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Arion capitalization is updated once a day. Arion capitalization today is considered as the sum of all cryptocurrency Arion coins issued. Arion capitalization is open information. Arion market cap today is equal to 3 300.03 US dollars.
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Arion market cap chart by years. 0% - a change in the market capitalization of Arion per month. 0% per year - a change in the market capitalization of Arion. Arion, capitalization now - 3 300.03 US dollars.
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|21/10/2022||3 300.03 $|
|20/10/2022||3 299.03 $|
|19/10/2022||3 297.97 $|
|18/10/2022||3 296.69 $|
|17/10/2022||3 295.51 $|
|16/10/2022||3 294.44 $|
|15/10/2022||3 292.97 $|
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Arion capitalization amounted to 3 300.03 US dollars at 21/10/2022. The market capitalization of Arion amounted to 3 299.03 US dollars at 20/10/2022. 19/10/2022 Arion market capitalization is equal to 3 297.97 US dollars. 18/10/2022 Arion market capitalization is equal to 3 296.69 US dollars.
17/10/2022 Arion capitalization amounted to 3 295.51 US dollars. The market capitalization of Arion amounted to 3 294.44 US dollars at 16/10/2022. 15/10/2022 Arion capitalization is equal to 3 292.97 US dollars. | [
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Located in the Boldu-Creteasca Forest near Bucharest there is a mysterious pond called The Witches Pond. This algae layered pond having a diameter of only 5 m and has many mysterious, legends and tales of ghosts surrounding it. The Witches Pond is named for the many witches who gather in the area. It has become a very popular place for Romanian witches as well as others from all over the world who have made the pilgrimage to visit the powerful pond. Also known as the place where Vlad the Impaler was decapitated, this locale is a small place filled with sorcery.
Witches perform their rituals there each year during the Saznienele celebration in June which keep the mysterious Witches’ Pond alive. The pond is rumored to contain great energy that causes any spell to be cast near it to cast successfully. This is why the site is popular amongst the Wiccan and why it is visited on sacred celebration days.
Many people have experience unexplainable phenomena in the vicinity of the Witches Pond and many others visit this sacred site to specifically seek out its supposed natural power. It is not a popular site for Romanian locals to visit and many believe that the pond’s water is cursed.
It is said that after the 1977 earthquake many trucks unloaded debris in the pond, with the aim of stoppering it. Within weeks, the debris disappeared in its waters, although the pond has a depth of only one meter and a half. Locals say that many times when pregnant women didn’t want the child went to the pond, bathed and ridded the pregnancy. Even the animals would be scared of this place: there would be no frog or any being that lives in the pond, and the animals don’t drink water from there.
Near the center of the pond have been reported over time strange phenomena, like globular lightnings or storms started and disappeared suddenly. The pond never change, doesn’t dry, doesn’t expand, whether it rains or is drought.
VISITING THE WITCHES POND
The Witches Pond is certainly an interesting place to visit for the many stories and legends surrounding it. It is also a beautiful and serene place surrounded by dense forest. It is not far outside of Bucharest and easily accessible by car.
The pond is a short walk from the road and has a path to follow. It should be noted that there is no parking at the entrance to this pathway, so it is best to get dropped off. The entrance is also off a busy highway and great care should be taken navigating to it. Traffic is heavy and there are no pathways beside the road for pedestrian use. Whilst the pond is small, it is unmistakable and easy to spot.
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Today, Dr Janina Białobrzeska-Paluszkiewicz, collaborating with Gazeta dla Lekarzy as an illustrator, painted a portrait of Prof. Stanisław Filipecki (1927 - 2007), with whom she had the honour and pleasure to cooperate at the beginning of my medical career.
The professor was a talented physician, an excellent diagnostician and a friendly teacher of young doctors.
I am a co-author of the above a scientific work ( my maiden name is Krystyna Łapińska) whose first author is prof. S. Filipecki. This paper is quoted 32 times in the world literature on adrenal gland cancer with high level of aldosterone and normal glucocorticoids level.
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As you have hopefully noticed, I haven’t been posting very much recently. That’s because I finally bit the bullet and decided to take a break from WoW.
Playing arena throughout TBC was some of the most fun I’ve ever had in a video game. And despite not agreeing with many of the changes that Blizzard has made in WotLK, I still had a ton of fun in arena at level 80.
With that said, if you comment I would like you to share your most memorable arena match. Here’s mine:
In the very beginning of season 6 I played Affliction with a Disc priest. We flew to 1950 rating pretty quickly, but got stuck there for a week or so because of all the warrior teams queueing. After a few more days of playing we finally got up to 1990 and decided to queue for one more game.
We were matched up against a Rogue/Priest team and the match was incredibly intense. They couldn’t get a sap off because of the pet/soul link bug at the time, but we charged straight in anyways. The rogue put out tremendous pressure on my while the enemy priest kept trying to fear –> mana burn my priest. I had to juke the rogue while putting my pet on stay momentarily whenever the enemy priest ran in to fear (so my pet wouldn’t get feared). Dispelling fear with my pet and keeping CoEx on the enemy priest kept my priest in the clear, but there were about three or four times when I dipped down to 1k or 2k health and just barely teleported out alive.
Kiting a rogue with Teleport+CoEx, while at 2k health, is a heart pounding experience. Especially when your healer is CCed. Eventually, their trinkets were down and we got the enemy priest in a spell-lock –> fear –> MC –> fear CC chain and the rogue went down. Bam, 2k rating and furious shoulders.
Looking back, 2k isn’t even considered high anymore, but being the first warlock on the server to get furious shoulders was incredibly cool. He wore those shoulders throughout the rest of season 6 and ended up being retired in them.
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(born in Lome, 1945) is one of his nation's well known human rights activists. He is head of the division of academics in the registrar's office at the University of Benin, where he previously headed the department of philosophy, and continues to lecture in philosophy. Dr. Kuakuvi teaches the history of philosophy, moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of nature and ontology. He was educated at the University Urbaniana de Propaganda Fide in Rome, and received the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. He belongs to the Association of Writers of Togo, the Human Rights League of Togo, and the Union of African Human Rights Leagues. He is interested in the American government system and how individual and collective rights are guaranteed and protected; his other interests include African American literature. He is here through the US Information Agency. | [
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Why hydraulic hose bursts?
Many excavators have experienced the problem of hydraulic hose bursts. When a fault occurs, the first thing everyone thinks of is to replace the oil hose, but they haven’t thought about what caused the hose burst. The following will explain the reasons for the burst.
1. Hydraulic hose aging
The situation of hydraulic hose bursting is very rare in new cars. All of them are caused by oil leaks and pipe bursts after 4-5 years of use of the excavator. This is actually a problem caused by the aging of hydraulic hoses. Is a very common cause.
2. High frequency vibration
Hydraulic pumps, motors and other working devices have vibrations at work. Such high-frequency vibrations cannot be completely eliminated. Long-term abnormal vibrations can cause fatigue and wear of hydraulic oil pipes. Therefore, the pipe clamps and protective sleeves of hydraulic pipes must be checked frequently.
3. Hydraulic hose quality problems
Generally, some excavator manufacturers, in order to reduce costs, use relatively inexpensive hydraulic hoses, resulting in low quality. After a period of use, tube burst problems occur.
4. Hydraulic hose crimping problem
The metal joints on both ends of the hydraulic hose are not crimped. As a result, the hydraulic hose leaks or even breaks. Good pressure pipe technology can maximize the service life of the hydraulic pipe.
5. Excessive pressure in hydraulic lines
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As 2014 ends, it is good that Nevada is finally growing again. Now we need to prepare for what type of economy our state will grow into.
Payroll employment has grown by 27,000 jobs over the past 12 months, a 2.3 percent growth rate which puts us in the top quarter of states for the first time since the Great Recession began. Since we hit bottom in 2011, a year after the rest of the nation, we have recovered 110,000 of the 186,000 jobs we lost.
Gross State Product grew by 2.4 percent last year, less than the national average, but still enough to keep pace with population growth and price inflation. Growth in 2014 is expected to be even better. Our unemployment rate is 6.9 percent, no longer even among the top five in the nation. A welcome relief!
Even our population is growing twice as fast as the difference between births and deaths. People are moving here again. The fact that population growth is only a third of the pre-recession rate is also good news because we should be able to sustain this pace and meet the education and infrastructure needs such growth demands.
These are not the heady days before housing prices peaked in 2006. The economy fell off a cliff in 2008, and we are still only climbing out of the abyss and surely should not want to return.
Nevada was a casino economy back then. When our monopoly on gaming began to slip, we placed our providence in construction. Californians moved here for relatively cheaper homes, and people from other states moved here to build those homes or provide other services. Our income per capita was 10% above the national average, though our cost of living was also above average, and our population growth rate was fastest in the nation.
When the ride ended, Nevada lost almost 100,000 construction jobs, more than half of the total loss, and our unemployment rate became the nation’s highest. Median housing prices fell by more than half, foreclosures were highest in the nation, and two-thirds of homeowners owned property worth less than the mortgage.
A major driver of our economic recovery is the recovery in home prices. This has a big impact on the confidence and the net wealth of homeowners, and that leads to increases in retail sales. It also helped the national economy began to recover first, and national employment levels finally caught back up to the January 2008 peak this past Spring. At our current pace, Nevada will reach that mark in three more years.
Slow and steady GDP growth since 2009 makes the U.S. economy a model, as the European Union has been struggling through a second and now potentially a third recession. Japan has gone back into recession and while China continues to grow rapidly, its rate is slowing.
For Nevada’s economy, it is out with the old to make way for the new, and employment growth this past year has not been in the usual sectors. Almost two-thirds was in the health care sector and in professional and business services, while there is also growth in financial services, manufacturing and retail sector employment. After an initial recovery, employment growth in the leisure and hospitality sector has been flat. Construction is only beginning to see some positive growth.
Our recovery is still slow because we aren’t able to return to what worked for us before. We are beginning a needed diversification that we have discussed for many years. A number of interesting projects are underway that help. Tesla is beginning the construction of its gigafactory east of Sparks, while Nevada was one of six sites selected nationally for unmanned aircraft research.
It is hard to overstate how much the average Nevadan needs this growth. On average, our residents suffered a far bigger drop in income than those in any other state, and those at the lower end suffered the most. While income per capita was 16% lower in 2013 than in 2008, our median household income fell by 22 percent. Nevada had a larger share of population enter poverty from 2007 to 2013 than any other state. So far, none of these measures have shown signs of improvement.
Job growth helps, but many in our current workforce must now adjust to a changing economy. People are hard working in Nevada, but that is not enough. For this diversifying economy to succeed, new business sectors must expand and grow, and the public and private sectors must partner up to empower Nevadans to become tomorrow’s workforce.
As our state legislators come into the next legislative session, they need to put their priority on engaging employers, educators, unions, non-profits and our new entrepreneurs in order to improve workforce training and education. If we want all Nevadans to share in the opportunity of a diverse and robust economy, then now is the time to create that future.
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What Are the Benefits of Residential Treatment Programs for Women?
Women’s eating disorder residential treatment provides a highly-structured environment that also offers round-the-clock medical and psychiatric treatment in a controlled, safe environment. While every program is different, there are some unique benefits of a program that prioritizes women-only treatment.
First, What Exactly Is Residential Treatment?
Because they are all dedicated to helping people overcome their eating disorders, on some level, every eating disorder center tends to provide certain kinds of programs, chief among which is a dedicated residential program. Residential, also sometimes termed “inpatient,” simply means that the individual lives at a treatment center for a set period while they receive treatment. There is a full-time staff available for the physical and mental safety of their clients. This team is typically comprised of therapists, psychiatrists, and other staff members who are working together to support the client and her treatment plan. Regular therapy sessions, as well as weekly meetings to assess progress toward goals, are other components that one is likely to find in nearly any eating disorder residential program.
“When deciding on getting help for a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa or another eating disorder, looking beyond the generalized programs toward the more specialized ones can be a great advantage for women seeking the kind of treatment that takes gender into consideration.”
Unique and Beneficial Features of Residential Treatment for Women
To get a real feel for an eating disorder residential program, it's necessary to look beyond the basics and determine what unique programs are available that match your needs. The psychiatric and medical communities learn more every day about the importance of specialized programs for specific populations, such as transgender groups, seniors, adolescents, or importantly in eating disorder treatment, women. While the common misconception that only women get eating disorders isn't true by a long shot, they do affect women more commonly than men. That's why programs that cater to women's specific needs are often necessary.
Specialized Focus Groups
Many people who enter residential treatment centers for women do so with co-occurring conditions. While every woman's experience is different, these conditions are common enough and complex enough to require co-occurring treatment. For some, a co-occurring condition such as anxiety or depression could lead to an eating disorder. Other women might find that pressure by the media and society at large to fit a certain weight or image requirement has caused their distorted self-image and the disordered eating. In either of these situations, there is a certain level of comfort which can come from being around people of the same gender who understand these pressures and feelings.
During any women's residential treatment program, attending groups provide a level of support and camaraderie that builds on that which she receives from the medical professionals she is working with. Focus groups that specialize in recovery and healing from substance use disorder, for example, ensure that women are interacting with others who have shared some of the same experiences.
Same-Gender Programs Can Ease Re-Entry Into the “Real World”
“At the end of her stay at a women’s residential treatment center, each woman will have a somewhat anxiety-inducing choice to make – how to best go back to their daily lives and maintain their recovery. The best eating disorder inpatient centers build real-life exposures into the treatment plan, to in essence ‘practice’ going home recovered.”
Some examples of those kinds of experiences that allow women who are rediscovering their healthy self might take part in could include preparing a meal and eating it together, family-style, with other residents, meal planning and shopping for food for the coming week or ordering a meal in a restaurant. By practicing these skills in a supportive environment, women can practice their coping skills so they come more naturally to them.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: CARRIE HUNNICUTT
With 20 years of behavioral health business development experience, Carrie combines world-class marketing, media, public relations, outreach and business development with a deep understanding of client care and treatment. Her contributions to the world of behavioral health business development – and particularly eating disorder treatment– go beyond simple marketing; she has actively developed leaders for her organizations and for the industry at large. | [
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Punjab News- Punjab government rolls out agriculture diversification mission: Babehali
Author(s): City Air NewsChandigarh, October 7, 2013: Punjab Government has launched much needed agriculture diversification mission to conserve its depleting ground water and ensure remunerative price to the farmers for alternative crops....
Chandigarh, October 7, 2013: Punjab Government has launched much needed agriculture diversification mission to conserve its depleting ground water and ensure remunerative price to the farmers for alternative crops.
Disclosing this here today Chief Parliamentary Secretary, Agriculture, Gurbachan Singh Babehali said that out of 28-lakh hectare area currently under paddy, 12-lakh hectare to be shifted to alternative crops like maize, sugarcane, cotton, pulses, fruits and vegetables besides Agro Forestry in next five years.
He said that Punjab Government provided 70% subsidy on the agricultural infrastructure to the farmers for adopting drip irrigation, water tanks, solar water pumps and solar connections. He said that state-of-the-art Borlaug Institute for South Asia was being established to develop new varieties of Wheat, Cotton and Maize crop through research at Laddowal, Ludhiana. Amount of Rs. 500 crores has already reserved for this Institute, according to information available with www.cityairnews.com
Babehalli said that 50% subsidy on seeds, insecticides, pesticides, machinery and other input materials to boost the cultivation of alternative crops. Punjab Government has enhanced the budget for PAU to Rs. 300 crore for the year 2013-14 from Rs.190 crore of 2012-13 to carry out extensive research and development.
Babehalli said that Punjab has won “Krishi Karman Award” (GoI’s award) for record production of food grains during 2010-11. He said that fives citrus estates at Abohar,Tahliwala-Jattan, Bhunga, Badal, Hoshiarpur were established at a cost of Rs. 5 crore to promote the disease free varieties of citrus. Litchi and Pear estate to come up at Pathankot and Amritsar respectively at a cost of Rs 3.80 crore each. www.cityairnews.com | [
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Optical EngineeringLow modulus polymer packaged optical fiber sensor for macrocrack monitoring in ice structures of cold regions
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Ice structures provide load-bearing capability for energy exploitation and transportation in cold regions. Meanwhile, staff and facilities take a risk due to large amounts of distributed macrocracks in ice roads, ice bridges, and ice platforms. It is critical to monitor macrocracks for detecting and understanding the fracture process under such a harsh environment. Aiming to obtain real-time, long-term, and quantitative crack opening information for ice structures, this paper presents a feasibility study on monitoring macrocracks with a low modulus polymer packaged optical fiber sensor. Brillouin optical time-domain analysis-based sensing technology is utilized for the distributed strain measurement. According to <italic<in situ</italic< monitoring requirements, a type of silicone rubber material with appropriate mechanical properties is selected to fabricate the sensor. On this basis, a strain transfer analysis on the packaged and embedded sensor is carried out to derive the relation between the optical measurement and the increment of the crack width. The prototypes have been evaluated by demonstration tests on a tensile device and an ice road model. The experimental results show the sensor can survive in a cold environment and under the large strain resulting from the macrocrack opening. These measured data agree well with the linear calibration. The macrocracks opening in large-scale ice structures can be characterized based on the optical sensor. | [
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Dr. James Luu is a native of Southern California. He attended undergraduate studies at the University of California at Irvine and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences. He received the Dean’s Grant and graduated with AOA honors from the New York Medical College. After medical school, Dr. Luu returned to California for his internship at UCLA, then completed his Ophthalmology residency training at the Stanford University. Following his residency, he completed fellowship training in medical and surgical diagnostic and treatment of retinal diseases at the National Retina Institute in Baltimore, MD.
Upon completion of his fellowship training, Dr. Luu joined the National Retina Institute as director of fellowship training and participated in Ophthalmology resident training at the George Washington University. He has published research in peer review journals, participated in several clinical trials and has given numerous ACCME lectures to Optometrists and Ophthalmologists at national meetings. Dr. Luu came to Colorado Springs and joined Retina Consultants of Southern Colorado in 2003. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of vitreous and retinal diseases, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, uveitis, macular hole, epiretinal membrane, retinal detachment, and retinal vascular diseases.
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We hired Wag This Way to watch our two dogs and one cat while we were on vacation. Wag This Way exceeded our expectations! Kerri clearly loves animals and took great care of our pets and Home. She clearly understands all the details that come with taking care of pets including plans for any potential health issues, cleaning up messes, and just spending quality time with our furry loved ones. She went above and beyond the call of duty by helping with yard cleanup as the snow melted. We highly recommend Wag This Way and will hire again for future travel.
I just realized that 10 years has passed since I wrote a review of Susan and Pawsitive Experience. Time passes, puppies grow up, and some have even passed on.... but through all those many years, Susan has remained an amazing advocate, trainer, and friend who cares deeply about nurturing the relationship between people and their dogs so they can all live "happily ever after". She truly wants the best for all concerned. I have known her with my own dogs since 2003 and have observed her with many others through the years. She is always there to speak for the dog and help people understand the canine messages that elude them and help them build the positive bond with their dog that will last a lifetime. Her approach is positive, individualized, honest, direct, and humorous in teaching both the dog and the person, and I have really valued learning from her. Over the years, I have participated in her weekly happy hour where the dogs play together and also in her training classes. It has truly been a great place to learn and share with my dogs in the beautiful country setting of Pawsitive | [
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USD 350 Board of Education
The St. John USD 350 Board of Education is made up of community members representing the district's different areas. The board meets once a month in the district office in St. John, Kansas.
USD 350 BOARD GOALS
The USD 350 Board of Education adopted the following goals to support improving student achievement and facilitate district operations.
Goal 1: Improve Technology
Objective 1: Create sufficient infrastructure to support needs
Objective 2: Address immediate technology needs and update as necessary
Objective 3: Ensure staff is properly trained in the use of appropriate technology
Goal 2: Ensure students have sufficient opportunities for advanced course options
Objective 1: Determine needs and interest of students.
Objective 2: Explore available options and implement as needed
Goal 3: Improve and enhance facilities and grounds
Objective 1: Create a capital improvement plan
Objective 2: Enhance the grounds and improve the overall look of the facilities
Goal 4: Ensure all students are prepared for career or post-secondary education
Objective 1: Require that each student in high school has a career plan
Objective 2: Expand career & technical education opportunities
Goal 5: Provide an opportunity for all students to attend preschool
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Property tax increase approved
Homeowners in Walls will see higher property tax bills after city officials approved a 3-mill increase in the 2012-13 budget.
The board approved the $900,000 budget Sept. 4.
The increase will raise the millage rate from 23 to 26 mills. The new tax rate means the owner of a house valued at $100,000 will pay annual municipal taxes of $260, a $30 increase from last year's tax.
Municipal taxes are in addition to county taxes.
Mayor Lynda Austin said the tax increase was needed to improve services in DeSoto County's smallest incorporated city.
She said the increased taxes will go to improve the town's police department by offering higher salaries to the department's three officers. The increased taxes will also allow the city to hire a municipal clerk and build a new park in the town.
"In June, we will also have to have an election and the new aldermen and mayor will have to have more training," said Austin, who said she does not plan to seek re-election. "Raising the millage rate is not something we wanted to do, but we have to do something to offer our citizens more services."
Help sought in finding suspects
Southaven police are asking for the public's help in finding two people for whom they have issued felony warrants.
Andre Brown is wanted for kidnapping and was last known to be in the Memphis area, Lt. Mark Little said in a news release.
Little said a felony warrant has also been issued for Nekema Matthews, who police say is wanted for using someone's identity when she was arrested for shoplifting.
Anyone with information about the two suspects is asked to call Southaven police at 662-393-8654.
Historic courthouse set to close
JACKSON — The federal judiciary says it will close the courthouse in Meridian where trials were held for Ku Klux Klansmen on charges in the 1964 deaths of three civil right workers and where James H. Meredith filed his lawsuit in 1961 to integrate the University of Mississippi.
The Meridian building is among six courthouses in the South to be closed because of inadequate federal funding.
None of the facilities to be closed has a judge who is based there. Instead, judges travel from larger cities as needed.
Stanley Dearman, retired editor of The Neshoba Democrat newspaper, told The Associated Press that the courthouse contains too much history to be closed.
The courthouse was built in 1933 and takes up an entire city block in downtown Meridian.
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The building community soon may have radio vision---a new way to "see" moisture inside walls. Building researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have joined forces with Intelligent Automation Inc. in Rockville, Md., to develop a way to use ultra wide-band radio waves to non-destructively detect moisture within the walls of a building. As any homeowner whos suffered with leaky plumbing or mold problems will tell you, the current state of the art for pinpointing moisture problem areas relies mostly on guesswork and a drywall saw.
Three-dimensional perspective view of a mocked-up wall section. Red circular area at left indicates moisture inside a wall
Based on hardware developed by Intelligent Automation, the new NIST technique involves sending a broad range of radio frequencies through typical drywall construction to look for a "moisture" signature in the signal that is reflected back. Laboratory experiments conducted with a simplified wall section made of gypsum board, fiberglass insulation, and oriented strand board (similar to plywood), demonstrated that the new method can locate moisture pockets to within one centimeter.
The presence of water within the model wall produced a stronger reflection of radio waves at specific frequencies. The elapsed time between transmission of the waves and their arrival at a receiving antenna helps determine the location of the water. By processing the reflected signals with computer software, the researchers can create detailed three-dimensional maps that highlight wet areas.
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For the first time, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Basel has succeeded in integrating artificial organelles into the cells of live zebrafish embryos. This innovative approach using artificial organelles as cellular implants offers new potential in treating a range of diseases, as the authors report in an article published in Nature Communications.
In the cells of higher organisms, organelles such as the nucleus or mitochondria perform a range of complex functions necessary for life. In the networks of...
Animal photoreceptors capture light with photopigments. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now discovered that these photopigments fulfill an...
On 15 March, the AWI research aeroplane Polar 5 will depart for Greenland. Concentrating on the furthest northeast region of the island, an international team...
The world’s second-largest ice shelf was the destination for a Polarstern expedition that ended in Punta Arenas, Chile on 14th March 2018. Oceanographers from...
At the 2018 ILA Berlin Air Show from April 25–29, the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT is showcasing extreme high-speed Laser Material Deposition (EHLA): A video documents how for metal components that are highly loaded, EHLA has already proved itself as an alternative to hard chrome plating, which is now allowed only under special conditions.
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In this activity for undergraduate students, learners build a highly simplified computer model of thermohaline circulation (THC) in the North Atlantic Ocean and conduct a set of simulation experiments to understand the complex dynamics inherent in this simple model.
This short NASA video focuses on the Aquarius satellite, launched on June 10, 2011 to observe how variations in ocean salinity relate to climatic changes. By measuring salinity globally, Aquarius shows the ocean's role in climate change and climate's effects on ocean circulation.
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Copperband Butterflyfish, scientifically known as Chelmon rostratus, lives in reefs of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is also known as Beaked Coral Fish.
There are three species in the Chelmon genus, and they all have long beaks.
You can find this fish alone or in pairs near rocky shores and coral reefs, as well as estuaries and silty inner reefs.
Copperband butterflyfish is territorial by nature.
When it comes to keeping them in a reef aquarium, use caution because they may cause problems for some tank inhabitants.
Copperband Butterflyfish Interesting Facts
- Copperband butterflyfish are monogamous and mate for life, forming strong social bonds with their partners.
- They grow up to 7.9 inches (20.0 centimeters) long and live for up to 10 years, with a distinct appearance featuring orange vertical bars and a long snout.
- These fish inhabit shallow waters near reefs in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, ranging from the Andaman Sea to Australia.
- Caution is advised when keeping them in reef aquariums.
Copperband Butterflyfish Habitat
Copperband butterflyfish is found in the Western Pacific Ocean. Its habitat stretches from the Andaman Sea to the Ryukyu Islands and Australia.
It lives in marine and brackish environments near reefs and doesn’t migrate.
This tropical fish prefers shallow waters with a depth range of 1 to 25 meters.
Copperband Butterflyfish Physical Characteristics
Size: 7.9 inches (20.0 centimeters)
Copperband butterflyfish grows up to 7.9 inches (20.0 centimeters) long and can live for up to 10 years.
It has 9 spines on its dorsal fin, with 28 to 30 soft rays, and its anal fin has 3 spines with 19 to 21 soft rays.
This fish has a white-silver head and body with orange vertical bars that have black edges.
There is one bar across the eye, two on the front half of the body, and one larger bar towards the back.
The tail area has a dark brownish bar, and its fins are yellow-orange in color. Its long snout makes it easy to identify.
Young copperband butterflyfish look very similar to adults.
The snout length measures about 1.7 to 2.1 times the head length, while the body depth is around 1.5 to 2 times the standard length of the fish.
Copperband Butterflyfish Reproduction
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FALFURRIAS - In November 2001, a state trooper found $1.5 million in cash inside two locked suitcases in the back of a sport utility vehicle on U.S. Highway 281, where drugs flow north and money goes south.
Balde Lozano, then Brooks County sheriff, threw down his cup of coffee when he heard the news. It was the largest cash seizure he'd ever seen, and his deputies helped with the traffic stop. His office would get a cut of the money.
"You open the two suitcases and wow," he told the Caller-Times the day of the find. "You have to see it to believe it."
It took two officers to carry each suitcase.
During the next eight years, Lozano spent seizure fund money as he saw fit, including buying new cedar paneling for the sheriff's office.
The construction work at the sheriff's office, 18 vehicle purchases and sales, and $80,000 in credit card transactions are among the questionable activities identified in an audit that has now turned into an investigation by the Texas Attorney General's Office into how Lozano spent more than $500,000 of seized assets.
It also is an example, critics say, of Texas' flawed system for dealing with forfeitures: Money that is supposed to go toward fighting crime and disarming the criminal networks that traffic in drugs, guns and cash instead goes toward margarita parties, trips to casinos, large salary bonuses and, in Brooks County, a range of expenses that stymied the auditor who tried to sort it all out.
Forfeiture is the confiscation of cash, cars, real estate or other property associated with a crime. The idea is to deny criminals their profits. Proceeds are distributed among the law enforcement agencies and prosecutors involved in the case. Advocates of the current system say it helps law enforcement fight crime and puts a meaningful dent in the drug trade.
Under civil forfeiture laws, assets suspected to be linked to crimes can be forfeited even when no person is charged with a crime. The government must show by a preponderance of the evidence — a standard lower than what is used to convict a person — that the property is "dirty." It's then up to the owner to prove otherwise.
Even when the funds aren't spent lavishly, forfeiture critics say, the prospect of getting extra funding in lean times gives officers an incentive to seize first and ask questions later. And despite laws meant to ensure seized funds are accounted for, Texas agencies' expenditures go largely unchecked.
Counties with long, remote stretches of open highway perfect for moving drugs and money also have small budgets and may lack the means to oversee how the forfeited money is handled. A 2010 research project by the libertarian advocacy group Institute for Justice found forfeiture proceeds, on average, made up nearly a fifth of the budgets of rural agencies. Top earners reported forfeiture proceeds making up more than 65 percent of annual budgets.
"We showed that it was the policy of some of those small rural departments of being much more interested in cars going south with money and guns than they were trying to stop the dope going north," said state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston. He chairs the Senate Criminal Justice Committee that studied problems with asset forfeiture in 2008.
"I'd suggest maybe the dope interdiction might be more important," he said. "If you do that, you won't have the money going south."
Reports filed annually by law enforcement agencies and prosecutors across Texas show that agencies patrolling rural highways seized far more per capita than their urban counterparts. The Caller-Times analyzed a database of nearly 24,000 Chapter 59 reports, named for the section of state law that governs property forfeiture.
In Kenedy County, where U.S. Highway 77 runs nearly 50 miles through vast ranchlands, authorities received $656,000 in forfeited assets in the last decade, putting it in the top third of counties statewide. Kenedy County is the third least populous in Texas, with 416 residents, according to the U.S. Census.
In Jim Wells County, bordering Brooks County to the north, authorities got nearly $8.9 million in forfeitures, placing it 11th statewide, while the county ranks 75th in population. Former District Attorney Joe Frank Garza, who prosecuted cases in both counties, pleaded guilty to a felony charge in March after paying himself and his secretaries more than $2 million from his office's forfeiture fund, effectively doubling or tripling their pay.
An independent auditor found that when county commissioners questioned Lozano and Garza about their spending from forfeiture funds, the typical answer was defiant and flew in the face of state and federal law: "The sheriff can do whatever he wants with his money."
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Prevalence of impaired memory in hospitalized adults and associations with in-hospital sleep loss.
J Hosp Med. 2015 Apr 15;
Authors: Calev H, Spampinato LM, Press VG, Meltzer DO, Arora VM
BACKGROUND: Effective inpatient teaching requires intact patient memory, but studies suggest hospitalized adults may have memory deficits. Sleep loss among inpatients could contribute to memory impairment.
OBJECTIVE: To assess memory in older hospitalized adults, and to test the association between sleep quantity, sleep quality, and memory, in order to identify a possible contributor to memory deficits in these patients.
DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.
SETTING: General medicine and hematology/oncology inpatient wards.
PATIENTS: Fifty-nine hospitalized adults at least 50 years of age with no diagnosed sleep disorder.
MEASUREMENTS: Immediate memory and memory after a 24-hour delay were assessed using a word recall and word recognition task from the University of Southern California Repeatable Episodic Memory Test. A vignette-based memory task was piloted as an alternative test more closely resembling discharge instructions. Sleep duration and efficiency overnight in the hospital were measured using actigraphy.
RESULTS: Mean immediate recall was 3.8 words out of 15 (standard deviation = 2.1). Forty-nine percent of subjects had poor memory, defined as immediate recall score of 3 or lower. Median immediate recognition was 11 words out of 15 (interquartile range [IQR] = 9-13). Median delayed recall score was 1 word, and median delayed recognition was 10 words (IQR = 8-12). In-hospital sleep duration and efficiency were not significantly associated with memory. The medical vignette score was correlated with immediate recall (r = 0.49, P < 0.01).
CONCLUSIONS: About half of the inpatients studied had poor memory while in the hospital, signaling that hospitalization might not be an ideal teachable moment. In-hospital sleep was not associated with memory scores. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2015. © 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine.
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Wax deposition is an issue that arises whenever an oil composition containing appreciable wax content encounters flow, temperature, and pressure that are conducive for solids formation. Wax deposition can potentially occur anywhere in the system from the reservoir to the refinery.
Wax remediation is a costly endeavor. Typical industry costs of wax in oil and gas production environments include:
- Upwards of $20-25 million for a single, deepwater wax remediation operation, not including the cost associated with deferred production.
- Control of wax in the Eagle Ford shale play is listed as a top Lease Operating Expense (LOE) by a majority of the operators in that area (1).
- The “bottoms” removal of a 260-foot diameter refinery crude oil storage tank cost over $1.6 million in labor costs in addition to regulatory waste disposal fees; additionally, the operation took over 9 months to complete (2).
Wax management strategies developed during Front End Engineering Design (FEED) can mitigate or perhaps even prevent these costs. The goal of this GATEKEEPER series is to provide high-level insight into the planning, execution, and maintenance of wax management strategies. Each publication will step through a portion of the life cycle of a hypothetical project, from FEED to Operations. Future GATEKEEPERs will explore wax deposition modeling and development and optimization of wax mitigation strategies. The actions presented in this series are applicable to most field types and locations.
Understanding The Production Flow Pathway
Understanding the production flow pathway is the first step in accurately defining the inherent wax precipitation and deposition risk. For example, consider the hypothetical case outlined in Figure 1. The field layout consists of a single well tieback using a deepwater flowline-riser system under offshore operating conditions. Figure 1 shows that the well is 13,000 ft deep with a 20 mile flowline connecting the wellhead to the riser, which is at 4,500 ft water depth.
Wax Characterization Testing
Next, the production fluid composition and its physical properties are evaluated in order to generate a production window. The production window will show potential wax risk locations in the production pathway.
In order to generate the production window, the hydrocarbon’s critical properties pertaining to wax deposition need to be established through wax characterization testing of downhole and stock tank oil (STO) samples. An ideal suite of wax characterization testing is as follows:
- Wax Appearance Temperature (WAT)
- Hydrocarbon Compositional Analysis
- Wax Solubility Curve
- Pour Point (PP)
- Wax Content
1. Wax Appearance Temperature (WAT)
WAT establishes the temperature at which wax crystals begin to form in solution making depositionpossible. Although effected by pressure, WAT is usually conducted on STO at ambient pressure, which yields conservative measurements as shown in Figure 2. The following analytical techniques are recommended to be used concurrently to determine WAT:
- Cross Polarized Microscopy (CPM)
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Cross-Polarized Microscopy (CPM)
CPM usually delivers the most conservative WAT due to method sensitivity. This method also determines crystal morphology and size to characterize wax type(4).
Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Crystallization onset is determined by the appearance of an exothermic peak during the cooling process. It is critical that the cooling rate be minimized during analysis to reduce supercooling which erodes accuracy. A DSC thermogram will also yield crystallization and melting properties of deposits which can provide valuable insight into mitigation strategies.
2. Hydrocarbon Compositional Analysis
The hydrocarbon composition is determined using High Temperature Gas Chromatography (HTGC). The analysis provides the “finger print” for the carbon chain distribution in the sample oil. Knowledge of the constituents and their mass fractions is essential to predictive wax deposition modeling.
3. Wax Solubility Curve
The solubility of the wax in the crude oil as a function of temperature is a key parameter that must be known to predict deposition. DSC is often used to provide the key relationship. Filtration and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques can also be used. If laboratory testing is not available, empirical relationships or thermodynamic modeling software, such as PVTsim, can be used to evaluate wax solubility as a function of temperature. A recent assessment demonstrated a best practice methodology to accurately predict wax solubility as a function of temperature (5).
4. Pour Point (PP)
Often defined as the highest temperature at which crude oil ceases to flow, the PP measurement is a crucial parameter for understanding crude oil hydraulics as a function of temperature, most notably cool-down and restart events. ASTM D97 is the generally accepted method to use to determine PP, but the manually intensive methodology is often better accomplished via automatic instrumentation.
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The weather will be changeable cloudy and occasionally gloomy in Baku and Absheron peninsula tomorrow.
It was told in the National Hydrometeorology Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, intermittent rain is expected in some places of the peninsula.
Mild north-west wind will blow.
The temperature on the Absheron peninsula will be 20-25 C at night, 31-36 C in daytime, in Baku 22-24 C at night, 33-35 C in the daytime.
The atmospheric pressure of 757 mm Hg is expected. Relative humidity at 65-75% at night, 40-50% in the afternoon.
On July 16, weather will be mainly rainless in Azerbaijani regions, but in some northern and western regions in the morning and evening, lightning and intermittent rain are expected. East wind will blow.
The temperature will be 19-24 C at night, 33-38 C in the daytime, in the mountains 11-16 C at night, 22-27 C in the daytime.
Temperature of sea water at Absheron beaches, Novkhani, Pirshaghi, Nardaran, Bilgah, Zagulba will be 20-21 C, Buzovna, Mardakan, Shuvalan 22-23 C, in Turkan, Hovsan, Sahil, Shikhov is expected to be 24-25 C.
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BRISTOL'S planned Bus Rapid Transit system will not run through the Harbourside, the city's mayor has pledged.
George Ferguson has told The Post that the controversial public transport scheme is to undergo a major shake-up, with the route changing to avoid the area in front of the M shed museum and Prince Street Bridge. Critics have claimed that plans to run the scheme's Ashton Vale to Temple Meads route through the heart of the Harbourside would ruin the popular area – but there were fears Bristol would lose out on Government grants worth at least £30 mil- lion if the scheme was altered.
Mr Ferguson has confirmed he has ordered a review of the system and has been talking to transport experts in Whitehall about the changes.
He said: "I have been speaking to members of the transport executive and I have made it clear I will not accept the rapid transit system on Prince Street Bridge or on the Harbourside.
"I have asked for a review to be carried out and this will have to take place pretty quickly as we are working to a timetable. I want to get the BRT system out of the Harbourside but we need to move speedily on this, because we do not want to lose the funding from central Government."
Groups opposed to the route include the Transport for Greater Bristol Alliance, the Bristol Civic Society, Tram company Sustraco, cycling charity Sustrans and the Ramblers Association, who made their objections clear at a public inquiry into the route held last summer.
The Bristol Civic Society said the system would do substantial harm to the area and raised concerns about the 42 buses per hour which would pass along the dockside.
The group argued that the route between the Cumberland Road Tunnel and the M shed would harm the appearance of listed buildings and the character of the docks, a conservation area.
A campaign group calling itself StopBRT2 was launched and the scheme was labelled a monument to the stupidity of local councils.
Meanwhile, an online petition opposing the plans has already attracted more than 3,000 signatures.
Mr Ferguson said: "I do not want to abandon the scheme altogether but I think we need a major rethink.
"What I would like to see is a transport hub at Temple Meads which would be at the centre of the network.
"What we will probably see is the BRT creating a circuit around the city centre, with Temple Meads at the centre of the network."
Mr Ferguson added that transport was one of his major priorities.
He said: "If this city is to operate well, it has to have a public transport system that works.
"I make absolutely no apologies about tackling the transport issues in the city. If we leave things the way they are at the moment, we are in danger of driving businesses out of the city."
During the election campaign for mayor Mr Ferguson made it clear he was not happy with the plans, which had taken several years to draw up under previous administrations.
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89.310 Analyzer accuracy and specifications.§ 89.310 Analyzer accuracy and specifications.
(a) Measurement accuracy - general. The analyzers must have a measuring range which allows them to measure the concentrations of the exhaust gas sample pollutants with the accuracies shown in Table 3 in Appendix A of this subpart.
(1) Response time. As necessary, measure and account for the response time of the analyzer.
(2) Precision. The precision of the analyzer must be, at worst, ±1 percent of full-scale concentration for each range used at or above 100 ppm (or ppmC) or ±2 percent for each range used below 100 ppm (or ppmC). The precision is defined as 2.5 times the standard deviation(s) of 10 repetitive responses to a given calibration or span gas.
(3) Noise. The analyzer peak-to-peak response to zero and calibration or span gases over any 10-second period must not exceed 2 percent of full-scale chart deflection on all ranges used.
(4) Zero drift. The analyzer zero-response drift during a 1-hour period must be less than 2 percent of full-scale chart deflection on the lowest range used. The zero-response is defined as the mean response including noise to a zero-gas during a 30-second time interval.
(5) Span drift. The analyzer span drift during a 1-hour period must be less than 2 percent of full-scale chart deflection on the lowest range used. The analyzer span is defined as the difference between the span-response and the zero-response. The span-response is defined as the mean response including noise to a span gas during a 30-second time interval.
(b) Operating procedure for analyzers and sampling system. Follow the start-up and operating instructions of the instrument manufacturer. Adhere to the minimum requirements given in § 89.314 to § 89.323.
(c) Emission measurement accuracy - Bag sampling. (1) Good engineering practice dictates that exhaust emission sample analyzer readings below 15 percent of full-scale chart deflection should generally not be used.
(2) Some high resolution read-out systems, such as computers, data loggers, and so forth, can provide sufficient accuracy and resolution below 15 percent of full scale. Such systems may be used provided that additional calibrations of at least 4 non-zero nominally equally spaced points, using good engineering judgement, below 15 percent of full scale are made to ensure the accuracy of the calibration curves. If a gas divider is used, the gas divider must conform to the accuracy requirements specified in § 89.312(c). The procedure in paragraph (c)(3) of this section may be used for calibration below 15 percent of full scale.
(3) The following procedure shall be followed:
(i) Span the analyzer using a calibration gas meeting the accuracy requirements of § 89.312(c), within the operating range of the analyzer, and at least 90% of full scale.
(ii) Generate a calibration over the full concentration range at a minimum of 6, approximately equally spaced, points (e.g. 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 percent of the range of concentrations provided by the gas divider). If a gas divider or blender is being used to calibrate the analyzer and the requirements of paragraph (c)(2) of this section are met, verify that a second calibration gas between 10 and 20 percent of full scale can be named within 2 percent of its certified concentration.
(iii) If a gas divider or blender is being used to calibrate the analyzer, input the value of a second calibration gas (a span gas may be used for the CO2 analyzer) having a named concentration between 10 and 20 percent of full scale. This gas shall be included on the calibration curve. Continue adding calibration points by dividing this gas until the requirements of paragraph (c)(2) of this section are met.
(iv) Fit a calibration curve per § 89.319 through § 89.322 for the full scale range of the analyzer using the calibration data obtained with both calibration gases.
(d) Emission measurement accuracy - continuous sampling. Analyzers used for continuous analysis must be operated such that the measured concentration falls between 15 and 100 percent of full-scale chart deflection. Exceptions to these limits are:
(1) The analyzer's response may be less than 15 percent or more than 100 percent of full scale if automatic range change circuitry is used and the limits for range changes are between 15 and 100 percent of full-scale chart deflection;
(2) The analyzer's response may be less than 15 percent of full scale if:
(i) Alternative (c)(2) of this section is used to ensure that the accuracy of the calibration curve is maintained below 15 percent; or
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Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate differences and similarities in risk factors for deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicidal attempt (SA), and the role of impulsivity among a group of community adolescents.
Setting This is a cross-sectional study conducted at high schools in Northern Taiwan.
Data and participants We recruited grade 1 students from 14 high schools. A total of 5879 participants (mean age 16.02 years, female adolescents: 57.7%) completed the online assessment.
Outcome measures Participants completed online questionnaires about sociodemographic data, suicidality, history of DSH and SA, depressed mood, self-esteem, social support, family discord, impulsivity (Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Version 11 (BIS-11)) and the use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. A subsample was interviewed about lifetime SA, and the results were compared with those from the online questionnaires.
Results In our sample, 25% of the students had lifetime DSH and 3.5% had lifetime SA. Two hundred and seventy-two students received face-to-face interviews. The concordance between the online questionnaires and interviews in terms of ascertaining cases of SA was moderate (concordance rate 82.76%; kappa value 0.59). Similar risk factors for DSH/SA among the whole sample included female gender, lower academic performance, depression, substance use (tobacco and alcohol) and low self-esteem. The BIS-11 score was correlated with DSH. Factor 3 score of the BIS-11 (novelty seeking) was correlated with DSH in both boys and girls, whereas factor 2 score (lack of self-control) was correlated with SA in boys. Social support was a protective factor against SA among the female adolescents. Gender modulated the association of impulsivity and DSH/SA. Associations between impulsivity and DSH and SA were particularly strong among boys.
Conclusions Risk factors for DSH and SA were similar, but not identical. Early identification of those at risk and appropriate interventions may be helpful.
- deliberate self-harm
- suicidal ideation
- substance use disorders
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Strengths and limitations of this study
This study used a large community sample of adolescents from different areas of Taipei, which is a strength when it comes to generalisation.
A further strength of the present study is that well-established self-reported measures and a broad array of relevant psychosocial measures were used.
Few studies based in Asian countries have investigated the relationship between impulsivity and deliberate self-harm (DSH) and suicidal attempt (SA) in a community sample.
The agreement between online assessments and interviews with regards to lifetime SA was moderate, which showed that an online study is a reliable way to investigate suicidality.
Gender is a moderator between the relationship of impulsivity and adolescent DSH/SA.
According to the WHO, suicide was the second-leading cause of death worldwide in 2012 among people aged 15–29 years.1 In addition, a systemic review reported a strong association between self-harm and later suicide, with the risk of suicide among patients with deliberate self-harm (DSH) being hundreds of times higher than that in the general population.2 The terminology surrounding DSH is, however, complex. In this study, we defined DSH as self-harmful behaviour, regardless of an individual’s intention to die.3 The following behaviours are examples of DSH: initiating a behaviour (eg, self-cutting,3 jumping from a height,4 burning5 and hanging5) intended to cause self-harm; ingesting a substance in excess of the prescribed or generally recognised therapeutic dose3–5; ingesting a recreational or illicit drug that was an act that the person regarded as being self-harm4 5; and ingesting a non-ingestible substance or object.4
Suicidal attempt (SA), that is, self-harm with the intent to die, is less common than DSH. The estimated lifetime prevalence of SA among adolescents ranges from 3.0% to 8.4%6–8compared with 4.0%–30% for DSH. | [
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- July 8th – 9th
- Day program, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Wolfville/Smiley’s Provincial Park
- Drop-off/pick-up times and locations to be determined
- 10 seats
- We’ll get hands-on with lobsters, learning about their anatomy, behaviour, and how they’re managed in the Maritimes provinces
- We’ll learn how to use coding to study scientific data collected from our lobsters
- We’ll assist local female biologists with their American eel conservation field work, and learn about their their incredible and mysterious biology
- We’ll learn about water quality monitoring, take our own samples, and look at microscopic organisms under a microscope
- We’ll learn how to snorkel to survey underwater habitats at Smiley’s Provincial Park
- We’ll learn about marine pollution and how to live more sustainably
- We’ll learn about careers in marine biology and what it’s like to study marine biology at college and university
We are currently preparing multiple delivery options for our Summer 2021 programs, contingent on provincial COVID-19 Safety Guidelines. If necessary, this program may be adapted to a hybrid format (online + in-person component) OR be fully online. We will try our best to adapt listed activities for an online environment, but activities may be subject to change. If this program is adapted to a fully online format, participants will be sent program kits in the mail.
Read Terranaut Club’s current COVID-19 Safety Measures.
Who Can Apply
Girls and under-represented genders aged 9 – 12 who reside in Nova Scotia. Participants from New Brunswick and PEI are welcome to apply to be placed on our waitlist, should we be able to welcome girls+ from out-of-province this year.
How To Apply
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“Star Rating” – I don’t do that on this site. It’s not fair to readers or writers. I could give both Homer’s The Odyssey and Adam’s The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 5 stars – but that doesn’t mean they are equal, and it’s very possible to enjoy one and hate the other (you will find a star-rating on Amazon from me because Amazon forces me to give it one). Here’s what I will say:
Summary of Book Type
Noelle’s High Fantasy world of Kiriku is a beautiful place inspired by Japanese feudal history and folklore. I believe the world to be enjoyable for all readers of Fantasy, but those who enjoy tales such as Rorouni Kenshin and Naruto will be especially drawn into it. Kiriku, though by no means a clone of the places it draws inspiration from, will appeal to the same audience. I actually could easily see this story being adapted to a manga. Though the only illustration (besides cover art) is a map, there is a high level of visual detail. This is undoubtedly attributable to the author’s artistic background. As my first experience with indie fantasy, I was pleased.
Q: Did I enjoy the book?
Q: Would I recommend the book to others?
A: Yes, but if you plan on ordering a print copy (or if typos frustrate you), I would suggest waiting until September when the author plans on releasing another update to address typos and other small grammatical mistakes.
Basic (Non-Spoiler) Plot
The focus of Shadow’s Hand is on the need to protect the people you love from evil while trying to stay true to a code of ethics. The main characters are “Shadows” (or their superiors, “Phantoms”). Shadows are a warrior class that also handle diplomatic ties with their secret city, Vaiyene (as well as occasionally acting as mediators or offering fighting assistance with other cities). Phantoms for the most part are Shadows with more authority, but they also act as a sort of city-council.
One of the tenets of the Shadow’s Creed (their guiding philosophy), and the one that both main characters (Kilo and Shenrae) feel the most devoted to, is the strong aversion to kill unless it is to save another life. Though not specifically stated in the creed, the only implied acceptable use of lethal force is if a person’s life is in immediate danger and the foe cannot be incapacitated by any other means (pre-emptive striking seems to be a no-go).
However, a new threat upsets the balance of power. Hitori (who holds sway over her people with ruthless cruelty, hostage-taking, and blackmail) has discovered an ancient ability, the Skills, that render traditional combat obsolete. Already guilty of hundreds of murders, she now has her eyes set on Vaiyene, fearing (and not without reason), that the Shadows will learn how to stop her from spreading her influence across Kiriku.
The Shadows must first ensure the survival of those that depend on them, as well as their own, by gaining equal footing in the Skills with Hitori. But it is obvious that the Shadows cannot simply react to Hitori, disabling or killing her in the act. They must be proactive. However, the bigger problem is that Hitori’s force is not just a band of fellow cutthroats, but also unwilling tools. The Shadows must navigate how to fulfill their duty without stooping to the level of their enemy – namely, that of killing innocents caught in the middle, all the while knowing that in trying to do so, not only do they further endanger their own lives, but more innocents that depend on them will suffer and die as well.
Divided into 4 Parts (every chapter in each part comes from a single 1st person POV, but that person changes with each part), the book starts off a little sluggish in an attempt to simultaneously build the world of Kiriku and establish Kilo, relying too much on Kilo’s solitary observations and inner dialog. However, this continually becomes less of an issue as the reader delves deeper into the book. By Part 2, it is a non-issue. On the plus side, the level of visual detail provided allows the reader to vividly see the world of Kiriku right from the start and is interesting enough to hold most reader’s attention until the interplay between characters picks up a bit.
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
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This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets early in life. The authors' contribution is to focus on the importance of home ownership and housing wealth as a hedge against future house price risk for individuals moving up the ladder -- people living in places with higher housing price risk should own their first home at a younger age, should live in larger homes, and should be less likely to refinance. These predictions are tested and shown to hold using panel data from the United States and Great Britain.
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Fermentative profile and nutritional value of olive bagasse silage with feed additives
Keywords:byproduct, ruminants, nutritional value, Silage
The aim of this study was to measure the chemical composition, microbiological profile, fermentative characteristics and the aerobic stability of the olive bagasse silages in natura and added with corn bran, soybean and rice bran in different times of sampling. The was completely randomized design in arrangement of plots subdivided in 4x3 time, with five replications. In the plots were allocated the main treatments, and in the subplots the sampling times were allocated. The fermentative characteristics was studied by determination of the dry matter (DM) content, pH and ammoniacal nitrogen (NH3-N), the microbiological by determining the populations of filamentous fungi, Clostridia, lactic acid bacteria and enterobacteria. In the nutrient profile study, the contents of mineral matter (MM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), ether extract (EE), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), acid detergent fiber (ADF), lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, nitrogen bound to acid detergent fiber (NIDA), nitrogen bound to neutral detergent fiber (NIDN), carbohydrate and total digestible nutrient (TDN). At the ensilage moment, it also has been determined in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) and in vitro digestibility of organic matter (IVDOM). The use of corn and rice bran provided a better fermentative profile in the studied ensilage. The pH of the silages added corn and rice bran has presented in 4.00 and 4.06 after 112 storage days, consequently. The adding of soybean bran provided the greatest CP values and non-fibrous carbohydrates (NFC) after the fermentative period, been it 131.55 g kg-1 of DM for CP and 176.28 g kg-1 of DM for NFC. The treatments without bran adding and rice bran added have demonstrated IVDOM levels of 581.12 g ka-1 od DM and 604.51 g kg-1 of DM, consequently. The studied meals improve the nutritional profile of the studied silages and are potentially usable as additives in olive bagasse silages.
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Copyright (c) 2020 Neliton Flores Kasper, Gabriela Ceratti Hoch, Othon Dalla Colletta Altermann, Fabiane Quevedo da Rosa, Leonardo Ereno Tadielo, Luana Costa Polo, Ricardo Pedroso Oaigen, Eduardo Bohrer de Azevedo, Deise Dalazen Castagnara
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These delicious all-natural lollipops are packed with soothing herbal extracts. They are made with only high quality premium ingredients and naturally promote calmness & relaxation. Relax soothie lollipops help soothe your little ones in a sweet way. A proprietary blend of herbal extracts including: Passionflower and German chamomile to help promote calmness. Other ingredients includes: Organic tapioca syrup organic cane sugar, water and organic honey. Directions: Take 1 lollipop as needed and do not exceed more than 3 lollipops per day (one lollipop every 4 to 5 hours). For ages 4+. Benefits and features of relax soothie: Promotes calmness & relaxation proprietary blend of herbal extracts including passionflower & German chamomile no artificial color, flavor, sugar or preservative naturally sweetened with organic honey, tapioca syrup and cane sugar gluten-free, as well as nut, dye, eggs and dairy free made in USA please note: Read packaging label carefully before using this product. These statements have not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
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The Magic House is offering the opportunity to enjoy private playtime in a special exhibit area of The Magic House or MADE for Kids before opening to the public! You choose the location and up to 10 family members or friends to enjoy your private morning. Stay and play after in the rest of the museum.
Saturday and Sunday mornings
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In this season of rest, God has sweetly reminded me to look at the emotions that have plagued my every day.
Depression can cause such harsh, empty, hurtful thoughts. When in the midst of it all, we can begin to believe those thoughts. My spirit stirs to evaluate the thought that crosses my mind as it hits my heart and I can feel it in my gut. Is this thought truth or an emotion of the moment?
The enemy wants nothing more than to bog me down in my own thoughts. If he can hold me down with a lie and stir my emotions of despair, he has victory.
How can I know if a thought is a truth or just an emotion of the moment?
I must evaluate the thought according to what God’s word says about my situation or about me. I must look at the feelings that are stirring within me from a thought and ask, “do they bring despair or hope? Death or life?”
When God’s truth has the chance to minister to my emotion, my mind begins to line up with His truth as well. The hurtful emotion at the moment begins to clear and my mind is free to focus on what the Lord has on hand for me to accomplish rather than focusing on feelings of defeat.
I may not be an amazing artist, but I am HIS artist to use as He will.
I may not be the best singer, but I am HIS worshiper to use as He will.
I may not be the most beautiful, but I am HIS daughter and made in HIS image
I may not be the life of the party, but I am HIS companion and I hear His voice.
See how this works? Look at the lie, identify it and address it with the truth.
Hey even if the thought has some truth in it I need to ask myself, “what is the truer truth?”
Go on, start asking yourself is this truth or the emotion of a moment?
You will begin to see light in the midst of darkness.
Guide me in your truth and teach me, For you are God my savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked run away when no one is chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions.
There are so many battles we face moment by moment and day by day. I have had seasons where I just wanted to throw my hands up and take my place under the covers. But God said NO MORE. He has called me to fight my battles ahead and when I am weary He says, “discover your lion within and let out your war cry!”
“But God,” I say, “there is no strength in me, I see no lion but rather a kitten wanting to nap the days away.” To which He replies, ” NO MORE, I am in you, that is a lie, let out your war cry!”
I see a picture in my mind of Aslan. A soft and gentle lion. Loving to the children visiting Narnia, but the moment He is ready for battle he let’s out his powerful mighty roar.
There is a shifting in the atmosphere with that strength. That roar changes things!
I have begun to exercise my faith and let out my war cry. I am beginning to say “no more will I listen to lies. No more will I sit quietly while the enemy tries to steal my peace.”
I have a choice on where my mind focuses, I have a choice on letting my roars overtake the whispers of the enemy. I am bold, I am courageous, I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength.
Challenge this day my friends, will you let out your war cry? Will you take your stand in the battle and win your ground over your spiritual enemies.? | [
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Free Sheet Music | Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow for Easy Piano
June 11, 2012
Here’s an arrangement of a classic Hymn for Easy Piano solo. This free sheet music arrangement of Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow is perfect for beginning piano students, to students with 2 years of experience.
Free Sheet Music
Download Praise God from Whom All Blessing Flow for Piano Solo by Bourgeois/Ken
Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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Chairwomen of Egypt's National Council of Women (Photo: Al-Ahram archives)
A year ago, Egyptian politician and women’s rights activist Mervat Tallawy defied the Muslim Brotherhood to spearhead the adoption of a U.N. blueprint to combat violence against women. Now she’s back campaigning against conservatives to ensure that equality for women remains at the top of the U.N. agenda.
As head of the Egyptian delegation to the two-week meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women, which ends Friday, Tallawy said she has been working hard to prevent any rollback on hard-fought gains including international recognition of women’s reproductive and sexual health and rights.
“We are saying the gains that we have reached during the 1990s, we should not lose it now, or take a step backwards,” Tallawy said in an interview on Wednesday between negotiating sessions. “Why are we saying so? Because there is a conservative mood in the world, not only the Islamists, the developing countries, but also in the developed countries.”
Last March, Tallawy, who is a minister and president of the National Council for Women-Egypt, surprised and delighted delegates from more than 130 countries when she ignored the Brotherhood and announced that Egypt would join consensus on a 17-page document that sets global standards for action to prevent and end violence against women.
This year, the Commission on the Status of Women is focusing on how women and girls have fared in achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals adopted by world leaders in 2000 as the 2015 target date approaches — and what should be included in new goals expected to be adopted next year.
The current goals include promoting gender equality and empowerment of women, cutting extreme poverty by half, ensuring every child has a primary school education, reducing maternal and child mortality, and halting and reversing the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The commission produced a proposed seven-page final document, which ballooned to 45 pages with suggested additions from many countries.
Delegates were still working Thursday night to reduce the text and come up with a final draft. To be approved, it needs all delegates to agree before the conference ends Friday.
Tallawy said she is in a better position this year because the Muslim Brotherhood, which was “a nightmare” on many fronts including on women’s rights, has been removed from power.
Compared to last year, she said, extremist conservative positions taken by Iran, Cuba and Russia have softened, “but not totally.”
This year, Tallawy said, there is also a group of young conservative diplomats “who get together thinking they can change the world.”
Their inclination in the post-2015 agenda is not to mention gender equality or women’s issues and focus instead on the environment, sustainable development, climate change and other issues, she said.
The reality is that millions of women are poor, discriminated against, and victims of violence, she said, and the unfinished goals must be carried over into the new goals along with a separate goal on women’s equality and empowerment.
“We fought hard to get the rights,” Tallawy said. “They got it free.”
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Talking to the plenary session of the Wolesi Jirga on Wednesday, Qadir said that when the time was right, he will hand over the evidence to the concerned organizations.
Zahir Qadir recently claimed the Daesh leaders are living in Kabul under the NSC’s patronage. The government assigned a commission to investigate Qadir’s allegations.
Zahir Qadir stressed on accuracy of his allegations and warned that the government will collapse, if presented evidence.
He said that a number of people under the name of support to the government are indirectly involved in moving the country towards instability.
“If I presented evidence, the government will collapse,” he said, adding that he don’t want the government to collapse. He said that he will present the evidence at the right time.
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Thirteen cases of fainting among garment workers occurred in factories last year, a decrease of more than 60 percent compared with 17 cases in 2018, according to a National Social Security Fund report.
The NSSF report released yesterday said that fainting occurred in 11 factories across the Kingdom in 2019 in which 831 workers, 822 of whom were women, fainted.
It said that in 2018, 17 cases of fainting occurred in 17 factories where 2,109 workers, 2,096 of whom were women, fainted.
Speaking to reporters yesterday at the NSSF annual meeting in Phnom Penh, NSSF director Ouk Samvithya said that 37 percent of fainting cases stemmed from psychosocial issues, 19 percent from physical problems, 19 percent from chemical fumes, seven percent from mechanical problems and four percent from overtime work.
Mr Samvithya said that the fainting cases decreased thanks to preventive measures, noting that the NSSF continues to educate workers on how to protect themselves from fainting.
The report said that officials visited 34 factories to educate more than 2,600 workers about sanitation, work safety, labour conditions and also the benefit of social security fund.
Separately, the NSSF also reported that 50 garment workers died and about 2,000 sustained injuries from traffic accidents last year.
It said that the 1,554 traffic accidents occurred in 2019, a decrease of nine percent compared with 1,710 cases in 2018.
“The number of accidents decreased last year but the number of dead and injured workers increased,” it said, adding that 2,006 workers were injured, 341 of whom sustained critical injuries last year.
It said that more than 92 percent of traffic accidents involving garment workers were caused by motorbikes and about three percent by trucks.
The report said the number of injured workers increased by eight percent compared with 1,863 injured workers in 2018.
It said that 42 workers died in traffic accidents in 2018.
Mr Samvithya said that traffic accidents involving garment workers decreased due to dissemination of traffic law to drivers of the trucks carrying workers.
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Net Migration Between the U.S. and Abroad Added 595,000 to U.S. Population
6 Jan, 2020
Net international migration added 595,000 to the U.S. population between 2018 and 2019, the lowest level this decade. This is a notable drop from this decade’s high of 1,047,000 between 2015 and 2016.
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2019 population estimates released today show that international migration added about 7.9 million people to the nation’s population since the last census in 2010. Annual growth in net international migration slowed between 2015 and 2016 and has been declining since.
Migration patterns measured since 2015 primarily reflect three major trends: declining immigration of the foreign born, increasing foreign-born emigration, and changes in Puerto Rican migration following Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
China replaced Mexico to become the largest sending country of foreign-born immigrants to the United States as of 2018.
The population estimates show that net migration from Puerto Rico to the 50 states and the District of Columbia, which rose after Hurricane Maria, reversed between 2018 and 2019. More people are moving to than away from Puerto Rico.
Foreign-born immigration is the largest contributor to net international migration and is measured based on the American Community Survey (ACS) estimate of the foreign born whose residence one year ago was outside the United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Island Areas.
Foreign-born immigration this decade peaked at 1.46 million in 2016 and declined by 250,000 to 1.21 million in 2018, according to the ACS.
China replaced Mexico to become the largest sending country of foreign-born immigrants to the United States as of 2018. At the beginning of the decade, Mexico was the largest, but immigration from Mexico has dropped significantly since the recession at the end of the last decade.
Since 2010, immigration from China and India has either approached or surpassed Mexican immigration levels while immigration from Canada has remained relatively unchanged.
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Ernesto Vilchis has over 10 years experience in fiscal and economic impact analysis, financial feasibility assessment, and economic development strategy. Ernesto has expertise analyzing the financial feasibility and identifying financing strategies for a wide variety of land use projects including large land developments, single family residential, multi-family residential, affordable housing, retail, and mixed use projects. Ernesto was previously a Senior Associate at the economics practice at Keyser Marston Associates, an Associate at ERA/AECOM, and before that worked as a project manager for an affordable housing developer in the San Francisco Bay.
Ernesto holds a dual Master's in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University, and a BA in Economics from the University of California Berkeley. He is a certified planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners. A native of Mexico, Ernesto is proficient in Spanish and is also fluent in Portuguese. Some of his selected projects are highlighted below.
ECONOMIC IMPACT AND BENEFIT/COST ANALYSIS
- Niagara Frontier Transit Authority Asset Consolidation Alternative Analysis (Buffalo, NY) - Assessed the potential financial benefits and costs generated by three alternative, long-term investment scenarios under consideration by the NFTA to improve the efficiency of the regional transit system.
- New Haven Coliseum Redevelopment Economic Impact Analysis (New Haven, CT) - Estimated the direct, indirect, and induced economic impacts (jobs, output, labor income) of the proposed $400 million redevelopment of the downtown New Haven Coliseum.
- Benefit Cost Analyses for TIGER Grant Applications (Various U.S. Locations) - Measured the cost and benefits of various transportation projects, including expansion of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border point-of-entry in the Buffalo, New York Region and road improvements along Century Boulevard in Inglewood, CA. These analyses supported applications for U.S. Department of Transportation TIGER Grants.
- City Point Economic Impact Analysis (Brooklyn, NY) – Evaluated the potential economic impacts (jobs, output, labor income, and local tax revenues) generated by the three phases of City Point, the largest (1.8 million sq. ft.) and most visible mixed-use center in Downtown Brooklyn
INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCING STRATEGIES AND FISCAL IMPACT ANALYSES
- Crossroads Village Redevelopment Infrastructure Financing Strategy and Fiscal Impact Analysis (Omaha, NE) - Developed public infrastructure financing strategy for the redevelopment of one of the largest regional malls in Omaha, Nebraska to be transformed into a mixed-use project.
- Rincon Hill Infrastructure Financing Plan and Fiscal Impact Analysis (San Francisco, CA) - Developed financial model to assess the feasibility and fiscal impact of a proposed Infrastructure Finance District in the Rincon Hill Neighborhood.
- Alameda Point Fiscal impact Analysis (Alameda, CA) - Estimated the net fiscal change to various funds of the City of Alameda upon full build out of the proposed redevelopment of the former Alameda Point Naval Station according to the 1996 Community Reuse Plan.
- South Hayward Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station Market Study and Fiscal Impact Analysis (Hayward, CA) - Evaluated market opportunities and the potential fiscal impact of the updated form based zoning rules for properties in the area surrounding the South Hayward Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station and nearby Mission Blvd.
- California Highspeed Rail Alignment Alternatives Analysis (Merced to Fresno, CA) - Conducted research and analysis of real estate acquisition and relocation costs for three highspeed rail alignment alternatives from Merced to Fresno. Determined the value of loss of urban and rural productivity to evaluate the regional economic impact of each alternative.
- Transbay Transit Center Retail (San Francisco, CA) - Assessed financial feasibility of retail component for the planned Transbay Transit Center.
- Alameda Point Economic Development Strategy (Alameda, CA) - Developed an economic development strategy for the redevelopment of the former Alameda Point Naval Station. The Strategy included a commercial market analysis, current tenant assessment and forum, financial analysis of adaptive reuse of buildings, and testing of proposed strategy through interviews with industry experts and stake holders.
- Economic Development Dashboard (Fort Lauderdale, FL) - Created an economic dashboard to track the performance of the City of Fort Lauderdale in five key areas: economic performance, workforce, innovation, livability, and business environment. The dashboard measures the performance of the city relative to 10 other U.S. Cities. | [
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I have been asked many times if it is true that when you lose one sense that your other senses are stronger. I reply that it isn't that the other senses automatically become stronger, but that you depend on them more, and so you pay closer attention. My hearing, and sense of touch in particular are how I "see." I have become quite independent, but I know my limits. When I lost my sight, and said that prayer of acceptance asking God to help me to move on with my life, and to use this for his purposes, he answered that prayer.
While God did help me regain my independence, I also had to acknowledge my limits, and to pay more attention to his promptings, and that is another way I "see."
Last Sunday at Mass, one sentence in the homily really stood out to me. "The medicine for hope is purposes from our pain."
I have been writing about personal events in my life, and "God moments," in this column. It isn't that I want to bring attention to myself; I'm much more comfortable staying in the background. Rather, I only want to shine a light on the blessings I have received through these situations. Not that I always see what the Lord is doing while I am in the middle of these things; it is when I get to the end of each road God and I travel that I look back and see what the Lord wanted me to learn.
These events are spaced out in my life. By sharing them, though, I don't want to seem like one of those movies where every amazing thing that has happened in my lifetime is shown in a 2-reel film, making me look like "super blind woman." I hope to see the positives in life, and try to glean what I can from the harder times, because that is how I can make sense of them.
I have been wondering lately what I would have said in these columns had I been writing this when I was losing my sight, or in the middle of any of the other difficult experiences I have been through. It is only while writing about these events now, on the other side of them, that I can write with perspective. In the middle of situations, all I usually see is that moment, like anyone else.
I often feel like Jacob struggling with the "Angel of the Lord." (Gen. 32:24-32) We don't know the end of the story yet, and it isn't easy.
Once I was approached in the grocery store by a woman while I was with my guide dog, minding my own business and selecting produce. She said, "Do you believe in God? If you have strong enough faith, the Lord can heal you."
To be honest, I was annoyed. I gritted my teeth and smiled, keeping my feelings to myself. She wasn't the first person to come up to me that way. I told her that I did have faith that the Lord could heal me, and he already had. I explained that God healed me emotionally -- inside -- and that this was more important than the physical.
She saw that she was getting nowhere, so she finally said that she would pray for me. I thanked her, and told her "I'll pray for you, too!" I felt sorry for this lady, because if she or a loved one of hers faced a serious problem -- as we all do—would she think that it was because she lacked faith?
Perhaps later, when a difficulty arises for her, she will remember that quick moment when our paths crossed, and what I said. Only God knows. St. Paul asked the Lord to take the "thorn from his flesh." God's answer was, "...My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Cor. 12: 9).
Sometimes our challenges are meant for a greater purpose in our lives, or they are meant to be used by the Lord to better help others, if only we keep our thorn with real acceptance.
This has been true in my own life. If I had not lost my sight, would my faith be the same? I would probably still be depending on myself more than trusting in my "sighted guide." God doesn't cause these things to happen; they are just an allowed part of life.
I don't want to give the impression that I have it all together. I have taken my hand off His arm more than a few times, and when I (figuratively or literally) run into a wall, stumble, or hit a closed door, I think, "that was pretty dumb." He allows me to do that because of my free will, but He is always close by to pick me up, wash off my scrapes, and bandage my soul when I turn back. From these moments of stubborn independence, I learn my limits, and I reach out to Him, to take His arm again and continue on the road.
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Florence Gives French Paper On English Shipwrecks
Searching For Shipwrecks With Passion!
One of ADMAT's French members, Florence Prudhomme, was asked to give a paper on our work and her work in the English archives. This is her report:
The French castle in Vincennes is the place where most maritime historic archives can be found and they kindly authorised a special week-end on the 26th and 27th of November 2005 with 2 days fully dedicated to the study of modern shipwrecks.
I was kindly invited by the organizers “Comité départemental de l’Oise” to talk about two subjects, the British archives and the presentation of ADMAT and more precisely about our project in St Kitts in the Caribbean.
The conference covered many areas of the research and in particular the work in the archives with the different resources available like le bureau Veritas, Loyd’s register, the description of the different categories of documentation (maps, drawings, reports, microfilm), even audio and videos (for modern shipwrecks) at the Fort d’Ivry and the way it is classified in the numerous files.
We were pleased to listen to other working groups presenting their latest discoveries such as the German submarines (U-boots) of the First World War sunk in the North of France, the archives of the French Navy, a movie about the German Ostmark aircraft boat and the use of an independent researcher in specific project as well as the use of the magnetometer
To conclude the French DRASSM, created 40 years ago, explained about its duties and its willingness to cooperate with many research groups in order to develop and update an important DATA BASE on shipwrecks.
We will be happy to meet again in November 2006 with a new week-end dedicated to shipwrecks. | [
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The present invention generally concerns methods and apparatus for monitoring and controlling integrated circuits and more particularly concerns methods and apparatus for monitoring conditions associated with power gating circuitry in integrated circuits and for controlling the operation of the integrated circuits based on the monitored power gating conditions.
In the field of integrated circuits there is an ongoing desire to reduce power dissipation. An obvious reason for such a desire is that energy is not free. Often, integrated circuits are combined into devices such as servers. Servers may operate in installations containing many such devices that operate twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. In such a situation, energy costs can quickly escalate. Accordingly, circuit designers are continually seeking new ways to reduce power dissipation.
A not-so-apparent reason for seeking to reduce power dissipation is that power use in integrated circuits generates heat. Many such integrated circuits working together can generate a great deal of heat. If not handled properly, heat can have negative consequences for the operation of integrated circuits. Excessive heat can cause integrated circuits to fail prematurely, resulting in unforeseen maintenance and repair costs. Even if anticipated, excessive heat generation can have negative consequences by requiring complex designs incorporating cooling apparatus that also dissipate power.
Corporations and institutions responsible for energy costs are continually seeking devices that cost less to operate. One known technology to reduce power dissipation is called power gating. When logic circuitry that is capable of performing functional operations is not needed, power gating circuitry switches the power off to the logic circuitry.
Power gating logic circuits have been demonstrated to reduce standby leakage by greater than an order of magnitude in CMOS circuits. One typical method of power gating is to use a shared NFET (N-type field effect transistor) device as a power supply interrupt switch (footer). Sizing the footer presents challenges for the circuit designer; too large of a footer reduces the potential leakage savings, too small of a footer will cause a rise in the voltage of the virtual ground node (footer drain) and slow down the operation of the gated logic during the functional mode. Correct sizing is imperative to optimize the competing trade-offs. Sizing the footer correctly requires detailed knowledge of active power consumption, which is often not known accurately for a particular circuit at the time when the power-gating footer must be sized. Turn-on current transients also can cause ground bounce on the virtual ground node. These transients can be avoided by allowing extra “dead” cycles between sleep modes and functional operation, at the expense of system performance. However, introduction of extra “dead” cycles can result in inefficient operation since in some situations the dead cycles may be unnecessary.
- SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, those skilled in the art seek methods and apparatus that are capable of controlling integrated circuits incorporating power gating technology in such a manner that reacts to the dynamic conditions being experienced by the power gating circuitry. The prior art is not seen to appreciate the need for monitoring operating conditions associated with the power gating circuitry. A need therefore exists for apparatus and methods that can monitor the internal level of a virtual ground node associated with power gating circuitry. The apparatus preferably should be a low circuit area device with high sensitivity to small changes in the virtual ground level.
A first embodiment of the invention is a circuit comprising: logic circuitry; a power gate switch coupled to at least a portion of the logic circuitry; and a virtual ground monitoring circuit configured to monitor voltage across the power gate switch.
A second embodiment of the invention is an integrated circuit comprising: logic circuitry; a ground rail; a power gate switch coupled between the logic circuitry and the ground rail, a node between the logic circuitry and the power gate switch corresponding to a virtual ground rail, the power gate switch configured to switch power to the logic circuitry on and off; and a virtual ground monitoring circuit configured to monitor voltage across the power gate switch, the virtual ground monitoring circuit comprising: signal output configured to output a virtual ground monitor signal that changes in dependence on changes to the voltage across the power gate switch.
A third embodiment of the invention is a method comprising: monitoring a virtual ground voltage across a power gate switch in an integrated circuit comprising at least the power gate switch and logic circuitry; and controlling operation of the integrated circuit in dependence on the monitored virtual ground voltage.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The foregoing summary of the various embodiments of the present invention is exemplary and non-limiting. For example, one with ordinary skill in the art will understand that one or more aspects or steps from one embodiment can be combined with one or more aspects or steps from another embodiment to create a new embodiment within the scope of the present invention.
The foregoing and other aspects of these teachings are made more evident in the following Detailed Description of the Invention, when read in conjunction with the attached Drawing Figures, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram depicting a conventional power gating arrangement;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram depicting an integrated circuit configured in accordance with the invention; | [
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The fourth annual Latin American and Spanish Film Week hand picks some of the biggest Latin films from around the world and screens them at the University of Victoria’s Cinecenta until Sept. 22.
But don’t call it a festival, says organizer Prof. Dan Russek of UVic’s Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies. “Because our event is such a manageable size, usually about five to seven films, it allows us to choose from some of the very best movies,” he said.
Spanish Film Week is here to stay as Russek and UVic compatriots formed the non-profit Hispanic Film Society of Victoria to help ensure it’s future.
“We wanted to create this to go beyond the classroom and academia and into the community, and films are a great medium for that,” Russek said.
“We’re not just targeting students, everyone is welcome, and all films are shown with English subtitles.”
Anchoring this year’s roster is Blancanieves, a black and white, silent movie adaptation of Snow White that won 10 Goya Awards (the Spanish film awards) including Best Film in 2012.
Blancanieves will wrap up Film Week on Sunday with 7 and 9 p.m. showings.
It should have been in the same conversation as The Artist, which won the Oscar’s best picture award, but didn’t come out until later. The re-imagination is set in Southern Spain in the ‘20s and is a personal drama about a young women, Carmen, who fights different odds with quirky elements, including a group of dwarf bullfighters.
“Snow White began filming before The Artist but finished afterwards, he feels bad that Snow White arrived later. It shows that you can do a great movie, black and white, and silent. The Artist went on to prominence so it’s a shame, Snow White could have earned more discussion as they are contemporaries,” Russek said.
Tonight’s showing is Spanish Film Week’s first animated feature, Chico y Rita. The animation captures the flavour and lighting of Havana and New York City, as the protagonists move between the two.
“It has great visuals and the jazz music, and the movie really, is an homage to Bebo Valdes, the piano player who was involved in making the movie,” Russek said.
Chico y Rita, which dates back to 2010, won multiple Goyas and an Oscar nomination for best animated film.
View the full lineup at hispfilmvic.ca, or visit cinecenta.com for more.
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When Covid – 19 changed the world it took me a long time before I could produce artwork. I still made things – cooking and upholstering a chair but it took a while to make artwork that made sense in these challenging times. Eventually inspired by @markbeldan’s use of heavenly St Armand coloured paper I was able to bring together two threads of my work. I combined naive paintings of birds that I had last painting in 2004/5 and my current backdrop paintings. From the large backdrop paintings I was able to bring pattern, colour and the use of matt and metallic contrasts to backdrop my birds. When I had previously painted birds I was yet to find my place in the world and through these birds I was able to express emotions and desires that otherwise I could not.
These lockdown paintings bring together a variety of inspiration: Frida Kahlo, Indian miniatures, Craigie Aitchinson, Alma Thomas, Gustav Klimt, Bjorn Wiinblad to name a few.
Matthew Burrows and his Artist Support Pledge is a big reason I started painting in lockdown. I love the generosity and accessibility of being able to buy and sell art on Instagram for £200 or less. And on top of that you pledge that for every £1000 sold you then you buy £200 of art from another artist taking part. I have been able to buy great work and also I suspect it is helping artists feel connected and sane. It is helping artists make money when other income streams have been shut down.
Just by chance a friend sent me a photo of an early bird painting that is now in a hair salon in Japan. The pleasure of knowing that your work is being seen and appreciated is really important. When you wonder how you fit in an art market that seems remote and elitist it is good to remember that you can make up your own art market and find a way of existing that provides meaning to you.
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World Champion Viswanathan Anand will defend his crown against Boris Gelfand. The match begins May 11th and will be held in Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery. This will be Anand’s second defense since winning the crown at a championship tournament in 2007 in Mexico. He defended his crown against both Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov.
There has been a lot of interest in this match for a multitude of reasons. Most recently, Ilya Levitov (Chairman of Russian Chess Federation) has given a number of interviews about his vision and the agreement to host the match in such a place. According to Levitov, “classical chess is opera” and he wants to bring back the renaissance of chess by making it more attractive and appealing to viewers.
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The FIDE world chess champion title match between Viswanathan Anand (India) and Boris Gelfand (Israel) will take place from 10 to 31 May in the Engineering Building of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The prize fund for the match is 2.55 million dollars, 60% of which will go to the winner and 40% to the loser.
This title match will precede the Candidates tournament which will be held in March 2013 to select the next challenger for the world title. The tournament will be a double round-robin tournament with eight players (including the loser of this match). The winner of that tournament will face the Anand-Gelfand winner in November 2013. | [
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The folks at Government Procurement Services certainly seem to like to play it fast and loose with deadlines; there has been yet another slip in the schedule for the forthcoming £4bn IT Hardware & Services framework. As revealed by The Channel last week, GPS told suppliers whether they had provisionally made it onto the three- …
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The benefits of meditation and how it affects your brain health are a hot topic with new research and information coming out on a weekly basis. Neurological benefits include changes in your grey matter and improved communication between different areas of your brain. More recent studies are discovering that meditation can help with our stress and anxiety levels as well as improving our focus, concentration and overall psychological health. In addition, physiological benefits include improved sleep, better eating habits and weight control. In this article we look at the link between mindfulness meditation and brain health, to explore in more detail how meditation affects your brain.
Meditation results are better than a stress management course
The medical profession is becoming more interested in mindfulness meditation programmes and their effect on brain health. Associate Professor Elizabeth A Hoge MD in Georgetown University Medical Centre´s (external link) Department of Psychiatry discovered that when people with anxiety participated in a mindfulness meditation course their stress hormones significantly reduced. Their inflammatory responses to stressful situations and brain health improved too, whereas patients who took a non-meditation stress management course worsened.
Meditation can lead to changes in key areas of your brain
Two studies at Harvard discovered that people who attended an eight-week course of mindfulness meditation had positive changes in their brain structure, which meant their brain health was improved. Specifically, they were better able to deal with stress and anxiety. The researchers found that the amygdala (which is an almond shape set of neurons located in the brain´s medial temporal lobe) decreased in cell volume. (Read the research here – external link. The amygdala plays a key role in the processing of emotions and regulates fear, anxiety and stress. When we were cavemen the amygdala activated our fight and flight response, but modern-day man, in theory, needs less of this survival mode response. However, our fight and flight mode can be activated by modern day stress such as financial, work or relationship issues. When this happens, our body is flooded with cortisol. If our stress levels are elevated for long periods of time, cortisol continues to be released into our system, which can throw us out of homeostatic (our body´s natural) balance. The participants who followed a course of mindfulness meditation were able to regulate these emotions as well as change their feelings and responses to stress and anxiety.
Meditation can help overcome depression
Depression is a prolonged imbalance in the mind and body that you can find more about here. Your brain has a communication network made up of billions of neurons called neurotransmitters. Research suggests that people who suffer from depression have low levels of two brain chemicals called serotonin and norepinephrine. Anti-depressant medication works by boosting these two brain chemicals, but they also have side effects.
Through a process known as neurogenesis scientists have discovered that through meditation, the number of neuron transmitters can increase and we can literally regenerate our neurons and rewire our brain.
Meditation also focuses on the now, which is very useful for depression suffers. Many of the roots of depression are anxieties and fears about the future and regrets or inability to forget the past. These are predominantly unbalanced left brain activities (check out our article on balancing left and right brain here). Through meditation we can learn to become less identified with these thoughts, equilibrate the mind and simply let them go. In this state of observation, we develop a new awareness and develop the ability to change our thoughts and behaviours. Meditation also teaches us to become more of a master of our own emotions as we can realise how these thoughts are intertwined with our emotions. Over time, you may even notice that it is not the everchanging events and ups and downs in our lives that evoke our emotional roller coaster but rather how we perceive these events. Practising meditation can therefore give us the ability to regulate our responses allowing us to stay calmer and more focused in stressful situations, leading to emotional balance and a greater clarity and zest for life!
How meditation can help keep our brains young!
Meditation can also be “nutrition” for the brain as it stimulates the hippocampus and frontal brain lobe, which store both short and long-term memory. When this area is under-active, we have memory loss and disorientation. Through meditation this area can improve and a person´s ability to recall memories as well as retrieve long term memories improves. Studies have shown that older adults can continue to live functional and happy lives by improving mental awareness and the ability to function through regular meditation sessions.
As we grow older, we can face new challenges such as health issues, disability or the loss of a spouse or friends all of which bring long term stress. Social anxiety and loneliness can be a factor of aging. Whilst these are part of life´s process, the impact of them can be significantly reduced when following a mindfulness meditation programme.
Understanding and acceptance through meditation
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The Trans Equality Legal Initiative has been founded by a coalition of lawyers and activists, all with a strong background in human rights in the LGBT sphere.
Our structure values the importance of partnership working between both Trans and Cisgender professionals and the need to ensure our work is led by the voices of Trans and Non-Binary people. Each of our areas of focus are Co-Convened by one Trans Place and one Open Place Convener.
Barrister at Garden Court Chambers
Co-Convener for Prisons
Michelle, as part of her practice, advises and represents members of the trans community on matters as wide reaching as access to health, inclusion within education and challenging through litigation discriminatory practice and policy adopted by government bodies. Michelle is junior counsel in the upcoming Supreme Court challenge against the lawfulness of DWP practice in outing those in receipt of benefits.
Barrister at One Pump Court
Co-Convener for Criminal Law/Gender Deception
Allan is a barrister who specialises in immigration and asylum law, with a particular interest in LGBTI issues. He is a trustee and active member of the UK Lesbian and Gay Immigration Group which campaigns for the better treatment of LGBTI asylum seekers in the UK and offers support to individual refugees.
Associate at Linklaters LLP
Co-Convener for Structure and Fundraising
David is a solicitor who specialises in insolvency litigation. He is the Chair of the Linklaters LGBT Network Committee and as part of his pro bono work with the firm he represents LGBT asylum seekers and is legal counsel for Pride in London. In addition, David sits on the steering committee for the LSE-Featherstone Moot, the UK's first nation-wide LGBT moot for undergraduates, he mentors LGBT undergraduates through DiversCity and does work with the Albert Kennedy Trust.
NHS Inclusion & Engagement Manager Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
Co-Convener for Health
Co-Convener for Judicial and Professional Training
Tara is a NHS Inclusion & Engagement manager covering two NHS Trusts and over 18,000 staff at one of the largest NHS organisationa in the UK. In her role she has taken on additional reaponsability as the Deputy Chair lf the Greater Manchester Public Sector Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Professionals Network..
In addition to her main role Tara works part time as a freelance consultant and is a Director of the Leadership and Inclusion firm Purple Infusion Ltd.
In 2019 Tara was included on the Northern Power House Future List of most influential and leading women in the North recognising her achievements across Health education and third sectors. Past awards have included in 2016 being shortlisted for the Excellence in Diversity Awards for her work across the NHS, in 2015 being highly commended at the national Postive Pracrice in Mental Health awards for her work across Forensic Mental Health Sevices and has appeared in the Independent on Sunday's Pink List of the top 100 most influential LGBT people in the UK.
Director of Training at Wipe Out Transphobia
Co-Convener for Schools
In her role as Director of Training, Kate has provided training and support for a number of organisations including Barnardo's, Welsh Women's Aid and the NHS. She is a trustee of Unity Group Wales, a Welsh LGBT charity, and has recently joined the committee of the LGBT education charity Schools OUT. In October 2015, Kate was invited by Stonewall Cymru to co-present the first session for them on 'Supporting Trans Staff' at their workplace conference at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff.
Pupil Barrister at 10KBW
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Cathy is a pupil barrister practising in her'second six'. She intends to specialise in public law, drawing on her human rights work in Togo, West Africa, as well as her experience of immigration law in the UK. Cathy has also volunteered at Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre where she supported asylum seekers and victims of domestic violence.
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Peter is a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on gender, sexuality and law. His work has been cited by numerous public bodies, including the Equality Authority of Ireland, and the House of Commons Select Committee on Women and Equalities. Prior to entering academia, Peter worked as a human rights advocate in the United States of America and Europe. He is former board member for the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) | [
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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sunfield, a 2,400 acre new home development located just south of Austin, announced today it has been ranked in the Top 30 in mid-year sales nationally for master-planned communities (MPCs) by real estate consulting firm RCLCo. Sunfield sold 245 new homes the first half of the year, ranking it sixth in the state in new home sales, a 41 percent increase over this time last year.
“We are honored to have been ranked in the Top 30 in the highly coveted RCLCo ratings for top-selling MPCs,” said James R. Feagin, Chairman and CEO of Landmark Interests, the developer for Sunfield. “Sunfield has doubled its sales since we opened a year ago. Home buyers are attracted to this community because it is a trailblazer in resort living at an affordable price point. The amenities are unmatched in this price range and you won’t find anything like it in this market.”
Sunfield opened its hugely popular Lazy River Amenity Center this summer. The 1,000-foot lazy river winds through the community, which also features a lagoon pool, waterfall and activity pool. Other features of the new amenity center include over 25,000 square feet of pool deck, ample shade structures, picnic tables, open air pavilions and family grill stations with full access to Wi-Fi.
The ranking of RCLCo’s top-selling communities is based on total net new home sales as reported by each individual community. To be included, MPCs must be developed with a strong vision and comprehensive plan that guide development and unify the community. This is accomplished through distinctive signage, wayfinding, entry features, landscaping, and architectural/design standards that foster an environment of community.
As an established neighborhood, Sunfield currently has 1,200 homeowners with an expected 6,900 homes at build out. Fourteen new model homes are open in the development on Cherrystone Street overlooking the lazy river. Homes are priced from the high $190s to $400s and feature builders Centex, Pulte, Gehan Homes, CastleRock Communities, Chesmar Homes and William Lyon Homes.
Embodying the small-town charm of Buda, Sunfield is located just 15 miles south of Austin. As a master-planned community, Sunfield takes advantage of the natural beauty of the area by preserving the creeks, ponds, parks and trails while adding open air resort amenities to connect to the sustainable natural surroundings. Sunfield also offers a variety of outdoor resort amenities including a Junior Olympic lap pool, splash pool, shade structures, picnic pavilion with grilling stations, fishing ponds and miles of hike and mountain bike trails.
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“The Bible is the inerrant, infallible and perfect word of God in the original autographs.”
Growing up Southern Baptist, I was exposed to this type of language all the time. If it was in the Bible, it was true. Period. One would expect that as one gained education, they would eschew such beliefs. I was the opposite. The older I got, the more determined I was to prove that the Bible was THE WORD OF GOD (all caps to simulate the perceived thundering divine voice from on high).
The first sermon I ever preached was about people not taking the Bible seriously enough. Upon completion of the fiery address, I received a standing ovation. I attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary after college, while there I continued along the same path of legalism. That is, until I got a phone call from a dear Southern Baptist mentor pastor, who told me he was dying.
For the next few months, I spent as much time as I could with him. As the end approached, he invited me into his room for a talk. In those moments, he revealed to me that he had lived his life as a closeted gay man. To put it mildly, all my ides of the truth of scripture exploded. I’d never made room for someone to be morally gay in my interpretations of scripture, and yet here was someone whom I now knew to be both moral and gay. While it took much time, this moment led me to the much healthier relationship with scripture I have now, i.e. scripture contains words from God rather than being THE WORD OF GOD (again, simulating the perceived thundering divine voice). To put it most simply, I got over my addiction to loving the Bible and started loving God.
A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon one of Rev. Jim Jones’ few written works, The Letter Killeth. The text is meant to be this great treatise that delegitimizes the Bible by providing examples of errors and inconsistencies. For about two dozen pages, Rev. Jones points out every error he can think of – and, knowing him – also some he borrowed from other sources. As I read through the text, nothing really struck me as all that new. I’d read it all before. But, what did strike me as new was the connection that I felt with Rev. Jones.
In many ways, Rev. Jones wasn’t all that different from a young me, a fundamentalist in every sense of the word, just in a different direction. Rev. Jones was just as addicted to proving scripture inaccurate as much as I was to proving scripture accurate. Both paths lead to tremendous evil.
Ultimately, the adoration of a particular stringent point of view about a religious text is always a power play. It’s always an attempt to control. Just as Rev. Jones used anti-Bible fundamentalism to control, so too do many Christians (including me/what I was being taught to do) use a pro-Bible fundamentalism to control.
I’d argue that Rev. Jones never got over his addiction to hating the Bible, because he believed that the Bible was one of the only things that could ever keep him from completely making himself God, due to the admiration that many of his followers still had for the Bible.. The truth of that is perhaps evidenced by the fact that a number of elderly folks still had their Bibles with them in Jonestown even after they were told not to. On any given day, these types of forces play out in all sorts of religious contexts. Surely, it is our fundamentalisms that ultimately destroy us.
I’ve heard theologians/biblical scholars try to make the argument that Rev. Jim Jones went astray when he started perverting the scripture. I think it’s wiser to say that the tragedy of Jonestown began when Rev. Jones became an anti-scriptural fundamentalist (determined to define a religious text instead of taking lessons from it). You see, fundamentalism around religious texts is always deadly, no matter which way it goes.
Recently, a little old lady asked me a question following one of my sermons: “So what’s the lesson, preacher?” I’ll make it plain. Love God. Love others. And don’t get bogged down in the fundamentalist bullshit.
(Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is a Baptist pastor, theologian and activist living and working in Arkansas. Dr. Hood’s extensive work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including in the Dallas Morning News, Huffington Post, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Los Angeles Times, WIRED magazine and on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR. He writes regularly at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffhood/.
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Drip irrigation, also known as trickle irrigation, functions as its name suggests. Water is delivered at or near the root zone of plants, drop by drop. This method can be the most water-efficient method of irrigation, if managed properly, since evaporation and runoff are minimized.In modern agriculture, drip irrigation is often combined with plastic mulch, further reducing evaporation, and is also the means of delivery of fertilizer. The process is known as fertigation.
Deep percolation, where water moves below the root zone, can occur if a drip system is operated for too long of a duration or if the delivery rate is too high. Drip irrigation methods range from very high-tech and computerized to low-tech and labor-intensive. Lower water pressures are usually needed than for most other types of systems, with the exception of low energy center pivot systems and surface irrigation systems, and the system can be designed for uniformity throughout a field or for precise water delivery to individual plants in a landscape containing a mix of plant species. Although it is difficult to regulate pressure on steep slopes, pressure compensatingemitters are available, so the field does not have to be level. High-tech solutions involve precisely calibrated emitters located along lines of tubing that extend from a computerized set of valves.
Both pressure regulation and filtration to remove particles are important. The tubes are usually black (or buried under soil or mulch) to prevent the growth of algae and to protect thepolyethylene from degradation due to ultraviolet light. But drip irrigation can also be as low-tech as a porousclay vessel sunk into the soil and occasionally filled from a hose or bucket. Subsurface drip irrigationhas been used successfully on lawns, but it is more expensive than a more traditional sprinkler system. Surface drip systems are not cost-effective (or aesthetically pleasing) for lawns and golf courses. In the past one of the main disadvantages of the subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) systems, when used for turf, was the fact of having to install the plastic lines very close to each other in the ground, therefore disrupting the turfgrass area. Recent technology developments on drip installers like the drip installer at New Mexico State University Arrow Head Center, places the line underground and covers the slit leaving no soil exposed. | [
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The Do’s and Dont’s
Manure is the constant byproduct of every producer operation. Continuing to be constantly aware of your manure disposal and application procedures can help to avoid last minute emergencies from popping up and leading to costly, short-term solutions.
Developing a couple of steady habits can ensure the smooth operation of your facility:
- Monitor pit levels and project pit full dates. Having a pit reach its capacity before plans have been made for pumping can lead to a lot of extra work that is costly and time- consuming at the last minute.
- Monitor water use and limit waste. Excess water use can lead to premature pit full dates. Monitoring water use gives you an early warning that the pits may be filling more quickly than planned.
Work with a Knowledgeable Agronomist
Agronomists’ advice can make a difference in getting the most value out of organic fertilizer application. Some effective ways to take advantage of this relationship are:
- Follow your nutrient management plan Plans are only useful when executed. This will provide a consistency that will make all other parts of your operation run more smoothly.
- Be sure to maximize the number of acres covered with manure. Over application can lead to nutrient loss that is vital to yields where the manure is being applied.
Work with a Reliable Manure Applicator
The applicators you work with reflect the responsibility of your operation. Making sure the applicators are consistent and reliable can eliminate headaches developing. If self- applying, make sure handling equipment is serviced, calibrated and ready before season.
While it may seem tedious, consistent record keeping is important to improve the performance of your operation. Not only for maintaining consistency when reporting data to the state, but it is also the best reference for finding efficiency issues that can be investigated to save your operation time and money.
Keeping a comparison of the yields of manure acres to commercially fertilized fields can give insight into how your nutrient management plan is working and help you develop ideas to modify your plan if necessary. Learn from each season and make the best decisions for your operation. While the process is generally similar from barn to barn, each site has nuances specific to that site alone.
Safety at every stage of the operation is one of the most crucial elements of the day-to-day work that can effect your ability to accomplish your development goals. Some areas that deserve particular attention are:
- On roads – paying attention when operating on or near public roadways not only assures the safety of you and your employees, but also solidifies the community trust in your operation. It only takes one incident to develop mistrust and can take years to repair the reputational damage that an accident can cause.
- While agitating pits – While agitation is necessary to produce the most homogenized crop fertilizer, the process can also be among the most dangerous an operation undertakes. The following procedures can minimize the health risks to both humans and animals.
- Stay out of the room being agitated.
- Make sure all employees and family members are removed from the area and do not enter during the process.
- Use lock-out tags for communication.
- Set ventilation at maximum levels.
- Make sure the manure pit isn’t foaming.
- Always wear proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
- Near PTO’s and handling equipment- Improper use of power take-off devices and other heavy equipment can lead to serious injury or death. Regular training of employees and a commitment to safe operation procedures can immensely reduce the risk of equipment hazards.
Make a Mess
Public perception is very important to how your operation fits into the community. Keeping roadways clear, having neat and tidy pump sites, and keeping fields clear of garbage and decaying supplies and equipment greatly improves that perception and can increase community participation and cooperation for the future of your operation. Also, be reactive and transparent about any spills. No industry is without incident, so making sure the public is aware there is no deception and that you are making every effort to clean up after any incident is essential.
Environmental damage is the easiest way to develop mistrust within the communities that you operate. A couple of simple best management practices can ensure not only a minimization of negative environmental impact, but also shore up community confidence:
- Have calculated rates and adhere to them. Make sure the due diligence you’ve already performed isn’t considered as an after-thought and make following your calculated rates a priority.
- Make sure manure is not “running down the hill” or into a waterway. Ensure the application acres have sufficient buffer zones adjacent to waterways to keep our vital water resources usable not only for the health of the humans that enjoy them, but also the aquatic life that make up the vital ecosystems that make your region unique.
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Russell Lamson Apartments is an 8-story masonry and concrete building originally constructed in 1914. In that same year, an edition of the Hotel Bulletin refers to the Hotel Russell-Lamson as “one of the most complete, up-to-date and modern hotels to be found anywhere on the American continent. It bears a very favorable comparison with the best to be seen in any of the largest cities.” The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
Before the renovation began, the building had been previously converted into 75 apartment units on floors 3-8, with commercial space on the first and second floors. To minimize the relocation of existing residents, construction was completed in two stages. This allowed approximately half of the current residents as well as all the commercial tenants on the street level to remain in the building during the renovation.
The newly renovated building now contains 90 affordable housing apartments. The layouts consist mainly of studio and one-bedrooms, with a few two-bedroom and three-bedroom units. Within the units themselves, the historic windows were taken out and refurbished, kitchens were replaced, and bathrooms were upgraded. A new exercise facility was built in addition to a laundry facility. During the renovation, forgotten architectural pieces like the magnificent windows in the lobby were also rediscovered and restored. The end result provided high-demand affordable housing while revitalizing a Waterloo icon. | [
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Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) from GeoMax is a technology that plays a crucial role in the construction industry by providing accurate positioning and navigation information. GNSS is commonly used for surveying, grading, and site preparation activities within the construction industry. GNSS antennas receive signals from multiple satellites, allowing construction professionals to precisely determine the location of equipment, materials, and structures on a job site. This technology aids in creating accurate topographic maps, monitoring earthmoving operations, and ensuring precise alignment of structures. Construction machinery, such as bulldozers and excavators, can be equipped with GNSS receivers to guide their movements with high precision, optimising efficiency and reducing errors. The use of GNSS in the construction industry not only enhances productivity but also minimises costs and improves the overall accuracy and quality of construction projects. | [
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Municipality of Turin
Efficient management of a building portfolio.
Enerbrain is working with Iren to improve the energy efficiency and environmental comfort of a cluster of buildings in the City of Turin, consisting mainly of schools, offices and recreational buildings. The project will run until 2026.
CO2 not emitted in one year
Time in comfort
The scalability of Enerbrain’s energy efficiency solution was the key to the project. The overall objective was to ensure the same standards of comfort and energy efficiency in buildings with different uses. Enerbrain installed its monitoring and actuation system in all the buildings, allowing a unified and simple management of it through the supplied dashboard.
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Keen to tap into the next big advance in computing technology, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) is planning to fund a project to develop quantum computers.
A quantum computer, still largely a theoretical entity, employs the principles of quantum mechanics to store information in ‘qubits’ instead of the typical ‘bits’ of 1 and 0. Qubits work faster because of the way such circuits are designed, and their promise is that they can do intensive number-crunching tasks much more efficiently than the fastest comparable computers.
For instance, to sort a billion numbers, a quantum computer would require 3.5 million fewer steps than a traditional machine, and would find the solution in only 31,623 steps, says a Morgan Stanley analysis last August. Solving other problems, many having to do with computing physics, becomes possible on quantum machines, the authors say, whereas they might never be possible on traditional computers.
While the Physics departments at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, have only forayed into the theoretical aspects of quantum computing, a DST official said that “the time has come to build one.”
Experts from across the country are expected to gather this month in Allahabad for a workshop to develop such a computer. Internationally, Canada’s D-Wave Systems, is a pioneer in developing quantum computers and has sold machines to Lockheed Martin and Google.
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Mechanism of Drug Release from Polymer: Three primary mechanisms for drug release, namely:
- Water penetration (Swelling)
Drug Release from Polymer by Diffusion
Rate limiting step is a diffusion of drug through inert water-insoluble membrane barrier.
There are two types:
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In membrane-controlled reservoir devices, the drug is contained in a core, which is surrounded by a polymer membrane, and it is released by diffusion through this rate-controlling membrane.
For example, Poly (N-vinyl pyrrolidone), Poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate).
Drug delivery from typical reservoir devices: (i) Implantable or oral systems, and (ii) Transdermal systems.
2. Matrix Diffusion System:
In these devices, the drug is released either by passing through the pores or between polymer chains, and these are the processes that control the release rate.
For example, polyethylene, polyvinyl acetate.
Drug Release from Polymer by Degradation
Bio-degradation is the chemical changes that alter the molecular weight or solubility of the polymers. Bio erosion may refer to a physical process that results in the weight loss of a polymer device. The possibility for a polymer to degrade and to have its degradation by-products assimilated or excreted by the living system is designated as Bioresorbable. The erosion of polymers takes place by two methods:
- Chemical erosion
- Physical erosion
1. Chemical Erosion: Bio erosions through chemical mechanisms are explained below: Mechanism-I: It describes the degradation of water-soluble macromolecules that are cross-linked to form a three-dimensional network. Degradation in these systems can occur by:
- Type (1A): Degradation occurs at crosslinks to form soluble backbone polymeric chains. It provides high molecular weight, water-soluble fragments.
- Type (1B): Degradation occurs to form water-soluble fragments. Such type provides low molecular weight, water-soluble oligomers, and monomers.
Mechanism-II: Describes the dissolution of water-insoluble macromolecules with side groups that are converted to water-insoluble polymers as a result of ionization, protonation, or hydrolysis of the groups.
Materials showing this type of erosion include;
- Cellulose acetate derivatives,
- Co-polymers of maleic anhydride.
Mechanism-III: Describes the degradation of insoluble polymers with liable bonds. It forms low molecular weight, water-soluble molecules.
Polymers undergoing this type of erosion include;
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2. Physical Erosion: The physical erosion mechanisms can be characterized as heterogeneous or homogeneous.
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- In homogenous erosion, there is a loss of integrity of the matrix or polymer.
- In heterogeneous erosion, also called surface erosion, the matrix degrades and the drug is released from the surface.
- Highly crystalline polymers tend to undergo heterogeneous erosion.
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These types of systems are initially dry and when placed in the body, absorb water or other fluid and it swells. In swelling controlled release systems, an active agent is homogeneously dispersed in a glassy polymer, because glassy polymers are essentially impermeable, the active agent is immobilized in the matrix and the diffusion through the solid polymer phase takes place.
When monolithic devices are placed in an aqueous environment, water begins to penetrate the matrix and swelling takes place. As a consequence of the swelling process, chain relaxation takes place and the incorporated active agent begins to diffuse from the swollen layer.
In linear amorphous polymers, dissolution follows the swelling process, but crosslinked polymers or those containing significant chain entanglements or partial crystallinity will remain insoluble but will be mechanically weak.
Swelling increases aqueous solvent content within the formulation as well as the polymer mesh size, enabling the drug to diffuse through the swollen network into the external environment. For example: (N-isopropyl-acrylamide), Ethylene-vinyl alcohol.
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Kellyanne Conway is leaving her job at the White House to focus on family; George Conway stepping away from Lincoln Project Former elected officials from the Republican party were among the speakers on the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Citing a need to focus on her children, Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is leaving her position in the administration, she announced Sunday. Conway informed President Donald Trump of her decision on Sunday night, The Washington Post first reported. Trump scrambles to suppress inconvenient information with Bolton book and coronavirus The former national security adviser's behind-the-scenes account is expected to portray Trump, who was impeached over an apparent abuse of power in Ukraine and clashed with Bolton over a number of foreign policy issues, in an extremely poor light. "They just don't want to deal with the reality of it. They're in denial," an official familiar with the work of the White House's coronavirus task force told CNN's Jim Acosta. Both dramas have the potential to further dent the President's reelection campaign, as polls show him behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
California restaurateur vows to fight for his restaurants, employees as state bans outdoor dining Matchless IT owner Nick Kershner questions whether small businesses in the state will be able to survive another lockdown. A California restaurateur, whose business is still reeling from the virus-related shutdowns earlier this year, refuses to close up the dine-in service at one of his restaurants despite local government orders to do so. Dave Foldes, the co-founder and owner of five Cronies Sports Grill locations in Southern California, isn't just thinking about himself and the financial toll he faces. He's also thinking about all the people he employs -- especially as Christmas nears.
Coronavirus: Fauci warns Senate of'serious consequences' Media playback is unsupported on your device The top US infectious diseases doctor has warned senators that the coronavirus will spread further if the country opens up too soon. Dr Anthony Fauci said if federal guidelines to reopen were not followed, "little spikes" would become outbreaks. He also said the real US death toll is probably higher than the official figure of 80,000. His message is at odds with the upbeat tone of President Donald Trump who is keen to get the economy going again. Dr Fauci was speaking via video to a Republican-led committee of the US Senate. Chiefs, Ravens and Cowboys: which franchise is the NFL's next dynasty? Trying to predict who will rule the NFL two years from now is a tricky game, let alone trying to figure out the shape of the league five, seven or 10 years down the line. Just two years ago, the Los Angeles Rams were the toast of the league, thanks to Sean McVay’s innovative offense and a defense anchored around Aaron Donald. Now, things look grim after the Rams purged future assets in a gamble to win a championship now. The Rams’ recent history, and to an extent that of the Seattle Seahawks too, show just how hard it is to build the sustained success that the New England Patriots enjoyed over the last two decades. With that in mind, here are the teams who could dominate the league for years to come.
Apple CEO Tim Cook continues to build on Steve Jobs' vision as company preps stock split BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, was a tough act to follow. But Tim Cook seems to be doing so well at it that his eventual successor may also have big shoes to fill. Initially seen as a mere caretaker for the iconic franchise that Jobs built before his 2011 death, Cook has forged his own distinctive legacy. Portland man accused in frightening handsaw attack caught on video A 58-year-old man in Portland was captured on video allegedly assaulting people with a handsaw inside a laundromat, according to reports. Police got 911 calls that Shane Vordelmicha Green had assaulted people with the handsaw and a belt, broken car windshields and threatened people. He was subdued after much confrontation; he had walked into traffic waving the handsaw and refusing cops’ commands, authorities said. Green was charged with three counts of assault, six counts of unlawful use of a weapon, attempted assault, strangulation, four counts of menacing, two counts of attempted assault, harassment, disorderly conduct, interfering with a peace officer and four counts of reckless endangering.
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Identification and Construction of Axial Symmetry:
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This brought the house down in a packed NCH in May 2019 in the first Irish performance. Now, by popular demand, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker are bringing it back.
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue still heads up lists not just as one of the greatest ever jazz albums but one of the most extraordinary recordings of the 20th century. Top jazz trumpeter Guy Barker arranged the album, including orchestrating solos not only by Davis but by John Coltrane and Bill Evans. Who better to perform it than the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, an orchestra that has jazz in its DNA, with Barker himself conducting... | [
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In just a couple of years, NASA’s newest rover will be flying to Mars. The Mars 2020 mission will use the next generation of science and landing technology to collect rock samples for possible return by a future mission.
At a glance, it looks a lot like its predecessor, the Curiosity Mars rover. But there’s no doubt it’s a souped-up science machine: It has seven new instruments, redesigned wheels and more autonomy. A drill will capture rock cores, while a caching system with a miniature robotic arm will seal up these samples. Then, they’ll be deposited on the Martian surface for possible pickup by a future mission.
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Mars 2020 relies heavily on the system designs and spare hardware previously created for Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover, which landed in 2012. Roughly 85 percent of the new rover’s mass is based on this “heritage hardware.”
“The fact that so much of the hardware has already been designed — or even already exists — is a major advantage for this mission,” said Jim Watzin, director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. “It saves us money, time and most of all, reduces risk.”
Despite its similarities to Mars Science Laboratory, the new mission has very different goals. Mars 2020’s instruments will seek signs of ancient life by studying terrain that is now inhospitable, but once held flowing rivers and lakes, more than 3.5 billion years ago.
To achieve these new goals, the rover has a suite of cutting-edge science instruments. It will seek out biosignatures on a microbial scale: An X-ray spectrometer will target spots as small as a grain of table salt, while an ultraviolet laser will detect the “glow” from excited rings of carbon atoms. A ground-penetrating radar will be the first instrument to look under the surface of Mars, mapping layers of rock, water and ice up to 30 feet (10 meters) deep, depending on the material.
The rover is getting some upgraded Curiosity hardware, including color cameras, a zoom lens and a laser that can vaporize rocks and soil to analyze their chemistry.
“Our next instruments will build on the success of MSL, which was a proving ground for new technology,” said George Tahu, NASA’s Mars 2020 program executive. “These will gather science data in ways that weren’t possible before.”
The mission will also undertake a marathon sample hunt: The rover team will try to drill at least 20 rock cores, and possibly as many as 30 or 40, for possible future return to Earth.
“Whether life ever existed beyond Earth is one of the grand questions humans seek to answer,” said Ken Farley of JPL, Mars 2020’s project scientist. “What we learn from the samples collected during this mission has the potential to address whether we’re alone in the universe.”
JPL is also developing a crucial new landing technology called terrain-relative navigation. As the descent stage approaches the Martian surface, it will use computer vision to compare the landscape with pre-loaded terrain maps. This technology will guide the descent stage to safe landing sites, correcting its course along the way.
A related technology called the range trigger will use location and velocity to determine when to fire the spacecraft’s parachute. That change will narrow the landing ellipse by more than 50 percent.
“Terrain-relative navigation enables us to go to sites that were ruled too risky for Curiosity to explore,” said Al Chen of JPL, the Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead. “The range trigger lets us land closer to areas of scientific interest, shaving miles — potentially as much as a year — off a rover’s journey.”
This approach to minimizing landing errors will be critical in guiding any future mission dedicated to retrieving the Mars 2020 samples, Chen said.
Site selection has been another milestone for the mission. In February, the science community narrowed the list of potential landing sites from eight to three. Those three remaining sites represent fundamentally different environments that could have harbored primitive life: an ancient lakebed called Jezero Crater; Northeast Syrtis, where warm waters may have chemically interacted with subsurface rocks; and a possible hot springs at Columbia Hills.
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Lamorna Cove on the south coast along from Mousehole. The author Derek Tangye lived near Lamorna where he wrote his famous books "The Minack Chronicles", and mentions it often in the books. There is still a piece of land called "Oliver Land" which is only accessible from Lamorna that he left after his death as a wildlife sanctuary.
Portreath to Tobban Horse
A circular walk along the rugged coast from Portreath towards Porthtowan passing small coves and remnants of the clifftop mines beside the old RAF base, and returning via the horse-drawn tramway that brought fortune to Portreath harbour, where its
Mousehole to Lamorna Cove
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When it comes to risk factors for heart disease, is your ethnic heritage really a risk factor in developing heart disease? Does race really matter? Are you at a greater risk for developing heart disease simply because of the color of you skin?
The answer is of some interest to me. I come from a melting pot family of seven children - three girls and four boys (And no, my parents weren’t Catholic – there just apparently wasn’t a lot to do in the winter time in a one horse town in the middle of west Texas!) Of the seven of us, one sister is Hispanic and one brother is African-American in their ethnic heritage. The rest of us are Irish-German-Dutch-Scots (you get the picture – we’re just plain American mongrel mutts). We also have a strong history of heart disease and heart disease risk factors – obesity, chronic high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels (even when we weigh a proper amount), and family history of death due to heart disease.
You know siblings – we share and share alike (well, sometimes we share!). While we may have different ethnic heritages, unfortunately we do share many of the same risk factors for heart disease. As the leader-of-the-pack, it fell to me to find out just how the things that we don’t share (like race) may tip the heart attack scales for some of us. Since one of my beloved sisters is Hispanic, I wanted to look at the impact of race, if any, for Hispanic women when it comes to developing heart related disease.
Conventional medical thought has been that for women in particular, race does matter. Consider the following facts from the American Heart Association about heart disease in Hispanic women:
•Leading cause of death for all Hispanics (men and women combined).
•For women, heart related disease is responsible for more than 32 percent of all deaths in Hispanic women.
•Almost 30 percent of Hispanic women have already developed heart disease by age 20.
When it comes to risk factors for heart disease, Hispanic woman don’t fare well as all:
•Obesity – More than 70 percent of Hispanic women are overweight by age 20. | [
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Patrick D. McCoy-Arts and Culture Contributor for CBS Washington
McCoy recently was selected among a handful of writers for Examiner.com to become a part of a new partnership with CBS Washington. He will write on a variety of topics within the realm of arts and culture for the local Washington, D. C. site.
By: Ms. Hyacinth K. Scott
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This first article takes a look back at unique people and arts venues in Washington, D. C. that have piqued curiosity and amazement in 2011. Featured is the new arts venue: Artisphere, the home of Leonid Sushansky and the National Chamber Ensemble, The Heritage Signature Chorale and Music Director Stanley J. Thurston, singer and pianist Victor Simonson, Music Director of The Washington Chorus and Director of Music and Arts at Trinity Church Wall Street-Julian Wachner, Virginia State University Alum and culture guru-Delonte Briggs, John Chambers, founder of BloomBars and Dennis Williams, founder of the theatre troupe/venue, Love from the Sound Stage.
Since 2009, Patrick McCoy has written for Examiner.com as the "DC Performing Arts Examiner."
"I am so thankful to Examiner.com for giving me the opportunity to be a contributor in the area of the arts. It is because of them, that I am the beneficiary of this wonderful and unique opportunity. From my first review of "The Washington Chorus" doors have opened wide. I must thank my channel director Kevin Staunton for encouraging me and making me aware of this new partnership and tapping me to be a part of it." said McCoy.
Over the next few weeks, several stories will emerge from McCoy on a variety of artistic subjects. "I have focused intensely on classical music, but this column will allow me to have a broader reach" he said further.
In addition to writing, Patrick D. McCoy, The African American Voice in Classical Music will begin his second year on blogtalkradio.com, hosting a variety of interviews in the area of classical music and the arts. Last year, he interviewed several noteables, including Denyce Graves, Julian Wachner, Carmen Balthrop, Leona Mitchell, Angela M, Brown, Mark Steven Doss, George Shirley, Kenneth Tarver, Mickey Thomas Terry, among many others.
A native of Petersburg, Virginia, Patrick D. McCoy is a graduate of Virginia State University where he earned the Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. In addition, he received the Master of Music in Church Music from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, where he studied voice with Metropolitan Opera tenor, Michael O. Forest.
He currently serves as Minister of Music at Takoma Park Baptist Church in Northwest Washington, D. C., a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and is an Associate Member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Standing proudly on the shoulders of the late African-American classical music critic, Raoul Abdul, Patrick D. McCoy is committed to informing the entire community about the joys of classical music. Visit: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/
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When the temperature drops below zero, Pueblo mechanic Gordon Seybold knows his business heats up.
"When we get days like this, with the extreme cold, we usually know that we're going to be busy with calls for dead batteries and water issues," said Seybold, owner of Car Doctor.
"We've been getting calls all day with batteries, frozen water pumps and hoses, and a few people who've run into curbs," Seybold said Tuesday afternoon.
The bitter cold air that blew into Pueblo on Monday will linger at least one more day.
A wind chill warning is in effect until 8 a.m. this morning, following a second night of dangerously cold temperatures that were expected to drop to 17 below zero overnight Tuesday.
Elsewhere in the region, the overnight lows were expected to fall to minus 15 in both Alamosa and Lamar, minus 13 in La Junta and Salida, and minus 12 in Trinidad.
Partly sunny skies return today, but Pueblo's temperatures will remain extremely cold, with the high forecast to be between 5 and 11. The low overnight Wednesday is expected to dip again to 2 to 9 below zero.
Seybold said the consecutive days of intense cold tend to bring in more service calls.
"It'll be worse (today)," he said Tuesday. "When you get back-to-back days of extreme cold like this, it tends to take its toll on cars, especially if people were off and didn't drive today," he said. "But we can usually take care of the issues."
Phil Beauvais, owner of ABC Plumbing, can relate to Seybold.
"We've been busy with frozen this or that all day," Beauvais said Tuesday. "We've had calls from all around town and in Beulah of things freezing up."
Beauvais said the busiest time still could come when the temperatures warm and frozen pipes start to thaw.
"When it starts to thaw, that's when we get the broken pipe calls," he said.
Beauvais said there are some precautions homeowners should take to avoid frozen pipes when temperatures nosedive below zero, such as keeping a slow, steady drip running from faucets, keeping cupboard doors open to allow heat to keep pipes warm and to put insulating tape on pipes that are exposed or open to the outside.
Tuesday's high temperature was 5 while the overnight low Monday fell to minus-3 in Pueblo.
The arctic air will begin to move out of the region on Thursday, returning to more seasonal temperatures with a high forecast for 30. The overnight low will be between 13 to 20.
Milder weather returns Friday and Saturday with highs both days expected to be in the mid-40s and the lows in the low 20s.
The extremely cold temperatures stretched across Southern Colorado.
The San Luis Valley saw light snowfall for the most part Tuesday. Wolf Creek Ski Area reported 4 inches of new snow. About 1 inch of snow fell in Alamosa and residents braved blowing winds and very icy roads all day.
By 5 p.m. roads across the valley were listed as icy and snowpacked.
People living in the Lower Arkansas Valley also awoke to freezing temperatures and cold wind. The temperature ranged from 2 to 5 during the day.
About 2 inches of snow fell in the area.
A weather spotter in Lamar said that much of the day was overcast and breezy with freezing temperatures.
The roads were icy along U.S. 50 from Fowler to Holly.
Weather spotters also reported blowing snow.
Chad Hart, a farm service agent in the Lower Ark Valley, said ranchers usually prepare their cattle for cold weather.
"In preparation they try to get the cattle as close to their headquarters as possible. Most ranchers around here have such large herds that they don't really have an indoor facility to put them in," Hart said.
"They know what type of weather is coming and they make preparations to feed the cattle more because they usually burn a lot of energy to stay warm."
The Spanish Peaks area also was bitter cold throughout the day with light snow falling in Huerfano and Las Animas counties.
The temperature in Trinidad was about 6 below zero at 4 p.m. The wind chill index was more than 20 below zero throughout the region.
A weather spotter in Trinidad reported 2 inches of snow falling in town. The roads were icy as well.
A Trinidad City Council meeting was canceled Tuesday night.
In the Upper Arkansas River Valley, snow totals ranged from 1 to 4 inches and frigid temperatures were prevalent Tuesday.
The overnight low in Canon City was minus-2, where 3 inches of snow yielded 0.19 of an inch of moisture. Schools were on a two-hour delay in Canon City while Florence | [
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With advanced manufacturing units based in Uttarakhand, Dadra, Nagar Haveli and Odisha, Sterlite has carved its niche as one of the major OPGW cable suppliers in India. By using advanced technologies and following stringent quality control parameters, it has also achieved fame as a leading exporter of OPGW from India, and supplies 40 countries. Sterlite has been able to set up inter and intra state power transmission systems and develop electricity infrastructure, even in rough terrains and flood infested areas. For more detailed information about OPGW cables and their technical specifications, please get in touch. | [
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How to Download the Whirlpool AWG 650 Service Manual for Free
If you own a Whirlpool AWG 650 washing machine, you may need to access its service manual for troubleshooting, maintenance, or repair purposes. The service manual contains detailed information on the technical specifications, wiring diagrams, parts list, and instructions for disassembling and reassembling the appliance.
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Click on the link that says \"Click on the link for free download!\" under the preview image of the manual. You will be redirected to another page where you have to wait for a few seconds until a download button appears.
Click on the download button and save the file to your computer. You can then open it with any PDF reader program and print it if you wish.
Alternatively, you can also download another version of the service manual in PDF format from this link: https://elektrotanya.com/whirlpool_awg-650_sch.pdf/download.html [^3^]. This one has only one page but it contains a schematic diagram of the washing machine.
By following these simple steps, you can get your Whirlpool AWG 650 service manual for free and use it for your reference. However, if you are not confident or experienced in repairing your washing machine yourself, you should always contact a qualified technician or service center for assistance.
The Whirlpool AWG 650 is a front-loading washing machine that has a capacity of 5 kg and a spin speed of 1000 rpm. It has various programs and options to suit different types of fabrics and washing needs. It also has a delay start function, a child lock feature, and an energy efficiency rating of A.
Some of the common problems that may occur with the Whirlpool AWG 650 washing machine are: the machine does not start or fill with water, the machine does not drain or spin properly, the machine leaks water or detergent, the machine makes excessive noise or vibration, the machine displays an error code or stops mid-cycle, or the door does not open or close correctly. These problems may be caused by various factors such as faulty components, incorrect installation, improper use, or external influences.
Before attempting to fix any of these problems yourself, you should always consult the Whirlpool AWG 650 service manual for guidance and safety precautions. The service manual will help you to identify the cause of the problem and provide you with the necessary steps to resolve it. You may also find some useful tips and tricks to maintain your washing machine and extend its lifespan. 248dff8e21 | [
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Merryn Williams has her curiosity aroused by a tribute to the late Barry Cole – one of a number of recent Shoestring Press books celebrating undeservedly neglected poets.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features new poems by: *Tim Youngs *Kerrin P Sharpe *Richie McCaffery *Abegail Morley *Nadine Brummer *Patrick Wright *William Oxley *Tim Love *Peter Daniels *Teoti Jardine *J ‘Ash’ Gamble *Oliver Comins *Caroline Davies *David Perman *Murray Bodo *Caroline Maldonado *Brian Docherty *Jane Henderson *Wendy French *Sarah James *Ray […]
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews At the Races by Michael McCarthy and The Road to Murreigh by Paul McLoughlin. Work & Food by Peter Daniels and Mr Luczinski Makes a Move by Peter Daniels. Wounded Angels by Murray Bodo, Things to Say by John Lucas and Whistle by Martin Figura. Emergency Verse edited by Alan Morrison. | [
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LAWTON, OK (KSWO)- Lawton Police Department kicked off their annual bell ringing competition against Lawton Fire Department on Saturday. Both departments are competing to raise money for the Salvation Army.
LPD volunteers donated their time to help the organization reach its holiday goals. They also gave out free candy to kids and to those who donated.
Detective Charles Whittington said last year they were unable to hold the competition because of weather conditions, but this year their thankful for another opportunity to give to those in need.
"We do more than just patrol, then go out and make arrests," said Whittington. "It's about keeping community safe but also giving back to the community.
Whittington said they are looking to raise as much as they can to beat the Lawton Fire Department. LFD will be at the Walmart ringing the bell for the Salvation Army next week.
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I work across a range of projects at Edge, focused mainly on resource recovery, industrial ecology and the circular economy. I work with owners and operators of both small and medium sized businesses and large multinational enterprises to create innovative solutions to waste streams and establish links with other businesses in the industrial ecology network.
The most rewarding part of my job is interacting with members of the community, educating them about recycling and waste-reduction practices, and inspiring them to get involved by understanding that small behavioural changes can help catalyse large social movements.
I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from the University of San Diego in California and a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Sydney. I combine these two disciplines to help clients realise that sustainable business practices are often the most financially viable ones.
Working in sustainability allows me to focus my passion and enthusiasm for the natural world into an industry in which I feel I can make a significant contribution. Working with like-minded people dedicated to protecting the environment is one of the primary reasons I enjoy working at Edge.
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TrueLight Digital is a fine art and stock photography company, a collaborative effort between Victor Osaka and Aline LaPierre.
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