on faith (of which even atheists have plenty), that critical engagement only happens when each side, believer and nonbeliever, has learned to represent the other’s argument in it’s strongest and most earnest forms. Otherwise, we deal only in strawmen (I can explain in a subsequent post why you and Beth were talking about a strawman for the afterlife).
I could go around telling the next generation of scientists that they should ditch science because one of the foundational principles of science, the Induction Principle (aka the Uniformity Principle), has no evidence to commend it. Indeed, there is no evidence for it, and I could point them to Bertrand Russell’s article on the subject ( to prove it. However, philosophically speaking, this would be a confusion of assumptions and conclusions (or axioms and theorems in the homologous language of math). I believe few students in the sciences at Case rigorously understand the Induction Principle, so I resist that temptation to take advantage of their ignorance and stump them. It seems that, in some similar fashion, you were taking advantage of Beth by getting to her to accept a strawman for the afterlife. (Incidentally, I don’t really think we should abandon science simply because the Induction Principle is without evidence).
#4. If so, did you take a minute to share with her the gospel of atheism -- that she can be freed from her own “vile message of self-loathing and fear” -- that salvation is found in skepticism alone?
#5. I’ve found amusement, usually, to come at the expense of really productive conversation about these matters. Example: I visited one of Case CFI’s meetings in lieu of the Ray Comfort book handout, but I was disappointed to find that little more occurred than nervous and half-forced laughter in response to a polemic given by the comedian-atheist student leader who organized the meeting. They abandoned any real concern for inquiry when they became content to make a pinata of religion. If it had been an intellectually stimulating discussion about the book (I know they thought it was patently absurd, but did it really have no capacity to spark engaging discussion whatsoever?), or merely a forum to discuss grave misgivings about the dangers of such products of irrational religion, then I might have been engaged (I’m, of course, speaking on their terms here).
I really would like to hear the motivation for the nature of your responses to the woman, Mano.
I seriously doubt that Christians owe their street campaign to any “tolerance trope.”
History (and the news) suggests that greater boldness among Christians for the gospel accompanies greater hostility toward the gospel.
Alright, this post became a lot longer than I anticipated. Time to join the family for Thanksgiving.
2. says
Hi Ben,
Thanks for the message and the logical analysis of my possible motives.
Actually, you need not have taken the trouble since I have explicityly stated my motives here.
I am not sure why you think the problem of induction is a stumper. It is a concern of philosophers seeking to identify ‘true knowledge’ but it does not cause science any problems at all because we do not seek true knowledge in any absolute sense but are satisfied with provisionally true knowledge.
Furthermore, I don’t know why, if you think it is such a problem for science, you don’t point it out to fellow students. Science is not like religion in that it wants to hide its problems. It actually benefits from having its weaknesses probed. That is how deeper understandings arise and scientific revolutions occur. The ‘problem’ of induction is something we discuss freely in my courses.
I also do not see why you think I was not taking Beth’s statements about her beliefs in their strongest form when I raised the issue of the heavenly sewage system. It was precisely because I took it seriously that I raised the issue. I was treating her statement the way that I would treat any scientific or at least empirical statement. I was following it to its logical conclusion to see where it leads. When people say that physical bodies exist up in the sky, that is an empirical statement that has many observable consequences.
What religious people actually want is to be able to make such statements and have the listener NOT take them seriously by just ignoring them and moving on. That way, they can make sweeping assertions about god and the afterlife, free from being asked to justify them or worrying about contradictions.
Finally, there is no ‘gospel of atheism’. I shared with her all there is to share: that there is no credible evidence whatsoever for god, heaven, hell, or any form of afterlife, which is why is don’t believe in any of these things. It is really very simple. And intellectually liberating.
3. Beth says
I watched the video. The man was never, I repeat never, a Christian. He was a false convert. I can see how his ‘reasoning’ led him astray. It doesn’t matter what you ‘believe’ (intellectual ascent), if you don’t put your trust in the One True God -- the God revealed in Scripture, you are an atheist. It is not belief that allows you to be born again, it is trust in Christ that He paid your sin debt. If you lied, you are a liar (Rev 21:8). If you stole anything, you are a thief. If you looked with lust, you are an adulterer (1Cor 6:9,10).
The man in the video said it doesn’t make sense to him what Jesus did. That opinion is Biblical -- “it is foolishness to them who are perishing (1Cor 1:18). The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1Cor 2:14). Once you know Him, not believe in Him, know Him, then He and His Word is revealed. You won’ understand these things, if you are not born again, but they are true. There will be a Judgment Day for the unbeliever. God will not choose it for you, you will do the choosing. I pray all that read this, if they are not sure of their salvation, that they cry out to the One Creator of the universe, and ask Him to reveal Himself to you. Get a Bible out, read it every day, and obey what it says.
Satan casts his vote against you, God casts His vote for you, you cast the deciding vote.
4. says
Hi Beth,
You say, “Get a Bible out, read it every day, and obey what it says.” Since presumably you do that, I assume that you feel obliged to stone to death all the following people:
Spiritists or mediums (Leviticus 20:27)
Blasphemers (Leviticus 24:14)
Anyone who gathers wood on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36)
Anyone who tries to convert you to another religion (Deuteronomy 13:6-10)
People who worship other gods (Deuteronomy 17:2-5)
Stubborn and rebellious children (Deuteronomy 21:18-21)
Any woman who is found to not be a virgin when she gets married (Deuteronomy 22:13-21)
Adulterers (Deuteronomy 22:22-24)
You may need to recruit help as that is an awful lot of people whom your god wants you to murder.
5. Jared says
Hi Beth,
I used to consider myself a Christian, but if losing your faith makes you a “false convert” then I guess you would say that I was also never “really” a christian. Is that something you really believe? It seems in a twisted way a little solipsistic to me.
Earlier you suggested that “hearing” God’s voice is not like hearing an audible sound but similar to recalling someone’s voice. This fits with what I was taught when I was practicing. I understand this to be an important to the whole idea of the Personal God. It did bother me that the “God voice” sensations are typically internal, although I was told to brush those apprehensions aside. Yet, aside from the more obvious observation that if something exists solely in your mind then it must be part of your mind, there is also this line that I couldn’t stop thinking about:
Our minds are clearly equipped with the ability to simulate real events. This is what we do when we remember something -- such as our mother’s voice. Likewise, we can consciously or unconsciously simulate something new, which we call imagination. It’s actually not even something we have direct control over most of the time.
When I was being taught to “hear God’s voice”, in retrospect I that I was really being coached to develop the ability to treat certain types of thoughts as somehow separate, and to give those thoughts a name. As the process developed I also learn to give those thoughts their own voice. These thoughts can come unbidden, as is the nature of consciousness.
I am glad that I chose to give up on religion because I think that the kind of thinking I described above was pathological. You can say that my experiences aren’t REALLY the same as yours, and that I never TRULY accepted Jesus, and so on. In that case I just THOUGHT I did. Doesn’t that seem dishonest to you?
I really hope you give what I am saying some thought, because you do yourself a disservice to not apply the same skepticism to your own beliefs that you apply to others.
6. Anonymous says
You make the same mistake many others do when they think all 613 laws apply today.
You maybe better just stick to the New Testament. It will be safer for you.
Jeus came to fulfill the Law so that when one repents and trusts in His sacrifice at the cross, one is considered born again and righteous before God.
Another comment on another post was that you said that I was bringing up hell again. I did because you did. Remember when you asked about ‘Hades’ and ‘Gehenna’?
Some things are true whether you believe them or not.
Creation and your conscience are the two evidences of God’s existence. No painter -- no painting. No builder -- no building. No Creator -- no creation.
Your conscience tells you when you do wrong. God has given you light so you will be without excuse on Judgment Day, Mano. My prayer is that you see the light before it is too late.
7. Beth says
Ben –
I might think you hit on a truth -- Mano was on a “personal investigation of Christianity,” but would not admit it.
Also, I agree with Mano that there is no ‘gospel’ of atheism. Gospel means “good news.” What kind of good news is it that you don’t believe in God and will spend all of eternity in eternal torment? Atheists don’t believe in God, but He doesn’t believe in you. You can’t make the statement that there is no God. You would have to be omniscient.
I do not have a “vile message of self-loathing and fear.” It is quite the opposite. I think of myself enough to seek God and find eternal life. I have no fear because I know where I will spend my eternity. It won’t be in eternal torment. I hope/pray the same for you.
Why are you so afraid of someone else’s opinion? Is your beliefs so fragile that they can’t handle another thought/belief?
8. says
On what basis do you decide which of the 613 laws to follow and which to ignore? After all you were the one who said that I should “Get a Bible out, read it every day, and obey what it says” without listing any exceptions.
I do not recall asking about Hades or Gehenna at all. In fact I almost never use those words, preferring the simple ‘hell’.
The argument that every creation requires a creator suffers from the weakness that you then have to explain who in turn created your creator of the universe.
The existence of a conscience is not an argument for god because that would imply that everyone would have the same conscience and agree on what is right and what is wrong. While we might agree on some things, there is nowhere near universality on this issue, even among Christians.
I am not on a personal investigation of Christianity but I am curious about what makes believers tick.
Have you not noticed how you keep talking about hell? Your response to Ben, with the repeated use of the phrase ‘eternal torment’, seems to indicate that you are truly terrified of hell and are desperately hoping that that Jesus will save you if you say the “right” words and think the “right” thoughts. I suspect that you will not even allow yourself to contemplate the possibility that Jesus, if he ever lived at all, was not the son of god and is now dead, because of the fear that such an impious thought will send you straight to hell.
9. M.Nieuweboer says
Thanks. This answers precisely the remark I posted before, elsewhere, about my colleagues. Those last two alinea’s perfectly describe my attitude.
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For this second post in a series, Adam Chapman and I dig deeper, continuing to discuss the ideas of historical authenticity in historical video games and debating whether the games like Wolfenstein 2: New Order and Call of Duty: World War II are really comparably historical games when doing this kind of analysis.
For the first in this series go here
Jeremiah: In our last post you ended by asking the question: Does your separation into two types of simulation approaches help us determine when a game is an interesting and at least somewhat defensible model of the past or just a rubber ball?
Adam: Again, I think the answer to this is one of those ‘yes and no’ responses that we academics are so frustratingly fond of. For me, the idea of the realist/conceptual framework is to describe the style of representation of historical games. Does it attempt to show us the past as it claims it appeared to agents (realist)? Or does it aim to tell us about the past by mainly using abstraction (e.g. rules, menus, maps, text, charts, tables) and therefore representing discourse about that past (conceptual)? So for me, the framework is an effort to categorise the styles of representation we find
Adam’s Note on Conceptual and Realist Simulation Styles
Games that utilise a realist simulation style can be understood as “aiming and/or claiming to show the past ‘how it was’, i.e. as it appeared to historical agents of the time” (Chapman 2016, 61). These games (e.g. Red Dead Redemption, Brothers in Arms, Assassin’s Creed) have a heavy concentration on the use of direct visual representations of historical elements and often display these from the perspectives of historical agents (i.e. first or third person). It should be noted that this is what the games aim or claim to do but labelling something a realist simulation does not indicate that these games are necessarily more accurate or realistic – this only describes the style of representation. By comparison “conceptual simulation style” (Chapman 2016, 59-89) games (e.g. Civilization, Making History, Europa Universalis) use explicit abstraction to represent the past (e.g. rules, text, menus, symbols and non-agential perspectives).
in historical games and, importantly, the kinds of aims and claims these types of game tend to involve. As such the framework is not an inherent indicator of quality – there are good and bad examples of both styles of game. This said, in terms of accuracy, the framework firstly does help us determine what elements of the past the game is most likely to be interested in representing according to notions of accuracy. For example, realist simulations are likely to concentrate on the representation of material culture. By comparison, conceptual simulations are more likely to concentrate on accurately representing historical processes. Secondly, and perhaps even more importantly, the framework indicates to us what kind claims as to authority these games are going to claim in their depiction of the past. Notions of authority are, I think, extremely important when looking at history (popular or otherwise). I have no problem with any kind of history taking extreme liberties with the facts of the past as long as there is no claims as to authority over that past – i.e. as long as the history does not claim to be accurate. Consider, for example, the newest entries into the Wolfenstein series, games that fuse World War 2 history with science fiction, the supernatural and (very!) alternate timelines. For me, this game is far less troubling than games such as the latest Call of Duty (also set during World War 2). Wolfenstein wears its mythic elements on its sleeve – it does not pretend that these are the real events of the past. However, the mythic elements in Call of Duty (for example, see https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/pa37bn/watching-history-fade-away-in-call-of-duty-wwiifor me, are far more problematic because they are hidden under a veneer of authority established by the games simulation style (the implicit authority of ‘realistic’ visuals) and by the claims found in the marketing surrounding the game. I think it’s also interesting to note that Wolfenstein, despite plainly having fantastical elements, actually manages to say more meaningful things about WW2. Certainly, its representation of the Holocaust has more nuance than Call of Duty’s. And it is precisely its fantastical elements that allow it to have this. It can use more free forms of expression, such as explicit metaphor, to talk about the past in meaningful ways and that provide an ambiguity that allows the game to talk about historical topics that are often seen as too controversial to be included in games.
Talking about authority also brings us neatly towards the issue of authenticity, these two issues are interlinked. However, for me, authenticity is a different thing than accuracy. If accuracy is alignment with the agreed upon facts of the past, authenticity is something much more ephemeral. It is often much more personal, much more subjective. And it is linked very much to collective memory and shared ideas (right or wrong) about what the past was like. Its less about getting ‘it’ (the past) right and getting the feeling of it right. It is a feeling that we all have when we experience historical media. Do you see authenticity in the same way, Jeremiah?
J: That’s a great question. Let’s step back just a little, if we may, and problematize your proposition a bit. Wolfenstein is a fascinating topic for conversation, inspiring as it does, important questions about representing the Holocaust, Nazism, racsism, and so on. But bringing it up here raises a number of questions that, hopefully, our readers will find make for good discussion. First I’m interested in your suggestion that COD:WW2 makes claims that Wolfenstein does not and that this allows the latter to make more meaningful statements about the world. If we follow your excellent framework, historical games can be divided into two main representational modes, realist and conceptual. By this standard, WOlfenstein and COD:WW2 would seem to be realist sims. In this case, wouldn’t they share the burden of making claims inherent in this presentational style? In short, for someone who knows absolutely nothing about 1960s America, doesn’t Wolfenstein’s mode implicitly suggest that “this is what the past looked and sounded like” just as much as COD:WW2 suggests that their game shows what the Western Theater looked and sounded like?
See, I’m not sure why Wolfenstein, in its design as a realist simulation can be said to make claims to reality different from COD:WW2. Just to be clear: I am not saying that Wolfenstein was meant to be taken as a verisimilitudionous simulation of the US under Nazi rule in the 1960s. What I am saying is that I there is little in the realist presentation style that would indicate the game is fictional. How is WOlfenstein’s presentational style different than COD:WW2? Surely both are realist in their presentation?
So where do the different claims of the games lie? Perhaps box art (if these games even have boxes any more 🙂 )? Perhaps in how they are received by a literate audience that knows one is wholly fictional and the other–and I use this phrase gently–more grounded in history? These have little to do with the actual gameplay, however. Rather they depend on a literate audience that knows mech guards in 1960s AMerica and a Nazi ruling regime did not exist. And that literate audience might not be so familiar with the intricacies of combat in WW2 and thus think it is making a greater claim to accuracy/authenticity. If so though, that is not a matter of the game’s mode of presenting the past, but of the knowledge players bring to it.
Ultimately, I’m not sure the contrast of Wolfenstein and CODWW2 as historical games is fair (for lack of a better word, since there is nothing wrong with critiquing it). Simply put, I’m not really sure that Wolfenstein IS a historical game in the way that CODWW2 is and in the we have conceptualized them in our writings and discussion. You suggest that Wolf’s fantastical elements allow it to tackle more meaningfully and authentically the concentration camps of the Holocaust, and I tend to agree. But doesn’t it undermine the very idea of making games as a form of doing history to say that the fantastical elements are what allow one to get at the real issues better? Isn’t this a revival of the old distinction between literature as the study of fundamental human truths, grounded in human truths but not necessarily true specifics, and history as the study of particulars, grounded in “true” specifics that speak to the human condition? If one has to go to mechs, and caricature and satire to get at these horrific issues, what is CODWW2 supposed to do when it does not want to go with such fantasies?
Or does CODWW2 go with similarly significant fantasies of its own? If that’s the case, though, where do the different claims to authenticity stream from other than our sense as historical thinkers that they make different claims that are to be handled in different way?
The tl;dr question is. How are Wolfenstein and CODWW2 even to be compared as historical games? Wolf certainly doesn’t seem to fit MacCallum-Stewart and Parsler’s helpful definition that many of us have used of late: “The game has to begin at a clear point in real world history and that history has to have a manifest effect on the nature of the game experience. “ (http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/07312.51468.pdfWolf does not fit the first point, and its imagination of machinery, mechs, guns etc. do not fit any “clear point in real world history”
What do you think?
A: I think this is a good point to delve into a bit more. You are right that my argument above doesn’t fully explain the distinction between Wolfenstein and Call of Duty. In part this is because my realist/conceptual divide is actually part of a larger analytical framework outlined in my book (Chapman 2016) that includes a number of other elements (simulation and epistemology; time; space; narrative; affordances), each of which can also have an influence on the epistemological approach/claims of the game. For example, I describe each simulation style as having an “implicit inclination” towards particular epistemologies but note that “other formal structures of a game can complicate this relationship” (2016, 66) and that “other qualities of digital games can disrupt these epistemologies” (2016, 82). In particular, I argue in the later stages of the book that some games, particularly those with very open narrative structures (e.g. Civilization seres and Paradox Interactive games), function through a dual epistemology. By this I mean that though a game may be produced with a particular conservative epistemology, the irreverence of the way they invite audiences into shared authorship and experimentation with historical narrative “means that they have trouble maintaining this epistemological coherency in reception” (Chapman 2016, 253). That is to say that the act of play itself in such open narrative structure games has qualities that imply epistemological approaches that we would normally categorise as in some way as ‘postmodern’ or ‘experimental’. Whilst the game may be produced with a conventional, authoritarian approach to the past, the interactive act of play itself can disrupt this or exert pressure on it in reception – meaning a game can simultaneously allow for two different epistemological approaches to the past.
This said, I don’t think this is an example of what is happening with Wolfenstein. The realist/conceptual framework was intended to describe opposite ends of a spectrum, rather than a purely binary categorisation. Thus I think there is still a discussion to be had about where some games fall on this spectrum. As I write in the book, some games (such as Valiant Hearts for example) “use cartoonish graphics, relinquishing visual specificity in favour of the shorthand for invoking particular stereotypes or tropes that this abstraction allows, while still using the perspectives, scale, focus and emphasis on audio-visual rhetoric and retelling, of the realist style” (Chapman 2016, 80). In a sense Wolfenstein is doing something similar. A lot of what is going on in the game is clearly utilising a realist style, yet there are also plainly fantasy and science fiction elements in there that can nonetheless be used to make meaning about the past, however simplistic (a vulgar example could be the way the game, and similar Nazisploitation popular media, argues: “look how evil, irrational and ‘other’ the Nazis were, they probably wouldn’t even have minded using occult magic and dark science”). For me, the game then falls on a slightly different part of the spectrum than the purely realist claims that a game like Call of Duty positions itself as achieving.
But I also think you are right to point to the fact that there is stuff going on outside the games themselves that signal their difference. I think an important issue here is framing, i.e. how does the game cue its audience to receive it? Of course some of this work is done in the game itself in representational style and tone and in often overlooked elements in menus (e.g.inclusion of primary sources) and boxart. However, as I note briefly in the chapter where I describe the realist/conceptual framework, a part of this is also done in promotional material. Look at the marketing descriptions, developer interviews and advertisement of games such as Call of Duty, and generally we are not far away from claims that tell us how accurately these games depict the past. By comparison, Wolfenstein’s marketing establishes a very different satirical frame by purposely playing with the assumed historical knowledge of the implied audience. (For instance the game’s advertisements featured photographs of Nazi moon landings and recordings of pop songs, such as House of the Rising Sun, modified to feature Nazi themes and doctrines). The game purposely plays with the dissonance this establishes in its audience and immediately frames itself as unconcerned with accuracy (at least in terms of what actually happened according to the agreed-upon historical record). Incidentally, this framing relies heavily on the audience’s historical knowledge in order to be successful – perhaps explaining why alternate histories tend to concentrate almost to the point of exclusion on only those histories with a strong presence in the collective memory of the markets at which they are targeted.
J: Fair enough; the “obviously” caricatured aspects of Wolfenstein’s art and premises (use of mechs, occult magic, etc.) signal that the game is not to be taken as an effort to model a real historical world in the way that Call of Duty does, which lacks the clear caricatures. Your point on this makes sense of what I experienced looking at playthrough videos of the two games. I do have to note here, though that what are obvious and clear caricatures depends a great deal on the player viewing them, so we are in some tricky territory.
A: That is true and I think this points to a really important issue in the study of historical games: at some point we have to turn to studying players as well. Studying the games themselves has got us quite far as a field but I think it is also important to look at the people involved in the historical functions of these games. Namely, the players that play them and the developers that make them. However, returning to the issue at hand, in terms of why Wolfenstein can in a sense get at ‘the real issues better’ – I think this relates to a medium-specific issue with games. I don’t want to make a blanket statement that the Wolfenstein or Call of Duty approach is inherently better. That is not my intent and it is easy to imagine a game like Call of Duty that did some really useful/important things whilst using a similar kind of style and approach. The specific issue here is what Jonas Linderoth and myself have called the ‘limits of play’ (Chapman and Linderoth 2015). Whilst there is a lot to say about this, broadly we became very interested in the fact that games seem much more likely to trigger public controversy when dealing with sensitive or controversial historical topics than other media forms – influencing the kind of history we see in these games. For example, when analysing representations of Nazism in WW2 games in the same piece, we found that such games almost universally excluded any mention of the Holocaust and even historical elements (e.g. Nazi ideology, organisations, symbols, leaders and particular military units) associated with this genocide. Whilst the intent here is clearly not to offend and not to breach the culturally determined ‘limits of play’, this results in a ‘whitewashing’ of the Holocaust from WW2 history in games. This obviously has the potential to be deeply problematic. However, a game like Wolfenstein can engage with this topic. The fantastical alternate timeline gives sufficient distancing through ambiguity to offer a defence against critique (i.e. what is depicted is not the Holocaust, but a similar kind of event), and yet still bears enough relation to actual history to say something meaningful about that past that other games find difficult.
J: And this seems to be the conventional wisdom in discussions about Wolf in the time since its release; critics have generally responded favorably to its ability to address the Holocaust–among the most untouchable of topics in entertainment media –in ways that “more serious” historical games cannot.
If this is the case, however, I still suggest that perhaps Wolfenstein is not a historical game according to the earlier definition because the creators are implying that what they are showing is over the top and not a supportably authentic version of the 1960s US under Nazi rule. In which case, aren’t you suggesting that, at least here, that a non-historical game can get at historical issues better than a historical game can? That might be true, but it paints a bit of a bleak picture for designers who want to make historical games, not caricatures of history (though Jim McNally of Longbow games suggested that all historical games caricature IN THIS ARTICLE, but here he meant simplify an abstract, not caricature by introducing fantastical and over-the-top elements.)
I’m not trying to force definitions on us or anyone else, but I think if we (i.e. we, the field investigating these things) are going to compare and contrast games as they construct histories, we really do need to think about when two works are functionally of different genres (one historical and one not). Works from different genres can be compared, of course, but one does that differently than comparing works in the same genres. (No doubt, my friend, by now you are thinking of our many discussions about Assassin’s Creed, but let’s table that one for a bit longer; Wolf and COD line up so nicely).
Perhaps it’s worth noting I think all of this problem of games’ claims to realism and their very genres tie in to what can we mean about a historically authentic game, the start of our current discussion series since we shifted by mutual agreement last essay from accuracy to authenticity pretty swiftly.
A: In the broader sense, my desire to include even fantastical games as ‘historical’ has two motivations. Firstly, I very much find the postmodern arguments made about history in the last few decades to be very useful. I won’t fill up space here describing those arguments at length once again and many other scholars have made these arguments far more eloquently than I (see for example the work of Hayden White, Alun Munslow and Robert Rosenstone). But generally this is the idea that all history, as an inherently narrative pursuit, involves subjective, aesthetic, ethical and ideological judgements. Evidence is still hugely important from this perspective (and it is in no way about making spurious claims about the past), but evidence also does not speak for itself but produces meaning only by its partly subjective arrangement, interpretation and use by the historian. What this means, is that all histories are ‘fictive’, they rely very much on real evidence but they also involve subjective decisions that take this evidence and turn it into a narrative. To return to Wolfenstein, the game uses both real elements of WW2 history and mixes these with fictional elements. As such, what is going on here in comparison to ‘proper’ history is a difference of degree and purpose, but hardly kind. And I think the same process is going on in Call of Duty but that game differs from Wolfenstein by problematically hiding this process beneath a veneer of realism. Secondly, the reason I wish for historical game studies to consider as many different types of games as possible is because I worry that making too many hard delineations about what can or can’t be considered as historical runs the risk of narrowing the field to the point that we aren’t considering the breadth of games that are actually out there ‘in the wild’ so to speak, yet are still reappropriating history in a myriad of interesting ways and perhaps still having an effect on popular consciousness of the past in doing so. In a sense then I think we have to be led by what people make and play, as much as by what we as researchers value. It is for that reason that I have forwarded my own definition of historical games as “those games that in some way represent the past or relate to discourses about it” (Chapman 2016, 16). Whilst discussion can be had as to whether Wolfenstein meets the first part of such a description, I would argue that it certainly relates to the second, in that it certainly relates to discourses about the past. I do like MacCallum-Stewart and Parsler’s definition that you mention and I think it still has a role to play in defining certain kinds of historical games. But even games like Civilization can fall foul of such a definition. Can we really say that a game that speaks in such process-oriented generalities meaningfully begins at a ‘clear point in real world history’? Yet most of us would still consider the game to be historical. Indeed it has been a formative example for the field of historical game studies.
J: This a really helpful set of statements, Adam, because it lays out some of your underlying assumptions about history and your goals as a scholar, which is usually at the heart of discussions like these. We have run out of space here, so why don’t I respond in the next essay and see the extent to which my assumptions and goals match up with yours and where our discussion goes from there …
To be continued …
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Hey! This was made in the early days of scripting in Construct. Since then they've released an update forcing scripts to run as modules. You can either try opening the project in an older version of C3 (r250 or lower) to be able to run in classic mode or upgrade it following this guide:
Oops, that's something we didn't manage to fix for the jam version. All of the small tables cost 300. Thanks for playing!
Hiya, works fine for me on Firefox and Chrome, but we'll look into it!
Wow, thanks for playing the game so extensively! We made this game in a weekend for a game jam, so there was some art that we made but did not manage to add into the game. Sorry for the misleading screenshots!
Thanks so much for the video :D
I'm currently unavailable for work, sorry :/ You should check out the Construct Community Discord, there's an #offers channel where you can find a lot of talented people who would be interested in a paid opportunity such as this. I'm on the server as @aecanales, ping me over there if you need anything else!
There's two main bottle necks here:
1. I made this before the scripting update for Construct 3, so everything is handled via events and tons of objects. Rewriting the whole thing via scripting would probably give it a performance boost and make the codebase much cleaner.
2. The Drawing Canvas plugin itself has poor performance at higher resolutions. It works pretty well for simple effects but if you want to draw the whole game in it it'll only work well at a low resolution. Faced a similar issue in this template which is written purely in Javascript.
I made this as a little side project for fun, but if I ever do come back to it to add features and improve perfomance it'll be to release it as a paid template.
It is possible! You'd have to write it yourself though by combining the functions that generate a hill and those that generate a curve though.
Thank you so much for making a video!
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a detailed comment :D Animal Crossing was definitely an inspiration but we hadn't thought of multiplayer, thanks for the idea. We're pretty proud of what we did and definitely plan to continue expanding it, would love to collaborate with you someday if the opportunity arises!
Totally agreed, the "fun" aspect needs more work. Thanks for the feedback!
Exactly what we were aiming for, glad that we achieved it :) Thanks for playing!
Aww thanks, we hope to keep improving the game while keeping the calm aspect mind. Hope you're safe too!
That's interesting to know, thanks for telling us, we'll remember it for the next update!
Glad to hear that!
Wow, thank you so much for the detailed feedback! We spent so much time testing with unlimited money that we didn't realize the game was so grindy, so we'll definitely work on that. All of your ideas are great, so we'll definitely take them in account for future updates to make the game as fun as possible. Thanks for playing!
PS: the customers getting stuck is a bug that came up in the last hour of the jam so we didn't manage to fix it :p
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Multiple orders sounds great.
Extremely impressive work! Combat is simplistic but the fun exploration and progression make up for it. Going up stairs is pretty hard tho :p
Agreed that controls are a bit glitchy at times but the gameplay loop is pretty cool, enjoyed it!
There is something so enjoyable about collecting coins, reminds me of collecting star bits in Mario Galaxy.
After selecting some food the animation is meant to play, but we didn't have time to do individual animations (a coffee pouring animation for example) so we just play random animations in that case.
To unlock more food you have to buy the fridge or the bakery! Once you have that people will ask more variety.
Thanks for playing!
Thanks for playing!
Great suggestions! The gameplay loop came together in final hours of the jam so we couldn't polish the progression very much, but your tips are great place to start.
Thanks for trying it out!
Finally got around to playing it! Was really fun. The 360 view and slick futuristic UI helped a lot with the immersion in the world. TBH I didn't manage to understand the breaker puzzle, the first light was clear enough but I couldn't get the second combination and had to look it up. I love the interaction icons but I would consider having it stand out a bit more by animating it, maybe the same scan line effect as for the portraits? Balance between exploration and dialogue was great so the overall pacing worked really well. Looking forward to more if you decide to continue it!
Played for a while, had lots of fun! The art style has a really strong pallete, I'd maybe just swap the font for a more pixel looking one. The jump feels a bit weak, but the wall jumping is lots of fun. I like the effect of going back to the start of the level when you die, but it feels slow and frustrating when you've advanced a lot.
Me dio mucha risa el final XD Buena demo!
Oh sorry, I missed that! You have to create the object in a "On start of layout".
You can add red lights and people just like I described here, just no need to change strip_iid. If you want to animate people crossing the street, you could change their relative_x to make them move across the road.
To create other cars, you'll have to add them to the project as a Tiled Background and then include them in the WorldObject family. To create an object it's as simple as creating it, setting a strip_id (indicating on which strip of the track it'll be created) and setting the relative_x (-1 represents the left edge of the track while +1 represents the right edge). The (x, y) position you create it a doesn't matter. For example, with a tree:
To make cars move, you can add to strip_iid. Another example with trees:
It's not smooth, but it's the simplest solution. The only problem is that you can run into a rendering glitch if you drive into the tree. A quick fix would be to change the following function in [M] Rendering:
Al final nunca pude derrotar el jefe xd Pero muy entrete el juego, es bueno la mecánica de agarrar y tirar, y se sentía muy cohesivo el estilo de arte el tema y la música.
Me gustó el twist educativo y chileno a juego clásico :)
Thanks for the feedback, it's pretty useful!
Seems a lot of people are having problems with that puzzle, think I'll have to redesign it.
Really detailed feedback! Thanks, I appreciate it.
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The fungi (sing, fungus; L., a mushroom) are heterotrophic organisms of very diverse form, size, physiology and mode of reproduction. They may, however, be defined as, achlorophyllous organisms whose nucleated somatic bodies are usually surrounded by cell walls containing cellulose or chitin or both, and which reproduce asexually and sexually.The study of fungi is known as mycology (, a mushroom and logos, discourse).Fungi is a large kingdom of over 100,000 species. They are achlorophyllous, heterotrophic, spore forming, non vascular, eukaryotic organisms which often contains chitin or fungal cellulose in their walls and possess glycogen as food reserve.They are cosmopolitan in occurrence being present in air, water, soil, over and inside animals and plants. They are more abundant in warm and humid areas. Branch of biology dealing with the study of fungi is known as mycology.
Fungi has absorptive type of nutrition. They are either parasites or saprotrophs. Parasites cause diseases in animals and plants. Branch of biology dealing with fungal diseases and diseases causing fungi is known as fungal pathology.Saprotrophic fungi obtain their organic food requirement from dead and decaying organic matter, fruits, vegetables,meat, etc. Along with certain bacteria, the saprotrophic fungi function as the main decomposers of organic remains.They are essential for recycling of inorganic resources in the biosphere, i.e., biogeochemical cycling. However, saprotrophs also spoil food. Some fungi live as symbionts in lichens (along with algae) and mycorrhiza (roots of higher plants).Most familiar fungi are mushrooms, toadstools, the molds that grow on foodstuff, on wet shoes, the yeast that is used in brewery and bakery industries, etc., but thousands of others are so minute or so evanescent being only slightly developed and soon disappearing, or grow in such obscure situations that they are to be found by trained persons.
Asexual reproduction takes place by several kinds of spores, e.g., conidia, zoospores, chlamy- dospores, basidiospores and aplano.spores.9. Sexual reproduction is highly reduced and is totally absent in members of Deuterom.otina. After fertilization, the characteristic fruiting bodies (ascocarp in Ascomycotina and basidiocarp in ) develop.
The mycelium may be intercellular (growing in between the host cells) or intracellular (penetrating into the host cells).5. If the vegetative mycelium is absent the fungus is called holocarpic (.e.g., Synch.ytrium), but if vegetative mycelium is present, it is called eucarpic (as in majority of fungi).6. From the mycelium develop some special knoblike modifications called haus.toria, through which it seeks nutrition from the host.7. Fungi, being heterotrophic, exist either as parasites or as saprophytes. Parasitic fungi take all their nutrients from the tissues of another organisms whereas saprophytic fungi obtain all their nutrients from dead organic matter.
These categories are used as an aid to identification of fungi. It will be rather impractical to consider the various taxonomic categories as concrete and stable units since the living organisms are constantly evolving and any attempt to put strict lines of demarcation between the taxonomic categories is rather an impossible proposition.These taxonomic categories are laid down on the basis of characters of the various organisms which are liable to change from time to time by hybridization, mutation, and similar other natural processes.The history of classification of fungi can be traced back from the time of herbalists. Ba.uhin, an early herbalist in 1623 listed in Pinax Theatri Botanic nearly 100 species of fungi.Tournefort (1694) in his Elemens de Botanique arranged fungi in 6 groups:(i) Fungus, including all centrally stalked agarics, bole.tes, and polyp.ores;(ii) Boletus, including Cla.thrus, Morc.hella, and Phallus;ADVERTISEMENTS: (ii.i) Agaricus, including Auricularia and all laterally attached polypo.res;(iv.) Lycoperdon, including the various Lycoperdaceae and certain slime molds;(v) Coralloi.des, including the coral fungi and other branched fungi; and(vi) Tube.ra, including subterranean fungi.Linnaeus in 1753 in his Species Plantarum described fungi under the twenty- fourth class Gryptogamia Fungi. He included in Gryptogamia Fungi—27 species of Agaricus, 12 of Boletus, 4 of , 2 of Phallus, 3 of Clathr.us, 2 of E.lvela, 8 of Pezi.za, 8 of , 9 of Lycoperdon, and 11 of Mucor.Then followed the taxonomic treaties of Person. His Synopsis— Fung.orum, in 1801, and his comprehensive Mycologia , a three-volume work appeared between 1822 and 1828. Persoon divided the fungi into 2 classes, 6 orders and 71 genera and was the first to establish a usable system for the classification of fungi.ADVERTISEMENTS: Elias Fries’s System Mycologicum consisting of three volumes published between 1821 and 1832, is a fundamental contribution to the knowledge of fungi. The Systema Mycologicum is the basis of our present-day system of classification and constitutes the starting point of classification of many major groups of fungi.In Systema, Fries grouped fungi into four classes: Coniomycetes,
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If you have an Oracle database 12c ( system, you may notice the size of the partition where ADR resides increases rapidly. And when you dig into it, you will find most of space is likely used by trace files. Basically there are two issues since Oracle
1. Large size of trace files created during the RMAN restore process. Depending on your database size, individual trace file could be in a range of megabytes to gigbytes. Within those files, you will see the following messages:
*** MODULE NAME:(restore incr datafile) 2020-02-02T02:17:30.032315-05:00
kcbtse_print_kod: printing kcbtekod structure 0x7ffc8a3cfccc
2. Large number of trace files created by job processes. Those files are only 4k each, but there could be dozens to hundreds generated each day. This might not be an issue since they are really small. You can identify those files (file name containing j00x) with the following messages:
SCHED 02-09 10:05:19.461 1 00 11275 J000 0(kkjspub):Slave was not marked as idle
Basically Oracle has already identify them as defects and they are fixed in 19.1 and with the Patch 30352715 respectively.
RMAN BACKUP Command Always Generates Trace File Having “kcbtse_print_kod” Message (Doc ID 2311975.1)
Job Processes Fill The Filesystem With Trace Files After Installing Patch 29541742 (Doc ID 2606144.1)
And if the partition is big enough, you can rely on ADR SHORTP_POLICY to delete trace files older than 30 (default value) days. You can reduce the value of SHORTP_POLICY to shorten the retention period if free space is under pressure. Or if you don’t want to change your policy, another option is to use cron jobs on a Linux system to do tricks like the following — finding trace files containing the key message and delete them if they are older than 1 day:
0 * * * * find <ADR trace dir> -name “*.trc” -mtime +1 -exec grep -l -m 1 “Slave was not marked as idle” {} \; -delete >/dev/null 2>&1
0 * * * * find <ADR trace dir> -name “*.trc” -mtime +1 -exec grep -l -m 1 “kcbtse_print_kod” {} \; -delete >/dev/null 2>&1
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Monday, November 24, 2014
Ways to Spend Money Wisely
Way back before I was stripped off of innocence, it was just as expedient as smiling to my parents and uttering magic words for me to get what I want. Growing up, I would still depend on their wallets for mine to be filled. Spending what I have without the fear of going bankrupt was undeniably predictable. I guess it went along with innocence and the thought that I’m their responsibility that makes it all, well, fairish. Only now that I’m all grown up have I fully understood that money can somehow be particularly elusive. Then there’s the reality that it’s temptingly facile to spend money than to earn it.
Being a middle class citizen of this economically striving society gives me much of an advantage (sarcasm paired with optimism). I get to see how money flows in three directions; upwards when you start achieving your dreams and finally living a fancy laid-back got-money-in-the-crib kind of life, straight when everything is just plain neutral and you walk amongst the average, or it could be downwards which is bankruptcy, scarcity, famine, drought, or something that might include the sewers and a life like hell with pockets filled with dirt if not holes. Most people treat money nowadays like it’s a god on earth, heck the aforementioned three directions are not even out of irony. The reality is that when you don’t have money, you would possibly go crazy (like Miss Linda endlessly yodelling along the busy streets).
One important thing to avoid in spending money (other than wasting it on gluten) is going bankrupt. Doing this might not get you Bill Gates rich, but it could totally make you impeccable from financial misery (or you can just live as a monk and avail of the tantamount perks). You can avoid bankruptcy by spending money wisely, and you can do this in a lot of ways.
Start budgeting
You don’t need a degree in order to do this, but people still find it so darn hard to create a budget. Spending is indeed a pleasure, and you have got every right to enjoy what you have earned, with this you must also learn how to keep track of your expenses. There’s not wrong in being a budget conscious dweeb, uh, just know how to organize things. Make it a habit to monitor your bills and purchases, as well as to be aware of your financial situation. Don’t go all out on a party when you’ll be going on a hunger strike the next few days because you ran out of monetary allowance.
Purchase something because you need it, not only because you want it. Kids usually have this habit of pointing out at something in a store and going on tantrums forcing there folks to buy it for them, then after a few days they would just throw it away or eventually get tired of using it. That’s excusable, most kids are stupid. You are no longer a kid, I suppose. You can’t go on tantrums to get what you want anymore. You might even end up in an asylum if you’d even seriously do so. The point is, just keep in mind that the money you’re about to spend is something earned through hard work and should not be wasted on trivial things. Something that you want now would not be the same thing you would want in the long run. Something that you need would surely be something that contributes to your well-being. Thus, choosing what you want over what you need is nonsense.
Window shopping with a bunch of friends is one thing, actual shopping with a friend who has got taste you are sure to admittedly get tempted with is a nuisance to your savings. Most of the time, it is just better to shop alone. You bring a list of the things that you need to buy, and easily avoid those that would just add up to your expenses. It would also be helpful if you decide on what to buy in advance, or canvass first before you make any purchase. Impulse buying can lead you to regrets. And when you’re buying, you should be wiser than the marketer. Sure you can listen to advices from sales clerks, but be sure to spend your money on the right items. A pretty good marketing strategy could lead you off course your budget, and cause you to let go of unexpectedly higher amount of money.
Know where to buy the things that you need for a bargain. Usually, some items that you see in shopping malls can just be found in bargain stores with half the price on the tags. You should also keep an eye on sales and discounts, you can surely save a lot from them. Personally, unless I really need to, I don’t buy much at malls if the item’s price is not discounted.
Distinguish liabilities and assets
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Simply put; liabilities are things that you are responsible for, things that cost you money, time and effort (cliché, huh), assets, on the other hand, are things that are useful and have value, owning them would be advantageous for you. Let me provide you examples through a corny story (which you ought to still read):
There’s this man who lived with his beloved wife, they did not own any estate nor were they employed to any company. They just humbly engaged into running their own business, bread-making. As for abode, they only rented a house. The man started “investing” on furniture (necessity), and appliances (uh… depends) ranging from flat screen TV with family theatre to modern computers. Their business ran smoothly until they had a baby (a blessing, of course). The “rented” house became fully furnished with more modern appliances. Take note, they’d got bills for electricity, water supply, internet, and rent. Then their family started growing, two, three… eight more children to feed and educate. Eventually, the money they’re making from the business did not seem to suffice. They were still able to survive though, and a couple children graduated from high school. They were indeed happy and contented. So the man, as generous as he is to the family, kept buying them gadgets and forms of entertainment. They still “rented” a house, which didn’t have much space anymore, their bills also got higher. They found it difficult to bring their kids to college and find a decently paid job, and worst of all, they got drowned in debt. To cut the story short, they’re still on the same ground (not literally of course!), they had been struggling with money and dodging debt collectors for ages. They then had the same wish everybody has, to turn back time.
So, what’s the moral of the story? Practice family planning, just kidding (partly). Most material things are liabilities, things that make you spend more than earn. Such as smartphones, you pay bills to use it, both electricity and data usage. But do you earn from it or even get back what you spend? Well, yes if your business involves a lot of “smartphone usage”. But other than this, it only adds up to your monthly dues.
A business is a great example of an asset. It obviously brings in something to your bank account. All you need to do is make it grow and keep it flowing. If it’s doing well, don’t stop there and start reaping what you sow and waste them to liabilities. Do the right investments, start another small business without quitting the first one. I know this is easier said than done (believe me, I’m still on the process of practicing what I’m preaching as well). However, this makes more sense and has been evidently observed by most successful business minded people.
A house can either be an asset or a liability. But of course, which do you think is better, putting aside other things to save up for your own house, or paying monthly excruciating bills on something that you don’t legally even own? Try to think of it, an owned house can be an asset by selling it, like a real estate. Huge businessmen do this (but of course, it requires a humongous capital). You can rent for the time being if you’ve got no other choice, but you need to save up to build your own.
Children, are also liabilities, just joking, I’m not going to that topic. (Steve Jobs was once a child too, you know, see, they can be assets as well, LOL). Moreover, if you really love your children, don’t just give them a present. Gadgets and the like don’t really last. Let them whine about the lack of it, but teach them well, provide them what they would really need instead and reward them if you’ve got some extras on the side. Just make sure to secure their future, something that they would be thankful forever (dang, this is me talking earnestly).
Save more, spend less (sounds like a marketing slogan)
Open up a bank account and start saving a part of the money you earn monthly. You can also act like you are paying yourself or giving yourself a salary directly to your savings. (I’ve been doing this, and I also complain to myself when there’s a delay in payment. LOL) Just avoid the urge of withdrawing what you have deposited (that won’t be sensible, would it?). You can even earn annual interests from saving in a bank, though it’s not much, but at least it’s better than nothing. You should organize by setting aside an emergency fund, a don’t-take-me-out savings account, and a you-can-spend-me till the last drop money.
Also avoid expensive habits, such as drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking, gambling, and the illegal stuff. You will be living a healthy life, and have an obese wallet. You’ll be surprised how much you would save by eliminating such vices.
Prioritize things where you are most likely to spend your money on. It is just like when something is not much of use to you, you don’t give much attention to it or even waste any of your time on it. If something is not that important to you and would only serve you temporary gratification, then better not spend much of your cash on it. Ask yourself questions before buying something, such as, will this item change my life for the better? The questions don’t have to be so deep though, just enough to aid you in making right decisions.
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Earning cash can be very toilsome. Money don’t just grow on trees, they don’t just sprout from the ground either. You have got to work hard to earn much. Having money to put into your savings account takes a lot of time, and sweat, spending it however, would only take seconds. As enticing as it may be, spending what you have worked hard for should be utilized wisely. Know your financial limits and stick to your budget. Material things that are considered liabilities only contributes temporary pleasures, invest your money on things that are really necessary for your lifestyle and useful for you to have. Remember as well that one of the most important rules of money is to spend it to get rich.
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Deployment (systemd, Docker, AWS MSK)
Karafka is currently being used in production with the following deployment methods:
Since the only thing that is long-running is the Karafka server, it shouldn't be hard to make it work with other deployment and CD tools.
systemd (+ Capistrano)
You can easily manage Karafka applications with systemd. Here's an example .service file that you can use.
# Move to /lib/systemd/system/karafka.service
# Run: systemctl enable karafka
ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc 'bundle exec karafka server'
# output goes to /var/log/syslog
# This will default to "bundler" if we don't specify it
If you want to use systemd based solution together with Capistrano, you don't need the capistrano-karafka gem. Instead, you can use this simple Capistrano .cap file:
# frozen_string_literal: true
after 'deploy:starting', 'karafka:stop'
after 'deploy:published', 'karafka:start'
after 'deploy:failed', 'karafka:restart'
namespace :karafka do
task :start do
on roles(:app) do
execute :sudo, :systemctl, :start, 'karafka'
task :stop do
on roles(:app) do
execute :sudo, :systemctl, :stop, 'karafka'
task :restart do
on roles(:app) do
execute :sudo, :systemctl, :restart, 'karafka'
task :status do
on roles(:app) do
execute :sudo, :systemctl, :status, 'karafka'
If you need to run several processes of a given type, please refer to template unit files.
Karafka can be dockerized as any other Ruby/Rails app. To execute karafka server command in your Docker container, just put this into your Dockerfile:
ENV KARAFKA_ENV production
CMD bundle exec karafka server
AWS + MSK (Fully Managed Apache Kafka)
First of all, it is worth pointing out that Karafka, similar to librdkafka does not support SASL mechanism for AWS MSK IAM that allows Kafka clients to handle authentication and authorization with MSK clusters through AWS IAM. This mechanism is a proprietary idea that is not part of Kafka.
Karafka does, however, support standard SASL + SSL mechanisms. Please follow the below instructions for both cluster initialization and Karafka configuration.
AWS MSK cluster setup
1. Navigate to the AWS MSK page and press the Create cluster button.
2. Select Custom create and Provisioned settings.
1. Use custom config and set auto.create.topics.enable to true unless you want to create topics using Kafka API. You can change it later, and in general, it is recommended to disallow auto-topic creation (typos, etc.), but this can be useful for debugging.
1. Setup your VPC and networking details.
2. Make sure that you disable the Unauthenticated access option. With it enabled, there won't be any authentication beyond those imposed by your security groups and VPC.
3. Disable IAM role-based authentication.
4. Enable SASL/SCRAM authentication
1. Provision your cluster.
2. Make sure your cluster is accessible from your machines. You can test it by using the AWS VPC Reachability Analyzer.
1. Visit your cluster Properties page and copy the Endpoints addresses.
1. Log in to any of your machines and run a telnet session to any of the brokers:
telnet 9096
Connected to
Escape character is '^]'.
^Connection closed by foreign host.
If you can connect, your settings are correct, and your cluster is visible from your instance.
1. Go to the AWS Secret Manager and create a key starting with AmazonMSK_ prefix. Select Other type of secret and Plaintext and provide the following value inside of the text field:
1. In the Encryption key section, press the Add new key.
1. Create a Symmetric key with Encrypt and decrypt as a usage pattern.
1. Select your key in the Encryption key section and press Next.
2. Provide a secret name and description and press Next until you reach the Store button.
3. Store your secret.
4. Go back to the AWS MSK and select your cluster.
5. Navigate to the Associated secrets from AWS Secrets Manager section and press Associate secrets
1. Press the Choose secrets and select the previously created secret.
1. Press Associate secrets. It will take AWS a while to do it.
2. Congratulations, you just configured everything needed to make it work with Karafka.
Karafka configuration for AWS MSK SASL + SSL
Provide the following details to the kafka section:
config.kafka = {
'bootstrap.servers': ',',
'security.protocol': 'SASL_SSL',
'sasl.username': 'username',
'sasl.password': 'password',
'sasl.mechanisms': 'SCRAM-SHA-512'
After that, you should be good to go.
Troubleshooting AWS MSK
Local: Authentication failure
ERROR -- : rdkafka: [thrd:sasl_ssl://]:
sasl_ssl:// SASL authentication error:
Authentication failed during authentication due to invalid credentials with SASL mechanism SCRAM-SHA-512
(after 312ms in state AUTH_REQ, 1 identical error(s) suppressed)
ERROR -- : librdkafka internal error occurred: Local: Authentication failure (authentication)
It may mean two things: - Your credentials are wrong - AWS MSK did not yet refresh its allowed keys, and you need to wait. Despite AWS reporting cluster as Active with no pending changes, it may take a few minutes for the credentials to start working.
Connection setup timed out in state CONNECT
rdkafka: [thrd:sasl_ssl://]:
Connection setup timed out in state CONNECT (after 30037ms in state CONNECT)
This means Kafka is unreachable. Check your brokers' addresses and ensure you use a proper port: 9096 with SSL or 9092 when plaintext. Also, make sure your instance can access AWS MSK at all.
Connection failures and timeouts
Please make sure that your instances can reach Kafka. Keep in mind that security group updates can have a certain lag in propagation.
Rdkafka::RdkafkaError (Broker: Invalid replication factor (invalid_replication_factor))
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0.197764 | <urn:uuid:1a4c6318-90b6-4a1c-8ea3-f96ae456a3a8> | en | 0.969392 | Males tend to be leaders many are followers. Some have type and gentle souls, while some are poor towards bone. For most guys, cheating is as easy as modifying their unique clothes, and also for other people, it’s an unthinkable and unconscionable violation of count on.
Still, a man’s friends can occasionally cloud his judgment and sway their activities. Is cheating contagious for men? If a man’s pals are cheating on their girlfriends, does that produce him prone to deceive or desire to hack?
There is common answer that is correct for several guys, needless to say, but we could nevertheless shed a tiny bit light on whenever men may be influenced to deceive.
The leader male.
Every musical organization of wolves has its leader male and really does every selection of guys. But unlike wolves, guys will follow another’s lead only when they respect him.
The evident top-dog that barks the loudest might not be the ethical and spiritual leader of a group. Indeed, there can be a good chance a man will try to talk his pal out of his philandering steps in the place of join him within his escapades.
The expert figure.
However, if head man is during the right position of expert during the various other guy or males, the chance of after his dirty lead may boost a bit.
If an armed forces officer or manager where you work creates a very good time for every, it may, for the moment, ensure it is look like they will have permission to sign up at night’s festivities.
Multiple rounds of alcohol and a male-bonding knowledge that make them acknowledged into the brotherhood tends to be tempting. Subsequently an expert figure adds, “We do it all enough time no any will ever understand. It really is like it never occurred.”
The “What happens in Las vegas stays in Vegas” rule of silence can actually move a man into another fact where their various other existence and girlfriend cannot even occur.
This isn’t to say every guy will belong range and participate, however it is a scenario that occasionally enable a man to help make a terrible choice.
“Every crazy animal must be tamed
and busted of its crazy instincts.”
That outdated gang of mine.
Men commonly keep company with other individuals who share their unique passions and beliefs. His key group of buddies beyond tasks are usually a close-knit number of guys whom learn both well, enjoy each other’s business and generally are comfy together.
In teams like this, there clearly was usually no chief or both have unique area where they step for the front side.
The fellow stress swings both means during these relationships, additionally the man who’s the conscience associated with class is found on a level utilizing the social director, the comedian therefore the publicity spokesman.
Mature males cannot generally speaking feel a need to follow the terrible exemplory instance of people they know. Definitely, if they’re all members, their unique ethical compass may aim south.
Fidelity starts at your home.
Most cheaters tend to be born, not made. They go into a relationship understanding complete well they have no goal of letting go of additional ladies. They probably get it done for recreation rather than for really love, but it is only an integral part of their particular way of living and psyche.
However the good guys being totally obsessed about their particular ladies, though susceptible to times of weakness sometimes, usually can end up being depended to make use of great view.
They not simply understand difference in really love and crave, nevertheless they additionally see the duties which come along side having and keeping an excellent woman.
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Surely in these days of quarantine you have had the need to tidy up your space. In these times we are living in, order is the key to maintain a pleasant atmosphere. A balanced environment conveys peace and well-being.
In theory it is all very nice, but the truth is that we are the laziest when it comes to tidying up. The trick is to start tidying up little by little, space by space. So let's get straight to the point. Your wardrobe. You have no excuse... We know it's hard to see all your clothes, some of them with their label, unworn or worn only once. But now is a good moment to decide what to do with it all.
According to Marie Kondo, author of the book "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" where she explains step by step how to organise your home, the most important thing is to get rid of all those things that don't bring us happiness. We should only keep the things that make us happy.
A simple trick to know how to spot your favourite clothes is to look at their position in your wardrobe. Your favourite items are the ones at the front and top of the wardrobe. They are always close at hand and in sight. On the other hand, the ones you don't like so much, we find them at the back of the wardrobe, on the shelves that we don't touch much and those that are difficult to access.
Let's start with the simplest thing, empty your wardrobe, take out EVERYTHING. Leave all the clothes in sight and start separating the pieces you like and the ones you don't like. At this point the important thing is to show no mercy.
To find out which pieces deserve the honour of being in your wardrobe, you can rely on these questions taken from the book "Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste":
Is it in good condition?
We may find pieces that have a hole or a stain. If it can be repaired and the piece brings us happiness, we keep it! If not, we can make rags out of it.
Do I use it often?
Forget the "just in case" clothes. These garments take up space and resources in ou wardrobe, and don't lie to yourself... you will never wear them again.
Are their fabrics harmful to my health?
Formaldehyde, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), perfluorinated compounds and phthalates are found respectively in wrinkle-resistant garments, flame retardants, Gore-Tex (also labelled Scotchgard or Teflon) and vinyl clothing. Nylon, polyester and acrylic are also unhealthy and can cause dermatological allergies.
Do I keep it to not feeling guilty?
It doesn't matter if it's a garment you bought for a special moment that never comes (and never will, oops) or if it's a gift and you're keeping it as a compromise... These are garments that make you feel guilty every time you see them and you're not going to wear them. Easy, say goodbye!
Do I have it because society tells me I need one? Could any other piece do the same job?
Sometimes it happens, probably not to you in particular, but to your friend for sure... and we get caught up in those wonderful marketing campaigns and we end up buying pieces that are very similar to each other and have the same function. Although it is a concept that encompasses the entire wardrobe, we want to emphasize shoes. Prioritise those versatile and comfortable shoes - we don't need a specific pair of shoes for every occasion! We know, it's hard but it's time to say goodbye! We promise it will be worth it.
As we have remarked before, the important thing is to show no mercy, keeping a tidy wardrobe filled only with clothes that bring us happiness is a commitment. Another trick that will help you separate the clothes you keep from the ones you don't is to ask yourself if you would buy them again. If the answer is no... easy, this garment is out of your wardrobe.
Now that we know which clothes are the ones that really bring us happiness and we want to wear and wear again and again, it's time to put them in the wardrobe again and rethink if I really need to buy any more pieces that I need. If this is the case, click here to find a guide to buying sustainable clothes.
With the clothes that we are not going to wear anymore, we can donate them or use second-hand clothes buying and selling apps. Remember, the most sustainable clothes are the ones that already exist!
If you are interested in finding out more about how to have a simplified and sustainable wardrobe, download our step-by-step guide to achieve it, click here!
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Addiction has persisted as a deep-rooted problem for a very long time, globally. In addition, alcohol and drug addicts usually suffer from more than just substance abuse issues. Their psychological problems usually arise from a cognitive disease or an occurrence in their former life. Therefore, drug addicts usually require expert psychological support during their addiction recovery. It is where professional addiction counselors come into the picture. These addiction counselors assist people in overcoming their drug addiction and help them lead a normal life. If you are wondering who exactly needs addiction counseling and why, read on. Here are some people who need addiction counseling. People with Recursive Legal and Financial Issues Frequent problems with the federal or statutory authorities can imply that a person probably often hooks up on something. So when this happens, and people cannot control themselves, they must seek professional assistance. Also, note that drug addicts usually resist arrest violently. Thus, it might not be wrong to say that if any person gets involved in legal matters due to drug abuse, they are likely addicted and need counseling. Apart from that, monetary problems are also consistent among drug addicts. These addicts usually use all their money and…
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How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Alcohol
Alcohol Can Be Harmful if Not Consumed in Moderation Drinking has become a staple in many adult lives. Many tend to go to happy hour after work with their coworkers. Alcohol is often used in many networking events as well. It seems difficult to avoid alcohol no matter where you are. While this is not necessarily a bad thing, some struggle to have a healthy relationship with alcohol. It is important to note that if you do have a problem with drinking, you should seek professional help from trusted addiction counselors such as the ones at Lifeworks Counseling Center. That being said, it is still important to be conscious of your relationship with alcohol to stay as healthy as possible. Risks of Alcohol While many people use alcohol as a way to relax or ease nerves, it is well known for its negative effects. Alcohol not only leads to negative consequences for your mind and body, but it can also affect other areas in your life. Here are some risks that come with drinking: Danger to Your Body: Your overall physical health is in danger whenever you drink. Even the smallest doses can lead to noticeable effects. Alcohol attacks your…
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How to stay sober when life gets rough
Life has ups and downs, that is just how it is. And a lot of time, through life’s stressors and trials, we as humans have a natural tendency to want to find a way to release. We search for ways to vent or distract ourselves, keep ourselves busy, or to try and just forget about our problems. Unfortunately, many people turn to alcohol as an outlet, a way to let go, relax, and try and forget. The problem is when people begin to continuously turn to this behavior to try and relieve stress, it becomes addicting; especially if that person is prone to addiction. Trying to stay sober maybe be proving to be difficult when it is during a rough patch that is lasting longer than usual or a trial that one is facing that turns out to be more difficult than ones they have faced before. Sometimes it feels like there is no way out, and many people attempt to make alcohol the “solution.” The issue with this is that alcohol isn’t a solution, but only a temporary “fix”. It may seem like an impossible task to stay sober during life’s hardships, but it’s important to remember that it…
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About Burnout 4
Burnout 4 is an album by Lil Wayne, Boldy James, Jay Sean, Wacko, Chevy Woods, Smoke DZA, Larry June, ElCamino, sean, Jay Worthy, LNDN DRGS, Sean House, Elcamino. It was released on December 11, 2020 and contains 5 tracks with lyrics.It perfectly describes the following genres: Hip Hop, Pop Rap, Rap. The most popular tracks on this album are B A B, Rokk Dreams (Intro), Legend of Zelda (Outro). | https://lyricspeach.com/albums/burnout-4 | dclm-gs1-170655422 | false | false | {
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One of the classic rejoinders to worries about climate change is the claim that people can move out of highly vulnerable areas into safer areas. Maybe the world will not be willing to accept hundreds of millions of climate-change refugees, but within the US, perhaps people can move from storm-prone Florida to the northern Midwest, or to wherever might prove appropriate, including safer parts of Florida. The US, after all, has a longstanding tradition of individual mobility. And many parts of the country have the space and infrastructure for additional residents.
For such migration to have any effect on the costs of climate change, however, price signals have to be active and relatively undistorted. That is, some set of market prices has to be giving people impetus to leave one place for another. And policymakers have not been letting insurance markets perform their proper work in this regard.
And on the details:
Currently the market for Florida property insurance is in a pretty bad way. This year six relevant insurance companies went insolvent, and for Florida underwriting losses have run more than $1 billion for each of the last two years. Not surprisingly, insurers have been cutting back their coverage in the state or leaving altogether. The end result is that homeowners are finding it much harder to get coverage and finding it much more expensive when they do. None of this should come as a surprise, given the immense damage wrought by Hurricane Ian and previous storms.
Yet politics is stifling market adjustments. Florida has a state-run insurer of last resort, called Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Not surprisingly, that insurer has financial problems of its own, and in May Governor Ron DeSantis oversaw an additional $2 billion in reinsurance support for the company’s efforts. In other words, the state government is stifling the market signals that might induce some of the state’s homeowners to leave for drier pastures.
But don’t put your hopes in the Florida gubernatorial election. DeSantis’s Democratic rival, Charlie Crist, has criticized the governor for not doing more on the property insurance front and has proposed 90-day emergency insurance coverage for residents. That would stifle market incentives all the more.
I should note that water subsidies for the Southwest are another example of the same general phenomenon.
That was then, this is now — Iranian edition
Women protestors were part of the constitutional movement from its earliest stages. They facilitated the strikes, lent their moral and financial support to the constitutionalists, and defended them physically against the forces of the shah. In 1905 women reportedly created human barriers and protected the ‘ulama who had taken sanctuary at the Shah ‘Abd al-‘Azim Shrine from the armed government forces. In the summer of 1906, when nationalists obtained sanctuary at the garden of the British legation, several thousand women gathered to join the strikers.
That is from Janet Afary’s quite interesting The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911, Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, & the Origins of Feminism.
Tuesday assorted links
1. How to run surveys.
2. German wives listen more to German husbands than vice versa.
3. “Currently, women are 3-15 times more likely to be selected as members of the AAAS and NAS than men with similar publication and citation records.
4. Haiti is truly collapsing. Yet few people wish to talk about what happens when a nation-state is no longer a viable nation-state.
5. What is going wrong in Principles classes?
6. Part of why I think AGI will prove difficult, namely that human use their whole body to compute.
7. Summers and Biden.
8. Good review of Vesper, a good movie on the big screen.
Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left-right scale based on the ideological and policy positions of the party receiving the vote. In the first part of the paper, we characterize the size of the “left-wing bias” in the vote of second-generation immigrants after controlling for a large set of individual characteristics and origin and destination country fixed effects. We find a significant left-wing bias of second-generation immigrants, comparable in magnitude to the left-wing bias associated with living in urban (rather than rural) areas. We then show that this left-wing bias is associated with stronger preferences for inequality-reducing government intervention, internationalism and multiculturalism. We do not find that second-generation immigrants are biased towards or away from populist political agendas.
That is from a new paper by Simone Moriconi, Giovanni Peri, and Riccardo Turati.
The polity or is it culture that is Swiss?
Swiss consumer price inflation slowed to 3.3% in September but still surpassed the Swiss National Bank’s 0-2% target range for the eighth month in a row.
Economists had expected the year-on-year rate to hold steady at August’s 3.5%, a 29-year high.
The index fell 0.2% versus August given falling prices for fuels, heating oil, hotels and supplementary accommodation. Prices for clothing and footwear increased.
Here is the full story, via Johann C.
Monday assorted links
1. The case for education, OLS vs. causal identification techniques.
2. Obamacare and the median voter theorem.
3. Why did the proposed ban on Congressional stock trades fail?
4. Claims about nuclear zugzwang. And uncertainty about the effects of nuclear explosions.
5. Donne/Rundell fashion show?
6. Proposals for reforming universities (overall I am myself not so convinced by these; it is “ground troops” that matter).
The US has Relatively Low Rates of Hiring Discrimination
There have now been lots of resume-audit studies in which identical resumes but for the “minority-distinct” name are sent out to employers and callback rates are measured. A meta-study of 97 field experiments (N = 200,000 job applicants) in 9 countries in Europe and North America finds there is some discrimination in every county but, if anything, the USA has one of the lower rates of discrimination while France and perhaps also Sweden have very high levels. These result’s aren’t that surprising to those who travel but they run counter to the narrative that the US is uniquely or especially discriminatory because of its history of slavery and capitalism. Capitalism, in fact, is likely to predict less discrimination. A picture summarizes. The US is here defined as 1 and these are relative levels after controlling for some basic differences across studies:
The authors make a number of interesting points:
…national histories of slavery and colonialism are neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for a country to have relatively high levels of labor market discrimination. Some countries with colonial pasts demonstrate high rates of hiring discrimination, but several countries without extensive colonial pasts (outside Europe), such as Sweden, demonstrate similar levels. Likewise, the lower rates of discrimination against minorities in the United States than we find for many European countries seem contrary to expectations that emphasize the primacy of connection to slavery in shaping the contemporary level of national discrimination. These results do not suggest that slavery and colonialism do not matter for levels of discrimination, rather they indicate that they matter in more complex ways than suggested by theories that posit simple, direct influences of the past on current discrimination.
High discrimination in the French labor market seems inconsistent with claims made by some scholars that discourse or measurement of race and ethnicity itself will tend to produce more discrimination by promoting “groupism” and group stereotypes (Sniderman and Hagendoorn 2007). The efforts in France not to measure or formally discuss race or ethnicity do not seem to have led to less discrimination.
And, reminisicent of Agan and Starr’s work on ban the box policies:
…the cross-national differences we find should not be read as primarily reflecting national levels of prejudice or as indicators of national levels of racism. Our discrimination measures are specific to hiring, and some evidence suggests national levels in discrimination in other outcomes may be different. For instance,we find low hiring discrimination in Germany,15 but Germany has not been found to be low on housing discrimination (Auspurg, Schneck, and Hinz 2018), suggesting weak antiminority prejudice may not account for this result. More likely, low discrimination in Germany could be a result of distinctive hiring practices in Germany: Employees typically submit far more extensive background information at initial application than in most other countries—including, for instance, high school transcripts and reports from apprenticeships (Weichselbaumer 2016). This may reduce the tendency of employers to assume lower skills and qualifications among nonwhite applicants, which is one potential source of discrimination. If so, this suggests the importance of high levels of individual information about applicants as a method to mitigate discrimination (c.f., Wozniac 2015; Auspurg et al. 2018).
It’s notable that these studies have mostly been done in Western capitalist democracies. I would bet that discrimination rates would be much higher in Japan, China and Korea not to mention Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria or the Congo. Understanding why discrimination is lower in Western capitalist democracies would reorient the literature in a very useful way.
Hat tip: Jay Van Bavel.
Trey Howard, arguing nuclear risk is low
From my email:
“Recent headlines prompted me to revisit the list I sent earlier this year. The situation is grim but unlikely to lead to nuclear weapons.
1. Ukrainian military power is over-rated. It still seems like we are giving Ukraine 1/10th of the equipment they would need to actually eject the Russians. Entire categories of weapons are missing: fixed wing aircraft, modern tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. This is reflected in limited battlefield gains. Ukraine can make regional moves like Kharkiv, or bite off salients like Lyman but can’t make the kinds of sustained maneuvers hundreds of miles deep that have ended prior wars. It’s telling how many of their troops are still riding in civilian vehicles. Without huge improvements in airpower and mobility, I think future gains will continue to be incremental. This is still bad news for Russia, but slower gains provide more time for Putin to adjust plans and expectations.
2. Russian military power is under-rated. The dominant narrative is that Russia’s shambolic mobilization will fail. It’s still too early to tell. It’s possible that many of the reservists are truck-drivers and stevedores that will actually improve Russia’s supply chain issues. Commentators scoff at the tactical benefits of mobilization, but that’s not really how to interpret this move. Putin assumed a huge political risk in a bid that shows he still believes the war can be won conventionally.
3. No one is crossing red lines. The Russians have staked out a red line on the provision of long range missiles, and Biden has not budged on that. You don’t hear talk about a NATO no fly zone like we did at the start of the war. Russia has avoided NATO borders in strikes to interdict the flow of weapons (which are infrequent now).
4. Russia has not used chemical weapons. There have been ample opportunities to use them, and these weapons are perceived as carrying a lower penalty to use than nukes.
5. Russia has more non-nuclear “compellence” options. The mysterious Nordstream sabotage was a reminder that Russia has abundant non-nuclear dirty tricks. These include flinging more old anti ship missiles at Ukrainian cities and striking grain haulers in the Black Sea. Watch those Iranian drones.
6. Russia believes it will win the energy war. It seems obvious that this will leave both Russia and the EU poorer than they started before the war. Who will cry uncle in the next 6-9 months? Russia thinks Germany.
7. International political trends still favor Russia. Meloni is not a Putin admirer, but her victory still sends a message that Western publics are skeptical of a pro-Ukraine elite consensus. Elections in Sweden also show this. Let’s see what happens in the US congressional elections. India and China are still buying Russian oil, and they abstained from Friday’s security council vote.
8. Putin’s reign at home remains secure. This is one where Twitter will really lead you astray. Choosing my words carefully…certain people in our media see populations everywhere as perennially on the cusp of radical change. I see thousands of gloomy men shuffling obediently onto troop transports. Their economy has not collapsed; we have consistently underrated the Russian population’s support (or indifference) to this war, and after 8 months no popular generalissimo has emerged from the battlefield who could rival Putin.
9. Russian nuclear threats are rational. It is obvious that a) NATO will not launch a first strike and b) NATO has a decisive conventional advantage over Russia. Neither of those things were true in the Cold War, so Russian nuclear threats today seem jarring. We should continue to see them as warnings not to intervene directly rather than foreshadowing imminent use.
I worry more about fast-moving problems for Putin. A Ukrainian victory that threatens his control over the entire theater would raise the risks (but see point 1). I thought he might make some kind of outrageous, short term ultimatum this week (“you have 2 weeks to leave our land”), but he did not.
I think often of your column earlier this year about our bad habit of doom-scrolling. The surest way to escalate this war would be for us to do it ourselves. I think Putin is willing to wait this out for a very long time. Are we?
PS – So many dramatic things have happened over the past eight months. Ukraine has launched air raids on Russia itself. Biden made several unprecedented gaffes about regime change. Lithuania briefly embargoed Kaliningrad. Nothing came of them, but at the time each seemed very dangerous. Is it possible that the standard metaphors of nuclear war are not capturing this new reality? I hear about 100-sided die where one face is nuclear war, or Herman Kahn’s ladder. Steadily increasing levels of risk.
Maybe there is something more like Taleb’s notion of “anti fragility” here? Below a certain threshold each provocation actually makes nuclear war *less* likely the next time around? Leaders have time to adjust to situations that would previously have been intolerable…etc. Something to consider the next time you read an article that says “dramatic escalation” or “heightening tensions.””
TC again: There you go! My apologies to Trey if a nuke has been dropped between putting this on auto-publish, going to bed, and actual publication.
Sunday assorted links
1. 41 seconds of a former CIA director on you-know-what.
2. New Substack from the great Radley Balko.
3. Should EA emulate Peak Quakerism?
4. The legal culture that is Swiss: “Lidl’s Knockoff Chocolate Bunnies Should Be Melted Down, Court Ruling Suggests.”
5. A new plan for traffic ticket enforcement.
6. Why did we wait so long for wind power?, part II.
7. False theories that explain everything: “Infected women scored higher in tribalism and lower in cultural liberalism, compared with the Toxoplasma-free control group, while infected men scored higher in economic equity.”
8. Roger Farmer on Leijonhufvud.
France facts of the day
France will spend €45bn ($43bn) next year on state subsidies to keep energy costs down…A small cut in business taxes has been spread over two years. The budget, as he pointed out, still does “a little too much” to support the use of fossil fuel…
French public finances will remain stretched. Next year sees no drop in the expected budget deficit, which will remain at 5% of gdp, or €159bn, the same level as in 2022. Public debt will remain at an alarmingly high 111% of gdp, .MEDEF, a business lobby, criticised the budget for a “lack of ambition” on public spending. Mr Le Maire has promised to curb the deficit to 3%, in line with euro-zone rules, but not until 2027. The current deficit level puts France closer to Spain than to Germany.
France spends about 14% of gdp on public pensions, compared with an OECD average of 8%.
Here is more from The Economist. By most measures, the French budget situation could be considered worse than that of the UK, and furthermore France has less room to raise taxes in the future. And across those two countries, which way is the migration flow for skilled labor? Is that about to reverse? And yet it is the current UK government that is taking such a PR whacking…
New issue of Econ Journal Watch
Hemma bäst—or, English versus native language: Illustrating with Sweden and economics, Eva Forslund and Magnus Henrekson question the English-language pull where English is not the native language. Commentary essays are provided by Lars Engwall and by Alberto Mingardi.
What are your most underappreciated works? Responding to an open invitation, 18 scholars with 4k+ Google Scholar cites point to a decade-or-more old paper with cite count below his or her h-index. The contributors are Doug Allen, Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov, Peter Boettke, Nick Bostrom, Bryan Caplan, Joshua Gans, Terri Griffith, Zoe Hilton, Dan Klein, Douglas Noonan, Michael Ostrovsky, Sam Peltzman, Eric Rasmusen, Paul Rubin, Steve Sheffrin, Stefan Voigt, and Richard Wagner.
Cooked: Higher temperatures decrease the rate of economic growth in the United States, according to Riccardo Colacito, Bridget Hoffmann, and Toan Phan. David Barker criticizes their JMCB article on two counts, makes the improvements, dissolves the results, and uses alternate data yielding a sign reversal though also not statistically significant.
Erroneous Erratum: Previously, Stephen Walker criticized an article in Journal of Accounting Research (here and here). Now the authors, Yang Bao, Bin Ke, Bin Li, Y. Julia Yu, and Jie Zhang, have issued an Erratum in JAR, citing Walker’s critiques. Walker takes a hard look and calls on JAR to do an investigation into research misconduct.
Justice to HuttPhil Magness and Art Carden appreciate W. H. Hutt, in rebutting William Darity, M’Balou Camara, and Nancy MacLean.
Film incentive programs revisited: Picking up on an earlier exchange (Bradbury’s critiqueO’Brien and Lane’s reply), Bruce Bird, Hilde Patron, and William Smith bring scrutiny to the reply, new data to bear, and renewed doubts about the original paper, which was published in Regional Studies.
Not being tread uponRyan Murphy rejoins to Jan Ott on the understanding of freedom in the Fraser economic freedom index, and Ott supplies a second reply.
Classical liberalism in Finland, 1900–2022Previously, Jens Grandell told of liberalism in Finland to about 1900. Now Grandell completes the story. The essays contribute to the Classical Liberalism in Econ, by Country series.
Adam Smith’s View of Man: “Smith would not have thought it sensible to treat man as a rational utility-maximiser.” The University of Chicago professor Ronald Coase’s Journal of Law and Economics essay from 1976, republished here by permission, focuses especially on Smith’s Moral Sentiments.
Scattered Hints Concerning Philosophy and Learning: In this little-known essay from the 1750s, Edmund Burke warns against “confined” learning: “The End of learning is not knowledge but virtue; as the End of all speculation should be practice of one sort or another.”
EJW Audio:
Eva Forslund and Magnus Henrekson on English vs. the Native Language
Phil Magness on Quinn Slobodian on Mises
Michael Weissman on GREs in Physical Education Research
The labor market mismatch model
This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of skill mismatch and quantifies its impact on labor productivity. We build a tractable directed search model, in which workers differ in skills along multiple dimensions and sort into jobs with heterogeneous skill requirements. Skill mismatch arises because of information frictions and is prolonged by search frictions. Estimated to the United States, the model replicates salient business cycle properties of mismatch. Job transitions in and out of bottom job rungs, combined with career mobility, are key to account for the empirical fit. The model provides a novel narrative for the scarring effect of unemployment.
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Apple Blossom
April, the sweetest candy of a pink-tinged sky blessing the late afternoon. Rebecca has sat in the garden for hours, watching the birds nibble from the feeder and splash around by the pond. This is her Grandpa’s garden, though he no longer enjoys it. They have him cooped upstairs on a dialysis machine, in a bedroom that smells of sweat and death. Rebecca is not allowed up there: the air, her mother says, is not fit for a young and blooming girl.
She misses her Grandpa. She remembers him mowing the lawn on Sunday afternoons, stooping with his bad back. She remembers him commending the shapes of his moon-faced daffodils. She remembers him singing Frank Sinatra in velvet baritone while pruning the roses.
The roses are now out of control. They cluster all over the flowerbeds along the path, dangling out with their swollen, sumptuous heads. They have grown so tall that they bend over, crippled with the excess weight, the stems stretching to breaking point. Grandpa would be so disappointed if he witnessed the state of his roses.
Sometimes, Rebecca liked to peel off a petal or two. It was hard to resist; once she took the first few, the others came off so easily and they just slid softly into her fingers. Vivid trails of pink and red petals are now strewn along the gravel path, where Rebecca has walked like a bridesmaid.
At the back of the garden is the apple orchard. In winter the trees are gnarled and bare silhouettes, and not a soul would dare enter the darkness between them. Now that spring has arrived they boast their pretty bows of white, flaky blossom. Every year, Grandpa used to send glossy photographs of the apple blossoms to Rebecca and her parents, who lived far away down in London and rarely made it up to visit. The sight of those lovely trees was always a dream to the young girl who yearned for the country.
“When can we go and see them for real?” Rebecca would sigh.
“Oh, sometime in summer. Maybe Christmas.” They were so often dismissive like this. They had waited too long to see him and now he was dying. Even Rebecca knew it.
She was growing quite bored now, in the garden with no-one to play with. She knew there would be supper soon: hot buttered crumpets with a dark smudge of Marmite melting inside them. Real Earl Grey (loose leaf) because that was the only tea Grandpa had in the cupboard. Rebecca thought it smelt a bit fusty, but you could read the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup afterwards. She thought she saw a bird in hers that morning.
Yes, she was quite bored. The hula hoop which she had brought up from London lay abandoned on the lawn. She had tossed away her tennis racket somewhere into a dense clump of shrubs, because it was no fun to play by yourself, hitting a ball against the shed wall. A bag of marbles had burst open on the patio, the little glass balls having long rolled away, to settle amongst their brethren of grass and gravel. Rebecca had no toys left and besides, she was so tired of them all.
Even the insects had bored her, with their slimy indifference to her existence, their urgent desire to escape her clasping girlish fingers. She couldn’t give a toss about snails and slugs, or even butterflies anymore.
It was in this moment of tedium that she spotted the boy through the hedge. She couldn’t believe she had never seen him before. It was a difficult thing not to be spotted, not to make a peep, but Rebecca crawled expertly into a gap and tried not to breathe as she watched him. He was lying on his front, kicking his long legs back and forth. From this angle, he looked about fourteen. His hair was sort of ginger but also sun-bleached, as if he had spent a long time outside in a streak of good weather that Rebecca must have missed. He looked like something the sun had offered as a blessing. She could see his freckles, the concentrated curl of his lips. He was drawing in a big sketchbook which was flipped open, so that sometimes the breeze rippled the pages. Rebecca felt her heart hum and flutter in the cage of her chest, like some swarm of insects had trapped itself deep within her. He was so beautiful.
She wanted to crawl right out of the hedge into the next-door garden, step into the other world where he existed. She wanted to talk to him, ask for his name. See what it was that he was drawing. She felt like the secrets of the world would unlock themselves once she had learned his name. The sapling of herself would unfurl and a bounty of happiness would overflow from her body like the golden leaves in autumn.
“Rebecca!” she froze. It was her mother calling. She had been searching all over the garden for her daughter and now here she was, discovered in the hawthorne with white blossoms caught in her hair and a strange smile on her lips. She saw there were tears in her mother’s eyes, clinging and spilling like rain from the knots of tree trunks. How could there be tears at a moment so pure, so lovely?
“It’s Gramps,” she gushed, “he’s, he’s gone!” And so her mother pulled her out of the hedge and clutched her in her arms, held her so tight Rebecca thought she would burst. It didn’t make sense: he’s gone, he’s gone. As her mother sobbed into her hair, she watched the apple blossoms being blown away by the gathering night wind. Next-door, the boy stretched out his long limbs, packed up his things and disappeared.
(This little story emerged out of a longer short story project combined with prompts from Glasgow Uni Creative Writing Society’s Flash Fiction February challenge (‘renewal’ & ‘orchard’)).
It was a moon-scape she saw, peering into the mug in her mother’s study. Yes, a moon-scape with little lumps of perilous blue and grey, seeping into one another. Or maybe it was another kind of space terrain: she imagined the ground of Pluto, with its eye-like holes and fissures. She gave it a shake, and watched the particles break up and drift away, flotsam on some unreal ocean. A polluted ocean; maybe the earth’s oceans in a hundred years’ time. They told her in school that the world was filling up with waste and one day everything would melt away, like those paintings of dissolving clocks she saw when her mother took her to the museum. You could already tell it was happening, her teacher had said, the way that it gets so warm these days. The mildness of winter. It wasn’t right.
Well, the moon wasn’t right either that night. No; she could not stop thinking about what she saw in that mug. Another world, was it? She wished she could go back and count the dots, knowing that if she did she could start to chart this new universe, and in knowing it better she could sleep. She could enter its landscapes, drift across it with the powers she had in her dreams. Her mother put a sachet of lavender under her pillow and she could smell it through the cotton, soft and sweet…but it was not enough distraction. She needed to know what she had seen. But her mother might hear her and send her back to bed. It had to be worth a try. Sucking in her breath, she tip-toed back into the study, closing the door quietly behind her and flicking on the light. It was an energy-saver bulb, that took ages to properly glow. So she stood in the dull orange light, watching the wall till it got brighter. Then she would pick up the mug and see. Then she would know again.
Finally it was bright enough and so she went to pick up the mug…but this time, oh how the smell caught her! It was sharp and evil like the stench of seaweed, only worse, like the most rotten thing in the world, slowly fermenting. Yes, she smelt it and was knocked backwards almost. But it was fascinating. She let her nostrils quiver and sniff deeper as she held the mug to her nose. The she looked into it again and saw how the dunes and lumps had mushroomed and the blue was turning greenish, or maybe that was just the duller light. Still, these were definite changes. And she was thinking of the clumps of toadstools she’d seen in the school playground, while they were out measuring soil quality and watching the teacher bending in the grass with a thermometer. They were big brown flat things, ugly and intriguing, and she knew that some of them were poisonous, and some of them if you poked them let out a puff of steam. She wished she could touch these mushrooms but the thought of putting her finger in the mug was repulsing. It was kind of like a horror movie, she thought, where they showed you somebody’s festering wound, only it never looked quite real. Still, you would not like to touch it, it was just sort of funny to look at. No, she would not touch it; instead she shook it again, and this time the dunes did not dissolve, but she could see little fissures rippling across them. Her stomach turned over as if emptying something, and she felt a surge in her gullet. She put the mug down and breathed in deeply, trying to rid herself of the awful smell that clung to her like a disease.
She wondered what it was that these microbes loved so much about her mother’s tea. She considered if they’d accept her into their colony. Like them, she was partial to a glass of milk, but maybe not tea, unless it was laden with sugar. She wondered how they’d order themselves, scattered about as they were like that. Bulbous, growing over each other. It would be a ruthless economy. She sat down on the comfy office chair and span around slowly. The queasiness was leaving. She liked how all the objects rushed around her, melting into long white and orange lines. She stifled a giggle; she must not wake her mother up. She whispered stories to the mug. Telling them about the boy she wrote a letter to once in class and the time she left her homework on a bus. Soon she would say goodbye to her mother. She knew that it could not be long before she was ready to join them. They would be like ants, or the tiny people in Gulliver’s Travels – Lilliputions – running all over her body. Only, they were so small you could not see them. You could just imagine them, growing and multiplying, all over her skin.
They made the moon rocky and bumpy, like that boy whose skin was cratered with pimples. She had seen on television once two fat ladies in white coats scrubbing away green things from the corners of a bathtub. She and her mother didn’t have a bathtub, but sometimes she saw things come out of the plughole in the shower. Great streams of wiry hair that poked out, or smeared themselves upon the porcelain. Once a huge spider. She heard its legs patter and she screamed, and her mother tried to lift it out with a gardening trowel. Sometimes there were little black seeds all over the bath, and the first time she thought maybe a plant had vomited up all its babies (in class that morning she had been drawing diagrams of sepals and stigmas and filaments and seed-pellets), but then her mother told her it was just exfoliating beads from some lotion she had. She tried the lotion and it made her skin burn, but it was not unpleasant; kind of like the scratch of dry sand. It left a pinkish blotch on her legs. She was wondering if the moon was like that: all pastures of dry sand. Were there lakes or ponds or waves? Trees, even? In the mug she could not see any trees, and the only waves were from when she rippled the sticky liquid with the swirl of her wrist. She thought maybe if she lived there she’d have to invent some more things, to keep her interested. There would be a gift shop, for one thing. You could buy t-shirts with maps of the land on them, with close-up details of the blue-green growths and the tea-stains that ringed the china walls. It was like a whole continent splayed out, with all the countries slotted together, their landmasses enveloping each other. A strange thing.
She would take the mug into school on Monday, for show-and-tell. It was the right thing to do. Everybody else would bring in their cinema tickets, their remote-controlled helicopters, Pokemon cards, a book they had read over the weekend. And they would talk about themselves, nattering away about this thing that had brought them their childish joy. Then she would take to the stage, like the prime minister on the telly, clasping her precious mug, and she would tell them how she had found the moon. At first they would laugh, she recognised that, but then they would realise how clever she was. How amazing was her discovery. She giggled just thinking about it. But I must let it rest, she reflected. After all, she needed to let her colony expand, for the spores to pile up higher upon one another until they were spilling over the edges of the mug. She wanted her colony to be huge and impressive. I mustn’t let them escape. She took a postcard from the wall – it was a painting of a lemon and a teacup by Francis Cadell – and she placed it over the mug. The moon was safe, and its surface would continue to bubble and grow in their new warmth and darkness. So she tip-toed back to bed and lay awake, her mind floating around this wondrous space. Each star was a point of contact, a possibility.
And she spoke to the stars, even as she jumped between them, as you jump between chairs and tables and sofas when you play ‘The Floor is Lava’. Each one told her a story, and she basked in the glow of all those words weaving a tapestry around her. Soon she could slip into sleep, soon, soon, soon…she closed her eyes to a new darkness, felt the warmth of the space beneath the sheets. The smell of mould dissipated from her brain, and now there was only silence, the scent of lavender, wafting in delicate waves…
When tomorrow arrived, it was Monday, so she got dressed for school and went downstairs. To her horror, she saw the mug up-ended on the draining board. What on earth…? Mummy? Her mother came down to boil the kettle and make her porridge, but was startled to see her daughter crying so early in the morning. What is it, darling? She was already late for work, and starving. She threw her handbag on the table and brushed down her jacket. What is it? she repeated. The child was pointing at something next to the sink. Mummy! she wailed, you’ve killed the moon!
Autumn Reflections
The dawn cracks open the sky like a chestnut, and gold light pours on the concrete and grass like showers of molten topaz. Somehow it’s October and I’m wondering how I got here. Where the summer has disappeared, along with the warm air and the billowing roses, with August and its hydrangeas; it seems time has elasticated itself, and snapped at the strangest of places. Everything may break free now. The world slows down, as trees shake themselves clean of another year. Leaves cascade on the ground, and as I walk I hear the susurrations of their skeletons, rustling like the sound of rain at night.
Autumn is a quiet season. We retreat inwards. Gone are the sparkles of summer voices, the throb of fashionable neon and jet planes soaring to boozy utopias. The Pimms is perhaps swapped for something richer, sweeter, warming. A good cider, red wine, some inventive cocktail combining Kahlua and caramel-flavoured tequila. You think of those people hanging out of balconies, their bare skin glowing in the cold air, the slivery iridescence of cigarette smoke curling from their nostrils. There are the box-sets, the television dinners. Going out is such an effort; it is the not knowing, the tentativeness of the weather. Things would be easier if the sky kept to its promises.
I wanted to go blackberry-picking this year. I found a place along the Kelvin where they sprawl out of the bramble-bushes, poking like fat sapphires through wire mesh fences. I need to find some leafy suburb for conkers. When I was little, we spent the October holidays at my Nan’s in Milton Keynes. There was a copse of horse-chestnut trees and every year we brought back a black bin-bag full of conkers, and I’d shine them up with vinegar and nail varnish before taking them into school. There’s something incredibly satisfying about the way they feel in your palm, solid and smooth, nourishing somehow. I didn’t quite make it in time for the blackberries, but I did the walk again all the same, sweeping my feet through the trails of leaves. Autumn had left its burnished light, a shimmer on the river. I love the feelings of these late afternoons, where darkness is like a comforting hug, handed through chasms of stars and amber.
Once, we had a school project, to gather up all the fallen leaves we could find and press them into a picture behind glass. A lesson in natural materials, perhaps, in arranging colour. We were flattening the landscape, making art; in the veiny intricacies of each leaf lies a million hidden histories. We’ll never know, and they’ll fade and die eventually.
Autumn is always a time of nostalgia. It is that paradoxical time where death reveals itself through visceral beauty. The life forces of summer unfurl and wither and fall away, and yet there is a beautiful melancholy in the sad palette of reds and golds and browns, the snuffling of squirrels amongst tufts of bracken. Everything is scattered: the husks and roots and fragments. You find them in the strangest of places, tucked not only in forests but flowing out of drains, wedged in concrete and windowpanes. People spend their Sundays loafing with films and Scrabble and roast dinners. Or maybe they don’t anymore; but maybe they did once.
By September, we’re back at school, back at uni. Fresh starts amidst the fall. Sharpened pencils, the smell of polished leather. The heating goes on for chilly mornings. Socks warmed up on radiators. That was before I had a flat of my own, and became too stingy. The wind, like some malicious spirit of winter, slips through my single-glazed windows, blasts the rose from my cheeks. I make do with the illusory effect of candles, the quick fix of hot water bottles. You can warm anything with the scent of nutmeg and cinnamon, a flash of cayenne pepper. Stodgy soups and slabs of bread. I watch the pumpkins fill up in the shops, imagining a sea of faces, waiting to be painted on. Or carved out. Stacks of apples to be bobbed, pubs to be terrorised by the horrid costumes adorned by students. Halloween is not quite what it was when I was younger. I miss the parties with the clouds of cobwebs and incense haunting the rooms of my house, fake spiders draped from the chandelier; the echoing sound of dub-step, and the taste of vodka and food colouring. Edible brains and blood-coloured fizzy laces. The sugar-rush; the hungover fall and slumber. Soon there’ll be fireworks, splintering pigments across the sky. As ever, I’ll watch them from the high-up floors of the library. Remember being in first year, where I sat on a Saturday night, my eyes blinking at a computer screen as I read Byron’s poem ‘Darkness’, for a seminar. The rockets flared and pinks, yellows and blues blossomed in flowers of light as I imagined his vision of desperate apocalypse.
That same semester of uni I sat in a cold lecture theatre, teeth chattering as I pressed my face into a perfumed scarf, the animated man standing on the podium in a tweed jacket reciting snatches of Shelley:
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes […]
And I, feeling so small and new and ignorant in the world, was sucked in by the spirit of the wild West Wind, not knowing how it would take hold of me and make me fall in love with this city that I have now grown so used to. Fallen into, as one sinks into a favourite old sofa. The ‘hectic red’ is blood-like, beautiful, sinister. Isn’t it lovely, to imagine every leaf a little ghost, cast away from its tree into a journey of exploration and retreat? Wearing the plum-coloured lipstick, the thick mascara and black coat; could not I be one of the ‘pestilence-stricken multitudes’? For autumn is infectious; her colours allure like the striped warnings of insects, the ‘Smoking Kills’ labels on cigarettes…we cannot help but buy her palettes, absorb her force through woollen fabrics…
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Slowly, it would be nice to become more ginger, adding redness to my hair through soft washes of auburn. I would like to have hair the colour of leaves, as they enter that strangely vibrant stage of fading. From fire to fawn. Can you not imagine the smell of the roses as they wilt for winter, so luscious in the fat of their fragrance? There are roses, still, weathering the rainfall and cold. There are white ones on University Avenue, dripping with raindrops; their petals lie about them like the shredded remains of love notes.
By the time autumn has ended and entered the shrine-like stasis of winter, I will have forgotten my sorrows, finished my dissertation. This is all hope and relief; but isn’t that what autumn is: the sparkle of Christmas festivities on the horizon, the embracing of frugality and calm after a toxic summer? Apple pie, with ice cream and Amaretto, instead of beer and salad? An ethereal, rustic beauty that inspires fountains of poetry? For what better thing to do on a crisp autumn evening, than to sit at the window with a cup of tea, leafing the pages of a book and feeling purer – not just a hipster, defined by the vague fashions of everything around you – but a lost soul re-enacting the perfect scene of reading, as it plays out through the ages. For global warming might prolong the first fall of snow, but for now autumn will always be coming, and there is nothing quite like language to capture the tinctures of foliage, the crunch of acorns underfoot – the endless song of autumn’s calling. Right now it is raining – a luxurious, slow rain that pours through the one o’clock darkness – but next time the weather is good, I will go to Victoria Park and watch the swans, white against the scarlet leaves, the silver glass of the pond.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
(W. B. Yeats, ‘The Wild Swans at Poole’).
Ten Things for Autumn:
1. Apple Pie Soup
2. Blackberry gin!
3. Burgundy lipstick
4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‘Autumn Song’
5. Manic Street Preachers, ‘Autumn Song’
6. Go foraging for mushrooms and fruit, or just fairy-spotting
7. Cinnamon-stick candle
8. Ginger tea
9. A tartan scarf
10. The Alasdair Gray exhibition at Kelvingrove
mushrooms in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh
three haiku for tomorrow:
sky of fire opal
opens a new morning of
coldness and woodsmoke.
a new harvest moon:
I could take all these gold days
for some old solstice.
these trees shed apples
to sour in the turning ground
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Oil is likely to hit $200 a barrel under the disastrous G7 plan to cap Russian prices, an SEB analyst says
The G7 is exploring plans to cap the price of Russian oil.
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• Oil prices could surge to above $200 a barrel if the G7 decides to try to cap Russian prices, an SEB analyst has said.
• The G7 said Tuesday it's exploring the feasibility of capping Russian oil prices, to dry up funding for President Vladimir Putin.
• But Bjarne Schieldrop of Swedish bank SEB said Russian production could drop, ramping up the pressure on the market.
Oil prices are likely to surge to above $200 if the G7 implements plans to cap the price of Russian crude and products, according to an analyst at Swedish bank SEB.
Bjarne Schieldrop said Wednesday that the plans were a "recipe for disaster", given the high levels of stress in the oil market, where prices have more than doubled to around $120 a barrel this year.
The G7, a group of the world's most economically developed democracies, said Tuesday it is exploring the feasibility of capping Russian oil prices. It wants to stop the country from profiting from the surge in energy prices driven by its invasion of Ukraine.
The group, which includes the US, Germany and the UK, said it may attempt to stop the transportation of all Russian oil not purchased at or below a certain price. Full details are yet to be worked out, although plans would likely need widespread international agreement to be effective.
Schieldrop said the plan seems "neat on paper, but it sounds like a recipe for disaster right now."
He said strong demand and low supplies had handed producers such as Russia immense power in the market this year. And he said Russia could choose not to sell its oil if a price cap came into force.
Schieldrop said the plans could cause Russian production to fall by as much as 2 million barrels per day, which would ratchet up the pressure on an already-stressed oil market.
"G7 countries are today praying that Russian oil exports will not go down," Schieldrop said in a note on Wednesday. "Because if they do, then the oil price will spike from the current $117 a barrel to above $200 a barrel."
He added: "Ultimately, if the price cap regime is implemented and buyers try to adhere to it, then naturally Russia will say 'pay the price or no oil'."
Russia produced around 10 million barrels per day in May, analysts estimate. Strategists think Russian output is already set to decline thanks to the EU's plans to ban 90% of Russian oil imports by the end of 2022.
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As a piano player you have surely come across chord symbols in jazz standards lead sheets. These chords are embedded with a huge amount of information and trying to interpret the actual meaning of these chords could sometimes be overwhelming.
How to Play Rootless Voicings?
1. Start by playing the regular chord as a 7th chord (4-notes) in root position
2. If the chord is a maj7 or a m7 chord: Substitute the root with the 9th
3. If the chord is a dominant chord: Substitute the root with the 9th (check if it is 9, b9 or #9) and the 5 with the 13th (check if it is 13 or b13)
4. For m7b5 chords: Don’t use any substitutions. Play them as a regular 7th chord (m7b5 chords are best when complete)
That’s all!
What are rootless voicings?
A rootless voicing, as the name implies, is a voicing in which the root of the chord is not present. For example a Cmaj7 rootless voicing could just be the notes E G and B.
Note: There’s one exception in this course: The m7b5 chord which will always include the root and not tensions. This chord sounds best when the entire chord is played.
Why are rootless voicings useful?
As a piano player you are in charge of providing the harmony (or even when playing alone). Rootless voicings allow you to play the essence of a chord while giving the bass player the freedom to create interesting bass-lines without clashing with your notes. If you are playing alone you can provide the bass-line on your left hand and use rootless voicings on your right hand. Also, when played on the left hand, rootless voicings give you the ability to improvise on your right hand and still provide the harmonic progression or; create even more interesting chords by adding upper structures and/or short phrases on your right hand while comping.
What are closed voicings?
In a closed voicing notes appear in order without gaps and are usually contained within the octave which makes them easy to play with one hand. For example a Cmaj7 is C E G and B. If we played the notes in that order (or any inversion such as E G B C or G B C E) without leaving any gaps the voicing is said to be closed and it will fit within one octave. On the other hand if we play C G E B then the voicing will expand across two octaves. This type of voicings are called open and both hands are often needed to play them.
Why 4-note voicings?
There are many reasons why you should learn and play 4-note voicings. Although 2-note and 3-note voicings are also effective, 4-note voicings provide a well-rounded, interesting and coherent harmonic context, they are not too ambiguous while still allowing the bass-line to flow nicely even when the bass player introduces inversions or reharmonizations. Also, 4-note voicings are very easy to understand and play since, as we will see later, they are just an evolution of simple seventh chords.
How to turn a seventh chord into a rootless voicings?
The concept is very simple:
Take a seventh chord and substitute the root with the 9th. And in the case of dominant chords also substitute the 5th with the 13th. Minor 7b5 chords do not require any substitutions.
Note: Substitutions on m7b5 chords either introduce too much tension or ambiguity. While it is possible to use substitutions on m7b5 chords we will not be exercising the option to do so in this course.
When we use substitutions and decide whether to use a 9 or a b9 or a #9 we need to consider the chord-scale that best fits the chord’s function. This is a vast topic and we will not look at chord / chord-scales pairings in detail, but know that the different substitutions are not random, they have a reason behind them.
Practice your Rootless Voicings with a Workout
Complete workout with an effective progression in the key of C major
If you want to dig deep into this concept you can visit and download the interactive PDF with video lessons, workouts and complete jazz standards demos using 4-note rootless voicings.
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Now LA native, Ringgo better known as MNDSGN, has gracefully included those closest to him, a plethora of instruments and varying creatives in a wonderful culmination that has resulted in the final product, Rare Pleasure. The album includes a mix of vocals and instrumental beats that all blend together with an ethereal vibe. It will leave you with a heightened sense of self worth and the drive to fully absorb the small but important things such as the simple process of making a cup of coffee in the morning to watching the sun set in the evening. Take nothing for granted, slow down, enjoy life and the people around you.
Congratulations on the release of Rare Pleasure! Every track feels so lighthearted and joyful yet still very personal. Could you explain a bit about the process and concepts behind the album?
Thanks, I appreciate that. Rare Pleasure is a culmination of things. Most importantly I feel like it's the culmination of community and appreciating life in its simplicity. I enjoyed allowing others to really have a voice and spirit in the music during the recording process. At times I wasn't sure what the record was supposed to be but it was always a matter of allowing life to unfold so I can hear the underlying music within itself. I'm still processing it to be quite honest.
Could you tell us a bit about what led you to an artistic and musical career? Are there moments and or times throughout your life that stand out as significant in this regard?
Being inspired and encouraged. It's one thing to be motivated to do something or learn something new, but it makes a world of a difference when there are those around you who continue to encourage you to keep on evolving. All those people who were there for me know who they are and I'm eternally grateful for that. Relocating to LA in 2011 and embracing a sense of community was a pivotal moment in my growth. Constantly meeting people who were just as passionate and driven poured so much joy back into the creative process.
Rare Pleasure includes some previously released work on the album Hope You’re Doing Better, Slowdance, and Medium Rare. In terms of reusing and repurposing older projects, how did you go about choosing which pieces get to be experienced in new ways?
Those three songs were released as singles leading up to the release of the album. Nothing on Rare Pleasure was repurposed however I have often thought about doing reinterpretations of previously released works. I'm on the fence though because I would always much rather be making something new.
In what ways were your friends and family involved in the creation of Rare Pleasure and how have these relationships helped to shape your work as a whole?
It goes back to being inspired and encouraged. I've always thrived knowing my work was more of a byproduct of observing life and my relationship with the world and those around me.
The album as a whole feels extremely bebop, jazz and tonally soft inspired. Who and or what are some of your most inspiring pieces of media and people?
Sun Ra, Les Baxter, George Duke, Herbie Hancock, Piero Piccioni to name a few. When I was writing Rare Pleasure, these artists really informed and heightened my sensibility with the way they adapted to their time and as a result created these otherworldly landscapes. Library music, soundtracks, exotica, lounge, etc. I'd say that these worlds very much gave birth to RP.
I especially enjoyed the various pieces that included harp segments as it made those tracks feel as if you (the audience) were wandering through a forest filled with magical creatures. Was it your intention to make the album feel this way and provide such vivid imagery?
I'd say so. I remember not wanting the album to be very long but at the same time having a lot of depth and density to it. I can really attribute all the musicians that played on the record for really giving it that expansiveness. In the end, what resulted was more of a sonic tapestry that I couldn't be happier about.
Is there a specific track from Rare Pleasure that you feel most connected with and if so, what aspects of that song lead you to feel this way?
Colours of the Sunset. It was the last song I wrote and recorded vocals to. For that very reason I feel closest to it. It's a short tune but I wrote the lyrics in its entirety in the time it took for the sun to set as I gazed from my window, as if it was co-writing with me. Sometimes you have these creative dry spells and forget what it is you're even doing or why. Writing this song somehow helped pull me out of that.
I absolutely adore your style. Do you often seek out second-hand oriented apparel and do you have some favorite spots that you go back to repeatedly?
Thank you. It's not often I leave the house with the sole intention of shopping for clothes, but I do like stopping by places when I happen upon them or see something that catches my eye. There's a few places in LA I check out from time to time but my favorite is thrifting when I'm on the road and or traveling internationally. The more obscure the better. I'm always on the lookout for hats.
Are there any creative fields or media styles that you'd wish to explore outside of what you are already working on? If so, have you ever thought about combining these fields with your music?
Most definitely. I've always wanted to do some hand drawn animations or cartoons. I'm not sure why there isn't more of a bridge between animation and music communities. Or maybe there is and I'm just not tapped in. When in doubt you have just got to do it yourself.
Have you found that your creative spaces and or processes have altered over the course of the last year and a half as a result of Covid-19 and the wide range of sociopolitical unrest happening around the world? If so, in what ways?
I personally have been choosing to take a step back from feeling like I always have to be producing something every day and every second. I acknowledge the fact that being a workhorse has got me to where I am, but after the past year and a half it's got clearer that I need to put more emphasis into living and taking care of my life, simply by having more intention and awareness. The way I'm living is always going to inform how I'm creating so I'm just trying to align it all.
What can we look forward to hearing from you in the near future? Possibly a new music video or any upcoming events that you want to give a shoutout?
A couple videos in the works. There's a lot of music I've started with other artists I'd love to get back to work on. I am hoping to tour the album if things clear up a bit. In the meantime I'm just going to be drinking lots of tea and listening to records.
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Mozilla rolls out encrypted DNS over HTTPS for US-based users
David Murphy
Mozilla has begun the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users of its Firefox browser. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to confirm no major issues are discovered as this new protocol is enabled for Firefox’s US-based users.
A little over two years ago, Firefox publisher Mozilla began work to help update and secure one of the oldest parts of the internet, the Domain Name System (DNS). To put this change into context, it needed to briefly describe how the system worked before DoH. DNS is a database that links a human-friendly name, such as, to a computer-friendly series of numbers, called an IP address (e.g. By performing a “lookup” in this database, a user's web browser is able to find websites on their behalf. Because of how DNS was originally designed decades ago, browsers doing DNS lookups for websites - even encrypted https:// sites - had to perform these lookups without encryption.
Because there is no encryption, other devices along the way might collect (or even block or change) this data too. DNS lookups are sent to servers that can spy on people’s website browsing history without either informing them or publishing a policy about what they do with that information.
“At the creation of the internet, these kinds of threats to people’s privacy and security were known, but not being exploited,” Mozilla said in a release. “Today, we know that unencrypted DNS is not only vulnerable to spying but is being exploited, and so we are helping the internet to make the shift to more secure alternatives.”
It is doing this by performing DNS lookups in an encrypted HTTPS connection. This helps hide people’s browsing history from attackers on the network, and also helps prevent data collection by third parties on the network that ties a computer to the websites it’s used to visit.
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0.038872 | <urn:uuid:5967d7b3-84b9-494c-9fbf-bb8f365566a5> | en | 0.95928 | How a traditional IRA works
In simple terms, a traditional IRA is a "pre-tax" investment account. You make contributions from your income before taxes are taken out, and the money grows tax-free until you withdraw it in retirement.
Since you're likely to find yourself in a much, much lower tax bracket in retirement than during your working years, putting money into a traditional IRA can be a great way to save on taxes. You may even be able to get a tax write-off for your contributions, to boot.
Many types of investments are OK inside an IRA, including stocks, bonds, ETFs and mutual funds. The gains in the value of those investments will be tax free, too.
Because it's such a potent tool, the government establishes limits on how much you can contribute each year.
For 2022 — and for the last few years going back to 2019 — that annual limit has been $6,000, or $7,000 if you're over age 50. That figure is shared among all of your traditional and Roth IRA accounts.
When the time comes to make withdrawals, the money you stashed away is taxed as income. How much you pay in taxes depends on your income tax bracket in retirement.
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Benefits of a traditional IRA
Anyone is eligible
One enormous positive of the traditional IRA is that any working individual is eligible to set up an account and begin making contributions.
You could be building up your retirement savings before you even graduate high school.
A nice tax write-off
Depending on your income and whether you or your spouse is covered by a retirement plan at work, your IRA contributions may be partly or fully tax deductible.
Better still, the IRA write-off is an "above-the-line deduction," which means you can take it even if you don't itemize deductions.
Money for your first home
You can withdraw $10,000 of your IRA investments toward the cost of your first home. You’ll face income taxes on the withdrawal, but won’t be subjected to an early withdrawal penalty.
Money for college
Similarly, you can use your IRA contributions to pay for qualifying college expenses — not just tuition but fees, books, supplies and more.
Again, you’ll face taxes on the withdrawal, but won’t have to pay the penalty.
Limits and requirements
No early withdrawals
The biggest caveat of making contributions to an individual retirement account is that you cannot touch your money too early, because withdrawals before age 59 ½ can be very costly.
The IRS will require you to pay a stiff 10% tax as a penalty.
Also, remember that withdrawals from your IRA will be counted as income. If you're still working, that money could bump you up to a higher tax bracket and result in you owing more money than expected at tax time.
Mandatory withdrawals post-retirement
That said, you can’t keep your money in your account indefinitely.
Once you turn 72, you must start making withdrawals — called required minimum distributions — or you’ll face a tax penalty of up to 50% of any amount you fail to take out as required.
The size of your required minimum distributions is determined by your account balance and a life expectancy table the IRS maintains.
You may not qualify for the tax deduction
Not everyone is eligible to deduct IRA contributions on their tax returns. Your income level, marital status and filing status can all make things tricky.
If you're single, you can get a full deduction up to the amount of your contribution limit, no matter how much money you make.
On the other hand? If, for example, you're married filing separately with a spouse who is covered by a retirement plan at work, you'll get no deduction if your gross income is $10,000 or more.
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Differences between a Roth IRA, a traditional IRA and a 401(k)
The main difference between a Roth IRA and a traditional IRA is pre-tax versus post-tax contributions.
With a traditional IRA, you contribute pre-tax money. But with a Roth IRA, you pay taxes upfront on your contributions. When you withdraw the money in retirement, your withdrawals and earnings are usually tax-free.
A 401(k) is a retirement account that you open through your employer. As part of your workplace benefits, a portion of the contributions you make to your 401(k) plan may be matched by your employer. That's as close as many people come to free money.
An IRA can be a good choice for self-employed people, freelancers and small business owners — basically anyone who doesn't have a pension plan or 401(k).
When choosing between a traditional IRA and a Roth IRA, ask yourself: What will my income (and tax bracket) look like when I retire? It seems counterintuitive, but your taxable income can actually go up after you retire.
So long as you think you’ll be in a lower tax bracket in retirement, it can make more sense to go with the traditional IRA. You’ll get tax benefits now and pay taxes at a lower rate later on.
And of course, even if you're employed by a company offering a 401(k) program, you may choose to have a traditional IRA and/or a Roth IRA as well.
How can I get a traditional IRA?
Setting up a traditional IRA is as simple as going to the bank and showing a few pieces of identification.
Although there may be an initial deposit requirement, some banks will waive that if you show you have a steady income and are able to make regular contributions.
You also have the option of opening up your traditional IRA with a robo-advisor. It's easy to open an account, and they do all the heavy lifting so you don't have to actively manage your IRA.
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What is a Rain Garden?
A rain garden, also known as a rainwater garden or bioswale, is a type of green infrastructure designed to manage stormwater runoff or what you might call “rain drainage.” It has a shallow depression, where surface water accumulates and gets filtered. The rainwater then slowly seeps into the ground, which helps in reducing flooding, pollution, and erosion.
You can construct a rain garden in any area with sufficient space for the water runoff to collect and a slope that allows for drainage. A rain garden also works by diverting or slowing down stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces such as roofs, driveways, or parking lots. This can be done by planting vegetation such as grasses or shrubs around the perimeter of the structures where runoff typically collects.
How does it Work?
Rain gardens are a great way to control water runoff and reduce the amount of polluted stormwater that reaches the ocean or other water bodies. They also provide habitat for wildlife, such as frogs and dragonflies, which are in danger of extinction due to the loss of wetland areas.
As we stated before, a rain garden is usually a shallow depression (in basic terms, a shallow excavated hole) in the ground that is filled with plants, rocks, and soil. Its primary purpose is to collect the water runoff from higher elevated areas and pull that water back into the ground before it leaves the property. The soil types will vary depending on where you live, but most rain gardens have a layer of sand or gravel at the bottom to help soak up and filter out pollutants. The plants in a rain garden will also vary depending on your climate, but they need to be able to withstand heavy rainfall, so nothing too delicate.
What are the Benefits of a Rain Garden?
There are numerous benefits to a rain garden, hence their popularity among property owners in both the spring and fall.
• A rain garden is a low-cost property project. Compared to other property projects like pavers, patios, and green roofs, a rain garden is far less expensive. Anywhere from $2,000-$10k.
• It can help curb water pollution. We already talked about this above, but the main component of a rainwater garden is that it can stop water pollution in your area by naturally filtering out chemicals through rock minerals and plant respiration cycles. Water runoff is the #1 cause of pollution in US Waterways.
• Rain gardens are also a great way to improve your home’s curb appeal! They provide a natural buffer between the street and the house, creating a more welcoming entrance.
• Create a space for pollinators-or don’t. Pollinators such as bats, bees, and butterflies struggle to survive in urban environments. They need flowers and water to stay alive and pollinate. Having a space for them to take a quick sip of water and pollinate is excellent for the environment and could be beneficial for other property plant life. Not a fan of bees? There are plenty of plants you can that will limit attraction.
• Nourish your property soil. Rain gardens pull water into your soils, mineral runoff, and plant contribution, which can help nourish your soils on site—an excellent way to start preparing for even more planting and soil relocation in the future.
What’s a Rain Garden Design?
The best way to design a rain garden is to consult with an expert in this field. You probably expected that response, and you aren’t jazzed about paying a contractor. Still, designing and building a rain garden is more than digging a hole and planting. The slope of your yard and soils heavily determine your rain garden. You DON’T want to purchase items only to discover that your rain garden isn’t helping control water runoff on your property.
A specialized contractor or landscape artist will help you with all design aspects, including what plants will work best for your local climate and soil conditions. Gardens can be designed in many different ways and can be as big or small as you want them to help maintain your costs and maintenance concerns.
Rain gardens are typically planted with native, water-loving plants that tolerate wet soil. These plants include sedges, rushes, and grasses. Depending on the size of your garden, they can also have rock designs and wood chips to help prevent flooding. More extensive rain gardens also can consist of small trees which do the heavy lifting in terms of soaking up water in flooded areas.
Here’s one of our favorite infographics about Rain Gardens:
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Create Your Rain Garden Plan
Measuring slope, doing a soil test, and designing plant formations or tree planting methods are the main aspects of building your Rain Garden.
We have many resources to help make this project a complete success. You will want to connect with a contractor to get started on this process, but also, many government incentive programs help offset rain garden project costs. You can get paid back after completion (as long as you are eligible and qualify), but you can also inquire about a reduction in stormwater utility fees.
Rainplan offers hassle-free (we pay the contractor directly) payment plans if you want a little grace in how much upfront money you are willing to spend. We recommend that you create a free Rainplan to get started on this project so we can better understand your property and your goals, and we can share this plan with contractors when we approach them for bids.
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0.832325 | <urn:uuid:c2f2bfe9-4024-4b52-a70f-d162c397d5ac> | en | 0.921078 | With summer in full swing, you and your kids suddenly have a lot more time on your hands. While lounging around for a few weeks may be good your little one, this is no time to remain lax on dental care. Just like the rest of the year, your kids will need to practice good dental habits during the summer. Do you have any questions about children’s dentistry?
Frequently Asked Questions About Children’s Dentistry
Question: Do kids need regular checkups?
Answer: Absolutely! Summertime is a great time to bring your little one in for a routine checkup or dental cleaning. Just call ahead and make an appointment. We can also place a dental filling if necessary or perform any other dental treatments without the worry of missing school.
Question: What are some healthy snack options?
Answer: Instead of stocking the fridge with candy, ice cream, or soda, why not offer healthier options? Protect their smiles with fresh fruit and vegetables. You should also encourage your kids to drink more water, staying hydrated is important, especially in the summer months.
Question: Does playing outside improve dental health?
Answer: A little time in the sun exposes your children to UV rays, which offer the body a vital boost of vitamin D. In addition to improving mood, vitamin D also strengthens bones and teeth.
Question: Does my child need dental sealants or fluoride treatments?
Answer: A fluoride treatment helps strengthen the outer enamel of your child’s teeth. Dental sealants protect the rear molars from tooth decay and preventing food and bacteria from becoming stuck between them. We can provide both of these treatments for children who are susceptible to tooth decay as part of our approach to children’s dentistry. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Dr. Truong today.
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Ken MacLeod outlines an unlikely piece of tactical voting in The Early Days of a Better Nation.
Because there’s only one possible Prime Minister who can be relied upon
not to involve Britain in another imperialist war: Tony Blair. He can
be relied upon, because no one will ever trust him again.
Meanwhile I’ve been rehearsing again for tonight’s Left Bank spot. Yes, rehearsing. That’s just so as you know I do take my vocation seriously. So if it is a triumph you can acclaim it as a triumph of discipline; if it disintegrates you can say ‘Well at least he put some effort in; he can’t help it if his equipment has other ideas." | https://normanlamont.com/weird_electoral/ | dclm-gs1-170895422 | false | false | {
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Kidnapped US professor Kevin King is expected to be one of two hostages released as part of a prisoner exchange with the Taliban, the Afghan government revealed Tuesday.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani revealed in a televised press event that he had released three Taliban prisoners “conditionally in exchange” for King, 63, and his Australian colleague Timothy Weekes, 50.
The pair were both abducted in 2016 outside the American University in Kabul, where they are teachers.
The following year, the terror group released two videos showing the captives looking pale and gaunt and appealing for help to be set free.
US officials later launched a rescue mission but failed to find them at the raided location.
There was no immediate statement from the Taliban or any indication when they would release the captive American and Australian.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani
Afghan President Ashraf GhaniAP
“We have decided to release these three Taliban prisoners who were arrested outside of Afghanistan,” Ghani said at a press event, adding that it was meant “to facilitate direct peace negotiations.”
Anas Haqqani, one of three Taliban prisoners released, in a 2014 photo.
Anas Haqqani, one of three Taliban prisoners released, in a 2014 photoGetty Images
The three Taliban prisoners released include Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajuddin, the deputy head of the Taliban and leader of the strongest Taliban faction, the Haqqani network. The other two released, Haji Mali Khan and Hafiz Rashid, are part of the same network.
The Afghan president didn’t elaborate or say when or where the three were released. They were most likely sent to Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office.
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depression in man
depression in man
“What whiskey will not cure there’s no cure for”, said Ashok as he swirled his drink, the ice clinking against the glass. Rohan nods in agreement and the two men swallow their woes, with the cruel burn running down their throat.
Seems familiar? It is to most of the world too!
Men around the globe are assumed to be the strong, dominating, and prowess of power. Dating back to the ages of the hunter-gatherers, men are believed to display their bravo and be the heroes while bottling up their emotions and hiding their weaknesses from the world.
Ever wondered how mental illness looks like?
A fake smile, an extra drink, the snappy comment and the unexpected aggression. Road rage, a broken remote, a skipped meal or a missed game…things that we see so usually around us but never notice as a sign of mental illness. Camouflaged as a change due to stress, often we forget to notice that men too have emotions and as their way of expressing are clearly different from that of women- Behaviours in men that could be signs of depression — but not recognized as such — include:
• Physical symptoms, such as headaches, digestive problems and pain
• Problems with alcohol or drug use
• Controlling, violent or abusive behavior
• Irritability or inappropriate anger
• Risky behavior, such as reckless driving
As unfortunate as it is, suppressing your real thoughts and feeling just multiply the problem to the point of devastation, a lot worse than you hoped it would be; Bringing us to the question are we really being brave or just ignorant?
The influence of media and the constructs of society has driven men to further this idea for generations, thus discarding the possibility of mental illness ever happening to them. After all, do macho men ever feel hurt?
The answer is obvious, that quite often we chose to ignore….YES, they do!
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Mental illnesses affect both men and women equally, however, men are just a lot less likely to admit and talk about it. Researches over decades show that one out of eight men will suffer from depression and five out of ten would experience anxiety, contributing to about 75% of suicide rates in men. With such largely devastating number, we wonder why men don’t speak up. What is it that stops them?
Manning up!
Social constructs, the need to conform to the norms of masculinity and the standards and expectation put on men by society fail to judge the consequent impact on men and their mental health. The degree of conformity experienced by men and the pressures to live up to the demands of society have slowly dwindled the importance given to men and their mental health. Physical health on the other hand would be acknowledged as they need continued sustenance in finding the ability to provide for their family-both financially and emotionally but a lack of concern toward their own upkeep is appalling.
You couldn’t be more wrong! If you are to believe reports from the National Institute of Mental Health, men are not just socialised to be stronger than women but share the same genetic disposition to mental illnesses as women.
Mental illness is nothing more than a weakness
The stigma around mental health in itself is plenty, it just doubles up three-fold when it comes in relation to men. It has been emphasized over decades only to find a small sense of acknowledgment in today’s day and age that depression is not the equivalent of weakness. It is as real as any visible physical illness and can happen to anyone. Mental illness can be experienced just the same as one would diabetes or high blood pressure, with no exceptions for men or women. Men are assumed to be able to control their feelings, deal with their emotions and simply get over it… and they have! For years men have gone by getting over their feeling, sidelining their disturbances and brushing away its consequences, putting up an acceptable face to the world but what we fail to realize is that not everything that we hope to control can be controlled and not everything that we push away won’t have its consequences.
Talking doesn’t help
Talk about sports, news, and politics… debate over global issues and the consequences of the hypothetical world, but talking about emotions.. no man is a sissy enough to be doing that! One of the biggest myths that men live by. Men across the globe have been conditioned to believe that talking about their feelings is something saved for womenfolk and not meant for men. Self-reliance is believed to be one of their biggest strengths, getting by their lives doing everything on their own.
A quick drink is all we need
But is it really?
Substance abuse is one of the most predominantly noted problems in men with a 3:1 ratio in comparison to women. What starts out as one quick drink to wash away your woes, soon turns into what is popularly known as “suicide in slow motion”.
Men reach out to substances at early ages as a recreational measure, soon turning into their source of support through every major transitional phase of their lives. What starts as a complement to the celebration, soon turns into a friend that understands you without words in a crisis.
Dependence on substances such as alcohol, cannabis, or synthesized drugs has significantly increased over time with the increase in accessibility and the pressure of society growing by the day. What may be misconstrued as anger and aggression could be often a result of their underlying stress, depress and anxiety, cumulatively leading to an increased dependence on substances that are easily available instead of reaching out to doctors or loved ones.
“Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished”
John Gray probably was the first to notice and popularize that men and women are different, and so are their needs. Working with mental health for men is essential and distinctly different for women. What remains common is that, when sleep doesn’t sleep anymore but an escape, it is time to get help!
But how do we do that…. In a few simple steps we say,
• Goals. Set realistic goals and prioritize tasks.
• Support. Seek out emotional support from a partner or family or friends. Learn strategies for making social connections so that you can get involved in social activities.
• Coping. Learn ways to manage stress, such as meditation and mindfulness, and develop problem-solving skills.
• Activities. Engage in activities you typically enjoy, such as ball games, fishing or a hobby.
• Health. Try to stick to a regular schedule and make healthy lifestyle choices, including healthy eating and regular physical activity, to help promote better mental health.
All words and no actions are no good
Awareness and understanding is great but empathy and acknowledgment can be even better. In a world where men are expected to fulfil roles and reach out and be there for their partners, the same expectations should be continued when roles are reversed. A little help, a gentle question and an extended arm of support sometimes could be everything a man needs to find solace in a confidante. “Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak. But if you can’t be vulnerable, then you can’t truly grow and be your best self. Women can either embrace and help men walk across the tightrope, or we can be the ones who push them off.” Says Dr. Brene Brown in her book Understanding Male Vulnerability.
Brushing away your emotions only lead to suppressing them, to have bigger consequences than you anticipate. What we need to realize that mental health for men is not an option but a necessary way of life. Asking your partner or friend how they feel especially when you know that they are going through a difficult phase can go a long way even without you realizing it. Sometimes all the support a man needs is the moral support n knowing that someone is there for them. Encouraging the men in your life to seek help, reach out and speak about their feelings instead of suppressing them could help them avoid a situation much averse than anticipated.
Save a man’s life by educating and encouraging them while letting them know that it is OKAY to be sad, hurt and lost and that there is always someone out there willing to listen!
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What is % of ?
How to solve this problem
A step by step guide
Step 1: Divide 1507 by 100
In this case, the number that we are "comparing" to 100 is 1507, so we must first normalize the number by dividing it by 100. The operation we have to solve is this: $$ \frac{1507}{ 100 } = 1507 \div {{ 100 }} = 15.07$$
Step 2: Multiply 15.07 by 44 to get the solution
Now that we have our normalized number, 15.07, we just have to multiply it by 44 to get our final answer. The forumla for this is obviously quite simple: $$ 15.07 \times 44 = 663.08 $$
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Can You Put Cocoa Butter On Your Face
Can You Put Cocoa Butter On Your Face
Can You Put Cocoa Butter On Your Face?
You can definitely put cocoa butter on your face without worrying about it causing any harm. Cocoa butter is actually known to naturally make your skin soft as it is a rich antioxidant, helping erase any dullness and signs of ageing. It also assists in hydrating your skin, and can be used as a facial moisturizer too.
Cocoa butter is a non-toxic natural product that can be used to restore skin health. Cocoa butter will also restore your skin’s natural glow, and looking in the mirror you’ll wonder why you didn’t start using cocoa butter years ago. You can use lotions and body creams that contain cocoa butter as the main ingredient, especially in winter or if you have very dry skin. Daily use of cocoa butter can help reduce wrinkles and scars and create glowing, soft, and smooth skin.
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While cocoa butter won’t prevent stretch marks, cocoa butter can help prevent itching (caused by skin stretching) by keeping it hydrated and lubricated. Applying cocoa butter is always a great way to hydrate your skin and keep it healthy and hydrated, but it won’t help reduce the appearance of stretch marks. If you want to prevent or reduce stretch marks, you may want to consider purchasing and applying shea butter. People with oily skin are advised to avoid foods rich in cocoa butter as it can clog skin pores and cause acne.
Coconut oil doesn’t have many side effects, but if you have oily skin, you should be careful. Cocoa butter is rich in emollients that hydrate and moisturise the skin, softening and nourishing it with continued use. High amounts of fatty acids and antioxidants have excellent skin-restoring properties that can help smooth and minimize scarring. Thanks to the wonderful composition of cocoa butter, which also includes palmitic, oleic and stearic acids, cocoa butter nourishes and revitalizes the skin naturally.
This oil is made from very rich ingredients that deeply nourish and support the growth or aging of the skin. The result is an absolutely pure and natural oil of very high quality and very powerful properties. The natural heat will make it easier to extract the oil, and no artificial heat is needed. To facilitate the process of removing the oil, the seeds can be placed in bags and stored in a warm room.
To extract the oil from the cocoa beans, the cocoa beans are cracked open, then the beans are removed. After 30 to 40 cocoa beans have been dried, roasted and pressed, vegetable fat is extracted from the cocoa beans; you can also make it at home if you like. Once the oil is removed from the cocoa beans, the remaining parts of the grain are used to produce cocoa powder, which is used to make chocolate. For years, cocoa beans have been used to make chocolate, and their skin benefits have only recently been discovered.
Using Cocoa Butter on Your Face
Researchers have recently discovered that cocoa has several health benefits, including anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. Several studies have shown that cocoa contains compounds known as phytochemicals, and it is these chemicals that are responsible for skin health. Cocoa contains several antioxidants called polyphenols, which are a group of plant-based chemicals with a number of potential health benefits.
What cocoa butter does prevent?What cocoa butter does not prevent?
It can help prevent itching (caused by skin stretching) by keeping it hydrated and lubricated.Won’t prevent stretch marks
It can help prevent skin drying.Won’t prevent rash
What cocoa butter prevents or does not prevent?
Some antioxidants, called polyphenols, may be beneficial for good skin health, such as reducing inflammation and protecting the skin from sun damage. Research has shown that polyphenols can help soothe sensitive or inflamed skin that may be suffering from dermatitis, rashes, or irritation. Natural plant compounds called phytochemicals can improve blood flow to the skin and slow skin aging by protecting against the sun’s harmful UV rays.
Blood flow to your skin helps protect your skin from the harmful UV rays you are exposed to every day when you are outside. Cocoa is rich in polyphenolic compounds and flavonoids that improve blood flow to the skin and protect it from aging (1). A single-cell study shows that several antioxidants called polyphenols improve skin elasticity and slow aging, and suggest that cocoa butter may enhance these effects.
These types of antioxidants can help minimize signs of aging like wrinkles, dullness, and loss of elasticity. The loss of skin’s natural elasticity is what causes wrinkles, so keeping skin radiant and hydrated can help it retain its elasticity and avoid wrinkles. Apart from wrinkles, the presence of free radicals on the skin can also cause dullness and dark spots on the skin.
Once the protection is reduced, the skin becomes naturally sensitive and you may notice red patches and flaking. While anyone can have acne marks, medium-dark people are more likely to develop hyperpigmentation than lighter-skinned people. Once your skin is relatively clear, the dermatologist will focus on the evenness of your skin tone.
Repairs as the oil absorbs quickly into the skin when applied to chapped, dry skin. Foaming cleansers, for example, can remove sebum from your skin, leaving it dry, tight, and more prone to breakouts. Fatty acids can help form a protective layer on the skin and prevent moisture loss, thereby preventing dry skin.
Topical retinoid products such as Retin-A (tretinoin) and Tazorac (tazarotene) and azelaic acid are often prescribed to reduce dark spots. You can use a wide range of cocoa butter skin care products, including nourishing creams, moisturizing lotions, lip balms, ointments, and more. Refining cocoa butter removes odor and color, making it easier to incorporate into beauty recipes without highlighting it, so when you buy a prepackaged cocoa butter product, you are usually getting a refined cocoa butter version.
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According to some historical sources, people have been consuming or using cocoa in other ways since 460 AD. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Aztecs and Mayans used cocoa as a medicine to treat various ailments such as fatigue, dysentery, angina pectoris, dental problems and hemorrhoids.
If you’re looking for a sweet combination made in heaven, pair this deeply decadent cleanser with a cocoa cream cleanser that nourishes skin and removes impurities with a rich chocolate lather. This deeply decadent cocoa-infused mask is packed with skin-friendly antioxidants, minerals, caffeine and other phytochemicals to give skin a vibrant glow. To use, drop 1 solution into the bath, dissolve it in bath water and leave for at least 20 minutes.
Is coconut butter good for face?
Coconut butter is mostly used for skin protection and hydration. It helps in giving a bright complexion to skin by balancing the radical free damage. Coconut butter is usually considered good for all skin types but it is really helpful in healing dry skin. Some dermalogical conditions like psoriasis or eczema can be healed by using it.
What does cocoa butter do to your face?
Cocoa butter may ensure a better health and look of your facial skin. Moisture, suppleness, and Uv resistance are all desired characteristics for healthy-looking skin. Because pure cocoa butter turns greasy when melted, it is suitable for use as a light makeup cleanser.
Will cocoa butter Break out your face?
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Would you end a Friendship over this Presidential Campaign?
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According to a recent poll carried out by Monmouth University, approximately 7% of registered voters have lost a friend over the American presidential campaign.
I would hazard a guess that the number is actually much higher, especially when I scroll through social media and see numerous posts that signify panic, disorder and chaos floating around—and it only seems to be getting worse.
I regularly see posts saying, “If you support X, Y or Z please unfriend me.”
For those who use social media, it is not easy to avoid seeing the political posts that appear on our timelines. While we can choose to flip past and not engage in them, it can also be an opportunity to pay attention to how people are feeling and to become more aware of the unrest that is simmering away as election day draws nearer.
However, it seems that civil freedom of speech is not always welcomed when it comes to politics, and many people have such strong views that they are not satisfied with just reading through posts without having their say.
I have read a variety of comments where people have started out trying to air their opinion about the candidate they support by calmly speaking out about their thoughts, feelings and political opinions—and within seconds, it turns from pleasant to quite disturbing as others join in seeing an opportunity to vent their anger or frustration and express their opposing beliefs.
Although most of us have heard the saying, “Never discuss religion and politics over the dinner table”—when it is a subject that is potentially life-changing, it is difficult not to feel tempted to respond when we read or hear something that could potentially affect us. Especially if we feel that things are moving in a direction we believe is unsafe or harmful for our own future, or that of our children’s or society as a whole.
I feel that many are currently afraid to raise concerns about where their country is heading, particularly on social media, as doing so is volatile and will likely cause an immediate divide, potentially bringing about the end of friendships—and not just virtually on Facebook, but in our daily lives too.
With 1.71 billion active users on Facebook spending 6% of their day checking posts, it is clear that when we log in, there is a good chance we may witness someone airing their political views.
One thing for sure is that many feel extremely strongly about this campaign, and approximately 70% of American voters feel it is bringing out the worst in people. While 68% of Hilary Clinton’s supporters say that the Trump camp are to blame for using harsh language, 67% of Donald Trump’s supporters say that both sides are equally to blame.
The split of voters, which goes pretty much down the middle—with polls showing that 48.3% of people are in favor of Clinton, while 42.5% are in favor of Trump—means that it is highly likely that everyone is friends (or at least an acquaintance) with someone who plans to vote the opposite way from them.
Although ballot voting is secretive on the day, many are feeling compelled to share their views beforehand to try to raise awareness out of fear of what may happen if the candidate they oppose is given the role as President of the United States.
Facebook algorithms already ensure that much of what appears on our timelines reflects our ideological preferences, so there is a good chance that we will see more of the candidate we support, rather than the views of those who support a different candidate.
We may be the one who has unfriended someone, or we may have been unfriended by someone else. Either way, politics is dividing many of us, rather than bringing us together to put everything on the table and try to compassionately understand one another’s views and beliefs. Or if we have no interest in hearing other people’s views, we can simply unfollow their posts during the election campaign, rather than lose a friendship.
I understand that many people think it is of fundamental importance that those they are close to align with their morals, ethics and beliefs in some way. However, if we looked behind the closed doors of anyone’s personal life, there may be many things we don’t agree with or wouldn’t do ourselves—yet, we wouldn’t judge them the same way we do for their political opinions.
It seems that posting on Facebook isn’t changing anyone’s judgment of a particular candidate, but it does appear to be changing how we judge one another.
It has also made me wonder how many families are fractured, or if romantic relationships are also on the rocks, due to vastly different candidate preferences. And would people refuse to go on a first date with someone purely based on whether they support Trump or Clinton?
Just because someone votes one way or another, it does not automatically make them a “good” or “bad” person. Unless we listen patiently and openly, we will never get insight into what information has led to voting for a particular candidate.
When we shut people out, we are automatically condemning them based on cognitive dissonance, whereby other people’s beliefs challenge us and conflict with our own, so we deny, reject and dismiss them, since it is uncomfortable and unpleasant to consider and accept that other people think differently. Conditioning, education, belief systems and experiences accumulate to give everyone their own unique mindset, enabling them to make judgments and decisions in their personal lives.
Those judgments and decisions may not be what we view as the “right” ones, but each person has a right to them and feels that they are making them based on balanced and informed data. America is a democratic society and one that offers the right to freedom of speech—and there is so much we can learn from one another, if we honor that right in each person, whether we agree with their views or not.
For those times we can’t agree or even remotely see where the other person is coming from, we can use the moment as a chance to dig deep and practice unconditional love and acceptance. Embracing people regardless of their views is the kindest, most peaceful, compassionate thing we can do throughout this campaign—and if nothing else, it will prevent our blood pressure rising.
It won’t be easy, but there is enough destruction and disharmony in the world without adding more due to severing friendships over candidate choices. I truly think the reason for friendships ending has less to do with the candidate that someone supports, and more to do with the way in which people communicate their support or their beliefs.
If someone is rude, obnoxious, disrespectful, aggressive, racist, ignorant or antagonistic (amongst other things), then were we really good friends with them in the first place? And if we were, and we knew all about their character, then why change anything now just because they support someone whom we may feel also reflects those traits? Maybe our expectations for others are just too high, and we can consider attempting to be more empathetic, considerate and open-minded.
With those that are good friends and are just having a heated moment to air their views (and who may have in the moment said something loaded and out of character), we need to bond together, not separate, as things are not going to get any easier, especially when the winning candidate is announced. It takes great strength to say, “I’m always going to be your friend regardless of who you support.”
The one quality that America needs to establish and reinforce—more than ever, over these next few months—is unity. And we do this by offering unconditional acceptance.
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Below please find information and resources on school safety, as well as a range of related topics, written by Mimi Lemay, transgender rights advocate and parent, and author of What We Will Become: A Mother, A Son and a Journey of Transformation.
Dating and Relationships
Navigating privacy and disclosure in dating and friendships
For transgender youth, who to talk to about their gender identity, and when to speak about it can be a thorny challenge.
In Transhood, Jay and Leena both experience the ups and downs of romantic attachments, alongside realized and unrealized fears about how their gender identity might impact their relationships. Indeed, in friendship and romance, transgender people often feel caught in a bind with regard to disclosing their transgender status. Most will tell you that being trans is just one, and not always one of the most important, aspects of who they are. Like cisgender people, transgender people have professions, hobbies, beliefs, temperaments, and talents - all aspects of self that play a greater role in relationships.
transhood discussion guide
Most of us want to get to know someone before revealing every aspect of our identities. Many transgender people fear that silence will be perceived as a betrayal. In any situation, transgender people are not obligated to disclose information about their gender identity or the sex they were assigned at birth. Many transgender people choose to be private about their gender history, especially as they move further and further away from transition. This simply means the trans person wishes to remain private about something so personal. It absolutely does not mean they are being deceptive, lying, or in the closet. Being out as a lesbian, gay, and bisexual person and being out as a transgender person are not the same thing. Just as you wouldn’t out someone as gay, you should never out someone as transgender.
Many transgender adults, particularly women, know that claims of “betrayal,” or “deception” often come with violence. However, disclosing before a relationship is established and there is familiarity and trust, can also be risky for the future of the relationship.
The good news is that with each progressive generation of Americans, there is greater acceptance of the wider spectrum of gender. From Jay’s and Leena’s heartbreak, however, we can see that despite progress, we still have a long way to go.
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We've got some good news for all the recording artists out there in cyberspace: if you've already made some music, you can sell it online, today. You probably already knew that part, but did you also know that it's actually pretty easy, too?
Seriously, there are all kinds of different e-commerce sites and streaming services that want to have your music available on their platform.
Many of these services rely on artists to provide them with their product; the platforms just exist to make it easy for people to find and access all that music.
But what are the best ways to sell music online? There are so many options that it can be hard to tell what's right for you.
This article will go through the major platforms available to you. As we move along, just ask yourself some basic questions about how you want to provide customers with your music and how much time you'd like to spend on the process.
Remember: even if your music isn't going to hit the top of the digital sales charts, you can earn a decent amount of money even from a modest amount of purchases.
One of the biggest benefits of selling your music on Amazon is that the company already has a massive presence online, as well as an enormous amount of brand recognition. Thousands and thousands of people browse the site every day, and that automatically means there will be a better chance that at least some of these browsers will see the listing for your music.
Another big advantage is that you can sell several different types of music products through Amazon.
The easiest by far would be to sell digital versions of your music, either as an option for streaming through a Prime subscription or as MP3 files that can be purchased outright by customers.
When selling digital versions of your music, you don't need to worry about shipping or inconsistent quality. Each file will be exactly the same for each user.
But you can also sell physical media through Amazon as well. Just make sure that you already have production of that merchandise already worked out, as well as distribution unless you want your life to become one big shipping operation.
Keep in mind that Amazon also has a robust customer product review feature for all products. If you're not comfortable with any customer being able to post a public review of your music, then you might want to steer away from the Amazon option.
Bandcamp started out as a small independent music site, and even today it has become a major hub for recording artists of all kinds, especially artists who don't already have major record label deals.
Many independent and underground artists have found great success on Bandcamp, and some of them have even seen that success lead to label deals.
At the time of publication, Bandcamp doesn't charge to post content to the site and set up your own virtual artist profile page.
You can customize that profile to an impressive degree, and, most importantly, you'll be able to post tracks that people can stream on the site for free, and you can also offer a purchase option for anyone who really loves your work.
As with Amazon, the most convenient way to sell your music here is in digital form. You can sell digital albums or even a digital collection of all your recorded music. Just make sure that you have lossless audio files of your music to upload since Bandcamp likes to offer its users high-quality downloads.
Thankfully, Bandcamp also offers artists the chance to direct visitors to a storefront that sells physical merchandise. Again, you should probably only mess around with this option if you already have a bunch of merch to sell and feel comfortable getting orders shipped out quickly and efficiently.
Streaming services
We placed streaming services toward the end of the list specifically because it doesn't necessarily qualify as "selling" your music online.
The whole point of music streaming services is that users continue to pay a monthly fee to maintain continued access to a huge library of media. Users never actually "own" specific albums or songs.
However, there's no doubt that placing music on streaming services is just the norm nowadays, even for small-scale recording artists, and that's partially because having music available on streaming services isn't just about making money, it's also about marketing.
There's just no getting around this part: streaming services aren't going to pay you a lot of money for each stream. In fact, the actual payout for one stream of one song is extremely low. It's often a fraction of a fraction of a penny.
But when streams start stacking up across thousands of different users, that payout can become significant.
Also, users of music streaming services will be much more likely to give your music a listen if they don't need to pay extra for it. Compare this to an outright purchase of one of your albums, in which case only a dedicated fan is going to shell out for the music.
As for actually getting your music onto streaming services in the first place, this has been covered in many different articles online, like this one
Streaming services
Basically, there are many services out there that will distribute your music to a large number of music streaming services in exchange for a relatively small fee. These services also act as the middleman in terms of getting paid out for any streams that you receive.
Best of all, let's say that you're happy to put your music on streaming services but you still want to be able to steer new and returning fans to your merch store or a dedicated website. No problem!
Spotify, in particular, makes it very easy to write up your own artist bio and add links to other storefronts and merch items.
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What is Pool Betting? Your Questions Answered
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What is Pool Betting?
Unless you are well versed in sports betting, the idea of pool betting may seem completely foreign. However, if you have engaged in things such as office syndicates before, you might be surprised to learn that you have engaged in pool betting already. As the name suggests, this is where many people ‘pool’ their resources together. Since we are talking about betting here, the resource is money. People combine their cash and wager on a particular event or a series of events in pool betting. And depending on the popularity of the event/events, this could involve hundreds, thousands, and even hundreds of thousands stumping up cash.
When all is said and done, the players that have bet on the correct outcome/outcomes will win a share of the prize pool. In a nutshell, this is how pool betting works for all online sites and all sports. But when it comes to the finer details, things aren’t quite as straightforward as they may seem. That’s why we’d like to discuss the topic in greater detail below.
Key differences between pool betting and regular betting
As you have probably guessed already, there are clear differences between regular betting and pool betting. This should come as no great surprise since every sub-niche of regular betting works in a different way. Allow us to clarify right now:
Absence of odds
This is one of the more intriguing differences for those that are new to pool betting. Of course, with standard betting, you are wagering a set amount of money based on the odds for that particular outcome. For example, if you wager £10 on an outcome at 3.00, you’ll know that the potential return is £30. This is also known as fixed odds betting. With pool betting, however, no odds actually exist. You won’t find any odds for the outcome you are choosing, as that’s not what determines the winnings.
Instead, winnings are determined by the total prize pot and how many people selected that particular outcome or chain of outcomes. We’ve described this in greater detail later on.
pool betting
Who you’re betting against
When you place a wager at a standard online sportsbook, you are betting against the bookmaker. These guys will give you the odds that you then take or leave. And if you are correct, the bookmaker will pay out what you are entitled to based on the stake. If you lose, the bookmaker takes your money, much like a casino does! But when it comes to pool betting, you aren’t actually betting against the bookmaker. Instead, you are betting against the other people involved in the pool who have selected a different outcome than yourself. Let’s produce a quick, individual game example to highlight this.
Say that you’ve backed Manchester United to beat Liverpool in a regular Premier League game. There are three possible outcomes – Manchester United winning, a draw, and Liverpool winning. In this case, Liverpool would probably be the favourite. So if you went ahead and backed Manchester United for the win, you are betting against all those who have wagered on a draw or a Liverpool victory. Note that all people who have bet on the game contribute to the total prize pool, usually with a standard bet requirement for all.
With this said, it’s arguably more common for pools to be established for a series of events. So while the Manchester United vs Liverpool match is one game, pools might have an additional five matches involved. So theoretically, you’d pay in with your stake, choose the five results, and see how many people have managed to pick the games correctly!
How payouts are calculated
This is where things can get really interesting. And this is arguably the most important area to understand when it comes to pool betting. Since you are not wagering against any fixed odds, it can be difficult to understand how much money you could win. That’s because your potential returns are based on the total prize pool and what percentage of this prize pool has backed the same outcome as you. Let’s run through another quick example to ensure there isn’t any confusion. We will work from a multiple game example here.
So – six games involved, £10,000 total staked, and six different outcomes to predict. Let’s say that you manage to predict all results correctly. This automatically means you are in for a share of the pot. However, with pool betting, there can and often is more than one winner. In this example, let’s say that 20% of participants managed to predict all games correctly, much like yourself. Therefore, the pot is split according to the 20% success rate, and it is distributed proportionately.
What is Pool Betting
Main sports for pool betting
As you’ve seen throughout the information above, pool betting is pretty unique. Of course, this form of betting isn’t for everyone, but it’s certainly pretty fun! And if you are considering giving this form of betting a shot, there are two main sports you’ll likely be betting on:
Horse racing
Horse racing is arguably the most popular sport for pool betting. On race days, there will usually be many different races taking place. This provides the perfect sports betting scenario for a pool to be created and for people to participate. Horse racing, by nature, can be tricky to predict too, which means that many participants will fall by the wayside. Fewer people making it to the winning stages of the pool means that a bigger percentage of the cash prize is up for grabs.
Football is the second most popular sport for pool betting. Again, since football has so many matches, it’s easy to set up and execute different pools for football. Football is also pretty exciting in this regard since every match has three outcomes. The addition of a draw in football makes it tougher to predict a chain of matches. Again, this means that more of the prize pool could be shared by those who make accurate predictions.
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We now monitor current local weather conditions for events and alert both you and your company when the wind reaches a certain threshold. Weather stations are often as close as 1-2 miles from the event. We check for both wind speed and wind gusts. When the wind gets above 15mph (this can also be set per inventory item) the customer can be called and a recording played to warn the customer of the safety risks. This call is recorded so in case something is damaged or someone is injured, you can provide evidence that they received the warning, which might reduce your liability.
The weather is checked every 15 minutes; starting at the event setup through the event tear-down.
Activate Alerts
Under Settings -> Alerts, you can activate the alert for both you and your Customer. You will receive an email and the customer will receive both an email and a phone call.
Voicemail Alert
If you are using IO Phone, the call to the customer will appear from your IO Phone number, otherwise, we use a generic number. The content of the call and email can be modified under Settings -> General Preferences.
It will only try to call once within 24 hours and will only call between the hours of 8am and 9pm local time. The order of preference is cell, office, home.
Modifying Thresholds
You can modify the default wind alert thresholds under Settings -> General Preferences. You can also override the setting for certain items by modifying that inventory item under Advanced Settings. If all the items rented are set to 0 the alert will not send.
Prevent the Alert for certain events
The alerts aren't sent if the surface type is Indoor or Gym. They also aren't sent if all the items in the event (excluding inactive and accessories) are set to 0.
If a call is made, you'll be able to see it on the CRM tab and the Log tab of a lead. The log tab will also show you a summary of the weather reports.
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We all know that frogs are amphibians, but there’s one thing about them that often confuses people: do frogs have eyelids? The answer may surprise you!
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Frogs are amphibians in the Anura order. They are descendants of fish that adapted to living on land, and they return to water to breed. Adult frogs have long, powerful legs for leaping, webbed feet for swimming, protruding Eyes and no tail. The body of a frog is usually moist and covered with mucus. This slime helps the animal to stay moist and protects it from predators and disease.
What are eyelids?
Most people think of eyelids as the thin, movable skin that covers and protects the eye. However, this is only part of the definition. The muscles that open and close the eyelids are actually attached to the eye itself, not to the eyelid skin. The scientific name for these muscles is the levator palpebrae superioris.
Do frogs have eyelids?
Frogs have eyelids, but they don’t work the same way that human eyelids do. Human eyelids blink to spread tears over the eye and wash away any dust or dirt particles that might have collected on the surface of the eye. Frogs don’t have tears, so their eyelids serve a different purpose.
Frogs use their eyelids to keep their eyes moist. They also use them to protect their eyes from debris and water when they are swimming. When a frog’s eyes are closed, they are actually covering their entire eye, not just the pupil and iris like human eyelids do.
How do frogs use their eyelids?
Frogs have unique eyelids that allow them to see underwater as well as on land. Their upper eyelid is transparent and helps them see clearly underwater, while their lower eyelid is opaque and protects their eyes from the sun. When a frog wants to sleep, it will cover its eyes with its lower eyelid to block out the light.
What are the benefits of having eyelids?
The primary benefit of having eyelids is to keep dust and debris out of the eye. Eyelids also help to spread tears over the surface of the eye, keeping it lubricated. In addition, eyelids protect the eye from bright light and UV radiation.
Are there any disadvantages to having eyelids?
There are a few disadvantages to having eyelids. For one, they can limit your field of vision. If your eyelids are drooping, it can be difficult to see clearly. Additionally, eyelids can collect dust and other particles, which can irritate your eyes. Finally, if you have allergies or other sensitivities, the chemicals in cosmetics and other products can cause problems if they come into contact with your eyelids.
What other animals have eyelids?
Yes, frogs have eyelids! In fact, most reptiles, birds, and mammals have eyelids. Even some fish have eyelids. The main purpose of eyelids is to protect the eyes from dirt, dust, and other foreign objects. Some animals also use their eyelids to help them see better. For example, frogs use their eyelids to cover their eyes when they are hunting for prey.
How do humans use their eyelids?
We use our eyelids for many things. Blinking helps to spread tears over the surface of the eye, keeping it lubricated. It also helps to clear debris from the surface of the eye. When we sleep, our eyelids help to protect our eyes from anything that might come into contact with them, such as dust or dirt.
10 benefits of having eyelids
When it comes to looking out for our health, we often focus on keeping our heart healthy, getting enough exercise, and eating nutritious foods. However, there are other parts of our body that deserve just as much attention – including our eyes. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at some of the benefits of having eyelids.
1. Eyelids help to protect your eyes from harmful UV rays.
2. They also help to keep your eyes moisturized and lubricated.
3. Eyelids help to filter out dust and other particles that could potentially damage your eyesight.
4. They also contribute to your ability to blink – which is important for keeping your vision clear and dry.
5. blinking also helps to spread tears evenly over the surface of your eyeballs – keeping them healthy and hydrated.
6. Eyelids help you to regulate the amount of light that enters your eyes – protecting them from being overwhelmed by bright light or glare.
7. They also play a role in ensuring that you have sharp, clear vision by allowing you to blink more frequently when needed.
8. When you have something in your eye, eyelids can provide relief by helping to flush the foreign object out gently with tears.
9. In some cases, eyelid surgery can correct vision problems caused by drooping eyelids (ptosis).
10 finally, well-functioning eyelids simply make us look more awake and alert – which can be a real plus in both our personal and professional lives!
10 disadvantages of having eyelids
While most frogs have excellent eyesight and can see in multiple directions at once, they don’t have eyelids. This means that their eyes are constantly exposed to the elements and can easily become dry or irritated. Without eyelids, frogs also have a hard time blinking, which helps to keep the eye moist and healthy. In addition, frogs are susceptible to debris and dirt getting into their eyes, which can lead to infections.
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