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Conservation program spending levels off but continues shift to Working Land Programs
USDA agricultural conservation programs provide technical and financial assistance to farmers who adopt and maintain practices that conserve resources or enhance environmental quality. Although USDA implements more than a dozen individual conservation programs, nearly all assistance is channeled through six: the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), Conservation Technical Assistance (CTA), Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), and the Resource Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). EQIP, CSP, and CTA are often referred to as “Working Land Programs” because they focus primarily on supporting conservation on land in agricultural production (crops or grazing). The 2014 Farm Act continued to emphasize working land conservation. Between 2012 and 2017, combined funding for Working Land Programs accounted for more than 50 percent of spending in USDA conservation programs. This emphasis reflects a long-term trend—begun under the 2002 Farm Act—that increased annual spending in Working Land Programs. In 2017 dollars (to adjust for inflation), this spending increased from roughly $1 billion under the 1996 Farm Act to more than $3 billion under the 2014 Act. This chart updates data found in the May 2014 Amber Waves feature, "2014 Farm Act Continues Most Previous Trends In Conservation."
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Allapattah, a working class, majority Latino neighborhood in Miami, is bounded by convenience—a hospital, metro stations, an art museum, highways for easy access to downtown, the beach and other points of interest—which makes it a magnet for development, pushing prices up, and residents and businesses out. Perhaps Allapattah’s most convenient feature is its relatively high elevation in a flat, low-lying, increasingly flood-prone city, making it a prime target for the climate gentrification driving development there and in other Miami neighborhoods like it.
“It’s understandable that people are going to want to move inland, but do we need to take out the locals to do that?” asks Mileyka Burgos-Flores, executive director of the Allapattah Collaborative CDC. She describes the community as the heart of little Santo Domingo, referencing the neighborhood’s Dominican influences. But in recent years, new developments have been growing in the neighborhood, with rental prices out of sync in an area where median income is below $30,000.
Allapattah is the “heart and soul” of understanding how climate gentrification is shaping up in the city, says Jesse M. Keenan, associate professor of real estate at Tulane University’s School of Architecture, who co-authored a 2018 paper that coined the term. “Allapattah is really the next battleground.”
But the Allapattah community is ready to fight back. The Allapattah Collaborative CDC, working with the coalition group Public Land for Public Good, is trying to model what they’d like to see developers do as they present ideas for a city-owned 18-acre space known as the GSA lot. The collaborative canvassed on the street, held online and in-person town halls, and conducted outreach in schools, churches and barber shops to hear what the community wants developed on the lot, says Burgos-Flores. The coalition is working with the city to make sure the feedback captured in a report is reflected in the project RFP, which has yet to be issued, she adds.
Residents of Allapattah seek to preserve the neighborhood’s businesses, afforable rents and distinct culture.
Photos courtesy Allapattah Collaborative CDC
The shadow of a development called Magic City, in the community of Little Haiti, looms over Allapattah and neighborhoods like it. The Magic City Innovation District is a multi-phase, billion-dollar mixed-use project spread across almost 18 acres in Little Haiti, another historically under-resourced community home to a large number of immigrants, Northeast of Allapattah. The Magic City development is frequently pointed to as the poster child for gentrification in Miami.
Its existence, with final approval by the Miami City Commission given in July 2021, is owed to what Keenan describes as a “fluke in the zoning code,” called a Special Area Plan (SAP), which allows for master planning of properties 9 acres or greater, enabling it to forgo zoning requirements related to features such as building height or matching a neighborhood’s existing style and color. Magic City “is beyond out of character,” says Marleine Bastien, executive director of community advocacy group Family Action Network Movement.
“Little Haiti is a dynamic, culturally inclusive and exciting place with an inspiring story,” adds Bastien, describing how Haitian refugees transformed the neighborhood beginning in the 1980s. Bastien herself came there in 1981, working as a paralegal and advocate at the Haitian Refugee Center, where she got to know the people of Little Haiti and how hard so many of them worked to secure a home.
Magic City’s residential towers will offer no low-income housing, although that was originally part of the planning discussions. Instead, the developers will provide $31 million—with the first $3-million installment delivered in March—to the city-run Little Haiti Revitalization Trust, intended to be used for community projects including affordable housing initiatives, small business assistance and parks construction.
Bastien and other groups are trying to avoid déjà vu with another proposed SAP, Sabal Palm Village, a 25.97-acre mixed-use development proposed for the neighborhood. At the planning board’s insistence, developer SPV Realty met with community groups to discuss their needs, ultimately leading to a redesigned project with shorter towers, among other concessions. Bastien says community groups continue to push for changes, especially for both on and off-site affordable housing.
“There are models where the community and the development can live side by side,” says Bastien, “it is possible. And that’s what we are advocating for: development with the people, not without them.”
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After the new DB had decided on 26.4 meters / 86 feet as a standard for passenger cars at the start of the Fifties, the German Federal Postal System quickly saw the advantages of these long cars. It therefore contracted with a design partnership under the lead of the car builder Waggonfabrik Uerdingen for the development of 26.4 meter / 86 foot railroad postal cars for express trains. In line with the level of the technology, the following requirements were made such as widening the sliding doors for container service, increasing the load weight from 20 to 25 metric tons, car bodies fitting in with the look of the DB cars, installation of a forced air heating and dust removal system, and rubber diaphragms with roll-down doors.
Out of this came railroad postal cars, which harmonized marvelously with the new DB cars. Their car bodies were built up in a welded design of steel shapes using a self-supporting shell construction, whereby the skirting formed a component part of the support construction. Their windows consisted of safety glass with a wire beading and were almost flush with the exterior wall. Particular emphasis was put on good heating and sound insulation. The interior space of the cars had a functional division in three parts consisting of a letter area, outgoing pouch area, and a package area. The equipment was done following the latest views such as baggage racks in the ceiling area, package frames, package grills, letter pigeonholes, sorting tables, folding tables, and outgoing pouch tables, pouch spreaders, letter pouch stanchions, and loading hatches. All of the outside doors were designed as wide, single-piece sliding doors of lightweight metal construction. The forced air heating and dust removal system mounted for the most part under the floor was noteworthy. Enough fluorescent lamps with a lighting intensity never achieved in the past gave good lighting at all workstations.
In line with their intended use, the railroad postal cars were set up to haul postal mailings of all kinds. All postal mailings (letters, small packages, and packages) were processed before and during the trip. Naturally, these cars were used mainly at night, since the bulk of postal mailings were handed in by senders in the afternoon and evening, and they were supposed to reach their destination the next morning. In some cases, these cars were used in special mail trains, but it was common to see them also in "D-Zug" express trains and "Eilzug" limited stop fast trains as well as other types of trains on the German Federal Railroad. The era of railroad mail did not come to an end until 1997, since the German Postal System, with a fundamental restructuring, now favored sorting in newly created, automated letter distribution centers, which were no longer close to the tracks.
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Woody biomass a winner
The 2021 Low Carbon Future Award resulted in a two-way win for Nature's Flame and Fonterra at this year's New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards.
This achievement recognised Fonterra and Nature's Flame’s collaborative venture that eliminated 84,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year, the equivalent of removing over 32,000 cars from New Zealand's roads.
Fonterra's coal-free vision for its Te Awamutu dairy plant came to fruition with the aid of a supply of sustainable wood pellets from Nature's Flame. By replacing coal with wood pellets, the Te Awamutu 43-megawatt boiler reduced Fonterra's total coal usage in New Zealand by about 10 per cent.
Previously, the boiler had run primarily on coal supplemented by gas and electricity. Fonterra spent about $11 million to convert it to run on wood pellets.
Fonterra burnt roughly 600,000 tonnes of coal a year across its dairy processing sites. The Te Awamutu conversion project was part of its goal to reduce manufacturing emissions by 30 per cent by 2030 and exit coal altogether by 2037.
"It really demonstrates that sustainability, doing what's right for the long term good, is very much at the heart of how we're working and thinking about our future," Fonterra's sustainable energy and utility manager Linda Thompson says.
Fonterra had previously spent $1.7 million to co-fire wood and coal at its Brightwater processing plant near Nelson, which now runs on 20 to 25 per cent woody biomass.
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Being in the hospital during Halloween can be a hard break for a child. Undergoing medical procedures and being sick is an unfair substitute for trick or treating. On October 11th, our partners at Samsung Electronics set out to make a hospital Halloween a little more fun. 40 Samsung volunteers, including 16 Samsung family members, partnered with enCourage Kids for their annual Samsung Day of Service with a mission of sending Halloween cheer to hospitalized children. In just over three hours, the Samsung team put together nearly 2,000 spooky-fun-filled Halloween Treat Bags complete with games, art supplies, finger puppets, and just a little candy. Through Samsung Day of Service, our hospital partners across the country will be able to share trick-or-treating with the children in their care.
Thank you Samsung for making hospitals a better place to get better this Halloween! enCourage Kids Foundation truly values the commitment of time and hard work our Samsung Day of Service volunteers gave to this project. We hope to see you all again next year.
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The population development of Vecsaikava as well as related information and services (weather, Wikipedia, Google, images).
Source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia (web).
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Window coverings are a versatile home décor element. They serve multiple purposes that include extensive heat insulation, light control, and effective protection against dust, glare, and UV exposure. These window coverings also do well in the way they enhance the aesthetic appeal of the home décor. This versatility combined with their durability is one of the main reasons why window treatment products are so popular amongst the homemakers.
Why Do You Need Waterproof or Water-Resistant Window Coverings?
While the window treatments, be it a set of shades, blinds, shutters, or any kind of fancy drapery, are good enough for most use case scenarios, some sections of the house need a more specialized solution. Outdoor sections of the house such as the patio, the porch, or the portico and the indoor sections such as the bathroom and the kitchen are often exposed to moisture and hence such places need window treatments that can withstand the moisture and not get affected by it.
Water-resistant window coverings can handle moisture well and it does not affect their durability. Other window treatments such as wooden blinds that are made from organic material do not handle moisture well as it causes them to decay and thereby decreases their lifespan. Hence knowing the specific requirements of the different sections of your house is just as important as researching the features, quality, and price of the shades and blinds you are looking at. When you consider the two aspects together in perfect synergy, only then can you make the right purchase decision.
Which Waterproof Window Treatments You Should Opt for?
Window treatments are already versatile enough with the perfect mix of aesthetic and practical features, the water-resistance capability only adds another dimension to their usability. Not all window coverings can boast of being waterproof but there are many good options at different price points to suit all kinds of budgets. Let us look at some of them in greater detail:
Faux Wood Blinds
Faux wood blinds are an affordable alternative to wooden blinds which are much costlier. A look that is very similar to real wood blinds along with similar features make these blinds a very appealing prospect for the people who like the look of real wood blinds but find them beyond their budget. Faux wood blinds match the real wood blinds in terms of looks, durability, heat insulation, light control, etc. at a fraction of the cost of real wood blinds.
The best part, however, is that the faux wood blinds unlike the real wood blinds handle moisture well and don’t get affected by them. Since the faux wood blinds are made from synthetic material such as PVC or composite wood (wood sandwiched between layers of protective synthetic coating), these blinds are waterproof. Hence, the faux wood blinds are much more durable and an ideal fit for outdoor sections as well as the kitchen and the bathroom.
Aluminum Blinds and Shades
Aluminum blinds and shades are not only an extremely affordable window covering option but are also water-resistant due to the material used. Aluminum window treatments can last you a long time if you opt for the ones built from high-quality aluminum. They provide excellent heat insulation and light control as well thanks to their ability to reflect warm sun rays and the wider vanes that help better control the amount of light you want to allow inside the room.
Roller Blinds and Shades
Roller blinds and shades are also water-resistant to some extent but that depends to a large extent on the kind of fabric used. Some roller blinds make use of water-resistant fabric and present themselves as an excellent option for covering outdoor sections of your house or as window treatments for your kitchen or the bathroom. The roller mechanism makes them super easy to operate and also gives you the option of motorizing through retro-fitting. You can easily adjust them to alter the amount of light that you allow inside or to prevent heat gain inside the house.
Shutters are probably the most resilient of all the window covering options available in the market and can easily outlast any blinds and shades installed in your house. They provide unmatched heat insulation and light control capabilities. The shutters are excellent options both as external and internal blinds as they can withstand inclement weather conditions and also handle moisture well.
While wooden shutters are also resilient enough to withstand moisture, due to the organic nature of the material the durability of the shutters can get affected. Hence, if you are planning to get shutters for your kitchen or bathroom or outdoor sections of your house, you can look at shutters made with synthetic material. This is also advisable if the area, in which your house is located, witnesses frequent rainfall. Shutters made from PVC material or composite wood are also considerably cheaper in comparison to real wood shutters.
Honeycomb shades are also a great and relatively affordable option if you are looking for a quality window treatment product that can prevent heat gain, dust, and glare and also allows greater light control. What makes the deal sweeter is their sound-proofing capability. Honeycomb shades can significantly reduce noise penetration and create a calm and peaceful environment inside the room. Some honeycomb shades make use of water-resistant fabric or material too. Hence, if that is your priority, you can pick the variants that can handle moisture well. All these features combined together make these shades a well-rounded and value-for-money option.
Are Cellular Shades Waterproof?
Cellular shades along with the honeycomb shades have a peculiar structure that facilitates the creation of air pockets in between the layers of fabric. While this structure provides some extent of natural propensity to prevent moisture penetration, most of the regular cellular shades can not be considered water-resistant window coverings. However, this depends on the material used in these shades. There are variants of these shades available in the market that make use of water-resistant fabric.
So, if you are buying shades for your kitchen or the bathroom that are constantly exposed to moisture, the cellular shades with water-resistant fabric will a good enough option. Great heat insulation, sound-proofing, and good light control features do no harm to the reputation and prospects of cellular shades as an excellent window treatment option for your house.
Most of the shades, blinds, and other window treatment options are easily customizable. So, you can always get them modified to suit your specific needs. Water-resistance, heat insulation, or anything else, whatever your requirement maybe, if you are clear about your requirements, you can surely get a solution that is perfectly suited to your needs.
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“Why should we give support to St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)?”
Sewa TT’s said it’s guiding principles is – the World is One Family. St. Vincent and the Grenadines are our Caribbean sister island and we have a duty to help family members.
“Barbados is also our Caribbean sister island and is coming under strain with ashfall and yet, is still assisting SVG in any way that they can. We are reminded of the kindness Barbados showed our citizens during this pandemic. They have demonstrated how the Caribbean family should live as one.”
“The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) has assessed and produced a list of needs for SVG. From our experience in previous local and regional disasters there are several common items that are required in every natural disaster. In assessing these disasters, post-response, we have noted that many persons send items that are not required which confuse and add an extra burden on the already strained systems of the disaster area. Sewa TT’s position is to comply with the lists of items required so that we do not add to the problem. We are in regular communication with our local Office of Disaster Preparedness (ODPM) who is advising on updates to the list.”
Sewa TT said it is committing to provide 2,000 buckets with food and medical supplies that are non-perishable and, as much as possible, produced by local suppliers.
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Arizonans Support New Copper Production for American Energy Independence and a Clean Electricity-Fueled Future
PHOENIX, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In the run-up to a vote in the US House of Representatives which will determine the fate of a copper mine in eastern Arizona, a new poll commissioned by Resolution Copper and conducted by OH Predictive Insights (OHPI) finds that support for a mine in the region – such as the Resolution Copper mining project – is high, especially among those who are aware of copper’s importance in the transition to renewable energies and electric vehicles.
This Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) was conducted from September 7 – September 12, 2021 and surveyed 1,000 general population Arizonans (18+ YO) with a margin of error of ± 3.1%. The AZPOP provides regular updates on the moods, perceptions, and opinions of Arizonans on hot topics facing the state. Organizations and individuals of all industries and political affiliations have opportunities before each survey is deployed to add customized questions to the end of the survey.
In the attempt to develop a copper mine in eastern Arizona, emphasizing the importance of copper’s role in the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles is instrumental in increasing support for the project. The survey finds that just 46% of Arizona adults have heard anything about copper’s role in the green energy debate. However, the more a person has heard about copper, the more likely they are to support the opening of an eastern Arizona mine.
Furthermore, after being informed about the degree to which renewable energy sources and electric vehicles rely on copper, 92% of adults in the state believe it is essential to develop new sources of copper – including one third of adults who consider it “extremely” important to do so.
“Considering that copper is one of Arizona’s famous Five C’s, it could be surprising to some that general awareness of copper’s capabilities and value is limited,” said Mike Noble, OHPI Chief of Research. “The good news is, once given context, Arizonans concede on the need for unearthing new sources of copper.”
Arizonans have not heard much about the role copper plays in renewable energy. Only 5% of adults in the state have heard ‘a great deal’ about the importance of the metal in this conversation, while more than half (54%) have heard nothing at all. Arizonans with a postgraduate degree (62% of whom have heard at least ‘a little’ about copper’s role), men (52%), and adults under the age of 55 (51%) have heard the most.
Awareness of the importance of copper in the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles translates to support for the copper mine. More than eight in 10 (84%) Arizona adults who had heard a great deal about copper’s role support the opening of the copper mine in eastern Arizona. However, support falls the less a person has heard about copper. Three quarters of those who had heard a moderate amount about copper also support the mine. Support is even lower among those who have only heard some (50%), a little (62%), or nothing at all (50%). When attempting to garner support for the opening of the new mine, increasing knowledge around the importance of copper is not a bad place to start.
After being informed of the amount of copper in specific renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, belief in copper’s importance shoots up. Despite only 46% of Arizona adults having heard anything about the role copper will play in the “Green” economy, once presented with facts about the degree to which solar power and electric vehicles rely on copper, 92% of adults believe it is at least slightly important that the world find new sources of copper. This 92% includes 31% of adults who consider it “extremely important” and 27% who think it is “moderately important” to do so.
“Results of this survey exemplify the tried-and-true saying ‘knowledge – or in this case, awareness – is power.’ If Resolution Copper is seeking a green light from voters for their mining project, the data shows that educating the electorate on the gravity of copper’s role in the transition to greener energy should bolster support,” said Mike Noble, OHPI Chief of Research.
The groups most likely to believe in the importance of finding new sources of copper tend to be wealthier (73% of Arizona adults with an income of at least $100k believe it is extremely/moderately important), have at least a bachelor’s degree (65% of those with who have graduated college believe it is extremely/moderately important), and have young children (63% of those with children under the age of 18 believe it is extremely/moderately important).
Methodology: These questions were commissioned by Resolution Copper and added to OH Predictive Insights’ Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP). This AZPOP was conducted as an online opt-in panel survey. The survey was completed by OH Predictive Insights from September 7th to September 12th, 2021, from an Arizona General (18+ YO) Population sample. The sample demographics were weighted to accurately reflect Arizona’s general population by gender, region, age, ethnicity, and educational attainment according to statistics from recent census data. The sample size was 1,000 completed surveys, with a MoE of ± 3.1%. This sample also contained a subset of Arizona Registered Voters. The registered voter sample demographics were weighted to accurately reflect Arizona’s registered voter population by gender, region, age, ethnicity, party affiliation, and educational attainment according to statistics from a voter file derived from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office as well as recent census data. The sample of registered voters was 882 completed surveys, with a MoE of ± 3.3%. Totals may not sum to 100%, due to rounding.
Note: The questions added to this survey were intended to gauge the relationship between Arizonans’ belief in the importance of copper in the renewable energy debate and Arizonans’ support for a copper mining project in eastern Arizona. The questions did not test opposition messaging to the mine.
The Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) is a statewide survey of Arizona residents (18+ YO), with a statistically significant sample of registered and likely voters included, that provides regular updates on the moods, perceptions, and opinions of Arizonans on hot topics facing the state. Organizations and individuals of all industries and political affiliations have opportunities before each survey is deployed to add customized questions to the end of the survey. The questions commissioned by Resolution Copper were added to the end of the survey and it cannot reasonably be assumed that previous questions in the survey had an effect on Resolution Copper’s questions, neither did Resolution Copper’s questions have an effect on the survey questions that came before it.
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About Resolution Copper: The Resolution Copper project is a proposed underground mine 60 miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, near the town of Superior. The project is a joint venture owned by Rio Tinto (55%) and BHP (45%). For more information, please call +1 520-689-9374 or visit https://resolutioncopper.com/.
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In 2018, a new wastewater treatment plant became
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At the end of 2018, 96% of all our wastewater* was
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11 sites without a treatment plant: 10 beverage
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Those sites currently lacking wastewater treatment
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We will increasingly shift from simply wastewater
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“By baptism, all Christians are called to be saints. We are all to live our life in such a way that gives glory to God. Saints are people who are in heaven after living a life of charity and goodness. The Church recognizes some saints as such, but everyone’s life goal should be to strive for holiness.
We pray with saints, not to them, much like we ask our friends to pray on our behalf when we are in trouble or need. Scripture indicates the value of asking people to pray for us. Saint Paul ended his letter to the Thessalonians with a request for prayers (2 Thessalonians 3:1-2).
We can privately honor anyone who passed away whom we feel lived a holy life. From the beginning of Christianity the still-living honored and asked for intercession from exemplary deceased Christians. With the approval of the local bishop, the community declared those religious (already honored by the people) to be saints.
That practice changed at the end of the first millennium. From then on, public honor of an individual as a saint required the official approval of the Catholic Church. This certification, called canonization, required a very in-depth and lengthy process.
. . . The Church offers us saints as role models for holiness. Saints focused on all things God-like and served others before themselves. Mother Theodore said in order to become a saint we must be very submissive to the will of God. We must want only what God wants. She also said that we are obliged to suffer and to not make others suffer. ”
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Axinella infundibuliformis is light browny yellow, creamy white or creamy yellow in colour. It is cup shaped or fan -like (lamellate) if the cup is incomplete. The funnel can grow to 10 cm in diameter. The walls have a regular thickness of 3 -4 mm and terminate with rounded and firm edges. The exhalent pores (oscules) are distributed evenly over the inner surface and are larger than the inhalent pores (ostia) on the outer surface.
Phakellia ventilabrum is similar in appearance but has thin walls and tapered, sharp edges to the cup. The composition of the internal skeleton (i.e. the spicules) are important taxonomic characteristics (see van Soest et al., 2000 for details). As with other Axinella species, Axinella infundibuliformis is likely to be extremely slow growing, long lived and does not colonize artificial reefs (K. Hiscock pers. comm.).
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Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (ed.) 1995b. Handbook of the marine fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Picton, B.E. & Morrow, C.C., 2000. Encyclopaedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland. http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/index.html, 2003-09-18
Van Soest, R.W.M., Picton, B. & Morrow, C., 2000. Sponges of the North East Atlantic. [CD-ROM] Windows version 1.0. Amsterdam: Biodiversity Center of ETI, Multimedia Interactive Software. [World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series.]
Centre for Environmental Data and Recording, 2018. Ulster Museum Marine Surveys of Northern Ireland Coastal Waters. Occurrence dataset https://www.nmni.com/CEDaR/CEDaR-Centre-for-Environmental-Data-and-Recording.aspx accessed via NBNAtlas.org on 2018-09-25.
Environmental Records Information Centre North East, 2018. ERIC NE Combined dataset to 2017. Occurrence dataset: http://www.ericnortheast.org.uk/home.html accessed via NBNAtlas.org on 2018-09-38
Manx Biological Recording Partnership, 2018. Isle of Man historical wildlife records 1990 to 1994. Occurrence dataset:https://doi.org/10.15468/aru16v accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-01.
NBN (National Biodiversity Network) Atlas. Available from: https://www.nbnatlas.org.
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System), 2022. Global map of species distribution using gridded data. Available from: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. www.iobis.org. Accessed: 2022-08-19
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Landless women farmers receive land tenancy for the first time in Pakistan
Author: Faria Salman
Durdana is a young widow from Pakistan’s Dadu District in Sindh Province. She is one of 1,214 landless women farmers and sharecroppers who have received land tenancy rights for the first time in their life.
Speaking of her new status, Durdana shares that farming is her life: “I do not know anything else but working in the fields. Who could think a poor female widow like me would be given land! For the first time in my life I can say something is mine. This land, as far as the eye can see is mine - this paper says so. This is my land and I am its queen,” she says beamingly.
UN Women Pakistan in collaboration with local partners, Baanhn Beli and Gorakh Foundation, in Mirpur Khas and Dadu Districts, respectively, is working with 1,214 vulnerable rural women farmers, like Durdana, to acquire land tenancy rights from their feudal and tribal landholders. These landless women farmers were trained and mentored to prepare tenancy agreements and landholding maps with their male landlords.
In the process, they have been provided with a viable livelihood option that could take them out of poverty and enable their upward social mobility.
Women’s access to land rights is a critical asset for Durdana and other vulnerable rural women. Before becoming tenants and without the security of tenure they were unable to make long-term plans and invest in farming, protect themselves from the impacts of natural disasters, or even enhance their standards of living. In many cases these women were coerced to leave their lands when the crop cycle was at the final harvesting stage resulting in heavy economic losses and psychological trauma for them and their families. In the absence of formal written agreements they were unable to protect their rights to reap the full benefits of their crop.
The Province of Sindh has the highest rate of landlessness in Pakistan. Whilst the Sindh Tenancy Amendment Act 2013 protects tenants and peasant farmers, its weak implementation makes women farmers vulnerable to insecure verbal tenancy arrangements.
Through these tenancy agreements, feudal and tribal male landlords leased their terrains to women farmers for an agreed period of time, giving them access to the land, a place to live, and the possibility of operating the farms as per their plans while receiving a portion of profit from the crops grown.
This initiative titled, “Livelihood restoration, protection and sustainable empowerment of vulnerable peasant communities in Sindh province”, implemented by UN Women, FAO and ILO under the UN Trust Fund for Human Security, is expected to contribute greatly in rural transformation and women’s empowerment, and can be replicated across Pakistan with guidance and support of partners, landlords and local governments.
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GM Selects LG Chem To Build Volt Batteries
By Charles J. Murray
January 13, 2009
Amidst the fanfare of a standing-room-only press conference in Detroit today, General Motors rolled out the T-shaped lithium-ion battery pack for the Chevy Volt and announced its cells will be built by Korean battery manufacturer LG Chem.
The press conference capped off a two-year wait in which the giant automaker auditioned two manufacturing teams for the role of battery supplier for the highly anticipated Chevy Volt, widely considered to be the biggest vehicle program in GM’s history.
General Motors’ embattled chairman, Rick Wagoner, told a media audience the decision to go with LG Chem instead of Massachusetts-based A123 Systems “was based on performance, production readiness, efficiency, durability and LG Chem’s demonstrated track record of exceptional quality.”
The competition for the GM battery development and manufacturing contract has been highly scrutinized in technical circles because one team (LG Chem and Compact Power, Inc.) is using a manganese-spinel chemistry for the battery’s positive electrode, while the other (A123 and Continental Automotive) employs a nano-phosphate material. Many experts said the choice of the chemistry would be critical so that the battery wouldn’t be plagued by so-called “thermal runaway,” which had reportedly been a problem for some lithium-ion batteries used in laptops and cell phones.
GM, however, said safety was only one of many reasons for the choice of LG Chem’s manganese-spinel. “Safety was definitely an important part, but ultimately it was no more of a factor than durability, cost, performance or manufacturability,” GM spokesman Rob Peterson told Design News.
The plan announced yesterday calls for GM to use battery cells from LG Chem’s plant in Korea, then build the entire battery assembly in a GM plant located in southeast Michigan. The assembly includes such items as electronic controls, heating, cooling and cabling. GM said Compact Power would initially do the integration and assembly for Volt prototypes, but added GM would take over the assembly process once its own plant is up and running.
“We’ll start preparing the factory in early 2009 and we will start loading the (manufacturing) equipment into the factory at mid-year of 2009,” Peterson said.
Engineers at Compact Power cited two technical advantages inherent in their team’s battery design. The manganese-spinel chemistry combines with battery separator technology that enhances safety, they said. Known as a Proprietary Safety Reinforced Separator, the semi-permeable membrane is coated with a ceramic material, which is said to make it mechanically and thermally superior to other separators.
Also key to the company’s technology was its use of a “stack-and-fold” configuration in a laminated package, which could provide GM with easier manufacturability. The stack-and-fold concept is used as an alternative to the well-known cylindrical design of conventional batteries.
“Stack-and-fold is easier for a large electrode manufacturer,” said Mohamed Alamgir, director of research for Compact Power, Inc. “Winding them around a mandrel would be no trivial task.”
GM representatives said yesterday its decision to go with LG Chem is part of a strategy that has been unfolding for months. “We’re really confident that we have the right plan and the right balance of technology suppliers,” Peterson said. “Right now, we don’t see any hurdles in our way for having the battery ready by 2010.”
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“Industry has long fascinated PLoS Medicine, but our focus on food is new.” In an editorial today, the editors introduce the PLoS Medicine series on Big Food that includes 8 articles publishing over the next 3 weeks, each critically examining the influence of the food industry in the health arena.
The truth is, the series was almost a year in gestation. As editors we started thinking about the food and beverage industries in early 2011 after it was revealed that the UK government rather shamelessly appointed representatives from the drinks industry to committees determining national public health policy, which led us to write an editorial admonishing medical journals (ourselves included):
If medical journals and public health advocates are concerned with corporate conflicts of interest, inappropriate marketing to children, impotent self-regulation, and general flouting of the rules, why are we ignoring the alcohol industry?
We began to think critically about our role as a journal. Any medical journal editor will tell you that “food and drink” studies get a lot of attention—they’re well read, often covered by the press, and seem to resonate with readers interested in bettering their health and bodies. We realized, though, that our “food and drink” studies tend to focus on personal behaviour as the source of health problems (over/eating, drinking) rather than on the industry behaviour that shapes our food choices and consumption.
So, a series on Big Food was born.
I was delighted when Marion Nestle, preeminent scholar on the topic of food politics whose books and blog continue to track the activities of the food industry, accepted my invitation to serve as guest editor. (There is no relation between Professor Nestle and the Nestlé company, by the way.) Bringing in David Stuckler’s expertise in sociology and the political economy complemented Marion’s nutrition expertise and together we brainstormed ideas and authors.
There was no shortage of topics to address – from the epidemiology of risky foods and the marketing and lobbying activities of the food and beverage industries to the dual crisis of overproduction and food insecurity, functional foods, food safety and environmental issues, as well as engagement tactics with industry. The list goes on and on.
An extra challenge was finding authors from around the world, especially the developing world. Disappointingly, many had already established links with food companies (including some prominent groups, which surprised me)—authors with industry ties were not permitted to write for the series per our editorial policies and the goals of the series.
In addition to perspectives from countries around the world, we are delighted to be publishing contributions from leading scholars in the area such as Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved, whose Wikipedia profile describes him as “the rock star of social justice writing” and Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, a frequent commentator on the obesity epidemic who has called the food industry “powerful, pernicious and predatory.”
It’s the great joy of being a general medical editor—I’ve learned so much from our guest editors and authors about the place of Big Food in the health arena, not least that interest and journalism around the subject are growing, and the examination of the role of the food industry is more and more a matter of global health concern. We’re happy to be part of the debate.
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Social engineering is one of the oldest tricks in the hacker book, used to target companies large and small. Psychological trickery to get employees to click on links, download infected documents or give away personal information via email is one of the top techniques still practiced by cybercriminals for fraud.
Phishing schemes are common; they’ve been used to impersonate emails from the IRS, Amazon and Netflix to convince users to make fake payments, reveal their Social Security Numbers, credit card data or passwords. The number of attacks on small business has increased compared to previous years.
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An id file is actually any sort of paper that can be utilized to verify particular elements of the exclusive identity of an individual. It is generally referred to as an id memory card or, a lot more normally, as an individual identity card. In nations that carry out certainly not have official national identification files, individuals may still call for confirmation of parts of their personal identity using other informal documents. For the most part, such verification could be obtained at the nearby degree. this post
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Aston Martin Lagonda Limited or popular known as Aston Martin is a luxury sports cars manufacturer and a marketer of grand tourers as well. This British company was founded by Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin in 1913.
Luxury grand touring cars was tied up with the company in the 1950s and the 1960s and was then followed with the use of a DB5 model by the famous movie character James Bond in Goldfinger, a film premiered in 1964.
Related Other UK Car Brand Bentley
The financial history of Aston Martin has been up and down during its operation. The company suffered bankruptcy in the 1970s, but has also seen major improvements and stability. These golden years happened when the company was owned by David Brown and during the ownership of the Ford Motor Company from 1994 to 2007.
Investors being led by David Richards bought 92% of the whole company in the amount of £479 million in March 2007, leaving Ford with only a £40 million share. By then, the chairman of Aston Martin was David Richards.
Investindustrial, an Italian private equity fund, bought a percentage of Aston Martin (37.5%) in December 2012 with an investment of £150 million. By then Dr. Ulrich Bez stood as the chief executive officer of the company and decided to leave in April 2013 to handle ambassadorship on the company.
Aston Martin Creative Model
Image source: wikimedia.org
Nissan executive Andy Palmer was then hailed as the new CEO in September 2014, while Ulrich Bez was moved as Non-Executive Chairman.
When it comes to partnerships, Aston Martin did sign a deal with Daimler AG in 2013 to be suppliers of the company coming from the new Mercedes-AMG power plants on their future generation line up. With his, Daimler AG acquired 5% of the Aston Martin. In the partnership, Mercedes-AMG will also help in the electrical system of the company.
Here is the Full List of Aston Martin Car Models and Variants:
Maximize driving performance and excitement with the Aston Martin DB9. As one of the best releases from this popular car brand, the DB9 excels not only in speed, but in overall driving performance as well.
Own the Road
The sports car appeal that the Aston Martin DB9 exudes is best exemplified with the intimidating howl produced by its engine. With the V12 engine able to top 540 HP, this is a car that will definitely rule the road.
Designed to Please
Not only will the Aston Martin DB9 please motoring purists on its design – the various infotainment features found within will also excite passengers on each and every ride. Such is the case of bringing delight, the DB9 is definitely built to create memorable driving experiences!
Aston Martin DB9 Variants
– GT A/T
– Coupe A/T
Speed will always be associated with the fast-forward and high-performance Aston Martin car brand.
And what better way is out there to celebrate its 100th year in the business than introducing a fast concept car to the public? Hence, the Aston Martin CC100 showcased the best that this company has to offer!
2013 – the Year of Speed
To commemorate its 100th year, Aston Martin created the CC100. With its signature V12 engine and ease of drive, this is a car made of the stuff of dreams! Even much so, this car proved to be a beautiful beast during the Nürburgring endurance race done that year.
With only two Aston Martin CC100s created, this is indeed the stuff of dreams! Given to lucky and very loyal customers, the legend of this car lives on with these blessed individuals.
Just before the 80’s ended, Aston Martin released the impressive and powerful Virage as a replacement for its V8 releases. And what a mark that the Virage made!
Craftsmanship with no Comparison
Aside from the power under its hood, what makes the Aston Martin such a delightful car is the intricate attention to its details – even the miniscule ones. Handcrafted by the finest and best engineers, the Aston Martin is indeed a beautiful car to gaze and be in!
Safety as a Top Priority
Additionally, Aston Martin decided to make a push towards better motoring safety in the Virage. Aptly so, as the car is entering the 90’s, the inclusion of then cutting-edge ABS system created a standard that other cars followed suit!
Conquer the road with the amazing Aston Martin Vanquish. Built to both dazzle and deliver excellent driving experiences, the Vanquish will truly leave a mark on all.
The Aston Martin Vanquish took the stage by appearing in the James Bond movie, Die Another Day. As a car that is suited for the fictional spy, one can only expect only the best when it comes to class, motoring innovations, and of course, surprises found within the vehicle!
The Best in Motoring Art and Technology
Given Aston Martin’s reputation of bringing out the best in its cars, the Vanquish is an excellent representation of the car brand’s ideals. Constantly being improved upon, with each release far excelling previous versions, the Vanquish definitely topples expectations and creates memorable road experiences.
Aston Martin Vanquish Variants
– Volante A/T
– Coupe A/T
Image source: wikimedia.org
The Aston Martin One-77 is a coupe designed and manufactured by British automaker Aston Martin. It was officially launched in 2008 at the Paris Motor Show. There are only 77 units of the One-77 in the world, the count coming from its name.
Who knew that an entry level vehicle can be so amazing? Well, when it comes to Aston Martin cars, even these types of vehicles can edge out any competition on the road. And the Aston Martin DB7 definitely proves that it has what it takes to be one wonderful ride!
Motoring Design Perfected
Aston Martin made sure to bring out the bring guns when designing the DB7. By getting some of the best car designers in the world, namely Keith Helfet and Ian Callum, the Aston Martin DB7 transformed into one beautiful work of art – again, this is an entry vehicle that can very well match up with any premium models in the market!
Creating and Setting Standards
Specifically, with the release of the Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, motoring standards have risen way past the roof. More than the unique and beautiful look of this car, the DB7 also incorporated better and more efficient motoring enhancements that definitely made other car companies push to improve their own releases.
Aston Martin has always impressed motorists of all ages. And even during its early releases, the Aston Martin DB6 proved to be a wonderful vehicle that excels in both style and performance.
A Step Towards Greatness
As an upgrade to the DB5, the grand tourer Aston Martin DB6 came equipped with several enhancements and motoring improvements that delighted those lucky enough to get behind its wheel. With improved aerodynamics as its main focus, the DB6 definitely left all other cars in the dust during the 60’s!
High Class and Style
Additionally, improved specifications on the vehicle meant that motorists can expect better and more entertaining performance out of the Aston Martin DB6. Also, with this car brand’s unique and appealing style in place, one can only need to gaze at it to admire the high style and class the DB6 exuded!
Aston Martin has always been a car company that delivers only the best in its vehicles. Looking back during the 80’s, such was the case with the exciting Aston Martin V8 Zagato.
A Reputable Drive
Even with a simple sketch or concept of the Zagato, this car has managed to garner orders during a 1986 motor show (the Geneva Motoring Show). Perhaps with Aston Martin’s reputation, and, of course, the dazzling look of the Zagato, that these pre-orders are to be expected!
Beauty and Power Combined
Way past the concept, the Aston Martin V8 Zagato definitely delivered. By delivering excellence in both aesthetic and engineering aspects, the Zagato remains to be an exciting drive that can even match up with models released today.
Luxury is perhaps synonymous with the Aston Martin brand. So it comes to no surprise that this outstanding car company can even deliver outstanding and beautiful releases for four-door saloon types, which is best represented with the Aston Martin Rapide.
Rapid Design Excellence
With Aston Martin’s unique and iconic motoring design, the Rapide is another example of how this car brand can produce classy vehicles. With its stylish look and sleek appearance, a saloon car design is further uplifted.
Rapid Power, Of Course
The Aston Martin also delivers in the motoring power department. Depending on the model, this car can produce up to 552 BHP – an outstanding feat considering that it’s a four-door car!
Image source: wikimedia.org
No one was kidding when the Aston Martin Lagonda was dubbed as “the finest of fast cars.” And the Lagonda may very well be considered as the gold standard, with its high-performance engine and eye-catching design beset with a limited production run.
In what may be a highlight in Aston Martin’s history, the Lagonda left its mark by quickly funding the then fledging car company’s reserve with its first release during the 70s. And what an impact it made – considering that race car dynamics would match perfectly with a four-door saloon type!
Aside from the impressive power, the Aston Martin Lagonda is well-known for its unique design. Unconventional as it may be, what is certain that anyone would surely stop in his or her tracks just to catch a glimpse of the Lagonda.
Limited in number and also known to be produced with a budget that far exceeds the price of the car, the Lagonda only offers what may be considered as a hallmark of excellence and class. The car, to better express the thought, is truly a gem to treasure and behold.
Perhaps the best way to know of Aston Martin’s many accolades is its definite association with the prestigious Le Mans racing circuit.
As a mainstay in the world’s oldest endurance race, Aston Martin has managed to garner several outstanding achievements in the Le Mans circuit.
Impressive V12 Engine Contribution
Perhaps the best contribution that Aston Martin has given for the Le Mans race festivities is the creation of an impressive V12 engine.
As one of the main components of Le Mans Prototype racers, drivers and fans alike can only expect the best and fastest speeds out of these prototypes.
Aston Martin Racing Achievements
Aston Martin has also won several impressive marks during Le Mans races. It’s first ever win, during the year 2005, edged out the also-impressive Corvette Racing team for the win.
Additionally, during the 2009 Le Mans season, Aston Martin garnered a winning sweep – proof that this car brand definitely means business when it comes to endurance races!
The 80’s proved to be a wonderful decade for the Aston Martin brand. And with the Aston Martin v8 released during these years, this car definitely left a lasting and remarkable mark on the motoring public.
What a Wonderful Design
Of course, Aston Martin has always been known as a brand that produces attractive rides. But in the case of the Aston Martin V8, aesthetic expectations were tore down and brought above to an even higher level.
Combining unique Aston Martin sensibilities and the best motoring style trends during those years, the V8 was such as an attractive car to behold.
Craftsmanship at its Best
Aston Martin V8s were all hand built. This means that Aston Martin prioritized quality over quantity, and the V8 definitely highlighted this aspect. As so, the V8 can even match up (or even excel over) cars today!
Other List of Aston Martin Car Models:
Aston Martin Vanquish S Variants
– Aston Martin Vanquish S Coupe
– Aston Martin Vanquish S Volante
Aston Martin Vantage Variants
– Aston Martin Vantage V8 S Coupe N430
– Aston Martin Vantage V8 S Coupe
– Aston Martin Vantage V12 S Coupe
- Aston Martin DBS Coupe (2-door Coupe – 2007-2012)
- Aston Martin DBS Volante (2-door Coupe – 2009-2012)
- Aston Martin Rapide S
- S 4-door A/T
- Aston Martin Cygnet (Hatchback – 2011-2012)
- Aston Martin V12 Zagato (Coupe – 2011-2012)
Grand Tourer Car Type
- Aston Martin DBS V12
- Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato
- Aston Martin Short Chassis Volante
- Aston Martin DB11 Coupe
Aston Martin DB11 Coupe Variants
– Aston Martin DB11 Coupe 5.2L V12
- Aston Martin Lagonda Rapide
Luxury Car Type
- Aston Martin Lagonda 3-Litre
Sports Car models
- Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports
- Aston Martin Mark II
- Aston Martin DB2/4
Other Aston Martin models
- Aston Martin 15/98
- Aston Martin First Series
- Aston Martin V12 Vanquish S
- Aston Martin 2 Litre Speed
- Aston Martin DBS
- Aston Martin Halford Special
- Aston Martin Standard Sports
- Aston Martin 12/50 Standard
- Aston Martin V8 Vantage S
- Aston Martin International Le Mans
- Aston Martin 2 litre C-Type
Video of Aston Martin Car Models
Photos of Aston Martin’s Different Types of Cars
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VILLANOVA, Pa. – The William Penn Foundation (WPF) has awarded a $565,000 grant to the Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership for the development of a watershed protection strategy for Philadelphia. The grant is part of a $35 million multi-year initiative by WPF to protect and restore critical sources of drinking water for 15 million people, many in major cities including New York (N.Y.), Philadelphia (Pa.), Camden (N.J.), and Wilmington (Del.). The total set of grants fund an unprecedented collaboration of leading conservation organizations who will align their work to protect land, restore streams, test innovative approaches in ecologically significant places, and monitor results over time.
The Villanova Urban Stormwater Partnership (VUSP), housed within the Villanova Center for the Advancement of Sustainability in Engineering (VCASE), advances the evolving field of sustainable stormwater management and fosters the development of public and private partnerships through research on innovative Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs), directed studies, technology transfer and education.
As part of this three-year grant project, Villanova University Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Andrea L. Welker, PE, PhD – who conducts her research through VUSP – will monitor the effectiveness of individual stormwater control measures (SCM) in three targeted micro-watersheds: The Pennypack Headwaters, Sandy Run and Tookany Main Stem. This monitoring will be used to inform mathematical modeling of the SCMs, which is critical to understanding the monitoring results. Dr. Welker’s research will be complemented by watershed monitoring and modeling that will be performed by Temple University in the same targeted micro-watersheds, and regional monitoring being performed by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Temple and Villanova University will be working with local watershed organizations to develop monitoring protocols and train volunteers to perform monitoring across the region.
"I'm thrilled that the VUSP was selected to be part of this truly transformative effort,” noted Welker. “The partnering of watershed groups with academic institutions is very unique. This entire initiative is a game changer for stormwater management in our region."
Combined, the array of WPF funded projects will permanently protect more than 30,000 acres with significant waterways, implement more than 40 restoration projects that will improve local water quality, pilot new incentives for landowners and businesses, provide replicable models for other locations in the watershed, and develop long-term water quality data for the watershed at an unprecedented scale.
The Delaware River watershed covers more than 13,500-square miles spanning New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. In addition to being a major source of drinking water, the watershed supports an array of water-related economic enterprises valued at $25 billion per year, as well as hemispherically significant habitat. Poorly planned development, deforestation, chemical runoff from farms, and storm water runoff in cities severely threaten the health of the watershed.
“Healthy landscapes with working farms and forests in the Delaware River watershed produce abundant food and fiber and support vibrant rural economies. They also provide clean water, clean air, and valuable wildlife habitat that benefit their own communities and urban neighbors,” said Jason Weller, Chief of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. “This partnership highlights how a cooperative approach for applying conservation activities on private and public land is essential for everyone in the watershed—whether they live in urban or rural areas.”
"EPA values collaborative initiatives like this that help organizations build greater capacity and leverage critical resources needed to tackle the next generation of water protection issues," said EPA Region 3 Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "This new initiative will support efforts led by other active partners, such as the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, in advancing science, research and restoration work to protect the entire bay and river watershed. Building healthy and resilient watersheds is essential to protecting our nation's water resources, and ensuring a sustainable future for the communities that depend on them."
"The Delaware River Watershed is a critical resource for communities in New Jersey, New York, and the entire region," said EPA Region 2 Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck. "Every day, millions of people depend upon the watershed as a source of drinking water, for agricultural uses, and for recreation. Preventing pollution from entering the Delaware River and its watershed is the single most effective strategy to ensure that the watershed is protected."
Laura Sparks, Chief Philanthropy Officer of the William Penn Foundation, explained that monitoring data will enable WPF and other foundations to make more informed, evidence-based decisions going forward. Sparks continued, “We are eager to use the data collected to inform real-time adjustments, analyze the potential of these projects across the watershed, and magnify those results to catalyze widespread action grounded in high-quality science."
As a result of the planning work, the initiative features eight “clusters” of sub-watersheds, constituting approximately 25 percent of the total Delaware River Basin across four states, where analysis has shown that investment in targeted efforts to protect or improve water quality in specific streams and rivers could deliver significant returns. Restoration and preservation efforts in these sub-watersheds not only contribute directly to the water quality in the Delaware Basin, but will also serve as incubators for cultivating a wide range of effective approaches for expanding investment across the watershed, and ultimately in other river basins across the country.
Andrew Johnson, Senior Program Officer for Watershed Protection at the William Penn Foundation, stated, “We look forward to making this work and data available to the public and hope to identify new evidence-based methods for avoiding or mitigating key stressors threatening water quality in major metropolitan areas, specifically urban storm water runoff, agricultural pollution, loss of forests in essential headwater areas, and aquifer depletion.”
About Villanova University: Since 1842, Villanova University’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition has been the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others. There are more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students in the University's five colleges – the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Villanova School of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Nursing and the Villanova University School of Law. As students grow intellectually, Villanova prepares them to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them.
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Mk XII was the first Spitfire powered by a Griffon engine to go into
service. The first of 100 Supermarine-built production aircraft started
appearing in October 1942; two RAF squadrons in total were equipped with the
XII. Mk XIIs were manufactured from Mk VC and Mk VIII airframes: early
production aircraft had the fixed tail wheels, Dunlop AH2061 pattern "five
spoke" mainwheels and small elevator balances. They had a single 85 gal main
fuel tank, giving a short range of little over 380 miles (610 km) on
internal fuel. All were fitted with the larger, pointed tip rudder. The last
45 or so Mk XIIs, were based on Mk VIIIs with two wing fuel tanks, each
containing a maximum fuel load of 14 gal, and featured the larger horn
balances, retractable tailwheel and undercarriage legs with torque-links,
"dished" leg fairings and the stronger Dunlop AH10019 four spoke wheels. The
wheels were occasionally fitted with disc-style covers. A later model IFF
was fitted, replacing the aerials from the tailplane tip to fuselage with a
rod aerial under the starboard wing. Another important feature of the
Griffon-engine Spitfires was the entirely flush-riveted finish which was
progressively introduced on all Spitfires .
See Tom Cleaverís preview of the kit for what is in the kit.
It all began with the cockpit. I opted to use the Airfix cockpit with Eduard PE based on my previous experience with building Spitfires. Iíve used aftermarket cockpits in a couple of my Spitfire models but always ended up disappointed because most of the fine resin detail wasnít visible due to the small cockpit opening while I ended up with a big headache due to trying to jam/cram a resin Ďpit into the model. Iíve learned (painfully) that the most aftermarket needed is some PE including a instrument panel, a few small details that can not be captured in plastic and a PE harness. A resin seat is another option if you so choose. I did not have any problems adding the PE detail to the cockpit.
The fine details were painted according to color photos from the internet and the instructions. Once the interior was glued in place, I added the propellor mount and not the propeller as per instructions. I didnít add the prop due to the complications masking the rest of the plane so I just glued the fuselage parts together
The rest of the kit assembled very easy following the instructions then I let it sit for a month waiting for the glue to cure so as to avoid phantom seams. I did some filling along the wing roots as well as the fuselage centerline seam. I wiped away the excess filler in the wing roots (used Vallejo plastic putty for those seams) and carefully sanded the filled (used CA glue for filler there) centerline seam smooth.
The blisters for Griffon powered Spitfires were added last. Unlike the Mk22/24 kits, these fit very well and did not require much filler except around the join.
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Spitfire Mark XIIs were painted in the RAF mid war combo of Ocean Grey, Dark Green and Medium Sea Grey pattern (all Tamiya colors.) I preshaded the model using flat black. Once the flat black was dry, I sprayed the wing leading edges white then yellow. A day later, the leading edges were masked off with Tamiya tape and then I painted the underside Medium Sea Grey, let it dry for an hour and then sprayed the topside with two to three thin coats of Ocean Grey. I used cut hard masks made from Tamiya and Painters tape for the Dark Green portion (this took longer than actually painting the plane.) I was lucky (or skilled, hey it sometimes happens) enough that I didnít have to do any touch ups. Once dry, I sprayed on a couple of coats of Future to provide a gloss coat for the decals.
The prop hub was painted Tamiya Sky while the prop blades were painted flat black. When it was dry, the tips were masked off then painted flat white and chrome yellow. The wheel hubs and landing gear were sprayed with Tamiya TS-30 Old Silver while the tires were painted using RLM-66.
I opted to use the 91 Squadron markings. The decals were good and conformed well to the model with after using some MicroSet and a little bit of SolvaSet.
The weathering was kept to a minimum using only a thin watercolor wash around the panel lines. The excess was removed using wetted Q-tips. I sprayed on two thin coats of Xtracrylix Satin Coat for the final coat.
The landing gear subassemblies were glued together and then once dry, glued to the plane. Next the various antennas were glued in place.
I opted not to use the one piece open canopy. Tom Cleaver is correct that it does not look right. However, I ended up losing the rear clear piece and just put the sliding canopy in position. It looks fine until you look at it close up.
The Airfix Spitfire Mk XII is a pretty good kit for the price. It provides enough detail to build a decent looking Spitfire without needing much aftermarket and is an easy build. I am leaving the quibbling about accuracy to those who know way more than myself. It looks like a Spit Mk XII to me and thatís what Iím going with. Count me as a fan of what the ďnewĒ Airfix has done.
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As we come to spiritual maturity, we grow in appreciation of our talents and blessings. We realize that we are not entitled to them. We have not earned them. They are gifts from God.
One danger is that we might take things for granted. We can easily perceive that ‘what we grew up with’ is the norm. Americans who lived through the Great Depression seem to me to be most appreciative of other people and thankful for their support.They are also very careful about conserving and maintaining material possessions. Those of us who grew up in more affluent times seem more likely to take people or possessions for granted.
There is a danger that after awhile we start to take our friends for granted.
My friend Kevin had the contrary attitude. He used to say that ‘It’s all gift.’
Such radical gratitude makes for a positive life. I find that when I focus on gratitude I am much more positive-- and not so dissatisfied with others and with myself. We would do well to count our blessings every day.
Christians live their lives with gratitude.
- For the Wonders of Creation—The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins praises God for the uniqueness of each living thing. The creation in all its particulars is a great gift.
- For the fact that Christ suffered and died for us while we were still sinners. At the Eucharist we give thanks for this gift and the many other blessings we have received.
- For Friendships—Friends are given to us by God. They are a treasure.
My friend Kevin reminded me—through his life and writing—that even suffering is a ‘gift’. He wrote about his ‘gift of cancer’. I must say that I, and other of his friends, had trouble with seeing cancer as a ‘gift.’ But his perception challenged all our presuppositions.
Friends do this. They share their deepest spiritual perceptions with us. They challenge our preconceptions. They force us to go deeper.
John W. Crossin, OSFS
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Avnet’s Spartan-6 FPGA motor control FMC module is used with the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX75T FPGA substrate, has a low pin count, can be plugged directly into Avnet or Xilinx FMC platforms, can drive stepper motors, brushed DC motors (BDC), Brushless DC Motor (BLDC) and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM), integrated with TI’s motor driver and Delta-Sigma ADC for high-precision detection, mainly used in industrial automation, consumer electronics, medical diagnostics and Robot. This article describes the main features, block diagram, circuit diagram and bill of materials of the motor control module.
High demands are being placed on motors used for industrial automation, consumer electronics, medical diagnostics and robotics. Xilinx FPGAs deliver the performance and integration required to execute complex motor control algorithms, increased efficiency, integration and custom safety features, often outside of the capabilities of traditional MCUs.
As a companion to the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX75T FPGA base board, Avnet’s Motor Control FMC Module features the Low Pin Count (LPC) form factor, enabling attachment to any Avnet or Xilinx FMC-enabled platform. Each Avnet Motor Control FMC can drive one Stepper, two Brushed DC (BDC), two Brushless DC (BLDC) or two Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM).
The Avnet Spartan®-6 FPGA Motor Control Development Kit is an ideal platform for designers seeking to experiment with proven reference designs and develop custom control integrated with flexible peripheral functions like Ethernet, PowerLink and PCI Express. The Motor FMC module implements Texas Instruments integrated motor drivers and high precision Delta-Sigma modulators for voltage and current sense. Designers also have the option to use the Xilinx XADC integrated 12-bit data converter available in new 7 Series devices for the ultimate integrated design. A prototyping area for experimenting with alternate front end circuitry is also provided. Stepper, Brushed DC (BDC), Brushless DC (BLDC), and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) can be driven by the FMC module, under control of the Spartan-6 LX75T FPGA on the baseboard. The included reference designs provide great demonstrations and starting points for your own design.
Figure 1. Outline drawing of the motor control module
Main features of the motor control module:
Low Pin Count (LPC) form factor
Plugs into any Avnet or Xilinx FMC-enabled platform
Drive Stepper, Brushed DC (BDC), Brushless DC (BLDC) and Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM)
Spin two motors (12-24V) simultaneously under FPGA control
Texas Instruments Integrated Motor Drivers
Texas Instruments Delta-Sigma ADCs for high precision sensing
Xilinx XADC header enables low-cost 7 Series FPGA integration
Hall Sensor/Encoder and GPIO ports
User prototyping area
Powered from FPGA baseboard or external source
Includes 1 Portescap BLDC and 1 Stepper motor
Figure 2. Block Diagram of Motor Control Module
Figure 3. Motor control module circuit diagram (1)
Figure 4. Motor control module circuit diagram (2)
Figure 5. Motor control module circuit diagram (3)
Figure 6. Motor control module circuit diagram (4)
Figure 7. Motor control module circuit diagram (5)
Figure 8. Motor control module circuit diagram (6)
Figure 9. Motor control module circuit diagram (7)
Figure 10. Motor control module circuit diagram (8)
Figure 11. Motor control module circuit diagram (9)
Motor Control Module Bill of Materials (BOM):
For details, see:
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ReForm of Garden Ikoma-city, Japanese Landscape Development, Design, Images, Nara Architecture
ReForm of Garden in Nara
New Japanese Landscaping in Nara: Ikoma-city Architecture – design by SPACESPACE, architects
29 Dec 2016
ReForm of Garden in Ikoma-city, Nara
Location: Ikoma-city, Nara, Japan
A typical suburban residential area
The site of ReForm of Garden is situated at a residential area in Ikoma-city, Nara. The climate here is a little colder in winter compared to the inner-city of Osaka. But it shares a border with Osaka and the residents can commute in only 30 minutes, so it functions as a bedroom suburb of both Osaka and Nara.
This area is a typical suburban residential area of Japan and designed to satisfy the orthodox practices of city planning. The inner road and the building distance are wide enough and each house has the southern garden.
When one looks carefully at the local built environment, each house constructed by a major house maker has a different design, but the whole town was developed in a short period of time, therefore a homogeneous cityscape covers the area.
Additionally, these houses are built with LGS (lightgauge steel) components developed uniquely to lower their construction costs. But this isolated methods includes the peculiar application for building confirmation, so it doesn’t have the flexibility to change its exterior volume and the position of columns.
ReForm of Garden
A young married couple selected one of these houses in this area, and required us the full-scale renovation including to change the exterior appearance of the house.
More than half of the southern garden was used as a parking lot with an illegal carport, and the remaining of it fell into ruin at first.
Then, the architects stacked the garden and the parking lot at the same planar position by laying a concrete plane which is the roughly same size as living space, and lifting up the part of it to use its downside as the parking lot. The terraced overlap part comes up to 2nd floor level, and makes vertical relationship with the existing house.
Additionally, this concrete plane is linked to kitchen and living through each independent passageway, steel outdoor furniture is put on, and used as outdoor living on sunny days. Some passageway is made along other adjacent sites. They form the communication with neighbors as well as the plane. The first floor is composed of some small rooms was converted to a big ‘oneroom’. Some revealed LGS columns were ‘furniturized’ by attaching some functions (shelf, hanger, light, clock and measure). Some windows were also furniturized as benches and tables.
Appearance of the house
The appearance of the house is not only its exterior shape. Many exterior elements appearing to outside of the site (fence, entrance gate, storage, carport, post, plants and so on) and the whole of them are consistent in appearance.
For instance, a high wall of high class residential area gives expression to the distrust of the residents who live there. These elements have many important messages to the city. SPACESPACE attempted to change the appearance of the house and the interior movement by designing some small elements. The appearance of the house will express the intention of residents requiring the trust and communication to their neigbors.
ReForm of Garden in Nara: Building Information
Location: Ikoma-city, Nara, Japan
Principal use: residence
Site area: 211.58 sqm
Building area: 83.14sqm
Total floor area: 124.39 sqm
Number of stories: +2
ReForm of Garden in Nara images / information from SPACESPACE
Location: Ikoma-city, Nara, Japan, East Asia
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Radio is a vibrant medium for public discussion in Uganda. Talk shows and phone-ins hosted by community radio stations are popular ways for Ugandans to voice their needs, concerns and opinions—particularly in rural areas. Analysis of radio content, therefore, presents an opportunity to take the pulse of populations excluded by the digital divide. In 2014 there were 216 registered FM radio stations across the country, broadcasting on 299 different transmitters (source: Uganda Communications Commission). Pulse Lab Kampala worked on a toolkit that makes public radio broadcasts machine-readable through the use of speech recognition technology and translation tools that transform radio content into text.
This project seeks to support the Government of Uganda and development partners in incorporating the voices of Ugandan citizens into the development process. Better understanding of public opinion will support bridging the gap between policy and implementation of development programmes. The project has been initiated by Pulse Lab Kampala in partnership with Makerere and Stellenbosch (South Africa) Universities, with the support of the Embassy of Sweden in Uganda, and seeks to expand the scope of sentiment analysis in Uganda to rural areas developing a toolkit to track public conversations from radio. In Phase I of the project, recordings of public radio content were converted into text automatically from Kampala (English and Luganda) and Gulu areas (Acholi and English).
In Phase II of the project, Pulse Lab Kampala in collaboration with UN agencies, NGOs and the Government of Uganda, is conducting a series of pilot case studies to assess the potential of the tool to inform on issues of relevance for the SDGs. This will be done by expanding the geographical coverage of broadcast analysis to new locations. A fully automated system will be developed to cut the time of the data flow from the radio broadcast to the dashboard to 1 day (from the time it is recorded to the time it appears in the dashboard developed as part of the tool).
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If you need to update your Outgoing Server (SMTP) settings at any point after you have set up your email account on your iPhone, this is how you access the Outgoing Server settings, and these are the settings you need to set them to, for you Jub Jub hosted email account to work (for LINUX hosted clients).
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Working in the fireplace industry there are certain facts about fireplaces we tend to see as so obvious, that they don’t need to be explained. Every so often someone asks an unexpected question, which of course makes us wonder how many other people are unsure about the same thing. Recently one of our customers asked what a fireplace hearth is for, and we decided to share the answer in case anybody else is wondering.
Most people just think of a fireplace hearth as the slab of stone which lies at the base of the fireplace below the grate, stove or fire. In fact there are usually two parts to a fireplace hearth – the decorative slab visible at the base of the fireplace, and a thick concrete sub-hearth below which lies flush with the floor. Together they provide a heat shield to prevent the heat from the fire from spreading to nearby joists which could catch fire if not protected. The decorative hearth has additional fire prevention functions – by creating a raised area near the fire it subtly deters people from placing flammable materials too close to the fireplace, and it provides a non-combustible surface around the fire in case any burning embers spill out.
The traditional combination of sub-hearth and decorative hearth harks back to the days when open fires were the norm, but is still important for modern combustion appliances such as gas fires and solid fuel stoves. UK Building Regulations set out strict requirements for hearths for combustion appliances in Document J. It is vital to confirm that your hearth is suitable for any new stove or fire you are thinking of having installed, and this is one of the points a professional will check when visiting your home to do a fireplace or fire installation survey.
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Bust sculpture touches us because it brings us face to face with people from the past and preserves the features, expression, clothes and jewelry of a time now gone. We can see the bust of Abraham Lincoln, the face of beauties from history, and the true likeness of heroes who have been immortalized in stone or metal.
The bust statues are responsible for this and have even had an effect on our currency with heads on coins. Sculptures provide an ethnographic record of our history and never cease to engage us because of human interest.
Some of the oldest known bust sculptures are of Egyptians and they are found on tombs, but bronze sculptures have been found in the tombs of Chinese emperors, in Pompeii and around Mesopotamia.
Early sculptures were made from clay and stone, but the discovery of the ability to smelt metal led to bronze becoming a popular medium. The Industrial revolution enabled foundries to spring up all over the place and people desired to have their likeness cast in metal.
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Israeli Agricultural Innovation
In honor of Tu Bishvat this week, we are highlighting some of the most incredible contributions that Israelis have made to agriculture. The Jewish people have historically been very innovative and have contributed much to all areas of science & technology. But the people of Israel have had to solve particularly difficult problems in an area where natural resources are extremely limited at best. Yet, the most difficult problems often yield the most creative and effective solutions! Here are some of the most incredible agricultural solutions Israelis have come up with in recent years:
- Bio-Bee – this company has invented ways to naturally control pests that destroy crops! They are best known for producing the Phytoseiulus persimilis, which is the most effective natural predator of the red spider mite. When released into fields or greenhouses, the predator seeks out and destroys the crops’ enemy, allowing the crops to flourish without any pesticides.
- Drip Irrigation – this is a “water miracle”! Drip irrigation consists of tiny holes in rubber tubing that is laid near the plants’ roots, or underground right at the roots. The holes release small, regular amounts of water, thereby saving TONS of water used in traditional irrigation methods. By placing the water directly in the root zone, barely any water is lost to evaporation. Amazing!
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- Aquaculture – Fish farming in the desert! Israelis have found ways to raise fish in large pools in the desert by pumping large quantities of salt water found underground in the desert. This not only provides food for many in the desert regions, but also jobs!
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|Madhya-līlā||Chapter 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī|
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Madhya 19.168
anya-vāñchā, anya-pūjā chāḍi' 'jñāna', 'karma'
ānukūlye sarvendriye kṛṣṇānuśīlana
anya-vāñchā — other desires; anya-pūjā — other types of worship; chāḍi' — giving up; jñāna — material knowledge; karma — material activities; ānukūlye — favorably; sarva-indriye — with all the senses; kṛṣṇa-anuśīlana — cultivation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
"A pure devotee must not cherish any desire other than to serve Kṛṣṇa. He should not offer worship to the demigods or to mundane personalities. He should not cultivate artificial knowledge, which is devoid of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he should not engage himself in anything other than Kṛṣṇa conscious activities. One must engage all one's purified senses in the service of the Lord. This is the favorable execution of Kṛṣṇa conscious activities.
Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
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1099 vs. W-2 Employee: What Is The Difference?
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Whether a 1099 vs. W-2 employee is better for your business will depend on what you need done now and in the future, as well as what you can offer the employee. A 1099 worker is an independent contractor whom you pay for a specific task, while a W-2 employee is a person who receives a regular wage or salary for performing a role in your company. This article explains what is the difference between these two employee types and how to determine which one fits your business needs.
1099 vs. W-2 employee: What is the difference?
When you’re looking for employees for your small business, it’s important to understand what the difference is between 1099 and W-2 employees and determine how each could help your business. The terms “1099 worker” and “W-2 employee” refer to the respective IRS tax form employers are required to send.
Keep in mind that whatever you decide doesn’t have to be set in stone. You can change — or use a combination of both — to suit your business needs as they evolve.
What is a 1099 worker?
A 1099 worker is a self-employed individual who’s reimbursed based on the task(s) they complete. This type of employee can typically hit the ground running to accomplish a goal and is often less expensive to hire: Businesses can save around 30% by not needing to pay the taxes that they would for W-2 employees.
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- Contractors who find work for a fixed period of time, such as a travel nurse.
- Consultants who are experts and are typically paid handsomely to give specialized advice, like lobbying consultants.
What is a W-2 employee?
A W-2 employee is directly on your company’s payroll and earns either an annual salary or an hourly wage. They are typically more expensive to hire for several reasons: Business must manage employee tax withholdings and pay state-mandated insurances, and W-2 employees may be eligible to receive benefits and job training. In exchange, companies have more control regarding when they work, how they work and the tasks they complete. Businesses usually want W-2 employees who perform well to remain with them for as long as possible.
A W-2 employee can work part-time or full-time. Here are three examples:
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- Salaried accountants at a business firm.
- Teachers at a public high school.
1099 vs. W-2: How to decide?
The answer to 1099 vs. W-2 employees depends on your current and future business needs. Here are some aspects that you should consider as a business owner when thinking about your hiring needs:
- Amount of work: How much work do you need done? Do you need someone to complete a few hours of work a week for the next three months? Or do you need someone to take on at least 20 hours a week for the foreseeable future?
- Talent availability and type of work: Do you need someone with specialized, hard-to-find knowledge right now? Do you have a longer time frame that will allow you to train someone?
- Turnover impact: How much will it affect your business if the person in this role changed frequently? Will the person be key to the company’s mission?
- Compensation abilities: Is your business able to sustainably support W-2 workers? Can it offer a large enough compensation package – either a healthy per-task rate or a salary, benefits and bonuses – to attract good talent? Wages went up in 2022.
1099 vs. W-2 employee: Compare and contrast
Here’s an overview of how 1099 vs. W-2 employees differ.
|1099 worker||W-2 employee|
|Best for||Specialized tasks||Committed help|
|Tax withholdings||The worker is in charge of their own tax withholdings||You are obligated to manage tax withholdings, including Social Security and Medicare|
|Tax forms||You provide a 1099 form||You provide a W-2 form|
|Payment||Pay is typically based on each task accomplished||Pay is typically hourly or salary|
|Insurance||The employee is in charge of sourcing all of their own insurances||You provide workers’ compensation insurance and unemployment insurance|
|Benefits||The employer isn’t expected to offer any benefits beyond pay||The employer may be expected to offer vacation and sick days, a pension, health insurance and more|
Examples of when a 1099 worker is best
A 1099 worker is typically less expensive than a W-2 employee and ready to immediately accomplish a task without any extra training. However, they can usually pick and choose what work they accept — as such, they may not always be available to take on the work you need done.
A 1099 worker is best when your business:
- Needs flexibility, extra hands on demand
- Doesn’t consistently have enough work for another person to take on
- Needs an inexpensive way to boost productivity
- Needs specialized expertise for a short time
Examples of when a W-2 employee is best
While W-2 employees are more expensive and typically expect fringe benefits, they also provide consistent benefits for the employer. They are obligated to take on tasks that fit their job description within their normal work hours.
A W-2 employee is best when your business:
- Needs committed help to handle the workload
- Needs a person to work at specific times
- Can sustainably support another person’s compensation package
IRS test to determine 1099 vs. W-2 employee status
The IRS provides basic guidelines to help delineate employee classification.
- Behavioral: How much control does the company have over what the worker does and how they do it?
- Financial: Who provides the resources for the worker (such as tools and supplies)? Does the employer determine how the worker is paid? Does the employer determine reimbursements?
- Type of relationship: What does the employment contract look like? How long will the relationship last? How essential are the workers’ tasks? Does the employer offer benefits?
Penalties for misclassification
To help protect workers from employers who would take advantage of the lower cost of a 1099 worker while demanding the same benefits of a W-2 employee, several government entities — such as the IRS, the Department of Labor and state agencies — can issue heavy penalties for misclassification.
Claims can go back as far as three years and are more severe when it’s proven that the business intentionally or fraudulently misclassified workers.
Possible penalties include:
- Back taxes and back wages
- Fines for improper bookkeeping
- Back payments on unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation premiums
- Payments for missed employee benefits, including 401(k) pension matching, stock options, paid time off, unpaid break time and health coverage
- Interest on all owed monies
There is a third type of worker classification available to businesses: interns and students. The Fair Labor Standards Act does not require that interns or students be compensated for their work. You can read more about unpaid interns from this Department of Labor page. If your business can provide educational training, including hands-on and clinical work, an intern or student may be an option outside of the normal 1099 vs. W-2 employee.
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With the growth of restaurants and food plazas, Asian food is very popular among many people, both local residents and foreign tourists. Asians are very particular with their food and Asian cooking is very unique in style and techniques. Asian cuisine evolved from a series of changes all the time and is well defined by the background of cultural and ethnicity of the people. To order the best-rated Asian food in Spokane go via https://thaibamboorestaurant.com/menu/.
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I’m actually an adult. I realize that not everyone on your site is–but really, it’s where us old fogies hang out. As such, I don’t need a parent, or a teacher, or a human resources manager to monitor things for me.
See, it’s totally creepy when you started asking if every post was hate speech. My nephew’s fly away Count Olaf style hair, for instance, is hilarious, but not hate speech.
And this article by Braden Bell, about how we should be nicer to each other on the internet, is really not hate speech. And kind of ironic that you would ask.
See, I get that you’re a private company. And as an HR person, I also get that even adults love to run and tattle on each other. But your human resources manager isn’t the playground monitor and Facebook shouldn’t be either. It’s super creepy and kind of flies in the face of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony that he wasn’t trying to censor people.
And while we’re at it, what is hate speech? Is it speech that is mean? What about a speech about a sincerely held belief that someone disagrees with? Heck, I once made a joke about vegans that resulted in a full on attack from a long time acquaintance who had gone vegan a couple of years ago. I’m sure he would have marked my joke as hate speech. Instead, he blocked me.
Whenever I write about Megyn Kelly my email inbox fills up with death threats from both sides of the aisle. I laugh about them, because really?
If someone says something so awful that I don’t want to see it again, you have already given me the tools to get it out of my feed.
I understand this is an experiment. It’s a bad one. It’s going to get political very, very fast. People can gather their friends to go mark their political opponents’ posts as hate speech. Teach the algorithm that certain ideas are hateful.
The way to fight horrible ideas is with more speech. Not by running to Big Brother. While you can certainly do what you want, I suggest that if you want to keep people on your website, you’ll let this hate speech experiment fail.
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Disability rights activists have criticised an assisted suicide bill currently being debated in Delaware, saying it fails to protect people with intellectual disabilities.
The bill, which was introduced into the Delaware General Assembly last month, would allow assisted suicide for terminally ill patients over the age of 18. Controversially, an amendment to the bill states that patients with an intellectual disability can receive assisted suicide provided they are deemed competent by a social worker.
Not Dead Yet President Diane Coleman described the proposed amendment as a “misdirect”:
The Delaware bill, and the Oregon law on which it is based, do nothing to prevent or discover coercion, nor even to define it. The attending physician need not know the person well...The witnesses to the lethal drug request form need not know the person at all, but can simply check their ID. Yet these are the people who “certify” that there is “no coercion.”Bioethicist Wesley Smith was similarly critical:
These are people who can’t legally enter contracts!...They can’t make their own medical decisions!...Yet, if they have a terminal illness, they are going to be able to commit assisted suicide if a social worker–who may be ideologically predisposed in favor–confirms that they “understand” that they are receiving a poison prescription?On January 19, the amendment to the bill was passed and was attached to the legislation. The legislation now awaits consideration in the House.
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China warns Glastonbury organizers after Dalai Lama's invite.
July 2, 2015 As usual, attendees at the Glastonbury festival this year enjoyed an incredible lineup of artistes from various generations. However, one guest who many might have been very surprised to see would have been the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan spiritual leader made an early morning appearance in front of a large crowd at the Festival on Sunday, the 28th of June.
The Dalai Lama showed up to The Peace Garden, close by the Festival’s Stone Circle area, holding a T-shirt for this year’s event. He showed how good a sport he was by throwing the shirt over his head and walking about with it on him.
He also had a few words for the assembled guests “So, so my friend asked me to come to this great festival – a festival of people, not necessarily a festival of government or politicians. This is I think, truly, a festival of people,”
The Dalai Lama also shared some thoughts on education saying “We must look at education field as I mentioned earlier from kindergarten level up to university level some education about warm-heartedness. A sense of care. Then, generations who come to that kind of education could be a more warm-hearted generation.”
All the warm and fuzzies aside, the trip was not entirely without dispute, as China had earlier warned organizers of the Glastonbury festival about their decision to invite the Dalai Lama to the event. Their reason was that inviting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to visit one of Europe‘s largest music festivals was parallel to giving him a platform to engage in activities against China. Beijing had denounced the Dalai Lama as a dangerous separatist who wants an independent Tibet, but the leader denies this, saying he only wants genuine autonomy for his Himalayan homeland.
The Dalai Lama then fled into exile in India in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule. There were peace talks between some Nobel peace laureates and China about the situation but that seems to have halted in the face of changing governments and a crackdown on Tibet.
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|The Vale of York Hoard is a 10th-century Viking hoard of 617 silver coins and 65 other items. It was found in 2007 near the town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is the largest Viking hoard discovered in Britain since 1840.|
The items were hidden in a gilt silver vessel lined with gold which is thought to be an ecclesiastical vessel from France. The vessel was buried in a lead chest. A rare gold arm ring and hacksilver were also found.
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The hoard was purchased jointly by York Museums Trust, and the British Museum
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Tzu Huan Lin is a practising artist working primarily with moving image media, including short video, feature film, and animation. His work connects disparate stories to address subjects he experiences in the digital era. It draws upon a wide variety of sources, including mythology, historical events, science theory, pseudo-documentary, and abstract narrative works. Narrative play is central to his video work, acting as a guide through his work.
For the residency, Tzu Huan will work/research on a project about immigrants and utopia. “Into the Blue: Point Nemo”, which explores the retirement journey of human-made satellites, reflecting on stories of immigration and displacement. He will be designing a utopia workshop/game and invite the public to participate and gathering stories from immigrants. Through the stories and historical events, he will create a fiction story that fusing with reality and dreams. The stories will outline the ambiguities of translation, the vanishing of utopian dreams, and the ambiguous feeling of what is home for immigrants.
* When the satellite is getting retired, they will be sent to this place of the sea called spacecraft cemetery where it is the farthest place in the world to human beings. The place is called “Point Nemo” which means no one. In Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, he depicted Capitan Nemo, a mysterious antihero figure who drove Nautilus to travel underwater alone. In 2008 NASA retired their satellite “Jules Verne” to this “Point Nemo”. The temperature of the water is between 2~4 Celsius which for a satellite might just feel like home.
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June 11, 2019
Closing on a new home can be one of your most memorable life moments. It’s the final and one of the most critical stages in the home-buying journey, but with the exchange of key paperwork and a sizable down payment, it can also be a stressful experience, especially for first-time homebuyers.
The FBI has reported that scammers are increasingly taking advantage of homebuyers during the closing process. Through a sophisticated phishing scam, they attempt to divert your closing costs and down payment into a fraudulent account by confirming or suggesting last-minute changes to your wiring instructions. In fact, reports of these attempts have risen 1,100 percent between 2015 and 2017, and in 2017 alone, there was an estimated loss of nearly $1 billion in real estate transaction costs.
While it’s easy to think you may not fall for this kind of scam, these schemes are complex and often appear as legitimate conversations with your real estate or settlement agent. The ultimate cost to victims could be the loss of their life savings.
Here’s what you should know and how to avoid it happening to you.
How it works
Scammers are increasingly targeting real estate professionals, seeking to compromise their email in order to monitor email correspondences with clients and identify upcoming real estate transactions. During the closing process, scammers send spoofed emails to homebuyers – posing as the real estate agent, settlement agent, legal representative or another trusted individual – with false instructions for wiring closing funds.
How to avoid a mortgage phishing scam
- Identify two trusted individuals to confirm the closing process and payment instructions. Ahead of your mortgage closing, discuss in person, or by phone, the closing process and money transfer protocols with these trusted individuals (realtor, settlement agent, etc.). Be cautious about exchanging any details about your closing over email. You may want to use this opportunity to also create a code phrase, known only by these trusted parties, if you need a secure way to confirm their identities in the future.
- Write down their names and contact information.
- Before wiring money, always confirm instructions with your trusted representatives. Never follow instructions contained in an email. Verify the closing instructions, including the account name and number, with your trusted representatives either in person or by using the phone number you previously agreed to.
- Avoid using phone numbers or links in an email. Again, scammers can closely replicate the email address, phone number and format of an exchange from your agents. Avoid clicking on any links or downloading attachments without first confirming with your trusted representatives.
- Do NOT email financial information. Email is never a secure way to send financial information.
- Be mindful of phone conversations. It may be difficult to identify whether a phone call is fraudulent or legitimate. Scammers may call and ask you to verify your personal or financial information. When in doubt, always refer back to your trusted professionals to confirm whether it’s legitimate.
What to do if it happens to you
- Contact your bank or wire-transfer company immediately. Ask for a wire recall. Reporting the error as soon as possible can increase the likelihood that you’ll be able to recover your money.
- File a complaint with the FBI. Contact the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.
While it can be easy to think you’ll never fall for a scam of this nature, the reality is that it’s becoming more and more common, and the results can be disastrous for eager homeowners. By being mindful and taking a few important steps ahead of your closing, you can protect yourself and your loved ones.
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An auto de fé was the ritual of public penance of condemned heretics and apostates that took place when the Spanish Inquisition or the Portuguese Inquisition had decided their punishment (that is, after the trial). Auto de fé in medieval Spanish (and in Portuguese) means "act of faith". The phrase is used most frequently in English in its alternative Portuguese form auto-da-fé. In the popular imagination, "auto-da-fé" has come to refer to burning at the stake for heresy. -- Wikipedia.
"Here's more of them! They're everywhere! They're everywhere!" How can we escape?!? They've got shackles inside! No, really, Mark Koernke told me personally!"
If I get another one of these Mark Koernke-inspired paranoid fantasy email warnings I'm going to puke. Look people, go here to the March 2000 issue of Popular Mechanics, read the article "Auto-Max Railcar Gets More Vehicles To Dealers: The Auto-Max railcar is changing the way cars are shipped," by Edward Hellwig.
Here is an Auto-Max being loaded.
Here is a closer view.
See any shackles designed for humans?
C'mon, people, quit believing such easily debunked disinformation. It only makes our side, assuming people who push such lies ARE on our side, look like demonstrable morons, fruitcakes and nutburgers. The really funny thing is that this rumor (complete with photos) got started by the left loonies during the Bush administration and folks who claim to be on our side (and other racist collectivist idiots like Hal Turner) picked it up. Let no imaginary piece of horsecrap go to waste, I guess.
Anyway, if the trains start running in this country, you'll know it when it happens and they won't need any special cars to do it. Just be ready to fight back when they do.
The Dr. Demento of "patriot" disinformation.
Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk?? Well...
You left me anyhow and then the days got worse and worse and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed when I had said that losing you would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed and then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa, from Dr. Demento's Delights Warner Bros. 1975.
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‘फलानि ग्रहचारेण सूचयन्ति मनीषिणः।
को वक्ता तारतम्यस्य तमेकं वेधसं विना॥’
‘ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्धेशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति।
भ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारूढानि मायया॥’
God at the heart of beings all resolves them on this cosmic ball.
Rajasthan is well known far and wide for the scholarship and learning of Jyotish from the ancient time itself. In the same way the department of Jyotish is one of the richest centres of traditional learning from its old glories & it was established in 1998. With its emphasis on all round development of the students, the department's aim is not only to bring out the best traditional scholars of Jyotish but also to produce teachers to different universities, kendriya vidyalayas, govt. schools & other educational institutions. Department has qualified and experienced faculties with research background. It has a well developed infrastructure facilities to impart traditional knowledge of jyotish with quality in education. Along with the basic knowledge of various traditional and modern subjects in depth knowledge of the related subjects is also imparted to the students.
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|2.||Dr. Shubshmita Mishra||Professor||19 Years|
|3.||Prof. Shyamdeo Mishra||Professor||16 Years||8527186109|
|4.||Dr. Vishnu Kumar Nirmal||Associate Professor||12 Years|
|5.||Dr. Vijendra Kumar||Assistant Professor||12 Years||9785236530|
|6.||Prof.Bhojraj Sharma||Guest Teacher||30 Years|
|7.||Dr.Subhashchandra Mishra||ContractualTeacher||09 Years||9968296707|
|8.||Dr. Neeraj Trivedi||ContractualTeacher||09 Years||9680745904|
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In the free world of Android can any Bluetooth module be used for communication. In the closed world of Apple it does require the Bluetooth module further IC for authorization. The Bluetooth module PAN1321i already includes the IC and can therefore be used to communicate with a device under Apple OS, and even Android. Those who will not use Apple OS do need the Bluetooth module PAN1321 only (no “i” at the end).
The blocking of external accessories for Bluetooth is active only in the world of Apple. All other operating systems such as for example BADA, Symbian, Windows or even RIM do not need this IC for authorization. The Bluetooth modules PAN1321 and PAN1321i and are pin compatible. A certification of the device should be best done in parallel with both modules. This will save costs. If the numbers in mass production will end to sky-rocket, a redesign at the chip level (Intel PMB8753/2) will help to reduce the costs again.
Bluetooth module PAN1321i at a glance
- General: 2.0 EDR – SPP
- Size [mm]: 15.6 x 8.7 x 2.8
- Used ICs: PMB8753/2
- Status: Mass Production
- Rx Sensitivity [dBm]: -86 @ BER 10-3
- Tx Power (max.):Â +4 dBm
- Operating temperature: -40 to +70(85) °C
- Power Supply: 2.7 to 3.6 V
- Current consumption: 80 µA (sleep) 40 mA (Tx,EDR)
- Frequency Range: 2.4 GHz
- Number of GPIOs: 15
- Interfaces: GPIO, UART, JTAG
- Data Rate: (max. air) 3 MBit/s (brutto), 190 kBit/s (netto)
Anyone who is unsure to use the Bluetooth module PAN1321i or better to prefer the PAN1321 is welcome to send an email or give a call. In the consultation we will determine if SPP profile or may be HCI is more suitable. The hassle issue of the antenna and the range can also be addressed by the way. The antenna can be run on demand a ceramic monopole, a chip antenna (loop) or just a PCB track. Also, the antenna outside of the housing is a possible option. Thanks in advance for any request to harald.naumann (at) gsm-modem.de.
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Momentum grows for what began as an adult Sunday school class focus
July 29, 2021
What started off as an initiative of the adult Sunday school class at First Presbyterian Church in Morgantown, West Virginia, has grown to a wider community-based effort now called Dismantling Racism Together.
During a recent session, a group of about 30 people, including several from the church, heard from someone who dismantles racism as part of his work — J. Spenser Darden, director of Diversity Initiatives and Community Engagement at West Virginia University.
“Disruptors are seen as negative,” Darden said early on in their online session together. “But by not disrupting, you’re serving as the problem.”
Power and privileged are framed through social norms, and Darden had this example: Most of us were taught to keep our elbows off the table while dining. Why? When the group’s only answer was, “Because Mom said so,” Darden said he’d looked it up. The real reason goes back to the early days of furniture-making in England, which produced dinner tables far ricketier than the sturdy tables built today. “People were knocking tables over just by putting their elbows on them,” he said. Mom’s admonition became a social norm, which he said are “unexamined, unplanned” rules “that we learn and then perpetuate. We don’t think about who sets the norms, who benefits and what happens when we don’t follow them.”
Governments, churches, educational institutions and others “teach us how to act and how to respond, which in turn become social norms,” Darden said. Some norms are justifications, such as thinking that I have worked hard and deserve everything I have. “Few people would say they didn’t work hard and had things handed to them,” he said. “But there are certain things whiteness gives access to,” including voting and land ownership. “My being a man,” he said, “is one of my most salient privileges.”
“Privilege doesn’t mean it wasn’t hard,” he added, “but it’s only held by certain identities, and the categories can be fluid,” such as wealth or religion.
Oppression is both overt — such as the Ku Klux Klan — or covert, “so subtle it’s not readily obvious, even to the intended target,” he said. Consider the Color Run, a religious and cultural holiday that began in India as a response to that nation’s strict caste system.
When celebrating the Color Run made its way to the United States, “we decided we would run a 5K, charge people $35 and donate it to charity,” he said. “It devalues the culture.”
While acts of overt oppression are becoming increasingly illegal, covert oppression, including what Darden called “the myth of meritocracy” and the ideas of American exceptionalism and America as a melting pot, remain. “But I’m a good person. People like me,” we might say, according to Darden. “You can be a good person who has done racist, sexist and ableist things.”
After briefly tracing the history of enslaved people and indentured servants in the American Colonies —including Bacon’s Rebellion, which occurred in Virginia in 1675-76 — Darden noted that recognized status began shifting in England and later in the Colonies from being Christian to being white, “a category of mattering in society,” Darden said. “Whiteness is the people that society recognizes as society.”
Eventually, just about everything — including housing, health care, religion, education, capitalism, music, wealth, the legal system, policing and employment among them — “are all watered with racist ideas,” he said. “We have to repent and nurture in a new way.”
“It’s difficult and time-consuming work, and it’s frankly unpopular,” Darden said. “But it’s important work.”
Mike Ferguson, Editor, Presbyterian News Service
Today’s Focus: Dismantling racism
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Let us pray
Guide, nurture and sustain, O God, all those whom you call into your ministry and service. May they, in whatever calling of yours they follow, find in you the direction to lead your people faithfully in and to your will and purpose for their individual and communal lives. Amen.
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Eukaryotic cells require adequate oxygen (O2) for natural activity and survival. additional aging-related illnesses. The pathophysiological outcomes and medical manifestations of prenatal RKI-1447 hypoxia and OSA-induced persistent intermittent hypoxia are talked about at length. gene13,15. Three HIF-1 isoforms have already been determined (HIF-1, HIF-2, HIF-3), that are produced by substitute splicing. Among the three isoforms, isoform 1 continues to be researched and characterized, both and functionally16 structurally. The dysregulation and overexpression of induced by hereditary alternations and hypoxia have already been implicated in a genuine amount of pathophysiologies, including cancer17 and ischemia. HIF-1 contains a simple helix-loop-helix site, two specific PAS (PER-ARNT-SIM) domains, a nuclear localization sign theme, two (carboxy-terminal and amino-terminal) transactivating domains RKI-1447 (CTAD and NTAD, respectively), and an inhibitory domain that represses the transcriptional activities of NTAD18 and CTAD. As opposed to HIF-1, which can be upregulated under hypoxia, HIF-1 constitutively is expressed. HIF-1 responds to systemic air levels by getting together with hypoxia reactive elements (HRE) situated in the promoter or enhancer parts of hypoxia-responsive genes to induce transcription19C24. HIF-1 induces the transcription RKI-1447 greater than 100 genes25,26 involved with various biological processes, such as angiogenesis, erythropoiesis, anaerobic glycolytic metabolism, pH regulation, cell proliferation and survival, inflammation and immunity, and cancer metastasis (Table?1). HIF-1 induces the expression of several pro-angiogenic factors, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which promotes the formation of new blood vessels and oxygen delivery to hypoxic regions17,24,27,28. In addition, HIF-1 increases oxygen transport by enhancing erythropoiesis through the upregulation of erythropoietin (EPO). HIF-1 also stimulates the uptake and anaerobic glycolysis of glucose by increasing the expression of glucose transporters, such as GLUT1 and GLUT3, and several glycolytic enzymes, including hexokinases. HIF-1 activation increases the conversion of pyruvate to lactate by upregulating pyruvate lactate and kinase dehydrogenase. HIF-1 promotes lactic acidity efflux by monocarboxylate transporter as well as the transformation of CO2 to carbonic acidity (H2CO3) by carbonic anhydrase to counteract intracellular acidosis. Furthermore, HIF-1 impacts cell success and proliferation by modulating the appearance of C-MYC, insulin-like growth factor 2 and various other the different parts of the cell death and cycle pathways. HIF-1 also induces irritation and immunity by upregulating tumor necrosis KIAA1516 aspect (TNF) and tumor metastasis by upregulating fibronectin 1. The features of HIF-1 itself and HIF-1 focus on genes have already been successfully analyzed using siRNA knockdown-based validation29. Desk 1 Consultant HIF-1 focus on gene items gene is certainly portrayed at low amounts under normoxic circumstances constitutively, it really is significantly upregulated in response to hypoxia30C35 often. The transcriptional modulators of HIF-1 appearance include transcription elements, such as for example nuclear aspect kappa B (NFB) and sign transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), and coactivators, such as for example p300/CREB binding proteins (CBP)36,37. The appearance from the gene can also be upregulated by reactive air types (ROS) through the redox-sensitive transcription aspect, NF-B38. Vanillin offers anti-cancer and anti-metastatic activities and inhibits STAT3-mediated HIF-1 mRNA expression in individual malignant melanoma cells39. Likewise, YC-1, 3-(5-hydroxymethy-2-furyl)-1-benzylindazole, features being a potential anticancer medication targeting HIF-140, by inhibiting NFB-mediated and STAT3-mediated transcription from the gene presumably. Although general proteins translation lowers during hypoxia, HIF-1 is still translated. This event continues to be confirmed by many research using translation and proteasomal inhibitors, and reporter RKI-1447 assays using the 5 UTR of gene. Nevertheless, the precise mechanism where is translated during hypoxia remains unclear selectively. One postulated system includes the inner ribosome-entry-site (IRES) component inside the 5 UTR from the HIF-1 mRNA41. The IRES component forms particular supplementary or tertiary buildings, enabling ribosome binding in the absence of the eIF4F cap-binding complex. RNA-binding proteins, such as polypyrimidine tract-binding protein (PTB) and HuR, also bind the 3 UTR and 5 UTR of the HIF-1 mRNA, respectively, promoting HIF-1 translation42..
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Millions of words have been written and uttered in television broadcasts about Benjamin Netanyahu; entire biographies have been produced and documentary films have been made about the life and rule of the Israeli premier. Not a single one of these oeuvres has described the conduct of the prime minister and his court as transparently as the draft indictment sent to him by Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit on Thursday.
Reading this document, which one could dub a documentary-like novella, removes the wraps of officiality, statesmanship and security that have been enveloping the symbols of the Israeli rule. The document presents Netanyahu as he really carries himself behind the closed doors of his bureau and official residence on Balfour Street: A greedy miser who is moved by an unstoppable lust for power.
After reading Mendelblit's document, it seems that the country's textbooks on political sciences and civic life should be rewritten. It appears that there is a double rule in Israel. On stage, we see players like the Knesset, the government, the political parties and media outlets, but the real authority is behind the scenes.
It is there where those with true power act: Wealthy people can walk into the prime minister's office whenever they like and steer media coverage to fit their interests; clerics defined as public servants act as the big boss' servants; big wigs connect between the money and the power. And everything is covered by false statements and deceiving tricks.
- Netanyahu to Be Charged With Bribery Pending Hearing
- 'Left-wing Pressure Succeeded': Netanyahu Cries Foul Over Indictment
- Gantz Calls on Netanyahu to Resign Following Bribery Charge
The conclusion that arises from Mendelblit's draft indictment against the prime minister is simple: Netanyahu survived as premier for longer than the others because he tried harder than they did to tie all the loose ends and control every single detail. He is not willing to let any inhibition or legal constraint get in the way of his goal.
He rewrites every statement to the media, edits television interviews and pens headlines about himself and his family. No detail is too small for him, and at the same time, the rules on conflict of interest and proper conduct are deemed by the prime minister an inconsequential nuisance, a punishment for suckers. Those who bother him are unseated or neutralized.
Like his double rule — the one that is visible to the eye and the one that goes on behind closed doors — Netanyahu, too, has two acts. On the one hand, he presents himself as the ideologue who was elected to establish a "strong right-wing government" that won't give up the West Bank, the close friend of world leaders who promises Israel safety and prosperity. But on the other hand there is a political bully who sees anyone who jeopardizes him as a messenger of the "dangerous left" that is plotting to turn the flourishing Israel into a military cemetery.
Tonight, prosecutors Liat Ben Ari and Shai Nitzan got a taste of this approach when they were marked as "left" by the prime minister only because they recommended that indictments be filed against Netanyahu for bribery. Mendelblit, who softened this recommendation, was presented by the premier as a weakling and a victim of the "left," and it's not so hard to guess why: Now the case is at the hands of the attorney general, who could soften it even further before it reaches a hearing in court. Therefore, Mendelblit can't be turned into the enemy — he can only be duly insulted.
The draft indictment shows that it's all an act, that even those who were presented by Netanyahu as dangerous enemies like Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes can actually be recurring partners in political deals, that the real election campaign has been going on in backchannels and that there is no significance to things like principles or an agenda.
What really matters is for Netanyahu to remain the ruler, like he promised tonight. To accomplish that he will slander and destroy any national institution or value. Netanyahu will be toppled eventually and replaced with a different prime minister, but even after he is gone, it would be very hard to convince the Israeli public that the government ought to act transparently and not in dirty and deceptive ways. This is Netanyahu's true legacy, which Mendelblit partially unveiled with his indictment draft tonight.
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Once you have your radio set up and on the correct channel, you are ready to transmit.
Each time you transmit you should:
– say the station you are calling (up to three times depending on the situation),
– say “This is” followed by your vessel’s name
– Say “Over” if you want a response OR “Out” if you do not.
The station you call should follow the same rules.
LEARN: Before the course, make sure you know the basic structure of a radio conversation and the way the words are used.
A conversation on the radio might go like this (what you say is in RED and the response is in BLUE):
Po, Po, Po [up to 3 times]
This is Dipsy, Dipsy, Dipsy [up to 3 times]
Dipsy [now just say the vessel’s name once]
This is Po
Po, this is Dipsy
We are two miles southeast of Mousehole – what is your position?
Dipsy, this is Po
We are just outside Mousehole Harbour
Po, this is Dipsy
Fine, have a beer waiting
Dipsy, This is Po Out
Using Channel 16
If you do not know which channel another boat is on, it is often correct to assume they are listening to channel 16 (there is no guarantee).
In this case you would call the vessel on Channel 16 and if they respond you move quickly to another channel where you continue your conversation.
Your conversation on channel 16 might start like this (what you say is inRED and the response is in BLUE):
Tinky Winky, Tinky Winky,
This is Lala
This is Tinky Winky
T his is Lala
Going Channel 06
You both change to channel 06 and Lala transmits first.
What if I don’t get a reply?
If you call a boat on channel 16 and you don’t get a responce you should not simply keep calling. You should:
– wait 2 minute then call again;
– then wait another 2 minutes then call again;
– then finally call after 3 minutes before giving up.
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Marijuana Legalization Backers Adopt Controversial Mascot
The group behind the proposed state constutitional amendment to legalize marijuana on the ballot this fall has a controversial new mascot. Ohio Public Radio’s Jo Ingles reports.
The new ResponsibleOhio mascot is named Buddie, and he looks like a cross between Oscar the Grouch and Popeye the Sailor man – a green bushy head, meant to resemble a “bud” of pot, atop a bodybuilder’s physique. The muscular creature is travelling around the state on Responsible Ohio’s “Green Rush” RV to college campuses. And some opponents of the proposed plan, like Nick Lashutka with the Children’s Hospital Association of Ohio, don’t like it.
“It appears to be nothing but a blatant attempt to market marijuana to children and adolescents. And that’s extremely disappointing and frankly, shocking, “ Lashutka says.
But Ian James with ResponsibleOhio says the only people marketing to children right now are the drug dealers his group would like to put out of business. He says Buddie is taking a message to young adult voters.
“Buddie is a gender neutral mascot that is not a he nor a she. Buddie is a fictitious character that has a “21 and Up Club”. Buddie works on the college campuses to reach the millennial voters and talks to them, helps them with voter registration, both by mail, social media. It’s all geared to the folks who are 21 and up,” James says.
But will this mascot convince college students, a traditionally difficult demographic to motivate, to vote for this issue? James says he thinks it is wrong to count them out.
“People said the same thing in 1983 when we had a vote on increasing the drinking age to 21. That issue went down 58 to 42. We are working with the college aged students and we are also working beyond that but we are working on college campuses to make sure they see the relevance in this,” James says.
Lashutka doesn’t buy that explanation.
“I have a family member that is recently out of college and a “millennial” and last time I checked, he doesn’t watch cartoons or follow superhero action figures. I, however, have four elementary school aged children and that’s exactly what they watch and follow, “ Lashutka says.
For now, Buddie is following the campaign trail to Ohio’s college campuses, riding in ResponsibleOhio’s bright green mobile home with marijuana plants painted on the side of it, urging Ohioans to catch the green rush and vote for the issue.
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Scott Sloop 12.07.2019 in 21:28 . — (Image Credit: NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons) I am an American man and I am married to a beautiful, smart, hilarious and all-around awesome German woman. The last major air leak on the station was discovered two years ago and sparked a rare public war of words between Nasa and Roscosmos. Education and early career.
You just added another guy to my long list of crushes.
He’s a German astronaut with the European Space Agency (ESA), and in 2014, he spent six months aboard the International Space Station for ESA’s Blue Dot mission.
Rocky was definitely my favorite part ️. I bet he doesn’t even need a rocket ship; a couple flaps of those gigantic Dumbo ears would send him straight into deep space. The last major air leak on the station was discovered two years ago and sparked a rare public war of words between Nasa and Roscosmos. He said the hole was made by a drill, either while the capsule was on Earth or in space, by someone with a "wavering hand". Do you have a story for The Sun Online Tech & Science team?
Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, , Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter, Nasa is struggling to find the source of an air leak aboard the International Space Station, The ISS's three crew members (inset) have pinpointed the leak to the Zvezda workstation within the Russian segment (left) of the station, US astronaut Chris Cassidy is one of the station's three current crew members, A hole in the hull of a Russian spacecraft docked to the ISS was found in August 2018, NASA probes ‘first crime in space’ after astronaut ‘accesses estranged wife’s bank account from International Space Station’, speaking to Russia's official Tass news agency, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), The International Space Station, often abbreviated to ISS, is a large space craft that orbits Earth and houses astronauts who go up there to complete scientific missions, Many countries worked together to build it and they work together to use it, It is made up of many pieces, which astronauts had to send up individually on rockets and put together from 1998 to 2000, Ever since the year 2000, people have lived on the ISS, Nasa uses the station to learn about living and working in space, It is approximately 250 miles above Earth and orbits around the planet just like a satellite, Living inside the ISS is said to be like living inside a big house with five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a gym, lots of science labs and a big bay window for viewing Earth. In 2010 Alexander graduated with a Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hamburg, Germany.
He’s a hunk alright..ears and all! His research goal was to determine the mechanics and the energy released during the first seconds of a volcanic eruption. That’s the look of someone getting a hummer in outer space. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive new posts by email every Monday morning! ), His Instagram account (alexander_gerst1), Facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/ESAAlexGerst/) and Twitter account (@Astro_Alex) are simply amazing; they showcase some of the most incredible photographs ever taken from the ISS. A formal Russian investigation concluded in September 2019 but the results are top-secret, with even Nasa boss Jim Bridenstine expressing frustration at being kept out of the loop.
Photo credit: NASA. The station's crew scanned the US and Russian segments of the station with ultrasonic leak detectors as part of urgent efforts to identify the source of the problem. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.
He especially enjoys outdoor activities such as skydiving, mountainbiking, snowboarding, hiking, mountaineering, climbing and scuba diving. In September 2011, Alexander was assigned to fly to the International Space Station on a six-month mission serving as a flight engineer on Expeditions 40 and 41. The results were published in Science Magazine. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Gerst? JSC2014-E-045105 (15 May 2014) --- With his crewmate, NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman (right) looking on, Expedition 40/41 Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) kisses his wife goodbye at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia May 15 as they depart for their launch site at the Baikonur … "Ground analysis of the modules tested overnight have isolated the leak location to the main work area of the Zvezda Service Module.
I’m gay though and he’s fucking dreamy PLUS I just watched him join Kraftwerk live during a performance of Spacelab.
A formal Russian investigation concluded in September 2019 but the results are top-secret, with even Nasa boss Jim Bridenstine expressing frustration at being kept out of the loop.
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Antonio Villaraigosa on Energy & Oil
GREEN LA: reach Kyoto targets and use renewables
In 2007, the City adopted GREEN LA: An Action Plan to Lead the Nation in Fighting Global Warming and we have already hit a major milestone by meeting the Kyoto targets for reducing greenhouse gases, four years ahead of schedule.
GREEN LA goes further by setting the goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 35% below 1990 levels by 2030; increasing the City's use of renewable energy to 40% by 2020 and over 50 more initiatives that will reduce the City's carbon footprint.
Source: City of Los Angeles Mayoral website, "Environment"
, Dec 12, 2011
More energy efficiency to spur green economy in LA
The LA Commercial Building Performance Partnership will help owners of commercial properties make their buildings more energy and water efficient. Building owners can access free energy assessments, as well as competitive financing rates to cover up to
100% of the cost of their energy upgrades. With commercial buildings accounting for 57% of energy consumption, LA has a large built-in market for retrofits. LA is leading the way in promoting environmental stewardship that also benefits our local economy
Source: 2011 L.A. Mayoral press release #015724
, Oct 14, 2011
Solar power good for environment AND businesses
The Walter J Towers project represents how investing in solar is good for the environment, and good for a business' bottom line. We are providing incentives for more innovative and forward-thinking companies to invest in
LA's most abundant natural resource and in the process build a local 21st century green workforce.
This announcement is another step in Los Angeles' efforts to become an environmentally-friendly, green city.
Source: 2011 L.A. Mayoral press release #015449
, Aug 26, 2011
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Antonio Villaraigosa (D,Los Angeles)
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Most of us hear the word judgment and think only of dire and problematic circumstances and a gloomy end. While it is true the Bible portrays a coming day of final judgment, when all will give an account of every thing done in the body, the biblical emphasis more nuanced and developed than this aspect alone. A careful study of the Scripture reveals that judgment comes now to bring about repentance and hope.
The major premise seems to be clear: One year passes to the next and one century into another. Great leaders and nations come and go. Only a few things stand the test of time. God's truth alone remains and will never pass away. When God speaks his word is sealed in heaven and remains alive.
The minor premise follows from the first: There are clear patterns in the Holy Scripture which reveal how God speaks and works in this age of grace. Sometimes he gives messages of warning. Sometimes he sends messages of hope. With his powerful and anointed Word come seasons, epochs of special activity, divine patterns, that all fulfill his sure Word.
If you do not listen to his warnings, and heed them, then you will face a season of judgment. For those persons who do heed his warnings, as well as for those churches and nations who do listen and obey, the Holy Spirit gives new beginnings. These are best seen as "resurrections" rooted in genuine hope.
God's judgment is primarily remedial in this present age since his purpose is to bring the gospel to all people and nations and thereby redeem an innumerable company of people so vast that we cannot number them. His grace is greater than all our sin. (This does not mean he will universally save all people in the end but it does mean he is the one who is "seeking and saving the lost" all over the planet and that the number is immense!)
History has crossroads moments. Judgment always begins in such moments when the people of God are judged first. "For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God" (1 Peter 4:17)?
I believe we are at a crossroads in the West, especially in America. This has little to do with elections and political cycle. Whether we have had Republicans or Democrats, evangelicals or non-evangelicals, in leadership it has made little or no real difference. It is time that we recognized this was the truth. It is so easy for us to become captive to the ideology of the left and/or the right. Both have something to contribute, if we pause and listen carefully to the central concerns in the messages. But the real issue is not our ideology or how such ideology will rescue us.
The real issue is this—God confront his people (first) with their sin in order to bring about hope and joy. His judgment is generally "remedial" and intended to awaken us from our slumber before it is too late.
Throughout my nearly 60 years of life I have heard Christians talk about "the end." Yet we are still here and America is still around. And though we are in a bad economic cycle we have been here before too. It could get much, much worse but the end result will not likely be the worst we dread.
At a crossroads God confronts his people with their sin. We have grieved him deeply by embracing the idols of our age: consumerism, pleasure and entertainment, financial security as an end in itself, etc.
When God judges he withdraws his blessings (cf. Ezekiel 34:26) and the "rains of his righteousness" are withheld (Hosea 10:12). We find ourselves in "waterless pits" (Zechariah 9:11). I believe this describes the scene I find in almost every church I see today. Some are better than others, and many outwardly prosper, but all are in some way touched by the judgment of God.
But remember, this judgment is meant for our good. It is meant to correct us because God still loves us. The "God of hope" (Romans 15:13) is still the God of the covenant. He keeps calling to us to pray, to seek him, to repent, to turn from our idols and unbelief. He desires our complete trust and nothing less.
The summons God is giving to his people in America seems obvious to me: Seek me for hope. I will renew you, restore you, revitalize you and reform you. Our "waterless pits" can become "pools of living water" as the refreshing rains of God's Spirit return to pour mercy and blessing upon us again (Hosea 6:1-3).
God is the God of promises. His promises speak of new beginnings, seasons of renewal and times of grace and blessing. Thus messages of judgment are always filled with words of hope. God remains, forever, the God of mercy and hope. Nothing is too hard for the Lord. What we need is a growing corporate hope for the mercy and blessing of God, not a new man-made effort to build a movement or create a new political course. This is not a Pietism that avoids the world. Every reader of this blog site knows I care deeply about many cultural and political issues and seek to think deeply about them. But in the end our real hope is in the Lord our God. And in the present time of judgment there is hope just over the horizon if God's people—all of them (Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox)—seek him and pray for his mercy.
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Adzuki Beans Red Mung Beans
Organic Adzuki Beans
What are they?
Wholesome and pure, dried Adzuki Beans have a strong, nutty-sweet flavor. Commonly used to make red bean paste. A staple of the macrobiotic diet, where they're referred to as the most "˜yang' or warming of beans.
What are the nutritional benefits?
Adzuki beans are a great source of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. They're packed with protein and fiber as well as manganese, potassium, magnesium, zinc, iron, and more.
What will I love about them?
They are very versatile! You can use them to make sweet dishes such as brownies and they also make a tasty addition to savory dishes such as soups and salads. Use them to make curries, veggie burgers, hummus, and more.
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Spring Equinox was Monday, and just in time we are officially starting asparagus season. We had a bit of a false start this year, but it’s here now for real, and should continue through April and well into May.
In temperate areas all over the world, asparagus is the first vegetable up out of the ground. That’s because unlike most other spring vegetables, it’s a perennial. So no matter whether it’s been a cold snowy winter or a long wet one, the roots are going to wake up when the soil starts to warm. And the spears will begin to push out of the ground.
Generally speaking, one asparagus plant (or crown, as they are called) will produce one or maybe two shoots per day. It takes anywhere from one to five days for each spear to reach its full size — they grow more slowly when its cold and more quickly when it’s warm. And temperatures below 32 will destroy any spears that are above ground, knocking back the harvest by a week or longer.
Asparagus is a textbook case of why it’s hard to mechanize vegetable harvest. Pickers must accurately identify the correct sized spears, and carefully harvest them without damaging the smaller spears around them. There are very few ways to speed up harvest — it takes a mile of walking to pick a hundred pounds of spears.
California used to produce a huge amount of asparagus, especially in the Delta region, and ship it all over the U.S. But labor costs and availability along with warmer weather south of the border have given Mexico and other Latin American countries an advantage. Very little asparagus is still grown in California, and most of that is consumed locally. And even then, it has been a struggle for growers to match the price of imported product.
Over the years, we have grown asparagus solely for our CSA subscribers. It also provides extra income for our employees during a time of year in which can be pretty lean. However, we have struggled with soil-born disease that kills the roots. Most recently we have been sourcing asparagus for our boxes from our neighbors Jim and Deborah Durst in next door Esparto.
We planted a new asparagus field in 2015 at a new location, but it is still young and so most of the crop in your boxes this year will come once again from the Dursts. If all goes well with that field, it should come into full production next year.
For many people, asparagus has become a vegetable that is available year-round from some distant land. But eating local asparagus is still a legitimate and time-honored way of celebrating the arrival of Spring, and we hope that you will enjoy the quality difference of freshly harvested, locally and seasonally grown spears.
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Much has been said lately about jokes that “haven’t aged well.” Sometimes it has do to with shifting public sensibilities, and sometimes with a gag’s exaggeration having been surpassed by the facts of life. As a Twitter user named Max Saltman posted not long ago, “I love finding New Yorker cartoons so dated that the joke is lost entirely and the cartoons become just descriptions of people doing normal things.” The examples included a partygoer admitting that “I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve downloaded it from the internet,” and a teacher admonishing her students to “keep your eyes on your own screen.”
All of those New Yorker cartoons appear to date from the nineteen-nineties. Even more prescient yet much older is the Daily Mirror cartoon at the top of the post, drawn by artist W. K. Haselden at some point between 1919 and 1923. It envisions a time “when we all have pocket telephones,” liable to ring at the most inconvenient times: “when running for a train,” “when your hands are full,” “at a concert,” even “when you are being married.” Such a comic strip could never, as they say, be published today — not because of its potential to offend modern sensitivities, but because of its sheer mundanity.
For here in the twenty-twenties, we all, indeed, have pocket telephones. Not only that, we’ve grown so accustomed to them that Haselden’s cartoon feels reminiscent of the turn of the millennium, when the novelty and prestige of cellphones (to say nothing of their gratingly simple ringtones) made them feel more intrusive in day-to-day-life. Now, increasingly, cellphones are day-to-day life. Far from the literal “pocket telephones” envisioned a century ago, they’ve worked their way into nearly every aspect of human existence, including those Haselden could never have considered.
Yet this wasn’t the first time anyone had imagined such a thing. “Rumors of a ‘pocket phone’ had been ringing around the world since 1906,” writes Laughing Squid’s Lori Dorn. “A man named Charles E. Alden claimed to have created a device that could easily fit inside a vest pocket and used a ‘wireless battery.'” In the event, it would take nearly eight decades for the first cellphone to arrive on the market, and three more on top of that for them to become indispensable in the West. Now the “pocket telephone” has become the defining device of our era all over the world, though the social norms around its use do remain a work in progress.
via Laughing Squid
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall, on Facebook, or on Instagram.
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Do not travel to Cuba due to COVID-19. Exercise increased caution in Cuba due to demonstrable and sometimes debilitating injuries to members of our diplomatic community resulting in the drawdown of embassy staff.
Read the Department of State’s COVID-19 page before you plan any international travel.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a Level 3 Travel Health Notice for Cuba due to COVID-19.
Travelers to Cuba may experience border closures, airport closures, travel prohibitions, stay at home orders, business closures, and other emergency conditions within Cuba due to COVID-19. Visit the Embassy’s COVID-19 page for more information on COVID-19 in Cuba.
Numerous U.S. Embassy Havana employees suffered demonstrable and sometimes debilitating injuries during their service in Havana. Affected individuals have exhibited a range of physical symptoms including ear complaints and hearing loss, dizziness, headaches, fatigue, cognitive issues, visual problems, and difficulty sleeping. We continue to investigate how the health of our diplomats and their family members was severely and permanently damaged.
These symptoms occurred in U.S. diplomatic residences (including a long-term apartment at the Atlantic) and at Hotel Nacional and Hotel Capri in Havana.
The U.S. Embassy in Havana is operating with reduced staffing. Family members cannot accompany U.S. government employees who work in Cuba.
Read the country information page.
If you decide to travel to Cuba:
Last Update: Reissued with updates to COVID-19 information.
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Andrew M. Smith
Andrew M. Smith
Andrew M. Smith II is an Associate Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and History in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at the George Washington University. Smith specializes in the history and archaeology of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Near East. His research focuses on processes of community formation and urbanism in the Roman and Byzantine Near East, with an emphasis on Arab communities. His most recent book, Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation (Smith 2014), examines the “making” of Palmyrenes and the development of Palmyra (Syria), into a classical Mediterranean city.
Prof. Smith also has a long-term interest in Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine Petra (Jordan), where his research interests target social and economic activity in rural settings as well as the integration of cities with their hinterlands. Prof. Smith has worked in Jordan since 1993 and has been involved with and directed numerous archaeological surveys and excavations. Currently, he directs the Bir Madhkur Project and the Bir Madhkur Incense Route Project in southern Jordan, in the hinterland of Petra. In addition to supporting his research interests, both of these projects focus on the challenge of preserving Petra’s regional, cultural heritage through community engagement. In support of his work, Prof. Smith has received funding from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University, the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain, National Geographical Society, the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Explorers Club, the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan, Dumbarton Oaks, USAID, and GW.
Prof. Smith has previously served the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) as Co-Chair as well as an elected member of the Annual Meetings and Program Committee, the Finance Committee, and he currently serves on the Committee on Archaeology Policy. He has also served the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) as Co-Chair of the Near Eastern Archaeology Interest Group as well as Co-Chair for the local Washington, D.C., AIA Society; he is currently a member of the Near Eastern Archaeology Interest Group of the national AIA as well as a member of GW’s Capitol Archaeological Institute.
Prof. Smith teaches a range of courses at GW that attract students from across the various schools and programs at the university. In addition to a Roman History survey that he teaches each Spring, Prof. Smith alternates each Fall and teaches either Warfare and Diplomacy in the Ancient World, the Ancient Economy, or Ancient Identity: Greeks, Romans, and Others. He also teaches introductory Latin throughout the year.
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Amidst these unsettling times, the COVID pandemic has illustrated that each of us is part of one global community. The climate crisis is another irrefutable challenge that unites us all.
Essential to the fight against this crisis are natural climate solutions, one of the most important being trees and forests (PNAS.org and wbcsd.org). Trees are natural carbon traps that emit oxygen, improving the air that we all breathe. But as the global population grows so does the demand for timber products, including paper and packaging (Environmental Paper Network), which contributes the loss of natural forest which continues to run at the unsustainable pace of 7.6 million hectares per year (Environmental Paper Network).
The urgent need for responsible forest management to ensure the sustainability of the world’s forests was identified as a key priority at the Rio Summit in 1993 and was the driving force behind the creation of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Today, our Forest Management Standards provide country-specific guidelines to responsibly harvest and care for forests in more than 80 countries around the globe.
FSC Canada’s standard was updated last year to address the most urgent issues facing Canadian forests this century: the woodland caribou crisis, the protection of Indigenous Peoples rights, and the need to support high conservation values that forests have to help fight the climate crisis.
Canadian consumers have the ability to influence the management of forests all over the world because, quite simply, we buy products and packaging from all over the world. Here in Canada, our packaging industry uses the largest portion of recycled fibres of any forestry sector – an important element of responsible forest management, and an incredible achievement for which we commend the Canadian packaging industry (wbcsd.org). Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for some packaging sourced from other countries. That’s why consumers must be informed not only about forestry practices and material sourcing within Canada, but about what’s taking place within forests around the world.
When consumers see the FSC logo on a package or product, they can rest assured that it not only comes from sustainable sources, but that it also meets our strict requirements of overall responsible forest management. This means giving equal voice to all those who depend on forests including Indigenous Peoples, industry, social stakeholders and environmentalists.
Right now, more than ever, we are reminded that each of us is a member of one global community. What happens in one country, can affect us in another. As we rebuild after the COVID crisis, let’s focus on the incredible ability that forests have to support humans, plants and animals and put the welfare of our natural environment at the centre of the decisions we make.
About François Dufresne
François Dufresne is the President of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Canada, a position he has held since May 2012.
Mr. Dufresne has 25 years of experience in the private and public sectors with a proven track record in financing and investments, as well as an in-depth knowledge of the forest industry at both corporate and manufacturing levels. In his previous position at Société Générale de Financement du Québec (SGF), Francois played a key role in sustainable development initiatives involving extensive forest management expenditures, forest certification and Canada's First Nations.
As President of FSC Canada, Mr. Dufresne is responsible for strategic planning, financial performance, and fundraising and stakeholder relations. He continues to leverage established relationships with government officials, forestry industry and financial sector executives, Canadian companies, and Indigenous leaders, unions and communities across Canada to increase awareness for FSC, and promote adoption of FSC standards by Canadian forestry industry.
FSC is a global organization that is present in more than 80 countries with 200 million hectares of certified forests around the globe. It was created in 1993 after the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit as a voluntary forest certification system. Based on a consensus obtained with social, indigenous, environmental, and economic stakeholders, we set strict standards to ensure that FSC-certified forest products are issued from responsibly managed forests. The wood fibre from certified forests is tracked to retail stores through the FSC chain of custody system. FSC-certified wood, paper, and other forest products are then sold with the FSC label by certified companies in the marketplace. With 55 million hectares, Canada has the largest area of FSC-certified forests in the world. Sixteen per cent of Canada's forests are FSC-certified, and six of the 10 largest FSC-certified forests in the world are located here in Canada.
(Source: Canadian Parliamentary Committee Hear in April 2018. Link here)
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Pro-life students at Western Kentucky University (WKU) and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) drew the ire of their pro-abortion peers last week by chalking positive, life-affirming messages on their respective campuses. Chalk drawings are a simple and effective way to advocate for preborn lives, but unfortunately, chalk art is also easy to vandalize. Pro-abortion students looking to remove pro-life content from their campus have often scrawled vulgar slogans or crude images like swastikas on top of compassionate pro-life chalk messages. Sadly, the pro-abortion students at WKU and WPI were no exception.
Students for Life of America (SFLA) reported that the Hilltoppers for Life at WKU devoted time to creating chalk art that gave information about fetal development, and some of the colorful sidewalk squares featured famous quotes from Dr. Seuss, such as “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” The artwork also included positive adages like “You are loved.”
Students responsible for vandalizing the chalk messages made a few modifications to the art, writing things like “Human life is a mistake. You are not loved.” To make it clear that the weather was not behind the alterations, the vandals left a calling card, writing, “Why spread hate when you can shut the f*ck up.” However, nothing that the pro-life WKU students wrote conveyed any hateful or violent words at all.
Att WPI, the pro-abortion activists not only vandalized the pro-life chalk drawings, but also subjected the pro-life students to public backlash on social media for their pro-life artwork. Helena, the leader of the student group responsible for the drawings, said in a statement that was shared by SFLA:
We organized a chalking event on Tuesday evening for the club to participate in to write messages that promote life. The next morning, we saw that several of the messages were partially erased, namely “Pro-life” in “We are the pro-life generation” and “not” in “You are not a clump of cells.”
The chalking resulted in quite a bit of harassment on our club’s Instagram. Additionally, someone took a picture of the “You are not a clump of cells” chalking message and posted it on the WPI Reddit with the title, “As someone doing a minor in bio, we are all just a clump of cells.” This resulted in lots of crude, negative comments.
The WPI police were able to identify three students who had been seen washing away the pro-life messages. After the Dean of Students was notified, he expressed surprise that the pro-life drawings had created such a controversy. Thankfully, the dean affirmed the free speech rights of the pro-life students, assuring them that steps will be taken to prevent vandals from interfering with their future pro-life campus outreach efforts.
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Unpainted 1/285th Scale Micro Armour®
Action poses. Per Pack: 60+
Q: Why do these WWII infantry look like they are carrying AK-47s?
A:Thanks for your note, however, the figures in question are not carrying AK-47s. It's an SVT 40.
The Tokarev SVT 40 was a robust and reliable semi-automatic rifle produced by the Soviet Union. The Soviets were impressed by examples of the M1 Garand which they had purchased and used their considerable talents as designers of small arms to produce a self-loader of their own.
The primary problems with the SVT38 and the more durable and reliable SVT 40 were the same: A strong recoil and a powerful muzzle blast.
Issuance of the SVT 40 was primarily to NCO's early on due to the army's belief that the common soldier would fire off too much ammunition with a semi-auto rifle.
Later, shock troops and elite units were issued them as these soldiers were expected to display greater fire discipline.
Demand was high for the rifle and supply never kept up with that demand.
After the German invasion in 1941, captured examples were studied by them and the Wermacht's Sturm Gewher 43 was a direct result. (which it much resembled)
The SVT design was influential in the Soviet firearms development that led, in the end, to the Kalashnikov AK-47.
The rifle had a vented barrel and a 10-round box magazine. It was manufactured in 7.62mm caliber and had a muzzle velocity of 2,723 ft. per sec.
I hope this answers your question.
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Enter a lawyer-composer
A result that bodes well for the future of Croatia and the western Balkans
Josipovic takes the prize
CROATS are the richest people in the western Balkans, and their country may join the European Union soon, while others wait interminably. Yet they seem miserable. A recent poll by Gallup and the European Fund for the Balkans found that only 8% of respondents thought Croatia was going in the right direction. A huge 92% considered corruption to be widespread in business, and 77% thought it widespread in government. The economy is in a serious mess, and not only because of the global economic crisis. In 2009 GDP shrank by some 5.7%; it may grow by a mere 0.3% this year. Unemployment, already 16.5%, is rising. Over the past year 37% of Croats have had problems paying their utility bills. No wonder that on January 10th the voters elected a president who has never held high office before.
On the face of it Ivo Josipovic, a law professor and composer, is a dull choice. He will be the third president of independent Croatia. The first, Franjo Tudjman, was a hardline nationalist who forged his country in war in the 1990s. The second, Stipe Mesic, wrote a book, “How We Destroyed Yugoslavia”, about his time as the country's last president just as the war broke out. His final provocative act as Croatia's president was to visit and offer strong support to Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008.
Mr Josipovic crushed Milan Bandic, the mayor of Zagreb, in the presidential race. The professorial new president, a Social Democrat, will have to work closely with Jadranka Kosor, Croatia's prime minister. She is from the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union and came to office only in July 2009 when Ivo Sanader suddenly resigned as prime minister, declaring that he was quitting politics. Mr Sanader may have thought he could run the country from behind the scenes. But Mrs Kosor soon began to pursue her own agenda. She succeeded in resolving, at least for now, a serious spat with neighbouring Slovenia, which then lifted its ten-month block on Croatia's EU accession talks. And she also started to tackle corruption. Mr Sanader was so rattled by Mrs Kosor's success that, after their party's candidate came third in the first round of the presidential election on December 27th, he held a press conference to declare that his resignation had been a mistake and he was coming back. But his attempted coup failed dismally.
Such bizarre antics will only have helped Mr Josipovic. Both his election and the rising popularity of Mrs Kosor point to a positive change of atmosphere in Croatia. Emil Tedeschi, boss of Atlantic Grupa, a consumer health-care group, speaks for many when he says that what Croatia needs most is stability. For him the election of Mr Josipovic is a sign of political maturity, because he should be able to create a bridge to the opposition Social Democrats. Cross-party consensus would make it easier to push through tough reforms to public services, pensions and local administration. Mrs Kosor, he notes approvingly, has also broken the taboo of dealing with crime and corruption in high places in government and business. She ought to be able to work well with Mr Josipovic.
His election has been welcomed across the region. Mr Josipovic was an author of Croatia's 1999 genocide case against Serbia at the International Court of Justice. On January 4th Serbia launched a countersuit alleging that Croatia was itself responsible for genocide. But Mr Josipovic believes the bilateral relationship to be strategically important, so a deal might be struck to withdraw both cases. Almost two decades after the demise of Yugoslavia, the leaders of its successor states increasingly see that working together is better than squabbling.
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Early in my career as a manufacturing engineer, I worked for a company that always designed automation equipment using the “good stuff.” We followed the rule that more expensive is better.
When it comes to profile rail, double-backed designs are generally more expensive than double-faced, so that is what we used. We seemed to be doing everything right - we mounted the rails to Blanchard ground plates and attached the carriages to precision-machined bars or plates. But when it came time to assemble the machine, the headaches would start.
Problems arose constantly. Once, the precision plate twisted because the welded table frame was not straight; another time, a small burr was the culprit. Even when everything went right, the alignment process was always a delicate balance. I couldn’t figure out why the good stuff was always so hard to install.
After doing some digging, I was able to find a presentation from an engineering professor that explained the pros and cons of double-backed versus double-faced profile rails, and the tradeoffs made in selecting profile rail versus round bearings. I discovered the reasons for our assembly difficulties and that we should have been using double-faced profile rails, or round bearings, for most of our automation systems.
This article explains how to choose between the main types of linear technologies, and how to design automation systems that deliver optimal performance using design requirements, rather than cost, as the primary consideration in selecting linear components.
Sidebar - Alignment & Physics 101 Refresher
Poor alignment is the leading cause of premature linear system failure. Often, engineers will encounter a failure and compensate by increasing the size of the bearings on the next system. As you read through this article, keep in mind that Lateral Force = Axial Force / tan(α). A system with ¼° of misalignment and an actuator capable of producing 500 lbf can generate a lateral force of nearly 115,000 lbf. We frequently see system failures with sheared bolts and cracked carriages. The payload itself is rarely capable of producing these failures. The culprit is almost always the force amplification caused by converging, diverging, and skewed alignment conditions.
Round and profile rails
Round rails on left and profile rails on right
The self-aligning design of round rail ball bushing bearings allows them to be installed into imperfect systems
Let’s start by looking at the two main types of linear rails: round rails and profile or square rails. Round rails were used in the first linear guides and are still used frequently because they offer a number of advantages. Because the shaft is round, the ball bushings are free to rotate around its axis. This allows one rail to be installed at a slightly different elevation than the other. Also, bearing races on self-aligning ball bushings allow each linear bearing to rotate up to ½ degree in pitch and yaw to accommodate flatness or alignment errors. Pillow blocks are normally used to constrain the ball bushings, and rail supports typically provide enough flexibility to accommodate up to 25 mm parallelism error between the shafts. Round rail linear guides are thus self-aligning in all directions, so they are forgiving of poor parallelism and variations in rail height. In addition, the circular profile of round rail linear guides allows the shaft to be supported at the ends only. The axis of motion is established entirely by fixing the two ends of the shaft. Round rail linear guides can typically span gaps of 12 to 24 times the shaft diameter. Round rails mitigate the skidding of bearings as a result of the convex race having a minimal contact area with the ball. A typical light preload promotes smooth operation. Round rail wipers and seals have a simpler geometry with corresponding low drag and high reliability.
Profile rails used in X-Y stage assembly
Profile or square rail linear guides were originally designed to provide precision linear motion for machine tools. Profile rails are stiffer and more rigid than round rails but need straight continuous support so they cannot span gaps and they have much stricter requirements for flatness and parallelism than round rails. The principle advantage of profile rails is that they have an order of magnitude advantage in positioning accuracy compared to round rails. Profile rails can hold tolerances between 0.0002 inch and 0.001 inch over a length of 10 feet compared to 0.01 inch for round rails. Profile rail systems also offer higher rigidity and higher load life capacity than round rails. The ball conforming grooves on both the inner and outer races of profile rails increase load capacity beyond that of standard round rail guides. This geometry cradles the balls as they infinitesimally flatten under load, expanding the contact area between the races. The result is that profile bearing races are approximately 10 times stiffer than typical round rail systems.
Types of profile rails
Double-backed rails, on the left, have a higher roll moment capacity than double-faced rollers, on the right.
There are several different types of profile rails, double-backed and double-faced being the most common. Double-backed profile rails utilize a back-to-back bearing arrangement that provides added rigidity. All else being equal, double-backed profile rails have a higher resistance to moment loads. This is because the vectors resisting the moment load are further from the center of rotation. This gives double-backed profile rails extremely high rigidity and accuracy. For applications that require extremely high location accuracy or moment resistance, double-backed profile rails are usually the optimal choice. However, the rigidity of the double-backed design also decreases the allowable installation tolerances, increasing surface preparation costs. Double-backed designs are unable to tolerate even minor misalignment so mounting surface preparation and proper installation are critical for proper operation and long life. If the mounting surface is not prepared properly, the guide will run rough and need to be replaced more frequently than normal. Small flatness errors in mounting surfaces can reduce bearing life by up to 50%. More severe alignment issues can result in immediate failures. Typical applications include machine tools, semiconductor manufacturing, circuit board assembly, and high accuracy machine axis applications.
Double-faced ball track bearing arrangements, on the other hand, utilize a 45 degree, face-to-face bearing arrangement to provide equal load carrying capacity in all directions. Double-faced profiles have a lower resistance to moment loads because the vectors resisting the moment load are closer to the center of rotation. The primary advantage of the double-faced configuration is that the rails are much more tolerant of mounting surface inaccuracies. This enables machine builders to reduce system costs by not having to prepare mounting surfaces for ultra-high precision. Mounting surface preparation and installation are still important to providing long life, but double-faced designs tend to be more forgiving. For applications that do not require extremely high location accuracy or moment resistance, double-faced profile rails are often the optimal choice. Double-faced profile rails also tend to have a lower initial cost. Typical applications include factory automation, packaging, material transfer, medical sample handling, and moderate accuracy machine axis applications.
Roller profile rails provide an even higher level of rigidity than double-backed ball profile rails by using roller bearings instead. Roller profile rails use the equivalent of a back-to-back bearing arrangement, complemented by special rollers that are crowned to prevent roller edge loading when misalignment is present. The result is lower elastic deformation as the load increases compared to a ball carriage or face-to-face bearing arrangement. Roller guides have a higher load capacity than profile rails with ball bearings as a result of the increased contacting surface across the length of the roller, due to the ball’s single point of contact versus a roller’s line contact area. This results in a substantially higher load carrying capacity and lower wear with minimum rolling friction. The cost of this increased precision and rigidity is even less tolerance for installation variance than double-backed ball profile rails.
Specifying a linear motion system
When specifying a linear motion system, one of the primary factors to consider is the amount of precision that is required in the application. Applications that require a high degree of precision and rigidity will often require double-backed profile rail linear guides. But these high precision linear motion components should be used only where needed because they are not only more expensive but, even more important, because they require a higher degree of preparation of the mounting surfaces in order to ensure a trouble-free assembly process and free movement during operation. If you are simply transferring something, perhaps moving a package from one station to the next, positioning to within a quarter of an inch may be all that is required. One the other hand, when you are moving a cutting tool whose position will directly impact the accuracy of the finished piece, then its location may need to be held to within three or four decimal places. This is the type of application that double-backed profile rail linear guides were designed for.
When double-backed profile rails are used, a perfectly flat precision ground mounting surface is needed because the rails will not flex to compensate for inaccuracies in the mounting surface. Misalignment or other inaccuracies in the mounting surface can cause several problems. The most obvious is when the carriage does not move freely over the length of the rails. In my experience, the best way to test the mounting surfaces is simply to attach the carriage to the rails and move it back and forth by hand along the complete length of the rail to make sure it runs freely. The carriage should move freely the entire length of the rail without any tight spots or binding. Motors and actuators can often push past tight spots, concealing the misalignment. Larger profiles or those with high preloads can be difficult to move by hand, but it is still good to use a force gauge or some other measurement of input force to detect issues.
The best way to achieve a perfect mounting surface is to use a Blanchard surface grinder to finish the mounting plate. The rails are then mounted to the plate and the plate is mounted to the machine base. One common rail alignment method is to mount one rail on a qualified surface against one qualified reference edge and float the second rail into place while moving the carriages. Two other alignment methods, in order of increasing complexity and accuracy, are to establish relative position of the rails by using gauge blocks, reference edges or a positioning laser. If the mounting surface is found wanting during the installation process, an alternative is to shim the rails to provide adjustment during the installation process. Shims run the risk of causing other alignment issues, so they should only be used as a last resort. It should also be mentioned that roller profile rail linear guides are an option that provides even higher rigidity and load capacity so they naturally have even tighter requirements in terms of the accuracy of the mounting surfaces.
Round rail linear guides offer the advantage of even easier installation than double-faced profile rail linear guides because they can accommodate torsional misalignment caused by inaccuracies in carriage or base machining or machine deflection with little increase in stress to the bearing components. These bearings allow for smooth travel when mounted to wide tolerance prepared surfaces. Round rail products can run smoothly when mounted to surfaces having a flatness error of more than 150 um per meter. Applications involving mounting bearings to welded tubular frames or even direct to concrete factory floors can be accomplished using round rail products. Of course, the ease of installation of round rail linear guides is offset by approximately an order of magnitude increase in the best achievable accuracies.
Real world applications
Next, let’s look at how these principles affect real world applications.
We recently experienced product failures with a customer who had just released a new machine generation, where the entire machine’s round linear bearings were replaced with double backed profile rail. The machine contained a large hydraulic ram that moved a heavy sled assembly. The failure mode involved the machine shearing the rail mounting bolts which then led to a catastrophic failure of the rails and carriages. Some machines operated fine, while others would fail after only a few cycles. The failures were caused by misalignment of the large hydraulic ram to the rails. They had never experienced problems with past designs because the round bearings were able to adjust to the misalignment. Our recommendation was to use meticulous care in aligning the system, and return to using round bearings in the next design update.
In another example, the mounting plate was raw, un-machined angle iron welded to the machine frame. In this application our recommendation was to first weld the angle iron and, after welding, grind the mounting surfaces. This approach worked well with double-backed profile bearings. On a side note, since accuracy was not critical in this application it would have been possible to use self-aligning round bearings with end supported rails mounted directly to the machine frame. This would have eliminated the need for the mounting plate all together.
The previous examples highlight the headaches caused by using high precision rails in designs that do not require the tight tolerances. We also see mistakes that go the other direction. Since double faced profile rail is usually less expensive than double backed, many machine builders make the swap to save costs. In applications where the precision is needed, switching to double faced profile rail from double backed or switching to linear bearings from profile rail, can be disastrous.
There are a large number of different linear bearing applications with many different loading and precision requirements. Developing a successful linear bearing application requires an understanding of the characteristics of the application and selection of a linear bearing and installation method that is a good fit to the application. The design engineer should consider the different characteristics of each type of linear guide and select the technology that provides the level of accuracy, installation requirements and cost that best fit the application.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Peter Jackson has used digital wizardry to conjure J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth and King Kong’s 1930s New York, but he has now - in perhaps his most acclaimed film - employed all his technical powers to bring to life the Western Front of the first World War.
Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” is the 57-year-old filmmaker’s first documentary. Commissioned by Britain’s Imperial War Museum to coincide with the centenary of the Armistice, Jackson assembled the film from more than 100 hours of footage from the front and 600 hours of audio interviews conducted in the 1960s with surviving British soldiers.
In the course of the five-year project, Jackson restored the heavily damaged, grainy footage, colorized it, stabilized the frame rates (many were only 13 frames per second, and could vary based upon how fast the cameraman was cranking) and transferred the film into 3-D. Along with adding battle sound effects, he even employed expert lip readers to recreate the unheard dialogue.
With the kind of technology usually employed on a big-budget spectacle, the fog of time lifted from the footage, revealing the soldiers anew.
“The people on the film became human beings again. Their humanity jumps out at you,” Jackson said in an interview. “Their faces and the subtle way they move and their expressions, you just realize you’re seeing you’re seeing these people for the first time in 100 years.”
“They Shall Not Grow Old,” which takes its name from the Laurence Binyon poem “For the Fallen,” has already played in the U.K., where it earned Jackson the best reviews of his career. “The effect is electrifying,” wrote the Guardian. “The faces are unforgettable.”
Fathom Events will screen the film in 500 theaters nationwide on Monday and again on Dec. 27 before a more traditional release from Warner Bros. beginning Jan. 11.
For Jackson, it’s the culmination of a passion project, one undertaken in part as a tribute to the New Zealand filmmaker’s grandfather, who fought in the war. The first three years of the project, edited at Jackson’s post-production facility, Park Road Post, weren’t spent cutting anything together but sifting through the material and cleaning it up.
“We were just listening, listening, listening, making notes and finding what this film was going to be,” he says.
Startled by the clearness of the restoration, Jackson opted to impress as little as possible on the film. The only narration is that of the soldiers recounting their experiences; even dates and locations of battles have been withheld to capture the view of the war from those in the trenches. “They only saw what was right in front of their eyes,” says Jackson.
The recollections of the British soldiers are surprisingly pragmatic and straightforward, lacking any sense of regret or self-pity. “They didn’t want that and they didn’t expect that,” says Jackson. “I don’t think they would really approve of the way we think of the first World War now.”
But the director is also quick to point out that the 120 men interviewed don’t reflect a universal story of the war. These are survivors, many of whom went on to have families and productive lives, looking back decades later. “If we had interviews from the millions of soldiers that were killed, they would tell a different story,” says Jackson.
Clarity has always been elusive in WWI, a war with puzzling beginnings and staggering loss of life that nevertheless became overshadowed in the popular imagination by World War II. But the simple, unclouded lucidity of “They Shall Not Grow Old” offers a small window into the Great War. Jackson hopes it inspires young people to learn about WWI and archivists around the world to make similar restorations of historical film.
It’s also the first worthwhile 3-D film in some time. Jackson, who was at the forefront of the reintroduction of 3-D, still believes it has value despite its cratered popularity.
“People are only losing interest in it because of the quality of the projection, to be honest with you,” he says, predicting that that will change with the advent of laser projection. “Everything that people don’t like about 3-D - and I agree with them, that feeling like you have sunglasses on while watching a film - that all goes away with laser projection.”
So “There Shall Not Grow Old” is, in some ways, a characteristically Jackson film, with the notable exception that he wasn’t there to shoot any of it. Not that he minded.
“I don’t actually like being on set, particularly. I always regard that as being an arduous chore,” he says. “So in a way I was quite happy to skip over the shooting part of it. The boys on the Western Front a hundred years ago did all the hard work filming it, and I was able to go straight to the part I like the most.”
Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
Copyright © 2022 The Washington Times, LLC.
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The world is heading towards democracy and is slowly becoming a place where Monarchy and Kingdoms are turning into fairy-tale stories. My book is a taste of the past, from the land of Afghanistan. Engraved Memoirs is a book that talks about a monarchy, the memory of which has inspired my art and design.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was once upon a time a kingdom with many powerful Amirs who built a strong nation for the Afghans. After many centuries of sovereignty, Russia brought about the downfall of the House of Mohammadzai—the Afghan Royal House. My book is a tribute to my ancestors and my family’s history. A history so rich that it lives in my heart forever. The stories and photographs of my family have served to keep the past alive for me. This work is inspired by my grandmother’s non-fictional short story titled “Red Death”—a book that deals with the family’s escape during the Soviet Invasion. Though her book talks about a series of harrowing events that took place, whereas my book discusses the life after the escape; a life filled with family traditions, tea times, photographs and good memories.
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SYLA will have three hybrid sessions.
Session 1: July 11th - 15th in Newburgh
Session 2: July 25th - 29th in Port Jervis
Session 3: August 1st- 5th in Liberty
Apply online or download the pdf application below.
This 1-week program aims to inspire and empower anyone in grades 9-12 to learn and speak up about racism, bullying, gender oppression, and the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships, while also learning how to create change in your community.
The program will meet in person Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and virtually on Tuesday and Thursday via Zoom, where students will engage with Fearless! educators and their peers by deep conversations, team building, and hands-on activities.
Enrollment is free. Open to all Orange and Sullivan County high school students.
Participants will receive 30 hours of community service and a letter of recommendation for college and/or employment.
Registrations for all academies will be due by FRIDAY, JULY 22ND.
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Scholarships: What you need to know
Looking to fund your studies?
Unfortunately, the cost of studying may be a blocker for a number of people who want to further their education. But it doesn’t have to be. Scholarships are just one of many ways to make studying affordable – and with scholarships available for students in a wide range of situations, there could be more options out there than you realise.
Here’s everything you need to know about scholarships, as well as our advice on how you can find them:
What is a scholarship?
A scholarship is a type of financial aid that is offered to students, to help them further their education.
There are a range of scholarships available, each with a different set of entry criteria that is specified by the university or third party that provides them.
They’re awarded on the basis of things like academic excellence, sporting achievements, musical ability, personal circumstances, and more.
Do I need to pay a scholarship back?
No. A scholarship, like a grant or a bursary, will not need to be paid back.
What’s the difference between a scholarship, a bursary, and a grant?
The terms scholarship, bursary, and grant are often used interchangeably in the UK.
Each of these are a form of financial aid that’s given to students, and they don’t need to be repaid.
Traditionally, scholarships referred to financial aid given as a reward for academic success, but they are now given for multiple reasons – including to assist with personal circumstances or financial hardship.
Who offers scholarships?
Scholarships can be provided by universities, companies, professional organisations, charities, and the government.
Types of scholarships
There are a number of reasons you could receive a scholarship, with the specific entry requirements dependent on the type of scholarship you apply for, and the institution that provides it.
Here are some examples of the most common types of scholarships:
Academic Excellence Scholarships. If you’re awarded high grades in your A Levels, you may be eligible for an academic excellence scholarship.
Sporting Achievement Scholarships. Many universities seek students with exceptional sporting ability to represent their institution, no matter what subject they want to study.
Musical Scholarships. Musical scholarships are available to students who have exceptional musical talent, whether it’s playing an instrument or singing.
Personal Circumstances Scholarships. These are awarded on the basis of things like; where you live, where you go to school, what your parents do, whether you’ve been in care, and more.
Financial Need Scholarships. Designed for those who may not be able to afford university, these scholarships assist people who are enduring financial hardships.
Industry Scholarships. Some companies or professional organisations offer scholarships, work experience, and even permanent employment upon graduation, to encourage candidates to pursue work in high-demand industries.
International Scholarships. Whether you’re a UK resident looking for a study abroad scholarship, or you want to come to the UK for your studies, there are a number of scholarships available to students all over the world.
Popular scholarship programmes
Industry specific scholarships
Study abroad scholarships for UK students
Where to find scholarships
If you know where you want to study, check your university’s website to find out the types of scholarships they offer.
How to get a scholarship
Each scholarship has different entry criteria, so it’s important to do your research to find out which one is right for you.
For example, if you’re applying for a scholarship that’s offered by a university, you may need to have an offer to study with them in place first. You’ll also need to ensure you tick all the boxes when it comes to the formal requirements stipulated by the third party or university (e.g. you have the right grades).
Once you’ve selected a scholarship that suits you, it’s key to get the ball rolling as soon as possible – as early scholarship applications are the best way to boost your chances of being considered.
Here’s what you’ll need to do to get started:
- Complete a scholarship application on the website of the university or organisation that offers it
- Write a personal statement that explains why you’re a good fit (the specific contents of this may vary depending on the type of study you’re looking to fund, as well as where you’re applying for a scholarship)
Scholarship programmes are highly competitive, so spending time and effort on your application is crucial if you want to stand out from the crowd.
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20 ESSENTIAL RESOURCES: SELF-CARE FOR FAMILY PLANNING
This post was originally featured on the Knowledge Success site.
What is self-care?
Individual rights and choice have always been fundamental to the practice of family planning, especially the right to make and act on informed decisions about using contraception and having children.
As health systems grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and other crises, the urgency of centering people as advocates for their own health, including their sexual and reproductive health, has never been greater. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines self-care as “the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote health, prevent disease, maintain health, and to cope with illness and disability with or without the support of a health-care provider.” Also according to WHO, half of the world’s population do not have access to the healthcare they need. Adequately supported self-care, including for family planning, will play a key role in ensuring the world can achieve universal health coverage (UHC).
Products, information, and technologies for self-care can include: high-quality medicines, devices, tools to test and diagnose, and digital health interventions. They can be provided within or outside of a health-care facility, and with or without the direct support of a health worker.
“Whether it’s for their experience of pregnancy and childbirth; managing fertility intentions, preventing sexually transmitted infections; enjoying better sexual health of themselves or their partner, or self-monitoring their blood pressure, access to quality self-care interventions can help meet people’s many health needs and rights.”
Self-care in family planning
Self-care is a natural fit for family planning and specifically refers to the ability of individuals, families, and communities to promote and maintain sexual health and prevent or space pregnancies, with or without the support of a health-care provider. New medical and digital tools, products, and services allow individuals, particularly women and adolescent girls, to assess and manage their own needs in their homes or communities with support from health providers and health systems that prepares them to have greater control and decision-making in their sexual and reproductive health care. This approach creates multiple benefits not only for women and girls themselves, but also potentially for health systems.
WHO’s latest 2021 self-care guidance features several recommendations for high-quality family planning services. Recommendations include:
- Over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive pills without a prescription
- Pregnancy self-testing
- Self-administration of injectable contraception
- Over-the-counter oral contraceptive pills without a prescription
- Male and female condoms
- Self-screening with ovulation predictor kits
Why we created this collection on self-care for family planning
Many national and subnational governments and partners around the world are key in operationalizing self-care guidance, and making rights- and evidence-based self-care options for family planning a reality for more people. The resources in this collection on self-care interventions for family planning help make the case for the role of self-care in family planning. They can also help equip partners with tools for advocacy and policy change, financing, ensuring quality of care, leveraging digital tools, collecting and using data, and addressing other specific considerations.
Criteria for this collection
To be included in this collection, a resource must be:
- Foundational to the evidence and experience base for self-care implementation in family planning.
- A “cross-cutting” resource that is applicable across family planning self-care interventions rather than just one specific method or intervention—if focused on a specific method, it should present insights or approaches that could be applied to other products or interventions.
- Relevant for more than one country—if focused on specific countries, it should present insights or approaches that could be applied in other countries.
What is included in this collection?
The collection includes a mix of resources categorized into the following topics:
- Conceptual framework
- Normative guidance
- Implementation lessons learned and evidence
- Policy advocacy
- General background and considerations
Each entry comes with a short summary and statement on why it is essential. We hope you find these resources informative.
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Fashion industry players these days cannot deny there is no better time than now to take positive steps in manufacturing. Huge change is being facilitated thanks to the spike in technological advancements. The industry is seeing the overall approach slowly moving towards accommodating lower quantity manufacturing of high-added value, customizable, more sustainable, and innovative products. Additive manufacturing is a significant driver of change in today’s fashion space.
Also known as 3D printing, additive manufacturing is an approach presenting a technology that is designed to eliminate many constraints of manufacturing methods based on conventional subtractive techniques, and to introduce a retail model that is radically new.
As industry insiders pay attention to the changing product manufacturing scene, McKinsey predicts that 3D printing could start having a financial effect of $550 billion each year by 2025. Besides, in regards to the global 3D printing market size, this was estimated at $3.1 billion back in 2013, and is likely to grow to $21 billion by 2020.
Reasons To Adopt Additive Manufacturing
The use of AM is nothing new. What is new, however, is how the manufacturing technology developed in a way that caused it to be termed a game-changing innovation. As a disruptive manufacturing technology, 3D printing is considered as one which turns data into things that in turn enable material efficiency gains, supply-chain simplification, and mass-customization.
Challenging the foundations on which much of conventional manufacturing understanding, experience, and practices are based, additive manufacturing makes producing finished, colored, ready-to-wear and net-shaped garments possible, and that too, in one manufacturing operation. A relatively less wasteful method than the present technique and process, additive manufacturing is a technology signaling a shift which could transform the clothing segment worldwide. Imagine designers being able to make personalized and ready-to-wear fashion products in a day.
Shifting focus on creativity and design, AM applied to clothes design is easily translated into manufacturing, without needing all too thorough manufacturing process knowledge. Limiting the human hand in the product manufacturing process, it is still worth noting that 3D printing does not replace mass production, but it enables fresh business models like ‘bridge manufacturing’.
3D Printing, Bringing About New Age In The Fashion World
Garment manufacturing generates 1.80 million metric tons of waste material, which is what mainly drives the adoption of additive manufacturing. This is why manufacturing should head in a path where the process can be sustainable, affordable, and an ethical reality.
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From early this morning (Friday 4 February) thousands of farmers, gamekeepers and land managers around the UK are setting off across their fields to count the farmland birds that share their land as part of the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count 2022.
The annual citizen science project, organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) since 2014, asks land managers to spend half an hour checking in on their feathered friends, recording their numbers and submitting the results to the Trust. The aim is to encourage farmers and gamekeepers to support farmland birds and highlight the hard work already done by many of them to help reverse species’ declines. The count gives a vital national snapshot of the health of the UK’s birdlife.
“It is not too late to get involved,” said Dr Roger Draycott who organises the count. “Counting takes just 30 minutes and can be done anytime between now and 20 February. It is an opportunity for land managers to see the impact of their conservation efforts, encouraging them to do more even more. And it is a great way to demonstrate to the public and policy makers what can be achieved on the UK’s farms.
“Land managers look after 71% of the UK’s countryside – the largest songbird habitat in the country – so they can make a real and immediate difference by adopting effective conservation measures.”
Participation in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count reached record levels in 2021: 2,500 counts were returned (up from 1,500 in 2020), with counts being carried out across a massive 2.5million acres of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (up from 1.4million acres in 2020). Organisers hope that even more people will get involved over the three weeks of this year’s count.
Minette Batters, president of the NFU, said:
“The NFU is extremely pleased to be again sponsoring the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count – an event which perfectly highlights how farmers balance excellent conservation work on farms across the country alongside producing sustainable climate-friendly food.
“Last year saw a record number of people participate in the count. So, over the next three weeks I would encourage as many farmers as possible to pick up their binoculars and get involved.”
Joe Stanley, farming columnist, author and GWCT Head of Farming, Training & Partnerships, will be counting on the GWCT’s demonstration farm, the Allerton Project in Leicestershire. He said: “It’s really easy to take part and it’s a great way for us as farmers and land managers, not only to appreciate and understand the bird species on our farms, but also to demonstrate to the public the great work that we are doing to encourage those farmland birds, whether that’s through overwinter supplementary feeding or through planting winter bird seed mix or other environmental measures.”
Teyl de Bordes, an estate factor from Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, has been taking part since the count began in 2014. “We find it helps us gather data on the effect of over 20 years winter feeding of small farmland birds like the large mixed finch flocks,” he said. “The more farms take part the more valuable the data is.”
Explaining why she gets involved, Sarah Righton, who farms near Moreton-in-Marsh in Gloucestershire, said:
“We have a 300-acre mixed farm, livestock and arable, small fields, mature hedges, pond areas and we plant wild bird cover crops in the spring to provide food for the birds over winter. Taking part in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count is a great opportunity to get involved on a national scale. We can see if what we have been doing over the last 11 years has made a difference and it gives us a starting point for planning what we can do in the future. We’ve decided to invite our farm shop customers to come along and help us count this year.”
Leading agricultural college and university centre, Sparsholt College in Hampshire, is encouraging its land-based students to get involved. Dave Lock, Curriculum Leader for Land and Wildlife, commented: “The GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count is such a fantastic project to inspire our students with. As the farmers and gamekeepers of the future, they are passionate about the world around them and are keen to make a real difference. We can’t wait to monitor our populations across our countryside campus again this year and record the wide variety of species that call Sparsholt College their home.”
The GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count is sponsored by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and has the support of farming unions and organisations across the UK.
How to get involved
Taking part in the BFBC is easy. Just pick one day between 4-20 February, download a count sheet from www.bfbc.org.uk and spend 30 minutes recording the number and species of birds seen on one area of land. Then submit your results via the website.
Bird identification guides and videos are available at www.bfbc.org.uk, along with guidance on how to support birds on farmland.
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CODE 2, VOL 36, NO 13 : 04 july 2022
UFUQ PUSHES FOR ADDITIONS TO LIST OF CANCERS COVERED BY PRESUMPTIVE LEGISLATION
For over a decade, the UFUQ had been pushing for a reverse of the ‘onus of proof’ for firefighters claiming workers’ compensation when they are diagnosed with specific types of cancers. In December 2013, the then state government opposition leader (now Queensland Premier Palaszczuk) in an agreement with the UFUQ wrote to us confirming that upon return to government (which occurred in January 2015) she would ensure presumptive legislation was introduced into the Queensland workers’ compensation system. That agreement with your state union happened as promised.
The list of cancers covered at that stage was based on scientific research of the difference between firefighters and other people in the likelihood of contracting certain cancers. Scientific research into firefighters and cancer continues to occur around the world.
On 1 July 2022 the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published an announcement that their firefighting occupational exposure research working group was about to publish a summary of findings regarding new research into the complex relationship between occupational exposure as a firefighter and likelihood of contracting specific types of cancer.
In its statement of 1 July 2022, IARC stated –
‘Occupational exposure as a firefighter is complex. Firefighters respond to various types of fire (e.g. structure, wildland, and vehicle fires) and non-fire events (e.g. vehicle accidents, medical incidents, hazardous material releases, and building collapses). They may be exposed to a mixture of combustion products (e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particulates), chemicals in firefighting foams, flame retardants, diesel exhaust, building materials, and other hazards, such as night shift work and ultraviolet radiation. Changes in types of fire, building materials, personal protective equipment, and roles and responsibilities among firefighters have resulted in significant changes in firefighter exposures over time.’
The IARC working group findings appear to suggest that –
1. A causal association exists between occupational exposure as a firefighter and mesothelioma, and
2. Credible positive associations were observed for melanoma.
You can find a copy of the IARC press release here.
The full results of this latest research are yet to be published, but on the basis of the preliminary findings being published, I have written to the Minister for Industrial Relations (Minister Grace oversees the workers’ compensation laws) asking for an urgent meeting to re-enliven submissions your union made to the Queensland state government parliamentary committee considering amendments to the workers’ compensation legislation.
In our submissions, your union asked for mesothelioma and skin cancers to be added to the list of cancers covered by the presumptive legislation for firefighters. This request was based on emerging research and evidence, such as that now published by IARC. These presumptive cancer laws have already provided considerable benefit to many members facing the terrible circumstances of being diagnosed with specific types of cancer, where it has been demonstrated that working as a firefighter has likely caused the condition.
Monitoring the scientific research as it is published across the world, and then pushing for extensions to the range of cancers covered by the presumptive laws is something your state UFUQ has been, and will keep, pushing for as more evidence becomes available.
I will update you on the matter after a meeting with the Minister.
REMINDER – NO UFUQ FEE RISE THIS YEAR
You may recall that your SCM voted in May 2022 not to raise the membership fees for any financial industrial members in financial year 2022/2023.
SCM made this decision due to –
• efficiencies in the way the state office industrial and administrative functions are performing, and
• ongoing savings due to the UFUQ ending its association with the UFUA, and
• increasing membership numbers (currently the highest they’ve ever been at over 2600 and growing steadily due to the 357 additional firefighters, and the number of senior officers returning to UFUQ membership).
Also, your UFUQ membership fee tax statements are being prepared and you should expect to receive them before mid-July 2022 to your private email addresses. So this is a reminder to update your details with your union if you haven’t done so for a while.
John Oliver - General Secretary
Authorised by John Oliver General Secretary
United Firefighters' Union of Australia, Union of Employees QLD
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On the basis of our mapping study for CD4, CD16 and gp340, the essentially normal mucosal surfaces can be ranked from your most HIV-resistant oral mucosa, followed by ectocervical mucosa, and finally by the least resistant endocervix and rectum, an interpretation in overall agreement with epidemiological data. Bad control. B) High-power fine detail showing a mucous goblet cell-rich surface and crypt with minimal to none of them gp340 manifestation. C) High-power fine detail showing brownish granular gp340 staining in columnar epithelial cells, but not in mucous goblet cells.(EPS) pone.0132942.s002.eps (21M) GUID:?5390847E-C1A8-41A5-9C66-0C8377EEA00C S3 Fig: Examples of co-localization of CD16+ cells (top row) and gp340 expression (bottom row) in columnar epithelia of the colon/rectum. Serial 5um sections were stained by IHC for gp340 and CD16, as explained in Materials and Methods. The three CD16/gp340 pairs of images represent samples from three different subjects, and each pair is definitely from your same site of the specimen. Gp340 and CD16 are stained brownish (some examples designated with arrows), and cell nuclei are blue. Notice intraepithelial CD16+ cells and brownish granular staining of gp340 throughout the non-mucous columnar cells at the same sites.(EPS) pone.0132942.s003.eps (15M) GUID:?8A773814-3C1A-4E15-B1A9-546FABEEECAC S4 Fig: Examples of the distribution of CD4+ cells and gp340 expression in ectocervical stratified squamous (A, B) and endocervical columnar (C, D) epithelia. Serial 5um sections were stained by IHC for gp340 and CD16, as explained in Materials and Methods, and images from your same area of the specimens are demonstrated. Gp340 and CD16 are stained brownish (some examples designated with arrows), and cell nuclei are blue. Notice the presence of CD4+ cells the brownish granular pattern of gp340 staining throughout the ectocervical squamous cells of the spinous AZD7762 coating above the basal undifferentiated keratinocytes, as well as in the majority of the endocervical columnar epithelial cells. Also notice the distribution of CD4+ cells among the columnar epithelial cells at the same location.(EPS) pone.0132942.s004.eps (16M) GUID:?501B5AD1-48B3-4B57-8D85-FC8E1C33DE5D S5 Fig: Interface between the epithelium and the underlying lamina propria is definitely identifiable on the AZD7762 basis of morphology. Sections of TSPAN33 colon/rectum (A and B) and of endocervix (C and D) were stained by standard H&E (top panels) or by IHC for CD16. The interface between the epithelium and the lamina propria is definitely indicated with black arrows. CD16+ cells are stained brownish. Notice many intra-epithelial CD16+ cells (above the basement membrane).(EPS) pone.0132942.s005.eps (16M) GUID:?E5C4FFB9-6C21-4FE3-B4D2-F2822E8C6367 Data Availability StatementAll relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Info files. Abstract Studies have shown the transmission of HIV is most likely to occur via rectal or vaginal routes, and hardly ever through oral exposure. However, the mechanisms of disease access at mucosal AZD7762 surfaces remain incompletely recognized. Prophylactic strategies against HIV illness may be attainable once gaps in current knowledge are packed. To address these gaps, we evaluated essentially normal epithelial surfaces and mapped the periluminal distribution of CD4+ HIV target cells, including T cells and antigen-presenting cells, and an HIV-binding molecule gp340 that can be indicated by epithelial cells in secreted and cell-associated forms. Immunohistochemistry for CD4, CD16, CD3, CD1a and gp340 in human being oral, rectal/sigmoid and cervical mucosal samples from HIV-negative subjects shown that periluminal HIV target cells were more prevalent at rectal/sigmoid and endocervical surfaces lined by simple columnar epithelium, than at oral and ectocervical surfaces covered by multilayered stratified squamous epithelium (p<0.001). gp340 manifestation patterns at these sites were also unique and strong in oral small salivary gland acini and ducts, including ductal saliva, in individual rectum/sigmoid and endocervix periluminar columnar cells, and in ectocervix squamous cells. Only weak manifestation was mentioned in the oral non-ductal squamous epithelium. We conclude that periluminal HIV target cells, together with periluminal epithelial cell-associated gp340 look like most accessible for HIV transmission at rectal/sigmoid and endocervical surfaces. Our data help define vulnerable structural features of mucosal sites exposed to HIV. Intro Infections by HIV remain a major global public health problem. Anti-retroviral treatment (ART) has offered a means to control the progression of the disease, but treatment is definitely expensive and a cure remains elusive. As with other infections, effective prevention is critical to controlling the spread of disease. Attempts to develop effective prevention are ongoing and prophylactic strategies will become.
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Coombeshead is a small but exciting and diverse rewilding project close to Dartmoor National Park on the Devon and Cornwall border. Over 150 acres of previously intensively managed farmland, is now being given back to nature to recover and set its own course.
Low numbers of large herbivores including Exmoor ponies, iron age pigs, heck cattle, water buffalo and mouflon sheep have been introduced as proxies for the extinct ecosystem engineers like the Aurochs, Tarpan, wild boar and saiga antelope, once widespread in our ecosystems. These large mammals drive diverse habitat creation through their browsing, rooting, rubbing, grazing, and trampling which alongside the natural vegetation recovery creates a dynamic and ever-changing habitat mosaic. This habitat complexity benefits a whole range of wildlife which is already returning to the site.
The valley bottom is also home to a population of wild beavers which have created the ideal wetland habitat for reintroduced populations of water voles and pool frogs and otters, dormice, owls, bats, red deer and polecats are also returning. Coombeshead is also home to one of the UK’s largest native species reintroduction breeding centres with wildcats, beavers, water voles, harvest mice and white and black storks among some of the species being bred for pioneering reintroduction projects around the UK.
Coombeshead offers wildlife enthusiasts a fascinating, inspiring, and unique day out or overnight stay with insightful guided tours through its rewilding landscapes, evening beaver and glow worm watching, education and outstanding wildlife photography opportunities. Most recently three Eurasian lynx have been re-homed at the centre.
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NewYork-Presbyterian invests $15M in AI partnership
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has struck a partnership with two Cornell University institutions to develop artificial-intelligence tools for cardiovascular care, the system said Wednesday.
The program will bring together physicians and researchers from NewYork-Presbyterian, Cornell Tech and Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. NewYork-Presbyterian is providing $15 million in funding for the program over three years.
As part of the partnership, physicians from NewYork-Presbyterian’s affiliated medical schools—Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons—will work with AI researchers from Cornell Tech and Cornell Bowers CIS to study how AI can be used to improve cardiovascular health.
An initial area of research will involve developing tools to support physicians as they make treatment decisions for end-stage heart failure patients, the hospital system said. Later research will focus on predicting heart failure and heart disease so physicians can intervene earlier, before the disease progresses.
“Major algorithmic advances are needed to derive precise and reliable clinical insights from complex medical data,” said Deborah Estrin, associate dean for impact at Cornell Tech and a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, in a news release.
The collaboration adds to a growing list of programs dedicated to developing AI solutions at healthcare organizations.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles set up an AI division within its department of medicine in March. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City launched a department of AI and human health late last year. And Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic in 2020 appointed a medical director for AI to coordinate initiatives across the system.
AI adoption is in the early stages at health systems, although most executives plan to increase their investments into the technology, according to a survey by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society last year.
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Sigmund Freud is known the world over as being one of the most recognisable names in the field of psychology. The Austrian neurologist is famous for being the founder of psychoanalysis and for his controversial theories which were often of a sexual nature. Born in 1856, the young Freud was part of an unusual family structure, with a mother 20 years younger than his father, and two half-brothers almost as old as his mother. Despite this and his family’s financial hardships, Freud went on to excel in his studies and graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1881.
The catalyst in Freud’s founding of psychoanalysis came in his treatment of patients suffering from hysteria. After forming his private practice in 1886, Freud used hypnosis on his patients to try to find the underlying cause of their mental issues. Continue reading →
With a huge pool of famous, influential and simply brilliant individuals to pick from, it is very difficult to select only four persons who have left indelible marks on the science of psychology. It is with this in mind that honorable mention must be given to such ithinkers as Pavlov, Bandura, Zimbardo, etc. who are all major contributors to the field. However this article will focus on the incredible foundation-laying work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Jung. Continue reading →
“Psychology has a long past but only a short history.” With these few words, Hermann Ebbinghaus, one of the great thinkers in psychology, aptly captured the essence of this field’s development. Since time immemorial, men and women have pondered over questions that are psychological in nature. From the early Egyptians to the ancient Greek philosophers, there has been no letup in efforts to understand human thought and behavior. If you were given a psychology homework assignment to document the full history of the field, you would probably be toiling on it for ages. Yet, in spite of its long past, the formal history of psychology dates back only 133 years to 1879 – the year when Wilhelm Wundt opened the doors of the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany. As a result of this significant move, Wundt is widely regarded as the founder of psychology. He was also the first person to refer to himself as a psychologist. Yet, this was just the beginning of Wundt’s contributions to the field. He went on to become the first of several spirited speakers to engage in an ongoing debate over what should be the focus of psychology. The history of psychology is indeed short, but it has never been short of drama. With that said, let the drama unfold… Continue reading →
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Erich Knop, Nadja Knop; A NEW HOLISTIC CONCEPT ON THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY IN DRY EYE DISEASE - Development of an Educational Animation. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):1019.
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Dry Eye Disease (DED) is a complex alteration of the functional anatomy of the ocular surface that is still insufficiently understood and current concepts are often oversimplified.
A pubmed based review of the literature on DED was performed and pathogenetic mechanisms identified. These were arranged in a patho-physiologic hierarchy that reflects the causative relations of events in DED and also reflects clinical findings but is independent of assumed clinical importance.
Structural and functional alterations of the integrity of the ocular surface and the secretory elements as aqueous lacrimal glands (LG dysfunction, LGD) and the Meibomian glands (MG dysfunction, MGD) together with the integrity of the eyelids and the regular blinking mechanism (termed lid and blinking dysfunction, LBD) are defined as basic primary causative factors for DED. They result in tear film deficiency and ocular surface tissue damage that are both defined as primary pathologies. Tear film deficiency as well as ocular surface damage are both governed by secondary pathogenetic factors. In tear film deficiency there are e.g. tear instability, dry spots, friction and hyperosmolarity. Surface damage is governed by e.g. epithelial activation, inflammation and impaired tissue differentiation. The primary causative factors are influenced by underlying regulatory systems such as the neural innervation, endocrine and immune systems. Overlying influence factors act either on the differentiation of the tissues as internal factors and on their secretions as external factors. The nervous system regulates function but also pain sensation that is modulated by higher order mechanisms and can lead to chronic pain syndromes. In contrast to present over-simplified models we have identified several, different, interacting vicious circles or disease aggravation and perpetuation.
This new concept on the pathophysiology DED incorporates long established as well as new mechanisms in the pathophysiological order. It is complex but not complicated - intuitively understandable and suitable to assist basic scientist and practitioner alike. An educational computerized animation is made to promote the understanding of dry eye disease.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.
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Belly fat is one of the hardest areas to lose that fat, we all wish it was as easy as baking the muffin to lose the top. We’ve heard it all before it’s all about nutrition and cardio. However, there are a few things you seriously must avoid in order to cut those extra inches. Yes, it’s all about balance but just as much as it is about a healthy lifestyle around. These foods should be limited as they make a huge difference around the belly area however, we are firm believers in moderation.
This tasty carbohydrate is amongst the worst for belly fat. It has been proven in studies that potatoes contributed to an astounding 2.97-pound average weight gaining- combining potato chips and normal potatoes. Potatoes are a starchy carbohydrate that turns into sugar when processed through the body- this in turn usually tells your body to store the sugar, resulting in fat. Just a little belly in case of emergency. A study showed that dieters limiting carbs lost 10-pounds more than those that did not limit the delicious food group.
Sweets and Soda
These two are simply trouble, delicious but trouble. Besides offering no nutritional value or benefit for your body, sweets and soda are broken down through bodily processes into gas. This gas makes you feel heavy, bloated and even bigger. There are great alternatives to curb hat sweet tooth- fruit is a suggestion.
High Sodium Foods
This one works both ways and has caused much controversy for professionals. Salt causes the body to produce more water, in turn, this act can boost weight-loss. On the other hand, studies proved that this caused individuals to crave more foods and have a heartier appetite. Salt for some reason motivates individuals to continue eating even after they are way past full. So, be careful with the salt ladies and gentlemen.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book,
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
by Sebastián Santisi, all rights reserved.
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President Dr. Irfaan Ali said that the government is considering whether it should manage a new sand pit to help stabilise the rising costs of building materials amid the country’s construction boom.
The ongoing construction boom has significantly increased the demand for building materials, more so the supply of those materials has not equally increased. Shortages in both local and international markets mean that prices for scarce goods are likely to increase.
“In order to address the issues of construction costs and to ensure we keep some amount of management of this, we are now looking at the opening up of a sand pit that would be managed by some of the government agencies.
“That is to bring some balance in terms of the prices, because for the boom in construction, what is expected is going to put pressure on the supply side because demand is not falling back,” the Guyanese Head of State told reporters at the sidelines of an event on Thursday.
The government has not yet identified the location of that pit but President Ali said that it would likely be managed by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) and the Ministry of Public Works. The private sector, he said, would also be involved.
His statements came moments after he announced that the country was experiencing a shortage of plywood- a crucial material needed in construction.
With the government rolling out a massive housing agenda, coupled with its infrastructural transformation, the shortages of building materials may lead to work delays.
As such, the President related that he immediately contacted the Barama company to understand what was causing the shortages.
“… they’ve assured me that because of the rain, they had limitations in the supply of wood to the factory and they are going to redouble their efforts to get the supply of logs into the factory to bring the situation to some sort of balance in about three weeks,” he related.
This is not the first time in recent months that the country has been experiencing shortages of key building materials. Since last year, there have been shortages in cement and stone largely due to external supply chain challenges.
Those challenges worsened this year with the Ukraine/ Russia crisis further constraining global supply chain efforts. With this, imported materials are both more expensive and less accessible.
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Zweave’s Success Story: The United States Air Force
The U.S Air Force awarded a contract to Zweave to design and build the worlds’ largest database of 3-D and tabular anthropometric survey data. Anthropometric studies provide valuable information to product developers designing apparel, vehicles, safety equipment, sporting goods, footwear, furniture and other items designed for use by humans. Designers can make informed decisions related to product requirements, sizing systems, and fit. Designers can also use anthropometric data to assess the ability of existing products to work together, assess if an individual is safe to use a product, and determine the optimal size for equipment or clothing for a particular individual. The ergonomics research solution Zweave developed for the Air Force contains a database of over 50 public domain anthropometric surveys. An additional survey, which has been converted, is the recent CAESAR survey sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). CAESAR contains over 12,000 3-D whole body scans. Also included with these scans are extracted measurements and demographic information on each subject. This Ergonomics Research System, FitCOMM™, provides collaborative access to over 11 million subject measurements for thousands of military and civilian product development designers, engineers, buyers, and manufacturers. Zweave concluded a Phase I and Phase II project in 2004.
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To find out breast size women, it is necessary to measure two main circles of her body. The first one is the circumference under the chest: with a tape held tightly to the body, should measure the amount of coverage. This parameter is the first value needed to determine the size of the bust.
The second necessary measure is the circumference of the chest. To determine this parameter, you must attach a tape measure to the most protruding points of the chest, which usually have nipples. We should carefully ensure that during the measurement the tape in its entirety was parallel to the floor and does not SAG, since this can significantly distort the measurement results and create difficulties in the selection of underwear.
After getting all the necessary data, you can begin to simple calculations that show what the size of a woman's Breasts. To do this, from the larger result of the measurement, that is, coverage of the chest at the outermost points, subtract the lowest score, i.e. coverage under the breast. The obtained result, expressed in centimeters, is estimated as follows.
So, if the difference in the subtraction ranged from 10 to 11 inches, this corresponds to the zero size of the Breasts. First size are women who have difference between these settings is 12 to 13 inches. The difference is 14-15 inches is typical for the second bust size, 16-17 centimeters of the third, 18-19 cm, the fourth, 20-21 inch - fifth.
Second breast size
Thus, the presence of the second breast size can be stated in women, with the difference between the circumference and bust circumference under the Breasts within 14-15 inches. This means that the second bust size can have women with different body types - from fragile to sports and even dense.
Thus, in order to identify the second bust size, it is not always necessary to make accurate measurements-sometimes in the mind to draw an analogy between a particular woman's bust and some similar in size and shape of objects. For example, experts claim that the second breast size resembles the size of a couple of ordinary oranges. To distinguish it from the first size possible, taking into account that it is usually compared with a couple of apples of medium size, while a third breast size resembles more a couple of grapefruit.
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How To Freeze Raspberries For Jam. Continue stirring mixture for 3 minutes. Allow the berries to dry.
Top with a lid and put in lunchbox. Let stand until thickened, about 30 minutes. Zap for 4 to 5 minutes in microwave.
Rinse 5 To 6 Of Your Frozen Raspberries With Water, Shake Off Excess Water, Dry With Towel.
Then place the trays in the freezer dryer and start the machine. The butter helps the jam stay glossy and eliminates foam. If you’re using them for smoothies, pies or to make jam, frozen raspberries would be perfect!
Fill Your Canner About Half Full With Hot Water And Start Heating It To A Simmer.
Crush berries and measure the exact amount of crushed fruit (3 cups for raspberry jam) into a large bowl. Have clean and dry food storage containers or jars ready and set aside***. I also freeze and can black raspberries.
Put Dry Strawberries In The Jar.
Use a dry measuring cup to measure out exact amount of crushed fruit. Serve immediately, refrigerate up to three. 1) rinse the container of frozen berries in cold water to dislodge any ice or frost from the outside.
Put The Lids (Not The Bands) In Small Sauce Pan And Cover With Boiling Water.
Place clean raspberries on top of yo. Spoon the plain yogurt into a small 8 ounce canning jar (i use nancy’s organic plain yogurt) sprinkle one teaspoon of pyure stevia blend sweetener. Repeat, adding just one cup of sugar at a time and then mixing, until you use up the.
Combine Freezer Jam Pectin And Sugar In A Large Bowl, Stirring Until Well Blended.
Fill the jars with berries, leaving about 2 cm/ 0.8 inches headspace. Freezing raspberries is probably the best way to preserve red raspberries, since they don't hold up to canning as well as other fruit. Directions combine freezer jam pectin and sugar in a large bowl, stirring until well blended.
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Gluggafoss - Window Falls
by Evdokia Tapoglou, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
The upper half of the cliff is palagonite and tuff rock, while the lower ledge is basaltic rock. River Merkja overtime formed tunnels and windows through the soft rock, forming an arch under which the river flows.
Taken on 20
Submitted on 27 February 2015
Credit: Evdokia Tapoglou (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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A new study looking into the power of relevancy in out-of-home has revealed that digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaigns using contextually relevant messaging achieve a more effective audience response.
The Moments of Truth research suggested that this could be as high as an average increase of 17%.
Commissioned by Clear Channel, JCDecaux UK and Posterscope, the study combines three research techniques exploring the most wide-ranging application of neuroscience in DOOH. The research is the largest ever undertaken study to measure the brain’s response; it also uses eye-tracking research to measure ad recall, and test and control sales uplift studies to understand how dynamic DOOH drives direct sales response.
Findings from the study revealed that consumers respond better when viewing relevant content in digital – which contributes to a higher recall of advertising and lead to an increase in
The research was designed to inform and educate the marketing industry on how to maximise DOOH performance and boost consumer responses.
The three stages of the research looked at how the brain responds to DOOH campaigns, ad recall and sales response.
Stage one focused on the brain’s response, with research conducted by neuroscience research company, Neuro-Insight, which wanted to expand our understanding of advertising at particular moments. This section considered why content featuring individual dynamic data triggers, such as location or live updates, is more effective at driving increased brain response.
Stage two measured ad recall and a brand’s creative rating. The research for this section was conducted by Research Bods, using its online webcam eye tracking software. This part of the research demonstrated that advertising at relevant moments and with relevant content would attract attention to advertising and improved brand and creative ratings.
The final party of the study highlighted what response could be generated on the sales side, exploring whether applying the most relevant content and moment in the real world would drive a consumer action. When compared with the traditional singular DOOH creative approach.
Glen Wilson, MD at Posterscope, says: “The ability to deploy truly dynamic content across thousands of high quality, networked digital screens is probably the most significant step forward for OOH since the arrival of those digital screens well over a decade ago.
“But its potential is still significantly underestimated, with media spend on dynamically-enabled digital OOH representing only about 8% of all DOOH campaigns. We’ve always believed in the power of dynamic and seen amazing results from those clients that have embraced it. This research proves beyond doubt that dynamic campaigns work, delivering on effectiveness and engagement, but perhaps most importantly, generating an uplift in sales.”
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I Think I Can Feel My Brain Evolving
29 May, 2007 07:29 pm
There?s a Far Side cartoon where a kid in a classroom raises his hand and says, ?May I be excused? My brain is full.? After two intense days at a brain evolution symposium, I know just how that feels. The Human Brain Evolving: Papers in Honor of Ralph Holloway just finished up, and my brain quite definitely feels full. (I hope the contents settle and I can cram some more stuff in there soon, though, because I realize how very little I know about brain evolution.)
Bones are obviously important. A number of the presentations described the detailed and careful analysis of particular skulls (or the endocasts made from them, rubber latex shapes made using the skulls as molds) or in one case pelvises (because the size and shape of the pelvis can tell us about the size of the brain at birth). Stones also play a major role; several of the talks discussed the stone tools left behind by our distant ancestors. Interestingly, functional brain imaging can tell us something about how brain evolution is related to the tools that hominids made. Dietrich Stout of University College London described how he, along with Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick (of Indiana University and the Stone Age Institute), had volunteers make stone tools of the type made during the early Stone Age. (Flint knapping is an interesting activity because of the challenge it presents: using force with accuracy.) They used PET scans, an analysis of the resulting stone tools, and video of the tool-making techniques to learn about the brain areas and cognitive skills involved. They looked at three different activities: Oldowan-style flint knapping before and after a practice period, and an activity described variously as “simple bimanual percussion” and “banging rocks together”. (I liked the slide of someone carefully setting about knapping wearing gloves and goggles.) Stout also talked about how the brain areas involved in tool-making might also be related to the emergence of language.
Well, that was just a small part of the information presented in one paper, but it gives you an idea of the way traditional anthropological activities blend with modern techniques. Jason Kaufman of Caltech described work that he, J. Michael Tyszka, and John Allman did, using a new technique to trace the connectivity of white matter in the brain. He showed some wonderful, detailed images from a gorilla brain, and demonstrated how the technique could be used to map which parts of the corpus callosum (the bridge between the brain’s hemispheres) connect which parts of the brain. James Rilling described work that he and Todd Preuss of Emory did with an imaging technique that allows them to compare human language pathways in the brain with the homologous structures in chimp and macaque brains. I thought all of the brain images were extremely cool.
I thought to myself yesterday that if I were starting college today I’d be tempted to go into the study of brain evolution, but that doesn’t really narrow down a course of study very well. Would I like to do fieldwork to see if I could locate any more of the fossil record, or the follow-up lab work involving painstaking measurement and computer analysis of the resulting finds? Or, to take a completely different tack, how about the type of genetic analysis that I mentioned yesterday, which looked at which genes relating to the brain have changed more in humans than in other species? Or to follow another set of microscopic evidence, what about the study of brain cells to examine things like hemispheric asymmetry in the brain? Comparative brain anatomy of humans and other great apes is also ripe for study (evidently there is a great deal that we don’t yet know; I was also interested and a bit surprised to learn that neurosurgeons are trained using a brain map that was developed 100 years ago based on a single human brain). Well, you get the picture. It’s a complex field. The commentator at the end who spoke briefly about the afternoon’s talks noted the need for some kind of integration of all the different domains that would lead to further testable hypotheses.
Which leads me to the last point I’d like to make (for now) about the symposium. Sometimes people talk of scientists or the scientific approach as being arrogant and too sure of science and its powers. I wish anyone who felt that way could sit and listen to scientists talking about their work, as these scientists did over the last couple of days. I have no doubt that individually scientists can indeed be arrogant, and I’m also sure that the scientific method doesn’t always work perfectly. But the process by which scientists collectively become sure of something is the best we have available for that purpose, and they’re are not shy about saying “I don’t know why it does that” or “I don’t know what that means”, or to point out the areas that still need to be investigated. That latter aspect is probably one of the things that makes science so appealing to so many people. It provides “the joy of finding things out” (as Richard Feynman put it in the title of a book) and the pleasure of having mysteries explained, but it also provides a limitless supply of fresh puzzles and mysteries to try to solve. Much remains to be understood about how our brains evolved, but I consider myself to be one lucky hominid for living in a time when we’re learning so much about how it happened.
Originally posted at The Thinking Meat Project
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Unique new program helps ready Black students for professional careers in corporate America
CHICAGO — The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is working with accounting and consulting firm Grant Thornton LLP and global financial services and lifestyle company American Express to create a Train the Trainer Career Readiness program. This program equips faculty and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with the tools they need to help students navigate an increasingly competitive employment landscape.
From November 16-18, talent and client service professionals from Grant Thornton will virtually join talent professionals from American Express as well as campus educators and career trainers from eight HBCUs. The two-and-half-days of programming will focus on fostering professional preparation skills and resources at each institution, with a goal of ensuring students can thrive in internships and full-time positions.
The TMCF believes the program is necessary to prepare Black students for professional careers in corporate America. Since its founding in 1987, the TMCF has supported education and career opportunities for underrepresented groups and has a history of success creating pathways to economic mobility for HBCU students through degree attainment and lucrative careers.
A recent study by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that Black employees often feel pressure to work harder to prove themselves but have “barriers to advancement that are largely invisible to white professionals.” And even though African Americans make up 10% of college graduates, only 3.2% of executives and senior manager-level employees are African American.
“With the support of Grant Thornton and American Express, the TMCF is uniquely equipped to bring this important professional development experience to life for HBCU faculty and staff across the nation,” said TMCF Chief Programs Officer Dr. Eric D. Hart. “Train the Trainer is another step toward creating an inclusive workplace environment and even more critical in our current climate as we strive to establish a more just and equitable society.”
Rashada Whitehead, Grant Thornton’s national managing director of Culture, Immersion & Inclusion, believes the program will help prepare college graduates for success in a competitive job market.
“People of color continue to face high barriers of entry in corporate America, and historically, they have been kept out of the top tiers of leadership,” said Whitehead. “Grant Thornton believes that we can help change that narrative. Train the Trainer will further empower career educators and prepare students to thrive in any profession they choose.”
Sonia Cargan, American Express’ Chief Colleague Inclusion and Diversity Officer, said HBCUs are known for creating leaders — and, through the company’s partnership with the TMCF, students are being set up for success.
“HBCUs have long played a critical role to educate and produce the next generation of leaders,” said Cargan. “American Express is committed to supporting the customers and communities we serve. Through our partnership with the TMCF, we are ensuring member schools have access to tools and resources for students to achieve success and this program is one example of our continued collaboration.”
The eight institutions participating in the event are each part of the TMCF, the nation’s largest nonprofit organization exclusively representing HBCUs and Predominantly Black Institutions. They include:
- Central State University
- Florida A&M University
- Jackson State University
- Medgar Evers College
- Morgan State University
- North Carolina A&T State University
- Prairie View A&M University
- Tennessee State University
Grant Thornton’s support of this initiative aligns with the firm’s ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I). In addition to almost a dozen programs promoting DE&I within the firm, Grant Thornton is committed to recruiting students from a diverse range of schools and broadening its experienced-hire recruiting process.
As part of American Express’ $1 billion action plan to enhance diverse representation and promote equal opportunities, the company is committed to allocating resources to initiatives that are focused on advancing equality. Additional information about American Express’ inclusion and diversity efforts can be found in here.
About the Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Established in 1987, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the Black College Community. TMCF member-schools include the publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions, enrolling nearly 80% of all students attending black colleges and universities. Through scholarships, capacity building and research initiatives, innovative programs, and strategic partnerships, TMCF is a vital resource in the K-12 and higher education space. The organization is also the source of top employers seeking top talent for competitive internships and good jobs.
TMCF is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization. For more information about TMCF, visit: www.tmcf.org.
About American Express
American Express is a globally integrated payments company, providing customers with access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Learn more at americanexpress.com and connect with us on facebook.com/americanexpress, instagram.com/americanexpress, linkedin.com/company/american-express, twitter.com/americanexpress, and youtube.com/americanexpress.
About Grant Thornton LLP
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On and on the Bible goes, offering story after story about fathers with shortcomings and failings. But that can be comforting, really.
Not all books in the bargain bins are losers. Sometimes, as with garage sales, a bookstore bargain bin will yield a gem—a keeper like Bad Dads of the Bible by Roland C. Warren.
Warren’s book caught my eye because Father’s Day’s coming up. Also, at 207 pages, I felt the book was about 500 pages too short. I’m convinced every father in the Bible felt like a failure at some point.
We all do.
Every father in every country in every era, in every language eventually ends up mouthing the words, "What was I thinking?"
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About the history of Dacia during the time of king Burebista we know some details from ancient sources. Strabo wrote about the great king:Trajan`s Column, Scene XXIV (C. Cichorius): Dacians besieged a Roman fortress during the war of AD 101-102. Color reconstruction after R. Bianchi Bandinelli.
From this reliable source (Strabo lived in that period, and he is a serious author, who selected his information in a proper manner), we find out that Burebista was a Getan by origin. From the inscription of Acornion, son of Dionysios, from Dionysopolis, we learn that this man had a diplomatic mission to Burebista`s father, who was in the settlement of Argedava. Some modern historians have located this settlement in the Argeș River area, others in Popești, in the Romanian Plain, or even Dobruja. According to other different opinions, the mysterious dava was situated near the mountains from Southern Transylvania.Statue of a Dacian (Pitti Museum, Florence). Trajan`s time.
The name of the king is spelled differently by ancient authors. Strabo writes Boirebistas and Burebistas. The Acornion`s decree calls him Burebistas, but once, in the lines 33-34 of the inscription, is misspelled Burabeista. Jordanes mentions the king as Buruista. The name is not known in the Geto-Dacian onomastics, but has analogies with other Thracian names.The decree of Acornion from Dionysopolis.
The beginning of the reign of Burebista can be placed around 82 BC. Jordanes, author from the 6th century AD, wrote that in Rome, the power was assumed by L. Cornelius Sulla, Burebista reigned and Deceneu was received by the Geto-Dacian king. From the decree of Acornion of Dionysopolis, we find out that the diplomat was sent to Pompey by Burebista, who wished to interfere in the Civil War between Pompey and Caesar, therefore in 48 BC. The last year of reign for Burebista is traditionally considered to be 44 BC, based on the connection between the Romans’ plans to send an army against him, according to Strabo, and Caesar`s intentions to start campaigns against the Dacians and the Parthians, plans which were stopped by the assassination of the Roman dictator, in March 44 BC:
Finally, it is also written that:
So, the king Burebista reigned from before 82 BC up to 44 BC.Bust of a noble Dacian (Hermitage Museum). Trajan`s time.
When he became king, Burebista started to unify the Geto-Dacian tribes, divided by civil wars, by extending his authority in all the teritorries known today as Dacia. From different sources, we know some names of kings who reigned before Burebista, like Oroles, who fought against the Bastarnae, or Rubobostes, about whom Trogue Pompey wrote that he raised the power of the Dacians. The archaeological discovery of the Geto-Dacian coins allowed the identification of some types that, on the basis of the places of discovery and hoard concentration in specific regions, represented the starting point of an interpretation about the issuers, tribes or unions of tribes that produced them. The overview on the Dacian political organization before Burebista is that of some tribes or unions of tribes that are allied or in conflict, with endless changes in their relations. Burebista probably unified the tribes through wars and diplomacy. Some of the dave seem to have been destroyed in the first half of the 1st century BC, which suggests violent conflicts, while others seem to have survived and prospered in the same period.Bust of a Dacian nobleman, possibly king Decebalus (Vatican Museum). Trajan’s time.
The sense of the story of Strabo about the orders to have the vine pulled from its roots might be a moral one, but it emphasizes concepts like austerity, reforms and a concentration of the Royal authority. The measure can also be interpreted as a precaution against civil wars.
In the 2nd and the 1st century BC, Rome began the expansion in the Balkan Peninsula. In 168 BC, king Perseus of Macedon is defeated, and his kingdom transformed, in 146 BC, into a Roman province. Rome is forced to deal with new adversaries and to interfere in the Balkan region. In 109-106 BC, Minucius Rufus, the governor of Macedonia, holds back an invasion of Dacians and Scordisci. C. Scribonius Curio (75-72 BC) follows transdanubian invadors up to the Danube, but is frightened by the dense and dark forests on the other bank and does not dare to cross the river. Some researchers consider that this episode took place in the Banat area.
At the same time, the growth of the power of Burebista is contemporary with the second half of the reign of Mithridates VI, king of Pontus (Asia Minor) and his antiroman policy. Mithridates will dominate the Western part of the Black Sea, placing his garrisons and minting coins in cities like Histria, Tomis and Kallatis, but also the populations from the respective region. The help he received from Thracians and Scythians was discussed and that:
It is possible that king Burebista had good relations with Mithridates, if we take into consideration the alliance system practised by the king of Pontus.Bust of a Dacian (Vatican Museum). Trajan`s time.
The Roman intervention in 73-71 BC will stop the influence of Mithridates in the Western parts of the Black Sea. M. Terentius Varro Lucullus, the brother of general Licinius Lucullus, who commanded the war against Mithridates, will march towards the Greek cities from the Western shore of the Black Sea. Some of them are conquered, like Apollonia or even Histria, while others will change sides, for example in the case of Kallatis, if the foedus preserved until today dates from this time period.The area of Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of the kingdom of Dacia (source: Carmen Maria Petolescu, Monedele regelui Coson, p. 10)
Burebista must have taken advantage of the disappearance of Mithridates and the power-vacuum created.
During the term as governor of Macedonia, the Roman general C. Antonius Hybrida plunders other regions from the Balkans, devastating the territory of the Dardani and campaigning, unsuccessfully, against them and the Bastarnae (Germanic population settled, it seems, in the East of the Carpathian Mountains). The corrupt behaviour of Hybrida and the harsh treatment undergone by the Greek cities from the Western shore of the Black Sea will trigger a great revolt. Antonius Hybrida is defeated by the „Bastarnae Scythians” neas the city of Histria in 60 BC.Bust of a Dacian (Napoli Museum). Trajan`s time.
Vasile Pârvan posed the question if not ”Burebista himself would have been the commander of the Geto-Bastarnae troups that crushed Antonius and took his flags”. This theory is plausible, but the captured Roman flags were recovered by the Romans from the Genucla settlement in 29 BC, thus suggesting that the leader of the rebellion was local and Burebista did not get involved directly at this moment.Dacia during the time of Burebista. The military campaigns of the king (source: wikipedia).
The kingdom of Burebista stretched from the Black Sea and the South of the Danube up to the Carpathian Mountains in the present day Slovakia. The Boii and the Tauriscii from the region around Tisa river were crushed by Burebista, who fought against them. It has been recorded by Strabo about the destruction of the Boii, but Caesar mentioned in De bello Gallico (I, 5, 4) that the Helvetii that prepared themselves around 59-58 BC for the migration towards West asked the help of the Boii from Noricum. This means that the expulsion (and not the destruction) of the Boii took place before 60 BC.
In the East, the Greek cities entered Burebista’s sphere of influence sometime after the defeat of Hybrida in 60 BC. Dio Chrysostom speaks about Olbia, stating:
As Dio Chrysostom made this speach in AD 97, the event must have happened around 55/53 BC. If the city of Olbia (Borystene) was conquered, the diplomatic missions successfully carried out by Acornion of Dionysopolis suggest that other cities, like this one, had willingly accepted the kings’ authority. The title mentioned in the decree of Dionysopolis is the first and the greatest kings from Thracia and ruler of all the territory from both sides of the river is the best suited to describe the realm of the king.
In the last years of reign, Burebista was the most important ruler in the region. Strabo wrote about the military strength of Dacia, claiming that the king could mobilize 200,000 soldiers.Caius Iulius Caesar.
The civil war between Caesar and Pompey determined both generals to try to obtain support from other states. Acornion negotiates with Pompey in the name of the king and his city, thus scholars consider that king Burebista became ally of the Roman general and Rome (rex amicus et socius populi Romani).Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey)
The Civil War broke out in January 49 BC, when Caesar, against the orders of the Senate, crossed the Rubicon river in front of his armies. Pompey ran away with a part of the Senate in Epirus and Macedonia, claiming his legitimacy and counting on the help of the allies of Rome and his personal ones from the East. It is written that Pompey stated:
The prestige of Pompey in the Eastern parts of the Roman state was immense, after the successful campaigns in the last decades, and the resources and initial victory of Dyrrhachium (July 48 BC) seemed to favour him.
If Burebista had been a personal ally of Pompey, or hoped that from his victory, the relations with Rome would evolve in favour of the great king. It is considered that Pompey hoped to receive military support from Burebista, but this did not arrive in time, the defeat of Pharsalus in August 48 BC proving to be decisive for Pompey.
The victory of Caesar marked the deterioration of the relations with the Roman state, as it was obvious from the planned expedition of 44 BC.
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Have you ever had a great Tarot reading and wondered if you could use this amazing resource yourself? Many of my clients have expressed the desire to read cards, and, in the same breath, said, “But I’m not psychic, so I guess I can’t.” This isn’t true! If you have the patience and the discipline to learn the art of Tarot reading, you can absolutely do it on your own.
What you need to read Tarot effectively is a relationship with the cards. This comes through experience, study, and developing your intuition. No one, no matter how naturally psychic, sits down for the first time with a deck of Tarot cards and reads them flawlessly.
Intuition is that doorway to our higher self, or wise self, that we can all access. Most people don’t really pay attention to their intuition, but, if asked, can name a time when they had a feeling about something and then were proved right by unfolding circumstances. This is basic intuition at work. Reading cards requires that we actually know how our intuition speaks to/through us and how to drop into the headspace to receive it.
Psychic ability is a refined form of intuition and may come about as a result of your practice with the cards. Intuition and psychic skills are two sides of the same coin, and neither one is really better than the other. To develop your intuitive faculty, you need to spend time experimenting with receiving it. The following is a short checklist of practices to begin awakening your intuition:
• Meditate or have some other practice to help you learn to quiet your mind.
• Practice visualization or guided meditation to learn to focus your imagination.
• Listen to your hunches, ideas, and inspirations—just start paying more attention to your “first thought, best thought” response to situations.
There is a huge body of knowledge surrounding the Tarot. It’s worthwhile to study its history, theories about Tarot, and the traditional definition of the cards. I recommend getting a good Tarot dictionary as you will need to move beyond the little booklet that comes with the cards. I also suggest students start with a conventional deck before moving to oracle cards or variations on the Tarot. This way, you can first familarize yourself with the basic symbols. But don’t think you have to memorize each card’s definition before you start to read.
You can study with Tarot professionals, take a class or online course, and learn from how-to books. All this is valuable. But don’t get stuck on this part. You need to get actual experience with the cards to really make the leap from curious to competent with the Tarot.
Experience With The Cards
This is probably the most important piece of learning to read Tarot, and it will blend with the other two. You must spend time with the cards! I recommend the following practices to my clients:
• Draw a card a day. Spend time journaling about your impressions of the card (don’t look at the book). Be aware of how the card plays out in your day.
• Keep a Tarot journal. Record your practice readings, the card of the day, and other insights about the Tarot here.
• Learn how to do a one-card spread. Keeping it simple will help you learn to apply cards to different situations. Pick areas of your life to draw cards about. Practice asking about past, present, and future situations.
• Learn to do a three-card spread. Do the above but using three cards. Play with applying different meanings to the cards, like “past, present, future” and “mind, body, spirit.”
• Do at least one reading every few days where you don’t look at the book. Write down your intuitive impressions, even if they don’t make sense. Play with how the cards look and feel to you.
Psychic ability is a wonderful skill to develop, but it isn’t necessary to consider yourself a psychic to effectively read cards for yourself or for your friends. Reading professionally does require stepping up your game, but most people just want to have a meaningful, personal relationship with the Tarot rather than reading as a job. You can learn to read Tarot cards—and you will gain so much more intuitive insight for all of your life in the process.
Do you want to learn Tarot? Getting professional readings is a great place to start. The Keen roster of advisors has many Tarot readers to choose from. Call today!
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ManicTime, Keep Track of PC Activities
If you'd have to analyze a normal work day on your computer, how would it look like? What are the common applications that you open? Which website do you spend the most time on? It can be quite difficulty to calculate those numbers manually, and it is likely that you may be way off. That's where time tracking software like ManicTime can help. The program monitors all PC activities automatically, so that you know exactly what you have done on your PC at a specific time of the day.
The program is offered as a limited free version and commercial versions. ManicTime Free comes without program support and advanced features like password protection, categorization of applications or advanced search functionality.
The free version of the time tracking software tracks and analyzes application usage automatically, and creates charts and statistics about the general computer usage.
When you start the program for the first time, you will see a tabbed interface that is divided into two main areas. The area at the top of the program window displays the current day and a time bar that visualizes computer, application and document usage on the computer. Different programs and documents are displayed with different color sets. Hovering the mouse over them displays tooltip information about the program, time and duration as well as document titles and related information.
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The information that ManicTime present can be a real eye opener for some users. Maybe you realize that you spend to much time gaming on Facebook or your favorite Flash games site, or watching movies on the computer.
I personally like the fact that the program keeps not only track of programs but also window titles, so that you can for instance see how much time you spend on specific websites in your web browser.
ManicTime is a handy time tracking software for the Windows operating system. Windows users can download all available versions of the software from the developer website. The program is fully compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system.Advertisement
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Master of Science
Climatic changes, Liliaceae-Climatic factors, Liliaceae-Geographical distribution, Liliaceae-Effect of global warming on, Global warming, Biotic communities, Distribution limits, Biotic interactions, Range shifts, Clintonia borealis
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to have major effects on the distributions of plant and animal species. Geographic ranges are expected to shift poleward and to higher elevations in many regions. To date, most research efforts have focused on documenting poleward range shifts or movement to higher elevations at the “leading edge” of species’ distributions. In contrast, range contractions and population extinctions along species’ warm-margin distribution limits have received less attention, despite the expectation that these areas may be the principal sites of biodiversity loss in coming decades.
This study investigated evidence of abiotic and biotic effects on plant performance along an elevational and climatic gradient associated with the warm-margin distribution limit of a northern forest herb, Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. (Liliaceae), in southern New England. Fourteen populations of C. borealis were surveyed for plant size, leaf traits, and reproductive performance across an » 1000-meter regional elevational gradient in western Massachusetts from the Connecticut River Valley to the top of Mt. Greylock. Additionally, a supplemental pollination experiment was conducted at four sites to test for evidence of pollen limitation and inbreeding effects on seed production near the species’ warm margin distribution limit.
Across the populations surveyed, estimated population size increased significantly with an increase in elevation (R2 = 0.6813, F1,12 = 25.65, p < 0.01). Clintonia borealis populations at higher elevations also included a significantly greater proportion of flowering plants compared to low elevation populations (R2 = 0.6778, F1,12 = 25.24, p < 0.01), and C. borealis plants in higher elevation populations had a significantly greater number of flowers per plant compared to plants in low elevation populations (t = 8.00, df = 433.12, p < 0.01). Mean leaf size also tended to increase with an increase in elevation, although not significantly (R2 = 0.1489, F1,12 = 2.099, p = 0.1731). Specific leaf area was significantly higher at low elevation sites (R2 = 0.30, F1,13 = 5.65, p = 0.03), likely linked to significantly greater soil moisture (t = -7.7842, df = 131.50, p < 0.01) in low elevation population sites which were closely associated with forested wetlands, as opposed to higher elevation areas where the species extended into upland forests with lower soil moisture levels. The broader population survey suggested that low elevation populations were isolated and often limited to spatially restricted cool, mesic habitat patches in the landscape, such as mesic or wetland forest habitats; high elevation populations were often extensive and occupied a range of forest habitat settings, from uplands to wetlands, dense and widespread, with a more general distribution, highlighting the potential impact of abiotic factors.
In the pollination experiment comparing reproductive performance in two high elevation populations versus two low elevation populations, fruit set via natural open pollination was significantly higher at high elevation than low elevations (60.9% vs. 19.5%, p < 0.001). With experimental pollen supplementation, fruit set increased significantly in low elevation populations (p < 0.01), while supplemental pollination at high elevations had no effect. Elevation also had a significant effect on seed production, as high elevation populations produced more seeds per fruit compared to low elevation populations (p < 0.01), possibly linked to the smaller number of seeds produced by low elevation plants. Supplemental pollination had no significant effect on seed mass.
The results of this study indicated that reproduction in lower elevation, warm-margin distribution limit populations of C. borealis was substantially affected by both abiotic and biotic factors, likely making these populations more susceptible to decline or local extinction with climate change. Many northern forest herbs with similar ecological requirements to those of C. borealis may be at substantial risk of local extinction in coming decades. The loss of such species along their warm-margin distribution limits will decrease species diversity and has the potential to modify species interactions and influence ecosystem processes. populations (p < 0.01), but supplemental pollination had no effect on seed production as measured by mean seed count per fruit. Elevation was significantly correlated with seed mass, as low elevation populations produced heavier seeds compared to high elevation
Nelson, Karyn Rae, "Evidence of biotic and abiotic effects in small, warm-margin distribution limit populations of a northern forest herb, Clintonia borealis (Liliaceae)" (2016). Masters Thesis, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
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3. Operations with Integers, Fractions & Decimals
Some simple rules for signs:
The negative of a negative is positive. e.g. $-(-3)=3; 3-(-2)=3+2=5$
The product of two negatives is a positive. e.g. $(-3)*(-2)=6$
The product of a positive and a negative is a negative. e.g. $(-3)*2=(-6)$
The same rules above hold for division as well.
And the same rules hold for all of integers, decimals, fractions etc.,
Some simple rules for even and odd numbers:
odd times even gives an even
odd times odd gives an odd
even times even gives an even
multiplication is commutative with real numbers, so an odd times an even gives the same results if the ordering of the numbers is reversed.
If x and y are integers, a number expressed as x/y is called a fraction, with numerator x and denominator y.
If x and y are each expressed as the product of their prime factors, and common prime factors cancelled from the numerator and denominator, then the fraction is in its reduced form.
A fraction with denominators like $10, 100 (=10*10), 1000 (=10*10*10)$, ... can be converted into a decimal form.
This is done by placing a decimal point in the numerator counting right to left, after the number of zeros in the denominator.
e.g. $3/10=0.3. 233/100=2.33. 3/1000=0.003$.
The first digit to the right of the decimal point is the tenths place, then the 100ths place and so on.
This is akin to how the places to the left of the decimal point are the units, tens, hundreds etc from right to left.
The value of a fraction x/y does not change if both numerator and denominator are multiplied by the same quantity.
We can use this idea to convert a fraction to a decimal, and vice versa.
e.g. $8/125=(8*8)/(125*8)=64/1000-0.064$ (Recall that you need the denominator to be 10, 100, 1000, ... for the conversion to work)
e.g. $0.064=0.64/10=6.4/100=64/1000$ (Recall that each 10 in the denominator pushes the decimal point one place to the left in the numerator.
Some decimals can have recurring patterns of digits. These are digits after the decimal points that continue on... and on.
e.g. $3.34343434....$ to $∞$ how to express this decimal as a fraction?
Let's say $p=3.3434343434...$ to $∞$ (call this A). Then $100*p=334.34343434...$ to $∞$ B
So subtracting equation B from equation A, we get, $99p=331$, or $p=331/99$
To add (or subtract) two fractions, we need to normalize their denominators first.
We cannot add the numerators of two fractions until their denominators are equal. Normalizing the denominators achieves this.
e.g. to add $a/b$ and $c/d$, we multiply both the numerator and denominator of the first fraction by $d$.
Then we multiply the numerator and denominator of the second fraction by $b$.
So we get two fractions $(a*d)/(b*d)$ and $(c*b)/(b*d)$.
The values of the fractions haven't changed since $(d/d)=1$ and $(b/b)=1$, we effectively just multiplied each fraction by 1.
So, $a/b + c/d = (ad)/(bd) + (bc)/(bd) = (ad+bc)/(bd)$.
Multiplication of two fractions does not require normalizing the denominators.
We just multiply the two numerators and the two denominators to get the resultant fraction
Division of two fractions is the same as multiplying the first fraction with the second fraction's reciprocal.
To add (or subtract) two decimals, we need to align digits so we add or subtract corresponding digits in the right places.
Operations proceed normally - like regular addition and subtraction otherwise
e.g. $123.321 - 23.32 = 100.001$
e.g. $23.32 + 110.011 = 133.331$
To multiply two decimals, simply multiply the two numbers ignoring the decimal point, then put it back in summing the number of digits to the right of the decimal point in the two numbers.
e.g. $23.21*12.2=2321*122/(1000)=283.162$ (2 decimals+1 decimal=3 digits after decimal point in the product).
The above logic works in reverse for divisions.
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At this point, of course, the afternoons immediately get darker as sunset is moved forward by an hour. Conversely, the mornings get an extra hour of daylight, but it will only be a few more weeks before this temporary bonus is eliminated by the ever-shortening day.
But while many would rather not open their front door, the reality is there will still be lots of times when heading outside is necessary, such as the commute to work.
The perils of a winter commute
Commuting in the dark is not much fun, especially if the weather is very cold, so staff may appreciate it if there are opportunities to avoid this. In addition, the fact is that travelling in the winter months is also more dangerous. Poor visibility is primarily a consequence of poor light, but can also be affected by mist and fog, snow and heavy rain, all common features of wintry mornings.
Add to that the potentially treacherous road surfaces, and it is small wonder road accidents increase.
The RAC supports ditching the current regime of switching from British Summer Time (BST) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) between October and March, in favour of keeping BST for winter and putting the clocks a further hour forward in summer. This would effectively mean the UK adopting Central European Time.
It has argued that the evidence suggests road accidents would be slashed if this were to happen, based on Department for Transport research into a three-year trial of abandoning GMT between 1968 and 1971. This indicated deaths would be cut by 80 per cent and serious injuries by 212 per cent per year.
While your company cannot change the time, you can artificially improve the situation through flexible working. By allowing staff to start work an hour later when GMT kicks in, you can ensure they are commuting when the roads are statistically safer. Indeed, because this will be after the rush hour, their whole travel experience may be much enhanced.
Another way of helping staff avoid a dark morning commute is to allow more working from home, where this can be done without having a negative effect on the firm. For instance, if someone is writing a report, or can use a video link to connect to a meeting, or use email to send important data they have been compiling, it may not be necessary to actually be in the office. Only if they have to use specialist equipment kept at the premises or work in a customer-facing role will physically coming into work always be essential.
Take a ‘D’ break
Finally, on a health note it is important to make sure staff who are in the office try to get outside or at least near the windows in their lunch hours. This is so they can maximise the daylight they get on short days. It helps them absorb more vitamin D and can also help combat seasonal affective disorder, which can leave many people suffering fatigue and depression in the darker months.
By taking these steps, you can help ensure your staff cope better now the clocks have gone back and the days are getting short.
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In 1948, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a young Ivorian former colonial navy officer, living in Dakar, Senegal—then the capital of French west Africa—had a vision. The skies opened up, revealing seven suns dancing around a central star. Bouabré changed his name to Cheik Nadro, “the Revealer,” and dedicated his life to inventing a new writing system for his people, the Bété.
Bouabré is the first Ivorian artist to have his work showcased in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, which will be on display through Aug. 13, 2022. The exhibit pays homage to Bouabré’s decades-long career, showcasing 11 series of drawings totaling more than 1,000 individual works, including his two best-known bodies of work, Alphabet Bété (1990-91) and Connaissance du monde (1987-2008.)
*The views of the above article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Africa Speaks 4 Africa or its editorial team.
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The return of inflation has led to questions about what this means for students, graduates and higher education institutions. This post lists some of the implications.
Indexation of HELP debt
HELP debt is indexed each 1 June. It is based on a two year period of CPI data ending in the March quarter of 2022 (I am not sure why it is two years). Because inflation March 2020 to March 2021 was lower than inflation March 2021 to March 2022 indexation for 2022 was 3.9 per cent, rather than the 5.1 per cent it would have been on a one year CPI cycle. The downside of this reprieve is that after inflation comes down again indexation will still exceed the recent average.
I said at last week’s Universities Australia conference that increased indexation will affect the politics of HELP debt. The big increase in the number of HELP debtors and total HELP debt over the last 15 years occurred at a time of mostly low inflation. Annual indexation rarely attracted much comment. This year there was much more media and social media coverage.
CPI is well above bank interest rates, giving people who can afford to repay early an incentive to do so. Indeed, low bank interest rates may help explain why voluntary HELP repayments have grown in recent years.
Indexation of HELP repayment thresholds
HELP repayment thresholds are also indexed but on a year-to-year basis ending in the December quarter prior to the tax year in question. So for 2022-23 the indexation formula is (sum of quarterly CPI index numbers 2021)/(sum of quarterly index numbers 2020). This avoids the surge in inflation in the March 2022 quarter that helped bump up HELP debt indexation. Repayment threshold indexation is 2.9 per cent for 2022-23. However inflation during 2022 will mean higher threshold indexation for 2023-24 than for 2022-23.
For HELP debtors whose incomes increase by less than inflation threshold indexation could mean lower HELP repayments as a percentage of their income. This is because they could drop back a repayment level, for example paying 3.5 per cent rather 4 per cent of their income. However, this would leave more debt to be indexed each 1 June.
Indexation of student contributions
The indexation of student contributions has another strangely lagging CPI indexation formula. The 2022 student contributions were indexed on the formula of December quarter CPI index number 2020/December quarter index number 2019, or 0.9 per cent. Student contributions in 2023 on my calculations will go up by 3.5 per cent. Like indexation of the HELP debt it will be a case of high inflation still flowing through to higher education after it is gone.
Indexation of Commonwealth contributions
Commonwealth contributions are indexed in the same way as student contributions. Inflation is likely to cause universities problems. Wage demands to compensate for it are already here, but indexation income will not start flowing until 2023, with that increase likely to be well below actual inflation in 2022.
A further complication for universities is that although Commonwealth contributions, i.e. the per student Commonwealth funding rates, are indexed each university’s overall maximum Commonwealth Grant Scheme income is not.
The previous government said that Job-ready Graduates would index their funding to CPI but this was a promise without statutory backing. The legal maximum funding is set out in funding agreements. The maximum funding amounts may have expected CPI indexed built into the changing annual totals, but there is no automatic adjustment to actual CPI.
In practice what this means is that universities can deliver fewer Commonwealth supported places and still get their maximum CGS grant.
The only current way to put actual-inflation indexation into maximum grants is to renegotiate the funding agreements. For some universities this renegotiation will happen anyway to implement Labor’s promise of additional funding. But given overall budget pressures the government may decline to offer inflation top-up funding on ‘old’ money.
IRLSAF and NPILF
The Indigenous, Regional and Low SES Attainment Fund (IRLSAF) and the National Priorities and Industry Linkage Fund (NPILF) are indexed in the same way as student and Commonwealth contributions.
The Research Training Program and Research Support Program total funding pools are also indexed in the same way as student and Commonwealth contributions. However, as these are performance-driven schemes this does not guarantee that a university’s own grant will go up by the indexation amount.
Total funding for the Australian Research Council is not automatically indexed but there is a history of legislating to index its annual funding cap. When this was last done for the budget forward estimates years through to 2024-25 it was 1.35 per cent on previously announced levels. The ARC itself seems to index grants according to the block research grants formula, although on a quick check I have not identified a statutory requirement to do so.
A long period of mostly stable inflation has meant that sometimes odd indexation systems have not received much scrutiny. If inflation is always around 2 per cent it doesn’t matter that this 2 per cent was for a period some time ago. But when inflation flows quickly through to university expenses it matters that revenue increases are delayed.
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It is true that this great tradition has been lost, and that the new one is not yet established. But what was this great tradition, if not a habitual everyday idealization of ancient life — a robust and material form of life, a state of readiness on the part of each individual…? Before trying to distinguish the epic side of modern life, and before bringing examples to prove that our age is no less fertile in sublime themes than past ages, we may assert that since all centuries and all peoples have had their own form of beauty, so inevitably we have ours. That is the order of things… But to return to our principle and essential problem, which is to discover whether we possess a specific beauty, intrinsic to our new emotions… The pageant of fashionable life and the thousands of floating existences —- criminals and kept women — which drift about in the underworld of the great city; the Gazette des Tribunaux and the Moniteur all prove to us that we have only to open our eyes to recognize our heroism. For the heroes of the Iliad are but pigmies compared to you —- who dared not publically declaim your sorrows in the funeral and tortured frock coat which we all wear today! — you the most heroic, the most extraordinary, the most romantic and the most poetic of all the characters that you have produced from your womb!- Baudelaire, “The Salon of 1846: On the Heroism of Modern Life”
- Charles Pierre Baudelaire
"In this regards, my friend, you're like the public, to whom one should never offer a delicate perfume. It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage."
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Wild Belize Escape: Wildlife, Reefs, and Rivers on National Geographic Quest
A Voyage to Belize: Wildlife, Reefs, and Rivers
Explore vibrant reefs and near-mythical ruins on a land-and-sea expedition Discover the tropical wonders of Belize on a voyage along the country’s remote southern coast. Using the National Geographic Quest as your base for exploration, snorkel the colorful corals of the Belize barrier reef, skirt the shores of white-sand islands by kayak and stand-up paddleboard, and swim in turquoise lagoons teeming with marine life. Head inland to explore lush jungles on foot; and cruise coastal rivers in Zodiacs, seeking out howler monkeys and toucans in the surrounding rain forest canopy.
Set out from the state-of-the-art National Geographic Quest to kayak and paddleboard turquoise lagoons, and board Zodiacs to cruise wildlife-rich coastal rivers.
Spot turtles, rays, and rainbow-colored fish while snorkeling or diving the coral gardens of the Belize barrier reef.
Join a naturalist for a hike in Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, the world’s first jaguar reserve.
Enjoy a festive drumming performance from the internationally acclaimed Garifuna Collective.
$300.00 Ship Board Credit
for more information call or email firstname.lastname@example.org or 281 362 0777 or 1 888 843 7914
Experience Peru Expedition-style, Immersive & In-depth Joining an expedition to Peru is an unparalleled experience of Inca wonders, colonial cities, and a rich cultural heritage. A knowledgeable, enthusiastic staff caters to your daily interests and provides insight. Our expedition will enable you to:
See daybreak over the ruins at Machu Picchu from the fabled Sun Gate, with only a handful of visitors
Discover Cusco’s array of cultural influences and explore the Sacred Valley of the Inca with a National Geographic expert
Explore the massive stone Inca stone fortress of Ollantaytambo
Ancient civilizations & modern day life The genius of the Inca architects is evident in the ruins left standing today. At Machu Picchu, the terrain is so jagged that only 35% of the territory has been examined. The harsh surroundings are strategic to Machu Picchu, lending this sanctuary a fusion of beauty and harmony with nature. Mountain-top views from this ancient citadel are a photographer’s dream. Cusco, capital of the Inca dynasty, was once a holy city. As a result, many splendid styles of architecture are found here. Contemporary Cusco is surrounded by sculpted agricultural terraces from long ago. Our guides reveal the wonders of ancient civilizations, and reveal the Inca influence in contemporary life, too.For more information call or email email@example.com or 281 362 0777 or 1 888 843 7014 http://distinctivetravelcruises.com
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The Wonderbag is a portable, non-electric slow cooker with a social conscience. Created by Sarah Collins, a South African adventurer, entrepreneur and social activist, the Wonderbag eliminates the need for tedious wood fire cooking and /or electricity.
The idea for the Wonderbag came to Sarah while in the middle of a rolling power outage in South Africa, resulting from the country’s precarious electricity reserves. Wanting to still cook without electricity, Sarah remembered her grandmother taking pots off the stove and wrapping them in blankets and furniture cushions in order to keep perfectly cooked casseroles piping hot. This heat retention method also enhances rural women’s quality of life by reducing the time spent cooking and keeping them from inhaling so much hazardous smoke from their cooking fires.
The Wonderbag itself is made from a simple colorful fabric filled with repurposed foam chips, a waste product of furniture and mattress manufacturing in South Africa, and fits 2 – 9 quart pots. You sit your pot on a trivet in the bag and the top seals with a drawstring. It continues to cook food which has been brought to boil by conventional methods for up to 8 hours without the use of additional electricity or fuel.
I made a Hearty Tuscan Bean Soup in my Wonderbag, and it was delicious. I prepped the soup, boiled it for a few minutes and let it sit in the Wonderbag for a couple of hours before serving. It was piping hot when my boys and I ate it, and I didn’t have to deal with washing my big crock pot afterwards. It would be great to bring to hot foods to parties or even for camping.
The best part is that for every Wonderbag purchased in the US, one is donated to a family in need in Africa. Here is more on the social impact:
Smoke inhalation from wood fire cooking is the leading cause of death globally. More than 50% of premature deaths in children under five are related to household air pollution
Each Wonderbag saves 1.7 trees, 1,000 liters of water, and 1,248 hours of time not spent collection firewood
82% of female rapes in Africa occur while collecting firewood for cooking
One job is created for every 1,000 bags sold. Over 700,000 bags have been sold to date
Watch this video for more on the social impact that Wonderbag is making.
You can buy the Wonderbag on their website or on Amazon.
Each Friday, the another jennifer blog shares stories of those who incorporate philanthropy into their everyday lives – personally and professionally – in a creative and unique way. If you have a story you’d like to share, please contact Jennifer. Read past stories here.
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With Canada’s federal government set to roll out its marijuana legislation, set to get the party started by July 1, 2018, all eyes are on the marijuana industry, its producers, distributors and sellers and how the new laws is about to change the business landscape in Canada.
But somewhat passed over in the discussion is the current recreational pot smoker whose habit, although it may not be altered too much by legalization, will likely come to be viewed in a new light by fellow citizens and society in general. On that front, it may take time, says sociologist University of Alberta sociologist Geraint Osborne, but the long-held view of the typical marijuana smoker as the doped up social drop-out will definitely change, effectively putting marijuana consumption in the same vein as alcohol consumption.
“Once non-users start saying, ‘We don’t have a problem with this,’ then boom, the shift happens,” says Osborne, in a University of Alberta press release. “And I think people recognize prohibition is just not working, that harm reduction is probably the better route.”
In his research, Osborne has focused on cultural perceptions of marijuana, especially in relation to the well-known deviance framework which he says doesn’t really fit the reality for a large proportion of pot smokers. Osborne’s 2008 study looked at 41 men and women from across Canada whose use of marijuana ranged from daily to once or twice a year. Importantly, the interview subjects were predominantly middle-class, with 68 per cent of them holding post-secondary degrees. The study found that the participants saw their drug use as moderate and responsible, occurring only in appropriate social settings and not causing harm to others — altogether an image of the pot smoker unlike the one portrayed in so-called stoner films and media over the past century.
“There isn’t a typical user,” he said. “People are using in a wide range of social contexts for different reasons. Some are tuning in, some zoning out. Some are using to enhance creativity or their sex lives, some for relaxation and to help them sleep. Some like how it enhances their experience of nature, and some use it after sporting events as a way to recover.”
A 2016 study saw Osborne and colleagues interviewing undergraduate students about their views on marijuana use and found that while the cultural assumptions about pot smoking as deviant behaviour still remained, yet students were accommodating of cannabis use if and when it was done with discretion and the respect of non-users in mind.
The trend towards further normalizing of marijuana use will certainly be boosted by its legalization next year, says Osbourne. Ultimately, cultural accommodation will mean that cannabis consumption will become on par with alcohol consumption: a behaviour that normal people do all the time yet which has established social conventions for acceptable and appropriate use. “Some people are worried there will be a dramatic upswing in use, but generally what we’re seeing in other jurisdictions is that doesn’t happen,” says Osborne. “There might be an initial bump in the numbers out of curiosity, but the drug is pretty accessible now.”
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US supermarket chain Kroger and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) have called on the government to designate grocery store associates as first responders.
The two companies have issued a joint statement urging the federal and state government to grant temporary ‘extended first responders or emergency personnel’ status to grocery workers.
The statement has been issued after both Kroger and the UFCW have been supporting the topic directly with elected officials in the past five weeks.
Various steps have already been taken to keep Kroger associates safe and reward them for their sacrifices throughout the outbreak.
Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen and UFCW international president Marc Perrone said: “Given the significant daily risk these workers face, we are calling on all of our federal and state leaders to take immediate action. Specifically, we are requesting our nation’s leaders to assign a temporary designation of first responder or emergency personnel status for all grocery workers.
“Make no mistake, this designation is absolutely critical as it will ensure these frontline workers have priority access to personal protection equipment like masks and gloves.
“This urgent call for temporary first responder or emergency personnel status is not just about protecting grocery store workers; it is also about protecting the customers they serve and our nation’s food supply in general.
“We urge our national and state-wide elected leaders to act now and protect these essential workers.”
Earlier this month, Kroger revealed a sharp rise in sales growth across both physical retail stores and digital channels in March amid the outbreak.
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