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A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans has been removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House in Annapolis.
The statue of Roger B. Taney was lifted away by a crane at about 2 a.m. Friday. It was lowered into a truck and driven away.
WBAL TV shot video of the statue being hauled away overnight. Capitol police stood guard at the statue around the clock starting early Wednesday, WBAL reported.
A panel voted by email Wednesday to remove the statue, which was erected in 1872.
Taney was the author of the 1857 Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott vs. Sanford, which held that African-Americans were not citizens and "had no rights, which the white man was bound to respect." His statue sat outside of the State House.
“While we cannot hide from our history – nor should we – the time has come to make clear the difference between properly acknowledging our past and glorifying the darkest chapters of our history," he said. "With that in mind, I believe removing the Justice Roger B. Taney statue from the State House grounds is the right thing to do, and we will ask the State House Trust to take that action immediately."
House Speaker Michael Busch, who voted for removal, wrote this week that the statue "doesn't belong" on the grounds. His comments came after the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
There was a copy of the statue of Taney in Baltimore at Mount Vernon Place. Following the deadly attack after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh pushed for the removal of the Taney statue and all Confederate statues in the city. | <urn:uuid:8874b4a0-8f5c-48e2-ae4b-582b8a0653a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/crews-remove-taney-statue-from-maryland-state-house/25175/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975762 | 363 | 2.609375 | 3 |
AUSTIN, Texas - With a continued spike in cases and hospitalizations, COVID-19 warnings are ramping back up in Central Texas.
Health officials are especially concerned with school set to start in just a few weeks—raising questions about whether students should be wearing masks.
For Austin ISD, the first day of classes is three weeks from Tuesday, on August 17. On Friday, Austin and Travis County went back into Stage 4 of risk-based COVID guidelines.
Among those guidelines, the city is now asking even vaccinated Austinites to wear a mask indoors, and outdoors as well if you are unable to social-distance. Those who are unvaccinated are now being asked to avoid non-essential gatherings.
Those guidelines are reflected in Austin ISD’s COVID protocols, which were released late last week. School officials "strongly encourage" everyone to wear a mask indoors, especially the unvaccinated, but note school districts cannot require masks due to an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott.
A group of Texas Democrats wrote a letter to Abbott over the weekend, urging him to allow districts to decide for themselves whether to mandate masks for teachers and students. But the Governor is doubling down on his stance against mask mandates, including in public schools—meaning that, right now, local officials can only make recommendations.
Meanwhile, some private schools and businesses in the Austin area are once again making masks mandatory. St. Edward’s University announced that face coverings will once again be required for everyone on campus if they are indoors—even for people who are vaccinated.
Beyond masking up, Austin Public Health says it’s more important now than ever that more people get the COVID shot. As COVID hospitalizations spike once again in Central Texas, local doctors say more than 90% of ICU patients are unvaccinated. APH says the seven-day moving average of hospitalizations has more than tripled since the 4th of July, and hospitals are seeing more younger COVID patients.
Health experts say the trend is largely due to new variants of COVID, such as the highly-contagious and more deadly Delta variant. Those variants have been able to spread quickly as many people remain hesitant to get the vaccine, so local health officials say their focus has now shifted to combatting misconceptions around getting the COVID shot.
On Monday, Austin ISD is holding a vaccination clinic for students 12 and older and their families. It’s happening from 3:00 to 7:00 PM at Covington Middle School.
For more on where and how you can get your shot, visit austintexas.gov/covid19.
As Texas COVID-19 cases surge, officials urge everyone to wear masks and for unvaccinated residents stay home
Officials move Austin-Travis County to Stage 4 of COVID guidelines
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A high-profile coalition of English football's main governing bodies and organisations, including the Football Association, Premier League and EFL announced last weekend that they will suspend all use of their social media accounts from 3pm on Friday, April 30 until 11.59pm on Monday, May 3, in a show of solidarity against racism, online abuse and threatening behaviour.
They are set to be joined by the FA Women's Super League, FA Women's Championship, Professional Footballers' Association, League Managers Association, PGMOL, Kick It Out, Women in Football and the Football Supporters' Association
Welcoming the stance, the Livingston captain and recently-appointed SFA equality advisor said he has little faith in the owners of online platforms doing the right thing without being coerced.
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Claiming they are well aware of the abuse yet continue to drag their heels when it comes to policing abusers and stamping out discriminatory comments, he hopes the fact that the likes of Adidas who manufacture more than a third of EPL kits, have said they will halt advertising across social media during the boycott will kick-start change.
“The hierarchy at these social media companies can see what is going on but they must sit in meetings and decide to just ignore it. It’s not as if they are not seeing racism.
“But all they care about is that all these faceless accounts and fake profiles are pushing their numbers up and that allows them to charge more for advertising. So it doesn’t suit them to police it and only allow legitimate accounts or to throw people off. Until it costs them money then they just won’t care. They are happy to let racism carry on.
“That’s why it is good that sponsors and advertisers are getting on board. That’s when things might change.”
Aston Villa and Everton’s shirt sponsor, Cazoo, were the first major football sponsors to announce its support, with several others expected to follow suit.
Adidas said that they will halt all paid advertising across UK social platforms for the duration of the boycott, while Barclays, the title sponsor of the WSL and the official bank of the Premier League will also support the blackout, silencing all social media posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
MP Julie Elliott, has written to the Leader of the House of Commons requesting Parliamentary time be put aside to debate the boycott. But, Bartley said that people in power need to stop talking about it and act.
“The Government is not blameless in this either. They could step in and licence things but, they don’t. The silence is deafening and it is so, so sad that people are still experiencing this. I still get it. I was called the N-word but when it was reported to Instagram they said they couldn’t do anything because it didn’t go against their code of conduct! What’s that all about?
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Create an Ornament to Celebrate Your Furry (or Feathered) Friends!
Every year one of my favorite traditions is to make homemade ornaments. It is so fun to unwrap the memories year after year. One of my favorite methods of making homemade ornaments is to make salt dough ornaments. I’m sure at one point in time everyone has had experience with salt dough. Do I need to mention those handmade ornaments from kindergarten?
Salt dough ornaments are so incredibly easy to make and can be made with items you probably already have around the house. The recipe is very simple and can easily be doubled if you need more salt dough. To make the salt dough you need salt, flour, and water, it’s that easy!
The salt dough holds up well to rolling, cutting with cookie cutters, and making hand or paw prints in it. A few years ago I started making annual salt dough paw print ornaments with my Guinea Pig. What started as a funny ornament to give to friends and family turned into a great tradition and memory of our pets from the past. Believe it or not, our chickens even get in the action and make salt dough ornaments as well!
In our last batch of salt dough ornaments, we featured our newest baby Guinea Pig – Eve. She is quite an interesting little friend, and it was fun to make her first set of ornaments.
To make our salt dough paw print ornaments, we are going to start by making the dough. We are focusing on paw print ornaments but this same method works great with handprints as well. Gather 1 cup of all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup warm water, and 1/2 cup table salt.
Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Gently pour the warm water into your mixture. Start kneading the dough. The dough will be messy at first but as you mix it, the salt dough should go from a messy blob to a nice dough. If you notice your dough is a bit dry, add a tiny bit of water, very little at a time. If the dough becomes too sticky, add just a little more flour.
After your dough is fully mixed, it is time to roll out. I like to roll my salt dough on some parchment paper with a very, very light dusting of flour. This prevents your ornaments from sticking. Roll your dough until it is 1/4″ thick. You don’t want your ornaments to be thick. If your ornaments are too thin, they will become brittle after drying.
You have a few options for your paw prints. You can have your furry friend push their paw into the rolled-out salt dough first, then you can cut around the prints. I prefer using a cookie cutter, and cutting out the shapes first, then making our paw prints. A simple biscuit cutter makes a fun shape for the ornament.
Next use a straw or small cookie cutter to make the hole for your hanging about 1/2-1″ from the top of the ornament. Salt dough can start to dry out, so you want to be sure to get your paw print within 30 minutes of rolling out and cutting your salt dough.
To make getting the paw print super easy, you can take your cut-out shapes, on a piece of parchment, and put them on a cookie sheet. This will allow you to move the cutouts closer to your pet.
Gently help your pet push their paw into the salt dough. You want to push about halfway to 3/4 down into the salt dough. Too far down, and you could get a brittle spot after drying too light pressure and after drying your print may not show up well. After your prints are done, give your pet a special treat for a job well done!
Now it is time to dry your ornaments. You can use an oven set to 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-4 hours. Just be sure to watch your ornaments, make sure there is no burning. A dry ornament will be very light and hard when it is dry. You can also use a dehydrator like we did, set to 160 degrees. With this method, it took about 3-4 hours for our ornaments to be fully dry.
After your ornaments are all dry, they are ready for display! You can give your ornaments a quick spray with clear acrylic to seal them. You can even paint your ornaments for a fun touch! Add a hanger, and find the perfect spot on your tree!
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Whether you call them makerspaces, hackerspaces or DIY spaces, the thought is the same. These are places where learners can tinker, explore, invent, and build. These spaces are great for encouraging creativity and hands-on learning.
With the current nationwide goal of social distancing, we are aiming to bring activities into the home. The first step is creating your own “Makerspace in a Box,” composed of common tools and materials found around the home. We encourage a selection that has both everyday items and unexpected materials. Working within this constraint boosts creativity and imagination.
These steps are suggestions for gathering your materials and setting expectations for your new makerspace. Remember, start with what you already have available!
Choose a space that both the youth and adult can agree upon. Space will be needed to store the box and space will be needed to work.
Create and discuss expectations and ground rules for your new makerspace box and work area. Here are some things to consider:
Use the following list to take inventory on the supplies you have and or may need to easily complete your DHF Daily Digi Challenges!
Arts & Crafts
Safety and Cleanup
Don’t worry about what you don’t have! Use the link below to share with us what you are missing. This will allow us the opportunity to have confidence in providing activities that require materials you actually have. We are also exploring ways to get some materials for you all.
Share, share and share! Take a picture of your Makerspace in a Box and send it to us! Remember that your Makerspace in a Box will continue to change by its contents, and size based on your projects, interest and your imagination!
To share your project, head to https://dhf.io/shareproject and fill out the form!
We have a quick feedback form to fill out once you’ve done this activity. Your thoughts help us improve our projects and make sure we’re providing content that people are interested in. Let us know what you think!
To provide feedback, head to https://dhf.io/ydu and fill out the form!
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Associate Professor, General Faculty
145 New Cabell Hall
Transnational Studies, German Literature and Culture, Transnational Literature in Hebrew, Language Pedagogy
Zvi Gilboa joined the University of Virginia in Fall 2011. His research primarily lies in the fields of Transnational Studies, German Literature and Culture, and Transnational Literature in Hebrew, and places special emphasis on the cultural and literary authorship of non-native speakers. Zvi's interest in languages is not limited to those that are "merely spoken"; he holds degrees in piano performance from Tel-Aviv University and Indiana University, and has long been immersed in several computer languages. With a great passion for digital typography that pertains to both research and teaching, Zvi constantly looks for ways to improve the typesetting of right-to-left scripts using transparent and modifiable typesetting frameworks.
Language and technology intersect in Zvi's teaching in a variety of areas, and are also at the heart of the assessment method he devised for the Modern Hebrew program, nick-named Show What You Know. Instead of taking traditional vocabulary quizzes, for instance, students in the program record videos in which they demonstrate their mastery of the vocabulary at stake. Assessment of grammar and oral proficiency takes place in a similar manner, and students thus record during the semester a large number of videos, each of which dedicated to a specific grammatical or conversational topic.
In addition to teaching during the regular academic year, Zvi also teaches in and directs the Modern Hebrew Summer Language Institute, which he established upon joining the university. The Hebrew SLI soon became famous (some say notorious) for the extreme amount of work that it involves, and has been particularly attractive for students who seek to surrender their freedom for eight weeks in exchange for high language competence at the end of the program. | <urn:uuid:30d80973-1fc7-4a9a-855a-4cdddc6f74b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mesalc.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/zg7s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.946099 | 374 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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- Alleviates gas, bloating and upset tummies
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- Good for regular digestive tract cleaning
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For best results mix 1 heaped teaspoon of activated charcoal with Kefir (a naturally fermented raw milk product that acts as a probiotic) to give your gut maximum benefit. Alternately use natural yoghurt, water or juice. Charcoal does not have a distinct flavour and is a plant-based product.
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Does Aspergers need to be diagnosed?
Does Aspergers need to be diagnosed?
Today, Asperger’s syndrome is technically no longer a diagnosis on its own. It is now part of a broader category called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This group of related disorders shares some symptoms. Even so, lots of people still use the term Asperger’s.
How can I get a diagnosis for Aspergers?
Currently, there’s no specific test that can diagnose Asperger’s syndrome in adults. There are no current diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s syndrome in adults either. Autism spectrum disorders are usually diagnosed in early childhood.
Is Asperger’s hard to diagnose?
Asperger’s Syndrome (also known as “Autism Spectrum Disorder – without intellectual or language impairment”) may be difficult to diagnose.
How do you know if someone has Aspergers?
Signs and symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome
- Lack of interpersonal relationship skills and instincts.
- Inability to express one’s own feelings.
- Often verbalizes internal thoughts that most would keep private.
- Flat tone / speaking style that lacks pitch.
- Appears to lack empathy.
- Has a difficult time interacting with peers.
Do Aspergers have empathy?
Do people with Asperger’s have empathy? Contrary to popular belief, people with Asperger’s do have empathy. They care about how others are thinking and feeling but they often have difficulty putting themselves in other people’s shoes. This is a skill that can be learned over time.
What is a good job for someone with Asperger’s?
Computer science is a good choice because it is very likely that many of the best programmers have either Asperger’s syndrome or some of its traits. Other good majors are: accounting, engineering, library science, and art with an emphasis on commercial art and drafting.
What it feels like to have Aspergers?
People with Asperger syndrome often have difficulty ‘reading’ other people – recognising or understanding others’ feelings and intentions – and expressing their own emotions. This can make it very hard for them to navigate the social world. They may: appear to be insensitive, even if they don’t intend to be.
What are Aspergers good at?
Intelligence, Special Interest, Memory Average to very high intelligence. Good verbal skills; rich vocabulary. Ability to absorb and retain large amounts of information, especially about topics of special interest. Ability to think in visual images.
Can people with Aspergers be talkative?
It should be noted that though kids with Asperger’s don’t usually have language deficits-they can be very talkative, in fact-many on the autism spectrum do have difficulty communicating verbally, which is partly why new diagnostic criteria will stress social communication deficits and restricted interests.
The diagnosis process usually involves a multi-disciplinary diagnostic team – often including a speech and language therapist, paediatrician, psychiatrist and/or psychologist. Because Asperger syndrome varies widely from person to person, making a diagnosis can be difficult.
What can mimic Aspergers?
The conditions listed below all exhibit similar behavioral symptoms to autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral treatments for these conditions overlap with those of autism. However, treatments should always be informed by diagnosis….
- Prader-Willi Syndrome.
- Angelman Syndrome.
- Rett Syndrome.
- Tardive Dyskinesia.
How do you make an Asperger’s person happy?
5 Tips for Loving Someone with Asperger’s Syndrome
- Don’t put the blame solely on your partner.
- Learn as much as you can about AS.
- Reframe your partner’s behavior.
- Be specific about your needs.
- Talk about how you’d like to connect with each other.
Does Aspergers qualify as a disability?
A child with an Asperger’s diagnosis and impaired social, personal, or cognitive functioning may qualify for disability benefits.
Can a person be diagnosed with Asperger syndrome?
Many people who fit the profile for Asperger syndrome are now being diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder instead. Each person is different, and it is up to each individual how they choose to identify.
Is it ever too late to discover an asperger profile?
Is it ever too late to discover an Asperger profile or to seek a diagnosis? Never. It is never too late for an individual to increase self-awareness in order to capitalize on strengths and work around areas of challenge.
Do you have high functioning autism or Asperger’s?
Many doctors still use the term Asperger syndrome, or Asperger’s, but all autism diagnoses are now ASD. People with Asperger’s syndrome may have high intelligence and better than average verbal skills. Asperger’s is considered a high-functioning form of autism. What are the main Asperger’s symptoms in adults?
How to deal with people on the asperger spectrum?
Renew and/or repair relationships affected by an Asperger profile. Customize their environment in order to be comfortable and accommodating to the strengths and challenges of the Asperger profile. Find people who share similar interests. Find other people with Asperger profiles with whom to compare notes (in-person or online).
Where can I get an official Aspergers diagnosis?
You have the right to request the findings once the study is done. There is a list at the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP) site www.GRASP.org, which is in the US. Click the “Help &Resources” tab and then scroll down to the Diagnostics sources link. There are a few going on in the state of New York.
Why do people take the Asperger’s test?
Asperger’s quiz is to lend a hand to anyone who may be wondering whether they exhibit — or someone they know exhibits — the complex (and-often-difficult-to-circumscribe) symptoms that point toward a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome.
Are there diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s syndrome in adults?
There are no current diagnostic criteria for Asperger’s syndrome in adults either. Autism spectrum disorders are usually diagnosed in early childhood. It’s becoming less common for you to reach adulthood without an autism diagnosis if you show signs or symptoms.
Can a person with Asperger’s syndrome be intelligent?
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Wyoming Receives $3 Million in Federal Funding Towards Cleaning Up Hazards Sites
On Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Wyoming will receive over $3 million to assess and clean up brownfield sites.
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will receive a grant of $2 million, the city of Cheyenne will get $500,000, and the Sheridan County Conservation District will receive $585,000 from the Brownfields cleanup grant.
A brownfield site is a property for which the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
According to a press release by the EPA, the Wyoming DEQ plans to conduct at least 35 environmental site assessments for brownfields and will use the grant funds to develop 11 cleanup and reuse plans.
Across Wyoming, those sites include several abandoned industrial manufacturing areas, former mine-energy peripheral areas, two vacant hotels, and several salvage yards and junkyards in the city of Laramie, Sweetwater County, and Carbon County.
The City of Cheyenne plans to use the brownfields grant to inventory sites and conduct 23 environmental site assessments and create five cleanup plans.
The Sheridan County Conservation District plans to clean up the buildings at the abandoned Acme Power Plant, which is contaminated with asbestos.
Carrie Rogaczewski, district manager of the Sheridan County Conservation District, said:
"We are extremely excited to be a recipient of a Cleanup Grant for the former Acme Power Plant. This grant, which will support asbestos abatement in the structures on this 5-acre site, will expand greenspace and recreational opportunities in the Tongue River Valley in Sheridan County Wyoming," Rogaczewski said. "Consistent with community priorities, cleanup and reuse of the Acme site will increase the availability of outdoor spaces for youth programs and recreation opportunities, promote sustainable reuse of an historic building or building materials, and eliminate asbestos exposure risks."
In this most recent grant cycle, the EPA provided around $254 million to 265 communities across the country, with the next cycle opening up in September.
While several communities in Wyoming were approved for the process, the city of Rawlins also applied for a brownfield grant totaling $500,000 but was not selected.
This is because, as Ted Lanzano, region 8 Brownfields Program Manager, said the grant process is competitive and there's not enough funding for everyone, even though they have around four times as much money to hand out for the next five years because of the recently passed infrastructure bill.
"It's a very competitive process, and the applicants put a lot of work into their proposals," Lanzano said. "Unfortunately, our grant funding can't meet the demand that's out there, and there are some applicants that did not get funded. Our recommendation is to try again next year because with the infrastructure funding, we're going to have opportunities to fund a lot more grants and we really encourage those applicants to try again for future funding." | <urn:uuid:9091b5b7-d6ac-4be0-81c9-33b7751b31a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://k2radio.com/wyoming-receives-3-million-in-federal-funding-towards-cleaning-up-hazards-sites/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943535 | 632 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Discussion Point: The Importance of Hospital-Associated VTE
To highlight the important topic of hospital-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE), the National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA) is very pleased to be participating in a World Thrombosis Day VTE educational symposium, on October 13, 2016, from 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm (EDT), at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in New York City.
The symposium, co-hosted by Northwell Health and the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), the organization that manages World Thrombosis Day, will include a panel of three leading experts as they discuss several key topics pertaining to hospital-associated VTE.
The topics to be addressed include:
- Thrombosis disease burden
- Health system implementation of routine VTE risk assessments
- Evidence-based prevention strategies
This event also will feature an engaging panel discussion, plus remarks from a patient ambassador.
All are welcome to attend this no-cost event, including physicians, allied health, nurses, urgent care teams, medical students, media, and others. CME credit will be available.
Panel of Experts and Ambassadors
- Gary Raskob, PhD, Dean, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Alex Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, FCCP, System Director of Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services, Northwell Health, and Professor of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell Health School of Medicine
- David Rosenberg, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM, Director, Evidence Based Clinical Practice, Northwell Health, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Hofstra Northwell Health School of Medicine
- Sara Wyen, NBCA Manager of Communications & Health Marketing, a PE survivor and NBCA patient ambassador | <urn:uuid:c0466dcd-3bfb-4181-87bb-a39a5ab587b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stoptheclot.org/news/world-thrombosis-day-vte-educational-symposium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.896876 | 388 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Promotions on junk meals could be restricted in a bid to curb being overweight in Scotland, a consultation will consider.
The Scottish Government is seeking views from the community about options to restrict the marketing of sweets, crisps and sugary drinks at checkouts as perfectly as on multi-acquire discounts.
Ministers believe that limitations could enable Scots with weak diet programs make more healthy alternatives.
The session, which operates right up until September 23, will assess the impact of the proposed restrictions on corporations and community health and fitness, as properly as on Scots dwelling in poorer places.
Minister for public well being Maree Todd mentioned: “Our diet plans keep on being also higher in calories, fats, sugar and salt which can have serious penalties for our total well being.
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Internally matched, highly efficient linear power GaAs MESFETs with output power exceeding 20 W in the C-band were achieved using multichip technology [Yanagawa et al.,1990, and Taniguchi et al., 1990]. A high-power onboard amplifier operating at 38 GHz was achieved using four types of GaAs MMIC. The amplifier's final-stage MMIC delivered an output power of 0.3 W [Asano et al., 1990].
Monolithic low-phase noise oscillator ICs for the Ku-band were fabricated as an AlGaAs/GaAs HBT. A 15-GHz VCO IC was constructed from HBTs and varactor diode. A tuning range of 600 MHz was obtained for a phase noise level of -85 dBc/Hz at an offset frequency of 100 kHz [Yamauchi et al., 1991]. A 22-GHz HBT oscillator fabricated using a dual-sidewall self-aligned process achieved an output power of 6.2 dBm and a phase noise of -78 dBc/Hz at a 100 kHz off-carrier [Hayama et al., 1992].
A 1/8 DCFL dynamic frequency divider was developed using 0.2-mm-gate GaAs buried P-layer MESFETs. The shortest propagation delay to date of 6.7 ps/gate at 20.8 mW/gate was achieved using a DCFL ring oscillator [Nishi et al., 1990]. A 1/4 static frequency divider using AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs achieved 34.8 GHz at a power dissipation of 495 mW [Yamauchi et al., 1992]. An epitaxially grown base silicon transistor integrated with a 1/8 frequency divider achieved a maximum operating frequency of 11.7GHz [Yamazaki et al., 1990]
Several types of low-noise MMIC block converter (LNB) have been developed for Ku-band DBS and/or satellite communications: A conversion gain of 52 dB and a noise figure of 2.1 dB were achieved using four types of MMIC chip [Shiga et al., 1991]. A Ku-band LNB for the DBS on a 1.7 mm x 2.05 mm chip achieved a conversion gain exceeding 36 dB [Sakuno et al., 1992]. Another Ku-band LNB MMIC, which included a prescaler to increase the local oscillator's purity and stability was fabricated on a 1.2 mm x 2.8 mm chip [Kaneko et al., 1992].
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Yamauchi, Y., O.Nakajima, K.Nagata, H.Ito, and T.Ishibashi, A 34.8GHz 1/4 static frequency divider using AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs, IEICE Trans. Electron, 1105-1109 (1992)
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Yamazaki, T., I.Numura, A.Tahara, and T.Ito, A 11.7GHz 1/8-divider using 43GHz Si high speed bipolar transistor with photoepitaxially grown ultra-thin base, IEEE IEDM, 309-312 (1990)
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Yoshinaga, H., B.Abe, K.Shibata, H.Kawasaki, M.Ohtomo, and I.Tokaji, Millimeter-wave monolithic gain block amplifier using pseudomorphic HEMT, IEEE MTT-S, 583-586 (1992)
Discharge excited rare gas halide excimer lasers are developed extensively for a national project in Japan, that is cold AMMTRA project [Maeda,1992], which started in 1986 fiscal year. Final goals of this project in 1993 fiscal year, are achieving a high power of 2kW at 500Hz for a XeCl laser [Inoue, et al., 1991], a high repetition-rate of 5kHz for a 500W XeCl laser [Goto, et al.,1992], a high power stability below +/-1% for a 400W XeCl laser, a long gas lifetime of 109 shot for an ArF laser [Saito, et al.,1993] and a narrow spectral width less than 1pm for a 200W ArF laser [Ochi, et al., 1992]. Spectral narrowing KrF excimer lasers for lithography light sources for 64Mbit and 256Mbit DRAM, are being developed [Mizoguchi, et al.,1992], which will be introduced in actual LSI processing lines after two or three years.
A chemical oxygen-iodine laser(COIL) with a high CW power of kW class was developed for industrial applications(Wani, et al.,1992) which is used for studying material processing at .3 mm wavelength. Laser beam from this COIL was analyzed [Muro, et al.,1992]. A pulsed iodine laser driven by a chemical oxygen generator was developed. The pulse energy was 2.5J, the maximum peak power was 900W and pulse width was from 2ms to 5ms [Endo, et al.,1991, Endo, et al.,1992]. A high energy pulsed H2/F2 chain first vibrational overtone HF chemical laser and a H2/SF6 nonchain first vibrational overtone HF chemical laser were theoretically studied [Ashidate, et al.,1991].
High-power copper vapor lasers(CVL) are being developed for uranium laser isotope separations(Morioka, 1993). To obtain a high power for CVL, a large bore discharge tubes and a H2 addition gas are used. A 120W power was obtained continuously for 26 hours with a 8cm diameter bore tube of 1.5m discharge length [Hayashi, 1992]. A high power of 210W was achieved by using a 8cm diameter and 2.1m length bore tube [Tabata, 1992]. Copper densities at the ground state and the upper state were measured for a large bore CVL(Hayashi 1992). Influence of a H2 gas addition in a large bore CVL was studied experimentally [Watanabe, 1992].
Large symmetrical near-diffraction-limited beams have been extracted from a Nd:YAG rod pumped by a Kr-arc lamp using a negative-branch unstable resonator with a phase-unifying output coupler [Yasui et al., 1990]. Significant improvement of slab-laser beam divergence has been achieved by using an off-axis unstable-stable resonator for an Nd:GGG slab laser [Kuba et al., 1990]. Optical characteristics and laser oscillation characteristics have been investigated for a composite glass slab laser [Tajima et al., 1992]. A 2.1 mm Cr3+,Ho3+,Ho3+:YAG laser have been operated with an output power 20W at 12Hz[Imai et al., 1990].
Diode-pumped solid-state lasers have made rapid progress in many aspects. Small-sized Nd:YAG slab laser [Ishimori et al.,1992], array-LD end-pumped Nd:YAG laser [Yamaguchi et al.,1992], highly frequency-stabilized Nd:YAG ring laser [Uehara et al.,1993], fourth harmonic generation from all-solid state cw Nd:YAG laser [Oka et al.,1992], efficient Nd:YVO4 laser [Nagamoto et al., 1990] have been achieved. Efficient and stable operation of frequency-doubled Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO4 green microlasers have been applied to optical storage [Masuda et al.,1992; Nagai et al.,1992; Tatsuno et al.,1992].
Ashidate,S., T.Takashima, F.Kannari, M.Obara, Theoretical study of a high-energy pulsed H2/F2 chain first vibrational overtone HF chemical laser, J. Appl. Phys., 70, (2), 548-553 (1991)
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Imai S., T.Yamada, Y.Fujimori, and K.Ishikawa, A 20W Cr3+,Ho3+,Ho3+:YAG laser, Opt Laser Technol., 22, 351-353 (1990)
Inoue,M., Y.Sato, S.Fujikawa, K.Haruta, High average power XeCl laser with a spiker-sustainer circuit and surface corona preionization, LEOS'91 Conference Digest, 58 (1991)
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Kuba, K., T.Yamamoto, and S.Yagi, Improvement of slab-laser beam divergence by using an off-axis unstable-stable resonator, Opt Lett.,15, 121-123 (1990)
Kuzumoto,M., M.Tanaka, S.Yagai, Practical model for gas temperature effects on laser, IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics, 27, 471-475 (1991)
Maeda,M., Progress on the AMMTRA Project for Excimer Laser Development, CLEO'92 Technical Digest, 84-86 (1992)
Masuda,H., F.Maeda, M.Oka, Y.Kaneda, M.Sugiura, and S.Kubota, Miniature integrated SHG green laser,Compact Blue-Green Lasers'92 Technical Digest,FA 3-1 (1992)
Mizoguchi,H., O.Wakabayashi, N.Itoh, M.Kowaki, J.Fujimoto, Y.kobayashi, T.Ishihara, Y.Amada, Y.Nozue, Narrow Band KrF Laser for Mass Production of LSI Cs, SPIE Proceedings, 1674 Optical/Laser Microlithography V, 532-542(1992).
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Nishimae,J., and K.Yoshizawa, Development of CO2 laser excited by 2.45GHz microwave discharge, Proc. of SPIE, 1225, High-Power Gas Lasers, 340-348 (1990)
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Oka,M., N.Eguchi, S.Masuda and S.Kubota, All-solid-state continuous wave 0.1-W ultraviolet laser, CLEO'92 Technical Digest, 374 (1992)
Saito,T., S.Ito, A.Tada, K.Hotta, Long gas lifetime discharge-excited ArF excimer laser, CLEO'93 CWJ19 (1993)
Tabata,Y., K.Hara, S.Ueguri, Lasing Characteristics of a large bore copper vapor laser, Proc. of SPIE, 1628, Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 32-43 (1993).
Tajima, H., M.Moriyama, N.Tadokoro, H.Hara, and T.Mochizuki, Performance of composite glass slab laser, IEEE J Quantum Electron., 28, 1562-1570 (1992)
Takenaka,Y., M.Kuzumoto, K.Yasui, A 5kHz CW CO2 laser using a novel negative-branch unstable resonator with a phase-unifying output coupler, IEEE J. of Quantum Electronics, 28, 1855-1858 (1992)
Tatsuno,K., T.Andou, S.Nakatsuka, T.Miyai, M.Takahashi and S.Helmfrid, Highly efficient and stable green microlaser consisting of Nd:YVO4 with intracavity KTP for optical storage, CLEO'92 Technical Digest, 374(1992)
Terai,K., T.Murata, S.Kobayashi, T.Tamagawa, Laser pulsing characteristics of RF excited high power CO2 laser at a frequency of 1MHz, Proc. of LAMP'92, 79-83 (1992)
Uehara,N. and K.Ueda, 193-mHz beat linewidth of frequency-stabilized laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG ring lasers,Opt.Lett.,18,505-507(1993)
Watanabe,I., Y.Iseki, K.Hayashi, S.Suzuki, E.Noda, O.Moriyama, Influence of H2 gas addition and long time operation in a 80o CVL., CLEO'92 Technical Digest, 546-548(1992).
Wani,F., N.Naito, T.Nagai, H.Tsuji, H.Fujii, Development of 1kW Iodine Laser for Industrial Use, Proc. of LAMP'92, 127-132 (1992)
Yamaguchi,S.and Imai H., Efficient Nd:YAG laser end-pumped by a 1cm aperture laser-diode bar with a GRIN lens array coupling,IEEE J.Quantum Electron., 28, 1101-1105(1992)
Yasui, K., S.Yagi and M.Tanaka, Negative-brance unstable resonator with phase unifying output coupler for high power Nd:YAG lasers, Appl Opt., 29, 1277-1280 (1990)
High-speed avalanche photodiodes with gain-bandwidth products of 110 -130 GHz were realized using InAlAs/InGaAs, InAlAs/InGaAsP and InAlAs/InAlGaAs superlattice structures. Flip-chip bonding with back-illumination was introduced for wide 3dB-bandwidths of 12-17GHz, resulting in 10 Gbit/s operations [Hanatani et al., 1993 ; Kagawa et al., 1993 ; Watanabe et al., 1993]. A 3dB-bandwidth of wider than 50 GHz was achieved by introducing a multimode waveguide into a p-i-n InGaAs photodiode. By anti-reflection coating, a quantum efficiency of 68 % was obtained [Kato et al., 1992].
Aoki, M., H.Sano, M.Suzuki, M.Takakashi, K.Uomi and A.Takai, Novel structure MQW electroabsorption modulator/DFB laser integrated device fabricated by selective area growth, Electron. Lett., 27, 2138-2140 (1991)
Endo, K., S.Ishikawa, K.Fukagami and H.Fujii, 0.98 mm InGaAs/AlGaAs strained quantum-well high-power laser diodes for EDFA pumping, OEC'92 Technical Digest, 17B1-1 (1992)
Hanatani, S., H.Nakamura, S.Tanaka, C.Notsu, H.Sano and K.Ishida, Superlattice avalanche photodiode with a gain-bandwidth product larger than 100 GHz for very-high-speed systems, OFC/IOOC'93 Technical Digest, ThG3, 187-188 (1993)
Hirayama, Y., M.Morinaga, M.Tahimura, M.Onomura, M.Funemizu, M.Kushibe, N.Suzuki and M.Nakamura, 10Gbit/s low chirp performance of strained layer multiquantum well DFB laser, Electron. Lett., 27, 241-243 (1991)
Honda,S., H.Hamada, M.Shono, R.Hiroyama, K.Yodoshi and T.Yamaguchi, Transverse-mode stabilised 630nm-band AlGaInP strained mutiquantum-well laser diodes grown on misoriented GaAs substrates, Electronics Letters, 28,1365-1367 (1992)
Kagawa, T., Y.Kawamura and H.Iwamura, Wide-bandwidth avalanche photodiode receivers, OFC/IOOC'93 Technical Digest, ThG2, 186 (1993)
Kato, K., S.Hata, K.Kawano, J.Yoshida and A.Kozen, A high-efficiency 50 GHz InGaAs multimode waveguide photodetector, IEEE J.Quantum Electron., QE-28, 2728-2735 (1992)
Kato, T., T.Sasaki, N.Kida, K.Komatsu and I.Mito, Novel MQW DFB laser diode/modulator integrated light source using bandgap control epitaxial growth technique, ECOC'91 Technical Digest, WeB7-1 (1991)
Kunii, T., Y.Matsui, H.Horikawa, T.Kamijoh and T.Nonaka, Narrow linewidth (85kHz) operation in long cavity 1.55 mm-MQW DBR lasers
Okai, M., T.Tsuchiya, A.Takai and N.Chinone, Factors limiting the spectral linewidth of CPM-MQW-DFB lasers, IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., PTL-4, 526-528 (1992)
Okuyama,H., T.Miyajima, Y.Morinaga, F.Hiei, M.Ozawa and K.Akimoto, ZnSe/ZnMgSSe blue laser diode, Electronics Letters, 28, 1798-1799 (1992)
Tanaka,T., H.Yanagisawa, S.Yano and S.Minagawa, Tensile strained QW structure for low-threshold operation of short-wavelength AlGaInP LDs emitting in the 630nm band, Electronics Letters, 29, 606-607 (1993)
Tatoh, N., H.Kamei, K.Tanida, J.Shinkai, M.Shigematsu, M.Nishimura, H.Hayashi, and K.Nawata, High-power, high-reliability 1.48 mm strained-layer multiple-quantum-well laser and its application to a high-performance erbium-doped-fiber amplifier, OFC'92 Technical Digest, WB4 (1993)
Uomi, K., S.Sasaki, T.Tsuchiya, H.Nakano and N.Chinone, Ultralow chirp and high-speed 1.55 mm multiquantum well l/4-shifted DFB lasers, IEEE Photon.Tech. Lett., PTL-2, 229-230 (1990)
Uomi, K., M.Aoki, T.Tsuchiya and A.Takai, Dependence of high-speed properties on the number of quantum wells in 1.55 mm InGaAs-InGaAsP MQW l/4-shifted DFB lasers, IEEE J. Quantum Electron., QE-29, 355-360 (1993)
Watanabe, I., S.Sugou, H.Ishikawa, T.Anan, K.Makita, M.Tsuji and K.Taguchi, Large gain-bandwidth-product, low-dark-current InAlAs/InAlGaAs quaternary-we11 superlattice avalanche photodiodes, OFC/IOOC'93 Technical Digest, ThG1, 184-185 (1993)
Progress has been made in photonic switching technology and optical computing research. As for photonic switching technology, monolithic LD optical matrix switches [Ikeda et al., 1992] has been reported. Concerning laser diodes for optical information processing, remarkable progress has been achieved in surface emitting lasers such as first room temperature CW operation of long-wavelength surface emitting laser [Baba et al., 1993]. In order to realize optical computing, many novel functional devices have been proposed and demonstrated: for example, an optical neurodevices using a 2-D variable sensitivity photodiode array [Kyuma et al, 1992], a 2-D VSTEP device array [Ogura et al., 1992], an EARS (exciton absorptive reflection switch) [Amano et al., 1991], and a device which integrates an laser and a heterojunction phototransistor [Noda et al., 1992].
Many reports were published on a variety of measurement principles and applications. Remarkable progress has been achieved in fiber-optic gyroscope. Quite-high stability was obtained in an optical passive ring-resonator gyro [Hotate et al., 1991]. Distributed fiber sensor technology has also shown much progress. A variable wavelength OTDR was developed with a combination of an LD-pumped Nd:YLF laser and a Raman fiber [Wada et al, 1992], and the detectable length of OTDR was remarkably improved with the use of erbiumdoped fiber amplifiers [Izumita et al., 1992]. Laser-scan micrometer technology [Jiang et al., 1991] and photon scanning tunneling micorscope technology have also advanced [Kawata et al., 1991].
Amano, C., S.Matsuo, and T.Kurokawa, Novel photonic switch arrays consisting of vertically integrated multiple-quantum-well reflection modulators and phototransistors: exciton absorptive reflection switch, IEEE Photonics Tech. Lett., 3, 736 (1991)
Baba, T., Y.Yogo, K.Suzuki, F.Koyama, and K.Iga, Low threshold room temperature pulsed and -31C CW operations of 1.3mm GaInAsP/InP buried heterostructure surface emitting lasers, OFC'93 Technical Digest, PD28 (1993)
Hayashi, Y., Implementation of a practical coherent trunk system, OFC'93 Technical Digest, ThH1 (1993)
Hotate, K. and K.Takiguchi, Drift reduction in an optical passive ring-resonator gyro, SPIE Fiber Optic Gyros: 15th Anniversary Conf., Boston (1991)
Ikeda, M., S.Oku, Y.Shibata, T.Suzuji, and M.Okayasu, Loss less 4x4 monolithic LD optical matrix switches, International Topical Meeting on Photonic Switching 792, 2D1 (1992)
Izumita, H., Y.Koyamada, I.Sankawa, and S.Furukawa, Coherent optical time-domain reflectometer with a 40-dB dynamic range enhanced with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, OFC'92, Technical Digest, WK-6 (1992)
Jiang, S., N.Tomita, H.Ohsawa, and M.Ohtsu, A photon scanning tunneling microscope using an AlGaAs laser, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 30, 2107 (1991)
Kawata, S., R.Arimoto, and O.Nakamura, Three-dimensional optical-transfer-function analysis for a laser-scan fluorescence miroscope with an extended detector, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A8, 171 (1991)
Kyuma, K., Y.Nitta, E.Lange, and W.Zhang, Optical neurodevices based on a 2-D VSPD array, 4th Optoelectronics Conference, Technical Digest, 16C4-1 (1992)
Nakazawa, M., K.Suzuki, E.Yamada, H.Kubota, M.Takaya, Y.Kimura, 20Gbit/s-1,850 km and 40 Gbit/s-750km soliton data transmission using eribium-doped fiber amplifiers, OFC'93 Technical Digest, PD-9 (1993).
Noda, S., T.Takayama, K.Shibata, and A.Sasaki, High-gain and very sensitive photonic switching device by integration of heterojunction phototransistor and laser diode, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, 39, 305 (1992)
Ogura, I., H.Kosaka, T.Numai, M.Sugimoto, and K.Kasahara, Cascadable optical switching characteristics in vertical-to-surface transmission electrophotonic devices operated as vertical cavity lasers, Appl. Phys. Lett., 60,799 (1992)
Shigematsu, M., K.Nakazato, T.Okita, Y.Tagami, and K.Nawata, Field test of multichannel AM-VSB transmission using an erbium doped optical fiber amplifier at 1.55um wavelength range in the CATV network, Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications Topical Meeting, WB3 (1990)
Suto, K., K.Kikushima, T.Kokubun, H.Yoshinaga, S.Matsui, T.Hirota, and E.Yoneda, An SCM multi-channel video distribution system for passive double star local networks, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Local Optical Networks, 6.4 (1991)
Taga, H., N.Edagawa, H.Tanaka, M.Suzuki, S.Yamamoto, H.Wakabayashi, 10Gbit/s, 9,000km IM-DD transmission experiments using 274 Er-doped fiber amplifier repeaters, OFC'93 Technical Digest, PD-1(1993)
Wada, F., M.Ishii, A.Wada, T.Shiota, and R.Yamauchi, Variable wavelength optical time-domain reflectometry, OFC'92, Technical Digest WK-8 (1992)
The trend toward faster access time was very evident in high density SRAM design. Utilizing 0.35mm design rule,a 9ns 16Mb CMOS SRAM [Seno et al.,1993] and 0.25mm design rule, a 15ns 16Mb CMOS SRAM [Sasaki et al.,1993] were developed. BiCMOS SRAMs have also advanced;a 9ns/430mW 4Mb BiCMOS SRAM [Kato et al.,1992] and a 6ns/750mW 4Mb ECL BiCMOS SRAM [Nakamura et al.,1992]. The Low power SRAMs for battery operation were developed;a 7ns/140mW 1Mb CMOS SRAM [Sasaki et al.,1992] and a 68ns/21mW 4Mb CMOS SRAM [Murakami et al.,1991]. The RAMs fabricated using GaAs have also improved;a 1.2ns HEMT 64k SRAM [Suzuki et al.,1991].
A 5V-Only 4Mb CMOS EEPROM with a compact row decoder was developed[Kuriyama et al.,1992]. A 58ns 5V-Only 16Mb CMOS EEPROM with sector-erase mode [Jinbo et al.,1992] and a 60ns 16Mb CMOS EEPROM with program and erase sequence controller [Nakayama et al.,1991] were developed.Bit density of EPROM has quadrupled to 16Mb [Ohtsuka et al.,1991].
By adding cache logic functions to a SRAM chip, a 0.5W 64kB snoopy Cache memory appeared [Nogami et al.,1991]. SRAMs with logic gate array were also developed; a 1.5ns 256kb BiCMOS SRAM with 11k 60ps logic gates[Tamba et al.,1993] and a system integrated ULSI chip containing eleven 4Mb RAMs,six 64k SRAMs and an 18kG Gate Array [Sato et al.,1992].
Dosaka, K., Y.Konishi, K.Hayano, K.Himukashi, A.Yamazaki, C.Hart, M. Kumanoya, H.Hamano and T.Yoshihara, A 100MHz 4Mb Cache DRAM with Fast Copy-Back Scheme, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 148-149 (1992)
Hasegawa, T., D.Takashima, R.Ogiwara, M.Ohta, S.Shiratake, T.Hamamoto, T.Yamada, M.Aoki, S.Ishibashi, Y.Oowaki, S.Watanabe and F.Masuoka, An Experimental DRAM with a NAND-Structured cell, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers,46-47 (1993)
Jinbo, T., H.Nakata, K.Hashimoto, T.Watanabe, K.Ninomiya, T.Urai, M.Koike, T.Sato, N.Kodama, K.Oyama and T.Okazawa,,A 5V-Only 16Mb Flash Memory with Sector-Erase Mode, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 154-155 (1992)
Kato, H., A.Suzuki, T.Hamano, T.Kobayashi, K.Sato, T.Nakayama, H.Gojihbori, T.Maeda and K.Ochii, A 9ns 4Mb BiCMOS SRAM with 3.3V Operation,ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 210-211 (1992)
Kitsukawa, G., M.Horiguchi, Y.Kawajiri, T.Kawahara, T.Akiba, Y.Kawase, T.Tachibana, T.Sakai, M.Aoki, S.Shyukuri, K.Sagara, R.Nagai, N.Hasegawa, N.Yokoyama, T.Kisu, H.Yamashita, T.Kure, and T.Nishida, 256Mb DRAM Technologies for File Applications, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 48-49 (1993)
Komiya, H., Future Technological and Economic Prospects for VLSI,ISSCC Dig.Tech. Papers, 16-19 (1993)
Kuriyama, M., S.Atsumi, A.Umezawa, H.Banba, K.Imamiya, K.Naruke, S.Yamada, E.Obi, M.Oshikiri, T.Suzuki, M.Wada, and S.Tanaka, A 5V-Only 0.6um Flash EEPROM with Row Decoder Scheme in Triple-Well Structure, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 152-153 (1992)
Kushiyama, N., S.Ohshima, D.Stark, K.Sakurai, S.Takase, T.Furuyama, R.Barth, J.Dillon, J.Gasbarro, M.Griffin, M.Horowitz, V.Lee, W.Lee, and W.Leung, 500Mbyte/sec data-rate 512kbits x9 DRAM using a novel I/O interface, Symposium on VLSI Circuits Dig. Tech. Papers, 66-67 (1992)
Murakami, S., K.Fujita, M.Ukita, K.Tsutsumi, Y.Inoue, O.Sakamoto, M.Ashida, Y.Nishimura, Y.Kohno, T.Nishimura, and K.Anami, A 21 mW 4Mb CMOS SRAM for Battery Operation, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 46-47 (1991)
Nakagawa, K., M.Kanagawa, and T.Yabu, A 40ns 64Mb DRAM with a Current-Sensing Data-Bus Amplifier, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 112-113 (1991)
Nakamura, K., T.Oguri, T.Atsumo, M.Takada, A.Ikemoto, H.Suzuki, T.Nishigori, and T.Yamazaki, A 6ns 4Mb ECL I/O BiCMOS SRAM with LV-TTL Mask Option,ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 212-213 (1992)
Nakayama, T., S.Kobayashi, Y.Miyawaki, Y.Terada, N.Ajika, M.Ohi, H.Arima, T.Matsukawa, and T.Yoshihara, A 60ns 16Mb Flash EEPROM with Program and Erase Sequence Controller, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 260-261 (1991)
Nogami, K., T.Shirotori, T.Kobayashi, Y.Fujimoto, Y.Biwaki, H.Nohara, M.Kobayashi, K.Kobayashi, and K.Sawada, A 0.5W 64kB Snoopy Cache Memory with Flexible Expandability, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 266-267 (1991)
Ohtsuka, N., J.Miyamoto, K.Imamiya, N.Tomita, Y.Iyama, S.Mori, Y.Ohshima, N.Arai, Y.Kaneko, E.Sakagami, K.Yoshikawa, and S.Tanaka, A 62ns 16Mb CMOS EPROM with Address Transition Detection Technique, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 262-263 (1991)
Oowaki, Y., K.Tuchida, Y.Watanabe, D.Takashima, M.Ohta, H.Nakano, S.Watanabe, A.Nitayama, F.Horiguchi, K.Ohuchi, F.Masuoka, and H.Hara, A 33ns 64Mb DRAM, ISSCC Dig.Tech. Papers, 114-115 (1991)
Sasaki, K., K.Itabashi, K.Ueda, K.Komiyaji, T.Yamanaka, N.Hashimoto, H.Toyoshima, F.Kojima, and A.Shimizu, A 7ns 140mW 1Mb CMOS SRAM with Current Sense Amplifier, ISSCC Dig, Tech. Papers, 208-209 (1992)
Sasaki, K., K.Ueda, K.Takasugi, H.Toyoshima, T.Yamanaka, N.Hashimoto, and N.Ohki, A 16Mb CMOS SRAM with a 2.3mm2 Single-Bit-Line Memory Cell, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 250-251 (1993)
Sato, K., K.Fujita, H.Miyazawa, M.Shirai, M.Kobayashi, M.Ishihara, and T.Nakao, A System Integrated ULSI Chip Containing Eleven 4Mb RAMs, Six 64k SRAMs and an 18kG Gate Array, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 52-53 (1992)
Seno, K., K.Knorpp, L.Shu, F.Miyaji, M.Sasaki, M.Takeda, T.Yokoyama, K.Fujita, T.Kimura, Y.Tomo, P.Chuang, and K.Kobayashi, A 9ns 16Mb CMOS SRAM with Offset Reduced Current Sense Amplifier, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 248-249 (1993)
Sugibayashi, T., T.Takeshima, I.Naritake, T.Matano, H.Takada, I.Aimoto, K.Furuta, M.Fujita, T.Saeki, H.Sugawara, T.Murotani, N.Kasai, K.Shibahara, K.Nakajima, H.Hada, T.Hamada, N.Aizaki, T.Kunio, E.Kakehashi, K.Masumori, and T.Tanigawa, A 256Mb DRAM with Multi-Divided Array Structure, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 50-51 (1993)
Suzuki, M., S.Notomi, M.Ono, N.Kobayashi, E.Mitani, K.Odani, T.Mimura, and M.Abe, A 1.2 ns HEMT 64k SRAM, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 48-49 (1991)
Taguchi, M., H.Tomita, T.Uchida, Y.Oonishi, K.Sato, T.Ema, M.Higashitani,
Tamba, N., K.Akimoto, M.Ohhayashi, T.Hiramoto, T.Kokubu, S.Ohmori, T.Muraya, A.Kishimoto, S.Tsuji, H.Hayashi, H.Handa, T.Igarashi, T.Fujiwara, K.Watanabe, A.Uchida, M.Odaka, H.Nanbu, K.Yamaguchi, and T.Ikeda, A 1.5ns 256kb BiCMOS SRAM with 11k 60ps Logic Gates, ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, 246-247 (1993)
A planar-type junction of HoBa2Cu3O7-x-La1.5Ba1.5Cu3O7-y-HoBa2Cu3O7-xwas fabricated and supercurrent through the normal layer La1.5Ba1.5Cu3O7-y was detected up to 69 K. The superconducting decay length of 65 nm was two orders of magnitude larger than the value calculated from the proximity effect [Tarutani et al., 1991]. A YBCO emitter and collector were fabricated on a high-permittivity SrTiO3 substrate with a back-contact base electrode. Transistor characteristics in which both voltageand current gains exceeded one, were observed at 4.2 K [Yoshida et. al.,1991]. A superconducting metal base transistor using Bi(Ba, Rb)O3 and niobium doped SrTiO3 has been developed. Indium was used for the collector to make a proper barrier between indium and the BRBO film. Current gain of nearly 1 was obtained at 50 K [Abe et al., 1993]. A phase-controlled superconducting device based on Andreev reflection and superconducting proximity effect has been fabricated. A Nb-Si boundary was used as a mirror for electron waves in Si. Interference peaks were observed and their energies were controlled by gate voltage [Hatano et. al., 1992].
A superconducting small antenna made of YBCO has been developed. It was constructed from a self-resonating helical radiator and a quarter-wave matching circuit. The gain and bandwidth measured at 478 MHz and 81 K were respectively -1.5 dBi and 0.35 % [Itoh et al., 1992]. A super-conducting frequency downconverter, which was made of a YBCO step-edge micobridge Josephson junction, two 12 GHz YBCO microstrip bandpass filters, a 1 GHz YBCO filter, has been developed for receiving direct broadcast satellite signals. The conversion efficiency was -14.5 dB at 15 K and small LO power (-25 dBm) [Suzuki et al., 1992].
Superconductivity in the infinite-layer compound (SrxCa1-x)Cu1-yO2 was confirmed at 110 K. This new superconductor was synthesized under the pressure up to 6 GPa and a temperature of 1173-1473 K [Azuma et. al.,1992]. A new copper-oxide superconductor containing carbon (BaxSr1-x)2Cu1+yO2(Co3)1-y was synthesized under high oxygen pressures. The superconductor synthesized under 50 atm O2 showed a Tc(onset) of about 40 K and a Tc(zero) of about 26 K [Kinoshita et al., 1992]. Thin films of Ca1-xSrxCuO2 have been grown by alternate deposition of CaSr and CuO2 atomic layers in a low pressure NO2 ambient. Resistive and magnetic anomalies were observed in the film at 90-180 K [Li et. al., 1992].
Abe, H., F. Toda, and M. Ogiwara, Metal base transistor of In/Bi(Ba,Rb)O3/SrTiO3(Nb), IEEE Elect. Dev. Lett. 14, 100-102 (1993)
Azuma, M., Z. Hiroi, M. Takano., Y. Bando, and Y. Takeda, Superconductivity at 110 K in the infinite-layer compound (SrxCa1-x)Cu1-yO2, Nature 356, 775-776 (1992)
Hatano, M., K. Saito, T. Nishino, and K. Takagi, Characteristics of the phase-controlled superconducting device based on Andreev reflection and superconducting proximity effect at Nb-Si boundary, Appl. Phys. Lett., 61, 2604-2606 (1992)
Itoh, K., O. Ishii, Y. Koshimoto, and K. Cho, High-temperature superconducting small helical antenna, IEICE Trans. Electron., E75-C, 246- 251 (1992)
Kinoshita, K., and T. Yamada, A new copper oxide superconductor containing carbon, Nature 357, 313-315 (1992)
Li, X., T. Kawai, and S. Kawai, Observation of resistive and magnetic anomalies at 90 - 180 K in artificially layered Ca1-xSrxCuO2 thin films grown by laser molecular beam epitaxy, Jpn J. Appl. Phys., 31, L934-L937 (1992)
Suzuki, K., S. Yoshikawa, K. Yamaguchi, K. Hayashi, S. Fujino, T. Takenaka, K.Imai, F. Suginoshita, N. Yazawa, and Y. Enomoto, Performance of a Y-Ba-Cu-O Josephson junction/filter, Proc. ISS'92 AD-07 (Kobe,1992)
Takada, S., H. Nakagawa, I. Kurosawa, M. Aoyagi, S. Kosaka, Y. Okada, and Y.Hamazaki, A multichip superconducting microcomputer ETL-JC1, IEEE Trans.MAG-27, 2610-2617 (1991)
Tahara, S., I. Ishida, S. Nagasawa, M. Hidaka, H. Tsuge, and Y. Wada, 4-Kbit Josephson nondestructive read-out RAM operated at 580 psec and 6.7 mW, IEEE Trans. MAG-27, 2627-2633 (1991)
Tarutani, Y., T. Fukazawa, U. Kabasawa, A. Tsukamoto, M. Hiratani, and K.Takagi, Superconducting characteristics of a planar-type HoBa2Cu3O7-x-La1.5Ba1.5Cu3O7-y-HoBa2Cu3O7-x junction, Appl. Phys. Lett., 58, 2707-2709(1991)
Yoshida, A., H. Tamura, H. Takauchi, and S. Hasuo, Transistor characteristics in a three-terminal structure having YBa2Cu3O7-x electrodes on an insulating SrTiO3 substrate, Appl. Phys. Lett., 59, 1242-1244 (1991)
An underwater transducer employing ZnO/pyrexglass composite diaphragm on a Si substrate and working at 155MHz was developed[Yamada et al., 1990]. An array transducer of 100MHz using chemically etched ZnO film was realized [Kushida et al., 1991]. These transducers are supposed to be applied for characterization of soft or liquid materials. BaTiO3 ceramic with low coercive-field was investigated for small amplitude transducers[Nagata et al., 1990]. For high-power applications, a focusing-type transducer using burst drive was proposed and numerically simulated[Nakazawa et al., 1992].
An improved ultrasonic motor using 2 degenerate bending vibration modes of a disk was proposed for simple construction [Takano et al., 1990]. An unique mechanism of an ultrasonic motor without mechanical friction was found [Yamayoshi et al., 1991]. This motor was considered to be driven by ultrasonic radiation. Elastic fins were applied to an ultrasonic motor driver for miniaturization [Uchiki et al., 1991].
LiNbO3 single-crystal instead of ceramics materials was investigated for piezoelectric transformers to decrease the elastic loss when driven with large amplitude. An energy-trapping type piezoelectric transformer was developed using interdigital transducers [Ueda et al., 1992]. A Rosen-type piezoelectric transformer was realized using a 128 rotated Y-cut LiNbO3 substrate [Nakamura et al., 1991]. The dependence of the voltage ratio on load resistance was studied with a transformer composed of a 140 rotated Y-cut plate [Sato et al., 1991].
A waveguide optical deflector using surface acoustic waves was studied for optical disk tracking [Arimoto et al., 1990]. A waveguide-type multifrequency acousto-optical modulator which generated independently modulated multibeams was proposed for a laser beam printer [Hatori et al., 1992].
Arimoto, A., K.Muraoka, T.Shimano, K.Senda, and S.Ishikawa, Waveguide optical deflector for an optical disk tracking actuator using a surface acoustic wave device, Appl. Optics, 29, 247-250
Hatori, M., H.Miura, H.sunagawa, M.Takeuchi, and K.Yamanouchi, Waveguide-type multifrequency AO modulators, IEICEJ Technical Report US92-51 (1992)
Hosaka, N., A.Yuhara, T.Kobayashi, H.Watanabe, and J.Yamada, Precise fabrication technique of UHF SAW Al electrodes and leaky SAW propagation characteris on 36 Y-X LiTaO3, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., 30, Suppl.30-1, 169-172 (1991)
Koike, J., K.Shimoe, H.Ieki, GHz range low-loss SAW filter using ZnO/sapphire substrate, IEICEJ Technical Report US92-89 (1993)
Kushida, K., Y.Ito, H.Takeuchi, H.Kanda, K.Sugawara, and H.Onozato, 100 MHz band ultrasonic array transducers utilizing epitaxially grown ZnO films, Ultrasonics Int. 91 Conf. Proc., 379-382 (1991)
Morita, T., Y.Watanabe, Y.Ogawa, and Y.Nakazawa, 900MHz range wideband double mode SAW filters, IEICEJ Technical Report US92-8 (1992)
Murota, M., T.Hirano, and Y.Shimizu, Effects of aluminum thickness on temperature characteristics of surface acoustic wave devices on the quartz LST-cut, Electronics and Communications in Japan, Part 3, 75, 73-80 (1992)
Nagata, K., Preparation of BaTiO3 ceramic vibrator with low coersive-field, IEICEJ Technical Report US90-78 (1990)
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Nakagawa, Y., T.Yoneda, K.Hasegawa, and K. Hosaka, Control of second order temperature coefficient of SAW propagating in thin film layers, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., vol.31, Suppl.31-1, 198-200 (1992)
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Nakazawa, K., M.Kurosawa, K.Koike, and S.Ueha, Focusing type high power transducer using burst drive, IEICEJ Technical Report US92-44 (1992)
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Takano, T., Y.Tomikawa, and T.Ogasawara, Same phase drive type ultrasonic motors using two degenerate bending vibration modes of a disk, IEICEJ Technical Report US90-50 (1990)
Tsuboi, Y., N.Yokokawa, M.Inoue, and T.Fujii, Improvement of magnetic properties of iron-boron films by hydrogen mixing in sputtering gas for magnetosurface-acoustic wave media, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., 29, Suppl.29-1, 162-164 (1990)
Uchiki, T., K.Nakamura, M.Kurosawa, S.Ueha, and T.Nakazawa, Elastic fin ultrasonic micromotor, IEICEJ Technical Report US91-58 (1991)
Ueda, M., M.Satoh, S.Ohtsu, and N.Wakatsuki, Energy trapping type piezoelectric transformer, IEICEJ Technical Report US92-11 (1992)
Yamada, Y., K.Hashimoto, V.Rajendran, and M.Yamaguchi, High performance ultrasonic transducers employing ZnO/pyrex-glass diaphragm structure on a Si substrate, Japan. J. Appl. Phys., 30, Suppl.30-1, 114-116 (1991)
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Master consistency by understanding one thing
written by Philip Stefanov | JULY 12, 2022
Have you ever planned to do something, feeling excited and motivated? Maybe you wanted to lose fat, master a calisthenics movement, or quit drinking alcohol.
Things would go well for a while, but you would eventually experience the urge to do something that goes against your goal. In the case of weight loss, you might feel hungrier than usual and decide to treat yourself to a cheat meal (or day).
These pivotal moments of weakness often lead to failure because we get disappointed and decide to give up. Why bother trying to lose fat when you’ll eventually cheat on your diet and erase the progress?
Luckily, research has looked at the issue to conclude that urges are normal. It’s how we perceive and handle them that determines our outcomes.
The Empathy Gap
The empathy gap refers to our tendency to underestimate how different moods and mental states influence our behaviors. It also includes our readiness to make decisions that only satisfy our current state. For example, you might choose to have a massive cheat day and reason that you’ll make up for it in the upcoming days by eating less. The issue here is three-fold:
- You’re making a decision that solely satisfies your current hedonic desire to enjoy a lot of tasty food.
- You’re burdening your future self with repairing the damage you cause with your actions.
- You rely on your future self to make the right decision despite being unable to predict how you will feel later.
Years ago, when I struggled with binge eating episodes, I often rationalized by telling myself that I would diet for a few days to enjoy a few hours of eating myself into oblivion. It’s easy to fall for the mistake because you don’t have to put any effort in now; the work comes later, and it is therefore easy to underestimate just how much effort we would have to put into making up for our mistakes.
The empathy gap is widespread in fitness because it is based on sacrificing short-term desires and making difficult choices to reap benefits in the future. Working out can suck now, but you’ll be glad a year down the road when you’re rocking six-pack abs and guns of steel. The question is, how can we stop ourselves from falling for the empathy gap and lying to ourselves?
Make It So You Can’t Fail
The first step to not falling victim to the empathy gap is realizing that emotions do impact our behaviors and that we aren’t always rational when making decisions. Solely relying on willpower to power through and stay on course is a good way to get sidetracked.
An excellent way to avoid poor decisions is to consider how you might feel in the future. For example, you might be considering a cheat meal now because you’re hungry and craving junk food. You might reason that you’ll make up for it by dieting tomorrow and two days after. But think about it objectively:
Will you be able to diet for three days, and won’t you feel just as hungry tomorrow as you do now? More importantly, is it possible that you will come up with excuses to avoid dieting tomorrow?
You should also plan for situations where you might make a mistake and adjust the variables within your control. For example, if you know that you might eat a lot of food when out with friends, have a big salad or a few servings of fruits before going out. That way, you won’t feel as hungry, and the risk of overeating will drop.
Alternatively, eat less food that day (or for a few days leading up) to create a calorie ‘buffer’ you can use to enjoy yourself. The tactic is essentially the same as dieting after binge eating, but you reverse the two. That way, you do the work first to earn your cheat meal.
If you know that you struggle to control yourself around specific foods, don’t buy them. Even when you’re at the store and thinking, “I can control myself around this box of cookies.” remember that your current state doesn’t necessarily reflect how you might feel a few hours or days later.
Thank you for taking the time. Until next week,
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Where does the Salisbury in Salisbury steak come from?
Соединенные Штаты Америки
What is the meaning of Salisbury?
Salis·bur·y. (sôlz′bĕr′ē, -brē) 1. A city of southern England northwest of Southampton on the edge of Salisbury Plain, a chalky plateau that is the site of Stonehenge. The city was chartered in 1220 and developed around its noted cathedral.
What is the difference between Swiss steak and Salisbury steak?
Swiss steak is often confused with Salisbury Steak, but there is a difference between the two. A Salisbury steak is made with ground beef and shaped into a patty while Swiss steak is actually steak! Salisbury Steak generally has a beef broth based gravy while Swiss steak has a tomato based gravy.
What’s another name for Salisbury steak?
What is another word for Salisbury steak?
|chopped beefsteak||ground chuck|
|ground round||ground sirloin|
Is Salisbury steak bad for you?
So making Salisbury steak at home is the answer! However, most Salisbury steak recipes are not very healthy. They require butter and breadcrumbs and canned gravy. Darn it.
What goes good with Salisbury steak?
What to serve with Salisbury steak? I love to serve Salisbury steak with potatoes, noodles or even rice. To make this into a great family meal add in some vegetables like green beans, peas, roasted cauliflower or carrots to bring in some color and extra flavor. These have been our favorite family potatoes.
What do you call someone from Salisbury?
What – on the analogy of Glaswegians, Liverpudlians and Mancunians – do you call people who live in, or are natives of, Salisbury? Answer: With some diffidence, I give you the answer “Salisburians” – pronounced, I assume, “Salisbury ‘uns”, or possibly with the stress on the letter u.
Where does the name Salisbury originate from?
Recorded in several spelling forms including Salesbury, Salisbury, Salsbury, Sarsbury and the dialectal Solesbury, this is an English medieval surname. It is locational and derives either from the city of Salisbury, in the county of Wiltshire, or from the village of Salesbury in the county of Lancashire.
What does Sarum mean?
: of or relating to the Roman rite as modified in Salisbury and used in England, Wales, and Ireland before the Reformation.
Why do they call it salisbury steak?
First, according to dictionary.com: Salisbury steak is a fancy hamburger. It is named after James Henry Salisbury (1823-1905), a doctor known for his comments on diets and nutrition.
What does Swissing mean?
: a calendering process for cotton fabrics that produces a smooth compact texture.
What is the difference between Salisbury steak and meatloaf?
Typically, meatloaf is served as a slice of a loaf, while salisbury steak is served as a cooked round patty. Both meatloaf and salisbury steak have simple ingredients, but meatloaf is usually topped with a ketchup-like glaze. Salisbury steak is almost always topped with brown gravy.
Is Salisbury steak just hamburger?
Yes, Salisbury steak is ground lean meat, just like a good burger. That’s probably where you got your burger with sauce impression, and what was in those mashed potatoes, anyway? Actually, this beef dish was named after one of the first health food faddists, Dr. James H. | <urn:uuid:14ed1d1a-4628-445e-ab9d-0df756312a80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fairerestaurant.com/how-to-cook-steak/the-salisbury-in-salisbury-steak-refers-to-what.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938757 | 826 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Since 1975, writer, performer, director and activist Marty Pottenger has created multidisciplinary placemaking performances, plays, arts-based civic dialogues, and community arts projects throughout the United States. Her performance in City Water Tunnel #3 won an OBIE and her play ABUNDANCE, written from interviews with 30 millionaires and 30 minimum wage workers, was selected as one of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s ‘Ten best plays of 2003’. A longtime union trades activist, low-income housing organizer, Board Chair of the American Festival Project and member of Heresies magazine collective, she left New York City in 2007 at the invitation of the City of Portland, Maine to launch Art At Work, a national initiative to strengthen cities through strategic art projects with municipalities and communities.
Working on staff at City Hall, Art At Work has launched 15 arts projects that tackled historic low police morale with poetry, racial discrimination in Public Services with block prints, escalating incidents between youth & police with performances. Recognitions include a Local Hero Award from the Portland Police Department for their Police Poetry/Photography Calendar; a National Leagues of Cities Best Practices nomination; and the selection of Art At Work’s Our Town project – Meeting Place – to be featured in one of the NEA’s five e-book’s on Creative Placemaking. Since the 1990’s, she has been a featured speaker on arts-based civic engagement, arts & social change, and evaluation practices in the United States and Europe. http://www.martypottenger.com & http://www.artatwork.us | <urn:uuid:9bac6cef-760f-456d-a5a6-652720bef4ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conference.placemakers.us/speakers/marty-pottenger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92721 | 345 | 1.710938 | 2 |
When buying components to build a new PC, gamers always wonder how many sticks to buy and how much RAM will be enough for their workload and games. Developers have improved their games graphically over the years, and for this reason the minimum system requirements have also increased.
A few years ago, most games required 4 GB of RAM. This later increased to 8GB, but many triple-A games today require 16GB to run smoothly.
To run games at a higher FPS, the system needs above-minimum specs that can handle heavy loads without much hassle. However, the amount of RAM required for a gaming PC also depends on the types of games the user plays.
16GB of RAM is the sweet spot for the majority of gaming PCs
The purpose of the component is to store short-term data that the system needs to function, and this is reset every time the system is restarted. In modern games, graphics resources need to be stored so that they can be retrieved quickly when a new area needs to be loaded. With higher RAM capacity, the system can store more game data at once and help increase FPS, but the speed and RAM configuration also play a major role in this.
If you are a casual gamer who plays single-player games or you are a competitive gamer who plays esports games, 16GB is enough for both types of games. However, readers should be warned that Random Access Memory is not a component that will increase the graphics prowess of the PC as much as the graphics card. Upgrading the GPU will have the biggest boost in FPS and help the latest games run smoothly, and a powerful CPU will have the second biggest impact on performance.
Your system will be able to run the latest games at high settings with just 16GB of RAM installed, assuming all other components are fast enough. More RAM is recommended for higher resolution games, as high resolution textures are larger and require more accessible storage. Even then, 16 GB is enough because most of the heavy load will be handled by the GPU and CPU.
Before upgrading your RAM, you need to make sure that it is compatible with your system, and you should also check if you have enough empty slots to install the keys. There are different generations of components (for example, DDR3, DDR4 or the latest DDR5), and each generation is faster than the previous one. It is also important to note that they are not backwards compatible. Check your motherboard manual to check which generation it supports.
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An Energy Swap is generally a swap of two different prices on an identical, or similar, Energy underlier
While financial market swaps may involve swapping almost any cash flow for any other cash flow, an Energy Swap involves the swap of two different prices on an identical, or similar energy product or underlier.
The two types of Energy Swap are:
By definition, Energy Swaps are always financially settled
Energy swaps may be traded OTC or on an Exchange
An Energy Swap is very similar to a a financially settled Futures or Forward Contract
Exchange traded swaps are generally settled through non-daily margining - and therefore have credit risk
Financially settled futures, like all futures, are settled through daily margining - and have minimal credit risk
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There’s a certain condition; a state of mind that occurs when someone is travelling out of their comfort zone. This could be in their own country or abroad, on a day trip or a longer holiday. When someone loses all their common sense and practical abilities. I like to call it the ‘The Tourist Brain‘.
I can see why it happens – you’ve been hard at it all year, slaving away at work or being a parent and you deserve this. Yes you do.
A former colleague of mine working on check-in swears that peoples’ common sense is sucked out of them the minute they walk through the airport’s doors, but I believe it happens even earlier than that.
We’ve all seen them: driving the wrong way round the car park; stuttering the name of their destination to the check-in clerk; appearing baffled when being asked for boarding passes and “not your passports yet, thank you madam”; looking blank when security ask them to take their laptops “OUT OF YOUR BAG, sir”; ignoring requests to switch off phones, raise seat backs or keep seatbelts on; or wandering around tourist attractions and art galleries trying to stroke the paint on priceless works of art.
We’ve all been there
But we’ve also all been there. Patting down our handbags or back pockets twenty times in twenty minutes to check the presence of our passports – even though just twenty-one minutes ago you carefully put it in there yourself. You could be the most organised person on the planet at work but the minute your personal documentation directly equates to you having a good time and any mistakes threaten to rob you of that (and your hard-earned cash), it becomes, well, personal.
I’ve worked at tourist information centres, museums, tourist attractions, airports, travel agents and tour operators so I’ve encountered tourist brain-adopters at every level of society and every degree of intellect. So what happens to us when we engage tourist brain?
- We switch out of work or domestic mode and on to holiday mode. The same sort of thing happens when it’s acceptable to have a pint at the airport at 8am – the “it doesn’t matter, we’re on HOLIDAY!” mentality.
- There’s a disruption to our normal routine and none of us feel quite in control, or are 100% certain what the procedures are – no matter how many times we’ve done it before.
- We put our trust in people who are going to look after us, making us relax with less reason to plan/organise/worry. The airport check-in & security staff telling you what you can & can’t have in your bags and taking away forbidden items (even though by now you should know this). The introduction meeting from your holiday rep, or your check-in staff at the hotel who know where everything is. Or how about the attraction tour guide who gives you rules and knows the ins & outs of the building? We’re virtually babysat, conveyor-belt style.
- Despite this, we’re not actually very good at being told what to do and quite often switch off – either because it’s too much hard work (we’re on HOLIDAY!) or because you’re a savvy traveller and you don’t need advice
- We forget the routine security measures we take at home – closing windows, double checking doors are locked, zipping up our handbags and not leaving our wallets under the sunbed while we’re sinking a pina colada. Okay, so this doesn’t happen at home but you wouldn’t leave your wallet on the bar.
- Alcohol + sun + not needing to think = more than a few lost brain cells.
I’d love to finish off this post with some remedies or ways to avoid this. However, I’ve come to realise that the tourist brain is the earth’s great equaliser – you may think you’re a worldly-wise, seasoned traveller, but when we step foot out of our homes to go on holiday, we’re all on a pretty level playing field…
What are your experiences?
Here are just a couple of examples from my years of travelling. I’d love to hear your experiences, so send me your comments below:
- Outside The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, we witnessed two girls taking a photo of the ‘X’ in the road, symbolising where JFK was fatally shot. What’s wrong with that, you might well ask – it’s an historic site? They were standing IN the road which also happened to be a major slip road to a major highway and were seconds away from getting fatally flattened.
- While working at a museum, part of my introductory spiel was strictly telling groups of visitors that they mustn’t touch the old wood panelled walls, as the oils in their hands can degrade the finish over the years. Halfway into my sentence I could see them start to glaze over and the second they were ‘let loose’ on the museum, what’s the first thing they did? Stroked the flippin’ wood, ooh-ing and aah-ing over the smoothness and finish.
- A ‘friend’ was traversing airport security with a yummy home-made cake for her colleagues. When her bag was swiped by a very stern security lady, she enquired “Oops, I have a cake in there, is that not allowed?”. Grumpy security lady replied “No, it’s the giant bread knife in the cake tin that did it”. It can happen to the best of us… | <urn:uuid:f201c4b9-7bac-47fc-9265-35a0b5c697f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.southseawanderer.co.uk/the-tourist-brain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947479 | 1,237 | 1.945313 | 2 |
If you don’t know about the Solana Hack, you must be living under the rock as it is one of the most talked-about crypto hacks the industry has seen so far. The Solana hack drained thousands of user wallets (over 8000) on the blockchain network Solana and it wasn’t a result of some system failure or security vulnerability but just bad security practices followed by Slope, a cryptocurrency wallet provider.
Otter, a security company conducted independent testing to note,
“We have independently confirmed that Slope’s mobile app sends off mnemonics via TLS to their centralized Sentry server.
These mnemonics are then stored in plaintext, meaning anybody with access to Sentry could access user private keys.”
This hack resulted in $4 million of user funds lost because of bad practices followed by Slope. While this value isn’t massive in the industry where it has seen multi-million dollar hacks, this hack was troubling for users as the funds started to randomly disappear from their wallets.
However, every experience is a learning experience and here is what you can learn from the Solana hack.
Hardware Wallets can be a Better Choice
Hardware wallets are physical devices like USBs that are not linked to the internet and are protected using various security measures. As long as you have the device, it cannot be hacked as it is not connected to the internet. Companies such as Trezor and Ledger offer some of the best hardware wallets.
Moreover, software wallets use encryption while processing transactions and data, so if they fail to encrypt data efficiently, it can result in another Solana hack. However, this problem does not exist with hardware wallets.
Centralized Exchanges Can Save You
As the news of the Solana hack started to spread, smart users shifted their funds from Solana to a centralized exchange to avoid the worst-case scenario. While centralized exchanges manage your assets and keys privately, they are generally insured against theft and loss, providing a better sense of security for the users.
Moreover, centralized exchanges are unlikely to be hacked in a similar fashion, giving the users an alternative choice to store and handle their funds.
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Cowbellpedia 2017 Result – How to Check Cowbell Mathematics Competition 2017/2018 Result.
Those who participated in the Cowbell Mathematics Competition for 2017 can now check their Result online. The result has been published on Cowbellpedia Website www.cowbellpedia.ng
The general public, teachers, School Principal, Proprietors, Parents and Students can now visit the website and check the result as published by the organizers of Cowbellpedia Competition.
The results for the 2017 Cowbellpedia Examination will be published on Thursday 1st, June 2017 at 8.00 am.
About Cowbell Mathematics Competition
In the last 19 years, Cowbell has been involved in the sponsorship of Mathematics competition for Secondary Schools in Nigeria to identify, recognize and reward excellence in the subject area of Mathematics.
They have two stages in the mathematics competition. The stage one is for qualifying written examination across the nation for students in JSS3 and SSS 2 in both public and private Secondary Schools.
Stage Two is for TV Quiz Show (where the best 54 students per category compete for the coveted prize of the Future Inventor).
Cowbell Competition 2017 has been concluded. The result is out for checking.
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Those who want to check their Result Should Visit www.cowbellpedia.ng
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The equation for the reaction of calcium carbide with water:
CaC2 + 2H2O = Ca (OH) 2 + C2H2
The amount of acetylene substance:
v (C2H2) = V (C2H2) / Vm = 56 / 22.4 = 2.5 (mol).
According to the reaction equation, 1 mol of C2H2 is formed from 1 mol of CaC2, therefore:
v (CaC2) = v (C2H2) = 2.5 (mol).
Thus, the mass of calcium carbide required is:
m (CaC2) = v (CaC2) * M (CaC2) = 2.5 * 64 = 160 (g).
Answer: 160 g.
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One day before the Aadhar protest was supposed to take place at National College, the Mumbai Police denied permission. So on 30 June 2018, Mumbaikars protested in Mahim to mark their resistance against Aadhar. People from all walks of life shared their challenges as well as their success stories fighting Aadhar. Even though there is a Supreme Court ruling stating that Aadhar cannot be mandatory for government welfare schemes, people are denied their rights for not having Aadhar and sometimes because of technical errors such as the faults in reading fingerprints etc. Watch this video to know more. | <urn:uuid:30aaef45-fe41-4542-b309-c7b3497a7a7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cjp.org.in/mumbai-against-aadhar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979778 | 125 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Real-World Evidence: US FDA’s Prucalopride Review Shows Datasets' Utility And Limitations
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Is it harder to go pro in soccer or basketball?
It is much harder to get into the NBA because you did not name a specific pro soccer league. Of course, it’s easier to get paid $30k to play soccer than to make it in the NBA, where there are only about 300 players… there are far more pro soccer players.
Do soccer players make good basketball players?
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Does Steph Curry like soccer?
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What NBA player owns a soccer team?
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What is the easiest sport?
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Both the California Constitution and the California Government Code describe in detail state mandated local programs. As a result of the constitution and the statutes in the Government Code, a California bill is identified as mandating or not mandating a local program.
If a mandated local program is going to be required, then the Legislature helps determine whether or not a local agency will be reimbursed for costs by the state. The constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs that are mandated by the state.
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There are additional statutory provisions in the Government Code that establish procedures for making reimbursements to local governments. Among those is the provision that states the Commission on State Mandates actually determines if the bill contains costs mandates by the state. In other words, the Legislature does not have the final say on whether a requirement in proposed legislation is reimbursable.
In most instances, the Legislature declares that no reimbursement is required by a piece of legislation. The general rule is that a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges that the Legislature deems sufficient to pay for a program, a program expansion, or a higher level of service mandated by state law.
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Well, he actually did it.
Defying hot, humid summers and below-zero winters, Rudy Hummel, a 17-year-old Life Scout from Minnesota, finished his quest to sleep outside every night for a year.
I first told you about Rudy when he was 200 nights into his 365-night quest.
Now, I’m not surprised a Boy Scout set a goal and accomplished it. It’s just that doing so meant muggy summer conditions and a chillingly high 76 nights of subzero temps in the winter. He built a quinzee, or snow cave, to survive those frigid nights and really bundled up.
This Weather Channel story reveals just how many layers it took to keep Rudy warm: “Hummel slept under a fleece liner inside a mummy bag inside two other sleeping bags, with two or three quilts over that. He’d wear up to three layers of pants and up to seven shirts.”
Seven shirts? Now that’s toasty.
When his family went on vacation, the streak didn’t end. He just set up a portable camp, snoozing in his sleeping bag in grassy patches next to motel parking lots or zipping into his tent pitched on a hotel balcony.
For his efforts Rudy even ended up “A Prairie Home Companion,” the popular public-radio program. Read about that experience here.
After Rudy reached his goal, his parents made him a cake to celebrate. Rudy even wrote a fun blog post about his last night outside — and his first night in his warm, comfy bed inside.
Nice job, Rudy, for proving once again that when it comes to accomplishing goals, Boy Scouts (and Venturers) do it better than anyone else. | <urn:uuid:5de52003-ca6e-4182-a494-79db62a620d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scoutingnewsroom.org/blog/minnesota-boy-scout-finishes-quest-to-sleep-outside-for-a-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979744 | 371 | 2.046875 | 2 |
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion this week the likes of which no American court has written before. It likely marks the start of a new kind of jurisprudence affirming the value of street art and confirms a dramatic cultural shift that began in the late 20th century.
“We hold that the district court correctly determined that temporary artwork may achieve recognized stature so as to be protected from destruction by [the Visual Artists Rights Act] VARA and that [the artists’] work had achieved that stature,” the opinion states.
The ruling affirmed a landmark 2018 decision awarding street artists $6.75 million in damages for the willful destruction of 45 works of aerosol art in Long Island City, Queens that were displayed on the walls of a building known as 5Pointz.
The person who destroyed the works, New York real estate developer Gerald Wolkoff, had once been a patron of graffiti artists, allowing them to use his derelict buildings as a canvas. For 20 years, artists painted and visitors from around the world came to enjoy an ever-changing exhibit in an otherwise forgotten part of the city.
Ironically, in great part thanks to the graffiti—which is often prosecuted as criminal mischief in other contexts—the neighborhood around 5Pointz in time became hip and property values rose dramatically. Wolkoff decided to turn his warehouses into condos. In 2013, the developer whitewashed 5Pointz while a suit for the right to salvage the art was pending.
Now, a federal appeals court has affirmed that no mistake was made when the lower court found Wolkoff owes prominent street artists damages for his “willful” destruction of work that was recognized by art experts and city dwellers as culturally valuable.
The 5Pointz case was the first graffiti matter to be tried under the Visual Artists Rights Act. Federal district court judge Frederic Block—a novelist and musician in addition to being a jurist—awarded the maximum amount of statutory damages based on Wolkoff’s bad faith, granting $150,000 for each of the 45 works, for a total of $6.75 million.
The artists’ victory was considered a big win for graffiti, not only legally. It was irrefutable evidence that the form had graduated, achieving stature as high art. Individual works—however fleeting—rose in the culture’s estimation, making the artists universal darlings, beloved by museums, galleries, auction houses, and people the world over.
The appeals court just affirmed that stature doesn’t depend on a work lasting—not culturally or statutorily—writing yesterday, “Wolkoff contends that the great majority of the works in question were temporary ones which, for that reason, could not meet the recognized stature requirement. We disagree. We see nothing in VARA that excludes temporary artwork from attaining recognized stature.”
The opinion points out that street artist Banksy is known globally and works on walls subject to overpainting and destruction, just like the 5Pointz artists, yet that has in no way diminished his influence. “Famously, Banksy’s Girl with a Balloon self‐destructed after selling for $1.4 million at Sotheby’s, but, as with Banksy’s street art, the temporary quality of this work has only added to its recognition,” the Second Circuit writes.
Still, if Wolkoff decides to appeal to the Supreme Court, the developer may well find the bench is more sympathetic to the woes of property owners, or so predicts New York copyright attorney Sam P. Israel. He represents street artists in intellectual property disputes. Israel believes in protection for graffiti and says VARA has already helped to provide it.
However, he has little faith in the justices’ ability to appreciate the role of street art in the culture or discern great postmodern works. ”Their idea of art is probably ‘Whistler’s Mother’ in poster form,” the art attorney says disdainfully, referring to an austere and somber 1871 painting by James McNeill Whistler that is anything but avant-garde.
The 5Pointz trial was a first-of-its-kind case that to some extent depends on taste, so Wolkoff could argue that it’s made-up law, essentially. A petition for review might be granted if the high court sees a slippery slope in the making and the justices indeed have the “prosaic” tastes Israel imagines.
The art attorney approves the Second Circuit’s decision but is pessimistic. “If it goes to the Supreme Court, there’s a really good chance it’ll be reversed.” | <urn:uuid:4212a54d-aefb-4605-ae85-6472768030f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qz.com/1806323/5pointz-graffiti-has-officially-made-a-lasting-mark-on-the-law/amp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963789 | 985 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Hamill, J.D. Prof; Ph: (03) 9905 3850; Fax: (03) 9905 5537; firstname.lastname@example.org
Neale, A.D. Dr; Ph: (03) 9905 3854; Fax: (03) 9905 5537; email@example.com
Morgan, S.M. Ms; Ph: (03) 9314 6806
Research organisation: Monash University, Department of Biological Sciences (Genetics Section), Clayton Vic 3168
Sponsor: DRDC, Dairy Research and Development Corporation
Objective: To develop molecular mechanisms for controlling expression of introduced genes such as those conferring desiccation and salt tolerance under conditions of plant stress.
1. Isolate the cis acting control regions of plant gene promoters responding to the stress hormones such as ethylene, abscisic acid and salicylic acid.
2. Utilise the cis acting control regions to determine how plants perceive environmental signals at the molecular level.
3. Utilise this information to regulate the expression of introduced genes.
The Plant Desiccation Tolerance Group was set up at Monash University Department of Biological Science in 1993 as a collaboration between Dr A.D.Neale, Dr Don Gaff and Professor John Hamill to study the molecular genetics of desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants. These plants are the "ultimate" drought-tolerant plants, having the remarkable ability to survive total water loss and remain viable for years in a dry state. Following rainfall, these resurrection plants rehydrate and recommence normal metabolism and growth within 24 hours.
The seed and pollen of most plants can also withstand severe desiccation. This has led the researchers to hypothesise that this ability has extended to root and leaf tissues in resurrection species. This implies that drought tolerance is inherent in the genetic constitution of the majority of plants, including most crop and pasture species. It is therefore likely that the introduction of a small number of regulatory genes, isolated from a resurrection plant, could induce drought tolerance in most plant species, by extending the ability to viably dehydrate to leaves and roots, without affecting other plant characteristics. This would be of major significance for reduction of crop losses and soil erosion during periods of drought.
The research group has utilised recently developed molecular biology techniques to isolate more than thirty genes from the resurrection grass Sporobolus stapfianus. So far more than twenty have been shown to be drought responsive. These genes include several regulatory genes encoding transcription factors, signal transduction components and a possible drought receptor. The group believes it is very close to being able to genetically introduce drought tolerance into drought sensitive plants, however additional funding is required to successfully achieve this.
Period: starting date 1993-02; completion date 1995-12
Keywords: drought tolerance, desiccation tolerance, molecular genetics, resurrection plants
Kuang, J., Gaff, D., Gianello, R., Blomstedt, C., Neale, A. and Hamill, J. (1995). Changes in in vivo protein complements in drying leaves of the desiccation-tolerant grass Sporobolus stapfianus and the desiccation-sensitive Sporobolus pyramidalis. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 22, 1027-34.
Blomstedt, C.K., Gianello, R.D., Hamill, J.D., Neale, A.D. and Gaff, D.F. (1997). Drought-stimulated genes correlated with desiccation tolerance of the resurrection grass Sporobolus stapfianus. Plant Growth Regulators 24, 153-161.
Blomstedt, C.K., Gianello, R.D., Gaff, D.F. Hamill, J.D. and Neale, A.D. (in press). Differential Gene Expression in Desiccation-Tolerant and Desiccation-Sensitive Tissue of the Resurrection Grass Sporobolus stapfianus. | <urn:uuid:48d7e7af-6852-4f8f-9128-8ff206ce80c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.regional.org.au/au/asit/compendium/l-04.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.866921 | 883 | 2.65625 | 3 |
One Chinese manufacturer says it is considering making its contraceptives in various sizes after hearing complaint from the African government official
In this picture, packs of ‘nasi lemak’ flavored condoms are seen amidst others at the Malaysian condom-maker Karex Industries headquarters in Port Klang. Last week, Zimbabwe’s health minister complained that condoms imported from China were too small for their men at an HIV/Aids prevention event in Harare.
flavored condoms are seen amidst others at the Malaysian condom-maker Karex Industries headquarters in Port Klang. Last week, Zimbabwe’s health minister complained that condoms imported from China were too small for their men at an HIV/Aids prevention event in Harare.
Chinese condom company is considering manufacturing different sized condoms after an African health minister complained that China’s products were “too small” for Zimbabwean men.
During an HIV/AIDS prevention event in Harare last week, David Parirenyatwa, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health, said that a popular condom among youth is imported from China, but men often complain about the products being too small, according to local news.
“The southern African region has the highest incidence of HIV and we are promoting the use of condoms,” Parienyatwa said. “Youths now have a particular condom that they like, but we don’t manufacture them. We import condoms from China and some men complain they are too small.”
He then called on local firms to start producing condoms so the country can stop relying on unsatisfactory imports.
Following the incident, Zhao Chuan, the chief executive of Beijing Daxiang and His Friends Technology Co., a Chinese condom manufacturer, told the South China Morning Post that his company is now planning on releasing contraception in various sizes and textures.
“As to the different demands from customers such as in Zimbabwe, Daxiang, as a Chinese manufacturer, has the ability and the obligation to make a contribution, so we have started to do some surveys on users’ data in the region to make preparations for future products with different sizes,” Zhao announced in an email.
Zhao went on to comment on the different requirements of global customers, claiming that Chinese men like condoms to be thinner while people in North America prefer a softer feel.
Condoms are a universally popular type of contraception with an effectiveness of approximately 82 percent. They are also the only method that protects against sexually transmitted infections and diseases.
Zimbabwe has one of the highest HIV/AIDS figures in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to 2016 statistics from UNAIDS, around 13.5 percent of its population is affected by the disease, with 40,000 new infections each year. The most common cause of transmission continues to be unprotected heterosexual s3x. | <urn:uuid:f364ad0f-706d-4929-a999-8114db174aed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wandabiz.com/chinese-made-condo-ms-too-small-zimbabwes-health-minister-complains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954558 | 580 | 1.679688 | 2 |
By: Amb. Salahuddin Choudhry
S systemic they say habits die hard we say
A assuage everything to rinse an old habit
Y yester years of dereliction we pay
N nearly as heavily as no one has a writ
O over any men women youth kids if free
T to do what they should whenever and anywhere
O or as raison d’etre of life not to see
T tobacco as poison relish as fair
O ominous it will surely be if no amends
B be order and leads to annihilation
A abiding no rules no empathy but intents
C crossing limits of human affliction
C call what ye will for habit good or bad
O o’ we must vow quit smoking it’s a fad.
World No Tobacco Day, established by WHO through a Resolution in 1987, is observed every year on 31 May to raise awareness about the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, the need to fight the tobacco epidemic, and what can be done to claim the right to health and healthy living especially for protection of coming generations.
For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicotine products which are designed to attract a new generation of tobacco users.
In response, World No Tobacco Day 2020 envisages to provide a counter-marketing campaign and empower young people to engage in the fight against Big Tobacco. | <urn:uuid:bc61149c-f48d-43f5-b343-eb99b68944a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedayspring.com.pk/say-no-to-tobacco-and-smoking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.907486 | 303 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Types of Sampling
BMC scientific research unit organized a lecture entitled " Types of Sampling" on 2nd of February 2021. The presenter was Dr. Nadeem Ikram, Assistant Professor of Immunology, in the Department of Microbiology, BMC.
The session attended by some BMC faculty. Dr. Ikram enthusiastically discussed with the attendees the topic of Types of Sampling. She also specifically introduced the different types of sampling, which are Probability sampling, Non-probability sampling, Simple random sampling, Systematic sampling, Cluster sampling, Stratified sampling, Quota sampling, Convenience sampling, and Snowball sampling. She concluded the session with an open discussion with the attendees. | <urn:uuid:c28c1bed-4083-4cb9-9d16-06bc9b41c47a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bmc.edu.sa/Life-at-BMC/News-and-Media/Types-of-Sampling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944332 | 150 | 1.765625 | 2 |
"Blame it on the Bossa Nova
" is a March 1963 hit pop song. The music is written by Eydie Gormé
and the lyrics by Cynthia Weil
and Barry Mann
and reached No. 7 on the United States charts in March 1963. "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" featured backing vocals by The Cookies
The track was produced by Al Kasha
who had been responsible for the No. 1 hit "Go Away Little Girl
" by Gormé's husband Steve Lawrence
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" describes the bossa nova
which is a Brazilian music
style which, with its associated dancing forms, became popular in the late 1950s. "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" merges the sensibilities of the Brill Building Sound
with the Latin music
which Gormé had previously specialized in, as the song describes a romantic relationship inaugurated by a couple dancing to the bossa nova - "the dance of love."
"Blame It on the Bossa Nova" was an international hit for Gormé, reaching No. 1 in Australia, South Africa and Sweden and No. 2 in Norway. In the UK the single reached No. 32. Rendered in Spanish by Gormé as "Cúlpale a la bossa nova",Billboard
vol 76 No. 49 (5 December 1964) p.18.
Gormé consequently recorded... Read More | <urn:uuid:fb587ffc-3794-4f54-88f7-1b4d2a150905> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pages.rediff.com/blame-it-on-the-bossa-nova/1601035 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964465 | 310 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Gum Disease: Serious But Treatable
At least 80% of the population has some degree of gum disease and most don’t know it. Gum disease is responsible for up to 70% of adult tooth loss, and it does not give clear warning signs that an untrained eye would notice. A dentist or hygienist must do a thorough and complete examination to detect it; especially in it’s early stages. Gum disease is similar to high blood pressure, or heart disease, by the time the person who has it notices symptoms it is in its advanced stages.
Gum disease has been implicated as causative factor in heart disease, stroke, diabetes, pre-mature births, and low birth weight. It is an infection of the gums and jawbones. The bacteria, and chemical by-products of your bodies attempt to fight the bacteria, can enter the blood stream and cause serious problems in distant parts of the body. It critical to have the teeth cleaned and a thorough examination a minimum of twice a year, and it is critical that you do a thorough job at home cleaning the teeth twice daily. The good news is that gum disease can be treated and prevented. Today there are numerous aids available to help us, which include special toothbrushes, toothpastes, rinses and even prescription medications can help. Your dentist can decide the appropriate treatment method only after examination of your condition. | <urn:uuid:36b8d5cb-6f22-4b84-9780-b8906e7af54a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drfrankdds.com/gum-disease.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957526 | 288 | 3.09375 | 3 |
When a 5-year-old child gets their favorite toy car as a birthday present, they jump with joy. And when that 5-year-old becomes a 25-year-old and buys their vehicle with their own money, it is even more exciting.
Buying a car is a big thing; a car becomes an essential part of a person’s life. It is challenging to choose the car to buy, but it becomes even more challenging to decide on how to finance that car. While paying the total amount in cash might seem convenient and easy for some, financing a car from other sources involves a lot of other benefits. These are as follows:
Skip the wait
To buy a car in cash, you need to accumulate cash first. This will involve waiting for quite a few years to accumulate the required amount of savings to buy a car. This will test your patience and unnecessarily delay the joy of owning a car. So, buying a car by using some external source of finance will enable you to buy a car whenever you need it, skipping the wait.
A better car
Even if you have waited for like 5-10 years and tried your best to save money to buy your car, it is possible that you are not able to buy your dream car because saving is not at all an easy task. But on the other hand, if you finance a car, you can easily buy a better car and even your dream car compared to buying it in cash.
If you gather all your savings and use it up in buying a car or just a car, it might cost you an opportunity to use that cash as an investment and yield better results. And if you finance your car, use your savings as savings, and do not exhaust them, you can earn greater returns.
Improved credit score
If you take a personal loan or a car loan from a bank or other financial institution and pay the interest and principal on time, your credit score increases. This monthly payment habit will teach discipline in your habits and help you gain additional credit points. This will be of benefit when you would have to take another loan for something else in the future.
A good credit score is important to qualify for a car loan, but don’t worry. Even if you have bad credit car finance, you can still finance your car.
If you buy a car in the name of your business by taking a loan from a bank or financial institution, you are further benefited in the way that you are exempted from some of the taxes in buying a car. You can understand this better from an accountant or a person specializing in this field.
While some people might feel a bit downgraded in taking a loan or financing a car from some other sources, the fact that car financing is beneficial in most aspects cannot be denied. | <urn:uuid:d2529310-3734-48c8-87d6-bd89f05f6eb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://supmag.com/why-car-financing-is-a-better-option/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97616 | 581 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Deep Dive into Deep Sea
Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery explores the most remote and mysterious levels of Earth’s oceans.
Who is the giant squid’s mortal enemy?
Can you see ghosts in the deep sea?
What in the world is a headless chicken monster?
Tim Flannery has the answers. In this informed and accessible book, he takes readers on a journey into the darkest depths of this unchartered realm to learn about the incredible creatures living there. Divided into sections that focus on the various depths of the ocean, readers can navigate their way through the sea while being guided by anecdotes from Tim’s own personal experiences. From hairy sea devils and goblin sharks to entire ecosystems within whale carcasses, he uncovers fascinating and bizarre facts about this enchanting place and the slippery, scaly, and strange creatures that live there.
Packed with vibrant illustrations and snappy engaging text, Deep Dive into Deep Sea will enthrall, enlighten, and capture the imaginations and passions of young oceanographers. | <urn:uuid:71af79e4-d33c-4294-86a8-e1514d024608> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ubookstore.com/Deep-Dive-into-Deep-Sea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.887488 | 220 | 2.046875 | 2 |
A sign stating Bokkombedryf will lead you to the famed Bokkomlaan in Velddrif where bokkoms – dry, salted fish biltong – are still prepared and hung up to dry just as they were a hundred years ago.
The vista of wooden jetties, small fishing boats swaying lazily in the afternoon sun in this unique setting of reeds and river and birds and pelicans soothe the senses and revive the spirit.
No wonder. The Berg River estuary is alive with thousands of Curlew Sandpipers and Plovers while the otter and the mongoose makes its home along this tidal river which is navigable for many kilometres upstream. Flocks of feeding pink flamingos add a sense of surrealism as one enters and leaves the town.
The roots of this fishing community dates back to 1693 when the Dutch ship De Gouden Buys stranded along this coast. Norwegian and Portuguese seafarers too threw anchor on this coast, Vasco Da Gama being the best known. By the time De Gouden Buys had reached the Cape most of its original crew of 190 died of scurvy and exposure. (A few bunches of bokkoms on board would have prevented that..)
The Bokkomlaan is both famous and infamous.
Infamous because of its steamy and seamy tales, most of which slumber in the graves of the fishermen that propagated them. Still, should you shoot the breeze with any elderly fisherman at a Velddrif tavern, these tales-from-the-grave flow effortlessly after a couple of brannas.
Famous because it is the home of the dried fish industry in South Africa and because the towns of Velddrif and Laaiplek were birthed due to fishermen having settled here on the Bokkomlaan..
Surf the net and you’ll happen upon the desperate postings of an individual or two appealing to the cyberspace community to put them in touch with the purveyors of this unique tidbit so synonymous with the Bokkomlaan.
And netting is how the Bokkomlaan originated when there was no Velddrif, merely a farm named Oudefontein owned by the Smit brothers. In summer fishermen dropped their nets in the river for harders, Steenbras and stompneus while the winter saw them setting out to sea for snoek in two-man rowing boats called visbakkies or twenty-foot vessels called trekskuite. Fishing during donkermaan yielded the best catch as shoals of wish were easier to detect.
The harders (mullet) were placed in barrels of water called souttenke into which copious amounts of salt was thrown. When the fish floated to the top, presses were placed in the barrels to submerge the fish for another day or so, after which they were rinsed, threaded together in bunches and then hung outside onto racks called vissteieers. At dusk the bokkoms were carried into purpose-made warehouses called vishuise.
After two days in the souttenke, the bokkoms were ready for haning out to dry. The fishermen and their families would gather crates and stools and sit around giant heaps of bokkoms. While the adults talked and threaded the fish into bunches, the children swam or listened to the old folk tell heroic, sometimes bizarre, stories of their conquests of the sea.
The fishermen sailed up river to barter their bokkoms in exchange for fresh produce from farm labourers who survived on this fish biltong during the stormy winter months when fishing was limited.
Fishing in the river is no longer allowed as the estuary is a nursery for marine species and therefore ecologically sensitive. Moreover, because of its large open spaces and a big blue unpolluted sky the whole of the west coast has been designated a biosphere reserve. This project is volunteer-run by key environmentalists, their objective being to foster human development that is ecologically sustainable and to conserve the landscapes, vegetation and species of the west coast.
There are a few historic dwellings as charming and as innovative as a west coast fisherman’s cottage. The fishermen’s houses progressed according to their affluence: furst a reed house, then a one-roomed house (a kitchen by day and a bedroom by night)and finally the langhuis, which comprised a series of rooms built onto the kitchen as the need arose. Wooden shutters covered the windows in lieu of glass. These houses were constructed with chimneys built into the south walls and without windows in the north walls due to the battering they received from the brutal north-wester. Despite Bokkomlaan having had its own fresh water sprint those days, each house was fitted with as many water tanks as it had rooms to sustain the household during the long dry summers.
They built their houses from the resources in the area: wood and gum from the Bluegum tree, animal dung instead of floorboards homemade sand and shell bricks called skulpgruis, and a fluitjies roof. The English translation of this is ‘whistling reed’, so named because of the sound of the wind through the reeds.
Subsequently, all along the Bokkomlaan stood- and today still stands the vishuise and directly behind them, the langhuise.
All along the Bokkomlaan flows the Berg River mud flats and flood plains supporting exceptional populations of plant, bird and animal species.
Alongside the fisherrmen, lived the farmer. Thus it was when Theunis Smit first took his stock through the drift in the veld that the name Velddrif was given to the town in which the Bokkomlaan is situated.
In 1899 a pont was built across the river, later replaced by the Carinus Bridge in the fifties making Velddrif accessible to the outside world, after which the west coast blossomed into a multi-billion rand industry. Nevertheless, the recent fishing restrictions have left many people jobless and the preservation of the bokkom-making industry under threat as young people leave to work in the cities.
Bokkomlaan – similarly rich in history as it in fish and birdlife.
While archaeologists circle the site in a Cessna and dredge sandbanks under the sea searching for De Gouden Buys, tourists travel the R27 highway, over Carinus bridge, take a right turn at Velddrif, then right again at the Bokkombedryf signpost to sip a cup of tea while Father Time and experience the golden age of fishing past.
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What is Lumbar-peritoneal Shunt ?
Lumbar-peritoneal Shunt (LP Shunt) is used to divert excess cerebrospinal fluid into the abdominal cavity from the subarachnoid space. The shunt is available in two types. Valve mediated and Valve less. The fact that it can get accessed to a large cerebrospinal space in the thecal sac and that it enables the draining of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a winning element to correct the excess production of CSF in the brain.
Patients with intracranial tumor or subdural hematoma cannot have the LP shunt as they are prone to develop downward brain herniation. Excess CSF may shunt in the spine creating pressure in the brain.
The possible complications thus involved are divided in to three types. It depends on the catheter used. It could be lumbar, peritoneal or general oriented complications surrounding the LP shunt. If you are using a catheter system with the valve there are chances that you will develop complications. The Lumbar catheter complications include :
- Over draining of cerebral spinal fluid
- Irritation in the spinal nerve
- Catheter misplacement
- Catheter migration
- Catheter obstruction
What are the symptoms generally involved from Lumbar-Peritoneal shunt ?
Symptoms that cause complications from lumbar peritoneal shunting include :
The most common symptom or complication from LP shunt is excess drainage of cerebra spinal fluid. Hence, the surgeons in any of the best hospital in Hyderabad for neurology advocate the use of shunts with valve as it allows only a fixed volume of cerebra spinal fluid to drain into the peritoneal cavity.
What are the complications from Lumbar peritoneal shunt and how can they be prevented ?
The complications from the implantation of the LP Shunt and methods to prevent include :
- Radiculopathy : The lumbar-peritoneal catheter is kept in close contact with the spinal nerves. There is a possibility of a spinal injury. This condition is called as Radiculopathy.
- Post-operative CSF Leak : Multiple attempts on the spine can cause CSF leak after the procedure. Hence, fluoroscopy can be used to do the placement safely without too many spinal punctures.
- Catheter Migration : The catheter may move out of the area within the spinal and the peritoneal cavity. This can be secured with the anchors and suture which basically comes along with the shunt equipment adopting the intraoperative procedural method. Despite all measures there are cases of the movement of the catheter.
- Shunt Infections : Chances of the infection in the shunt is the most common complication. Careful draping, proper pre-operative surgical site disinfection and lessening the operative time. Start antibiotics an hour soon after the surgery.
What forms the LP Shunt equipment ?
The LP Shunt equipment includes :
- The basic surgical instruments that opens in to the peritoneal cavity and outside.
- A tuohy needle
A tuohy needle has a curved tip that directs the catheter to access the spinal compartment while a catheter is a blunt hollow metal tube that is used to dissect the sub cutaneous tissue.
How is the LP Shunt procedure conducted ?
Preparing the patient for the procedure : Basic tests are conducted to see if his body is able to handle the surgery. The patient is informed about the dos and don’ts of the procedure. He is cross checked if he has adhered to them.
Anaesthesia : A general anaesthesia is given by an anaesthetist. Although the other options are available anaesthesia is given for a LP shunt procedure.
Placing of the shunt : Best Brain surgery hospitals in Hyderabad explain the importance of the positioning of the patient prior procedure as it enables the surgeon to access both the spinal and peritoneal compartments of the brain. He is placed in decubitus position where in his arms are raised above the shoulders. Soft gel pads are used so that he remains in the same position allowing him to easy access of the cavities.
The position allows the surgeon to have a wide access of the region from one spinal level to another where in the catheter is passed through or a valve is placed and the peritoneal cavity on the abdomen in accessed. The catheter is system is preserved in an antibiotic solution and is not removed until it is ready for use. For a proper understanding of the procedure a visible superior iliac crest is considered as the landmark.
Follow up after the procedure for monitoring its function : The LP Shunt requires extreme care and regular follow up to monitor for any return of symptoms. CT scans and Lumbar Puncture is used to measure the Cerebra spinal pressure.
Complications : There is a possibility of the failure of the shunt system. The statistics state that shunt revision due to obstructions range from 14%– 62% are mostly reported as against 1% -10% of the shunt infections and meningitis.
There is a 3% to 20% chance of the shunt catheters moving away from its position : the peritoneal catheter out of the peritoneum and the lumbar catheter to the thecal sac. It is more common in the children. The result is a collection of CSF in the cavity.
A condition called arachnoiditis where an inflammation or the catheter is migrated causing severe pain. The shunt may have to be re-positioned. 5% to 6% of such cases are reported.
Over drainage (5%-10%) is yet another complication that causes head aches and inter- cranial hypotension. Hence, there are valves that can be programmed and the drainage of the CSF can be set thereby avoiding excess drainage. There are also chances of under drainage (9%-12%) of CSF.
The Arnold-Chiari tosillar herniation is the most commonly reported complication post the LP shunt procedure. Subdural hematomas, intraparenchymal hemorrhages, abdominal haemorrhages are also the complications of post shunt replacement.
Approaches of LPShunts : There are mainly two types of shunts as discussed earlier. The valve mediated and the valve-less types. The positioning of the shunts remain the same.
The Lumboperitoneal Shunt Placement : LP Shunt surgery in Hyderabad is conducted by placing the patient in the lateral decubitus position. With the aid of fluoroscopy the shunt and the iliac crest as the landmark L4-5 spinal level the shunt is placed. Only in case of a haemorrhage the LP shunt is placed at L5-S1 level.
An incision is made in that includes the lumbar area , the skin, flank, abdomen in the midline and the dissection is made down till the fascia layer. Sufficient place is made for the catheter to pass through with the help of the tuohy needle is inserted in to the thecal sac well within the space.
Passing of the catheter in to the abdominal and dorsal incision : The tuohy needle is aligned to rostral-caudal direction. The LP catheter is sent through the thecal sac. The width of the incision may wary between 6-8cm.However the catheter is not withdrawn from the needle to avoid shearing off of the catheter’s end.
Pulling of the shunt of the catheter tunnelling instrument : the laparoscopic approach is better than the traditional one as the catheter is inserted through the incision in the flank while the other approach would have involved the dissection of the scarpa fascia, innominate fascia, muscle layers and traversalis fascia till you reach the peritoneal area.
If you are using a LP catheter with a valve then the flank incision has to be made. The catheter tunnelling instrument is connected to the lumbar and to the incision made in the flank. If there is no valve involved then tunnelling process is conducted through the lumbar region and until the abdomen. Sometimes you may need another intervening incision. Spinal catheter can now be exposed till the flank but should be made sure it is not moved out of the thecal sac. To avoid movement or any displacement anchoring device can be sutured to secure to the lumbar fascia. Finally the valve is then connected to the spinal catheter and an additional tube is placed from the flank to the abdomen incision. The catheter tunnelling instrument is now removed as the LP shunt has been placed.
Why KIMS ?
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Carl Wieman Practices what he Preaches
I’ve been teaching by the seat of my pants for almost 9 years now. I try new things in the classroom and pay attention to whether they work. And I like to think I have decent instincts. What I haven’t done until this summer is invest serious time reading research on teaching and learning. That’s why I jumped at the opportunity to spend 6 intensive days at Stanford studying with Carl Wieman (and about 40 like minded people) at his first ever summer Departmental Education Specialist Training Workshop.
It turns out I’ve been doing a lot of things right, and the workshop told me why they work. For example, I want students to try to work through problems before I teach them the best way to solve them. Research shows (e.g., Schwarz and Bransford, 1998) that when students have already made an effort, they understand what you tell them at a deeper level. They retain the ideas longer and are better able to transfer these skills to new problems.
It also turns out there is lots of room for improvement in my teaching. Among many other things, I learned about exam wrappers, invention activities, two stage exams, best practices for group management, and the power of contrasting cases and analogies. I’m now reconsidering several hard lines I’ve taken on teaching-related issues over the years. Here’s one: I never thought I’d be willing to give students points for using clickers during class, but Carl was persuasive in saying that students interpret points as guidance for what we think is important for them to do.
Did I mention that the workshop was intense? In all seriousness, it was a semester-long class condensed into six days. Before we even arrived, we had to read two books, eight articles, and five two-pagers that were grouped into 10 units. For each unit, we had to share on a class discussion board what surprised us most and which of the practices we read about were particularly common or uncommon . Carl made it very clear that if we hadn’t done the reading when we showed up, we’d be asked to leave. I have no doubt he would have followed through.
The workshop itself followed a fairly regular structure for each of the 10 units: First we would review the reading and discuss issues as Carl weighed in with his always thought-provoking expert opinion. Then we would individually build something using what we learned. The first unit was on how human memory works and how humans are easily distracted by extraneous detail. Our activity was to take a set of lecture slides that we had created and cut out the fat. Make the notation consistent. Slowly build up complex diagrams. Remove noisy backgrounds and flashy transitions. Leave in stories and interesting facts that contribute to understanding. We would post our activities to the class discussion board, and and then critique one or two of our colleagues’ projects. Finally, we would incorporate that feedback to create a revised version. Much of the individual work of creating, critiquing and revising happened at night and early in the morning. I can’t say I slept well that week as my mind was constantly turning over ideas.
My favorite part of the workshop was the extent to which Carl used the methods he was teaching us. The primary way experts become experts is deliberate practice. Anyone who has read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers knows that you need at least 10,000 hours of practice, but the key is that it has to be deliberate practice. You need to focus on the task at hand, be challenged, and receive constructive feedback. Rinse. Repeat. All the exercises we did during the workshop were prototypical deliberate practice. Peer teaching can also be an incredibly effective tool where the student doing the teaching learns as much (if not more) than the student (e.g., Cohen, Kulik, and Kulik ,1982). Our process of reviewing each others’ creative activities was classic peer teaching. One more example: Doing all these exercises primed us for Carl’s explaining how an expert would approach these problems.
Back in 2006, Carl started something called the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Departments competed for grants that would be used to transform how that department taught their undergraduate courses. They hired PhD’s in their disciplines, trained them up on the latest pedagogy research, and had these “science education specialists” work with faculty to implement these course transformations. It worked. A little later, Carl took the idea and the lessons learned to the University of British Columbia and repeated the process. Over the last 10 years, these institutions have transformed 235 classes and more importantly made lasting changes to department teaching cultures.
Carl is now at Stanford pushing a third university through his machine, and he seems to have some momentum with other universities (like Cornell) implementing similar models of institutional change. He’s even published a book explaining the process in gory detail. The purpose of this workshop was in large part to train individuals at places doing this sort of thing or seriously considering it. I’m proud to say Cornell had five representatives in attendance and we all came home overflowing with course transformation ideas. We also returned even more motivated to carefully document course learning goals and create assessments of student success in meeting these learning goals. Progress on these fronts in economics will be reported here over the next few months.
At the end of the workshop Carl shared this analogy: Folk remedies from 100 years ago are to modern medicine as today’s lecture-based teaching is to the tomorrow’s evidence-based teaching. Let’s make this a reality.
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Ransomware Relies on the Gig Economy
The current ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) pandemic is being fuelled by the tools and services offered by “gig” workers, making ransomware payload attribution harder and attacks easier to launch, according to Microsoft.To get more news about RaaS, you can visit glprobotics.com official website.
The tech giant explained in a lengthy post this week that short-term contractors of this sort are helping to lower the barrier to entry for other threat actors, who provide a cut of the profits from campaigns in return.
“The cyber-criminal economy is a continuously evolving connected ecosystem of many players with different techniques, goals, and skillsets,” it said.
“In the same way our traditional economy has shifted toward gig workers for efficiency, criminals are learning that there’s less work and less risk involved by renting or selling their tools for a portion of the profits than performing the attacks themselves. This industrialization of the cybercrime economy has made it easier for attackers to use ready-made penetration testing and other tools to perform their attacks.”
This has made it more difficult for investigators to link attacks to a particular ransomware payload developer group, Microsoft added.
Many of these gig workers are hired from other groups, and/or for a one-off, limited time period.
One such group, DEV-0193, has apparently been responsible for developing and distributing payloads, including Trickbot, Bazaloader and AnchorDNS, and operating the Ryuk, Conti and Diavol RaaS businesses.
“DEV-0193’s actions and use of the cyber-criminal gig economy means they often add new members and projects and utilize contractors to perform various parts of their intrusions,” Microsoft explained.
“As other malware operations have shut down for various reasons, including legal actions, DEV-0193 has hired developers from these groups. Most notable are the acquisitions of developers from Emotet, Qakbot, and IcedID, bringing them to the DEV-0193 umbrella.”
Some of these contractors have produced offerings such as Cobalt Strike Beacon-as-a-service, which makes life easier for other cyber-criminals.
Microsoft also argued that many RaaS affiliates have “wildly different tradecraft, skills, and reporting structures,” as evidenced by those working with the Conti operators.
Some perform relatively small-scale intrusions using tools offered by the RaaS, while others dedicate weeks to operations using their own techniques and tools, it said. In addition, some prioritize organizations with big revenues, while others target those with sensitive data or big-name brands.
However, some common techniques still prevail, which should help organizations focus their defensive efforts.
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Career Information and Exploration
The in-school internship is taken preferably after a student has taken the careers class. The student is placed with a PCS employee and is trained with some basic work skills. This is a wonderful opportunity for the student to work on learning some work related skills before doing an out-of-school internship. Below is the tentative syllabus and coursework the student must complete during a 12-week trimester. It is subject to change at teacher choice.
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Did you know these things about poker history?
You might know how to enter pokerlounge99, but do you know these interesting poker facts. Find out some curious things from the history of the most legendary card game in the world.
Let’s consider you are a real poker enthusiast. You know where the best poker bonuses are. You know every big player in the online poker industry. You are even one of the few first people, who are informed about the opening of the new amazing poker website pokerlounge99. However, do you really think you know absolutely everything about the poker game?
We doubt so. To test it, let’s make an experiment. Tell us, please, did you know all of these curious facts about poker history.
- Poker as the game we know today (ok, with a couple of things that have been modified within the time) was invented by French people, but in New Orleans. It’s curious to know that in the beginning, the poker deck consisted only from 20 cards. Plus, the first poker hand type was formed of 4 cards.
- One of the most popular poker players isn’t someone from the 21st century, who has recently become super rich from a poker tournament and who the paparazzi journalists chase in order to show in the social network gossip pages. As a matter of fact, the most popular poker lover was the American president, Richard Nixon. He became famous for his passion in the middle of the World War II. Nixon played poker in the US Navy quite regularly between the battles for fun.
- The first poker chips were made of gold. Actually, they were no chips. Instead, poker players used either real gold nuggets, or some golden coins. The poorest poke enthusiasts used to be able to afford only gold dust. However, the gold dust was an official poker currency with no limits, too.
- The poker game where the biggest number of players participated in, though, was from today’s history. It turned out that the largest poker game took place in the middle of the 2013th year. In June about 225 thousands of poker enthusiasts claimed an entrance for the Onchan tournament situated in the Isle of Man, which, as you know, is a destination that has been recently quite often linked to gambling in general.
- It was 1973rd year, though, when poker appeared on TV. At this time, actually, the first World Series of Poker was broadcasted on TV. According to the witnesses from those times, the event was massively appreciated and liked even from people who have never played poker before. The poker experts claim that this event made a huge impact over the increase of the players typical for the end of the 20th century.
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Claim: As Washington teetered on the budgetary brink, House Speaker John Boehner last week sounded an alarm. “If you shut the government down,” he asserted, “it’ll end up costing more than you’ll save.”
Reality: Boehner is right.
Just because the government turns out the lights, shuts down agencies such as the IRS, closes the gates of national parks, and furloughs 800,000 “nonessential” workers doesn’t mean taxpayers save money. In fact, it could prove more costly than business as usual – adding hundreds of millions of dollars a day to state and national spending.
For one thing, those workers may be entitled to back pay and will be eligible for unemployment. States will have to shell out money ahead of transfers from Washington. Then there’s all the work that will have piled up. When they return, many government employees will have to put in extra time.
A shutdown also can add to the money needed by government agencies, which lose the ability to collect fees on their services. During the government shutdown in 1995, for instance, the national parks lost 7 million visitors, costing the National Park Service an estimated $14 million in tourist revenues. Overall, the Office of Management and Budget estimates the shutdown cost taxpayers around $100 million each day at first – and more than $1 billion after three weeks.
And this isn’t counting a potentially huge impact on the private sector. For instance, some kinds of trading on Wall Street won’t take place.
Bart Chilton, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in a statement on Thursday the financial damage from a shutdown would be “potentially incalculable” – and the consequences of less regulatory policing “could be enormous.” His own agency, he warned, was entering “dangerous territory” by making public its contingency plans.
States have worries of their own.
“The largest factor in determining the impact of any federal government shutdown is its length,” notes a February briefing paper by the National Association of State Budget Officers. “While a brief shutdown would be inconvenient, a longer-term shutdown could prove to be significantly problematic.”
While the last shutdown in 1995 lasted only 20 days, Maryland had to come up with an extra $1.4 million in state employee salaries. Federal shares of those salaries had been suspended. The District of Columbia had to spend $4.4 million.
Over the last three decades, the government has shut down 16 times. This report by the Congressional Research Service covers some of the causes and consequences. A Goldman Sachs economist has estimated that a shutdown today would equal $8 billion in weekly spending.
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Leaves of grass
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As energetic and diverse as the American life it describes, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has been loved by generations for its celebration of a brash young nation and one man's exuberant spirit.
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People who fled their homes and lost their livelihoods due to the ongoing conflict in the North-East of Nigeria struggle to put food on the table because of soaring inflation. The inflation rate reached a four-year record high of 18per cent in March this year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. People displaced by the conflict are among the most vulnerable and are disproportionally affected by price fluctuations.
“Before the prices of things were acceptable. Since they increased, everything has become expensive. And since I sell my merchandise in the camp, I know these people are displaced, the price cannot be the same, as I have to take their situation into consideration,” says Ali Kolomi, who has been displaced with his family of nine, and now runs a grocery shop in one of the camps for displaced people in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state
Over a decade of armed conflict has left more than two million people displaced in the North-East of Nigeria, making it one of the world’s most complex humanitarian emergencies. As people fled their homes, they also lost their livelihoods and many of them struggle to meet their essential needs.
“Beyond the physical safety, people also have steadily and increasingly been struggling securing basic livelihood. Families struggle to find work, care for their loved ones, but also put food on the table.” said Sarrah El Moumouhi, deputy head of Maiduguri sub-delegation for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
According to official statistics, 40 per cent of Nigeria’s population, or almost 83 million people, live below the country’s poverty line of 137,430 naira ($382) per year. The ICRC provides microeconomic grants to vulnerable groups of people who lost their income due to the ongoing armed conflict to enable people to start small businesses. However, steep inflation of the past year has hit them hard and an increasing number of people are struggling to keep their business afloat.
Aisha Umar, a widowed mother from Borno State, has been living in Bakassi camp in Maidiguri for the last seven years, following an attack that left her and her eight children displaced. In 2019, she received an ICRC microeconomic grant. Prior to the power outage that affected the city for the past six months, Aisha sold ice. Electricity shortage has raised the price of ice and she can no longer afford it. As a result, Aisha like many other people who relied on electricity for their businesses, have had to find another source of income.
“Nowadays, to avoid spending the money that I have left, I buy smaller animals to keep the investment going,” said Aisha Umar. “If I buy rams at 30,000 ($75) or 40,000 naira ($100), I can sell them at 60,000 ($145) or 70,000 naira ($170). Then, I deduct the cost of feeding them and I use the rest of the amount to pay for the children’s schools.”.
In 2020, more than 16’000 people received cash for investment through the ICRC’s micro-economic grants and 173 entrepreneurs received grants through the ICRC-Tony Elumelu Foundation partnership to start their own businesses.
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Various shots of city streets.
Interview: Aisha Umar – Livestock Trader, Bakassi IDP Camp, Maiduguri.
“Nowadays, if I buy rams at 30,000 or 40,000 naira, I can sell them at 60,000 or 70,000 naira. I deduct the cost of feeding them and I use the rest to pay for their schools. To avoid spending the money I have, I buy smaller animals to keep the investment going.”
00.32-- > 00.47
“That’s what is helping me to keep the children at school. I don’t have any relatives, and no one has ever given me anything even an Ankara. Even my younger brother, he was the only one helping us, but he is no longer with us.”
“Life is like that, I don’t get any help, the children only rely on me to make the capital, although it’s only 200,000 naira. The money has started to reduce since I have to pay the bills, education, health, and clothes. One of my children got sick, I spent 50,000 naira on her alone.”
Various shots of Aisha Umar feeding her livestock (sheep and chicken).
Wide shot of market.
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Shot of Ali Kolomi’s Market stall.
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Shot of Ali Kolomi sitting in his market stall.
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Shot of bags of cereals.
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Various shots of Ali Kolomi working in his market stall.
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Interview: Ali Kolomi – Grain Trader, Bakassi IDP Camp, Maiduguri.
“Initially, I enjoyed the business because the product was very cheap to buy. Nowadays, the price of the products is escalating, and it has become expensive.”
03.31- - >03.47
“There is no money and people are running out of cash. You have to put the needs of other people before your own. Everyone is out of cash and the price of each product has increased now.”
03.47- - >04.01
“I used to buy maize on credit from the custom market and I would return the money after I had sold the maize.”
04.01- - >04.20
“Previously the price of the product was acceptable. Since it has increased, we have to buy it at an expensive rate. And since we sell it in the camp, we know they are IDPS, the price cannot be the same since we take their situation into consideration.”
04.20- - >04.33
“If you go to the market, you realize how much the prices have increased. An item that used to sell at five hundred Naira now sells at six hundred Naira”
04.33- - >04.45
Interview: Sarrah El Moumouhi – ICRC Deputy Head of Sub Delegation, Maiduguri.
“The northeast of Nigeria has suffered continuous conflict and insecurity for over a decade now. This means that the people, individuals, families and communities have also suffered the consequences of this situation.”
04.45- - > 04.59
“But beyond the physical safety, people also have steadily and increasingly been struggling securing basic livelihood. Families struggle to find work, care for their loved ones, but also put food on the table.”
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“The most vulnerable groups also suffer even greatly. We are talking about children, women and persons with special needs.”
05.07 - -> 05.20
“Talking to families all over the northeast in places like Maiduguri, like Monguno, Bama or Gwoza; families talk about the difficulty they have to access basic needs such as basic healthcare services or education.”
05.20 - - > 05.33
“People talk about having lost access to their farming land or having lost the ability or the resources to farm their lands as before. People have also lost access to markets and trading areas.”
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“Today the strategy of the ICRC is to continue exchanges and conversations with communities, authorities but also other humanitarian actors on the ground, to find sustainable ways to help communities restore the dignity they once had by restoring their livelihoods.”
05.54- - >06.21
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Yohane Mbeeya Moono
Prior to the August 12 elections, the Patriotic Front led government was engaged in serious negotiations to have an economic bailout package from the International Monetary Fund. The then President Edgar Chagwa Lungu in November of 2020 launched the Economic Recovery Plan.
The Patriotic Front and the United Party for National Development governments have both something in agreement that the Brentwood Institutions offer loans at lower interest rates compared to the Eurobond Owners. Hence the continuation of the IMF bailout package programme spanning two regimes in a space of six months. Furthermore, the lower interest rates should not the basis to push debt repayment for the younger generation of this country. If the country is able to revamp her economy, then the debt should be paid off in the quickest possible time.
It is worthy noting that there is no faulting of either regime in the role in the IMF bailout package but that we have been architect of our own economic col de sac because Parliament failed to rise beyond Party Politics and put National Interest first in the debates.
According to the UPND led government, the debt level the country had contracted had reach unsustainable levels and that is why they continued with the IMF bailout package programme to give themselves relief and time to renegotiate the payment structure of the Eurobonds with the first due in 2022.
The UPND in opposition was a very vocal critic of the Patriotic Front led government on the debt management. And the fact that the UPND in government have accrued a debt for this country provides a sense of De Javu for the citizens. The citizens are fearing the worst because the UPND led government seems to have backtracked on their position while in opposition.
The UPND led government felt that the country needed debt relief in the payment structure of the accrued debts. To the government, the best was to seek this bailout package and refinance the already existing debt. The question is that does borrowing to service a debt make a right choice? Are borrowing for consumption or Production? This is the sense of De Javu cripping in the minds of the citizens.
A brief history of the debt in Zambia, between 2000 and 2005, the country was among the Highly Poor Countries. It took the efforts of then President Levy Patrick Mwanawasa for the country to be debt free. However from 2009 to 2021, the country has accrued debts amounting to over $14 Billion. Despite attaining the Lower Middle Income status in 2010 this is still not healthy for a country wish to grow her economy further. This means that much of the country’s earnings goes to debt servicing at the expense of social and economic development of the country. Education and Healthy are very important to the Nation but these sectors are going to be more meaningful to the Nation when the country is able to find her own Programmes in the critical sectors. The current Minister of Finance Honourable Situmbeko Musokotwane comes into the picture of having accrued some of the debt for the country between 2009 and 2021. The country will await eagerly on how the UPND led government will negotiate this course of action it has taken.
The Coronavirus Pandemic meant the fund giving countries such as Zambia the Special Drawing Rights to help revamp the economy from the recession brought by the pandemic. Zambia in August received $1.3 Billion for economic reconstruction from the fund. The Staff Level Agreement between the Zambian Government and the International Monetary Fund means that Zambia will get the bailout package she has been pushing for months. This is aimed at improving the socio-economic sectors of the country.
This bailout package comes with stringent measures such fiscal discipline and transparency in the disbursement of the funds. Promotion of the rule of law and protection of human rights among the measurements.
The fiscal discipline being preached as the bailout package should be the backbone of the country’s economic activities because we risk going back to get more debts. When we fail to utilize the bailout package properly we risk going back to get more debt. This is the fear that many citizens in the country harbour in their minds. Now the public is eager to see how the 3.5 Gross Domestic Product growth will be achieved with the country accruing more debt to service a debt.
For us to survive this nerve-wracking moments with the Brentwood Institutions, the country needs to improve the levels of production. The small and medium sized entrepreneurs are going to key economic drivers in a bid to improve our economy. The country needs to harness all the potentialities it harbours in all sectors and work on them to give the best economic outlook the country needs to have a healthy debt structure.
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Looking after your heart is imperative. So many of us are aware of this and take positive steps to leading a well-rounded, healthy and active lifestyle. For many of us, we are keen to go running or slog it out in the gym. We are careful with what we eat. We are eager to make sure that our bodies remain a temple.
But, you also need to be aware of how to look after your heart when you are in the throes of your exercise regimen. After all, exercise should be good for your heart, not bad for it.
Here are some ways that you can exercise more thoroughly and ensure that your heart is getting the benefits.
Exercising in the Heat
For some, the thought of being in the gym is too much to bear. If you love exercising in the outdoors, it’s vital that you are aware of how the heat combined with exercise can impact on your heart. In the summer, it is important that you take steps to keep cool. Your heart will be working twice as hard. So, you need to make sure that you are hydrated. Drink water while you exercise. Avoid high-calorie sports drinks. These will not maximise your bodily floods. Drinking plenty of water will keep your heart happy and stop you from passing out.
Keeping cool is vital while you train. Your body is prone to overheating. So, with this in mind, you need to find ways of keeping your cool while you exercise. It is said ‘sweat is fat crying’ but you also need to make sure that you are not overdoing it on your heart. Make sure that you take rest breaks in between training. A quick one minute of recouping is necessary for your heart to catch up. Try to keep under a fan while you train or make sure that you train outdoors in the winter. Keeping cool is essential for your heart’s health.
Don’t Over Do It: Check Your Heart Rate
If you train and exercise within the gym, you need to be aware of the MHR scale on the machines that you are using. Should you hold onto the cross trainer, you will be aware of your heart and how quickly it is beating. The machine will interject your workout with your heart rate. If it goes above the threshold, take your workout down a notch. This is important if you suffer from ventricular tachycardia as you may be prone to a heart attack,
There are some simple ways that you can ensure that you are not overdoing it. For the average thirty-year-old, you should aim for 95 to 162 beats per minute. At 100% MHR your heart can do 190 BPM. However, this can be dangerous for your health. You need to make sure that you are maximising your workout and keeping your ticker in excellent condition. You don’t have to push yourself to the max. You can take a step back and keep your health in check. | <urn:uuid:3977726c-2390-41dc-9ca7-5d8b68cb2e48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fitandsound.com/tag/heart-care-during-exercise/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958724 | 616 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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The Roots of Antisemitism
Antisemitism, when and where did it raise its ugly head, how did we get to where we are today, experienced in the 19th century, and why it is rapidly gaining mainstream acceptance?
Before I share this, I would like to thank Avinoam Ben Dor who translated this from Hebrew to English, think this is far too important not to share.
Thousands of years of Anti-Judaism/Antisemitism
Matan Peleg | 01/05/2019
The Jewish Ethical monotheistic ideology eventually defeated the ancient cultures: Rome converted to Christianity, and Islam was created. But it only fueled the nations’ need to delegitimize Judaism and to cast blame on the Jews.
Centuries of Antisemitism. (Credit photos: Wikicommons)
Sometimes I ask myself: what is the origin of the old and new Antisemitism? The origin of this timeworn obsession is a question in itself. In order to start giving some answers – and although Passover is right behind us – we should return to the story of the Jewish People’s Exodus from Egypt.
The story of the Exodus is one of mankind’s greatest stories, and certainly a revolutionary” story in Human culture. It is an unfolding process that resulted in the creation of a nation who has self-awareness and an unprecedented Ethics and morals, different from anything previously known: Instead of a life whose only meaning depended on the whims of dozens of gods, most enshrined as idols, endlessly fighting each other (and certainly not caring at all about humans); Moses carved his own rock. His was not a rock to be worshipped as a deity. He brought to the world, the great and earth-changing message that both the life of the nation and that of its individuals are sacred.
Moses’ message was not only revolutionary. It was profoundly disconcerting, throwing over, as it did, all the existing assumptions and attitudes about the importance of the individual. It is perhaps no wonder that in those days many attempts were made to disparage and denigrate the nation that brought these values into the world. Countless efforts were made to cast doubt and aspersions on Moses and the people of Israel. As early as 300 BCE, we find the first written effort at delegitimization of the Jewish people: “The Leper’s Plot”. Written by a Greek philosopher named Hecataeus of Abdera, the manifest presents the Jews as a band of impious lepers who defiled Egypt until they were finally expelled from it.
Though, perhaps the greatest impetus to cast doubt upon and to denigrate the founding ethos of the Jewish people, arose after the Torah was translated into Greek, in the third century BCE (“The Septuagint.”) Suddenly, more and more sages and philosophers from very different horizons and cultures were exposed to the ideas of Moses and the Israelites – therefore, such exposure created among some of them the need for counter-narratives, stories, and worldviews.
The first to act upon it was probably the Hellenistic priest, Manetho, who lived in Egypt at the time of the Torah’s translation. Manetho not only reiterated the story of the ancient lepers but also pointed out that the Israelites invaded Egypt since they were not permitted to settle in Egypt. He also distorted the story and claimed that they’ve stayed there until the Egyptians managed to defeat and expel them.
In the second century BCE, the Egyptian writer, Lichimus, wrote his own version of the leper’s plot: he explained that it was only when the Jewish people were in the desert, that Moses offered to invade and conquer the land [of Israel] and kick out its inhabitants.
The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, also rewrote and paraphrased leprosy’s story of Hecataeus of Abdera. Apion, a Hellenized Egyptian also wrote an expanded version of this story. He claimed that the lepers were not the only ones expelled from Egypt. He claimed that thousands of blind people, sick and infected people with other diseases were also expelled. Apion also claimed that Jews did human sacrifices and worshiped donkeys’ heads. Seneca, a Roman philosopher, called the Jews “a cursed people” and Tacitus, a historian, and senator of the Roman Empire, vehemently denounced the “cult” that Moses had created and claimed that “The Jewish cult contradicted everything known to mankind”.
At first glance, the intensity of their obsession to cast doubt on the story of the Exodus from Egypt is incomprehensible. But, the more you consider the impact of the Exodus story, the more their motives become understandable. The ethos of the Bnei Yisroel is simply more attractive and the Ethics and Morals of the Torah of Israel threatened all the cultures around. Not with the sword, but with an ideology, a vision. Indeed, the Jewish Ethical monotheistic ideology eventually defeated its competitors. Rome converted to Christianity, meaning that they adopted a more contemporary Judaism and made their own adaptations accordingly. The same happened to the Orient nations of the world: they have somehow “Judaized” and based on the Torah, they added new texts that altogether created what is known today as Islam.
Of course, the nations’ respective adoptions and transformations of Judaism, did not end their need to try and delegitimize Judaism and to cast blame on the Jews – quite the contrary. Jews had to be found “unworthy” of the Torah, in order to justify these new religions.
Thus, a new concept was born: “anti-Semitism.”
The Greek Lepers’ plot was replaced with the accusation of the Jews being responsible for the murder of Jesus (in the 4th century), and later on, with the crazy plot that the Jews were preparing matzah from Christian children’s blood. (England 1149). After that, it was said that the Jews were poisoning wells (Switzerland 1348), then that the Jews were planning to take over the world (The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Russia, early 20th century) etc… Some of these tales appear again are even in our modern days as if nothing had changed. After all, there is no fundamental difference between the “Matzah- blood” plot of the 12th century and the claim made by the Swedish newspaper “Aftonbladet” in 2009, which claimed that IDF soldiers harvest Palestinians’ organs for commercial purposes. We can almost not differ between the plot of poisoning the wells of Switzerland in the 14th century, and the allegedly “poisoning of Palestinian water” that activists of “Breaking the Silence” like to tell to European tourists. As I like to say: there is nothing new under the sun!
There is no question that it is of great importance to tell and represent Israel’s truth against the lies that the Europeans and their aides propagate. On the other hand, it is worth remembering that these murderous lies are thousands of years old. It started with Moses – and it’s not going to end any time soon.
Matan Peleg is the CEO of “Im-Tirzu”.
(Translated to English by Avinoam Ben Dor. Adaptation: Rachel Touitou)
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Constantine stated in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea (which had already decided the matter):
“… it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this holiest feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled their hands with enormous sin and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with blindness of soul … Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way.”
Eusebius, Life of Constantine Vol. III Ch. XVIII Life of Constantine (Book III)
“During the Dark Ages when the Church ruled, antisemitism reigned, and Jews lived in constant terror.
Anyone who has read the Christian Bible will no doubt be alarmed by the demonization of the Jewish people that served for many centuries to enforce antisemitic acts and attitudes practiced throughout Christendom. Historically, the countless Christian massacres and persecutions and the omnipresent antisemitic attitudes purveyed by preachers and popes alike were defended as following naturally from Christian scripture, which above all else blamed the Jews for murdering Jesus.
The Acts of the Apostles.
Jews are referred to as vipers and poisonous snakes, hard-hearted and hypocrites, thieves and robbers, and the blind guiding the blind. We are told that they reject the commandments, reject God’s purpose, and plotted on multiple occasions to kill Jesus and eventually did.
The Gospel According to John makes these assertions: God’s word and God’s love are not with the Jews; none of the Jews do what is written in the Torah; they know neither Jesus nor the father; and they are descendants of their own father, who is not God but Satan.
The Gospel of John at no time singles out the Jews, it says that all, not the Jews have sinned. Further, it was not mentioning Jews, the passage speaks of the Pharisees, the writer here ignores this.
Whenever unnamed Jews appear, they do so almost always as villains. When unnamed Gentiles appear, they almost always heed the words of the gospels and say random things like “Truly this was the son of God!” as one Roman centurion exclaims at the crucifixion as Jewish crowds revel in Jesus’ pain. Romans, known by historians for their unfettered willingness to kill, is shown repeatedly in the New Testament as trying to save Jesus and his followers, notably Paul. Even in cases where the gentiles ignore the apostles or try to kill them, as occurs in Iconium and Antioch, we are told on both occasions that the Jews had first “stirred up the other Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.”
The Jews in Christian scripture represent, in reality, and in metaphor, the shadows in the contrast of good and evil. The righteousness of Jesus and his followers are held against the backdrop of Jews who seek to stifle his message and kill him if need be. In the words of Jonah Daniel Goldhagen, in his book A Moral Reckoning, “The antisemitism of the Christian Bible is not incidental to it but constitutive of its story. … The Christian Bible presents its Christian faithful with a relentless and withering assault on Jews and Judaism … presented as the ontological enemy of Jesus and therefore of goodness.” The scholar William Nicholls put it more plainly: “No uncritical reader of the New Testament could easily come away with any but the most negative opinion of Jews.”
As a child of both faiths, I don’t agree with this author, the Christian author accurately states the Jews did as a whole reject Jesus, but his disciples were all Jewish. The Christian scriptures did not have a good vision of the Pharisees, but it did not extend to the Jews.
Just about all of the Gospels directly or indirectly accuse the Jews of actually killing God, which would seem ridiculous if it hadn’t visited so much actual death and persecution on Jewish communities across Europe over the past 2,000 years. Mark depicts Jesus being condemned before the Jewish supreme court, the Sanhedrin, on the night of the Seder — though they would never convene for a capital case on a night or on a holiday — before being sentenced to death for blasphemy and handed over to the Romans. The Roman governor Pontius Pilate tries repeatedly to have Jesus spared, but the Jewish crowds beg for his execution. Matthew adds that Pilate, whom historians tell us was a monster recalled to Rome for murdering unarmed Samaritan demonstrators, tried to save Jesus’ life and physically washed his hands of Jesus blood as the braying Jewish crowds screamed for the Messiah’s innocent blood to “be upon our heads and upon our children’s.” Luke does away with both the Jewish and Roman trials entirely — mentioning no crime, witnesses, or formal condemnation — which, Nicholls points out, converts the Roman Crucifixion into a Jewish lynching of Jesus.
The gospels state that Jesus died as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, it was Romans that put Jesus to death, although in all fairness the Jews did not pick to free Jesus when offered a choice. But remember, there at most a couple of hundred Jews there, this hardly represented the whole.
Worse than killing God once, the Jews are accused of being something like serial killers, but for prophets. Jesus repeatedly refers to the historical Jewish crimes of killing divine messengers, such as Zachariah; and Luke, Matthew, and John each mention a separate Jewish attempt on Jesus’ life even before the crucifixion. The most damning target of the Jewish prophet-killing obsession isn’t even Jesus, it’s Paul. While the Jews try to kill Jesus no more than four times, they try to kill Paul no less than nine — in Damascus, Jerusalem, Iconium, Lystra, Thessalonika, Corinth, twice again in Jerusalem, and on the road from Caesarea (the Romans, of course, were there to save him.) Those aside, the New Testament depicts the Jews killing Stephen, approving Herod’s killing of James, and instigating plots to kill Lazarus and Peter.
As bad as what the New Testament has to say about Jews is what it has to say about Judaism, which is depicted throughout as old and defunct and in need of replacement. Jesus, in Matthew, tells the Jews that “the kingdom of God will be taken away from you [Jews] and given to a people that will produce its fruit [the Christians].” John takes the metaphor terrifyingly further, calling the Jewish people a fruitless tree waiting to be axed, “cut down and thrown into the fire.”
John at no time states this, he says if a tree bears no fruit you chop it down, the Christian doctrine teaches that the Jews rejected Jesus, thus there was a time of the Gentiles when Gentiles would be grafted to the tree, the tree at no time is chopped down, the promise to the Jews has never halted.
As a result of growing agricultural surpluses in the 12th Century, the development of widespread trade was allowed, which in turn increased the economic importance of money lending.
“The (Catholic) Church struggled with interest-bearing Christians as the economy expanded and loans were required.
“Those who deal with their own usurious interest will inherit hell and those who do not deal with usury interest loans will be impoverished,” wrote an Italian playwright.
One of the methods used by the (Catholic) Church to solve the dilemma, starting in the 12th C, was to exclude Christians from engaging in this prohibited or necessary economic activity, by permitting only Jews to engage in it.
The Jews were not subject to the prohibitions of ecclesiastical law, and in any case, were subjected to the flames of hell forever and ever because they betrayed Yeshua.
Pope Nicholas V, for example, preferred that “this nation will be permitted to draw usurious interest and not Christians from one another.”
Thus began the link between making money and Jews, a link that strengthened the despicable image of the trade in the eyes of Christians and which, as we shall see, was to survive in renewed incarnation even in the sayings of modern intellectuals.
In the iconography of the early Middle Ages money was often associated with feces and described as disgusting and obnoxious. Now the Jews themselves were described as stinking. Illustrated representations of greed often included symbols identified with Jews.
In Passion Plays, Judas of Iscariot’s relations with Jewish leaders in his days, during the Late 2nd Temple period, were presented as bargaining between Jewish money lenders, as typical medieval Jewish usury lenders.
The identification of Jews with usurious interest was so tight that in the middle of the 12th Century, Christian religious leaders used the term, Iudaizare, which means ‘to act as a Jew’, meaning collectors of usurious interest, and naming usurious Christians as “Jews who were baptized”.
The kings of England and France, who needed loans from Christian loan sharks, some even church members, created a legal fiction to protect them:
They were considered legally “Jewish,” and therefore subject to the king’s exclusive patronage. The Jewish spear “of usury.” To symbolically identify the forms of capitalism that are perceived as most obnoxious as “Jewish” will persist for a long time to come.
European Jews, who in the past earned their livelihood in agriculture and crafts, became, throughout the 12th and 13th centuries, a population primarily engaged in commerce – with emphasis on money lending. A host of factors directed them to the field. The church had purged the Jews from owning land, as Jewish landowners did not pay tithe to the coffers.
From the artisans’ world, Jews were ejected with the growth of guilds, which limited membership only to Christians. Another factor was the undermined security of Jewish communities. The Jews depended on their living quarters based on the tolerance of Christian nobles and kings and therefore lived in constant fear of displacement and deportation. Jews were therefore attracted to the mobile property, in particular precious metals and gems, which could be easily concealed.
Moreover, Jews were attracted to commerce in general and the lending businesses in particular as a by-product of Torah studies which was at the top of their values.
The livelihood of commerce and banking allows leeway for study than work in agriculture and crafts. Finally, the widespread redeployment of Jewish communities, that had a common legal practice (Halacha) and a common language (Hebrew), throughout Europe and Asia gave Jews a great advantage as international merchants.
Martin Luther On the Jews and Their Lies
“Another antisemitic treatise was written in 1543 by the German Reformation leader Martin Luther. Luther’s attitude toward the Jews took different forms during his lifetime. In his earlier period, until 1537 or not much earlier, he wanted to convert Jews to Lutheranism, but failed.”
From Charles Joseph
“Voltaire was a vile racist antisemite of the lowest order. He believed the Jews to be unchangeably, intrinsically nasty by race. He invented the genre of race-based Jew-hatred and opened the doors to exterminist theory and the murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews. Truly a great thinker, inspiration for revolutions, and deeply bigoted, not a man of his time, but in contradistinction to men of his time that worked successfully against Voltaire against racism. He did not like Black people either. From the NYT: “Two citations will suffice. In his ”Letter of Memmius to Cicero” (1771), Voltaire, in the pose of an ancient Roman reporting on the Jews, wrote: ”They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race.” In the next year, writing the essay ”One Must Take Sides” – introduced as ”the last word by Voltaire on metaphysics” – he ridiculed each of the major religions, but he was meanest to the Jews: ”You have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables, in bad conduct, and in barbarism. You deserve to be punished, for this is your destiny.” This is hardly the rhetoric of a man who thinks that Jews are just other people waiting to be enlightened. It is the talk of a ”noble Roman,” his favorite self-definition, who has no patience with inferior people such as Jews and, for that matter, blacks.” All I have written here is taken from this article: Voltaire and the Jews.”
Fichte and the Jews by Shahar Ozeri Fichte and the Jews
“Very often I find reading Fichte annoying because his rhetorical strategies are often somewhat obnoxious (see Science of Knowledge, for one, but on the upshot, it’s often amusing at the same time). This morning I came across this comment by Fichte in his essay “A State within a State:”
“…the Jewish nation excluded itself…from the German nation by the most binding element of mankind—religion…It (the Jewish nation) separates itself from all others in its duties and rights, from here until eternity.”
Here comes the part that caused me to raise my eyebrows slightly, but very dramatically:
“I see absolutely no way of giving them [the Jews] civic rights, except perhaps if one chops off all of their heads and replaces them with new ones, in which there would not be one single Jewish idea.
While I think it’s fairly well known that Fichte denied that Judaism had any moral value and for the most part, harbored a traditional, run of the mill antisemitic attitude, I think this is a pretty nice straw man: portray Jewish religion as fundamentally inflexible in order to pave the way for political forms of antisemitism. Enter Wagner?”
“French socialist Alphonse Toussenel’s Les Juifs, rois de l’époque and places his hostility toward Jews on the spectrum of varieties of antisemitism. “Hep-Hep riots – Wikipediahttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/276830212_A_Socialist_Drumont_Alphonse_Toussenel_and_the_Jews
҃douard Adolphe Drumont was a French journalist and writer. He initiated the Antisemitic League of France in 1889 and was the founder and editor of the newspaper La Libre Parole. After spending years of research, he synthesized three major types of antisemitism.Ӄdouard Drumont РWikipedia
“Eugen Dühring (1833-1921) was one of the most significant of the early socialist theoreticians, economists, and positivist philosophers who opposed the hijacking of original socialist thought by what Dühring called “Jewish agitators and intriguers” such as Ferdinand Lassalle and Karl Marx. Dühring’s treatise on the Jews was the first major work to identify the Jewish Question not as a religious and cultural problem but, rather, as one based on the inherent and unchangeable character of the Jewish people. One important feature of Dühring’s anti-Semitism is his clear distinction between the Jews and other Semites, and his consideration of the former as “the most vicious minting of the entire Semitic race.” The Jewish religion, Dühring said, has no truly religious character but, instead, a markedly economic-political one that aims to dominate and exploit non-Jews. Indeed, the Jewish god Jehovah is nothing but an embodiment of the Jewish self-interest and represents the opposite of the Indo-European natural pantheon. Dühring was also firmly against the Marxist doctrine of class-warfare since he considered this to be a subversive strategy that furthered the opposition between the powerful warrior nobilities of the past and powerless social groups – to the advantage of the Jews. As a solution to the Jewish problem, Dühring demanded the complete expulsion of Jews from western society. Dühring’s radical realist and anti-religious worldview thus served as the philosophical backdrop to the emergence of Hitlerian anti-Semitism and marked a turning point in world history.”
“The International Jew is a four-volume set of antisemitic booklets or pamphlets published and distributed in the early 1920s by Henry Ford.”The International Jew – Wikipedia
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion or The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion is a fabricated antisemitic text purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.”The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Wikipedia
Anti Zionism by Melanie Phillips
“Anti-Zionism has weaponized antisemitism. The unique characteristics of antisemitism are replicated in anti-Zionism because anti-Zionism is the modern mutation of antisemitism.
Antisemitism is an obsessional hatred based entirely on lies; it accuses the Jews of crimes of which they are not only innocent but the victims; it holds them to standards expected of no one else; it depicts them as a global conspiracy of unique malice and power.
Anti-Zionism has exactly the same characteristics. It singles out the Jewish people alone as having no right to their own ancient homeland and, based on the big lie that the Jews stole the land, writes the Jews uniquely out of their own history.
The associated Israel-bashing demonizes, dehumanizes and delegitimizes Israel in order to bring about its destruction. It does this through a narrative of lies.
Anti-Zionism is intrinsically anti-Jew because it singles out the Jews alone as a people who have no right of self-determination in their own country. It does this on the basis of the big lie that uniquely writes the Jews out of their own history as the only people for whom the land of Israel was ever their national kingdom.
This discourse of anti-Zionism and loathing of Israel has exactly the same unique characteristics as Jew-hatred through the ages. It singles out Israel for obsessive falsehoods; it reverses victim and oppressor in this particular conflict; it holds Israel responsible for a global conspiracy of evil, and it seeks not just to deprive the Jewish people uniquely of their right to self-determination, but to remove from them the country in which they alone are the indigenous people of the land.”
The problems in Eurabia are not the Jews, they are the people of that continent who have been inoculated with a vile anti-Semitic virus for over two millennia without searching for a cure.
On the other side, the Jews have not learned anything from History if they still hope to live and assimilate on the blood-soaked soils of this forsaken continent.”
“Make no mistake, those who foster anti-Semitism, who build their careers and foreign policy on a foundation of hatred will be judged harshly by history. When you demonize the Jewish state, it is a reflection of your moral bankruptcy, nothing more,”
CUFI’s Kasim Hafeez told the UN body.
An example of blind hate:
In relation to the Jews, the Brits were and are no better than the rest of Europe. Please read:
Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius
Anti – Judaism by David Nirenberg
Modern Antisemitism and degradation of Jewish human rights. When Human Rights Become Acceptable Collateral Damage
Contemporary American and British Antisemitism
Accusing Jews of apartheid, racism, and colonialism, especially among young adults is made possible, even easy, by biased and inaccurate media coverage.
It’s called “Word Crimes”: Reclaiming The Language of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Donna Robinson Divine Source: Israel Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Word Crimes; Reclaiming The Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Summer 2019), pp. 1-16 Published by: Indiana University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.24.2.01 “The Jewish state, today, stands accused of practicing apartheid, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and of sustaining itself as a remnant of an outdated and thoroughly delegitimized colonial order. The Jewish state has not simply been re-branded; it has essentially been re-named. Once thought distinctive, Israel’s singularity is now presented as an example of horrific bigotry if not savagery.” “Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis”
As an example:
“A controversial resolution promoting an academic boycott of Israel was narrowly voted down at a prestigious social science academic association over the weekend.
The resolution, which was co-authored by Melissa Weiner, an associate professor of sociology at the College of Holy Cross, and Johnny E. Williams, a professor of sociology at Trinity College, called on the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) to “promote divestment and disinvestment from Israel by academic institutions,
Williams, one of the sponsors of the BDS resolution, retweeted a video titled, “Don’t drink the blood of the Palestinians,” which recalled medieval blood libels.”https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/08/12/major-academic-association-votes-down-bds-resolution/
It that’s not anti-Semitic libels than what is?
What is Antisemitism? description from CAMERA:
Another example of Eurabia’s bias against Israel
CUFI fighting Antisemitism
Hypocrisy of academics
Why Is Anti-Semitism Making a Comeback? Nita Lowey and David Harris (New York Times)
“Why, when American Jews have felt unmatched levels of inclusion an equality, is anti-Semitism making a comeback? Anti-Semitism dates back millenniums. Its ability to reinvent itself should never be underestimated. Even here in the U.S., it never entirely vanished.
The resurgence of anti-Semitism could be a result, in part, of the vanishing legacy of the Holocaust. Recent surveys reveal abysmal levels of knowledge among young people about what happened to the Jewish people in the Second World War.
Social media may also be playing a role. In the past, anti-Semites lived in small ideological circles with limited reach. Now the Internet amplifies the voices and influence of these otherwise marginal groups.
We need to recognize the problem for what it is: an epidemic. We are no longer talking about isolated, occasional actions but a regular-phenomenon. There are multiple ideological sources feeding this hate; it is not a result of a single political outlook. There is no one-size-fits-all profile for the perpetrators of these attacks.
We cannot allow this situation to become the “new normal,” as if attacks on Americans because of their religious or ethnic identities are now an expected part of our everyday lives. These attacks violate everything that Americans should hold dear. An attack on any American group is a threat to the pluralistic fabric of our nation.
In a survey of American Jews by the American Jewish Committee, released in October,31% said that they had taken steps to hide their Jewish identity in public, while 25% said they now avoided Jewish sites. This is unacceptable. It is not our America.
Nita Lowey is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York. David Harris is the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee.”
Antisemitism S. Africa & BDS
In my travels, I am often asked: “Why is antisemitism so dramatically on the rise?”
Across the globe hatred of Israel and the Jews, in this new decade, soars to record heights on the wings of the global antisemitic BDS movement. South Africa played a historical role in the links of BDS and the rise of the ‘new antisemitism’ being seen worldwide.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) emerged at the 2001UN-sponsored World Conference on Racism, and Racial Intolerance which was held in Durban, South Africa. What ultimately was birthed from that meeting was a document called the ‘Declaration of Principles,’ declaring Israel to be a racist apartheid state. Israel was falsely accused of committing crimes against humanity, demanding punishment and world censure, as well as imposing sanctions on the diplomatic, economic, academic, social and military fronts between all nations and the Jewish State. It created a wave of hatred that has virtually washed over every continent in the past 20 years.
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit. Exodus 23:1-3
In South Africa this fall, I engaged Christian leaders with the questions: “How could this happen? Why did the church remain silent? How could they join hands with wicked leaders to pervert justice by their silence?”
I’d like to be able to travel back in time and challenge the generation of Christians in Germany to ask them the same questions: “Why was Germany’s Reichstag so diabolically successful in transmitting lies into acceptable social policies to seed Jew-hatred and pave the way for Hitler, unchallenged by Christians? Germany, a country that claimed Judeo-Christian values turned a blind eye to the false witness leveled at Germany’s Jewish communities. Why was the church as a body missing in action during those dark days too?”
This week of a new year and a new decade, a new inescapable question arises: “How can antisemitism happen here in America?” Another generation, another Judeo-Christian value system—ours —is being eroded daily by a new resurgence of the same age-old hatred. The answer on all counts to all the above questions is the same: Antisemitism grows in the dark and deafening void of silence. That silence is created when Christians, Jews and all people of moral conscience fail to speak out.
The words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer ring across the decades: “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil; God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
What has silence in our time brought?
Antisemitism increasingly becoming “the norm.”
Americans have systematically and consistently over the past several years, allowed three elected officials to openly and consistently spew their hatred of the Jews without fear of censure—in the name of free speech and in doing so, have allowed antisemitism to be “normalized” in our culture to a whole new generation of Americans. Fanned by left-wing interests and media, just as in the days of the German Reichstag, lies have been transmitted to Americans from a platform of power and the false narrative has grown to be acceptable in the day-to-day discourse of life. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have become pop culture heroines on our watch. On our watch—and as our children watch—they have mainstreamed antisemitism and hatred of and violence against the Jews acceptable on the mainstream stage of daily life in our nation. The problem is growing exponentially as new voices join the chorus and the violence against Jews in America is being fanned to an epidemic. Where are our voices now?
PJTN is daily engaged in the counter wave attack against antisemitism—and we are committed in 2020 to raise the volume of opposition to epic proportions with and through every available resource. We have a biblical mandate.
“Florida broadcast host and pastor Rick Wiles’ ongoing media campaign of antisemitic propaganda. Recent radio program headlines from his TruNews broadcasts claiming a “Jewish Coup Against Trump” and “Jews Defiling America” have brought Wiles into national scrutiny and criticism for escalating hostility at a time when antisemitism has brought increased violence in America.
Wiles recently stated on air: “Zionism will be the evil force that takes over the world in the last days and persecutes the body of Christ and makes war against the saints. It’s not the Muslims that are going to kill us, it’s the Jews.”
“Rick Wiles is a dangerous voice that in recent weeks has painted himself as a victim of an ugly attack for his bold ‘speaking truth’ on air. The real truth is his vile sentiments and lies against the Jews that hold the potential of both seeding hatred and inciting violence. These despicable lies are being presented as truth by him and all in the name of Jesus at a time when Christian nationalism and antisemitism have taken on dangerous new heights of a resurgence in America. The words this man is broadcasting are reminiscent of content from the pages of Martin Luther’s infamous book ‘The Jews & Their Lies.’ This is the very book Adolph Hitler used as an inspiration to legitimize the incitement of Kristallnacht, a night in which 1,000 synagogues were burned, Jews were killed and ultimately the Holocaust itself was birthed as an evil vision to eradicate an entire race of people.” | <urn:uuid:1b372d6d-d953-4699-b01c-edffdc8f1fc8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.0censor.com/rise-of-antisemitism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960154 | 8,196 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Sexual harassment at the workplace
Following the case study format, choose and develop a case study exploring some theme regarding sexuality/boundaries in the workplace, such as one of the following themes:
1. whether our response to the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace is still inadequate; or whether our response has in some sense done more harm than good.
2. whether the boundaries we place to prevent or discourage personal relationships in the workplace are counterproductive – or whether we need more boundaries in some cases.
3. Whether we compartmentalize too much, or not enough, so that our professional lives cause harm to our private lives (or vice-versa).
4. Whether our attitudes and policies toward culture, and language difference are wrong-headed: the illegalization of bilingual education is some states; anti-bilingualism, anti-immigrant movements, the illegal immigration problem.
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116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
DES MOINES - Iowa Democrats on Thursday renewed their criticism of President Donald Trump's handling of the federal ethanol mandate, an issue that has generated bipartisan concern in the state that produces more corn than any other.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency late last week established the number of gallons of ethanol that must be blended into the nation's fuel supply over the next year. The numbers were essentially the same as the previous year.
Advocates for the ethanol industry and state and federal elected officials in Iowa expressed concern because, they said, the EPA continues to grant oil refineries too many waivers from the ethanol mandate, weakening its impact.
That compounds other problems facing Iowa corn farmers, including ongoing international trade conflicts and negotiations, Democrats said Thursday at a news conference.
'The reality is, at least at this point in time, the EPA is not willing to or not able to, for whatever reason because of the oil industry, they are continuing to grant these waivers,” said Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor and federal agriculture secretary.
The news conference was hosted by the Iowa Democratic Party and the Democrat-led advocacy group Focus on Rural America.
But concerns with the Trump administration's handling of the ethanol mandate are not exclusive to Iowa Democrats. Republican U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst and Gov. Kim Reynolds also have repeatedly said EPA issues too many ethanol waivers to oil refineries.
'It's unacceptable that EPA would set biofuel volumes below demand at a time when farmers, biofuels producers and agribusiness owners are forced to shed jobs and close plants,” Grassley said in a statement when the new ethanol mandate levels were announced. 'I urge President Trump to compel EPA to reverse course and keep his word to the forgotten Americans who have faithfully stood with him.”
Troy Price, chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, said he remains hopeful the Trump administration will hear the concerns of Iowa corn farmers and reduce the number of ethanol waivers. But if it does not change course, Democrats will highlight the issue during next year's presidential campaign, he said.
'Hope springs eternal. And we are hopeful because honestly we can't really wait until after the 2020 election.,” he said. 'Farmers need help now. Rural communities need help now. We can't wait another 18 months.
'But if this administration continues down this path, and if this administration continues to wage these trade wars and do these handouts for big oil on the backs of farmers and rural communities, then yes we are going to make it a campaign issue, and we're going to make sure that voters know exactly who's fighting for them and exactly who's standing up for rural communities.”
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Category Archives: Drive Train
Scratching your head? Don’t worry, if you don’t know what a differential is – you will in a moment. That fact is that if you drive a car anywhere in Tupelo, MS, you have a differential. Whether your vehicle is front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, you have a differential. Some Tupelo drivers might even have two or three.
Not surprisingly, a differential’s job is to compensate for differences. Specifically the differences in wheel speed when turning. For instance, imagine taking a corner near your Tupelo, MS home. Your inside wheel has a shorter distance to travel than the outside wheel as you turn the corner. That means that your outside wheel has to turn faster to keep pace with the inside wheel.
The differential allows the wheels to turn at different speeds while still providing power to your vehicle. Without a differential, Tupelo motorists’ tires would scrub and hop along the pavement during turns like the early cars.
Ever noticed the big bulge in the middle of the rear axle on trucks? That’s the differential. Rear-wheel drive vehicles have a differential in back. Most four-wheel drive trucks and SUVs will also have a similar differential on the front axle. Front-wheel drive vehicles’ differential is called a transaxle because it combines the differential and transmission in one unit. An all-wheel drive vehicle will have a differential or transfer case that adjusts for speed differences between the front and rear drive wheels.
It can seem a little complex to some Tupelo auto owners – but you can see that all of the engine’s power is routed through your differentials. They’re strong enough to handle the work, but- we’ve said it before – they need to be properly lubricated in order to stay strong. So from time to time, you need to schedule a differential service in Tupelo at Tupelo NAPA AutoCare Centers. The used fluid is drained and replaced with clean fluid. Some auto makers advise certain differentials to have special additives installed.
Get your differential serviced at Tupelo NAPA AutoCare Centers in Tupelo.
Recommendations for the time and mileage interval for servicing your differential can vary greatly by vehicle. A front-wheel drive vehicle’s transaxle will need servicing more frequently than the rear differential on a pick-up truck, so check with your Tupelo, MS Tupelo NAPA AutoCare Centers technician or your auto makers owner’s manual for recommendations.
How and where you drive in Tupelo will have an essential impact as well. If you drive on dirt roads or through streams around Tupelo, MS, you’ll need to service your differential much sooner than if you always stay on MS interstates.
Here at AutoNetTV, we have viewers, like you, from all across the country who write to us with questions or feedback. One common question we’re asked is: What is a differential and what does it do? You may have been told your differential needs service, or seen it as an option up on the service menu. Differential service covers a lot of things, so let’s first talk about what a differential does.
As you drive through a turn, your outside wheels and inside wheels turn at different speeds. Kind of like the cars going around a race track – the ones driving in the outside lanes have a greater distance to travel than the cars in the inside lanes. The differential is what allows the outside and inside drive wheels to rotate at slightly different speeds so that the tires don’t hop or skip while taking corners, or lose traction in dirt or snow. Differentials have gears in them that transfer the power from the drive train to your wheels – which is why they’re often referred to as gear boxes. The gears need to be very strong to do this work, and they need to be properly protected so that they’ll last.
All vehicles have some form of differential. If you have a front-wheel drive car, your differential is often called a transaxle and is located in the front. If you have rear-wheel drive, the differential is in the back of the car. If you have a four-wheel drive vehicle, you will have a differential in the front and the back – and in the middle as well. The center differential adjusts for differences in speed between the front and rear wheels.
Differential fluid lubricates and cools the gears. Over time, the fluid can get dirty from bits of the gears grinding off. The additives that keep the fluid clean and protect the differential break down over time. So your vehicle manufacturer has scheduled intervals for you to have your differential fluid changed.
Differentials are hard working mechanisms, and, along with the gears in a manual transmission, need to be serviced regularly with high-quality, replacement fluid. Your Tupelo automotive service advisor can give you more information as to when your next differential service is recommended. You can also ask if they have a record of when the service was last completed.
As with most service intervals, if you are driving under more severe conditions, you will want to service your differential more frequently. “Severe service” conditions are defined in most owners’ manuals, and include: frequent starts and stops, short trips, cold weather, hot weather and towing. All these conditions add to the stress of the vehicle and its parts. Also, off-roading in MS can be especially hard on differentials, especially if you cross streams. Proper service will extend the life of your gears and keep them running more smoothly. If you have never had your differential checked, visit contact-us for more information. | <urn:uuid:a528f334-a488-4993-8751-4de7584962aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://napaautocarenems.com/category/drive-train/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960363 | 1,186 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Helping Trumpeter Swans for more than 50 years thanks to people like you!
The Trumpeter Swan Society (TTSS) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1968 and dedicated to assuring the vitality and welfare of wild Trumpeter Swans.
We are the only non-profit organization working for Trumpeter Swan conservation across North America.
You're invited to explore our website. See the impact you too can make for Trumpeter Swans.
NewYorker.com: "Swamps can protect against climate change if we only let them. Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we've drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?...It is in and around wetlands that the greatest blossoming of biodiversity has occurred—it is not too much to say that we owe our existence to this planet’s wetlands, including fens, bogs, and swamps. Our wholesale destruction of wetlands for the sake of a few decades of growing wheat, rice, soy, and palm oil has been breathtakingly short-sighted. Once again, we are shocked into recognition that most of us live only for the moment."
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK: "Birds that nest near the water, such as trumpeter swans and loons, may also face challenges as the water encroaches on their newly laid eggs, Doug Smith said. “It could be complete reproductive failure,” he said, meaning that their eggs may not hatch. As soon as next week, wildlife officials will fly a plane over the park to check the status of the nests, he said."
MONTANA: "For the second year in a row, a pair of trumpeter swans has produced a brood of six cygnets at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge.
This is the fourth year in a row the trumpeter swan pair has hatched cygnets on the same remote pond at the refuge.
Before they arrived at the refuge north of Stevensville, there hadn’t been any documented wild trumpeter swan cygnets in the Bitterroot Valley since restoration efforts began decades ago to bring the huge birds back from the brink of extinction in the lower 48 states." Read more...
WASHINGTON: “When you see those swans come back every year like clockwork and they bring their families and they grow and they're growing in numbers and there's more of them, it's validation that they like it,” Gordon said. “How many people get to have that in society today? Almost none, certainly. You go, ‘Hey, I’m doing a good job being a steward.’ Well, how do you know that? Because the swan families come back every year, and they bring their kids.” Read more...
MONTANA: "Trumpeter swans have historically migrated through the Bitterroot Valley," Tom Reed said. "It wasn't until three years ago that we had our first nest on the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge. No one had historically ever known that swans nested in the Bitterroot Valley. From three years ago, and every year since then, we've had the same pair pull off a clutch of cygnets and they have successfully fledged on the refuge. So, it's really fortuitous that they are stopping and nesting. They have been pulling off a clutch, successfully. The first year, I think it was three (cygnets), then four. Last year, it was six." Read more...
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MethOps, marrying Methodology and IT-Operations.
Dear friends and family, we are gathered today to witness and celebrate the union of MBSE-Methodology and IT-Operations in marriage. For years they have been eying each other and playing hard-to-get. But finally they both realized that they go hand-in-hand like the ocean and beach.
In this blogpost we outline why we are convinced that MethOps is essential for effective and efficient system engineering.
We’ve already met before! At the DevOPS wedding!
Okay let’s stop the wedding jokes for now and get serious. If you go to the Dev-Ops wikipedia page you find the following description: DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops). It aims to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.
Alright, alright alright that sounds like something we need in Systems Engineering! So what are the goals that DevOps has, that we as System Engineers can adopt? In our humble opinion and experience with DevOps, the DevOps goals are: (a) minimize manual labour for a system release and (b) maximize system reliability over its life cycle.
These goals result in highly automated processes and tests in varying forms (e.g unit, integration, performance, A/B, GUI tests, ect.). These are areas of development besides the main activity: the actual development of a single software system. Hence, you as a company do not want to set up all of these automated processes from scratch, every time you have new software to deliver and they are too important to consider it all as an afterthought or secondary activity. Introducing the concept of explicit reasoning about those Development Operations (DevOps), treating DevOps as a first class citizen and giving it the attention and rigour it needs.
In addition to the more efficient and reusability of the software development support processes. DevOps puts the operations part of the software at the same location as the in depth knowledge of that software, namely within the development teams. Problems that occur during operations are immediately visible to the same people best equipped to solve them.
Let’s first consider the three pillars of MBSE.
- The Modeling language (e.g. SysML, LML)
- The SE Methodology: a system of methods designed to develop systems reliably and consistently
- The Tools that enable you to model your system using the modeling language using the methodology.
In large organizations it is not uncommon to see that these three pillars of MBSE are in the hands of several departments. Tools are the responsibility of the IT department, but they do not configure them to aid in enforcing the methodology. The methodology and language are in the hands of a single organizational entity but is the hodgepodge of several departments each with strong opinions and different views on the matter. This fragmentation makes decision making and finding (subjective) consensus difficult. Compare this scattered landscape situation with the focused and first class citizen approach of DevOps. This lack of a holistic view, focus and sense of responsibility is what we consider the root problem.
- No explicit single organizational entity to establish and govern the trinity SE methodology, modeling language and tools.
- No explicit single organizational entity to guide and take responsibility for the choices, adaptation and maintenance of the SE methodology, modeling language and tools.
(WIP) Goals of MethOps
With the problem domain laid out, we can now set goals we want to achieve by adopting a MethOps approach. We currently have no fully matured list of goals so please join us on this journey, but this is what we have accumulated so far.
- Continuously govern the model quality and adherence to the methodology.
- Establish seamless integration of required tools.
- Reduce integration time.
- Alignment of method and tools.
- Allow for fast method changes and subsequent tool changes to better support engineers
- Allow for fast feedback loops to improve engineering method and tools
Given the problem domain and the goals we aim to achieve, we laid out the following principles that any MethOps approach should adhere to.
- The organization that is responsible for the adoption and modification of the SE methodology, is also responsible for the tools that enable and support the methodology.
- The organization that is responsible for the tools and methodology has budget and decision authority.
- The organization that is responsible for the tools and methodology, is deeply involved in the training of other personnel.
- Engineers are continuously involved into the method and tool definition
- Continuous quality checks and monitoring activity to detect whether tools and methods need to be improved.
With those priciples we can make a pretty picture as well, just as the devops cylcle we can map the common steps in a MBSE approach and the processes on the operations side. Please let us know what you think of this , your feedback is highly valued.
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Topamax side effects
It has helped many people reduce their migraine attacks, but Topamax side effects have also scared many patients away. Over the past few years, the anticonvulsant topiramate (sold as Topamax) has been used a preventative, to avoid migraine attacks. But what about the side effects - are they worth it? Worse, are there permanent Topamax side effects?
A little background
It's not unusual for migraineurs to take anticonvulsants, which often have been helpful in fighting migraine attacks. To get a bit of a background on this drug, read the article The Topamax migraine solution - a dream come true?
The problem of Topamax side effects
Though Topamax has helped many people, the problem is that it is a powerful drugs and can have side effects. Of course, some people have very little trouble with it, others find the cure to be worse than the disease. So it really comes down to how topiramate and your body get along, and how disabling and frequent your migraine attacks are. In a recent post about Topamax side effects related to speech
, we heard in the comments a frustration with a drug that was helping with the migraine attacks but causing other problems.
Topamax most common side effects
If side effects do bother people, most commonly, Topamax will slow you down, or make you feel like you're in a fog. This includes slower reflexes, trouble thinking or concentrating, trouble thinking of the right word (and other speech problems), tiredness, poor coordination, and dizziness.
Topiramate may also cause tingling in your hands or feet, shakiness, depression, nausea, memory problems, and visual problems (such as double vision)
. It has also been known to bring on respiratory infections
(Note: early in 2008, the FDA in the USA released a report that topiramate and other antiseizure medication significantly increased the risk of suicidal thoughts or behaviour. Special caution should be taken with those who are at risk or have a history of depression.)
Remember, it's not as if you're going to suffer from all these problems - they are simply the Topamax most common side effects, and you may not have much trouble, or may experience one or some of the above.
Topiramate may also cause birth defects if taken while pregnant. It also passes into the breast milk. Unless crucial, Topamax is not taken during pregnancy
Less common side effects
As with any drug, there is a large list of possible side effects. But most things on the list are very rare. If you do experience problems, it's nice to have the list so that you know what may be the cause. But generally, these are not a reason to worry.
Some of the less common Topamax side effects include: pain (ie chest, leg), mood changes (ie aggression, restlessness), rash, body odour, appetite loss and weight loss, constipation, hearing loss, and menstrual disorders. Check here for a more complete explanation of Topamax side effects. Also see this helpful article on topiramate at the Mayo Clinic.
Topamax and children
There has been less testing of topiramate in children. However, in April 2008 a review was done of medical literature dealing with children with migraine. The study found that topiramate has helped reduce migraine problems in children. It also found that there was a drastic difference between patients when it came to side effects. Common problems in children were weight loss, anorexia, abdominal pain, tiredness, trouble concentrating, and itchy or tingling skin (paraesthesia).
Though these problems did not always last, children are more prone to emotional and developmental problems, and so there should be extreme caution when using Topamax. That just means, as with adults, knowing how serious the migriane attacks are, and making the judgement call on whether or not the treatment is "worth it". Read more about the study Topiramate in the prevention of pediatric migraine: literature review.
One concern with topiramate is decreased sweating, which may cause problems in hot weather. Children especially should be watched carefully for problems with hyperthermia.
Permanent Topamax Side Effects?
Are there permanent Topamax side effects? Since topiramate is taken on a daily basis, there can be side effects which continue as long as you're taking the medication. However, this isn't always the case. Sometimes the side effects may come and go. It's worthwhile to try the drug for several months if you can tolerate it, to get a good idea how it's going to act over the long term.
As with most drugs, these problems generally go away after you stop taking the drug. However, you do need to talk to your doctor and make sure she knows your medical history before you start taking it. For example, some people have allergies to topiramate. Kidney problems can also result from taking Topamax, so be sure to let your doctor know if you have kidney disease.
Reducing the side effects?
Some problems can be reduced by avoiding drug interactions (talk to your doctor), and taking the drug as directed (not stopping suddenly or taking too much or too little). It helps to drink several glasses of water a day to avoid possible development of kidney stones.
A note about Topamax weight loss side effects
Because one of the side effects of Topamax is weight loss, researchers have thrown around the idea of using it as a weight loss drug. However, once again, the other side effects have been the problem. In most cases research was soon abandoned because the drug caused too many problems, and there were too many far better options out there.
If you have a good doctor who knows your medical history, and who is willing to monitor your progress, you're off to a good start.
Most doctors will have many more recommendations before topiramate, so be patient and try those first. Remember, there are also many natural and non-drug treatments that have helped minimize migraine attacks, and most of these are much less likely to cause side effects.
If you do get to the point where you're wanting to try Topamax, it's going to be a continuous judgement call. Every once in a while you're going to need to review (with the help of your doctor, family and friends) - how is Topamax affecting my life? Is it still worth it? Or is it time to try something else? Using a good migraine diary
before, during and after you take Topamax is crucial.
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- IP video camera viewer
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- Onvif IP camera video server
- Video stream on website
- Onvif Network Video Analytics
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- Implement object tracking
- Implement tripwire
- Implement loitering
- Implement take away events
- Leave-behind events
- Number plate recognition
- Object classification
- Onvif IP Camera Manager
- Computer Vision Technology
- Motion recognition
- Object detection
- Object categorization
- Image Manipulation
- Ozeki SDK for Linux
- Supported cameras
How to implement tripwire in C#
The tripwire in the Ozeki Camera SDK will help you to identify user-defined objects that move in a specified direction as they cross a line (a tripwire) drawn within the camera's field of view.
What does tripwire mean?
In our example let's image the security system of a warehouse. The owner would like to ensure that noone is locked in the building after closing. He has a camera in opposite to the entrance and he wishes to use only this camera. The solution is to count the people who travelling from the top towards the bottom of the frame as IN if and only if they pass over a line and count a people travelling from the bottom towards the top as OUT, again, only if they pass over the line. Some blobs (in this case the staff which has it's own entrance) only move under the camera and never enter or exit the store through the main door. These are in most cases not to be counted.
The application also retains the track described by a blob in order to identify each unique blob across successive frames. If we were to count people going through a large entrance at the top of the image, knowing the path of the blobs will show that the middle blob can be counted as entering, the rightmost blob as exiting and the leftmost blob should not be counted. Analyzing the path of the blobs is the goal of blob tracking.
The results also showed that segmentation can be the most difficult stage in blob detection because it's success depends on the quality and brightness of the image generated by the illumination conditions.
Tripwires can be used to protect boundaries such as railway tracks, freeways and building perimeters. The operator will be informed when a tripwire is crossed. Tripwires can be used to count how many people enter and leave buildings at different points. Up to two tripwires can be placed in the scene and combined with different situation handlers e.g. an alarm only if both tripwires are crossed.
Multiline tripwire detection identifies objects that cross two defined lines and generates an event based on defined parameters, including directionality. For example there are several situations where only one way of the directions is allowed. In this case, you can check which line was crossed first to determine the direction of the object.
Defined parameters for this behavior include direction, sequential order, and time between crossing each tripwire. So you can measure the elapsed time of each object before crossing the second tripwire. This is really useful in sport events or when it comes to analyze the popularity of a side shop.
Below you can find the answers for the most frequently asked questions related to this topic:
How can I get the URL of the camera?
You can get the URL from the producer of the camera. (In the 10th tutorial you can find information on how to create your own IP camera discoverer program.)
- Motion detection example source code in c#
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George Forbes was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Forbes has owned a law firm in Cleveland since 1971. He was a city councilman from 1963-1989 and served as the first black council president during his last eighteen years in office. Forbes was also president of the Cleveland NAACP. This 2017 interview was collected as part of a yearlong, community-wide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Carl Stokes' election as mayor of Cleveland.
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Stokes: Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future
"George L. Forbes interview, 2017 (1 of 2)" (2017). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 501018.
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Lonnie Bunch spent a decade as a GW professor and then founded the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In March, he talked with “GW Magazine” about the importance of history, how we tell stories—and who tells them.
Story by Matthew Stoss
Photos by William Atkins
Originally, we were supposed to take a nice walk on the National Mall, eat hot dogs and maybe ride the carousel on his and his plastic horses while watching the tourists trudge and totter between the museums, monuments and bottled waters. But, alas, new Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch is a man in demand, and his time belongs to everyone else.
The former longtime GW museum studies and history professor is lord, protector and fundraiser-in-chief of the United States’ largest museum complex. The Smithsonian’s staid grandeur includes 19 museums, one zoo, some gardens, more than 6,600 employees, thousands and thousands of volunteers and a $1.6 billion budget. Bunch, a 67-year-old museum lifer and committed bibliophile with a beard that’s celebrating its 30th birthday, is so densely scheduled that even reading, once a lifestyle, has been forcibly demoted to a stolen-time hobby. He indulges in quiet moments, which are louder than they used to be.
So we’re convening on a clear, late morning at his office in the Castle, the regnant Romanesque structure that’s occupied the National Mall’s primest real estate since 1855, back when that bit of Washington, D.C., was largely undomesticated. It serves as Smithsonian headquarters. There are—again, alas—no hot dogs.
It’s the day before the Smithsonian goes dark. The coronavirus closed it, too, and you can almost see the End Times through the cherry blossoms. The secretary’s office looks like it belongs to someone who runs… the Smithsonian. Bunch, appointed by the institution’s board of regents in May 2019, is the 14th such person to do so and the first African American to hold the position. The Smithsonian was founded in 1846.
We made conversation for an hour or so at a round table, cozied by oil paintings, natural light, one long wall of glass-immured books and within a few feet of a Jon Bon Jovi-signed Telecaster. Related to that—Bunch once got a mix cassette tape from LL Cool J, an acquaintance made last year in Los Angeles while Bunch toured his freshly released memoir about his decade-long building of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Smithsonian Books, September 2019) includes and explains all the things that anyone ever wanted to know about how the museum came to be and what it took from Bunch emotionally to make it real.
Bunch also, through his work on the African American history museum, got to know, among others, the late Don Cornelius and Oprah, who calls him sometimes. She’s a board member at the NMAAHC, which Bunch began in 2005 and christened at a celebrity-flush ceremony in 2016. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were among the attendees.
“There is something really weird to me about the people that know me and call me,” Bunch says. I’d asked him about knowing Don Cornelius, confessing that I always wanted to go down the Soul Train line. Bunch responded by wishing me “Peace, love and souuuuuuul.” “I mean, yesterday I was talking to Steny Hoyer—you know, ‘How you doin’? What’s going on?’ Or, I’ve got a call into Oprah, and she’ll return my call. That to me is so weird.”
“How is your relationship with Congress?” I say. Hoyer, a Democrat from Maryland, is the House majority leader. I’m too intimidated to ask about Oprah.
The federal government funds the Smithsonian, although there are private donations, too. In 2019, those totaled $545 million. It’s important that Bunch makes elected friends.
“One thing that I realized when I came back in 2005,” he says, referring to his return to the Smithsonian from the Chicago Historical Society, where he served as president from 2001 to 2005, “was that whatever I did, I was going to be criticized, and I need to have congressional support. So I reached out very early to about 40 different people on both sides of the aisle, and I used to spend every week, whenever they were in session, I would actually go up there before I needed anything… and I’m still very close to those folks.
“One of the most humbling things was when I was announced as secretary, Nancy Pelosi organized a reception in my honor on the Hill, in the Capitol. That was so moving to me. It wasn’t a political thing, just as a friend, and that meant a lot to me to have Republicans and Democrats come. So that shows, I think, why we’ve been successful. People know that I will try to be as bipartisan as I can be—but I’ll be transparent. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to get beat up from time to time, but it means at least I have people I can go to, and I can say, ‘Hey, guess what’s happening? What’s the advice you can give to me to handle this?’”
“What did they serve at the reception?”
“I don’t know.” He’s smiling. “I was working the crowd.”
Bunch grew up in Belleville, N.J., where he loved history, Sam Cooke and the New York Yankees. As an 11-year-old, he says, he waited in a long, long line to get autographs from Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. But upon reaching the star Yankee outfielders, an adamantine handler informed Bunch that to get his notebook signed, he had to buy Mantle and Maris’s new book which detailed their 1961 race to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record of 60. Bunch didn’t have the money. He left with his notebook still bare.
Belleville, a town of about 37,000, is a suburb of Newark and historically Italian American. Bunch maintains high standards for pasta and red sauce. The town claims Joe Pesci and Frankie Valli among its famous natives and has purported ties to New York organized crime families. Bunch says that growing up he “knew people that knew people” and, laughing, added that “we had no crime,” making the classic (and mordant) joke about neighborhoods with mafia ties.
In the 1950s and ’60s, Bunch says, his family was one the few black families in Belleville and that it forced him to learn to how to fight, run and/or charm his way out of endangering confrontations. The charm, undiminished by the decades gone between, went only so far. In high school when he tried to visit the New Jersey Historical Society to research a history-class project, he says, a staffer denied him entry for having what was then deemed an inconvenient skin color.
“In those days, it was in an old Victorian house,” Bunch says of the New Jersey Historical Society. “But it had a big, heavy wooden door and it had a glass frame so you could see through. I remember putting on my high school letter sweater, doing everything I was supposed to do: getting on the bus, going to Newark and knocking on the door. And there was this woman, very blonde—I remember that—looking up. And she waved me away. And I knocked again and I sort of held up my little notebook to show her I was a student, and she waved me away.
“What it taught me was there must be something unbelievably important about history if they were going to wave people away. And in so many ways, my career has been about making sure nobody gets waved away when they want to understand the past.”
“...in so many ways, my career has been about making sure nobody gets waved away when they want to understand the past.”
“So you didn’t even get into the museum?” I say.
“I didn’t get in. Now, the end of the story is 30 years later. They give me an award. And so I decide to tell that story, and they were like, ‘Ohhh.’ But I framed it as the world has changed.”
Bunch got his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate at American University before stops as a professor at various colleges, including GW from 1990 to 2000, and as a curator at various museums. He spent much of his career (12 years) at the National Museum of American History. He also had shorter stints at the Air and Space Museum, the California African American History Museum and the Chicago Historical Society. Then there was his 14-year run at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a stop that now largely defines his time in the academy and nursed him toward a Smithsonian secretary candidacy.
Sitting in his office—it’s in a stately ell attached (and matched) to the Castle proper—Bunch, unsurprisingly, describes himself as a “lover of history.” After an icebreaker about Jean Harlow and 1930s cinema—he used to teach a film history course—Bunch philosophized and raconteured about the new voices from ignored places that induced academia to fund and admit other dispositions.
We start with Annette Gordon-Reed. She is a Harvard University professor known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning work elucidating Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman at Monticello with whom Jefferson had multiple children. Her first book, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, came out in 1997. She has since published five more books, including two on Jefferson.
“She offered a new perspective on something that had been written about for 200 years,” I say. “What’s the importance of having a black woman write about Thomas Jefferson and what has that done for academia, history, general knowledge, people’s perception, things like that?”
“I would almost argue that it’s even bigger than that,” Bunch says. “The most active field in the academy has been the study of black history, for the last 30, 40 years. Most active. Some of the most innovative scholars—whether it’s Annette Gordon-Reed—they have mined data in fundamentally different ways so you’re telling different stories. You’re privileging the enslaved and you’re looking at it through the lens of women. But more importantly, they’ve been able to say: How do you better understand America through the lens of whatever you’re writing about? That’s fundamentally different because it’s saying that the stories of African Americans—the stories written by African Americans are not ancillary stories but they’re the central stories to understanding who we are, and that’s what Annette does.
“Part of the power of history is you’re always in search of new discoveries. You’re always mining and thinking about things in different ways, and you’re also fundamentally shaped by the time you live in. So [for example] you ask yourself about gender in a way that you may not have 10 or 15 or 20 years ago. I think the exciting thing about history is that it’s always changing, always morphing.”
“I guess that’s happened contemporaneously with your tenure in academia?”
“I’d say that Annette is roughly my age”—she’s six years younger—“and we had the same sort of growth as scholars. I think you’ve gone from justifying that you’re exploring black history to recognizing that it’s the best way to understand what it means to be an American. It’s a real profound transformation.”
“What was that shift like in academia? Did you have to fight for it? Were the entrenched people like, ‘Nah, that’s silly?’”
“Part of the recognition was that you had, for the first time, a larger diverse pool of scholars. So therefore, they were raising different issues, and there were fights where you had to say, ‘This is a good dissertation topic, even though you don’t think it’s a good dissertation topic.’
“But I think what has happened is that as more of the amazing work came out, whether it was John Blassingame’s work in the ’70s on slave community, that you’re beginning to see people say, ‘Wow, there are really interesting new things to look at.’ You look at the work that’s come out about slave ships—fascinating stuff. We’d never thought about that. That’s because people ask different questions. I think the best thing about scholarship is you can have scholars ask different questions and find more nuanced answers.”
“I think the best thing about scholarship is you can have scholars ask different questions and find more nuanced answers.”
“How deeply has that penetrated today?”
“Oh, I think it’s very deep. I think that while the numbers are still smaller—there aren’t a large number of African American scholars in every department, but every department has African American scholars, which they didn’t when I was going to school. I think that the ideas have permeated. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a backlash. There have been the groups that have said: You’re balkanizing American history. So there’s always that.
“But I think what is interesting to me is that the scholars that are writing about race were initially telling stories to fill the voids—things that were left out of history. Now what they’re doing is writing the grand narratives—rethinking Jefferson through the lens of Sally Hemings. In a way, you had to have that foundation work that provided the knowledge base, and now you’re having scholars being able to say, ‘Let’s write about the sweep of history through this.’ When you think of Nell Painter’s work on the history of white people—fascinating stuff which really wouldn’t have happened without generations of the sort of grounding work.”
There’s a story easily found on the internet about Bunch being a kid and going to North Carolina to visit family—his grandfather, a sharecropper-turned-dentist, moved to New Jersey in the early 1900s—and then trying to eat lunch at the local Woolworth’s luncheonette, just like he did at the Woolworth’s in Newark. Once again, someone deemed his skin color inconvenient, this time to the practicing of good capitalism, and Bunch got sent hungry on his way.
This, in part, leads us to Richmond, Va., my hometown. It’s the former capital of the doomed Confederate States of America and the home of an avenue where a few of that stillborn nation’s dead generals are venerated, their four-year sedition romanced in stone and shaped metal. Here Bunch discusses the Lost Cause, the late-19th and early 20th century movement of fabulist revisionism intended to recast slavery-fond insurrectionists as genteel victims.
“To make traitors not traitors,” Bunch clarifies. “That’s so interesting to me. … I’ve always argued that you can have every statue that you want to Confederate soldiers if you said they rebelled, they were traitors and they lost. If you said that, you could leave everything else up.”
“I actually think some of them are going to come down eventually,” I say. “They’ve even started committees to examine it.”
“I know. They’ve called me. I’ve heard about those committees. I’ve gone down. It’s going to be interesting.”
“But based on what I know about the Richmond City Council, I’m not sure it will be alacritous.”
“I think that’s absolutely right. Let’s just say that 20 years from now, we’ll still be talking about Monument Avenue.”
“But they do throw red paint on the statues pretty often now.”
“There’s always hope.”
We’re still at the round table. Bunch, wearing a coat and tie, doesn’t move much except sometimes to take off his glasses and put them back on. He does this professorially. The national fight over the razing of Confederate monuments represents a multi-decade shift in academia and museum gestalt.
“It’s important to realize that one of the differences has been the desire to tell stories, to tell narratives and not to celebrate artifacts,” Bunch says. “Then I think the second layer that’s changed during my career has been recognizing that there’s a social justice component to museums. Museums are as much about today and tomorrow as they are about yesterday. And so, you see, then that work really begins to effect great change—but it’s really relatively recent. The first major exhibition that looked at African American life at a national level was ‘Field to Factory,’ and that was in the early ’80s. So it’s not that long ago. That was the Museum of American History. … And I did a big exhibit in ’82 on blacks in the Olympics, which was a comparable thing. It was the first time you had these big exhibits, so it really has been during my career that you see these changes.”
“This may be a romanticized view of it because it’s been a long time,” I say, “but there was the early Smithsonian stuff, like treasure hunting and the British exploratory and scientific societies. This may just be movies and I may be conflating history, but was there an artifact fetish in the 1800s, early 1900s? Because you have in that age, especially with dinosaur hunters—”
“What you have is scholarship driven by artifacts as well as public interest in finding dinosaurs and finding relics. That’s really going back a long way. But so what you see, though, is there’s always been an interest in the artifact. When I started my career, the artifact was king and queen.”
“Why is that?”
“Because that was the last thing that was real. That’s the thing people came to see. That’s the thing you put in the box, and people said, ‘Oh my god, that’s wonderful!’ My notion was that I was only interested in an artifact if it was part of a mosaic—if it was an artifact, an image, a word, an idea. That was the way to tell stories. I remember even when I came to [the] American History [Museum] in the ’80s, there was a sense of Are you an artifact guy or not? And I said, ‘I’m a storyteller,’ and artifacts are crucially part of it. There were all these debates about How dare you use artifacts to illustrate?! They’re just too important to illustrate!”
“That’s a much more nuanced perspective than saying, ‘Oh, this is a thousand years old.’”
“Maybe that’s why it took so long to catch on. It’s not so easily explained.”
“I think it’s less than that. I think it’s the shift in the kind of people who were hired to work in museums. You had a lot of people who were artifact-trained. … Then you had social historians like me and Spencer [Crew]—a variety of people that came in. And while we learned to almost revere the artifact, we never made the artifact the center. We wanted to be able to interpret, to be able to engage. We wanted to be able to challenge. If the artifact helped us do that—great. If it didn’t, then it was just part of the illustration.”
“Do you think your background had something to do with that? I go back to the story you told about being rejected from the museum, and, you know, me, growing up as a white kid, I know what my story is.”
“I’m not saying you don’t have a story, and again, I’m broadly generalizing, but if you don’t see your story represented, I think there might be a natural inclination to want to tell it. That may not have been true if I became a museum guy. I probably would’ve been artifact-focused as well because it’s just what I’m—”
“Or, let’s say you were working in a museum in Boston. You might have wanted to tell Southern stories because the Boston museum doesn’t think of that. So we all bring the issues that we care about. For me, history is my weapon to fight for social justice. Museums, for me, were part of that ecology—to give voice to the anonymous, to make visible the invisible, but then to use that to say: Here’s the way you can understand yourself. Here is how a country has been made better by the efforts of those 100 years ago or 50 years ago. For me, I’ve always had a political agenda: to make a country better.”
The Smithsonian feels like a traditional place, probably because it’s in a 165-year-old castle. A lot of people first experience the Smithsonian as a kid. They pilgrimage en masse, chaperoned on chartered buses, to the United States’ front lawn with their grade-school classes to wander the museums, eyeing Tyrannosaur bones, Fauvism and Dorothy’s Technicolor red slippers. The kids might pay attention. They’re mostly just happy to not be in class. I was. This is a fact Bunch acknowledges. He was once that kid, too. And for Bunch, that’s a part of what makes artifacts supplementary and stories paramount. Museums, he says, have a moral purpose.
“That attitude about the political side of it—how has that been received?” I say. “I remember going to museums as a kid, and the impression you got was that a museum is a neutral arbiter of what has been and it didn’t point in any particular direction. Your attitude is the opposite of that.”
It also seems like a person or two might disagree with that attitude.
“My attitude is that museums have never been neutral,” Bunch says. “The choices they make tell you what interpretation they expect you to have of a country, right? If you look at one of the most important exhibitions I think that Smithsonian ever did was ‘A Nation of Nations.’ It opened in 1976 to celebrate the bicentennial, and what it did was it made the argument that America is a nation of nations. You’ve got to embrace the immigrant community, etcetera, etcetera. It was very important for that time. But I think if we were doing that today, you might not do something as simple as that. What you want from a scholar is for them to bring his or her experience to their scholarship, but then what you also want is for that to shaped by evidence, by facts and by research. There’s no doubt that my background had made it really important to me to do work that highlights people of color and women. No doubt about it. It’s about a sense of fairness, a sense of what’s been left out. So there’s no doubt that I didn’t come to that simply because I read books, but it’s also part of who I was as a kid.”
“... I was shaped by recognizing that good history is literary history. People like John Hope Franklin were very instrumental in my writing about other people—like William Leuchtenburg, who wrote things about the 1920s or about World War II, and it was driven by stories and wonderful narrative. People like that shaped how I think about writing. But really, maybe, more than anything that shaped my writing was a love of poetry. I just think that poets are the best writers ever because of how sparse and how exact they have to be, and I just read so many different kinds of poets and just take inspirations from the wordsmithing and the rhythm. For me, I have to be able to feel like I’m moving. There has to be a kind of rhythm to the writing. Otherwise, it doesn’t get me.”
Bunch’s cell phone interjects from across the office. He’s left it on his desk.
“You can answer that,” I say.
Bunch says it’s all right, but the phone persists. Bunch gives in.
I ask if it’s Oprah.
“No, it’s my wife,” Bunch says. “It’s more important—hey baby, what’s up?”
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The LabKey Server source code includes a 'demo' module
(the Demo Module) for getting started on building your own LabKey Server module using Java. The Demo module demonstrates all the basic concepts you need to understand to extend LabKey Server with your own module. You can use the Demo module as a template for building your own module from scratch. Or, to create your own module from scratch, see the help topic on creating a new module
Before you get started, you need to set up your development environment to build the source code. Learn how in this topic: Set Up a Development Machine
Next, clone the 'tutorialModules' into your enlistment. In the $LABKEY_HOME/server/modules folder:
In your IDE, you may need to
Reload gradle projects. Then rebuild your server with the additional module(s).
About the Demo Module
The Demo module is a simple sample module that displays names and ages for some number of individuals. Its purpose is to demonstrate some of the basic data display and manipulation functionality available in LabKey Server.
You can enable the Demo module in a project or folder to try it out:
- Select (Admin) > Folder > Management.
- Click the Folder Type tab.
- Enable the Demo module using the checkbox.
- Add the Demo Summary web part to your project or folder. A web part is an optional component that can provide a summary of the data contained in your module.
Click the Add Person
button to add names and ages. Once you have a list of individuals, you can click on a column heading to sort the list by that column, in ascending or descending order. You can click the Filter
icon next to any column heading to filter the list on the criteria you specify. Click Bulk Update
to update multiple records at once, and Delete
to delete a record.
A Tour of the Demo Module
In the following sections, we'll examine the different files and classes that make up the Demo module.
Take a look at the source code at: <labkey-home>\server\modules. The modules\ directory contains the source code for all of the modules, each sub-directory is an individual module.
The LabKey Server web application uses a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture based on Spring.
You may also want to look at the database component of the Demo module. The Person table stores data for the Demo module.
The Object Model (Person Class)
The Person class comprises the object model for the Demo module. The Person class can be found in the org.labkey.demo.model package (and, correspondingly, in the <labkey-home>\server\modules\demo\src\org\labkey\demo\model directory). It provides methods for setting and retrieving Person data from the Person table. Note that the Person class does not retrieve or save data to the database itself, but only stores in memory data that is to be saved or has been retrieved. The Person class extends the Entity class, which contains general methods for working with objects that are stored as rows in a table in the database.
The Controller File (DemoController Class)
Modules have one or more controller classes, which handle the flow of navigation through the UI for the module. A controller class manages the logic behind rendering the HTML on a page within the module, submitting form data via both GET and POST methods, handling input errors, and navigating from one action to the next.
A Controller class is a Java class that defines individual action classes, all of which are auto-registered with the controller's ActionResolver. Action classes can also be defined outside the controller, in which case they must be registered with the ActionResolver. Action classes are annotated to declare permissions requirements.
The controller for the Demo module, DemoController.java, is located in the org.labkey.demo package (that is, in <labkey-home>\server\modules\demo\src\org\labkey\demo). If you take a look at some of the action classes in the DemoController class, you can see how the controller manages the user interface actions for the module. For example, the BeginAction in the DemoController displays data in a grid format. It doesn't write out the HTML directly, but instead calls other methods that handle that task. The InsertAction class displays a form for inserting new Person data when GET is used and calls the code that handles the database insert operation when POST is used.
A module's controller class should extend the SpringActionController class, Labkey's implementation of the Spring Controller class.
The primary controller for a module is typically named <module-name>Controller
The Module View
The module controller renders the module user interface and also handles input from that user interface. Although you can write all of the necessary HTML from within the controller, we recommend that you separate out the user interface from the controller in most cases and use the LabKey Server rendering code to display blocks of HTML. LabKey Server primarily uses JSP files templates to render the module interface.The bulkUpdate.jsp File
The bulkUpdate.jsp file displays an HTML form that users can use to update more than one row of the Person table at a time. BulkUpdateAction
renders the bulkUpdate.jsp file and accepts posts from that HTML form. The data submitted by the user is passed to handlePost() as values on an object of type BulkUpdateForm. The form values are accessible via getters and setters on the BulkUpdateForm class that are named to correspond to the inputs on the HTML form.
The bulkUpdate.jsp file provides one example of how you can create a user interface to your data within your module. Keep in mind that you can take advantage of a lot of the basic data functionality that is already built into LabKey Server, described elsewhere in this section, to make it easier to build your module. For example, the DataRegion class provides an easy-to-use data grid with built-in sorting and filtering.The DemoWebPart Class
The DemoWebPart class is located in the org.labkey.demo.view package. It comprises a simple web part for the demo module. This web part can be displayed only on the Portal page. It provides a summary of the data that's in the Demo module by rendering the demoWebPart.jsp file. An object of type ViewContext stores in-memory values that are also accessible to the JSP page as it is rendering.
The web part class is optional, although most modules have a corresponding web part.The demoWebPart.jsp File
The demoWebPart.jsp file displays Person data on an HTML page. The JSP retrieves data from the ViewContext object in order to render that data in HTML.
The Data Manager Class (DemoManager Class)
The data manager class contains the logic for operations that a module performs against the database, including retrieving, inserting, updating, and deleting data. It handles persistence and caching of objects stored in the database. Although database operations can be called from the controller, as a design principle we recommend separating this layer of implementation from the navigation-handling code.
The data manager class for the Demo module, the DemoManager class, is located in the org.labkey.demo package. Note that the DemoManager class makes calls to the LabKey Server table layer, rather than making direct calls to the database itself.
The Module Class (DemoModule Class)
The DemoModule class is located in the org.labkey.demo package. It extends the DefaultModule class, which is an implementation of the Module interface. The Module interface provides generic functionality for all modules in LabKey Server and manages how the module plugs into the LabKey Server framework and how it is versioned.
The only requirement for a module is that it implement the Module interface. However, most modules have additional classes like those seen in the Demo module.
The Schema Class (DemoSchema Class)
The DemoSchema class is located in the org.labkey.demo package. It provides methods for accessing the schema of the Person table associated with the Demo module. This class abstracts schema information for this table, so that the schema can be changed in just one place in the code.
The <labkey-home>\server\modules\demo\webapp\demo\scripts directory contains two subdirectories, one for PostgreSQL and one for Microsoft SQL Server. These directories contain functionally equivalent scripts for creating the Person table on the respective database server.
Note that there are a set of standard columns that all database tables in LabKey Server must include. These are:
- _ts: the timestamp column
- RowId: an autogenerated integer field that serves as the primary key
- CreatedBy: a user id
- Created: a date/time column
- ModifiedBy: a user id
- Modified: a date/time column
- Owner: a user id
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Brazilian police arrest third suspect in Amazon deaths
Brazil's federal police said Saturday that a third suspect in the deaths of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira has been arrested.
The pair went missing almost two weeks ago; Phillips' killing was confirmed after forensic exams; other remains are believed to belong to Pereira.
Police said in a statement that Jefferson da Silva Lima, known as Pelado da Dinha, turned himself at the police station in Atalaia do Norte in the Amazon.
Police said the suspect will be referred to a custody hearing.
Two other men are already in prison for alleged involvement in the killings: Amarildo Oliveira, known as Pelado, and his brother, Oseney de Oliveira, known as Dos Santos.
Phillips and Pereira were last seen June 5 on their boat on the Itaquai river, near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia.
On Friday, federal police said that human remains found in Brazil's remote Amazon have been identified as belonging to Phillips, 57.
Additional remains found at the site near the city of Atalaia do Norte have not yet been identified but are expected to belong to Indigenous expert Pereira, 41.
"The confirmation (of Phillips' remains) was made based on dental examinations and anthropological forensics," Federal Police said in a statement.
"Work is ongoing for a complete identification of the remains so we can determine the cause of death, and also the dynamics of the crime and the hiding of the bodies."
The remains were found on Wednesday, after fisherman Pelado confessed to killing the pair, and took police to the place where he would have buried the bodies. He told officers that he used a firearm to commit the crime.
The remains had arrived in the capital city of Brasilia on Thursday for forensics to work.
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The Canadian CED Network in Ontario brings together an emerging group of individuals and organizations representing a broad range of communities across our region. Members are developing strong CED initiatives and plans to strengthen and grow community economic foundations.
News and Events:
CCEDNet Ontario is pleased to be launching ENTERPRISING CHANGE -Report of the 2015 Social Enterprise Survey for Ontario
Click the link above to download the full report or the report Highlights.
Learn the facts about the economic impact of social enterprise in Ontario, how it creates jobs, particularly for those with barriers to employment and how it works in local communities to fight poverty. The report analyses the survey data from many different perspectives, rural and urban, francophone and anglophone, nonprofit and for-profit, with a disability focus or by regions.
Find out about the significant challenges social enterrpsies and the educational resources they would find most helpful, learn about whethere they plan to grow and what straegies they consider important to make that happen.
CCEDNet and our research partners gratefully acknowledge the the financial support of the Government of Ontario the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Government of Canada.
This report builds on previous research that the CCEDNet conducted in 2012, which resulted in the report Inspiring Innovation: The Size Scope and Socioeconomic Impact of Social Enterprise in Ontario It also contributes to the national profile being created through similar surveys which have been conducted across the country. See www.SESS.ca
This first profile of social enterprise in Ontario was part of the LIAIASOn social enterprsie infrastucture project funded through the Ontario Trillium Foundation. This project also included:
- Developing an online database and marketplace of Ontario SEs
- Creating an online "window on Social Enterprise" linking to a compendium of accessible resources and effective SE models. In collaboration with Ontario Nonprofit Network and Pillar Nonprofit Network, theis resulted in the cration of SEontario.org.
- Developing online and in-person events that share effective SE models
- Working with the Rural Social Enterprise Constellation project hosted by the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN), to improve investment infrastructure in four rural regions of Ontario: Huron-Perth, Peterborough-Kawarthas-Durham, Thunder Bay region and Simcoe County.
Click Here to learn about the background of the LIAISOn project, the collaborative co-applicant partners and Advisory Group members.
The 2012 CCEDNet-Ontario conference attracted just over 100 participants to the Learning Enrichment Foundation in Toronto. A sold-out bus tour visited several social purpose enterprises, and the conference featured speakers looking at strategies for innovation in an age of austerity, generating revenues, co-operative development and growing inequality, along with a variety of workshops.
The conference also launced the collaborative CCEDNet-Ontario led LIAISOn project to support social enterprise development in the province and hosted the Toronto launch of The Resilience Imperative by CCEDNet founding member Mike Lewis.
For further details and to download resources shared through Connections 2012 visit our event page.
Click here for more information about last year's event and for resources coming out of that event.
We encourage you to display this poster proudly in your workplace to illustrate to your staff, clients and community partners how your organization contributes to something bigger: a broad-based movement made up of many different kinds of organizations, all committed to community economic development and working to strengthen local communities.
Click on the poster to download it.
Organizations that become members during this year will have their logos included on next year’s poster. Click here to become a member.
CCEDNet Ontario works closely with other regional partners through the Ontario Social Economy Roundtable (OSER). One of the significant outcomes of this collaborationhas been the production of four Social Finance Policy Papers.
- Create Tax Incentives for Social Enterprise
A package deal should offer both an incentive to investors and a vehicle for matching investors with enterprising nonprofit organizations. This package should consist of a tax credit for the investor, and an investment fund that receives monies and makes investments in qualifying organizations. The Ontario Social Economy Roundtable paper shows how tax incentives can best be used as a mechanism to improve the sector’s access to capital.
- Change Infrastructure Ontario’s Eligibility Criteria
Community-based nonprofit social enterprises should have access to this source of funding. The Ontario Social Economy Roundtable report describes how this might best be done so the government and sector can move forward on this initiative.
- Enable the Nonprofit Sector to Issue Community Bonds
This change would give nonprofits the same powers as those provided to cooperatives under the Cooperatives Act, using the same regulatory process. The Ontario Social Economy Roundtable business plan for community bonds will help government and the sector move forward on this initiative.
- RRSP eligibility for Social Enterprise Tax Credits and Community Bonds
A provincial social enterprise investment tax credit or regulated community bonds, would benefit Ontario’s social economy most if they were eligible for registration under Registered Retirement Savings Accounts and Tax-Free Savings Accounts. Liaison with the Canada Revenue Agency will be important to smooth the registration process for individual non-profits and social investment funds.
Recommendations to implement these policies were included as part of ONN’s submission to the Ontario Partnership Project. Their adoption by the provincial government would open up the social finance field to engage citizens in becoming investors in social enterprise and would provide concrete benefits enabling social enterprise to thrive in Ontario. It would deliver big impact with minimal cost.
- The Network came together on several occassions to discuss their strategic approach to the Government of Ontario's consultations on reviewing the forest tenure system, and the Proposed Growth Plan for Northern Ontario. Professor David Robinson from Laurentian University shared his knowledge with the Network, allowing members to attend the consultations with and informed and unified voice. Professor Robinson was recently a featured panelist on TVO's 'The Agenda' with Steve Paikin, where he strongly advocated for community control of the natural resources in Northern Ontario. Click here to watch the episode.
- The Canadian CED Network Partners with ONN and OSER on Regional Consultations: The Canadian CED Network, working closely with the Ontario Nonprofit Network (ONN) and the Ontario Social Economy Roundtable (OSER), co-ordinated a series of province-wide regional consultations. The day long events engaged local community organizations on sector issues and and stimulated discussion on what needed to be done to improve the capacity of the sector.
- Submission to the Ontario 2009 Pre-Budget Consultations: On November 21, 2008, the Canadian CED Network's National Program Director, Paul Chamberlain, spoke during one of the provincial government's pre-budget consultations, stating the case for the inclusion of CED in the provincial budget. Click here to read this submission.
- Creating an Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act: The Canadian CED Network issued a response in the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services' process for modernizing the Ontario Corporations Act. The Canadian CED Network reviewed many of the responses and briefings of other involved organizations and key players and have engaged our Ontario members in developing our own response. To read the document, please click here.
Previous projects of the Ontario region:
With support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation the Canadian CED Network advanced the network in the province, providing regional workshops and tele-learning sessions to inspire further collaboration and information sharing within the CED sector. A youth internship pilot program created CED work experience opportunities to Canadian immigrant and Aboriginal youth in the North.
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Warracknabeal year 11 student, Hope Dempsey is celebrating her success which all began with a mock interview at school. During the interview she made a positive first impression on interviewer, Bernie O’Connor.
Woodbine’s CEO Bernie O’Connor commented, “Hope presented well and on time and was clearly taking the interview as a genuine opportunity to learn more of the job seeking process. Towards the end of the interview, my fellow panel member, John Aitken, asked a completely unscripted question of Hope. He asked what three positive learning experiences she could say about her casual work at McDonalds. Immediately, Hope replied along these lines; to dress neatly in uniform to present a positive image, work diligently and never serve food I wouldn’t be prepared to eat myself- There was the next School Based Apprentice.
Woodbine provides a comprehensive range of services and day activities including supported employment, shared supported accommodation, outreach and respite, and recreation and leisure. The range of day activities includes the popular adventure and discovery program, information technology, communication, commercial catering, plant nursery, craft shop, arts, music, retail clothing shop, opportunity shop and meals on wheels, to nominate a few. All Woodbine services are managed with a genuine philosophy of maximising inclusion and seeking to contribute to the local community.
Bernie explained, “The School Based Apprenticeship is one half of Woodbine’s trainee program. The program involves the nomination by a secondary college of a finishing year 12 student who does not plan to continue on to tertiary studies. This trainee will be supported in real full-time employment for two years whilst they are fully assisted to obtain Certificate IV in Disability. At the same time, comes the nomination of a finishing year 10 student to take up the School Based Apprenticeship. “
School Based Apprenticeships allow young Australians to get a head start with their careers by beginning an apprenticeship while still working towards their senior secondary school certificate. School-based Apprenticeships are a great career option, allowing young Australians to commence training for a vocational qualification and earn a wage while still at school.
Hope said “I love it here. I have two days of on-the-job training and a half a day of working, so it’s 19 hours all-up in a week.” Hope is studying for her Vocational Certificate of Applied Learning at school. “I struggle with classrooms—I always have, but being out in the workplace, I’m learning more than I was at school. It’s a lot more hands-on.” she said.
“I started here in October of 2015 and was thrown in the deep end.” she said. “No two days are the same.” Hope assists clients with daytime activities. “We go out into the community, we go out to Pharmacino and have a coffee and a scone or we’ll go for a walk up the street and get the newspaper. I had my first day in the kitchen last week and today was my first day in music and it was really good.” she said.
Hope has been on steep learning curve. “One of the things I’ve been learning is patience. Some of the clients are a bit slower at completing tasks than others, so you’ve got to be really patient with them and give them time.” she said. Life just keeps getting better for Hope. “A couple of weeks ago I was doing lunchmaking and Bernie, the CEO, called me out and offered me more work!”
Asked if he’d recommend School Based Apprenticeships to other businesses and organisations, Bernie replied, “This program seeks to support a healthy balance of experience and youth at Woodbine. Only a few years ago, there was just one staff member under the age of 30 years. With this measure and its flow-on message, there are now 35 people in the younger age grouping. If you are interested in maintaining a line of youth to match experience and see it as a long term plan, then a is a very workable and extremely rewarding solution. It is not necessarily a solution to address immediate skill deficiencies in your business. For Woodbine, it is a strategy to balance the workforce in a way that is a real support to the community and individual young people whilst enhancing the perception of people with a disability.” | <urn:uuid:195b5baa-c251-4ba9-a337-c1476feb8b9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.llen.com.au/hope-for-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97262 | 928 | 1.820313 | 2 |
In July 2021, the Nebraska Supreme Court decided an important case on the Nebraska sales and use tax and how it is applied to aircraft. In the case, Big Blue Express, Inc. v. Neb. Dep’t of Rev., 309 Neb. 838 (2021), the supreme court concluded that the “sale for resale” exemption found at Neb. Rev. Stat. § 77-2701.34 did not exempt an aircraft from sales and use taxes when the owner failed to show that it had purchased the airplane to lease it in the normal course of business with the intent to result in gain, benefit, or advantage to the owner.
As with all legal questions, the case turned on the unique facts presented by the situation. The taxpayer, Big Blue Express, was a Nebraska corporation with the same individual serving as the corporation’s president, treasurer, and director. The corporation was wholly owned by another corporation and the sole shareholder of that corporation was the same individual who was Big Blue’s president, treasurer, and director. The sole shareholder also had business relationships with several other entities.
Big Blue purchased a two-thirds interest in a business jet from a seller in Kansas without paying any sales or use tax in Kansas. Another entity, Robinson’s Hanger, purchased the remaining one-third interest. Big Blue and Robinson’s Hangar entered into a joint ownership agreement. When Big Blue applied for insurance on the aircraft, it indicated that the plane would not be operated for hire or reward.
After purchasing the aircraft, Big Blue entered into use agreements with other entities that were affiliated with its president. The use agreements all provided that the plane would be rented at $1,300 per flight hour and the lessees would be responsible for providing a pilot and crew and expenses such as fuel, insurance, and hangar costs. The agreements provided that Big Blue would send invoices to the lessees and that those invoices would accrue interest if not paid within 15 days. Big Blue, however, often sent invoices in a lesser amount than the agreement dictated and did not send them until the end of the year. Even more, the lessees did not pay the invoices until the Department of Revenue contacted Big Blue about its sales tax returns. Indeed, evidence presented to the court showed that many invoices went more than a year without being paid and that when the invoices were paid, they were paid with funds from an investment account owned by the president of Big Blue and his wife.
Testimony showed that Big Blue would have had to lease the aircraft for 200 hours a year at a rate of $1,300 an hour to break even on operating costs. The evidence, however, showed that Big Blue invoiced about 237 hours of flight time over the course of two years, or about one-half of what was necessary to break even on the plane. Despite the obvious lack of business necessary to break even on the plane, Big Blue made no efforts to market the aircraft for lease.
In 2014, after an investigation, the Nebraska Department of Revenue issued a deficiency determination after concluding that the purchase of the aircraft was not exempt from taxation. The Department’s deficiency was calculated at 7% of two-thirds of the purchase price of the aircraft plus penalties and interest. Big Blue protested the determination and sought administrative review. The Tax Commissioner found that Big Blue was liable for the tax and affirmed the Department’s assessment. Big Blue then appealed to the district court, which affirmed the Tax commissioner’s decision, and then to the Nebraska Supreme Court.
The supreme court began by explaining that Nebraska imposes a tax on each item of tangible personal property in the state at some point, unless the item is specifically excluded from taxation. For items purchased in Nebraska, a sales tax applies. For items purchased outside of the state, a use tax applies. Because it was agreed that Big Blue purchased the airplane in Kansas without paying tax in that state, the question before the court was whether an exemption to the use tax applied in Nebraska.
The principal argument of Big Blue was that it did not owe use tax because its purchase of the airplane was a “sale for resale.” Because a “sale for resale” is not a retail sale as defined in the statutes, sales for resale are exempt from sales and use tax. See Intralot, Inc. v. Neb. Dep’t of Rev., 276 Neb. 708 (2008). Neb. Rev. Stat. § 77-2701.34 defines “sale for resale” to mean “a sale of property or provision of a service to any purchaser who is purchasing such property or service for the purpose reselling it in the normal course of his or her business, either in the form or condition in which it is purchased or as an attachment to or integral part of other property or service.” As an example, the statute indicates that a sale for resale includes “a sale of property to a purchaser for the sole purpose of that purchaser renting or leasing property to another person, with rent or lease payments set at a fair market value.”
In reaching its decision, the supreme court relied on cases that had interpreted similar statutory language in analogous situations in Ohio and Michigan. Drawing from these cases, the supreme court explained that to determine whether the aircraft was being leased in the normal course of the taxpayer’s business, a court may consider factors such as whether the leases are entered into with consumers who are related to or associated with the taxpayer, whether terms of the leases and the parties’ conduct reflect an arm’s-length business transaction, whether the leases produced reasonable revenue for the taxpayer’s business in relation to operating expenses, and whether the taxpayer held itself out to the public as being in the business of leasing the property.
Applying these factors to the evidence before it, the supreme court concluded that the taxpayer was not entitled to the exception under § 77-2701.34. The court found that the taxpayer’s purchase and leasing of the aircraft was not pursued with the object of its gain, benefit, or advantage. Among the salient facts, the aircraft was leased principally to the sole member of Big Blue or his related entities. Big Blue made little effort to regularly invoice customers and collect amounts due on those invoices. When Big Blue did lease the aircraft to other entities, Big Blue’s sole member paid those invoices from his investment account. Big Blue made little effort to market the airplane as available to others. Further, the evidence showed that the revenue generated by leasing the aircraft was substantially less than the costs incurred in owning the airplane. And finally, Big Blue indicated that the plane would be used for pleasure and disclaimed any use for operation and hire when procuring insurance for the plane.
In sum, the evidence led to the conclusion that Big Blue had failed to show “that it purchased the airplane to lease it in the normal course of business in an activity designed to result in gain, benefit, or advantage to Big Blue.” Rather, the facts suggested that Big Blue had purchased the aircraft for the benefit of only its president and his family of companies. As a result, the use of the aircraft was not exempt from sales and use tax. | <urn:uuid:ce0156a8-dd9f-43c9-ae2e-847aef815c3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ldmlaw.com/2022/02/nebraska-supreme-court-holds-that-airplanes-are-subject-to-sales-and-use-tax/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977454 | 1,506 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Dadabhai Naoroji came from a long line of Zoroastrian priests in the southern Gujarati town of Navsari, a Parsi stronghold. His ancestors included notable Zoroastrian priests, including two mobeds who met the Mughal emperor Jehangir in 1618, and some of the wealthiest merchants in south Gujarat. By his grandfather’s time, however, the family had been reduced to relative poverty: both his grandfather and his father, Naoroji Palanji Dordi, worked on a farm in Dharampur. Sometime in the early 1820s, Naoroji Palanji and his wife, Manekbai, decided to follow countless other impoverished Gujaratis and make the journey south to a new hub of prosperity: Bombay. On 4 September 1825, their son, Dadabhai, was born in Khadak in Bombay. He was their only child.
As in Dharampur, the Dordi family (Naoroji eventually dropped the surname) lived in poverty in Khadak, which was one of the poorest and most congested parts of Bombay’s “Native Town.” When Naoroji was about four or five years old, his father passed away, leaving the family in a desperate lurch. His death had one important consequence: it likely relieved Naoroji of a priestly career, as first-born sons were expected to keep up the hereditary priestly line. Instead, his mother, Manekbai, enrolled the young Dadabhai in a free, publicly-supported school, where he soon distinguished himself as an exemplary pupil.
Naoroji grew up in an entirely different world from Navsari and Dharampur: the cosmopolitan, chaotic world of an emerging metropolis, described in wonder by a contemporary Indian chronicler as “fifty-six languages and eighteen castes with different head-dresses.” He nevertheless maintained strong ties with south Gujarat, where many of his family members continued to live. In later life, he traveled to south Gujarat in order to research the conditions of local peasants and was in close touch with the leadership of princely states in the region. There remains, to this day, a belief that Naoroji was born in a small house in Navsari that still survives. This is not the case. During his lifetime, Naoroji repeatedly clarified that he was born in Khadak in Bombay (no trace of his house here survives). The Navsari house is likely an ancestral property.
Around 1836, when Naoroji was eleven or twelve, he was married to Gulbai Shroff, a seven year-old girl. The marriage did not seem to be a very happy one: Gulbai was illiterate and, apparently, possessed little interest in learning. We have hardly any information about Gulbai, and she rarely features in Naoroji’s voluminous correspondence. Their union, nevertheless, lasted for over seven decades and resulted in three children. A son, Ardeshir, was born in 1858. He was followed by Shirin, a daughter, in 1864 or 1865 and Maki, born in 1868.
For much of the time during the childrens’ youth, Naoroji was an absent father. He pursued business and politics in London while his wife and children lived with Naoroji’s mother, Manekbai, in Bombay. The Bombay family members were very close to two other Parsi families, the family of Behramji Malabari, the social reformer, and the family of Mancherji Merwanji Dadina, one of Naoroji’s former pupils when he was a professor at Elphinstone College. Eventually, Naoroji’s children each married one of Dadina’s children, resulting in even closer bonds between the two families. Ardeshir, Naoroji’s son, and his wife Virbai had eight children before Ardeshir died of a sudden heart attack in 1893.
In spite of Naoroji’s prolonged absences from Bombay, the family remained very close, as is testified in correspondence, and his children and grandchildren eventually joined him for long periods of residence in Great Britain. After Naoroji retired from politics in 1907, the family resided in a large bungalow in Versova, which remained in the family after his death in 1917.
As far as I have been able to determine, Dadabhai Naoroji has no surviving descendants today. Incredibly, none of his eight grandchildren through Ardeshir had any children. Sarosh Naoroji, his grandson and likely the last surviving descendant, passed away in 1980, and any surviving family possessions were lost thereafter.
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Several of Ardeshir Naoroji’s children had distinguished careers. Meher Naoroji was likely the first Indian female medical graduate from the University of Edinburgh. Kershasp Naoroji was commended for his bravery while fighting in France during the First World War.
Other siblings took up nationalist vocations. As a student in the Sarbonne, Perin Naoroji was influenced by Bhikhaiji Rustomji Cama, the Indian revolutionary, and was associated with V.D. Savarkar. A Polish revolutionary apparently taught her how to assemble a bomb. Perin seems to have pulled one of her other sisters, Gosi, into revolutionary activities, which made them both targets of British surveillance during the early twentieth century. Both Perin and Gosi, however, renounced revolutionary nationalism after befriending Mahatma Gandhi after 1915. Along with another sister, Nurgis, they became known as the “Captain Sisters” (they married three brothers of the Captain family) and plunged into Congress work, especially khadi promotion (an organization they helped found, the Gandhi Seva Sena, still survives, with a store in Mumbai’s Nana Chowk selling khadi items and village-produced products). Perin was imprisoned on numerous occasions. One of their brothers, Jal, who was a Tata executive, was very close to the Nehru family.
Ardeshir Naoroji’s youngest daughter, Khurshed, pioneered a particularly unique role for herself in the nationalist movement. A classical soprano who trained in Paris, she abandoned a promising musical career in the 1920s to work with Gandhi. During the Civil Disobedience Movement, she led the picketing of liquor stores in villages around Ahmedabad. Beginning in the 1930s, Khurshed decided to spread Gandhi’s message of nonviolence in the rugged and dangerous North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). She was particularly committed towards promoting Hindu-Muslim unity and, to this extent, counseled Muslim dacoits (criminals) to free Hindu captives, many of whom were abducted and probably sold into semi-slavery in Waziristan. After several months of walking through the countryside around Bannu and meeting villagers, Khurshed achieved a marked drop in the number of abductions, something that was recognized even by British authorities in the region. One wonders how Pashtun dacoits reacted to a highly-educated, unaccompanied Parsi lady foraying into their camps in order to talk to them about ahimsa. | <urn:uuid:d56ec899-f791-492e-999a-7dd0d7de89bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dinyarpatel.com/naoroji/family/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982936 | 1,534 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Higher Education Students Financing Board plans to support Ugandan undergraduate students doing humanities.
Initially, the scheme was targeting students pursuing degree and undergraduate diploma courses in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs.
According to the government, this was also to help in bridging the human resource gap in critical sectors of the economy that are science-driven.
The board has for the first time awarded study loans to 120 continuing students in their final year of study to help them complete their studies using the 500 million Uganda shillings boost to the fund.
The 2016 Africa Higher Education student survey report reveals that almost 30% of all students who enroll in university education on different degree programs in different universities dropped out of their programs with the majority having financial challenges.
Michael Wanyama, the board executive director explains that due to the high demand from the continuing students with financial constraints, they presented a budget of 4.5 billion shillings to cater for 1,000 continuing students.
Wanyama says that the board is also considering supporting students doing humanities, however, noting that not all students will qualify for the student loan scheme.
He further explains that the board is analyzing several issues regarding the flexibility of the loan scheme and accommodating more students due to the increasing demand.
Available statistics indicate that already the board is supporting students with disabilities in both science and humanity courses in the different higher institutions of learning.
The State Minister for Primary Education Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu noted that the government initially had wanted to increase the human resource in critical sectors of the economy and this was mainly in the fields of science and technology, engineering, and mathematics except for the persons with disabilities who are able to study any program of their own choice under affirmative action.
Kaducu says the government recognizes the increasing demand for the study loans which is evidenced by the applications to the board starting with the requests presented by the board to the parliament.
She, however, highlighted the need for the beneficiaries to repay the loans to enable the others to benefit from the same resource envelope.
Meanwhile, Wanyama says that 40 percent of the students who benefited from the scheme are currently repaying their loans.
The government will in this financial year spend 6 billion shillings on the scheme to benefit a total of 1,530 applicants including 381 undergraduate diploma applicants from 22 participating institutions of higher learning both public and government.
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1. The Kramer Tool Company has a photocopying machine that it purchased two years ago for $70,000. The machine is being depreciated straight line over 5 years to a zero salvage value. A competing firm is offering a new photocopying machine that cost $60,000 and can be depreciated over 5 years to a zero salvage value. Kramer has been assured that the new machine can be sold for $10,000 after five years. The new machine requires less maintenance and operator attendance and would result in cost savings of $20,000 annually. The firm selling the new machine has agreed to find a buyer who would pay $30,000 for the old machine. The discount rate is 9% and the tax rate is 48%. Should Kramer replace the old machine with the new one? Support your answer with appropriate calculations.
2. Kamal Copies (KC) may buy a high volume machine that sells widgets. The machine costs $100,000 and will be depreciated straight line over five years to a salvage value of $25,000. KC anticipates that the machine can actually be sold in five years for $36,000. The machine will generate sales of $75,000 in year1 and sales will decline by $5,000 a year until year 5. Expenses are 58% of sales. The working capital position in the balance sheet is $10,000 in year 0, $12,000 in year 1, $16,000 in year 2 till the end of year 4. The working capital will be released at the end of the project. The marginal tax rate is 35% and the discount rate is 10%.
a. Please calculate the NPV of the project? b. Please calculate the IRR of the project? c. Should KC buy the machine?
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WINNIETT, WILLIAM, military officer, merchant, and settler at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, member of the Nova Scotia Council; b. c. 1685; drowned in Boston harbour, Massachusetts, April 1741.
William Winniett is said to have been born in France of Huguenot parents, but this is not certain. In 1710 he accompanied Francis Nicholson* from London as a volunteer in the successful expedition against Port-Royal (Annapolis Royal), serving as ensign, adjutant, and second lieutenant in Walton’s New Hampshire regiment. He was a lieutenant in the Annapolis Royal garrison for a time, but resigned his military commission in 1711 to embark upon a career as a merchant-trader. In that year he married Marie-Madeleine Maisonnat, daughter of Pierre Maisonnat* and Madeleine Bourg.
Winniett had trading connections at Annapolis Royal, the Acadian settlements up the Bay of Fundy, and Canso, selling a variety of provisions, many of which had been transported from Boston. He procured wood for the Annapolis garrison and seems to have been involved in fishing in the 1720s. In June 1722 he was robbed by Indians at Minas, “to ye value of 1,500 pounds, goods & Vessell.” Micmac and Malecite Indians attacked Annapolis Royal on 4 July 1724; Winniett testified to the Nova Scotia Council on 16 July that he had learned of the proposed attack at Minas on 1 July, but had been assured by the French that the Annapolis garrison would already have been warned. In 1725 he helped persuade the Nova Scotia Council to restrict trading up the Bay of Fundy to the Annapolis settlers. He supported this policy again in 1727 as a means of making the Acadians more dependent on Annapolis Royal for supplies and less able to support the Indians in their expeditions against the English.
Winniett’s relations with the government of Nova Scotia were often strained. In 1714 Governor Nicholson warned Lieutenant Governor Thomas Caulfeild* not to employ Winniett or even allow him to enter the garrison, pointing to the pro-French sentiments of Winniett’s wife and relatives. About this time Winniett was also at odds with Captain Lawrence Armstrong*, who sought to exclude him from any dealings with the garrison. Caulfeild, however, defended Winniett and condemned Armstrong’s treatment of him. In 1720, after complaining about the establishment of a grain magazine at Annapolis Royal, Winniett was rebuked by the governor and council for behaving towards them in an “insolent, disrespectfull, audacious, contemptuous, and undutiful manner,” and was ordered to apologize. His letter of submission restored him to good standing.
In November 1729 Winniett, as “the most Considerable Merchant, and one of ye first British Inhabitants in this Place” was appointed to the Nova Scotia Council, replacing one of two councillors who were sick. With Erasmus James Philipps he drew up in 1730 a scheme for procuring and keeping currency in Nova Scotia. He sought unsuccessfully in 1731 to validate a claim he had to some land east of the Penobscot River (Maine), and thereafter absented himself more and more from council meetings. The conflict between his son-in-law, Alexander Cosby, and Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Armstrong, which resulted in Cosby’s withdrawal from the council in 1732, probably affected Winniett as well. About the same time, Henry Cope accused Winniett of informing the Indians at Minas that the government was building a house there as quarters for a company of soldiers. Finally on 9 Jan. 1734 Armstrong suspended Winniett from the council, citing his infrequent attendance and general behaviour. The Lords of Trade refused to uphold Armstrong’s action, however, and advised him not to be so strict about the behaviour of councillors when the colony was so young and there were so few civil inhabitants who could sit on council.
Little is known of Winniett’s activities from this time until his death in 1741. Paul Mascarene stated that his widow was left in deplorable circumstances. Winniett had seven sons and six daughters. One son, Joseph, was a member of the Nova Scotia assembly and a judge. Three of his daughters – Anne, Elizabeth, and Marie-Madeleine – were married to council members: Alexander Cosby, John Handfield, and Edward How, respectively.
BM, Add. mss, 19070, no.2, ff.65–66 (transcript in PAC, MG 21, E5). PAC, Nova Scotia A, 3, p.185. PANS, RG 1, 14, 22, 23, 24; Unpub. papers of N.S. Hist. Soc., A. W. Savary, “Ancestry of General Sir William Fenwick Williams of Kars” (contains notes on the Winniett family). PRO, CO 217/1, ff.62–63, 402; 217/2, ff.25–30, 68, 71, 73, 190; 217/4, ff.8, 17, 19, 128–29, 300; 217/5, ff.66–68; 217/6, ff.117, 208–9; 218/2: f.153. Boston Gazette, 27 April 1741. Boston Weekly News-Letter, 24 April 1741. Knox, Historical journal (Doughty). N. S. Archives, I; II; III; IV. PRO, CSP, Col., 1722–23, 1731, 1732, 1734–35, 1735–36; JTP, 1714/15–1718. The Fulham papers in the Lambeth palace library, ed. W. W. Manross (Oxford, Eng., 1965), 6. Calnek, History of Annapolis (Savary). Murdoch, History of Nova-Scotia. Savary, Supplement to history of Annapolis. C. J. d’Entremont and H.-J. Hébert, “Parkman’s diary and the Acadian exiles in Massachusetts,” French Canadian and Acadian Geneal. Rev. (Quebec), I (1968), 251, 255–63. “Historical Nova Scotia families,” in Morning Herald (Halifax), 5 Sept. 1889, and in Morning Chronicle (Halifax), 6 Sept. 1889. | <urn:uuid:1714fdc3-419b-435b-9155-04c0a9469412> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://biographi.ca/en/bio/winniett_william_3F.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96522 | 1,385 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics states at least one in eight teens abused illicit substances in 2019. Of this number, a large majority of these teens use heroin. Between 2016 and 2020, the rate of illegal drug use among American eighth-graders increased by more than 60%. The same report shows that 850 teens and young adults lost their lives to a heroin overdose in 2019 alone.
What is Heroin?
The drug heroin is manufactured from ingredients harvested from the opium poppy. These plants, grown in Colombia, Asia, and Mexico, contain the chemical morphine. Because heroin is manufactured from naturally occurring chemicals, it is classified as a natural opioid. There are different forms of heroin, depending on the manufacturing process. The most common is a fine white powder. Other types of heroin include a brown powder or a sticky, black substance called black tar heroin.
It is not uncommon to hear heroin referred to by its street names. Common examples of these include hell dust, smack, and many others. Using heroin is easier than some other drugs because it can be administered or “taken into” the body in several ways. In powder form, heroin can be smoked, snorted, or mixed with liquid and injected into a vein. Some teens with a heroin addiction may mix powder heroin with crack cocaine to create a more potent drug, a practice called speedballing.
The composition of black tar heroin makes injecting it more dangerous than white or brown powdered forms of the drug. For this reason, those who use black tar heroin grind it into a powder for snorting. Black tar heroin is also frequently vaporized (a process referred to as chasing the dragon) or administered in suppository form.
Why do Teens Use Heroin?
There are a few reasons why teens use heroin. The first is experimentation. Peer pressure can be positive or negative. Some teens may feel “pressure” to engage in sports, academic pursuits, or other extra-curricular activities to remain part of desired social groups or spend time with friends. This type of peer pressure generally has positive outcomes. However, there are other types of peer pressure, and those often have lasting, harmful impacts on teens. It is the negative or harmful peer pressure that typically leads teens to experiment with substances like heroin for the first time.
Another reason teens begin using heroin follows the same reason why adults often turn to this potentially deadly drug; as a substitute for prescription opioids. Heroin is an easily obtained street drug that many turn to after developing an addiction to prescription opioids (prescription painkillers). When their prescription ends, or they no longer have access to a prescription drug for other reasons, they turn to heroin. Heroin use mimics the effects experienced when using drugs such as Oxycodone. Therefore, teens with a prescription opioid addiction may see heroin as a suitable alternative to satisfy cravings for opioids. Suppose your medical provider prescribes opioids for your teen. In that case, it is crucial to understand their effects, what opioid addiction looks like and how to help your teen if they develop a dependency on these powerful substances.
Short and Long-Term Effects of Heroin Use on The Body
When teens use heroin, the effects on the body and mind occur rapidly. Once in the bloodstream, heroin connects (binds) to specific receptor sites in the brain, spine, and other areas called opioid receptors. Opioid receptors are the areas of the brain used to sense and relay feelings of pain and pleasure. They also play a vital role in maintaining life-sustaining body functions such as breathing and heart rate.
In the last decade, the rate of heroin use by people of all ages has increased dramatically. Researchers believe the increase in heroin addiction (and overdose) rates is linked to the nationwide effort to reduce the number of opioid prescriptions written by medical providers. The use of heroin mimics the effects of opioid pain killers like Vicodin and Oxy. Several studies suggest prescription painkillers frequently act as a “gateway drug” to heroin use. Surveys conducted within the last few years, such as the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, indicate a percentage of those who misused prescription opioids often switched to heroin.
Signs Your Teen May Have A Heroin Addiction
Heroin is a potent and highly addictive drug, and the side effects of its use can put your teen at an increased risk of injury or death from overdose. For most users, tolerance to the effects of heroin develops quickly, leading the user to need higher and more frequent doses of heroin to achieve their desired high. With increasing tolerance comes an increased risk of overdose.
There are several physical, psychological and behavioral symptoms of heroin addiction. In most cases, you will likely notice the physical symptoms of heroin addiction in your teen before anything else. Within seconds after injecting heroin, feelings of euphoria and increased happiness occur. Although other methods of heroin use take longer to produce the same effects, once the drug reaches the brain, indications the use is “high” will present.
The most common physical signs of heroin use in teens include slowed breathing, stomach problems, dry mouth, itching, vomiting, flushed skin, and constricted pupils. Those who use heroin regularly frequently need to use laxatives or stool softeners due to chronic, severe constipation.
In time, you may also notice emotional and behavioral changes in your teen. A few examples may include drug-seeking behaviors and increasing isolation. Your teen may suddenly seem disinterested in hobbies, activities, or spending time with their friends. You may also notice drug paraphernalia around their room or in your home.
Heroin Withdrawal and Addiction Treatment at Beachside
If your teen has a physical and psychological addiction to heroin, they will experience withdrawal symptoms when they try to stop using. It is important to note that the signs of heroin withdrawal will vary from person to person, but heroin detox can be dangerous and life-threatening in all cases. There is no way to predict who will experience severe withdrawal symptoms during detox. For this reason, it is essential to choose a specialized teen-focused treatment program like Beachside, where your teen can detox from heroin under close medical supervision.
Several factors may determine the intensity, severity, and duration of your teen’s heroin detox symptoms. For example, how long they have used heroin, if they used other opioid drugs before heroin, the severity of their addiction, how they use (smoking, injecting, etc.), and whether they have a co-occurring mental health condition.
A co-occurring condition occurs if your teen simultaneously has a substance use disorder and mental health condition symptoms. The journey to overcoming both conditions requires comprehensive, evidence-based treatments that address both illnesses as part of a singular treatment program.
Ensuring your teen gets early, effective help to withdraw from heroin requires understanding what heroin withdrawal symptoms may look like. Although each person will experience different symptoms and differing levels of severity, several detox symptoms occur in most cases. These include body aches and pains, jitters, shaking, fever or chills, diet changes, stomach problems, problems with sleep, and uncontrollable leg movements.
For some teens, heroin withdrawal symptoms could include severe and life-threatening side effects. These may consist of coma, seizures, abnormal heart rate, difficulties breathing, and death. Most heroin withdrawal symptoms begin within six hours of your last use and resolve within two weeks.
Helping Your Teen Overcome Heroin Addiction at Beachside
Heroin withdrawal can cause severe, potentially life-threatening effects. For this reason, if your teen has a heroin addiction, seeking treatment in a medically supervised detox program is crucial to their safety. At Beachside, our team of experienced teen treatment professionals will help your teen throughout the detox process by monitoring their physical and emotional health. In some cases, providers may administer medications to help reduce the intensity and discomfort of withdrawal symptoms, making detox more manageable.
Another valuable benefit to medically supported detox is having skilled medical professionals available at all times should your teen need emergency care during detox. Heroin addiction can be challenging to overcome without support. Often, those who try to detox from heroin “cold turkey” are unsuccessful. Within a short time, unmanaged withdrawal symptoms become overwhelming, and relapse frequently occurs.
Several effective therapy models are used to treat teen heroin use disorders, including behavioral therapies and medications. Behavioral treatments for heroin addiction include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and contingency management. CBT therapy helps modify your teen’s behaviors and feelings about drug use while exploring the root causes that led to using drugs.
Medications can be beneficial at several stages of the treatment process, including detox and aftercare. During detox, medications may reduce the intensity and severity of withdrawal symptoms. During medically assisted treatment and aftercare programs, drugs such as methadone, naltrexone, suboxone, and buprenorphine may be used o reduce the desire to use and prevent relapse.
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This Full Spectrum lamp produces a “natural” light, like the illumination of northern or Artic sky daylight. Full Spectrum lighting is a must for applications where color judgments are made.
Full Spectrum lamps come in four great colors: True Lite? , True Lite? Ultra, Artic Lite, and Trilumen 50.
True Lite?: Renders light similar to noontime natural sunlight in the northern hemisphere.
Technical information: Color Rendering Index: 90 Kelvin Temperature: 5720
True Lite? Ultra: Similar to True Lite? but manufactured with Triphosphors to achieve 30% more light output and better lumen depreciation over the life of the lamp.
Commercial uses such as textile and dye manufacturers, printers, photographers, art studios, and museums and galleries.
Retail applications such as clothing, rug, furniture, wallpaper and paint stores, flower shops, and general merchandising.
Eliminates color distortions.
Perfect color matching and coordinating.
Natural outdoor lighting 24 hours a day.
Shows packaging colors to full advantage.
Adds sparkle and brightness to diamonds, crystal, and silver.
Office and school classroom applications
Glare elimination and reduced eye strain.
Higher morale and less absenteeism.
Higher aptitude test scores.
Increased growth and development in children.
Treatment of winter depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Artic Lite: Renders light similar to noontime natural sunlight in the Artic region. This product is also available in some sizes in C50 and Sign Lite.
Technical information: Color Rendering Index: 92 Kelvin Temperature: 5000
Artic Lite gives good color rendition and is excellent for office lighting or displaying merchandise. While excellent for general lighting, Artic Lite will also enhance the brilliance of jewelry, silverware, diamonds, crystal, chrome, etc.
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How Google Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Search Results
While the rise of the machines still looks like an unreal scenario, there’s been significant progress in artificial intelligence lately. The most popular search engine, Google, is getting closer and closer to the human brain. A decade ago, it could understand only separate words, but today it has a grasp on the user intent. That’s become possible with RankBrain. Launched as an experiment first, this machine learning technology turned into an integral part of Google’s ranking algorithm soon.
RankBrain is constantly teaching itself about us. It learns which results we like and which of them don’t match our intent. With such an understanding, Google finds relevant pages, even though they don’t necessarily have the exact wording we type into the search bar. When RankBrain comes across a query never seen before, it can guess at related concepts and returns results based on that guesswork.
Let's run a few quick experiments to track Google’s progress in artificial intelligence.
Experiment #1. Singular vs Plural
Back in the day, Google processed search queries word for word, letter for letter. But is a literal match still the case today? Let’s check it out using "buy a jacket online" as a query.
Most search results have the word “jacket” in the plural form. The engine understands that buyers usually look through a wide range of items before making a final choice. That’s why it erased the border between singular and plural noun forms. Obviously, pages optimized for a keyword in the plural are relevant to queries in the singular. And vice versa.
It may be too easy for Google to equate singular and plural forms of regular nouns. The only difference between them is an "-s" ending, while the rest of the stem remains the same. Now, let’s experiment with irregular nouns changing their stem in the plural. Here are organic results for "cage for mouse."
As you can see, Google can handle more difficult cases when a noun looks like different words in the plural and singular.
Experiment #2. Word Root
When writers convey the same message, their wording often differs. Let’s search for a guide on how to install a satellite dish. Google returns the following organic results for the query "install satellite dish."
Different authors use the word “install” in different forms. Sometimes, it gets "-ing" and "-ed" endings. In other cases, the verb transforms into a noun with an "-ation" suffix.
It proves that Google focuses only on the word root, omitting endings and suffixes. The engine doesn’t even care about what part of speech the target keyword is on the page
Experiment #3. Uncommon Synonyms
Searchers use words with a similar meaning interchangeably. Let’s say you want to build a site in 2018 with the help of WordPress and a professional template for its design. If you type a query like “top WordPress templates 2018,” here’s what you’ll find.
Instead of “templates,” Google returns results with the synonym “themes.” Both keywords mean the same in the context of web design. Google knows that the “theme” is more common for WordPress than the “template.” The latter is commonly used for such a content management system as Joomla. Let’s type the “best Joomla themes” into the search bar.
The top result contains the word “theme” neither in the SERP snippet nor in the post itself. But it still ranks #1 in organic results and also above them as a featured snippet.
Experiment #4. Word Order
The same query can have a different word order, but does Google take it into account? Let’s search for a “holder for phone in car.”
Organic results have a reverse word order. The word “car” starts the phrase in SERP snippets, while in the original query it stands at the end. It means Google cares neither about the word order nor about prepositions or articles.
Experiment #5. Abbreviations vs Full Forms
As lazybones, I shorten my queries whenever possible, and it doesn’t affect the relevance of search results. Let’s say you want to learn what the Charter of the United Nations is about, but hate typing the entire phrase. You can shorten “United Nations” to its common abbreviation “UN,” and Google will get your point. Here’s what the engine shows for the query “UN charter.”
The same goes for acronyms. To find something in a particular city or state, you can use an acronym for your location. For example, Google understands that “business center NYC” means “business center in New York City.”
Experiment #6. Short Queries vs Full Questions
Every Google user has their search preferences. As a rule, long-term users opt for short queries, while newbies find it funny to type full questions. Does the query length make any difference in search results? Let’s check it out using a short phrase, e.g. “Amazon river length.” Here’s how SERP looks.
Now, let’s ask a full question, e.g. “what is the Amazon river length” or “how long is the Amazon river.”
As you can see, Google returns pretty much the same results for both queries. The engine understands that any search term is a question. So, there’s no point to differentiate between short phrases and full questions.
Experiment #7. Instant Answers
The main aim of Google is to provide the necessary info ASAP. In the previous experiment, you could see an instant answer without scrolling down to the top ten results. Kudos to the Knowledge Graph for such an opportunity.
But the engine has gone much further than that. It can extract the requested info from pages and show it in organic results too. Let’s say you are curious about who judges contestants on America’s Got Talent. Type “America’s got talent judges” into Google, and you’ll see their names right under the title in the SERP snippet.
Experiment #8. Predictive Capabilities
Here’s another interesting finding on Google’s progress in artificial intelligence. When I wanted to rewatch a video to my favorite song by The Cranberries, I typed one word “zombie” into the search bar. Here’s what I saw.
Somehow, Google predicted my search intent 100% correct. I could’ve referred to a zombie movie, story, game or, say, makeup. But the engine literally read my mind with a single-word hint. Is it a single case? Let’s test another query “roses.”
A music video again. Either Google has a thing for music or the engine understands that it’s the most common thing users want to find.
Key Takeaways for Content Optimization
Now, let’s see how these findings can help you optimize your content for Google’s intelligence. When using keyword generators, you will find hundreds of similar keyword ideas. Don’t rush to use them all in your content. Here are the ways to keep your writing clean from keyword stuffing.
1. Treat phrases in the singular and plural as the same keyword. For example, if you find a promising keyword in the singular when reviewing a few products, you can use it in the plural. And vice versa.
2. When possible, use common abbreviations. If your target keyword is “spa salon in LA,” mention the full name of the city for the first time. It will keep readers 100% sure of the place you’re referring to. Then, feel free to use its acronym throughout your copy. The audience will know what LA stands for.
In some cases, you don’t have to introduce abbreviations in their full forms, as they are well-known to the target audience. For example, most people know that a DIY guide means a do-it-yourself guide. There’s no need to decipher such obvious things.
3. Pick long-tail keywords for your content. Here’s an important notice. Most sources define them as phrases with a lot of words. But the length is actually not the case. What matters is their search volume and specificity. You can be specific with a four-word keyword just as with a ten-word phrase. Check out two long-tail keywords that look different:
- track phone time app
- app to track how much time I spend on my phone
However, these keywords have an identical level of specificity. So is the search intent behind them. And Google returns quite similar results for both.
4. To keep your copy Google-friendly, keep it human-friendly. If your target keyword is a mishmash of words, you can’t use it as is. You must look like an authoritative resource to keep people coming back to you over and over again. If your content is unreadable and full of grammatical mistakes, you’ll end up in a failure.
Let’s analyze the following keywords:
- phone usage track time app
- app to track time of phone usage
While the former looks like chaos, the latter sounds natural. If your keyword generator gives you only unreadable suggestions but they are easy to rank for, you can always paraphrase them. Simply reorder words and add prepositions or articles to make the phrase grammatically correct. That’s all.
5. Modify your keyword root with endings and suffixes. You can’t use the same phrase throughout a single post. Both readers and Google will get a sniff of forced keyword stuffing quite soon. And there’s a penalty for keyword manipulation from Google’s Panda. Try to play with different word forms in your copy or even change parts of speech. Here are examples:
- how to install a hidden camera
- installing a hidden camera
- hidden camera installation
- hidden camera installed the right way
6. Write in plain language without intricate phrases. They only sound weird and affect the content readability. For uncommon queries, Google returns results written in simple language anyway. You saw this trend in the experiment with WordPress templates and WordPress themes. In other words, write for people, not for keyword-oriented systems.
It is a quite laborious chore, even for established writers to come up with unique content. They spend most of their time in research to find new and unique ideas for the creation of content. If you are also one of them and tired of unintentional plagiarism, you can use https://www.plagiarismsoftware.net software for this purpose. It will let you know about the duplicated sentences and phrases in your article, thesis, or any other related material.
These were just small experiments and conclusions to draw from them. What happens in Google’s brain is a mystery protected by its loyal team. But there’s one thing for sure. Today, the engine is already good at understanding the human intent. Can you imagine how smart it will be in a decade with the rapid progress in artificial intelligence? Feel free to share your suggestions in the comments below, please.
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Social media can do real damage, however, it can also do some real good and remind you that we still have our humanity.
Sometimes, it takes just one person to believe and start a chain of acts of kindness that changes one’s life.
Abena Magis, shared a photo of a letter a 9-year-old has written to ask for help for his family.
In the SOS letter, little Anthony shared that his father, who is a commercial car driver, is having financial problems fixing the commercial vehicle he uses to earn his livelihood. He also noted how his parents are willing to do anything just to get by and provide for him and his four other siblings.
After Abena shared the photo, good samaritans littered all over social media joined forces to help.
They raised the GHS 900 little Anthony’s father needs to fix his engine to get him back on the road.
However, people are not ending there, now his sister, who is in the senior high school and sells water to help with the family’s income is also getting help to achieve her dreams of pursuing medicine after high school.
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The main purpose of this web site is to provide all who have an interest in Astronomy/Science/Art, another way to view our beautiful Universe, as recorded by a professional photographer and amateur astronomer using Film, CCD, DSLR, Homemade,& Commercial Equipment. The sale of my photographs provides funding for day to day operations of my observatories as well as continued support of all my current and future imaging projects.
What is Astrophotography?
“ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY”: The art of photographing or imaging objects in deep space. This is a very unique form of photographic art. It requires an extreme amount of patience, time, and lots of practice to master.
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An International Astrophotography Fine Art Business. In 1989 I began systematically photographing the night sky. After 2 short years I found my artwork to be in high demand, this prompted the creation of “Galactic Images” in 1992. I travel around the country selling my astrophotographs at High Quality Fine Art Shows and numerous galleries, participating in approximately 20 FineArts shows per year aside from my normal day job. (“The University of Dayton’s Research Institute”) (see my current “Artshow Schedule”)
Note: 90% of my photographs are manually guided using my eyeball. My work is considered a true art form, which allows me to participate in Fine Art shows & display my work at numerous galleries around the country. I have a U.S. Stock Agent (Photo Researchers/Science Source – see “Stock Photo Agent”) and my work is sold in 35 foreign countries around the world.
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With my very large first homemade 16″ diameter F4.5 Newtonian Telescope, as well as many other smaller instruments. (see “Yellow Springs Observatory Construction” and “Backyard Observatory Construction”) All my photographs are time exposures ranging from 10 min. to 17 hours for each image. This type of photography requires me to track on a star at high power during the entire exposure time in order to get pinpoint star images. It is extremely demanding, but well worth the resulting images. With 3,500+ images already recorded on film, and over 35,000 with my CCD/Digital archive, I continue to photograph the endless list of events and objects out there. My formats are 35mm, 6×4.5, 6×6, & 4×5 medium format taken on fine grain 25-400 ISO films and developed and printed up to 20″x 24″ in my own darkroom.
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Leszek Michalski was born in 1960 in Warsaw. When Leszek was 15, he started his artistic education as part of workshops in Zachęta [National Art Gallery]. In 1979 he entered the Toy Design department at Academy of Industrial Design in Halle. Since 1998 has mainly devoted himself to sculptures, working in metal.
Leszek uses brass and bronze for his small collections. He chooses atypical places as backgrounds for his work: clubs, basements, industrial spaces and open air events, which allow him to create a particular relationship between reality, sculpture and spectator. In 2002 was awarded with “The Creator of Polish Culture” diploma.
His works can be considered a practice in caricature, and depict figures that represent both mythic and secular themes. Similar to the bronze work of Alberto Giacometti, Michalski’s figures feature elongated limbs and disproportionate features.
Leszek Michalski was born in Warsaw in 1960. At the age of 15, he began his artistic education in the Zachęta studio [national art gallery]. In 1979, he entered the Faculty of Game Design at the Academy of Industrial Design in Halle, Germany. In 1998, he turned to sculpture, working with metal.
He opts for brass and bronze which serve as the basic material for his small collections. He chooses atypical places to show his work: clubs, basements, industrial spaces, in the open air where he creates a special relationship between reality, sculpture and the viewer. In 2002 he was awarded the diploma of “creator of Polish culture”.
1975 Society of Friends, Zacheta
1979 College of Industrial Design, Toy Design, Halle Germany
2014 Libramont Librart
2014 AAF Bruksela
2014 AAF, Brussels, Belgium
2013 Catez, Slovenia
2013 AAF Bruksela
2013 Catez Slowenia
2012 Celadna – Czechy
2012 Ostrava – BVL
2012 AAF Bruksela
2011 Bruksela– BAAF
2011 BAAF, Brussels, Belgium
2010 BAAF Bruksela
2009 Artistic Crucible II, Modlin Fortress, Warsaw, Poland
2009 BAAF Bruksela
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This workshop will review existing methods that ICES uses for the provision of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) advice. It will also develop and document an operational evidence-based procedure for the production of recurrent ICES advice on VMEs.
Certain habitats and species of deep-sea bottom-living organisms are defined as VMEs, including seamounts, hydrothermal vents, cold-water coral reefs, and aggregations of deep-sea sponges. VMEs can be extremely long-lived and are particularly vulnerable to bottom-fishing activity as they are easily disturbed and slow to recover. VMEs are thus protected from bottom fishing under several international treaties that stem from United Nations General Assembly Resolution 61/105 (UNGA, 2006).
In this context, and following the FAO Guidelines for the Management of Deep-Sea Fisheries in the High Seas, ICES provides recurring annual advice on the occurrence and protection of VMEs to North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) and the European Union. In 2022, ICES will be required to review the appropriateness of all NEAFC VME closures and will start to provide recurring advice to the EC under EU Regulation 2016/2336 on the protection of VMEs below depths of 400m.
Upon completion of the benchmark process, the intention is to have a documented evidence-based procedure that will have been “accredited" and will be used by ICES for the future provision of advice on the occurrence of VMEs and fishing activity in the vicinity of VMEs as well as advising management options, including closures.
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Note: If the workshop is oversubscribed, ICES reserves the right, in consultation with the workshop chairs, to select the final workshop participants based on their expertise and geographical distribution.
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The United States is barreling towards a historic presidential election in November. Once again, the nation is looking to the youngest voters to cast their ballots.
“Young voters have the potential to make a significant impact, especially in swing states,” FGCU Political Science Professor, Dr. Sandra Pavelka said.
The youth vote could be a deciding factor in the 2020 election, but in a country that has one of the lowest rates of youth voter turnout in the world, according to Cambridge University Press, many young Americans are making the decision not to vote.
“I believe that to fix the broken system that we are in, we need to do more than voting,” Joe Campione, a sophomore at Florida SouthWestern State College, said. “I don’t know what that is, but voting is not going to do anything.”
This sentiment is not an uncommon one, but Pavelka said that while many young people will choose not to vote for personal reasons, it is important to continue to encourage those non-voters to turn out for this election.
“The youth vote absolutely matters,” Pavelka said. “Young voters will have an impact on the issues that they are passionate about.”
Pavelka also said, before turning up to the polls, people should educate themselves on the candidates.
Sierra Sawtelle, a junior at FGCU, has been registered to vote since she turned 18. She is doing research and familiarizing herself with the different candidates.
Sawtelle thinks it is irresponsible for people her age to choose not to vote.
“I think oftentimes young people choose not to vote because they think it doesn’t really affect them,” said Sawtelle. “Democracies only work when citizens voice their discomforts and approvals of what the people in power are doing.”
However, Campione has a different viewpoint. He is not registered to vote and never plans to be.
“I try to stay away from politics as much as possible. I would want to be part of the system if it was a good system, but our system is set up for failure,” said Campione.
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Essex Golf and Country Club was first established in 1902 as Oak Ridge Golf Club and members played over nine holes. In 1912, they moved to another site, expanding the new 9-hole course to 18 holes within three years. Finally, Essex purchased 125 acres for $106,000 in the mid-1920s on the Canadian side of the Detroit River, in a suburb of Windsor, Ontario and commissioned Donald Ross to design their new course.
Ross is credited with the design of nearly 400 courses in North America, and 16 in the nearby Detroit area between 1910 and 1929. He may have routed the course and, more importantly, decided on its putting surface layout, but he only ever set foot on the property once, according to newspaper reports of the time – so modern day, big name, “ghost” designers are nothing new!
The man who actually built the course was the longtime greenkeeper, John Gray and it is men like him who are often overlooked when credit is given for course construction. Over the fifteen months of building the course, Gray supervised more than 100 men and 80 teams of horses so his contribution to the establishment of the present day Essex course cannot be underestimated.
The greens at Essex are prominent, not just because of Ross’s influence, but also because they dominate a very flat, largely featureless property, though Essex is easily the best example of Ross’s golfing architecture in Canada. Fairway bunker schemes may have been altered over the years but the original Ross routing remains and only one green, at the par four 6th, has been changed since the course opened for play in 1929.
The design is elegantly simple, featuring clever routing over a plain landscape and eighteen highly individual green complexes. Essex’s best attribute is variety with a number of drainage swales around the course offering some relief to the landscape. Mature oaks and elms add significantly to the ambience of the course.
Jerry Pate won the Canadian Open when Essex hosted it in 1976. Essex Golf & Country Club was also the venue for the LPGA DuMaurier Tournament in 1998 and the Canadian Seniors Open in 2002.
Beauty of Donald Ross in the flat lands of southern Ontario. Fantastic greens and bunker make this course a challenge. A must play if you can and enjoy the walk in the park like setting.
The history at Essex dates back to 1902, when a number of members of Walkerville Country Club, upset with the poor playing conditions, decided to establish a new club. The Oak Ridge Golf Club was originally a 3400 yard course built on a nearby farm, one that would expand by 44 acres later that decade, allowing them to erect a suitable clubhouse.
However, the membership soon started to outgrow the site and in 1909, the club would exercise an option to purchase a new piece of land at nearby Prince Farm. Oak Ridge members would be forced to play at Walkerville for two years while their new course was being built and during that time, the club would officially be incorporated as Essex Golf & Country Club.
The new nine hole course would open for play in 1912, with the club expanding to 18 holes by 1915. However, the membership still felt the course lacked in too many areas, with criticism directed toward the lack of length, the flat green sites and not enough sand traps.
By 1928, the club had purchased over 125 acres of land on Matchette Road and were fortunate to retain the services of famed architect Donald Ross to design a championship golf course on their new site. Ross, who had designed esteemed courses like Oakland Hills, Franklin Hills, Roseland Park and Detroit Golf Club within the Detroit/Windsor area, provided the routing for Essex but is rumoured to have only visited the site one time. The construction of the course was left in the very capable hands of John Gray, the longtime greenkeeper at the club.
Construction began in the spring of 1928 and the brand new, 6683 yard course would officially open for play in July 1929. Accolades soon followed and Essex has long been considered one of the finest representations of the genius of Donald Ross here in Canada.
The land on which Essex G&CC sits is anything but remarkable, with little in the way of elevation change throughout the round. However, Ross routed the course brilliantly, utilizing drainage swales to add some visual flair and adding movement through clever use of doglegs and strategic bunker placement. With the flat terrain and modest green-to-tee transfers, Essex may be one of the easiest walking courses in the country, another major plus.
The one defining feature of the course to me, other than the majestic trees on the property, are the well-contoured greens, which are uniformly much larger than average and feature false fronts and dramatic fall-offs throughout.
At less than 6700 yards from the back tees, this isn’t a course that’s going to wear you out tee-to-green but going low will be very dependent on how you navigate these large and very tricky putting surfaces.
The club has hosted a number of big tournaments over the years, including provincial amateur and professional events but gained a lot of notoriety when they hosted the Canadian Open in 1976, which was won by PGA Tour rookie Jerry Pate and featured a star-studded field that included Jack Nicklaus. In 1998, the club would host the du Maurier Classic, then a major on the LPGA Tour (won by Brandie Burton) and in 2002, the AT&T Canada Senior Open visited Essex and was won by Tom Jenkins.
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STORY: On the penultimate day of his week-long apology tour of Canada, Francis presided at a Mass at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre in the town of the same name about 20 miles (30 km) outside Quebec City.
At the start of the Mass, some participants unfurled a banner asking him to formally rescind 15th century edicts, known as the doctrine of discovery, in which the papacy justified the taking of indigenous land in the New World. The large banner was unfurled near the front row facing the congregation. They later took it down, and it was not clear if the pope saw what was written on it.
In his homily, the pope spoke of "the burning questions that this pilgrim Church in Canada is asking, with heartfelt sorrow, on its difficult and demanding journey of healing and reconciliation."
He continued: "Allow me to accompany you as a Church in pondering these questions that arise from hearts filled with pain: Why did all this happen? How could this happen in the community of those who follow Jesus?"
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Board Games – Separating Weight & Complexity Ratings
I was on Reddit Boardgames reading a thread about What weight is D&D 5.0? using BGG system, and since I hate the BGG weight system and had nothing better to do, I thought I would rant a bit. I hate this BGG rating more than almost any metric I know and I am an analytics guy so I know a lot of metrics. So here is one half cocked analytics guy’s take on weight and complexity when it comes to board gaming.
First you need to define weight, which BGG does a piss poor job at. I think weight and complexity need clear, separate definitions for either weight or complexity to be properly gauged.
BGG says weight is how long to understand a game but then uses the word complexity right under it. I think this is what trips up almost all discussions about BGG weight ratings. BGG is equating weight and complexity while most gamers, and normal people, define them differently.
Weight – most people will equate this with mass, therefore how difficult or how long to learn the game. How heavy is it. This may equate directly to the size of the rulebook in some cases. A game with a 200 pg rulebook is probably weightier than one with a 16pg rulebook.
So using this definition of weight, D&D 1.0 edition may be close to a 5 for a DM, but maybe only a 3 or 4 for a player(I only remember old D&D 1.0 and just the three main manuals where about 500-600 pages, but a player should only read the PH which was 140pgs or so).
Complexity – most people will define this as a difficult or complicated task or situation requiring mental acumen. The rub is some people equate this with weight, how complex is the game to learn. But that is what weight is measuring, so complexity should be used for a different metric. IMO, that metric should be how much thought is required DURING play to play well. That allows weight and complexity to remain distinct definitions when it applies to board gaming.
Using the D&D example, complexity might be 3 to 4 range. While there may be millions of permutation in each campaign, there is normally a limited amount to consider in any one encounter. There are a limited number of actions to consider(attack, negotiate, run, etc), however there are numerous ways to enact the decision(what forms of attack, tone of negotiation, type of retreat, etc). Thus it is probably in that 3-4 range.
Final definitions: Weight = Difficulty to learn or grasp all the aspects of the game. Complexity = The amount of decision making, calculating, or permutations needed to be considered during play.
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Iran is among the largest oil-producing nations in the world. The oil industry has therefore been the country’s main economic driver. However, Iran’s nuclear program has caused jitters in America and other western nations because Washington believes that Iran develops its nuclear program for military purposes (Ebel 2). Therefore, there is a common belief among some western nations that Iran’s nuclear program threatens global peace and stability. However, Iran has maintained that its nuclear program is mainly for civilian purposes. For example, Iran has maintained that its nuclear program aims to boost its energy supply (Global Policy Forum 3).
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In 2003, Iranian officials invited the United Nations (UN) nuclear monitoring agency to evaluate its nuclear program (Global Policy Forum 3). Tehran (Iran’s capital) also invited the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to confirm that the country was using its nuclear plants for peaceful purposes. The IAEA later gave Iran a clean “bill of health” after the oil-producing nation signed a peace agreement with some western nations to stop its uranium enrichment programs. However, this move was unflattering to the US. Consequently, America later referred the issue to the US Security Council (Global Policy Forum 3).
Through the influence of the US, the UN Security Council imposed restrictions on the trade of nuclear materials that Iran could use to enrich its nuclear program. The UN Security Council imposed the sanctions after it was satisfied that Iran did not stop its uranium enriching projects. Concerns regarding Iran’s uranium enrichment program escalated in 2009 when the US and some of its allies revealed that Iran was constructing a nuclear power plant in Qom Mountains (Global Policy Forum 5). The continued enrichment of Iran’s nuclear program and the refusal by Tehran to abide by international resolutions to stop its nuclear program later forced many nations to support further sanctions against Iran.
From the above developments, America and the European Union (EU) have prevented many international companies from doing business with Iran. The underlying messages of these sanctions outline a choice that multinational companies have to make regarding if to do business with Iran or with the US and its allies. These economic restrictions have mainly affected international oil companies that do business with Iran (Ebel 2). Some of the main oil companies that had a regional presence in Iran included Shell, Statoil, ENI, and Total. This paper takes a keen interest in understanding the reactions of Total Oil Company to the economic restrictions on Iran.
Contextual Understanding of Total Oil Company’s Business with Iran
The Total Oil Company has had a longstanding business relationship with Iran, since 1990. The business relationship has its roots in Iran’s lucrative oil industry. Despite being the fourth largest crude oil producer, Iran does not have a refinery capacity. The French oil giant, therefore, buys crude oil from Iran and sells refined oil products to Iran. The Total Oil Company has also engaged other multinational oil firms in gas exploration activities in Iran. For example, in 1997, the French oil giant signed a $2 billion agreement with other oil companies to explore natural gas in Iran (at the South Pars Natural Gas Field) (JFED 1).
In addition, Total has also invested heavily in other oil exploration activities, such as its $1 billion investment with the ENI Oil Company (to explore Iran’s Daroud Oil field), where it controls about 55% of the business (JFED 1). Total Company has also invested more money in the development of other Iranian gas and oil fields, such as the development of the offshore Balal Gas Field. Before the introduction of the economic restrictions against Iran, Total intended to invest more than $20 million every year in Iran’s oil industry (JFED 1). However, the introduction of economic restrictions changed the dynamics of the relationship between the two partners.
Total’s Response to Economic Restrictions
The response of Total Oil Company to the ongoing economic restrictions against Iran has not differed greatly from the response of other international oil firms in the region. Most international oil firms withdrew or withheld their business dealings with Iran to support the economic restrictions against Tehran. Albeit delayed, Total’s response was no different. Indeed, Faure (1) says the French oil giant stopped its planned investments in Iran once Washington started imposing economic restrictions on Iran.
Total’s reaction to the sanction was however slow because it only bowed to immense pressure from Washington to stop its business relations with Tehran. Other oil companies had already stopped their business relationships with Tehran. The European Union’s resolve to support economic restrictions against Tehran fueled the decision by Total Company to withdraw from Iran. Therefore, major oil companies in Europe also had to follow the steps of their American partners in enforcing the embargoes (supported by the UN) (Global Policy Forum 1).
Through the withdrawal, Total Oil Company had to stop several planned business projects in Iran, including a huge gas investment project in the South Pars gas field.
Faure (1) however says that even though Total withdrew from Iran, its business interest in the Middle East nation has not ended yet. Certainly, Total views its business relationship with Iran to have strategic importance in the future of the company. According to the company’s spokesperson, the French oil giant only decided to withdraw from Tehran because there were too many political risks of doing business with Iran. Moreover, the company was averting the growing perception that it would “do anything for money” (Jolly 5).
Amiel (2) says that Total had to substitute its crude oil supply shortfall by buying Saudi Arabia’s oil. However, this decision was widely condemned by Iran, which cautioned its oil-producing neighbors that they should not exploit the market gap created by its withdrawal from the oil market (Amiel 2). Comprehensively, the stalemate between Iran and the US prevents most oil companies from doing business with Iran.
Impact of the Economic Restrictions on the Global Oil Industry
The global oil supply shortfall created by the withdrawal of foreign firms from the Iranian oil industry caused an artificial surge in oil prices. Experts feared that the geopolitical uncertainty in the Gulf region would maintain oil prices at an all-time high, thereby affecting most world economies (including America) (Ebel 34). However, the possibility that Iran could be enriching its uranium deposit erodes such concerns. Moreover, a different school of thought says that oil prices would rise higher if the world allows Iran to continue its uranium enrichment projects (Ebel 34). Furthermore, there are even stronger fears that global oil prices would double if Iran developed a deadly nuclear weapon.
After weighing the findings of this paper, it is safe to say that the economic restrictions imposed by the US and some of its allies have forced many international oil companies to re-evaluate their business relationships with Iran. Indeed, these economic restrictions have forced Total to stall its business interactions with Iran, despite having massive investments in the country. As the geopolitical uncertainties surrounding the relationship between Iran and its neighbors persist, there is still going to be a lot of fear and hesitation by western oil companies, like Total, to pursue further business engagements with Tehran. This uncertainty will also continue to have a negative impact on the global oil industry.
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Overview of Canine Endocarditis
Endocarditis is a serious infection involving the valves of the heart that can occur in dogs. It is usually a bacterial infection, although on rare occasions fungal infections can occur.
This condition is uncommon in dogs, and very rare in cats, and the incidence of disease increases as dogs get older. Male dogs are at slightly greater risk than females, and any breed may be affected. Previous procedures that could introduce bacteria into the blood stream, such as dentistry or intravenous catheterization, or that suppress the immune system, such as administration of glucocorticoids, may predispose dogs to the development of bacterial endocarditis. Pre-existing heart disease also increases the risk of developing endocarditis.
Because it is so uncommon, it is often overlooked and misdiagnosed with dire consequences, as the disease is often fatal.
What to Watch For
Diagnosis of Endocarditis in Dogs
Treatment of Endocarditis in Dogs
Treatment of endocarditis may include the following;
Home Care and Prevention
Administer all antibiotics as prescribed. If congestive heart failure has developed, administer all cardiac medications and/or prescription diets as recommended by your veterinarian.
Antibiotics are recommended if a dog with a previously diagnosed heart condition is going to undergo a procedure that might introduce bacteria into the bloodstream. This is a controversial preventative measure, however.
In-depth Information on Endocarditis in Dogs
Endocarditis is an often fatal disease caused by an infection of the heart valves. The infection is usually caused by bacteria, although fungal endocarditis can occur as well on rare occasions. Endocarditis occurs infrequently in dogs, and is very rare in cats and is a difficult disease to diagnose. Dogs are more likely to get be affected by endocarditis as they get older, and male dogs are slightly more susceptible than female dogs. Pre-existing heart disease increases the risk of dogs developing bacterial endocarditis.
Endocarditis most commonly affects two of the four major valves in the heart: the mitral valve and the aortic valve. Endocarditis causes little growths called “vegetations,” which affect the ability of the valves to function properly.
In order for the valves to become infected, there has to be a period of time when bacteremia, which is the presence of bacteria in the bloodstream, is occurring. In most cases, the cause of the bacteremia that leads to the endocarditis is never identified. Known causes of bacteremia include surgical procedures involving the oral, gastrointestinal, and urinary tract; dentistry procedures; intravenous catheterization; implantation of pacemakers; administration of drugs that suppress the immune system; and previous heart valve infections. Once introduced into the bloodstream, the bacteria, somehow manage to overcome the dog’s immune defenses, and an infection on the valve in established. Vegetations grow at the site of infection and cause the valve to malfunction. This usually leads to heart failure.
Making a certain diagnosis of endocarditis can be very difficult. Usually there is a vague history of lethargy and poor appetite. Eventually, most dogs develop heart failure and demonstrate the common signs of coughing, shortness of breath, weakness, or collapse. Many clinicians refer to the disease as “the great imitator” because of the variety of clinical signs in patients with the disorder.
Bacterial endocarditis often leads to a condition called septic embolization, in which microscopic pieces of the vegetations (emboli) from the infected valves break off and enter the bloodstream. These emboli travel through the bloodstream and affect other organs in the body. The most commonly affected organs are the kidney and spleen, although the brain, intestine, and the heart may also be affected.
The immune system’s response to embolization sometimes does more damage than good, often leading to arthritis and glomerulonephritis, a type of kidney inflammation. Embolization of the kidneys or the heart is a very serious consequence of endocarditis and can trigger a series of complications that may lead to a fatal outcome.
Sometimes, bacteremia can progress to a more serious condition called sepsis in which overwhelming infection in the bloodstream affects the blood flow to the vital organs. Sepsis often progresses further, and the patient succumbs to septic shock, in which blood pressure drops and many organs begin to fail. If this happens, the outcome is almost invariably fatal.
The goals of therapy for bacterial endocarditis are to sterilize the vegetations on the valves, to treat any heart failure or other heart abnormalities such as abnormal rhythms, and to manage any abnormalities that might be affecting other organ systems as a result of the heart valve infection.
Follow-up Care for Dogs with Endocarditis
Optimal treatment for your dog requires a combination of home and professional veterinary care. Follow-up can be critical, especially if your dog does not rapidly improve.
Administer all prescribed medication as directed. Alert your veterinarian if you are experiencing problems treating your dog.
Feed any prescription diets for the management of heart failure (low sodium diets) or kidney failure (low protein diets), as recommended.
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This event is organized by IDEA. Below is a note about the webinar:
The webinar will discuss the situation of women in political participation in Africa. The webinar is set to present the preliminary findings of the Situation Analysis Report produced by the International IDEA. The webinar occurs precedes the global commemoration of International Women’s Day on the 8th of March 2022. The webinar will provide a platform to discuss the status of women in politics in various regions of Africa and what it means to be a woman in politics in Africa. In particular, the webinar will highlight some key success stories on women in political participation and how these can be used to cover the glaring gaps that exist. This webinar links to the International IDEA’s Political Participation and Representation pillar.
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BBQ Rubs and Their Importance
BBQ rub is a term chefs use to refer to various flavoring ingredients and seasoning products. The chefs combine these elements to form a unique paste, which they then apply to the meat’s outer sections before cooking.
They are available in different types, which include either wet or dry. Similar to brines, these types of rubs consist of two ingredients, which have either sweet and salty tastes. These are the key to the success of these BBQ rubs.
We have noticed that many people find it difficult to distinguish when to use these rubs when preparing meat. The rubs are only suitable for barbequing and not grilling. Why? Its BBQ involves slow cooking and low temperatures, while grilling demands more of the opposite.
Dry Rubs Suggestions and Tips
An excellent way to spend leisure time is to move your culinary class outdoors during the summer months. We have various dry rub suggestions and tips that you should consider for your BBQs. If you have been looking for the ideal way to improve your BBQ routine, we recommend that you seek another alternative to sauces.
The key to our success when using dry rubs is to use fresh ingredients each time. We never use seasoning or spices that have surpassed their shelf life. Even something mundane as chili flakes can have a compromised taste when left on your shelf for a few months.
Remember to keep your dry rubs in an airtight container for a few months. Using this approach helps improve the longevity of your drub.
Brisket Rub Ingredients
We know that using the right brisket rub can significantly impact the taste of your BBQ. Based on our research, using a brisket that has a smoky and spicy undertone is the best. It involves using large amounts of spices such as garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, and paprika.
Remember that the basis of a good brisket rub would be to ensure it includes a “sweet and salty” taste. An excellent way to complement the rub's taste would be to use some brown or maple sugar. Maple sugar is much better because it does not include highly processed sugars or molasses.
The good thing with a brisket rub is that you can infuse it with different ingredients and flavors. Using these types of rubs also reduces the need for dairy products such as curd, common in meat preparation.
Rib Dry Rub and Using it The Right Way
We all know ribs for being juicy and having a unique taste, unlike other parts of meat you can find. Using a rib dry rub to prepare BBQ can is simple when you have the right resources. We recommend a unique set of steps and ingredients selected over the years in the cooking industry.
There are a few components of high-quality rib rubs. Usually, the first component to consider would be to start with sugar as a base. Based on our experience, cooking pork comes out best when cooking pork. From there, you will come across various recipes that include pepper, salt, and various custom ingredients.
You can even incorporate the meat with some smoked paprika to improve the flavor of the wood. The technique helps provide a custom taste and color to the meat. Using garlic and onion powder helps enhance the flavor of the mixture.
Best BBQ Seasoning We Use
Being able to prepare the meat and your meals the right way is essential. One of the keys to our success in producing quality meat is using the best BBQ seasoning techniques. Unlike most meat types, such as the roasted or grilled types, using the right seasoning will help improve the taste of your meat. The methods we recommend you use to prepare your meat include:
Let them marinate for a few hours – apply the sauce all and inside the meat. Then, let it sit for a few minutes.
Use some curd – we know some of you don’t like using dairy products, but curd is perfect for complementing the flavor of food
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So concluded Bloomberg reporter Frank Bass after crunching Census data on the gender wage gap in various professions. His findings: Out of 265 major occupations, service work such as shoe shining and personal care was the only one in which women earned, on average, more than men ($1.02 to every $1). And the high-paying jobs of Wall Street had the biggest gap:
The six jobs with the largest gender gap in pay and at least 10,000 men and 10,000 women were in the Wall Street-heavy financial sector: insurance agents, managers, clerks, securities sales agents, personal advisers and other specialists.
As Louise Marie Roth, author of Selling Women Short: Gender and Money on Wall Street noted to Bloomberg, that salary discrepancy arises from secrecy surrounding bonuses and the fact that men are more likely to be in risky and rewarding positions like traders–both of which undercut the idea that Wall Street is a “meritocracy.”
To one group of women’s rights activists, the Wall Street gender gap won’t come as a surprise. They haven’t been setting up shoeshine stands near the big banks, but they have set up tents, participated in marches and even dressed up as squids (to mock Goldman Sachs’ business practices).
They are the feminists of Occupy Wall Street, a movement now resurging after a winter lull. For Ms. magazine’s latest issue, I spent several weeks trailing Occupy activists and covering feminism in the movement. I found that the white-male demographics of the 1 percent, as typified by Wall Street, were not lost on the legions of protesters who identified with feminist and womanist goals.
“If you’re going to occupy Wall Street, [you must] address the underlying patriarchy that it represents. Obviously that is a system that depends a large part on the exploitation, subjugation and control of women,” Lucinda Marshall of Occupy Patriarchy told me this winter. “That’s really why it’s so crucial for feminists to prioritize addressing this, and why feminism itself is important to the Occupy movement.”
The chance to draw the connections between Wall Street and other social justice issues like gender oppression is one that feminist Occupiers want to seize. “In the progressive movement we talk about things in silos, as though economic justice and gender justice aren’t connected. But there are all these reasons why they really are,” says Aliya Rahman of Occupy Cincinnati.
As the nationwide Occupy movement gears up for an “American Spring” to match the 2011 Arab Spring, feminist Occupiers remain active, building their own communities of resistance. Women of color lead Occupy’s anti-foreclosure movement, and Occupiers have vocally protested the “War on Women” online and in the streets.
So as the weather warms up, watch for feminist Occupiers to make the connections between patriarchy, income inequality and political disenfranchisement. In New York and other cities, activists are planning to hold more feminist-specific general assemblies (GAs) using the direct democratic format of Occupy meetings to bring occupiers as well as feminist advocates together in an organic, nonhierarchical community. Sounds like a more lasting path to equality than a shoe-shine stand. | <urn:uuid:6cc876db-4da0-40bd-97f1-301182e788c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msmagazine.com/2012/03/21/wall-street-wage-gaps-give-women-yet-another-reason-to-occupy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953179 | 681 | 2.0625 | 2 |
What is PL/SQL Trigger?
Oracle engine invokes automatically whenever a specified event occurs.
Trigger is stored into database and invoked repeatedly, when specific condition match.
You can change trigger mode activate/deactivate but you can't explicitly run.
Trigger automatically associated with DML statement, when DML statement execute trigger implicitly execute.
You can create trigger using the CREATE TRIGGER statement. If trigger activated, implicitly fire DML statement and if trigger deactivated can't fire.
Component of Trigger
Triggering SQL statement: SQL DML (INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE) statement that execute and implicitly called trigger to execute.
Trigger Action: When the triggering SQL statement is execute, trigger automatically call and PL/SQL trigger block execute.
Trigger Restriction: We can specify the condition inside trigger to when trigger is fire.
- BEFORE Trigger: BEFORE trigger execute before the triggering DML statement (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) execute. Triggering SQL statement is may or may not execute, depending on the BEFORE trigger conditions block.
- AFTER Trigger: AFTER trigger execute after the triggering DML statement (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) executed. Triggering SQL statement is execute as soon as followed by the code of trigger before performing Database operation.
- ROW Trigger: ROW trigger fire for each and every record which are performing INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE from the database table. If row deleting is define as trigger event, when trigger file, deletes the five rows each times from the table.
- Statement Trigger: Statement trigger fire only once for each statement. If row deleting is define as trigger event, when trigger file, deletes the five rows at once from the table.
- Combination Trigger: Combination trigger are combination of two trigger type,
- Before Statement Trigger: Trigger fire only once for each statement before the triggering DML statement.
- Before Row Trigger : Trigger fire for each and every record before the triggering DML statement.
- After Statement Trigger: Trigger fire only once for each statement after the triggering DML statement executing.
- After Row Trigger: Trigger fire for each and every record after the triggering DML statement executing.
PL/SQL trigger define using CREATE TRIGGER statement.
CREATE [OR REPLACE] TRIGGER trigger_name BEFORE | AFTER [INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE [COLUMN NAME..] ON table_name Referencing [ OLD AS OLD | NEW AS NEW ] FOR EACH ROW | FOR EACH STATEMENT [ WHEN Condition ] DECLARE [declaration_section variable declarations; constant declarations; ] BEGIN [executable_section PL/SQL execute/subprogram body ] EXCEPTION [exception_section PL/SQL Exception block ] END;
- CREATE [OR REPLACE] TRIGGER trigger_name: Create a trigger with the given name. If already have overwrite the existing trigger with defined same name.
- BEFORE | AFTER : Indicates when the trigger get fire. BEFORE trigger execute before when statement execute before. AFTER trigger execute after the statement execute.
- [INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE [COLUMN NAME..]: Determines the performing trigger event. You can define more then one triggering event separated by OR keyword.
- ON table_name: Define the table name to performing trigger event.
- Referencing [ OLD AS OLD | NEW AS NEW ]: Give referencing to a old and new values of the data.
:old means use existing row to perform event and :new means use executing new row to perform event. You can set referencing names user define name from old (or new).
You can't referencing old values when inserting a record, or new values when deleting a record, because It's does not exist.
- FOR EACH ROW | FOR EACH STATEMENT: Trigger must fire when each row gets Affected (ROW Trigger). and fire only once when the entire sql statement is execute (STATEMENT Trigger).
- WHEN Condition: Optional. Use only for row level trigger. Trigger fire when specified condition is satisfy.
You can make your own trigger using trigger syntax referencing. Here are fewer trigger example.
This trigger execute BEFORE to convert ename field lowercase to uppercase.
CREATE or REPLACE TRIGGER trg1 BEFORE INSERT ON emp1 FOR EACH ROW BEGIN :new.ename := upper(:new.ename); END; /
Restriction to Deleting Trigger
This trigger is preventing to deleting row.
Delete Trigger Example
CREATE or REPLACE TRIGGER trg1 AFTER DELETE ON emp1 FOR EACH ROW BEGIN IF :old.eno = 1 THEN raise_application_error(-20015, 'You can't delete this row'); END IF; END; /
Delete Trigger Result
Error Code: 20015
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The external environment depicted in the outer circle is made up of six specific influences and one catch all grouping for all other factors. The six specific influences are culture, subculture, social class, social group, family and personal influences.
The concept of culture has been characterized as that complex whole that includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society. As such, it provides a basis for people in our society place on time and punctuality forms the basis for positive consumer reactions to such market offerings as fast food franchisers express checkout lanes at supermarkets, and quartz watches.
The emphasis is on segments of a given culture that have values, customs, traditions, and other ways of behaving that are unique and that distinguish them from others sharing the same cultural heritage. These aspects of uniqueness can have significant implications for the understanding of consumers and the development of successful marketing strategies. Subcultures distinguished on the basis of age and ethnic dimensions receive particular attention.
The term social stratification refers to the process by which people in a society rank one another into different social positions. The result is a hierarchy often referred to as a set of social classes. People within a given social class tend to share beliefs, values, and methods of behaving. They also tend to associate more closely with one another than with people from different social classes. The value, wants and interactions that develop in these distinct groupings tend to have significant influences on consumers. They affect such basic factors as membership in a group, choice of neighborhoods, appreciation of certain styles, and choice of places to shop.
A social group can be viewed as a collection of people who have a sense of relatedness resulting from some form of interaction with one another. These groups can have many functions. One that is particularly important from a consumer behavior perspective is the influence that group members can have on the individual. That is, the group can serve to persuade and guide the individual’s values and behavior. The coming interest that college students show in the latest fashions and in music serves as an illustration. Another interesting aspect of social groups is their role in providing consumers with various forms of information that an influence subsequent behavior.
The family is a special form of social group that is distinguished at least in part, by numerous and strong face to face interactions among its members. The influence of different family members on purchase decisions is one area of interest in the field of consumer behavior. In some cases, decisions are made by one individual with little influence from other family members. In other cases, the interaction is so strong it is said to actually yield a joint decision rather than just an influence of one member on another. Of course, the nature and degree of influence in these decision making patterns are quite important to marketers attempting to inform and persuade consumers regarding their offerings. Another aspect of family influence on consumer behavior is the way in which the stage of a family’s life cycle (newly married, childhood years, and so on) influences the need for products and services. In a similar vein, the changing patterns of family and household structures, including families with working wives and those made up solely of singles, have significant implications for consumer behavior.
The process of personal influence, which can be described as the effects on an individual resulting from communications with others, has long been of interest to marketers. Interest in this subject is strong because personal influence has an important effect on the amount and type of information that consumers obtain about products. It is also considered to be significant force acting on a consumer’s values, attitudes, brand evaluations and interest in a product. In fact, personal influence is an important function of opinion leaders. These opinion leaders are people that others look to for advice, opinions and suggestions regarding purchase decisions. Personal influence also strongly affects the process of diffusion by which new product and service innovations spread in the marketplace.
An example might be the effects of media that are not incorporated into one of the other categories. Many of these influences, including physical surroundings, the interpersonal setting, national events, and the consumer’s available cash, have been summarized by the term “situational variables”. | <urn:uuid:7a31e064-e685-4e62-9aa2-345f07fca92c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.citeman.com/7430-external-variables.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959361 | 855 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Softlock Biometric PKI Token
Multifactor authentication security hardware
Softlock Biometric PKI Token Describtion
Softlock Biometric PKI Token is a Multifactor authentication security hardware. It provides the optimum security through verifing the users identity with their unique fingerprint. It is compatible with both RSA standards and Microsoft standards, which are commonly used by most of the applications to perform their secure operations.
Biometric PKI Token Fearures
Driverless USB Device
Softlock PKI Token is an HID device, which means that it doesn’t require any drivers to work. The Plug and Play nature gives ease of use and installation during deployment within any environment.
Two and Three Factor Authentication
Softlock Smart Token family is delivered in two models. The Softlock Smart Token PRO provide Two Factor Authentication, which are:
Something you know (The Token PIN)
something you have (the Hardware token).
Another available model is Softlock Smart Token BIO, which provide Three Factor Authentication, Something you know, something you have and something you are which is a Fingerprint module. The Softlock Biometric PKI Token requires the Smart Token owner to supply the Token PIN and enroll his fingerprint in order to be able to use the smart token.
Softlock Smart Token is a hardware device with 32-bit processor. The strength of hardware security is that all keys and cryptographic functionalities are executed on board, keeping all data safe from compromising in unsecure software environment. The recommendation of security institutes (Example: FIPS140-2) secure data must be generated, stored and processed in a separate environment outside the computer. This will protect sensitive user data from digital attacks. Softlock Smart Token can generate RSA-1024 keys.
Softlock Smart Token contains secure and encrypted Hardware Storage. This hardware secure storage will keep all users’ keys and certificates secure against any third party attack. Softlock Smart Token can store up to 10 Certificates on board.
International Standards Compliance
Softlock Smart Token is built on international standards, keeping it compliant with different tools and third party software. Softlock Smart Token is shipped with libraries compliant with PKCS#11 and Microsoft CSP. International standards cover: PKCS (1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 2.2 and 12), X5.09 Certificates, CSP and FIPS 140-2-L2. Softlock Smart Token is certified from ITIDA and compliant with the Egyptian Digital Signature Law.
Softlock Smart Token is compatible with Windows NT and Linux Platforms.
Softlock Smart Token libraries can be easily integrated with any application compliant with PKCS#11 or CSP standards. Examples for such applications are Microsoft Outlook™, Thunderbird™, Firefox™ and Internet Explorer™.
Softlock Smart Token can be easily integrated with any certificates issued from international and trusted third party CAs. | <urn:uuid:e637593a-7a42-48fa-9f6f-f6a139b8f9f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://softlock.net/Products/Product-Details/21?Softlock-Biometric-PKI-Token | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.862144 | 603 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Boletus ChrysenteronBoletus chrysenteron
Cap - Yellowish brown, reddish brown, brick red, or olive tinted with reddish chinks.
Flesh - Yellow, red just under the skin, often changing to blue when wounded.
Tubes - Greenish yellow, changing to blue when wounded.
Stem - Red or pale yellow.
Habitat - Woods or mossy banks, common. | <urn:uuid:f2a0ee3b-e661-496c-900c-18bc17dcd797> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://plantguide.org/boletus-chrysenteron.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.699152 | 100 | 2.15625 | 2 |
In the exceptionally cutthroat commercial universe of catering each kitchen needs dependable equipment to get ready food sources in a protected and ideal way. The present commercial kitchens are undeniably really requesting and require quality equipment that can persevere through consistent use. In the event that you are buying commercial kitchen equipment for the absolute first time, you ought to know about the thing you ought to purchase to give you the culinary help and ability you need to cook for your visitors and client base every single day.
- Refrigeration units
The establishment of each commercial kitchen is the refrigeration that is utilized to keep food varieties at the right temperature when planning. Top notch coolers and coolers are fundamental kitchen equipment units that give the presentation and limit that is required for ordinary use. A scope in fridge or cooler gives simple admittance to food sources put away for sometime in the future. Under counter coolers and fridges make it simple to store food varieties on the kitchen line. Refreshment coolers will guarantee that beverages are constantly chilled to the right temperature and prepared to serve.
- Readiness equipment
Arrangement equipment is the second most significant part of buying commercial kitchen equipment. A scope of equipment is expected to get ready sauces, soups or to saute food varieties. A strong cook top is the thing that gourmet specialists use to cook meats and other culinary plans that require flame broiling or scorching. Irons are frequently used to make crepes and different cooking styles from around the world. Present day kitchen equipment can be bought for electric or gas use.
- Commercial fryers
The capacity to sea food sources is fundamental for restaurants, cooking organizations and emergency clinics that serve an assortment of suppers. Famous kitchen and kitchen equipment incorporates commercial fryers. These gadgets are frequently sold in individual, twofold or triple units to address the issues of growing food readiness. Frozen food varieties are effortlessly cooked flawlessly with great fryers. Extra kitchen equipment that is extremely helpful in the readiness of food incorporates blenders, blenders and food warmers. Commercial blenders can acknowledge enormous clumps of flour or fluids to assist the blending interaction which are well known kitchen equipment gadgets.
- Product washing equipment
Product washing equipment assists you with keeping utensils, skillet and different instruments utilized in the kitchen for food creation perfect and disinfected. Great sinks, fixtures and tempered steel washing bowls are sturdy commercial kitchen equipment worked for day by day use.
Going into the cooking industry and opening a commercial kitchen can be entirely beneficial on the off chance that you go about it the correct way. There are numerous providers accessible who will sell equipment of shifting quality and you need to spend however much you can so you can get the restaurant supply san antonio that you can. Your business could in a real sense rely upon this. | <urn:uuid:3b2439a5-0328-470e-a303-28db1b2ef7d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://art-scenique.org/general/an-essential-guide-to-buying-the-right-kitchen-equipment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947261 | 566 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Burn center care reduces acute health care utilization after discharge: a population-based analysis of 1,895 survivors of major burn injury
Mason SA, Nathens AB, Byrne JP, Fowler RA, Karanicolas PJ, Moineddin R, Jeschke MG. Surgery. 2017; 162(4):891-900. Epub 2017 Jul 13.
Backgrounds — Improvements in survival after burns have resulted in more patients being discharged home after severe injury. However, the postdischarge health care needs of burn survivors are not well understood. We aimed to determine the rate and causes of unplanned presentation to acute care facilities in the 5 years after major burn injury.
Methods — Data derived from several population-based administrative databases were used to conduct a retrospective cohort study. All patients aged ≥16 years who survived to discharge after a major burn injury in 2003-2013 were followed for 1-5 years. All emergency department visits and unplanned readmissions were identified and classified by cause. Factors associated with emergency department visits were modeled using negative binomial generalized estimating equations. Factors associated with readmission were modeled using multivariable competing risk regression.
Results — We identified 1,895 patients who survived to discharge; 68% of patients had at least one emergency department visit and 30% had at least one readmission. Five-year mortality was 10%. The most common reason for both emergency department visits and readmissions was traumatic injury. After risk adjustment, patients who received their index care in a burn center experienced significantly less need for subsequent unplanned acute care, fewer emergency department visits (relative risk 0.61, 95% confidence interval, 0.52-0.72), and fewer hospital readmissions (hazard ratio 0.77, 95% confidence interval, 0.65-0.92).
Conclusion — Acute health care utilization is frequent after burn injury and is most commonly related to traumatic injuries. Burn-related events are uncommon beyond 30 days after discharge, suggesting low rates of burn recidivism. Patients treated at burn centers have significantly reduced unplanned health care utilization after their injury. | <urn:uuid:14097ba3-5500-4d9b-89fc-a08220ea205b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ices.on.ca/Publications/Journal-Articles/2017/July/Burn-center-care-reduces-acute-health-care-utilization-after-discharge | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963591 | 426 | 1.898438 | 2 |
It is estimated that nearly 80 million dogs and 85 million cats are owned in the United States. Most pet owners think of their animals as members of the family, and many believe that their pets take care of them just as much as they look after their pets. Pet owners tend to have lower blood pressure and less risk of heart disease than those without pets. They also tend to be more physically active and have fewer allergies. There are so many reasons for us to be thankful for our pets! In honor of today, National Love Your Pet Day, we wanted to highlight one of the most important reasons we should be thankful for our furry friends, the great benefits they have on our mental health. Here are four ways pets can help to improve our mental health.
Anxiety sucks. You start worrying, and then you start worrying about the worrying. All that worrying can quickly turn into stress, discomfort, poor sleep, and other issues. Pets are great at reducing anxiety. You can tell them your problems without fear of judgment. They love unconditionally, and they keep you company when you would otherwise be alone with your thoughts. Petting your animal can be therapeutic and calming, and it can help you take your mind off the bad stuff. One study showed that even a 12-minute visit with a therapy dog was enough to reduce anxiety levels in hospital patients with heart failure.1
Pets are great companions for fending off depression. They offer unconditional love and accept us no matter what else is going on in our lives. They keep us company and instill us with a sense of purpose when we may not feel one otherwise. Pets have been shown to have positive effects on individuals with depression in both the short and long term. Just four weeks with animal-assisted therapy led to a significant increase in positive interactions between psychiatric inpatients compared to those without the therapy in one study.2 On the longer end of the spectrum, another study noted a decrease in depression over the course of two years in elderly residents of a nursing home with a resident dog and in those with dog visiting weekly.
Social isolation is a big problem for many Americans these days, but animals can be amazing social facilitators for making introductions, building friendships, and forming social network support systems. The social connections formed through your pets can help to combat loneliness and promote a sense of belonging. A recent study showed that pet owners were significantly more likely to get to know people in their neighborhood than non-pet owners.3 It also found that around 40% of participating pet owners reported having one or more types of social support from people they met through their pet.
Stress affects us all, and it tends to affect us in more significant ways than we realize. Pets are wonderful at reducing stress. The stress responses of individuals interacting with their own dogs or unfamiliar therapy dogs was measured in a recent study.4 The results showed a reduction in self-reported stress levels and blood pressure for both the owners and those interacting with therapy dogs. Other studies have shown that simply being around our pets reduces our negative reactions to stressful situations. Pet owners are likely to get more exercise and feel less lonely than non-pet owners, both of which contribute to lowering stress levels. Pets also help with stress by fulfilling our need for touch. That’s right, petting your pet is just as therapeutic for you as it is for them!
As you can see animals have their own special ways of looking after us. Love your pet, and remember the many ways in which they take care of us, even if they aren’t as obvious as the ways we take care of them.
1Cole KM , Gawlinski A , Steers N , et al. Animal-assisted therapy in patients hospitalized with heart failure. Am J Crit Care 2007; 16: 575–585, quiz 586, discussion 587–588. https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2007.16.6.575
2Carolyn A. Marr, Linda French, Donna Thompson, Larry Drum, Gloria Greening, Jill Mormon, Irie Henderson & Carroll W. Hughes (2000) Animal-Assisted Therapy in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Anthrozoös, 13:1, 43-47, DOI: 10.2752/089279300786999950
3Wood L, Martin K, Christian H, Nathan A, Lauritsen C, et al. (2015) The Pet Factor – Companion Animals as a Conduit for Getting to Know People, Friendship Formation and Social Support. PLOS ONE 10(4): e0122085. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122085
4Sandra B. Barker, Janet S. Knisely, Nancy L. McCain, Christine M. Schubert & Anand K. Pandurangi (2010) Exploratory Study of Stress-Buffering Response Patterns from Interaction with a Therapy Dog, Anthrozoös, 23:1, 79-91, DOI: 10.2752/175303710X12627079939341
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