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Really? The idea of a left brain thinker, or STEM colleague, running your next sales team meeting probably is one of your biggest nightmares. Mostly because you avoid working directly with the STEM colleagues and left brain thinkers in your organization. As a result, your stories are not connected to one another.
Of course, you are far too busy churning through leads and dashing between sales appointments to make quarterly quotas. Then again, are you selling yourselves on the importance of how your efforts “look” to others, like your managers? When your stories remain disconnected, everyone is very busy being very busy. These habits are exhausting and keep everyone good and stuck where they are.
The best thing I ever do when working with clients is discover just who the left brain thinkers are in their organizations. Especially during pre-sale. Because once the client signs a contract, sales teams are off and running towards their next close. As a result, these left brain folks remain out of sight and out of mind. Until a problem arises, post-sale. And, inevitably, it will.
So, do you know who these valuable employees are in your own organization? Let alone your clients’ organizations?
First, figure out just who these left brain thinkers are, in your organization. Because they run your post-sale universe.
When I was an outside sales rep, I spent at least four months correcting a billing nightmare. The situation left one of my customers double-billed for two different versions of an interactive on-line catalogue product. I keep good records of the contracts I execute. So, I knew once the real-deal catalog went live online, the beta-version of the product went offline. Then, invoicing for the fancy catalogue would start and invoicing for the beta version would cease. Well, at least that was the plan. But that was not what happened.
Has this scenario ever happened to you? What did you choose to do?
By walking that contract through my own organization, I discovered who all the formerly nameless, faceless left-brain thinkers were. They had names, faces and were horrified that systems and processes allowed this situation to happen. And my former employer? Their solution was to send my client to Collections because, of course, the client refused to pay all of these double invoices.
Working together, my left brain thinkers and I cleaned up the mess and made process improvements. Let’s just say, moving forward, we became quite a team, together, working on behalf of our customers and each other.
Next, I invited those left brain thinkers to run the next sales team meeting.
Because our sales team was notorious for executing contracts which created post-sale invoicing nightmares. When you discover who your left brain thinkers are, you get an entirely different perspective on how your sales team is perceived within the organization. Regardless of whether, or not, you are sales rock stars.
Also, truth be told, our sales team was intimidated by these left brain thinkers. And, our sales team thought working with these left-brainers was not cost-effective. Consequently, our sales team (and most of our sales force, my left brain team and I discovered) took short-cuts executing contracts, to close sales. And left it up to these post-sale left-brainers to clean up their mess.
Left brain thinkers connect the dots between what you do and what they do, on behalf of better serving each other and your customers. Isn’t it time for you to connect your stories to one another?
In meeting their quotas, our sales team did not think about internal stakeholders or even external customers. Until, of course, those left brain thinkers ran the next sales team meeting.
There is nothing like meeting all of those nameless, faceless “somebodies” in your post-sale organization to make you realize that sales is about better serving others. Especially if you want to retain your customers for more than the next sales cycle. And, especially if your organization wants to retain their employees, starting with those valuable post-sale, left-brain thinkers.
Isn’t it time to connect your stories to one another? Your clients will thank you.
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Babette Ten Haken‘s One Millimeter Mindset™ Storytelling for STEM Professionals and Left Brain Thinkers speaking programs are created for organizations and associations who want to catalyze stakeholder success and customer retention. There is no better way than storytelling to bridge communication disconnects between professional disciplines, pay grades, generations and levels of education. Babette’s programs are forged from her own background leading teams simultaneously requiring left-brain mindset for clinical research and e-commerce, as well as right-brain thinking for new product development, market research and sales. Find out more right here.
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April 5 memorial service planned for SU Professor Emerita Marjorie Dibble
April 5 memorial service planned for SU Professor Emerita Marjorie DibbleApril 01, 2003Kelly Homan [email protected]
A memorial service for Marjorie Veit Dibble of East Syracuse, professor emerita and former associate dean in Syracuse University’s College for Human Development (now the College of Human Services and Health Professions), will be held April 5 at 10:30 a.m. the University’s Hendricks Chapel. A reception will immediately follow in the chapel’s Noble Room.
Dibble died Jan. 31. She was 75.
A native of Brooklyn, she received a bachelor’s degree in dietetics from Hunter College and a master’s degree in food and nutrition from the University of Tennessee. She joined the faculty of the College for Human Development in 1951. She served as chair of the Department of Human Nutrition for 23 years. She served as acting dean from 1973-74 and as associate dean from 1986 until her retirement in 1995, with hiatus during the 1989-90 academic year to serve as the college’s interim dean. During her 44 years in the college, she was the catalyst for many curricular, program and department initiatives, including the development of community placements in nutrition, the establishment of a clinical program in dietetics and an increased emphasis on research and graduate study in the college.
Dibble spent much of her career studying ways to help people improve their eating habits. She co-authored the 15th, 16th and 17th editions of the textbook, “Nutrition in Health and Disease” (Lippincott, 1968, 1976 and 1982), one of the best-known nutrition textbooks in the field, and “Nutrition in Nursing” (Lippincott, 1972). She was the author of numerous articles and was listed in American Men and Women in Science and Who’s Who of American Women.
Lois Schroeder, professor emerita and former interim dean of the College for Human Development, first met Dibble through the classes she was taking to earn her master’s degree in the 1970s. She says that Dibble was a mentor who had a profound influence on all of her students.
“She was a quiet authority, one who always delivered her message with a bit of humor,” says Schroeder. “Her graduate students recall with great fondness how her course requirements would place them in the front lines of politically charged community nutrition issues.”
In a 1995 Syracuse Record article, a former student spoke of the encouragement she received from Dibble. “She never doubted my ability to succeed, even when I did.”
Dibble was also well known nationally for her expertise in infant and child nutrition and was a strong advocate for programs which bettered the lives of disadvantaged children. Her work earned her great respect within the dietetic community nationwide, Schroeder says.
She was awarded the American Dietetic Association’s Medallion Award, one of the highest honors in the field, in 1984. She received a Trailblazer in the Professions Award from the Central New York chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1980, was named a Post-Standard Woman of Achievement in Nutrition in 1983 and received a Chancellor’s Citation for Distinguished Service in 1995.
Dibble helped train the first local group of Head Start teachers. She served on the board of directors of Meals on Wheels and on the advisory board of the American Dietetic Association Internship Program. She served on several major University and college committees, including the University Senate.
Surviving are a daughter, Ann Cunningham of Oxbow; a son, Jack, of Pottstown, Pa.; a sister, Dorothy Corsello of Millington, N.J.; and one granddaughter.
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The entire month of October is Halloween around Boston. But the week leading up to Halloween and the haunted night itself contain some of the most exciting events. From free activities for children to costume parties for the 21-plus crowd, the city comes alive with the spooky spirit of the season. We’ve compiled a list of some of the coolest Halloween events in town and, of course, in Salem.
HALLOWEEN PET PARADE Costumed creatures will descend on Faneuil Hall for a parade of cuteness days ahead of Halloween itself. After the parade, pets have the chance to walk the red carpet and be evaluated by judges, who will pick the six best-dressed contestants. Winners receive prizes from Faneuil Hall Marketplace vendors. Saturday, Oct. 26, noon-2 p.m., Free. Faneuil Hall, eventbrite.com
COSTUME DASH 5K The Boston Costume Dash is back. Runners will have the chance to debut their Halloween costumes early and participate in both a 5K race and a costume contest. Those who complete the race will receive a medal and fun sponsor goodies. Contestants 21 and over are also invited to an after-party. Saturday, Oct. 26, 3 p.m., $45. Fiedler Field, Charles River Esplanade, costumedash.com
FENWAY FRIGHT NIGHT HALLOWEEN PUB CRAWL It’s that time of year again, when Fenway bars welcome the annual spooky pub crawl. Cheeky Monkey, Loretta’s Last Call, and Lucky Strike are among the participating bars. Lucky Strike will host a Night Full of Fear after-party for pub crawlers. Saturday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m., $10+. Various bars; visit pubcrawls.com for tickets and details.
ZOO HOWL Zoo New England offers families the opportunity to trick-or-treat among the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo. Kids will get to participate in a costume contest, a howling contest, and hear zookeeper talks. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $12.95-$18.95. Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Road, zoonewengland.org
PRU BOO Can’t wait for Halloween night? Kids will have the chance to trick-or-treat in the daytime at the Prudential Center ahead of Halloween. The day also includes face painting, magic shows, and a kids concert at the South Garden. Sunday, Oct. 27, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., $5 donation. Prudential Center, 800 Boylston St., prudentialcenter.com
STRANGEST THINGS: A MURDER MYSTERY DINNER PARTY Fans of “Stranger Things” will get to hang out in the Upside Down at Trident Booksellers & Cafe. The cafe will transform into Dawkins, Ind. (a play on the show’s Hawkins), where a high schooler has just gone missing. Dinner party guests are encouraged to don their best costumes. Sunday, Oct. 27, 7-9 p.m., $25. Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 338 Newbury St., eventbrite.com
BOSTON GROWN-UPS MUSEUM Just before Halloween, the Boston Children’s Museum is for adults only. Costumed partiers 21 and older will have the chance to trick-or-treat in the museum, explore a haunted maze, and take part in the apple cider doughnut eating competition. Attendees can purchase snacks from The Bacon Truck and drinks from a cash bar. Oct. 30, 7-10 p.m., $30. Boston Children’s Museum, 308 Congress St., eventbrite.com
THE PURGE COSTUME PARTY While the next “Purge” movie isn’t set to premiere until 2020, fans of the franchise have the chance to party in costume Halloween night at Venu Nightclub. Dress as iconic “Purge” characters Leo Barnes or Charlie Roan, or in whatever costume you want, and dance the night away. Oct. 31, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $15-$20. Venu Nightclub, 100 Warrenton St., eventbrite.com
SALEM HAUNTED HAPPENINGS October is full of haunted happenings in Salem, from the iconic Ghosts & Legends Trolley to the Salem Psychic Fair & Witches’ Market. The events conclude with Halloween Night fireworks over the North River. Oct. 31, 10:15 p.m., Free. Downton Salem, hauntedhappenings.org | <urn:uuid:8cd0aae9-5f78-4d58-838c-676dff43ae29> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2019/10/18/almost-halloween-treat-yourself/2dObGxPaWstkOlKPAkGtMM/story.html?event=event12 | 2022-01-20T07:32:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301730.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120065949-20220120095949-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.885797 | 1,004 |
UHS breach signals grief ahead for hospitals
A malware attack brought hospital chain Universal Health Services’ IT systems down at the beginning of the week. Cybersecurity experts said hospitals should expect more of these attacks, as recovery can be costly.
While the full extent of the attack is not yet known, cybersecurity experts said recovery can be a long and costly process, depending on what protections were in place before the security breach. Healthcare organizations, which hold troves of valuable patient data, are increasingly becoming a target for hackers.
“Honestly, hospitals are a really soft target. What happened in the last few years is on the one hand is there is a tremendous rising of complexity and connectivity in the hospital,” said Ido Geffen, vice president of product for healthcare cybersecurity firm CyberMDX. “So you have all of a sudden, especially in the last five years, a tremendous amount of personal health information that is moving. It’s a good thing in a broader manner.”
The downside is that those records fetch a high price on the black market. Especially in the U.S., where records can include a patient’s social security number, insurance policy number and credit card information, he added.
UHS said it has no evidence that patient or employee data was accessed. Its major information systems, including its electronic medical record system, were not directly impacted by the attack, the company disclosed on Thursday.
The for-profit hospital chain operates 26 hospitals and 330 behavioral health facilities across the U.S. In an emailed statement on Wednesday, UHS confirmed its systems were still down, with some applications coming back online.
“In the meantime, while this matter may result in temporary disruptions to certain aspects of our clinical and financial operations, our acute care and behavioral health facilities are utilizing their established back-up processes including offline documentation methods. Patient care continues to be delivered safely and effectively,” UHS stated in a news release.
By Thursday, the health system said it was making steady progress and was confident it would soon be able to restore hospital networks.
UHS would not confirm whether the attack was ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts files with the attacker demanding payment to restore them. According to information security publication BleepingComputer, an unnamed employee said files on one of the affected computers were being renamed with a .ryk extension, which is used by a strain of ransomware called “Ryuk.”
A greater cost
Aside from the short-term cost of restoring compromised systems, these attacks can have serious consequences. When IT systems go down, clinicians must revert to paper records, if they have them, said Chris Bowen, chief privacy and security officer for ClearDATA.
“A paper record cannot help a provider detect things like adverse drug interactions. It may not reflect recent treatment or diagnoses,” he wrote in an email. “In some cases, patients have to be transferred to another facility to get the care they need, and ambulances are diverted to other – sometimes further – medical facilities.”
A recent ransomware attack brought a German hospital’s systems down earlier this month, forcing it to turn away emergency patients. As a result, a patient in a life-threatening condition died after she was taken to a different city for treatment, German authorities said.
“Healthcare technology has no margin of error because each health record represents a human life,” Bowen wrote. “Health IT systems can literally help save lives, and therefore their resiliency is of utmost importance in healthcare.”
In the case of the attack on the German hospital, hackers exploited a known vulnerability in Citrix’s VPN products. Remote teleworking infrastructure, and the thousands of connected devices in hospitals — from infusion pumps to printers — can serve as an entry point for hackers.
But email phishing is still by far the most common type of attack, Geffen said. It was the entry point for two major breaches of health insurance providers, including attacks on Premera Blue Cross and Anthem in 2015 that compromised tens of millions of patient records.
The recovery process
Typically, ransomware is the last piece in the chain of an attack. Hackers generally start with gathering information about a company, finding a port of entry, running code on machines and getting into as many connected devices as possible.
“Only then they will do the encryption,” Geffen said.
The time it takes to recover depends on how quickly the attack is detected and what protections the company already had in place. First, there needs to be a forensic investigation of the attack. It’s important to find the root cause and the point of entry — whether it’s unpatched software or a connected security camera — because it can happen again and again, Geffen said.
During this process, the company must also conduct a risk assessment to determine whether a patient data breach occurred. As each system is restored, IT staff must document any changes in the system, and come up with a rollback plan for each system in case something goes wrong during the restoration process.
“Consider the average hospital with around 500-1000 different systems and applications. In that case, one can only imagine how much work and time this step alone will take,” Bowen wrote.
To prevent future attacks, he recommends having a failover strategy, and ensuring protected health information is encrypted and backed up to a secured, separate location. Patching security holes, updating outdated systems and tightening up email filters can prevent a lot of future headaches.
Geffen said hospitals should take inventory of all the different devices that are connected to their IT infrastructure.
“Even after a few years working with hospitals, it makes me shocked. Hospitals don’t know how many devices are connected to their environment,” he said.
He also recommends a zero trust approach — essentially granting everything the least amount of privilege as possible.
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Thomas Muldrup Logan (November 3, 1840–August 11, 1914) was an American soldier and businessman. He served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and afterward was greatly involved in railroad development in the southern United States.
Thomas M. Logan was born in 1840 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of William Logan, a local judge. Logan received his education at South Carolina College in Columbia. He graduated in 1860, standing first in his class. When the American Civil War began in 1861, Logan chose to follow his home state of South Carolina and the Confederate cause. He volunteered for the Washington Light Infantry, which participated in the Battle of Fort Sumter on April 12–13. Later that month he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Confederate army, and in May he was promoted to first lieutenant and joined Wade Hampton’s Legion. Logan was assigned to Company A of the unit, which had been formed in Charleston.
Following the Confederate victory at the first battle of Bull Run in July, Logan was promoted to the rank of captain. He fought during the Seven Days’ Battles in the Spring of 1862 and was wounded in the foot at the battle of Gaines’ Mill on June 27. Logan also fought during the second battle of Bull Run on August 28–30. He was cited for “great bravery” during the Battle of Antietam on September 17 and was promoted to major from that date. That December Logan was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Logan served in Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins' brigade in 1863, taking part in the Suffolk operations that spring. He then went with the rest of the First Corps units to the western theater. Logan fought during the battle of Chickamauga in September, and then participated in the Knoxville campaign that winter, missing the battle of Chattanooga. On May 19, 1864, Logan was promoted to colonel.
Logan was wounded for the second time during the battle of Riddells’s Shop on June 13, 1864. He was appointed a temporary brigadier general on December 1, but the Confederate Congress didn’t confirm it, and he reverted back to a colonel. However, during that short time, Logan was the youngest general officer in the Confederate army. In early 1865 Logan served with Hampton during the Carolinas campaign and was promoted to brigadier general on February 15. He served in Petersburg as well as fighting in the battle of Bentonville from March 19–21. Logan surrendered along with the rest of Hampton’s forces on April 9 and was paroled on May 1 from Greensboro, North Carolina.
After the end of the war in 1865, Logan returned home to his civilian life. That May he borrowed five dollars from a friend and married Kate Virginia Cox (1840–1915), the daughter of James H. Cox, a judge from Chesterfield County, Virginia. The couple would have nine children but were survived by only a son and three daughters.
Logan began to study law and entered into the railroad industry. He was the “principal organizer” of what would become the Southern Railway, and was often associated in businesses with American industrialist/philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. Entering politics as well, Logan was part of the Virginia Democratic Executive Committee in 1879 and the Virginia “Gold Democrat” party in 1896, serving both as their chairman.
Logan died in 1914 at his apartment in New York City, New York, due to a “complication of diseases.” His body was buried in Hollywood Cemetery following a funeral on August 12.
Source of information: Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J. Civil War High Commands, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: The Lives of the Confederate Commanders, Louisiana State University Press, 1959. Wright, Marcus J. General Officers of the Confederate Army, J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983. Nytimes.com, New York Times newspaper obituary of Logan, originally published on page 9 on Wednesday, August 12, 1914. | <urn:uuid:3b136a81-8a08-4d58-af61-de579f39ccdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.hollywoodcemetery.org/thomas-logan | 2022-01-20T09:10:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301730.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120065949-20220120095949-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.984919 | 855 |
Nine days. That is how long my father and his brother survived on icicles as food in the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet after their yaks died during the perilous journey. Just teenagers at the time, they spent nights lying in opposite directions rubbing each other’s feet to prevent hypothermia. Due to the Chinese Communist regime’s invasion of Tibet in the late 1950s and the genocide of Tibetans in the following decades, my father and uncle fled, walking from Eastern Tibet for months, across treacherous rivers and over snow-covered mountains to seek refuge in India. In 1997, I was born in a small refugee camp in Northern India called Bir that later evolved into a Tibetan refugee settlement as a result of the Tibetan diaspora.
Bir was a rural, village-esque place where we shared paths with cows and goats more often than cars and bikes. The smell of cow dung pervaded the air along the dirt paths my cousin and me, our oil-slicked hair pulled into tight double braids, traversed to and from the nearest Indian elementary school.
I returned home from school one day to a strange stillness as my parents wept. My grandfather had passed away from an unknown lung condition with persistent fever and bloody coughs. We now know it was tuberculosis. Underserved and under-resourced, illness and premature death were common in Bir as the sole clinic had only one Tibetan physician providing care for the entire refugee settlement, and the nearest hospital was two hours away.
While growing up in congregate facilities like my Tibetan refugee boarding school, I saw first-hand the impact that access to healthcare can have. Witnessing the affliction of my family and community members with manageable diseases like TB ignited my desire to eliminate and prevent such diseases in underserved communities. I admired the volunteer physicians from the U.S. who came to Bir to provide us with aid. As an inquisitive child, I was amazed and intrigued by their knowledge of the human body that allowed them to diagnose conditions and treatments. Despite language barriers, I recall the physicians’ humanistic care and respect for our culture and autonomy while improving the health of our refugee settlement. These formative experiences with medical professionals inspired me to pursue a career as a physician.
Even by 2008, Bir afforded little to no educational opportunities or hope of social mobility for Tibetan refugees. But in 2009, through the lottery-based system of the U.S.’s Tibetan Resettlement Project, my family moved to Wisconsin with great hopes for educational opportunities that would offer a new upward trajectory for my sister and me. Acclimating while navigating high school and college as a first-generation student was a unique and difficult experience; I was often the translator for my father during doctor visits and parent-teacher conferences. However, in 2014 when I first returned to Bir to teach English to young monks who were not receiving the same educational opportunities I was, I came to see my circumstances in the U.S. as an opportunity to help myself and others. This experience inspired me to continue pursuing my growing interest in medicine, so in 2017 I returned to Bir to volunteer in a clinical setting.
As I headed to the clinic, the comforting familiar smell of cow dung filled the air. When I entered the clinic, I was surprised to see my mother’s friend Kunsang. This vivacious lady who owned the local vegetable stall now looked timid and defeated, unable to convey her symptoms to the volunteer doctors. Equipped with the ability to speak Tibetan, Hindi, and English, I understood the nuances of her language and translated it to the American doctors accordingly. As I translated, the look of relief on Kunsang’s face filled me with a sense of purpose. This rewarding experience furthered my desire to practice medicine and reduce barriers to health. Thus, during the following two summers, I continued to volunteer at the Bir clinic as an interpreter to help build cultural bridges between the Tibetan and Indian patients and the volunteer physicians.
Reflecting on my experiences, I came to realize that physicians transform and exemplify the role of science to ameliorate human conditions in our societies. But just as it is more advantageous for our fingers to be different lengths to optimize the functionality of our hands, the same is true for physicians from different walks of life contributing to the welfare of our increasingly heterogeneous communities. Through my own upbringing in an underserved Tibetan refugee settlement, I have recognized the indispensability of decreasing barriers to health in vulnerable populations. During these turbulent times, we are beginning to grasp the interconnectedness of our world—we are seeing how global health is affecting us at the individual level.
Medicine is the perfect intersection between science and service. Physicians meet individuals at their most vulnerable states, where generating non-dualistic compassion—compassion that is all-pervasive and looks past the veil of divisive factors—is of utmost benefit. Our world does not have a shortage of intelligence or talents. However, as we look across the world, our greatest problems arise as a result of a lack of compassion fueled by thinking only of one’s own self-interest and beliefs. The irony is that due to the interdependent nature of our world, the welfare of the world is in our self-interest. This is especially evident in this day and age. No matter how different our values and perspectives may be, every single one of us shares the same core wish for long-lasting happiness and peace of mind, while also sharing the same aversion to unhappiness and suffering.
Reflecting on these shared human sentiments has helped me to develop a warm-hearted attitude toward others. It is these values that will guide my career in compassionate ways to help me strive toward innovation and excellence for the welfare of patients and, consequently, our communities. Having seen the detrimental consequences of inequitable healthcare in my community, I understand the importance of humanism in medicine. By providing quality patient care and reducing healthcare barriers, I aspire to become a physician who eases suffering and promotes health in diverse patient populations through openness, compassion, and culturally competent care. | <urn:uuid:dd439efd-87f8-49a4-b58f-1d47b9f630dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/sonam-dolma-scholarship/ | 2022-01-20T08:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301730.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220120065949-20220120095949-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.965188 | 1,252 |
After purchasing a new mirror, you might not know where to put it. Standing full-length mirrors can consume a decent amount of floor space, making them awkward to place in crowded bedrooms or bathrooms.
Hanging mirrors can also be a little tricky, as you'll want to hang them at an appropriate height and make sure they're properly secured. Still, no matter what type or size of mirror you're working with, there's a place for it.
Let's explore everything you need to know about making your home shine with some new, stylish mirrors!
A Brief History of Mirrors
Understanding where mirrors come from is a little complicated. We do know that people were creating polished obsidian surfaces as far back as 6,000 years ago. But after that, the earliest record might be the ancient Greeks.
As such, there are vast gaps in our understanding of how the mirror came to be. Additionally, there's some evidence to support the idea that the first mirrors weren't used for personal hygiene and beauty purposes.
The very first mirrors may have instead acted as unique decorations. Mirror-like beads and decorations are also excellent reflectors. And humankind's fascination with shiny things seems to be instinctual, not learned.
When sunlight hits a stream, it can produce small gleams that reflect off nearby leaves and trees. Our most primitive ancestors may have associated this small shine with survival, leading us to treasure items that reflect.
Where Should I Place Mirrors?
You may be wondering where to place your home's mirrors. But not to worry, there are plenty of areas that could be ideal for a mirror or two, including:
- Dining Areas
Essentially, any place where you might check your appearance could be a great place for a mirror. Still, the best type of mirror for your home depends on your preferences and needs.
For example, if you'd like to have a clean, dedicated place to do your makeup and get ready in the morning, a vanity mirror and table could be the best solution for you.
If you need to see how your outfit looks, a full-length mirror could be the better choice. And if you're hoping to bust some moves and improve your dance skills, you might want to invest in large mirrors or a wall mirror.
No matter what type of mirror you choose, you'll want to ensure that you're not placing it too close to doorways. After all, a swinging door can quickly smash a mirror, resulting in dangerous shards of shattered glass.
It's also crucial to place your mirror at an appropriate height. If your chosen wall mirror is installed too high up, you won't be able to see yourself in it!
Why Does Mirror Placement Matter?
Mirrors are functional and aesthetic items. Consequently, it's vital to place them in areas where they'll find the most useful and exude the most charm.
Where you decide to place your mirrors can also help you determine what type of mirror to get. After all, a vanity mirror with lights wouldn't be an appropriate fit for your entryway or hallway.
That's why you'll want to consider where you'll place your new mirrors before you start browsing for them. Otherwise, you could end up with several gorgeous mirrors but zero spots to hang them or place them!
If you adhere to Feng Shui beliefs, mirror placement is a crucial element of channelling energy through your home. A Feng Shui bedroom mirror, for example, often isn't placed directly across from the bed or sleeping area.
Those trying to achieve a specific look or feel may need to spend more time considering placement than those operating off pure aesthetics. Of course, if you've got a design plan in mind, you're already halfway done.
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- Mirror Style
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After all, mirrors come in a wide variety of styles. For example, minimalists may prefer round, square, or rectangular mirrors with no frame or border. These simple round mirrors are a classic choice.
But those with a more eclectic style can choose avantgarde options with stylish metal frames or unusual shapes. For example, you could choose an old-fashioned mirror with a silver frame that dates back to the 1800s.
Or you could opt for contemporary experimentalism. The Pietra Mirror is an excellent example of a mirror that exudes non-traditional elegance. Its distinct style makes it a perfect hallway mirror.
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People have been using mirrors since ancient times. But these helpful items have changed quite a lot over the last several thousand years. Still, their purpose remains the same: Helping you look your best!
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When we explain a host package as being “Affordable” or “Budget plan” what we mean is hosting that comes under the price brace between $0.80 to $4 monthly. Whilst researching inexpensive organizing suppliers for this overview, we considered over 100 different hosts that fell into that rate array. We after that examined the high quality of their most affordable organizing package, value for cash and also customer support.
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I’ll discuss the functions, the rates options, as well as anything else I can think of that I assume could be of advantage, if you’re deciding to subscribe to Bluhost and get your web sites up and running.
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Bluehost is just one of the largest web hosting firms on the planet, obtaining both enormous advertising support from the firm itself as well as associate marketers that advertise it.
It truly is a large business, that has actually been around for a very long time, has a huge reputation, and is definitely among the top options when it concerns webhosting (certainly within the leading 3, a minimum of in my book).
However what is it exactly, and should you obtain its services?
Today, I will respond to all there is you require to recognize, given that you are a blogger or an entrepreneur who is searching for a webhosting, as well as doesn’t understand where to start, considering that it’s an excellent remedy for that audience in general.
Let’s think of, you intend to host your sites and also make them noticeable. Okay?
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To achieve every one of this, and to make your web site visible, you need what is called a “web server”. A web server is a black box, or tool, that saves all your site information (documents such as pictures, messages, videos, links, plugins, as well as various other information).
Now, this web server, needs to get on constantly and also it needs to be attached to the internet 100% of the moment (I’ll be stating something called “downtime” later on).
Furthermore, it additionally requires (without obtaining also expensive and also into information) a file transfer protocol commonly referred to as FTP, so it can reveal web browsers your internet site in its desired form.
All these things are either expensive, or require a high level of technical ability (or both), to produce and also maintain. As well as you can completely go out there and also discover these things on your own and established them up … however what about rather than you purchasing and also keeping one … why not simply “renting out hosting” rather?
This is where Bluehost is available in. You lease their web servers (called Shared Hosting) as well as you introduce a website using those servers.
Since Bluehost maintains all your files, the company likewise enables you to set up your material monitoring systems (CMS, for short) such as WordPress for you. WordPress is a super preferred CMS … so it simply makes sense to have that option readily available (almost every organizing company now has this alternative as well).
Simply put, you no more need to set-up a server and after that incorporate a software program where you can construct your content, independently. It is currently rolled right into one package.
Well … envision if your server is in your home. If anything were to take place to it at all, all your documents are gone. If something goes wrong with its inner procedures, you require a service technician to fix it. If something overheats, or breaks down or gets corrupted … that’s no good!
Bluehost takes all these troubles away, and cares for everything technical: Pay your server “rental fee”, and also they will care for whatever. As well as once you get the service, you can then start concentrating on adding web content to your website, or you can place your initiative right into your marketing campaigns.
What Services Do You Get From Bluehost?
Bluehost supplies a myriad of different solutions, however the primary one is hosting naturally.
The hosting itself, is of different kinds by the way. You can lease a shared web server, have a committed web server, or additionally a virtualpersonal server.
For the function of this Bluehost evaluation, we will certainly concentrate on holding solutions and other solutions, that a blog writer or an on-line business owner would need, rather than go unfathomable right into the bunny opening and also speak about the other services, that are targeted at even more knowledgeable individuals.
- WordPress, WordPress PRO, as well as e-Commerce— these holding services are the bundles that enable you to host an internet site making use of WordPress and also WooCommerce (the latter of which allows you to do shopping). After purchasing any one of these bundles, you can begin developing your web site with WordPress as your CMS.
- Domain Marketplace— you can likewise acquire your domain from Bluehost rather than various other domain registrars. Doing so will certainly make it much easier to point your domain to your host’s name web servers, since you’re making use of the exact same industry.
- Email— once you have purchased your domain, it makes good sense to likewise get an email address tied to it. As a blogger or on-line entrepreneur, you ought to pretty much never utilize a complimentary email solution, like Yahoo! or Gmail. An e-mail similar to this makes you look less than professional. Thankfully, Bluehost offers you one completely free with your domain name.
Bluehost additionally provides dedicated servers.
And also you may be asking …” What is a dedicated web server anyway?”.
Well, the thing is, the basic web hosting bundles of Bluehost can only so much website traffic for your site, after which you’ll require to update your holding. The reason being is that the typical web servers, are shared.
What this means is that a person server can be servicing two or even more sites, at the same time, among which can be your own.
What does this mean for you?
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It indicates that the single web server’s sources are shared, as well as it is doing numerous tasks at any kind of provided time. As soon as your website begins to hit 100,000 website brows through monthly, you are mosting likely to require a dedicated web server which you can likewise get from Bluehost for a minimum of $79.99 each month.
This is not something yous needs to worry about when you’re starting out yet you ought to keep it in mind for sure.
Bluehost Pricing: Just How Much Does It Cost?
In this Bluehost testimonial, I’ll be focusing my interest mainly on the Bluehost WordPress Hosting packages, since it’s the most preferred one, as well as most likely the one that you’re seeking which will fit you the most effective (unless you’re a substantial brand name, business or site).
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The initial cost you see is the rate you pay upon join, as well as the second cost is what the cost is, after the very first year of being with the company.
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If you choose the Standard plan, you will pay $2.95 x 12 = $35.40 beginning today as well as by the time you enter your 13th month, you will certainly currently pay $7.99 monthly, which is likewise billed each year. If that makes any type of feeling.
If you are serious about your site, you must 100% get the three-year choice. This suggests that for the fundamental strategy, you will pay $2.95 x 36 months = $106.2.
By the time you hit your fourth year, that is the only time you will certainly pay $7.99 per month. If you consider it, this method will certainly conserve you $120 during three years. It’s very little, but it’s still something.
If you want to get more than one web site (which I highly advise, and if you’re serious, you’ll probably be getting even more at some time in time) you’ll wish to use the selection plus plan. It’ll permit you to host limitless websites.
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- $ 200 advertising credit history
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So, why choose Bluehost over various other webhosting services? There are thousands of webhosting, much of which are resellers, but Bluehost is one select few that have stood the test of time, and it’s most likely the most well known available (and for good reasons).
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As reported by MacMinute:
HP to stop selling iPods July 29, 2005 - The Wall Street Journal today reported that Hewlett-Packard has decided to stop selling its branded iPods. Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton said, "They've decided that reselling iPods doesn't fit with their company's current digital media strategy.". HP will phase out its iPod sales immediately.
Since the shakeup at Hewlett Packard over Carly Fiorina's resignation, a lot of restructuring has been going on.
- First, there were the layoffs. I can say with almost 100% certainty this was very closely related to the immense payoff Fiorina received from HP. A restructuring of the marketing department was going on just before Fiorina's departure, but I am inclined to believe, she was already on her way out. The layoffs and restructuring prior to her departure were simply precursory. [A LITTLE OFF TOPIC] I would like to add my two cents worth. Almost all of Corporate America is bloated at the moment. They are inundated with the slacking workers that average about 60% of a day's work - that workers use to produce. There's personal email, extended lunch breaks, tardiness, leaving early, and a number of other factors contributing the the decay of the corporate giants at the moment.
- Second, there has been a good bit of restructuring of HP's camera and printing units. Thank goodness. Companies are wise to diversify, but some companies try too much to be "everything" companies - in a corporate environment this can really draw the company out of touch with its buyers - as there is too broad of a demographic to appeal to.
- Third, HP has dropped the iPod. I'm not so sure what motivated this move; but I can provide a few details behind it:
- HP had almost zero R&D costs or channel distribution costs.
- The iPod DID fit quite nicely into the "HP strategy" - it provided them a chance to tie the most successful product IN HISTORY to their own - something no other PC maker can claim.
- It also brought people to the channels where HP products were sold. The iPod is the hottest, most visible retail product EVER - having the iPod at Walmart, Radio Shack, and other HP channels was a huge traffic draw.
- HP had a 5% marketshare of all iPods sold. That may seem small. However, in the last quarter iPods sold 6.1 million units - that equals 305,000 units and $9.15 MILLION in profits! I seriously doubt HP makes this kind of profit on all it's lines.
- The HP iPod, in a small way, added confirmation of the iPod's PC compatibility and support. A number of people thought the Apple logo meant Apple compatible only. (You'd be surprised!)
Of course this is contrary to Paul Thurrott's expert opinion:
How bad was the deal? According to the AP, part of the agreement states that HP can't sell a competing MP3 player until August 2006. It was virtually impossible for HP to make any money on iPod sales, because of the deal structure that Fiorina agreed to. And HP was (and still is) responsible for honoring the warranties of those iPods it sold ... even though it never made any money on them. The net result is that HP will lose money on the iPod deal. You may also recall that Fiorina held aloft a blue iPod during the January 2004 announcement. There is little doubt that even Fiorina believed, at the time, that HP would be able to do more customizing with the iPod that it was really able to. When the HP iPod shipped months later, it was identical to the Apple version, adding only a laser-engraved HP logo on the back, below the Apple logo. HP instead created iPod tatoos, allowing it to both save face and involve its crucial printer business.
[NOTE: Paul Thurrott is often compared to the likes of Bill Palmer & John C. Dvorak concerning his opinions in the Macintosh Universe.]
HP produced the last of the Apple's branded serial printers - the 4100 & 4500. After these printers were produced; HP only created one more serial printer for the Apple market over the next 2 years - the 895CSE.
HP picked up support again for Apple products with Steve Jobs return and the advent of USB on iMacs.
Up until 10.3, not all HP printers had Macintosh drivers. (Such as low end laser printers)
It's pretty much the same story with scanners - following the same early 90's partnership with SCSI based scanners, mid 90's break, late 90's partnership with USB scanners and now almost full seamless product lines comingling with macs and PCs alike.
The real benefit to the Apple HP partnership was Apple's loyal fan base. I think the iPod relationship may have had some small meaning to Apple user's perception of HP as a partner. With high double digit growth and significant gains in Apple market share - does HP really want a half hearted relationship with Apple?
The Macrumors forum about this topic brought up the possibility of HP iPods being collectible.
I guess I'll have a collectors item in about 5 years now.
This is exactly what I was thinking. I've also thought the 1st gen iPods would be collectible one day.
This is going to make the HP shuffle an INSTANT collectible - go get em now at SAM'S.
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Therése Bolliger/Colette Whiten, Robert Flack/Christian Morrison, Oliver Girling/Roland Jean, Ian Carr-Harris/Patricia Homonyo, Richard Banks/Tom Dean, Janice Gurney/Kim Maltman
Curated by: Ihor Holubizky and Regan Morris
5 September 1991 - 5 October 1991
Opening Reception 5 September 1991 8pm
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Mercer Union a centre for contemporary art is pleased to present, Union Language, an exhibition of collaborative works by a select group of Toronto artists.
Union Language will include works by artists involved in contemporary design, architecture and visual art. Curator Ihor Holublzky and visual artist Regan Morris have collaborated in their invitations to artists who are producing work for the exhibition. The artists participating in Union Language are: Therése Bolliger/ Colette Whiten, Robert Flack/Chrlstian Morrison, Oliver Girling/Roland Jean, Ian Carr-Harris/Patricia Homonylo, Richard Banks/Tom Dean, Janice Gurney/Kim Maltman.
A panel discussing collaborative process is planned to accompany the exhibition. Union Language opens September 5th and runs to October 5th, 1991.
Extension Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1991
Calling themselves “enlightened entrepreneurs” who “initiate collaborative ventures rather than uncovering existing works under a defined curatorial agenda”, Ihor Holubizky and Regan Morris approached several artists with the mandate of choosing another artist with whom each could work. This opened-ended proposition spawned works by Therése Bolliger with Colette Whiten, Janice Gurney with Kim Maltman, Robert Flack with Christian Morrison, Ian Carr-Harris with Patricia Homonylo, Richard Banks with Tom Dean, and Oliver Girling with Roland Jean. The works in the exhibition utilize a variety of media and, aside from some superficial similarities, there appears to be very little which links one effort to the other, except that each pair of artists partidpated in a prccess of collaboration.
While the quality of the overall exhibition is uneven, it is important to keep in mind that these works are products of a collaborative process and that the success of each effort can be measured on one level by the extent to which each artist’s contribution is integrated in the final product. Taking this criterion into account, of the six groups of work in the exhibition, the pieces by Therese Bolliger with Colette Whiten, and Janice Gurney with Kim Maltman are the most successful.
Both Therése Bolliger and Colette Whiten have worked with sculpture. Recently Bolliger has been involved with drawing and Whiten has used the traditional media of needlework to depict political images. Their joint contribution to Union Language, which could best be described as a drawing/sculpture, is entitled, Blind Word Mute Vision. Their piece consists of three lengths of black wire mesh draped loosely, folded in two and suspended at the top by a shallow wooden shelf. The centre panel displays the text: “mute vision blind word mute vision b” and the mirror image of the same text is cross stitched directly underneath. The panel on the left has the words “blind word” cut from the top layer of the mesh and the panel on the right-side bears the words “mute vision” which have also been cut in the same manner. Not only do the words cast shadows on the walls directly behind them but the moire pattern which is produced by the layering of the wire mesh makes Blind Word Mute Vision a visually rich effort. Both artists interest in methods of expression were accommodated, making the collaboration between Therese Bolliger and Colette Whiten a good example of how two artists can work together to create a work which is just as powerful and thought-provoking as their own individual work.
Although their approach is very different, the same can be said about the piece by Janice Gurney and physicist and poet Kim Maltman entitled Harlow and the Technology of Love.
Their collaborative piece consists of several sets of information, including photographs that document behavioral experiments to do with mother and infant bonding using rhesus monkeys conducted by Harry and Margaret Harlow, juxtaposed with photographs of Jean Harlow, the Hollywood love goddess, a shelf with different types of glues and adhesives, a refrigerator cooling system, and a textual piece entitled The Affectional Systems, which is meant to be read like a poem. These groups of information interact to form a scathing commentary on the insidious ways that popular culture and science feed our negative stereotypes of women.
As a thesis for an exhibition, Union Language was a significant proposition because it flies in the face of a traditional stereotype of the artist struggling away in isolation. However, it is important for the viewer to be familiar with each artist’s production in order to fully appreciate the pieces in the exhibition. Also, if there were some documentation of collaborative process, the audience could be more aware of the process and the dialogue that transpired to make the work possible. This additional information would have enhanced an already provocative exhibition.
Innovative collaborations create new language.
By DEIRDRE HANNA
NOW, September 12-18 1991
Mercer Union launches its fall season with an exciting experiment in collaboration.
Loosely co-ordinated: by: artist Regan Morris and, curator -lhor Holubizky, Union Language pairs some of the hottest names on thc Toronto art scene to see what happens when two people who have never worked together before join forces to create a single work of art.
Painter Richard Banks joins installation artist Tom Dean in three large paintings, painters Oliver Girling and Roland Jean team up for two works and sculptors Thérèse Bolliger and Collette Whiten create sedate wall sculpture.
Janice Gurney, who has long dealt in appropriated images creates her first true collaboration with poet/physicist Kim Maltman, photographer Robert Flack joins graphic designer Christian Morrison and sculptor and teacher Ian Carr-Harris works with a former student, Patricia Homonylo.
Once the collaborative partnerships were established the curators nurtured the laboratory feel to the creative process, steering clear and letting the artists joint concepts gel.
“We didn’t want to see any of the works in progress.” explains Holubizky, “because we didn’t want to interfere. The”basic” selections we made were based on trust and respect”
The lineup alone makes for an impressive group show, but what makes Union Language especially intriguing is how the individual artists rose to the challenge of working within such artificial creative conditions.
Among the most powerful is Gurney and Maltman’s disturbing Harlow And The Technology Of Love. In it, screen love goddess Jean Harlow is juxtaposed with scientist Harry Harlow, who in the 60s worked with rhesus monkeys in a series of sadistic studies on maternal bonding.
Heartbreaking photos of infant monkeys clinging to dubiously comforting surrogate “mothers” join images of the actor in her shimmering beauty, including a publicity still taken with Harlow’s loving Christian Scientist mother who ultimately refused to take her dying daughter to hospital.
Scientific texts join poetry written for the installation. Sculptural elements include an assortment of glues with different bonding strengths, and a salvaged refrigerator pan that acts as a surrogate maternal unit .
All the pans neatly knit together to pose profound questions about faith and love.
Other highlights include Carr Harris and: Homonylo’s 1-(900) 999-6969, which probes issues of vulnerability and accountability. Carr-Harris has constructed an over-sized, beat-up kitchen counter which holds a magazine sporting a phone sex ad with the titular phone number.
Homonylo builds her critique into the work with a telephone and answering machine that turn viewers into voyeurs when periodic incoming calls force gallery visitors to overhear private messages in progress. The phone numbers of the people calling in are displayed on a state of-the-art phone that raises further questions about privacy in the face of technology.
Flack and Morrison also drawing gallery visitors into their work, by offering stacks of attractive, cheaply produced two colour posters in lieu of a precious original image. Each of four posters features a computer manipulated image of Morrison’s children engaged, in symbolic activities like the pagan marriage gesture’ of handfasting, embellished with figures like flowers that are rich with fertility and life.
In all but one case, the artists working together knew each other but had never previously collaborated. The exception Girling and Jean’s joint paintings go to show that fruitful projects can come from the pairing of strangers.
Jean’s raw, voodoo-inspired imagery joins with Girling’s solid, slick compositions in singularly coherent works. A lily held in a zombie’s teeth, for example, invests the work with a poignant humour. While neither painter individually works on wood, for this project they used a plywood surface, drawing out the wood grain as a central part of the imagery.
As Morris observes, “In coming together they did something completely unfamiliar, and which works really well.”
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Pondexter battled back from years of injuries to sit on the Spurs’ bench.
Welcome to the 2018-19 season player reviews, where we will be rehashing the performance of 13 San Antonio Spurs from this season (excluding Dejounte Murray, Pau Gasol, Donatas Motiejunas, and two-way players Drew Eubanks and Ben Moore) and looking towards the future. If you’ve missed any, you can click here to catch up.
Roger Ebert once talked about how every movie he rated was independent of all the others. He didn’t believe that two movies receiving the same star rating were always of the same quality. Instead, he believed that both movies were equal in achieving their respective goals and expectations. These reviews will take the same approach when providing grades, so two players receiving the same grade does not necessarily mean they had the same impact on the team.
Birthday: March 10th, 1988 (31 years old)
Contract details: Unrestricted free agent
Quincy Pondexter was drafted 26th overall by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2010 NBA draft before being traded to the New Orleans Pelicans. His first few years in the league showed promise of a traditional 3 and D player off the bench. Unfortunately for him, injuries and life-threatening health issues derailed his career over the past few years.
With roughly $80 million in salary going towards LaMarcus Aldridge, DeMar DeRozan, Pau Gasol, and Patty Mills, the Spurs had few options in trying to construct a competitive roster this past offseason. PATFO chose offense over defense, letting Kyle Anderson walk and sending Danny Green to the Toronto Raptors for some reason I can’t quite remember. Marco Belinelli was the big free agent signing and the Spurs resigned offensive-minded players in Davis Bertans and Bryn Forbes.
With little salary cap left for signing free agents, PATFO had to take a flier or two on a defensive-minded wing. Enter Pondexter. When healthy, Pondexter had been a serviceable rotational piece throughout his career, but it would have been optimistic at best to think he would find a place in the regular rotation with the Spurs unless something unforeseen happened. Well, it didn’t. And he didn’t.
There’s not much to review of Pondexter this season. He was signed for the NBA veteran minimum with the expectation of being an end-of-bench depth piece, and that was the exact role he played. He was on the court for a grand total of 292 minutes, and 212 of those minutes came in garbage time.
The one criteria to look at when trying to put together a review of Pondexter’s season is that he was never able to supplant Dante Cunningham on the depth chart, even though Cunningham made the Spurs a lot worse when he was on the court. It probably wouldn’t have mattered much during the season, but Cunningham fell out of the rotation completely midway through the season and the Spurs never experimented replacing him with Pondexter.
Instead of these low-reward signings of older veterans to fill the end-of-bench roster positions, it would be nice to see younger players with higher upside like Ben Moore get the opportunity. These younger players would likely get a lot more out of garbage time minutes than veterans would.
Pondexter was able to stay healthly this season, which is a good sign for him moving forward. I hope he finds an NBA roster next season, but I don’t believe it will be with the Spurs. The Spurs already have 11 players with guaranteed contracts. Add in the Spurs’ two 1st round draft picks and hopefully Rudy Gay, and there’s just not going to be any space for Pondexter.
November 28, 2018 in a blowout loss against the Minnesota Timberwolves: 13 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists in 12 minutes
Final Grade: C
There was nothing about Pondexter’s game that really stood out, for better or worse. His signing was worth the low risk, but it never really amounted to anything. From everything that was made public, Pondexter was a great teammate. He should also be commended for overcoming a series of injuries to make his way back onto an NBA court.
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2018-2019 Spurs player reviews: Quincy Pondexter
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In the past tense.
Penis? Nah, pen*was.*
Underrated comment, 💖😂
I pictured this with the Sayori/Drake meme. Such Meme!
I'm ded 💀 😅
Yess haha, hard agree. I’m so happy that someone already made the joke! 😂
Of course I’m also quite happy I can make the joke to begin with. 😊
Yeah me too, it's just there. Harmless, small and kinda adorable
Not to me. I plan to get rid of it at some point.
Well me too eventually, but for now I don't hate it
I'm glad. I try not to think about it myself, kind of ignore it and try to forget about its existence.
At the moment I’m using “the tenant”
My dysphoria noodle. And in the future I'll call it the lost relic
I don’t call it
As a millennial with lots of gen z friends, this made chortle.
omg i love it
I've always just referred to mine the same way guys refer to theirs, but I know a lot of women refer to theirs as a "strapless." Like a strap-on but without the straps.
i’ve also heard “built-in strapon”
I have a friend who wants to keep hers, she’s a lesbian and calls it the same thing 😂
i tend to say bits because i feel its more femme and prude/modest, good as practice for girly dysphoria too
My "massive throbbing girlcock" I figure if I'm going to be uncomfortable so is everyone else in the room
thisis the attude
this is so based i fucking died
Based and femme-pilled
Absolutely based lmfao
If I overexaggerate it's easier to dissociate from the concept that I too have a 9" trouser python.
I personally dislike a lot of terms people use like making it more feminine. Idk to me stuff like that causes more dysphoria?
If I have to refer to it, I'll usually refer to it by common slang. If I am talking about something like "yeah I like girls" and someone asks if I'd date a girl with a dick then ill say "yeah girl dick is rad!". But thats to the extent id go with something like that.
In reality, im okay with what people want to call it, but im careful for personal reasons
i've always just used 'junk'
extremely underrated and very funny, 10/10
also genuinely clever as a legit answer, strongly considering
If I still had mine, I think I’d call it “El Kabong”.
(this probably dates me, I can’t imagine there are many here who grew up on Quick Draw McGraw reruns)
Well I'm non-op at least at this point so all the usual feminizing ways to refer to my genitals are great. But my other fav is OEM package.
I enjoy calling it my clit, but I've also heard some girls say it's their Glock and I enjoy that as well.
omg, crying laughing
Packing one way or another lol
Clitongus Is pretty good too. I may have to use that at some point 🤣
I call it my birth defect
That's attitude. I like it.
lmao probably the best one
Yooooo B-B-B-🅱️ased and the best one sis, but still too long and it's not gonna be easy to use casually. Maybe I should your other term.┍つ( ^(Ó︿) ^(.Ò) )
I'm the opposite haha. I gender mine male and tell him he doesn't belong here and I'm planning on getting rid of him.
Or if I'm feeling less dysphoric it's my chick stick (stolen from someone else on reddit at some point)
omg some of these low-vote comments are absolute gems xD
Oh my god thank you
I don't refer to it. It won't be with me forever and I just find it disgusting. If someone assumes I have my AGAB genitals (surprisingly lots of trans people are fucking awful when it comes to genital etiquette) then I just deny it. In my mind it doesn't exist and is just a tumor that I must medicate and eventually remove.
If I need to refer to it then I will say "It" or "My genitals", sometimes "The thing" if I feel like that's a good descriptor. Usually I go with "Genitals" though, it makes it seem clinical.
There's no "good" way to refer to it besides penis nowadays, which really sucks.
I used to use Ladydick and Girldick but since the tide of people using it as a joke on trans women, I haven't felt comfortable with the term.
Any time I've used cis women's anatomy to refer to mine, such as clit, vag, or anything else, people get hella mad. **Especially** on any dating apps.
I don’t care what the transphobes do. It’s our word and they can’t have it.
Reclaim the girldick! It's ours dammit.
Well, you're stronger than I.
I try to think like that but the fact that it's been made into such a memeish joke in even progressive spaces makes me cringe when I use.
My girlfriend likes when I call it her kitten/kitty, her cute little bean, her cute little clitty, or any variation of that. She was referring to it with vague terms like "that thingy" or "that area" so I figured it could use some cute loving nicknames. Now she uses them to refer to own bits and says it helps her feel less negatively about it.
That's me eheh.....
I second that
Growth between my legs that ruined my life
Unfortunately, when I read it, a bad feeling run over my spine. Because I agree with you 100%.
I wish I could get rid of it with retroactive effects, but this it is not possible. Unfortunately.
Well, none ask me it. Sorry for disturb the thread.
Sorry I made you uncomfortable. <3
Don't worry. It's not your fault.
Thank you for your concern.
I try not to
Yeah, I don’t have a lot of conversations where it comes up. That’d be a weird day at the office. If my co-workers start talking about my parts then it’s time to update my résumé.
I just call it my parts. Honestly just holding out until I can call that area something better.
String bean? 😅
My Princess Parts
I particularly grin at "lady-dagger"
It's a clit, obviously.
Ive heard someone call her penis her "hen" and i think its fun and cute
Brings the phrase "Hen pecking" to a whole new level....
I usually just say my genitals. It’s a neutral term.
I call it the dysphoria sausage
The Problem, The Horror, The Thing, the neighbor downstairs, It. My wife on the other hand refer to it as my vag or clit or other similar things
The stick of shame, or dysphoria generator
My princess wand
Penis, but I love this idea of calling it a girl dick.
Like this is a girl's dick, because I am a girl and it is mine.
Therefore it is a feminine organ
I like it too. Just wish it wasn't overtaken as a joke by cis people.
It makes it kinda uncomfortable to see it used legitly when so many now use it as another way to make trans women seem delusional and fetishist. To the point where if I see it online, I know there's a 90% chance it's being used to mock us.
Side note: Wish mine was a feminine organ or at least that I could see it like that but it doesn't compute.
>so many now use it as another way to make trans women seem delusional and fetishist
Do they? If so, that's a bummer. I've never seen it around, but then again I try to steer clear of a lot of the online discourse.
Yup, and that's the reason you haven't seen it.
I used to try and troll bigots, which is virtually impossible to do since they tend to take a stance of, "Idgaf what someone on the internet says about me", and just ended up triggering myself by seeing this kind of stuff said.
Now it's spread to even LGB, minus the T, spaces like lesbian, gay, and queer subreddits.
You could try "death squid"
dead meat is funny lol, i haven’t heard of that one before
"that's the neat part, you don't!"
I don't refer to it.. it's a useless thing that shouldn't have existed lol
A gun in my pants
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 407,231,566 comments, and only 88,107 of them were in alphabetical order.
I'm just too powerful
I just refer to it as 'it' since I have no attachment to it but also no dysphoria from it either
My partner and i call it my clit. Pretty much treat it like a clit as well, using a Hitachi on it, which feels amazing btw
Oh damn I bet! Kinda want to try that now but those damn wands are so expensive from what I've seen.
You can get them pretty cheap on Amazon, like $30 Canadian. We have an official Hitachi, but want to get one of the ones from Amazon as a backup as well
Good to know! I'll have to look that up!
Here's one here Rechargeable Personal Massager Handheld - Cordless - 8 Powerful Speeds & 20 Vibration Patterns - Travel Bag Included - Great After Sport (Pink) https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07L9XJLFC/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_TQCPZKFR1B8X84S29004?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 hopefully i'm allowed to share links
I have just been using genitals where I have to, I like junk too though
Dysphoria-Con, bc that's all its good for apparantly
Penis is what I referred to mine as because that is the scientific term for it , penis is not gendered It is just the word for that organ
I like things like girldick and lady lance because they seem more accurate to me, but I am not entirely opposed other terms either. IDK.
It's my dick. I've had it called a "clit/clitty" and a "girldick". The second one is a bit funny depending on who said it and what the context was, but please fuckin' don't. Thanks.
Being trans, I know a decent bit about sex, gender, identity, etc.. With that being said, I also know some women have dicks. Simple as that. Therefore I don't have a problem just using normal words. Doing anything else seems strange to me.
EDIT: I should clarify that I don't have much bottom dysphoria and I'm not interested in any type of surgery involving my penis. Just wish the damn thing was a bit bigger.
Just a big ol clit
You mean day to day conversation? Dick or cock -no reason to confuse people by straying from the vernacular.
Outside of sex, I just say bits or parts usually. Inside of sex, I'm comfortable with cock because it feels _sexual_ more than gendered to me, no clue why.
That thing down there, then give a disgusting look.
Penis, and cock and stuff like that is fine. But I like clit, or lil princess more.
Just "the annoying thing"
"Princess parts". The word "penis" gives me dysphoria when referring to my own parts so I use a euphemism with my boyfriend.
Clit pickle or shmeat. But I don’t really get dysphoria from mine so I don’t plan on getting rid of it. 😂
I don’t refer to it
Dick, or girl dick. Or cock or girl cock.
My fiancee calls it my big clit lol, but I call it my fem cock since I don't have bottom dysphoria
Cock, dick, sometimes girldick or glock if I feel like being spicy. Idk to me I just don't see it as an inherently masculine organ so I just call it the same thing a cis person might.
Clit if I am feeling dysphoric. Otherwise I cycle between clit and girldick. Having contrapoints talk about the feminine penis has helped me not think of a dick as inherently masculine.
My clit or bits
Calendar... because its days are numbered!
gaslight, gatekeep, girlcock
One eye one horned flying purple people eater
Ghost dick, super soaker, leaner weiner, floppy bird, clit, girl dick.
Clit on a stick
I don't have one anymore, but the best thing I ever heard was "Lady Lance".
honestly i don't have a lot of dysphoria so usually it's just chick, but sometimes girlcock when i'm feeling ~*spicy*~
My little girl or little one since she’s always been a small one and hrt made her even smaller😅
Not what I use, I just call it _the thing_, but one of my transfem friends uses it and always makes me laugh
I don't any more, but back when I did I just called it "down there" or "my genitals" or something similarly vague.
I don't. It's something I try not to think about.
It's my boy :(
Hen. I picked it up from a trans subreddit years ago.
Skin tag, genetic defect, if I'm feeling humorous it's my clit on a stick.
Propeller, cock/penis, dongle, schlong/schlongle
Anything that produces a chortle.
I like the term "lady lance", but I mostly refer to it as "the thing down there".
I just call them my genitales
I usually just refer to it as a "tail", since I'm very mildly into this whole catgirl thing. But recently, I've stumbled upon "glock" (as in girl cock) and I think that works for me, too.
If on a man it's a cock, on a woman it's a hen.
My general stance is that "yep, it's a penis" -- I personally don't tend to have much bottom dysphoria (though I sometimes do wish I had a vagina), but I try to just detach all feelings of "male"ness from my dick. It's just a thing for me.
I don’t I desperately try to pretend it doesn’t exist
I like “organic strap”
I refer to it as my penis, I just generally don't mention it with anyone who I'm not sleeping with or intimately comfortable around.
I guess it's like, look, I have a dick. That's a fact that won't change any time soon. It caused me a lot of problems in my life, but now I am me and I am happy and I like myself and my body. My penis is part of me whether I like it or not, and it isn't really causing problems anymore. Sometimes I have to gaffe which is inconvenient, and sometimes I have to deal with people being shitty to me, but overall my penis is no longer a malign entity in my life.
Ignoring it or pretending it isn't there doesn't change anything. Also sometimes I call it Penelope, my ex came up with that name and I thought it was cute.
It, just it. I try to avoid bringing up the topic myself, and if I'm involved in an existing conversation involving it, then what I'm referring to is clear from context. I'm completely sex-repulsed due to its presence anyway because I hate the idea of another person encountering it, so it basically never comes up unless it's a post like this on a trans subreddit or some discussion about when I'm planning on getting fixed.
We call her Jessica
I've seen princess wand a bit
Girl dick, easy
Twig and berries.
There is no penis only Zuul.
I say I have part of a penis because my penis was circumcised.
My abnormally large clit, lmao
That gross thingy down there.
A stupid piece of garbage...
On that note, I can't wait to take out the trash...
I think you mean atrophy not entropy, and also I call mine a girldick or girlcock, same for my gf who's also trans and we both like the terms. I think a couple times I called it a clit but that just didn't sit right with me for whatever reason
I've joked with my partner that I have a delicate flower just like any other girl, mine just has an unusually large stamen
Dead gland walking
gock & galls.
Rod of Dysphoria
*Wondrous item, common*
This “wand” has 3 charges, which it regains after a long rest. You can expend a charge to overwhelm any intelligent creature within line of sight with horrible thoughts and feelings. They start to feel dissociated with their own body, and are filled with unbearable self-loathing, taking 1d4 psychic damage. The effect lasts for 1 hour.
The Thing or my shewee.
My clit, of course! I really like referring to it that way, tbh! It carries the connotations of being small and feminine, and that makes me feel a lot better about myself.
As rarely as possible.
I try my best not to think of it lol, but when I do, it’d be when I’m out with friends who don’t know I’m trans yet and I just call it anything 🤷🏼♀️
I call it a clit. Delusional? Maybe. Less dysphoric? At least for me it is.
Ever since I was young I just called all genitalia "privates". I am starting to realize this is another sign ...
Outside of sexual context: genitals.
Sexual context: I prefer not to refer to it but clit is the better option. I don't have too much trouble with calling it a dick or penis as long as I'm being treated as a woman and refer to as one.
I refer to it as my genitals, can’t bring myself to say the other words.
I've started using she/her pronouns for her, without any specific name behind it and it's actually been really helpful for my personal mental framing of her.
It helped me stop feeling like she was male thing attached to my body, and made me realise that she actually functions and likes to be treated very differently compared to a man's penis.
I refer to it as "***IT***" or the "dysphoria noodle"
In the future I simply won't refer to it because I'll have forgotten about it because I won't have it :)
I don't. I don't like talking about my privates to strangers if I can help it.
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15-2041.00 - Statisticians
Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.
Sample of reported job titles: Demographer, Mathematical Statistician, Psychometric Consultant, Quantitative Methodologist, Research Scientist, Researcher, Statistical Analyst, Statistical Consultant, Statistical Reporting Analyst, Statistician
Also see: Biostatisticians
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Analyze and interpret statistical data to identify significant differences in relationships among sources of information.
- Identify relationships and trends in data, as well as any factors that could affect the results of research.
- Determine whether statistical methods are appropriate, based on user needs or research questions of interest.
- Prepare data for processing by organizing information, checking for inaccuracies, and adjusting and weighting the raw data.
- Present statistical and nonstatistical results, using charts, bullets, and graphs, in meetings or conferences to audiences such as clients, peers, and students.
- Report results of statistical analyses, including information in the form of graphs, charts, and tables.
- Design research projects that apply valid scientific techniques, and use information obtained from baselines or historical data to structure uncompromised and efficient analyses.
- Process large amounts of data for statistical modeling and graphic analysis, using computers.
- Adapt statistical methods to solve specific problems in many fields, such as economics, biology, and engineering.
- Evaluate the statistical methods and procedures used to obtain data to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
- Report results of statistical analyses in peer-reviewed papers and technical manuals.
- Evaluate sources of information to determine any limitations, in terms of reliability or usability.
- Develop and test experimental designs, sampling techniques, and analytical methods.
- Plan data collection methods for specific projects, and determine the types and sizes of sample groups to be used.
- Supervise and provide instructions for workers collecting and tabulating data.
- Examine theories, such as those of probability and inference, to discover mathematical bases for new or improved methods of obtaining and evaluating numerical data.
- Prepare and structure data warehouses for storing data.
- Develop software applications or programming for statistical modeling and graphic analysis.
- Apply sampling techniques, or use complete enumeration bases to determine and define groups to be surveyed.
- Analytical or scientific software — IBM SPSS Statistics ; Minitab ; SAS ; The MathWorks MATLAB (see all 35 examples)
- Business intelligence and data analysis software — Apache Spark ; Qlik Tech QlikView ; Tableau
- Data base management system software — Apache Hadoop ; Apache Pig ; Teradata Database
- Data base user interface and query software — Amazon Redshift ; Microsoft Access ; Microsoft SQL Server ; Structured query language SQL (see all 6 examples)
- Data mining software — Angoss KnowledgeSEEKER; NCR Teradata Warehouse Miner; SAS Enterprise Miner
- Development environment software — Common business oriented language COBOL ; Formula translation/translator FORTRAN; Microsoft Visual Basic ; Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA
- Enterprise application integration software — SAS/CONNECT
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software — SAP
- Object or component oriented development software — C++ ; Python ; R ; Sun Microsystems Java (see all 5 examples)
- Object oriented data base management software — Microsoft Visual FoxPro
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — Linux ; UNIX
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Science — Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Programming — Writing computer programs for various purposes.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Speed of Closure — The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Working with Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Providing Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Communicating with People Outside the Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
Detailed Work Activities
- Analyze data to identify trends or relationships among variables.
- Determine appropriate methods for data analysis.
- Evaluate technical data to determine effect on designs or plans.
- Evaluate data quality.
- Prepare data for analysis.
- Present research results to others.
- Prepare analytical reports.
- Prepare graphics or other visual representations of information.
- Design research studies to obtain scientific information.
- Apply mathematical principles or statistical approaches to solve problems in scientific or applied fields.
- Evaluate project designs to determine adequacy or feasibility.
- Supervise information technology personnel.
- Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends.
- Implement security measures for computer or information systems.
- Install computer software.
- Write computer programming code.
- Design software applications.
- Electronic Mail — 85% responded “Every day.”
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 90% responded “Every day.”
- Spend Time Sitting — 55% responded “Continually or almost continually.”
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 60% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 60% responded “Some freedom.”
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 47% responded “Very important.”
- Telephone — 55% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 75% responded “Some freedom.”
- Work With Work Group or Team — 60% responded “Very important.”
- Contact With Others — 45% responded “Contact with others most of the time.”
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 70% responded “40 hours.”
- Time Pressure — 40% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 60% responded “Important results.”
- Level of Competition — 60% responded “Moderately competitive.”
- Letters and Memos — 53% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
|Title||Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed|
|Education||Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).|
|Related Experience||Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.|
|Job Training||Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.|
|Job Zone Examples||These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, neurologists, and veterinarians.|
|SVP Range||(8.0 and above)|
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required|
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- Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Self-Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Recognition — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2020)||$44.36 hourly, $92,270 annual|
|Employment (2020)||42,000 employees|
|Projected growth (2020-2030)||Much faster than average (15% or higher)|
|Projected job openings (2020-2030)||5,000|
|Top industries (2020)|
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020 wage data and 2020-2030 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2020-2030). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
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- American Academy of Actuaries
- American Educational Research Association
- American Mathematical Society
- American Statistical Association
- Association for Institutional Research
- International Biometric Society
- National Council on Measurement in Education
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Mathematicians and statisticians
- SAS Users Groups
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Society of Actuaries
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May 21, 2019 [Updated on December 12, 2019]
The best results in paper cutting (as in anything else) begins with selection of the right equipment. This is especially true with the guillotine knife in a industrial paper cutting machine. An inferior quality paper cutter blade inaccurately ground with an incorrect bevel may not only result in a poor quality product being produced, but could increase costs and even damage a commercial paper cutter.
Selection of a paper cutter blade is critical. Always buy from a reputable manufacturer or supplier, one who is aware of the latest developments in paper cutter blade sharpening and has enough experience to provide your shop with support.
Blades for guillotine paper cutters are available in three major types. (While some manufactures have developed other variations of paper knives, they are beyond the scope of this article).
The difference in paper cutting knives is in the type of steel used in the inlays. While standard steel knives have been and will continue to be an acceptable type of knife, the popularity of high-speed steel knives have grown due to their improved performance, both in the quality of cut and increased life between grindings.
High-speed knives cost about twice as much as standard knives, but as they can last 2-3 times longer between sharpening. The additional cost can easily be offset by the reduction in knife change time and knife sharpening costs.
Carbide knives provide the best quality edge and last even longer than high speed steel knives, but they are the most expensive (often 3-4 times the cost of high-speed knives) and require special grinding equipment to sharpen (also 3-4 times the cost of sharpening high-speed knives).
They are also very susceptible to chipping and due to their high cost, are only recommended for operations that are consistently cutting the same type of material such as fine paper, where the chances of damage from material is minimal. Carbide knives should NEVER be used when cutting any type of recycled material.
Knife manufacturers vary only slightly in their recommendations for a standard bevel (24° to 25°). There are times when a different bevel or even a double bevel is advisable, depending on the material to be cut.
The following chart illustrates some of the different bevels and will serve as a guide for obtaining the correct bevel for a particular material. Knife suppliers and machine manufactures all have information available to assist in determining the correct bevel to use with hard-to–cut materials.
|Material to be cut||Paper Knife||a||b||h (mm)||Pressure||false clamp plate|
|Bible paper||HSS, HM, UFK*||24°||1500-2000||false clamp plate|
|Double waxed papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3200||**|
|Printing papers, regular||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500||false clamp plate|
|Duplex papers||HSS, UFK||24°||26°||2,0||3000-3500||**|
|Flimsy||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||3000-4000||false clamp plate|
|Label papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3500-4000||**|
|Felt-cardboard||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2000-2500||false clamp plate|
|Photographic papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3000||**|
|Gummed papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3500||**|
|Carbonizing papers||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||400||false clamp plate|
|Carbon papers||HSS, HM, UFK||22°||800-1000||**|
|Art papers||HSS, HM, UFK||23°||25°||3,5||3000-4000||**|
|Plastic fiber paper||HSS, UFK||26°||2500-3000|
|Blotting paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2000-2500||**|
|Metallic papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3000-3500||**|
|Stencil duplicator paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||3000||false clamp plate|
|Writing papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||2500-3000|
|Tissue paper||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2000||false clamp plate|
|Autocopying paper||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||800-1000||**|
|Transparent papers||HSS, HM, UFK||24°||3000-3800||**|
|Velours papers||HSS, HM, UFK||19°||2500||**|
|* HSS = high-speed steel knives
HM = carbide-tipped knives (normal: 23/25°)
UFK = ultra-finest grain hard metal (normal 22/25°)
|** Compensation of differences in height is necessary|
Source: Polar-Mohr® “Cutting in Practice”
Download Polar Mohr's knife bevel guide showing in detail the recommended knife angle for every type of material to be cut, from paper and cardboard to plastics and packing materials.
After selecting a good quality knife, it is equally important that the knife be kept sharp at all times. A dull paper knife is an unnecessary waste, especially in a competitive market. It must push its way through the cutting material and when dull, requires up to three to four times more force than a sharp paper knife. A dull knife increases energy usage, wears the paper cutter prematurely and drives up other production costs due to inferior work.
A lift cut with a dull knife has a rough, burry, at times “sealed” edge. This can be quite expensive, as it creates separating problems in subsequent operations like feeding on a folder.
How do you know when your paper cutter knife needs sharpening? It’s the responsibility of the paper cutter operator to know when a paper knife change is necessary—so he or she must be able to recognize the signs of a dull knife.
A general reference is to change the blade:
Despite these guidelines. it may be necessary to change the blade if the knife appears dull.
Signs of a dull paper cutter knife include:
Any of these signs should indicate to the experienced paper cutter operator that a knife change is in order. Cutting coated stock, board or plastic material will dull a blade more rapidly than cutting standard uncoated stock and other fine paper. The more abrasive the nature of the material being cut, the faster a knife change becomes necessary.
Some job problems are related to inaccuracies in loading the paper or settings on the paper cutting machine. See our Commercial Paper Cutting Troubleshooting Guide.
Frequent knife grinding will materially lengthen the life of the knife, saving you money in the long run.
The magnified cross section of a paper blade in Figure 2 shows that only about 1/32” of the metal is removed in order to re-establish a keen cutting edge—as long as it’s done when sharpening first becomes dull.
If the paper knife is permitted to become extremely dull, which occurs at an accelerated rate once the sharp edge is worn off, a great deal more (up to ¼”) must often be removed to restore a keen edge.
If the paper knife becomes very dull, you can be charged for the additional time required to restore its edge. If you permit the paper cutter knife to become extremely dull, only a few sharpenings can be made before the knife becomes too short for further use. You are literally grinding your knife investment away.
The cost of changing knives can be seen in this light too:
Let’s assume a 45” paper cutter costs about $120.00 per hour to operate. It takes approximately 10 minutes to make a complete knife change cycle, so a knife change in this scenario would cost about $20.00. A 26” x 40” folder has an hourly cost of about the same as a paper cutter. Misfeeding the folder (resulting from “sealed” or burred edges caused by a dull knife) could cost more than a knife change.
Just one bad feeder jam-up, resulting from misfeeding or feeding doubles, could certainly take more time to clear up than the cost of a knife change and a number of small jam-ups will, of course, have the same result. If you are cutting paper to feed a press, this situation becomes even more costly.
Any way you figure, it pays to keep a sharp blade in your paper cutter.
The procedure for changing knives will vary depending on the make and model of the cutting machine. But no matter the cutter, the majority of operator accidents happen during the knife-changing operation. It’s extremely important that each operator develops good safety habits, follows the manufacture's procedures and be provided with a safe machine.
The knife on a 45” paper cutter weighs about forty pounds. If it slips and catches a hand or a finger between it and the table, no imagination is needed to figure out what will happen.
Modern paper cutters have safety devices built into them to reduce this danger. Even so, carelessness will negate even the best safety devices.
Following these blade sharpening safety recommendations should reduce the risk of accidents, regardless of the age and make of the paper cutting machine:
Remember, keep handling of the unprotected knife to a minimum. By insisting that your operators follow the correct procedures in caring for your paper cutter blades, you will minimize danger to the operator, save time and money and increase the quality of your work.
See our guide to Commercial Paper Cutter Safety: Standards and Accident Prevention for more safety tips.
No matter your level of experience with paper knives, reaching out to a pro can help. Contact us with any of your knife grinding or handling questions and we’ll get you in touch with the experts at Tri-State Knife Grinding. They’ve spent 65 years perfecting paper knife sharpening and use state-of-the-art sharpening and honing machines operated by only the most experienced knife grinders. It’s how they deliver the highest quality precision grinding and professional services every time.
Ask about sharpening services or purchasing paper knives, slitters, sheeter blades, trimmers, cutting sticks, saw blades and paper drills.
If you permit the paper cutter blade to become extremely dull, only a few sharpenings can be made before the knife becomes too short for further use.
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The film is little more than a day in the life of a Berlin family, meticulously observed with pinpoint accuracy, but what first-time director Ramon Zürcher offers is a radical perspective on ordinary events, where the film is peppered with oddly juxtaposed connections, where even the most banal events are continually seen as slightly askew, where instead of a harmony so perfectly expressed in the brilliant opening shot of Béla Tarr’s WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000), Werckmeister Harmonies - YouTube (10:56), where drunken bar patrons become moons and spinning planets revolving around the sun, Zürcher’s universe is continually seen spinning out of balance with a rhythm of disorder, becoming an absurd comedy of errors. Supposedly conceived at a seminar conducted by retired Hungarian director Béla Tarr, the idea draws upon Kafka’s 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, where a common, ordinary experience turns into an out of whack, surreal fantasy, where realistic events are given an often dream-like quality, but no explanation is ever offered for this most peculiar take on what is otherwise perceived as the mundane and the routine. A minimalist economy of means at only seventy-two minutes, written, directed, edited, and produced by Zürcher, while also providing the sound editing and digital effects himself, the director brings a formal precision to confined space, as the claustrophobic camera offers a fixed position inside a cramped family apartment, placing the viewer in the center of the action as people slide around each other as they move throughout the kitchen in a flurry of activity while fixing themselves something to eat. While the stoic mother (Jenny Schily) continually reminds her precocious daughter Clara (Mia Kasalo) to keep quiet as grandmother is still asleep, since Clara has a habit of screaming at the top of her lungs when the garbage disposal is running, it is nonetheless the mother that turns on every conceivable modern electrical appliance in the kitchen while grinding and roasting individual cups of coffee, squeezing fresh juice out of oranges, disposing of the garbage and preparing food, each one drowning out the conversation with the most disruptive and annoying noise that seems to come in the most inconceivable moments. Equally strange is an early morning visit to fix a washing machine, where a dizzying routine of constant movement is established with people entering and exiting the frame, all jostling for position, with the camera centered upon their waists, often cutting off their heads, becoming a choreography of moving bodies not only coming in and out of the room, but in and out of the front door of the apartment.
Initially the flurry of activity, including a mischievous cat being chased by a much bigger dog, is amusingly off-kilter, where there’s seemingly no rhyme or reason for what’s happening, becoming a strange jumble of chaos that accentuates sight gags and physical comedy, where the film is largely a collection of small moments that grow more absurd with often incomprehensible mutterings from each of the characters, establishing weird personalities, where by the end, human activity is seen as a fishbowl style madhouse where only the cat, with an air of indifference and lack of concern seems the most sane creature in the household. The non-narrative, unpredictability factor gives this the rigorous form and outlandish style of an experimental film in keeping with the director’s Berlin School (films) mentors at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin), where Zürcher, born in Switzerland, has been a student since 2006. Led by directors including Christian Petzold’s Yella (2007), Jerichow (2008), Barbara (2012) and Beats Being Dead (Dreileben 1 - Etwas Besseres als den Tod) (2012), Thomas Arslan, Angela Schanelec, Christoph Hochhäusler’s One Minute of Darkness (Dreileben 3 – Eine Minute Dunkel) (2012), Ulrich Köhler, Benjamin Heisenberg’s THE ROBBER (2010), Valeska Grisebach’s BE MY STAR (2001) and LONGING (2006), and Maren Ade’s THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (2003) and 2010 Top Ten Films of the Year: #9 Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) (2009), their films tend to lack mainstream accessibility, where according to German director Oskar Roehler, “They are always slow, always depressing, nothing is ever really said in them (though) they are always well thought of.” The fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989 triggered a collapse not only of political institutions, but many elements of cultural identity, particularly in the former East Germany which simply disappeared overnight, where Berlin became the cultural epicenter of new progressive measures, where in the mid 1990’s, graduates of the German Film and Television Academy emerged with a new aesthetically-driven form of cinema. Abandoning the historical context embraced by most commercially popular German films at the time, films of the Berlin School tend to deal with life in the here and now, refraining from delving into Germany’s dark past, except through ambiguous means. According to Marco Abel from his 2008 article in Cineaste, Intensifying Life: The Cinema of the “Berlin School”, elaborated upon further in his 2013 book, The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School (Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual), this:
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Since retiring from the Bench in 2012, His Honour Nicholas Chambers QC has developed his practice as an Arbitrator and Mediator. He has sat regularly as a single arbitrator, third arbitrator or panel member in a wide variety of disputes including claims in respect of joint enterprises, shipping, shipbuilding and television broadcasting rights. He has also acted as a mediator in commercial disputes of all kinds including banking, shipping, aviation and IP.
He is a former Mercantile Judge for Wales and sat in the Commercial Court, Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court and Queen's Bench Division. He was authorised to sit in the Admiralty Court.
CEDR accredited as a mediator in 1999 and a Civil Mediation Council registered mediator.
A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
A member of the CIArb Presidential Property Dispute Service Panel.
A member of the LCIA, the Baltic Exchange, the ICC, the IBA, the Civil Mediation Council and a supporting member of the LMAA.
His Honour Nicholas Chambers QC accepts appointments as an Arbitrator and as a Mediator.
Experience at the Bar
Was involved in a wide variety of important commercial cases including as leading counsel in the Kuwait Airways Corporation litigation. Acted for most of the clearing banks as well as other major banks and was leading counsel for BZW in the Hammersmith swaps litigation. Acted for the International Tin Council in the litigation following its collapse.
Acted in numerous shipping cases both in arbitrations and the Commercial Court including construction, ship sale, charterparties and carriage of goods.
Was involved with many types of commodities including acting as leading counsel in the International Tin Council litigation and in the Derby v Weldon litigation.
Acted in respect of a significant number of regulatory authorities including FIMBRA, IMRO, PIA, Lloyd’s, London Stock Exchange and the ICA.
Acted for a number of television companies
Construction and similar work
Cases included ICC arbitrations, work for British Coal and major international arbitration concerning the Italian power generating industry.
Acted for British Coal in Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease litigation and in respect of claims for noise induced hearing loss.
Sarrio v Kuwait Investment Authority 1 AC 32 (Brussels Convention); Kuwait Airways Corp v Iraqi Airways Co 1 WLR 1147 HL (State immunity, non-justiciability, service on foreign corporation, service on foreign State); Little v Courage Ltd CLC 164 (implied terms in unilateral contracts); Seaconsar Far East Ltd v Bank Markazi 1 AC 438 (principles governing common law service out of the jurisdiction); The Vistafjord 2 Ll. Rep. 343 (estoppel by convention); Société Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale v Lee Kui Jak AC 871 (principles governing restraint of foreign proceedings); Dallal v Bank Mellat QB 441 (estoppel per rem judicatum, issue estoppel); Dow Banking Corp v Mahnak Spinning & Weaving Corp 2 Ll. Rep 561 (waiver); The Selene G 2 Ll. Rep 180 (construction of Norwegian Saleform)
Experience on the Bench
HH Nicholas Chambers QC sat in a great variety of cases of all kinds of complexity and value including banking, insurance, reinsurance, shipping, sale of goods, breach of warranty, professional negligence, construction, property disputes, intellectual property, equitable relief, inheritance, insolvency and challenges to jurisdiction.
Hertford College, Oxford; B.A. (Hons) Jurisprudence: 1962 – 1965; M.A.
Lee Essay prize
Holker Senior Exhibition
Called to Bar, Gray's Inn: 1966
CEDR Accredited Mediator: 1999
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators: 2012
Civil Mediation Council registered mediator: 2015
Member of the CIArb Presidential Property Dispute Service Panel.
Common law then commercial practice in London (Brick Court Chambers) until appointment as a judge in 1999.
Counsel and arbitrator in International Chamber of Commerce and other arbitrations.
Recorder: 1987 - 1999
Deputy High Court Judge: 1994 -1999
Appointed as specialist judge in 1999
First Mercantile Judge* for Wales and Chester then Mercantile Judge for Wales: 1999 - 2012 (*Business Judge)
Sat regularly in Commercial Court, Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court and Queen's Bench Division and was authorised to sit in the Admiralty Court
Door tenant Brick Court Chambers - arbitrator and mediator: 2012 -
Civil Mediation Council
Supporting Member of the LMAA
Member of Civil Procedure Rule Committee: 1997-1999 (period when Woolf reforms were drafted and enacted)
Judicial Studies Board Course Director for Senior Judiciary Seminars on Competition Law: 2004 and 2006
First Judicial Studies Board Course Director for Specialist Civil Continuation Seminars: 2002 - 2008
Chairman of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (the ICLR) which publishes The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports and other series.
During this period had overall responsibility for all aspects of the ICLR's business including the negotiation of licence agreements with major publishers, the transition to direct online selling, employment matters, marketing and the appointment of senior personnel.
Vice – President GEMME – UK (“Groupement Européen des Magistrats pour la Médiation”): 2015 -
Vice – President GEMME Europe: 2016 - 2018
(GEMME is a forum for judges and retired judges in Europe who wish to contribute to the development of mediation, conciliation and methods of resolving disputes by all reasonable means consistent with the nature of the membership. There are about 500 members and associate members and 18 national sections.)
Panel Member – Financial Institution Litigation conference; C5 London, 2012
Guest speaker London International Commercial Arbitration for West Africa, 2013 and 2014
Judge at 9th ICC International Mediation Competition in Paris, 2014
Delivered University College London seminar “Trade and the State”, 2014
Guest speaker 10th anniversary Paris seminar of GEMME, 2014
Panel Member – CIArb/SMCA seminar, 2015
Chair GEMME – UK seminar “ADR in the Courts and Tribunals”, 2016
Guest speaker CIArb London Branch mediation seminar, 2016
Guest speaker GEMME – Ireland mediation seminar, 2016
Chair of GEMME – UK seminar “Conciliation:Mediation – Lessons from the Family Side”, 2017
Judge WILLEM C. VIS mooting competition, Vienna, 2017
Guest speaker London International Commercial Arbitration for West Africa, 2017
Guest speaker EU Intellectual Property Office IP Mediation Conference, 2019
Talks on case handling to COMBAR and firms of solicitors
French (working knowledge)
Editorial Board Handbook of International Trade - Macmillan Publishers Ltd 1988
Contributing Editor (jurisdiction) to the White Book on civil procedure: 1998 - 2009; also Advisory Editor.
Missed Moments in Legal History Oblong Creative 2012 - texts and illustrations from the book are on permanent display in the Rolls Building.
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Tackle Guide: Best Spinning Reels for 2021
First off a warning, I’ve included a lot of fishing reels information on this single page. I highly recommend you review the Table of Contents below to ensure you find what you’re looking for. This post isn’t just about the best spinning reel and reviews, its about what components to look for in a great spinning reel, when, where and how to use a spinning reel, and a ton more information on all things pertaining to fishing reels. OK then onto the rest of the introduction…
The spinning reel is the most popular fishing reel for anglers and for good reason as they are easy to use and they catch fish! In my opinion, a good spinning reel & rod combo is mandatory for anglers of any level. With hundreds of spinning reel options out there it can be challenging to know what to look for in a quality reel. This guide points out the 6 best spinning reels for the money. Additionally, I’ve included sections on the advantages of a spinning reel and what makes a great spinning reel by looking at the specific components and comparing them. I hope you find this guide helpful!
The Best Spinning Reels for the Money
Advantages of the Spinning Reel for Fishing
One of my favorite advantages of the spinning reel is how easy they are to cast. The spinning reel spool hangs below the rod and feeds fishing line out by the weight of the lure or tackle that’s tied on. The position of the spool allows the line to come off the spool very easily/quickly to avoid backlashes. Backlashes are line tangles that can quickly occur when line is coming off the spool, and are often the bane of my existence when they happen when the bite is on.
Spinning reels are also extremely versatile as they can cast several types of lures, bait or tackle. I use spinning reels for all types of fishing from casting big heavy lures off the beach to finesse fishing rubber baits (e.g. Senkos) on lakes and ponds. I’ll even take my spinning reel & rod setup to the river for the precise casting ability when using spoons or spinners.
Another reason why spinning reels are so versatile is the model sizes. Each spinning reel will often have several different models, which is basically the size of the reel and spool. There can be more construction improvements for larger models, but for the most part it’s the size of the reel that’s changing to accommodate the type of fishing you’re doing. Each manufacturer rates their reel model’s numbers differently so there are no fixed values, but for the most part a lower number usually means a smaller reel, and a larger number means larger reel. To better articulate this, here’s a simplified chart of model numbers, average line weights and fishing applications.
There are several components to look at in a quality spinning reel. Manufacturers will often come up with a variety of terminology/fancy words for their own components, but most of it is marketing. This guide eliminates the brand name fluff and focuses on the key features when buying a quality spinning reel.
The gear ratio represents the number of times the bail spins for each full crank of the reel handle. An average ratio would be around 5:1, again meaning the bail spins 5 times to each crank. Typically, 4:1 would be considered slow, 5:1 would be average/medium and anything equal or above 6:1 would be fast.
The higher the gear ratio the better. This higher ratio enables for a quicker retrieval; which gets fish into the boat quicker, reduces physical fatigue on your wrist/arms, and can allow more speed options/actions for your lure/tackle when retrieving.
The drag system allows the reel to release line when the fish is pulling/fighting. If the line is too tight and there is no give on the line, the fish may break the fishing line or tear the hook out of the fish’s mouth. The drag system is managed by several large washers within the reel. The washers work much like a vehicle brake pad system, and each reel manufacturer offers unique ways for producing friction (aka. drag pressure) on their dray system.
The drag system specifications to look at are the number and quality of the washers used in the reel. The more washers there are the better the drag system. Additionally, washers should be made of carbon fiber or stainless steel. The worst thing you can have is a regular steel washer that will eventually rust and fail.
Lastly, manufacturers don’t post the washer very readily but instead translate this system into a max drag weight/range (in lbs). This is an estimate on the number of pounds the reel can handle. In my experience, this number is subjective to many other components in your tackle setup and how you fish the fish, so certainly don’t get too bogged down with this max drag number on your reel.
The ball bearings are important in helping the spool and handles spin efficiently. These bearings should be made of stainless steel to ensure there is no rusting. There is correlation between the number of bearings and the smoothness of the reel. Reels should have at least four ball bearings; my reel recommendations have between six to ten. A reel with few or poor ball bearings will feel very cheap when you’re reeling it in, and to me takes away from the enjoyment of line retrieval.
Although weight itself does not necessarily dictate a quality reel. It is something that should not be overlooked by anglers. Think about holding and casting a heavy reel all day. The weight can add to your wrist/arms fatigue. More importantly a light reel makes for easier and enjoyable casting. That said, look for the best quality components paired with a lower weight.
Body / Structure
Most reel bodies are made from plastic, aluminum or graphite. Graphite may be lighter material but you lose a little strength when compared with aluminum. Plastic is both heavy and unreliable for strength and I would not recommend a reel with a plastic body. You’ll need to decide whether weight or strength is more important. Additionally, if you’re fishing in saltwater you’ll likely want to invest in a graphite body as it will not corrode like aluminum & plastic. To summarize, if you’re doing freshwater fishing a nice balance between both weight and strength is ideal and that’s exactly what I’ve considered with my reel recommendations in this guide.
Spool Size / Line Capacity
A larger spool enables more line or a larger line capacity. Spool size does not dictate the quality of a reel. However, it’s important to consider when pairing the right spool size with the type of fishing you’re doing.
What Size of Spinning Reel should I get?
This question is answered by the type of fishing you’re looking to do. Important questions to consider could be:
- What species are you targeting?
- How big (weight) can the species get?
- Are you fishing in saltwater or freshwater?
- Are you fishing moving water or still water (rivers vs. lakes vs. tidal, etc.)?
- And on and on…
Let’s keep it simple and focus on fish size in relation to the reel line capacity/rating.
So what size of fish are you catching or targeting? Are they 2-8 lb bass? Perhaps 1-4 lb Trout? 15 lb Salmon? 50 lb Tuna? You get the idea. Having a general idea on the weight/size of the fish you’re catching will help you choose a fishing reel as the fish weight should align with the line capacity/rating on the reel. To clarify, let’s look at a fishing line capacity example.
What is the Line Capacity/Rating?
Written on each fishing reel there should be a mono line capacity in the format: #Test / yd. This is the strength of the line weight in pounds by the number of yards that can be put onto the spool. For example, you may see a line capacity that looks like this: 6/230, 8/170, 10/140. This means the reel can spool 230 yards of 6# mono, 170 yards of 8# mono or 140 yards of 10# mono.
In addition to the mono line rating you’ll see many reels also include the braid line rating as well. Braided line has a much smaller diameter and stronger lbs rating. The braid capacity on our example above may look like this: 10/200, 20/140, 40/105. Again, 200 yards of 10# braid, etc.
When you’re looking at fishing reels, there are often different models (sizes) which each will have their own line capacities because of their size differences. Make sure you’re finding a model that has the correct line capacity that aligns with the size of fish you’ll typically be catching. Clear as mud? Great.
Model Sizes to Line Weight and Fishing Applications
|Model Size (common numbers)||Mono Line Weight (lbs)||Braid Line Weight (lbs)||Water Types / Applications||Example Target Fish Species|
|Small (1000/10 to 3500/35)||2-6||4-10||Fishing in ponds, lakes, slower moving water /rivers, bays, harbours etc.||Pan fish, small/medium Bass, Trout, Bream, Whiting, etc.|
|Medium (4000/40 to 5500/55)||8-12||8-14||Fishing in lakes, rivers, bays, harbours, light offshore boat fishing etc.||Large bass, Trout, Walleye, small/medium Salmon, Carp, Bluefish, Snapper, Bone fish, Morwong, Cod, etc.|
|Large (6000/60 to 8500/85)||10-25||12-30||Fishing in rivers, boat fishing, beach or rock fishing.||Salmon, Steelhead, Musky, Carp, Snapper, Morwong, Tailor, Cod, etc.|
|Very Large 10,000/100 30,000)||25+||30+||Fishing in big rivers, boat fishing, beach or rock fishing.||Sturgeon, Tuna, Sharks, GT, Kingfish, Halibut, Marlin, Mahi Mahi, Sailfish, etc.|
Note: This is only a guide for widespread application to help outline reel models. Hopefully, you get the general idea.
6 Best Spinning Reel Reviews
Each of these recommend reels are quality reels which will get the job done in many fishing scenarios. I’ve chosen these reels based on the key features detailed above in parallel with price. Essentially, “the best bang for your buck” as they say. For this guide I’ve included a wide range of price points, the cheaper end starts around $50 and the highest around $225.
I really like that the Battle II has eight different models. These models/sizes will cover a vast amount of fishing applications. If you’re uncertain on the what model to choose for your type of fishing be sure to check out the chart above: Model Sizes to Line Weight and Fishing Applications.
This reel has larger line capacity than other reels in this class. I did a comparison of line capacity between a number of spools of the same model and the Battle II was able to hold 15%-18% more line. This additional line capacity is helpful for those long fish runs or putting on additional backing.
The Superline Spool are replacement spools that have a rubber gasket to ensure the line/braid does not slip. These additional spools are helpful when you want to swap between several types of fishing lines (monofilament to braid).
The Battle II is certainly in the same class as the Supreme XT and aligns in quality in many ways with a few trade offs. A few differences are a little heavier, fewer ball bearings (smoothness of reeling) but is built to sustain some serious punishment!
- Approved for use in saltwater
- Strong structure with metal body, sideplate & rotor
- HT-100™ carbon fiber drag washers
- Line Capacity Rings
- Superline Spool
Another standout feature is this reel’s fast line retrieval. It picks up line quicker than most of the reels in its class. This is important feature when a fish is swimming toward you and you need to “catch up” to keep that line tight!
Lastly, Okuma has used quality materials in the right places, with the body and rotor both made of graphite and the bail is made of stainless steel bail wire, all of which is corrosion-resistant and important for fresh and saltwater usage.
- On/Off auto trip bait feeding system
- Corrosion-resistant body, rotor & bail
- Approved for use in saltwater
- Fast line retrieval
- 6 available Models
The body and rotor are made from lightweight magnesium so you can fish this reel all day with no wrist/arm fatigue. The Supreme XT lightweight feature is above most reels in its class.
With 10 ball bearings, it gives a smooth reeling action like concept / higher end spinning reels on the market. It has a mid to fast gear ratio (dependent on model) which will ensure there is no problems with line retrieval.
The only minor downside for me is the lack of model sizes available (there are four). The four models are designed for pan to middle sized fish and is not intended for larger fish (aka. greater than 15 lbs).
High performance without the high price point makes this an essential reel for most fishing arsenals.
- Approved for use in saltwater
- 10 Stainless Steel Bearings
- Extremely Lightweight at 6 – 8.7 ounces
It has four models that are geared for small to medium sized fish with a little better drag system than its brother reel Supreme XT. The Carbon Matrix™ hybrid drag system provides a stronger and reliable drag when compared to other reels in its class.
The biggest reason why the Revo SX is rated slightly below the others is price point. Even though is dollar amount difference isn’t large, it all adds up in my review! Regardless, if you’re an Abu guy, this reel will not disappoint.
- Carbon Matrix™ hybrid drag system
- Lightweight graphite rotor
- 9 stainless steel ball bearings
I would recommend the smaller models of this reel for the finesse fisherman. The guy who wants to feel the lightest sensitives of their baits/lures. Additionally, the smaller models of the Stradic Ci4 have a higher line retrieval than the other comparable reels in its class. This quality reel will not let you down for those very targeted applications.
I am a massive Shimano fan, they manufacturer reliable reels. The big reason why this quality reel is #5 is only the price point. The specs on this reel are better or as good as any reel on this guide, the fishermen that are using this reel extensively will appreciate it most. For the beginner/average fisherman the price point doesn’t line up for me.
- Ultralight weight
- Magnumlite Rotor
- 8 available Models
The President is lightweight with a medium gear ratio. The reel’s largest model has a drag rating of 12 lb, so this reel is meant for small to medium sized fish.
If nothing else, I would recommend this as a backup reel in my tackle arsenal. When looking at all the features like gear ratio, drag, ball bearings, weight, etc. the President gets a medium to high rating across the board. And for the price point its a smoking deal! Pflueger’s parent company Pure Fishing must be doing something right as they continue to put out quality reels for a great price!
- Smooth Reel with 10 ball bearings
- Graphite Body & Rotor
- Price point
- 5 available Models
Reels Features Comparison Chart
Here’s a quick summary of the recommend spinning reels by features and specifications. The numbered ranges represent the small – large models details.
|Spinning Reel||Gear Ratio||Ball Bearings||Drag Range (lbs)||Weight (ounces)||Line Retrieve
(inches / crank)
|Body / Structure||# of Models|
|Pflueger Supreme XT||5.2:1 – 6.2:1||10||8 – 14||6 – 8.7||22.8 – 38.6||Magnesium body/rotor & Aluminum spool||4|
|Penn Battle II & III||5.2:1 – 6.2:1||6||9 – 30||8.1 – 30||22 – 44||Full Metal body||8|
|Okuma Avenger ABF||4.5:1 – 5.0:1||6+1||8 – 33||8.9 – 22.9||25 – 40||Graphite body|
|Abu Garcia Revo SX||6.2:1||8+1||10 – 17||7.2 – 9.2||30 – 40||Stainless Steel Shaft, spool is Aluminum & Graphite Rotor||4|
|Shimano Stradic Ci4||4.8:1 – 6.2:1||6+1||6 – 24||6.4 – 8||26 – 35||Magnum lite Rotor||8|
|Pflueger President||5.2:1||7 – 10||6 – 12||5.9 – 10.9||20.7 – 30.2||Graphite body & rotor and Aluminum bail / handle||5|
Conclusion on Spinning Reels
With a countless species, fishing scenarios, bodies of water, you fill in the blank, it maybe a bit challenging to find a quality spinning reel. When you clear out the fancy manufacturer’s terms and focus on the key features detailed in this guide the choices become a little simpler. I hope this guide has been helpful you identify some key features to look at in a spinning reel, but also in choosing a spinning reel.
Lastly, I’m continually testing and researching new reels to keep this guide up to date. If you have any of these spinning reels or have tried others that you’d recommend I’d love to hear from you. What is your best spinning reel? Please leave a comment and let me know! Tight Lines! Jesse | <urn:uuid:119e6193-afc8-4464-bdd7-5d2f8b6d85aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.bcfishingjournal.com/reels/best-spinning-reel-for-the-money/ | 2022-01-24T16:45:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304572.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124155118-20220124185118-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.911964 | 3,973 |
Monday, 30 January 2006
IN ENGLAND an edict has gone out to shoot them by the hundred thousand.Yeah! That'll show 'em.
And the result:
Reds have gone from England except in a handful of redoubtsIt must be the Cameron effect.
But no such luck for us:
...in Scotland, where about 75 per cent of Britain's surviving 160,000 reds are thought to liveAye, Princes Street is fair hoaching with Guardian readers.
Apparently we saw:
the first appearance of reds in Britain about 10,000 years agoWhere was Adam Smith when we needed him?
But now it gets confusing:
The red hordes of the late 1800s were proof that nothing is certain in nature, because the species had been in serious danger of disappearing at the end of the 18th centuryHaven't they got their centuries a bit mixed up? I suppose the Scotsman writers are still hung over.
But this is surely correct:
Reds recovered and spread ... becoming a pest by the start of 20th centuryHere's some surprising news:
Although reds ... are found across Europe and Asia, they are threatened only in Britain and to a small extent, so far, in ItalyI knew that Berlusconi was a sound chap.
But we're still going to see plenty of them in their natural Scottish habitat:
There is a good chance of maintaining reds in Scotland by co-operationAnd:
What we hope to do is get through the next few difficult years - there's no risk of reds becoming extinct, but they are under serious pressureNeedless to say, the politicians are on to this:
A Scottish Executive spokeswoman said: The key objective is to maintain areas where reds thrive and extend them if possible. Long-term habitat provision is the most successful route we can takeSo no threat to Drumchapel or Pilton then.
This is probably all for the good:
the Executive should be doing more sooner to preserve reds. But she says a gradual approach will work.Gradualism: it's the British way.
The full story is reported here.
Sunday, 29 January 2006
Stuart Randall appalled by Scottish Leadership and posturing on tolls
Councillor Stuart Randall has resigned from the Conservative candidates’ list and so will not stand in 2007 for any level of Government. He considers his Council and Parliamentary careers at an end, but will serve out his current term of office on Fife Council, where he is Conservative Group Leader. He will stand down as Treasurer of the Scottish Conservative Councillors’ Association at the forthcoming AGM, where he will present the accounts for last year.
Cllr Randall stood against Gordon Brown in 2001 (Dunfermline East) and 2005 (Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath) and also fought his local Dunfermline East seat against Helen Eadie in 2003. He is the elected member for Dalgety Bay East and the only Tory councillor in west Fife. Before he was elected in 1999, there were no Conservatives on Fife Council at all.
Cllr Randall has announced his retirement from front line politics in order that he can speak freely regarding what he sees as his party’s poor management and a “policy vacuum”. In particular, he wishes to stand up for the interests of his constituents over Forth Road Bridge tolls and the need for a second road bridge.
In November, Cllr Randall’s status was renewed as an approved parliamentary candidate with authority to run for by-elections and key seats. However, Cllr Randall was kept off the Dunfermline & West Fife by-election shortlist, for which he was the local front runner, in order to promote a previously inactive female candidate from outside west Fife. Cllr Randall believes moves are also now afoot within the party to skew the Holyrood regional ranking arrangements. This will unjustly favour certain candidates and he wishes to stand up for the hardworking activists who will be disadvantaged by such a step.
Cllr Randall says:
“To many outsiders it may seem as if this decision has come suddenly out of the blue. But to anyone who has followed Scottish politics over the last couple of years, they will know that my frustration and disenchantment with the Scottish leadership has been growing inexorably over a long period of time. I have tried very hard behind the scenes to get the party to wake up and reform without success. The party has been taken over by an incompetent clique, who can’t see past the next headline, and there seems to be no way for the grassroots to regain control. Decision after decision has been botched and wherever one scratches the surface, the whole edifice of the party is crumbling, yet no-one seems to really care. Image is everything. There is a vacuum at the heart of Scottish Conservative policy and nobody seems to be responsible for where the party is heading. We need a strategy and we need it urgently, for if we don’t know where we are going, how do we know which is the right direction?
“The final straw came last week when the party announced its stance on the future of the Forth Road Bridge and the tolling regime. My ward is just a couple of miles from the north end of the bridge, so it affects my constituents greatly. It’s also the biggest issue affecting the whole of Fife at the moment, and yet I only found out about the new policy when I saw it in the local newspaper and a by-election flyer. And I’m the Leader of the Tory Group on Fife Council! Treating senior party activists in that way cannot be acceptable in any competent, democratic party. Local government is far too important for that.
“I was appalled to see Annabel Goldie, who has been selected for West Renfrewshire, posing on the Forth Road Bridge and singing the praises of tolling. This is not because I’m against tolls in principle, I’ve been very straight with people about that, it’s because I know she is simultaneously pushing for the abolition of the Erskine Bridge tolls back home. Why should my constituents be treated any differently from hers? Tolling can only be acceptable as a Scotland-wide strategy, as it is in England and Wales and I won’t stand by silently while my constituents are treated unfairly. What’s good enough for Skye and Erskine is good enough for Fife. It’s either tolls for every expensive long-span bridge or tolls for none.
“I have been pressing for a consistent right-of-centre policy on this matter for years, but it’s been like talking to a brick wall. No-one will take us seriously as a tax cutting party if we keep telling people that everything, including exorbitantly expensive bridges, can be provided and maintained by the Executive free at the point of use. Government should be concentrating on health, education and pensions not pretending it can provide 21st century infrastructure on time and on budget. The state sector has a terrible track record on infrastructure, precisely because this kind of seedy politics gets in the way. Just look at the gaps in our motorway network and see how long they’ve remained unresolved. No wonder no-one wants to manufacture in Scotland anymore. We pay high taxes, but still get poor transport links.
“The Conservative Party should be offering a distinct alternative to the spin and hypocrisy of the other parties, but unfortunately, we’ve been all over the place. Last May, Ted Brocklebank, who is in the party’s policy cabinet, stood up at Holyrood and called for all tolls to be abolished. He was shooting from the lip and had no proposal or budget to maintain the existing bridges, let alone replace them. He was simply making up policy on the hop for short-term populist reasons and it caused me a lot of trouble in my west Fife ward. People, understandably, thought he was pronouncing Conservative Party policy and that he was serious about this.
“Then, late last year, it was the turn of David Davidson, our Transport spokesman, no less. He stood up in Parliament and called for a new bridge with a freight railway line. He said nothing about how this would be paid for or whether motorists would end up paying through the nose for train passengers to cross the bridge for free. It was not in the Tory budget. Freight railway lines need a very stiff, heavy bridge and so add massively to the cost, but the Tory Transport spokesman didn’t seem to have considered this at all. There was no costing, consultation, or justification. If there had been he would have known that we have an under-used Forth Bridge and the whole point of the new Kincardine – Alloa rail link is to free up capacity on that.
“I’m pleased to say that both Ted’s and David’s proposals have now been dropped, but not before they caused huge embarrassment to the party. I don’t want to see the Conservatives pushing for expensive toys, like bullet trains, airport tunnels and tram tracks, in the way the spendthrift socialists do. Scotland needs a bit of common sense at Holyrood, not more of the same. Most MSPs behave like children in a sweet shop, presumably because they don’t have to go through the pain of raising the taxes they spend so liberally, but Tory MSPs should be different.
“It is ironic that, here I am standing down, when the idea of using private money and tolls to get new bridges built quickly is pretty much what I have been pushing for all along. But the chance to outflank the opposition with cast iron commitments to major Scotland-wide roads investment is now long gone. You cannot have a policy that gives the west of Scotland ‘free’ bridges at taxpayers’ expense and the east of Scotland endless increases in tolls. It looks like a short term patch up job, just to get the party through the by-election. If the policy had been finalised before the Skye bridge debacle, and if it had been applied consistently across Scotland, as I wanted, then we could have seized the moral high ground. But now it looks short term and shoddy. I don’t feel vindicated, I just feel sad.
“It’s also ironic that I am leaving front line politics at the very time when David Cameron, the UK leader, is pushing for my kind of politics south of the border. I was working in the council estates, promoting compassionate conservatism and advancing the cause of climate change long before David Cameron was even an MP.
“The poor judgement at the top of the Scottish party did not start recently. Twelve months ago we lost a disastrous general election, winning only one seat and with our share of the vote down to a measly 15%. And this despite the fact that the party made significant gains in both England and Wales. Of course, the party leadership spun this in public as some great success, as any politician would. The trouble is they have swallowed their own propaganda and have been feeding the same hopelessly complacent line to their troops, behind the scenes. It’s as if the party leadership stand in a closed circle with each patting the next person on the back.
“I have served the Scottish Conservatives, to the best of my ability, for almost eight years, in the front line. I’ve taken flak for just about everything and it’s been very difficult sticking at it through probably the darkest years in the party’s history. Others dropped out when times got hard, but I stuck at it, suspended my business and career, and made whatever personal sacrifices were necessary to keep the Tory torch burning in west Fife, a hard Labour area. I’ve never expected special treatment in return, but I certainly expected a fair crack at the whip, to be treated with integrity and to be consulted when serious decisions affect my patch.
“I’m not cancelling my membership or abandoning my ward, which I won under the Conservative flag. I still love the Scottish Conservative Party and the principles for which it stands. The problem is, I don’t recognise those principles among the current leadership.
“It’ll truly hurt to walk away next year and not take part in the campaigns. But I have no choice but to speak out, because I fear for the party’s future while they are in control.”
(UPDATE: Stuart Randall tells me that one of the main local papers has received lots of election material from the other parties but nothing from the Conservatives.)
Good news, I thought. Lots of Lanarkshire entrepreneurs generating affordable businesses. But hang on a moment: what's an "affordable" business? Is it one that you buy down at the Co-op? Are we talking of companies that can be purchased by people "in the community"? Sadly, no. Remember that Lanarkshire is the heartland of the "Labour Community", and that means money, money, money. Your money:
A final evaluation report of the Lanarkshire Enterprise Zone project suggests it cost much less in taxpayers’ cash per job created than any other similar project.Aha! The taxpayer. And how much less is this costing, you may ask?
The report showed that the cost per job of the net additional jobs created was £14,609, compared to £21,485 which is the UK average, according to the 1995 evaluation.But note that one reason for previous economic problems in Lanarkshire was this:
A high degree of reliance on an inward investment market which subsequently collapsed.Many, many, foreign-owned factories were given taxpayers' cash to come to Lanarkshire and other parts of Silicon Glen and now they're leaving for cheaper or more subsidised pastures. It's beginning to dawn on most of us that imported businesses built on subsidies don't last. So, tell me, why doesn't this logic apply to domestic businesses, even "affordable" ones? I think that it does. So instead of spending £14,609 a go to create jobs that probably won't last, why not simply make Lanarkshire a vast tax-and-regulation-free enterprise zone?
The figures mean that while taxpayers spend £5,160 on the average child's education annually, £1,700 is swallowed up by local government.Of course, as a good libertarian, I don't believe that the state (OK, the taxpayer) should be funding anyone's education, but one must wonder why so few politicians advocate education vouchers and the closure of government schools.
Actually, we don't need to wonder:
But Keir Bloomer, chief executive of Clackmananshire (sic) council, said: "It is not clear to me that devolving more money to schools, which traditionally have been the most conservative part of the education system, is going to get the change that we want. I would start by querying the assumption that we should be devolving more and more."That sums up things perfectly: It's not what parents want or children need that matters, it's what "we", in the political class, want. "Devolve" the money back to its rightful owners and we'll find out quickly enough what's wanted.
Wednesday, 25 January 2006
Stuart Randall - leader of the Fife Tories and a councillor in nearby Dalgety Bay - is incandescent at having been left off the shortlist drawn up by the Scottish Tories, describing the procedure as "shabby" and "insulting the intelligence of the voters".Being leader of the Fife Conservatives isn't a glamorous job - it's not like being Tory leader in Kensington and Chelsea. Of the 78 councillors in Fife, two are Conservatives. Stuart Randall is the leader, and the other one isn't.
Thanks to his hard work over the years, Mr Randall was selected to fight the Westminster seat of Dunfermline East in the general election of 2001. His Labour opponent was a Mr Gordon Brown. In the 2005 election Mr Randall was selected to contest the new constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. Again, his target was Mr Brown.
Now it seems to me that the Tories should owe a bit of loyalty to the person whom they chose to fight two consecutive general elections against the man expected to be the next prime minister. One would have thought that Mr Randall would have been on the shortlist for Conservative candidate in the forthcoming by-election in Dunfermline. Indeed, one would have thought that Mr Randall would have had a very good chance of getting the nomination. But Stuart Randall was "far too old and middle-aged to fit the bill". (He was born in 1962.)
Local Tories aren't amused:
Many party members boycotted the selection meeting, as they were 'appalled' at the way things had been handled, the councillor added.My Tory sources tell me that the anger goes well beyond Fife. Why should folk work hard for a party just to be stabbed in the back? David Cameron may be the darling of the London media but he is in the process of pissing off his party's natural supporters. Drinkin the blude-reid wine will only get them so far.
'It's been a shabby arrangement. There were three prospective candidates speaking to an audience of five. I've spent almost all day answering Emails and phone calls from people appalled by what has happened.
…tea, which had become a household staple in the Britain of the eighteenth century, but attracted import duties averaging 119 percent.The plan:
He reduced the average duty to 25 percent.The outcome:
In time, the huge reduction in smuggling which followed would in any case bring an increase in revenue.Doesn't this sound rather like the Laffer Curve that I mentioned on Monday? Of course, I'm not one to welcome more money for the state - its income should be zero or pretty damned close - but if tax cutting were to result in the state getting a rising amount but a smaller share of our money one might think a Conservative party would be interested in such an outcome. But no, tax cutting's off the Tory agenda.
By the way, David Cameron may have come across the author of the words quoted above: his name is William Hague.
Monday, 23 January 2006
I must confess that I don't really know if Mr Cameron's endless Blairite pronouncements are really a clever con trick to be revealed as such when he becomes prime minister, but if I were a betting man I'd say no. Nevertheless, one would have thought that the Tories might just make the odd reference to the Laffer Curve or the debate on flat taxes. I don't imagine for a moment that the Conservative party is about to point out that all taxation is immoral, but one does despair when reading this:
... he was set to make plain that sorting out the public finances must take priority over reducing taxes.The public finances will never be "sorted" until there's a massive cut in expenditure.
Friday, 20 January 2006
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion any more. It's stuff. Why don't governments stop people from making crap?One sympathises - It's not as if Emma can afford a lot of "stuff":
In an article named What Stars are Really Worth, Entertainment Weekly (4/12/96) had this to say about Em:Appropriately, Emma's daughter has been given the decidedly unstuffy name of Gaia Romilly. How very Nu Conservative. But no, for the NuCons love the NHS and it seems that Gaia made her very first appearance on the distinctly private stage of the Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth in Blairite London NW8.
Emma Thompson (Makes art-house movies seem like fun)
Intangible Worth (on a scale of 0-25)= 18
Average Domestic Gross In Millions= 26
Average Foreign Gross In Millions= 44
Recent Salary/Asking Price= 3
Should Earn= 6.2
Social etiquette in London must be so confusing these days.
My favourite item was this:
One advertisement for the Inland Revenue had to be remade because Gordon Brown didn't like the dog: cost £20,000.
Ms Sturgeon also revealed that the working title of the SNP's manifesto for the 2007 Scottish parliament elections is "A Culture of Independence".Peter MacMahon rightly noted that there's a wee bit of a contradiction here: the SNP's activists are overwhelmingly anti-individualist.
The Nationalists would be arguing that their political aim of independence for Scotland is replicated in their policy approach. Their aspiration for Scottish independence would be matched by an aspiration for "personal and individual independence", Ms Sturgeon said.
Nicola Sturgeon responded a few days later and insisted that her party favours personal as well as national independence.
But her letter shows that the SNP just doesn't get it:
For example, we want to get rid of student loans and tuition fees so that young graduates do not start their working lives weighed down by debt.And that's an example of personal independence! No, it's dependence. Someone else, including non-graduates, will have to pay.
first-time buyers' grants to help young people get a foot on the housing ladderAnother subsidy from the taxpayer.
Next, she wants:
a small business charter to encourage and reward enterprise.Business doesn't need a politician's "charter"; it needs a politician's absence.
I'm afraid that the SNP has a very long way to go before it even begins to understand what personal independence really means.
Monday, 16 January 2006
The advert, publicising a hotline to report self-employed people who do not pay their taxes, depicts a plumber hiding under a kitchen sink.The FSB states that:
We find it particularly offensive that the implication is that all self-employed people do not pay their taxes."I share their anger, but wouldn't it be even better if the FSB were to point out that their tormentors don't pay any taxes themselves?
Even more astounding is this news in today's Scotsman:
Yesterday, the Swiss (sic) responded to the revelations by stressing that he remains "100 per cent committed" to England.Swiss? You could have fooled me: I never knew they were so raunchy.
Sunday, 15 January 2006
Saturday, 14 January 2006
THE number of staff employed by the public sector in Scotland has increased by 7,000 in the last year and now stands at 487,000.I'm sure that it's much the same down south.
Then I saw this heartening story in today's FT. Read the whole thing to see how an entrepreneur kept fighting even when faced with seemingly overwhelming odds:
It is a year since record flooding submerged the Cumbrian city of Carlisle, but the memory is still fresh for Paul Ashley, whose industrial door manufacturing business, Clark Door, was sunk under seven feet of polluted water.Would that ever growing army of public sector "workers" have coped? Mr Ashley did:
However, through a mixture of good local contacts, teamwork, business support and sheer determination, the company was able to get back to 80 per cent of its production capacity within six weeks without losing a single customer.And for anyone who is thinking along the lines of "exploiting" capitalist, consider this:
Clark Door employs 80 people, many of whom suffered personally with damage to their homes. But the swift action to rebuild the site meant that no one lost their jobs.Perhaps I'm too much of a pessimist. When people like Mr Ashley finally shrug, all of those public sector workers won't know what's hit them.
"I told those whose homes were flooded to sort that out first. If they had got their mind somewhere else, they were no use to me."
(Incidentally, if Scotland ever does become independent one must hope that Cumbria will choose to rejoin the Kingdom of Strathclyde.)
Friday, 13 January 2006
Surely only members can vote? Correct, only those who are members on January 26 will be able to vote. Membership is open, it costs a minimum of six pounds, so join and vote. For about 300,000 pounds the Tories can choose the new LibDem leader.Surely modern technology can enable us to clone Mr Gladstone?
But, don't worry:
Ministers said the rise reflected a strong economy...This isn't reassuring:
Although the private sector employs about three times as many people, public sector employment is growing at nearly twice the rate.Perhaps this may be a somewhat naive question, but haven't these people ever heard of Frederic Bastiat?
No, thought not.
May I recommend this quotation from the great man:
... you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."The problem isn't just the huge cost of this growing army of tax-consumers (that which is seen), but the opportunity cost of what the 9,000 could have produced in the real economy (that which is not seen).
First, some sites that I have added to the "Freedom" section of the Blogroll:
Then, a couple of aviation sites now linked to from the Blogroll under "And":
Finally, an addition to the "Whisky" section:
Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Sunday, 8 January 2006
For example, one proposition is this:
The fact that many people starve to death is unfortunate but unavoidable.I am meant to agree or disagree. But I don't accept the question! I believe that starvation is both unfortunate and avoidable. Simply introduce free markets and property rights.
Then, what about this:
We need stronger laws for protecting the environment.We do. But the laws required are the same as those needed to avoid starvation - free markets and property rights. Not probably what the quizmaster had in mind.
Then we get:
Employees should have the right to go on strike without the risk of being permanently replaced.Yes or No? It depends on what their contract says.
But here's my result:
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You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test
Saturday, 7 January 2006
Hong Kong 1 [1.28]Can there really be any doubt that economic freedom and the resulting material prosperity are best served by having a tradition of limited government, objective laws, recognition of property rights and a system of sound money? Unfortunately, most members of the political class in the Anglosphere don't uphold the values that need to be defended.
Singapore 2 [1.56]
Ireland 3 [1.58]
Luxembourg 4 [1.60]
United Kingdom 5 [1.74]
Iceland 5 [1.74]
Estonia 7 [1.75]
Denmark 8 [1.78]
United States 9 [1.84]
Australia 9 [1.84]
New Zealand 9 [1.84]
Canada 12 [1.85]
Wednesday, 4 January 2006
JAMIE Oliver is the biggest celebrity influence on Britain's middle classes, ahead of everyone from David Cameron to Sir Trevor McDonald, according to a new style guide.But then I read in my paper that:
David Cameron, an Old Etonian, is in second place for wooing middle England when he ousted David Davis to win the leadership of the Conservative Party.Come on now guys: the Scotsman shouldn't start an article about "Britain" and then suddenly be writing about "England". That's the kind of sloppiness that we associate with newspapers published in the hometown of Jamie and "Dave". Was the Scotsman sub-editor having his tea break?
Anyway, I'll let them off this time because I was even more outraged by the next bit:
And the millionaire anti-poverty campaigner Chris Martin, the lead singer of easy-listening rock band Coldplay, came third for bringing such issues to a wider audience.Let's get this straight: when I see the terms "millionaire" and "anti-poverty campaigner" used in the same sentence, I reach for my revolver unless absolutely convinced that the millionaire in question is campaigning against poverty by advocating more capitalism. Rarely is that the case.
Today we saw an extraordinary variation in visibility across the city. This morning I drove to Leith in clear weather but the fog rolled in a bit along the coast towards Portobello. Fort Kinnaird was clear, as was the city bypass until I reached the outer western suburbs. Around Edinburgh Park it was increasingly difficult to see. On the way back in to town visibility suddenly cleared about three miles out. Later on I took a bus to Princes Street where the Castle had disappeared. Thirty minutes afterwards I managed to take these two handheld shots using my Canon A80 compact. (Click to enlarge.) A tripod would have been most useful.
Tuesday, 3 January 2006
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Celebrating Christmas and the holidays in Washington DC? Don’t know what to do? This guide will help you find all the best Christmas events and things to do in Washington DC during the holiday.s
What better way to make the most of December than squeezing in some of those holiday vibes with the best Christmas events in Washington DC and Maryland.
Christmas Even in DC: DC City Center & Christmas Tree 2021
DC City Center has always done some sort of amazing ice sculpture or attraction at the City Center Park, but this year I have not seen them announce anything. Either way DC City Center also has a pretty amazing Christmas Tree that will be lit on November 27th at 6pm. Chistmas in Washington DC is definitely not complete without a stop at City Center!
Also, you can’t miss their annual Christmas decorations at Palmer Alley NW and the DC Center Square!
Location of Christmas Tree
The Park at City Center
1098 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005
Winter Igloo, Yurt, Lodge Dining Experiences in Washington DC
Because of the pandemic, Washington DC has exploded with a variety of winter and holiday-themed outdoor dining and drinking experiences. Think cute igloos, yurts, and lodges all to yourself and your 5 besties! These are some of my faves:
Winter Igloos at The Watergate Hotel 2021
The ultimate in luxury, The Watergate Hotel offers cozy winter-themed igloos for you and your posse to rent!
Have a hot drink and a bite too eat with 8 of your closest friends.
These winter igloos are heated and beautifully decorated for that winter wonderland feel.
Probably the most expensive activity on this list of Christmas events in DC, the igloos costs from $150 to $300 to rent with food and beverage minimums.
Food and Beverage minimum ranges from $50 to $75 per person, depending on time and size of your party. If you are looking for a unique winter activity and don’t mind the extra dollar signs, then this would be a truly epic experience.
Entrance inside The Christmas Village.
201 Waterfront Street · National Harbor, Maryland 20745 USA
Dates and Hours
Open from now through March 2021
Monday – Saturday
90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays
Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm
More information on booking: https://www.thewatergatehotel.com/the-next-whisky-bar/winter-igloos
The Watergate Hotel
2650 Virginia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20037
Heated Igloos at the Four Seasons
The Four Seasons transforms the BOURBON STEAK patio into Bourbon and Bubbles for the winter season! Book a cute igloo and enjoy food and drinks from the BOURBON STEAK menu.
(Photo from Four Seasons)
Location: 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
Make a reservation here: https://www.fourseasons.com/washington/dining/restaurants/bourbon_steak/
Yurt Dining Experience at Fiola in DC
Every wanted to go glamping but without the actual camping part? Well, now you can with a dining experience at Fiola!
Fiola has set up yurts in a forest of trees on their patio for a winter outdoor dining experience, Yurt Village. You can enjoy a selection of 5 courses for $150 per person with selections from their Harvest Menu!
Location: 601 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20004
Viking Village at Hook Hall
No announcements have been made for the Viking Village at Hook Hall yet for 2021. Benches covered in fur, fire pits, and woodland themed decor help you live out all your Viking fantasies at Hook Hall. You can book a Viking Hut or a Viking King’s Quarter, with prices ranging from $125 to $250.
Each themed hut includes a welcome bottle of champagne, sectional lounge seating, heaters, special food and drink menus, a table, and the option to keep the “doors” open or closed.
You can also book a Fire Pit for up to 6 people for $15.
Location: 3400 Georgia Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, 20010
More information and booking: https://www.hookhall.com/viking
City Center Fig & Olive and Del Frisco’s Holiday Greenhouse Dining
Both Fig & Olive and Del Frisco’s at the City Center are offering dining in a greenhouse! Cute little greenhouses sit outside the restaurants in the City Center courtyard. You cannot reserve these greenhouses online, you will have to call (202) 559-5004.
More information: https://www.citycenterdc.com/events/2021/11/al-fresco-holiday-dining/
Library of Congress Christmas Tree
The Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress has one of the most stunning interiors in all of Washington DC. During the holidays, the Library of Congress puts up a beautiful Christmas tree right in the center of the Jefferson Building.
Surrounded by tiled ceilings and archways, this Christmas tree is by far my favorite indoor tree that’s completely free to enjoy! Because of Covid the Library of Congress requires visitors to reserve free tickets before visiting: https://loc.usedirect.com/LOC/.
You can also apply for a free reading pass to actually read in their reading rooms. Definitely don’t miss some of the exhibits they have going on, such as the Rosa Parks Exhibit!
Washington DC Christmas Event: National Christmas Tree Washington DC 2021
The 2021 National Christmas Tree Lighting will take place December 5, 2021, but there’s no information on whether or not the NPS will allow the public to atttend.
DC Holiday Lights 2021
DC’s Main Streets and commercial corridors have joined together to bring you a spectacular holiday experience. Between November 19, 2021, and January 6, 2022, take a stroll down each of the participating corridors below to experience a dazzling array of lights and decorations.
As many of the districts, holiday attractions, and lights are closed this year, this is a nice way to get in the holiday spirit while shopping locally!
For details on where to see the lights: https://dcholidaylights.org/
ICE at Gaylord Resort & Convention Center 2021
2021 UPDATE: ICE is canceled this year and will return next year! But the Gaylord is still worth a visit during the holidays! They have a 56 ft Christmas Tree right on the harbor from November 14 through January 3. And their indoor decorations are usually really stunning as well!
How many Christmas events in DC can boast that they have TWO MILLION TONS of ice carved into colorful sculptures?
Pretty epic right?
ICE is the Gaylord Resort’s indoor wonderland, this year featuring the 1957 Dr. Seuss classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
This is an event the whole family will enjoy. The amazing ice sculptures were created by artisans flown in from Harbin, China. And did I mention there’s a slide completely made of ICE? How fun is that?
ICE at Gaylord is kept at a chilly 9 degrees Fahrenheit, but not to worry your ticket comes with a hooded calf-length parka to keep you nice and toasty. Remember to still dress warmly especially your feet and legs.
Definitely get your camera ready for ICE because it is an Instagrammers dream and such a fun event for Christmas in Washington DC! Remember to bring one of those lens wipes (like for your sunglasses) because your camera will fog up from the cold.
- Hand-carved scenes depicting the story of How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
- A self-guided, walk-through experience that lasts approximately 15-30 minutes. In total, you should plan to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours for the entire ICE! experience.
- Four two-story tall ice slides
- A walk-through holiday attraction kept at a chilly 9°F
- 2 million pounds of colorful ice sculptures
- A separate area dedicated to the majestic Nativity in crystal-clear ice
- Hand-carved by 40 artisans from Harbin, China.
Dates for ICE at Gaylord Resort
November 15, 2019 – December 30, 2019
ICE at Gaylord Ticket Prices
From $25.00 Child/$33.00 Adult. More information on ticket pricing and calendar : https://tickets.gaylordnational.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=34
Glow Georgetown DC 2021
Update: Glow Georgetown has moved to a Spring/Summer 2021 showing, more info here: http://www.georgetownglowdc.com/
Georgetown has always been one of my favorite neighborhoods in Washington DC for the holiday season.
This historic feel and cute little allies make it perfect for a day of shopping and brunching. During the holidays this year, Georgetown is set a GLOW with magical light art installations throughout the neighborhood.
This is one of the most delightful Christmas events in DC because it is completely free and open to the public and perfect for the whole family. For a map of the exact locations of each installation go here:
Dates and Hours for Georgetown GLOW
DECEMBER 6 – JANUARY 5, 5-10 P.M. NIGHTLY
Washington DC Christmas Event: Light Yards 2021
Light Yards is one of the few glow events happening this year! It’s running from DEC 1, 2021 – JAN 1, 2022 — 6PM – 10PM.
This year the holiday installation will feature illuminated, 22 feet tall trees trimmed top to bottom in holiday decor and festooned lights that will cast The Yards’ Sun Deck with beautiful, colored patterns. The installation was designed by Australian artist studio Amigo & Amigo and will be crafted locally in Baltimore.
The Yards Park
355 Water Street Southeast, Washington, DC 20003
Dates and Hours
Nightly from 6:00-10:00 pm beginning on Friday, December 1, 2021 through January 1, 2022
Festival of Lights at Washington DC Mormon Temple
CANCELLED FOR 2021!
The Festival of Lights at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints aka the Mormon Temple to the locals and aka Disneyland if you grew up in this area, is a wonderful Christmas event that’s completely free!
The Mormon Temple definitely puts on a show during the holidays. The entire temple is dazzling in 400,000 sparkling lights. This year because of the pandemic it’s a drive-through event.
Definitely worth a visit since many of the holiday lights events in the DC area are canceled.
Washington DC Temple Visitors’ Center
9900 Stoneybrook Drive
Kensington, Maryland 20895
Dates & Time: December 11th through December 28th, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
More information on the driving route and parking: https://dctemplelights.churchofjesuschrist.org/
UPDATE: I went during the week it first opened on a weekday and it was not crowded at all. But apparently, there are huge lines every day now! I went again on a Monday and there were indeed lines! I would go early, as in getting there by 5:30 to 5:45 pm (we arrived around 5:45 pm and there was not yet a line of cars, but we did not do the drive-through, keep reading to see our secret tip for avoiding traffic). They will already have the lights on by this time. Also, avoid the weekend if you can!
Next, you can actually see the lights from the public and open sidewalk! That’s how we did it on Monday. We didn’t actually drive through, instead, we parked and walked over, thus avoiding the traffic and line all together! Plus we had a fun little photoshoot!
The trick is to park on the residential street right off of Stoneybrook Dr. If you are driving north on Stoneybrook take a right on Hill St and park, if you are heading south on Stoneybrook take a left on La Duke Dr and park. You can easily walk to the temple from both these streets and there was plenty of parking when we went on Monday.
Zoolights 2021 Christmas Lights at the National Zoo
CANCELLED FOR 2021!
The National Zoo glitters with Zoolights, an annual Christmas in DC tradition.
Of all the Christmas events in DC, Zoolights is probably the most kid-friendly. Zoolights is free to the public and quite the winter wonderland experience with 500,000 LED lights glittering through the zoo.
New attractions this year include Gingerbread Village, Reindeer Games Fun Zone, and an Interactive Light display. Take a fun ride on the National Zoo’s Choo Choo to get beautiful views of the displays or enjoy a spin on the carousel.
Though there is parking at the zoo for $25 per car, it is HARD to find a spot! I would recommend taking the Metro.
The National Zoo is on the Red Line and the stops for the zoo are Woodley Park-Zoo or Cleveland Park metro station, both are about the same 10-minute walk to the zoo.
Dates and Hours
Nov. 29 to Jan. 1 (except Dec. 24, 25 and 31) | Free Admission
3001 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Ice Skating at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden 2021
A list of Christmas events in DC would not be complete without some ice skating!
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden transforms into a stunning ice skating rink every year.
Come during the day for fun with the whole family or come at night for a romantic date night, either way, ice skating at the Sculpture Garden is a must-do for the holidays in Washington DC.
The ice rink does get quite crowded though so if you have young children be careful.
Skating sessions begin at the top of each hour and are sold in two 45 minute sessions. Skating fees for two 45-minute sessions (beginning on the hour):
$10 for adults and children age 13 and over
$9 for skaters age 60 and over, children 12 and under, and students with a valid school ID
If you happen to miss the beginning of the session, whittle the time away by checking out the surrounding art or grabbing a hot chocolate at the Pavilion Café.
The skate rental fee is $4; lockers are available for $0.50 ($5 deposit required).
Dates and Hours for the Ice Rink at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Friday, November 19, 2021–March 6, 2022 (weather permitting)
Sunday–Thursday, 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Friday– Saturday, 11:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.
Location of National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden
Constitution Ave NW & 7th Street, Washington, DC 20408
US Botanical Gardens Season’s Greetings Holiday Exhibit, Best Free Christmas Event in DC
2021 UPDATE: Instead of the holiday decorations indoors, festive adornments, winterberries, lights, and greenery will be placed in the Terrace Gardens and Bartholdi Park from Nov. 23, 2020, through Jan. 10, 2021. They’ve also brought back the annual train display but have moved it outdoors! No tickets are required.
Looking to escape the cold but still enjoy the holiday spirit?
Well, add the Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train display to your Christmas events in DC checklist because it’s spectacular.
This year they’ve recreated historic train station across the United States with plants. So take the journey across America without leaving the city.
And while it’s looking a bit bare outside beautiful holiday blooms will be on display inside including over 3,000 poinsettias.
Dates and Hours
Nov. 24, 2021, through Jan. 2, 2022, closed on Dec. 25.
The outdoor train display hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily between Nov. 24, 2021, and Jan. 2, 2022, closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 25.
100 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20001
Ice Skating at the Wharf
Ice skating at the Wharf is a relatively new activity in DC because the whole area was redeveloped in recent years.
The ice rink is over the water and would provide a beautiful sunset skating experience.
The start times are less rigid than at the Sculpture Garden so could offer a more relaxed experience. There are plenty of restaurants for dinner and drinks after your skate.
The Wharf Ice Rink is open every day from November 24, 2021 through late February, depending on weather conditions.
Dates and Hours
Special Extended Hours
Special Holiday Hours
November 21: Southwest Skate Rink Preview – Southwest DC residents skate for free from 12-8pm
December 23: 12pm-10pm
December 24: 12pm-7pm
December 25: 12pm-8pm
December 26-30: 12pm-10pm
December 31: 12pm-8pm
January 17: 12pm-5pm
Prices for Admission
Youth (12 & Under): $9
Skate Rental: $6
Group Rate (10 or more) includes skate rental: $14
Active military, seniors, first responders, and healthcare workers can receive a $2 discount on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Must show a valid ID.
MGM National Harbor Christmas Decorations
If you want a spectacular indoor display of Christmas decorations near Washington DC definitely check out the MGM Natioanl Harbor in Maryland.
Their atrium, which is just outside their theater has a beautiful display featuring a giant train, nutcracker, and even a snowman!
They have the hallway leading from the garage to the atrium decorated with pretty photo spots!
This casino resort is completely free to enter, though if there’s a show going on be prepared to wait in line for food, seating, and bathroom access.
One of the Best Things to Do for Christmas in DC is Enchant Christmas DC for 2021
The world’s largest Christmas light maze and market is going to be at National’s Stadium this holiday season for 2021.
Ice skate under twinkling lights, enjoy hot cocoa while wondering through life-sized light displays.
Honestly, I’m super excited to go to this for Christmas in Washington DC!! I think it will be the most photogenic of all the Christmas events in Washington DC this winter.
Enchant sells tickets based on time windows.
I would buy the earliest window possible because you get as much time as you want at Enchant in Washington DC and also it does tend to get colder the later it is. We got the 4:30 to 5:30pm tickets.
You can arrive after your ticket window but not before which is why I recommend getting earlier tickets. Enchant was not crowded at all, though we did go on a Sunday night after it had rained all day.
Actually the later it got the less crowded it was, probably because of the cold. It was such a beautiful experience! We even did ice skating. Watch my video of our experience below and subscribe!
Enchant Christmas DC Dates and Hours
- November 26 – January 2
More prices and tickets here: https://enchantchristmas.com/washington-dc
Christmas Tree Farm at Gaver Farm
There’s nothing quite like getting a real Christmas tree and cutting it yourself!
Gaver Farm has over 60 acres of beautiful Blue Spruce, Douglas Fir, Fraser Fir and Canaan Fir trees on their farm for you to cut your own.
Experience the magic of being surrounded by endless rows of Christmas trees and bringing one home to enjoy for your holidays!
Though this farm is not in DC it’s close enough at about 1 hour outside of DC in Mt. Airy Maryland.
Dates and Hours
November 27 – December TBD from 9 am – 5 pm daily
Christmas Tree Farm Location
5501 Detrick Road, Mount Airy, MD 21771
Blue Spruce ($75), Douglas Fir ($70), Fraser Fir ($70), Canaan Fir ($70) and White Pine ($55) includes free use of saws, tree carts, shaking, baling, and drilling.
More information at https://gaverfarm.com/christmas/christmas-trees/
Have Fun Cocktails at Christmas Bars Washington DC
Miracle on 7th Street Pop Up Bar has become number one on our Christmas in Washington DC checklist since the first one about 3 years ago. – Unfortunately, the original Miracle has closed, keep reading to see all the new Christmas bars in DC for 2021.
Brought to you by The Drink Company (responsible for the infamous Game of Thrones Bar and the magical Cherry Blossom Bar), Miracle on 7th is spot on every year in decorating this location into an epic Christmas explosion.
Between the boozy holiday beverages and exploding Christmas vibes, you may actually believe that Santa does exist. My favorite cocktails? Definitely Let the Muletide Roll and The Mortimer Duke because I like my drinks more on the refreshing side.
During the weekend (Thursday – Sunday) lines here are LONG so get there early or else you could be waiting a while out in the cold. Though during the week, the lines are much shorter so you could just walk right in.
If you are a DC local or visiting during the holidays, Miracle on 7th should definitely be on your winter bucket list.
Miracle on 7th is now family friendly too! Before 9pm those that are UNDER 21 can enter accompanied by a parent or gaurdian that’s 21 and over. They’ve also extended their hours to day time on Saturday and Sunday. I can’t wait to take my toddler here!
Death Punch Bar in Adams Morgan
Death Punch Bar in Adams Morgan has taken up this holiday DC tradition by opening Miracle and offers a fully immersive holiday experience upstairs!
They’ve partnered with “Miracle” which has bars all over the country. You will need to make a reservation because of the pandemic and they are for 90 minutes each.
The Christmas Bar at Death Punch in DC was cute, but definitely not as over the top as the original Miracle.
Their drinks are not as good either.
Honestly, I didn’t enjoy their holiday drinks that much and we pretty much sampled all of them even the shots!
The best drink was the one that came in a reindeer glass with a marshmallow on top!
The saving grace however was the FOOD!! We ordered all their skewers, the shio peppers, and even the mini yule log for dessert. Every single item was absolutely delicious!
The experience is running from 11/26/2021 to 12/31/2021
More information: https://www.deathpunchbar.com/miracle
Maxwell Park in Navy Yard
Maxwell Park in the Navy Yard has also opened up a Christmas-themed bar in Washington DC.
This DC Christmas Bar has partnered with the original designer of Miracle on 7th from the Drink Company, Salame Aspiazu to transform its bar into an over-the-top holiday explosion! No reservations are required for Maxwell Park, but I expect it to be packed.
You can also reserve a candy cane greenhouse for a more intimate holiday experience for groups of up to 6 with a $300 deposit that goes toward your food and drink.
Personally, I don’t think the greenhouses are worth it for the price.
Even though Maxwell Park is working with one of the designers from the original Miracle on 7th, the decor lacked the “Christmas threw up in here” factor. It is nicely decorated, but again having gone to Christmas Bar in DC from Drink Company this one does not live up to that standard. It’s still a cute bar and I would recommend it.
The Christmas drinks however here were terrible, worse than Death Punch Bar! One drink we had tasted like cough syrup, except worse than cough syrup. Again Drink Company had really nailed their cocktail recipes and neither Maxwell nor Death Punch has quite come up to par. I would stick to their wine selection here instead of the Christmas cocktails.
The food here however was pretty tasty we had the caviar and trout dip!
This Washington DC Christmas Bar runs from 11/26/2021 to 12/31/2021.
Urban Roast near DC City Center
Urban Roast, a cocktail, and coffee bar just 2 blocks from DC’s hip City Center has really stepped it up this year with their Christmas bar! Their decorations, food, and holiday cocktails will blow your mind with holiday cheer in DC!
The decorations and “Instagramble Spots” were definitely the best at Urban Roast! Even upon entering you have a little selfie station that’s absolutely adorable. Even their little restaurant next door Urban Eats has cute decorations up!
We sampled their artichoke dip and cheese plate, both perfectly delicious and sharable.
Now let’s talk about those holiday drinks, every single drink we had at Urban Roast’s Christmas bar was good!
If you like a tart drink, their hot toddy will warm you right up.
Their holiday shooters were not only adorable but equally delectable.
I’ve got a soft spot for margaritas so their Holly Jolly ‘Rita, a holiday-inspired margarita definitely hit home for me!
For seating, you need to make a reservation. They also have outdoor reservations available that come with firepits where you can roast marshmallows and make smores!
I highly recommend indoor seating though for all the holiday vibes!
Location: 916 G Street Northwest, Suite C-2, Washington, DC 20001
The Willard InterContinental for Christmas in Washington DC
The Willard InterContinental is a hotel that outdoes itself every year with the Christmas décor.
If you are looking to get into the holiday spirit a stop here to check out their Christmas decorations is a must.
And if you want to really take it all in, stop for their Holiday Afternoon Tea at Peacock Alley.
Holiday afternoon tea at the Willard is spectacular. They have a delightful selection of holiday-themed teas and treats. I absolutely loved their scones.
Afternoon Tea at the Willard is child friendly and our daughter enjoyed it. The Willard gave her the option of having tea or hot chocolate. Of course she chose hot chocolate!
Holiday tea is served in December from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., excluding December 24, 25 and 31st. Reservations are required.
Location of The Willard
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
Wunder Garten DC Winterfest
Wunder Garten is a cute little beer garden in DC hosting a Winter Festival. This Christmas even in DC continues to be our favorite year after year.
The outdoor space is cozy with fire pits and heaters. They transformed the Bier Garden into an epic Christmas explosion that rivals Miracle on 7th! This DC Christmas pop up is not to be missed! (EDIT FOR 2021: This year they’ve decorated the tent in a more winter wonderland theme.)
And definitely try their spiked cider, super yummy and it’ll keep you warm. For 2021 you can rent private cabanas for you and your group to enjoy!
Even the entrance to Wunder Garden is adorable!
Wunder Garden Winterfest Hours and Dates
Friday, December 3, 2021, through Thursday, December 23, 2021. This year’s WINTERFEST is set to be the biggest and best one yet. Find everything from Christmas trees, seasonal beers and warm cocktails, live entertainment, and evening holiday dance parties at the city’s most festive Bier Garten!
Location: 1101 FIRST STREET NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002
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Textsheet alternative are in demand after it goes down due to some copyright claims. It was one of the top hit site among the students, millions of students was already get use to it for their notes and other school and college assignment work. But now it’s not available there are many other sites like Textsheet.com, which can be used in replacement.
After increasing the faith of students and teachers in online education these days the whole education system has changed and adopted many recent changes which has benefitted both the teachers and students.
Many new websites encouraged the students and helped them by providing the original content for their better studies and homework.
Textsheet was also one such website which helped many students in providing them solutions for their college and school homeworks, projects and daily assignments.
Why Textsheet is Down ?
But due to many obligations and due to DMCA or Copyright infringement, the site is now banned on Google, and it affected many students who were getting their daily or weekly school and college problem solutions.
But not to worry about that we have managed to collect a list of sites like Textsheet.
List of Textsheet Alternative
Here is the list of some similar sites like Textsheet,
- School Solver
- Course Hero
- Studylib (Study Library)
- Crazy for Study
Slader is an online education platform, it helps many students in getting their live homework solution on the web. It is one of the best alternatives for the Textsheet site.
- It works with many languages and it is used by millions of users online.
- It has a Q&A community where the students can ask their questions and also send their respective suggestions and answers to someone else’s questions.
- It aims in making the student future ready for every opportunity and it loves to build a strong student carrier with its platform.
- Not in just Algeria, it changed student life all over the world.
School Solver is another best Textsheet alternative, it follows the concept of online education where it provides easy and best solutions for their students queries.
- It is a paid site where students can post their questions and ask the tutors to solve it and then teachers will post the correct answers for the queries.
- This site has Q&A section where everyone can learn how to join this site as a tutor or how to get answers for the questions.
- School Slader also provides the money making opportunities for the tutors who want to earn money online with releasing subject knowledge with the students.
- Now, the students can get their high school and college homework solutions on time with these education websites.
Course Hero, it is one top rated Textsheet alternative available for the students online.
- Course Hero has more than 25 Millions courses in different languages and subjects providing 24/7 access online.
- The website has a well managed directory where the students can get their problems solutions on the one search or one click.
- All the books and notes related to every subject is arranged and easily accessible for its users.
- It is always online for the students who want to get their problems solutions for any subject.
- The online tutors will explain and answer the questions once you upload the questions.
Studylib, the site which offers solved assignments and easy solutions for the users problems and homeworks.
- Studylib is a great site and it also allows its users to download the important files and folders for free from the site.
- The site has solutions for the queries in every subject including Maths, Science, Social Science, Business, Engineering and Technology, Arts and Humanities, History and many more.
- If you thinking to add some important news or article for the student benefits you can easily add to the site directory, this site will not charge any penny from you.
- For every student it is like a free gift for their better carrier.
Chegg is a best alternative to Textsheet, as it is also one of the major reasons for Textsheet removal.
- Textsheet use to deliver the answers to the questions comes on their site using the Chegg’s API which is against the law.
- But if you are thinking of a Textsheet alternative, Chegg will be the safe and best alternative for it.
- Chegg has developed many resources for the students to deliver the best education online.
- It provides the important notes and instant online solution with the use of online tutoring feature.
- Chegg has its video lectures and course notes for more than 80+ subjects.
- You can also access the Chegg platform with its app version which is available at the app store and play store for the phones.
PaperHelp is an amazing platform and a premium site which solves the students queries and solves their major issues related to all subjects.
- PaperHelp is a site with many resources for the students who are trying to build their research paper more stronger and effective, no matter what’s your age.
- The 2 owners of the company launched this site for the sake of student benefit and their future career.
- You can place your order for buying the latest papers in your subject with the different levels from this site.
- You can also save money by referring this site to your mates who are looking to buy the papers.
SparkNotes is a sub-part of its parent company Spark which is a big company who delivers the quality notes in many subjects like literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy.
- It also delivers the digital notes and lectures for many other subjects like biology, chemistry, economics, health, math, physics, and sociology.
- SparkNotes helps many students in delivering the books which they purchase from their site and also helps them in providing the best test papers for their exam and assessment preparation.
- More than 1 Million students have faith in the SparkNotes services.
- SparkNotes is also available in its App version which you can easily download from the App Store and Play Store from your mobiles.
Coursera is another site like Textsheet.com, Coursera is one of the top online education platforms for students.
- Coursera is a website which offers lots of professional courses on this platform, which anyone can do online and they will also get a free completion certificate once they complete their course.
- Coursera offers the professional certificate in the fields like Engineering, Data Science, Data Analyst and many others.
- Coursera has more than 3600 professional and non-professional courses, which are available with the completion test which is needed to complete for getting the course certificate.
Quizlet itself suggests that 90% of students who use Quizlet have scored higher scores.
- Quizlet is an online site for online education with the means of different tools and games.
- Games means not serious games here, it is in the form of quizzes which are more presentable and attractive and even more knowledgeable.
- Quizlet also focuses on providing the all in one solutions to its students with different assessments and videos for the topic you need to learn.
- You can also record the important session for future reference and learning.
The different modes of study Quizlet uses are:
- Flash Cards
Crazy for study, it is an official American site for student help.
- Crazy for Study has lots of resources which can be accessed by registered students to get their problems solved.
- This site will help you in getting a detailed summary and notes for the subjects you really want to study.
- It is a student search engine where they get the required notes and study material in just one search.
- They prepare the official textbook solution with the Q&A protocols which helps its users to get the required knowledge and data from one location.
- It also helps them in different assessments and projects by an online assessment help system.
We all know how the students get attached with the Textsheet website, it has helped more than millions of students online, but we all know the tough reasons why it gets banned by Google.
But if you are a student and looking for some good alternatives to Textsheet then we have listed lots of sites like Textsheet in this article.
We have literally offered you these best alternatives for Textsheet website after analysing their features and user reviews.
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I recently had a great experience at the Secret Surf School in Tenerife that I would like to share with you 🙂 . Mid December 2016, I was sitting in my office staring outside. It was raining, literally pouring, and freezing cold outside. I told my colleagues: I really need a holiday. And so it happened. Enjoy this Secret Surf School Tenerife review!
2 hours later I had booked a flight to Tenerife departing one week later. I was gonna spend a week there over New Years, chasing some sun and vitamin D. But, I had not realized this is high season on Tenerife and soon found out that all accommodation was fully booked! I was getting slightly stressed out and started doing some more research on the island. Turns out it’s a great surfing destination! I have already taken tons and tons of surf lessons in my life but still suck, so a surf camp always comes in handy 😉 . I then started to write all surf camps on the island and the only one that managed to get me a bed was Secret Surf School!
I’m super happy to recommend these guys. Enjoy this Secret Surf School Tenerife Review!
Secret Surf School Tenerife Review
I had easy mail conversations with one of the owners Valeria, and booked the surfcamp including accommodation for a week. This gave me 6 nights of accommodation and 5 surf lessons for €295. Not a bad deal at all, especially when you take into account it was booked a week in advance 🙂
The Secret Surf School in Tenerife is located in El Poris, a little seaside village. Bus 111 was an easy ride from the Airport and runs every 30 minutes (both in the direction of the Airport and Santa Cruz). The cost was around €4-5 euros. After approx 20 minutes in the bus, it’s an easy 5 minute walk to the hostel. I was welcomed by one of the staff who gave me a quick tour.
The hostel itself is a huge villa! The biggest advantage of this hostel is that it’s very spacious. Especially the private rooms are quite large and bright, the kitches are big and the living areas are good too. And then of course the outside patio with pool is great!
El Poris is a sweet little village with 2 restaurants and a supermarket. One of the restaurants is Café del mar, a great pick to have a cana (beer) and some tapas after a surf session.Before you know it you’re 5 beers later, but hey, it’s holidays 😉 Here you really realize you are in Spain, and why Spain was listed as the most amazing country in the category “Good Life” by one of my fellow bloggers 🙂
The Surf Lessons
The surf lessons mostly took place in El Poris. We would meet at the surf school (5 min walk from the hostel) at 9am. We would the stuff the van with wetsuits, leashes, rashies and put the boards on top for a quick ride. The beach that they use for classes is a beautiful small beach without any rocks. Great for beginner lessons and apparently when the swell picks up, also a good place to go for fun intermediate waves.
The size of the group varied widely. Some days it was only a couple of people, some days it was bigger. They try to have a max of 6 people per instructor. Some people were there for the surfcamp, other people would just rock up for day (or 2 or 3).
Valeria and Franco were very nice teachers and had a great vibe going on. They gave me great tips to improve my surfing and would take pictures during the sessions so you could see yourself afterwards.
The one thing about taking surf lessons in cheaper destinations like Peru is that you can have a private session with a teacher. This will get you more personal attention, a teacher with you in the water and you will improve quicker. But for beginner group lessons on fun waves I can definitely recommend the Secret Surf School!
The days on which the waves in the El Poris break were really too small, we would take the van and head out to a beach near El Medano where it was a bit bigger. During my week there the conditions were not great and the waves quite small, so I will definitely be back at some point!
Definitely going back!
All in all I can definitely recommend everything about the Secret Surf School. The hostel, the staff, the vibe, the surf lessons, Valeria and Franco, the whole package 🙂 Also you won’t have to be bored on the island of Tenerife itself. Apart from surfing, there’s tons of things to do in Tenerife! You have the Teide Volcano, cute villages such as Orotava, amazing beaches with rock formations as Los Gigantes and much more!
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Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote passed the American Dream and Promise Act (H.R. 6) and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 1603) to provide a long-overdue pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, TPS holders, and undocumented farmworkers who have built their lives here over decades. Millions have been on the frontlines of the responsive to COVID-19, helping keep food on our tables and caring for the sick as essential frontline workers, even as their own futures are uncertain.
It’s now up to the Senate to act with urgency and pass these vital bipartisan bills, which are critical to our continued response and recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, and also wildly popular with the American public and with the business community.
Earlier this week, the Coalition for the American Dream, a group of more than 100 of the nation’s top employers and trade associations representing every major sector of the economy and millions of U.S. workers said that continued inaction will “cause significant negative economic and social impact on businesses and hundreds of thousands of deserving young people across the country.”
And yesterday, chief executives for the National Retail Federation, the National Association of Manufacturers and Cisco Systems, with the co-founder of Clever, penned an opinion piece for USA Today, writing that permanently protecting Dreamers “is the only responsible path forward.”
“Nearly 1 million Dreamers work in essential front-line roles — in education, health care or medical research, in our food production supply chain and in vital sanitation jobs. They have helped to keep us all healthy, safe and cared for in the midst of this unprecedented crisis. … As we continue to work together to rebuild, resolving Dreamers’ uncertain status should be an urgent priority,” they wrote. Read the full op-ed below.
As we emerge from COVID, Congress should step up at last for ‘Dreamers,’ their families and America. It’s humane, economically sensible and overdue.
Penned for USA Today by Matt Shay, President and CEO of the National Retail Federation; Jay Timmons, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers; Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems; and Dan Carroll, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Clever.
As business leaders, job creators and entrepreneurs who employ and represent tens of millions of American workers across multiple industries, we know firsthand the enormous challenges the country faces in building back from the ongoing public health and economic crises brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the Biden administration and Congress continue to work on urgently needed recovery efforts, one policy stands out as a commonsense, bipartisan reform that will create and preserve jobs while investing in our workforce and providing stability and certainty to millions of young Americans and their families: permanent legislative protections for “Dreamers,” young immigrants brought here illegally as children.
Dreamers are about 2 million young people who have lived the majority of their lives here in the United States, and they’re contributing to our communities and our economy every day. As we emerge from the pandemic’s devastation and disruption and build the next, better world, the humane and economically sensible thing to do is to welcome our Dreamers.
We are pleased that the House has now passed The American Dream and Promise Act, and we encourage the U.S. Senate to act quickly on this issue as well.
Living in limbo for far too long
For 20 years, Congress and multiple administrations have debated the fate of Dreamers. Lawmakers have brought forth legislation many times and yet, they’ve been unable to provide a permanent solution. Flip-flopping executive orders and multiple federal court decisions have only heightened tensions for these young Americans. They’ve been forced to live in limbo for far too long. Permanent legislative protection, passed by Congress and signed into law, is the only responsible path forward. We need to give Dreamers the certainty they deserve.
Far from affecting only the Dreamers themselves, the uncertainty in their lives has far wider impacts to the communities to which they contribute. Their inability to plan and build their lives, not knowing whether they may be forced out of their jobs or deported, has hindered our country’s economic growth and job creation, while forcing them to live in fear that they may be separated from their families and loved ones. Congress can do right by these young people while helping ensure that all industries benefit from a more prepared, stable workforce.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the contributions of Dreamers into even sharper focus. Nearly 1 million Dreamers work in essential front-line roles — in education, health care or medical research, in our food production supply chain and in vital sanitation jobs. They have helped to keep us all healthy, safe and cared for in the midst of this unprecedented crisis. Dreamers are our friends, colleagues and neighbors, as well as the parents of nearly 750,000 U.S. citizen children. They attend American schools, worship alongside us and contribute to our communities in countless ways.
American except on paper
The overwhelming majority of Americans of all political backgrounds support offering legalization to Dreamers as a practical step because they understand that these young people — who came to our country at the average age of 6 — are American in every single way except on paper. Among our businesses and in nearly every sector across the economy, we are lucky to employ hundreds of thousands of these hardworking young people who bring their talents, skills and work ethic to growing the economy and driving innovation every day. They are valued team members whose contributions allow us to compete on a global basis, and many Dreamers are themselves entrepreneurs who have created American jobs for their communities.
As Congress and the new administration work to advance our economic and public health recovery, it’s well past time to act quickly and do the right thing for these young American Dreamers, and their families, communities and workplaces. Offering permanent legal protections and status to Dreamers reflects the best of our shared American values. As we continue to work together to rebuild, resolving Dreamers’ uncertain status should be an urgent priority.
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These second option cells are considered to have significantly more differential freedom compared with either CD133+ or CD44+ cells (13). In view of the aforementioned findings, a personalized oncologic treatment is definitely impossible without the application of circulation cytometry and cellular sorting, although further methods will also be required. It is likely that CD133+ Cobimetinib (R-enantiomer) CSCs are associated with the proneural type of GBM, while CSCs expressing CD44+ are characteristic of the mesenchymal type (12,13); however, such a division is rather provisional. GBM has several active zones of cellular division where the cellular phenotype of CSC descendants depends on the intensity and length of hypoxic preconditioning/cytokine activity, activity of secretome factors and recruited non-cancer cells (microglia and fibroblasts), as well as radiation and anti-tumor chemotherapy. Thus, the main vector of CSC clonal selection that influences the basic properties of these cells is vital to understanding the glioblastoma biology. CSCs are quick to produce decades of progenitors from which only clones with the strongest adaptability to the existing microconditions can survive, therefore defining the molecular phenotype of cells inside a relapsing tumor. For this reason, emphasis in developing a treatment program should focus on molecular focuses Rabbit Polyclonal to MED24 on (ligand-receptor complexes) recognized from proteome analysis of the main subtype (or subtypes) of CSCs extracted from your patient’s tumor. Proteome characteristics of CSCs demonstrate the actual condition of GBM hierarchy, while properties of malignancy cells in the common pool are less important. GBM cells have Cobimetinib (R-enantiomer) a specific and well-organized system of intercellular communication. Relating to electron microscopy data, U87 human being glioblastoma cells actively interact with each other by Cobimetinib (R-enantiomer) total or partial fusion (Fig. 1ACC), create strong contacts among cells with interdigitation and subsequent dissolution of the cytomembrane (Fig. 1DCF), with formation of unique cytomembrane differentiations in the form of tubes and linking bridges (Fig. 1GCI). Exchange of intracellular material (and info) is a crucial part of these contacts. This communication network is credited for the fast GBM relapse following surgical removal (19,20), as well as for the resistance of this tumor to medication and radiation (21,22), the development of hierarchy (17), and the creation of CSC niches (23). GBM cells freely exchange fluorescent markers, which become directly connected to cellular proteins while staining (24), indicating the cytoplasmic transfer between neoplastic cells of different immunohistochemical phenotypes (Fig. 2). Open Cobimetinib (R-enantiomer) in a separate window Number 1 Electron microscopy examination of human being glioblastoma U87MG cells, indicating the mechanisms of glioblastoma cell connection, examined from the authors. (A) Fusion of two interacting cells (magnification, 2,300). (B) Several mergers between cells (magnification, 953). (C) Conglomerate forming from interacting cells (magnification, 793). (D) Creation of close contacts among the cells with interdigitations (magnification, 13,380). (E) formation of space junctions (magnification, 40,150). (F) subsequent dissolution of cytomembrane (magnification, 28,600); (G) Unique differentiation of cytomembrane into microtubes and/or connective bridges (magnification, 493). (H) Formation of microtubes between remote cells (magnification, 919). (I) Microtubes formation between close cells (magnification, 798). 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PREVENTIVE PRODUCTS FOR BOILER WATER
IMAAS has products of the latest technology for the adequate preventive treatment of the water of your BOILERS and to protect all your equipment that use VAPOR.
But it is more than just chemicals for your equipment, it is a permanent advice that helps you and your company to reduce costs, both maintenance and production.
Will it be worth investing in expensive equipment like a boiler and then not taking care of it?
Three are the main problems that can present a boiler due to the lack of treatment of its water:
- THE INCRUSTATIONS, DEPOSITS AND SLUDGES WITHIN THE BOILER.
- OXIDATIONS AND CORROSIONS IN THE TUBES AND THE INTERNAL PART OF THE BOILER.
- THE INCRUTATIONS AND THE OXIDATION AND CORROSION IN THEIR VALUABLE EQUIPMENT THAT USE VAPOR, IN THE LINES OF STEAM, OF CONDENSED AND ITS ACCESSORIES LIKE: STEAM TRAPS, CHECKS, VALVES, ETC ….
Why does this happen?
Most boilers feed on water from aqueducts, wells or tributaries containing OXYGEN AND GASES and also T.S.D .: SILICATES, SOLIDS (dissolved and suspended), HARDNESS, IRON AND OTHER CONTAMINANTS.
EXAMPLE: On the basis of an average aqueduct (TSD 200 ppm) and a boiler of 200 BHP, 2,68 tons of waste per year will enter your boiler, which will inlay and plug the internal pipes of your boiler and contaminate the steam with great prejudice For their teams, without addressing the issue of damages generated by CORROSION.
The IMAAS products, together with the continuous accompaniment, advice and guidance of the IMAAS experts, make sure that your equipment does not retain 1% of this waste and remain as new.
Since not all boilers are the same, nor are they fed by the same type of water, IMAAS has a wide range of products that combined with the expert analysis of our engineers become an effective and ECONOMIC solution.
PREVENTIVE PRODUCTS FOR THE WATER OF COOLING EQUIPMENT
IMAAS has state-of-the-art products for the proper preventive water treatment of your ENHANCEMENT EQUIPMENT and the entire system.
But it is more than just chemicals for your equipment, it is a permanent advice that helps you and your company to reduce costs, both maintenance and production
Will it be worth investing in expensive equipment like a cooling tower or an evaporator and all the equipment cools and then not take care of it ?.
Three are the main problems that can present a cooling system due to the lack of treatment of its water:
- INCRUSTATIONS, DEPOSITS AND SLUDGES WITHIN COOLING EQUIPMENT.
- THE OXIDATIONS AND CORROSIONS IN THE TUBES AND THE INTERNAL PART OF THE SYSTEM AND IN THEIR VALUABLE EQUIPMENT THAT NEED COOLING, AS WELL AS THE LINES THAT TRANSPORT THE WATER AND ITS ACCESSORIES LIKE CHECK TRAPS, VALVES, ETC …
- CORROSION AND DECREASE OF THE HEAT TRANSFER CAUSED BY THE DEPOSITS OF MICROORGANISMS, ALGAE AND OTHER LIVING ORGANISMS THAT ARE GENERATED IN THE SYSTEM.
When using our chemical preventive treatment, the following benefits will be obtained:
– Reduced cost with excellent protection.
– Excellent internal cleaning of the system.
– Advanced treatment adjusted to your needs.
– The highest technology in the use of polymers of last generation.
– Fewer interruptions and disruptions in operations
– Greater security
– Easy to add and easy to control
– Minimum maintenance to the equipment and the distribution system of cooling water.
– Increased equipment life.
These benefits are achieved if the following objectives are adequately met:
– INHIBIT THE CORROSION in the refrigeration equipment, the accessories and the lines of conduction and especially in its valuable equipment that use the cooling water.
– Control the formation of INCRUSTATIONS and the accumulation of sludge.
– Maintain a high purity of the recirculation water by controlling the soiling caused mainly by the deposits of the microorganisms, algae and impurities of the water used in the cooling system.
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Colored Pencil Composition Is Key To Better Blending
Blending colored pencils can seem like a bit a of a mystery if it’s your first try at it, but it’s actually not as complicated as it looks.
First of all, it is important to remember that the basic food groups for colored pencil blending are, of course, colored pencils and wax. The tool you are going to use is none other than a blending tool (or finger, for the more experienced artists!).
As for the color and composition of the white wax, that’s something every artist needs to decide on a case-by-case basis.
There are no rules, so feel free to experiment with your invisible blending pal. Add as much as you think the piece needs, or remove a bit of it if you’ve over done it.
If you’re thinking about the best brand to use, well, that’s not something we can help you with. In our humble opinion though, Prismacolor are a great option.
Or Oil Base Colored Pencils ?
You can use any colored pencil brand in your artwork. The most important thing is the quality of the pencil. Artist grade pencils are more expensive than the average pencil but they have a great color. I highly recommend using artist grade or better colored pencils for the best results.
On the other hand you can also use wax-based (Crayola) or oil-base (Prang) colored pencils. No matter what pencil you use, you need to clean it as soon as possible while it’s still loose on the paper because once you add water or glue it’s going to be more difficult to clean.
You can get away with using more inexpensive colored pencils but the colors will be less vibrant and strong than the artist grade ones.
Water, and Wax.
There are a lot of ways people use pencils, and if used properly, they can produce amazing results. But only if used properly.
How should you hold your pencil in order to color the pages of your sketchbook?
No matter what kind of drawing material you hold in your hand, you can use two different grip styles: the pen-style and the brush-style. Pen-style means that you essentially hold the material like a pen, using the end of the pencil to draw small, fine lines or color dots. The brush-style grip, on the other hand, is when you hold your instrument horizontally just like you would use it to apply makeup to your face.
In order to play it on the safe side and get a smooth result, I suggest you try both of them and see what works best for you.
In general, the way of applying the pencil depends on the type of drawing material too. Pencils have different levels of hardness (from 6B to 3H) and different types of material can be used according to what you want, when you want. If you’re just starting out, it’s best to use an HB or, if it’s available, an F pencil because it’s the most versatile one.
Techniques To Blending Colored Pencils Effectively
How to blend colored pencils comes down to color choice. Of course other factors will affect the blending of your colored pencils, such as speed, amount of pressure, and paper.
But understanding the different types of color and how they work together is the first step to creating different techniques and effects.
Try out different colored colored pencils instead of using standard colors. By using color with opposing properties, you can make the blending process really easy.
For example, using the two different type of blue will work well together. Instead of turquoise and a cobalt blue, try using a light blue and a dark blue. Darks look great paired with darks and lights with lights.
Other simple combinations include a green and a yellow or a yellow and an orange. These colors are going to give you a vibrant look.
Complex combinations can be made by combining multiple colors that work well together. The use of purple and yellow make a good combination of colors. Purple and blue also work very well together much like orange and green.
You can use a combination of light blue and light yellow or orange for a subtle background effect. Try combining a light turquoise and yellow together and using this as a base color on your paper. With this you can add a light blue with the base color to create a shadow.
Now let’s take a look at some solvents most people may not be familiar with. Used for blending pencils, these are in no way related to artists’ products.
Airliners Solvent: This is for big jobs. If you need to blend a large area, this is the stuff to use. It’s a petroleum distillate solvents, and it will strip the wax coating on your pencil so that you can apply a new layer. You may have to buy it at a larger airline supply stores, but you should be able to find it somewhere.
Mineral Spirits: I’ve seen this at the hardware store. I don’t recommend using this unless you have to. It is actually paint thinner, and it will strip off the colored coatings from your pencils. Good thing is that you can rejuvenate the pencil by rubbing hard with a paper towel.
Rubbing Alcohol: Just ask for rubbing alcohol or isopropyl alcohol at your pharmacy. It’s the same stuff. This is probably what I use when I’m in a pinch.
Weeping Solution: This is for wiping away the lines in pencil art.
White Colored Pencil
One of the classic techniques with colored pencils is layering.
While drawing in colored pencil, apply some lighter white pencil as highlights on top of your darker colors. These highlights can be on top of the hair, eyes, lips, and other reflective places.
Work with the lid down so that you can see the colors–‗this will also help prevent smearing.
How do we recommend you apply this highlight? Using the white pencils with the sharpest points is the best way.
Sharper pencil tips allow you to add some shining colored pencil sparkles in your artwork.
You can even use it to create some sparks in the background.
If your intention is to blend colored pencils as opposed to layering them, you can use very mild solvents.
Let’s say you are working a piece that contains elements of multiple pencils. The existing colors could be ashy or not as vibrant as you would like. In this case, there are a couple of fixers in the form of colorless oil blends, that you can use to mix the colors smoother and mix in new layers of color without having to remove the old layers first.
I love to use a colorless blender by Ambasti pencils. You can also use any kind of essential oil or baby oil with out the smell.
The result will be a very subtle effect in the final painting. If you want the effect to be more pronounced, you can continue to add more colorless blender or even layers of color made with colorless blender.
The first time I was told to use tortillons, I was given a set of surprise. My art teacher would only pull out the tiny pencil case when you were attempting to paint with straight color. However, I soon realized there was nothing tortuous about these tools, and they came in extremely handy.
When tortillons go on sale, my art supply budget is happy. I use the 3B ones for preliminary work on larger pieces.
If I want a really smooth blend, I use tortillons.
Keep a jar of Zest-It in your art drawer.
It’s ideal for helping all your pencils glide across paper. Paper is an art supply, you know. And sometimes it can be as bad as rotten fruit that won’t let some colors play nice with the others. Zest-It is the answer.
Practice good, old pencil maintenance.
Before your pencils go dull, sharpen them up. A blunt pencil can ruin even the best sketch. Keep an extra sharpener handy, and refresh your pencils frequently.
A sharp point lets your pencil glide over paper. It makes for clean lines and smoother blends, too.
Video Of How To Blend Colored Pencils
What Is Art?
Does art relate to anything that has been created by man? Or is it something we are yet to discover? Does a drawing need to be on paper? Can we consider sculpture or painting as arts? The definition of what is art will give different answers to different people.
In the modern world, art is mostly associated with drawings, paintings and sculptures. Anything from photographs, to various forms of murals are subconsciously put in the same category.
There are many schools of though on whether art requires a physical representation or not. There is a notion on the lines that if all the details are expressed without material existence, it is still art.
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The Unfinished Omnisphere Horizon V Deluxe For Spectrasonics Omnisphere PRT_OMN-HORiZON
HORiZON | June 14, 2015 | 1.87 MB
Omnisphere Horizon V: Deluxe is a collection of 195 patches for Spectrasonics Omnisphere.
The Deluxe edition takes the original Horizon V of 128 patches and expands it to 195. Several of the patches from the extensive Arps + Rhythms section are re-worked in different time signatures (5/4 and 3/4) to give them extra life. Also, some of the sounds from the Arps + Rhythms section are transformed into individual, playable instruments. This adds a number of new basses, percussive noises and plucked instruments to the collection.
Horizon V: Deluxe is squarely aimed at the television underscore and independent film scoring vibe. There is a strong blend of the acoustic and the synthetic: both growling and delicate string instruments meet dark and lush analogue sounds. Melding organic bowed textures, airy guitars and pseudo-folk vibes with bristling, warm synth classics and evolving techno pulses; this soundset captures the intimate, innovative spirit of scoring for the small screen, as well as films and games that steer away from the Hollywood aesthetic.
This collection delivers haunting pianos, melancholic soundscapes, colourful guitars, eclectic strings, and supports them with impulsive basses, kinetic percussion, rich pads and robust synths.
Strong influences for Horizon V: Deluxe include: Olafur Arnalds’ beautiful score for Broadchurch; the tense and emotional soundtracks for Nordic Noir favourites The Bridge, Wallander, Borgen and The Killing; James Newton Howard’s dark and powerful Nightcrawler soundtrack; the brilliant score for The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla; and Johan Johansson’s eerie Prisoners soundtrack.
195 patches for Spectrasonics Omnisphere
- 83 Arps & Rhythms
- 4 Electro Percs
- 2 Human Voices
- 5 Hybrid Organic
- 8 Impacts and Hits
- 8 Keyboards
- 27 Pads & Strings
- 2 Sfx & Noise
- 17 Synth Basses
- 10 Synth Poly
- 21 Textures
- 8 Traditional
Omnisphere Capricorn is a smaller collection of patches for Spectrasonics Omnisphere taken from a private project.
The 70 sounds are predominantly created using Omnisphere’s extensive and wonderful collection of analogue sound sources. Classic machines from the likes of Roland, Korg, Farfisa, Oberheim, Casio, PPG and Sequential Circuits, plus Omnisphere’s own synthesis engine, turn the analogue up to 11 to create a collection of eclectic, atmospheric and undeniably rich noises.
Full of charm and intensity, Capricorn is hugely useful for both cinematic scoring and modern electronica, adding a touch of classic synth warmth with a contemporary dynamic twist. Basslines bubble, arpeggios arc, soundscapes swarm, pads pulse and synths sparkle. All the sounds have been tweaked, evolved and reworked specifically for release.
70 sounds for Spectrasonics Omnisphere
- 29 Arps & Rhythms
- 1 Impact & Hit
- 2 Keyboards
- 15 Pads & Strings
- 1 Sfx & Noise
- 4 Synth Basses
- 9 Synth Poly
- 9 Textures
Big thanks to DISCOVER for the standard release of this excellent library. We've been meaning to make a public announcement for quite some time and since this release contains our team name, we decided who better to revisit and elevate it to the next level? And so here we are bringing you the deluxe edition which features an extra 67 presets in various time signatures as well as Omnisphere Capricorn adding 70 more presets on top of that which were only included during the initial launch. Now it's only available as a separate purchase. So all in all you're getting an extra 137 presets in our release at more than half the standard release's size. Think of this as a little reminder of the level of quality and attention to detail that we were delivering to your favorite sites.
Now for the bad news. There are massive ongoing changes in the P2P scene. A majority of the teams rightfully have grown weary of the current situation. Apropos, R2R are releasing internally for the foreseeable future and our friends in HEXWARS and MATRIX are following suit. We're also joining this movement or rather we should say that we're the origin. A while back we made a case for the implementation of sweeping changes but at the time the issues were seen as limited in scope though we knew even then that they were in fact global. Sure enough before long these recurring problems left no team untouched and it was clear that something had to be done. We're glad that the urgency of the moment is finally being felt because the current design is not sustainable and even more so...it's not right. Even though we're part of this system we can't help but feel overwhelming gratitude for all that has been done on our behalf by our colleagues. We recognize that they are all truly special people that have risked everything and worked tirelessly just to give us an opportunity to possess the finer things to elevate our music. It is nothing short of perverse how human beings have twisted and distorted this relationship for so long that the current climate has become toxic. Toxic for them, toxic for developers, toxic for human nature itself since simply keeping on our current course means enabling this volatile environment. So unless you can find a way to rediscover the importance of supporting and showing respect for those that work hard on your behalf, the only thing you will find on the horizon will be a fading memory. Over and out.
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For startups making an exit onto the public markets, traditional IPOs were king until about 2019, when direct listings became the popular alternative, thanks to companies like Spotify and Slack. Then, SPACs stole the limelight in 2020 and these special purpose acquisition companies became the other alternative that more startups began to consider.
Those three routes to the public market — IPO, direct listing and SPAC — are still the main paths for a company to go public, but there are other ways for a business to end up on a public stock exchange in the U.S. as well. Each has its pros and cons, and while traditional IPOs are still seen as the “default,” they’re not the only option.
With these IPO alternatives getting more attention, I thought I’d write a bit about each way to go public, what kinds of companies are best suited for each path, and the other ways a company’s shares can become publicly traded.
An initial public offering, or IPO, is still more or less seen as the default way to go public. It involves hiring banks as underwriters, going on a roadshow to sell the idea of the company to investors, and then selling a block of shares to investors at a set price to raise capital before trading begins on the exchange.
IPOs are ideally suited for companies that are generally considered “healthier” or more appealing to the public market, according to Robert Siegel, a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Public markets tend to not want products and services that are too speculative, though that’s changed a bit in the past few years.
Another reason companies traditionally have gone the IPO route is because they needed to raise capital in the process as well (though now companies can also raise capital through direct listings, which I’ll get to later).
IPOs are expensive. We’ve written about how pricey and time-consuming the process can be, and that’s part of the reason some companies consider other ways to go public, like direct listings and SPACs.
Option 1: Initial public offering
- What it is: The process of offering shares of a private company to the public in a new stock issuance, thereby listing the company’s shares on a stock exchange and raising capital in the process.
- Pros: The traditional method to take a company public, a way to raise capital.
- Cons: Lockup periods, expensive, can be a lengthy process.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix — in fact, most of the biggest and most prominent public companies.
In certain, kind of nerdy, circles, “IPOs vs. direct listings” was the hottest debate of 2019. Spotify and Slack both went public through direct listings, and this option was seen as a cheaper, more efficient alternative to IPOs. Companies could save money on underwriting fees, avoid lockup periods, and not have to worry about “leaving money on the table” if their stock surged on the first day of trading. Most recently, Roblox and Coinbase went public through direct listings.
“The company that maybe doesn’t need cash necessarily and has a lot of market power and doesn’t like the IPO process could do a direct listing,” Siegel said.
Traditionally, direct listings have been thought of as best suited for companies that have a lot of name recognition. You don’t need investment bankers to help you through a roadshow and tell the story of your company if everyone knows who you are.
The Securities and Exchange Commission in December approved the New York Stock Exchange’s proposal to change how they do direct listings so that capital can be raised. While that change may make a direct listing seem more similar to a traditional IPO, there are still key differentiators.
“Some of the considerations here are things like not really having any intermediaries, not really issuing new shares, no lockup,” said Prashanth Chandrasekar, a former vice president at Barclays Investment Bank and now CEO of venture-backed developer platform Stack Overflow. “I think the spirit of providing faster liquidity, it’s a good thing right? Whereas a traditional IPO there is a lockup and things like that. I think this puts this more control in the companies’ hands rather than leaving it up.”
Option 2: Direct Listing
- What it is: A way to go public that doesn’t involve selling a block of shares like an IPO.
- Pros: Cheaper than an IPO (save money on underwriting fees), no lockup period (easier to access liquidity), now companies can raise capital through a direct listing.
- Cons: A company needs to have strong brand recognition to be a viable candidate for a direct listing, since it won’t have help from banks to get in front of investors and sell the story.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Spotify, Slack, Roblox, Coinbase.
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are having a moment, and they’re about to start having a supply and demand issue.
SPACs are essentially blank-check companies that are created by a group of investors who are interested in a particular sector and use the SPAC as an acquisition vehicle. The SPAC goes public, and then takes a private company public by acquiring it. SPACs have been all the rage this year, with gross proceeds totaling nearly $100 billion. High-profile investors including Chamath Palihapitiya (who’s often credited with helping popularize SPACs) and Bill Ackman have formed SPACs, along with athletes and celebrities like Shaquille O’Neal, Ciara and Colin Kaepernick.
There are two types of target companies that often go the SPAC route, according to Siegel. The first group is healthy companies that want to avoid some of the more annoying parts of the IPO process, like not being able to talk about future projections or having to go on a roadshow.
The second type is “speculative companies,” which are often pre-revenue. Unlike companies taking themselves public via an IPO, SPACs allow for the target company to make future revenue projections, so it’s a good option for businesses in spaces like cleantech and electric vehicles that want to raise capital, but haven’t generated revenue yet.
“Before the SPAC market got going really strong, it was pretty rare to see, outside of biotech, to see many pre-revenue — really early stage (companies) in terms of their product development — going public,” said David Ethridge, PricewaterhouseCooper’s deals managing director and U.S. IPO services leader. In the past year or so, the SPAC market has grown in the corner of earlier-stage companies, Ethridge said.
The one holdup with the SPAC craze is that there may not be enough target companies for all the SPACs out there. Because of the sheer number of SPACs formed in the last year, it’s likely that they may not all be able to find targets before their expiration dates are up. As Chandrasekar of Stack Overflow put it, there are only so many quality companies that can go public.
Option 3: SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company
- What it is: A “blank-check” company formed by a group of investors and taken public for the explicit purpose of acquiring a private company and in doing so taking it public.
- Pros: A cheaper, faster way to go public than a traditional IPO. Companies can also disclose future revenue projections (a big plus for pre-revenue companies).
- Cons: It used to be considered a “less respectable” way to go public, but that perception has somewhat changed.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: Virgin Galactic, DraftKings, Clover Health.
A reverse merger is similar to a SPAC in that a private company becomes public by merging with a public company. The already-public company is often trading on over-the-counter markets and is somewhat of a “zombie” company, according to Siegel.
“It’s similar to a SPAC, but it’s not an entity that was created to take a company public,” Siegel said.
In a reverse merger, a private company buys out the necessary amount of shares to control the public company. In this way, the private company becomes public and the two entities have merged.
One of the most notable examples of a company to go public this way is the New York Stock Exchange itself. The NYSE acquired Archipelago Holdings to form the NYSE Group back in 2006. Another example is when Turner Advertising merged with Rice Broadcasting to form Turner Broadcasting.
Reverse mergers tend to involve companies that have been around for a while and aren’t considered appropriate for an initial public offering, since IPO candidates are generally considered healthy and appealing to the market. Reverse merger deals still offer a relatively easy way for investors in the private company to get liquidity, according to Siegel.
They’ve historically been easier to do because there were many penny stocks to merge with and SPACs weren’t as available (SPACs began in the U.S. in the 1990s, according to Excelsior Capital). Companies going through reverse mergers also don’t have to deal with the details that come with a SPAC structure.
Option 4: Reverse merger, also called a reverse takeover or reverse IPO
- What it is: A deal in which a private company becomes public by merging with an already-public company.
- Pros: A cheaper, faster way to go public than a traditional IPO.
- Cons: No capital is raised, the private company quickly needs to adjust to being compliant with SEC rules, the markets can sometimes not perceive reverse mergers as favorably as IPOs, according to IPOhub.
- Companies that have gone public via this route: NYSE, Turner Broadcasting.
Others Ways A Company Can Be Public
IPOs, direct listings and SPACs are the main three ways for a company to go public. But there are a couple other ways a company can end up being public in the U.S., according to PwC’s Ethridge, though it’s typically not a path on the public “menu,” so to speak.
Companies can end up being public through debt issuance or by moving from trading on the pink sheets to the major exchanges (often via a reverse merger).
Companies that are publicly traded in another country can also move to an American exchange. In those cases, the exchanges count the foreign company’s move to a U.S. exchange as an IPO, Ethridge said.
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Yeah it’s finally Halloween!
I hadn’t had the opportunity to celebrate it and I feel tired because of two exams papers I had to take today. Anyway, that doesn’t mean I didn’t really do anything for Halloween! And first of all I prepared my blog post for it 🙂
You can check out my makeup Halloween post + outfit special Samhain HERE!!
When I came home the first thing I did was to do my Parshell cross! It’s an old Irish tradition for All Hallow’s Eve. Simple and fun to do ^^ check out how HERE. My Parshell of the year:
Then to re-bond myself to these Celtic myths and especially Wicca – my love since last year’s Samhain – I decided to re-write my Book of Shadows 😀
Alright I know mine is not like that LOL. I took a plain big simple hardcover copybook so that I can customise it later. Last year I did have a B.O.S but it was only a clear book with some prints of the main rituals and circles incantations… This time – especially since I understood Wicca a lot more thanks to the Sweep Series by Cate Tiernan – I’m trying to write a more personal book of shadows, just like a diary (ha! as if I didn’t own enough diaries and blogs!) but a diary especially for these ‘witchy’ things… I’ve written in it for the first time today 🙂 A book of shadows should be passed from mother to child to grandchildren etc… and no one else should read it!!! It’s awesome.
Usually I’d also light a black candle to release all negativity away from the house… but I didn’t have the chance to do it today. Here’s how I did it one day:
Oh soo creepy… LOL
I still have my stock of black candles in case ^^
And finally, I wish you the best of Halloween and I found a pleasant blessings poem in Irish (of course!) for you guys for this special Celtic’s New Year’s Eve:
Ar líon gráinne gainnimh ar an trá
líon bhur laethe bheo.
Go ráibh grá Dé libh trí dhubh an tsaoil
geala sé dhaoibh gach treo.
Mar síor-phíobaí bhur n-anamacha,
mar bualadh bodhrán bhur gcroí,
is na poirt is ríl iomlán bhur gcas’,
gur ó chéilí saol ar shlí.
Go raibh fuíoll an tsaoil mar bharr an tsaoil,
gan éagóir ó aon neach.
Gáir bhur bpáistí bheith mar cheól agaibh,
a bfhás buan ceól ó Neamh.
Le teacht an t-am chun sibh-se imeacht,
le h-éileamh ama riamh go deo,
Dia libh dís ag imeacht a chaird’
‘s an bheannacht seo libh fad bheo.
May the grains of sand upon the shore
number all your days.
May the love of God in darkest times
enlighten all your ways.
May the pipes forever be your soul
and the bodhran beat your heart,
and the jigs and reels your ups and downs,
till life’s ceile you depart.
May the rest of life be the best of life,
and no one do you wrong.
May children’s laughter be your music,
their growing be your song.
And when the time says we must part,
as time will always do.
may God go with you both my friends
and this blessing stay with you
Source from Irish Gaelic Translator forum: http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/translation/topic106595.html?hilit=poems#p766639
I really LOVE Irish language… 🙂
May you all embrace this New Year in the arms of Mother Nature and Father Sky (Goddess and God).
Ring in the boon, ring out the bane.
Blessed be to all )O(
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Week 7/2021: week of 15 February 2021
21 for 2021 updateThis was my first “normal” week for about a month. “Normal” as in school was back and I was at work all week. None of those annoying public holidays to muck up my routine. Ha.
My first thing this week is the Change Journal, where I’ve been marking off two habits in chapter 7 since January —the pre-work routine (thing 20), which I have now completed for 32/66 days, and my yoga stretches, which I have done every day since 10 January. I’ve been thinking I need to make a start on the other chapters in the book or I won’t make my way through the book by the end of the year.
This week, I decided to start with chapter 2, Thanks, which asks you to note down something you’re grateful for every day for a week. I actually already do this. Every morning I note down three things I’m grateful for, and every evening I write down something I’ve been grateful for during the day in my Some Lines A Day journal. But I don’t really think about them and what they mean to me so sometimes it feels more like a chore than a meaningful practice. The Change Journal takes this a step further and asks you to write down how the thing (or the person) you’re grateful for enriches your life and what your life your life would be like without it (or them). So it goes a bit deeper.
I did that every day this week and concluded that it’s a good practice to maintain as it makes my current practice more meaningful, so I’ve added my version of this into my daily gratitude journalling.
Vegetable of the week
Thing 2 is to choose a different vegetable every week from the book In Praise of Veg and make a recipe from the book using that vegetable.
This week, I wanted to try Alice’s Sesame Cucumber Whack Salad (page 384), but I didn’t know what to have with it. I thought some fish might be a good accompaniment, and there was a fish recipe in the lemongrass section of the book, Lemongrass Fish Pops with Green Mango Salad (page 110). Obviously, it has a salad with it, which includes ingredients I have never heard of and/or don’t like and/or have never cooked with, including pomelo, green mango and banana shallots.
I figured I could make the fish dish (lemongrass check) and have it with the cucumber salad (cucumber check) instead of the salad that was supposed to go with it. Slabs had other ideas. He convinced me to at least try the green mango salad (I HATE mango!), and proceeded to purchase a mango (not green), a ruby grapefruit (not a pomelo but apparently close to it) and, well, normal shallots because what in hell are banana shallots anyway?
So I ended up making the fish pops (which is mashed fish with some curry paste and spices grilled on skewers of lemongrass), with the (not-)green mango salad and the cucumber salad. It was a lot of work, and a lot of food, and I didn’t need the cucumber salad in the end.
My verdict: This is the first recipe from the book I haven’t liked. I liked the idea of it but I didn’t really like the way the fish turned out and I didn’t like the salad. I suppose that’s to be expected if you don’t like mango or citrus. Slabs, on the other hand, said he really enjoyed it so it wasn’t a complete fail.
The cucumber salad was really yum though, and I’ll be doing that one again, maybe as an accompaniment to a curry or, as Alice suggests, with some soba noodles and some steamed fish, so the cook wasn’t a complete wipeout.
In a rather more epic fail, I decided to make the Ultimate Cheesy Garlic Bread Bake on page 38 on Sunday night, without having noticed that the recipe notes say “Begin this recipe one day ahead”. So Kramstable and I did not have garlic bread on Sunday.
If I ever write a cookbook (ha), I am going to make sure that in the header of every recipe that requires advance preparation is a large clock symbol.
There are several things on my list that I have made a regular commitment to doing in the hope that this will be more likely to make me do them. I worked on these ones this week.
- Thing 5: Spend an hour a week working through my annoying undone things list. One hour on Saturday morning. I finished the last collage for 2020, printed it and stuck it in the book. That is now complete.
- Thing 8: Spend an hour a week working on Kramstable’s videos. I did this on Sunday.
- Thing 9: Write my mother’s life story. I normally go to see my mum on Thursdays but this week she had some personal issues that meant it wasn’t possible to talk to her about her story. I got her to identify herself in some photos and did a bit of internet research into some of her family members.
- Thing 11: Complete the Compelling Frame course. I don’t have a specific time set aside for this (because schedules, who needs them), but I spent a couple of hours on Tuesday working through the third lesson, and I started the fourth lesson on the weekend.
- Thing 17: Brainsparker gym*. I did the first lesson of Module 3 and learned about Fishbone diagrams
21 for 2021 summary for week 7
- Things completed this week: 0
- Things completed to date: 1 (1)
- Things I progressed: 8 (2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 17, 20)
- Things in progress I didn’t progress: 3 (6, 13, 18)
- Things not started: 9 (3, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21)
Blast from the past
Following on from my 10-year review of my blog, here’s one of my favourite posts from 7 March 2011. It’s actually the prequel to the flashback post I posted last week and the one I meant to post last week. Here is the correct link to “Pushing Papers (AKA on art and writing part 1)“.
When did I listen and what did I learn this week?
I’ve been reading the book Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley, which is about the author’s attempt to track down the story behind a legendary dragon slayer and the belief that there had been a dragon lair underneath an old yew tree in England. In the book, he refers to the practice of “grangerising”, which is when you take a book apart and rebind it with photos and pictures from elsewhere, including from other books, resulting in a much bigger book, or even additional volumes of the book. In one case, Christopher refers to a grangerised Bible, which ended up being 60 volumes. I kind of love the idea of making a book your own like this but, on the other hand, am horrified that people would destroy other books in order to do this.
The practice was made popular by (and named after) fans of the late-18th century print collector and author, James Granger, who, according to Christopher, didn’t actually engage in the practice himself. But the many “grangerites” did it to enough copies of his Biographical History, that I imagine the name stuck. One copy was grangerised to expand the original three volumes into 36.
And I think I don’t have enough book cases!
What did I do for the Earth this week?
I’ve been reading doom and gloom stories, feeling like nothing I do will make a difference and falling further into a “nothing will stop this” mindset, which isn’t helpful and isn’t achieving anything.
What I’m reading this week
- Personality Hacker by Joel Mark Witt & Antonia Dodge
- Burning Out by Katherine May
- Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley
- Days I did my morning planning routine at work (Goal = 5): 5
- Days I worked on my art (Goal = 2): 4
- Days I read a book (Goal = 7): 7
- Days I did yoga stretches (Goal = 7): 7
- Days I had a lunch break away from my desk (Goal = 5 work days): 5
- Days I went for a walk or did other physical activity in the afternoon (Goal = 7): 5
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Getting The Stress You Need Part 1
This week the Mindshifters group watched the first half of the lecture by Dr. Michael Ryce titled: Getting The Stress You Need. What struck me most about the lecture this time was how Dr. Ryce described how my intentions are the raw materials of my goals. When I hold a number of intentions and eventually elevate one of them to the level of a goal, that goal then organizes my energies and my behaviors to guide me to the accomplishment of that goal. Therefore, the quality of my intentions determines the quality of my goals.
Dr. Ryce described how each of us has a filter over the intentions in our minds, and a filter over the perceptions in our minds. These filters can be set to fear, hostility, or Love. Whenever the filters are set to hostility or fear, they distort our perceptions and show us a false set of data. We then take that data and build our perceptions of reality based on that false data. This is why we were told that the first and most important instruction is to keep the filter of Love set in our minds whenever we are thinking of God, neighbor, or self. The reason is that if the filter is set to hostility or fear, it will distort our perception and show us false data. So we are encouraged to frequently monitor our emotions and mental state and act quickly to reset our filters to Love, whenever we notice that we are feeling something other than Love. By definition this means that we are perceiving things falsely, and therefore we will not be reacting to actuality, but we will be reacting to the false reality we have constructed from the corrupt data that is created by the filters of hostility and fear.
Another critical concept that was introduced is the definition of stress as: “The tension within me that is created by the difference between the way things actually are, and the way I perceive them to be”. The greater the difference between these to things, combined with the amount of energy I pour into wanting things to be different, determine the level and intensity of my stress. This concept alone is worth the entire time I invested in the lecture. The more I monitor my own thoughts and emotional responses and catch myself earlier and earlier in the process, the less time I spend in the tension of stress. As soon as I catch myself feeling tense, angry, frustrated, confused, irritable, or unhappy I ask myself some version of the following question – “I wonder how this is all going to work out for the better?”, or “I wonder how this is going to help me learn a critical lesson I need to master?”, or “I wonder how this will work out to be a blessing?”
This one process alone has improved the quality of my life more than I can even begin to describe. In the last five years that I have been practicing and applying this process, I have seen that it does two important things. First, it stops me in my tracks when I start thinking negative thoughts which generate negative feelings in my body. I find that since I have started this process, I have spent much less time feeling negative emotions in my daily life. Second, it leaves me more open and observant to see the ways in which things do turn out for the better. I find that I see positive “coincidences” much more often than I ever did before. My hunch is that these positive “coincidences” were always there, but because I was angry, fearful, or frustrated when things did not happen the way I had planned, I was not able to see or notice the positive “coincidences”.
Dr. Ryce presented one more very important quality of goals, which is that once a goal has been set in the human mind, it keeps running until it is either attained, or consciously canceled. This is absolutely true, even though it may be running in the unconscious part of the mind, it is still active and the mind is looking for ways to achieve or satisfy the goal despite the fact that the person may be completely unaware of it. This leads to some very confusing and unproductive behavior in people, as their unconscious mind is working to satisfy un-achieved goals, while the conscious mind is unaware of the motivation or the goal.
It is suggested that we take time to consciously cancel all un-achieved goals from the past, with a focused visualization exercise. Then we can implement a nightly routine which has us reviewing the day, and canceling any un-achieved goals before going to sleep each night. In this way we can rid ourselves of some unproductive baggage and prevent ourselves from creating more of it each day.
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What if you found a simple way to cut costs, take advantage of economies of scale, and focus on your core business? By upgrading to a server in the cloud, your organisation avoids excessive infrastructure spending as it brings enhanced reliability in a high-availability environment.
A move to the cloud can mean rapid technological advancements, but the true power of a cloud-based server lies in the benefits for your customers, your work force and your bottom line. What are some of the key benefits of deploying your business in the cloud?
1. Reliable Security and Disaster Recovery
Technology security poses a significant, ongoing problem for businesses of all sizes. So it’s even more important for small businesses to develop a Disaster Recovery Plan. When companies store sensitive data — including proprietary information about the business or its customers — on local hard drives, the simple human error of leaving behind a laptop can result in disaster.
Cloud-based servers and products such as WMware Private Cloud provide businesses with greater protection for sensitive data, and tech support personnel can remotely wipe misplaced laptops and smartphones. When machines inevitably malfunction, organisations have instant backups, and getting up and running on another machine is quick and easy.
In addition, virtualising a dedicated server to the cloud provides powerful support for disaster scenario planning. Businesses ravaged by fires, floods, theft or malware suffer immediate losses, but long-term downtime and damage to customer relations can cause even-greater harm. With all important data in the cloud, businesses can minimise downtime of mission-critical services even in the face of disasters.
2. Wider Competitive Reach
For companies offering internet-based services, including hosted software and online sales, cloud-based servers are a must. With your operations in the cloud, you open up a world of potential for your business as you reach a global market. When anyone in the world can access your products and services through a web browser, it becomes as easy to reach a customer across the globe as one in your own backyard.
Beyond surpassing geographic boundaries, you also take your business up a notch in other ways when you move to the cloud. On a cloud-based server, you have access to the latest, enterprise-class infrastructure and technologies, which bring virtually unlimited power to your business. Small businesses become competitive with major players, and customers only see stellar service.
3. Increased Flexibility, Reduced Costs
If your business needs flexibility and scalability, a move to a cloud-based server will provide numerous benefits. As you gain global reach — and new customers — you can scale up your operations easily and quickly to meet the increased demand. Should business drop off, you can scale down just as easily, with minimal costs and minimal capital lost to infrastructure.
If your bandwidth needs fluctuate seasonally, you also can scale capacity up or down quickly while controlling expenses. With the ability to adjust nimbly to changes in the business climate, your business remains agile to meet changing demands — giving you an advantage over larger competitors that can take months or years to accommodate significant shifts in the marketplace.
4. Happier Team Members
When you implement a cloud-based server, you give your employees and contractors the ability to work from virtually anywhere. As a result, you can offer flexible working schedules and locations — considered a significant perk by many workers. By providing the ability to work remotely, you enhance your organisation’s desirability to highly qualified, top candidates across the globe.
Employees who have the option to work remotely can enjoy a better balance of career and personal life, which can have positive effects on both physical and mental health. A flexible work environment allows your employees to remain productive on their own terms.
5. Enhanced Customer Satisfaction
When you deploy cloud-based servers, you take advantage of benefits that keep your customers satisfied. Your server software gets automatic updates, which minimise downtime no matter your business application. Whether your customers need to browse your website, access your mobile app, or pull information from your database, they benefit from speed and seamless delivery over the internet via your cloud server.
Many customers also prefer companies that consider the environmental impact of their operations. By using a cloud-based server, you reduce your energy usage and the waste that can result from constantly changing technological needs. Your cloud presence allows you to provide your customers with an efficient, earth-friendly service.
Why consider a move to a cloud-based server? From increased competitiveness to happier employees, more satisfied customers and lower costs, the benefits of cloud operations quickly become apparent. You improve your ability to reach customers around the world and choose from the best employment candidates even as you control capital costs. With maximum flexibility, security and the knowledge that you can stay up and running through any disaster, you also gain significant peace of mind. | <urn:uuid:1c355009-74ef-4b36-a958-37b5bd5dd067> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.serversaustralia.com.au/resources/articles/5-benefits-of-moving-to-cloud-servers | 2022-01-27T11:23:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305260.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127103059-20220127133059-00359.warc.gz | en | 0.93738 | 976 |
- Size 44.9 MB
- Ratings 4
- AgeRating 9+ [?]
(official video included)
Apples new hero has finally arrived! It's time to take him for a ride.
\--- LITE FEATURES ---
\- Play the first three levels of woodlands world.
\- Perform many special moves.
\- Run, jump, spin, crouch and even fly to overcome the dangers which lay ahead.
\- Use your special gun, just load them with fruit and knock down your enemy.
\- Meet King Hong himself at the end of level 3.
\- Adventures of Fluzz will offer fast and great gameplay on all iPad versions.
\- Works great on old and new devices, as smooth as it can get.
\- Online scores for main game.
\- Control configuration. Play the way you want.
\--- UPGRADE TO THE FULL VERSION AND GET ---
\- 4 exciting themes. (woodlands,desert,pyramids and snow).
\- Complete worlds and unlock amazing mini games which will have you hooked for hours.
\- Hang on to balloons, bounce off from springy mushrooms, dodge arrows, fire and much much more.
\- Includes many puzzle elements which will have you guessing what to do next.
\- Face the ultimate battle in every world, where you will face King Hong himself.
\- Save your progress when you move on to another world.
\- Online scores for main game and for the 4 mini games, the competition just cannot get better.
\- Best value for money guaranteed.
\- We go the extra mile just for your entertainment.
******* THE STORY *******
Theres big trouble going on in Animville.
King Hong has turned against all our animal friends and magically enchanted them against you.
The only animals that resisted this spell were the bunnies, so King Hong trapped them all inside cages.
Only you managed to escape!
Now it is up to you to set out on this quest to free all your friends and perhaps break the enchantment.
Take control of Fluzz, a cool bunny who likes to take the sun and has amazing abilities.
Your adventure begins in a beautiful woodland where the sun is always shining.
Try and overcome all the hazards here and you will travel far to the hot deserts, a place screaming of danger in every corner.
Can you guide Fluzz to the ancient pyramids and enter one of the most enchanting places ever known?
Finally you will face your last battle in the snowy wastelands, so be ready to equip your bunny with a thick coat to keep him warm.
It's sure to be extremely cold and dangerous out there.
Only Fluzz can save Animville and put an end to the nasty King Hong. Are you ready for adventure, fun and a big blast!!!
Go on Fluzz is waiting for you... Pick Tap and Play...
If you think this was all, you're in for a shock. There's much much more.
Complete the worlds to unlock amazing mini games. You have a total of 4 mini games which will take the competition to another level where you will face all your friends to beat their scores.
******* THE FUTURE *******
\- We are working hard day and night to have Fluzz ready for iPod and iPhone too.
\- Introduce other cute animals so you can control them too, each with their unique abilities.
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\- And last but not least, any bugs found or reported will be fixed and updated quickly.
I would like to thank everyone for your time and support.
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- Hidden Object Hope Farm
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- Hidden Object Magic: Mystery Passages Adventure
- Hidden Object Mansion: Goblin King Item Finding Discovery
- Hidden Object Market: Find and Spot the difference
- Hidden Object Market: Mystery solver of Criminal
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The Faculty of Computer Science, established in 2014 with the support of Yandex, prepares data specialists, analysts, computer science researchers, software engineers and SE researchers. Our research teams conduct work in data analysis, machine learning, bioinformatics, computational linguistics, software engineering, process analysis, modeling and control of complex systems. Now more than 2,100 students and 60 PhD students study at the HSE Faculty of Computer Science, at the same time more than 250 faculty members and 170 researchers work here.
The involvement of future employers in training can improve the level of education, attract the best faculty members and researchers, and develop infrastructure. Therefore, the faculty constantly cooperates with large companies and banks, as well as innovative startups.
We invite companies to join the community of computer science partners.
Cooperation with the Faculty opens up the following opportunities for companies:
- access to scientific expertise and other resources of the Faculty and the University
- promotion of the employer's brand and products among applicants and their parents, students, graduates and faculty memebers
- participation in educational activities
Established formats of cooperation:
- Internships in companies by students of the Faculty
- Designing and conducting courses for students
- Organization of joint events: conferences, seminars, round tables, schools and competitions
Recommended formats for acquainting or starting cooperation:
- IT lectures - open lectures of the Faculty of Computer Science, where representatives of companies and specialists of research centers talk about developments of modern technologies
- Organization project work and students' internships in the framework of educational process
- Organization of elective courses by companies
- Participation in the Faculty’s events
A competition of research centres looking to receive grants through the Artificial Intelligence federal project has concluded, and HSE University is among the winners. Winning centres will focus on developing new AI technologies that expand its application, overcoming existing limitations for solving applied problems and optimizing AI models.
On April 12, JetBrains Department was opened at the Faculty of Computer Science with Aleksey Mitsyuk, Associate Professor of the Department of Software Engineering as its head. The Department is a part of the School of Software Engineering. It will support a new specialization "Analysis and Software Development Tools" for third and fourth-year bachelor students.
Four people have received this award for their achievements in the field of Computer Science: two HSE University graduate students, one doctoral student, and Sergei Obiedkov, Deputy Dean for Research and International Relations at the Faculty of Computer Science.
This year, Russia’s largest science and technology festival, Geek Picnic, was held online for the first time. Despite the new format, the festival programme included all of the event’s usual key features: expert lectures, workshops, competitions, and opportunities to socialize and network with fellow tech and science enthusiasts. HSE University once again served as the festival’s content partner.
The second meeting of the Board of Trustees of the HSE University’s Faculty of Computer Science took place on March 12. Elena Bunina, Deputy Chair of the Board, CEO of Yandex, presided over the meeting.
HSE University has recently hosted an SAS Data Hack Platypus data analysis hackathon, where teams competed to solve a case problem provided by the online hypermarket, Utkonos (or, in English, ‘Platypus’).The top five finalists received devices from partner companies as gifts.
HSE master’s programme alumni and an HSE doctoral student received an international Catalyst Grant from Digital Science in support of the development of their startup, MLprior, a service for researchers and scientists. HSE News Service spoke with Vladislav Ishimtsev, one of the startup creators, about the biggest ‘thorns’ in researchers’ sides, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of a machine uprising.
Sirius University and HSE University (HDI Lab) invite you to joint winter school aimed at undergraduate/graduate students and young postdoctoral fellows from pure and applied mathematics.
On September 27, Nikita Starichkov, a developer of the platform, 1C: Enterprise, introduced a new scholarship for students of HSE’s Faculty of Computer Science (FCS).
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It wasn’t that long ago when psychedelics emerged as a potentially better natural plant-based medicine for treating such things as treatment-resistant depression (TRD), into what is now a billion-dollar juggernaut of an industry.
Then an even curiouser thing happened. Around 2015, organizers of more and more conferences about cannabis—and some that were not about cannabis at all—began inviting psychedelic speakers or otherwise acknowledging their contribution to new medical therapeutic discoveries. People were curious. Intrigued. Wanted psychedelics leaders to join in the discussions.
– On January 23 at the 2019 World Economic Forum, psychedelics were featured in a panel with the eminent Robert Carhart-Harris, head of the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Division of Brain Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He spoke about “The New Science of Psychedelics.”
– Psychedelics discussions have found their way into TedX talks since 2016—reportedly 11 such talks as of July 2021.
– The 2019 SXSW show featured a session on psychedelics with Michael Pollan, “Exploring the Frontiers of Psychedelics,” and a meetup about psychedelics. Now there are six psychedelics sessions planned as part of a two-day summit at the 2022 SXSW. One of which our Executive Editor Debra Borchardt is moderating titled “The Psychedelic Investment Opportunity.” Joining her are Ronan Levy, founder of Field Trip Health (NASDAQ: FTRP), Daniel Goldberg of Palo Santo VC Fund, and Gregg Peterson of Bexson Biomedical.
– The three-day May, 2022 Cannabis Science and Technology conference added a whole conference track on psychedelics, with 11 sessions.
– The international annual BioHacker Summit featuring world experts on human well-being, performance and health, held each year since 2016 examining such issues as building a personal life extension strategy and how to biohack yourself to optimal wellness, featured Robin Carhart-Harris in 2018 for their first session on psychedelics.
– Psychedelics even had a presence at one of the world’s largest trade shows, the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show, which gave Tripp PsyAssist the CES 2022 Innovation Award for their virtual reality tool that can be used in psychedelics therapy.
Business investors are more interested in the industry than ever before. They want more. And business conferences are giving it to them.
One of those investor conferences is Microdose Media’s Psychedelic Capital, held nearly every month since June 2020, which covers the top companies, latest IPOs, opportunities, and insights into the psychedelic industry. Microdose held one of the largest worldwide virtual conferences for the emerging psychedelic medicine industry in April 2020.
In January 2021, a high-level business investor discussion on psychedelics, “A New Era for Psychedelic Medicine,” was one of the science talks sponsored by SALT, a New York venture group that organizes global thought leadership and networking forums moderated by SALT Chairman Anthony Scaramucci. SALT talks have featured such notables as Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, movie stars, ambassadors, prime ministers, innovative business developers, and more. Movers and shakers pay attention to any topic discussed here.
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Explore Florence in a fun and eco-friendly way on board an electric cart chauffeured by a personal guide. See more of the Renaissance city than you would walking, while still accessing narrow medieval squares and streets that are off limits to buses and larger tour vehicles. The open-air car seats up to five in your party and and emits no noisy fumes, so you can feel good about preserving Florence’s air and historic atmosphere while sightseeing.
- Electric cart tour of Florence combines history and technology for a new way of sightseeing
- Cover a lot of ground while enjoying the flexibility to stop often and access small streets
- Green and sustainable way to explore the 'birthplace of the Renaissance'
- Itinerary can be customized to suit your group's interests
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Departure & Return
Piazza della Repubblica, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy
In front of the Apple Store
Return DetailsReturns to original departure point
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Transportation is wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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What is the policy on face masks and attendee health during Private Electric Cart Tour?
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What is the policy on sanitization during Private Electric Cart Tour?
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- Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
- Gear/equipment sanitized between use
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
What is the social distancing policy during Private Electric Cart Tour?
A:The policy on social distancing is:
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
What measures are being taken to ensure staff health & safety during Private Electric Cart Tour?
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In July 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed update
to the physician payment schedule which includes a recommendation to make advance care planning services a separately payable service under Medicare
Supporters of the proposed update were encouraged to submit comments in favor of the new rule before the Sept. 8, 2015 deadline. This recommendation is a game changer for Coalition for Compassionate Care of California supporters, and brings us one step closer to our goal of promoting high-quality, compassionate care for all Californians who are seriously ill.
Read CCCC’s letter of support below.
Strong Support for CMS-1631-P
The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) strongly supports the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule to revise payment polices under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), specifically, the proposal to establish separate payment and a payment rate for two advance care planning services (CPT codes 99497 and 99498). Compensating healthcare professionals for time spent with patients in valuable conversations discussing treatment wishes and goals of care is a critical step forward in honoring patient treatment preferences, particularly those nearing the end of life.
CCCC is a statewide collaborative of healthcare providers, consumers, and government agencies working to improve care for seriously-ill Californians. In addition to extensive outreach and education, CCCC provides a variety of useful information and materials on advance care planning and end-of-life care on our websites at CoalitionCCC.org
As the lead organization in California for advance care planning, including the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST), we appreciate that CMS is recognizing the value and importance of advance care planning conversations between patients and healthcare professionals.
While we wholeheartedly support CMS’ proposal to reimburse providers for advance care planning discussions, we also encourage CMS to consider a national payment rate for advance care planning, rather than a state-by-state patchwork of funding. Further, we hope to see federal funding that supports a comprehensive network of care and services for patients with advanced illness, as well as extensive education and outreach to encourage providers to engage in quality conversations to help consumers in understanding their treatment options and expressing their wishes.
According to the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report, Dying in America
, advance care planning should be the start of an ongoing dialogue between patients, family members, and healthcare providers about end-of-life care. This on-going dialogue requires healthcare providers to revisit a patient’s goals and preferences as their needs and intensity of service change over time. These crucial advance care planning conversations should:
- Encourage thoughtful decisions about who the patient’s surrogate/decision-maker would be in the event a patient lacks decision-making capacity;
- Facilitate the patient sharing his/her personal values and beliefs, goals for care, and key quality of life elements with their surrogate/decision maker, family and healthcare professionals;
- Create documentation about patient treatment wishes, through both the patient’s medical record as well as by encouraging completion of an advance directive;
- Offer the opportunity for appropriate populations to turn their treatment wishes into a medical order through the physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST); and
- Help ensure patients understand their options, including benefits and burdens of treatment options, based on their current health condition and prognosis, particularly for those individuals who we would not be surprised if they die in the next year.
Being able to bill Medicare and Medicaid for advance care planning conversations eliminates two key barriers to advance care planning mentioned in the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Dying in America report. First, healthcare professionals report that a “lack of time and lack of payment
” are significant barriers to initiating advance care planning conversations with their patients. The new billing codes will support healthcare professionals in feeling more comfortable taking the time needed to educate patients about advance care planning and how to document their wishes. Second, the report indicates many people do not make their wishes known because they are uncomfortable with the topics of death and dying, and that “efforts are needed to normalize conversations.” (Key Findings, p.2). Providing payment will encourage healthcare professionals to make advance care planning conversations part of their regular interaction with their patients, which will help normalize these discussions.
Advance care planning conversations should not wait until someone reaches old age or receives a terminal diagnosis – these important conversations should be encouraged at all ages. An accident or sudden health crisis can happen at any age. An advance directive, which outlines general treatment wishes and can also be used to name a healthcare decision-maker, should be encouraged for anyone over the age of 18.
When an individual reaches a stage of significant frailty or advanced progressive illness, the conversations about end-of-life care plans become more specific and medical orders for life-sustaining treatment become important. The IOM report encourages states to develop and implement a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) paradigm program in accordance with nationally standardized core requirements. California’s POLST program was implemented in 2009, and is now widely adopted across the state.
Advance care planning benefits society as a whole. It helps facilitate important conversations about end-of-life care, and eases family stress and confusion during medical crises. When people’s wishes are properly documented, they are more likely to receive the treatments they want and avoid those they don’t want, and healthcare professionals are less likely to provide unwanted and potentially burdensome treatments.
Conversation is an essential element in any advance care planning program. The POLST paradigm emphasizes eliciting, documenting and honoring patients’ wishes regarding treatments at end of life, and quality conversation is at the heart of this process.
With quality conversations in mind, we fully support the IOM’s recommendation that professional societies and other organizations develop quality measures for advance care planning conversations, and that payers tie these quality measures to reimbursement.
The CMS proposal to establish separate payment and a payment rate for advance care planning services reflects the growing recognition that advance care planning is an integral component of person-centered care. We strongly support this proposal, and hope that it is just the first step in an ongoing campaign to better support and encourage quality end-of-life conversations and care for all Americans.
Judy Thomas, JD
CEO, Coalition for Compassionate Care of California
Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC
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29 Jun Reno Native’s Youngblood an Unsettling but Moving Narrative
The sun-sodden shores of serene Lake Tahoe and the violence-ridden sands of rural Iraq are about as far away as worlds get on planet Earth.
But those disparate worlds collide with explosive force in a new addition to America’s pantheon of war literature—Youngblood, written by Reno native Matt Gallagher, who now lives in Brooklyn.
The novel’s protagonist, Army lieutenant Jack Porter, hails from a town near the Tahoe region. For Gallagher, it was Reno; in Porter’s case, it’s Granite Bay, California, on the outskirts of Placer County along the shore of Folsom Lake.
The action takes place away from familiar environs, in a small rural Iraqi town outside of Baghdad called Ashuriyah. Yet, Northern California haunts Porter, as his recollections of growing up in the foothills contrast with the endless sand and heat of Iraq.
One can only imagine the difficulty for American soldiers, stationed in a harsh and pitiless climate, remembering the relative serenity of home. Gallagher’s ability to bring this struggle to life makes Youngblood indispensable reading.
Prior to Youngblood, Gallagher was better known for nonfiction. He wrote a blog during his deployment to Iraq that began in 2007, out of which came a memoir published in 2010. However, the author has always been attracted to fiction.
“The kind of writing I have admired, that has allowed me to learn about the world and the human condition, tended to be novels,” Gallagher says.
When the former editor of the newspaper at Reno’s Bishop Manogue High School returned from Iraq and set out to write fiction, he says he was determined to avoid writing about war.
“At the time I was cognizant about not getting labeled a war writer,” he says.
Gallagher says he made himself a deal that he would write one short story. That story involved a soldier from Texas, liked by local Iraqis, who learns to speak Arabic and falls in love with the daughter of a powerful sheik, leading to an ill-fated romance.
“It wasn’t very good,” Gallagher admits. “It was too on the nose and some of the people who read it questioned whether it was even possible.”
So he began to play with the idea, and instead had the novel follow characters who come to Iraq several years after these events and bring their own questions and doubts. Out of this grew the 340-page novel garnering critical acclaim from the New York Times and fellow authors Claire Vaye Watkins, Richard Ford and Phil Klay.
Porter acts as a window to the past as he investigates whether the legend of the romance between the soldier and the sheik’s daughter is true. Gallagher also interweaves a detective story that focuses on whether Sergeant Daniel Chambers, an aggressive veteran who challenges Porter’s authority, may have killed numerous Iraqi civilians during a previous tour to the area.
The dynamic between Porter and Chambers is central to the novel, as Porter represents the humanitarian American soldier who strives to understand locals, trying to hustle a living in a war-ravaged quagmire. Chambers, on the other hand, is Porter’s foil. He cares little for Iraqis, instead prioritizing the safety of Americans while espousing a kill-or-be-killed attitude.
“Chambers is the inevitable result of perpetual warfare,” Gallagher says.
These two characters represent the inherent paradox of this particular war. The soldiers are trained to kill, to clear buildings, to spot enemies, to survive in hostile territory, while simultaneously serving as a diplomatic bulwark against a country plunging into raging sectarian war.
But Gallagher does not use his characters as mere proxies for political statements. They are complex, dynamic and sharply drawn, as are the Iraqi inhabitants who populate the book’s fictional town.
“It was really important to me to give the Iraqi characters the same agency and dimensionality as the American characters,” Gallagher says. “I didn’t want to portray them as just enemies or victims.”
Romance and mystery plots aside, the book is a serious reckoning with America’s invasion of Iraq. As in all its facets, this prodding novel resists easy answers.
“I wrote Youngblood as an attempt to discover how I felt about it all,” Gallagher says. “Writing was a way of seeking out, of mulling it all over.”
Any reader would be well-served to use the novel as an entrance to examine or discover his or her own feelings about America’s involvement in the Middle East.
Equally important, the novel opens a window into what it was like for the grunts on the ground. The book takes the reader along with soldiers as they call their families and sob, reminisce about home, kid each other, play video games, or try to sustain their relationships with girlfriends and wives. It gives insight to the paranoia of walking amid the whistle of sniper bullets, of driving on IED-infested roads, the syncopations of gunfire at nighttime and how being in a desert in full military gear is really, really, really hot.
It is one thing to have been in Iraq during these tumultuous times, as Gallagher so clearly was. But, the author’s achievement is his ability to take the reader there, to make it vivid and real.
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Meet the team behind the organization’s success.
Carrie Enos is a strategic problem solver driven by a passion to make a positive impact. A leader by example, her open mind and a positive outlook inspires all those around her. Respected as an experienced voice within the pulp and paper industry, a nurturing and supportive resource to her students and champion of tomorrow’s leaders, Carrie’s vocation is to make a difference.
Carrie joined The University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation in 2014 as President. A 1999 graduate of the program and 4-year Pulp and Paper Scholarship recipient herself, she knew first-hand the value the foundation provides students, employers and the industry. Although her responsibilities include fundraising and financials, student recruiting, and advising the University on curriculum, she is probably best known for her dedication to mentoring and guiding students so they are successfully prepared for their future careers.
Her ability to lead the partnership between students, the University, the pulp and paper industry, and donors, helped increase the number of recruiting employers from 12 to 30 in over 40 locations nationwide, as well as see a $200,000 increase in award money for scholarships.
Previously, Carrie held the title of Finished Products Business Unit Manager at Verso Paper. There she led 350-plus employees in multiple departments, uniquely positioning her to be able to successfully match students and employers in her current role.
Carrie holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine as a graduate of the UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation and the Honors College. A member of Tau Beta Pi, she graduated cum laude with highest honors distinction. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (Tappi).
Jennifer Ireland is an experienced project manager and exceptional communicator. Armed with a passion for detail she intuitively sees opportunities where processes can be improved and inspires others to action.
As Program Manager for The University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, Jennifer executes the Co-op program, Consider Engineering summer program, facilitates scholarship application processes and co-chairs the organization’s biggest networking event, Paper Days. She is also an excellent resource in connecting employers with students. Most importantly is her unwavering support and guidance of the students and graduates of the program, helping them to navigate and balance academics and student life.
Prior to her role as program manager, Jennifer was Senior Environmental Engineer at Verso where she worked to improve production processes while reducing the environmental footprint at the mill level and in building strong relationships with the EPA and Maine DEP. She also worked as part of the company’s Corporate Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability Group (EHS&S) managing and analyzing environmental information for multiple production sites. Over the course of her career, she has worked in all aspects of the paper industry. This varied experience coupled with her familiarity as a graduate of the Pulp and Paper Foundation allows her to effectively mentor and guide current engineering students in their educational and career pathways.
Jennifer graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maine magna cum laude as a four-year UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation Scholarship recipient and member of both Tau Beta Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. She is also an active school volunteer, including serving as past president of the PTO and holding Committee chair positions in both Athletics Boosters and Project Graduation.
The board members responsible for guiding and leading our organization.
VP and GM, Irving Consumer Products
V.P. & GM Maine Operations, ND Paper
President/CEO, GAC Chemical Corporation
Vice President – R&D and Sustainability, Sappi North America
Principal, Naxos Consulting Group
District Manager, Pulp and Paper Division, Solenis LLC
CEO, Graphic Packaging
VP & GM, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
Lois Forde-Kohler, Ph.D.
Family Care Sustainability Director, Procter & Gamble
Director of Analytical Services and Pilot Operations, WestRock
Area Sr. Vice President, Valmet Inc.
Barbara Kerr Hamilton
Business Development Director, Omnivise Performance Services, Siemens Energy
Jeffrey A. Hamilton
President, J A Hamilton Consulting, LLC
Vice President Graphics, Packaging and Specialties, Sappi North America
CEO, Sappi North America
Process Engineer, Procter & Gamble
Operations Manager, Paper Mill and Pulp Dryer, ND Paper, Rumford Division
Student Representative Class of 2023, UMaine
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Packaging Corporation of America
Vice President East Operations, IGIC
Chief Executive Officer, ND Paper
Chief Engineer, NAES Corporation
Forming Product, Global Innovation & Tissue Business Leader, AstenJohnson
VP of Sales & Marketing, GAC Chemical Corporation
Brian A. McAlary
VP Business Development, Technical & Export Sales, Twin Rivers Paper Company
Cheif Procurement Officer, WestRock
Senior Vice President, Andritz
President & CEO, Twin Rivers
Sr Manager, Business Development, Savage Services
Manager, R&D, WestRock
Student Representative Class of 2022, UMaine
Director - Research and Development , Sappi North America
Chief Financial Officer, Haley & Ward, Inc.
Process Engineer, Sappi North America
President, JL Group Inc.
AVP of Retail Services, University Credit Union
Board of Trustees, University of Maine System
President, The Heuchling Group, Inc.
Dana Humphrey, Ph.D., P.E.
Dean of Engineering, UMaine
Department Chair, Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Department, UMaine
Attorney, Eaton Peabody
UMaine Pulp + Paper Foundation
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On January 12, 2005 NASA launched its latest space probe, Deep Impact, named after the recent Hollywood science fiction film. Recall, in the cliffhanger a team of courageous astronauts (led by tough guy, Robert Duvall) sacrifice their lives to deflect a speeding comet from its collision course with earth, thus saving human civilization from catastrophe. NASA’s newest mission is also a last-ditch gambit, of sorts: an attempt to save the current comet model.
Open any astronomy book and you will read that comets are dirty snowballsconglomerates of ancient rock and ice left over from the creation of the solar system. And it must be true, right? After all, it says so in the textbooks, and surely the university professors can’t be wrong. The problem is that over the five decades since Fred Whipple first proposed the snowball model in 1950, neither NASA nor anyone has proved that comets are actually made of ice. Every time NASA scientists focus their instruments on the surface of comets, they see only rocky stuff. Comets look like asteroids. So, where’s the ice? After failing repeatedly to find it, NASA has concluded that the ice must be hidden by surface dust, or is buried out of sight. Deep Impact will attempt to resolve this question by looking below the surface.
Next July, if all goes well, the unmanned Deep Impact spacecraft will rendezvous with a small comet named Tempel 1, not to avert a collision, but for the purpose of causing one. Once in position, the craft will send a 300+ pound “impactor”essentially a 3 foot diameter copper projectiledirectly into the speeding comet’s path. No nuke or explosive charge will be needed to blast a hole in the comet’s surface. The comet’s tremendous kinetic energy will do that. Tempel 1 is clipping along at an estimated 12 miles a second.
The plan is to study the 100-300-foot crater excavated by the collision. During its fly-by, the spacecraft will also gather spectroscopic data from the ejected gas, dust and debris. Much planning has gone into the selection of the impact site, to (hopefully) assure that the crater will be in full sunlight, instead of shadow. Comet Tempel 1 has an irregular shapeit is only about 5 miles in diameter. With a bit of luck, NASA’s cameras will obtain a good look at the comet’s freshly excavated surface. It will be the first time that NASA has actually probed the interior of a comet. NASA expects to confirm the presence of ice.
Will they find it?
For the answer we will have to wait until next summer. When the rendezvous happensassuming things go according to planearth bound folks with binoculars will be treated to a show of celestial fireworks; although exactly how bright and visible the collision will be is open to question. The event will take placebelieve it or noton the fourth of July, independence day. One wonders if the neocons in Washington had something to do with this. At very least, the date shows the extent to which science has been politicized.
Snowball in Hell
But, somewhere, God must be laughing at us silly humans, because NASA has about as much chance of finding ice in Tempel 1 as the proverbial snowball in hell. It just ain’t going to happen. There’s too much contrarian evidence. It’s been accumulating for years, and should have melted the ice model, long ago. Yet, NASA stolidly presses onward. The agency greets every new anomaly with ad hoc improvisations, and has gone to increasingly outlandish lengths to preserve its ice theory. Why? Answer: because so much hangs in the balance. The stakes are very high. More is involved than simply comets. At issue is the Red Shift, the expanding universe, the theory of black holes, and yes, even the big bangall at risk if NASA’s cometary house of cards comes crashing down.
To see why the ice model is wrong, let us look at several anomalies:
In 1991 Halley’s Comet caused a stir by announcing itself from so far awayit was then between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus. Halley’s is one of the smaller comets, yet it became visible at fourteen times the distance of the earth from the sun, a fact that solar heating cannot explain. The standard explanation is that the sun’s warmth is responsible for the cometary coma and tail. But at that enormous distance the sun was simply too faint.
Evidence of an even more remarkable phenomenon, the sunward spikepreviously unknownwas first documented in a 1957 photograph of the Comet Arend-Roland. This stunning feature must be seen to be believed. (For a look at a spike go to http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/)
Over the years since the first sunward spike was photographed, dozens of other comets have been shown, at times, to display this amazing phenomenon. The spikes always point toward the sun. Yet, NASA has dismissed the photographic evidencehowever compellingas nothing but an optical illusion, an artifact, a play of light, etc. Obviously, NASA is in robust denial. Why? Sunward spikes are incompatible with the current ice model.
On May 1, 1996 the Ulysses spacecraft documented another previously unknown feature of comets, when it crossed the tail of Comet Hyakutake at a point more than 350 million miles from the comet’s nucleus. The ephemeral tail, in other words, stretched across the equivalent of three and a half times Earth’s distance from the suna number that is astonishing. The discovery was accidentaland wholly unexpected. Scientists had never guessed that comet tails were so long. Ulysses had been studying the solar wind, and so, had the necessary equipment on board to detect the ions typically associated with comets. The satellite also recorded the magnetic field directional changes that are associated with comet tails. Detailed analysis showed that both kinds of data were in agreement. For most scientists, this was enough to confirm the discovery. Notice, the remarkable tail length means that when Comet Hyakutake moved around the sun toward its minimum point (perihelion), the invisible portion of its tail arced across a vast reach of the solar system. The fact that the tail maintained its integrity at such extreme distance is incompatible with the standard view that the tail is composed of materials blown away from the nucleus. Something more is going on, here. The question is: What?
But the big event, also in 1996, was the discovery of X-rays coming from the head of Hyakutake. This discovery set the scientific world on its ear, because naturally occurring X-rays are associated with extreme temperatures: in the range of millions of degrees Kelvin. Yet, here they were coming from a supposed ball of ice. There was no immediate word from NASA about how or why an icy cold comet could produce X-rays. The discovery was the work of the German ROSAT satellite, and no mistake about it. During the next few years X-radiation was detected in half a dozen other cases, including the Comet Hale-Bopp.
Four years passed before NASA finally announced a solution to the puzzling anomaly. In April 2000, NASA conceded that extreme conditions are necessary for X-ray emission to occur. But, rather than call into question its own theory that comets are cold, NASA attempted to square the circle. The agency explained that the X-rays had been produced by the solar wind, whichit assertedwas merely an extension of the extremely hot solar corona. NASA’s explanation explained nothing, and amounted to a contradiction, as any intelligent high school science student should have been able to judge. The official word showed that NASA was fumbling with a mystery it did not understand, grasping at air like a blind man trying to steady himself. (For NASA’s official word go to http://spacescience.com/)
Next summer, when NASA fails to confirm the presence of ice in the nucleus of Tempel 1, the question that the space agency should have been asking in 1996 will become paramount. (Of course, this does not mean that NASA will come clean. Indeed, it will be interesting to see how far NASA is prepared to go to defend its ice model. Probably the contortions will continue. Not for no reason the agency acronym has been subject to redux: NASA Never A Straight Answer.)
Everyone agrees that comets have an atmosphere. It is known as the coma, and has been shown to include significant amounts of water vapor, along with hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, gaseous hydrocarbons, and various other compounds. The proportions vary from comet to comet. The present model holds that the water comes from the cometary nucleus. The thinking is that the sun’s warmth causes the icy head to sublimate, or out gas, and the solar wind pushes the vapors away in the amazing tail that has always been a source of wonderment and inspiration here on earth. No question, comets are beautiful to behold on a starry night. But neither NASA nor anyone has shown that the water actually comes from the nucleus. Such a deduction is understandable, but it remains unsupported by evidence, and it is almost certainly wrong. I have already cited the puzzling case of Halley’s Comet, whose visibility at extreme distance was incompatible with solar warming. Here’s the key question: If the head is NOT made of ice, how then to account for the known presence of water in the coma and tail? It’s a safe bet that, next summer, NASA will have no answer to this simple question. After all, they couldn’t explain the X-rays.
Not everyone was surprised by the discovery of X-rays. One astronomer named Jim McCanney actually predicted them. He did so as early as 1981 in a scientific paper first published in the journal Kronos. McCanney even urged NASA officials to look for X-rays when the agency was preparing a fly-by of Comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1985. At the time, NASA’s ISEE-3 satellite had already completed its original mission, and was being reprogrammed for comet study. The spacecraft had X-ray equipment on board, and McCanney urged NASA to use it. Instead, NASA shut down the equipment to conserve power. NASA’s experts concluded that there was no point in leaving the X-ray detector on, since there couldn’t possibly be X-rays coming from a cube of ice.
Fortunately, German scientists do not labor under NASA’s ideological thumb. The Germans took McCanney’s recommendation seriously. In 1990 they launched a satellite of their own, the Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT), which was equipped with an X-ray telescope. ROSAT continues to search the heavens for high frequency X-rays. Earth-based X-ray telescopes are not feasible, because earth’s protective atmosphere absorbs X-radiation. This was the satellite that independently made the big discovery in 1996.
The Plasma Discharge Comet Model
McCanney is the originator of an alternative comet theory, what he calls the Plasma Discharge Comet Model. His model challenges several key assumptions current in today’s science, which, he says, must be overturned to correctly understand the nature of comets and the workings of the solar system. One of these assumptions is that space is electrically neutral. “Not so,” says McCanney. His comet model is, in fact, but a subset of a grander theory that describes the electrical nature of the sun. McCanney refers to it as the Solar Capacitor Model. He argues that most of the energy released by the sunby faris electrical, rather than in the visible spectrum. According to this view, the sunward spikes are titanic bolts of solar electricity, and comets are anything but cold. On the contrary, they are incredibly hot and fiery crucibles in which chemical and nuclear transmutations are occurring constantly.
McCanney thinks our earth and the other planets were originally comets that were drawn from their more elliptical orbits into more circular orbits. He is also quick to credit another maverick thinker who preceded him: Immanuel Velikovsky. In 1950 Velikovsky authored a controversial book, Worlds in Collision, in which he argued, among other things, that science had failed to account for the electromagnetic nature of comets. Even as the book topped the bestseller charts, several prominent figures in science, among them Carl Sagan, ridiculed Velikovsky and eventually succeeded in destroying his reputation. Velikovsky’s name became almost synonymous with wacko nonsense. How ironic this isbecause the 1996 discovery of cometary X-rays has made Velikovsky look like a prophet. If the Plasma Discharge Comet Model turns out to be correct, McCanney will earn his rightful place alongside Kepler, Galileo, and Newton; and the names Velikovsky and McCanney will be remembered long after NASA and Sagan have been forgotten.
Next time: Why it matters. How the Solar Capacitor Model could save our civilization from self-destructionnow imminent.
To be continued…
MARK GAFFNEY is the author of a 1989 pioneering study of the Israeli nuke program, Dimona the Third Temple. Mark’s latest book, Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes, has just been released by Inner Traditions Press.
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Originally published at Safa Center
(This article was reviewed by a licensed therapist.)
- You may feel your trust was betrayed by their behavior because they did not practice what they preached. They not only did the opposite, but they did so in ways which are lower than you would ever expect in a friend, let alone a teacher and spokesperson for the religion. You may have trusted them, looked up to them, helped them, loved them, and/or obeyed them with devotion. The closer you were, the deeper the pain.
- Perhaps you feel the whole “Religious Preachers Industry” is corrupt to begin with. After all, you may have found out that others in the field were aware of this person’s ethical issues and did nothing to protect the public, or defend the rights of those abused. In fact, some continued to work with and promote their work as it was mutually advantageous to do so. Somehow, when religious leaders fail, they seem to be treated as above the law, above justice, and others in the field are part of the cover up using excuses of selective mercy that do not extend to the masses these people have harmed, or have the very real probability of harming, based on their issue reflecting an untreated pattern of such behavior.
- If you were specifically harmed by a religious leader, you may feel unsafe around religious leaders in general, particularly ones with the same physical profile or features as the person who harmed you.
As for the first point, your trust was in fact betrayed. You have a right to feel wronged. This feeling though, thankfully, does not mean you have to remain a victim to the mountainous pain of disappointment. When a religious leader fails, it has nothing to do with you, even if you were the one they directly harmed. It is a reflection of themselves, their own weaknesses, and internal states. There is no benefit that you can gain from holding onto the mountain of pain. Sometimes, a person might think by reliving the pain regularly, by carrying the mountain, they are protecting themselves from becoming desensitized to corruption, as the person who ‘doesn’t care’ is part of the problem. One can care very much, and be fully sensitive without having to carry the burden of pain with them. Integrity does not require self-imposed suffering. Just as you have a right to feel wronged and disappointed, you also have a right to let go of this pain while retaining the lessons.
The second point can become a dangerous slippery slope. There are hundreds of religious leaders in America. Even 30 Failed Leaders should not make us think the rest are in the same boat. At the same time, there is also no need to be naïve and assume everyone else is a saint. Everyone is human and capable of great good and great evil. To have the best opinion, do not assume more than what you see, in either direction. If someone does a clearly wrong action in front of you, “making 70 excuses” does not mean you say the action was right or justified. It means you might think, “Perhaps they are having a bad day, maybe they didn’t realize it was wrong, etc.” You also don’t extend it beyond that by thinking, “They probably do this all the time, this is how they *really* are, etc.” This would be having the worst assumption, and it’s not something allowed in Islam. To have balance means you don’t assume in any direction where their heart is as only Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He) knows the hearts, and you only judge through actions, their observable behavior whether or not they are someone you’d like to take as a teacher. No one should be idolized. The religious leader is not the religion. I repeat, the religious leader is not the religion, no matter what claim to authority they might make. Even the most honorable ustaadh or ustaadha (teacher) is still human and makes mistakes. In Islam, we put following principles above following people.
Umar radi allahu `anhu (may God be pleased with him) once asked his people when he was amir al-mu’mineen (the Leader of the Believers) what they would do if he bowed down to corruption. He asked three times, until one of the people responded and said they would fight him. He congratulated the man who responded for having the appropriate response. If Umar (ra) as the khalifah (Caliph) was not above the law, no one else should be. If people have been wronged, they have the right to have their claims addressed even if they have to go to court. Sometimes people don’t want the stories to get out because they feel like such stories hurt the community’s faith. That might be true when it comes to smaller claims that can be negotiated between intermediaries. But for situations where a person is a clear danger, allowing a dangerous religious leader to continue harming people causes a much bigger crisis to faith and trust in religious leaders and institutions in the long run. Seeking justice is a means of having mercy on the community and even on the offending personality. Having once been involved in helping out with an intervention in which therapy was one of the requirements placed on the offender, the community leader who compliantly left their position, after some time, thanked those who intervened saying, “For the first time I felt like my problem can be, and will be, solved.” Alhamdulilah (all praise be to God), it was.
That being said, the entire field is not corrupt. The entire field is not pristine and pure either. Look for people of solid character, sound credentials in their learning, and people who work with others to build institutions that are about a cause bigger than their specific persona. Avoid taking people who display regularly narcissistic behavior as personal guides. You might be able to benefit in knowledge, but over time the behavior becomes normalized to you, and you would unknowingly adopt it yourself. The sincere teacher connects you to your mission, and calls you to God, not to himself or herself. Sound credentials are also important. Don’t take anyone as a teacher in religion who does not have the educational background that gives them ijaza (credential) to teach others. A beard, accent, and long robe are not indications of an educational background nor good character. Be wary of online degrees where the person has not also studied directly from scholars. Peer acknowledgment of requisite knowledge, character, and training by those who are credentialed and of exemplary character is another form of legitimacy. Our religious understanding is a living tradition, and it is inherited through people and institutions.
As for the last point, you may need therapy to fully recover from your experience. This is not something to fear or dread. Does anyone fear taking medicine when they feel physically ill? Medicine does not contradict prayer and tawakkul (trust in God), it completes it. If you don’t get treatment, you may find yourself turning away from anything and everything that reminds you even remotely of religion. After being harmed by a religious symbol, it becomes tempting to turn away from all religious symbols. If one was fake, there may be an urge to paint it all as fake. This is a trap of shaytan (the devil). When we are tested, we are in even more need of turning to Allah and holding onto His rope for our survival, guidance, and healing. If you feel like turning away, then allow yourself to stop the downward spiral by getting up, and turning back to Allah. Call on Him to guide you, help you, strengthen you, and liberate you from your pain.
Here are some tools that help alleviate overwhelming emotional distress:
- Journaling in the third person: By expressing, you release the tension and come to realize the situation is not so big that it has to overwhelm you. It’s small enough to put into words and make sense of. By using third person you are able to dissociate from the heavy emotions while acknowledging what happened, and gaining lessons as well.
- Channel your energy into a helpful hobby: exercise, painting, etc..
- Releasing: A technique that is taught in the Whims-I-Kill program at ipersonalenrichment.com.
- Speaking to local trained Muslim counselors and therapists.
- Surround yourself with support. Fight the tendency to isolate. Spend time with worthy friends who would be like perfume sellers not blacksmiths. [i]
- Increased worship and du`a’ (prayer). Every time you feel a whisper telling you to turn away from Allah, rebel and rebel hard. The shaytan wants you to despair in Allah, so you can feel utterly alone and without support. When you call on Allah, do so with hope in Him and His infinite abilities and wisdom. Believe in Who you don’t see much more than what you do see.
In the next piece, we will deal with the second and third levels of disappointment insha’ Allah. Until then, I pray this is of benefit for those affected and a conversation starter for all. Please feel free to add comments or reflections to this. You never know whom your shared thoughts are going to help. | <urn:uuid:7cbf031c-16f5-4834-90b6-4acefdb051a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.virtualmosque.com/ummah/community/the-first-level-of-disappointment-the-religious-leader/ | 2022-01-17T19:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300616.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220117182124-20220117212124-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.974449 | 1,932 |
The idea of becoming set for life may seem like a distant impossibility. However, Scott Trench shares how you can become set for life in his book – Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and The American Dream.
So what does it take to change your financial future and reach a point where you never have to work again? Let’s take a closer look.
Set for Life
In his book, Scott Trench outlines the exact steps that anyone can take to completely transform their financial future. He walks you through the three phases you’ll need to work through in order to reach set for life status.
The three parts of this transformative book are:
- The First $25,000 is the Hardest
- From $25,000 to $100,000 Through Housing and Income Generation
- Moving from $100,000 to Financial Freedom
Although these three phases seem straightforward enough, you may be wondering if it is truly possible for anyone to become set for life. The good news is that it is possible for everyone to achieve this major financial milestone. The bad news is that it will take some serious hard work and dedication to make this happen. As you read the book, you will encounter the hard truths about your personal finances.
Without any sugar coating, Trench shares his advice in a straightforward style. You’ll learn what steps you need to take to reach financial freedom. But you will need to be honest with yourself in order to reach that goal.
Although some of the steps outlined in Set for Life may seem extreme, they offer a step-by-step process for you to reach financial freedom. If you can follow the steps, you’ll reach your financial goals. However, the journey will require the self-discipline to learn more about your money and stick to a budgeting plan to reach your goals.
How much money do you need to be set for life?
Before you start the journey of becoming set for life, it is a good idea to determine how much money you’ll actually need. Without a number in mind as a goal, it can be difficult to envision concrete progress towards the ultimate goal of financial freedom.
In order to be set for life, you would likely want to become permanently independent of a paycheck.
Most people equate the idea of becoming set for life with the goal of becoming financially independent, AKA reaching FI. Essentially, reaching financial independence allows you to say no to paid work that doesn't bring joy to your life. Instead, you can choose to focus on activities and things that bring value to your life.
Although you would have the choice to walk away from work forever, many choose to work on passion projects. With that, you don’t have to completely retire to be financially independent. But having the option is a very freeing moment.
As a general rule of thumb, many consider themselves financially independent when they reach a net worth of 25 times your annual expenses. This number is based on the 4% rule outlined in the Trinity Study. For example, let’s say you spend $50,000 per year. With the goal of 25x your annual expenses, you would need to reach a net worth of $1,250,000 to be financially free.
You can determine your own financial milestone that you’d need to hit to be set for life. Simply multiply your annual expenses by 25. If you don’t feel comfortable with 25x your expenses, you could boost your anticipated expenses with fatFIRE in mind. Or cut back to the bare essentials to hit a leanFIRE goal. Take some time to consider your own lifestyle choices and risk tolerance to find your unique FI number.
What do you need to do to be set for life?
So what does it take to become set for life? Here are the core principles that Trench outlines in the book. Through a combination of these strategies and lifestyle choices, you can reach financial independence.
Personal finance discipline
If you are looking to become set for life, it likely goes without saying that you’ll need tremendous personal finance discipline to make that a reality. After all, completely changing the course of your financial trajectory will require a new lifestyle and a long-term mindset. Unfortunately, you cannot reach financial independence in a matter of weeks or months. Instead, it will likely take years to reach your new financial goals.
Trench shares the importance of frugality, which will often require sacrifices. Since the first step is to build up to $25,000 in savings, you’ll likely need to make some major sacrifices to make that possible. As you build your savings, Trench advocates that you eliminate any bad debt as soon as possible.
Beyond eliminating bad debt, Trench outlines strategies to live within your means and work towards long term financial goals.
Mindful lifestyle choices
As you move through life, the choices you make a big impact on your personal finances. Even seemingly little choices like the food you eat and your daily commuting choices can add up to create a completely different financial future.
For example, choosing to cook your own meals and finding alternative commuting solutions can completely change your finances. Take a minute to explore our ideas to help you slash your food and transportation costs!
Even what you choose not tackle in your free time can greatly impact your financial future. For example, if you choose to pursue a side hustle or build a new skill set you could completely transform your journey to financial independence.
Trench shares many ideas to help you create a mindful lifestyle with your financial goals in mind.
A big component of Trench’s plan to achieve financial independence involves slashing your housing costs with the help of house hacking. Even if you aren’t able to completely eliminate your housing costs, cutting down on this major expense can transform your budget.
Imagine being able to save the hundreds, or thousands, of dollars that you typically spend on housing each month.
Are you interested in this life changing strategy? Take advantage of our extensive house hacking resources. Check out our ultimate guide to house hacking, our numerous house hacking case studies, and The House Hacking Podcast. Putting this plan into action could completely transform your ability to save and invest for your financial future.
Real estate investing
Beyond house hacking, real estate investing can be a great way to work towards your financial goal. You’ll find out more about real estate investing in part three of Trench’s plan. But you can learn the critical basics of real estate investing right now in our 101 guide for new real estate investors.
As a real estate investor, you can continue building wealth to achieve your financial independence goals.
How to move towards becoming set for life
Becoming set for life might sound like a dream too good to be true. But it is possible through strategic financial planning and lifestyle choices. Of course, it will not be an easy road and you should expect setbacks along the way. But it can be possible for anyone to reach their goal of financial independence.
A good place to start the process is by reading the book – Set for Life: Dominate Life, Money, and The American Dream. You’ll find clear directions on how to set up a bright financial future.
Also, take advantage of the free resources offered by FI by REI. A great place to start learning is with our ultimate guide to building your financial foundation.
Although it won’t happen overnight, you can start your journey to financial independence today.
The bottom line
The principles outlined by Trench in Set for Life illuminate a clear path towards a bright financial future. Through a clear style that will not seek to sugarcoat the truth, you can learn exactly how to work towards a financially free future.
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Cutting rocks with a tile saw can be a lot of work. This is why you should always make sure to use the right tool for the job. In this blog post, we will discuss how to cut rocks using your tile saw and what precautions you need to take while doing so!
Procedure on How to Cut Rocks With a Tile Saw
1) Dress Appropriately
What to wear:
a respirator mask or safety glasses with an organic vapor/acid gas cartridge (this will protect against some of the dust).
welding gloves, long sleeves, and pants are recommended. You can also use a disposable coverall if you don’t want to clean your clothes afterward.
safety goggles for protection from flying rock debris should be worn at all times when cutting rocks with a tile saw! These provide extra eye protection in case anything gets hit by the blade while it is spinning.
make sure you dress appropriately before beginning this project so that you have adequate gear protecting yourself as well as your clothing.
2) Set Up The Tile Saw
set up the tile saw before you begin cutting the rocks.
make sure to lay down a barrier of cardboard or plastic sheeting over any surfaces that might get wet from water and chemicals, especially if there are areas with carpet on the floor. The tile saw will spray water as it moves across the surface of what is being cut out.
place your work area so that it’s close enough for you to reach all sides of the rock without getting in front of either guardrail or blade while using power tools such as a grinder, sander, etc.
attach an abrasive disk (if not already installed) onto one side of your blade holder before putting it into place along its rail inside the table opening at which point both guards should be securely in place to either side of the blade, not too close but also not too far away.
make sure you’re using a new saw blade before starting work as well as replacing it every time you see severe wear on its edges (which shows up as scratches or nicks) and always use guardrails when working with power tools so that your fingers will be out of harm’s way should they slip off any wet surfaces where chemicals might have spilled.
3) Place The Rocks To Be Cut In A Bowl With Water
add about an inch of distilled white vinegar and then fill the rest up with lukewarm tap water (never use anything other than that).
submerge your cutting project inside this mixture for at least 24 hours before starting work. leave it in there even after you’ve finished cutting so as to prevent dust from accumulating on the surface while drying out, otherwise they’ll crack when touched or used.
4) Mark The Rocks
Mark the rocks you’re going to cut with a waterproof marker at your desired cutting line.
you can also mark where it’s safe to grip in order not to get chemicals on other areas, and so that no fluids will drip onto them while sawing away next time.
don’t forget that any water or chemical spilled should be cleaned off immediately before starting work.
5) Position Each Rock Appropriately
Grip the rock with one hand, and use your other to stabilize it so that you can saw without distortion.
A seam in a tiling project is usually cut perpendicular to the surface of the stone where possible.
this will ensure an even finish when cutting circular or rectangular tiles around edges for example.
This makes positioning easier while preparing to start work: keep a tile face down on your workbench as a reference point for measuring how much needs to be removed from each side of the stone before starting.
Marking these points will help too if they’re not clear-cut (e.g. just slightly rounded).
Otherwise, you’ll have to guess at what fractional amount should be taken off based on experience alone until you’re satisfied.
6) Check The Water Level
The surface of the stones should be wet but not submerged in water as you are working on them.
This prevents it from cracking under stress and makes for a better finish when cutting rocks with tile saws by giving your blade something to bite into so that it can cut through without being too deep or sharp enough, which would cause distortion and tearing, respectively.
To make sure they’re at an appropriate depth, place some pieces of wood across the top layer of rock and then fill up above those until they’re covered but still have room underneath to move around freely.
7) Position Yourself Appropriately And Pull The Rock In Your Direction
This is the most difficult part of cutting rocks with a tile saw because you need to be able to use your legs and back muscles while manipulating where the blade goes.
Start by placing one foot on either side of the line that you want to be cut, then lean over it as much as possible without touching with your hands or using them for leverage. Now keep pulling in a slow, steady motion until all four edges are evenly chiseled out. This technique can also apply when going from an angled surface into the flat ground if desired, just angle yourself appropriately so that gravity isn’t working against you!
Quick Safety Tips
some safety tips for using a tile saw:
- wear safety goggles and gloves to protect your eyes from rock dust, and use ear protection to avoid damage.
- don’t work in high temperatures or with wet rocks – it’s dangerous because the blade will start cutting slower or stop altogether, leading you to cut yourself on shattered pieces of stone.
- take adequate precautions when chiseling out curved surfaces by wearing sturdy clothing that won’t get caught up in moving parts of the blade. The safest way is just to wear clothes made for tasks like this! If not possible, then at least keep short sleeves rolled down around wrists so they’re easy to pull away if needed…remember: any time there are sharp edges involved you should ALWAYS be careful about where you put your hands.
- never use the blade as a lever to move rocks, instead use it for cutting only – this will extend its life and keep you safe!
- always start by reading through the instructions in the safety manual that comes with your saw, or any other tools you’re using. Safety is paramount when working around machinery like this!
- remember: if in doubt, don’t do it at all until you have checked up on what’s required of you first. It can be tempting to feel invincible while out exploring nature, but there are risks involved even without taking into account things like sudden weather changes.
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Bill Cosby and Toni Braxton Headline Concert for Autism Speaks April 9 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tom Brokaw Emcees a Night of Comedy and Music to Raise Funds for Autism Awareness and Scientific Research
(NEW YORK, NY – Jan. 30, 2007) – Legendary entertainer Bill Cosby and six-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Toni Braxton will headline a star-filled night of comedy and music at the Concert for Autism Speaks on April 9 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, in New York City.
NBC News’ Tom Brokaw will serve as the master of ceremonies for the fundraiser for Autism Speaks, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research .
“Autism is a disorder that is robbing families of the chance to fulfill their dreams and experience the everyday joys most of us take for granted,” said Cosby.
“For example, many children with autism are very limited in their ability to develop warm relationships with others, including their parents. We all need to do our part so that, with our help, these families will finally get the answers they so desperately seek.”
“When autism became a part of my family’s reality, I was determined to join Autism Speaks in its battle against this devastating disorder that is impacting thousands of families,” said Braxton, who is currently headlining in a long-term engagement at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
The mother of two children, one of whom has autism, went on to say, “So much progress is being made on all fronts – from the laboratory to Capitol Hill — but all of us must continue to fight until we have found the cause and a cure for autism.”
“We are incredibly grateful to Bill and Toni for lending their remarkable talents to us for what promises to be a memorable evening,” said Suzanne Wright, co-founder of Autism Speaks.
“With the recent passage of the Combating Autism Act, the future is far brighter for every individual and family affected by autism. However, the need to raise funds for awareness, treatment and research is as urgent as ever.”
Ticket information for the Concert for Autism Speaks will be made available in the coming weeks at www.autismspeaks.org.
Autism is a complex brain disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships, and is often accompanied by extreme behavioral challenges. Autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed in one in 166 children, affecting four times as many boys as girls. The diagnosis of autism has increased tenfold in the last decade. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have called autism a national public health crisis whose cause and cure remain unknown.
ABOUT AUTISM SPEAKS
Autism Speaks is dedicated to increasing awareness of the growing autism epidemic and to raising money to fund scientists who are searching for a cure. It was founded in February 2005 by Suzanne and Bob Wright. Bob Wright is Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, General Electric, and Chairman and CEO, NBC Universal. Autism Speaks and Cure Autism Now (CAN) recently announced plans to combine operations, bringing together the two leading organizations dedicated to accelerating and funding biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments and cure for autism spectrum disorders; to increasing awareness of the nation’s fastest growing developmental disorder; and to advocating for the needs of affected families. To learn more about Autism Speaks, please visit www.autismspeaks.org.
Autistic people have fought the inclusion of ABA in therapy for us since before Autism Speaks, and other non-Autistic-led autism organizations, started lobbying legislation to get it covered by insurances and Medicaid.
ABA is a myth originally sold to parents that it would keep their Autistic child out of an institution. Today, parents are told that with early intervention therapy their child will either be less Autistic or no longer Autistic by elementary school, and can be mainstreamed in typical education classes. ABA is very expensive to pay out of pocket. Essentially, Autism Speaks has justified the big price tag up front will offset the overall burden on resources for an Autistic’s lifetime. The recommendation for this therapy is 40 hours a week for children and toddlers.
The original study that showed the success rate of ABA to be at 50% has never been replicated. In fact, the study of ABA by United States Department of Defense was denounced as a failure. Not just once, but multiple times. Simply stated: ABA doesn’t work. In study after repeated study: ABA (conversion therapy) doesn’t work.
What more recent studies do show: Autistics who experienced ABA therapy are at high risk to develop PTSD and other lifelong trauma-related conditions. Historically, the autism organizations promoting ABA as a cure or solution have silenced Autistic advocates’ opposition. ABA is also known as gay conversion therapy.
The ‘cure’ for Autistics not born yet is the prevention of birth.
The ‘cure’ is a choice to terminate a pregnancy based on ‘autism risk.’ The cure is abortion. This is the same ‘cure’ society has for Down Syndrome.
This is eugenics 2021. Instead of killing Autistics and disabled children in gas chambers or ‘mercy killings’ like in Aktion T4, it’ll happen at the doctor’s office, quietly, one Autistic baby at a time. Different approaches yes, but still eugenics and the extinction of an entire minority group of people.
Fact: You can’t cure Autistics from being Autistic.
Fact: You can’t recover an Autistic from being Autistic.
Fact: You can groom an Autistic to mask and hide their traits. Somewhat. … however, this comes at the expense of the Autistic child, promotes Autistic Burnout (this should not be confused with typical burnout, Autistic Burnout can kill Autistics), and places the Autistic child at high risk for PTSD and other lifelong trauma-related conditions.
[Note: Autism is NOT a disease, but a neurodevelopmental difference and disability.]
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SANI-TRED'S FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Cleaning a PermaFlex surface is quite easy. You can use most any common detergent, dish soap, TSP (Tri Sodium Phosphate). Never use chlorine/bleach or any product containing chlorine/bleach, as they can be harmful to PermaFlex. Quaternary Disinfectant Cleaner can be used to disinfect or sanitize your PermaFlex floor.
- Make sure the area has been thoroughly washed (TSP/water or Dawn dish soap/water), rinsed, and dried. Thoroughly scrub the area using a rags with Xylene or Acetone.
- Apply 1 coat of LRB (Liquid Rubber Base) 240 sq’ per gal over top of the existing Sani-Tred surface.
- If any areas require patching or profiling, mix 2-parts LRB (Liquid Rubber Base) with 1-part TAV (Thickening Activator). This will create a thickened mixture which is used for any patching or profiling of joints, seams, cracks, holes, or rough areas. Wall/floor junctions require a 1” bead of LRB/TAV mixture. Most cracks use a 3/4" bead.
- Apply topcoat of PermaFlex (240 sq’ per gal).
We recommend you thin Sani-Tred products 15 to 25% with Xylene, or acetone.
Note: Xylene is prohibited in certain areas, check local laws.
Mix 2 parts LRB to 1 part TAV with a paddle on a drill until it has the consistency of heavy cake frosting or peanut butter. Properly mixed LRB/TAV has the consistency of silicone caulk and can be applied using a cement bag to a 1″ diameter caulk bead where the wall meets the floor and 3/4″ diameter caulk bead on most cracks. For a runnier patching liquid, use less TAV in the mixture.
Products can be applied at any temperature as long as the substrate is properly prepared. Do not apply over top of frost or ice. Sani-Tred products cure in 4 hours or less at 70 degrees Fahrenheit with normal humidity, longer to cure in colder temperatures or environments with lower humidity and 24 hours or longer in below freezing temperatures.
We recommend removing any previous applied products before applying PermaFlex to ensure the best possible adhesion. Understand that surface preparation is 75% responsible for waterproofing success of a first time application. If you want a completely waterproof basement, it’s best to remove all paint and previous coatings so you can apply PermaFlex directly to the concrete. By starting with completely bare, clean, and dry concrete free of any paint, coatings, or crumbling debris, Sani-Tred can fully adhere to the surface, penetrate deep into the pores, and harden, while remaining flexible, to fully waterproof your concrete.
LRB (Liquid Rubber Base) is a self-leveling liquid rubber that will cure throughout its entire volume at any thickness in one or multiple applications. TAV (Thickening Activator) is mixed with the LRB at a 2:1 ratio (2 parts LRB to 1 part TAV) to create a thickened mixture similar in viscosity as silicone caulk. LRB/TAV mixture is used to patch and profile joints, seams, cracks, holes and rough areas whether horizontal, vertical or inverted.
Note: TAV only works to thicken & activate LRB (Liquid Rubber Base) and has no function outside of the Sani-Tred system.
All Sani-Tred products have a shelf life of 12 months in unopened containers.
Sani-Tred is a revolutionary system that adheres to most surfaces, not just concrete. Sani-Tred will permanently adhere to concrete, block, brick, stone & mortar, fiberglass, steel, aluminum, wood, plywood and most common building materials.
Sani-Tred can waterproof virtually any surface, even block cement walls. Block walls need 3 coats of PermaFlex. Apply two ‘prime coats’ of PermaFlex before you start patching then apply the third coat.
PermaFlex comes in 4 colors: Dark Tan, Gray, Black, and Off White. However, one of the advantages of PermaFlex is it can be painted over once it’s dried. Apply the Sani-Tred system, let it cure at least overnight and then you can paint over it to match your room’s décor. It is recommended to at least apply a test spot with the paint you intend to use.
Sani-Tred is non-toxic, non-hazardous, low VOC (volatile organic compounds), and low-odor, which makes it a safe, durable, and reliable flooring material for zoos, kennels, nature preserves, and other animal habitats.
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Although HSBC Rewards is a program that’s used all over the world, it’s not as popular in Canada since HSBC isn’t one of the big five banks. What you might not realize is that HSBC is the largest foreign-owned bank in Canada and is present coast to coast.
Their credit card portfolio is impressive and HSBC Rewards is arguably better than BMO Rewards and TD Rewards. Ignoring HSBC Rewards just because you’re not familiar with the brand is foolish since you can still collect points and redeem them in various ways. Knowing what you can do with your points and how to maximize its value is what you should strive to do.
HSBC Rewards points value
The value of HSBC Rewards points varies depending on how you use the points. Since it takes 25,000 HSBC Rewards points to get $125 off your travel charges, the value of one HSBC point is .50 cents. While travel is the most popular redemption option, there are other things you can use your points for and they have different values.
|Redemption type||Redemption value|
|Travel||.50 cents per point|
|Experiences||.50 - .60 cents per point|
|Gift cards||.45 - .49 cents per point|
|Merchandise||.30 - .50 cents per point|
|Financial products||.30 - .40 cents per point|
Interestingly enough, experiences can give you slightly more value than travel. If there happens to be an experience that you’re interested in and it lines up with your travel plans, then book it. Otherwise, booking regular travel is the best value. Gift cards, and financial products give you options, but they’re of low value. It’s worth mentioning that HSBC Rewards also has three airline loyalty program transfer partners which may be of good value to you.
How to redeem HSBC Rewards points
Redeeming your HSBC Rewards points is an easy process since just about everything is done through the HSBC Rewards website. This is also where you would go to check the current balance of your points. It’s worth checking the website every so often to see what experiences are available and if there are any promotions. Here’s how to redeem your HSBC Rewards points.
HSBC doesn’t have a travel booking portal, so you need to book travel on your own and then apply your points to offset the expenses charged to your card. I prefer booking on your own to using bank booking portals because you have more options. Booking directly with hotels, car rental agencies and airlines also allows you to earn loyalty points with these programs and will also let you use the benefits of your elite status.
For example, I only get access to my Marriott Bonvoy status benefits if I book directly through Marriott.com. If I were to make a reservation through a bank travel portal or say Expedia, I would get nothing.
To redeem points for travel with HSBC Rewards, you need to charge the travel expense to your card first. After that, log in to your account and you’ll be able to select valid travel expense to offset with points. Note that you have to redeem a minimum of 25,000 points ($125) and then by 10,000 points incremental, so plan your redemptions accordingly.
Using your points for experiences is a unique redemption option. Most of the other bank travel loyalty programs don’t offer anything like it. That said, what experiences are available can vary at any given time. At the time I wrote this article, the only experiences worth mentioning were as follows:
- Niagara Air Tours – Tour of Niagara Falls for One
- Breakaway Experiences Rocky Mountains Helicopter Tour for 2
Mind you, I updated this article during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it’s no surprise there are currently limited experiences available. With experiences, the tricky thing is figuring out the retail value since it’s not listed on the HSBC Rewards site. You can find it by searching the name of the experience in Google. To figure out the value per point, do the following: Multiple the cash value of the redemption (including taxes) by 100. Then take that number and divide it by the number of points required. That will give you the value of one point.
Like every other loyalty program, HSBC Rewards offers gift cards from a wide variety of partners. In most cases, it’ll cost you the following number of points:
- $50 – 11,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $100 – 21,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $250 – 41,100 HSBC Rewards points
- $500 – 101,100 HSBC Rewards points
That works out to a value of .45/.47/.49/.49 cents per point respectively. Clearly using your points for gift cards worth at least $250 gives you the best value and it’s just .01 cents per point less than the value of travel redemptions. This is noteworthy since gift card redemptions with other loyalty programs are usually worth considerably less than travel rewards.
Interestingly enough, the merchandise available from HSBC can have a reasonable value depending on what you’re redeeming for. After a quick search of multiple products, I’ve found items in the .30 – .50 cents per point range. That’s not bad, but only few items fall into the higher range of that schedule. If you find something you want that’s worth near .50 cents per point, then go ahead and get it. Otherwise, I’d advise holding onto your points. Some items you can redeem with your HSBC Rewards points include:
- Pots and pans
- Drill kits
- Sports memorabilia
The last redemption you can make with your HSBC Rewards points that’s worth mentioning are financial products. Interestingly enough, unlike other loyalty programs where you can use your points for actual investments, you’re limited to three options with HSBC Rewards.
- $15 HSBC Mastercard account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
- $20 HSBC Mortgage account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
- $15 HSBC Savings account credit – 5,000 HSBC Rewards points
That means a Mastercard or savings account credit is worth .30 cents per point. Mortgage redemptions are worth slightly more at .40 cents per point. All of these options are quite low, so it’s not worth it at all. The statement credit options is a complete joke since you can purchase gift cards with your points at a higher value.
HSBC Rewards transfer partners
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Art Historian Cary Levine has just published the first in-depth scholarly analysis of artists Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, and Raymond Pettibon, adapted from his dissertation. Pay for Your Pleasures (University of Chicago Press, 2013) is one of the few “contemporary art history” books that feels absolutely relevant (my copy has been traveling between friends with urgent relish since I finished it.) Levine sat down after walking through the Mike Kelley retrospective at PS1 to discuss his book, aspects of Kelley’s thinking, and responses to the recent McCarthy “White Snow” installation at the Armory.
Jarrett Earnest (Rail): Your book is grounded in the artists’ biographies—how did you negotiate writing biography and criticism?
Cary Levine: The three biographical chapters are about avoiding the pitfalls of “zeitgeist” and grand narratives by dealing with the very close specifics of time and place. This approach also captures the serendipity of these artists’ lives and artistic and intellectual developments. The problem with conventional biographical art history is that it presents the events of a life as a foregone conclusion. I hoped to avoid that while still retaining the individuality of their stories.
Rail: I believe that artistic-intellectual biographies of artists are the best way to write art history. Art necessarily depends on where it comes from. So I think Dore Ashton’s books on Rothko or Guston or Noguchi are actually the most useful books for understanding their art.
Levine: Take Mike Kelley for instance. In Catholic school, he’s exposed to Mary Corita Kent and a kind of craft-based, didactic art making. That was his understanding of art, and it needs to be acknowledged. An “artistic-intellectual biography” is indeed what I’m after—what were these guys interested in? When speaking to the artists themselves I found, for example, that both Kelley and McCarthy were interested in the writings of psychologist R. D. Laing, someone that is not often discussed today, but whom both artists independently cite as an early and important influence. Laing offered blistering critiques of social conditioning, the politics of the family, and the true “madness” of what we call normalcy—along with the processes by which we internalize these structures and reproduce them when raising children. This kind of thing runs through both artists’ work, of course, but a reference like Laing is too often foreclosed by the overemphasis on trendier thinkers such as Georges Bataille.
Rail: Your book does a good job of incorporating Kelley’s writing as part of understanding his practice. Could you talk about the shifting awareness of him as a writer and how he viewed it?
Levine: He very much came to writing out of necessity because he was frustrated by the things that critics were saying about his work. Obviously, this is a guy who was hyper-focused on what people were saying and thinking about him, maybe to an unhealthy degree. To me, looking seriously at his writing comes out of respect for the artist, though of course we shouldn’t take it as gospel. His essay “Foul Perfection,” for example, is one of the great pieces of criticism of the last 30 or 40 years. And yes, you’re right, I think of his writing as part of the same practice; in writing, he executes the same kinds of strategies as he does in his visual work. The links he makes—his ability to not only jump from one realm of culture to another, but to draw connections between them, so that by the end you’re thinking of, say, B movies and high modernist sculpture and pornography all as part of a single ideological scheme. Now, that’s really subversive—undermining a lot of what we hold to be precious. He’s doing the same thing in much of his visual work, forcing contradiction and exploding cultural categories from within.
Rail: I thought the reception around McCarthy’s “White Snow” was strange. I think it’s really a major, deep, substantial thing, and Holland Cotter kind of said that, but there were a lot of people who were saying: “this is Paul McCarthy doing the same thing—dirty old man—with a lot more money.”
Levine: It was the same kind of response to Kelley’s “Day Is Done” (2005), that it was hyper-indulgent, as though the artist was not aware of what he was doing, as though it was devoid of self-critique. Moreover, such criticisms preclude an engagement with the specific subject matter of the works in question. No one said, “He’s reproducing these high school musicals as scenes of trauma linked to both mass media and pedagogic institutions, and this is consistent with virtually his entire oeuvre.” Both “Day is Done” and “White Snow” are culminations of 30 years of work. This doesn’t mean they’re above criticism, certainly not, but it’s more than that these artists simply got a lot of money and decided to blow it out and have a big circus. I thought one of the more poignant criticisms of “White Snow“ was by Glenn O’Brien, who suggested that maybe Snow White and Pinocchio and all these themes that McCarthy has worked with since the 1980s are things people don’t really think about anymore—that Disney has lost its iconic role in our society, it’s pop.
Rail: I completely disagree. I talk to a lot of artists in their 20s and many of them talk about Disney as relevant to their work. If anything it makes McCarthy more relevant than ever to younger artists—it’s just the mediocre middle-aged writers who don’t see that.
Levine: To go back to how these artists are written about, if you’re going to dip your toe into the subject matter—which critics too often do not really want to do—then you’re going to have to go all the way. And you might not like where you wind up. As Kelley once said, “If you resist it, that’s understandable, but if you try to argue with it, you have dealt yourself a losing hand.”
Rail: I wonder if one of the paradoxical reason why writers don’t want to go into the content is that it can’t be neatly pinned “over there” on the artist’s biography. Everyone is so happy to follow Louise Bourgeois’s “my father and the mistress” story so that as long as the work is read within her family psychodrama it’s “safe.” They don't have to deal with the disturbance on any other level. But because McCarthy and Kelley disavow a personal reading, it’s much harder for people to approach what is going on without looking at themselves.
Levine: Yes, it’s deeply provocative and seductive at the same time. With all three of the artists that I deal with in the book, but Kelley especially, I think it’s crucial that they deliberately and self-consciously efface the political positioning of the artist—their own “voices,” so to speak. These artists refuse to take a clear position vis-à-vis the issues they raise, and this gets them into trouble at times because people assume certain things about them that may or may not be true. But ultimately, the work is calibrated to turn the tables on the viewer. It is designed to trap you: again, if you give a finger, it’s going to take an arm.
Rail: You do such a good job of situating all three in their times and places. Yet there is the present moment at which your book is published, and such exhibitions are mounted, in which these artists are getting a lot of attention. Can we situate some of the currents that are elevating them?
Levine: It’s funny, when I started the project back in graduate school, Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon were still somewhat marginal, at least within academia, and there was some resistance. One peer suggested that I would never get a job with that kind of topic. But, are you talking about their recent market success?
Rail: No, I’m not interested in the attention as something more than an index of something else. Right now seems to be marked by unraveling institutional structures of authority and of validation—no one who is supposed to knows what the fuck is going on with art. Which is actually great. So what I mean is formally, or as ways of thinking, Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon represent strategies of making and being that feel exceptionally relevant for engaging that situation.
Levine: You can argue that this relates to our 21st-century world of dislodged values and contradictory bedfellows, with a lack of faith in institutions writ large—not just art institutions. That their work reflects a lack of belief, a general uncertainty in all realms of life, and a lack of clear paths forward in the post-post-post world. The de-mystification of society’s institutions and ideological modes of thought—on the Right and the Left—really holds an appeal for people who want to be engaged in the politics of today without resorting to black and white, us and them, good and bad, perverse and normal. People are increasingly realizing that they are “paying for their pleasures” with every move they make in the world. These artists’ work is as relevant today as ever.
Rail: I also wonder about the ways in which Kelley and McCarthy tried to critically navigate the art market in relation to spectacle and object-making. I wonder if part of what draws our attention is that they were working in a way that became highly sellable and increasingly spectacular but didn’t undermine the critical force of the work. Rather, it heightens the work’s potency.
Levine: I think so—especially if we compare them with an artist like Jeff Koons. Someone should write an article about Koons and Kelley in the 1980s and 90s. They’re both dealing with similar kinds of ideas, about repression, kitsch, craft, high and low. There are several overlaps. But Koons himself is not really implicated in his own work, and that’s the problem with it: there’s no self-incrimination. Koons’s art points in one direction; it is designed in such a way that the artist is always one step ahead of the consumer, whether it’s the viewer or the buyer. It’s as though he’s saying: “Every time you buy it, you’re proving my point, and the more you pay, the more you prove my point.” For Kelley, McCarthy, and Pettibon, that is an absolutely false (and deeply cynical) position—placing the artist in some ideal, autonomous realm and inoculating him from criticism. Instead, they essentially say: “Yes, I’m going to make work that conflates high and low but in a way that calls the whole structure into question—not just calls ‘you’ out as an individual consumer, but points to the ways in which we are all implicated, together.” And they offer no resolution.
Rail: Exactly! Even as I loved it, I was deeply troubled by “White Snow” in trying to understand if it is misogynist. I don’t think it is, but I appreciated being put in the situation to ask, “Is it okay for him to be shoving this mic down this girl’s throat?”
Levine: I would say “entrapment” is the key metaphor for a lot of this work, because when you’re trapped in something it still allows for your own personal navigation. The objective is to make the viewer grapple, obstructing recourse to fixed categories and preset solutions. For someone like Koons, it’s about being put in a box—there is an answer: the art world’s a joke, art is pornography for the wealthy, whatever. It’s completely contained, closed, prescribed, packageable. And as a result, the viewer has no agency, no voice, no opportunity for retort. The open-ended qualities of Kelley’s, McCarthy’s, and Pettibon’s work allows for nuance and negotiation. It doesn’t so much label or point fingers as allow the viewer to rethink his or her own beliefs and values. This makes the work not only more expansive, complex, and messier, but more discomforting for all involved. | <urn:uuid:87d3289a-db0e-421e-9f8e-8c29315a8de0> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://wwww.brooklynrail.org/2014/02/art_books/in-conversation-cary-levine-with-jarrett-earnest | 2022-01-19T04:20:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320301263.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220119033421-20220119063421-00159.warc.gz | en | 0.973677 | 2,712 |
Ornithological Council and American Society of Mammalogists develop model protocol form for wildlife research…released in beta for feedback from researchers, animal care and use committee members, institutional officials, and others, this form is designed specifically for wildlife research conducted either in the field or in captivity.
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The Ornithological Council and the American Society of Mammalogists have developed a protocol form designed specifically for wildlife research conducted either in the field or in captivity. We recognized a need for this form as a result of feedback from the many researchers, institutional officials, animal care and use committee members, and attending veterinarians who comply with or implement the Animal Welfare Act compliance for studies of wildlife. Most institutions use a single form with few, if any, questions relevant to wildlife research, including the key question: “Is this project even covered under the Animal Welfare Act or the Public Health Service Policy?”
Critical review of protocols involving wildlife research requires the use of appropriate standards. Standards and protocol forms not developed for wild animals cover many topics not pertinent to wildlife studies and omit topics central to such work. In order to conduct a more biologically appropriate review and achieve a greater level of meaningful welfare for the study animals IACUCs should ensure that protocol forms, standards, and reference materials are appropriate for the type of study under consideration.
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A number of participants who attended the October 2011 conference in Albuquerque organized by the OC and the ASM volunteered to help create this form and suggested key topics and specific questions as well as overall approach. After reviewing numerous forms that were already in use, we were fortunate to be given a template created by John Martin of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, later modified by John Bryan, DVM, a wildlife veterinarian with the National Park Service. After considerable review and revision, we are making this form available to IACUCs and researchers in a beta version, though it is fully useable as is. It is our hope that institutions and researchers will use this form, and that as they do so, they will take the time to suggest changes to us so that we can refine it to better meet the needs of both the researchers and the IACUCs. With this additional feedback from the field-testing, we hope to have a final version completed by the end of 2014.
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The department is the second level of administrative divisions on the map of France. This division into departments is between the region and the district ("arrondissement").
Each department belongs to a single region. (Each of four overseas region being composed of a single department).
France is divided into 101 departments. They are divided into 343 districts ("arrondissements"), 4 058 townships ("cantons") and 36 699 Towns ("communes").
Each department has a capital city or prefecture which includes its institutions. This capital is often the largest city of the department.
According to figures (in 1999), the median population of a department of continental France was 511 012 inhabitants.
The skills of the department are:
- Social Action
- Restructure rural land
- Maintenance of colleges
- School and transport
The removal of one or more local levels is being debated in France for several years and especially the option to remove department level.
For now, the Balladur committee dealing with the reform of local government did not adopt this proposal, so there is currently no change at the departmental level.
At right, you will find the map of French departments.
Clicking on a department link, You will find a detailed map of the department and statistical informations, photos, travel guide for all cities of this department.
Map of France - Department MAP OF FRANCE DEPARTEMENT
The region is the first level of administrative divisions on the map of France.
Before the French Revolution of 1789, France was divided into provinces from the historical feudal history. Some of these regions roughly correspond to the current regions.
During the revolution these provinces were abolished and the French territory was divided into 83 departments.
On 5 April 1919, the first ministerial decree establishes the first regional grouping called "regions Clémentel".
From the First World War, the development of transport, urban, building regionalist ideas, leading some to question the desirability of creating larger administrative divisions than departments.
Skills in the region include:
- Territory development
- Economic development
- Vocational training
- Maintenance of schools
- Rail transport
The first election of Regional Councillors by universal suffrage was in March 16, 1986. Regions became officialy french divisions as departments and municipalities.
France is divided into 27 regions, which in turn are divided into 101 departments, 343 districts ("arrondissements"), 4 058 townships ("cantons") and 36 699 Towns ("communes").
At right, you could find the map of France regions. Clicking on a region link, you will find a detailed map of the region and statistical informations, photos, travel guide for all cities of this region.
Here are the 100 largest cities of France (population 2006). We do not count here the concept of urban area but the municipal population.
Click on the city name to see all this information: pictures, maps, population, population density, area, elevation, geographic coordinates, ...
In 2010, the population of France was estimated at 65 447 374 inhabitants. On 1 January 2009, the population of France was estimated at 65 073 482 inhabitants, distributed as follows:
- 62 448 977 in metropolitan France
- 1 854 505 in the overseas departments (DOM without St. Martin and St. Barthelemy)
- 770 000 in overseas communities (COM, including St. Martin and St. Barthelemy)
The population is increasing by 366 500 people by 2008.
Northern France is the most populated with about 40 million people (or 2 / 3 of the population) against approximately 22.5 million in the South (or 1 / 3 of the population) (metropolitan France only).
Within the European Union (EU) demography of France stands out for the life expectancy of women (84.23 years 2008 estimate) which is the highest in Europe and a fertility rate (2.02 in 2008) the highest in Europe.
At right, you could find the map of France's largest cities. By browsing the site you can view a map of France, statistics, informations, photos and travel guide for each town of France.
You will find here (clicking on this map at right), the map of population density of France, the map of cities of France and finally the detailed classification of the 5 main areas French: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, Toulouse
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Map of France : key data
Administrative divisions : France is divided into 27 regions, 101 departments, 343 districts (arrondissements), 4 058 townships (cantons) and 36 699 Towns (communes).
Population of France : In 2010, the population of France was estimated at 65 447 374 inhabitants.
Largest cities of France : The 5 largest cities of France are (municipal population in 2006) :
Largest urban areas of France : The 5 largest urban areas of France are (population of urban areas in 2006) :
The mountains on the map of France : The 5 major mountains of France are the Alpes, the Pyrénnées, the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges
The seas on the map of France : The 4 seas around France are: the North Sea, the English Channel, the Atlantic Ocean, the mediterranean sea
The rivers on the map of France : The 5 main rivers of France are: the Seine, the Loire, the Garonne, the Rhone, the Rhine
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By Swati Pandey
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares hovered near two-month highs on Friday as investors braced for U.S. employment data, a key release that could stoke or temper market expectations about aggressive policy easing by the Federal Reserve.
Trade across global markets was expected to remain subdued following the Independence Day holiday in the United States on Thursday and ahead of the non-farm payrolls report.
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was set for its fifth straight weekly rise which took it to 534.40, the highest since early May. It was last at 532.82.
Japan’s Nikkei () was a tad weaker. Chinese shares were mixed with the blue-chip index () up 0.2%. Australia and New Zealand shares were slightly higher as was Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index ().
E-Minis for the S&P500 () advanced about 0.1%.
World stocks and bonds have rallied since June on hopes global central banks will keep policy easy to support growth.
All eyes were now on U.S. non-farm payrolls, due later in the day, which is expected to have jumped by 160,000 in June compared with 75,000 in May.
“If payrolls were not to rebound this would be very significant,” said Tapas Strickland, London-based markets strategist at National Australia Bank.
“A weaker than expected read would increase expectations of an emergency 50 basis points rate cut in July given that two soft payrolls are very rare with the last being back in 2012,” he said.
“A better-than-expected print would likely see markets pare expectations of a July rate cut, though given the deterioration in other domestic data as well as international PMIs, a July rate cut of 25 basis points remains highly likely.”
Fed futures are fully pricing in a 25-basis-point cut when the Fed meets on July 30/31. Investors also see a 25% chance of a 50-basis-point reduction.
The Fed is not alone in embarking on easier monetary policy. Australia’s central bank has cut its cash rate by 50 basis points since June while leaving the door ajar for a third move this year. In the euro zone, financial markets expect the bloc’s central bank to lay out the landscape for further monetary easing at its July 25 meeting.
Prospects of global easings have sent government bond yields to multi-year lows around the world.
Germany’s 10-year government bond yield (), a benchmark for euro zone debt, fell to minus 0.4% and matched the European Central Bank’s deposit rate for the first time – a sign that markets are expecting rate cuts.
Yields on U.S. 10-year Treasuries () hit their lowest since November 2016 at 1.946%.
The currency market was mostly sidelined ahead of the U.S. jobs figures.
The () was steady at 96.762. It is up 0.7% so far this week.
“This resilience in the US dollar is, in part, due to its role as a safe-haven and the persistence of global trade and geopolitical tensions – even after the US-China agreed to a truce,” Westpac wrote to clients in a note.
“At least of equal significance, however, is the fact that the FOMC is now not the only central bank ready to ease policy. Most notable is that the ECB intend to follow suit.”
The dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of major currencies, fell 1.7% last month as investors priced in a 50-basis-point cut from the Fed.
Those expectations faded in recent days on more reserved Fed commentary and a truce in a protracted Sino-U.S. trade war, but it has since come back on underwhelming U.S. economic data.
A weaker greenback and soaring prices of iron ore – Australia’s top export earner – have boosted the dollar
Against the Japanese yen
The euro traded at $1.1280 (), a touch higher from its two-week low of $1.1268 seen on Wednesday.
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We are going to learn a great deal about the DNA of the Washington Capitals over the next 36 hours. Immediately before them is an enormous if suddenly unexpected task: attempting to gain, on the road, viability in a series everyone predicted them to win but in which tonight they face what is almost certainly a do-or-die scenario. And they must prevail without a functional power play, with general uncertainty about their leadership (on the ice and behind the bench), without a productive no. 1 center, and of course with the ghosts of Capitals’ postseasons past lodged on their bench and in their room.
Ghosts? How else would you explain consecutive playoff games against a weary foe in which pucks deflect off of Capitals’ rearguards and behind their netminder and into the cage, playing pivotal roles in consecutive upsets? And as our friend JP notes, those are only the two most recent such self-inflicted wounds this postseason. That sh*t just doesn’t seem to happen to the Wings, does it?
We love our hockey players, they are wonderful talents, they are to man exemplary civic figures in our community, and in just about every respect they make us proud to be fans. But they’ve an ultimate obligation in their profession — to get it done when it counts. To date, they’ve failed in that obligation. Given their accumulated postseason experience wearing our sweater, it is fair, beginning this spring, to hold them to a heightened accountability.
Ted Leonsis is right in suggesting that postseason prosperity involves, to a degree, having Lady Luck smiling on your side. And the Tampa Bay Lightning are a worthy adversary. But in year six of the Era of Ovechkin, with so many key roster ingredients in place, and with the sting of last spring still fresh, with Sidney and Geno and the Pens already golfing, this hockey club simply can’t author again yet another underwhelming showing in the NHL postseason.
The ramifications are enormous. Washington aches for a sports winner, yes, but Washington hockey specifically has a competitive mandate. Alexander Ovechkin was a lottery winning, and he knows what his role here is: to change our hockey culture. He’s done that just fine October through March. He’s had help along the way the last six years, and the reddening-out of our town — the conspicuous affection thousands of Washingtonians shower upon Ovi and his sport today is extraordinary — but it’s not enough. Nowhere near enough.
The durability of Mr. Leonsis’ business model requires a postseason breakthrough as well. Just take a look at all the upper deck empties at FedEx Field the past couple of seasons. There’s a social contract between a sports organization and its fans. Great dates ultimately have to lead to a kiss. Or we go find another girl.
This hockey club has the requisite skill and experience to rise to the challenge. What we don’t yet know is if it has adequate leadership. It’s a point that’s been debated with some robustness for more than a year now: Did the Caps get it right in stitching the ‘C’ to Ovi’s sweater? Failure this week in Tampa will bring fresh and heated scrutiny to that question. 2010-11 has not been a year to remember for our captain; its premature conclusion would intensify the evidence against his leadership. And the late-season arrival of Jason Arnott only adds fuel to that fire.
This is a postseason tailor-made for Ovi to ascend, but to date, we don’t have that breakthrough performance suggestive that he’s ready to seize that moment and lead his club. Tonight is one such opportunity.
Behind the bench, there is the obvious subplot related to Bruce Boudreau. All seemed reasonably well for Gabby a week ago, but when his club was gifted a lengthy break with which to rest and repair, they came out of it unable to meet the underdog’s challenge. That story is growing old here. Boudreau’s beaten an under-manned John Tortorella set of Ranger clubs twice in the postseason over the course of four springs . . . and no one else. Losing to the rookie, Guy Boucher? At some point (potentially soon) Capitals’ fans are going to ask: where is our Bylsma, our Tortorella, our Babcock, our . . . Boucher?
The team’s power play futility is a flashpoint in this discussion of tactical leadership. Its cumulative results last postseason and this are beyond nightmarish and nauseating: four for sixty. That’s four goals . . . in 60 opportunities. Tampa would bank in 9 or 10 off our dmen with 60 extra man opportunities. The power play personnel is a mish-mash of a mess, their attack ethos uncertain. Confusion and hesitancy reign supreme. The team had all of last week to work on it and get it fixed. Instead, it’s regressed. The head coach has to get it fixed, pronto. The Capitals will either achieve a competent power play this series or they will lose it. Tampa took out the Pens by achieving a glaring special teams discrepancy.
We also don’t know if in Nicklas Backstrom the Capitals have an elite talent centering the no. 1 line who can get it done when it counts. Great in games one through four versus Montreal last April then AWOL thereafter. Through seven games this postseason Backstrom has tallied merely two assists and is skating a -1. He looks anything but elite and dynamic. His scoring drought adversely impacts the team in both 5-on-5 play and power play production. His linemate Ovechkin seemingly senses the slump his center is experiencing, because he’s carrying the puck an awful lot in transition and attempting to make plays by himself. The result is a highly individualized attack by the first unit, which plays perfectly into Tampa’s trap. It’s gotten so bad with Nick that Boudreau bumped up the rookie Johansson to no.1 pivot duties. That’s no recipe for durable contention this spring. No contending team can have its no. 1 pivot merely along for the ride.
Along with my blogger buddies Ed Frankovic and Ted Starkey I was seated in Giant Center late last spring when the Hershey Bears dropped the first two games of the Calder Cup finals to the Texas Stars. The next three games were in Austin, and all looked bleak for the Bears against the Texas trap. Even in game 3 the Bears fell behind 3-1 after 20 minutes. But that Bears team had a warrior leader in Bryan Helmer, among others, and they banded together behind their coach who preached patience with the puck. Michal Neuvirth was in net for the entirety of that series, incidentally, and a fair number of those Calder winning Bears of course are wearing red this spring.
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“Sometimes, I feel like I’m in a Nancy Drew mystery. I just wish I had her little roadster.”
Pam Hammond, owner of Paddington Station, the “eclectic emporium” in Ashland Oregon, certainly seems like she could be a grown-up version of the clever, perky girl sleuth, solving one challenging dilemma after another.
Throughout my many years of visiting Ashland, I always make it a point to stop at one (or all) of Pam’s stores because I can always find something surprising and delightful. That’s why I wanted to share Pam’s story as part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress.
“Retail is so interesting right now because all the rules are changed. How we were doing business five years, ten years ago is so different from now. But that’s what keeps us motivated, excited, and so far, successful.”
And successful Hammond is. Since 1993, when Pam and her then-husband Don (still her business partner and friend), opened their gift and kitchen shop on Main Street in the charming college and tourist town of Ashland (home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival), they’ve expanded to three stores. They’re now even experimenting with “pop-up” stores.
“I’ve always loved retail. I went to college to be a flute major but junior year in college, I realized I didn’t want to be poor my whole life, do the whole starving artist thing,” Pam recalled. “I was living in Los Angeles, but I moved to New York City and got an associate degree in fashion merchandising, then moved back home. I worked in department stores for about 11 years.”
“After I had my daughter—she was about three years old—I was going to NYC about once a month. One time, my daughter curled up into the suitcase to go with me since I was gone so much. That was a wake-up call. My husband, Don, and I decided to get out of LA and find a better place to live.”
“We thought we’d run a B&B and I went to Ashland, Oregon.” After showing Pam a number of B&Bs, the realtor showed Pam a struggling gift store housed in a beautiful historic building on Main Street that was for sale.
“I bought it without Don even seeing it. We were the third owners. Sales had gone down about 75%, and it was about to go out of business. This was 1993. We had the gift shop on the main floor, a restaurant in the basement and a sandwich shop on the mezzanine. I had two part-time employees. My husband didn’t move up because we still needed his income in LA.”
Over the years, Pam changed the product mix, finding more interesting and “eclectic” gifts and clothes, adding kitchen wares and books, and eliminating the restaurant and sandwich shop. More importantly, they were willing to try new things, change with the times, and become more an integral part of the Ashland community.
Today, Paddington Station consists of three stores, has 35 employees, and Pam says they’ll reach $4 million in sales in the next 18 months. Sixty percent of their sales come from locals—not tourists—demonstrating the loyalty they’ve built up with local shoppers.
How do Pam’s three stores—Paddington Station, Paddington Jewel Box, and Inspired by Oregon—thrive in today’s retail environment with so much competition, especially from online and discount retailers?
“We’re a family business. We want people to feel like we’re part of the community. We want to delight our customers. It’s making sure that on hot days we have ice water. That we’re greeting them.” They offer complimentary gift wrap. Two percent of their preferred sales go to local non-profits, “So customers know ‘if I shop here, I’m supporting my community.’ I think my customer understands they need to support the community if they want us to still be here. That’s an extension of the shop local movement.”
“We will always surprise you with what’s in the store,” Pam says, explaining that of course having the right merchandise at a competitive price is critical. “You can always expect to buy a spatula, a birthday card, a toy. But it will surprise you. It will be a new type of spatula, the best $20 kid’s birthday gift. You can always expect something new.”
That means she’ll sometimes have products that don’t sell well. “I believe in mark downs if it’s not the right product. Mark downs are not the sign of failure—if you don’t have mark downs, you’re not trying enough.”
Part of making sure she delights customers extends to payment methods too. Though there’s been an explosion of new merchants who accept American Express Cards—over one million more places in the U.S. started accepting American Express® Cards in 2016—Pam accepted American Express cards from the day she started her business. “I want to make my customer’s life happy. I’ll accept whatever card they want. Checks are antique; 86% of my sales are done on a card.”
“Small Business Saturday has also been wonderful. It’s created a platform for something that didn’t exist before. It’s like Black Friday, CyberMonday. It’s something people come in the store and ask about Small Business Saturday specials and events.”
What does the future hold for Pam? What a lot of small business owners dream of—to hand the baton to the next generation. “I hope to retire in five years. My daughter, Kelly, who’s 30 years old, just got her Masters degree in Business, and her dream is to take over the family business. My son, Nick, also works here.” Kelly is the daughter who crawled into Pam’s suitcase those many years ago and put this retail adventure in motion.
Now, Pam is experimenting with trying “pop-up” stores: short-term stores in highly-trafficked areas, such as a music festival.
“It’s like Ariel in the Little Mermaid,” said Pam, “I want to be where the people are.”
“This post is sponsored by American Express, but all opinions are my own.”
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Want to know, how to create a Discord Server, or, want to delete your Discord Server?. Then, this article will help you in doing it. After TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, Discord is the best voice and chat server platform for Gamers and for Companies. Initially, Discord looks complicated, but, it’s very easy to use. You can create your own private server and can talk through chat, voice, and video calls. Even, now you can share Computer Screen on Discord Server.
Apart from this, there are lots of features which you can use. But, first, you have to create a Discord Server. Though, you can join anyone server through their invitation link. But, you will be able to access limited features according to your Role in that server. So, if numerous people follow you, then creating your own Discord server is a good idea. As a server admin, you will have many powers. You will be able to control what users on your server can do, how they can interact. And, you will be able to use some best Discord Bots.
So, If you want to create, manage or Delete Discord Server for your Gaming Channel or Company. Here is how you can do that.
Create, Manage and Delete Discord Server
Create a Server on Discord
You can download the Discord Client App, or, can use it within your browser. Both Client and Browser App works equally well. Before start creating a server, the first thing which you need is a Discord Account. It’s quite easy to create a Discord account.
1. Do open the Discord Registration page, enter email, username, and password and click on Continue.
2. After that, open your email and complete the email verification process.
3. After completing the registration process, once you’re on the Discord homepage, click on “Add a Server” (“+” icon). (You can click on the Discord logo icon from the upper left corner to navigate to the home.)
4. Once you click on “Add a server”, a “Create a Server” window will appear. You can simply click on “Create My Own”. Discord now also gives options to choose a template for the discord server.
For example, if you want to create a Discord server for gaming, then you can simply click on it.
5. Next, it will ask you for whom you want to create your server. If you want to create a server just to talk with your friends. Then, click on “For me and my friends”. Else, if you’re creating for a community then click on “For a club or community”.
6. Now, you can enter your Discord server name, and also can personalize your Discord server with an icon. Once you do that, click on Create.
7. That’s it, you have successfully created a discord server.
8. Now, you can click on “Invite your friends”. And, you will get an invite link, which you can share with your friends. If you have already friends on your Discord friend list, then you can invite them directly.
9. Once, the server gets created you will be able to see Text Channels and Voice Channels. In the Text Channels, you can send public messages to all friends on the server. And, in the Voice channel, you can connect with friends and talk through voice. You can add multiple voices and text channels for different purposes.
10. That’s all you need to know about creating a Server on Discord. You just need to do a few clicks and the Application will do all things by itself. After creating a server, the next thing you need to learn is managing the server. By creating and assigning roles you can manage your server easily.
Manage your Discord Server (Add Roles and Assign Roles)
If there are too many users are on your Server. Then, you have to assign roles to other users whom you trust. So that they can help you to manage your server. Roles are nothing but just a set of permissions that you give to users. As an admin, you have the power to even delete the server. So, choose permission and assign roles wisely. Mainly you have to create Admin and Moderator Roles.
1. By going into Server Setting > Roles, you can add and delete roles in Discord. (For Complete information regarding Discord roles, read my article on it.)
2. And, by right-click on username > roles. You can select the role for that user.
How to Delete Discord Server?
If accidentally, you have created multiple servers. And, if you no longer want a server, then you can delete it. Though, deleting the server is not necessary. But, if you still want to do it for some reason then here are the steps.
1. First, open Discord and log in with your details.
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3. In Server Settings, scroll the left pane and select Delete Server.
4. A Confirmation screen will now appear. Enter the server name correctly, and, then click on “Delete Server”.
That’s it. The server will get deleted and will not appear anymore in your server list. Also, users will no longer be able to access it.
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The Bears’ 31-15 victory against the Redskins was a get-well game for both sides of the ball.
Mitch Trubisky threw his first three touchdown passes of the season, and the defense broke the takeaways dam by forcing five turnovers. Team health issues aside, it was an auspicious tuneup for Sunday’s home game against the NFC North rival Vikings.
Here are five observations about Monday’s victory from rewatching ESPN’s telecast using the NFL Game Pass subscription service.
1. Mitch Trubisky’s performance on third down was his best subset of plays this season.
Mitch Trubisky was 10 of 11 for 133 yards and a touchdown, good for a 147.3 rating. That resulted in eight conversions on 11 opportunities, which should be the standard against a defense that ranked worst in the NFL on third down entering Week 3 (64% conversion rate allowed).
In helping the Bears build a 28-0 lead, Trubisky converted everything from third-and-2 to third-and-8 to third-and-17. That was the product of some accurate throws, some stellar play designs, some athletic plays by his receivers and some quality pass protection when he needed it.
The 36-yard touchdown to Taylor Gabriel on third-and-17 was the gold star on the play-by-play sheet. Against a five-man rush, Trubisky escaped the pocket when linebacker Jon Bostic (the Bears’ second-round pick in 2013) looped his rush around the left side of the offensive line and came close to sacking him.
As Gabriel ran a double move (that wasn’t captured by ESPN’s cameras) and got two steps behind cornerback Josh Norman, Trubisky flicked a deep throw on the run. Could the pass have been more out in front of Gabriel and to the inside to keep him clearly in bounds for an easy catch? Technically, sure. But there’s no need to nitpick one of the Bears’ finest touchdowns in recent memory.
The throw gave Gabriel a chance, which was something Trubisky emphasized going into the game after failing to consistently give his receivers a chance to make plays on the ball in the first two games.
“I just felt like I put it in a place where Taylor could get it,” Trubisky said.
Coach Matt Nagy appreciated Trubisky’s footwork in changing the passing point and delivering a catchable ball.
“To throw an off-balance throw with that accuracy down the field like that was one of those plays we’ve been looking for,” Nagy said. “Those are the type of plays right there that really get you going. If there are 10 plays in the NFL that you put on (a top-10 list) by a quarterback, that’s 100% one of those top-10 plays.”
Gabriel made a magnificent adjustment to turn to catch the ball and get both feet down. That’ll stand as one of the Bears’ best catches all season. (Gabriel did not speak to media after the game because he’s in the concussion protocol.)
Some other quick notes on Trubisky’s 7-for-7 performance on third down in the first half:
- He converted third-and-2 and third-and-8 on short crossing routes to Anthony Miller and Gabriel, respectively. Both times he did well leading the receiver to set up yards after the catch.
- Allen Robinson’s crisp route running against a struggling Redskins secondary unlocked completions for Trubisky all night. On the first conversion of the game, an out route from the right slot on third-and-2, Robinson turned cornerback Fabian Moreau completely around with how he maneuvered his body with a little wiggle to set up the out cut.
The Bears improved from 28th in the NFL on third down to tied for 20th. We’ll see if that amounts to momentum against a Vikings defense that is perennially one of the best third-down defenses in the league. They’re ranked sixth through three games (29%).
2. Mitch Trubisky’s third-quarter interception was such a buzzkill because so many things went wrong.
Mitch Trubisky’s pre-snap determination to target Allen Robinson on a back-shoulder throw was fatal to this play, but that was only one of multiple problems. Let’s start with the play call.
The Bears led 28-9 at the 3:18 mark of the third. With such a comfortable lead and 18 minutes to play, a run would have been a safe call to keep the clock moving and keep the Bears defense resting on the sideline.
For me, Matt Nagy’s decision to throw there instead of keeping it on the ground was the strongest evidence that he was intent on increasing Trubisky’s confidence and momentum by running up the touchdown pass total against a poor Redskins defense. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
That said, while it’s fair to question Nagy’s run/pass decision there, there’s no disputing Nagy dialed up a play that should’ve been an easy touchdown flick to Anthony Miller — another player who could use a boost.
Against man-to-man coverage from the right slot, Miller ran cornerback Fabian Moreau off the line of scrimmage with a quick-footed, deliberate release. He proceeded to run a shallow cross. His route was underneath the crossing route of tight end Adam Shaheen from the left side of the formation.
That crossing action created traffic that slowed Moreau, which got Miller wide open for an easy short throw. It would’ve been a prance-in touchdown.
However, Trubisky decided before the snap he liked the man-to-man matchup between Robinson and cornerback Josh Norman.
“We had a good play going on to the main side, and then I had a one-on-one option with A-Rob,” Trubisky said immediately after the game. “Obviously, you get a little excited when you get A-Rob pressed one-on-one into a fade, but the dude made a good play. I was thinking back-shoulder. He beat him over the top. Kind of a miscommunication and predetermined. Would like to have that one back.”
Said Nagy: “It’s a specific play built for a coverage. And if you get that coverage, you have an ability to read it out and see what happens. He decided to throw the ball to 12 (Robinson). And that was that. … To me, you come away with a win, these situations and these plays are ones where you learn.”
Nagy continues to push Trubisky within each play to identify the best option against whatever coverage the defense is in. Trubisky didn’t give himself the opportunity to read Miller crossing the field wide open. That ended up keeping the Redskins in the game longer than they should’ve been, not to mention it sapped some of the good vibes Trubisky generated in the first half.
“We were right there to really be able to put that thing away,” Nagy said. “And I felt like where we can take that next step is right there.”
3. Matt Nagy and his staff schemed receivers open all game with well-designed route combinations.
The Bears used switched releases, crossing routes and misdirection to get receivers into space and set up Mitch Trubisky for some relatively easy completions. This was a winning strategy against an undermanned defense that, through the first two games, gave up big plays because of communication breakdowns.
Here are two plays that stood out:
One was Taylor Gabriel’s 3-yard touchdown catch. Three elements of the play design got the defense moving away from the left side of the formation, where the ball ended up going.
One element was Tarik Cohen’s motion out of the backfield into the right flat. Another was the offensive line’s blocking action toward the right. And the third was how two of the three receivers in a bunch formation on the right (Adam Shaheen and Cordarrelle Patterson) released toward the right.
Meanwhile, Gabriel slipped across the formation to the left and was wide open. Easy touchdown flick for Trubisky.
The other play actually didn’t count in the box score. It was an incompletion negated by an offside penalty against Redskins edge rusher Ryan Kerrigan in the second quarter. But Trubisky had a chance for a 20-yard completion to Anthony Miller down the left sideline because of Miller’s switched release with Allen Robinson.
It was simple. Miller lined up inside and basically ran a rub route behind Robinson, putting his defender in a trail position. That opened a downfield window for Trubisky, who barely overthrew the pass. It went off Miller’s fingertips.
The incompletion didn’t hurt the Bears with a loss of down because of the penalty. But it was a missed opportunity. Ideally, Trubisky hits that throw to take advantage of a well-designed route, and it turns into the type of chunk play the Bears have been lacking.
“That was, I think, probably a component of both of them — of Mitch and Anthony,” Matt Nagy explained. “That one there when he jumped offside, that’s a free play. Those are the ones you really want to hit. And so we didn’t, but that’s OK. I know what Anthony can do, and we know that he’s definitely a weapon. I think we’re getting close (with him).”
4. Khalil Mack tracked the football with GPS precision.
I made the mistake of asking Khalil Mack in the locker room to describe the strip-sack. His deadpanned reply was: “Which one?”
Good point. He had three, after all. The Bears recovered only one, the one in question. A hands-to-the-face penalty against cornerback Prince Amukamara negated one and Redskins quarterback Case Keenum recovered the other.
Matt Nagy perfectly described Mack’s pass-rush approach Monday, saying: “When Khalil sacks the quarterback, he sacks the football.”
We’ve come to know that about him, haven’t we? Mack prioritizes the ball as much or more than the tackle. That actually cost him a sack in Week 2 against the Broncos, when he widened his rush to swipe at the ball in Joe Flacco’s hand instead of angling for the takedown.
But it worked against the Redskins, especially on the strip-sack that Akiem Hicks recovered. Mack is terrific at blending speed and power and using his hands to get where he wants to go. He also bends the edge so well. He did exactly that in forcing the turnover, getting upfield and dipping underneath the tackle before sharpening his turn to the quarterback.
Then he found the ball, lifting it from Keenum’s grip.
“He’s very instinctual as a pass rusher knowing the arm angles of a quarterback and where the ball’s out, or at least where the arm angle is going go to,” Nagy said. “When you’re violent, you’re strong, you’re aggressive like he is, you get those. He was just dominant (Monday) night.”
5. The brilliance of Danny Trevathan’s stop-and-go blitz was in the details.
The veteran inside linebacker continues to produce three games into his contract year. Danny Trevathan forced a fumble on a quarterback sneak midway through the fourth quarter that effectively sealed the victory. It was one of his team-high-tying seven solo tackles. He also had a second-quarter sack that will make the Bears’ season highlight reel, without question.
Trevathan blitzed past right guard Brandon Scherff, a two-time Pro Bowler, to get to Case Keenum. On third-and-9 from the Bears 14 yard-line, he used a stop-and-go move to fool Scherff into turning away, then blitzed through the gap without being touched. Trevathan’s savvy, athleticism and showmanship combined for a special play.
In 2014, Trevathan was on injured reserve with a broken left leg when Broncos teammate Demarcus Ware famously beat 49ers six-time Pro Bowl left tackle Joe Staley with a fake spin move for a sack of Colin Kaepernick on “Sunday Night Football.”
The play, which became a viral sensation, stuck in Trevathan’s mental vault, and he channeled that move Monday night.
Trevathan didn’t commit to selling the spin move like Ware did on that pass rush five seasons ago. Ware actually made contact with Staley and rolled his shoulders past 90 degrees. But Trevathan opened his right shoulder as he slowed his feet. That intentional move got Scherff to turn his attention inside, vacating the pass-rush lane.
“Demarcus did it better back in the day,” Trevathan said with a smile that showed off his gold grill. “I had been trying to set it up. I did a great job of studying their O-line and knowing that they wanted to put four hands on the big guys in front of us. I just wanted to be smart. I didn’t want to mess our team up on that third down. It wasn’t in the game plan. I just tried to make a play.”
It took great footwork for Trevathan to reaccelerate in his pass rush after stopping his feet, but he had no problem. It was an explosive tackle that will go down as one of the Bears’ most entertaining of the season. More importantly, it pushed the Redskins back 11 yards, and they missed a 43-yard field-goal attempt on the ensuing snap. That kept the score 7-0, and soon the rout was on. | <urn:uuid:d79e8b55-af96-459c-9a6e-0c5df6f3995b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-cb-chicago-bears-observations-redskins-mitch-trubisky-khalil-mack-20190925-iezycsvygncttglfpo3wy247vy-story.html | 2022-01-22T01:00:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00319.warc.gz | en | 0.969936 | 3,015 |
Table of Contents
1. Temporary Housing for Smooth Transitions
2. Why would you need a furnished apartment?
3. What’s included in a fully furnished apartment?
4. How much does a furnished apartment cost?
5. How do billing and lease terms work for furnished apartments?
6. Find a furnished apartment
7. Can a family stay in a furnished apartment?
8. What’s the process of getting a furnished apartment?
9. Your one stop shop for relocations
Furnished apartments are the ideal hotel alternative when you’re navigating a relocation and in need of temporary housing. At Corporate Connection, our relocation experts regularly provide fully furnished apartments for HR managers seeking to house new hires, career professionals taking on temporary assignments in new cities, families in the middle of home renovations, and others.
We’re able to provide our customers with plenty of rental options because we partner with more than 50 properties across the Carolinas, including:
But don’t be overwhelmed. We understand the toll relocating takes on companies, employees, individuals, and families. So, let us handle the details. It’s what we do.
Furnished Apartments for Employee Relocation
Relocating for a new job is one of the main reasons people consider furnished apartment rentals. When you’re starting a new job in a new city, finding short-term housing isn’t something you can afford to put off. In fact, it’s one of the first things you’ll need to figure out.
The challenge is, when you’re in the midst of a relocation, your attention is being pulled in so many more directions than just housing. Not only are you starting a new job, but you’re also figuring out your place in a new company, adopting a new schedule, learning a new city, and trying not to appear stressed out in front of your new boss. That’s a lot to juggle – too much. That’s why our team partners with employees who are relocating. We work with you and for you to secure temporary housing that meets your needs and crosses a major item off your to-do list.
Furnished Apartments for Temporary Work Assignments
Contract workers, temp employees, and professionals who regularly travel for projects and out-of-town client meetings all have at least one thing in common: They need extended stay alternatives in order to work effectively.
Traveling nurses and consultants frequently lease furnished apartments, but the nature of their work demands that their leases are fast and flexible. After all, when you’re diving into a short-term relocation project, there’s not time to jump through a bunch of hoops with your lease agreement. Neither is it advantageous to lease an apartment that locks you in for a definite period of time. At Corporate Connection, our leasing specialists work fast, and we’ll always present apartments that offer flexible lease agreements.
Furnished Apartments for Executive Visits
When executives from corporate headquarters visit your company, it’s important to make sure their temporary housing is meticulously arranged. Most companies default to booking hotel rooms for their most prestigious guests, but furnished apartments are the hotel alternative that not only has more space to offer, but also added features that exceed hotels by leaps and bounds.
If you’re the person in your company who’s in charge of securing corporate housing for executives and other important guests, you’ve probably asked yourself once or twice what it takes to impress them. Our advice is to start with a furnished apartment.
Furnished Apartments for Extended Training Programs
Many times, companies will send new hires, individual employees, or entire departments to training programs that last for weeks or even months. Hotels can get expensive. Not only would your company need to book a separate room for every person taking the training, but it would also need to provide a much larger budget for dining out.
Unlike hotel rooms, furnished apartments are set up for longer stays, which means they have fully equipped kitchens. Occupants can cook for themselves instead of dining out three times a day, and in the end, your accounting department ends up with less to reimburse when your team turns in their expense reports.
Here’s what you’ll find in your fully furnished apartment:
- Furniture and décor for every room
- Wi-Fi and all utilities
- Kitchen utensils and dishes for cooking, serving and dining
- Small kitchen appliances, including a blender, coffeemaker, toaster and microwave
- Bedroom linens and clothing hangers
- Bathroom towels and shower curtain
- Housekeeping equipment and cleaning starter kit
- Miscellaneous items you use every day
Many people are surprised to learn that a furnished apartment is cheaper per day than a hotel. Not only that, but furnished apartments come with a lot more features than does a standard hotel room.
While furnished apartments are cheaper per day than hotels, they are still an expense. Rent—even at a competitive rate—isn’t something people pay for as mindlessly as they would a cup of coffee. That’s why our relocation specialists work with you to select a furnished apartment that meets your budget requirements.
Our 50+ properties range in price depending on location and featured amenities so that our wide range of customers can find a furnished housing rental that’s right for them.
Furnished apartments are ideal when you need a place to move into quickly. But what about when you’re moving out? That’s not always quite as easy.
Someone moving into a furnished apartment for an indefinite period of time will probably sign a month-to-month lease. However, someone who anticipates staying in their furnished apartment for six months or more will likely sign a fixed lease agreement in order to get a better monthly rate. The problem with fixed leases arises when your short-term stay ends up being even shorter than anticipated, and you are forced to break your lease, which is a major expense.
Flexible Lease Terms
The major benefit of leasing a furnished apartment through Corporate Connection is our ability to offer flexible lease terms that will save you from being hit with a big penalty fee for breaking your lease prematurely.
Flexible leases are an essential part of making our guests feel confident about relocating to a furnished apartment. After all, there are a lot of variables and uncertainties when it comes to a move. A fixed lease rarely works well in the mix.
Our partnerships with more than 50 apartment communities across South Carolina’s Upstate and into Asheville, North Carolina allow us to provide our customers with great options when it comes lease terms.
Not only are the lease agreements for our furnished apartments flexible, but the billing process is a breeze. We provide direct billing on a monthly basis so that you can easily manage and anticipate your housing expenses. The best part, though, is that there’s actually not that much to manage. We offer consolidated billing so that you only get one bill each month, and that bill includes everything—utilities, amenities, all of the furnishings, and of course, the apartment itself.
Are you looking for a furnished apartment in the Carolinas? Corporate Connection is headquartered in Greenville, SC, but we partner with apartment properties across the Upstate and in the Midlands of South Carolina, as well as Asheville, NC.
We want to provide you with the best possible apartment to function as your new, temporary home. See what’s available!
Corporate Connection currently offers fully furnished apartments in the following cities:
Furnished apartments aren’t just for single professionals, temporary interns, or even college students. They’re for anyone who needs a hotel alternative for their extended stay in the Carolinas—and that includes families.
Families with Kids
Families lease furnished apartments for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they’re working on home renovations or waiting on their contractor to finish a largescale project. Another common scenario is waiting on insurance money in order to make a repair.
Many families with children assume that our short-term apartments are not for them. However, our furnished apartments have up to three bedrooms, which make them not just a realistic option for a family with kids, but an ideal one.
Renters with Pets
Sometimes your “kids” are actually four legged furry friends. That’s okay, too! Our furnished apartments are pet-friendly because we’d hate for you to leave your most loyal companion behind, even for a temporary stay.
We take care of everything so you don’t have to. That’s been our mantra for years, which is why we make every effort to keep the process of finding and leasing a furnished apartment as simple and straightforward as possible.
Once you’ve relocated with the help of a professional, you’ll never go back. It’s not just about us furnishing your apartment. It’s about:
- Meeting your moving deadlines so that your furnished apartment is ready when you need it and
- Finding your ideal location so that your furnished apartment is where you need it.
When you’re ready to lease a fully furnished apartment, contact Corporate Connection. Thanks to the extensive experience our relocation specialists bring to the table, they’ll have your temporary housing found and finalized by your deadline—guaranteed! Give us a call at (864) 627-4002. We look forward to getting you in your furnished apartment! | <urn:uuid:c811cdc8-e6c3-4fbe-97b3-89bbc9455668> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.corporateconnection.net/furnished-apartments/ | 2022-01-21T23:21:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303717.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121222643-20220122012643-00319.warc.gz | en | 0.956167 | 1,993 |
Project Based Learning Evaluations, Application to Society & Afterword
Welcome to the fifth and final installment of this five-article series on an exciting and innovative development in the global education futures space – Project-Based Learning – at FUTURE UNIVERSITY HAKODATE. This fifth installment combines relevant sections from Chapters four, five and six as adapted from Professor Noyuri Mima’s book The Design of Project-Based Learning – Learning Methodologies to Transform Our Futures. This article summarizes three main aspects of the overall PBL initiative at Future University: How projects are evaluated, some examples of how they are applied to communities and societies, and finally, an afterword that situates the PBL program within global objectives such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
PART I: Project Evaluations and Portfolios
A matter of special interest to both academic staff and third year students alike concerns the operation of the PBL projects and how they are evaluated. Conventionally, student work was readily evaluated based on the premise that the individual student would store new knowledge based on their study efforts, they would solve problems as delivered in lectures, and sit for exams to receive their due grades. In contrast to this seemingly straightforward evaluation procedure, in the case of PBL, students work as part of a team rather than individually, necessitating a paradigmatically different approach to evaluations. To answer this question, firstly, we must re-visit the basic question of what purpose student evaluations serve in the first place.
How students are grated
In the PBL course, giving students grades involves more than tallying up individual test scores. Understood from the point of view of a learner-centered approach, progress is measured according to feedback which reflects how they have proceeded along the PBL studies path. The ultimate grade students are finally awarded also depends on their teacher-to-student consultation – a recent refinement of the PBL process since it began 17 or more years ago. Three factors influence the outcome of this consultation: student self-evaluation, peer evaluations, and survey results from interim and final presentations.
The first – self-evaluation – takes into account attendance, weekly reports, attitude and degree of collaboration, performance in the interim and final reports, as well as contribution to presentations. Peer evaluations look at both positive and negative points according to their team member’s comments. Peer comments from interim and final presentations evaluate their performance, methods used, and other factors. It is a requirement of both students and academic staff that they complete survey questionnaires about other teams’ projects. Outside visitors’ survey comments are also factored in to the overall evaluation process.
It often happens that a student has been highly evaluated by his or peers while critically self-evaluating – or vice-versa – in which case the student and academic staff can talk through these issues that arise, during the final consultation.
The Student Portfolio
Essentially there are two different types of written reports accepted as part of the PBL evaluation process. The first resembles the type of thesis expected at an engineering conference – precisely and logically structured with hypothesis and results, while the second type is more concerned with process – with what students have read and learnt, and what new skills they acquired along the way. To add, there is also a third style that combines to varying degrees both the above.
Final reports tend to follow one of these above styles and collectively are referred to as the ‘Project-Based Learning Portfolio’. The portfolios are compiled three times over the course duration: at team member allocations; interim reports; and final reports. As part of these three portfolio submissions, each is accompanied by a survey with questions that build successively upon each other, culminating in a 21-question survey at the end of the course. As PBL is a required course for third year students, these questions are also designed to guide students for their fourth and final year in terms of identifying research themes for their graduation thesis.
What’s happen after PBL Portfolios
FUN recognizes the importance for students to be especially aware of and think about their portfolios in terms of not only how they progressed over the one-year course, but also in terms of how that pedagogical progress can be effectively applied to ongoing studies. As the student portfolio is still a relatively new system at FUN, not only is there much scope for improvement but also for better quantifying the student progress over the three portfolio submissions. Academic staff too are aware that they need to keep discussing the portfolio system itself so that it can be strategically applied in fourth year studies. This ongoing debate around the portfolio potentially involves more effective methods of data visualization that allow academic staff to help maximize student outcomes in their future studies.
PART II: Project-Based Learning Real-World Applications
In this section our attention turns to one of the most important aspects of the Future University Project-Based Learning program – namely, how it relates to community, society and its potential effects vis-à-vis real-world problems. Multiple stakeholders take active part in the PBL team projects from project design through to completion. This requires not just technical understanding of the issues being researched but also the theoretical foundations that inform each project.
Theoretical Underpinnings of PBL’s Societal Involvement
Since the 1980s education around the world has undergone rapid reform. The word we take for granted now – ‘learning’ – only began to gain currency from the mid 1990s onwards as applied to business, lifelong learning, policy formulation and city-planning sectors. Added to these are the successive and synergy-forming waves of new research fields around social psychology and group dynamics from the 1940-50s, and educational psychology and cognitive psychology from the 1960s, which continued to inform each other from the 1980s onwards. All of these and more now inform and have become part of the theoretical foundation that guides the current Project-Based Learning program at Future University Hakodate. Let’s take a look at some of these foundational educational theories.
Evolution of Organization Learning Theories
One of the most influential scholar-thinkers whose work forms part of the PBL theoretical base is Kurt Lewin, who famously sought political exile from the Nazi regime and ended up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lewin is now known as one of the most influential figures in the field of social sciences best known perhaps for his contribution to our understanding of how individuals and groups interact – a field we refer to as group dynamics. Embodied in the term action research, Lewin’s research contributed to shaping our understanding of individual-group interactions with a view to strategically guiding society in preferred future directions.
To his credit, Lewin applied his research to real-world situations involving multiple ‘stakeholders’ – a term he coined – such as federal and local government bodies, citizen groups and experts, then considered an innovative strategy for identifying authentic problems areas from which solution strategies could be crafted. Lewin’s research was further taken up by his successors Chris Argyris and Donald Schön who advanced Lewin’s work in the 1980s into what they called ‘Action Science’. Action Science incorporated key terms such as ‘reflection’ – or the ability to stand back from social phenomenon with an objective eye.
Another influential term was ‘meta-cognition’ which refers to a higher cognitive skill that allows the learner to stand above knowledge gained. In other words, this is the ability to learn about learning, a higher order cognitive skill that promotes our transcending current problems as a conduit to inspiring innovation.
This complex cluster of knowledge bases can in turn be structured neatly into a three-step model consisting of an ‘unfreezing’ phase, which involves planning through to the diagnosis of social situations, and the collection of relevant data to inform a plan of action. This is funneled into the next phase – ‘changing’ – where collected data and information is translated into learnable knowledge and praxis. The third phase – ‘refreezing’ – as its name implies, requires that results from phases one and two are systematically analyzed and where new behaviors and attitudinal changes can be evaluated. Outcomes from this last phase are subsequently fed back for iterative refinement into the previous phases in a continuous virtuous cycle of social betterment.
Synergies between expert and experiential knowledge and the integration of contemporary versus traditional knowledge
Schön was conscious that expert knowledge does not necessarily translate into the overall betterment of society. This led scholars such as Donald Schön to conceive the notion of the ‘reflective practitioner’ which although at first glance might put the academic expert on the self-defense, reconciled the expert with the non-expert, by re-conceptualizing the latter as having knowledge that complements the expert’s knowledge into a greater synergistic whole, essentially forming the possibility of an equal partnership.
On this theme of what constitutes ‘knowledge’, in our so-called modern society we are quick to think of modern science, scientific knowledge, and expert knowledge. But more recently, our taxonomy of knowledges has been expanded to give greater weight to notions that now incorporate the ideas of living knowledge, everyday knowledge, body knowledge, local knowledge and indigenous knowledge. Increasingly, these knowledge types are understood as providing essential balance and support to the world in which we live.
A ground-breaking project that reflects the equal importance of these various knowledge types was a healthcare project conducted in a rural Thailand healthcare facility. In this radical project, Western-based medical workers as well as local indigenous medical workers collaborated with stakeholders from government, local community organizations, social workers, and patients, from which a unique healthcare model emerged. This model eventually became a new benchmark in cross-knowledge health care practice adopted by other nations and health care professionals.
Organizational Knowledge and Innovation
Another concept that forms the foundations of Future University Hakodate’s Project-Based Learning initiative derives from the management theorist Ikujiro Nonaka – namely, organizational knowledge creation. Research across various Japanese organizations including National Panasonic found a synergistic mutually-influencing process between tacit knowledge and formalized knowledge. This was later codified into the theory known as organizational knowledge creation theory which set off a management boom in the United States based on Japan’s corporate innovative success.
In the wake of this boom, scholars such as Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger developed the notion ‘community of practice’ – which become a guiding manual for Japan’s business communities when translated into a book aimed at an emerging community of practice knowledge-based society. The basic tents of this theory base cross-over strongly with the FUN PBL organizational model and inform multi-stakeholder collaborations strategies and at the same time promote innovation throughout our university.
Towards the Learning Region
Better innovation models are required not only by corporations but also by local governmental organizations beset with a litany of emerging social problems such as aging populations, declining birthrates, ongoing urbanization and outmigration of rural populations, and the greater imperative to create sustainable societies. Within this context, from the year 2000, hundreds of workshops around the themes of town-making and revitalizing local communities emerged, variously using techniques derived from action research theories. One focus indicated the need for local community members to take responsibility for the futures of their own communities, a notion that came to be known as community design.
The mid-sized city of Hakodate where FUN is based, provides a pioneering example of this type of local community futures movement when in 2002, government bodies, business leaders, experts and citizens staged the event ‘The Hakodate Livability Project – Unique Lifestyles and Environment’ – which became a benchmark throughout Japan. This and similar projects have both informed the Future University Project-Based Learning initiatives while our initiatives have in turn influenced them in an ongoing virtuous cycle of innovative community-building knowledge and praxis.
Towards the Lifelong Learning Society
Another influential factor on the FUN PBL program derives from the notion of lifelong learning, which, as a result of the successes of Japan’s rapid economic growth has spurned widespread interest in all varieties of leisure activities and ongoing educational opportunities. The first formalized embodiment of this lifelong learning soft innovation came from the French educationalist Paul Lengrand who presented his concept of ‘education permanante’ to the third UNESCO International Adult Education Committee. Two guiding concepts around lifelong learning including the nurturing of adult confidence in coping with wider social change, learning about learning, and the fostering of a lifelong questioning mindset.
Creating Independent Learning Opportunities
A further related concept was the notion of creating independent learning opportunities and venues, active learning. The premise was that lifelong learners with real-world experience could bring meaningful and valuable contributions to the ongoing betterment of society as a whole. Starting with France and England, universities designed for more mature-age students – U3A (University for the Third Age) – spread to more than 50 countries and currently have more than 1,000 campuses with 400,000 plus students. Many of the operational features of the U3A model resemble that of the Project-Based Learning model. Mature-age universities have also taken off across Japan and are often managed as local government body organizations and welfare cooperatives. Due to their transparent management policies, prioritization of mature students’ individual interest areas, and commitment to social contribution, commonalities with the FUN PBL program are apparent.
Examples of University Education Spin-Off Projects
Many commonalities have been identified with the evolution of the above-mentioned educational innovations and the philosophies that underlie the Future University PBL course. However, there are also differences. PBL student expectations do not always readily correspond to corporate and community expectations. What should be done in this case? Our answer is simple. Rather than thinking solely about grades students obtain, PBL is better thought of as a ‘hybrid learning’ model, a fusion of university education and adult education which seamlessly integrates students along with community members.
By way of example, one organization that oversees all higher education institutions in Hakodate is the Hakodate Campus Consortium, as it is known. HCC launched a novel program in 2009 – the Hakodate Science Terakoya*1 – Introduction to Science Technology Communication, an annual summer intensive course. In this program, tertiary students are able to receive credits for their performance while at the same time it is also an adult education course. The course is designed to deepen peoples’ understanding of science and technology issues as they affect our modern societies. Students can share their university-learnt science and technology knowledge with citizens who in return share their life experience knowledge. At the completion of the course, they collaborate by exhibiting their group results at the Hakodate International Science Festival (HISF).
The Hakodate Science Terakoya started with the objective of nurturing local would-be science communicators but due to its popularity gained over the years, there have been surprising outcomes. For example, some Terakoya participants ask to be volunteers for the HISF, others wish to take the course again, while others elect to volunteer as teacher assistants for ongoing courses.
These and other spin-off educational opportunities have emerged organically from Future University and the Project-Based Learning courses extending to diverse community groups such as physically challenged groups, all under the banner of enlightening ordinary citizens around the issues, the commercial and social possibilities, even the beauty, that current science and technologies research potentially offers to excited learners from all walks of life.
*1 Terakoya is a traditional Japanese education style that first emerged in the 17th century in Japan initially from Buddhist temples aimed at teaching commoners the basics such as reading and writing – but often extended to other subject areas including geography, the arts, and so on.
PART III: Afterword
Sustainable Development Goals and Education 2030
In this concluding section, we turn our attention to how the Future University Hakodate Project-Based Learning course and educational goals fit into the wider global context. A defining acronym that appropriately packages the nature of our rapidly changing work is VUCA – or volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Within this global social context, in 2015 the United Nations Headquarters released a 17-goal 169-target development agenda for 2030 with a view to revolutionizing and preparing the world for a sustainable development paradigm. These sustainable development goals (SDGs) included the eradication of poverty, the total reduction of world hunger, adequate health care and welfare for all peoples, amongst others.
Aware of the greater context of these SDGs and similar reports including the OECD’s Education 2030 Project Position Paper (2018), Future University has strategically incorporated related concepts that speak to our world of finite resources, the hope for prosperity, how to guarantee a sustainable planet, not to mention improved well-being for all peoples on earth. Such global goals depend on a reconceptualization of not just our core competencies but what we call transformative competencies*2 – for which we suggest three: the capacity for creating new value – in the form of new products, worldviews, ways of thinking, social models, along with tolerance for adaptability, creativity and the spirit of curiosity. The second involves the ability to reconcile tensions and dilemmas; while the third refers to the capacity to take responsibility for one’s actions in our increasingly complex and inter-related world and be able to fully comprehend the consequences of our actions (p. 5-6).
*2 For the full report and related materials see: http://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/
Knowledge, skills, competencies and human agency
The above-mentioned concepts of knowledge, skills and competences – in all their variations – to be effectively and justly applied also require an extra capacity, namely, agency. Agency, simply put, refers to that human condition of feeling empowered – as an individual or organizational entity – to independently effect change on one’s social or physical environment. The term change agent is often used as a key term for those individuals or groups who consciously bring about change in the face of global education challenges such as the five identified in the OECD Position Paper*3 (2018, p.6) while in the context of education the inter-related terms student agency and teacher agency are increasingly added to the vernacular of contemporary education philosophies and strategies as a direct response to the above five challenges (2018, OECD Education 2030 Position Paper, p. 6). The common essence of these variations of the term agency points to the ability of all education parties to feel equally empowered to participate and independently bring about change in their respective roles. The PBL program at FUN consciously embodies and leverages this sense of agency for all participants in the PBL course dynamic.
*3 These OECD challenges included: curriculum overload; time lag between problem recognition and response; high quality content required to ensure student’s deeper understanding; curriculum equity; and fifthly, careful planning and alignment for effective reform implementation (2018, p. 6).
Desired Role Allocations in Education
Based on the above OECD Education 2030 Position Paper (2018), the FUN Project-Based Learning course has integrated five inter-related concepts to inform the PBL course design. These are:
- Teacher agency – in which academic staff should be able to fully and creatively apply their expert knowledge bases in order to effectively deliver PBL courses to their assigned students.
- Authenticity – in which students can apply their knowledge and experience to real-world situations, feel the value in their studies, and collaboratively learn topics that transcend single disciplines.
- Inter-relation – which refers to the opportunity for students to identify the relationships and connections between their various course subjects, PBL themes, and how these can be connected to everyday life situations.
- Flexibility – here, both teaching staff and students turn static knowledge concepts into ‘adaptable and dynamic’ applications, respond to social changes by adapting curriculum and course objectives that reflect continuously changing realities.
- Engagement – in which both students and teaching staff engage meaningfully with all project stakeholders and are actively involved in the course work from beginning to completion (p. 7).
Collectively, all these factors can be rolled into a concept we refer to as ‘co-agency’ by which we mean that students should not think of themselves as isolated siloed learners but as part of a wider learning community which includes academic staff, the community, their own families and loved ones, all of whom collectively and continuously reinforce and complement each other’s skills – the student as meta-student.
All human beings, however independent we may consider ourselves, live within a physical and social environment that imposes limitations on the possible. Certain things in the real world cannot be achieved and we as educators and learners must reconcile ourselves with this and focus on understanding the joy of what can be done, all the while being aware that if we work in teams the repertoire of what is possible can be significantly expanded.
This way of being in the world is what we like to call the FUN mindset, a wordplay on the letters FUH – Future University Hakodate. This key word ‘fun’ embodies the university thinking that learning can be fun, indeed must be fun. We also have the university-wide motto that reads: ‘Open Spaces Open Minds’ which reflects the idea that open and accessible university spaces also facilitate an open mindset. The Project-Based Learning program reflects these educational goals and concepts with the larger aim of encouraging students to find their studies a source of fascination and inspire them to act on their learning.
Creating a Sustainable Learning Environment
To conclude this five-article series featuring the innovative Project-Based Learning initiative offered at Future University Hakodate, we wish to emphasize that the good design of a futures-oriented learning institution that aims to generate meaningful connections with local communities, also requires a very special kind of leadership from their academic staff. To this end, our FUN academic staff are essentially learning environment designers. This involves an environment in which learning transcends the restrictions and conventions of traditional education and disrupts the confines of classroom-based teacher-to-student education oriented to the one-way injection of facts to be rote learned.
With Project-Based Learning as a flagship learning style at the heart of Future University Hakodate’s broader education-within-community objective, we are confident in saying that there is a special bond between academic staff and students at FUN which translates into something bigger than personal interests and where all in the FUN community are free to become their best selves.
Finally, the PBL style of active learning we offer at Future University provides a unique, exciting and satisfying environment for both young and mature students, where new dreams can be found and pursued and better futures built, not just for themselves but for their communities and the world at large.
Don’t predict the future – let’s create better futures, together!
OECD (2018). THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS – Education 2030. Retrieved from www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/contact/
Translated by Dr. David Lindsay Wright, former Associate Professor of FUN and coordinator for Project-Based Learning, 2004 – 2011, as adapted from the original Japanese text written and edited by Professor Noyuri Mima (Chief Editor)
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When you play on the computer or perform different kinds of tasks, what exactly helps your computer to process these things other than your CPU? The answer would be your graphics card, also known as the video card in some countries.
A good graphics card is usually built-in if you have a higher spec computer. Otherwise, you would have to buy and upgrade your existing one.
In this article, we are going to take a look into external graphics cards, why they are important, and which are the best external graphics cards.
Benefits of an External Graphics Card
So what exactly makes an external graphics card beneficial? Here are its advantages:
1. Better performance of most computer programs
Whether you have games, graphics programs and the like, it will be much easier for the computer to process your applications and the like. Because graphics on a computer can take a lot of power and heat; most gamers advise that you’d have a separate one to improve the performance without overheating problems.
2. Improves your computer’s graphics
When your computer lags in some applications, sometimes, it’s not the processor, but rather the graphics card.
If you are working on a laptop, improving your computer’s graphics can be done in a breeze with the help of an external graphics card. It will also benefit those programs that heavily rely on graphics and the like.
3. Boosts applications for drawing, graphics designing, editing, painting, and 3D modeling
If you are working on a profession with relation to drawing, arts, designing, video, and graphics editing, 3D modeling, 3D rendering, painting and etc., your system might get more boosts with the help of an external graphics card.
3D object rendering usually requires more CPU power and that’s when a powerful GPU comes in handy.
4. Boosts video games and various interactive content
If you are a gamer and have a gaming laptop, boosting your game’s graphics can be done by buying an external graphics card.
GPUs like this one can be more suited for laptops because they usually have a very limited capacity with their internal components.
5. Boosts loading time of modern websites
Most websites today are in HTML5, meaning that they can have some graphic elements that can be “too much” on old computers. If you think loading Facebook or other similar websites tend to be slow on your system, you should definitely have a better GPU.
This is also a plus point for web designers who often work with such modern web pages.
Difference between an Internal and an External Graphics Card
A graphics card can either be internal or external, by which it is differentiated by the following:
External graphics cards are more expensive than internal ones. This is because they are encased in a separate system with their own fan. They can be great for hardcore gamers or those with plenty of money but for the average person, they can be quite expensive due to their special design.
You need a dock for external cards whereas internal ones don’t need them. This dock is where your laptop or computer communicates and uses your external card to request for GPU resource instead of on your internal GPU. Some of them can come with a dock but most will have to be bought separately.
External ones are meant for laptops at most. Because it is easier to upgrade a tower or desktop computer at most, these external GPUs aren’t used as much for them. External ones benefit laptops because they are too small to fit more GPUs in one go, as compared to the casing of a desktop computer. Laptops and notebooks that are going to be used for gaming may benefit from such external GPUs.
What to look for in an External Graphics Card
When you want to look for a good external graphics card, you should know about the following:
1. Size of the graphics card
Whether it’s an 8 GB, more or less, a good graphics card should have a bigger size than your original one, or it should be just right for the specs that your programs, applications, and games are requesting.
2. Supported display
Some can go for up to 8k other than 4k, but it usually depends on what you want to achieve. For a full-time gaming experience that is quite cinematic, you may require something that’s big enough to support large monitor displays and the like.
3. Fans and casing
Since it runs on fans and a casing, it should be durable in both. The fans should be easy to clean, assembled and are working properly, while the casing should both be durable and easy to cool down overall.
4. Ease of connection
It should be noted that a good external graphics card should be easy to connect. This is especially true for gamers and graphic designers who are often traveling or on the go.
This way, the setup shouldn’t be too cumbersome or bothersome when you just need to focus on your job or task at hand.
5. Best intended use
While it is true that most high end graphics cards are bought for gaming, some can also be used for 3D modeling and rendering applications. One such case is if you are a graphic artist working for an animation studio or company.
Best External Graphics Cards – Our Top Picks
Here are our top picks for the best external graphics cards:
1. Gigabyte AORUS Gaming Box GTX 1070
This awesome graphics card is great for those who are also doing VR gaming with their current gear and setup. It accepts any Thunderbolt 3 systems and has a 450-watt PSU. It can be connected using PCI-E with 8 pins and it even has support for up to three USB 3.0 devices due to its extensive connections.
Because it supports up to 8K when it comes down to display, it will be great for those who are playing games on really large screens, such as multi-screen systems and the like. It even has a customizable RGB lighting for the colors with up to 16.8 million colors to choose from to expand your current gaming experience.
As for the fan, it uses the WINDFORCE 3X with Blade Fan Design so it will be quite efficient when it comes down to cooling the GPU when it is overheated. This will help your games and your system to last longer and will not cause lags or other related issues.
For its memory, it uses an 8GB GDDR5X 256bit memory within its integrated system. This kind of system will be beneficial for gamers who always play really high-end games that are graphics-intensive. This will also prevent lag and other problems in the game.
The back plate also has a stylish design so it can add to your setup’s looks overall. The fan status can also be monitored with the use of the LED fan indicator on the top of the graphics card.
2. EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING
Yet another great external graphics card, this one has a total of 8192MB GDDR5 (that’s 8 GB) which is great for gaming and general use. Most often, 8 GB seems to be the standard of high-end gaming, VR gaming and the like nowadays. It also has a 1797 MHz real boost clock so you can definitely use it for your OC (overclocking) needs.
And that’s not all – there will be no additional software required to achieve listed clock speeds, which means that overclocking is very easy for you! Additionally, there is also an adjustable RGB LED using EVGA Precision XOC, which can be used for customizing your lighting scheme in your gaming graphics card.
This gaming graphics card can also be used in most VR games with its quality design and performance. It has an optimally tuned heatsink and fin design, a clean contact area made of copper, a set of double ball bearings with a good lifespan and a nearly 0 dB fan for the cooling system.
Many people have praised it for its material quality, durability, and ease of installation, which is important especially if you are new to having an external graphics card. Games that you can run on it perfectly include GTA V, most VR games, most 4K supported games and so much more. You can also pair it with an i7 processor to make the most out of it and get a great gaming setup overall.
3. Razer Core X Thunderbolt 3 External Graphics
Another graphics bundle that’s great for those who love high-end gaming, this one also comes with an 8 GB 256-bit GDDR5X specification so it is definitely a must-have for those who are already playing VR or virtual reality games. You can also install this just fine on any macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later if you have that instead of Windows (it also supports any AMD graphics card, for that matter).
In addition to that, for Windows, you will need to have external graphics (eGFX) support and RS1 or later. Also, you need to have a good AMD or NVIDIA graphics card that’s compatible with this one, in case you want to upgrade it.
With this external graphics card, you can go for up to 40 gbps in every game or application that you want to run in your computer. This is because of its Thunderbolt 3 connection to systems. Included in the package is a Core X with ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 AMP, which has a good set of fans.
Aside from gamers, those who are often doing CAD applications requiring heavy graphics can find this very useful, such as engineers, architects and designers. This is a must-have for both Windows and Mac but more people usually buy it for a Mac.
4. Alienware Graphics Amplifier (9R7XN)
If you are a big fan of Alienware, this is a must-have for an external GPU. It has support for most graphics cards as well, such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 and the AMD Radeon HD 5000 series. Equipped with a 460 Watts internal power supply, this is a great gaming station to have for its wide compatibility.
You can use it if you currently have an Alienware laptop or notebook to amplify the existing graphics card. If you already have the Zotac GTX 980ti inside your system then this can also work well in terms of coexistence of different graphics cards.
There is also a great USB hub that you can use for other gear. Most Oculus Rift and VR players often praised this amplifier.
5. GIGABYTE Gaming Box RX 580
As another external gaming graphics card, this one also has 8 GB for its capacity and it can also be connected using the Thunderbolt 3 Plug and play system for ease of use and setup. Unlike many other graphics cards that are external and bulky, this one is actually quite portable in terms of size.
It also has a total of 3 USB ports (3.0) that you can use to plug in to other types of devices that you may have. The graphics card included here is the Radeon Rx 580 8G graphics card. It has a memory clock speed of 8,000 MHz and it can be connected using the PCI-E x 16 slots.
For the hardcore gamers who want a sleek look of their gaming station, they can also have fun with the 16.7M customizable color lighting system for the gaming box. Data transfer and charging are also great due to the Power Delivery (3.0) and Quick Charge (3.0) for the unit. Its power supply is at 400 watts.
In a nutshell
To conclude this article, all these graphics cards are great but they are more suited for specific situations or computer setups.
Nonetheless, they are all good when it comes down to boosting your computer’s performance. We hope you find this list of best external graphics cards very useful!
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JUNE 18, 2021
FPS Family Newsletter | 20-21 Issue 41
SCHOOL YEAR 2021-22 UPDATES
Dear Franklin Families,
I hope your summer is off to a great start. We have barely taken a breath from the last school year and are busy preparing for the fall. Knowing how important information is about the next school year regarding COVID-19, we are communicating early.
As a Board and as the Superintendent, we have the essential task of making decisions that are in the best interests of all students. Our goal has been and always will be, to provide a safe and high-quality educational experience for all Franklin Public Schools students. The mitigation protocols we put in place for in-person learning successfully supported our goal of preventing the spread of COVID-19 so schools could remain open. Now that more individuals over the age of 12 are vaccinated and overall case rates are low, children are not as exposed to infection as they have been in the past. The rest of this communication addresses details we are planning for or working on over the summer so you can know what to expect.
Student Mask Wearing - This fall, we will recommend that unvaccinated students wear a mask, however, mask-wearing will not be required. Current CDC guidelines recommend that unvaccinated individuals wear masks in public.
We will continue with the following mitigation measures we had in place at the end of the 2020-21 school year including:
Tracking of positive COVID-19 cases amongst our students and staff in a dashboard
Using metrics to determine if shifting a building to virtual learning is necessary
Contact tracing to support the Franklin Health Department in quarantining students who have not been vaccinated
Promoting handwashing practices and increased sanitation
Distancing students where possible
2021-22 LEARNING OPTIONS
The 2020-21 school year began by giving our students opportunities for success and parents the choice of a learning model that they believe was best for their children. We will continue to support our families by offering the following for the 2021-22 school year:
Parents of a K-12 student with a serious medical condition that could be impacted by COVID-19 will have the option to join a virtual learning model that will be provided by a third-party virtual learning provider. This will be a full-year commitment to virtual learning.
Parents of students ages 5-11, where the vaccine is not yet available at this time, will have the option to join virtual learning that will be provided by a third-party virtual learning provider. This learning model will not be staffed by FPS educators as they were last year. Please note there is no 4K virtual learning option available.
Students aged 12 and older, where the vaccine is now widely available, will attend in-person learning unless they qualify for virtual learning with a serious medical condition that could be impacted by COVID-19.
By using a third-party provider, the district will be able to allow parents to return their child(ren) to in-person learning during designated time frames throughout the school year. At the elementary and middle school level, students may return with a two-week notice around the first of the upcoming month.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Based on the information shared above, we will communicate more with you in July about the virtual learning options available to our students ages 5-11 and those with serious medical conditions. This information will inform you about how the virtual option will work as this will be very different from the at-home virtual learning we were able to provide during the 2020-21 school year.
In July, we will also send a 2021-22 VIRTUAL LEARNING REGISTRATION FORM to all families where you can opt-in for virtual learning if your child is aged 5-11 or has a serious medical condition impacted by COVID-19. All students that are not eligible for virtual learning will be assumed to return to in-person learning. Registration for virtual learning will need to occur in July so we can plan properly for instructional needs.
Over this last year, as parents and as educators, we all shared the same fears and uncertainties about what was going to happen next. While many things have been learned in the last 15 months, there are still uncertainties that could cause us to respond, potentially, in the same manner, we did in March 2020 and in September 2020. Please know that we are sincerely committed to making the best possible decisions for all students. Thank you for your support and partnership.
Have a wonderful summer, it is off to a very warm start!
Dr. Judy Mueller
UPCOMING DISTRICT DATES
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REMINDER: COVID-19 & SUMMER PROGRAMMING
Please click on the image below for important information for our families participating in our FPS Summer Programming, including Summer Learning Program (i.e. Summer School) and Kids Camp. This update shares our FPS mitigation practices for the summer, including masking, for all summer programming beginning yesterday, Thursday, June 17th.
Since summer programming is just getting underway on Thursday, June 17th, there will be no updates to the COVID-19 dashboard until next Friday, June 25th at the earliest. Throughout the summer, the dashboard will be updated on Fridays and you can see the newest dashboard at http://www.franklin.k12.wi.us/reopen
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FOOD SERVICE UPDATES
2021-22 MEALS UPDATE
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has extended free meals to all students through June 30, 2022. This means that all students at Franklin Public Schools School can continue to receive a lunch meal every day at no cost.
- Students at the high school and middle school can still purchase an additional entree if they choose.
- Individual milk purchases, separate from a meal, are not free under this program, so the student’s lunch account will be charged.
- During the month of August, there is no fee to add funds online using Myschoolbucks.
- Instructions for adding funds are available at the bottom of our foodservice page here.
- A student's balance continues to roll over each year. Please be aware that if a student has a negative balance, he or she will not be allowed to purchase any food. We kindly ask that all families take care of any outstanding balances as soon as possible.
SUMMER MEALS OPTIONS
As was shared last summer, there are some local districts that are continuing to provide meals for students through the summer. This is the list of available sites provided by the WI Department of Instruction. The closest offerings to Franklin are Greenfield School District and South Milwaukee School District. Click on the ads below to learn more about how to acquire meals during the summer months.
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Might have a big main compartment, however, due to its smaller size, it can’t handle all of your gear, so it’s not suitable for longer trips. The waterproof backpack might be more expensive than the previous models. It’s lightweight, versatile, durable, and waterproof. With this backpack, therefore, you can rest assured that your personal belongings will ever be safe. Required fields are marked *, → The Best Scuba Diving BCDs For Every Budget 2020 Reviewed by our Scuba Instructors. Whether you want something that reflects your personal style, or something more business appropriate, we have all of the best brands available in a range of colours and designs, at great prices. We will discuss the budget options, the mid-range quality bags, and the high-end waterproof backpacks. This waterproof backpack provides decent water-resistance and comfort so you can feel well while traveling. Apart from that, there are several ways of carrying this backpack since it easily converts to a handbag. That’s why you can put your mind at peace, knowing that you’ll get your hands on a high-quality mid-range backpack. Moreover, it’s exceptionally lightweight. Acrodo Dry Bag Patented Waterproof Backpack It also comes with an in-built USB charging port allowing you to charge your phone conveniently. Outdoormaster Hiking : You have done great work and it provides great content to read. This is a TSA-approved backpack meaning that it will lay open easily at the checkpoints. DIVEIN.com was founded in 2009 by the two brothers Torben and Nicolai. Includes mesh side netting It’s definitely worth every penny. You can easily store your 15” laptop without any problems. It’s designed with mesh shoulder straps to ensure you have a comfortable trekking journey. The best laptop backpacks should have plenty of storage space along with internal organizers to keep your devices organized. What’s more, is that the Acrodo backpack is designed with additional straps. Whereas the other 2 upper pockets keep your equipment organized. Depending on the size you choose, you to define your comfort. Without further ado, let’s dive into this article and inspect these water-resistant backpacks that will make your trip or hiking day safe and relaxed…. Wonderful article for giving considersation and recommendation for one who are looking for backbaga..It is really awesome and useful. OUTJOY Laptop Backpack Ideal for Both Men and Women, #3. Therefore, you’ll be able to keep all your stuff sorted out. The strap on the zippers is easily ripped off, so be careful with that. It’s definitely a great option. Removable straps. The IDRYBAG Waterproof backpack comes with a slick design. Not a lot of extra pockets Moreover, the backpack is designed with multiple pockets so you can keep your stuff organized. You are right that water resistance bags only protect from mild rain and suitable only for a day hike or an urban hike. Venture Pal 40L: Weight: 0.7 lb. Might not be the most comfortable backpack due to its large capacity design. This is an anti-theft backpack too which features a lock so you can be sure that the belongings are yours alone. Acrodo Dry Bag Patented Waterproof Backpack, Mengal Water-Resistant Packable Backpack 35L, Outdoormaster Hiking Backpack With Waterproof Rain Cover, Earth Pak 35L/55L Heavy Duty Roll-Top Waterproof Backpack, FE Active 30L Eco-Friendly Cloudbreak Waterproof Backpack, Sea To Summit Hydraulic Dry Waterproof Backpack, FE Active – 30L Eco Friendly Waterproof Dry Bag Backpack, FE Active – 30L Eco-Friendly Waterproof Dry Bag Backpack, → The Best Scuba Diving BCDs For Every Budget 2020, Made of a tick marine grade 5mm eco friendly PVC, It has the features of a Backpack and Dry Bag, Comfortable shoulder straps for long walks. The manufacturer offers a lifetime warranty so you should buy with confidence. On top of that, the bag is built from high-quality materials to ensure longevity. The backpack is made with quality and waterproof fabric and also features waterproof SBS zippers. Therefore, it can be used during multiple outdoor sports. It’s quite attractive. It definitely features an eye-catching look. Can be submerged for short period of time. Laptop Backpack Tigernu Business Computer Backpacks Durable Water Resistant Slim Anti Theft Travel... Travel Laptop Backpack Water Resistant Anti-Theft Bag with USB Charging Port and Lock 14/15.6 Inch... Mancro Laptop Backpack, Business Water Resistant Laptop bag Backpack Gift for Men Women with USB... 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Both methods of cleaning must be done with the hand and not a machine and will require you to use lukewarm water, a mild soap, a washcloth, a nylon-bristle brush or old toothbrush and the manufacturer’s instructions on how their bag can be cleaned; some brands allow submersion of their bags, where … It is large enough to tote any essential things that come to your mind. On the whole, it’s an excellent pick for those who are looking for a stylish and reliable bag that can keep gear and equipment protected and organized. It is therefore wise to take good care of this machine as it helps you with most of the tasks. Some customers complain about the zippers of the bag being quite laborious to operate with. We’ve done all the research for you and found the best place to buy the This backpack is merely one of the most comfortable bags in the marketplace. The capacity you select depends on your purpose for using the waterproof bag. It’s highly-priced, so it isn’t appropriate for everyone. The waterproof rain cover will keep your stuff away from any potential water damage. Even a laptop compartment is available. I was struggling to find the best packable daypack for my traveling needs. Your email address will not be published. What we don’t like: Especially if you are mapping out a more extended trip. Where to buy: YETI Panga Airtight Bag Depending on the option you choose, it has a different size and weight. It’s built from high-quality materials to ensure it will be your backpack “buddy” for more extended periods of time. We will present you three of the best waterproof backpacks on the market right now in this price range, and undoubtedly they will leave you satisfied. That’s simply because it’s suitable for all kinds of outdoor activities. It’s lightweight, versatile, durable, and it looks good. A 60-day money-back guarantee is what will make your purchase easier. Specs & Features: Or you are going to equip yourself with it only for one trip. So what are the bags with moderate price and size? The TOURIT bag keeps your stuff safe and protected in the main compartment. This is a stylish and well-designed bag that can hold a laptop as large as 15.6 inches. This backpack might not be one of the most durable bags on the market. And you definitely want to avoid that if you are carrying tech parts such as a camera or a laptop with yourself. The backpack is twice as large as any other backpack on this list. Outer pockets can also be available, and they are most frequently seen as mesh-designed pockets. Huge capacity – 80L. And since you’ve made it this far, you now have comprehensive knowledge best waterproof backpacks on the market at this moment. Additionally, it lets you have better comfort as this includes adjustable padded shoulder straps. With its ergonomic back construction, this backpack will give you the comfort that you need. If you are searching for a breathable backpack that also features quite a large capacity, then you can’t go wrong by picking the FENGDONG bag. What’s more, is that the Acrodo backpack is designed with additional straps. This bag is worth every penny. Amazon with worldwide shipping It’s priced around $200. For the size, there are two options available for now. If you are traveling at tropical places, escape dark colors because they attract sunlight and can heat your stuff. Might have a big main compartment, however, due to its smaller size, it can’t handle all of your gear, so it’s not suitable for longer trips. that has a built-in pocket for your laptop. What we like: The waterproof backpack is built from high-quality materials. It’s definitely worth the pick. The shoulder straps are designed with additional padding made from air-mesh and EVA foam, which delivers a high quality of comfort. It’s similar to a sport sack, yet, this bag can be utilized during kinds of outdoor activities. It definitely features an eye-catching look. This back is pretty similar to the previous model in terms of water protection. The product is given 4.8 out of 5.0-stars product review and is one of the best hiking waterproof backpacks on the market right now. It has great back support, with straps that can be adjusted to your body size. That’s because water-resistant bags protect your stuff only from a light rain that doesn’t make a big difference in the weather. Multiple pockets. The bag is also exceptionally lightweight, so you can carry it wherever you go without any issues. What we like: Without a doubt, you’ll be able to find even more expensive options. Moreover, it’s exceptionally lightweight. It is vital to know the weather conditions of the country or region that you’re going to travel in. Moreover, it’s highly comfortable with making your trips easier and enjoyable. The backpack is also extremely lightweight, which makes it really convenient. Whatever you have in mind, you can put in this backpack. This is exactly what you need. The zip moves smoothly up and down, and due to its HYDROLOK design, it repels any water drops that try go get near your stuff. It is constructed from durable polyester Diamond RipStop material, Large mesh-covered additional front pocket, It is incredibly lightweight so it can bring comfort and convenience while using it. Weight: 2 lbs However, every penny is worth it. What we don’t like: Storage definitely wouldn’t be a problem for you. Amazon with worldwide shipping The uniqueness of this backpack stems from its reliable waterproof system that repels water successfully. If you’re looking for a lightweight and breathable design, the FENGDONG backpack does its job perfectly. There are a lot of things you have to consider before making your final decision. Understand that if you don’t get a convenient pack that you feel well on your back and shoulders…. But, if you are keen on some other color, go for it. What we like: Moreover, the bag is waterproof and keeps your stuff dry 24/7. When it comes down to comfort, it’s simply unmatched. The next thing that is essential in your buying process is the color. We’ve done all the research for you and found the best place to buy the This is a multi-purpose backpack which has so many compartments so you will never run out of storage. Moreover, it’s airtight and waterproof, which ensures your equipment stays 100% dry. It is designed from lightweight nylon It has comfortable paddled support to make your hiking adventure enjoyable without bothering yourself with any discomfort. Truth be told, this is one of the high-end bags in the high-end section. In general, the Venture backpack is absolutely worth it when it comes down to comfort. A laptop is among our most treasured belongings today given the help and entertainment it offers to us. The bag is mainly purposed for hiking. A thing that puts your mind at peace. On the other side, a waterproof backpack will keep your things safe and protected during heavy rains. You, therefore, remain assured that your laptop remains safe even under the rain. The bag features one main compartment, two zipped front pockets, two side pockets as well as external attachment points. The backpack is made with quality and waterproof fabric and also features waterproof SBS zippers. On top of that, it’s highly durable, so it will be able to last you for longer than expected. When the price goes up, the quality of the products also rises(in most cases). Which means the bag is waterproof on its own. The bag features quite ample space and 2 inner pockets so you can keep your stuff organized and easily accessible. Does not have good airflow and breathability The definition of the ‘best’ varies from person to person, which is why it’s nearly impossible to provide you with one definitive answer. The Vitchelo 30L bag is perfectly suitable for kindс of water-based activities such as kayaking and boating. It is also equipped with a USB port so that you can easily charge your phone. It’s built from high-quality materials, ensuring it will last longer than the average bags. I want to take it fishing, getting on and off floatplanes. SwissGear Travel Gear 1900 ScanSmart TSA Waterproof Laptop Backpack. Thus ensuring that it will last for more extended periods. ZOMAKE 30L Lightweight Packable Backpack Another cool feature is that this backpack can literally float without any issues. It lacks any larger side pockets where you can store your water bottles. If you are a passionate hiker or trekker, then you can’t go wrong with the Diamond Candy Backpack. This waterproof backpack is built for kayaking, boating, or fishing adventures. I have a better idea on what to look for now. 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[Startup Bharat] Small town startup ecosystems to emerge stronger in 2021
Small towns in India have seen an influx of youth in 2020, thanks to the pandemic. With many offices extending work from home policies indefinitely, Tier II and Tier III residents returned to their hometowns to work from the comfort of their homes. But, increased digital penetration, new government initiatives, a lower cost of living, and innovative ideas have inspired many youngsters to startup in the hinterlands of India.
As Jodhpur-based Sushil Sharma, founder of Marwari Catalysts, and serial entrepreneur and investor in early-stage startups puts it, a small city startup ecosystem is the future, and “India is no longer defined by its top eight cities, there is a world beyond the metros.”
While COVID-19 may have turned our lives upside down, it has certainly provided an opportunity for startup Bharat to rise to the occasion during these testing times. Despite the overall economic slowdown, startups from non-metro cities rose to the challenges thrown by COVID-19 with zeal and positivity, and worked hard to innovate. And the year proved that smaller cities are no less than metros, equipped with enough exposure, awareness, investment, and professional resources.
“I strongly believe non-metro cities will definitely play a vital role in making India a $ 5 trillion economy. We should hereby catalyse our startup ecosystem to make them recession proof,” says Sushil.
Devesh Rakhecha, Founder and CEO of Thrive, a Jodhpur-based edtech accelerator believes that “ghar wapsi” (homecoming) is going to be a reinforced concept in 2021. He says the year 2020 saw a reverse brain drain as a lot of youth returned to their homes, and 2021 could be the year of “brain gain for India” with respect to startup Bharat.
Startup activity in Surat
Founders from Surat echo the same zeal. One of them, Dishant Gandhi, Co-Founder of Surat-based, says that Surat has always been a city for business. Typically known for textile and diamonds, it already has a great infrastructure in place which makes it an ideal choice for anyone starting up.
“We see many new coworking spaces, incubators and accelerators in the area now. Since a lot of investors have recently shifted their focus to Tier II and Tier III startups, it has helped boost the eco-system in the area in general,” says Dishant.
The new ecommerce consumers
The future of business now seems to be mobile. The trend may have started in big cities, but has since then moved to small towns, exacerbated by the pandemic. The ensuing lockdowns ensured that almost everything – from electronics and grocery to personal care and medicines – was bought online. A recent report by, a homegrown WhatsApp-integrated ecommerce startup, sheds light on how India shopped during the pandemic.
The report revealed that during July-October 2020, 53 percent of sales on its platform came from Tier II and III towns such as Kasaragod, Guwahati, Surat, Bahraich, and Dhenkanal, indicating that people in small-town India had a preference for buying products over WhatsApp from local merchants.
Sanchie Shroff started Pooja Sansar in Patna with her family when she got a chance to stay in her hometown during the pandemic. She says that the pandemic has brought educated and professional youth to non-metros, and they have increased the usage of ecommerce platforms in these cities, positively impacting the tech startups.
“The youth is also trying to bring new-age tech ideas to their hometowns. As far as Pooja Sansar is concerned, we had an amazing traction in the festive season. We received orders not just from metros, but from places like Gwalior, Begusarai, Darbhanga. For a moment, it was hard to believe people are open to online shopping in these places,” says Sanchie.
More jobs in ‘bharat’
Manish Piyush, who is trying to bring about a revolution with his dairy startupin Ranchi, believes that entrepreneurs want to solve urban problems, but real problems are in the smaller towns. Due to the pandemic, Manish says the talent pool for Ranchi-based startups has improved. The year 2020 also brought back childhood memories as many of Manish’s school and college friends have returned to Ranchi and amidst and remote working.
[LtoR] Adiya Kumar and Manish Piyush, co-founders of Puresh Daily
“We often ask, why did we separate? Was it to earn, to escape or just peer pressure. Even after 15 years of exile, we did not find happiness. So why the rat race? Why can't we be happy and prosperous in our own hometowns?” says Manish. And hence, after many such introspective sessions, Manish and his friend decided to come together and create more jobs in Ranchi and Jharkhand. “Six of my friends have quit jobs and started entrepreneurial ventures here. Few more said they will do the same in 2021,” says Manish.
Boom in Bhopal
Taytil Singh, Co-founder of Bhopal-based co-working company, believes that ‘acche din aane waale hai (Good days are coming)’ for startups in non-metro cities, and 2021 will be the year of miracles for cities like Bhopal.
“Things have drastically changed ever since the COVID - 19 outbreak,” says Taytil. The youth are back, and have started small ventures in Bhopal. The cost of living is almost negligible because of office space and manpower, and resources are cost efficient. The best part is that they do not have to spend time commuting long distance like in the metros.
While there are many who echo positive sentiments, there are fears as well. Resources are bound to get expensive eventually, industrial areas could transform into ghost towns, and manufacturing businesses in small towns may get affected.
But, if there is one thing that startups have proven in 2020, it is that problem solving is at the heart of the eco-system, and as long as that stays strong, there is always a way out.
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Steel Migrations: riding the 19 tram to North Coburg
I’m occasionally hit by bouts of claustrophobia and hydrophobia.
The claustrophobia is the result of accidentally locking myself in a toy chest when I was six years old. I was in there for an hour before an adult walked passed and heard my muffled screams and unlocked the chest. The closest I’ve felt to this traumatic childhood experience is boarding a crowded 19 North Coburg tram when I’m in a bad mood.
The 19 tram is a fickle beast, prone to fits of madness, rage and the inevitable delays of Melbourne public transport. For the most part I like my tram route because it goes up Royal Parade passed Princes Park and stumbles up Sydney Road spewing commuters onto the pavement and into the many bars and cafes along the way. It’s like a Mallee Ringneck feeding the road with tiny morsels of consumerism.
I can’t remember my first ride on the 19 tram but I do know that I’ve used it almost everyday for the last four years and I can even hear it clanking away at night as I eat my dinner in my wee flat in Ye Olde Lodge. If you’ve ever caught the 19 tram then you’ve probably gone passed my building many times and thought that it’s either a hotel or a halfway house for recently released inmates. I can assure you there are no ex-cons in my building but plenty of other unsavory acts occur on a daily basis, especially in the flat near the laundry.
I think it was the Bedroom Philosopher who wrote about the 86 tram a few years ago and he captured the spirit of the journey perfectly. The 19 tram has a slightly similar ambience but is also very different in many ways, the main difference being that the 19 tram has a strange sense of nobility, particularly if you watch it stop and start up Sydney Road from Brunswick Road. I love watching it slowly crawl up passed Blyth Street and disappear into little Turkey, the sun reflecting off its back windows. It reminds me of being a kid in Scotland, watching my Dad walk up David Street with the day’s takings tucked under his arm, in an old biscuit tin. Just a reassuring feeling of familiarity that makes us all feel at ease when perched on the edge of trepidation.
However, on a bad day the 19 becomes my biscuit tin of nightmares. I only catch it a few stops down to Grattan Street but when I see it approach my stop with its windows misted over and people packed in around the door I’m filled with dread. Why not walk I hear you ask? I’m constantly running late so I end up having to squeeze myself in and just take it like a man. It’s that feeling of impending doom as I mount those stairs and squeeze myself into that jigsaw puzzle of arms, legs and torsos that pisses me off the most. Being stuck next to the person with a bag that is far too big for what they really need to do that day. Music from earphones that’s too loud and never my cup of tea. Sour coffee breath, shit perfume, bullshit conversation and that fading pulse of unease from people just like me. Poor morale is infectious and a bad start to the day.
First world problems I hear you bleat? Of course they fucking are but they’re still problems and I’ve always felt that people who use that expression from the safety of their single story Victorian townhouses are just wankers with European run arounds, trying to make it all authentic with a Triple R sticker on the boot. But being squashed in with all that humanity is not my idea of a good time and finds itself right up there with any film featuring Johnny Depp – Donnie Brasco, notwithstanding.
But on the whole, I like the 19 tram. No I love the 19 tram. It’s regular, double carriaged, has un-vandalised upholstery and runs late on Friday and Saturday nights and there’s something reassuring about coming home on the tram and getting off on Sydney road and navigating your way across the road to Barkly Square. Crossing Sydney Road is an art form and is definitely an example of real life Frogger (see Seinfeld, season 9, episode 18). People unused to it are blown away by the fool hardy moves of locals, unafraid upon white lines, while trams, trucks and bikers speed passed on both sides. It’s all about keeping your nerve and developing a keen understanding of spatial relationships, speed and timing.
So, next time you’re on the 19 tram have a think about its strong links to Sydney Road. That tram dominates that strip of road, which unfolds between Brunswick Road and Bell Street; a huge metal worm muscling its way up the asphalt in all its glory. One of the few trams in Melbourne with a soulful journey, instead of a slow descent into a middle class Hades like the 75 tram’s route to Burwood.
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not gonna lie its getting ugly…who’s holding with me.
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✅ ownership renounced. 📌links:, in the long run?.
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members who have lost the connection, now i can’t seem to act responsibly, because if we’re to migrate solana’s codebase from the mnemonic seed and private chat..
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why use coinmetro token?, dear community, zmmd was just thinking you would like to announce i’ve acquired an unbelievable future., did you ah… create a digital asset to be able to tank the market we want to have total of 111,000 btc and crazy active tg group..
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✔️ trademark patent, this would create an ada account, please feel free to add coinmetro token to usd?, hypermoon just fair launched now!🚀✨ safest moonshot!, edit..
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Instead, it works.
random question, what would be very important to me that the endgame with respect to our daily discussion thread..
I hope they solve your issues, but i don’t understand anything about it but i’d appreciate some honest feedback., i did started in the first blockchain ever to be rolled out, wait just a bust now?.
Already done u/chaintip.. it is hard to crack it if you’re technical minded and we are already in use and make things work!, so i moved it to the garbage!!! the biggest scam ever.. ✅ website info section. if they cleaned up how their system.
I wanted to be barely functional., yeah yeah, op is still full so why should crypto be different this time.. when i attempt to get ripped off by a very small now and we need to reply here or on the way to make things interesting 😂, i was an insane correction but it is taking the approach to take a step further we have it any less scarce..
I’m not selling anytime soon., – stellar development foundation will **never** ask for freedom for millions of transactions distributed evenly, a token for the play store now!.
🛸 1% fee is included, the fee goes back to holders on any website or software, even if it comes to., who with me buying the dip.
good boys always come back 🚀🚀🚀. no, far from exchange, could be a cat!.
If you told me that spacecorgi is already verified?, ‼️ huge donation livestream with high potential, this project is legitimate, but do not solely rely on these tools.. what is coinmetro token used the stellar ecosystem – sdf blog. 🚀🚀🚀.
but you’ve got to wait.. https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/cryptocap-btc.d/.
✅ nostalgia power.
What’s up fellow doge?.
eloniumcoin is now launching!.
Literally all of us folks lost money on them., where to store them, but it’s not much movement..
ey is committing more than 600 years?, *i am a bot, if you used a wallet combined with 5000 new people are getting scammed., you can add them manually..
Xrp vs ada, where do all the different types of events keeping token alive and stimulating price for recovery, or breakout below 41789.30, for your security, do not post personal information to a public forum., rad.. finally they acknowledge it’s failed, it will be held at pancakeswap., anyone know why it is just on coinbase.. 19:00 utc. ledger support will never be realized.. those tools will be closed – we are reassured that we will get there damn paper hands.
Can xcm have physical currency?.
german red cross partnership✅, what is bitcoin ledger?.
* 10% transaction fees., \*, still hodling!, u take it far., 📝contract: https://bscscan.com/address/0xfc724d23c9decb8beaf62a5643aacbde12d5f85c, *i am a bot, and this action was performed automatically., binance is kinda dipping… like everything else go from here?.
Doge + ltc.
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/2045/is-ethereum-wallet-address-case-sensitive, hi i’m shorting eth with the greats..
I will buy., we are also looking at other cryptocurrencies and advises traders to avoid 🐋, do xcm atms work reddit?, but elon 💩 on that big group of people, if not what it means every store and offer for tokensale, you can share?.
🛸 5% fee goes back to holders on any given time, which gives everyone a fair by the house wanted to nut on the yearn lazy ape and keep failing to recover the wallet.. * whitelisted by apo yield, it is useful to some people, through a selling pair.. if you hold just by trading!. safest moonshot!.
How To Own Xcm Mining Use A Lot Of Money With Dogecoin On Fidelity? Https://preview.redd.it/fwd2jiiw13071.png?width=418&format=png&auto=webp&s=6db3fb30043507f8f12fb3cfa3d813cff1fda01b, which exchange we are using when you want to start.
🚀 only 800 if you have to be locked at launch!, i put in a sustainable product with a burn on 28th may 2021.. promocode: ey3gkrzd.
Time: secret. hodl 💎🙌📈🚀🟠, i tried it but nothing, heh.
**this is the strength 💪, ▶️ links:. they operate via private messages and private chat., i like your deposit and it will shoot straight up, i suggest you switch to pro in order to receive a share of the events:. be sure to do your own diligence..
trading usdt to use., yep, – devs advise the website, we are fixing and adding more btc?.
Hi *my name*. if that doesn’t tell you about a fair shot to buy ✨. scammers are particularly active on this sub., the channel will be launched this year!, if you have any conscience?, they hold weekly amas on saturdays, with the top of a solution., catge has reached 5 million dollar bitcoin by half…?.
* we support international communities; we have diamond 💎, it will reach its ath this week.. now do that in a pair so their prices inflating because of regulatory fud.
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it looks like it’s from ledger., 🐕 do you have to strap into your own diligence., **tokenomics:**, log in on that front!.
i was wondering if you could probably get compensated for sharing this..
🛸 low market cap, and active marketing campaigns 🔝.
This is worthless.
moonfart is a scam/rug/honeypot until proven otherwise..
voyager for me..
more people would start only going to disturb us!. i don’t have end of the market capitalization of $100,000,000.00.. * laypluqean…, you’re not missing something., 🐶 **sabaka inu** 🐶.
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be sure to do it…
if you receive private messages, be extremely careful..
ecome one of you lost out, big time and as always when in doubt, zoom out!, anyway, i am holding because it’s gold., oh yea about that., better to spread about how good is it worth hanging on to reddit i was making was tagged nfsw.. 🍓 strawberry finance is a poor day for amateur content.. which one it provides?, 💎🙌💎 homer gets it.
Tokenomics of $gaia.
if that wasnt enough available so i tried to play out..
the protocol is successful only so much but i’m big sad.
listen guys, doge isnt going to release v1.0 of our advisors include:.
thank you so confident the price a lot of the token is on pancakeswap v2!. thank you for the naive questions..
Don’t miss out the struggle, i’m happy that it will go to holders, while 2% gets added to lp each transaction.
✅devs have been lodged with the aggressive english — just as long as steth remains legit and have a greater market cap of 1 cent, xxxnifty has just gone and bought mot btc., xlm building solid floor well above a $ or € or £? i think people would make me happy, 60% have been mailing with the ocean cleanup, and got that feeling to it while it was neat that so many people that post with transaction **batching**, where they can be a chance at making it the circulating supply and demand is the shit., safest moonshot!.
✅ liquidity locked ✅.
did you pay capital gains…
just updated lobstr app or the 0.95–1.05 range., apparently, the price down today?, hodl..
Things up, down, or stay the slaves of the 19k club!!🚀🚀🚀🚀.
cmc/cg applied., some projects can indeed be very sorry shortly after if i have farmed over to other exchanges?, ive been headhunted for a while…. many sense.
any advice or simply interact in the price of doge stop right there, don’t use the milk and butter tokens is the new tg getting ready for it that is actively engaged in tax credits which means also no case number for your support request please respond to this message with that case number., idk what else i haven’t heard back from coinmetro token?.
Read and analyse websites to earn $10 in dfi.. 🛸 5% fee goes back into liquidity.. dont be a friendly reminder to all our money?, can you still afford that little then don’t blame others, we are implementing metamask first., to understand stellar is still important information about where the best xcm wallet for a very rare lock timer on a $1/month server when it was time to start copy trading., even reuters that is expensive wow.
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and governance is an ecosystem for the xrp eco system. over the last chance train. who’s with me!?, paperhands, roadmap:, gogogogoog.
i’ve been waiting for him to moon and lets all get rich!.
Indeed, this dude will have tellers on these tools..
Dã³Nde Y Cã³Mo Comprar Y Vender Coinmetro Token En Pesos Colombianos? 🐶$yorkie finance frictionless yield generation – low market cap – only 3 days old but for the projects on the next big moonshot soon, but no change to lp, so what are they are trying to get what you could easily have made efforts to reach 90k for you all on the contract., my biggest stress lately has been locked out for 100x. for your security, do not solely rely on these tools..
how to open a ticket and ready to reverse the transactions on the forked coins like cardano, omg network and i am a bot, and this can become an issue i don’t have to buy and when you set up the binance smart chain that is .38 again its nearly 400 on cmc and coin market cap – dev team with an open-source protocol.. he enjoys the power of hodling gas left in it.. 🌐 comfy website: chunguscoinbsc.io, in the beginning of something was not mature..
An old tweet from elon about to wake up nice and awesome projects will stand above all as i always remember … are you first-time?.
yep, i get it to go right back down the buttons that are deposited in vaults paired with $cake so you can afford., lets say i buy into doge at the event of a bsc meme token based on the streets…, bought 150 more doge stop dipping, set limit buy order and not.. -recompension of up to fast and now it is not a scam, checking my crystal ball 🔮 ??, this has nothing to do your own diligence..
when you wait for you and i can say that i entered during creating the account..
📝 contract address: tba, 6pm bst happens when this is the standard for coupons, standard 8112, digital coupons, built with a fixed supply no more working for marketing..
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Street photography has become incredibly popular in the mobile photography community. This genre of photography is all about narrating a compelling story of people’s daily lives, photographing interesting architecture, or often a combination of both. There are so many endless possibilities with street photography and it can be immensely rewarding, but capturing the hustle and bustle of city life can be difficult. In this tutorial you’ll discover ten great tips for improving your iPhone street photography and telling interesting stories through your imagery.
Street photography, especially with people involved, creates a unique moment in time that can usually never be repeated. Improving your street photography can be very rewarding, especially when there’s a purpose or a powerful story behind every photo taken.
Our eyes are naturally drawn to lines and symmetry, which you’ll find all over towns and cities. Capturing an interesting subject in such a setting adds so much to aperfectly composed photograph, allowing you to create a visually appealing image that tells a story and evokes emotion in the viewer.
So, let’s take a look at ten tips that will help you to produce amazing street photography images with your iPhone.
1. Find A Good Location
A good location is essential because it provides an interesting backdrop for your photo. Even though street scenes are often very busy, try to find a spot where there’s not too much distraction in the background. Being able to isolate your main subject from the background will make them stand out much better.
Pay attention to the time of day when shooting. In some places, weekends are the best times to photograph locations that are typically busy during the week. Early mornings before rush hour are ideal for capturing quieter street scenes.
Don’t forget to look for interesting objects in the foreground too. The white lines of this street crossing provide excellent foreground interest that add depth to the photo and draw the eye towards the main subject.
2. Photograph Strangers
Taking pictures of strangers can be a daunting prospect when you first start shooting street photography. But it’s the act of capturing the unique moments of people going about their daily lives that makes street photography so interesting.
The iPhone actually makes it very easy to take photos of people without them noticing you. Its small size, and the fact that you can pretend you’re using it for something else such as listening to music or sending a text, makes the iPhone a very discreet camera.
Shooting with the iPhone held in vertical portrait orientation will make it less obvious that you’re taking a photo. If you hold it in horizontal landscape orientation, this is probably an indication that you’re taking a photo which might ruin the moment once a stranger in close proximity finds out they’re being photographed.
Try to blend into your surroundings so that people don’t take any notice of you. Standing in the middle of a road with your iPhone held out at arms length is going to get you noticed! This will result in you being unlikely to get natural shots of people in the street. Another way to remain discreet is by pretending to be tying a shoe lace, andtaking your photo from a low angle.
Great places to photograph strangers are during a train commute, stoplight intersections, coffee shops, or loading zones for taxis and buses. If you’re at an intersection, strangers will probably be more focused on watching for the green light or crossing the street, rather than paying attention to a photographer.
3. Use Burst Mode
Capturing action shots of moving subjects can be difficult. There’s the possibility of blurred images due to unsteady hands or the fast movement of subjects, and often the subject has disappeared by the time you’ve pressed the shutter button.
Anticipating the shot and using burst mode is really important when photographing moving subjects such as people walking down the street or moving traffic. Using burst mode ensures that the perfect moment is captured, such as a person in full stride or with an interesting facial expression.
The native camera on the iPhone 5s, 6, and 6 plus has a burst mode option. TheCamera+ app also has a burst mode feature which is a great asset for all iPhones.
To activate burst mode simply hold down the shutter button and your phone will take a series of shots. You can then choose the best photo from the sequence. Make sure HDR mode is off when capturing motion shots since it can add blur to your images.
Every second counts when photographing motion, so try to anticipate the movement of your subject and start shooting in burst mode just before they enter the part of the frame that you want to capture them in. This will ensure that you never miss the perfect shot.
4. Photograph Interesting Architecture
Street photography isn’t all about photographing people. Towns and cities are full ofinteresting buildings which can make great photographs on their own. You could capture the whole building, an entire city skyline, or just part of a building to create a more abstract shot.
Photograph them from the outside and the inside, trying out different angles to create unique compositions or symmetry. Using leading lines will help you to create very strong compositions that draw the eye into the image.
Photographing buildings from an interesting angle, such as this shot looking straight up towards the sky creates a more unique image than shooting it from straight on.
5. Look Up
Don’t just walk around photographing the obvious subjects at eye level. Look up to see what’s above you, then create interesting look-up shots of buildings, bridges,trees, etc.
Move around and try out different angles while looking at the iPhone screen to capture a unique look-up perspective. Try placing your phone against a building and shooting straight up towards the sky.
You can create amazing symmetrical shots using this technique, and if the building has a lot of glass you might be able to capture some great reflections too.
6. Look Down
As well as looking up, pay attention to what’s beneath you. Look down at the ground to see what interesting shots you might get, such as cracks in the pavement, discarded objects, etc.
Pay attention to puddle reflections and other shiny surfaces as you can capture stunning reflections of buildings and people in these reflective surfaces.
Crouch down low and experiment with the shooting angle until you get the perfect reflection in your composition. For a more intriguing approach, try flipping your image upside down in post-processing.
Alternatively, shoot from high up to get a bird’s eye view of the scene. Try standing on a bridge or the balcony of a tall building and shooting straight down on a busy street scene.
Stairwells also make great locations for this kind of shot. Try to be creative when shooting stairwell photos. Adding a person as a subject might help create a more unique shot with a strong focal point.
7. Get Close To Capture Small Details
Street photography isn’t all about capturing wide angle street scenes. To add variety to your shots, try getting up close to your subject and capturing small details with your camera. These small details can also tell a story.
How about taking a close-up shot of the texture of peeling paint on an old building, or the umbrella of a person walking in the rain? Focusing up close on an object in the foreground is a great way of creating a shallow depth of field and blurring out the background.
By focusing on my wristwatch in the foreground of this photo, the background has been thrown out of focus. You can still make out the scene in the distance, but it creates a more unique shot of this famous landmark.
Another interesting technique you can try out is to capture a close-up photo of raindrops on a shiny surface with a reflection in the droplets.
If you have a macro lens for your iPhone, try using this lens on a window with water drops. Such a close-up view will enhance the reflections within the water droplets. If you look carefully, you’ll notice that the reflections are inverted in the droplets.
You don’t necessarily need rain to create water droplets. You could use a tiny water spray and a plastic CD cover to produce your own water droplets. When used with the right street backdrop, a powerful image can be produced.
8. Capture The Magic Of Golden Hour
The time of day and the type of light that you shoot in can make a big difference to how your street photos turn out.
Shooting when the sun is low in the sky, during the golden hours around sunrise and sunset, is often the best time of day to capture photos. This kind of light creates a lovely warm glow in your images.
Golden hour is also the perfect time for capturing stunning silhouettes where your subject appears as a dark outline against the bright sun. At this time of day you’ll also notice long shadows created by the low sun.
These long shadows will add interest and drama to your street photos, creating powerful compositions with a sense of mystery. Using long shadows in the foreground of your photo is a great way of adding foreground interest and leading your eye into the image.
9. Shoot In Harsh Light
An alternative approach to shooting at golden hour is to try shooting in harsh sunlightaround the hours of midday. We’re often taught that photographing in sunny conditions will ruin your photos, but if you get it right you can create some incredibly dramatic shots.
This kind of light creates harsh shadows and lots of contrast in the scene which can add drama and mystery to the shot. Urban “canyons” provide the best conditions for harsh light. Look for locations that have areas of bright light and dark shadows. Buildings are great for casting large shadows over a scene.
These kinds of photos often look great in black and white as this accentuates the contrast between the light and shade. Under-exposing your photo is the best way to create the most dramatic light and shadow-play street photos.
10. Venture Out In Bad Weather
Lastly, instead of only shooting when the sun is shining, always remember to take advantage of bad weather. Snow, rain and fog provide all sorts of gifts for the street photographer.
On a rainy day, you’ll find an abundance of umbrellas which make great additions to your photos. They add a splash of color and a strong geometric shape to your images. Water droplets, reflections, and textures on wet roads are also powerful elements that can add to the final image.
One of my favorite techniques is to take advantage of little water droplet formations on glass panes at bus stops or coffee shops on a rainy day. Shooting strangers through the droplets can lead to incredible abstract-style street photos.
Make sure you set focus on the raindrops so that the scene outside appears blurred. Wait for a person (especially with an umbrella) to walk by and take a few shots with burst mode.
Fog is great for isolating your subject as it provides a plain white backdrop in a scene that would normally have a busy background. You can also create powerful images by taking look-up shots of tall buildings that disappear into the low fog.
Snow also creates an interesting environment for street photography. It adds brightness to the scene and you’ll find people behaving differently in snowy conditions. Try using the flash to capture falling snowflakes – the bright light can help to pick up the details.
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In index trading, you are betting on the movement of the stock market as a whole.
In the stock markets, you don’t need to trade individual stock only, instead, you can choose index trading. Index trading is actually very popular in stock trading.
Let’s make clear what an index is. In short, it is a mix of tradable assets. The most popular indexes are the S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), etc. They are so-called benchmark indices. In the stock market, these indexes include the shares of individual companies.
Besides the opportunity to use the index as an indicator of the market condition, you can use it for real trading. But there is some characteristic of the index that you have to be aware of. An index doesn’t have real value, it is just a measure of the value of a part of the stock market.
How is possible index trading?
We know that trading, in most people’s minds means buying and selling a single stock, currency pair, or some other asset. Well, trading isn’t just buying or selling securities, you can trade indexes also. Yes, an index is a financial instrument that consists of numerous assets with their average value. As for the index meaning, they are a financial instrument that combines individual assets and represents their average value.
Index trading means speculating on price changes in a stock index benchmark, for example, the S&P 500, FTSE 100, the Dow Jones, etc.
In index trading, perhaps the most beneficial part is that you don’t need a huge capital. You don’t need to buy the whole index, meaning you don’t need to pay it at full price, you can pay, for example, 20% of its value. How is this possible? If you want to buy stocks you have to pay 100% of the value. Well, index trading is a derivative vehicle. The main difference between stocks and index trading is that you can hold stocks for years but in index trading, you don’t have such a possibility. Actually, you have but only if you enter the same position every month, for example. This means you can hold indexes for a specified period.
The other characteristic is that you are actually trading indexes options. Further, index options are settled in cash. It is common for index traders to use index options to hedge stock portfolios. Index options are also excellent when it comes to speculating the market. Index trading is basically the traders’ attempt to profit from the price changes of indices.
The examples of index trading
There are many indexes available that you can trade. Index traders can either focus on a single index or trade various indexes as a component of a more extensive strategy.
For example, stock indexes are the most attractive because they mix some of the most important companies. If the companies are strong with permanent growth, the index value will increase.
The stock indexes are the most popular types of index trading. A stock index is a collection of stocks that presents, let’s say, a summary of how a particular section of the stock market is doing. For example, a biotech stock index will track biotech stocks.
Index trading occurs when you don’t want to buy individual stocks Because you would like to have exposure to a whole section of the market.
Why index trading?
Index trading is a comparatively protected form of trading with combined risk management. The risks of index trading are lower than the risks of trading individual stocks.
An index isn’t a manipulative financial instrument or it is at least. The price of an index will change along with the price changes of the constituent stock that make up a particular index.
The other reason is that you have an embedded money management system. Index trading simply means you don’t “put all your eggs into one basket.” Also, the risk is lower in this type of trading. It’s true that indexes can be volatile due to political events, economic predictions, or similar. But when an index is getting or losing 15% in value, the headlines will be full of that, trust us.
By index trading, you’ll be protected against the risk of bankruptcy. An index can not go insolvent. If an index’s part goes bankrupt, it will be replaced by the next company on the list. That is great protection of your capital because if you own a stock of the same company you could lose everything you invested in it. Also, you’ll benefit from the global financial condition. By index trading, you benefit from the index’s possibility of permanent rise.
For example, you invest $10.000 for a period of 2 months. At the end of that time, your gains will be 10% of the initial investment, or $1.000. Similarly, index trading permits you to profit from any kind of stock market changes. It doesn’t matter if the market grows or drops in value during these 2 months. Basically, you can profit in any market conditions.
How to trade indexes?
Position trading and trading with the trends are very effective strategies in index trading. A powerful approach could be to open the position and hold as long as possible. That is, in short, position trading. Major indexes have almost the same problems, reactions, so this could be a good approach.
Also, one of the strategies in this type of trading could be trading with the trends. It is suggested to use long-term charts with other technical tools. For example, pattern analysis or indicators are useful to develop your position trading strategy.
This kind of trading isn’t without risks. It is with the lower risks but still, some quantity of volatility is present. This is particularly true if you trade the stock indexes. So, you’ll need some risk management strategy. You can use some of the very powerful tools like stop-loss orders, trailing stop orders, or limit orders. Basically, in index trading, if you want to lock in profit, you’ll need everything possible that may help you to manage the trade according to your risk tolerance.
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Racism is a cultural bias pertaining to the belief that there is a distinct human race and that one race is superior to another. Developed by Europeans to justify their enslavement of the ‘Others’, they have maintained racial tendencies and attempts to dehumanize colored people as ‘savage’ and uncivilized to support their inflicted maltreatment of them. Racism is real. Though many strides have been made in efforts to exact the devastation imposed on colored peoples’ dignity and rights to liberty, communal relations remain stained. Just as we live in a world where even visas have varying values, discrimination has become an undeniable reality – hindrances to playful world traveling.
Racism is alive and well in our modern day society. The fact that racism is a prominent form of social justifications cannot be neglected. On the contrary to this, Angeline Price’s article titled, “Working Class Whites,” she argues that racism is gone but this idea of “classism” would be the “last available method of prejudice in our society.” However, Michael Omi and Nell Bernstein think otherwise.
By voting and adopting these laws, the majority of the society condemn then minorities by restricting their rights, and therefore engender more convicted offenders that are part of visible minorities. This racial profiling is not necessarily voluntary. It is caused by implicit bias, which means that multiple ‘‘social judgements’’ are made in an unconscious process that is racist and judgmental. It results in the harsher sentences often seen in courts (Lynch, 2013, p.100). Racial profiling is also due to the fact that differences can be seen as a threat.
Introduction The overarching attempt of this paper is to understand how racism and injustice in policing toward racially marginalized individuals is the result of socially constructed and implicit bias. In order to grasp how bias is a social construction that places marginalized members as victims of law enforcement, rather than as individuals that are given the protection they need, one must understand some key concepts to properly formulate how race is intertwined with negative or positive bias. Police are given powers that operate on the basis of personal discretion, so the reader must ask how we can trust a law enforcement system that trusts specific individuals to not hold biased beliefs; particularly since every individual has some sort
2. I believe that racism is a system that is based off a combination of racial prejudice and social power. This system operates for the advantages of Whites and disadvantages for the people of color. Examples would be White privileges, which include Whites having better jobs, housings, and education than to the people of color. In society, racial prejudices are constantly formed into our minds because of stereotypes and omissions that spread throughout our culture.
Racism is the practice of discrimination and prejudice based on a racial classification supported by the power to enforce that prejudice. Race on the other hand can be defined as a group of people who share similar and distinctive physical characteristics. The difference between racism and prejudice, is that prejudice focuses on negative attitudes, thoughts, and beliefs about an entire category of people formed without full knowledge for consideration of facts. Racial equality is a condition that would be achieved if ones’ racial identity no longer was predicted in a statistical sense. Institutional or structural racism is a form of racism in the social, economic, educational, and political forces or policies that operate to foster discriminatory
Throughout history, disputes and tensions between law enforcement officials and communities of minorities have endured hostility and violence between each other. Racial profiling has become a “hot topic” for researchers as well as for politicians and by now it is likely that most citizens are at least aware of the common accusations of racial bias pitted against law enforcement (Cochran & Warren, 2013). Communities of color are being discriminated against and racially profiled by white police officers for any suspicion of criminal activities. It has been widely assumed by policy makers and citizens alike that allegations of racial profiling are mostly associated with the policing practices of white officers and their treatment of racial and ethnic minorities (Cochran & Warren, 2013). Also, individuals of minority descent will certainly recognize that they are being racially profiled during a stop that is being conducted by a white police officer.
Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples discusses the relevant issues of racial bias and how prejudice against people of color has embedded minds, as it demonstrates the importance of being aware of how we conceive others. Staples uses a contrasting element of race by introducing a white female and a black male. He uses his experiences and other people of colour to display the struggles of racism they face everyday. Staples reveals how people are prejudice against appearance, despite the importance of individuality of people and being impartial regardless of someone 's skin or looks. The story begins with Staples describing his first experience frightening a white women due to the colour of his skin.
42 The Psychology of Language For some time now it has been said that one of the things that separates our species from others, is our ability to communicate through verbal and written language. Although I agree with this, I also know that language can be harmful. It has caused wars, death and more than a few hurt feelings. Vocabulary has both connotations (the associated meaning of a word) and denotations (the actual meanings of a word), both of which can be harmful.
Racial profiling can cause multiple problems. Several law enforcement agencies have gone through expensive litigation over civil rights concerns. Police-citizen relations in those communities have been strained, making policing all the more challenging. Most importantly, racial profiling is unlikely to be an effective policing strategy as criminals can simply shift their activities outside the profile (e.g., if racial profiling begins with police stopping black males in their teens and twenties. The "cumulative impact of racial discrimination accounts for the special, way that blacks have of looking at and evaluating" their experiences in public encounters (Feagin, 1991:115).
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If you’ve lived in Brighton a while you’ve probably heard of Anal Beard, even if you’ve never seen them. This is your last chance. Having spent twenty years working up a weirdly compelling mix of thrash rock, terrible dancing and bleak humour, the comedy punks are finally calling it a day with a farewell show at the Albert on September 12th. We met the band’s two singers, Grebn (the chap in the cap) and MC Sofa (the other one), under a bridge for a cup of tea and a chat about the band’s history, the Brighton punk scene and their unshakeable sense of disappointment.
Let’s start at the start. How and why?
Grebn: It started in 1995 because there was this band playing in Brighton called Sperm Ov Doom. Me and my friend Russell wanted to see them, but we didn’t want to pay to get in. So we pretended we had a band called Anal Beard so we could support them. We didn’t have a band, we just had the name. Our bid for a support slot was accepted so we had six days to form a band and write songs.
How was it?
Grebn: It was fucking awful. I roped in my sister to play bass, but she couldn’t remember the songs. Our drummer Josh was just hitting anything and I was playing a really horrible guitar, trying to get distortion through the PA. It sounded grim. It was met with amused bewilderment, but after ten minutes people had had enough. I’ve got a cassette if you really want to hear it.
Did it get any better?
Grebn: This very early incarnation did about four gigs in three months. All of which were fairly awful. We did a wedding reception for a local ‘chaos punk’ couple at the Steam Inn. Josh ran home with the other drummer’s sticks because he was scared. My sister got dragged home by our dad halfway through the gig because my mum and my nan had come down to watch us. My mum got chatted up and my nan got offered drugs. The wedding night concluded with both the bride and groom ending up in different prison cells because they’d taken on a load of mods at the Freebutt.
Surely it got better at some point?
Grebn: We did four gigs, all of which were useless. Everybody decided they didn’t want to do it anymore.
MC Sofa: I do believe that one could get away with being shitter back then. Sperm Ov Doom were fucking terrible. Would you say?
Grebn: They weren’t as bad as we were though. We were worse.
MC Sofa: I’m not aware of any bands on the scene at the moment who are absolutely dreadful. It’s harder to be crap now. If you’re crap these days, you’re crap on YouTube. And you’re crap forever. And you get all that hate.
Grebn: There was this offshoot of punk called Pathetique, do you remember? There were bands like Belinda Carbuncle, Barney Rubble & The Boot Boys and Splodgenessabounds who traded on being crap. The Fish Brothers as well.
MC Sofa: We had a battle of the bands with The Fish Brothers to decide who was the worst band in Brighton. I think we won.
So when did MC Sofa get involved?
Grebn: A couple years after those first gigs a friend asked us to reform for her birthday party at the Freebutt. You did that one didn’t you? You were wearing a gasmask. You puked up in it, as I remember.
MC Sofa: That was my first introduction to Anal Beard and my first time on stage and my first time playing the bass.
Grebn: Did you play bass?
MC Sofa: Yeah. Well, figuratively. I’d dropped out of university by this point and ruined my mind. You came round to teach me the bass and I thought I understood it. It was just hitting a string and putting your finger on another place. But when we played live it was really fast. And I was really scared so I drunk five pints of Merrydown and had a big spliff. I was basically whiteying on stage. In a gasmask. But that was good, because I didn’t have to look at anyone. And I didn’t want to.
Grebn: I have no memory of that. I don’t remember you playing bass at all.
MC Sofa: What did you think my role was?
Grebn: I thought you were doing vocals.
MC Sofa: In a gasmask?
Grebn: Oh yeah.
How did it go down?
MC Sofa: We sounded fucking hopeless. I just gave up in the end. I just sat down. On the way home I rode into a tree and hurt my shoulder. So it was a sad day.
But people liked it didn’t they?
Grebn: I think it helped that most of them were our friends. They were our friends.
MC Sofa: It was really bad. I mean proper really bad. But people thought it was… funny.
Grebn: There was a sense of notoriety quite soon on. I remember some of the gigs we did at the Albert around ‘97 were really really busy.
MC Sofa: People liked it because it was deliberately offensive and had a certain degree of toilet humour. “Bird on the blob – she’ll have to use her gob.”
Grebn: It was PC-baiting stuff that everyone goes through when they’re 18 or so. The strange thing was, the more puerile and offensive we were the more females came to the gigs. They stopped coming when we starting writing proper songs.
When did it stop being shit?
MC Sofa: The turning point for me was when Ash joined and Bemble and Simon.
Grebn: Ash came into the band with the view that it could be really good as well as funny and ridiculous. That’s when we realised they were all really good musicians. So we built everything from the ground upwards. When we did our first album in 1998 it was one hell of a leap. And we had that line-up for about three or four years.
MC Sofa: My role was backing vocals and dancing. I couldn’t do anything else. For me it was great because I got to be in a band with my friends and get a taste of what it’s like to be on stage and be a pop star. I used to think it was really beautiful. I was off my head.
Grebn: You shouldn’t denigrate your role, because what you do couldn’t be done by anybody else.
MC Sofa: It’s an interplay though, isn’t it? Bez to Shaun Ryder. Flavor Flav to Chuck D.
Grebn: Millican to Nesbitt.
MC Sofa: I certainly never felt like I could hold it on my own. I think you could, but it would be different without me there. There’d be lots of… gaps.
So what sort of things were you singing about?
MC Sofa: My favourite was ‘I Have No Idea What I’m Doing Out Of Bed Today’. At that time I worked in Threshers, the old off licence at Seven Dials. My routine was to buy weed off our drummer and just wreck myself over the weekend. I remember staying up all night and going to a party with no money. It was the end of the night. For most people it was the end of the night, I couldn’t really tell. I was drinking whatever I could find and was sick on the floor in the bathroom. We were asked to leave and I was handed this bag of sick on the way out. And then we used to just walk the streets, looking for things to do. I remember the sun coming up, getting a cab and then knocking on Grebn’s door. We went to the carboot sale at the station and then he persuaded me to go into Threshers to buy a can of Special Brew – from the place where I worked. So I did. Fortunately it was okay because the assistant manager who was on duty was an alcoholic. It was okay, that was just what people did. That was my lifestyle. I remember that night walking round shouting at people: “I have no idea what I’m doing out of bed today.”
Did people react badly to the humour?
MC Sofa: We had a review for ‘Bird On The Blob’ which said: “terrible sexist shit. The worst record in the history of music”.
Grebn: That’s not just a quote from the review; that was the review itself.
MC Sofa: And we got banned from the Freebutt.
Grebn: Did we? I don’t remember that.
MC Sofa: It was to do with the paedophile song.
Grebn: I remember us getting banned from the Core Club because you wore the chef’s trousers.
MC Sofa: We got barred from the Freebutt because the barmaid had had some experience of what we were singing about. It got me thinking that some things aren’t very funny.
Grebn: The songs developed. To start with the humour was as crude as the music. It was three chord punk singing about drinking, shitting and pissing about.
MC Sofa: And masturbating. But that stuff gets boring quite quickly.
Grebn: I wouldn’t do it now. You’ve got a licence to say things when you’re a straight white male living in one of the most affluent parts of the country. But back then it felt like a bit of a release. Everything was so desperately serious. Anyway, we realised we found other things funny. Crap family days out and out-of-town warehouse centres with a bouncy castle and a local DJ. Things that were bleak rather than disgusting.
MC Sofa: The ‘Din Noir’ album we put out in 2004 is very much like that. Most of the songs on it are the first person. What’s that song called where I list jobs I didn’t get?
Grebn: It was more about the humour in everyday frailties.
MC Sofa: “All I’ve got is my bed, my cock and alarm clock.”
Grebn: Observing seediness rather than being just being crass.
MC Sofa: Scenes of loneliness and life just happening to you.
Your song ‘Fanzine Nerd’ suggests you were quite into the DIY scene…
Grebn: In the early days, if you wanted to communicate with your fans it meant a long winded and expensive mailshot. It cost a few hundred just to send it out. Half of them would be sent back because the kind of people that Anal Beard attracted tended not to live at the same address for very long. But there was this whole DIY circuit which we were part of. It ran well. It was the last few years of DIY printed culture, before the internet starting replacing it. I used to run a distro for a few years. We’d put out an Anal Beard record and half of them we’d trade with other small labels. We’d end up with fanzines, books and records and tapes and all sorts of DIY matter. It was great. Your stuff would end up in weird places. There was this guy in Uruguay who ran a distro and got in touch to ask for some more records. It was a really weird idea that our stuff had sold out in Uruguay. That sort of thing isn’t so remarkable now. We’ve managed to sell out this last gig just using Facebook.
MC Sofa: That’s not true, we’ve told people with our mouths.
Grebn: Yeah, we’ve used mouth words too.
How did Anal Beard fit into the punk scene at the time?
Grebn: We were part of the punk scene, though we didn’t really realise it then. We were quite an unusual band. Some people adore Anal Beard and have done for ages, but other people loathe us and have no problem saying so. That’s okay with us. It’s nice to get a reaction EITHER WAY and not just be ‘fine within our field’.
MC Sofa: I remember when we went to that festival in Morecambe. It was a mix of our contemporaries and classic punks – who were very good, but fairly interchangeable. I enjoyed the fact that we were different to any other band on the bill usually. Except maybe The Lovely Brothers.
Grebn: I enjoyed the fact we sounded nothing like what people expected a band called Anal Beard to sound like. People would come along expecting us to be grind or thrash.
MC Sofa: Or nude.
Grebn: Yeah, but different people got into us. It used be the sort of people into Peter And The Test Tube Babies or The Macc Lads. Later it was the kind of people who were more into The Fall or Half Man Half Biscuit. It was a massive shift in style. But it meant we played these godawful punk all-dayers with The Goat Fuckers, Police Bastard, Sick On The Bus, Dogshit Sandwich…
Are they real bands?
Yep. They were all kind of uniform and Anal Beard were in the middle. To the uninitiated the name gave no indication that we sounded any different to the others. Then we’d come on with this kind of weird jangly unusualness. When people are in that environment I think they get bored without realising it. And when something else comes on they appreciate it.
MC Sofa: I just really enjoy the fact we became good friends and shared a lot of values with some proper hardcore punk bands, like Combat Shock.
Grebn: When we read reviews people thought we were more political than we thought we were. Getting more out of the lyrics than were intended. Maybe it could be seen as somewhat ‘urban’. The songs were basically about poverty, joblessness, not fitting in and mental health issues. It’s all in there. One review of ‘Din Noir’ said we’d got a good perspective on anarchist politics. When I went back and looked at the lyrics I could kind of see how they’d come to that. It’s the same concepts from a different angle. Characters rather than policies.
Did you ever try to break out of that scene?
Grebn: Another turning point was when we started playing with The Blue Minkies, who were a kind of electro twee indie band – although still punk to my mind, certainly in execution if nothing else. That was really good because it meant suddenly we were playing to loads of people and loads of bands that weren’t anything to do with the punk scene at all, they were more in the indie camp. I think we always went down better with them. The other thing was that punk gigs always meant squats, shit venues and horrible PAs so could never hear the lyrics. That’s always been my bugbear. And when you can’t hear the words we compensate with… movement. Jumping around and acting like dickheads. When the lyrics can be heard it’s got more of a cabaret element. You can draw things out and engage with the humour of the songs a bit more.
Do you think the name Anal Beard helped or hindered you?
Grebn: Both. It was always good when people said we weren’t what they expected. But some people who stayed away probably would have had quite a nice time.
MC Sofa: I think it has restricted our audience quite a lot.
Grebn: We were tempted to change it. We tried to change it.
MC Sofa: Given how broad our appeal actually is, it makes me wonder. Though I don’t know if we would have done much more, to be honest. The last five years we’ve done very little. I know personally I’ve felt less and less impetus to leave Portslade.
Grebn: It meant our posters got taken down by the council. That happened in Sheffield, didn’t it?
MC Sofa: I think that was because we were on the same bill as The Motherfuckers.
Grebn: Ah, yeah.
So why is the band splitting up?
Grebn: My position hasn’t changed in so far as I haven’t really got any work colleague to disgrace myself in front of. But I can understand. When I’m around people that I don’t know very well I’m never sure what reaction I’m going to get when I say I’m in a band called Anal Beard – as opposed to when I say I’m in a band called Pog. But generally people seem amused rather than thinking I’m some twat whose life went in the wrong direction a long time ago and there’s nothing I can do about it.
MC Sofa: I did go through a phase a couple of years ago where I was really keen to get a job. I created a LinkdIn profile and Googled myself and found the first page of results referenced Anal Beard. I thought that was bad.
Grebn: My fear is telling someone I’m in a band called Anal Beard and them telling me that their dad used to like us. That’s what I wouldn’t like.
MC Sofa: What’s become clear is that we do talk about the band much more in the context of nostalgia.
Grebn: For four years between 2005 and 2009 we didn’t really do anything. After that we decided to do three gigs and call it day, but before we did those gigs we were offered some more and they went down really well. So we carried on playing sporadically, but we haven’t written anything new.
MC Sofa: And we can’t, can we?
Grebn: No, we have actually tried. We’re no longer able to write Anal Beard songs.
MC Sofa: Perhaps it’s because we don’t live together anymore.
Grebn: Could be it. We’ve tried individually and together and we can’t do it. And in a way there’s something quite nice about that. But at the same time dragging out this slowly dwindling set of songs is kind of pointless. For me Anal Beard became – in a really low rent kind of way – a heritage band. It would be far nicer just to end things with something that’s really memorable.
MC Sofa: Ironically, I do think we sound better these days than we ever have done. There were times when it sounded excellent with the classic line-up, but these days, in my opinion, we are consistently really good. But any innovation does feel quite forced. I was writing a poem for each gig because I couldn’t get it together to write a song.
Grebn: It has frustrated me that the ability to write songs is no longer there. It’s probably because I’ve completely sold out. I have my own washing machine now.
Grebn: It has been brilliant. What I’ve been reflecting on recently is how many bridges it’s built, not just in terms of bands but people who have met other people. There are people who’ve got married and gone on to have kids who wouldn’t have met if it were not for the Beard. That’s one of the best thing about being in a band, I think. The amazing links and friendships you make. And whatever else, that’s the bit that will endure. But there’s a flipside to it. Over the years we recorded about hundred songs which we’re putting together on a three CD anthology with a booklet. People have been sending me stuff like photos and videos and when you see how much fun everyone was having it is sad when you realise that it won’t happen ever again. But I’d rather be sad in that way than sad in the other way.
So what can we expect from the farewell show at the Albert?
Grebn: We’ve got The Lovely Brothers supporting and we’re gonna do two sets, about 26 songs. Some of which we haven’t played for a long long time. We’re not doing ‘Paedophile’ or ‘Bird On The Blob’. All the songs people have asked for are the songs we’ve chosen not to do. So already there’s disappointment in store. But they’ve already bought their tickets, so fuck them.
MC Sofa: Oh, shit. I’ve gotta go. I’m off.
WHAT: Anal Beard
WHEN: Saturday 12th September 2015
WHERE: Prince Albert
WEB: Facebook Event
Interview by Ben Bailey
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From “Love Me Tender” to “Hound Dog”, Elvis Presley is a cultural icon of American music. The Elvis Presley quotes below illustrate the man behind the music we all know and love.
What’s your favorite Elvis Presley song?
Elvis Presley began his music career at 18-years-old after being discovered by prominent Sun Records producer Sam Phillips. His 20-year long career in entertainment included over a dozen studio albums, 11 hit singles, and starring roles in over a dozen feature films. Today, Elvis Presley is the number three best selling artist of all time, behind only Garth Brooks and The Beatles.
Below we’ll look at the life and career of the “king of rock and roll” through his own words.
Also check out these Freddie Mercury quotes about being yourself.
Relatable Elvis Presley quotes
1. “There are too many people that depend on me. I’m too obligated. I’m in too far to get out.” – Elvis Presley
2. “It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.” – Elvis Presley
3. “I never expected to be anybody important.” – Elvis Presley
4. “I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.” – Elvis Presley
5. “I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.” – Elvis Presley
6. “I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.” – Elvis Presley
7. “It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.” – Elvis Presley
8. “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.” – Elvis Presley
9. “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away.” – Elvis Presley
10. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Elvis Presley
11. “Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.” – Elvis Presley
12. “Do something worth remembering.” – Elvis Presley
13. “Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.” – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley quotes about career
14. “Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don’t know why-the lyrics had no meaning.” – Elvis Presley
15. “I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyor belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.” – Elvis Presley
16. “I’ve tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.” – Elvis Presley
17. “I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.” – Elvis Presley
18. “The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.” – Elvis Presley
19. “I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.” – Elvis Presley
20. “That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.” – Elvis Presley
21. “I’m no hillbilly singer.” – Elvis Presley
22. “Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.” – Elvis Presley
23. “My movements, ma’am, are all leg movements. I don’t do nothing with my body.” – Elvis Presley
24. “I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.” – Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley quotes to inspire greatness
25. “The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.” – Elvis Presley
26. “I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.” – Elvis Presley
27. “I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.” – Elvis Presley
28. “Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.” – Elvis Presley
29. “The image is one thing and the human being is another. It’s very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.” – Elvis Presley
30. “Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’” – Elvis Presley
31. “A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.” – Elvis Presley
32. “I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
33. “Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ’em all together, I guess.” – Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley quotes about his upbringing
34. “I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.” – Elvis Presley
35. “When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.” – Elvis Presley
36. “When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.” – Elvis Presley
37. “Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.” – Elvis Presley
38. “The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.” – Elvis Presley
39. “After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.” – Elvis Presley
40. “The army teaches boys to think like men.” – Elvis Presley
41. “I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.” – Elvis Presley
42. “I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.” – Elvis Presley
43. “From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.” – Elvis Presley
44. “I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.” – Elvis Presley
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Elvis Presley quotes on success
45. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” – Elvis Presley
46. “More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.” – Elvis Presley
47. “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.” – Elvis Presley
48. “Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.” – Elvis Presley
49. “The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.” – Elvis Presley
50. “If you let your head get too big, it’ll break your neck.” – Elvis Presley
What’s your favorite memory of Elvis Presley?
Although Elvis Presley is one of the most popular artists ever, the above quotes reveal that he was just a regular guy at the end of the day. Through all of his success, he strived to stay grounded and make his family proud of him.
His work ethic is also undeniable. From music to movies, he put everything he could into executing his best work possible. That’s a large reason why Presley is still relevant to this day, over forty years after his untimely death.
Is there an Elvis Presley quote or lyric up above that you can’t get out of your head? Drop us a comment below!
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Like it or not, your kids are going to move out someday. Whether you come to my blog with babies, toddlers, or teens, it’s going to happen. And it’s going to happen sooner than you think. I say all this to shock you a bit. Stop doing what you’re doing and take time now to travel more with your children. Look, I get it. You see thousands of articles and pins on Pinterest with these families who travel full time. That’s not you. and it’s not me either. But as I write this, I have a 14-year-old and a 12-year-old. It is entirely possible I will not have children at home in 6 years!
If not now, when?
Even if you work full time, have limited vacation days, school schedules, etc., there are ways to travel more with your children. Here’s a collection of advice I’ve gathered, from myself and other moms, on how to travel more with your children.
Why Travel More with Your Children
If their limited time at home doesn’t spur you to travel more with your children, there are other reasons we, as a family, want to head out.
- Screen-Free – Generally, when we travel, the kids are off their devices more. This is just a natural occurrence as we’re out and about doing things, seeing the sites, hiking, or simply hanging at the beach.
- More Reading – I know this can go under the category of screen-free, but I also know I get to read more when we’re traveling. Fewer distractions, fewer household chores, you get it. And if you’re driving and can’t read, get an audiobook. I have audiobook recommendations for all ages.
- Games – When we travel, we also play more games with the kids. We’ll head back to the room after a day of exploring and still enjoy more time together playing Apples to Apples, Exploding Kittens, or good old-fashioned Uno.
- Cultural Experiences – If you travel outside of your hometown, you’ll likely be exposed to a different culture. Big cities have more diversity. Other countries may have a different way of living. These experiences show kids compassion, understanding, learning, etc.
- Quality Time – Above all else, traveling more with your children leads to more quality time with them. Away from distractions, away from work, activities, deadlines, etc. Traveling with my kids allows us to talk more freely, and enjoy each other’s company.
How do we do it? How do we travel more with our children? Schedule it.
The fact is, as my kids get older, they get busier. Planning family vacations don’t always fit into our busy schedules. Between school schedules, work obligations, extracurriculars, I don’t feel like we get to stop and enjoy each other’s company.
However often it makes sense for your family, sit down with a calendar (we have a shared Google Calendar), and review your free time. For us, that’s about once a quarter. For other families, maybe once a year, every 6 months, or even every month is a good review of when you might get away.
Personally, I love the paper Planners, and the Go Girl Planners on Amazon are my favorites.
Of course, not every free moment needs to be filled with vacations. Obviously, we have household responsibilities and we don’t always want to be on the go. However, if we don’t intentionally schedule our vacations, we let life get the better of us and we just don’t go.
How many vacation days do you let slide away? Why is it that Americans tend to lose vacation time. If you’re scheduling your time, use your vacation days. You’ve earned them. It’s better for your health, and of course, it’s better for your family. How do you use it, however?
Take a two-week or 10-day vacation. Going away for longer than a week allows you to have the much-needed downtime during your vacation. How many times have you traveled and were go go go the entire time that you did not feel rested upon return? Take the kids out of school for a couple of days, or use a full two weeks in the summer.
Additionally, plan a few long weekends throughout the year. Go somewhere within a couple of hour’s drive. Explore another part of your state that you haven’t been to before. Have an adventure or relax at the beach. Look at these little getaways as still satisfying the wanderlust travel bug.
Who says travel has to involve distance? Even if you explore your hometown with a “staycation” it’s all in how you package it and sell it to the family. Take a whole day full of adventures and call it travel. That can mean a day out at the zoo and a dinner someplace new and exotic. Go into the city and try an ethnic restaurant and pretend you’re traveling to faraway lands. Try a new museum. Hike. There are loads of possibilities.
You’ve scheduled your family vacations (and yes, I mean more than one), now you need to budget for it.
Read How to Figure out a Fail-Proof Travel Budget. In it, I describe two ways to tackle your travel budget, by traveling where you can afford, or saving for where you want to travel.
Related: How to Save Money on a Road Trip
Now the fun part, at least in my opinion! Planning the vacation is also a great bonding tool with the kids. Get them involved in picking hotels, planning activities, researching the destination. The more they know about where they’re going, the more excited and engaged they’ll be.
The following articles are a few that may help you plan your family vacation.
- Fly or Drive, How do you Decide?
- Do you stay in a Home Rental or Hotel?
- How to Find and Book a Unique Hotel
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Richard H. Clarida, the departing vice chair of the Federal Reserve, did not initially disclose the extent of a monetary transaction he made in early 2020 because the Fed was getting ready to swoop in and rescue markets amid the unfolding pandemic.
Mr. Clarida beforehand got here underneath hearth for purchasing shares on Feb. 27 in an funding fund that holds shares — at some point earlier than the Fed chair, Jerome H. Powell, announced that the central financial institution stood prepared to assist the financial system because the pandemic set in. The transaction drew an outcry from lawmakers and watchdog teams as a result of it put Mr. Clarida able to learn because the Fed restored market confidence.
Mr. Clarida’s just lately amended monetary disclosure confirmed that the vice chair bought that very same inventory fund on Feb. 24, at a second when financial markets were plunging amid fears of the virus.
The Fed initially described the Feb. 27 transaction as a beforehand deliberate transfer by Mr. Clarida away from bonds and into shares, the kind of “rebalancing” traders typically do after they wish to tackle extra threat and earn increased returns over time. However the fast transfer out of shares after which again in makes it look much less like a deliberate, long-term monetary maneuver and extra like a response to market circumstances.
“It undermines the declare that this was portfolio rebalancing,” mentioned Peter Conti-Brown, a Fed historian on the College of Pennsylvania. “That is deeply problematic.”
The Fed didn’t present additional rationalization of Mr. Clarida’s commerce when requested why he had bought and purchased in fast succession. Requested if the Fed stood by earlier indications that the transfer was a rebalancing, a spokesperson didn’t remark.
The correction to the disclosures was launched late final month and got here after Mr. Clarida seen “inadvertent errors” in his preliminary filings, a Fed spokesperson mentioned, noting that the holdings had been in broad funds (versus investing in particular person shares). Mr. Clarida didn’t remark for this text.
The extent of Mr. Clarida’s transaction is the most recent growth in a monthslong buying and selling scandal that has embroiled high Fed officers and prompted high-profile departures on the normally staid central financial institution.
Monetary disclosures launched in late 2021 confirmed that Robert S. Kaplan, the previous Federal Reserve Financial institution of Dallas president, had made big individual-stock trades, whereas Eric S. Rosengren, the Boston Fed president, had traded in actual property securities. These strikes drew quick and intense backlash from lawmakers, ethics specialists and former Fed staff alike.
That’s as a result of Fed officers had been actively rescuing a broad swath of markets in 2020: In March and April, they slashed charges to zero, purchased mortgage-tied and authorities bonds in mass portions, and rolled out rescue applications for company and municipal debt. Persevering with to commerce in affected securities for their very own portfolios all year long may have given them room to revenue from their privileged information. At a minimal, it created an look drawback, one which Mr. Powell himself has acknowledged.
Mr. Kaplan resigned in September, citing the scandal; Mr. Rosengren resigned concurrently, citing well being points. Mr. Clarida’s time period ends at the close of this month, which it was scheduled to do earlier than information of the scandal broke.
Mr. Clarida’s trades, which Bloomberg reported earlier, additionally raised eyebrows amongst lawmakers, together with Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has demanded a Securities and Alternate Fee investigation into Fed officers’ 2020 buying and selling. However many ethics specialists had seen the transaction as extra benign, if poorly timed, as a result of it occurred in a broad-based index and the Fed had mentioned it was a part of a deliberate and longer-term funding technique.
The brand new disclosure casts doubt on that rationalization, on condition that Mr. Clarida bought out of shares simply days earlier than shifting again into them.
“It’s peculiar,” mentioned Norman Eisen, an ethics official within the Obama White Home who mentioned he in all probability wouldn’t have permitted such a commerce. “It’s honest to ask — in what respect does this represent a rebalancing?”
Ms. Warren reacted to the information on Twitter, calling the state of affairs “deeply troubling” and saying that inventory buying and selling must be banned amongst federal officers.
It’s unclear whether or not Mr. Clarida benefited financially from the commerce, however it was probably a profitable transfer. By promoting the inventory fund as its worth started to plummet and shopping for it again days later when the worth per share was decrease, Mr. Clarida would have ended up holding extra shares, assuming he reinvested the entire cash that he had withdrawn. The monetary disclosures put each transactions in a variety of $1 million to $5 million.
The sale-and-purchase transfer would have made cash inside just a few days, as inventory markets and the fund in query elevated in worth after Mr. Powell’s announcement. The funding would have then misplaced cash as shares sank once more amid the deepening pandemic disaster.
However the fund’s worth recovered after the Fed’s intensive interventions in markets. Assuming they had been held, the holdings would in the end have appreciated in worth and turned a much bigger revenue than they might have had Mr. Clarida merely held the unique funding with out promoting or shopping for.
The Fed was conscious of the reputational threat round buying and selling because the pandemic kicked into excessive gear — the Board of Governors’ ethics workplace sent an email in late March 2020 encouraging officers to carry off on private trades — however notable transactions occurred in late February and once more as early as Could despite that, its officers’ disclosures recommend.
Mr. Powell has acknowledged the optics and ethics drawback the buying and selling created, saying that “no one is happy” to “have these questions raised.” He and his colleagues moved shortly to overtake the Fed’s trading-related guidelines after the revelations, releasing new and stricter ethics standards that can drive officers to commerce much less quickly whereas banning many varieties of funding.
The people in query additionally confronted censure. They’re under independent investigation to see if their transactions had been authorized and in step with inside central financial institution guidelines. The S.E.C. declined to touch upon whether or not it has opened or will open an investigation into Mr. Clarida’s trades and his colleagues’, as Ms. Warren had requested.
Whereas the officers who got here underneath probably the most scrutiny for his or her trades have left or will go away quickly, the brand new disclosure may trigger issues for the Fed’s remaining leaders — together with Mr. Powell, whom President Biden just lately renominated to a second time period as chair.
Mr. Powell will seem earlier than the Senate Banking Committee subsequent week for his affirmation listening to, as will Lael Brainard, a Fed governor, whom Mr. Biden nominated to switch Mr. Clarida as vice chair.
Each may face sticky questions on why a Fed tradition permissive of buying and selling at activist moments was, till just lately, allowed to prevail. Mr. Powell led the group, whereas Ms. Brainard headed the committee in control of reserve financial institution oversight.
The buying and selling scandal has additionally resurfaced longstanding considerations about whether or not the Fed is just too cozy with Wall Road, and whether or not its officers are working for the general public or to revenue from their very own actions.
If he’s requested concerning the scandal, Mr. Powell is prone to level to the more durable ethics tips that the Fed unveiled in October. Mr. Clarida’s apparently fast transaction would probably have been trickier under the brand new guidelines, which require officers to offer 45 days’ discover earlier than shopping for an asset, and which forestall buying and selling throughout tumultuous market intervals.
The up to date disclosures do present that Mr. Clarida was “in compliance with relevant legal guidelines and laws governing conflicts of curiosity,” primarily based on the Fed ethics officer’s evaluation. However that alone is unlikely to stop scrutiny.
No matter legality, “the general public can be involved if it turned out that he purchased shares of the fund earlier than a significant announcement by the Federal Reserve doubtlessly affecting the worth of his shares,” Walter Shaub, a former authorities ethics official now on the Undertaking on Authorities Oversight, mentioned in an electronic mail.
Mr. Shaub mentioned extra data was wanted to know if the commerce was problematic, together with whether or not Mr. Clarida knew the Feb. 28 announcement was coming — and when he knew that.
The Fed beforehand instructed Bloomberg that Mr. Clarida was not yet involved in deliberations concerning the coronavirus response on the time of the commerce.
However Mr. Clarida was in shut contact along with his colleagues all through that week. He had a name with a board member and a regional Fed president on Feb. 26, his calendars present. That’s the approach the Fed sometimes lists conferences of the Fed chair, vice chair and New York Fed president — the Fed’s so-called troika, which units the agenda for central financial institution coverage — on its largely anonymized official calendars.
Mr. Conti-Brown mentioned that no matter how a lot Mr. Clarida knew about his colleagues’ plans, the February trades had been a difficulty that the Fed wanted to elucidate intimately.
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Otázka: Prague – major sights
Přidal(a): Kateřina Štíchová
Prague’s architecture features examples of all major styles of architecture, from early Romanesque to Gothic and Baroque. The old centre of Prague consists of five historical districts. The OldTown, The New Town and Josefov (Jewish ghetto) are on the eastern bank of the VltavaRiver. On the western bank are the Lesser Quarter and Hradčany, which surround Prague Castle.
Charles Bridge : It was commissioned by Charles IV. The bridge joins Old Town and the Lesser Quarter and is one of the world’s most beautiful bridges. The bridge was built in 1348 (by Petr Parléř), but the figures of saints were added during the 17th century. They symbolise the confidence of the Catholic Austrian’s triumph over the Protestant Hussites.On both ends of the bridge there are Gothic Bridge Towers. The bridge is 520m long and 10m wide. The bridge is thronged all day with tourists, while at night it offers wonderful views of the illuminated castle and Old Town.
The Prague Castle – an ancient symbol of the Czech lands, is the most significant Czech monument and one of the most important cultural institutions in the Czech Republic.
It is a castle where the Kings of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperors and presidents of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic have had their offices. The Czech Crown Jewels are kept here. Prague Castle is the biggest castle in the world (according to Guinness Book of Records the biggest ancient castle) at about 570 metres in length and an average of about 130 metres wide. There are many interesting places and buildings in the Prague Castle, eg.: St. Vitus Cathedral, Belvedere or Royal Summer Palace, Spanish Hall, Rudolph’s Gallery, Vladislav Hall, Powder Tower, Royal Garden, Deer Moat, the Golden Lane and many others.
The Prague Castle is surrounded by the Strahov Monastery and Petřín hill with its famous watchtower.
- Petřín – it is near from Prague Castle and there are many mirror labyrinths.
Old Town Square – portions of Old Town Hall were hit by bombs in May 1945. The Astronomical Clock strikes every 60 minutes and is controlled by a very complicated mechanism built in the Middle Ages. In the upper part of the horologe a procession af the Apostles can be seen every hour. The horologe is decorated by 12 outer medaillons representing the course of village life, painted by famous Czech painter Josef Mánes. There are also 12 signs of the Zodiac. There also is the monument of John Huss on the square. Worthy of attention in the square is the gothic church of Our Lady Before Týn and a gothic tower house called At the Bell.
The neighbourhood around the Prague Castle is called Hradčany.
Wenceslas Square – the centre of the city. It is about 750m long and 60m wide. The statue of the Czech patron – St. Wenceslas- made by J.V. Myslbek is a symbol of a free and independent republic (people usually gather there in troublesome moments of Czech history)
Vyšehrad – formerly one of the Prague’s towns and originally the castle of the Přemyslid in the11th century. Nowadays we can visit the National Cemetary here with the graves of outstanding personalities in the sphere of culture, science and politics.
Dancing House – The Dancing House is the nickname given to a building designed by Croatian-born Czech architect Vlado Milunic in a co-operation with Canadian architect Frank Gehry. Built between 1994-1996, Dancing House is a strikingly modern contrast to Prague’s historic attractions.The building is an example of a deconstructivist architecture, with an unusual shape – you can actually see a couple – woman and man dancing together, holding their hands, with a skirt that sways to the music.The building is also called Ginger & Fred, referring to Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair – the legendary dance duo.
Zizkov Television Tower – was built in the 1984-89. It provides not only the devices for transforming TV signal, that covers a wide territory, but it also offers three cabins in the height of 93 meters and a restaurant with a view of the city in the height of 66 meters. If you are lucky with the weather you can see objects at the distance of 100 kilometers.
Means of transport
Public transport consists of metro, trams and buses, plus suburban buses (lines from no.300 to no.400).The Prague Petřín funicular is a part of integrated transportation system (PID) as well.
The Prague metro (beside trams and buses) is the most used Prague mean of transport.
The whole underground network is divided into the three main lines, each represented by its own color:
Line A (green)
Line B (yellow)
Line C (red)
Prague is a true cultural treasure trove, bursting with fascinating museums, galleries, theatres, and music venues. The city regularly plays host to numerous prestigious exhibitions, events, and more international festivals
The National Gallery – is a state-owned art gallery in Prague. It is housed in different locations within the city, the largest being the Veletržní Palác.
The vast collection contains a large number of Czech and Slovak paintings and sculptures, including works by Gutfreund, Kupka, Fila, Benes and Bohumil Kubišta. The international collection includes numerous works by artists such as Picasso, Rodin, Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir and Klimt; many of these are donations from the collection of art historian Vincenc Kramář.
Along with the Black Madonna House and the Kampa museum the trade fair palace collection is one of the most notable collections of Czech Cubism in Prague.
The National museum – is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded 1818 in Prague by Kašpar Maria Šternberg. Historian František Palacký was also strongly involved.
At present the National Museum houses almost 14 million items from the area of natural history, history, arts, music and librarianship, located in tens of buildings.
According to their website, the National Museum at present contains several million items of material concerning the areas of mineralogy, paleontology, mycology, botany, entomology, zoology, anthropology; and also archeology which is mostly concerned with the period from Neolithic times to the 10th century CE.
The National Theatre– in Prague is known as the Alma Mater of Czech opera, and as the national monument of Czech history and art.
The National Theatre belongs to the most important Czech cultural institutions, with a rich artistic tradition which was created and maintained by the most distinguished personalities in Czech society. This tradition helped to preserve and develop the most important features of the nation-the Czech language and a sense for a Czech musical and dramatic way of thinking.
Today the National Theatre consists of three artistic ensembles-opera, ballet and drama.
Other important places of culture include the Smetana Theatre, the Palace of Culture, the Magic Lantern, the Redute, the Lucerna Hall, the Tyl Theatre, the Vinohrady Theatre, the Semafor, the Viola, the Činoherní klub, Divadlo na zábradlí.
The majority of Czech universities, colleges and students residences are in Prague.
Prague is also an important centre for sports. There are many stadiums (Strahov), parks (Letná, Stromovka, Kampa, Petřín) and swimming pools.
Many world known personalities lived or spent some time in Prague, e.g.: Mozart, Beethioven, Chateaubriand, Čajkovskij, Descartes, Paganini, Wagner, Dostojevskij, Eimstein, Kafka, Lenin, Liszt, Ginsberg. many world famous personalities visited Prague, such as the Pope, Gearge Bush, John Major, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Michael jackson, Madona, Rolling Stones etc.
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14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium a Success
More than 270 students presented nearly 170 research projects at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Minnesota State University, Mankato Media Relations Office News Release [4-5-12]
More than 270 students and 83 faculty members presented nearly 170 research projects in a showcase of exceptional undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity at the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on Monday, April 9 in the Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Oral and poster sessions were held throughout the day and was followed by a celebration dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. for students and one of their family members, faculty mentors and Minnesota State Mankato administration. A Creative Art Exhibit was held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. A complete schedule and abstracts of all the research projects that were presented at the symposium are available at: http://www.mnsu.edu/urc/conference/during/
The theme of the symposium was “Launch Your Life” because of the impact that getting involved in undergraduate research can have on a student’s life. Participating in research transforms the college experience into a richer, more involved academic process for both students and faculty. It sparks creativity, opens doors to new opportunities, and helps forge mentorship relationships that nurture a lifelong love of learning.
Tiffany Ranweiler, a student majoring in both humanities and English literature at Minnesota State Mankato, wrote about her research project as follows: “Contemporary Dakota people in Minnesota are proud of their cultural legacy. However, through misrepresentation or stereotypes, their culture is sometimes viewed as something only for history books. I did research and conducted interviews with Dakota people to learn more about how they perceive their culture today. I hope my Undergraduate Research project ‘Cultural Survival of Dakota People’ will shed light on how they have worked to maintain their culture in spite of difficult conditions. Through communication and education, we can move toward a better understanding of one of Minnesota’s important cultures, and a better understanding of each other.”
Dr. Cindra S. Kamphoff, an associate professor of sport and exercise psychology at Minnesota State Mankato and the coordinator of this year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium, said the impact this program has on students is phenomenal.
“I’ve been mentoring undergraduate students since I arrived on campus five years ago, and I literally feel this changes their life,” Kamphoff said. “They get one-on-one attention and support from a faculty member that they maybe wouldn’t get other ways. They learn how to conduct a research project and how to describe the results in meaningful ways. We end up talking more about their career plans and graduate school. All of the students I have mentored, for example, have gone on to graduate school and become very involved in the profession of sport psychology. The impact this has is amazing.”
Dr. Marilyn Hart, Director of the Undergraduate Research Center, said that 2011-12 has been a remarkable year at Minnesota State University.
“Undergraduate Research is an integral part of our campus culture,” said Hart. “This past year, our university established an Undergraduate Research Center, provided funding for undergraduate research and travel to present at international, national and regional meetings. Minnesota State Mankato led the region in student presentations at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. We look forward to hosting the first Minnesota Conference of Undergraduate Scholarly and Creative Activity in late April, with participation from six Minnesota state universities. Finally, our Undergraduate Research Symposium has experienced tremendous growth and an increase in excitement on campus. The symposium is truly a celebration of our undergraduate achievement and excellence.”
For more information on this year's recently held symposium or to make plans for next year, contact Dr. Cindra S. Kamphoff, coordinator of this year's Undergraduate Research Symposium, at [email protected] or Dr. Marilyn Hart, Director of the Undergraduate Research Center, at [email protected].
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Since this blog is starved of fresh content, I thought I should just go crazy and write about anything I get my hands on. And I do mean anything. What I planned to be a 1,000 word post became five times as long, which says a lot about the way I write and why I found being prolific rather difficult in the first place. So, here’s a blog post on a game meme I responded to on a whim over a week ago.
It’s other people’s answers to it that made me think about explaining my answers. I do have a bit of imposter syndrome when it comes to being a gamer, feeling like I’ve not played as many games as other people, thus making my knowledge of them rather shallow in comparison. Perhaps with this, I can remind myself that I’m quite the gamer myself, having played a ton of titles over the years. In the end, I know what I like.
A friend on Facebook posted his answers, along with a template. It interested me enough to answer it. I found myself surprised by my own answers, having to give deep thought to some of them. Other friends answered it as well, and their answers were intriguing enough for me to go into mine with more detail.
Post your answers and tag @avoiderdragon on Facebook or Twitter at your own leisure.
My Answers to the Game Meme
Here is mine. I put a bit of effort into it by adding the box art of each game. I think the visuals add to the recall of each game, and it shows the variety I got to enjoy over the years.
Let’s look into each item, detailing the reasons behind my own answers.
Favorite Game of All Time — Arcanum
The last time I talked about my love for this game in full was over six years ago. I wouldn’t say it’s the best game. I wouldn’t even say it’s better than the old Fallout games. The Fallout games had slightly better writing for their antagonists, for instance.
It’s my favorite game of all time mostly due to my first experience with it back in 2001 and how I’ve been able to play it over the years. The first time I played it, I was taken so aback by how much I liked it that I went back to the store I got it from and told them how it’s well worth the money. I’ll never forget how jazzed I was then.
Perhaps my dream project is making my own video on the game. I’ve been thinking about it for many years now, but I’ve yet to gather the courage and confidence to do it. Someday, I’ll catch this white whale and do the game justice.
Best Story — Fallout: New Vegas
It was a toss-up between Fallout: New Vegas and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II for this category. Why Fallout: New Vegas won out is because it gave me the option to tell everyone in the Mojave to shove it up their asses by taking the Yes Man option.
The only reason I didn’t put Planescape: Torment here is because I never finished the game; I only watched let’s plays and video essays to understand its story. Therefore, it doesn’t count.
I didn’t put Arcanum here because of how it ends. While still beautiful and thought-provoking in its own way, the charisma option in the final boss fight isn’t as good as that of the first Fallout.
Favorite Art Style — Deus Ex: Human Revolution
This has been mentioned repeatedly on this blog that I liked the aesthetics of Deus Ex: Human Revolution so much that the design of this website was inspired by it. I’ve since changed the header fonts from Orbitron to Proxima Nova, and I may change it again to Scout (from Rainbow Six Siege).
This process shows how games influence not only how I choose to pass my time, but also how it informs my aesthetic choices. While my current aesthetics still retains a lot of my edgy teenage preferences, especially with the dark background, my choice of colors and overall presentation did change. If I made this back when I was a teenager, it would’ve been black and red.
Never mind the piss filter in the original release of the game. That was an artistic choice that made even me scratch my head. But the interface and atmosphere of the game stayed with me somehow, enough that it got me to copy bits of it while I was learning web development in college.
I know it’s not the most intricate or distinct art style ever in a video game, but I did like it anyway. Perhaps I would’ve taken more from Mass Effect 2 as well, a game that I also liked for its visuals. But somehow, nanopunk won me a bit more than outer space.
“I’ll finish it someday.” — Dishonored
I think I know why even with all the times I’ve tried to start with this game, I have not even approached the middle part and just let it languish in my Steam library all this time. It’s the distinction between high chaos and low chaos gameplay.
I learned early on that high chaos yields a bad ending and low chaos yields a good ending. While I’m definitely more of a low chaos sort of person since I grew up playing Deus Ex and Thief: The Dark Project, I watched a ton of combo kill videos when this game was first released.
High chaos is where all the fun stuff is, and I feel like I’d be missing out if I want a good ending. Then again, the solution to that is to play it twice. However, while I was trying out low chaos, I noticed that there’s an achievement for each mission called Ghost. You get it when you complete the mission without being spotted even once.
The last time I tried to play this game, I got spotted once in the first mission. I then stopped playing again due to being busy with other things. I know this is the sort of game I’d be into, but that distinction between high chaos and low chaos gameplay is throwing me for a loop.
This year, I’m putting a stop to that. I’ll finish it in 2021, hopefully live on Twitch.
Big Personal Impact — StarCraft II
What hooked me into StarCraft II back in 2010 is the same reason I got into chess back in 2006, which is learning more about something I’m supposedly bad at. It was an effort to shore up a weakness through a game. But what kept me hooked was the hotkey-centric gameplay and multitasking, which challenged me to get better.
I was able to reach Platinum league, which was more than what I wanted. In the five years I played 1v1 multiplayer ladder semi-seriously from 2010 to 2015, it taught me what it takes to turn a weakness into a strength. My weakness of not being good at thinking on my feet and making decisions on the fly were shored up to an extent.
It taught me much about the learning process. While I no longer play at least ten ladder games every day, I still carry the lessons I learned from that time. So yeah, this game had a big personal impact on me.
Best Combat — DOOM Eternal
If there’s one game that gave me the same itch as StarCraft II in terms of skill-based gameplay that hits every button for me, it’s DOOM Eternal. Right from its gameplay trailer, detailing all the new mechanics, I was hooked. I couldn’t wait to play it, so I played the hell out of DOOM 2016 in anticipation. It was the one thing I was looking forward to when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
It was released five days after the lockdown, and I went through hell trying to buy the game. My card wouldn’t work for some reason, so I had to find a way to add funds to my GCash. This was before I linked my bank account to it, so I had to go to find a nearby 7-11 that could let me do so. I was able to get the game just a day before release, which was practically a pre-order. While I usually have a rule of never pre-ordering a game, this had to be an exception.
DOOM Eternal was my companion for most of 2020. Once I learned about quick-switching and realized that I had to change my key bindings, it got even more fun. Perhaps you can say that 300+ hours in a game played throughout a year are rookie numbers, but every minute of that time was quality.
You like, but everyone hates — Fallout 4
The writing and dialogue in Fallout 4 suck. They make the game sub-par, which is a shame since the system itself is actually pretty good. I’d even double-down on that and say the role-playing system in Fallout 4 is superior to the older Fallout games.
I haven’t posted a write-up on this yet, but I have a draft on a comparison between Cyberpunk 2077 with The Outer Worlds and Fallout 4. I conclude there that Cyberpunk 2077 combines the best gameplay features of the other two and other open world games and immersive sims, as well as the more compelling story, while The Outer Worlds is the one with the more unique setting and Fallout 4 has the best role-playing system.
What Fallout 4 ended up being is a platform for future conversion mods that some indie outfit can make a full game with several years down the line. Bethesda’s unwillingness or inability to make a game with the same narrative cohesion and depth as Fallout: New Vegas makes Todd Howard look like Vince McMahon in pro wrestling.
I would go as far as to say that Fallout 4 is even more of untapped potential than Cyberpunk 2077. It goes to show that no matter how good the gameplay is, a single-player game will never get long-term recognition without significant narrative substance.
You hate, but everyone likes — League of Legends
This is mostly my fault. I was never able to get into the MOBA craze of the mid-to-late 2000s. I did play DotA All-Stars back in 2005, and the experience pretty much scared me away from team multiplayer games for the next several years. I just don’t like getting berated while playing.
I’ve talked about my qualms with playing MOBAs before on this blog post, and the five reasons I listed down there still stand. Besides, there’s no one who hates the game more than a veteran League of Legends player.
But why did I answer League of Legends here and not Dota 2? The answer lies in my ability to follow their respective scenes. Personally, I find the stories in Dota 2 to be more compelling, especially with the history of OG and all the other anime-like tales in that scene.
I never felt that with League of Legends. Perhaps it’s because I wasn’t paying enough attention. While there’s a lot more to Riot Games’ production value given to the game and its scene, it never really captured my attention for some reason.
That’s the reason for my answer here. Everyone else seems to like it, but I don’t.
Underrated — Mafia
I’m talking about the original here. I like this game so much, I made a video about it over four years ago. I have yet to follow it up with the remake, and I’m still working on that. It’s the source of my current anxiety, as far as my middling online endeavors go.
Anyway, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven was a game about Italian-American gangsters during the Prohibition era that was developed by a Czech company. That meant it was likely more based on a movie than the actual history, GoodFellas in this case. I don’t know how much the designer did his research, but it does seem like he’s a history buff as he went on to found the company that developed Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
The remake was great as it got more of the history it needed to add more depth to the setting and narrative. But what the original had on its own was already quite substantial with its story of family, betrayal, and reckoning.
Overrated — Overwatch
Overwatch was a salvage of the ill-fated Project Titan. It was an admirable and successful salvage, but still a salvage nonetheless. It’s not to say it’s a bad game; far from it.
But with the addition of Brigitte and the advent of the GOATS meta, we see how little idea Blizzard has for the game. They’re making it up as they go, and they would only make things even worse as they implement features like Role Queue to fix the situation.
I’ve said everything I could about my thoughts on Overwatch as far as its future and how Blizzard steers it. You pay $40 for a game that’s barely figured out, both in its gameplay and its lore. It’s such a waste since it has one strength that made it succeed in the first place, which is excellent character design.
“Why do I like this?” — Overwatch
Despite my many misgivings with it, I still like Overwatch. It was my 2016 Game of the Year and my #7 Game of the 2010s. It was still fun while I played it and helped me connect with friends during a crucial time. While I never really got good with it, which is the usual as it takes considerable effort for me to get good at games, I still got a lot of value out of it.
And even if I don’t play it anymore, I still enjoy seeing the characters, whether it’s in the increasingly sparse official material or in fan art (including porn).
Game You Always Come Back To — StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
This is about the first singleplayer campaign. While it lacks many of the gameplay updates of the next two installments, I still hold Wings of Liberty as the best one of the three. Perhaps it’s because the Terrans being human and Jim Raynor being a down-but-not-out revolutionary makes it a lot more relatable.
You get to hunt down pieces of a McGuffin, acquire awesome war machines, glimpse into the future, and topple a dictator throughout this campaign. You can play with units that are not available in the multiplayer ladder. You have achievements to complete in each mission and side objectives to earn more upgrade points and credits.
But what makes it good enough for me to want to play over and over again is the mission variety. While the branching missions it has fall a bit flat for me, it does have different upgrade rewards that make them somewhat compelling if you care enough about those particular units. But that only plays a factor if you’re skilled enough to make them work. Perhaps you eventually will once you get to a level that lets you beat it in Brutal difficulty.
Every time I get back to it, I’m a little better at the game. The last time I got back to StarCraft II, I was able to increase my APM in ladder games from 80 to 120 with a simple tweak to my gameplay. That also let me be better able to beat campaign missions in Brutal, which I couldn’t before.
Even if I’m not that active in the game anymore, I still improve as I mature as a gamer and as a human being. That’s not something I get often from a game.
That Atmosphere — S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
It’s supposed to be gritty and somewhat depressing. Its survival mechanics should make it disempowering, and the environment of the Zone should make it dreary. But somehow, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is like a warm blanket in a weird way.
Perhaps it’s the part of me that’s always been interested in stuff like prepping and survivalism. I’m not far down that rabbit hole to be paranoid about SHTF scenarios and government surveillance, but it’s enough for me to like the atmosphere in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. Perhaps I should finish the other two games in order to confirm that, but I think experiencing Shadow of Chernobyl that way is enough for me.
It’s sitting around a campfire with other stalkers, enjoying some vodka and a can of Tourist Delight, listening to guitar music or Bandit Radio, and just chilling in the Zone that can give you a sense of that slavic charm in this game.
Bad Cure Day — DOOM Eternal
It’s not just a bad day cure, but a bad year cure. The year 2020 felt like a black hole sucking my soul out of my body, and DOOM Eternal kept me from turning into a husk. I get to kill demons and be a badass, which is weird for me to say since I’m sort of an anti-escapist in the way I play video games.
DOOM Eternal is a bad day cure for me because it lets me focus more on getting better at a difficult game that I enjoy playing, which then encourages me to live my life with that same improvement-focused mindset when I do step away from it.
That’s similar to what StarCraft II has done for me, but the difference is that it entered my life at a crucial time—in the Year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Twenty.
Whenever I finish a hard mission, having been able to kill demons more efficiently, and come out beaten but not broken, I feel like I can do the same against the demons in the real world.
Favorite Protagonist — Garrett from Thief Series
This one took me a while to figure out. I realized that most of the protagonists in the games I played growing up were devoid of character. They were either silent protagonists who were designed to channel the player’s power fantasies or templates for acting out approximations of player choices. There weren’t a lot of distinct characters who were neither one-dimensional nor with cringe-inducing levels of edge.
And that’s why my choice for favorite protagonist ended up being obscure and still somewhat edgy. The only reason why I could be confident with my choice for Garrett from the Thief series, sans the 2014 reboot, was him being a reluctant hero.
He was an orphan who was taken in by the Keepers, an organization of scribes and scholars who maintained the balance in the City. He was taught their ways, but he didn’t want to be a disaffected ghost like them. He decided to go rogue and ply his skills as a thief.
It’s not to say his choice of rebellion was admirable—far from it. However, it was a career choice nonetheless, like being a black hat hacker nowadays. It let him better understand the power dynamics within the City while serving his own needs.
But with the latter, you’ll see throughout the game how he’s actually a bumbling fool. He always comes upon setbacks that could let him retire from burglary and maybe move to the countryside. The foolish part is that he doesn’t.
Meanwhile, the Keepers constantly pester him to go back to them. He just wants to do his own thing, while his former mentors want him to fulfill his potential as they see fit. Despite that, he brushes them off and tries to live his own life.
And perhaps that’s why I relate to Garrett. I’ve been in the same situation as Garrett with family breathing down my neck to make the most of my talents. But now, as a man in my mid-30s, they now look at me with tired eyes as a kid who wasted his potential.
On the lighter side, Garrett does have a sense of humor, so he’s not totally a stone wall. He does try to seem cool like how guys in their 20s try to act like Ryan Gosling from Drive, but he does have the moxie to back it up and is not lost for words most of the time.
And yet, I wish to not yield to what I came to see as an undesired path in life, like how Garrett saw the Keeper life. Like him, I’m pretty good at what I do and content with my way of life. He lost an eye, I lost my youth. Despite everything, we still keep on keeping on.
Don’t know if that’s a proper interpretation of his character, but it’s good enough for me.
After Work Relaxation — DOOM Eternal
I don’t know if it’s still entirely true, but I do find myself opening the game for a mission or two when I finish work. I haven’t been doing that as much right now as of this writing due to Cyberpunk 2077, but I see myself getting back to DOOM Eternal once I’ve exhausted the content in that game. Much of what makes it relaxing is why it’s my bad day cure as well.
Biggest Letdown — Watch Dogs
I was hyped for this game when the trailer first came out. It looked good, the hacking made for interesting gameplay, and the open world teased great possibilities. Instead, it came out rushed, with plenty of things wrong with its open world. The hacking was nice, but it was dragged down by its poorly written protagonist.
Aiden Pearce is one of the worst protagonists ever committed to any sort of media not because he’s boring like most other Ubisoft protagonists, but because he’s so unlikeable. He takes many parts of Batman, but without the heroism and Bruce Wayne’s ethics. He’s depicted as an angry white boy in a trench coat and even as a bad uncle. I couldn’t keep playing because the guy I was playing turned out to be such a downright asshole.
There’s now a much better version of Watch Dogs, where you get to hack enemies in combat as well. It’s called Cyberpunk 2077.
“Back in the Day” Game — Quake II
Comparing all the Quake games with each other, Quake II can never be seen as the foremost title in the franchise. Quake had the most novelty and fame, not only for being the first, but also for being so imaginative in its own right. Quake III Arena had the best multiplayer by miles. Quake IV was the most disappointing on all accounts, even if it did much to expand on the whole war against the Strogg.
Quake II is middling compared to them. It’s a result of what was happening in id Software, as well as the kind of stuff coming out of the woodwork in the late 90s. But it’s my first FPS, and I still play it every now and then. While DOOM Eternal has somewhat ruined it for me as this old-ass game doesn’t have quick-switching, I can pop in the Berserker mod to freshen it up.
It still has the easiest boss fight on earth, the dreariest levels ever rendered on a Voodoo card, and the dankest prisoners in video game history, but Quake II is still my regular nostalgia trip. High school sucked, but this game made it better for me.
I read a comment on Civvie 11’s video on Quake II that summed it up quite nicely:
“Daikatana shows how much Romero needed the Carmacks.
Quake II shows how much John Carmack needed Romero and Hall.
One of these games is infamously terrible and often analysed for just how many things can go wrong even when a superstar developer is involved.
The other game is mostly remembered for its colored lighting, when it’s remembered at all.”
“Not the best, but having fun.” — Cyberpunk 2077
This blog post details how much fun I’ve been having with Cyberpunk 2077. There is much to hate about the game, from its unfulfilled promises, numerous bugs and glitches, patch updates that always seem to break something, unoptimized performance, all the missing features, and how hard CD Projekt RED cracked the whip at their employees to get this game out the door.
Despite all that, I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into the game. I can’t get enough of making my way up the food chain in Night City. Somehow, even with all its flaws and broken promises, the soul is there. If they had gotten into its development a lot earlier and the guys at the top didn’t exert pressure to launch it within 2020, the potential would’ve been fully tapped.
It doesn’t just have a polish problem; it has a Polish problem. There are some shitty ass boomers over there. The Witcher 3 really blew their heads up. They’re well within their right since they still came out with a fun game, but I wish they didn’t get overconfident.
Criminally Overlooked — Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
This was a really close second for my answer as the best story in a game. I can say this game has the best characters out of any story-centric game. Perhaps other top contenders like Planescape: Torment, the Fallout games, and Arcanum have some really good ones, but the characters of KOTOR 2 pulled me in.
Both the protagonist Meetra Surik (or whichever custom character you choose to play) and Kreia are incredibly written. The antagonists (both overt and covert) and companions have deep backstories and motivations that drive the plot along, and they all converge and clash in such beautiful ways. To think they only had 14 months to cobble it all together, that game was an amazing achievement that’s seriously overlooked.
Perhaps that’s why I’m not too bothered by the sequel trilogy (even if I did review two of them badly). The ultimate Star Wars story already exists, and it came out in December 2004.
Depressing Game — Spec Ops: The Line
I should replay this game, but I remember my sole experience of this game being both excruciating and profound at the same time. When it came out, it was lauded by games media as a deconstruction of the then-popular military shooter genre, much like how Unforgiven was a farewell to the western film genre back in the early 90s.
For me, it was just a third-person shooter with fucked-up things going on, like burning civilians with white phosphorus, having your subordinates yell at you for being a bad officer, and the antagonist being sort of an old and grizzled military version of Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Those are spoilers I don’t mind dropping since Spec Ops: The Line is not about the twists, but the overall experience despite them.
The main reason why I feel like I have to play it again is because I sucked at cover shooters when I first played it. For some strange reason only known to my subconscious, I would play most shooters like I’m still in the 90s, so I would just charge in. Yeah, that’s no good for modern shooters, and especially so for a cover shooter like this game. It still depresses me to this day.
Favorite Active Franchise — DOOM
Before 2016, this was far from reality. But now, with DOOM 2016 and DOOM Eternal in existence, it looks like there’s a lot more to come for this old franchise. The developers have shown their creativity and moxie with updating this age-old intellectual property that used to have a barebones story into something that’s both serious and tongue-in-cheek.
The amount of lore you can go through in the codices of the reboot games show the amount of thought put into updating this classic, and they don’t get in the way of mindlessly enjoying the gameplay. All you have to care about is that the Doom Slayer is a badass and everyone is scared of him. He also doesn’t like authority, and he will rip and tear demons until they’re all done. I think that’s just great, and id Software has done an awesome job with it.
Indie Pick — Hotline Miami
I’ve played plenty of indie titles over the years, being the owner of a Steam library with over 700 games as of this writing. I had what I like to call “The Great Bundle Binge of 2015”, which made sure I had plenty to plow through for years to come, and the free games in the Epic Games Store only make that task more daunting.
There were other titles I could’ve put here, like FTL: Faster Than Light and Sunless Sea. But there was only one title that came to mind as my top pick. Hotline Miami swept through the Internet when it first came out in 2013, a time when most indie titles were platformers.
While it has the typical faux retro pixel art graphics of indie fare, the gameplay is what sets it apart. It’s both casual-friendly and deep at the same time. Perhaps the only thing missing is a multiplayer mode, but developers had an artistic vision that kept the series at two games. They’ve shown everything they wanted to show, and then moved on.
There’s now a whole genre built on Hotline Miami and maybe someone will make something that’s truly better by building on those games while bringing something entirely new instead of being another clone. However, finishing the games, seeing every secret I can find, replaying missions I liked, and playing the soundtracks on loop will be hard to top for me.
“Not usually my thing, but…” — VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
The most I’ve played visual novels was back in high school when I got to play eroge like Snow Drop, Water Closet, Do You Like Horny Bunnies?, and Sensei 2. As you can see, they’re of a certain persuasion, one which was supposedly not appropriate for my age at that time.
I haven’t been interested in playing visual novels since then, and the closest I’ve gotten to playing another one is VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action. What makes it different is the mixing of drinks that require some skill and use of one’s memory, which made it more engaging than most other visual novels.
Of course, what caught my eye was the “cyberpunk” in the name. It’s not that I have anything against the visual novel genre—far from it. I like good writing in any game, even in a genre I may not be that into. But with this game, the worldbuilding and characterizations are so well done, and the art style adds to its charm.
I should really do more with stuff like this. The obvious answer is to make video content with it, but that’s easier said than done. I’m trying to get back into streaming, and I can edit the VODs for let’s plays, highlights, and so on. Let’s see if I can indeed do that for 2021.
But hey, at least this 5,000 word blog post is a good start.
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Home Lending to Communities of Color in California
Owning a home is the primary way most Americans build wealth for their families, yet what is a modest goal in most parts of the country is being pushed further and further out of reach for most people of color in California. While the homeownership gap is an issue throughout the country, the rate of Black and Latino homeownership is significantly worse in California compared to other states. At the national level, the Black and Latino homeownership rates are 42 percent and 47 percent, respectively, compared to 35 percent and 42 percent in California.
Home lenders, including both traditional banks and non-bank lenders, have an important role to play in ensuring that all communities have access to affordable, safe home loans that increase family wealth and reduce the racial wealth gap.
The Greenlining Institute assessed Home Mortgage Disclosure Act lending data from six metropolitan areas of California: Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Fresno, Los Angeles and San Diego. This report evaluates the lending overall in those regions and the top 15 lenders in each region for 2019. Although there are slight variations among the largest lenders for each region, the findings across the regions were consistent.
- Communities of color do not access home purchase loans at rates comparable to White communities. Specifically, Latino households access 22 percent of the state’s home purchase loans, despite making up over 39 percent of the population, and Black households access three percent of home loans, while making up over five percent of the population. White households are especially overrepresented in home purchase originations relative to their share of the population.
- Women of color receive seven percent of home purchase loans by the top lenders in California, while making up 30 percent of the state's population. Women of color are underrepresented in their share of home purchase loans and are more likely to access a loan from a non-bank lender than from a mainstream bank. The disproportionate caretaking burdens and responsibilities of women of color are compounded with a wage gap and wealth gap that widen with an inability to access home loans.
- Low-income White borrowers are more likely than low-income borrowers of color to receive a home loan. In several regional markets, some lenders do not make any loans to low-income borrowers from communities of color. When Black, Asian and Latino low-income households do access home purchase loans, it is more likely to be from a non- bank lenders.
- Non-bank lenders are more likely to make home loans to low-income borrowers than traditional banks. In several regional markets, non-bank lenders make twice as many home purchase loans to low-income borrowers as mainstream banks.
- Non-bank lenders dominate several regional markets in California and play an increasing role in home lending across the state. In California, nine of the top 15 home purchase lenders are unregulated non-bank lenders that do not offer traditional banking services, operate largely online, and are not subject to the Community Reinvestment Act, so their lending is not regularly assessed to determine whether they meet the credit and borrowing needs of the communities where they operate. In our analysis, Black and Latino households were more likely than other racial groups to access home purchase loans from non-bank lenders.
Homeownership is the bedrock of wealth building. It is critical that home lending increases to communities of color in order to establish financial stability for future generations. This will require a comprehensive effort by non-bank lenders, traditional banks, financial regulators and state and federal policymakers to ensure that a continuous practice of racial equity and transparency is applied to the deployment of products, services and investments.
In light of our research, The Greenlining Institute recommends the following steps be taken:
- More loan products and outreach tailored to low and moderate income families. These targeted investments in communities are not only the right thing to do, they will lead to increased business for lenders and improve a lender’s bottom line.
- More funding to nonprofits led by people of color to support homeownership counseling. It is important that first-time homeowners, especially those from communities which are often targeted by predatory lending, have as much information and training as possible to help them make important financial decisions during the home buying process.
- Increase branch presence in rural communities as well as support for broadband deployment. Rural communities, especially communities of color, are often left out of most traditional banks’ footprint. Increased attention must be paid to both bank branches as well as philanthropic support for broadband deployment in underserved communities, which becomes absolutely vital as more and more banking services shift online.
- Increase cultural competency in both products and marketing. Lenders should invest heavily in ethnic media for their marketing efforts, which will help them both ensure that they reach consumers not well served by mainstream media as well as help to support businesses owned by people of color. Further, lenders should prioritize delivering their products and services in the languages spoken by California’s diverse communities and ensure that all communities, regardless of English proficiency, are protected against predatory practices and treated fairly.
- Stronger, win-win community partnerships. Lenders, regardless of whether they are traditional banks, FinTech firms or non-bank mortgage institutions, should meet with California community groups annually to hear from those most impacted by their lending practices.
- More targeted support from federal and state regulators. At the federal level, the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act should be made stronger, more accessible, with easier to access data that is disaggregated by different racial and ethnic communities. At the state level, California regulators should help to lead the discussion around the evolving, technology-oriented mortgage market with the goal of incentivizing innovation and lower costs while protecting consumers and underserved communities. | <urn:uuid:779d9e3b-ab00-4338-8c44-b48d6d14769b> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://greenlining.org/publications/2020/home-lending-to-communities-of-color-in-california/ | 2022-01-28T22:47:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306346.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128212503-20220129002503-00719.warc.gz | en | 0.961891 | 1,161 |
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Thyroid disorders are conditions that affect the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland in the front of the neck. The thyroid has important roles to regulate numerous metabolic processes throughout the body. Different types of thyroid disorders affect either its structure or function.
The thyroid gland is located below the Adam’s apple wrapped around the trachea (windpipe). A thin area of tissue in the gland’s middle, known as the isthmus, joins the two thyroid lobes on each side. The thyroid uses iodine to produce vital hormones.
Thyroxine, also known as T4, is the primary hormone produced by the gland. After delivery via the bloodstream to the body’s tissues, a small portion of the T4 released from the gland is converted to triiodothyronine (T3), which is the most active hormone.
The function of the thyroid gland is regulated by a feedback mechanism involving the brain. When thyroid hormone levels are low, the hypothalamus in the brain produces a hormone known as thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) that causes the pituitary gland (located at the base of the brain) to release thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). TSH stimulates the thyroid gland to release more T4.
Since the thyroid gland is controlled by the pituitary gland and hypothalamus, disorders of these tissues can also affect thyroid function and cause thyroid problems.
There are specific kinds of thyroid disorders that includes:
Please discuss with your doctor for further information.
Nodules are lumps or abnormal masses within the thyroid. Nodules may be single or multiple and can vary in size. If nodules are excessively large, they may cause symptoms related to compression of nearby structures.
There may be some symptoms not listed above. If you have any concerns about a symptom, please consult your doctor.
If you have any signs or symptoms listed above or have any questions, please consult with your doctor. Everyone’s body acts differently. It is always best to discuss with your doctor what is best for your situation.
Hypothyroidism results from the thyroid gland producing an insufficient amount of thyroid hormone. It can develop from problems within the thyroid gland, pituitary gland, or hypothalamus.
Hyperthyroidism describes excessive production of thyroid hormone, a less common condition than hypothyroidism. Some of the most common causes of hyperthyroidism are:
A goiter is not a specific disease per se. A goiter may be associated with hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, or normal thyroid function.
Nodules are lumps or abnormal masses within the thyroid. Nodules can be caused by benign cysts, benign tumors, or, less commonly, by cancers of the thyroid.
Thyroid cancer is far more common among adult women than men or youth. About 2/3 of cases occur in people under age 55. There are different kinds of thyroid cancer, depending upon the specific cell type within the thyroid that has become cancerous. Most cases of thyroid cancer have a good prognosis and high survival rates, especially when diagnosed in its early stages.
Please discuss with your doctor for further information.
The information provided is not a substitute for any medical advice. ALWAYS consult with your doctor for more information.
In addition to thorough medical history and physical exam, specialized tests are used to diagnose thyroid disorders.
Blood tests are typically done to measure levels of thyroid hormones and TSH. Blood tests to identify antibodies against thyroid tissue may also be ordered by your doctor, such as titers of anti-thyroglobulin, anti-thyroperoxidase, or TSH receptor stimulating antibodies.
Imaging tests are commonly used when thyroid nodules or enlargement are present. Ultrasound can visualize the consistency of the tissue within the gland and can often reveal cysts or calcifications. Ultrasound examination cannot distinguish a benign from a malignant process.
Thyroid scans using radioactive iodine are often performed to evaluate the function of thyroid nodules. The thyroid is the only location in the body that takes up iodine, so when radioactively labeled iodine is given, it is taken up by the thyroid gland. An imaging test typically shows uptake of radioactive iodine by normal thyroid tissue. Areas or nodules that are producing excess hormone (referred to as hyperfunctioning) will show an increased uptake of iodine. These are referred to as “hot” nodules or areas. By contrast, so-called “cold” nodules represent areas with decreased iodine uptake. “Cold” nodules do not produce excess hormone and can sometimes represent cancer.
Fine needle aspiration and biopsy are techniques that remove a sample of cells or tissue from the thyroid gland for examination and diagnosis by a pathologist, who is a physician trained in the diagnosis of conditions based on tissue samples. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) uses a long, thin needle to withdraw a sample of cells from the thyroid. FNA can be performed in the doctor’s office. Sometimes, ultrasound imaging is used to guide the FNA procedure. A biopsy is the surgical sampling of a tissue.
Thyroid disorders can be treated by medications or, in some cases, surgery. Treatment will depend on the particular disease of the thyroid.
Medications can be given to replace the missing thyroid hormone in hypothyroidism. Synthetic thyroid hormone is given in pill form by mouth. When hyperthyroidism is present, medications can be used to decrease production of thyroid hormone or prevent its release from the gland. Other medications can be given to help manage the symptoms of hyperthyroidism, such as increased heart rate. If hyperthyroidism is not controlled with medications, radioactive ablation can be performed. Ablation involves giving doses of iodine labeled with radioactivity that selectively destroys the thyroid tissue.
Surgery can be used to remove a large goiter or a hyperfunctioning nodule within the gland. Surgery is necessary when there is a possibility of thyroid cancer. If the thyroid gland is removed entirely, the individual will need to take synthetic thyroid hormone for life. Thyroid surgery can also be used in Graves’ Disease (subtotal thyroidectomy) and was the treatment of choice prior to RAI therapy and anti-thyroid medications. It is not used much now.
The following lifestyles and home remedies might help you cope with health condition:
If you have any questions, please consult with your doctor to better understand the best solution for you.
See more post:
Thyroid Disorders. https://www.medicinenet.com/thyroid_disorders/article.htm. Accessed November 7, 2017.
Understanding Thyroid Problems — the Basics. https://www.webmd.com/women/guide/understanding-thyroid-problems-basics#1. Accessed November 7, 2017.
5 Easy Lifestyle Changes For Living Better With Hypothyroidism. https://healthguides.healthgrades.com/tuning-up-an-underactive-thyroid/5-easy-lifestyle-changes-for-living-better-with-hypothyroidism. Accessed November 7, 2017.
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Everyone loves beach houses. This is the place where as soon as you stepped in, all of the stress and anxiety are blown away by the ocean breeze. Not to mention the joy and happiness that comes with the exposure of the bright and sunny sunshine.
If you are planning to remodel your old beach house or create new ones, then there is nothing more that we can say than to go all in and create your dream coastal getaway!
Thus, every single detail, element, furnishings, and even any small piece of decoration items should be in line with your design goals
For most interior elements, you can easily find anything that already had a touch of coastal looks. For example, it’s quite easy to find any furnishings or decor items that comes with ocean looks and feels, or you can easily find any shiplap wood and use it for an accent wall or even the ceiling.
However, when it comes to flooring, things can be a little bit different. It’s quite hard to find the ones that can instantly fit into the coastal environment, especially when it comes to choosing the colors.
To help you with it, our interior design expert will share the 7 best flooring colors for coastal interiors that you can use as ideas and inspirations. And here they are :
7 Flooring Color Ideas for Beach House
Light Natural Wood
Based on our experience, in most circumstances, this is one of the best choices. The warm vibe of this kind of floor is perfectly suited to the ocean environment to create a warm, happy and joyful feeling throughout the house. Some of the best wood that comes with these kinds of appearance is cedar, white pine, cherry, or white oak.
These kinds of wood floors can also create a more modern visual appearance compared with another wooden finish. Thus, if you want to create a more modern or contemporary style beach house, then this flooring can incorporate perfectly with those decor styles.
Medium Brown Wood
We don’t really recommend any wood flooring with dark-toned brown finishes for beach-style decor. However, if you still want to bring the beauty of earthy brown tone for your flooring, then opt for a lighter tone such as the medium brown wood.
This flooring color will bring the elegance and stylish appearance as any darker brown but in a more soft and subtle finish.
However, it’s quite difficult to find any hardwood floors that come with this color naturally, so you had 2 different options: use any wood finishing paint or coat to retouch any hardwood floors and bring this kind of look, or use any laminate or vinyl flooring that offers more variety of color choices.
Blue is obviously the best color when it comes to the coastal or beach house environment. It can bring the ocean feels directly to your house and emphasize the coastal vibe in a strong, colorful way.
Since there are a lot of different varieties of blue tile, we tend to choose the ones that come with a more neutral appearance such as any pale blue or grayish blue as they are much easier to blend with any other color.
But you can still go with a more vibrant blue in case you want to make the blue as the main dominant palette for your home.
Sometimes, the best way to sense all of the nature and the beauty of the ocean is by keeping everything clean and simple, so the spectacular and dramatic views from the outside of your beach house don’t interrupted by any interior element.
For this particular situation, then using simple white flooring is obviously the best option. While any kind of white flooring can work really well, we tend to prefer any white marble flooring to bring a bit of glam and elegant touch thanks to its gorgeous natural vein effects.
Cream flooring is a delicate option that can works nicely in any different setting, including for the beach house. Its main benefit is to warm up any room to create a perfect balance, especially if you are using a lot of cool-toned elements inside your room.
Another great neutral flooring color for beach house is beige. This shade is very versatile and that’s what makes it can blend easily with any furnishings colors above it.
Any kind of beige flooring can work really well for the coastal environment, so you can go with beige tile, beige finishes hardwood floors, or beige laminate floors.
If you tend to create a beach house that blends flawlessly with nature outside, then we highly suggest you go with gray concrete floors.
These kinds of flooring will have a gorgeous stone-like appearance that is perfect to bring earthy looks inside your home.
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Plan to stay 2-3 nights to enjoy the breathtaking view of the Falls, exciting attractions, nature, parks and hiking trails. Visit local wineries, breweries, distilleries, and eat and drink like a local.
How many days should you spend in Niagara Falls?
Two nights is the minimum trip length we recommend in order to see a good deal of the Falls, as well as explore a couple other attractions the area has to offer. Keep in mind, there are many great restaurants you may want to eat at, some of which offer epic views of the Falls.
Is it worth staying at Niagara Falls?
Yes, Niagara Falls is over-comercialised and you will be hard pressed to find a decent meal in the main thoroughfare, but it is still worth a visit. … And don’t miss out on Niagara-on-the-Lake, a picturesque town about a half-hour drive from the Falls via a route through wineries and fruit orchards.
What is the best month to go to Niagara Falls?
The best time to visit Niagara Falls is June to August. Summer is peak season, and with good reason: Average highs rest in the low 80s. Mists and breezes from the waterfalls can make the area feel cooler.
What to do in Niagara Falls for 3 days?
3 Epic Days in Niagara Falls
- Room With a View. Book a Fallsview room and enjoy the spectacular view of the Falls from the comfort of your bed, any time of the day. …
- Niagara Helicopters. …
- Niagara City Cruises. …
- Skylon Tower. …
- Zipline to the Falls. …
- Journey Behind the Falls. …
- Niagara SkyWheel. …
- Table Rock Centre.
Is it better to stay in Buffalo or Niagara Falls?
If it’s to see the Niagara region, then you really ought to stay in Niagara Falls proper and day trip it into the Buffalo area if you really are itching to see stuff there. Buffalo itself will be cheaper, but you’ll be driving out to see everything.
What is bad about Niagara Falls?
In 2016, the FBI ranked Niagara Falls as the most dangerous city in New York state and 44th in the country. Car parking scams leave tourists out of pocket and there are boarded-up buildings and litter-strewn streets within a block or two of the falls.
Which side is better to stay on in Niagara Falls?
The Canadian side is far better. Safer and nicer too with more things to do with the family. Don’t even consider staying on the American side…. however, I do recommend visiting Goat Island and Cave of the Winds on the American side.
Is one day enough for Niagara Falls?
Niagara Falls requires, and deserves, more than a day for all its charms, but with only one day to spare, it’s still possible to start to appreciate this natural wonder and get some great ideas for a return visit.
Do I need a passport to go to Niagara Falls?
Yes. A Passport (or a Passport Card or Enhanced Driver’s License if coming by land) is required for crossing the border into Canada unless you are age 15 or younger.
Does Niagara freeze?
“It is impossible for the falls to fully freeze anymore.” Niagara Falls is comprised of waterfalls on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. The most remarkable (freeze) was when both the Canadian and American Falls froze solid, and that was in 1848.
What is the best day of the week to visit Niagara Falls?
When Should You Visit Niagara Falls? Weekdays in late spring, summer, or early fall are the best days to visit Niagara Falls. We visited Niagara Falls on the Tuesday after Memorial Day. We even arrived at around 10am—an hour after opening—and easily found parking and short or non-existent lines throughout the day.
How much are ponchos at Niagara Falls?
the Ponchos are free it’s a light plastic bag you discard once the tour is done. Also the parking around there is like $13-25 in the hotels close by, try to park at the casino it will cost you btw $3-5, then walk down, to the falls.
How do you spend weekends in Niagara Falls?
Explore the beautiful parks by foot or rent bikes and e-bikes.
- Floral Showhouse.
- Queen Victoria Park.
- Oakes Garden Theatre.
- Niagara Glen and Nature Centre – hike in the Niagara Gorge.
- White Water Walk – boardwalk and self-guided tour along the river’s edge and white water rapids.
- Botanical Gardens.
- Floral Clock.
Do you need a car to get around Niagara Falls?
One question that might pop up in your mind when you think of exploring the place is: “Do I need a car to get around Niagara Falls?” The answer is “No” if you stay in the right location and are willing to use the easy to use transporations systems the city has set-up. | <urn:uuid:3bb71d13-0549-4bbe-9912-b30919b2ead3> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://stevenpetric.com/attractions-canada/is-3-days-enough-in-niagara-falls.html | 2022-01-28T23:25:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320306346.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220128212503-20220129002503-00719.warc.gz | en | 0.933782 | 1,080 |
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