This is what campus ministry is like. You have to gather your people. As our mindset shifts, we have to learn to be missionaries in our own culture. Specifically, we need campus missionaries, men and women who go to the campus to start something new.

We need more ministries on college campuses. I can think of at least three reasons why…. Thousands and thousands of students are on university campuses around the U. That alone should move us to action. When you consider the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, and even loneliness and depression, you realize the college campus is a dark place in need of the light. That should move us to action.

There are roughly C of C campus ministries…in the entire nation! In this special expanded article, Paul Worcester shares some of the best practices for a local summer training project.

There are many options for what your collegiate ministry could focus My wife on the other hand, would experience the full spectrum of emotions and changes accompanied by But focusing on a smaller part of the campus can be more manageable. Longevity Reaching students on the college campus is not an easy task.

Students live with pressures and distractions from work, classes, social media and the freedom to explore who they are. A church needs to know that it will take time and patience on its part to enter into the college culture to make a difference.

Churches need to think long-term in their planning and have the commitment to keep pressing into the campus even when it may seem fruitless. Partnership Sometimes a missionary or church needs a partner to help start or strengthen a mission work. Getting data, ideas and demographics from an outside source can help save frustration and fruitless hours. Being connected to others working on a similar mission can be encouraging and helpful. This is where the Collegiate Partnerships team can assist churches.

The Collegiate Partnerships team partners with churches by helping them: understand their local college context; find a model of ministry that is right for them; find and utilize collegiate resources; and network with other churches doing collegiate ministry. Our team is excited about helping churches reach college students. We would love to assist in creating a strategy to reach college students in your context. Those ideas and values become preserved for decades through legislation, education, music, movies, literature, and media.

Since they have few obligations, students have few limitations to following Christ and serving him boldly. Moms, dads, brothers, and sisters are often impacted by the stories from students who return home with a changed life. The New Testament pattern of church growth showed entire families turning to Christ. One weekend home visit from a student transformed by the gospel can start a spiritual chain reaction that impacts every member of their family. In other words, we should anticipate and hope for an enormous awakening in the younger generations of the world.

We have to be prepared to handle this abundance by sending missionaries who are equipped and empowered to make disciples to colleges and high schools. My hope is to see a movement of multiplying disciples who love God, one another, and the world. The campus is a strategic place as the future leaders of our world are most open to Jesus and spiritual transformation.

And yes, you could try to make some site or app to earn additional income outside of your job. Yep, it is what I did from the Netherlands and it works well. I moved to South eu: quality of life, IMHO, is far higher even while it is cheap to live here, especially if you do not want to be in a popular city which I never wanted.

I moved when I was little over How quickly does the mind go from "my career is stagnating and finding better jobs can be hard" to "this is the worst choice of career". One of them is a valid concern, the other is a gross exaggeration that people who actually have bad jobs would laugh at. The guy who is complaining about having to learn new technology is complaining about not making enough money?

I would never hire him. People, when picking a career in college, still seem to believe that you can have a job for life. And get kicked fast if they kick up a fuss. The expectation that things are like what you were told by parents or grandparents maybe needs adjusting. You are not hireable with this attitude, it is not a programmer-only problem.

PedroBatista 8 months ago parent prev next [—]. Well I would never hire you either. This industry is even fuller of unemphatic know-it-alls quick to judgement than disillusioned programmers. I tend to agree, but there's been two competing posts on HN today, one about attracting developers like ants to honey with exciting new technology and the other about avoiding hype and delivering products with stable tech.

If i were a lawyer, I'd go to school once, and reap benefit form that education as an assets and build on it with experience. Software is not like that. Yes school is an asset, but it dates, and so does experience when the market moves constantly. Again I'm not complaining, but it's a thing. The problem is that there are a lot of technologies that are simply insufficient or bad. A lot of one way databinding frameworks are merely insufficient.

The reason why react and the VDOM won is that it's literally just client side html rendering with the exact same flow as a server side html template. VDOM is merely an implementation detail that makes this type of client side rendering efficient enough that you can trigger it all the time, no matter how trivial the interaction is.

Although I personally dislike React itself and rather use preact I consider the API itself to be pretty solid and definitively worthy of building a career on top of it that would last at least 10 years. I consider PHP to be critically insufficient because you have to force people to learn Lavarel otherwise they get the stupid idea of writing an old school apache PHP app.

It also has some stupid warts that provide no value. Overall it's not meeting the level of quality necessary to build a career on top of it. The only benefit it provides is that once you learn all the warts its merely ok. Java is also insufficient because it is missing very simple features. The foundation is solid but the details just aren't there. Getters and Setters shouldn't be a thing.

They only exist to please certain frameworks and some theoretical futureproofing. Replace them with properties that automatically generate getters and setters and end the discussion right there.

It's really sad how much effort it is to write a small data class in Java. I have a small project where I chose to use groovy simply because I had to define 30 data classes. Groovy is mature but it's not exactly popular, since people who don't want to use it are forced to use it Gradle.

The software industry isn't mature. That's the reality. There are lots of established but insufficient solutions. There are lots of sufficient but not established solutions. React is right in the sweet spot. PHP is clearly insufficient. Java is insufficient but close. Modern languages and frameworks rarely get traction and are replaced all the time. Groovy is something that you could in theory build a whole career on but the jobs aren't there.

Await with promises vs monadic promises is also a point of contention. The only thing that everyone agrees on is that raw callsbacks should be wrapped in a promise or future, but whether a promise is supposed to be used as a monad chain of. I honestly don't know. I would go with await because C has adopted it with great success but it's also not something that can just be added to an existing language without rebuilding the entire ecosystem and thus causing it to be a bad career choice.

It seems like generally speaking, science and engineering lacks prestige over there compared to being a lawyer or banker? I have no idea if this is accurate or not, and the English class system is pretty opaque to me. YawningAngel 8 months ago parent next [—]. I'm sure there's a small section of society for whom this statement is true, but I think most people of my generation in the UK take the American view that it's the money that counts.

There are probably more extremely high-paid banking and lawyer jobs in the UK than there are programming jobs though. Yes this is very true I believe, engineers are still 'just nerds'. I work in the exact same industry as him and earn considerably more. As always coding jobs are not fungible and finance coding jobs are not fungible either a. So unfortunately my sympathy is zero. If you don't like it, work at changing it, or shut up. Also the idea that programming is not in demand is truly laughable.

Trust me the issue is not on the demand side. WheelsAtLarge 8 months ago prev next [—]. Programming is becoming more like factory work. You are expected to continuously produce at a certain pace and quantity. But, as programmers know, things are constantly changing and are expected to keep up. It's stressful and challenging. From my point of view the fix is for programmers to create their own side project early on with the goal of making it a full time job.

I don't see the industry changing. I see the situation getting worse for programmers. As the number of people trained as programmers gets larger, companies will have more people to choose from while paying less and expecting more. So, the programmers have to change and adapt. I guess this is why it's "the worst career". In other "professional" careers, salaries generally keep pace, or even far outpace inflation, and one's standing and salary within the profession generally improves with experience.

With programming, it seems as though salaries are set to decline, and skill experience is constantly eroded as new technologies and cheap pools of labour become available, and then there's rampant ageism. It's somewhat like being an athlete perhaps - if you haven't made it big when you're young, you're looking at declining prospects, which is stressful and depressing.

That article is very specific to the author's case, and to be sincere, it seems to be most because of the author's fault than the career he chose.

He says coders are badly paid and it is getting worse but this is not true for many regions and niches. For example, a backend Java Programmer specialized in Commerce Platforms Hybris, SFCC, etc earns very well in Latam because naturally after the pandemic there is a rush after the online channel and we have a shortage of professionals. I'm sure the same just applies to different programming areas and regions around the globe. So it is just a matter of better exploring the options you have and lose the neighborhood job mindset.

It's not the career it's you. Here in Mexico having a programming career is guaranteed to give you a good income an QoL. So much that in the past 5 years we've had lots of lawyers, accountants, designers and people from other backgrounds fall for the developer bootcamps. I never got into this career for its earning potential, but because I just always loved programming. Somehow I've ended up in a FAANG making a lot of money, but the actual "programming" writing code portion of my job is small.

I feel like there's some paradox there, but really, I just want to complain on the Internet. If you asked me at 10 what I wanted to be when I grew up it was "computer programmer" and here I am, though I took a very zig-zagged path to get there no degree, and half a philosophy BA for example. And I'm living far from where I grew up and my parents and brother, because this is where the work is.

So I'm not sure how much sympathy I have for this article. Did you sign up for something? A computer at the NSA now automatically tracks your physical location for the rest of your life. Sent an email? Your email address just went up on a billboard in Nigeria. These things aren't true because we don't care and don't try to stop them, they're true because everything is broken because there's no good code and everybody's just trying to keep it running.

That's your job if you work with the internet: hoping the last thing you wrote is good enough to survive for a few hours so you can eat dinner and catch a nap. Wasn't that guy helpful? With the camel? Doesn't that seem like an appropriate response?

You can still find Jesus. You have not yet spent so much of your life reading code that you begin to talk in it. The human brain isn't particularly good at basic logic and now there's a whole career in doing nothing but really, really complex logic.

Vast chains of abstract conditions and requirements have to be picked through to discover things like missing commas. Doing this all day leaves you in a state of mild aphasia as you look at people's faces while they're speaking and you don't know they've finished because there's no semicolon. You immerse yourself in a world of total meaninglessness where all that matters is a little series of numbers went into a giant labyrinth of symbols and a different series of numbers or a picture of a kitten came out the other end.

The destructive impact on the brain is demonstrated by the programming languages people write. This is a program:. And once somebody wrote a programming language that let somebody else write this:.

According to the author, that program is "two lines of code that parse two lines of embedded comments in the code to read the Mayan numbers representing the individual ASCII characters that make up the magazine title, rendered in degree rotated ASCII art.

That program won a contest, because of course it did. Do you want to live in a world like this? This is a world of where you can smoke a pack a day and nobody even questions it.

This is a world where people eschew sex to write a programming language for orangutans. All programmers are forcing their brains to do things brains were never meant to do in a situation they can never make better, ten to fifteen hours a day, five to seven days a week, and every one of them is slowly going mad. So no, I'm not required to be able to lift objects weighing up to fifty pounds. I traded that for the opportunity to trim Satan's pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of the internet will continue to work for a few more days.

This post first appeared on Still Drinking and was written by Peter Welch. Additionally, although Washington and the District of Columbia may not employ as many computer programmers, they provide the highest annual mean salaries for these professionals. Below is a map that details each state's average salary and number of computer programming jobs.

After four years as a government employee with the National Security Agency, Austin Norby joined Blue Star Software, where he is now the director of cyber initiatives. Austin wears many hats, including technical presenter, talent acquisition specialist, course creator, teacher, and software engineer. In his spare time, Austin enjoys honing his infosec skills on CTFs, reading, gaming, and eating incredible food.

Interestingly enough, it was not something I was always interested in. I dabbled with computers at home when I was younger and wanted to learn, but I was also easily sidetracked with school, sports, and friends. By the time I attended college, I was set on getting a degree in mathematics, and one of the required courses was intro to programming.

I was excited to take the course, but I had no idea that it would lead to a career. This course was really tough because we started by learning Lisp. I've had to use it once since and I still think it's an awful language, especially when you're just learning how to program.

What really solidified my pursuit of a career in computer programming was the mixing of mathematics and computer science. This led to my interest in encryption and computer security, which ultimately led to my first job with the Department of Defense DOD. One thing that students should make sure to keep in mind is that the intro courses can be fun and easy, but there is always a class that "weeds out" less capable students.

What got me through the "weed-out" class was hard work, no doubt, but also I loved the challenge of getting something to work. There are few things as satisfying as pouring your heart and mind into a challenge and finally seeing the program compile, run, and return the result you were expecting.

That trait is necessary to be successful in computer programming. The answer to this question is very simple: job flexibility and security. Anyone who can program can be useful to any business currently because of the nature of programming.

It can be applied to any field and it's an exponential technology. Breaking this down further, a business has a product or service and of course requires financing and communication.

Programming can address all of those needs and do it quicker than any human so long as the problem is understood well enough. The real difficulty currently is breaking down problems to their basic components and understanding them well enough in order to build them back up as programs.

Some systems lend themselves to this very well, such as accounting, scheduling, and calculating. Other problems can be broken down into simple components, but computers are still not great at solving them due to computer vision or inherently difficult problems like the traveling salesman problem. Programming can create a website, product, or schedule; process payments; or send information at a percentage of light speed anywhere around the globe.

This is also what I mean by an exponential technology. It can grow and compound on itself while an individual is putting in a linear amount of effort over time. So what does this mean for flexibility and security?

Computer programmers have the flexibility to solve many different problems over their careers by learning one technology: programming. You could be an intern at a biochemical lab running analysis on the lab results. Then you could become an enterprise web developer and give unprecedented access to your company's data to internal teams to improve products and services.

Then you could become a cloud administrator to make computing possible for anyone in the world. And to wrap up your career, you could join a small startup and create an app that you're passionate about. All of these jobs exist for computer programmers, and the jump between them is simply a matter of learning any missing technologies and whether the company uses your preferred programming language.

It's hard to have that kind of flexibility in a career in other professions. Lastly, let's talk about job security. The job security for programmers is different from the old-school job security that existed many years ago. Job security is more like job availability. Programmers may have temporary jobs for months and then choose to leave, or the project is transferred to a new team, or the job is cancelled.

A project here, a project there. Therefore, the job search becomes much less stressful because it's not a question of if, but when, where, and what I will be doing.

There are so many systems and processes that can and should be updated to modern levels of technology, and those businesses all around the country need to hire computer programmers in order to do that. One point I will concede regarding my previous statement is getting an internship while you're in school. This can be more difficult because a lot of the developer jobs require about four years of hands-on knowledge in order to know enough to be valuable.

This isn't a hard-and-fast rule, but from a business perspective, it might take more time and energy to create a project that is challenging and rewarding for the intern but provides enough value for the company after accounting for setup time, training time, hourly rates, and tear-down time after the intern leaves. If you're struggling to get an internship, don't worry. That is not a setback and just requires that you take a different path.

One of the best ways to stand out to a future employer is to create personal projects to show that you can and like to code. The next question people ask is, "what personal projects should I be building? If you want to get into mobile programming, program an app that does a few things. If you want to get into web application programming, create a few "dummy" sites like a portfolio that a potential employer can visit and navigate.

If you want to get into cybersecurity, join some Reddit threads, learn about security online, and participate in capture-the-flag CTF competitions most are free. I also recommend that you read as much code as you can find. Reading other code will help you make your code better and give you "recipes" for solving problems that have already been solved.

Lastly, to address the actual question that was posed, you can do any of this from almost anywhere. Simply work with your recruiter or HR rep to figure out where would be the best place to put you given the company's goals and your goals. Starting about a year before graduation, I was able to secure an internship with a company that allowed for part-time work during the school year and full-time work during the summer.

I cannot stress enough how much this boosted my career prospects. If something like that exists in your area, definitely apply for it! I worked throughout my last year and started with the DOD after graduation.

I spent about four years with the DOD, moving around to experience and expose myself to all it had to offer. I worked with many different languages, technologies, and types of people and got exposure to a powerful mission.

During those four years after graduation, I did not stop learning. I studied for certifications, I read books, and I took classes at local schools. If there is one piece of advice for computer programmers specifically — but really anyone in any industry — it's never stop learning! For computer programmers, it's a dual-edged sword. There is so much to learn, from languages to technologies to operating systems to networking to mobile to cloud to you name it.

However, the landscape evolves quickly, and a quality programmer must also pivot to learn or stop learning skills as the industry needs them. Learning a specific technology is never a bad decision, but you must not fall victim to the sunken cost fallacy; do not spend more time in a technology once you know it will no longer provide you, your employer, or your industry value. First, we'll start with the pros. Currently, in our industry, the pros are plentiful because of how many things are being transformed from old technology to new technology — that provides many job prospects for computer programmers.

Modernization of point-of-sale systems to the cloud; updating websites to use the newest JavaScript frameworks; and designing modern, fast, and user-friendly mobile apps are all very hot jobs right now. Along with the multiple job prospects — only a few people can fulfill the demand on the industry — comes rather high compensation. But a terrifying thought still troubles you. You are building side projects, messing around with some Node. You are all doing the same, listening to the same podcast, reading the same blogs.

But your tech lead doesn't care. They have seen it all before. Another ambitious coder in the sea of fresh devs, bootcampers and self-taught wizards. Why should they anyway? Because despite the infinite vacuum of blog articles, despite the numerous tricks and shortcuts, you struggle. You stumble navigating the codebase and you check Stackoverflow more than you should. If you expect a magic answer, some bullet points to get you out of trouble, I am sorry to disappoint you. I have none.

What will benefit you right now, is to stop doing some of the things that are literally dragging you down. After working with dozens of developers, I made a list of the things that literally kill their progress. How many of them are you still doing? Look, when you code for fun, you only do the fun part. The coding puzzles, the sexy features, the shiny stuff. And guess what? That is what all other developers out there love to do as well. Accept once for all that this coding thing is not a hobby, it is a profession.

And it is not always going to be fun. Like anything in life, it has ugly parts. The road to expert developer involves legacy code, hidden errors and unclear requirements. No offence, but many are just trying to reinvent the wheel in order to self promote themselves.

The things you read online are disconnected from the reality of your code. A nice library in one project can be a terrible choice for another project. The one character trait all great programmers have in common is they live in the now. A piece of code needs refactoring, they do it now.

There is a bug in the UI, they fix it now. The local environment is a bit slow, they optimize it now. Great developers know very well that later translates to never. What I am asking you is to be honest with yourself. There is a big popularity contest going on in the software development community and everyone wants to be part of it.

In reality, it is more gossip and trend spotting than anything else. Coding will. Or the freaking JavaScript snippets.

However, beyond the short-term benefits, the economic value of multinational corporations in developing countries becomes rather hazy. When multinational countries flood the economic landscape of developing countries, small businesses and local entrepreneurs find it difficult to compete. They also cannot compete with MNCs because of their established production methods. The Human Rights Watch and other humanitarian nonprofits have called for supply chain transparency in MNCs, particularly clothing and footwear industries, to publicize and improve working conditions in sweatshops across the globe.

Additionally, the social inequities surrounding MNCs appear to be a result of their intentions. But MNCs do not need to operate according to this objective. At the very least, maximizing profits is not the only objective that they can strive for.

This role includes adding the goal of benefiting the public good to their company mission. Through this method, MNCs have a chance to reverse social injustices by redirecting their profits into improving the social, environmental and economic processes in developing countries.

Local companies from these countries can thus participate in global or regional value chains link in Spanish. This increases the productivity of these companies, which can offer relatively better labor conditions than the average local firm does.

Consequently, countries that receive FDI also benefit because the productivity of MNCs is estimated to be between 15 percent and 60 percent higher than that of local firms due to demonstration effects and labor mobility, and also because of increases in the quantity and quality of intermediate inputs that circulate in the local economy.

In sum, FDI has the potential to create win-win situations for both the investing company and the country receiving the investment.

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The micrometers are more accurate as compared to calipers because they have the ability to measure extremely small measurements. The least count of the caliper is 0. Micrometre , also called micron, metric unit of measure for length equal to 0. The micrometre is commonly employed to measure the thickness or diameter of microscopic objects, such as microorganisms and colloidal particles.

AQA Science: Glossary - Zero Errors Any indication that a measuring system gives a false reading when the true value of a measured quantity is zero , e. A zero error may result in a systematic uncertainty. Answer: As compare to Vernier calipers , screw gauge is more precise because the least count of Vernier calipers is 0. So, a screw gauge can measure more precisely than a Vernier caliper.

Micrometer standards are fixed gages, with a fixed dimension, used to perform a basic field checks on micrometers and other linear precision measuring tools.

Vernier calipers commonly used in industry provide a precision to 0. They are available in sizes that can measure up to mm 72 in. Micrometers typically have a measuring range of 25mm and 1 inch. For instance, metric versions measure mm, mm, mm etc, and imperial versions measure inches, inches, inches etc. There a number of different types of micrometer. The most common are the outside micrometers. How to use a tubular inside micrometer Step 1 — Zero micrometer.

When you have determined which rod to use and have attached it to the end of the micrometer, turn the thimble until the micrometer reads zero.

Step 2 — Insert micrometer. Step 3 — Rotate thimble. Step 4 — Turn locking device. Micrometer , in full micrometer caliper, instrument for making precise linear measurements of dimensions such as diameters, thicknesses, and lengths of solid bodies; it consists of a C-shaped frame with a movable jaw operated by an integral screw. The working principle of the Micrometer is based on screw and nut. Which is more accurate vernier or micrometer?

Category: science space and astronomy. The micrometer only takes external measurements while the vernier caliper can take internal and external measurements both. The micrometers are more accurate as compared to calipers because they have the ability to measure extremely small measurements.

What is a zero error? What is least count of vernier caliper? What is least count of Metre scale? What is Vernier constant? What is the accuracy of a vernier caliper? What is a vernier caliper used to measure? Which instrument is more precise? Why is a vernier caliper more accurate than a ruler? What is the use of vernier calliper? What is the principle of vernier calliper? How many types of vernier calipers are there? Is a micrometer a caliper? How many types of micrometers are there? What is a micrometer used for?

What is a vernier caliper and how does it work? What is the main advantage of a micrometer over the vernier caliper? What is the difference between vernier caliper and screw gauge? Resolution can be 0. Why are micrometers so accurate? Micrometers use the screw to transform small distances that are too small to measure directly into large rotations of the screw that are big enough to read from a scale.

The accuracy of a micrometer derives from the accuracy of the thread-forms that are central to the core of its design. How do you measure micrometer accuracy? With a screw micrometer, accuracy relies on the lead of the screw built into the micrometer barrel.

As with any screw based movement, error in this type of micrometer tends to be cumulative and increases with the length of the spindle travel. This is one reason micrometers come in 1 in. Mitutoyo Digital Micrometer [Best Overall] The best micrometer so far that we highly recommend is Mitutoyo A caliper is faster and easier to use and provides sufficient measuring range but the resolution is generally lower than the micrometer.

Moreover, the differences over the body parts make them distinguishable as well. Caliper is able to measure inside and outside diameter, even depth. Vernier calipers can measure accuracy to one-hundredth of a millimeter and one thousand of an inch. With a vernier caliper, you can make more precise measurements than you could with regular rulers. The main scale remains fixed to the device and can be found on the length of the caliper. It works like a ruler.

Micrometer screw gauge is an instrument used to measure the diameter of thin wires, the thickness of small sheets of glass, plastic, etc. If a more precise reading is needed, then a micrometer can be used. These tools usually have accuracy of 0. You just have to add the first part and second part of the measurement to obtain the micrometer reading: 5. In a very general sense, a micrometer measures to tighter tolerances but has a smaller measuring range while a caliper has a large measuring range but is incapable of measuring tighter tolerances.

What happens during the meeting stays in the meeting. At one operation Tyler worked with, the manager found out that some meeting participants who thought they didn't get heard, or didn't like a decision that had been made, would go back to their units griping to the other employees and creating a negative atmosphere.

Don't take it out and use the discussion to grind an ax," says Tyler. In order to keep team meetings focused, positive and short, you should first create an agenda. Review daily milk production report.

Review modified operating statement. Review budget projections versus actual performance each month. Monthly veterinarian report. Monthly nutritionist report.

Identify upcoming events and expenditures. Schedule vacation time and other time off. Take action: set priorities and assign responsibility. To have effective team meetings, you first need to set some ground rules. Only allow one person to speak at a time. Make requests rather than demands of others. Be on time.

Stay focused on the topic at hand. Effective meetings have high participation, good energy, constructive collaboration, and meaningful conversations. In short, effective meetings are those which tap into the wisdom, expertise, and energy of the group. Effective meetings are interactive and valuable to both the meeting leader and the meeting attendees. Leading effective meetings— meetings that matter —is part science and part art.

The science is in taking care of the essential elements that go into the meeting structure. The art is in the way we think about designing our meetings and promoting positive engagement of participants. The following nine tools and techniques are essential building blocks that will help you lead meetings that get results — meetings that are positive, engaging, and efficient. Your next meeting participants will thank you! Most people begin planning their meetings by creating an agenda; this is a serious mistake.

The first step should always be defining the purpose of the meeting. Everything else follows the purpose. Ask yourself:. The key word here is design. Think of meetings as a series of conversations in which the participants must engage in order to accomplish the purpose.

Be creative about how you conduct the conversations. There are many tools and techniques you can use to tap into the wisdom of your participants—all your participants, not just the most vocal ones. Specific tools and techniques are readily available online. Here are a few to get you started:. Finally, create a meeting timeline based on the conversations you intend to facilitate. Keep your meeting tight, focused, and as short and as efficient as possible. Not having the right people in the room is one of the top ten complaints people have about wasted meetings.

Many organizations have a bad habit of including everybody and their sister on meeting invites. This just wastes time and dilutes engagement. Go back to the purpose of the meeting. Some companies are declaring meeting-free days, usually Fridays. Others are making certain hours of the day off — limits for meetings.

They can be an important part of a process of coming up with innovative solutions to problems and new and better ways of doing things. Tom Krattenmaker is a freelance writer and director of news and information at Swarthmore College.

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How is it that our most primal instinct, to find strength in the communal gathering of people, has devolved into a construct so universally despised? What goes wrong?

Most meetings are:. Think about the last meeting you enjoyed. What stands out about it? Would you know how to replicate that experience? Well-run meetings have a clear purpose. Purpose drives the structure, defines the desired outcome, and creates an objective measure of success so that participants know what they have achieved. Identifying the purpose also clarifies who should, and who should not , be in the room. A meeting without a defined purpose is like embarking on a road trip without a map or destination.

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Sometimes, simple parts do critical, complex jobs. He since moved on to learn a few things about coefficient of drag, G-forces, toe-heel shifting, and how to work the crazy infotainment system in some random weekly driver.

Matt is a member of the Washington Automotive Press Association and is a contributor to various print and online media sources. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Skip to content What kind of engine is in your car: interference or non-interference? Interference vs.

Non-Interference Engines The differences between interference and non-interference engines have everything to do with design. Photo courtesy of Matthew C. Categories Maintenance Tags car maintenance , engine , timing , timing belt , timing chain , valvetrain.

Like all engine designs, interference engines depend on the owner properly maintaining the vehicle. As long as you do that, this should never become an issue. Is this not ok to do? Why not? I am sure the junkyards are full of cars that have broken transmissions because the owners never changed the transmission fluid. I am sure junkyards are full of cars that have blown engines because the oil was never changed. I am sure junkyards are full of cars that have blown engines because the coolant was never changed.

Need I go on? Yes they are. Unfortunately, there is at least one; the EPA man. Those reliefs contribute to crevice volume and will impact emissions. I just thought of another potential stakeholder that might be concerned; the bean counters at the car manufacturer. But, can also be confused with the same symptoms; caused by issues with your ignition or fuel injection systems.

Most of the images displayed are of unknown origin. We do not intend to infringe any legitimate intellectual right, artistic rights or copyright. If you ever have a broken timing belt or chain; the cost of repairs for a interference or non-interference engine, are not the same.

So, timing belt or chain replacement, is more important than you think. The timing belt or chain must turn the crankshaft, exactly two revolutions for every one revolution of the camshaft. Timing Belt Function Illustration So, when the camshaft turns, it opens and closes the valves.

Furthermore, e ither one, may have a timing belt or chain. Engine Testing.

Some organisms, such as bacteria or yeast, are unicellular—consisting only of a single cell—while others, for instance, mammalians, are multicellular. Cells are small because they are more efficient as smaller entities. Information within small cells is transmitted more quickly and efficiently than within larger cells.

Thus a higher cell surface area-to-volume ratio, i. Answer: A cell is described as the smallest, basic unit of life in charge of all the processes of life. Growth, the increases in cell size and number that take place during the life history of an organism.

In the absence of sugar, TORC1s assemble into a tubular structure, rendering them inactive and thus cell growth stops. TORC1 is an enzyme complex that controls the normal growth of our cells; but, when too active, it can promote diseases such as cancer.

As a cell increases in size the volume of the cell increases more rapidly than the surface area. If a cell gets too large, it would be more difficult to get sufficient amounts of oxygen and nutrients in and waste products out, so the cell has to stop growing before this happens. There are two kinds of cells, prokaryotic and eukaryotic, both of which consist of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane and contain many biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids.

Cells reproduce through a process of cell division, in which the parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. The current system sorts the previously known kingdoms into these three domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya.

Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is entirely human-made — perhaps a new form of life, experts said, and a milestone in the field of synthetic biology.

A cell is the smallest and most basic form of life. Robert Hooke, one of the first scientists to use a light microscope, discovered the cell in In all life forms, including bacteria, plants, animals, and humans, the cell was defined as the most basic structural and functional unit. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis March 31, Why is Frank Lloyd Wright so important to the history of architecture?

How did Frank Lloyd Wright change American architecture? What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more? What does the quote less is more mean? Where did the phrase less is more come from? Did Mies van der Rohe say less is more? What is minimalist architecture?

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Are we to use these technologies as simply a new set of tools with which to better achieve familiar forms, or are they the basis for an entirely new aesthetic? Here, PhD student David R. Notice Tickets to Chihuly in the Desert on sale now! Frank Lloyd Wright changed the way we build and live Wright came onto the scene at a time when the United States was struggling to define its architectural identity.

The Whirling Arrow. Throughout his long and prolific career, Frank Lloyd Wright brought American architecture to the forefront. Wright was also highly involved with the interiors of his buildings, creating furnishings and other custom elements such as stained-glass windows to enhance the overall design.

His most iconic structures, such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, are now designated as historic landmarks and attract visitors from around the world.

These one-of-a-kind offerings—from exhibitions to product collaborations—honor the prolific architect, who would have been years old.

Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it. HTML entites are intended for using on websites. You can put Ewe Emoji html entity code in decimal or hexadecimal form right in your message, and it will be translated into graphical representation of Ewe Emoji after you submit.

Here are instructions. Press and hold Alt key on keyboard. Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character. Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit. On many devices, you can use the shortcode :sheep: to add the sheep emoji to your messages. Different devices may have different versions of the sheep emoji.

The chart on this page shows how this emoji is displayed on Android, iOS, and other platforms. Keywords click to find more : animal , nature , sheep. To use 'sheep' on social media like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, you can copy the emoji character on the left.

This is a special character, not an image, so it can be used anywhere. Put your cognition and reaction times to the test by identifying as many emoji as you can within the time limit. Can you reach Gold Level? Toggle navigation Emoji Base!

Path - Click this to add a path line or lines. Image Overlay - Click this to add an image overlay on the Earth. Measure - Click this to measure a distance or area size.

Email - Click this to email a view or image. Print - Click this to print the current view of the Earth. Sky - Click this to view stars, constellations, galaxies, planets and the Earth's moon. Navigation controls - Use these to tilt, zoom and move around your viewpoint see below.

Layers panel - Use this to display points of interest. Places panel - Use this to locate, save, organize and revisit placemarks. Status bar - View coordinate, elevation and imagery streaming status here. Try any of the the following: View an image of your home, school or any place on Earth - Click Fly To.

Enter the location in the input box and click the Search button. In the search results Places panel , double click the location. Google Earth flies you to this location. Search button Go on a tour of the world - In the Places panel, check the Sightseeing folder and click the Play Tour button: Get driving directions from one place to another and fly follow the route - See Getting Directions and Touring the Route. View other cool locations and features created by other Google Earth users - In the Layers panel, check Community Showcase.

Interesting placemarks and other features appear in the 3D viewer. Double click these points of interest to view and explore. View 3D terrain of a place - This is more fun with hilly or mountainous terrain, such as the Grand Canyon.

Go to a location see number 1 above. When the view shows the location, use the tilt slider to tilt the terrain. Tilt slider View samples of other things you can see and do in Google Earth. New Features in Version 4. The recommended configuration for Linux computers: Kernel 2. Changing Languages You can change the language displayed in Google Earth. Click the General tab. Under Language settings, choose the appropriate language of your choice. System Default corresponds to the language used by the operating system of your computer.

Google Earth Version 4. These include: Tutorials : These provide hands-on lessons using the Google Earth. Troubleshooting : View information that specifically pertains to troubleshooting issues with Google Earth. Using Google Earth : This blog describes how you can use some of the interesting features of Google Earth.

Settings in this dialog box include: Server : Choose or enter the address for the appropriate server. For more information, contact your administrator. Port : The appropriate port for this server. Always login to this server : Check this to automatically login in this server when you start Google Earth.

Subsequently, this dialog box does not appear. Enable secure login : Check this if your work environment requires a secure login to this server. You can navigate through this 3D view of the globe in several ways: Using a mouse Using the navigation controls You can also manipulate your view of the earth by tilting the terrain for perspectives other than a top-down view.

Using a Mouse To get started navigating with your mouse, simply position the cursor in the middle of the 3D viewer image of the earth , click one of the buttons right or left , move the mouse and note what happens in the viewer.

Notice that the cursor icon changes from an open hand to a closed hand. Pull the viewer as if the hand cursor is like a hand on an actual globe, and you want to drag a new part of the earth into view.

You can drag in any direction to reveal new parts of the globe, and you can even drag in circular motions. Then, briefly move the mouse and release the button, as if you are "throwing" the scene. Click once in the 3D viewer to stop motion. Zoom in There are a number of ways to zoom in with the mouse.

You can double-click anywhere in the 3D viewer to zoom in to that point. Single-click to stop, or double-click to zoom in more. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, use it to zoom in by scrolling towards you. More settings. Once the cursor changes to a double arrow, move the mouse backward or pull toward you, releasing the button when you reach the desired elevation. If you want to zoom continuously in, hold the button down and briefly pull the mouse down and release the button, as if you are "throwing" the scene.

Click once in the viewer to stop the motion. On some Macintosh laptops, you can drag two fingers across the trackpad to zoom in and out. Zoom out There are a number of ways to zoom out with the mouse. If you want to PM me, I can give you more details about how to look at the call to maps. Any more ideas? Did you get a recent software update that might have included a graphics card update? What version of IE are you running?

Anyway to add a nice button to do this somewhere like the Preferences dialog? Most of these images are between one and three years old, according to Google.

It doesn't arrive in "real time" from satellites above your requested location. Instead, the images are collected over time from different satellites, as well as some aerial plane photography and other existing sources of map imagery. These images are then stored according to map coordinates in a vast database.

Google retrieves mapping data as a series of tiles, each corresponding to a particular coordinate. It then lays these digital tiles together to create the appearance of a seamless map. If you use Google maps on a mobile device or on a weak Internet connection, it may take some time for these tiles to load. As you wait the loading areas look grey or pixelated until they render completely.

This particularly applies to the Google Maps terrain view. Some areas of the world simply aren't accessible to Google Maps. For example, a search on Google Maps for the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang, returns only satellite images.

Biodiversity loss has important implications for agriculture. M itigation of Floods Floodplains are ecosystems that border rivers subject to flooding.

Following excessive rains, flood waters flow over riverbanks and into these floodplain forests and wetlands. Some of the water is soaked up by the soil. P ollination of Crops and Natural Vegetation Many flowering plants rely on animals to help them mate by ensuring fertilization. Bees, butterflies, beetles, hummingbirds, bats, and other animals transport pollen, the male reproductive structures, from one plant to another, with enormous benefits to humanity.

In the U. C arbon Sequestration Carbon storage sequestration occurs in forests and soils primarily through the natural process of photosynthesis. The movement of carbon in and out of trees and soils is part of the Earth's global carbon cycle.

Forests and coral reefs contain massive carbon reservoirs, which significantly contribute to regulating the global climate. B uffering the Land against Ocean Storms Mangrove forest protect coastlines against Vegetated banks bind the soil, preventing erosion caused by wave and surface water flow.

P reservation of Soil Fertility Soils, with their active microbial and animal populations, have the capacity to supply adequate nutrients to plants in suitable proportions. Natural forest soil had a higher content of total nutrients and biomass. When deciding whether a species should be added to the Endangered Species List, the following criteria are evaluated: Has a large percentage of the species' vital habitat been degraded or destroyed? Has the species been over-consumed by commercial, recreational, scientific or educational uses?

Is the species threatened by disease or predation? Do current regulations or legislation inadequately protect the species? Are there other man-made factors threatening the long-term survival of the species? Species Protections Once a species becomes listed as "threatened" or "endangered," it receives special protections by the federal government. Endangered Species Day Endangered Species Day, which falls on the third Friday in May each year, is a day to celebrate endangered species success stories and learn about species still in danger.

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This is a staggering number by any measure, and even more alarming when one considers how much is already being done to try and bring these amazing plants and animals away from the brink of annihilation. Yet, despite the best efforts and intentions of some organizations, the problem is still getting worse. So why should you care?

Well, besides the obvious thought that no one should want to see any of these beautiful creatures gone forever, there are environmental impacts to consider. Whether plant or animal, many of the species on this list are an integral part of their respective ecosystems.

These systems can be delicate, especially as they are constantly being impacted by things like pollution and habitat destruction. In this case, we must not ask why these things matter, but what will happen if we continue to pretend that they do not.

Let us use the tiger as an example. Many subspecies of tiger have gone extinct over the past several centuries and most, if not all, the remaining subspecies are still at risk of extinction in some measure. They are hunted for their meat, their hide, and as pets. Their habitat has slowly disappeared thanks to logging, farming, and human population growth. Even climate change is having an adverse effect on these animals.

Quick Links. Learning and Teaching Development. Remove Frame. Why do you need to reference? To distinguish your own ideas from those of someone else. To cite different points of view. To validate what you are writing, by referring to documented evidence. View video using Microsoft Stream link opens in a new window, available for University members only.

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Whenever you use an idea from someone else's work, for example from a journal article, textbook or website, you should cite the original author to make it clear where that idea came from. This is the case regardless of whether you have paraphrased, summarised or directly quoted their work.

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