![]() Hurricane Iota makes landfall as a Category 4 storm Iota should dissipate near El Salvador by Wednesday night, the Hurricane Center said on Tuesday afternoon. It will continue inland into Nicaragua on Tuesday afternoon before moving into southern Honduras late Tuesday. The islands of San Andres and Providencia, located just northwest of Colombia’s mainland, have for the first time in recorded history felt the impact of a Category 5 hurricane, Duque said on Monday.ģ0 inches of rain forecast in some locales Local mayor Jorge Norberto Gari Hooker had ordered a total curfew from Sunday evening and set up 15 municipal shelters for population to hunker down in. The priority is now to clear the island of debris and set up emergency campsites and field hospitals as quickly as possible. The island’s infrastructure has been completely wiped out, Duque said. “We mourn, though, the loss of two people.” ![]() “We are glad that, thanks to our preparations and the measures we took, the community of Providencia has not been affected by a huge death toll,” Duque said. One hundred and twelve people were evacuated from the island Tuesday, among them six seriously injured. Yoseph Amaya/Getty ImagesĪt least two people are dead and one is missing on Providencia, Colombia President Ivan Duque said on Tuesday. People from San Rafael colony in Honduras prepare for the water shortage as they cross the Ulua River to evacuate Monday. More than 100 people evacuated on Colombian island of Providencia Residents of Bilwi, where telecommunications have been impacted, were asked to “maintain calm, stay away from places that are vulnerable or that represent some danger to human security.” Photos from the agency show people wading through knee-high water in Rivas and in Bilwi, on the northern coast. In several cities in the Rivas region of Nicaragua, a strip of land between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean in the nation’s southwest, authorities are monitoring rivers and placing vulnerable families in shelters, NHC said. ![]() Its landfall was just 15 miles south of where Hurricane Eta struck, potentially leaving the region scarred for generations. Swells from the storm will be felt as far north as the Yucatán Peninsula, as far east as Jamaica and as far south as Colombia. (Photo by Maynor Valenzuela/Getty Images) Maynor Valenzuela/Getty Images Iota is the 13th hurricane of the season to hit the Atlantic coast and has already strengthened to category five, threatening the area with catastrophic winds and heavy rains. Less than two weeks after being hardly affected by Hurricane Eta, villagers of Puerto Cabezas take precautions before landfall of Iota. PUERTO CABEZAS, NICARAGUA - NOVEMBER 16: Palm trees blow by wind as Nicaragua prepares to receive hurricane Iota on Novemin Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua.
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![]() Gagnon said Fed Chair Jerome Powell Fed needs to be nimble, but need not rush. In particular, if the Fed is raising rates above 2 percent then it may be appropriate, if inflation comes down quickly, to reverse those increases rapidly and…it’s important for the Fed to explicitly signal that that may happen.” And I think we may be at a moment where the appropriate policy is for the Fed to rapidly raise rates but make it very clear to markets that those rates might be reversed. “One thing that may be holding the Fed back…is a perception that it’s very costly to reverse course….It’s not a law of nature that when the Fed changes interest rates that’s going to stick for many, many years…. “Before you conclude that I’m crazy, you should reflect on the notion that if the core CPI inflation rate is at 6 percent, is it really so crazy to have a federal funds rate of 2 percent by July?” What the Fed should do after that depends on incoming data, he said. ![]() ![]() Steinsson recommended that the Fed should raise short-term interest rates by half a percentage point at each of the next four meetings of policymakers, which would bring the key federal funds interest rate (which has been at zero since March 2020) to 2 percent by July. And the net effect was that the demand shock would tend to push both prices and output up and the supply shock would tend to put prices up but output down.” The net result was that inflation was “way higher than anyone expected, even those of us who warned about inflation.” While he agreed with Steinsson that the Fed should have pivoted in November, Gagnon said a couple of months is not a big deal, and noted that the Fed has now signaled it will raise rates and markets anticipate that. “So we had two big supply shocks and one big demand shock. Gagnon said the Fed and other forecasters should have expected the $1.7 trillion CARES Act to boost aggregate demand substantially and push up inflation, but the supply shocks – the reluctance of workers to return to the job, for instance, and the remarkable surge in demand for goods versus services – were not foreseeable. Policymakers did change their message shortly after that meeting, but, Steinsson said, “by that time they were behind the curve and their remain behind the curve even today….The gap between what is appropriate right now and where they are is very large.” At their November 2021 meeting, Fed policymakers should have changed its forward-guidance language to suggest that it anticipated raising interest rates soon. “Being patient throughout most of last year given the developments that were hitting the economy at the time, the supply shocks and the shifts in demand from services to goods are both things that, I think, make sense to allow to at least temporarily raise inflation above the target.” But, he added, the Fed waited too long to pivot to a less accommodative stance. Steinsson said that Fed policy during 2021 “given what they knew at the time” was sensible. “When I was taught economics, I was taught that the reason you have independent central banks is to avoid a situation where short-sighted politicians….push as hard as they can on the employment side of their mandates….It’s not all clear to me how pushing as hard as you can on employment while pointing to inflation expectations being anchored as the justification is all that different from the inflation-bias scenario that the textbooks warn about.” ![]() “What the Fed said last year was, in effect, we’re not that worried about inflation because inflation expectations are anchored so we, therefore, think inflation will be transitory,” and thus monetary policy can focus on the other half of the Fed’s mandate, maximum employment. Incoming data, particularly wage growth, are inconsistent with the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target. (You can also watch a video of the conversation, moderated by the Hutchins Center’s Louise Sheiner.) Is the Fed behind the curve? The Hutchins Center put those questions and others to three experts on monetary policy at a March 2, 2022, event: Henry Curr, economics editor of The Economist Jon Steinsson, Chancellor’s Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-director of the National Bureau of Economics Research’s monetary economics program and Joseph Gagnon, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economic and a former senior Fed staffer. Did the Federal Reserve wait too long to raise interest rates to restrain inflation? Is the Fed’s new monetary policy framework working out as the Fed hoped it would? What are the biggest monetary policy challenges that the Fed faces in the next couple of years? ![]() Referees ensure that the defending team is allowed to contest for the ball.ĭuring the flying wedge, the ball-carriers teammates are protecting them from being tackled. We have an article on how blocking is strictly forbidden in rugby (although the article shows a few grey areas). Fair contest for the ballīlocking opposition would-be tacklers is a big part of American football. They did this so well that by the 2000s, younger players and referees had never seen it on the pitch. Referees were told to penalize this out of the game. The rugby authorities recognized that the danger was coming from a bunch of forwards binding to each other and running forward to defenders stuck on their try line. Teams at lower levels got more change from giving up a chance for three points to run the flying wedge over the opposition line. This is because the defensive lines were more organized. At elite level, teams were more likely to kick for goal when they got a penalty near the try line. The flying wedge was more prevalent in lower-grade amateur rugby. This was at the same time as the tactic became more popular when a penalty was awarded near the opposition try line. However, concern grew in the 1960s and 70s about a rising rate of spinal injuries. There were less dramatic occurrences in rugby. We’ve already seen that it was responsible for many deaths in American football in the early 20 th century. Two of rugby’s major principles are to prevent dangerous play and to allow a fair contest for the ball. World Rugby Laws Why Is The Flying Wedge Penalized In Rugby? Often one or more of these teammates is in front of the ball-carrier. Immediately, team-mates bind on each side of the ball-carrier in a wedge formation before engaging the opposition. ![]() The kicker taps the ball and starts the attack, either by driving towards the goal line or by passing to a teammate who drives forward. Description in the law booksĪn illegal type of attack, which usually happens near the goal line, when the attacking team is awarded a penalty or free-kick. I suggest you jump to the next section in this article, in which I explain how referees interpret the laws. The problem is that it’s both too detailed and too vague. I’m going to quote it here, but don’t spend too much time puzzling over what exactly they are trying to say. You need to check another section to find the explicit definition. One law says: “ Teams must not use the ‘cavalry charge’ or ‘flying wedge’.” This is the current law, which isn’t very clear. The wording has changed from time to time as ingenious coaches try to bring The flying wedge is specifically named in the law books. What Are The Rugby Union Laws About The Flying Wedge? That’s insane! Why wasn’t it banned? Well, it took the intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt to outlaw the tactics. Just taking 1905, there were twenty-two fatalities and 150 serious injuries attributed to the play. The flying wedge was both successful and lethal. It was quickly taken up through the 1890s by college coaches across the United States. This allowed the attackers to break through into the enemy’s rear and scatter them.Ĭoach Deland recreated this tactic on the college football fields as the flying wedge. It was intended to quickly break an enemy, but if it didn’t, it could become surrounded and then easy to combat.One of Napoleon’s tactics was to mass a large number of his troops against a weak point in the enemy line. Some Germanic armies and Vikings used a modified wedge formation to house skirmishers in the center and deployed spearmen on the flanks at the base of the wedge. The heaviest Cataphract cavalry could be very successful with wedge formations, their sheer momentum being able to drive deep into enemy formations. In antiquity it was often used by heavy infantry to break static shield walls, forcing the defenders to fight individually. When charging thinner lines, the wedge could completely separate a line into two groups, dividing a force and making them easier to defeat. The ensuing charge would penetrate into the ranks of the enemy, usually infantry, and scatter the opposing force. Historically used with cavalry, the formation involves a mass of troops in a triangular wedge with the tip charging at the enemy. ![]() The wedge formation is a very old and very effective formation when employed correctly. ![]() Workers interviewing for church staff positions (and sometimes those hiring) don’t have a good sense of what they can (or should) negotiate for their own salary. the position is with a small church or large church? What should their job offer include? How much should they get paid? Should it be more or less based on where I live? Does it depend on if. It’s very common for church staff to wonder what the industry standard is for others in their profession. ![]() Should they be above industry standard-since many of these church staff positions require 60+ hours per week and odd hours due to the nature of church life? Should they be below industry standard-almost as if it were a service project? Therefore, there is a ban on these guaranteed bonuses.Church staff salaries can often be an enigma. Furthermore, a relatively high variable remuneration is undesirable if there is little or no performance within the company. Netherlands įor employees of Dutch financial companies, the bonus may not exceed 20% of the fixed salary (bonus ceiling). Bonus as an implied term of contract between the partiesĥ.Marginal bonus. Supreme Court held that there are four types Ģ. New Maneck Choke Spinning and weaving Company V.Textile Labour Association (1961) I LLJ 521 at 526 In Jalan Trading v Mill Mazdoor Sabha 1, the Supreme Court stated that the purpose of the Act was to maintain peace and harmony between labour and capital by allowing workers to share in the establishment's prosperity and prescribing the maximum and minimum rates of bonus, as well as the scheme of "set-off" and set-on to not only secure labour's right in the share of profits but also to enshrine in law the principle of "set-off" and "set-on". The Indian Parliament in 1965, enacted a new statute called The payment of Bonus Act. The inverse of a bonus payment, that is when base salaries shrink on poor performance, this is called a malus.īy country India The payment of bonus act, 1965. Īlso in 2016, the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors "conducted a study of executive pay and concluded bonuses may have become fixed pay, dressed up." They found that despite decreased Australian company earnings in 2015, "93 bosses of the top 100 companies got a bonus, with the median being $1.2 million, the highest since 2007, just before the GFC." Malus The decision was made because they concluded that the bonuses were “largely ineffective in influencing the right behaviors,” and that “there is little correlation between bonus and performance and this is backed by widespread academic evidence”. In 2016 the management of Woodford Investment Management ended discretionary bonuses. Setting up good employment contracts may be a means to avoid that – at least to some extent – but this is rare in reality. " 'just because you had a good year this year I'll give you a $5 million, $10 million bonus', I think that's stupid," īonuses are prone to being adjusted or even manipulated to the benefit of those employees who are responsible for reporting them, while they are already planning their leave with a golden handshake. That too many bonuses are focused on the short term. ![]() Australian retail entrepreneur Gerry Harvey, while supporting bonuses for long term company performance has said When they are tied to possibly short-lived figures such as an increase in monthly turnover, or cash flow generated from an isolated marketing action, such figures often do not reflect a solid reliable win for a company, and they certainly do not reflect a manager's lasting efforts to the company's best. There are, however, problematic instances, most notably when bonus payments are high. There are widely‐used elements of pay for performance and working well in many instances, including when a fair share of an employees participation in the success of a company is desired. Thus bonus payments can act as incentives for managers attracting their attention and their personal interest towards what is seen as gainful for their companies' economic success. While the base salary usually is a fixed amount per month, bonus payments more often than not vary depending on known criteria, such as the annual turnover, or the net number of additional customers acquired, or the current value of the stock of a public company. A bonus payment is usually made to employees in addition to their base salary as part of their wages or salary. Hank tells us the background story and explains the importance of the science of classifying living things, also known as taxonomy. Description In this product, your students will use their Punnett Square knowledge to determine what Ponyboys parents may have looked like based on Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darrys hair and eye color. 12:15 CC Biology - 19 - Taxonomy: Life's Filing System - CrashCourse.11:17 CC Biology - 02 - Water - Liquid Awesome - CrashCourseĮxplains why water is one of the most fascinating and important substances in the universe.In this video I will show you how to spawn the whole set of armor. How is that in any way useful to anyone ever? Hank uses the example a of West Nile virus outbreak in Texas to show you in this episode of Crash Course: Ecology. The Punnett square calculator provides you with an answer to that and many other. Population ecology is the study of groups within a species that interact mostly with each other, and it examines how they live together in one geographic area to understand why these populations are different in one time and place than they are in another. ![]() Population ecology: The Texas Mosquito Mystery Making Punnett squares is a good way to get started understanding the fundamental concepts of genetics. The completed square shows every possible way the offspring could inherit this gene, and what the chances are for each result. Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to & different from animal cells. A Punnett square simulates two organisms reproducing sexually, examining just one of the many genes that get passed on. 10:28 CC Biology - 06 - Plant Cells - Crash Course.» Florida Standards Parent Information Toolkit.» Project UpStart - Assisting Students in Unstable Housing. ![]()
![]() Here is a list of some additional key features: “Aligning with our main goal to redesign storage and sharing, the Duo is easy to use and ensures content is always with the consumer – whether they are at home or on-the-go.” ![]() “In launching our second-generation product, we designed the Apollo Cloud Duo with careful consideration and our consumers needs in mind,” said Justin Cleveland, Promise Technology’s Director of Biz Dev – IoT. When sharing your files to an unlimited amount of people, you can send time-limited links to specific content. Members cannot access another member’s files, so no need to worry. Each member can save items on the cloud device, and share their files with others via time limited links. You can set up your inner circle and assign storage space on your Apollo Cloud Duo to 40 people of your choosing. When it comes to sharing your files, Apollo is ready to help you do that quickly and securely. Making sure all your computers are up to date with your latest files is easy with Duo’s sync files feature. Keep one at home and one at a different location to maximize security. Apollo Cloud Mirroring allows you, at no added cost, to further protect your files by syncing all your data and configurations to another Apollo in a different location anywhere in the world via the Internet. With no monthly or yearly fees, Apollo Cloud gives you peace of mind knowing that all your data is off the Internet, safe and secure on a personal cloud, with all transactions encrypted to the highest degree. With its two-step setup process, you will be ready to back up your important documents, cherished photos and videos within minutes. You don’t have to know anything about networking or IT in order to set up your Apollo Cloud. With 8TB of storage capacity, Duo is sure to be the ultimate device for those seeking a cloud storage solution that’s safe, simple and fast. The newly designed device doubles the storage capacity of previous models, yet maintains its sleek glossy white aesthetic and compact size that’s ideal for discreet display. MILPITAS, California – August 21, 2017 – Promise Technology, a leader in data storage, today announced the launch of its newest personal storage device, Apollo Cloud 2 Duo, and its companion application. Promise Technology Delivers Advanced and Simple-to-Use Personal Cloud Storage with New Apollo Cloud 2 Duo Apollo has also integrated software that will automatically sort images by location data and facial recognition, if needed.Īpollo’s new Cloud Storage Solution will be available to purchase on August 31st for $449. Other notable features include automatic camera roll backup for mobile devices, which is something Dropbox and iCloud have been pushing for some time now. ![]() The Cloud 2 Duo supports Time Machine backups and its internal 8TB of storage can be divided up as needed. “We understand that our customers trust our devices with their precious photos and important documents, which is why we aim to create products that will give them the ability to save and share whatever they want, whenever they want, safely and simply.”ĭevice storage and user management is handled by iOS and Android apps, as well as Mac/PC software that is included. “We believe Apollo Cloud 2 Duo is chockfull of features that will make our users’ lives easier,” said Vijay Char, president, Promise Technology USA. ![]() It’s not a decoration by any means, but it could be worse. Rather, it fits in with most modern smart home products. Apollo’s latest doesn’t feel like an ugly NAS system that needs to be stored in your closet. Perhaps most appealing is its sleek design. It also sports a USB 3.0 port on the backside for automatic backup as needed of external devices. The Cloud 2 Duo is powered by a dual-core processor and can be configured as RAID 0 or RAID 1, as needed. Unlimited timed links are also available if you need to share out data for a set duration. Stored content can be shared privately or publicly to each member, depending on your need. The second generation model lets up to 40 users login for a ‘social sharing cloud’ experience. Promise Technology views its new Apollo Cloud 2 Duo as a storage solution that goes beyond your typical Time Machine backup and other popular services. Note: For Google Drive link, download using PC, transfer it to phone storage, and see the installation instructions below. You can try the app on your previous Pixel devices including Pixel 4 (XL), Pixel 3 (XL), 2 (XL), OG Pixel 1 (XL) running Android 12.
![]() In the early days, this meant that an average Labrador would spend a lot of time near the water. Related: Do Pitbulls Have Webbed Feet? Why Do Labradors Have Webbed Paws?ĭating back to ancient times, Labradors used to be companions to fishers. And if you enjoy swimming or other water activities, your Lab can make a great partner. On the contrary, it’s a hardly-noticeable trait. Having webbed feet doesn’t make your Lab a weirdo, though. ![]() Also, in some Labs, this webbing is darker than the rest of their body, and you guessed it-in others, it may not be so. Some will have tufts of fur on their extra skin membrane, while others may not. You see, some Labs will have a lot of skin between their toes, while some may only have a little. Why? Because it’s different for different Labs. Now, this is a bit of a tricky question to answer. How Do the Webbed Paws of a Labrador Look Like?
![]() The lemurs of Madagascar have evolved with the island, influencing the plant life, and filling every available niche to for an astoundingly diverse superfamily of multitudinous shapes and sizes. The IUCN currently recognizes 107 species of lemurs, but their classification is an ongoing process that incorporates new knowledge and research on a regular basis. Yet it is the primate species of Madagascar – the lemurs – that are the island’s real “flagship” species. The island is home to over 300 recorded species of birds (60% of which are endemic) and 260 species of reptile – including two-thirds of the world’s chameleon species. The island is so large, and its environment so diverse, that some have even argued that it should be considered the world’s eighth continent. The inevitable outcome of this geographic isolation is that 90% of the island’s fauna and flora are endemic, with phenomenal biodiversity that is quite literally worlds apart for anything else on the planet. For the last 88 million years, life on Madagascar has been on its own, an island of evolutionary oddities that includes the family of lemurs. Then, around 47 million years later, Madagascar broke away from India and settled itself off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. ![]() ![]() Some 135 million years ago, gradual but enormous forces broke apart the supercontinent Gondwana, and a landmass consisting of present-day Madagascar, India, Antarctica, and Australia drifted away from Africa. ![]() I use the source pixel's red channel as an index to the color table. Vec4 indexedColor = texture2D(colorTable, index) īoth textures are 32-bit, one texture is used as lookup table containing several palettes which are all the same size (in my case 6 colors). Vec2 index = vec2(color.r + paletteIndex, 0) I worry that duplicating textures just to change a color in them is wasting VRAM - should I not worry about that?Įdit: I ended up using the accepted answer's technique and here is my shader for reference. Ideally I would like to use a shader since it seems straightforward and requires little additional work opposed to the duplicated-texture method. If shaders are not available (say, because the graphics card doesn't support them) then it is possible to clone the "original" textures and generate different versions with the color changes pre-applied.Use a shader and write some GLSL to perform the "palette swapping" behavior.There are two ways I know of to achieve the effect I want, but I'm curious if there are better ways to achieve this effect easily. On modern hardware, though, this is a bit more challenging because the concept of palettes is not the same.Īll of my textures are 32-bit and do not use palettes. This kind of effect was common and quite easy to do on the NES since the programmer had access to the palette and the logical mapping between pixels and palette indices. Not all of the sprite's colors change, only certain ones do. For reference: in Megaman when you change your selected weapon then main character's palette changes to reflect the selected weapon. I'm working on a Megaman-like game where I need to change the color of certain pixels at runtime. |