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Interview with Aella, Part I
by Jacob Falkovich24 min read19th Sep 20192 comments
Do you identify with the story of you that's out there?
So we're getting a snapshot of Aella's mind on September 5th, 2019, and that's it. Is there a set date at which you will automatically unendorse everything you're going to say today?
That's one of the ways to think about it.
I just took a homeless person grocery shopping for the first time.
Yeah, it was a 10/10 great experience. I see a lot of homeless people in NYC with terrible signs that are clearly lies. But this guy's sign said: "A $10 shopping spree at CVS would be life-changing". I liked how direct it was. I asked, "Hey, buddy, what's your name?" -"Justin." -"OK, Justin, let's go shopping at CVS. Anything you want is on me."
All he got was a box of tuna. I asked if he wanted anything else but he said that someone had already bought him soup, and that soup plus tuna is a great dinner. He also got really excited about how many different kinds of tuna there were and I almost said, "Yeah, isn't capitalism amazing?" but in the end, I didn't say that.
I may not have been 100% sober when this happened.
To all the people out there: go buy some tuna, put LSD in it, and go make friends under the local bridge.
You're a very unique person in almost every domain, what you believe and the things you do. I have a speculative theory about that. It sounds like none of the social scripts that you've absorbed as a child still ring true, and so you had to figure things out from scratch at 19.
So you still have an instinct to rigorously question things like systems of belief.
Let's talk about friends and communities. I often think about how the people I spend most of my time with are not really representative of broad humanity, they're huge outliers in terms of intelligence, education (I don't mean college degrees), resources, etc. I imagine that for you this is even more extreme. Do you find it strange, living on an island of people who are strongly selected and unusual?
I assume that growing up in Idaho in a fundamentalist Calvinist family you didn't know a lot of Jewish people. When was the first time you met one?
And now it seems like every passing year you're surrounded by more and more Jews.
I'm glad that my tribe is representing.
So: the anti-cult. You want questioning people who won't just settle into agreeing on a thing just because that gets them accepted by the group.
What are the main obstacles right now for getting that community set up?
So you're looking for a millionaire who thinks your community idea sounds cool?
It shouldn't be hard for people who are intelligent, emotionally mature, and creative to make money. I'm not optimizing for making money right now but I could still save up enough in a few years to then live for 20 years on a ranch in Montana. I just want someone to help babysit my kids when I have them.
The FDA could eventually approve psilocybin and LSD therapy for things like addiction and depression.
Some people were more than ready. Some people had a great time.
The Aztecs are a tropical civilization, and their myths are pretty dark. But it does seem like warm weather cultures have more trickster gods who aren't really vicious, they just they fuck around.
So what's the morality that they teach? That the night is dark and full of terrors?
I wonder if they have a set of nicer myths to tell in July when it's sunny all the time and then they bust out the book of really dark tales in December.
Let's talk about sex.
You said on a podcast that when you first left home you were really horny and had sex all the time.
It's probably common for every single human to at some point think they have sex figured out and then to discover how much there is to learn.
I don't have sex "figured out" but my own relationship with it is more straightforward, at least in how it works for me. It's not a business for me, it's not a power move. It's pleasure and bonding; I always liked women more after sleeping with them.
Do you hear any problems that you feel really unqualified to answer?
So insecurity is feeling like you don't know yourself, and if you knew you would be disappointed.
Cross-posted from Putanumonit.
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This is part 1 of the interview, talking about Aella's background, Twitter, Jews, the homeless, LSD ranches, Inuit mythology, insecurity, and sex. Part 2 is about psychedelics and philosophizing and will post next week.
I'm here in a secret location in the financial district of Manhattan with the most interesting woman in the world.
And we are drinking whiskey, which is appropriate.
You're doing all the homework beforehand. It's really cool. I haven't experienced this before.
In these interviews, I try to channel Tyler Cowen. Before he interviews people he reads everything they've produced so he's not introducing listeners to a person, but diving really deep into how they think. Because we set this interview up on short notice, I spent 8 hours yesterday consuming your entire blog and podcast archive.
Have you heard of Nardwuar? He's an interviewer who also does this. Last night when you sent me the questions I felt that this would be like a Nardwuar interview.
I want to start with an Askholey question. Do people know the real you? Would people who follow you online be surprised if they got to spend a lot of time with you?
I don't know what that means, "the real me". Most likely people would be surprised by things that aren't that interesting, like small habits I have. Things that are interesting, I tend to talk about because stories are a commodity. Learning to identify the aspects of my life that can serve as a commodity is really useful because you can put it out there and then get attention and start a dialogue in ways that are new and creative. And so the things that aren't novel are things that might surprise you, like how I take my coffee or something.
I don't know what that means. There's a strong way in which I feel like the stuff I write about myself in the past is a completely different person. The sense that I have when writing about myself in the past, is like a story that's not me. It's just a dream that I woke up with in my head one day and I'm sharing that dream.
It kind of happens as I say it. If I'm paying attention and being mindful when speaking, then it becomes a lot more salient for me. As soon as something leaves my mouth, it's as if it's no longer part of me in any way.
It's a weird thing to have a feeling that you identify with something. Like what even is that, to identify with something?
I think that there's no objective answer to what your identity is, it's more of a stance that you can take. If I notice a feature of me that persists over time, and people start predicting my behavior based on it, I'm also going to predict myself based on it and it becomes my identity.
So your identity is prediction?
I don't identify with a lot of aspects of my body. I don't carry things like my digestive system or subconscious habits that I have as a sense of identity. I guess I'm saying that predictability is not all that you need.
I just saw a woman wearing a t-shirt that said: "Queens are born in December". People will craft an identity out of any random thing, like the month they were born.
It's kind of fun!
Something I've been working on recently is the sense of flexible identity, being able to rapidly shift the identity that I have. And this is helping me not be afraid of carrying authority and also not be afraid of not having authority. Going back and forth rapidly between knowing what I'm talking about and knowing nothing of what I'm talking about. It feels really good to be able to shift identity or the sense of it.
I asked for question suggestions from our Twitter followers, which gave me a glimpse into your world a little bit. I have 750 followers and I'm very proud of all of them. You have 35,000, and I'm not as proud of them.
Yeah, I often have my hopes in humanity dashed by Twitter. It keeps my relation to humanity humble.
I get the sense that you're really curious about people at large, without necessarily liking them. A lot of your Twitter questions are driven by curiosity but they don't show people in the best light.
That is true. I enjoy bonding in darkness, finding the worst aspects of someone or forcing a bad frame or a confession. Showing that we're all in an evil and gritty sort of world and then displaying acceptance in that world. I really enjoy the sense of acceptance and peace inside the hairy, gross stuff. And so part of my drive is to pull people downwards because I want to show that it can be safe there. It's safe to go down. I like that.
Tyler Cowen is fond of saying that every thinker is a regional thinker. That the culture and circumstances where you grew up affect how you think and make you different from your current intellectual peers. You grew up in really unusual circumstances; how do they affect the way you think today?
It's hard to know what is the culture and what is genetics, but there are definitely things that came into play like cultural isolation. When I was growing up access to movies and music was really limited. We weren't allowed to see media of children who were upset with their parents so even the concept of being whiny just wasn't in my worldview. Information was controlled at such an extreme level. And of course, I didn't go to public school except for a couple of brief months, which didn't have much of an effect on me.
Also very important was the philosophy of us-against-the-world. 'Us' being the Christians, the minority, the one that was persecuted, and we had the truth and everybody else hated us. We were told constantly that when you grow up and you go into the world, you're going to have to stand your ground and everybody is going to think differently than you. But it's okay to think differently. And so I think that made me feel really comfortable from an early age with the idea of being really different from everybody else. That was just the norm.
Do you still feel like it's us-against-the-world, just transferred to a different tribe?
I don't know. I think that this made me feel safe being different in a fundamental way. It reduced my fears around thinking terrible things, fears that other people might have. Although there was strong conformity in my culture as it was, we were still nonconformist in contrast to everyone else. So I had access to that nonconformist identity in ways that maybe the mainstream doesn't because there's nothing to contrast themselves to.
How about the genetic side, and also your family upbringing. Do you see any parts of your parents in yourself?
I like to think of myself as sort of the blend between my parents. My dad's quite severe. He has Asperger's and is ambitious in a kind of way. He's very intelligent and kind of immature and very masculine in a low empathy, low agreeableness manner. And I can see some of that in myself, too. When you're talking about me being more interested in curiosity and less in liking people that might come from low sociality.
But my mom is extremely empathetic and pro-social, exactly the opposite. And she taught us a lot of social norms that feel ingrained in me on a deep level, like being extremely kind to people around you no matter what. This has led to me sometimes engaging in actions that are weird, like going out of my way to get a homeless person an Uber. This backfired, the homeless person did not get in the Uber, they were insane. But I tried to do that when other people already knew that that's not something you're supposed to do.
Did that cause you to do this or do you tend to do stuff like this in general? I guess it's already within you.
I try to do more things like this in general, but I find myself doing them a lot less when I'm sober. But this was such a great experience that I'm going to do more stuff like that.
I used to do this kind of thing when I lived in Seattle. I lived alone; I was kind of lonely. And so one night I got pretty drunk and then went out on the street and saw this group of homeless people and gave them all LSD and then they all started tripping. I just hung out with them all night.
I continued to hang out with this group and would bring them food all the time and gifts. They were very picky about the food and gifts that I brought them, actually, but it was a really great experience. Homeless people and LSD is a great combo.
I learned a lot of things from my parents and where I grew up about what's appropriate and what's good. Scripts for family life, work, education, how to treat people, etc. Some of these I discarded, but for the most part, they were pretty good scripts to follow.
But the only scripts you had came from your parents since you didn't have things like TV shows to offer an alternative. And the social rules you got from your parents seemed so bad that you completely rejected it. And so at 19, you had to reckon how to interact with the world with a completely open mind, doing sex work and psychedelics and all of that. It's like you were born again as an adult with no prior programming.
Weirdly, I think some of this might come down to the religious training that I had. You know my dad's a professional evangelical. A big deal growing up was proving other faiths wrong. And I was always terrified, how do we know they're wrong and we're not the ones that are wrong? I recognized that there is this weird parallel between my religion and the other religions. And so a huge part of my attention was devoted towards noticing that people just buy into what they're raised in, and that can send them to hell to burn for eternity.
This was an extremely terrifying idea to me, that people could just not deeply question what they believed in. I knew I had to do that for my own faith too, which is eventually what knocked me out of it. This deep fear of not questioning the thing that I'm put into was a really big theme for me as a teenager and adult. I viewed everything with really strong skepticism because I'd always been judging people of other faiths, like Muslims and Catholics, for not looking on their lives with a critical eye.
That put the idea into my brain that nothing is sacred at all because my God, the most sacred thing of all could be taken down by reason or at least questioning.
I think it's a point of annoyance with even my closest friends that I may want to build a commune with, me being too fast to be skeptical about belief systems.
Yes. When I was growing up I felt super introverted and everybody viewed me as an introvert. And then I found the Rationalists and I realized for the first time that I was an extrovert with them, the people that I clicked with. I felt like I'd been looking for them my whole life. There is a way in which my current community is satisfying something for me that normal communities can't and so I deeply appreciate that about them even though you get normalized to it. I'm assuming this happens to you, too, although maybe not.
I don't really talk to people outside of my bubble very much. And then when I do, it's quite a shock. I forget that the world is so incredibly different from me and my friends.
I have a normie day job, I have a soccer team and things like that. One of the reasons why I like New York and don't move to Berkeley is that I don't really want to have everyone I talk to be a rationalist.
I didn't know any Jewish people growing up. When I moved to the camgirl house in Washington a lot of the other girls had moved from the East Coast and would just talk about Jews or refer to Jews playfully. And I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? How do you have all these stereotypes about Jews? Where do you meet them? I didn't know that there was a whole bunch of them here in New York.
Oh, yeah. Now it's just Jew city.
I kind of like it. I feel mild affection for the Jews on the basis of their race, which might be racist, I'm not sure. I tend to have positive experiences with them, especially Israelis. I really like the Israelis that I've met. When I go to burns, often there's a community of Israelis I hang out with and they're quite interesting, culturally different people.
Yeah, they're doing it well.
You mentioned potentially forming a commune or an intentional community. Is that your biggest goal in life right now?
I think so. I'm starting to shift from an "explore mindset" to a "settle mindset", and people around me have been talking about building communities forever. I've been afraid of it because you hear constantly about how intentional communities fail and explode. I don't know any intentional communities that have been together for decades with the same people. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
Anyway, this has made me a little bit afraid of pursuing it but now I'm starting to want it badly enough that I'm going to pursue it anyway. I'm interested in getting land or a large building.
With what sort of people? You wrote: "Belief systems aren't 'the things we've logically concluded about the world.' They are structures that give us a way to interact with our environment." And the environment is mostly the people around you. So what sort of people are you looking for and with what shared belief system?
Sufficient intelligence, emotional maturity, and creativity are the three qualities I'm most interested in if we're going to be scoring people on tests or something. With regards to a belief system, I think I'm primarily interested in a specific relationship to that belief system. The flexibility to recognize that beliefs are something that you hold instead of having the belief hold you. Being able to manipulate or shift around your beliefs to figure out what is most useful in the moment, because I feel like people have a lot more options for interaction available to them if they're not subject to their beliefs. I'm really drawn to people who seem to have that quality. I would love to live with those people.
Right. I think this falls into the intelligence category a bit. You want people who have this curiosity, which is something that I often find lacking with very creative people, weirdly enough. You'd think that creative people are quite curious, but I've been disappointed in this for a while.
That would be dope, and I don't think is that infeasible, really. But I don't like the idea of being at the whim of someone else. Independence is quite important to me. And if you accept someone else's money, who's going to be part of this project, then you're subject to their whims.
This is kind of what's going on. I and some of my friends have some funds that we're interested in using. Not a ton, but communities can also be businesses. You could have a community that runs a retreat or workshop center. Get investment from someone and start a company.
An LSD cult on a ranch, it's not like that hasn't been done before.
Tim Ferriss recently declared that he's putting all his energy into psychedelics research. It's a massive business opportunity.
Yeah, I think it's going to be big and hopefully, it's done right this time. Last time it was a little… people weren't ready.
That is true.
Who do you identify with more, Igaluk or Malina?
That's the girl who got raped by her brother and cut off her breasts?
I don't think I was so much identifying with one of the characters as the incredible darkness of the tales of the Inuit life. It seems when reading about legends of different tribes that the farther north you go, the more horrific they are. Demons crawling out of things to eat children and such.
Igaluk and Malina, in Inuit mythology she ends up becoming the moon and he the sun and he's chasing her forever. This is their fucking sun and moon tale. In other places, it's the God-father giving birth to the earth and the sun rises in a chariot or something more innocent.
In other mythologies, there are classic tales of Hero's Journey or some shit. But if you fall down the Wikipedia hole of Inuit mythology it's just consistently gut-wrenching.
Probably. I haven't thought about it too much, but my original theory was that the environment is a lot more threatening than it might be if you're in a tropical or warm place. So the stories reflect that. It does stay dark up there for a really long time for half the year.
There are many approaches and uses of sex, and you've explored quite a few of them. And some of them are somewhat in tension. Sex can be used for bonding and creating intimate relationships with people of both genders. But you also wrote about how at the heart of it is this vicious game of power and status. What does sex mean for you and how do you use it?
Maybe the question that I have the least insight into is myself and sex. I've been in and out of sex work for a while so for me, sex has primarily functioned as a money-making thing. It's practical, a business, the thing that you do to support yourself and eat food. It's quite distant and it's very much a tool for me. And so in my personal life, it's shifted a lot. I've gone from having a really high sex drive to a really low sex drive and being uncertain about what I want in my partners.
In general, status seems to be attractive. People who are high status seem to make me want to have sex with them by being high status. Not always, obviously, but it's the highest correlate.
That's true. My upbringing was extremely sexually suppressive and getting out of it made it feel like a fun game. And of course, I treated it very rationally, thinking I need to be rational in all my actions and so I need to be rational about sex. And rationally, if I enjoy pleasure and people enjoy pleasure, I should probably have sex with as many people who bring me pleasure as I can.
And so I did, but it turns out sex is very complicated. I wasn't actually enjoying it very much.
I'm kind of excited by the confusion that surrounds sex. Usually, when I meditate or introspect, I can develop a framework of what I'm feeling. But with sexual arousal, it's just totally opaque. I assume it's this way for a lot of other people too, like we don't really know what gives people kinks. It's a very weird part of human psychology.
It makes sense.
I hear women give each other advice that sleeping with a guy will make him respect the woman less. And I understand the evolutionary psychology and the power aspect of it, but I don't share this feeling at all. I respect anyone who made the smart choice to have sex with me!
Many people see you as a sex object and project their sexual fantasies on you. And also many people see you as a guru and a teacher and project their hopes for enlightenment and wisdom on you. Either one of these roles is rare enough, how weird is it to be seen as both at the same time?
I suspect that the people that view me as a sex object and the people that view me as a teacher are not the same people.
The sex object thing doesn't really feel like much to me. It feels like a weird glitch. It's like playing a video game and running a character through this virtual world, and other characters sometimes run up to your character and try and hump it. It's just people reacting to this type of body in a specific way. It feels quite impersonal and practical. When I was doing sex work, camming and putting photos online, it just felt like a very practical way of existing. It's like it wasn't really me doing it at all, but my avatar was doing it. So I don't really think about it that much.
The guru thing is weirder. There's this phenomenon that I didn't realize I was going to have once I hit some level of attention, which is that people treat me as a conduit for their own validation. So they recognize that I have some sort of quote-unquote authority or awareness or attention from others that gives me status. But the thing that they're looking for is not for my opinions, but rather for me to witness them. So they explain their problems to me, usually over email, and it seems that what they want is for me to just look at it. And so that makes me feel slightly dehumanized. It's like I am operating as a character that serves you a specific function. It feels a little weird, more so than the sex thing.
Yeah, definitely.
I don't have any that I remember right now, but there are some where it's obvious that mental illnesses are at stake. For those I think I have a slightly different approach – "crazy" feels like a frame you can apply or not apply. I tend to be a little bit more open to people when they are in a crazy state because it's not crazy, it's just different. It's typically just a sub-optimal way of achieving your goals.
Let's talk about insecurity. My favorite thing that you ever wrote is So Says Crazybrain. It sounds like you've been thinking about insecurity a lot, attacking it in many ways. What's the state of that struggle right now?
It vacillates, but the overall trend is having less of it. Insecurity seems to be not knowing what you are and being afraid that what you are is bad in some way. And so all of my insecurities come from the blind spots that I hold within myself. Sometimes my attention is too small or I'm not practicing mindfulness enough such that the blind spots grow and I start to experience insecurity in daily life. I think that this is why insecurity tends to go away in familiar situations because you get to know yourself more in a familiar situation.
I struggled with it a huge amount. When I was younger, I was almost cripplingly insecure. I couldn't do things that other kids could do because I was so afraid of what people thought of me. I don't know if this came from my dad who is also extremely insecure.
It's interesting that you tie monogamy to insecurity. And it seems that even though the amount of insecurity you feel vacillates, you're never ceding polyamory to it.
I have trouble even imagining not being poly. It's not a question that I ever think about it. I became poly almost as soon as I heard of it. I was 19, and at the time I was dating my boyfriend monogamously because that's all I'd ever heard of and I was just doing the thing that everybody did. And then I met this guy and his wife who were living with a third person and they were all poly. And once they explained polyamory to me it made so much sense, it was obviously the thing that I want to do.
I tried explaining this to my boyfriend, why it should be okay for me to have sex with this new guy. But my boyfriend didn't get it and we ended up breaking up. Ever since then, I was definitely poly. I'm not going to date anybody ever again who doesn't want me to have sex with someone I want to have sex with.
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The preparations had been going on for quite some time but it really kicked into gear on Thursday the 9th November. Scott, Marni , Bailey and Ashlee had arrived the night before and we started loading tools, tents, camp ovens and gear onto the truck and tractor, and horse gear onto the trailer. The caravan was prepared and Chris, Peta, Matthew, Cameron, Mikayla, Sam, Donna , Nicolas, Thomas and Lucas arrived with all their gear so we headed out to Milltown and unloaded everything and set up the kitchen and the camp. We all came back home for dinner and Chris mentioned that he would like to have a go at operating a dragsaw so out to the shed we went and got out the saw that Christine's father used before he died. It was well covered and we had to move some junk!! After finding it we put some petrol in it and a few winds of the crank handle later, it fired up for the first time in seven years and ran like a charm, so we loaded it on with the next load of stuff.
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During the day there were demonstrations of sawbenching, slab cutting, shingle splitting, dragsawing, axehandle making, log snigging, log loading, damper cooking as well as a display of photos and old tools.
The lions club had a barbeque going, we were also selling food (many varieties of damper) and drinks as well as fresh veggies (which were all donated) and tickets for a great raffle.
At about 4:30 people starting congregating around the camp area, waiting for the big shave. So Rodney got up and said that we were a bit short of the $1000 target and managed to get a few more dollars before Geoff Inkster, a professional blade shearer proceeded to cut all my hair off. Jodie Golding (a professional hairdresser) then finished the job with clippers and took the beard off. The shave raised $1150 and I would like to thank everyone who donated to the shave, as it caused a lot of interest as well as helping a very worthy cause. After lots of photo taking (didn't know I was so popular) we had a fabulous dinner of soup, spit roast pork, and camp oven baked venison, silverside, chicken, sausages and beef casseroles, and lots of different veggies and sweets, which about seventy five people enjoyed. Once again this meal is not possible without the fabulous donations of meats and veggies.
Then the entertainment commenced which was a display of whip cracking by the Thomas and Taranto families, then more yarns and drinks. After a slightly later night we all went to bed, only to wake up to showery rain.
By the time breakfast was eaten the weather had brightened up a lot and the public started arriving hours before starting time so it was back to more of the same as yesterday. By mid afternoon some of the people who had distances to travel were starting to leave but the public were happy to sit around and watch and talk.
As a result of the weekend we raised over $6000 for CIKA so it made it all worthwhile. There is a lot of work put in by lots of people and a lot of generous donations, but we also have a lot of fun and as long as we can keep having fun we will keep having these days, and raising money for a worthy cause.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has in any way helped us make our "Wood Days" weekend the great success that it was, and hope that they will ALL do it again in 2007. We would also like to invite anyone who is interested to come and see what we do "in the Bush". You are all most welcome to come for a short time, or to stay overnight(s) – but just remember that we are in the bush; no power or modern conveniences, which makes it all the more fun.
Looking forward to seeing new faces (and regulars) on the weekend of November 10th and 11th 2007. Once again thanks for all the support.


One of my favorite ways of helping families with care needs is by helping them to receive veteran's benefits using a family caregiver agreement.
Such an arrangement often solves a number of problems simultaneously. It provides compensation for the caregiver, who may have sacrificed financial and career opportunities. It lifts the financial burden of providing that compensation. And many times, it means the difference between staying at home and moving to an institution.
The U.S. Veterans Administration provides "aid and attendance" benefits to a veteran who served during a wartime period, received a discharge other than dishonorable, has care needs, and meets certain financial requirements. Benefits may also be available to such a veteran's spouse, dependents, widow or widower.
One of the financial requirements is that the applicant has sufficient unreimbursed medical expenses (or "UMEs") in relation to the applicant's income. Here is where the caregiver agreement works magic — it provides the basis for UMEs that could qualify the applicant to receive benefits. The reason this works is that the VA pays the difference between the maximum benefit amount and an applicant's income, and UMEs reduce the applicant's income for VA purposes.
For example, Jack (a widower) served his country in World War II, and now suffers from Parkinson's Disease. His daughter Wendy cares for him at home, helping with dressing, bathing, meal preparation, and so forth. Jack receives Social Security and a small pension, totaling $1,690 a month.
With a properly drafted caregiver agreement, Jack agrees to pay Wendy $1,750 a month to provide care. (Assume we have obtained the opinion of a qualified expert that the monthly amount is fair market value for Wendy's services.) Now Jack's income for VA purposes has been reduced to $0 because $1,690 minus $1,750 brings the total to a negative number.
Now the VA will pay Jack the maximum benefit amount, $1,737???, because that is the difference between the benefit amount for an unmarried veteran and Jack's income for VA purposes, now that his income is considered to be $0.
Keep in mind Jack still receives his Social Security and pension, which he continues to use to pay his household expenses. But he now receives an additional $1,737 from the VA each month, which he uses to pay most of his caregiver payment to Wendy, who now gets some compensation to make up for all the work she provides to Jack. Best of all, Jack achieve his goal of staying at home.
It's a win for everyone, and one way the nation says "thank you" for Jack's military service in the country's time of need.
The founder and managing attorney of Sykes Elder Law, Andy is recognized as a leading elder law authority in Western Pennsylvania. Mr. Sykes is the past chair of the Elder Law Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association. He lectures frequently on elder law topics to legal, professional, and community groups. His comments on elder law topics have been quoted on WTAE-TV and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Town and Country Magazine, Pittsburgh Senior News, and other publications. Mr. Sykes was recognized by Pittsburgh magazine as a 2010 FIVE STAR Wealth Manager in the area of Estate Planning. He was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1989, following graduation (with honors) from Ohio State University's College of Law.
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Five Crazy Things I Learned at the Occult Humanities Conference
February 10, 2016 By Nicole Disser
Yep, this is actually a thing (Photo: Nicole Disser)
Last weekend marked a victory for goths, Tarot freaks, and magic nerds everywhere as the second annual Occult Humanities Conference convened at NYU for a sold-out marathon of lectures with names like "Blues Magic," "Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain's 1890s," and "The Cut in Ritual Psychoanalysis and Art." And while, yes, in many ways this was an academic-ish conference, organized by Pam Grossman (founder of the esoterica blog Phantasmaphile) and Jesse Bransford (Chair of the Art & Art Professions Department at NYU), the convening of occultists and occult obsessives still managed to keep it real.
The very first Occult Humanities Conference, held in October of 2013, was also a sold-out affair, which might seem strange for an event concerned with the "knowledge of the hidden" (the word"occult" is derived from the Latin word "occulo" meaning to hide or conceal). And yet, anyone paying attention to happenings in North Brooklyn in the last several years (Tarot Society, Atlas Obscura, Morbid Anatomy, etc.) should have picked up on the fact that this world of the magic-curious is hardly obscured behind closed doors or relayed only in riddles anymore.
Prints from Carl Jung's "Red Book" on display at the conference (Photo: Nicole Disser)
It's no accident that many of these organizations and happenings can be traced back to a now-defunct Gowanus event space called Observatory, which closed in 2014. "We started that space to really celebrate and delve deeper into the frankly strange and arcane interests that we all shared," Grossman recalled, "and to get experts to come in and give lectures and teach courses and do art shows– it was a really rich and vital and peculiarly wonderful space." The conference that grew out of Observatory was meant to "explore this journey into magic and creativity from all of its different angles and approaches," Grossman said. "I love putting all these different people and their different approaches together and rubbing them together and making new sparks."
True to that, presenters, exhibitors and attendees ranged from the new co-owner of Catland (Bushwick's own "metaphysical boutique") to experts, independent scholars, and entrenched academics from Stockholm, London, and, of course, Salem, Massachusetts. Unfortunately, I was told Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who as the founder of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth is a preeminent occultist as well as an industrial-music legend, canceled her lecture due to food poisoning. But there was plenty else to chomp on– from the discussion of visual art to whitewashed history, enchanted roots and mojo hands, the Occult Humanities Conference had a lot to teach even a seasoned ouija boardist.
Detail from enlarged print of Carl Jung's "Red Book" (Photo: Nicole Disser)
1. Witches are real.
Sure, there were plenty of people who had the look down: black lipstick, more rings than fingers, magik staffs, velvet dresses, and more man ponytails than you could neigh at. On Saturday, Jesse Bransford asked the audience "Did anyone lose a phone? The case has a sort of Tibetan design on it," and there was zero laughter in response. But the deal was sealed when Pam Grossman introduced Judika Illes, author of the Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and lecturer on "Blues Magic," as not only an esteemed independent scholar and historian, but also as a "witch."
Not only had Grossman legitimized Illes's identity as a witch, but she'd said these words inside a major research institution in front of scholars, scientists, artists, and academics. (On a side note, there's also something to be said for the "witch" moniker in terms of female empowerment; women played a major role at this conference, a setting where they're usually a minority.)
Illes proceeded to discuss hoodoo references in blues songs by the likes of Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Aunt Caroline Dye. "These are not metaphors," she argued. This African-American musical tradition, much like the practical magic discussed in blues lyrics, "has tremendous healing power." Rather than speaking about history from an ostensibly detached, impartial perspective, Illes spoke of magical traditions and tools, such as John the Conqueror– a root thought to bring sex appeal, luck, and desirability– in a way that regarded them as legitimate rather than make-believe.
Could this mean that the occult is coming out of the dark?
"We're slowly but surely seeing more traditionally academic programs in what's being calling 'Western Esotericism' being developed around the world," Grossman explained. "I keep hearing of classes cropping up at Harvard or wherever else that focus on witchcraft or the history of the occult. I think that's really exciting because this is such a true part of the human experience and whether or not you 'believe' in it, the fact of the matter is the ideas have largely influenced history."
Still, hearing open discussion like this could easily slip into the pseudo-science category unless some considerations are abided. "I think we definitely have a lot more elasticity for the topic because we're doing it under the rubric of 'art'– we're definitely making connections between magic and creativity, which allows us to explore these things with a very eclectic attitude and to include intuition and speculation as part of the conversation," Grossman said. She argued it was important to include some more rigidly academic elements, which the conference certainly did, but also to spotlight discussions that were "not academic, [but] experiential– I think it's highly valuable and a really crucial part of the story."
detail of print from Carl Jung's "Red Book" (Photo: Nicole Disser)
2. There may not be one definitive book on the occult, but Carl Jung's Red Book is really freaking important.
One of the more sciencey topics up for discussion was Carl Jung's Red Book (not to be confused with the spine-chillingly awful lady's magazine.) Its pages, blown up and reproduced, were on display throughout the conference. Depending on who you ask, the legendary book –meticulously illustrated and calligraphed by the Swiss psychoanalyst from 1914 to sometime in the 1920s– is the product of either years spent in an insomniac psychotic episode, visions from deep transcendental meditation, profound religious enlightenment, demonic influence, or literary and artistic genius. For decades, it went unseen by human eyes, let alone publishers' presses because following Jung's death, his family locked the massive book away in a safety-deposit box. Finally, in 2009, the Jung estate was convinced to archive and preserve the book.
Hugh Milstein, the "chemist and computer scientist" founder of super-fancy, futurist archiving firm Digital Fusion, was on hand at the conference to describe what it felt like to have the Jung family breathe down his neck while he scanned the 205 oversized pages of a wilting book and left it basically unaltered by human, atmospheric, or otherwise ungodly influences. Milstein and his team went through more than 100 pairs of gloves working 15-hour-days craned over a special rig designed by a boat builder to ensure the Red Book was never tilted more than 90 degrees to avoid compromising the spine. At one point, Milstein laughed while recalling a moment when humidity changes caused the pages to stand up on end, as if held up by an invisible hand– a Jung relative was sure Satan was responsible.
So, what exactly does the book contain? Well, tbh that calligraphy was pretty tedious to read, but the illustrations depicting various magic things like the tree of life, fractals, and scary cat-eyed snakes with fangs, are pretty cool. While some of the allure of the Red Book may have been forever depleted by the digitization process (I mean, how romantic is the dang thing if you can pull it up on Google Books now?), Grossman made a solid point at the conference. "Magic is wonderful, but often is needs to be made material to let us exchange these ideas."
Paul Laffoley, "Astrological Ouroboros," 1965, work from "Language of the Birds": (Photo: Nicole Disser)
3. It feels good to "find your people."
Scott Treleaven, a filmmaker and artist whose work focuses on sexuality and mysticism, presented a lengthy memoir-as-lecture discussion in which he recounted his lifelong fascination with the occult and how his interest in the esoteric and mysterious has shaped his creative work and worldview. For Treleaven, the occult, in its various forms, provided both an escape and an alternative to a larger, hostile society which early on he felt alienated from. From the monsters found in scary stories to issues of Rapid Eye and books from Genesis P-Orridge's Temple Press, the artist traced his coming-of-age experiences through the occult. The map was extensive– all the way from his life as a closeted kid in suburban Toronto in the 1980s, when Satanic Panic and the AIDS epidemic raged on, to his early 20s, when he was broke, living in London, working for a dominatrix, and posting up at bookshops "to read the books I couldn't afford."
"Whatever was hidden, whatever was occluded or forbidden suggested freedom," Treleaven recalled of his early adolescence. "Aleister Crowley's radical self-determination, 'Do what thou wilt,' the Pagans with their hey-nonny, back-to-the-land lustiness, quite reasonably saved my life."
And wasn't that was this conference was all about?
As Pam explained over the phone, "You can be interested in all these weird and wonderful topics and study them in solitary, but there's something so magical that happens when you find your people, and you can have this exchange of ideas in person."
Jordan Belson, "Light Structure," 2003, work from "Language of the Birds" (Photo: Nicole Disser)
4. A lot of famous artists were also occultists. You just wouldn't know it thanks to whitewashing.
As the bad kid on the playground, it's no surprise that occult in art, as Treleaven argued, has proven to be somewhat "indigestible" for scholars, historians, and art dealers alike. He pointed to artists like Kandinsky, whose his "magical beliefs" largely go unmentioned, as well as artists like John McCracken, whose abstract minimalist sculptures belie a man "obsessed with UFOs and aliens," and who truly believed his work conveyed "messages from another world." These aspects of artistic work are all too often "entirely overlooked," Treleaven charged. And then there are artists like Agnes Martin, a "schizophrenic lesbian Zen master– a triple negative if you're an academic or art dealer." She was apparently too rare to live in the art world but not too rare to find some modest success later on, even in spite of her penchant for "desert mysticism."
Many of the surrealists were obviously concerned with the realm of the otherworldly: unexplainable phenomenon, dreamscapes, and alien existence. Kurt Seligmann, a surrealist painter whose works looks like Jodorowsky on canvas, tapped into "occult knowledge [that] has generally been rejected by academia," according to University of Manitoba professor Celia Rabinovitch. She pointed out that, in 1943, Seligmann "broke" with his fellow surrealist, Andre Breton, as the result of an "argument over a tarot card."
Harry Smith, Lionel Ziprin, and Joanna Ziprin, "Tree of Life" diagrams and related drawings ca. 1951-1955 (Photo: Nicole Disser)
5. Magic can't be sold.
An audience member noted that with the popularization of some occult imagery there's fear that what was for so long regarded as mysterious and clandestine could become watered down. But as two presentations made clear, haters and fakers have been trying to capture and harness the nuances of the occult and the power of magic for their own ends pretty much since the beginning of time.
As Judika Illes demonstrated in "Blues Magic," Hoodoo was co-opted by business people and swindlers trying to make a buck. Fillers and food coloring were often utilized to make counterfeit herbs, roots, and essences, products to be bought and sold. By the 20th century, Hoodoo, "the magic of poor people," the powerless and exploited, suddenly "became urban and marketable," Illes recounted. Still, blues lyrics that made mention of these Hoodoo traditions like the "mojo hand," were largely misinterpreted to mean something overtly and purely sexual, as opposed to a handheld spell. This gets at the slipperiness of the occult within the context of the larger culture– rather than acknowledge something unexplainable or magic, it's easier to chalk it up to sexy talk or something.
Scott Treleaven had a rather incredible story related to a zine series he published in the '90s called The Salivation Army. "This was the most magic that's ever happened to me," he said. Toward the end of the zine's run, he began receiving a series of anonymous letters that were building toward a foreboding message: he was about to encounter a great trial which would put him on a path toward good or evil. Shortly thereafter he began receiving phone calls from a mysterious company offering him a "business opportunity"– they were looking to woo two wayward constituencies, the "autonomous post-consumerists" and the "new Aquarians." Treleaven's zine was a "a forensic artifact" of sorts for this company because it appealed to both of these groups and more, seemingly holding the key to unlocking the secrets of marketing toward them. Treleaven demanded to know who was calling him. "They admitted it was Pepsi," he laughed. The audience gasped. He recalled telling the Pepsi people to never call him again and hung up. To close his story, Treleaven quoted Jean Genet: "I would like the world not to change, so that I may be against the world."
During Saturday's panel discussion, Grossman said that leading up to Language of the Birds, an exhibition of occult art happening in conjunction with the conference, people had asked her, "Are you going to let out all the secrets?"
"I think people have been interested in mystical or magical or otherworldly things for as long as humans have been alive," Grossman explained later over the phone. One of the big and obvious questions being, what's the meaning of life? But, as Grossman pointed out, occult concerns go a little bit farther. "Why is it that we can sense things that we can't necessarily see? And there are all different kinds of answers and interpretations to that– but I think the question is ageless." She attributed a recent surge in popularity to media interest– of course, there seem to be more nuanced takes on the occult now than was seen with the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.
"Some stigmatization is going away, which I think is a really good thing," Grossman conceded. "Certainly there are these romantic ideas attached to this material, it is very much about secrecy, and I do think it's important that we preserve that. And yet, I don't believe that people being interested will necessarily deplete the mystery, because the mystery is always there."
Correction: Scott Treleaven noted his interest in Gensis P-Orridge's Temple Press, not in Temple Lodge Press, as a previous version of this article stated.
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SEC approves AllDay Mart IPO, Petron bond offering
Citra September 27, 2021
THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has considered favorably the market debut of AllDay Marts, Inc. and another bond offering by Petron Corporation under shelf-registration.
In its meeting on September 23, the Commission En Banc resolved to render effective the registration statements of AllDay Marts and Petron covering 22,857,145,000 common shares and P50 billion of fixed-rate bonds, respectively, subject to certain remaining requirements.
ALLDAY MARTS
AllDay Marts will offer up to 6,857,143,000 primary common shares at a price of P0.80 per share, with an over-allotment option of up to 685,714,000 common shares. The shares will be listed on the Main Board of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).
Net proceeds from the sale of the primary offer shares could amount to P5.296 billion. The company could raise an additional P530.5 million, assuming the overallotment option is fully exercised.
The Villar-led company will use the proceeds from the initial public offering (IPO) for debt repayment, capital expenditures, and initial working capital for store network expansion.
AllDay Marts is a supermarket operator with a total of 33 stores spanning 55,881 square meters in aggregate net selling space, as of June 30. It plans to expand its store network to 45 by 2022 and 100 by the end of 2026.
The IPO will run from October 15 to 25, with listing on the PSE scheduled for November 3, according to the latest timetable submitted to the SEC.
AllDay Marts engaged PNB Capital and Investment Corporation as sole issue manager for the transaction. PNB Capital will also work with BDO Capital & Investment Corporation and China Bank Capital Corporation as joint lead underwriters and joint bookrunners.
Petron may issue theP50 billion worth of fixed-rate, peso-denominated bonds in one or more tranches within three years.
For the first tranche, the listed oil refiner and marketing company will offer to the public up to P18 billion worth of four-year Series E bonds due in 2025 and six-year Series F bonds due in 2027.
Petron expects to net P17.78 billion from the first tranche. Proceeds will be used for the redemption of its Series A bonds, for the partial financing of its power plant project, and for the payment of existing debt.
The bonds comprising the first tranche will be offered at face value from September 27 to October 5, in time for their listing on the Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. on October 12, based on the latest timetable submitted to the SEC.
Petron engaged BDO Capital, China Bank Capital, Philippine Commercial Capital, Inc., PNB Capital, and SB Capital Investment Corporation as joint lead bookrunners and joint lead underwriters for the transaction.
First Metro Investment Corporation, Land Bank of the Philippines, and RCBC Capital will also serve as co-lead underwriters for the offer.
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New UA Program Integrates Autistic Students
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Like most young adults her age, 19-year-old Sara Goralnik wants one thing: a life outside the watchful eyes of her parents.
"I just want my independence," said Goralnik, a Phoenix native. "My mom and dad have always hovered over me."
They've had reason, according to Goralnik's mom, Cynthia: Sara is one of an estimated 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder and the first time she tried to navigate college life, "the independence was overwhelming to her."
Thanks to a groundbreaking new residential program in Tucson, however, students such as Goralnik will have better chance of success.
Chapel Haven West, a two-year residential program for young adults with autism spectrum disorders, launched June 30 in partnership with the University of Arizona.
The 16 students in the program will be integrated on the campus in a number of ways, but the biggest connection is with the department of speech, language and hearing sciences.
Betty McDonald, a speech pathologist and an associate professor at UA, will supervise UA graduate students as they work with Chapel Haven students on social communication skills.
In return, the graduate students will gain data on Chapel Haven's approach for their research.
"What's nice about this program is it's affiliated with the university because it will be serving some students who have the potential to come here," said Sue Kroeger, UA's Disability Resource Center director.
"But even for those who can't attend the university, they are still getting a higher-education experience by being on campus for their classes. The standard has been a rehabilitation or medical model, but Chapel Haven is about education, integration and inclusiveness."
Chapel Haven West is a branch of Connecticut-based Chapel Haven Inc., the country's only combined state-accredited special education and independent living facility for adults with cognitive disabilities.
Autism is a brain disorder affecting a person's ability to communicate, reason and interact with others. People with autism are socially awkward and miss obvious social cues.
For instance, if Mary is talking to John and John looks frequently at his watch, Mary will get the hint that John is either bored or wanting to exit the conversation. People who have autism or Asperger's syndrome — sometimes called "high-functioning autism" — would either not notice John's behavior or dismiss it as unimportant and keep talking long after it is appropriate.
Because of that, they frequently have difficulty with jobs, friendships and — as was the case with Goralnik, who attended UA last fall — higher education.
The Chapel Haven West program centers on helping students develop "social communicative competence" so they don't miss those cues, said Karin Byrer, director of Chapel Haven.
"Social thinking is what people on the autism spectrum don't do," Byrer said. "It is the hidden curriculum, the things we take for granted in communication, and that will be taught by the UA speech and language pathologists."
Not all Chapel Haven students will take classes at UA during the first year of the program. That will depend on their skill-set and their individual goals, but all will take Chapel Haven classes on the UA campus, as well as use the university's facilities.
In addition, The Disability Resources Center and the Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques Center will offer classrooms for use by Chapel Haven West, and the Learning Center staff members will learn how to help autism spectrum students best matriculate to UA said Betsey Parlato, president of Chapel Haven Inc.
"No other program that we know of teaches this segment of the population in a way that simulates what it is going to be like in real life," Parlato said. "That's why we have an apartment building instead of dormitory style and why we teach them in a higher-education format … By the time your two years are over, you should be in college or employed successfully."
Chapel Haven's curriculum centers on blended subject areas including math, science and language arts, but also adds life skills, vocational training, wellness and personal enrichment.
Worked into everything, however, is the focus on social thinking, which is why Amy Merritt-Smith chose the program for her son, Mackenzie.
"He has certain topics that he's incredibly interested in, like presidential politics, and he assumes everyone else is, too," she said. "I hope he can learn how to initiate and maintain balanced friendships. I hope he can learn to think of the other person's perspective."
The annual tuition for Chapel Haven is $49,500 and includes housing, a $400 monthly stipend and $2,000 for tuition at UA or Pima Community College.
There were more than 100 applicants for this year's 16 slots said Judy Lefkowitz, Chapel Haven's vice president for admissions.
The students were chosen based on their potential to complete the two-year program and transition to completely independent living.
In addition, they had to be motivated and have parents who supported that independence, Lefkowitz said.
McDonald said Chapel Haven is unique because most autism spectrum programs focus on children and adolescents.
"Chapel Haven opens the door for our department to be on the cutting edge to serve young adults," she said.
"Services to high-functioning autistic and Asperger's adults need to continue through life — autism isn't the kind of condition you grow out of — so it's important for our students to get this training."
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Q: Outlook VBA: Activating a Workbook, Activating a Row, Inserting Copied Rows I have an Outlook Macro that saves attachments based on a search of an e-mail inbox. The Aggregation File is then opened, then a loop opens the first of the saved attachments and copies the "AggregateThis" named range.
What I need to achieve is:
1). Activate the Aggregation File
2). Activate the Row where the result of the search for "END" is located
3). Insert the copied cells above end
The Outlook Object model is giving me trouble, this would be a total cinch in Excel VBA. Your help would mean so much!
 Dim xlApp As Object
 Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
 With xlApp
.Visible = True
.EnableEvents = False
.DisplayAlerts = False
.ScreenUpdating = False
.Workbooks.Open ("J:\Retail Finance\Varicent\General Teamshare Resources\Acting Mgr Assignment Bonus Aggregation.xlsx")

Dim x As Variant
i = -1
For Each x In AttachNames
Dim wb As Object
i = i + 1
Set wb = .Workbooks.Open("J:\Retail Finance\Varicent\General Teamshare Resources\Teamshare AAA\" & AttachNames(i))
Set wb = .Worksheets("Additional Assignment Bonus FRM")
            'Copies the "Aggregate This" named range from the Individual File (i)
With wb.Range("AggregateThis")
    .Copy
End With
            'Switches focus to Aggregation File
Set wb = .Workbooks("J:\Retail Finance\Varicent\General Teamshare Resources\Acting Mgr Assignment Bonus Aggregation.xlsx")
With wb
    .Activate                           '#1). I want to put focus on this file it throws an error
End With

'Find EndRow in the Aggregation File
Set wb = .Worksheets("Additional Assignment Bonus FRM").Cells.Find("End")
With wb
         .ActivateRow                  '#2).This throws an error
         .PasteSpecialInsertRows       '#3). This doesnt work
End With
Next

A: The original code didn't work properly because, for .Activate to work, ScreenUpdating must be set to True (which it is by default).
Dim xlApp As Object
Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
With xlApp
.Visible = True
.EnableEvents = False
.DisplayAlerts = False
.ScreenUpdating = True    '## Was set to False in code originally##
.Workbooks.Open ("J:\Retail Finance\Varicent\General Teamshare Resources\Acting Mgr Assignment Bonus Aggregation.xlsx")
Dim x As Variant
i = -1
For Each x In AttachNames
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Anomaly In The Cement Industry
Cemex, by far the most profitable of the multinationals in the cement industry, seemed like the ideal case to study to understand this anomaly. cemex, unlike its top competitors, was also an early example of a multinational from an emerging market. mexico, like many other developing economies, still hadnt generated much outbound foreign.
Topics In Cement And Concrete Research
An anomaly that slags and fly ashes that replace cement clinker (as is the case in cem ii, iii and v) are counted as cement, whereas when a concrete producer adds the same byproducts, they are not or only partly counted as cement (not in kgm3 nor in the wc), unless an expensive and cumbersome concrete attest route is followed.
Anomaly detection all cement plant operators are experts in forensics. after a significant problem or failure, they go back to dig through the data, find out what went wrong, and hopefully determine how to prevent it in the future.
Anomaly in the cement industry the reporter ethiopia english. the cement industry has undergone major changes throughout this period and it appears that ethiopia is likely to become one of the top three cement producers in africa, arkebe says a major milestone for the ethiopian cement industry occurred during 20042012 when the construction industry registered an ,.
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I was originally drawn to cemex because, according to the academic literature, cement was the type of industry in which one should not expect to see multinational companies. cemex, by far the most profitable of the multinationals in the cement industry, seemed like the ideal case to study to understand this anomaly.
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Dublin, aug. 30, 2021 (globe newswire) the anomaly detection market growth, trends, covid19 impact, and forecasts (2021 2026) report has been added to's offering. the anomaly detection market is expected to register a cagr of 15.3 and surpass usd 5 billion, by the end of the forecast period (2021 2026). the decision.
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Anomaly detection: uncover poor performance. anomaly detection learns normal patterns for cement operations, such as grinding, blending, and kiln cooling and preheating. it can then alert operators when something is operating abnormally or something is wrong in the process. for example, imagine your clinker system is not cooling sufficiently.
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Global cement industry emitted around 2.3 gigaton of co2 (gt co2) emissions in 2019. of this, 1.4 gt co2 is related to the processrelated emissions (from chemical reaction during the calcination process), 0.6 gt co2 is related to fuel use (also called direct emissions) and 0.3 gt co2 was from electricity use (also called indirect emissions).
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The cement industrys energy challenge. with global cement demand expected to rise by as much as a quarter by 2050, the industry faces a range of challenges to produce in a more sustainable way. one aspect is to reduce its energy input to reflect tighter emissions legislation. by fabio mielli and juliano de goes arantes, rockwell automation, usa.
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Co 2 from industry and cement production in china accounts for more than 60 of world total industrial co 2, and the uncertainty of emissions in.
Find the most uptodate statistics and facts about the u.s. cement industry. switzerlandbased cement producer holcim topped the list of leading cement manufacturers worldwide.
These companies are industry leaders in manufacturing cement, aluminum, and steel, and asphalt. new yorkbased investment firm anomaly capital management is a leading shareholder in eagle materials inc. (nyse:exp) with 227,550 shares worth more than 29.8 million at the end of september quarter.
Gcca members account for 80 of the global cement industry volume outside of china, and also include several large chinese manufacturers. the gcca has published a detailed roadmap which sets out the path that the industry will follow to fully decarbonize by 2050, a target aligned with the paris agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 c.
Global Cement And Concrete Industry Announces Roadmap
The move by the members of the global cement and concrete association (gcca) marks the biggest global commitment by an industry to net zero so far – bringing together companies from the americas.
The cement industry is responsible for seven per cent of the world's co2 emissions. the roadmap sets out seven steps to achieve netzero emissions by 2050.
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Anomaly, a company looking to simplify medical billing, announced a 12 million series a round on tuesday. anomaly is a young company it was.
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Systems Change Lab Report Accuses Cement Industry Of
World: a systems change lab report on the state of climate change action has warned that the global cement industry is making insufficient progress towards its 2030 climate change targets and that a stepchange in action is required. it recorded the carbon intensity of global cement production at 635kgco 2 t in 2018 with the 2030 target of no more than 370kgco 2 t.
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