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Rowse is a UK honey production and import company based in Oxfordshire in the UK, which began in a shed in 1938 as the hobby of Tony Rowse. His passion for honey gradually turned into a business, which he started in the early 1950s, but it was unsurprisingly a wet spring one year the early 1960s that led to the decision to also start importing honeys.
Rowse has a range of manuka honeys with different antibacterial strengths, which are labelled NPA 5+, NPA 10+ and NPA 15+. Not all manuka honeys have its much sought after antibacterial activity, which is referred to scientifically as its non-peroxide activity and this is what the label NPA stands for. Rowse Manuka 5+ Honey has been tested to verify that it has this antibacterial activity.
Rowse sources its Manuka 5+ Honey from New Zealand and this is the main source for all manuka honeys as the manuka tree grows mainly only in New Zealand (with some in South Australia). Manuka honey is a single flower honey and the nectar from the manuka tree is the main source of food for bees that make manuka honey.
This Manuka 5+ Honey is quite mild in its antibacterial strength but it has a delicious and intense flavour. There are many different ways you can enjoy this Rowse Manuka 5+ Honey – put it in your tea or coffee, spread it over your breakfast toast or just eat it from the jar (but remember infants under the age of one are not recommended to eat honey).
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It is generally accepted that paint and powder coating processes suffer from the overspray that builds up on hooks, racks and hangers. Consequences include a drop in electrical conductivity, which reduces coating adhesion, and results in a poor visual appearance. The solution is to remove the build-up as often as possible, but that’s something many coaters find hard and expensive. Chipping, burning and blasting the excess buildup of paint and powder are slow, labor-intensive processes that end up damaging and adding to the repair cost for hooks and racks. Presented by: | <urn:uuid:48552246-0dec-430e-93b0-d9541b003c4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bigmarker.com/gardner-business-media-inc-w1/Paint-Stripping-A-Value-Added-Process | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963162 | 137 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Being a Church School
Our vision is enriched through biblical scripture, in particular John (10:10) and the story of Matthew 14 where Jesus encourages Peter to walk on water. The children associate their journey at St. Paul's with taking that step out of the boat into new pastures.
St. Paul's is a Church of England Controlled School and has close links with St. Peter's Church in Hextable and St. Paul's Church in Swanley Village. Vicar Johnny Douglas and his ministry team visit the school for a weekly act of worship. We also visit the Church for the major Christian Festivals and special times in our school calendar.
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An extra 1.5 million Australians are eligible for a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose under new guidelines from ATAGI.
Interim Health Minister Katy Gallagher said she had received the advice this week.
A fourth dose is now recommended for people with underlying health conditions and people who have a disability.
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They will be able to receive the fourth dose from May 30.
This is alongside the previously eligible categories: people aged 65 and over, residents of aged care homes, people who are severely immunocompromised, and Indigenous people aged over 50.
"Essentially, for people who think they fall into that category, check it out and make sure you are getting your fourth dose," Gallagher said.
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The updated advice from ATAGI comes ahead of a winter where it's feared the flu will strike vulnerable populations alongside a resurgent COVID-19.
Gallagher said there was no issue with vaccine supply.
However, a fourth dose was not yet being advised for the general population.
"So their clear advice is that the fourth dose extension is for those people who would be most susceptible and most vulnerable to severe disease from contracting COVID," Gallagher said.
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(CNN)Last year was Europe's hottest on record, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Meteorological Society, which also found 2020 to be among the three hottest years globally.
2020 was Europe's hottest year on record 'by a considerable amount,' scientists say
The UK Met Office, which contributed to the report, said record had been broken "by a considerable amount." Average temperatures in Europe last year were 1.9 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average, a period used as a benchmark to measure changing temperatures.
The five warmest years in Europe have all been since 2014.
The findings were laid out in the American Meteorological Society's 31st State of the Climate report, which said that 17 European countries reported record-high annual temperatures, including France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden.
In the Arctic, the average air temperature in 2020 was highest on record, at 2.1 degrees above the 1981-2010 average. Antarctica also experienced extreme warmth, with Esperanza Station reaching 18.3 degrees on February 6, 2020, the highest temperature recorded on the continent, and well above its previous record of 17.2 degrees set in 2015.
Other parts of the world also experienced record-high temperatures, including Japan, Mexico, and the Seychelles.
Parts of northwest Europe were relatively cooler in 2020, the report found, but the UK also reached its third-highest annual average temperature, after 2014 and 2006, according to the Met Office.
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Building a company and a brand takes a tremendous amount of perseverance, patience, and purpose.
You need the perseverance to overcome obstacles. The day to day challenges. Whether it is something life throws at you, a business issue, an HR issue, a changing market, or sick kids. No matter what comes, you must have the will to persevere through.
You need the patience not to get too riled up. It is a long game, not a sprint. As a startup, everyone wants to see immediate results. You must balance getting these results as well as building your company for the long term. When things don’t go according to plan have the patience to be able to look at what didn’t work, ask yourself why, and come up with a new gameplay.
Last and most importantly, you need purpose. If you are building something without purpose, you will not have that burning passion to see it through. What are you providing others? Having a purpose is everything. My company DiversyFund‘s purpose is to help the average investor build wealth using strategies previously only available to the 1%. Find your purpose and get started!
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Child protection matters
This fact sheet explains what the law says about protecting children, making sure they are healthy and safe from harm.
To print, email, or download a copy of this fact sheet, use the icons at the top of the page. For more information, call the Legal Aid Helpline on 1800 019 343.
What is child protection law?
Child protection law is about protecting children. It’s about making sure that children are healthy and safe from harm.
How does child protection law work?
In the Northern Territory, Territory Families has the job of making sure that children are safe. Territory Families have to follow the NT law in everything they do.
The law says that any adult in the Northern Territory must report to Territory Families or the police where they believe that a child has suffered or is suffering from bad treatment. This includes physical and emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. This is called ‘mandatory reporting’.
The people who are most likely to report child abuse are doctors, teachers, school workers, police, neighbours or other family members. The name of the person reporting to Territory Families must be kept strictly secret by Territory Families, and by the court if the court becomes involved.
We all need to look after our children. We should all help and support people looking after children. If people don’t treat their children properly, then you should report it. On the other hand, if you think Territory Families are taking children away and it’s not right, tell the parents to contact a lawyer to get legal advice.
How can legal services help with a Territory Families matter?
You don’t have to wait until a matter is in court to get legal help. Legal services can give you independent advice and information about legal processes and explain what is happening with your case. They can also help you by talking to Territory Families or writing to Territory Families to give your side of the story. What you tell your lawyer is confidential (secret).
If your matter does go to court, legal services can go to court for you and help you to have a say about your child. A lawyer can also give you advice if you don’t think Territory Families has done the right thing or has treated you or your child badly.
Some people think that Territory Families just comes in and takes children—what does Territory Families actually do?
All reports made to Territory Families should be assessed. There are times when they decide everything is OK. Other times, Territory Families might speak to the parents or guardians where the children are living and talk about ways of helping them to look after the children. Sometimes Territory Families might be so worried about the children that they decide that children should be removed for their own protection.
Sometimes, a child will be taken away for a short time, so Territory Families can investigate. Other times, Territory Families will apply to the court to keep a child in care for a longer time—anywhere from a couple of months to a couple of years. If the matter is really serious then a child may be in care until they are 18.
Agreements with Territory Families
In some cases, Territory Families workers will see if the parents will agree for the children to go into care for a short period of time. This might be because the parents have some problems or stress that they need to sort out, and they are having trouble caring for the children at the same time. Territory Families might see if the parents will sign an agreement. If Territory Families talk to you about signing an agreement it is best to talk to a lawyer before you sign anything. You should never sign anything if you don’t understand what it says.
If Territory Families apply to the court for an order about my children, what can I do?
If Territory Families apply to the court for an order about your children you should get advice from a lawyer as soon as possible. Territory Families will need to prove to the court that your children are in need of care. Territory Families will need to show the court a case plan about how your children are going to be looked after while they are in care. You can talk to Territory Families about this plan and your lawyer can help you to try to reach an agreement with Territory Families for you to see your children as often as possible while they don’t live with you. Territory Families might put in the plan that you need to go to courses such as parenting classes, or drug and alcohol counselling, before the children will be able to live with you again.
What should I do if I get papers from Territory Families?
If you get given any papers from Territory Families you should talk to a lawyer as soon as possible. There are a number of different
legal services that can help. There is a list of these services at the end of the fact sheet.
What about a parent’s rights to keep their children?
Parents’ rights come after the rights of children. This is because a child’s right to a safe home is seen as the most important thing. But a parent has a right to be heard and you should get legal advice about this so that you can make sure someone knows your side of the story.
Aboriginal customs about bringing up children can be very different to western cultural ways—does Territory Families treat Aboriginal children differently?
There are special provisions in the law for Aboriginal children. The Aboriginal Child Placement Principal recognises the importance of keeping Aboriginal children with their family and for Aboriginal children to grow up safe and knowing their culture. This means that Territory Families must try to make sure the child lives with their extended family.
Any carer, including family members, has to be assessed by Territory Families to make sure they are suitable. The assessment makes sure that the person offering to look after the child, their home, and other people who live or visit the home will care for and protect the child.
If the extended family can’t have a child live with them, what about other families from the same country?
The law recognises the importance of a child retaining a strong link with his or her culture. Territory Families has to try to find a placement for a child with people from that child’s own country.
Sometimes family members are involved in bringing up children—what can they do if a child is removed from a parent’s care?
The involvement of key people in a child’s life is important. For example, if there is an Aunty or Grandmother who is an important person in a child’s life or has been looking after the children, Territory Families should try to keep them involved.
If Territory Families have taken my children, can I go to the Family Court or Federal Magistrates Court to get them back?
The court that makes orders about protecting children is part of the local court called the Family Matters Court. If the Family Matters Court has made orders taking away children, the Family Court and the Federal Magistrates Court will not be able to make any orders. If there are already family law orders in place then they will be suspended for the time that the Territory Families orders are in place. If you are not sure whether there are any orders about your children, you should get a lawyer to check this for you.
Can I get the court to change or remove the order?
If the Family Matters Court has made an order taking away your children then you can go to that court to try to get the order changed or removed. You will need to show the court that things have changed since the order was made and that your children will be safe and looked after if they live with you. You should speak to a lawyer about this.
How do I get help from a legal service?
Legal services across the Northern Territory that can help with a Territory Families problem:
NT Legal Aid Commission has offices in Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs. Free call 1800 019 343
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency has offices in Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs. Call 1800 898 251 (Darwin), 1800 897 728 (Katherine), 08 8962 1332 (Tennant Creek), or 1800 636 079 (Alice Springs).
North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service has offices in Darwin and Katherine, and visits Wadeye, Kunbarllanjnja, Angurugu, Nhulunbuy, Yirrkala, Ski Beach, Nguiu, Pirlangimpi and Milikapiti. Call 1800 041 998 (Darwin) or 08 8972 3200 (Katherine).
Top End Women’s Legal Service has an office in Darwin. Free call 1800 234 441.
Katherine Women’s Information Legal Service has an office in Katherine. Free call 1800 620 108.
Central Australian Women’s Legal Service has an office in Alice Springs and visits Tennant Creek. Free call 1800 684 055.
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A lot of us are working from home amid the worldwide pandemic currently happening. This is nothing new to some. Maybe you have a nice, comfortable office space complete with a supporting chair. However, to others, this is anything but normal, and maybe your office is a kid’s art table and chair.
Whatever your situation is, a lot of us are finding ourselves sitting and working more often than not. This can mean experiencing more and new aches and pains that weren’t noticed while working in the office. This is because most offices furnish their desks with ergonomic furniture and most employees get up and walk around the office for various reasons throughout the day. There is no water cooler at home.
These weeks have turned to months for working at home, and they have strained our bodies not only mentally, but physically. These new aches and pains may lead us down a road to debilitating muscle injuries such as bad backs, sore necks, and achy shoulders.
To avoid going down this path, make sure you are spending as much time as you are able working in a neutral position where no body part is awkwardly bent or twisted. Also, try to move around every 30 minutes. You want to walk around and get yourself a cup of coffee or water. If you can, try to stretch. There are a plethora of apps and online sites that will help you figure out what back exercises to do to stay limber. There are even health sites that will help with lumbar disc bulge exercises.
If you work at a computer, try to view your screen with a straight neck. This means putting your screen at a comfortable viewing height. We tend to look down at laptop screens, so you may want to evaluate your computer to combat this habit.
After you have found the best height for your screen, make sure it is sideways to a bright window. This will minimize eye strain from a glare and you don’t want your back to your screen because the incoming light will cause a glare on it. Also, you won’t be straining your neck and back to look away from a screen if it is too bright. If you have blue light glasses, make sure you wear those as well.
Also, don’t read from an iPad or papers that are flat on your desk or table to where you are constantly moving your head up and down. If you go back from a screen to reading material, use a vertical document holder or iPad stand to relieve this strain.
Since your computer is at a comfortable height in front of you, so should your keyboard. Your keyboard and mouse should be used with your forearms and hands level and straight. Also, your arm should be close to the side of your body when you use a mouse. You have nerves that leave your neck and run down your shoulder, elbow and wrist, so when your arm is at your side, the nerves aren’t compromised. The more you have to stretch, the greater chance there will be to strain your back, neck, or shoulder.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Ukrainian officials' claims that Russian forces hit its own cities "lies," accusing Kyiv of using weapons against civilians, mainly in Ukraine's southeastern region of Donbass.
At a news conference in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, Lavrov said of charges that Russia targeted its own cities to obstruct Western weaponry delivery to Ukraine, "they lie."
“Facts are well-known. … Those facts are provided by our Defense Ministry on a daily basis,” he said.
Whatever the Ukrainian authorities claim, the West must accept responsibility for the deaths of civilians in Donbass, the minister emphasized.
“The West should realize its responsibility for the deaths of civilians, primarily in the Donbass, (and) in other parts of Ukraine where the Kyiv regime uses these (Western) weapons against civilians as a means of intimidation. By and large, this is state terror,” he said.
On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine's armed forces used Tochka-U missiles with cluster munitions and Tu-143 "Reis" drones to attack civilian areas of Russia's cities Belgorod and Kursk, which are close to the Russia-Ukraine border.
Russia’s participation in G-20
When asked about Russia’s participation at the G-20 summit in Indonesia, Lavrov said he does not know if there are attempts to prevent Russia from going, but if there are, the Indonesian leadership would not give in, he asserted.
"We have an invitation from the Indonesian side to the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, which opens tomorrow in Bali, and the upcoming November G20 summit there. If there were such attempts, the Indonesian leadership did not react to them," he said.
The minister added that he has several bilateral meetings planned on the sidelines of the G-20 gathering.
Concerning the release of confidential talks between the Russian and French presidents, the minister said Russian officials always hold talks in such a way that they are never ashamed, but diplomatic ethics does not imply such leaks.
He recalled that Moscow once disclosed the diplomatic mailing with its French and German counterparts, but said that before doing so, it informed the colleagues thrice to give them a chance to address the issue confidentially.
Earlier, French television broadcast a documentary film, titled The President, Europe, and War (Un President, l'Europe et la Guerre), by French director Guy Lagache about French President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to mediate the Ukrainian conflict. The film includes footage of Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking over the phone./aa | <urn:uuid:143d1314-d2c6-4beb-adbd-2134ba3cb2d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.mugtama.com/news1/international-news/item/40061-lavrov-calls-ukraine-s-claims-that-russian-forces-hit-its-own-cities-lies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959617 | 534 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Farnham Church overlooks the River Alde valley towards the west, facing its sister church St Andrew at Stratford St Andrew which is now redundant and converted into a private house.
In 1992, following the formal redundancy of St Andrew's, the parishes of Farnham and Stratford St Andrew were united and since 2003 have formed part of the Alde River Benefice where they share the incumbent with the parishes of Great and Little Glemham, Blaxhall, Snape, Benhall and Sternfield.
The Church of St Mary stands on a hill and there is a theory that it marks the site of a Roman encampment controlling the road through the ford below. The original church building may well have been built around AD800 but was probably hidden by forest and swamps. It was not recorded in the Domesday Book.
The present building was erected in Norman times and is mainly built of flint and stone. The slit windows in both north and south walls are 12th century Norman. The interior remains simple and unspoiled with several original fitments. The chancel roof, although repaired in 1980, still retains the original 14th century oak rafters. On the south side of the chancel there is a disused priest doorway beside which is a fluted piscina of probable late Norman origin. The holy water stoop is now opposite the door, which was placed in its present position in the 19th century when the old door was blocked up to help strengthen the south wall which is supported by four brick buttresses. At the junction of the nave and chancel is a doorway and stairs which once led to a rood loft. Only two panels remain of the carved rood screen and they are displayed in the church. The box pews are 18th century and match the pulpit. The octagonal font is 13th century style but dates from the 19th century. The organ, a Fr Willis Scudamore single manual, was installed in 2000. It is dated 1849 and was enlarged by Bevington in 1882.
In the west Tudor tower with its brick battlements hang two bells, one dated 1521 the gift of Robert Kryke and the other 1630. The communion plate consists of an Elizabethan cup and lid (used as a paten) dated 1567 and a silver flagon dated 1636.
We are a church in the Alde River Benefice. At St Mary's Farnham with Stratford St Andrew we have regular services each month as follows:
Holy Communion - Fourth Sunday 11.00am
All Age Worship - Second Sunday 11.00am
Benefice Services at 10am according to Benefice Rota - see church noticeboard
Rector: Rev Rachel Cornish 01728 768136
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Protect Your Family and Your Finances
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Hero Imprints is the story of the Revolutionary War as told by the soldiers who fought it. What is unique is the eyeball information of individual soldiers who fought in the Militia and Continental Army. The reader is better able to follow from one battle to the other and realize the hardships and trauma of this war for freedom. The index provides the names of soldiers who told their stories, officers, etc. which helps the genealogist locate ancestors.
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The following is a synopsis of a weekly Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group lesson, based on the work of Marsha Linehan out of the University of Washington.
Disclaimer: I LOVE doing this, I think it is desperately needed, and I WANT to do it. However, I have zero time to do it so, while I am committed to giving it my all, I may fall behind or skip a week or two. I apologize in advance for that, and for the fact that I will not be spell checking, fixing formatting, or doing a read through before I post. No offense, but I gotta draw the line somewhere!
Emotion Regulation Skills Module: Feelings are our FRIENDS
Soooooo, I’ve been super behind in blogging due to the holiday season approaching, and just life being busy, but this module is really important to over. The first week of this module was spent mostly discussing some of my favorite mantras, and just general intentions of the module…some are my own, but some are well known in Alcoholics Anonymous:
- Feelings are our FRIENDS!: We often think of feelings as things that are to be avoided, changed, or ignored, likely because they are so difficult to manage at times. However, feelings are important, and only become a problem if we mishandle them. Feelings are our friends, they are there for a reason and they WANT to help us!
- There are no positive or negative feelings, feelings just ARE: Similar to the first mantra, we need to remember that feelings are not to be judged as good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative, etc. If we judge them as such, then we will only want the “positive” ones, and will mishandle the “negative” ones. This is such a common misconception about feelings that even Marsha Linehan herself uses this terminology in some of her writings. Feelings are neutral. They are not good or bad, and we need to avoid reacting to them in this way.
- Feelings aren’t FACTS: This is an AA mantra that is very helpful to remember, as feelings are not necessarily grounded in reasonable realities. For example, just because I feel lonely doesn’t mean that I am alone.
- Feelings travel in PACKS: When I ask someone how they feel about something, they often either give me a thought ( ex. I think it’s unfair!”), or they give me a feeling (ex. “angry”). In reality, we have dozens of feelings about a situation happening at any given time. We don’t necessarily need to deal with every single feeling we have about something, but we do need to work on being more and more mindful of those feelings.
- There are only 3 things we need to do with feelings: Identify them, Express them, and Cope with them: Because there are multiple feelings inside of us at all times, we need to learn to take pause, look inside and find the emotions that we are feeling. Next, we need to articulate those feelings to God, another human being, ourselves, SOMEONE in SOMEWAY. Finally, we need to cope with those feelings in a healthy way. THESE are the basic goals of this module.
- We need to balance TOLERATING emotions, and CHANGING them. Sometimes, we just need to hang out with our feelings, and allow them to be a part of us. Other times, we may want to change how we feel about something, and that’s ok too. What is NOT healthy, is if we ALWAYS try to change our feelings, or if we feel such a victim of our feelings that we think we have no choice but to just dwell in them.
Myths about Emotions
After we reviewed basic goals and mantras of the module, we covered some of the very common myths that we tend to believe about emotions and why we have them. Myths are lies that are commonly believed to be true, because they have been passed down from generation to generation. Societally, we really really SUCK at handling emotions in a healthy way. Therefore, our ability to know what is healthy emotionally is very limited. Some examples of myths about emotions include:
- Being emotional means being out of control.
- Some emotions are stupid and should be ignored.
- Emotional people are weak.
- Emotions can just happen for no reason.
These and plenty of other emotional myths make it difficult for us to handle our emotions appropriately, and we need to develop challenges to these myths that are TRUE statements that we can use to stay in the reality, not in the misconceptions about emotions. For example, if you tend to believe the myth “Emotions can just happen for no reason”, a challenge may be “Emotions always have a reason, we just may not realize what the reason is”. Continuing to believe and perpetuate emotional myths is a huge barrier to becoming emotionally healthy, as is continuing to believe lies about relationships (to be explored next module!)
Functions of Emotions
Because feelings are our friends, they are important, and serve many purposes. The 3 main reasons that emotions are so valuable are that they Motivate, Self-Validate, and Communicate.
Motivate: It is often our emotions that spring us into action, helping us to decide to make changes in our lives. The stage of change model (Prochaska, DiClemente, &Norcross) is a model most associated with the addictions field, but is useful to consider in thinking about how much we want to change anything in our lives. The stages are Precontemplation (Not even thinking about changing), Contemplation (thinking about it but not ready to change yet), Preparation (Ready to change), Action (Making the changes needed) and Maintenance (Keeping those changes in place to avoid relapsing). Emotions have plenty to do with our motivation to make changes in our lives, so we need them to help us grow. For example, if I am lonely than this might motivate me to call a friend, or to talk in therapy about how to make new friends, or to go on social media to feel more connected to others.
Self-Validate: One of the mantras mentioned earlier is “Feelings aren’t facts”. This is important to remember because we often operate out of emotional logic, which leads to a bad outcome. However, the instinctual and automatic nature of emotions is that they tell us things about the world, and if we listen to our emotions carefully, they can help us understand the world, others, and ourselves more. For example if I feel hurt and disappointed because my friend didn’t call me back like she said she would, it is not necessarily true that she is a hurtful person, that she doesn’t care about me, or that I can’t be friends with her. However, these emotions help inform me about me as a friend and as a person, and if I feel them in response to this, then it may be likely that most people would feel this way in this situation, validating that my feelings are normal and are in response to whatever is happening in the current situation.
Communicate: The final function of emotions is that they communicate to others what we need them to know. More than what we tell others, our emotions are written on our faces and held in our bodies. For example, if my Mother yells at me, my face may immediately appear pained, I may frown, squint my eyes, look away, droop my shoulders or even cry. The immediate changes to my face and body posture are often noticed by others, and these things give others information about how we are responding to them and the situation. While many of us may practice a “Poker face” and try to hide how we feel, or pretend that we feel an opposite way, research shows that humans and other animals are tuned into non-verbal communication moreso than verbal communication, and our non-verbal responses are often so automatic, rapid, and subtle that we may not be able to control them.
Along with the functions of emotions, we also covered some of the gifts that are given to us by emotions. For example, guilt brings us containment, humility, and values, while anger brings us strength, assertiveness, and energy. Remembering the functions of emotions, as well as their gifts, can help us want to tolerate them, and even welcome them when they arise.
Another thing we covered so far in this module is a very very complicated chart about emotions and how they emerge, progress, and contribute to other reactions. There are lots of interesting theories about the 3 points of the triangle of awareness (thoughts, emotions and physical responses). Some theorists maintain that thoughts cause emotions, which in turn result in physical responses (ex. I think “I am a horrible person”, which leads to shame which leads to rapid breathing, increased heart rate and sweating). Others believe that physical responses cause emotions which result in interpretations of them (ex. My heart races, I sweat, and my breathing speeds up, which makes me feel shameful and then I think “I must be a horrible person”). Ultimately, I think it’s safe to say that we don’t know what order these things happen in, and that it is likely dependent upon the current situation.
The most important point about this is to understand the general flow of most situations. There is a prompting event, inside or outside of us, that begins the process of emotions, interpretations of the event, physical responses, automatic internal biological processes (such as the pathways of the brain being activated), urges to act and react, and actions in response to the event. Perhaps most importantly, in situations where we become intensely emotional, or have a lot of emotions in response, there may be a “Prompting event #2” that occurs, which we may over-react to, or under-react to because of the first situation. Here is an example:
My boyfriend tells me I look tired (Prompting event #1, something outside of me). I interpret that event to be “he doesn’t love me anymore”, “he’s not attracted to me anymore”, “he’s being mean to me”, etc. I start to panic, feeling anxious, angry, fearful, etc. My heart races, blood rushes to my head, my hands get cold, my shoulders tense up, my adrenalin starts to get released so that my fight or flight response kicks in, and i have a panic attack. My action urge is that I want to yell at him and run out the door, but instead I hide in my room and hyperventilate and cry until I fall asleep. The next day, my boss tells me that I forgot to do something he asked me to do (Prompting event #2) and I immediately burst into tears and feel like a failure. This prompting event #2 may have been very minor, unrelated, and involving a totally different person and situation, but I react to it in a way that is similar to the first situation, because I am emotionally vulnerable and not focused on the moment, but carrying too much over into this moment.
The last thing we covered so far in this module the last 2 weeks is the concept of emotional maturity. This is not a DBT concept, and I 100% stole this from someone who unfortunately I cannot credit because I have no idea who created it. It was given to me by a kid in my group years ago, and we liked it so much that I use it every time in this module. We reviewed a list of 16 signs of emotional maturity, discussing examples of each and exploring ways we can be more emotionally mature. The list is below, and I encourage all of my readers to try to honestly examine your level of emotional maturity. REMEMBER though, we live in a society that is emotionally IMMATURE, so we cannot feel badly if we “fail” this process, as most of us are emotionally immature and need to learn to become more emotionally mature.
Signs of Emotional Maturity
|1.||Accepts criticism gratefully, looks for the opportunity to improve.|
|2.||Does not indulge in self-pity.|
|3.||Does not expect special consideration from anyone for anything.|
|4.||Controls temper most of the time in most situations.|
|5.||Is able to meet/deal with emergencies with poise (not freak out).|
|6.||Expresses feelings responsibly and specifically (using “I feel” statements).|
|7.||Accepts responsibility for actions without trying to make excuses.|
|8.||Has outgrown the “all or nothing” stage (Avoids finding fault in everyone and everything).|
|9.||Is patient with REASONABLE delays (Has the ability to adjust to changes or people as needed).|
|10.||Is a good loser (no whining or complaining).|
|11.||Doesn’t worry, stress, or obsess over things we can’t control.|
|12.||Does not boast or show off in socially unacceptable ways.|
|13.||Is honestly glad when others enjoy success or good fortune R(Has outgrown Jealousy/envy).|
|14.||Is open minded enough to listen thoughtfully to the opinions of others.|
|15.||Plans things in advance as opposed to acting on impulse.|
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Easy Homeschool Fun for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is almost here! Many of you do all of the "Pinterest Mom" activities and that is awesome! (Seriously, my follow through on activities is terrible.) Others of you are more like me -- those things are cute but won't happen. Some of you have full days already and don't want to set aside time to do big activities.
This post is for you! These activities (except for one) are low-key, low-prep ideas that can take as little or as much time as you want.
8 Easy Valentine's Day Ideas for your Homeschool
1. Homeschool Panda's newest bookshelves are just right for this holiday!
When you go into My Books, click on Featured Books (in the left-hand column). You'll find bookshelves we've created around different themes. Just click on the + to save the book.
2. Last year, we created this printable pack for Valentine's Day. If your kiddos are elementary-aged, this is a super-simple way to have some Valentine's Day fun without a lot of work.
3. Do you want to connect with friends or family outside of your home? Here are some ideas for fun ways to connect over Zoom.
4. Videos are a staple in our home. I keep a YouTube playlist of all sorts of educational videos and have my boys choose one each day after they watch CNN10. Here are a few holiday ones. St. Valentine Day's History, Valentine's Day Massacre of 1829, How Did Valentine's Day Start? (for littles)
5. And this video from PBS's BrainCraft is a cute spin on the holiday. V-Day Tips from the Animal World!
6. We often think of Valentine's Day activities as something just for the littles. But Building Book Love put together a great list of language arts activities that are perfect for teens. She even lists some podcasts that are perfect for the season. (We love to listen to podcasts as we're driving to activities & running errands.)
7. Valentine's Day & chocolate go hand-in-hand. These cookies & Cream truffles are easy enough that even young kids can help make them. (My 10yo can make them on his own!) This traditional truffle recipe is more work but still easy. It's also really easy to make a variety of flavors. (Add a video about how chocolate is made to make it educational.)
8. Little Bins for Little Hands is a fantastic resource for littles. This list of Valentine Day STEM activities has some ideas that require little prep-work to more complex activities. | <urn:uuid:4078f8d0-c1fd-4bab-963a-d8896e954a11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://homeschoolpanda.com/blog/easy-homeschool-fun-valentines-day | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960713 | 557 | 2.21875 | 2 |
- Southern Idaho Tourism
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- City of Twin Falls
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When you do business in Twin Falls, you won’t just attract local customers — the city is a hub for South Central Idaho and Northern Nevada. Known as a one-stop shopping spot, Twin Falls businesses have easy access to a broad base of clients and the support of a thriving Chamber of Commerce.
- Twin Falls County
Twin Falls County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 Census, the county had a population of 77,230. The county seat and largest city is Twin Falls.
Twin Falls County is part of the Twin Falls, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Prior to the 1860s, the Twin Falls County area was an unorganized part of Shoshone lands, then as part of the Oregon Country. The area was first organized as part of the original Owyhee County in 1864 as part ofIdaho Territory. In 1879 it was partitioned away from Owyhee County to form part of Cassia County. The county is named for a split waterfall on the Snake River of the same name. The Snake River is the county’s northern boundary. | <urn:uuid:7be1c15d-b51e-4078-af5a-90e050ad87c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twinfallschamber.com/member-center/local-resources/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938457 | 451 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Media reports indicate that entities extracting digital currencies in both Russia and Belarus may have to pay more for the electrical energy they require. The governments of both countries are making changes that will likely result in special tariffs for this group of electricity consumers. The Russian Ministry of Energy recently backed the idea. At the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week, Nikolai Shulginov, the head of the department, told reporters that crypto miners shouldn’t pay for electricity at household rates.
Shulginov stated that the ministry is currently working on the issue and added: “To maintain the reliability and quality of power supply, we believe it is necessary to exclude the possibility of electricity consumption by miners at tariffs for the population.”
Government officials emphasized that electricity rates need to be differentiated. According to him, miners should not be allowed to take advantage of preferential tariffs because the current situation could deteriorate further. Otherwise, cross-subsidies must be increased, which is unacceptable, said the energy minister.
Igor Kobzev the governor of Irkutsk Oblast, complained to Alexander Novak, the deputy prime minister responsible for the fuel and energy complex, about illegal crypto miners recently. As Kobzev was quoted by Vedomosti, their actions increase the load on the Siberian power grid and the risk of power plant breakdowns.
In Belarus, where Russia maintains strong political and economic ties, the Ministry of Energy has already classified cryptocurrency miners under a separate tariff category. The joint decree with the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade was issued at the end of September.
The document cited by Forklog indicates that entities involved in data processing, information services, as well as data centers and mining operations, will fall under this category if their annual electricity consumption is at least 25 million kWh. Depending on the consumption bracket, there are four subgroups in the tariff category, with the top subgroup covering enterprises that consume more than 500 million kWh. The administration of President Alexander Lukashenko can add more groups. The current document doesn’t specify the exact price rates for each group.
Lukaschenko has been supportive of crypto mining, urging Belarusians in August to mint digital coins instead of picking strawberries on foreign farms. In 2019 he proposed using surplus electrical energy from the country’s new nuclear plant to power mining facilities.
The idea of recognizing cryptocurrency mining as a form of entrepreneurship is gaining support in Belarus’s energy-rich ally, the Russian Federation. Anatoly Aksakov, the chairman of the Financial Market Committee at the State Duma, stated in September that mining digital currencies should be registered and taxed accordingly. | <urn:uuid:4243e4d2-a926-40ff-b883-6114833d8202> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cmnnews.live/belarus-and-russia-introduce-electricity-rates-for-miners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942056 | 540 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Dr Sadao knew that the General needed his medical assistance as he was undergoing medical treatment. So Sadao thought of taking advantage of the situation. He told the General what had happened and how he saved the enemy. He tried to make the General understand that the General is not dependent on him as a doctor if he needed services for his treatment. But the General trusted no one but Sadao to treat him. Thinking about his personal well-being the General now assured Sadao that no one will know of the incident about the enemy and he will arrange for the enemy to be killed in a way no one will know. But, the General didn’t seem to send his men to Sadao’s house, so Sadao helped in the enemy’s escape.
Sadao now narrated everything that happened to the General, who apologised for having failed to keep up his promise. He explained to Sadao that he had taken ill so badly that he could not think of anything else. But the General now assured Sadao that in case the authorities question him in connection with the enemy, he would stand in support of him, and his action would not be considered as lack of national loyalty or dereliction of duty but as human consideration. | <urn:uuid:1ef7aa56-6335-4901-967a-cff50bdee4fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thefreshanswers.com/what-explains-the-attitude-of-the-general-in-the-matter-of-the-enemy-soldier-was-it-human-consideration-lack-of-national-loyalty-dereliction-of-duty-or-simply-self-absorption/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.991752 | 260 | 2.078125 | 2 |
With its majestic donjon of a height of 60m, the castle of Vufflens is visible from far away. Vufflens-le-Château and its vineyards are situated 3 km north from Morges. The village is available by train, namely the railway line Bière-Apples-Morges (BAM).
The castle of Vufflens, built in the 15th century, represents the most outstanding example of a small group of Vaud castles dating from the Late Middle Ages, above all characteristic because they were built of bricks.
This impressive building with its 60 metres donjon is a private property and unfortunately not open to visitors. But one can very well admire it from the outside.
An agreeable promenade of 30 minutes through the vineyards between Vufflens-le-Château and Denens offers a splendid view on this magnificent castle, Lake Geneva and Mont-Blanc. There is also the possibility to combine a walk with a train ride on the railway line BAM between Bière, Apples and Morges. | <urn:uuid:9ed8a137-4d48-4b07-9c00-5b2f6ee7079d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.region-du-leman.ch/en/P6687/commune-de-vufflens-le-chateau | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957677 | 225 | 1.640625 | 2 |
We all do it at least once in our lives. Who hasn’t forgotten a password? It is very normal for a person to forget a password for their computer. But the case with Windows 10 is that you can’t recover it unless you have a recovery key, or you have not connected your computer to your Microsoft Account.
In these cases, we can use various Windows password recovery and reset programs to unlock our computers and save yourself from the trouble of reinstalling Windows 10. These software can let you flash a program on a USB drive or a DVD disk in order to use that to recover the password. In most cases, you just need to boot from the media you just created and after a few steps you will have your password. Let’s take a look at a bunch of these programs and see which ones let us reset Windows 10 password easily.
Best Windows 10 Password Recovery and Reset Tools
Ophcrack is an extremely good password recovery tool for Windows 10 that uses Rainbow table to brute force into a Windows installation and recover its password. You can burn the ISO that you will download on a DVD or a USB stick and then boot from the media. The Ophcrack program will start running and it will detect the Windows installation and the recovery process will start automatically. This is a completely free to use program that is also open source so you can even download the sources and contribute to the project if you’re a developer.
Ophcrack also comes with a Live CD that you can download from the website and the Live CD won’t need any sort of installation. It can be burned on a disk directly or can be used to create a bootable USB stick that can then be used to recover password on Windows 10.
2. Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
The Offline NT Password & Registry Editor password recovery tool mainly removes password from a password protected computer and you can later set a new password for your computer. You can easily burn it on a DVD disk or a USB stick and boot from that media starting this utility. Not only is this a free to use utility, but it is also open source.
The only downside that I can think about the program is the fact that it is a command line based program which users with less computer experience will find confusing to use. You must enter a set of commands that will then do the password deletion on your Windows computer. You can use this to recover and delete passwords from computers running 64-bit & 32-bit versions of Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.
3. Trinity Rescue Kit
The Trinity Rescue Kit is another command line based password recovery tool that works on Windows 10 and older versions of Windows including 8, 8.1, 7, Vista and XP. Just like the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Trinity Rescue Kit will also delete the password from the account that is locked and you can then boot up to Windows and then change the password easily.
This utility works just like the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, and since it doesn’t have a graphical user interface, people who might try this utility for the first time might find it a bit confusing but once you follow the guides mentioned on the respective website, you can perform a password recovery very easily.
4. Tenorshare Windows Boot Genius
Windows Boot Genius from Tenorshare is actually a really nice tool that comes with a dedicated Windows 10 password recovery feature. Not only do you get a password recovery feature, but it also lets you fix a lot of Windows 10 boot issues or errors. You can fix Blue Screen of Death or BSOD issues, or an update or install loop, random reboots and many problems.
All you need is a DVD disk or a USB stick and burn the ISO that comes with the program and once it is on the media, you can reboot and then boot from your media to access the Windows Boot Genius tools.
5. UUkeys Windows Password Mate
The UUKeys Windows Password Mate is a program that is used to burn an ISO on a USB or a DVD disk and then that burned media can be used to unlock a Windows computer and the password can be recovered. This program also works on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8 and even server version of Windows which includes Windows Server 2016/2012/2008/2003/2000/NT.
It works for both Windows 10 based desktop computers or laptops and doesn’t need you to go through any command line interfaces to make things a lot easier. You can simply download the program from the UUKeys website and then insert a new USB stick to burn the ISO on it. Boot up your PC from that burned USB media and you will be presented with a familiar looking user interface where you can reset the password for the account you choose.
Wrapping it up!
Windows 10 password recovery tools come dozen a dime but it is very important to choose the right one in order to perform recovery of your password. The best way to go about it for anyone would be Ophcrack but if you’re familiar with command line interfaces, then the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor is a great choice too. The UUKeys Windows Password Mate is a premium choice so you can buy it if you’re willing to pay some money to recover your password. | <urn:uuid:a49c749a-373e-4efd-a969-9263733569dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blogsdna.com/27825/best-windows-10-password-recovery-and-reset-tools.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.916393 | 1,103 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Destroy target artifact or enchantment, then populate. (Create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
4/15/2013 You can choose any creature token you control for populate. If a spell or ability puts a token onto the battlefield under your control and then instructs you to populate (as Coursers’ Accord does), you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.
4/15/2013 If you choose to copy a creature token that’s a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.
4/15/2013 The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that put the original token onto the battlefield.
4/15/2013 The new token doesn’t copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.
4/15/2013 Any “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” or “[this creature] enters the battlefield with” abilities of the new token will work.
4/15/2013 If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.
3/14/2017 You must target an artifact or enchantment to cast Sundering Growth. If that artifact or enchantment is an illegal target when Sundering Growth tries to resolve, it won’t resolve and none of its effects will happen. You won’t populate. | <urn:uuid:669e583a-9c8b-4893-bd23-5698848d1c75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mtgsalvation.com/cards/modern-masters-2017/28509-sundering-growth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.832901 | 349 | 1.507813 | 2 |
- Identification and Creation
- Physical Descriptions
- Watercolor, black ink and graphite on cream laid paper
- 19.2 x 28.6 cm (7 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
- Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- Object Number
- European and American Art
- THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS.
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- Publication History
Martin Butlin, The Paintings and Drawings of William Blake, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1981), no. 256, pl. 306
[Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1994 - 1995)., repr.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 208-209, repr. p. 209 as fig. 5
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The Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) of Egypt handed over license documents for the construction of El Dabaa Units 1 and 2 to the Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA).
The document submission was preceded by joint work between the NPPA and Rosatom’s engineering division ASE. Dr. Amged El Wakeel, NPPA Board Chairman, said, “The event was preceded by joint extensive work of the NPPA and ASE on finalizing the licensing documentation. Today, we are proud to say that the work we have done meets the highest quality standards, local and international requirements.”
Once the license is obtained, the parties will be able to go full tilt into the construction.
“Thanks to the coordinated efforts of the Russian and Egyptian teams, we have promptly accomplished a challenging task of harmonizing the documents, adapting them to specific site conditions and making them meet technical requirements of the EPC Contract,” noted Grigory Sosnin, ASE Vice President and Director of El Dabaa Construction Project.
El Dabaa NPP will comprise four units with Generation III+ VVER‑1200 reactors, each having a capacity of 1,200 MW. Apart from building the plant, Rosatom will also supply it with nuclear fuel throughout its lifecycle. The Russian party will also arrange for the training of Egyptian personnel and will assist Egypt in maintaining the nuclear power plant for the first 10 years of operation.
The Russian nuclear corporation also contributes to raising public awareness of nuclear energy. For instance, Rosatom took part in one of the oldest and largest international book fairs held in Cairo from June 30 until July 15 and presented two books about nuclear science and technology, Nuclear ABC and Nuclear Professions.
The Nuclear ABC plainly explains nuclear fundamentals, nuclear energy and how nuclear power plants work.
The Nuclear Professions describes a variety of professions in the nuclear industry and their contribution to social development and environmental conservation. This book informs students exploring their professional futures about in-demand nuclear technology-related career paths in a wide range of areas, from power generation and medicine to agriculture and archeology, amongst others.
Rosatom also donated books to the largest Egyptian libraries and educational centers. The two books are now available in major public libraries and will help increase public awareness of nuclear energy and raise interest in physical sciences among young people. You can get your free copy to read when you visit the outlets of Kotobna publishing house, branches of Al-Shorouk libraries, and Diwan. You can also visit the Russian Cultural Center in Cairo and the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo.
“It is a great honor for us to partake in the oldest international book fair in the Arab-speaking world, a fair with an established reputation amongst both book lovers and publishing professionals. We hope that our books will help expand local knowledge about the role of nuclear energy in [Egypt’s] development and will open new professional horizons for Egyptian schoolchildren and young people in the nuclear industry,” Grigory Sosnin said.
The NPP is not only a source of environmentally friendly electricity generation, but also it is the largest infrastructure project that supports the development of various economy sectors and contributes to increasing the state’s income. Nuclear energy plays a key role in the country’s sustainable development. These topics have been discussed during media roundtable, which was organized by Rosatom together with the NPPA.
“NPP project contributes to at least 6 UN SDGs. It is definitely low-carbon. It provides an affordable and long-term source of electricity. It supports local producers by bringing USD 3–4 bln of orders to local industries during construction period. It creates about 3,000 of new working places to work at NPP and more than 10,000 indirect jobs as per our estimates,” pinpointed Polina Lion, ROSATOM’s Chief Sustainability Officer.
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Good practices shared at the webinar in English of 23rd of April 2021
“Radio Show” Group for Expression and Communication
by Theodora Prodromidou, Argo, (Greece)
A group of residents participates every Saturday to a radio show with a social content (e.g. economic crisis, social racism, relationships) or relating to rehabilitation (e.g. alcohol, gamblers, drugs). The goal is to inform and communicate with the public. The coordinators are giving some exercises: speech training, oral compositions, debates, etc.
Individual Work Plan and Personal Growth Card
by Joan Guasch, Proyecto Hombre (Spain)
Proyecto Hombre communities have developed a tool for personalised monitoring of treatment objectives on 7 different fields. Residents record their personal and community goals to develop at their own pace and in their own way.
- Personal Growth Card (GP by Paul McKellar, 2012)
- Individual Work Plan (GP by Joan Guasch, 2021)
Circle Percussion Group
by Theano Chatzoudi, ARGO (Alternative Therapeutic Program of Addicted Individuals), (Greece)
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CBD, cannabidiol, is among the main cannabinoids that can be found in a marijuana plant. Unlike THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD does not necessarily get someone high or psychoactive as it has a range of health benefits. Many people all around the world usually have issues falling or even staying asleep which is commonly referred to as insomnia. This can cause a lot of discomfort owing to the fact that human beings require sleep to be active and have a productive day. Sleep ensures that one is able to perform their functions optimally, have a stable mood, improved motivation levels and energy, and an enhanced immune system.
A lot of research has been conducted across the globe to illuminate CBD and Cannabis uses to treat insomnia. Instead of going for sleeping pills that can lead to adverse side effects, CBD oil can be used to treat insomnia. In order to comprehend how this is possible, the causes of insomnia have to be discussed to reach a viable solution.
Causes of insomnia
The inability of a person to be able to sleep despite of having the chance can be due to a number of circumstances that include:
- Medication that affects the cycle of sleep-wake
- Drinking caffeine just before going to sleep
- Mental health issues like depression, post-traumatic stress, pain or anxiety
- External factors from the surrounding environment such us excessive noise or a bed that is not comfortable
CBD and Cannabis can be used to treat insomnia caused by the environmental factors but more research needs to be conducted on whether they can treat the mental health issues effectively. CBD can be used to treat anxiety although the research is still at its roots. It can also help with grogginess and imprudent daytime sleepiness.
Ways in which CBD is used
CBD can be consumed into the body through a various ways including tinctures and oils, vape concentrates, capsules and pills, and can also be ingested as edibles in the form of baked goods or gummies. Vaping is the fastest way for Cannabinols to get into a person’s system although it can lead to respiratory issues. The dosage depends on a person’s body chemistry, nature of sleeping habits ang the body weight showing that not everyone can handle the same prescription. The prescription can take a while before manifesting results and so patience is key when trying out this form of medication.
How CBD improves sleep
CBD oil improves sleep by finding a solution to the problem which is tackling the main causes of insomnia. Researchers have been able to conclude that CBD does indeed help with insomnia by investigating CBD vs THC effects but are yet to figure out how exactly it deals with the situation. This is why further research is required. The possible side effects are changes is weight and appetite, and fatigue.
Insomnia can be a hard nut to crack and also stressful since we all require sleep to keep us rejuvenated and ready to commence a new day. CBD has the proven ability to reduce insomnia as seen above.
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This Posts enlists all the resources to cover Logarithms portion of IIT-JEE (JEE Main and Advanced) Preparation.
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Lecture – 1 : Basics of Logarithms
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Lecture – 2 : Graph of Log Function and Basic Properties
Lecture – 3 : Sign of Log A to Base B
Lecture – 4 : Advanced Problems in Logarithms
Lecture – 5 : Base Changing Theorem
Lecture – 6 : Examples on Base Changing Theorem
Lecture – 7 : Advanced Examples on Logarithms
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Written, edited, produced, starring, and directed by Orson Welles, “Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight)” is an adaption of several plays by William Shakespeare regarding Henry the IV, Henry the V, and notably Sir John Falstaff, knight of mischief. My relationship with Shakespeare has been an evolving one since having to read through several of his most famous plays in High School. I’ve never much cared for “Romeo and Juliet” or even “Macbeth” for that matter, but I’ve come to greatly admire the plays concerning the ruling hand of England, academically called the “Henriad” plays, meaning four to eight (depending on who you ask) of his works dealing with Historical figures and events (though my favorite piece by Shakespeare is “King Lear”). Orson Welles took the comic side character of John Falstaff and decided to tell a story that focused more on the relationship between Hal (Keith Baxter), or Henry the V, and his two father figures in Falstaff and Henry the IV (John Gielgud).
More than that however, the film seems to be intently focused on the changing of the times, going from a more “Arthurian” romanticized and nostalgic past, versus the new, cold, modern age. The first act is full of playful scenes full of movement amongst Hal and Falstaff and company that is perfectly juxtaposed against the later scenes in the film concerning Henry the IV and the colder, harsher, future. The scenes in the Castle are rigid, somber, with architecture filling the frame rather than the first half of the film which focused more intimately on the faces and action of Hal and his companions. Welles’ blocking and cutting on movement greatly assist in the pace and kinetic energy of the story as it’s being told. Which, I must say, helped to keep me personally invested in the film. While, yes, the langauage is old and a bit difficult to understand at times, the actors all emote so effectively that you get the general idea of what’s happening and how the story is moving. I found this film to be far more approachable than Laurence Olivier’s adaption of “Henry V” for example. That film had few camera movements and felt as though it were itself a stageplay and didn’t quite use the medium of film to its advantage.
After the mesmerizingly well executed battle sequence halfway through the movie (more on that in just a bit), you may begin to have an inkling that this story, or at least this version of the story, isn’t one that may end in joyous good fortune, but rather, one of tragedy. It’s as much Orson Welles’ longing for a good pair of rose-colored glasses as it is for the simplicity of easier times gone by, and Falstaff embodies that wholeheartedly. The character is one of charming ego and pathetic lies, conjured from exaggeration and jovial, bawdy, good times. Which, in the light of modernity, cannot exist side by side such a serious and brutal world. That brutality is borne out in the expertly crafted war scenes in the middle of the film, which were particularly exciting. The whole sequence felt surprisingly modern in its depiction. Quick cuts with the editing amid the dirty, chaotic, action with many men dying in the mud felt revelatory for its time. The battle feels appropriately frantic with handheld shots and close ups of horrified faces, especially when you compare it to the earlier scene in which Falstaff and Hal commit a small scale robbery in the woods, filmed on gliding dolly shots set against a beautiful forest with a very playful mood. When you focus on how Falstaff is depicted during the battle, it’s as if the two time periods of England are merging. Falstaff running around cowardly in his huge armor and hiding from the fight- while intercut with rapid shots of men dying awful deaths, most of which is indescernable when trying to figure out who’s who on the battlefield. In this beginning of the new era, Falstaff is out of place. He does not fit in this violent and serious world of conflict. I must also take a moment to point out that though rotund and portly, Welles was shockingly nimble and quick on his feet in several scenes throughout the film. I did not expect that.
This film was far more complex and fascinating than I expected going in. It’s actually quite funny too. There’s a scene early on when Hal and Poins (Tony Beckley) turn Falstaff’s cheeky robbery on him by spooking him into running off, which turns into a great bit when they hear him greatly exaggerating his pursuers and his bravery in fending them off. I highly recommend this one, and if you can get past the archaic language barrier you’ll find a satisfying and endearing story. Orson Welles himself cites this as his favorite film to have worked on and completed, despite it being a financial failure. Check it out!
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|What is so special about marine microorganisms? Introduction to the marine microbiome - from diversity to biotechnological potential|Bolhuis, H.; Cretoiu, M.S. (2016). What is so special about marine microorganisms? Introduction to the marine microbiome - from diversity to biotechnological potential, in: Stal, L.J. et al. (Ed.) The marine microbiome. An untapped source of biodiversity and biotechnological potential. pp. 3-20. dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33000-6_1
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Marine microscopic life varies from single-celled organisms, simple multicellular, to symbiotic microorganisms encompassing all three domains of life: Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya as well as biologically active entities such as viruses and viroids. Together they form the Ocean’s “microbiome”. Over billions of years of evolution this microbiome developed a plethora of adaptations and lifestyles and participates in the fluxes of virtually all chemical elements. The importance of the marine microbiome for human society and for the functioning of our living planet is not disputed. In this introductory chapter we bring to your attention some of the most important features of the marine microbiome and try to answer the question what distinguishes it from other microbial systems. Our main goal is to urge the reader to find more information about the taxonomic and functional diversity by exploring the specific chapters. | <urn:uuid:052639fe-31c5-45bd-9687-b6ce3ae39584> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imis.nioz.nl/imis.php?module=ref&refid=282789 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.764985 | 403 | 2.75 | 3 |
The release of The Hunger Games finds Jennifer Lawrence in her second coming-of-age role, playing an eldest daughter who must become the “man of the house,” protecting the family when the parents cannot. Like Winter’s Bone's Ree Dolly, Katniss Everdeen must keep the family fed and care for a younger sibling since her father is dead and her mother is debilitated. On the one hand, these characters signal an important shift in gender dynamics as girls are assigned the type of pivotal role heretofore reserved for male children. On the other hand, both films reinforce more traditional gender politics regarding female weakness: While the fathers are physically absent (they are dead), the women are psychological deserters (they are mad). In some ways, then, the mother is far more culpable in her desertion and more contemptible in her helplessness than the father who is quite literally out of the picture.
Mother-blaming is rampant in western culture, as is well documented in the 1993 book, Mother Daughter Revolution. Patriarchy gorges itself upon the broken bonds between women in general, and mother/daughter pairs in particular. But maintaining and repairing these bonds can become a transformative space of resistance. As Alice Walker’s heroine from Posessing the Secret of Joy is told by a psychiatrist: “Negro women […] can never be analyzed effectively because they can never bring themselves to blame their mothers.”
While the mother in Winter’s Bone remains dead weight, Katniss’s mother recovers, and even returns to her role as village healer. Katniss, however, is slow to forgive her mother for having succumbed to a profound depression upon the death of her husband, leaving her daughters vulnerable and exposed. Indeed, it is only through the hunting and bartering efforts of Katniss, then only 11 years old, that the family is brought back from the brink of starvation. The gradual mending of the relationship makes it all the more powerful. It will be quite interesting to see the film treatment of this relationship; one hopes that Hollywood will get it right. | <urn:uuid:d06549a2-d74d-4ec7-a545-23eae5f37466> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://mediacommons.org/imr/comment/3197 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95641 | 439 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Lightning can be beautiful as well as scary. A discharge of lightning can muster up 200,000 amperes of electric current. Not impressive enough? It can be nearly 5 times hotter than the sun and spread to a neighboring cloud all the way to the ground. You don’t want to be anywhere near this bolt of raw, unbridled energy when it strikes.
You can’t prevent it from striking your home, but you can take protective measures.
The Lightning Process
According to the National Weather Service, the exact process of how lightning is created is still largely unknown. But one of the most accepted theories tells us the discharge of lightning occurs when the electric fields in a cloud separate.
What is called the cloud top, develops a positive charge, while the bottom develops a negative charge. Simultaneously, there is a positive charge developing on the ground where sharp ends of objects, like home roofs, building tops and trees, reside. Lightning then develops and strikes the most likely of these areas, (whichever has the most difference in charge).
The positive charges on the ground can also gather in large fields and meadows. The negative ions travel down towards the positive ions on the ground. When these two streams of opposite charges connect, lightning occurs.
Some areas display greater lightning activity than others. Unfortunately, New Mexico is one of the areas where lightning activity is very common. It’s not Florida, but unfortunately, there have been many death and injuries in New Mexico when it comes to lightning.
The main reason cited for this, by the national weather service, is people stay out too long as storms approach or develop. It’s also more likely your house will be struck by lightning if you are on a hilltop, rather than a hillside.
Interior and Exterior Home Protection
Having lightning rods near your house will not prevent lightning, per se, but they can divert the strike to happen away from your home. Lightning rods attached to your roof should be embedded in the ground via a cable.
Lightning can travel across the ground, so any tall trees planted in your yard should be away from your house. If you’re thinking of getting one, a lightning protection system should be installed by professionals. They take into consideration the landscaping, surrounding structures, and your house infrastructure before undertaking any installation work.
As for the interior of your house, lightning can mess with your electrical system – telephones, wireless routers, and other electronics.
Helpful tips to mitigate the risk of lighting are to unplug whatever you can from electrical sockets when you hear thunder in the distance. Instruct everyone in the house not to answer any phone calls, whether smartphone or landline. Also, keep away from all plumbing (sinks, toilets, and faucets) as the metal pipes make excellent conductors, which can cause some serious damage.
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I have an unknown (let's assume
uname -a returns nothing) Linux distribution I have root access to.
How can I verify, looking at file structure, that it is based on Debian?
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You can view if a file called
$ cat /etc/debian_version wheezy/sid
If it exists, you also can see the version of debian. Also distributions like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and so on, which are based on Debian have that file.
Actually most distributions have a release file you can also try and see what comes out:
Try to first look if a
/etc/debian_version exists. It should be there if it's a Debian based distro.
Usually, looking for
apt files could give a clue. For instance, look at the conf in
/etc/apt/ or if a
apt can be setup on another distro, or an admin could have set dummy files or directories for some compatibility reasons...
As stated in one answer of this post, the best would be to try to run:
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This, Fr. John says, has led to an increase in prostitution among underage children in the slum who are left to fend for themselves when their parents fall sick.
Other forms of crime such as substance abuse and child trafficking are also common in these parts of the city.
“There have been many cases of parents selling their children with as little as KSh2,000.00 (USD20) just to afford a meal and other basic amenities. Cases of child trafficking are very common in this place,” he says.
Also rife, are cases of broken families, according to the Kenyan priest who has welcomed abandoned women and children in the feeding programme.
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“There is a day that a woman came to this church carrying a naked new-born baby. The woman was crying, saying that the husband had abandoned them and that they had been sent away from their house because of unpaid bills,” he recounts, adding, “I have never seen a more desperate scenario. But I am glad that the volunteers came in and ensured that the woman and her child were fed and dressed and they had a place to stay.”
Before establishing base in Mukuru Kwa Njenga where the Spiritans cover other surrounding informal settlements including Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Sinai, Lunga Lunga and Pipeline, members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (the official name), who were the first Catholic missionary order to evangelize Kenya had been to other places, ministering to slaves and introducing the people to formal education and farming.
Established to operate in “places where the Church has difficulty in finding workers”, according to Fr. John, the Holy Ghost Fathers first set foot in Mombasa, a coastal town in Kenya, in 1889 at the height of slave business in Africa. They settled in the East African coastal town of Bagamoyo in Tanzania where they ministered in villages that were occupied by slaves on transit.
The name Bagamoyo in Swahili meant “where slaves left their hearts”, before they were ferried across the Indian ocean to work for their masters abroad.
The Spiritans’ mission, according to Fr. John, was to liberate these slaves while they were still in these villages along the coastal town.
“The villages in Bagamoyo were referred to as Freedom villages,” he narrates adding, “The work of the missionaries was to buy the slaves from their slave masters and to educate them in the villages without putting them at the risk of being resold in the event that they went back to their homes.”
At the end of slave trade in the late 19th century, the missionaries ventured inside the country, travelling on a train through major towns in Kenya before they settled in Nairobi where they immersed themselves in building schools and churches and introducing people in different places to farming.
The missionaries whose projects are anchored on Faith, Education and Agriculture are behind the construction of Holy Family Minor Basilica Cathedral church located at the heart of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the Holy Ghost Cathedral at Kenya’s coastal town, Mombasa and the Holy Ghost Cathedral, Machakos in the Catholic Dioceses of Machakos.
The Spiritans also constructed St. Mary’s School in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi where President Uhuru Kenyatta studied. Other schools include Mang’u High School and Kabaa High School, also top schools in Kenya.
The missionaries’ arguably biggest success, however, is the introduction of coffee farming in the East African country.
“Since we were the first ever missionary congregation in Kenya, it wasn’t easy getting people to jump on a faith they had never known before. But farming is what everybody could relate with. In fact, the missionaries had more success in promoting coffee farming than they did, faith,” says Fr. John.
Highlighting some of the projects undertaken by the group of volunteers at St Vincent de Paul Group, the Spiritan from Kenya's Catholic Diocese of Meru says, “Apart from the feeding programme, we mentor the needy economically and help them start small businesses to earn their livelihoods.”
The group also runs a water project and a toilet to provide free services to the slum residents.
In its future plans, the group intends to start distributing ready-made food in a daily feeding programme that will target the sick who can’t make it to the parish to get the weekly donations.
The biggest challenge that Fr. John faces every day is not being able to satisfy the needs of slum residents who come looking for assistance at the parish. This, he attributes to insufficient resources.
“The need is there. People in this part of the city are really suffering. But there is only so much we can do for them,” he says, adding, “At the moment, we rely solely on the Sunday offertory and a few individual donations from slum residents who don’t have much to offer but who donate deeply from their hearts. It is from these donations that we provide the needy with. But there are needs that we can’t meet. Such as facilitating treatment for the sick.”
Highlighting the frustrations, which he endures every day, the priest says, “It is heartbreaking not being able to meet all the needs of the people who come here trusting us to help them. But it also satisfies my heart that I give my whole every day. I chose to become a part of this community and now I must participate in their daily struggles.”
The Catholic priest who joined the Spiritan community of St. Mary’s Catholic Parish in Mukuru Kwa Njenga while serving as the financial administrator (bursar) of the Spiritan Province of Kenya had also ministered in the Archdiocese of Mombasa as well as Marigat in Kenya’s diocese of Nakuru.
Ordained in 2008 after completing his theology studies in Paris, France, Fr. John says the work with volunteers of St. Vincent de Paul Group is inspired by the message of the scriptures.
“The Gospel of Matthew Chapter 25, which says in part, ‘I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me’ inspires us every day when we attend to the needy in this deprived area,” the Kenyan Spiritan cleric says.
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A new class of violent thugs prowls our streets. Donning black clothes, masks and red bandanas, the so-called Anti-Fascist movement, or "antifa," issues threats and commits acts of violence, intimidation, and vandalism against those it brands as "fascists." The group represents one of the most extreme elements in the intensifying political turmoil of the past few years.
Fringe figures, such as white nationalists, are by no means the only target's of antifa's violence. At college campuses across the country, antifa has disrupted lectures by mainstream conservatives and libertarians, often brutally assaulting event organizers and attendees. At UC Berkeley, in February, 2017, antifa caused $100,000 in damages in an attempt to derail a scheduled appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos, violently punching, kicking, beating, and pepper spraying Trump supporters. At the University of Utah, antifa operatives stockpiled firearms and viciously attacked attendees of Ben Shapiro's campus lecture. The Department of Homeland Security and FBI have designated these actions by antifa as "domestic terrorist violence." Like other recognized terrorist organizations, antifa is a non-state entity that employs violence against civilians to advance a political agenda.
And yet, an antifa ring-leader, David Palumbo-Liu, holds court on Stanford's campus. Palumbo-Liu, a professor of Comparative Literature, is certainly no stranger to controversy, as he is one of the most prodigious anti-Israel academics in the country. Palumbo-Liu is a staunch advocate of the Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel and has praised the website "If Americans Knew," a site extensively associated with Holocaust deniers and white supremacists.
While many students understandably take offense at Palumbo-Liu's extreme views, he certainly has every right to promote his ideas in the classroom. However, Palumbo-Liu recently took his extremism beyond the realm of ideas. In August 2017, Palumbo-Liu, along with Purdue University professor, Bill Mullen, founded the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN). The group was founded to serve as "a big tent" for "anyone committed to fighting fascism."
Palumbo-Liu and Mullen can mince words all they want: their organization is undeniably a chapter of a terrorist group, championing the same kinds of violent resistance that have muzzled free speech across the country. CAN aims "to build large, unified demonstrations against fascists on campuses when they come." According to Mullen, CAN's purpose is to "to drive racists off campuses." Given the paucity of self-proclaimed "fascists" on college campuses, antifa has decided to designate anybody with whom they disagree -- namely, Trump supporters and conservative speakers -- as would-be totalitarians. Thus, this group's objective is not a noble fight against fascism and tyranny, but rather, the violent intimidation and forcible silencing of right-leaning students and faculty. On campuses across the nation, antifa has targeted, physically intimidated, and assaulted College Republican activists. All in the name of tolerance!
Do we really want to bring this type of vigilante thuggery to Stanford by enabling a professor who promotes it? Palumbo-Liu's Facebook page is filled with antifa propaganda. He has posted a number of photographs on his page from an August 27 incident at Berkeley, during which masked antifa brutally assaulted attendees of a peaceful pro-Trump rally. Palumbo-Liu has a history of encouraging violent and militant leftist tactics, including by his own students. In 2015, Palumbo-Liu congratulated several of his students for taking part in an anti-Israel protest that caused car crashes and blocked traffic on the San Mateo Bridge for an hour, allegedly preventing a 3-year-old child in medical distress from reaching the hospital. Apparently, inconveniencing and injuring people on their commute is how Palumbo-Liu and his anarcho-leftist pupils intend to win hearts and minds.
Moreover, given Palumbo-Liu's extensive connections to the most extreme elements of the anti-Israel movement, is it unreasonable to assume that pro-Israel students will soon be on the receiving end of antifa's violent outbursts? Antifa's intent to intimidate pro-Israel students is in plain sight: on the anti-Israel hate-site "Electronic Intifada," Bill Mullen, who worked closely with Palumbo-Liu to co-found CAN, wrote "we need to de-Zionize our campuses." William Jacobson, Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, has been tracking the BDS movement for years. In Jacobson's words, "The teaming of the BDS and Antifa movements is the single most dangerous development I have witnessed in the many years I have been covering campus BDS. Antifa will give BDS even more muscle to intimidate and threaten those who oppose the BDS agenda."
The antifa movement is a violent domestic terrorist movement. Contrary to popular usage, there has not been a true re-emergence of "fascism" in America. The fascists in Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy wanted to "kill democracy and establish a dictatorship,", a mission which clearly has nothing to do with the Trump agenda. While there has arguably been a resurgence in hate groups in America, using the label "fascists" to describe Trump supporters is a shamefully dishonest excuse for antifa members to commit appalling acts of political violence against the right at large. Antifa thugs who use domestic terrorist tactics to silence their political opposition act uncannily like the Brownshirts 80 years before them.
Palumbo-Liu claims that the organization only supports violence in self-defense for those being threatened by fascists. Are Stanford students really being endangered by bigots? When was the last time a hate crime took place on campus? Though Stanford has seen hate-driven vandalism, why should antifa replace the rule of law in investigating such acts? Or perhaps Palumbo-Liu simply views speech he disagrees with as a form of violence that must be countered with actual violence. Moreover, Palumbo-Liu's definition of "fascist" is remarkably broad. He provided us a hazy definition of fascism by Shane Burley: "inequality through mythological and essentialized identity" and augmented this definition with "elements of what might be called 'classical' fascism," including "structural phenomena like the convergence of powerful state and business interests that consolidate power away from citizens and into special interests" which concentrate wealth in the hands of the few.
But this definition is incredibly broad and seems to encompass most progressive causes. According to the rest of the antifa movement, popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro counts as a "fascist." Does a speech by him constitute an "act of violence" against which "self-defense" is justified? If antifa are to claim such a right, they need to clearly define "fascist," not excuse this question by claiming that "we need to pay attention to what is happening, not the labels that we feel are most fitting" as Palumbo-Liu claimed in a Campus Reforminterview. Labeling a person or idea as "fascist" without taking the responsibility to carefully and narrowly define the term is dangerous. When we asked Palumbo-Liu what fascist activities required self-defense, he pointed to the online activities of alt-right members like doxxing and harassment. However, if an end to doxxing - a reasonable cause to campaign for - is truly the goal, why not start a "Campus Anti-Doxxing Network"? Why instead associate with a group representing physical violence?
When we asked Palumbo-Liu whether he endorsed violence in the name of anti-fascism, he said, "damaging buildings and attacking people physically...is not what we advocate." However, violence has always been a crucial tactic of the antifa movement: the American public commonly associates the anti-fascist movement with club-wielding attackers dressed in black. While the tactics of the "Campus Antifa Network" may not be violent, why would it claim the name of a known violent organization? It is a stain on the reputation of Stanford University that a professor like Palumbo-Liu is a leader in a movement whose spirit and tactics usually represent the opposite of what universities should exemplify: the civil exchange of ideas.
Instead, conservative students know that he affiliates himself with a network of people who believe themselves justified in violently silencing their opposition. There is no way to reconcile David Palumbo-Liu's position as a professor teaching students with his status as the campus representative of an ideology known for inspiring savage assaults of students holding opposing political opinions. David Palumbo-Liu has every right to express his views in the classroom, and opposing racism is certainly a worthy cause. However, assuming a leadership position in a movement whose activities have been classified as domestic terrorism by the DHS and FBI is utterly intolerable. David Palumbo-Liu should condemn and dissociate from the Campus Antifa Network immediately, or else resign as a professor at Stanford University. | <urn:uuid:74aed3a5-1a72-4c20-8f0a-8e0930e3c4a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/25557/antifa-thugs-find-a-champion-and-leader-in | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963145 | 1,879 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Efficient Technique— Loading AJAX
When you are building an app that makes a lot of AJAX calls, the initial loading can be very slow. right?
So, whats the work around that?
A better way is, write the code such that, in initial loading only a part of data is loaded, so that the UI structure becomes complete and it also doesn’t take much time in loading.
For example, say, we have a Movie Selector App, that has a search feature, which lists all the type, genre, location, production house, director, etc as search field.
Suppose, all the fields are combo-box fields, that populate data based on AJAX request, based on users keystroke, with the help of an api call.
What is the best scenario is, make call to all endpoints, with a limited no. of records, say 5, and populate with those. if having doubt, that which 5 initial records we should use, then return first 5 results from database.
5 records for each will populate the combo-box field, and rest records can be fetched on, as the user clicks the text box, that is, focus gain on field.
So, mostly, just two AJAX call for a field. It will have a improved performance and better user experience.
Of course, you might prefer other approach, of using debounce logic and call the API on each keystroke, after debounce waiting period, but again, if using react, it wont make sense to fetch records each time, when we have functionality to store data in hooks like, useState().
Key Take Away: while populating a combo-box like field using AJAX, based on user input, always make just 2 Ajax call. first one while initial loading of whole page with a limit of say, 5 records, and second, while focus gain on field, fetch all data (mostly, when data is not much, and regular ajax call is expensive. | <urn:uuid:fe4a08a4-c4f3-416a-9518-2cde9b94cd19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hari-kishore.medium.com/efficient-technique-loading-ajax-b60ea1257357?source=user_profile---------4---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931994 | 414 | 2.21875 | 2 |
At around noon on a Saturday in late February, Bill Dunleavy was inside downtown Los Angeles’ Superchief Gallery with four other people when he felt the blast.
“I thought it was a magnitude nine earthquake,” Dunleavy, the gallery’s cofounder, says on a recent video call. “I was standing in the middle of the gallery and I just watched all the paintings on the wall blast off the wall and land in the middle of the room.”
Portions of wall cracked. Furniture fell. Glass shattered. Dunleavy recalls running outside and being told head back into the gallery. When he did, he grabbed hard drives—”That way, we wouldn’t lose our entire history of everything we’ve done,” he explains—with the understanding that the building might burn. The Kohler Street space Superchief called home for six years had been rocked by an explosion at an adjacent building.
The Superchief crew was fortunate for a number of reasons. No one inside the gallery was injured. The art that was destroyed in the blast was covered by insurance. But, while the building didn’t burn, it was damaged to the extent that the they could no longer operate out of that space. Then, on the day they finished moving out the building, Los Angeles city officials handed down a COVID-19 stay-at-home order.
In early November, Superchief made its L.A. comeback with the opening of Wishful Thinking, a collaborative exhibition from Kristen Liu-Wong and Luke Pelletier, at 1700 Naud in Chinatown as part of the Blue Ribbon Studios’ Artist in Residency Program, an effort from Pabst Blue Ribbon and the quarterly magazine Monster Children to support artists during the pandemic.
Liu-Wong and Pelletier’s show, their second collaborative exhibition for Superchief, had been in the works for two years. Dunleavy gives a brief tour of the exhibition on our video chat. It’s a necessary, escapist collection in the midst of a devastating year, filled with bright colors, feasts, vacations, and sex. The title painting depicts an imagined appraisal of the show’s flyer on Antiques Roadshow. It’s value: $20,000. Dunleavy says that there was concern about presenting such a joyful show at the time of the election—you know, just in case. “We gambled and we won because Trump did not win the election,” says Dunleavy, “and everyone got to be extremely happy come time for the show to open.”
“Wishful Thinking” launched by appointment only November 7; those slots filled up fast and much of the work was sold. (The exhibit closes December 2.)
“Once your gallery is gone, all of a sudden, everybody gets very nostalgic for it.”
Founded in New York by Dunleavy and Edward Zipco, Superchief opened its Los Angeles branch two years later. Over the years, the gallery gained a reputation for attention-grabbing shows, like photographer Parker Day’s “Icons” exhibition in 2017 and Sarah Sitkin’s hyperreal “Bodysuits” collection, which opened the following year. But, with the double-whammy of the explosion and the pandemic, Superchief had to regroup. “We were spending a lot of time just dedicated to being a community space and a place to bring people together in person,” Dunleavy says. “And once that wasn’t possible anymore, it was a fun exercise to figure out how to do things for the community online.”
That meant focusing more on content creation. Dunleavy launched a podcast series called Chiefin’, which features lengthy interviews with artists, like Liu-Wong and Pelletier. In October, he put the spotlight on Albert Reyes, the L.A.-based artist known for the Halloween haunts he’s built in galleries and in his own backyard. This year, Reyes had to rethink his annual event as well, due to the pandemic. He built the haunted house in his front yard so that people could drive by and catch a glimpse of what has become a tradition. “I’m a huge fan of Albert and his dedication to what he does and all the incarnations of his maze,” says Dunleavy, adding that he tried to channel the late public television host Huell Howser in his interview.
Connecting with their community online also meant engaging in activism. During the Black Lives Matter protests, Superchief used its platform to spread news and information for followers in Los Angeles and New York. “Our Instagram viewership went up quite a lot as a result of that,” says Dunleavy. “And I think it’s been interesting to watch people who came to us through activism start to decide if they’re into the art we show as well.”
As for the future of Superchief in Los Angeles, Dunleavy is open to working on other pop-up events. He’s also continuing content creation. In the midst of this year’s upheaval, Dunleavy says that he learned the importance of documenting everything. “Once your gallery is gone, all of a sudden, everybody gets very nostalgic for it,” he says. “I just wish I had filmed everything and that I had a whole documentary ready to go right now.”
A new permanent space will likely have to wait until after the pandemic. Dunleavy says that after the explosion, which he describes as “super traumatizing,” he’s not planning to go back to the old neighborhood. “I don’t want to try to recreate our old location,” he says. “I’m excited to evolve and be a little bit different and a little more dressed up for the next round.”
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The power Amplifier IC is an indispensable part of various audio equipment. Its function is mainly to amplify the weaker signal input from the audio equipment, and then generate enough current to drive the speaker to reproduce the sound. Due to consideration of power, impedance, distortion, dynamics, and different use ranges and control and adjustment functions, different power amplifiers have different internal signal processing, circuit design and production processes.
Power Amplifier is abbreviated as power amplifier, commonly known as “amplifier”. It is the most basic equipment in the audio system. Its task is to amplify the weak electrical signal from the signal source (in the professional audio system, it is from the mixer) to drive the speaker to produce sound. .
The function of the power amplifier is to amplify the weak signal from the sound source or the pre-amplifier to promote the sound of the speaker. The role of a good sound system amplifier is indispensable | <urn:uuid:63effdbf-6193-4cd1-a1ed-ec9c7fd7dbb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theicinfo.com/amplifier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.926863 | 193 | 3.40625 | 3 |
It’s the early 1970s, a time when the Carpenters are playing on the radio, the Milk Tray man epitomizes sophistication and, in the small town outside Belfast where teacher Cushla Lavery lives with her mother, bombings and beatings fill the headlines. At 24, she is able to recall a time before the Troubles, unlike her class of seven-year-olds at the Catholic primary school, whose vocabularies already include words such as gelignite and internment.
Theirs is a “mixed” town, but community relations teeter on a knife edge. At the family’s pub, run by Cushla’s brother, Eamonn, Paras pointedly grind their cigarette butts out in the carpet and the “ould lads” propping up the bar reminisce about the second world war, “because this war was unspeakable”.
In trespasses, her first novel, acclaimed short-story writer Louise Kennedy sets herself the challenge of encapsulating those unspeakable times and the powerlessness felt by ordinary people caught in the crossfire. She does so with skill, combining unflinching authenticity with narrative dexterity and a flair for detail, all wrapped up in a moving love story – two, really.
The first tracks Cushla’s affair with Michael Agnew, an older, married Protestant; the second of her her involvement in the home life of bullied pupil Davy McGeown, whose earnest goofiness steals her heart from her. Over the course of spring and summer, these two distinct plotlines converge to devastating effect.
Kennedy, a fiftysomething former chef, spent much of her childhood in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. She makes potent symbolic use of visual details, capturing, for instance, the mothers waiting outside school, their “touching umbrellas like a badly made quilt”, and her idiomatic dialogue gives her prose real verve.
Cushla’s mother, the gin-soaked Gina, has a particularly fine line in insults: Helen Mirren, seen on a TV chatshow, is a “dirty article”. Cushla herself, though self-conscious in the company of Michael’s accomplished friends, speaks with a perfect blend of tough humor and vulnerable sincerity. “The state of it,” she says, as they drive past the much-bombed Europa hotel.
Michael, meanwhile, becomes a handy mouthpiece for setting the Troubles in historical context. He also voices the sheer claustrophobia of living in a world where you’re defined first and foremost by religious affiliation. “It’s not about what you do here,” he reminds Cushla, “it’s about what you are.” Sure enough, circumstances will leave her acts of well-intentioned kindness to Davy’s family looking as twisted as barbed wire.
trespasses is framed by an encounter that takes place decades later. Cushla, now elderly and still surprised by the fact, stands contemplating a sculpture commemorating a friend of the artist, murdered in the Troubles, when a hand reaches out to touch her arm. Though restitution is all but impossible, together the sculpture and the chance meeting provide a sense of resolution. It’s a scene as deftly calibrated as the drama that precedes it. | <urn:uuid:714f23d8-393d-4721-9e5a-ccd8d1317266> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vclokomotiv.com/2022/04/10/trespasses-by-louise-kennedy-review-love-among-the-troubles-fiction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951985 | 715 | 1.875 | 2 |
For all those who love instant ramen, prepare yourselves - here is your mecca. Located a short walk from Ikeda Station on the outskirts of suburban Osaka; the Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen museum is an absolute must see for all the devout followers of the instant ramen craze, and for all those who want to experience a slice, or should I say spoonful of the bizarre workings of Japanese society.
In the late 1950's in a small smack in outer Ikeda, Momofuku Ando created a product that would become a staple of the Japanese diet for years to come. Ando was also to go on and invent cup noodles thirteen years later. The museum, which is admittance free is dedicated to the work of Ando and the wonderful world of ramen.
Kids can roam free on the first floor which has an array of interactive displays including a recreation of Ando's research shack, in which guests can watch the creation of the first instant noddle product. Equally interesting, is the Instant Noodle Tunnel, which tells the story of how instant ramen has evolved form a singular product into a global craze.
Guests also have the option to watch a film, created in classical (and hilarious) Japanese animation depicting the life cycle of a singular noodle from field to cup. The first floor is also home to the transparent and human sized cup of instant noodles, perfect for all those happy snappers wanting to document their experience.
The second floor is where visitors can put their new found knowledge of instant ramen to the test. For ¥300, the museum offers patrons the opportunity to create their own unique cup of instant ramen. Guests are filed through to a sitting hall in which they are allowed the opportunity to decorate their cup in any way they see fit. After the decorating phase (which I am told can take up to an hour), patrons are ushered to a bench top in which they are allowed to choose one broth and four ingredients from a variety on offer.
The final product is then professionally sealed for guests to enjoy in their own time, however the museum recommends consumption within thirty days.
Whilst most of the signage is in Japanese, for a ¥2,000 deposit (which you get back) an audio guide can be hired. There also exists a souvenir shop selling an array of crazy keepsakes as you would expect from any museum completely dedicated to instant ramen.
Umeda Station --> Ikeba Station. Hankyu Line ¥270
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Eat Smart to Lose Weight With Strong Motivation
A few pounds of excess body fat are not health risk for most people. However when people follow a trend to consume more calories than they burn, more and more fat is accumulated in their bodies. Therefore overeating is a problem of overweight, one of the reasons why there are a large number of patients nowadays. In case you are the one who is overweight, you are likely to have health problems such as heart disease, certain types of cancer, stroke, diabetes, and having overweight can also cause problems such as sleep apnea.
Eating smart is how you eat for your healthy it’s not only what you eating daily. Your food alternatives are able to reduce your risk of diseases. Moreover to learn the habits of a healthy diet can improve your health by increasing your energy, sharpen the memory and the stabilization of your emotion. Extend your range of healthy food choices and learn to plan advance to create and maintain satisfying and healthy diet. When you choose to eat a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables, you will get a wide range of nutrients that are essential for your health. Every color offers something different, such as vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that fight disease, which work together to protect your health. Of course you can gain these nutrients from only fruits and vegetables, pills or supplements are not able to give you these nutrients in the healthy combinations nature intended.
Do you have a strong reason to lose weight? It must be easier way to focus on your purpose. If you have a strong motivation in your mind as be healthy or be attractive bride before your wedding. However the first thing you have to do after you decide to lose weight is to believe in yourself. Then you will be successful surely.
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Top 5 things we are doing wrong in our daily life
१२ मंसिर २०७५, बुधबार १३:५२
Suyog Dhakal-These are the top 5 things we are doing wrong daily or let’s say top 5 things yet to be right in our daily routine. Maybe you didn’t know you were going through life making things so much more difficult for yourself, Let’s know about those things, shall we? Let’s open this list, 5 things you never knew you were doing wrong.
1. Eating an Apple
We all know the fact that “An Apple a day, Keeps a doctor away”,don’t we ? But for most of us, apple is somehow tricky fruit to eat; you know what I mean ?
Research shows that the average person discards 30 percent of an apple. If you also want to do that, bite into its side. If you don’t want to be that wasteful, reduce the amount you discard by eating it top to bottom for maximum apple consumption. Yeah not like Steve Job’s apple; rather start biting from the bottom.
2. Collecting phone numbers
We all are well equipped with a mobile phone and each of them have their own typical numbers, don’t they ?
Saving the right number is very important so here is an easy trick; Find out if they gave you the right phone number;read it back to them with one number changed. If they correct you, they gave you the right number. It’s simple, isn’t it ?
3. Brushing your teeth
Brushing your teeth straight after the meal does more harm than good, doctors say. You should never clean your teeth directly after having a meal, because you’ll push acid deeper into your enamel.
Also – don’t brush too hard or for too long. Rigorous brushing can damage your gums.
Keep off your dentists, keep smiling, click click.
Our bodies aren’t designed to sit in the straight-backed chairs we’re used to because they cause the back muscles to relax, meaning the spine then takes the entire weight of the upper torso. The extra stress can put pressure on our spinal disks and eventually lead to chronic back pain, Scottish and Canadian researchers discovered.
It’s actually healthier to sit on a stool or a recliner – but perhaps not so practical for the office.
So what about changing chairs for avoiding back pains?
5. Untangling your headphones
You need your headphones desperately but then you realize that both the edges seem like having sex and entangled so much in each other that your irritation doubles with the desperateness. So here is the trick to avoid those frustrating knots. To make sure your earphones don’t get tangled, try using bread ties and keep them in place.
For something a bit less fiddly, learn this trick: wrap the wires in a figure of eight around your index and little finger. When you have about 15cm left of wire, wrap it around the centre of the figure of eight.
This was it, see you in next episode with some other interesting facts.
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Inauguration of School Building of Deepak Secondary School, Ghiring rural Municipality, Tanahun District, Nepal built under Government of India grant
As part of our continued commitment to support disaster relief efforts of Nepal, Excellency Naveen Srivastava, Ambassador of India to
Inauguration of School Building for Shree Secondary School, Buddhabhumi Municipality, Kapilvastu District, Nepal built under Government of India grant assistance.
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On Thursday, October 26, 2017, President Donald Trump announced on a private event declaring the opioid crisis a “nationwide public health emergency”. The event was held in the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C.
He also stated that “as American’s we cannot allow this to continue”.
The current opioid crisis had been considered a scourge that, according to statistics, kills approximately 100 Americans a day. The declaration, which lasts for 90 days and is renewable, comes with no dedicated dollars, according to Administration officials. Rather, the declaration will allow them to use already existing funds to fight the crisis better. They also said that they will urge Congress to add more cash to an unreplenished public health emergency fund during the annual end-of-the-year budget negotiations.
Attorney General Blames Opioid Crisis on Cannabis
At a forum hosted by the Heritage Foundation just across town from the White House, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions blatantly blames cannabis as the cause of the current Opioid
Crisis in the country. He advises Americans to heed the advice of former First Lady Nancy Reagan back in the 80’s to “just say no” to drugs.
“I do think this whole country needs not be so lackadaisical about drugs.” Sessions said in the forum. He also added that “When you talk to police chiefs, consistently they say much of addiction starts with marijuana.”
He also added that we as Americans needs to “re-establish, first, a view that you should say no” as well as stating that “people should say no to drugs.” However, the said 80’s reference has its own history, with entire school districts abandoning the program and even a 1994 study that concluded that such actions were ineffective.
Sessions, a long-time known opposition regarding marijuana legalization also stated about how several U.S. states who have moved towards marijuana decriminalization are still under Federal law.
“I do not believe there is any argument that because a state legalizes marijuana that the federal law against marijuana is no longer existence,” he said. “I do believe that the federal laws clearly are in effect in all 50 states, and we will do our best to enforce the laws as we are required to do so.”
Persecution Against all Evidence
Even though Sen. Orrin Hatch, a respected, conservative, Republican Senator talked about the “possible benefits of medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids” last September, yesterdays attack against cannabis usage, both medical and recreational, is simply biased and uncalled for.
Sessions blatant accusation of cannabis as the primary suspect in the opioid crisis personifies Sen Hatch’s statement made last month that in our zeal to enforce the law, we too often blind ourselves to the medicinal benefits of natural substances like cannabis.”
Sessions, as well as other politicians who oppose the legalization of medical marijuana, should heed Sen Hatch’s statement regarding the MEDS act:
“Our country has experimented with a variety of state solutions without properly delving into the weeds on the effectiveness, safety, dosing, administration and quality of medical marijuana. All the while, the federal government strains to enforce regulations that sometimes do more harm than good. To be blunt, we need to remove the administrative barriers preventing legitimate research into medical marijuana, which is why I’ve decided to roll out the MEDS Act.” | <urn:uuid:7a196d02-2203-43be-95da-44bcbbf054fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theseedlingtruck.com/sessions-blames-marijuana-recent-trump-announcement-regarding-opioid-emergency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966098 | 731 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Every picture tells a story. This one is about the sad story of a Crimson-winged Finch, a rare visitor that was found trapped on a limestick a few days ago. But not all stories end in tragedy.
This beautiful little fella was lucky enough to have been found by a concerned citizen who saved the bird and brought it to us. The photo was taken a few minutes after its release, when it had flown free and perched on a nearby tree branch.
While this bird was saved from certain death, others are not as fortunate. This is only the 4th record of the Crimson-winged Finch in Cyprus, and, unfortunately, the 155th species that has ‘made’ it to the list of bird species affected by illegal bird trapping.
Considering the fact that around 400 bird species have been recorded in Cyprus, of which only 280 are regularly occurring, the particular importance of the number 155 becomes hard to ignore. The responsibility becomes even heavier, when 78 out of the 155 species affected by illegal bird trapping are listed as threatened by the EU Birds Directive and / or BirdLife International.
Hundreds of thousands of birds are killed every year in Cyprus as the result of illegal bird killing. Birds already face a multitude of threats: habitat loss, intensive agriculture, climate change, to name but a few, and illegal bird killing is an added threat.
The ‘black market’ of illegal bird trapping is in the order of 15 million every year, as estimated by the Game and Fauna Service. Trapping is no longer a tradition, as current activity levels reveal an industrialised, large scale and profitable business. Illegal bird trapping creates a bad image for Cyprus which in turn has a negative impact on tourism: yearly losses in revenue range between 40 and 100 million euro, based on a study by Terra Cypria done in 2011, as sensitised tourists choose other destinations. In the end of February 2017 a total of three arrests have been made regarding illegal bird trapping and drugs, which shows that organised crime is also linked to illegal bird trapping.
Bird trapping is illegal according to national legislation (Law 152(I)/2003), by the European Birds Directive (Directive 2009/147/EC) and International Conventions (Bern Convention of 1979 and Bonn Convention of 1979). Legislation stipulates fines up to €17,000 and/or up to 3 years imprisonment, but in reality the fines are not deterrent as they average €800.
BirdLife Cyprus continues relentlessly its campaign against the serious and persistent problem of illegal bird trapping, with its systematic monitoring programme, lobbying actions as well as educational and awareness raising actions.
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Donald Trump's inauguration crowds weren't exactly huge.
While the ceremony is always filled with extravagance and scores of people, it appeared the incoming President saw significantly smaller crowds than presidents past.
Trump on Friday was sworn in as the nation's 45th President of the United States outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., with crowds failing to fill the grassy area of the National Mall until minutes before the swearing-in ceremony.
Reuters had estimated approximately 900,000 people would attend the 2017 inauguration, a far cry from the record-breaking 1.8 million people that turned out to celebrate the election of the first black president of the United States eight years ago.
However, an estimate released later Friday by Dan Gross, a New York City communications director who formerly worked with Obama said that only about 250,000 people had attended Friday's events.
Some potential Trump attendees may have been turned off by the rainy January day, though President Barack Obama's supporters showed up in spite of the winter cold.
On Jan. 20, 2009, temperatures climbed to a chilly 28 degrees, making it one of the coldest inaugruations to date. Trump's crowds sat through a 47 degree afternoon.
According to reports, the number of buses that applied for parking permits for the 2017 inauguration was a meager 200, while in 2009 there were more than 3,000 parking requests.
During his inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial Thursday, Trump thanked his supporters for coming by the "thousands and thousands," but the turnout hardly compares to the scores of onlookers at the concert nearly a decade earlier honoring Obama.
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Time Travel concept is definitely fascinated by those of us who watch The Flash, the TV series etc. According to a recent research published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, we may be closer to achieving time travel than ever before. This concept is not new to us. Time travel was highly popularized after HG Wells who left behind the very first concept of a machine. This would enable the user to travel through time. People all over the world have been obsessed with travelling through time after HG Wells’ book “The Time Machine” was released. It did not help that Hollywood made several movies about time travel, the most famous one being the “Back to the Future” trilogy!
Time Travel : A Mathematical Model
A US Scientist has created a mathematical model that will theoretically allow people to travel through time. This is the closest humankind has come to ever travelling through time. The Scientist, Ben Tippett is from the University of British Columbia in Canada. He created the model that would allow time travel using physics and maths. Tippett assures that time travel is possible at least theoretically, “People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it’s not possible because we don’t actually do it. But, mathematically, it is possible.”
Tippett says that imagining space as a three dimensional surface with time as a separate dimension is in itself incorrect. Tippett feels that time is a part of space and makes up the fabric of space time. In this four dimensional version, all directions are connected on a common space-time continuum.
Einstein’s Special Relativity
Albert Einstein first proposed his theory of Special Relativity in 1915. His theory stated that gravitational fields are caused by distortions in the fabric of space-time. Einstein’s theory was only theoretical until recently however, when gravitational waves were detected from colliding black holes. These black holes are billions of light years away. Gravitational waves were detected by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. LIGO is a team of researchers and scientists from around the world.
Tippett talks about curved Space time in his research. Around a massive object, gravity is huge and this will bend the fabric of space time around the object. This is what makes planets orbit stars. Tippett also describes his model of time travel which revolves around the curvature of space time. He says, “The time direction of the space-time surface also shows curvature. There is evidence showing the closer to a black hole we get, time moves slower”.
Tippett also says, “”My model of a time machine uses the curved space-time to bend time into a circle for the passengers, not in a straight line. That circle takes us back in time”. While Tippett has created a feasible model which makes time travel possible, it is only a theoretical model. The US scientist feels that his model will only work if exotic materials can be discovered.
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I’m trying to calculate different shading factors using different types of geometry and the components “LB Sky Matrix” and “LB Incident Radiation”. I wanna make it so the user can choose to get monthly values (A list of 12 shading factors) and hourly values (a list of 8760). Maybe daily as well. My problem is that when I input a list of hoys, for 0…8759 (So every hour of a year), into the sky matrix and the into incident radiation the results are cumulative. So I get one total value for the whole year and not one value for every single hour. I can fix this by grafting my list and creating the skymatrix for every single hour 8760 times, but it takes too much time. I’m really hoping there is an easy fix since I need the hourly values for precise analysis further on. I hope I made myself clear
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Using Xgl on SUSE Linux
- 1 openSUSE 10.2
- 2 SUSE Linux 10.1
- 2.1 Getting the Latest Packages
- 2.2 Setup
- 2.3 Using and Configuring Compiz
- 2.4 Troubleshooting
- 2.5 KDE Users
- 3 See Also
- 4 External Links
Using desktop effects with Xgl/Compiz on openSUSE 10.2 is really easy. The packages you need are installed by default.
First you have to make sure you have 3D acceleration. Some ATi cards are supported by the open source radeon driver - but in most cases you'll need the proprietary ATi or Nvidia drivers. See NVIDIA or this ATi howto
Enabling Xgl/Compiz with default plugins only
|Works on both KDE and GNOME|
Run the following command as root:
Reboot your computer and you'll have desktop effects with Compiz/Xgl. However you'll only have the default plugins loaded, which doesn't include the popular wobbly windows.
Loading Xgl/Compiz with selected plugins
|If you are using the KDE Desktop Environment: |
compiz <plugins to load> & gtk-window-decorator &
There are many plugins, and you need to be careful, because some of them depend on the others and the order in which they're loaded is important too. Here's a list of the available plugins in an order that works:
dbus decoration minimize place wobbly fade plane cube rotate switcher move resize screenshot scale zoom water
The above steps are automated by an external graphical tool called opensuse-xgl-settings that you might want to try.
|If you are using the GNOME Desktop Environment: |
New Xgl/Compiz Packages
SUSE Linux 10.1
We have tried to make Xgl/Compiz installation and configuration relatively easy on SUSE Linux 10.1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (at least when compared to using Xgl on older versions of SUSE Linux). However, the software is still very young, and rough around the edges. This page explains what is involved in setting up Xgl on SUSE Linux, and a few of the problems you might encounter while doing so.
Getting the Latest Packages
There have already been several important updates to the Xgl packages since SUSE 10.1 was released, and even a few bug fixes since the release of SLED 10. Use YaST2 or the Software Updater tool to make sure you have the latest compiz, xgl, xgl-hardware-list, gnome-session and libwnck packages.
A fork of compiz, known as beryl, and its configuration tools is available at beryl-project.org. SUSE packages for Factory tree as well as SUSE LINUX 10.1 are available by the openSUSE buildservice. A straight forward tutorial on how to install the latest beryl packages is also available.
In the buildservice you can also find beta compiz packages and third-party plugins backported from beryl. These are not included in the standard SUSE packages (and therefore they may also have bugs that don't exist there).
If you want to use beryl, or try out compiz on AIGLX running openSUSE10.2, you also should add the latest xorg7.2 packages from buildservice.
(While most of what is described below will still work with openSUSE 10.2, a much simpler method of getting a basic KDE/XGL/Compiz setup running is described in the official openSUSE 10.2 documentation)
Xgl is not activated automatically when you install it. To turn it on, run the "Desktop Effects" control panel. (Available from the Control Center in GNOME, or by running the command "gnome-xgl-settings" from a terminal or the Run dialog in KDE.)
The Desktop Effects tool will analyze your system and attempt to determine whether or not you can run Xgl. If it finds anything wrong, it will advise you on what actions can be taken.
Note: "gnome-xgl-settings" is part of "compiz-gnome" package.
Supported and Unsupported Video Cards
Novell has tested a variety of popular video cards and embedded video chipsets from ATI, Intel, and NVIDIA to find out which ones work well with Xgl. The Desktop Effects tool will tell you one of four things:
- Your graphics card is supported.
- Xgl should work fine.
- Your graphics card will not work with Xgl.
- The Desktop Effects tool will not let you enable Xgl if you have a card that either (a) has no support for 3D acceleration, or (b) is known to cause Xgl to crash or garble the contents of the screen while performing basic operations.
- Your graphics card is not supported, but may work.
- The card isn't completely useless with Xgl, but either (a) it's annoyingly slow, or (b) you may experience crashes or garbled graphics when doing "tricky" operations (eg, spinning the cube while playing full-screen video).
- Your graphics card is not in Xgl's database.
- The Desktop Effects tool will still do its best to help you configure Xgl, but you may or may not be successful. We are continuing to test new cards and will be releasing updated versions of the xgl-hardware-list package as we gather more information.
In some cases, the problems with certain cards may turn out to be due to bugs in Xgl, or bugs in the video drivers, so if you are having problems, make sure you have the latest versions of all the relevant packages.
The next piece of information the Desktop Effects tool provides is whether or not 3D acceleration is enabled on your card. With some cards, this will be enabled automatically. With others, you will need to take special action; the Desktop Effects tool will do its best to help you here.
Enabling 3D Acceleration with Intel chipsets
On supported Intel chipsets, enabling 3D acceleration is just a matter of checking a box in SaX2. If Desktop Effects finds that you don't have 3D acceleration enabled, it will offer to run SaX2 to let you fix it. In the original release of SUSE 10.1, clicking the "Run SaX2" button will actually send you to SaX2, and you have to check the correct button (at the bottom of the page) yourself and click OK. With more recent packages, the "Run SaX2" button will make the change for you using libsax.
Enabling 3D Acceleration with ATI or NVIDIA cards
All supported ATI and NVIDIA cards require proprietary video drivers written by the manufacturers in order to support 3D Acceleration. If the Desktop Effects tool sees that you don't have the drivers installed, it will offer to run the Software Update tool to install them for you.
On SLED10, this should work if you registered with Novell during the installation. If you did not register then, you can do it now by using the "Novell Customer Center Configuration" tool in YaST. This will add the ATI and NVIDIA driver repositories to your YaST/ZMD installation sources list, so that the Desktop Effects tool will be able to find the packages it needs.
On SUSE 10.1, the easiest thing to do is to just install the drivers by hand before running Desktop Effects. You can find ATI drivers at http://www.ati.com and NVIDIA drivers at ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell/. (Alternate instructions for installing the binary drivers by hand can be found at http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/.)
If you have an ATI card, several options must be set in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf in order for Xgl to work reliably. The version of the Desktop Effects tool that shipped with SUSE 10.1 will not make these changes itself; This is one of the reasons you should install the Factory Distribution compiz package before trying to use Xgl. The Using Xgl on older versions of SUSE Linux page has details on the changes that need to be made if you can't install the Factory packages. Some help for setting up ATI-card can be found at http://en.opensuse.org/Howto/ATI_Driver
Enabling 3D Acceleration with other cards
If the Desktop Effects tool doesn't recognize your video card, it might think that 3D Acceleration is disabled even though you know it's really enabled. Since Desktop Effects won't let you enable Xgl unless it thinks 3D Acceleration is enabled, this can be a problem.
To override the autodetected setting for 3D Acceleration, hold down the Shift key and then double-click on the word "Disabled" next to "3D Acceleration". Only do this if you are certain that 3D Acceleration is enabled on your machine. (For the record, you can also do this to change its idea of whether or not your video card is supported, but that's even less recommended.)
Enabling and Disabling Xgl
If you have a supported (or at least, "usable") video card, and have managed to enable 3D Acceleration, then button at the bottom will read "Enable Desktop Effects". Clicking this button will (after asking for the root password), configure your machine to use Xgl, and then log you out so it can restart the X server.
If you later decide that you no longer want to use Xgl, you can come back to the Desktop Effects tool and disable it, which will reverse the process.
If you try to enable Xgl, but the login screen doesn't come back up successfully for some reason, you can use the command gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl as root to disable Xgl from the command line. (You will probably also need to do rcxdm restart to restart X and the login screen.)
Using and Configuring Compiz
Compiz is the window manager and compositing manager for Xgl that provides all of the visual effects associated with Xgl.
Using Compiz with the GNOME desktop
If you were previously using metacity as your window manager in GNOME (the default setting), you will automatically be switched to compiz when you log in after enabling Xgl. Compiz defaults to using most of the same keybindings and mouse bindings as metacity for operations like "move window", "maximize", etc. If you have changed your metacity keybindings in the "Shortcuts" control panel, you will need to go back and change them again for compiz. Likewise, if you have made changes in the "Windows" control panel (eg, to enable "sloppy focus"), you will need to make those changes again.
Using Compiz with the KDE desktop
First, make sure you are logged into KDE just like normal. Right click on the Panel. Select "Configure Panel", then "Taskbar". Make sure "Show windows from all desktops" is checked. (Currently this is required for proper functioning of the taskbar under Compiz.)
Now you need to create two files that will let KDE know that you want another window manager (compiz) instead of the default kwin. Open the kate editor as root: KDE Launch (green SUSE logo), Run Command: kdesu kate (you will be prompted for the root password). Copy and paste the following into a new text document:
/usr/bin/compiz gconf & /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator &
Note: "gnome-window-decorator" has been replaced by "gtk-window-decorator" since openSUSE 10.2.
Save it to /usr/local/bin with the name compiz.sh This file needs to be given execute permissions. That can be done this way: KDE Launch, System, File Manager, File Manager - Super User Mode (you will be promted for the root password). Go to /usr/local/bin, right-click on compiz.sh, choose Properties, Permissions tab, check [x] Is Executable.
One more file is needed: create it following the same procedure as for compiz.sh , but save this one in /opt/kde3/env with the name kdewm.sh and copy and paste this line in it:
You also need to make this file executable, in the same way as for compiz.sh. This will instruct KDE to run compiz.sh instead of kwin. Once this is done, log out of KDE and log back in. You should have functioning Xgl on your shiny new K Desktop Environment.
The Desktop Effects tool which is used for enabling and disable Xgl can also be used to configure compiz options. Start it up as before (via the GNOME Control Center or the command line), and look at the options under the "Window Effects", "Desktop Cube", and "Other Features" tabs. For example, you can turn wobbly windows on or off, change the number of virtual desktops available on the desktop "cube", and control which corner of the screen (if any) activates the window picker.
As mentioned above, some keybindings and window management settings are configured via the GNOME "Shortcuts" and "Windows" control panels instead.
Some of the more obscure (or more recently-added) compiz options are not configurable from the Desktop Effects tool.
Older Compiz releases used Gconf, but Compiz-Quinn CVS packages available from HERE use 'csm' to configure Compiz itself, and 'gcompizthemer' to theme and style windows. Some minimal documentation is available there (and in the Compiz page in this wiki) describing what the different options mean.
Running 'compiz-manager' will give you a nice system tray icon to launch the various config tools.
Nvidia: Cursor flickers or leaves artifact trails
If you have an Nvidia card (tested with 6600GT), and your mouse cursor is flickering, you need to set the HWCursor option to "On" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, under the [Screen] header.
In OpenSUSE 10.1 the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is read only and autogenerated, thus editing it not possible. However using YAST you may right click to enable driver options and enter values where possible. When an option is highlighted it is selected. Then save the configuration. You may find setting the HWCursor option on does not solve the problem, rather selecting the SWCursor eliminates the flickering. Try the option which works.
If you are only seeing a white screen after logging in, chances are you are using a Xgl server version that was built with different libraries than the window manager (see here for more information). A Xgl version that works with openSUSE 10.2 is cvs_060522-39.
But it would be best to use the latest version of Xgl (and of whole xorg7.2) from http://software.opensuse.org/download/xorg72/openSUSE_10.2/
No more Xinerama support
If you had a working Xinerama-setup (one large desktop on two monitors) with xorg7.2 and it does not work anymore with Xgl, then look at this bugzilla-entry: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=233112
you should add
+xinerama to the Xgl-start-options or install a newer xgl package.
If you choose KDE as the default desktop during your installation of SUSE Linux 10.1 you may have some problems. The just before the logon manager is about to start you get dumped back to the first console. dmesg tells you "X server startup timeout, terminating". If you have both gnome and kde installed, edit your /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and set the DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm".
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Health & Wellness
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Let’s hope our mayoral candidates are up to the challenge
have a mind like a commoner. I think like a commoner. I enjoy thinking like a commoner. And that brings me to my understanding of a sustainable city.
In my mind, a sustainable city would be able to survive without any disastrous consequences at least for one thousand years, if not more. A sustainable city has to have safe and intelligent housing. The dwellers must have resilience and foresight to think about the future of the city.
One of the mayoral candidates of Dhaka city, during his campaign, recently said that he would make the city sustainable. In fact, the manifestos of all the candidates promise various types of sustainability for our city.
Their manifestos talk about many holistic wishes and dreams.
We know they all have wishes and dreams, but they don’t know how to turn this city into a sustainable one. None of us do.
However, their wishes and dreams have brought forth some important aspects to think about. Can this city ever be sustainable? Would our progenies be safe 200 years from now? Would there be a place called Dhaka at that point of time?
We don’t need a science fiction writer to imagine the state of affairs, but our environmental scientists have already revealed what will happen to Dhaka if we continue to do what we are doing to the city. The signs are all ominous.
It’s very funny and shameful that 48 years after the independence of the country, we’re still looking for the sustainability of our capital city. It means that either we didn’t have any idea about sustainability or we had just neglected what needed to be done.
It’s quite evident that the city is poorly planned. No one has to be an architect of an urban planner to fathom that fact.
The expansion these days is also something that we may not be able to appreciate as a sustainable way of living. Because we’re destroying the rivers, canals and other wetlands in order to expand.
We often forget that every inch of expansion destroys another inch of either agricultural land or some wetland. But we don’t really care about it -- we need to expand at any cost. Now, why do we need to expand?
Why else? To accommodate the rising number of population. Well, why is the number rising in Dhaka city? Because we have centralized everything in this city, and that’s why people across the country gather here.
Sustainable? Not at all.
We have not done anything to prevent the masses to come and settle in this city. We have also not decentralized government machinery so that the people can get their official work done even when they reside outside of Dhaka city.
Now, what do you think is the state of affairs of the ecology of this city? How is Dhaka city doing as far as its own health is concerned? How is the environment of our city?
The rivers are filled with poisonous chemical components, the canals are fast disappearing, the underground water reserve is going down, the waste management is in shambles, the air quality is one of worst in the world, the traffic is a never-ending battle for every dweller.
What sort of safe living and fruitful productivity do you expect in this situation? What would the population of Dhaka be in 2025 or in 2030, 2040?
Is our sewage system ready for the people who will be living in the city? Do we have adequate space for them to live a healthy life? How far do we plan to expand the city? Is our expansion plan realistic and sustainable? Do we have enough drinking water for the future?
One of the mayoral candidates has pledged to make Dhaka city a self-reliant one. One of the points that he has mentioned in his manifesto is “good governance.” Thanks to him for mentioning the governance issue, but I believe that there’s no such thing as “good” governance.
We can make our governance “better” but not entirely good. We believe “governance” is at the centre of everything. If we want to transform the city into a sustainable one, we have to better our governance, and there mustn’t be any compromise regarding this.
But we have. We have compromised the sustainable ways, making the city one of the worst examples of unsustainability in the world. Our unsustainable ways have reached a point of no return. How do we go back now? Is that possible?
Many say that we have missed the train for sustainability. Have we? Aren’t there ways and means to find solutions to our doomsday situation? The mayoral candidates also don’t know -- do they?
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We live in the Age of the Empowered Customer. Consumers share their restaurant and travel experiences on Yelp, Facebook and many other sites. They rate hotels, tour operators and even historic landmarks on TripAdvisor. Companies ignore these empowered customers at their peril. In fact, my colleagues and I created the Net Promoter System precisely to help organizations bring the voice of the customer into their daily operations — and to help them respond with real changes, not just window-dressing.
But isn’t it about time for more companies to start rating their customers? Wouldn’t we all be better off if feedback from some customers were ignored? That is the one big idea I expect to start spreading in 2015.
Probably every sales clerk or customer-service rep has run into customers they never want to see again. They’re rude, obnoxious and make life uncomfortable for employees and for fellow customers. Their shouts are often laced with profanity. They abuse the rules and cut into line. Some are shoplifters or deadbeats. In the worst case, they get violent. I recently heard of an obstreperous customer who literally head-butted a service rep at an electronics retailer. The store had to call the police to resolve the situation. I couldn’t help imagining what Net Promoter Score that customer would give to the store employee who “served” him.
The Net Promoter System is built on customer feedback — but if the feedback comes from the wrong customers, then what is the point? Taking feedback seriously from the wrong customers simply diminishes the credibility of the system and alienates frontline employees.
I worked at a print shop where my manager would occasionally fire customers…. He told one person, “I won’t have you abuse my employee.” I would have crawled through broken glass for him. It was one of the best employment experiences of my life.
Some companies have always maintained confidential lists of customers who have been banned for bad behavior. Today, the rise of electronic networks can empower employees and other stakeholders as much as it empowers customers. Network-based companies such as Lyft and Airbnb, for example, allow sellers, drivers and hosts to review customers even while customers are reviewing them. It isn’t hard to imagine hotels, retailers, even insurance companies collecting feedback about customer behavior from their own employees. Enough complaints from enough people might land a customer on the company’s “no-serve” list. At the very least, those customers should never receive a feedback survey.
Personally, I think that would be a good thing. Consider the Net Promoter System, it’s a method of encouraging civil — and civilized — behavior in the business world. Companies are more likely to act decently toward their customers when they have built-in systems for listening and responding to those customers — and scoring the employees who touched those customers. And customers are more likely to treat employees (and fellow customers) respectfully when they know that they can’t get away with bad behavior. When bad behavior becomes part of their permanent record (just as legitimate Net Promoter feedback becomes part of an employee’s permanent record), the world will get a little bit better.
Perhaps the Age of the Empowered Customer will turn into the Age of Empowered People — an age in which everyone understands that we live in an interconnected world and that we really need to get along better, a world in which feedback can help us build a better community.
Por Fred Reichheld – Influencer, Bain Fellow, Author/Speaker on Loyalty, Creator of the Net Promoter System
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It was two years ago when we helped bring to Memphis Jeff Speck, former director of design for the National Endowment for the Arts. His seminal book, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, is being reissued for its 10th anniversary. When he was in Memphis, he issued his 10 modest suggestions for improving Memphis. Recently, he provided his list of 10 things he hates about suburban sprawl. Unfortunately, these apply to our community, too
“Over a decade ago, when we started writing our book, “Suburban Nation,” we had no idea how quickly the conversation was about to change. The New Urban critique of sprawl, initiated by my co-authors in the late seventies, was at first an aesthetic discussion — by God, this stuff is ugly. But then, when they discovered that it was possible to build real towns again, it became a social discussion — we shouldn’t have to live our lives stuck in traffic between the soulless subdivision and the plastic shopping mall.
“But now, a preference has become a mandate, as sprawl has quietly been identified as a central cause behind a growing list of mounting national crises including foreign oil dependency, climate change, and the obesity epidemic. With economists, environmentalists, and epidemiologists all bemoaning suburbia, it is a good time to step back and remind ourselves what we’re still up against.” | <urn:uuid:a6f4ee64-a36f-48ab-99eb-cebb5e95383c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartcitymemphis.com/2010/10/10-things-i-hate-about-suburban-sprawl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.975143 | 306 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The US army effort appears focused and appears inspired by the Russian Armata combat vehicle platform. The Armata is a common platform for tanks, armored vehicles and manned and unmanned systems. The US system will have more lasers and advanced electronics and power generation. The US systems will have proper funding. Russia does not have the funding to buy the Armata in volume.
Army officials have laid out the groundwork for developing the Next Generation Combat Vehicle, or NGCV. The NGCV will replace the M-1 Abrams main battle tank and M-2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV). Both the Abrams and Bradley, while highly successful, were introduced in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Army regularly updates both with the latest technologies, including new ammunition, anti-shaped charge reactive armor, remote-controlled weapons systems, advanced networking and communications, and ballistic shields for the crew.
The three vehicles will then be assigned to an operational combat unit around 2021. By 2023, seven manned and 14 unmanned vehicles will repeat the schedule, hopefully winnowing the process down to both manned and unmanned systems ready for mass production.
The U.S. Army is making it pretty clear that the manned and unmanned NGCVs will work together on the battlefield. While the manned vehicles will be larger and carry a tank gun or squad of infantry troops, the unmanned vehicle will be considerably smaller, but still carry a considerable punch. The unmanned vehicle could be used as a scouting vehicle, traveling ahead of a mixed armored task force. Once it makes contact with the enemy, the unmanned vehicles could identify their positions, attack them with direct fire, and pass their coordinates to nearby field artillery and air support. This buys the manned component time to form a plan, get into position, and launch an attack on an enemy that has had little time to prepare.
The first generation vehicle could even be the proposed M2A5 Bradley, which includes two to five times more protection for crew and infantrymen riding inside, along with a longer hull to increase the number of mounted infantry to eight.
What will the Army eventually end up with? NGCV will probably be a tracked, 50 to 60 ton common chassis available in both tank and infantry fighting vehicle flavors. The vehicle will have traditional passive steel, composite, and even depleted uranium armor, complemented with an active protection system to protect it from tank gun rounds, anti-tank missiles, and rocket-propelled grenades. It will be at least as mobile as the M1 Abrams, be transportable by the Air Force’s C-17 Globemaster III strategic airlifter, and generate a large amount of onboard electricity to support lasers, railguns, and possibly some sort of future cloaking device | <urn:uuid:1792d336-1075-47d5-9912-7017df61182a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nworeport.me/2018/04/24/us-army-has-focused-effort-to-replace-abrams-and-bradley-with-tests-by-2019-and-deployments-by-2025/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951116 | 557 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Cornice trim is a decorative mold commonly fitted along the edge of a ceiling and a wall. It can also be used in multi level gypsum ceiling designs. For many years it has been used in high end homes across the World especially for residential construction.
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It is fitted using cove adhesive spread along the full length of the cove top and bottom. Cornice is made from a gypsum plaster core encased in a white paper lining and is a great way to enhance the appearance of any room. Cornices can also be used to conceal any surface cracks or settlement cracks where wall and ceiling joints meet. Cornice has the same function but is usually more decorative and detailed Gypsum cornices have excellent insulation properties both thermal and acoustic and can offer very good passive fire protection, moisture resistance, impact resistance and vapor control when used in combination with the right systems.
In Kenya, there are two different types of cornices used on gypsum or concrete ceilings
- Gypsum Cornice
- Fiber Polyurethane PU Cornice
- Molding: High quality, clear patterns, smooth level
- Materials: 100% asbestos FREE and 100% pure gypsum powder with fiber glass.
- Fire Resistance: It has passed the tests by Kenya Bureau of Standards KEBS and Testing of Fire Building Materials GB8624-2006 with a result of A1-grade standard.
- Sound Absorbance: Sound absorbent is 48 dB. It is able to lower noise inside.
- Moisture Resistance: It can be very good control indoor air humidity adjust the indoor humidity and increase comfort.
- Mould Resistance: No mould and no discoloring
- Excellent in Appearance: It can be combined with many fashion designs, making good atmosphere, natural, harmonious, luxury, or high artistic effect.
- Application: Office building, hotel, high-end residential villas, conference hall, clubs, leisure clubs, bars and so on.
- High Strength: About 6 mpa good strength and toughness about 800 n, impact resistant, not easy to fracture.
- Environmentally Friendly: Using inorganic composite materials made from pure natural, without any harmful substances and pollution gas, belonging to a green and environmentally friendly material.
- Easy to Install: Due to the surface of the product has good density gypsum at the grass-roots level, and because of the special production process, to ensure the high strength and smoothness, only need to handle the juncture, very small amount of putty powder to a surface and grinding can achieve excellent results, plank can stick, can dig, nail, saw, truly achieves zero wear and tear.
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What Is Jet Fuel Meals?
Jet Fuel Meals is flying with their healthy and balanced food distribution service. They are obtaining large popularity, as they use fresh, high-quality and also all-natural healthier meals that please your hunger and also provide the meal provided ease we have actually all pertained to love (especially for plant-based lovers).
Being a top food shipment provider, this brand name caters to more than just vegan, plant-based food eaters. Jet Fuel Meals additionally has meal prepare for professional athletes (for weight gain), keto, kids, pescatarian (seafood diet plans) and also a Maintain plan. In addition to their meal plans, they likewise provide Immunity Home builder Shots (AKA wellness shots) as well as Cold Press Juices for metabolic power.
What Is Jet Fuel Meals?
Jet Fuel Meals is taking flight with their healthy and balanced food distribution service. They are gaining substantial popularity, as they offer fresh, top notch and all-natural healthy meals that satisfy your appetite and give the meal provided benefit we have actually all involved adore (specifically for plant-based enthusiasts).
Being a top food shipment provider, this brand name accommodates more than just vegan, plant-based food eaters. Jet Fuel Meals also has meal prepare for professional athletes (for weight gain), keto, kids, pescatarian (seafood diet plans) as well as a Maintain strategy. In addition to their meal plans, they also supply Immunity Contractor Shots (AKA health shots) and Cold Press Juices for metabolic power.
Jet Fuel Meal Plans
We have to admit that this is the first time we have actually seen many different meal plans satisfying different objectives and also preferences. If you’re an athlete aiming to gain weight just choose the Athletic Weight Gain Strategy. And if you’re wanting to reduce weight you can pick the Keto Weight Loss strategy. So, let’s go over all six strategies currently.
Jet Fuel Meals Review Meal Plans
Athletic Weight Gain meal strategy
If you’re exercising or merely attempting to acquire some weight, the Athletic Weight Gain meal delivery strategy supplies larger and juicier parts. 600 calories are enough for one meal yet we’re not speaking about fast food yet healthy and balanced food. This makes these meals an excellent resource of vitamins, carbs, and anti-oxidants. They are also reduced in cholesterol, as well as hydrogenated fat, and also include no added sugar. Right here are some example meals for this week:
Pork Tenderloin Al Cilantro (with Asparagus, Yellow Rice as well as Cilantro Sauce).
Lemon Pepper Garlic Poultry (with Penne, Kale and also Sliced Lemon on the top).
Coconut Mahi Mahi (with Couscous, Yellow Squash and also Red Pepper).
Ribeye Chimichurri (with Potatoes, Purple Cabbage and also Onion).
Plant Based meal strategy.
Let loose the power of the plants with this Jet Fuel Meals plan. With around 400 calories per offering, these meals are equally as healthy and balanced as they’re delicious. With no meat visible let’s look at a few of the meals for this week:.
Mediterranean Hummus Bowl (with Couscous and also Carrots).
Broccoli Vegan Burger (with Sugary Food Potato and Kale).
Beefless Marinara Linguine (with Fresh Tomatoes as well as Broccoli).
Quinoa As Well As Black Bean Rolls (with Dessert Plantain and Zucchini).
Keep or Traditional meal plan.
Jet Fuel Meals Preserve Meal Strategy.
If you’re looking to maintain your weight this is the best meal prepare for you. It’s also an excellent choice if you do not wish to experiment excessive with different meals and also alternatives. It will certainly provide you a taste of what Jet Fuel Meals uses and we make sure you’re mosting likely to be back for more. Below are some sample meals from this week:.
Luscious Herbs Turkey Breast (with Turkey, Dessert Potatoes as well as Zucchini).
Poultry Salad del Bosco (with Quinoa, Cucumber, Tomatoes, Orange and Arugula).
Texas BBQ Pork (with Baked Beans, Coleslaw as well as Barbeque Sauce).
Poultry Pizza (with Linguini, Pepperoni as well as Spinach).
Keto Fat burning meal plan.
This ketogenic-inspired meal plan will assist you lose weight and also stay healthy and balanced with scrumptious and filling meals. This is where those chefs make their living, providing you alternatives that will aid you reach your weight objectives. The plan contains getting rid of carbohydrates from your diet regimen as well as changing it with a rise in protein, veggies, as well as excellent fats. This is the present option:.
Miami Morning (with Grape Tomatoes, Serrano Pork and also Cuban Pork).
Ribeye Chimichurri (with Rutabaga, Purple Cabbage and also Onion).
Shrimp Fried Rice (with Fried Rice, Environment-friendly Beans, Peas, Carrots, Peppers as well as Bean Sprouts).
Poultry Dolce Vita (with Oat Rice, Red Pepper Sauce as well as Caramelized Onions).
Pescatarian meal strategy.
Jet Fuel Meals Pescatarian Meal Strategy.
This all-fish meal strategy is perfect for those who are trying to find lean healthy protein. With around 350 calories per serving, these meals are additionally rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Here are just a few of them:.
Crusted Rainbow Trout.
Grilled Red Snapper.
Lemon Glazed Branzino.
Kids meal plan.
With the enhancement of a Children meal strategy, Jet Fuel Meals comes to be real Family members Meal Delivery Solution. Not just your children will certainly be eating good food however with every meal they will obtain a side of fruit or snack. Nutritionally stabilized to help them expand as well as continue to be healthy, they are an ideal alternative for active family members that want to eat right. And also avoid processed food. Here’s the food selection for today:.
Cubed Grilled Poultry (with Baked Potato French Fries and Yogurt).
Turkey Picadillo (with White Rice and Fruit).
Ground Beef Bolognese (with Fresh Fruits as well as White Rice).
Stove Baked Turkey and also Pasta (with Fresh Fruits).
Jet Fuel Meals Pricing.
Prices for Ketogenic Meal Plans.
1 meal daily: $51.00 each week.
Minimum of six days per week.
2 meals per day: $80.00 each week $319.00/ regular monthly.
3 meals daily: $115.00 per week $437.00/ month-to-month.
The weekly cost of 4 meals daily is $140.00. $532.00/ month-to-month.
5 meals each day: $170.00 each week $680.00 monthly.
You will certainly have the ability to select a start day for your meals on the checkout page. You might start on any one of their distribution days as long as you are not inside the 48-hour window for the complying with shipment day. They deliver three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday, as well as Friday. Their meals are fresh, all-natural, preservative-free, and also never frozen! You can keep their meals in the fridge for regarding 3 days and can be frozen if wanted.
Frequently asked question’s.
Is Jet Fuel Meals Legit?
Why are Jet Fuel Meals so prominent? Chefs with 5 celebrities– Enjoy freshly ready meals delivered by 5-star chefs with over thirty years of experience. Their once a week as well as regular monthly meal intends modification, so say goodbye to your dull old meal plan!
Is Jet Fuel Meals Worth It?
Heat & Serve– Their normal client conserves as much as 6-8 hours every week by not having to cook! They do all of the grocery shopping, cooking, as well as cleansing. They use a 16-week turning menu, which suggests you will certainly not get the same dishes for 4 months in a row unless it is a fan preferred! Speak about a wide range.
Is Jet Fuel Meals A Great Brand Name?
Hassle-free– They do the shopping, the cooking, the deliciousness, and the healthiness. To top all of it off, they deliver appropriate to your door three times weekly.
Part control– Their healthy meal plans supply the excellent balance. Every Jet Fuel Meal is precisely calculated and portioned to meet your one-of-a-kind demands.
Final Idea Regarding Jet Fuel Meals.
They supply a selection of meal plans designed to meet a range of needs and objectives. You will certainly discover remarkable alternatives for yourself, whether you intend to drop weight, put on weight, or stick to a pescatarian or plant-based diet regimen. In addition, their ingredients are always fresh as well as gotten locally! You likewise have the option to supplement your meal plan with a choice of snacks as well as cold-pressed beverages. During the sign-up process, you will be able to include these alternatives. | <urn:uuid:13496302-98d6-4b5a-8246-8c7733447856> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kreweoftruth.com/fuel-diet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961742 | 1,984 | 1.5 | 2 |
Today, the fashion industry has really little in common with the craftsmen’s craft of a century ago. The fashion business is much more accurately described as the affordable search of lucrative styles by international empires, using the most efficient innovation and also the best delivery techniques. It’s likewise concerning a whole lot more than clothing. Individuals really feel encouraged and excellent concerning themselves when they are wearing a certain piece of clothing. Dopamine, a natural chemical released by satisfaction and also discomfort, is released right into the brain when clothing we like make us feel happy.
The style of garments we wear likewise exposes our personal and social group association. For example, if we are in senior high school, we may be categorized into a “group” based on what we put on. The fashion of this group will certainly create stereotypes as well as range in between members of the same team. In a company meeting, a business person might see a young boy with environment-friendly hair as well as numerous piercings as an outsider. He might view the kid as a strict conformist or a rebel. how to uninstall valorant
In terms of designs, there are several subgenres. One of them is preppy style, which was motivated by the style in The United States and Canada’s prep schools. Preppy fashion consists of khaki pants, button-down oxfords, as well as polo or henley t shirts. It also includes items of clothing that highlight convenience, such as loafers and hair slides. Despite the name, geek style is a part of the fashion industry.
Regardless of the variety of these subsectors, the relationship in between the producer and the seller has actually remained symbiotic. In the past, a tension existed in between these 2 teams. As retail and wholesale began to complete for profits, the balance of power often tended to tip away. Nevertheless, over the last couple of decades, this dynamic has changed. The merchant currently serves as a supplier of their own designs. And also given that the retail market has actually expanded to a much more focused level, the manufacturing field has actually come to be much more concentrated on specific groups.
One more subset of the clothes market is body precious jewelry. Besides jewelry, apparel can consist of spangles. These ornamental items are normally plastic or metal and have an opening for embroidery. Some tucks are narrower than pleats and also lie on the same surface of the garment as the pleats. Additionally, they can be transformed outside the garment to create ornamentation. A third subset of tucks is restored fibers.
As the fashion business expands, so does its circulation. As social media sites as well as style publications, style fads are commonly disseminated. Fashion publications like Vogue and also Elle make use of the fad details they get to make sales of clothes. Whether they’re made from artificial fibers, textiles, or fabrics, the info is made use of to market clothes. If the info is available online, it’s commonly readily available via blog sites, social media sites, and fashion magazines such as Vogue. the evolution of fashion
Macram(tm) is a strategy that includes knotting two to four various strings or yarns right into small items. The strategy has actually ended up being fashionable occasionally, however generally just as belts or trimmings. Attractive cords or braids are occasionally integrated right into macram(tm) styles. These hand-woven items often have beads that add to the overall look. Those involved in macram(tm) are most likely to be a part of this style.
Fashion is a representation of background. It started as a practical necessity as well as got power as groups started to use them. Miners became famous for their denim jeans, which were strengthened with copper rivets placed at tension factors. An option was needed to prolong the lives of denim jeans, and also Levi’s was the first to make use of this opportunity and provide a product that is renowned today. Now, the brand continues to be among one of the most well-known names in denim.
Tucks are a way to manipulate fullness in a garment. They are made by folding a piece of material in half, then sewing a row of stitches parallel to the layer. The volume is launched when the sewing finishes. Unlike pleats, tucks are smaller and commonly just an inch vast. Tucks may likewise be transformed outwards and also act as decoration. Fashion designers generally make use of both sorts of tucks. human hair extensions
Lolita style is a fashion pattern that celebrates the appearance of a victorian-era lady. Lolita fashion is a popular design that features large girls dressed like little ladies. Lolita-style gowns include fancy petticoats, puff-sleeved gowns, as well as cute headwear and printed socks. No matter the trend, the suggestion is to display the female behind the belly. So what’s the latest in vogue for expecting ladies?
The connection in between maker and also retailer has evolved right into a complicated one, with each serving a different feature. In the past, both sides were generally hostile, yet today, the connection in between them is cooperative. However, in the period of capitalism, the balance of power has actually tipped more towards one side in the race to grab profits. Additionally, the fashion industry is currently more specific and also extra focused in particular categories. | <urn:uuid:4310c18c-e215-4f81-bc17-ea820cd39e91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mamsuper.com/2022/07/29/you-will-never-idea-that-recognizing-style-could-be-so-beneficial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975069 | 1,124 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Poker is a game of strategy and skill, but it’s also a game of reading people. The ability to read your opponents is essential to winning, and there are a few things you can look for to get an idea of what they’re thinking.
The first thing to look for is body language.
How are they sitting? Are they tense or relaxed? What is their facial expression telling you?
All of these things can give you clues about what they’re thinking and feeling. Another thing to listen for is the way they talk. What do they say when they’re bluffing?
How do they react when they have a good hand? Paying attention to these things can help you get an idea of what they’re thinking and give you an edge in the game.
How do you read opponents in poker?
Poker is a game of people. It’s a game of reading people. It’s a game of finding tells.
Tells are the key to reading people in poker. They are the subtle cues that players give off that can reveal what kind of hand they are holding. Some tells are physical, like fidgeting or sweating.
Others are verbal, like hesitating or stuttering. The best way to find tells is to pay close attention to the players around you. Watch how they act when they are winning or losing.
Observe their body language and listen to their voice. The more you pay attention, the easier it will be to spot tells. Then you can use that information to your advantage.
Here are some more tips for reading people in poker: 1. Look for patterns. If you notice that a player always raises when they have a good hand, you can use that information to your advantage.
How do you read poker faces?
If you’re like most people, you can probably think of a time when you wished you could read someone’s mind. Maybe it was during a high-stakes poker game, or while negotiating a business deal. Whatever the situation, being able to read people can be a valuable skill.
Poker is a perfect example of a situation where reading people can give you a distinct advantage. The ability to read people can help you determine when someone is bluffing, or if they have a strong hand. Here are a few tips to help you read people while playing poker:
1. Observe body language. One of the most important things to do when trying to read someone is to observe their body language. Pay attention to things like their posture, hand gestures, and eye contact.
2. Look for tells. Each person has their own unique tells, or giveaways, that can betray what they’re thinking or feeling.
How do you read a poker position?
In poker, the ability to read people is essential to success. By reading people, you can tell when they are bluffing, when they have a strong hand, and when they are trying to manipulate the pot. Here are some tips on how to read people in poker:
1. Observe their body language. Body language can be very telling in poker. If someone is slouching in their chair or avoiding eye contact, they may be bluffing.
On the other hand, if someone is leaning forward or making strong eye contact, they may have a strong hand. 2. Pay attention to their betting patterns. Betting patterns can also be telling.
If someone is always betting big when they have a strong hand, they may be trying to manipulate the pot. On the other hand, if someone is always betting small, they may be bluffing. 3. Listen to their voice.
How can you tell if someone is bluffing in poker?
Poker is a game of incomplete information. This means that players only have access to some of the information needed to make decisions at any given time. In order to be successful, players must be able to read their opponents and use the information they have to their advantage.
One of the most important things to remember when trying to read people in poker is that everyone is different. What works on one opponent may not work on another. It is important to pay attention to the tells that each player gives off in order to get the most accurate read possible.
Some common tells that players give off include: -Fidgeting -Avoiding eye contact
-Clenching or whitening of the knuckles -Sweating -Breathing heavily
-Picking at clothes Players who are trying to bluff typically exhibit one or more of these tells.
In poker, it is important to be able to read people in order to determine what cards they may be holding. There are tells that players may give off, such as fidgeting, sweating, or avoiding eye contact. By observing these tells, players can get a better idea of what their opponents are thinking and make better decisions accordingly. | <urn:uuid:3b820a04-5f77-47b4-8eda-73b6a92aca63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://antlergeeks.com/how-to-read-people-in-poker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970524 | 1,025 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Background and Vision
At Domino’s, food safety and product quality are treated as more than a priority; they are embedded as core values within the brand culture. The supply chain division of Domino’s is the primary source of pizza store products for the U.S. system, as well as Canada. Through its network of fresh dough manufacturing, food distribution centers, along with one vegetable processing plant and two facilities that make the company’s thin crust product, Domino’s supply chain regularly provides pizza stores with more than 240 products. Food safety and product quality standards are among the highest in the industry and we monitor compliance via operations assessments and food safety evaluations from third-party audit companies.
Our product procurement team collaborates with Domino’s suppliers to ensure the thousands of stores in the U.S. are consistently supplied with everything they need. At the same time, this team verifies that our suppliers are providing products that are safe, of high quality and reliably fulfill the required specifications at an affordable cost for our system. All suppliers in the U.S. and Canada are required to achieve the highest level of food safety certification and we are working toward a similar objective for suppliers around the globe. Our Supplier Code of Conduct establishes our expectations for ethical behavior at our suppliers, including anti-corruption policies and clauses on human rights. All of our suppliers are expected to adhere to our Supplier Code of Conduct, which can be found on our website.
For Domino’s, responsible sourcing means acknowledging the role we play in innovating and partnering with our suppliers as we move forward, in a way that increases ingredient information for our customers, enhances animal care standards and reduces our carbon footprint. We are proud of our history of purchasing the majority of all food products sold in our U.S. and Canadian stores from domestic suppliers.
Domino’s is focused on consistently providing safe and high-quality food to our customers. Our quality and food safety standards are reviewed annually and shared with our franchisees around the world. We monitor compliance to these standards by auditing store and supply chain centers on a regular basis through a combination of internal and external food safety professionals.
Food safety cannot be guaranteed by a simple standards-based approach. Our strong food safety culture ensures that good practices are understood and, more importantly, being followed.
Domino’s global food safety standards are a part of our “Farm to Fork” quality assurance strategy that starts with our suppliers, including from the farm, and through to supply chain centers and ultimately our stores. These standards were created with cross-functional input from franchisees and operations teams and benchmarked with external food safety experts. Meanwhile, our quality assurance and procurement teams are responsible for assuring that appropriate food safety systems are in place, based upon the inherent risk of each type of ingredient, and we routinely sample key ingredients to confirm compliance to specifications. We host regular best practice sessions with our top franchisees to facilitate sharing around the world.
Domino’s works with third-party food safety experts to provide enhanced food safety training and conduct annual unannounced food safety evaluations at all our stores with a focus on building and sustaining a strong food safety culture. Through rigorous data analysis, we leverage technology to drive key insights to establish improvement opportunities and areas in need of focus. Through our efforts, we are now among the leaders in the QSR industry regarding compliance during external health inspections. In fact, 100% of U.S. stores were audited by a third party in 2020. Further, we have a robust process for capturing and investigating store and consumer complaints to assure consumer health and safety.
Domino’s requires that all suppliers comply with USDA regulations on the humane treatment of animals as a baseline for all animal care. It’s important to highlight that Domino’s does not own, raise, transport or process the animals used for our products. Domino’s purchases pork, beef and poultry ingredients from suppliers who obtain their products from farmers and ranchers who raise and care for their animals in compliance with local, state and federal guidelines, industry best practices and the support of farm animal veterinarians. Domino’s recently published our animal care principles and we are on a path towards creating an animal care policy for applicable suppliers.
Domino’s supports the “Five Freedoms” as endorsed by the World Organization for Animal Health:
- Freedom from hunger, malnutrition and thirst
- Freedom from fear and distress
- Freedom from physical and thermal discomfort
- Freedom from pain, injury and disease
- Freedom to express normal patterns of behavior
We support the efforts of the dairy industry, at farms both large and small, to use best management practices as outlined by the National Dairy Famers Organization in the Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM) program. Our animal care principles can be found here.
We believe in selling good quality food that we are proud to serve to our customers and our own families. We have eliminated virtually all artificial food coloring from our products in the U.S. We have eliminated a long list of ingredients from all our core products including BHA/BHT and PHOs, as well as trans-fat from core pizza products (apart from that which is naturally occurring in cheese and some meats).
We spent two years working to gradually reduce the sodium in our pizza sauce by 25%, all the while maintaining a high level of customer approval for the reformulation. In 2012 we also developed a gluten-free crust for customers who are looking to reduce gluten in their diet.
We provide our entire ingredient and allergen list for the products Domino’s sells online. We also provide a nutrition calculator that can provide full nutrition information on millions of combinations of products on our menu. These tools can be found at www.dominos.com/en/pages/content/nutritional/nutrition.
We care about the food we serve to customers and our families, and we want it to be safe. We also support the care and wellbeing of animals, including those who are sick and may require antibiotics to become well. We believe that farmers and veterinarians who want to be able to treat sick animals and prevent the spread of disease should be able to. We also want to make sure that the use of antibiotics in farm animals does not lead to antibiotic resistance in humans, which could prove to be a larger threat to human health.
No meat in the U.S. food supply can have antibiotic residue in it when it is sold to the public. The USDA inspects all meat to make sure it is free of antibiotic residue before it can enter the market. The FDA in recent years has enacted regulations that we are happy to support, including rules around what kind of antibiotics farmers can use and when they can use them.
We are pleased to report that 100% of our chicken used for pizzas, sandwiches, wings, boneless chicken and pasta are free of antibiotics that are medically-important to humans. We do not purchase products from broiler chickens raised with fluoroquinolones or steroids.
Pork and Beef
Although the poultry industry has reacted rapidly to providing new antibiotic protocols, it is not quite as straight forward or easy in the production of pork and beef. We believe that the pork and beef industries have made a considerable amount of progress. However, for us to consider antibiotic restrictions in the pork and beef we purchase, there is much more work that needs to be done before the amount of available supply is accessible by suppliers that meet Domino’s requirements.
Specifically, we intend to transition to pork and beef sourced from animals raised without the routine use of medically-important antibiotics for disease prevention purposes once a sufficient supply of such pork and beef is available in the U.S. market. This needs to come from suppliers who satisfy our food safety, quality, cost and other product standards, and who can demonstrate their ability to reliably source and distribute these products with appropriate business continuity measures.
Domino’s is proud to report that 99% of the products sold by Domino’s stores in the United States come from domestic suppliers, and that the majority of our dairy and meat suppliers source their feed from domestic sources. Having completed our first assessment for not only emissions, but also land use change impacts, we are pleased that the vast majority of our sourcing choices to-date have resulted in few ingredients with deforestation impacts.
While palm oil represents one of Domino’s ingredients that has the highest potential impact on deforestation, our supply chain team has taken extra steps to reduce the risk. Domino’s sources 100% certified sustainable mass balance palm oil product through our supplier, AAK USA. Domino’s does not purchase raw palm oil, but does use a product made with palm oil for our pan pizza dough and some bread sides. Pan pizza dough is not the primary dough sold in our stores or produced at our supply chain centers; nor is palm oil used in the majority of products we sell.
We are proud to say that Domino’s is also a member of the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). We are committed to sourcing palm oil that is produced without deforestation of high conservation value areas, high carbon stock forests or the destruction of peat land. Domino’s achieved its goal of 100% traceability back to the mill for all palm oil in September 2015. Domino’s requires that AAK USA remains a member in good standing of the RSPO. | <urn:uuid:3b5169f3-ef60-43ca-a059-541fcb1acc42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biz.dominos.com/stewardship/responsible-sourcing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951934 | 1,980 | 1.703125 | 2 |
By David W. Marshall | Trice Edney Wire
News Analysis (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Looking at the events unfolding in Ukraine, it is not hard to compare them to what occurred during Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, which in 1939 marked the start of World War II, especially when you see how two dictators (Hitler and Putin) followed the same playbook. Both invasions were unprovoked attacks against innocent people. When you consider the reasons behind the attack on Ukraine, they are like the motives behind the Tulsa massacre in 1921.
It shows how acts of hatred and evil are timeless. Erasing them from history books doesn’t prevent similar human rights violations from occurring now or in the future. With Russia invading Ukraine to” keep the peace,” the world witnessed a lying dictator in action. One day after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into separatist-held parts of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba was straightforward about Russia’s long-term objective. “His ultimate goal is to destroy Ukraine,” Kuleba said of Putin. Putin “wants the idea of Ukrainian statehood to fail. This is his objective.”
Putin is scared to death of democracy. He hates that NATO was founded to provide defense of democracies on both sides of the Atlantic and provide effective opposition to any power that seeks to dominate Europe. Putin’s fears about NATO are not centered on any expected military aggression from the West but rather the optimism and hope that democracy offers. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and left in its place 15 independent states. Putin aims to restore Russia as a world superpower while reining in those nations that previously turned away from Moscow. These goals become personal and more complex when former Soviet republics like Ukraine and the former Warsaw Pact members aspire to become free democracies.
If Ukraine had successfully transformed into a democratic, unified, and prosperous state which achieved EU acceptance along with NATO membership, the credibility of Russia’s ruling dictatorship would be on the line. An independent, democratic, economically stable, and internationally integrated Ukraine exposes Putin’s lies and potentially threatens his hold on power. A successful Ukrainian model would show the Russian model as a failure and sham while showing what true democracy offers. It would inspire other regions, including Russia’s citizens, to seek greater control over their own destiny by opposing the current regime in Moscow.
The Ukrainian model is being destroyed in real-time. Compare that to the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Greenwood functioned independently by having its own school system, post office, bank, library, hospital, and public transit. It was a prosperous city within a city with luxury shops, restaurants, grocery stores, hotels, jewelry and clothing stores, movie theaters, barbershops and salons, pool halls, nightclubs, and offices for doctors, lawyers, and dentists. Black people living in homes, driving cars, women wearing furs, and just achieving and enjoying the benefits of economic success did not sit well with whites who were not as successful economically.
The prosperity of Greenwood residents scared them. It was intolerable to those who live to defend white supremacy. If the area known as the “Black Wall Street” and others like it were allowed to thrive unchallenged, it would have been a successful model for other Black communities to not only accumulate wealth but to transfer it generationally.
It discredits the notion that Blacks are inferior people incapable of achieving the American Dream at levels far exceeding their white counterparts. As an economic powerhouse, Greenwood would prove the idea of white superiority as a sham with no credibility. Today, the people of Ukraine, just like the 11,000 citizens living in the Greenwood district, deserve to have peace and the pursuit of happiness. Defending power and superiority has no humane limits for certain individuals throughout history. In 1921, the Tulsa massacre started with an “alleged assault” and ended in a deadly invasion by a lynch mob. They too followed the playbook, which begins with a lie and eventually ends in a deadly attack to destroy what they see as a threat to their power and control. Within Greenwood’s 35 square blocks, an estimated 300 people were killed.
The Black Wall Street model was burned to the ground, destroying more than 1,200 homes, at least 60 businesses, and dozens of churches. Unjust “supremacy” won the only way it can, through misinformation, intimidation, and violence. For the Greenwood survivors, like the Holocaust survivors after them, it was a traumatic event, and we should never forget the true motives behind these aggressions. Before the Trump administration took office, we never had an American president hold a Russian dictator in such high esteem. As the world reels in shock and sadness over Russia’s unprovoked attack on neighboring Ukraine, it really should be no surprise that former President Donald Trump described Putin’s justification for invading Ukraine as “savvy” and “genius.” As for the playbook, Trump fully recognizes it and supports its use.
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Problem: Medication management in the NHS has been highlighted by the UK Department of Health as an area for improvement. Pharmacist participation on post-take (post-admission) ward rounds was shown to reduce medication errors and reduced prescribing costs in the USA and in UK teaching hospitals, which can contribute to improved medication management. We sought to demonstrate the problem in our hospital by collecting data on prescribing practice from three consecutive general medical post-take ward rounds.
Setting: Northwick Park Hospital, a district general hospital in north-west London, which provides acute medical services to a population of 300 000.
Strategy for change: A pharmacist was invited to become a member of the post-take ward round team that reviewed medical patients admitted within the preceding 24 hours. Patients also continued to receive care from a ward based pharmacist. Patient notes were analysed for cost of drugs on admission and discharge, discrepancies between admission drug history and pharmacist history, number of admission drugs stopped before discharge, and pharmacist recommendations. Pharmacist recommendations and actions were classified using a National Patient Safety Agency risk matrix.
Effects of change: Discrepancies between the admission and the pharmacist derived drug history were noted in 26 of 50 in the pre-intervention group and 52 of 53 in the intervention group. The annual drug cost per patient following discharge increased by £181 in the pre-intervention group and by £122 in the intervention group. Five pre-admission drugs were stopped in three pre-intervention patients saving £276 per annum, while the 42 drugs stopped in 19 intervention patients saved £4699 per annum. No ward based pharmacist recommendations were recorded in the pre-intervention group. Recommendations regarding drug choice, dose, and need for drug treatment were most common; 58 minor, 48 moderate and four major risks to patients were potentially avoided.
Lessons learnt: The presence of a pharmacist on a post-take ward round improved the accuracy of drug history documentation, reduced prescribing costs, and decreased the potential risk to patients in our hospital. As a result of this work a full time pharmacist has now been funded to attend daily post-take ward rounds on a permanent basis.
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- medication errors
- medication costs
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We were aware that optimising medication management was often neglected when patients were admitted to our hospital, but no data existed to quantify this problem. A literature review showed that the problem was not unique to our hospital. The Department of Health in the UK estimates that 10% of patients admitted to UK hospitals as an emergency suffer some kind of safety incident.1 The UK National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), an NHS body that collects and analyses data regarding patient safety, has suggested that 900 000 incidents harm or nearly harm NHS inpatients in the UK annually; 12–20% of these incidents are related to medicines, with medication errors occurring most commonly in the area of prescribing, dispensing or administration. Research from the USA suggests that medication errors often result from lack of sufficient information during the prescribing stage.2 Other work from the USA has estimated that each adverse drug event costs $2000–2500.3
We sought to quantify this problem through a retrospective audit of three consecutive medical post-take ward rounds (PTWRs) from one clinical team and to examine whether the addition of a pharmacist to the post-take medical team would effect any change. A review of the literature showed that the presence of a pharmacist on PTWRs in the USA reduced drug errors2 and prescription costs.4 Work in the UK has focused on large teaching hospitals where the presence of a pharmacist on PTWRs showed benefits to patient care from the pharmaceutical contributions, especially detecting errors.5 Hospital pharmacists detect errors in around 1.5% of prescription items written.6 A study analysing medication error in selected teaching and non-teaching NHS trusts across London and the South East for 5 days during November 2002 showed that a total of 1377 moderate, major, and potentially catastrophic errors occurred in that period.7 However, no such work has been published for UK district general hospitals such as ours, looking at drug error, cost of medication and, especially, assessing risk as per the NPSA scoring system. Specifically, the study sought to assess the impact of the pharmacist on the PTWR on prescribing (including drug histories), drug expenditure, and medication associated risks.
In the UK, acutely ill patients are seen in hospital either at the request of their community physician (GP) or following self-presentation to the emergency department. A junior doctor will review and examine such patients as well as order basic clinical investigations and will then make a decision whether to admit such patients for ongoing medical care. Admitted patients will be reviewed on a ward round by the senior doctor responsible for the care of all patients seen by the junior doctors in the previous 24 hours. These “post-take” (post-admission) ward rounds often involve a large number of people—the senior doctor, many of the junior doctors who have admitted patients, nurses, physiotherapists, and medical students (box 1). The PTWR is the first—and often the last—opportunity for a multidisciplinary review of medication to take place, although there is no pharmacist present on these ward rounds in our hospital.
Box 1 Post-take ward round (PTWR) participants
Nurse in charge
Many hospitals employ clinical pharmacists to review prescription charts on the wards and at discharge. In our hospital we have pharmacists who each attend a 28 bed ward for 1–2 hours at some time during the working day. Clinical pharmacists make recommendations to the clinical team regarding medication already prescribed. We proposed that, if the pharmacist was present when prescribing decisions are made, there would be greater opportunities to review current medication, reduce polypharmacy, and reduce medication related risks and costs. In addition, recommendations for commencing appropriate drugs for new conditions may be made.
ASSESSMENT OF PROBLEM
We decided to establish a baseline for prescribing at our hospital by conducting a pre-intervention phase (without a PTWR pharmacist) where only the standard ward pharmacy services were provided. These services operate with pharmacists performing their rounds at different times to the clinical teams, identifying clinical interventions after the prescribing decision has been made. Data collection took place between April and July 2003 at Northwick Park Hospital, a district general hospital with 800 acute beds in north-west London serving a population of 300 000. One general medical team was selected for the project and the members of the team remained the same throughout the data collection phase.
The pre-intervention phase involved retrospective audit of patient notes using patient lists obtained from three consecutive acute general medical PTWRs. No pharmacist had been present on these ward rounds. The existing clinical ward pharmacist had provided a standard pharmacy service throughout these patients’ admission. Following discharge, the patients’ notes were collected and analysed for documentation of acute and chronic diagnoses, reasons for admission, and a review of the medications before admission, during admission, and at discharge. The notes were also analysed for documentation of the reasons for alterations to medication charts. Details of clinical ward pharmacist drug history taking were collected, together with any recommendations documented as part of the routine ward pharmacy service. Changes to medication on admission made by the medical team were also recorded. This work was carried out by a volunteer medical student who also had completed a degree in pharmacy before entering medical school. The work was reviewed with the specialist registrar (MF).
Data were analysed using a specifically designed database in Microsoft Access, allowing comparison of figures using Microsoft Excel. At data entry there was a retrospective review of risk, using the then current NPSA guidelines on identifying clinical risk and the associated scoring system, to evaluate identified events. Using this model, potential risks were assigned a cost and therefore potential savings identified. For the pre-intervention group this was based on entries in the notes (including drug chart) or, where not recorded, through interpretation of inpatient drug chart, examining changes from preadmission drug history. The difference in medication costs between admission and discharge were calculated based on the March 2003 edition of the British National Formulary. Data were analysed for both pre-intervention and intervention phases after the end of the data collection period. χ2 analysis was not done on these results as the sample size was too small to show any significant difference as discussed with the Northwick Park Hospital statistician.
Of the 62 patients in the pre-intervention group, notes were found for 50; 26 patients (53%) had differences in the medication history between those documented by the admitting team and any work carried out by the ward based pharmacist. The mean predicted increase in the cost of medication following the hospital stay was £181 per patient per year. This was reflected in the analysis of costs by diagnosis. The mean saving from drugs stopped during admission was £5.52 per patient per year. No recommendations regarding medication changes, errors, or risk management were documented in the patients’ notes.
STRATEGY FOR CHANGE
This phase sought to identify whether adding a senior clinical pharmacist on the PTWR, liaising with the ward based junior clinical pharmacists, would make savings in both potential risks and actual drug costs. We envisaged that front loading resources to the early stages of admission would enable senior clinicians to make management decisions that would otherwise be delayed or not taken at all. For example, making a radiologist available in a medical assessment unit changed management immediately in 11% of cases.8
The need for ethical approval for this work was discussed with a senior member of the Trust’s research ethics committee. Permission for the project to occur without the need for full committee approval was granted as the PTWR pharmacist provided pharmaceutical care which was accepted by the trust to be part of the pharmacist’s role.
A senior clinical pharmacist attended three consecutive PTWRs which occurred 3 months after the pre-intervention phase. The pharmacist was introduced to the medical team by the consultant and registrar (senior medical staff), explaining the role envisaged. Once the medical team were familiar with the role of the ward based clinical pharmacist, the pharmacist was accepted as part of the multidisciplinary team on the PTWR. As this project was not funded, there was no further pharmacist time available to attend more than three PTWRs. All members of the medical team were the same for the three ward rounds and had also been the same team whose records had been analysed as part of the pre-intervention phase. The pharmacist obtained a drug history in addition to the doctors’ admission drug history either from the patient, a relative, or a recent community prescription. Efforts were made during the ward round to contact the patient’s GP where drug history or indications for prescribed medication were not clear. The pharmacist was present throughout the ward round, listening to the history and observing the clinical examination. The pharmacist contributed to prescribing decisions, including suggestions for stopping inappropriate treatment and initiating evidence based prescribing for new and existing conditions. These suggestions were recorded on a separate form (intervention form) that was retained by the pharmacist. Agreement was made with the consultant to follow up, review, and amend medications as agreed on the PTWR. All changes were documented on the drug chart or in the patients’ notes. The clinical ward pharmacist followed up all queries generated during the PTWR within 24 hours. Peer review sessions were held after each PTWR. The two senior pharmacists examined all intervention forms. Optimal medicine management strategies were discussed to ensure consistency of advice provided to the medical team and agree the classification of contributions and entries. Consensus between the two post-take pharmacists was reached for all forms.
BARRIERS TO CHANGE
The main barrier to implementation of this work was the lack of funding to allow the pharmacist to attend the PTWR. This was despite the fact that this study showed that the work was of benefit to patients in terms of medication management and saved money for the trust and the health economy. We envisaged a potential for antipathy from the existing PTWR team to the presence of a pharmacist, which we did not experience. The pharmacist was required to attend the whole ward round (as it was too disruptive to leave and rejoin), although a large proportion of the ward round discussion was not relevant to medication. It took the pharmacist a long time to contact health and social care professionals and carers about patients’ medication to allow confirmation of drug histories. Thus, finding the time for the pharmacist to fulfil these roles was difficult.
In addition, we recognised that a senior pharmacist was needed to fulfil the role required and recruitment of staff at this level can be difficult.
EFFECTS OF CHANGE
Impact of the pharmacist on PTWR on drug expenditure
Of the 57 patients in the intervention group, notes were found for 53; 52 patients (98%) had differences in medication history between those documented by the admitting team and any work carried out by the ward based pharmacist (table 1). The mean predicted increase in the cost of medication following the hospital stay was £122 per patient per year (table 2). This was reflected in the analysis of cost by diagnosis (table 3). The mean saving from drugs stopped during admission was £88.60 per patient per year (table 4).
Impact of the pharmacist on PTWR on medication associated risks
The NPSA produced a risk assessment tool following adverse incidents affecting NHS patients. The NSPA risk classification (see Appendix 1 available online at http://www.qshc.com/supplemental) is divided into five levels of risk for both severity of the potential error and probability of the error occurring. These categories examine the actual or potential impact of the harm to the patient or the organisation in terms of severity of harm, number of patients potentially affected, and effect on the organisation. The potential financial consequences of the harm are estimated.
One hundred and nine recommendations regarding medication changes, errors, or risk management were documented in the patients’ notes and on the PTWR pharmacist intervention forms (table 5). The majority of recommendations were of minor or moderate significance (53% and 43%, respectively) and four (5%) were classified as preventing a potentially major incident (table 6).
The tables show the results of pre-intervention and post-intervention data collection. The impact on prescribing of the pharmacist on the PTWR is described by the accuracy of the medication history (table 1), the difference in predicted annual cost of drugs between groups (tables 2–4), and the clinical interventions (tables 5 and 6).
Table 1 shows the number of differences between medication history documented by the admitting doctor and the actual medication taken by the patient as documented by the pharmacist. These results reflect the published literature where pharmacists have been shown to produce more accurate medication histories on admission than junior doctors.
Table 2 shows that there was an increase in drug cost per patient in the pre-intervention and intervention groups. Increases are to be expected given that most medical treatments in hospital will include drug therapy. However, there is a clear difference in the magnitude of the cost increases, with the intervention group showing a smaller increase. This may be attributed to the contribution of the PTWR pharmacist to the management of the patient including recommendations for stopping unnecessary medication on admission and optimising treatment during the hospital stay and for discharge.
Table 3 identifies cost differences between pre-intervention and intervention groups in specific diseases commonly found in elderly patients. Patients with congestive cardiac failure or stroke in the intervention group showed smaller increases in predicted annual medication costs than patients in the respective pre-intervention groups. COPD patients in the intervention group showed a reduction of £162 per patient (41%) in predicted annual medication cost compared with the pre-intervention group. The numbers are too small for statistical analysis. These findings are interesting, however, and should stimulate further work.
Table 4 shows that the predicted annual saving per patient is much higher for intervention patients than for pre-intervention patients. These data are calculated by subtracting the cost of drugs on admission from the cost of drugs being taken before discharge. The number of drugs stopped relates to drugs being discontinued on the PTWR.
Of the 53 patients in the intervention group, 109 recommendations for medication changes were made in 44 patients. Table 5 shows the number of recommendations regarding medication use including safety issues as documented by the PTWR pharmacist in the intervention group. No recommendations were documented by the ward pharmacists in either the pre-intervention or intervention groups. Most of the recommendations were either minor or moderate. The four major recommendations relate to potential problems that could result in major permanent harm to the patient which have significant risk for the trust and the patient.
Table 5 shows that most recommendations were related to the prescribing of medication, with direct supply, monitoring, and patient counselling being less evident. This is not surprising as supply and counselling usually take place outside the ward round setting.
LESSONS AND MESSAGES
These data confirmed our suspicion that medication management was suboptimal in our hospital. Almost all medication histories were modified when a pharmacist was present on the PTWR, whereas only half were modified in the pre-intervention group. This may be because of a true difference between the two groups. The literature suggests that drug histories taken by doctors are often inaccurate,9 which supports our findings where 24 of 50 patients in the pre-intervention group had discrepancies between their documented drug history and the drugs they were actually taking.
Previous studies have shown that drug history taking by a pharmacist improves the accuracy of patient drug histories.10 When a patient is admitted to hospital, the admitting doctor will record a drug history. However, this will often be out of hours when access to confirmation from others is more difficult and there is pressure to complete other tasks as a priority. In contrast, the pharmacist in this study accessed information on drug histories during the day and focused on confirming information about medication with the patient, carer, relative, GP, and community pharmacist (as appropriate). In addition, patients are usually unwell at admission which decreases the reliability of the history and, if the admission is unplanned, the patient is unlikely to have brought their medication with them to the hospital. The admitting doctor is unlikely to have time to investigate the medication history further. One contributing factor to the inaccuracy in taking drug histories by doctors is the lack of teaching about therapeutics and prescribing at the undergraduate level.11
Dodds10 has described the benefits of pharmacists taking drug histories. The PTWR pharmacist is best placed to do this as the patient and medical team are present and will discuss medication related issues on the ward round. The pharmacist can contact the GP, carer, or community pharmacist to obtain further information in support of prescribing decisions. Any errors or omissions may then be addressed on the ward round when all relevant health professionals are attending the patient. The study shows that the drug history is more accurately taken when a PTWR pharmacist is available, thus improving patient safety and optimising treatment early in the patient’s admission.
We hoped that improved medicines management would reduce expenditure and this was shown to be the case in our hospital. We expected drug costs to increase from admission to discharge, given that medication is the most common treatment for medical patients in hospital.5 However, this study shows that the increase in medication cost can be reduced by the PTWR pharmacist through advice to the medical team regarding optimisation of medicines.
The group sizes precluded matching with respect to age, sex, or general diagnoses. However, when the three most common admitting diagnoses to both groups were analysed, there was a greater increase in discharge medication cost per patient in the pre-intervention group (table 4).
The results show that more drugs were stopped in the intervention group than in the pre-intervention group. There was also a large potential cost saving shown for the intervention group (£88.60 per patient per year) compared with the pre-intervention group (£5.52 per patient per year). The background rate of drugs stopped in the pre-intervention group reflects the alterations made according to clinical need, but usually without overall medication review. The PTWR pharmacist may have initiated medication review and contributed to the evidence base for stopping, changing, or starting drugs as this is the focus of the PTWR. This contrasts with clinicians who have a broader range of responsibilities. Advising clinicians on the choice of drugs and appropriate dose regimens reinforces the medical knowledge of clinicians with the specialist drug knowledge of senior pharmacists. This provides continuing education for both professions as well as improving patient care.
This study has shown that there are additional benefits for patients to the presence of a pharmacist on the PTWR compared with the existing ward pharmacy service in our hospital. PTWR pharmacists can most effectively contribute at the prescribing stage on the PTWR, ensuring that most effective medication optimisation occurs as part of the clinical team.12
During the study period of just three PTWRs involving only 53 patients, 109 recommendations were made, giving an intervention rate of approximately two per patient. Of these, four were classified as preventing a potentially major incident. Most were classified as moderate interventions.
A study by Psaila et al13 showed that, of 87 interventions made by junior pharmacists over 3 months, there were 0.18 interventions per patient. Most interventions were of minor significance. This paper suggests that a senior pharmacist will initiate more interventions of greater consequence to patients than a junior pharmacist.
No recommendations or risk reductions were documented in the pre-intervention group. In the post-intervention group, ongoing patient care was improved as the PTWR pharmacist documented recommendations and passed on the information to the ward pharmacist allowing follow up.
The main areas of recommendations made by PTWR pharmacists to minimise patient risk and maximise efficacy were in drug choice, dose, and review of drug need. These data concur with other work.7 Such information should be passed on to the GP in the discharge letter to inform primary care of changes made, together with the rationale.
Pharmacists can increase the accuracy of admission drug histories.
Post-take ward round (PTWR) pharmacists can effectively contribute at the prescribing stage on the PTWR.
Recommendations by pharmacists for optimising drug therapy can decrease the cost of prescribing by £500 000 across the health economy.
PTWR pharmacists improve the accuracy of drug history taking, patient safety, and optimise treatment. They can reduce drug cost at discharge and reduce patient risk.
The authors thank Mr Daniel O’Halloran, Medical Student, Imperial College, London, for his help with data recording.
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The little sketch of Chocquet at home among his pictures, although not a searching portrait, is perhaps truer to the man, for something of his mildness and savoring, receptive attitude comes out.
It is painted in an original way, a further step in Cezanne's striving for a constructed form. The whole is a banding and fitting of mainly horizontal and vertical strips of rich color, like a section of mosaic or a patchwork rug. The treatment of the interlocked hands is a good example of Cezanne's idea. The texture of the pigment is more pronounced than the texture of the represented objects, and the painted pattern is clearer than the structure of things. We are aware of the colored marquetry of the desk before we recognize the desk itself. It is hard to know exactly the large form of the desk or to determine where floor and wall meet. No object is complete and several are obscure; everything is cut somewhere and in a unique way, even the figure which is intercepted by the chair and the upper canvas edge. In the foreground the pattern of an actual rug - as part of the world of represented things - is broken up and quite impossible to read. At the same time we observe surprising contacts or continuities of things that lie in different planes in depth: among others are the verticals of the back of the chair and the picture frame above, and the horizontal cast shadows joining the rear legs of the chair and the vertical canvas edge. The figure, too, is divided into strips like the objects around it; and these strips or their edges continue the n eighboring forms. Still another device, which weakens the depth in favor of the painted surface, is the peculiar meeting and crossing in one point - at Chocquet's left wrist - of the lines from five different planes. The color, too, is applied in this sense; observe how very similar bright touches of yellow, red, and light grey occur in clear groupings on objects in far separated planes. Complementary to these devices is the contrary discontinuity of lines that belong to the same plane; the dark band at the lower edge of the wall is on different levels at left and right - a deliberate blurring of the right angle between wall and floor (the angle is also obscured by the similarity of tones above and below the band.
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Medical Equipment – a device that is used to diagnose, prevent or treat various diseases. Includes instruments, apparatus, implants, in vitro reagents, consumables, jigs, appliances, furniture, and other products.
Without special medical devices, it would be difficult to achieve effective effects of drugs on the human body, as well as the introduction of certain medicinal chemicals into the body. Because drugs using medical devices are much more effective on a living organism through various physical, mechanical or thermal effects.
There are both generally accepted medical devices used in various branches of medicine and fairly new devices, often for individual use, for the treatment or diagnosis of specific diseases.
Medical devices vary widely in complexity and use. Examples include simple devices, such as medical thermometers and disposable gloves, as well as more complex ones that require the special qualifications of doctors: computers and devices for conducting medical examinations, implants and prostheses in the body. The design of medical devices is the main segment of the field of biomedical engineering. | <urn:uuid:b39d5d0a-8c10-4d9f-b872-cc614661356b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.flatpyramid.com/medical-equipment-3d-models/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948128 | 208 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Question: If a person dies from cancer, is he conidered as a shaheed? And what are the other condition to be a shaheed?
Walaikumussalam w w
Shaheed is a special term used for a person who is martyred in the path of Allah Ta’ala. The root word is either ‘shuhood’ which means to witness. And a shaheed witnesses with his own eyes the ikraam and honour which Allah has reserved for him in Jannah, right at the time of his death.
Or the root word is shahadah, which means ‘to testify’. The signs of shahadah are a testimony of his sacrifice for Allah’s Deen.
Such a shaheed will not be given ghusl and they should be buried with their blood and in the same clothes in which they were killed. According to shafi’ee madh’hab, their janazah Salah will be done either, according to hanafi research their janaza Salah will prayed.
People who die with chronic illnesses are also granted a rank of Shahadah. This maybe due to the sufferings they had gone through. However this rank of Shahadah is in terms of the Aakhirah, and not of this dunya. In this dunya they will be treated like any other mayyit.
There are over 60 types of such Shaheeds.
قَالَ الْعُلَمَاءُ الْمُرَادُ بِشَهَادَةِ هَؤُلَاءِ كُلِّهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَقْتُولِ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَنَّهُمْ يَكُونُ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ ثَوَابُ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَأَمَّا فِي الدُّنْيَا فَيُغَسَّلُونَ وَيُصَلَّى عَلَيْهِمْ. (Sharh Muslim 13/63) | <urn:uuid:588a7927-fa18-4dca-a38d-11bb7b2cba48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://islamqa.org/hanafi/tafseer-raheemi/179279/is-death-with-cancer-shahadah/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.916206 | 575 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Disparities in Neighborhood Food Retail
Over the years, there has been a lot of focus on measuring the lack of healthy food in neighborhoods. The Get Healthy Philly team is excited to add to the food access conversation with the recent release of “Neighborhood Food Retail in Philadelphia.”
This new report maps neighborhood availability of “high-produce supply stores” (e.g., supermarkets, produce stores, farmers’ markets) in relation to “low-produce supply stores” (like dollar stores, pharmacies, and convenience stores).
This dual approach recognizes the central role produce plays in a healthy diet, and the fact that the broad availability of cheap, less-healthy food can impact diet as well. We know that people don’t always shop for food at the store closest to their house, and factors like price, quality, and cleanliness also impact our choices. But it’s important to measure the “food store mix” by neighborhood to understand if there are place-based disparities in food choices.
- Lower-income neighborhoods have disproportionately more low-produce stores. And neighborhoods with higher incomes have more high-produce supply stores.
- In the future, we need to think about ways we can consider quality and cost and get more data on individual stores.
- Across Philadelphia, low-produce supply stores vastly outnumber high-product supply stores (4 out of 5 stores are low-produce supply). This tips the balance towards foods high in calories, fat, sugar, or salt for everyone.
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Dayton is the recent recipient of a 2nd generation Moon Tree, often called a half-moon tree. Ann Jamison, a former resident of Dayton who grew up there, and who is the daughter of Bob and Mary Beth Jamison, contacted Mayor Caroline Wadzeck in November 2021 about the tree being acquired for Dayton by Chris Roosa, son of astronaut Stuart Roosa who flew on the Apollo 14 mission that was launched on January 31, 1971.
The Roosa and Jamison Families were close friends who shared a weekend house located south of Dayton on 100 acres where they gathered often. This was a happy time for the Jamison and Roosa children who have great memories of being together and sharing “adventures.”
Chris’s father, astronaut Stuart Roosa, was chosen as part of the Apollo 14 team on what was to be the third trip to the lunar surface. Stu Roosa was born August 16, 1933 in Durango, Colorado. He worked for the Forst Service in the early 1950’s as a smoke jumper fighting fires and later joined the Air Force and became a test pilot.
Roosa was one of 19 people selected for the astronaut class of 1966 and was part of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 9. During the Apollo 14 mission, while Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell explored the Fra Mauro region of the moon, Command Module Pilot Stu Roosa conducted observations, experiments, and scientific investigations in lunar orbit.
Packed in small containers in Roosa’s personal kit were hundreds of tree seeds – loblolly pine, sweet gum, redwood, Douglas fir, and sycamore, part of a joint NASA/United States Forest Service project. The seeds were flown as an experiment to determine the effects of deep space on them.
Upon return to Earth, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service and became known as “Moon Trees”. Some 450 saplings were grown and gifted to schools, universities, parks, and government offices, many as part of the U.S. bicentennial celebrations in 1976. Locations were chosen, in part, to ensure proper climate conditions for the respective tree species and planted throughout the United States and the world.
Some trees were planted beside their Earth-grown counterparts. After decades of growth, no discernable differences can be found between the trees that grew from seeds that traveled to the Moon and those that never left Earth. The second-generation trees, grown from the “Moon Tree” seeds are also growing around the world.
Following Apollo 14, Roosa was backup command module pilot for Apollo's 16 and 17. He then worked on the Space Shuttle program until his retirement as a Colonel in the Air Force in 1976, the time when many of his trees were being planted.
Remembering happy times spent in Dayton, Chris wanted to get a tree for the community and worked hard to get it, drawing on his contacts with the Forest Service, Mississippi State University, and others. This tree in Dayton, a sycamore, is now on a listing of Moon Tree locations. It is small in height, standing at 6’ tall with part of that in the ground and is covered in leaves.
Dayton’s resident tree expert, Clayton Bracey, owner of Precision Lawns and Landscaping took charge of the tree last November and planted it in a strategic location on April 14 at the community center. “It’s a healthy tree. Sycamores are extremely hardy and can grow as tall as 60-70 feet tall. They’re native to the southern parts of the U.S. and have a fast growth rate: 1’-1.5’ per year depending upon the weather and environmental conditions.” Bracey said he has personally seen sycamores grow up to 2 feet per year.
Sadly, Stuart Roosa passed away in December 1994 and his friend Bob Jamison passed October 1, 2012. This Half-Moon Tree will stand as a tribute to their friendship of 50 years ago, while all of the Moon Trees are a living memorial to Stuart and the Apollo program.
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Lupus Erythematous (SLE)
is a disease of the immune system that affects
women 10 times more than men. Lupus commonly begins
in the childbearing years, and rarely in childhood
or after menopause. Children are also sometimes
affected. In its more serious forms, it can lead
to kidney failure and death from a variety of
can be difficult to diagnose and public awareness
of this common illness is still lacking. At the
moment, medication can control the progression
of the disease but as yet there is no permanent
cure. The medication can have serious side-effects.
However, with proper treatment, most patients
can lead a normal life which includes being employed
and raising children.
It is obvious
that patients and their families require a considerable
amount of support to cope with this illness. Therefore,
our association was formed to meet the challenges
brought on by SLE. Members comprise mainly patients,
their family members, doctors and well-wishers.
Constitution of the Lupus Association (Singapore)
is presented here. Please note that any mistakes
found here, if any, were made in the process of
transmission and one should refer to the original
document for any purposes.
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To apply machine learning techniques to the production and interpretation of natural language, we need large amounts of annotated language data. Manual annotation, however, is an expensive and time consuming process since it involves human annotators looking at the data and explicitly adding information that is implicitly contained in the data, based on their judgment. This work presents an approach to automatically annotating referring expressions in situated dialogues by exploiting the interpretation of language by the participants in the dia- logue. We associate instructions concerning objects in the environment with automatically detected events involving these objects and predict the referents of referring expressions in the instructions on the basis of the objects aected by the events. We judge the reliability of these pre- dictions based on the temporal and textual distance between instruction and event. We apply our approach to an annotated corpus and evalu- ate the results against human annotation. The evaluation shows that the approach can be used to accurately annotate a large proportion of the utterances in the corpus dialogues and highlight those utterances for which human annotation is required, thus reducing the amount of human annotation required.
Schutte, N., Kelleher, J. D. and Mac Namee, B. Automatic Annotation of Referring Expression in Situated Dialogues. International journal of computational linguistics and applications Vol. 2, No. 1-2, Jan-dec 2011, PP. 175-190. doi:10.21427/D7HW5Q | <urn:uuid:060345c0-ed61-4d1d-8242-6629a08243e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arrow.tudublin.ie/scschcomart/20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.873814 | 360 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Kidney stones are hard deposits or collections made of minerals and salts that form inside the kidney and can travel to other parts of the urinary tract. It can affect any part of the urinary tract; from the kidney to the bladder.
A kidney stone forms when too much of certain minerals in the body accumulate in your urine. When you aren’t well hydrated, your urine becomes more concentrated with higher levels of certain minerals. When mineral levels are higher, it’s more likely that a kidney stone will form.
The Stones vary in sizes. Some are very small while others can become so large they take up the entire kidney.
Kidney stones are more common in men; people who are obese, and those who have diabetes. They may cause intense pain if they break loose and push into the ureters, the narrow ducts leading to the bladder.
Symptoms of kidney stones
Below are some of the factors that show you might have kidney stones
- Severe pain in the side and back, below the ribs
2. Pain that radiates to the lower abdomen and groin
3. Pain that comes in waves and fluctuates in intensity
4. Pain on urination
5. Pink, red or brown urine
6· Cloudy or foul-smelling urine
7. Nausea and vomiting
8. Persistent need to urinate
9. Urinating more often than usual
10. Fever and chills if an infection is present
11. Urinating small amounts
12. Presence of blood in urine
Causes of Kidney stones
Kidney stones often have no definite cause but it can be formed when your urine contains more crystal-forming substances such as calcium, oxalate and uric acid than the fluid in your urine can dilute. At the same time, your urine may lack substances that prevent crystals from sticking together, creating an ideal environment for kidney stones to form.
Management and Treatment of Kidney Stones
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Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are longer, more complex, and more confusing to the observer than the general election itself. The maze of delegate-selection procedures includes state primaries and caucuses as well as the traditional "smoke-filled room." Complicated federal election laws govern campaign financing. Sometimes many candidates enter and drop out of the race, while sometimes a stable two-way contest occurs: the 1976 nomination campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford exemplified each extreme. Is it possible to propose general principles to explain the apparent chaos of our presidential nomination system? Can those principles account for two such starkly different campaigns as occurred in 1976? In Before the Convention, political scientist John H. Aldrich presents a systematic analysis of presidential nomination politics, based on application of rational-choice models to candidate behavior. Aldrich views the candidates as decision makers with limited resources in a highly competitive environment. From this perspective, he seeks to determine why and how candidates choose to run, why some succeed and others fail, and what consequences the nomination process has for the general election and, later, for the President in office.
Aldrich begins with a brief history of the presidential selection process, focusing on the continuing shift of power from political elites to the mass electorate. He then turns to a detailed analysis of the 1976 nomination campaigns. Using data from a variety of sources, Aldrich demonstrates that the very different patterns in these races both conform to the rational-choice model. The analysis includes consideration of numerous questions of strategy. Is there a "momentum" to campaigns? How does a candidate identify and exploit this intangible quality? How do candidates decide where to contend and where not to contend? What is the nature of policy competition among candidates? When does a candidate prefer a "fuzzy" position to a clearly stated one? Other topics include reforms in campaign financing and the expanded and changed role of news coverage.
Before the Convention fills a significant gap in the literature on presidential politics, and therefore should be of particular importance to specialists in this area. It will be ofinterest also to everyone who is concerned with understanding the "rules of the game" for a complicated but vitally important exercise of American democracy. | <urn:uuid:2b7e9261-bc0a-412c-86b4-219dc7fc9bc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9780226012704 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944483 | 446 | 2.375 | 2 |
Fakta om Ukraina och nazismen
Denna sida uppdateras löpande med nyheter och referenser om nazismen i Ukraina:
Azov Battalion drops neo-Nazi symbol exploited by Russian propagandists ( a recognition of nazism)
* Russia is not without faults. They have not dealt with their past as they perhaps should. Communism and Soviet Union was partly to blame for WWII even though they also help liberate Europa from nazism at a heavy prize. This is a Russian documentary, not mentioning anything about their past, but if only a fraction of what is said about nazism in Ukraine and its grip on their society is true we have a serious problem. Ukraine is trying to find itself. Russian can help by being honest about themselves. | <urn:uuid:df7c931d-5461-465e-9020-48e58ab4504f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://palbergstrom.com/special/ukraina | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95234 | 170 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Servier and Institut Curie extend duration and scope of partnership in fight against cancer
Servier and Institut Curie have decided to prolong their partnership in the fight against cancer by three years, extending its scope to include new research areas such as immuno-oncology, haematology and cardiology.
The main goals of this partnership are to identify new therapeutic combinations (the use of two complementary treatments to increase efficacy while reducing adverse effects), including molecules from Servier’s development portfolio, and to better characterise patients who might benefit from certain molecules (targeted therapies).
The joint research programmes, covered by this partnership launched in 2005, have already resulted in the identification of several therapeutic targets, for example TTK/MPS1 kinase, an enzyme involved in the cell cycle. The deregulation of this enzyme leads to abnormal cell proliferation, which in turn facilitates the development of tumours. Inhibiting its activity therefore has potential for curbing tumour growth. A further common research programme will focus on supporting the development of a Servier drug candidate targeting this kinase.
The new programmes, which will also study how various solid tumours resist treatments, will benefit from large data bases and tens of thousands of tumour samples from Institut Curie.
“Over the past twelve years, we have been able to appreciate not only the advantages of this public-private partnership for research and innovation that benefits patients, but also the excellence of Institut Curie teams in both fundamental and clinical research,” said Mike Burbridge, Director of Translational and Clinical Research in Oncology at Servier.
“The collaboration between Institut Curie and Servier is the most ambitious project our institute has ever has with an industrial partner. The longevity of this historic partnership bears witness to our mutual trust, which is reinforced by the major progress that has been made in breast cancer research,” said Amaury Martin, Technology Transfer & Industrial Partnerships Office Director at Institut Curie.
Indeed, private-public partnerships are an asset when it comes to developing therapies that meet significant medical needs, as they accelerate the development of innovative treatments. They also increase the research potential of academic research centres. For example, since its launch, this partnership has led to the creation of three permanent positions at institute Curie, and to the recruitment of 25 technicians, engineers, students and young researchers on a temporary basis. | <urn:uuid:c1dc9a02-20a8-460c-a706-aca15aafccb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pharmiweb.com/pwtoday-story/servier-and-institut-curie-extend-duration-and-scope-of-partnership-in-fight-against-cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953317 | 496 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Professional Heater Repair In Cary, NC
Gas furnaces are the main type of furnace we encounter in Raleigh NC and all of central North Carolina. They are the primary type of heating system used here in the United States. They operate via forced heating. Cool air goes in, the air is heated by direct application of flame, and the warm air comes out. They sound simple enough when they are working, but then they are broken that is when you need someone like us, or someone who services your area to com in and perform a furnace repair.
The heating cycle begins with the thermostat. The thermostat knows when temperatures have gone below the current setting. For example, if you have the thermostat set to heat at 68 degrees, when the temperature gets down the 67 or lower, the thermostat triggers the fan which pulls air through the heating chamber. At the same time a valve opens to allow gas to flow into the burners. A pilot flame or spark then ignites the gas which heats up the surrounding air. After the gas flame begins to heat the air, the unit’s blower motor starts and pushes warm air out. As the warm air is pushed out, cold air is sucked in through the return ducts in each room.
Before the cold air reaches the furnace, it must first be filtered clean of dust. Dust in the furnace will adversely effect its operation
As seen in the image, the exhaust stack lets fumes out of the home.
Blower motors, heat exchangers, igniters, etc are all common failures in heating systems and furnaces. If something breaks we are happy to come take a look at it for you. If you have an old unit, it may be time for a new system. We do free estimates on new installs. Of crouse, we always fix what we can and are happy to service all of central North Carolina and Raleigh with heating and furnace repairs.
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Forgotten & Underserved: Pacific Islanders Fight for Academic Success
Source: Long Beach Post
This was the motto of Hawaii’s Queen Kapi’olani. She told her people, “Strive for the very top of the mountain, strive for excellence.”
For years Pacific Islanders from Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga and Guam have been misunderstood. Since it’s first use in the 1990s, the term Asian Pacific Islander has often hidden the story of Pacific Islanders’ struggle for success. Often stereotyped as a model minority under the larger umbrella category of “Asian,” Pacific Islanders are left out in national discussions about education issues.
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From UPSC perspective, the following things are important :
Prelims level : Not much
Mains level : Paper 3- Coal shortage issue
Normally, the power-generating companies maintain around 30 days of inventory of coal, but, currently, this has come down to three days.
Factors responsible for the crisis
- Supply side issue: On the supply side, because of low investment, coal cannot be mined more than the capacity which exists today. Hence, the increase in supplies will be gradual.
- High global prices: The global coal crisis has led to higher prices.
- Here, too, a sudden resurgence in demand after the pandemic has exposed the supply limitations.
- The international price has gone up by almost 40 per cent in the last month.
- China factor: China – a major producer and consumer – has also faced this problem as it has tried to save coal for the future and imposed restrictions on mining to go green.
- Emphasis on lowering the dependence on import: In India, coal imports have been traditionally high.
- Under its atmanirbharta drive, the government has voiced concerns on this issue and asked generators to be more self-reliant.
- Coal dependency came down over time, which also coincided with a lower phase of economic growth.
- The same has happened in China where the government has taken the greening concept seriously and asked coal producers to control production and power generators and move over to other greener fuels.
- This has made coal producers less willing to increase investment.
Why power companies are reluctant to import coal?
- Ideally, power companies should import coal.
- But that increases the cost of power production and power tariffs cannot be revised easily, like in the case of crops.
- The power sector, however, already has its woes.
- Distribution companies have been running losses due to their inability to cut down on transmission losses or increase tariffs.
- As their losses mount, the amount overdue to the generators increases.
- Therefore, the producers are not willing to increase their costs.
How it would impact the economy?
- The economy has been showing signs of recovering and the October-December period is crucial because there are expectations of pent-up demand helping to accelerate growth.
- Any disruption in the power supply can push back this process.
- The challenge is that today all the three sectors, agriculture, industry and households, are equally important.
- A lot of business is being conducted from home after the pandemic, and power disruptions will come in the way of work.
- If power companies start revising their tariffs, inflation will shoot up.
The coal shortage problem is very serious as it affects power supply, which is the backbone of all economic activity. All stakeholders – the Centre, states, miners and power generators – must work together and plan the strategy going ahead. | <urn:uuid:ce0dda96-926b-4cd5-8ffd-d11aab51bbdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/lessons-from-the-coal-shortage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954346 | 597 | 3.078125 | 3 |
Savoring The Spice In Kung Pao ChickenMelissa Block learns how to cook the spicy dish at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in Chengdu, China. The spice comes from the Sichuan peppercorn, which has a numbing power.
Gong Bao (Kung Pao) Chicken.
When we decided to do a week of All Things Considered broadcasts from Chengdu, China, in May, little did we imagine that we'd find ourselves covering an 8.0 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake hit the day after I arrived in Chengdu.
I had been in Chengdu in April, gathering material for stories to air the next month. I had planned to do one story a day on the food of Sichuan, which is justly famous and utterly delicious.
Naturally, the earthquake put those stories on hold.
Now, here's one of those stories, from a day I spent at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine in April. It's a prestigious cooking school in Chengdu that is training the next generation of chefs. The school reopened just a couple of days after the earthquake.
The Lure Of Sichuan Food
Sichuan food is famous for its mouth-numbing, spicy heat. And in the time I spent in Chengdu, I grew especially intrigued by a singular Sichuan sensation: ma.
Ma means "numbing" in Chinese, and that numbing sensation is a distinctive characteristic of Sichuan food. It comes from the Sichuan peppercorn, hua jiao, which translates to "flower pepper."
These peppercorns are not to be confused with hot red chili peppers. In fact, the Sichuan peppercorn isn't a pepper at all. It's an aromatic berry from the prickly ash tree.
When they're dried, the peppercorns turn a beautiful purple, and they're used with abandon in many dishes.
And there's another use: I've learned that you can put a peppercorn in your mouth to numb a toothache.
That was one lesson among many I learned during the day I spent at the school.
Layers Of Flavor
My teacher at the school, Li Jianqing, challenged me to bite into a Sichuan peppercorn. He told me a Swiss visitor had tried, but couldn't handle it.
Well, I couldn't resist that challenge, so I popped a peppercorn into my mouth and chomped down hard. Right away, my tongue started to tingle. Then, the sensation spread. My mouth started buzzing, dancing with a fizzy heat. The tingling moved from my tongue to my lips — it was a good tingling, not painful. Bit by bit, the taste filled my mouth — fragrant and a little bit sour.
Then, we got down to business. Li gave me a cooking demonstration, expertly stir-frying a wokful of a classic Sichuan dish: Kung Pao chicken, or chicken with peanuts, flavored with hot chilies and Sichuan pepper.
Before I left for Chengdu, the food writer Fuchsia Dunlop told me I had to eat Kung Pao chicken there. She said it would taste totally different from the dish I'd eaten many times in Chinese restaurants in the U.S.
And she was right. When I sampled Li's Kung Pao chicken, it had layers of flavor I had never tasted before.
My Turn To Sweat
Then Li challenged me again: "Can you do this dish?"
There's only one answer to that.
So, I put on a white chef's hat and got to work on the Kung Pao chicken. First, I mixed up the sauce — black vinegar, soy sauce, salt and sugar, mixed with corn starch and water — and poured it over the diced chicken. Li turned the gas on under the wok, and the flame roared up fiercely around it.
I tossed the chicken in the wok and started stir-frying, maybe a bit too energetically.
"Relax!" Li told me. Easy for him to say.
It turns out, stir-frying in a mock professional kitchen is harder than it looks. The wok was heavy and seemed huge. I held one handle with my left hand, which was wrapped in a towel to protect it from the heat. But it was an awkward grip, and when it came time to slide the chicken out of the wok, I lost some in the process.
Into the wok went hot chilies and those famous Sichuan peppercorns. Then, ginger, garlic and scallions. Last, I dumped the chicken back in, stir-fried it all together, and that was it.
Finally, the moment of truth. Li took a bite.
"It's very good," he said. "It's better than mine."
But I knew he was just being kind to a visitor. And he was too polite to mention that I had burned the chilies.
This dish, also known as Kung Pao chicken, has the curious distinction of having been labeled as politically incorrect during the Cultural Revolution. It is named after a late Qing Dynasty (late nineteenth century) governor of Sichuan, Ding Baozhen, who is said to have particularly enjoyed eating it — gong bao was his official title. No one can quite agree on the details of its origins: some say it was a dish Ding Baozhen brought with him from his home province of Guizhou; others that he ate it in a modest restaurant when he went out in humble dress to observe the real lives of his subjects; still others, rather implausibly, that his chef invented the finely chopped chicken dish because Ding Baozhen had bad teeth. Whatever the truth of its origins, its association with an imperial bureaucrat was enough to provoke the wrath of the Cultural Revolution radicals, and it was renamed "fast-fried chicken cubes" (hong bao ji ding) or "chicken cubes with seared chiles" (hu la ji ding) until its political rehabilitation in the 1980s.
Gong Bao chicken is beautiful to look at: a glorious medley of chicken flesh, golden peanuts and bright red chiles. The sauce is based on a light sweet-and-sour, pepped up with a deep chile spiciness and a trace of Sichuan pepper that will make your lips tingle pleasantly. The ingredients are all cut in harmony, the chicken in small cubes and the scallion in short pieces to complement the peanuts. The chicken should be just cooked and wonderfully succulent; the nuts are added at the very last minute so they keep their crispness.
Serves 2 as a main dish with a simple stir-fried vegetable and rice, 4 as part of a Chinese meal with three other dishes
2 boneless chicken breasts, with or without skin (about 2/3 pound total)
3 cloves of garlic and an equivalent amount of fresh ginger
5 scallions, white parts only
2 tablespoons peanut oil
a generous handful of dried red chiles (at least 10), preferably Sichuanese
1 teaspoon whole Sichuan pepper
2/3 cup roasted unsalted peanuts
For the marinade:
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons light soy sauce
1 teaspoon Shaoxing rice wine or medium-dry sherry
1 1/2 teaspoons potato flour or 2 1/4 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon water
For the sauce:
3 teaspoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon potato flour or 1 1/8 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon light soy sauce
3 teaspoons Chinkiang or black Chinese vinegar
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon chicken stock or water
1. Cut the chicken as evenly as possible into 1/2-inch strips and then cut these into small cubes. Place in a small bowl and mix in the marinade ingredients.
2. Peel and thinly slice the garlic and ginger, and chop the scallions into chunks as long as their diameter (to match the chicken cubes). Snip the chiles in half or into 2-inch sections. Wearing rubber gloves, discard as many seeds as possible.
3. Combine the sauce ingredients in a small bowl — if you dip your finger in, you can taste the sweet-sour base of the gong bao flavor.
4. Season the wok, then add 2 tablespoons of oil and heat over a high flame. When the oil is hot but not yet smoking, add the chiles and Sichuan pepper and stir-fry briefly until they are crisp and the oil is spicy and fragrant. Take care not to burn the spices (you can remove the wok from the heat if necessary to prevent overheating).
5. Quickly add the chicken and fry over a high flame, stirring constantly. As soon as the chicken cubes have separated, add the ginger, garlic, and scallions and continue to stir-fry for a few minutes until they are fragrant and the meat is cooked through (test one of the larger pieces to make sure).
6. Give the sauce a stir and add it to the wok, continuing to stir and toss. As soon as the sauce has become thick and shiny, add the peanuts, stir them in, and serve.
The same dish can be made with cubes of pork, shrimp, or prawns.
Cashew nuts can be used instead of peanuts for a grander version of this dish, although peanuts are more traditional.
Reprinted from Land of Plenty: Authentic Sichuan Recipes Personally Gathered in the Chinese Province of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop. Copyright (c) 2001 by Fuchsia Dunlop. With permission from the publisher, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. | <urn:uuid:82dd20dd-f86e-4554-aeed-14cc24fb0edf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.npr.org/2008/08/06/90206117/savoring-the-spice-in-kung-pao-chicken | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956895 | 2,088 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Someone, finally, spoke truth to power by confronting financial gurus in their own back-yard, or at least asked them some powerful questions. The head of the International Labor Organization (ILO) courageously challenged heads of finance at a recent meeting in Geneva. “My question is: have you recanted the Milton Friedman of 50 years ago?” he interrogated the local bankers. “Just make money?” he went on. “Have you had your epiphany of your animal spirits being tamed in that regard?”
Taming animal spirits? Domesticating the Wolf of Wall Street? These words prompted recollections of Joseph N. Welch putting to rest the McCarthy era witch hunt for Communists by gently asking the firebrand senator from Wisconsin: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” on television. Taming bankers in Geneva and asking Joe McCarthy for decency, two sides of an ethical whole.
Guy Ryder, a former union leader and current ILO chief, pulled no punches in speaking at the second meeting of the Building Bridges Summit. The room was filled with big money honchos and Ryder seized the moment to provoke them.
Although the Building Bridges project was started by the influential banker Patrick Odier, it is obvious that Ryder’s call for the necessity of financial involvement in social improvements has had little impact. To many, sustainable finance sounds like an oxymoron. As Ryder said of the need to “mobilize finance to make the ambitions of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals” possible, “10 years out from the deadline, how are we doing? Not so great…we simply haven’t gotten it right.”
Geneva is the home of many multilateral organizations, but it is also a city of silo constituencies geographically divided by the Mt. Blanc Bridge. On one side are the bankers and financiers where “Swiss banks manage 27% of global wealth,” according to Switzerland’s Finance Minister Ueli Maurer. It is estimated that Swiss banks managed 2,900 billion francs in 2020. On the other side of the Rhone are the international organizations concerned with human rights and social issues such as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Labor Organization.
They are silos because they each exist within their own ecosystems. Years ago, I tried to organize meetings between officials of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the ILO to see how something called the Social Clause could impact trade agreements. After all, trade in goods and services does have social consequences for people. “Don’t even try to organize a soccer game between us,” an ILO official reprimanded me, as if it were the most outlandish proposal he had ever heard. Labor was labor, trade was trade. And never the two shall meet.
The Building Bridges project is a figurative concretization of crossing the Mt. Blanc Bridge. It asks financiers to think beyond money, to go beyond quarterly reports of earnings to shareholders to regular reports about their company’s impact on the biosphere to global commons stakeholders. “If we want to create something sustainable, we have to take into account all types of capital, including natural capital and social capital for example,” said André Hoffman, vice-president of Roche Holding Ltd. and the great-grandson of Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche who founded the drug company Roche Holding in 1896. “There will be no future if there is no sustainability,” he added. Hoffmann’s estimated net worth is close to $ 6 billion. So when he speaks of sustainable development, maybe there is some traction crossing the Bridge.
But the question of which direction we should cross the bridge was also asked by Ryder. Are we going from the finance to the social, including international organizations and social movements, or the other way? “Are you leaders?” Ryder demanded. Or, he asked, are you merely followings politicians as well as “signals from the market about social preferences?” Calling wealthy financiers followers was Ryder’s way of saying that leadership should come from finance, or at least the financial and social could meet somewhere in the middle of the Bridge.
Private/public partnerships are the current wave simply because governments and intergovernmental organizations are short on cash. The annual budget of the ICRC is over $2 billion; UNHCR’s over $8 billion. To fill growing social needs, more and more donations to public international organizations are coming from private donors and foundations as governments are less willing and less able to pay. With the stock market rising to new highs, the private sector is the obvious place to turn.
Will financiers start their engines to cross the Bridge? Will they be leaders instead of followers? It’s long past the time when I tried to organize a soccer game between the ILO and the WTO to link social issues to trade and finance. But it’s also long past the time when the animal spirits of market greed should be tamed and the Wolf of Wall Street domesticated.
Crossing the Mt. Blanc Bridge takes only eight minutes walking. A simple stroll. But it takes over ten years for a drop of water to go from the source of Lake Geneva in Villeneuve to get to the Bridge. (Things don’t go so quickly in Switzerland.) Will the bankers become sensitive to global stakeholders instead of reacting only to invested shareholders? Guy Ryder asked the right questions. Patrick Odier has started an enormous bridge construction. A short walk or the slow movement of water? Social needs cannot wait. Let’s cross the Bridge quickly, and from both directions. | <urn:uuid:a32c8efb-3971-462f-bff5-317ac01142dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/09/finally-speaking-truth-to-power/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949862 | 1,197 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Ramsey Coote Alarms have been specifically designed for the practitioner to give a consistent and quality treatment for children who wish to become dry at night.
Factors for success:
- it is important to have a practitioner who has the experience that can help supervise and coach the parent and child
- a reliable alarm with bed-pad ensures that the treatment will be more likely adhered to by the child.
- the family work together to adhere to the treatment procedure for a successful outcome for their child
As a practitioner you can support the child, parents and other family members through the procedure until they understand what they need to do to help empower the child to become dry.
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- District Hospitals
- Community Health Centres
- Family and Child Health services
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- Paediatricians & General Practitioners
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- Psychologists & Social Workers
- Bedwetting Clinics
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How long are neonatal nurses shifts?
How long are neonatal nurses shifts?
NICU units operate 24/7, so most nurses work 12-hour shifts, which include some nights and weekends.
How many years is neonatal intensive care unit?
Becoming a NICU nurse takes a minimum of two to four years. You will need to: Obtain a nursing degree. Complete clinical experience in appropriate units such as pediatrics, labor and delivery and mother/baby.
How many years do neonatal nurses go to college?
To become a neonatal nurse, you must earn at least a two-year Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), although a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree is becoming more commonly required. You must also be licensed as an RN.
What ages do neonatal nurses work with?
Neonatal nursing generally encompasses care for those infants who experience problems shortly after birth, but it also encompasses care for infants who experience long-term problems related to their prematurity or illness after birth. A few neonatal nurses may care for infants up to about 2 years of age.
Is it hard to become a NICU nurse?
If you’re considering a career as a NICU nurse, congratulations — NICU nurses have one of the hardest jobs in medicine. While the decision to become a nurse is easy for many individuals, making a decision on whether to become a neonatal nurse is a much more difficult one.
Do Neonatal Nurses deliver babies?
There are actually more than 100 nursing specialties to choose from, since nurses play a critical role in just about every aspect of healthcare. If you’re drawn to working with babies, you’ve likely considered labor and delivery or neonatal nursing — two specialties that center on birth and infants.
What kind of work does a neonatal nurse do?
Neonatal nurses regularly communicate with parents which requires a compassionate attitude. Where Do Neonatal Nurses Work? Most neonatal nurses work in nurseries and birthing rooms within hospitals. While level II nurseries house less acutely ill patients, these infants still require constant care.
How long does it take to become a neonatal nurse?
Students can earn an associate in nursing in two years or a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) in four years to become a neonatal RN. Graduates must pass the National Council Licensure Examination for RNs (NCLEX-RN) to qualify for state licensure.
What’s the average salary for a neonatal nurse?
While multiple factors influence earning potential, NNPs can earn $115,800 a year on average. Important qualities include leadership, communication, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills. Other qualities include resourcefulness and compassion. Neonatal nursing offers a rewarding career in healthcare.
How to become a registered nurse in neonatal intensive care?
You can become a registered nurse certified in neonatal intensive care by taking a test offered by the National Certification Corporation. Eligibility for this exam includes proof of 2,000 hours as a registered nurse along with specialty experience in neonatal nursing.
How to become a nurse in a NICU?
Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse (NICU) 1 Complete an ADN or BSN program in nursing 2 Pass the NCLEX-RN exam and apply for your RN license 3 Have one to two years of experience working as an RN in pediatrics or OB 4 Apply to work in a Neonatal intensive care unit 5 Apply for your CCRN (Neonatal) after completing the required clinical hours More
What does it mean to be a neonatal nurse?
Although “neonatal” is another word for newborn, a neonatal nurse manages the care of babies until they are released from the hospital. The education and experience required to become one of the nurses who works with babies depends on the NICU level.
What makes an NNP a neonatal nurse practitioner?
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Marlene Feist, 509.625.6505
Friday, December 20, 2019 at 8:15 a.m.
The holidays aren’t quite here yet, but the City is ready to help you clean up when the season is over. Citizens have several options to get rid of their trees, and the City also has tips to dispose of the ribbons, tags, boxes, and bags.
The City’s Solid Waste Collection Department will offer free curbside pickup for its customers Thursday, Dec. 26, through Friday, Jan. 10. Once the decorations are removed, residents can place their fresh-cut trees (trunks no bigger than three inches in diameter) at least three feet away from the refuse and recycling carts on their regularly scheduled garbage pickup days. No artificial or flocked trees are accepted through this service.
The City will accept trees up to six feet in height; if they’re taller than that, cut them in half. Loose branches may be bundled next to the tree not to exceed six feet in length. Trees collected curbside will be chipped and composted. For information, call the City at 3-1-1 (or 509.755.2489 if calling outside the City).
City and County residents also can take their undecorated, unflocked trees for disposal to:
Again, trees taller than six feet should be cut in half. Trees taken to these facilities are subject to the minimum charge for clean green disposal; they will be composted. For more information, call the Recycling Hotline at 477-6800. The facilities are closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.
Residents also should watch for opportunities to dispose of trees and help a good cause. Scouts, school groups, and other charitable organizations will dispose of trees for a donation.
Meanwhile, much holiday packaging material is recyclable and can go into blue recycling carts. Gift wrap, except for metallic foil paper and cellophane, is recyclable, along with cardboard boxes and wrapping paper rolls. Styrofoam, plastic bags, plastic wrap, gift bags, and tissue paper should go in the brown refuse carts.
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ᴹ√DAR root. “stay, wait, stop, remain”
A root in The Etymologies of the 1930s glossed “stay, wait, stop, remain” with derivatives N. dar- “stop, halt” and N. dartha- “wait, stay, remain, last, endure” (Ety/DAR). Given the appearances of the command S. daro in The Lord of the Rings, unglossed but clearly meaning “stop!” or “halt!”, this root almost certainly survived in Tolkien’s later conceptions (LotR/342). It was probably also the basis of the words Q. lár/S. daur “league”, which Tolkien said originally meant “stop, pause” (UT/279).
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Work placement of our alumni
A sample of employment of 142 graduates from the Master’s programs at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management*.
*The data is updated to May 2019.
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Adina Mor, construction engineer, Israel Electric Corporation
“The studies in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management have opened for me a “gate” to a fascinating world and an understanding of the “burning” issues concerning our lives and the lives of the future generations. The department encompasses diverse fields and covers a range of environmental issues that have an impact on the planet – our “home”. The high-level studies are challenging, in-depth and interesting, and they are combined with professional tours demonstrating the theoretical aspects. I chose a project on environmental education at the university and its implications on the environmental behavior of students in their daily life, under the professional guidance of Prof. Ofira Ayalon and Dr. Dorit Baum. In my opinion, the importance of environmental education and its assimilation among the learners is a key factor in changing patterns of behavior and consciousness regarding the damage caused to the environment as a result of human behavior. Above all, it is worth noting the amazing atmosphere in the class, both socially and professionally. The academic and administrative staff have made every effort to encourage and support, and to make the learning experience an empowering, enjoyable and high-quality experience”.
Idit Hooberman, planner at Israel Land Authority, North District
“As an urban planner, I chose to deepen my knowledge and continue my studies with another master’s degree at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. The studies have enriched my knowledge in the fields of the environment and opened up a wide and fascinating world, which now helps me in my current work in understanding processes related to the environment and in the management of natural resources such as forests and national parks. The studies were fascinating and varied. They combined knowledge from academic research with the insights of professionals who deal in the field with the environment, energy and nature.”
Dr. Yoav Peled, researcher at IDC Herzliya
“During my studies in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, I’ve acquired many tools in a variety of disciplines. The broad coverage of different fields gave me the necessary knowledge and skills to cope with the diverse aspect related to sustainability and the environment, be it economics, policy, or research methods. The support and professionalism of the academic and administrative staff of the department enabled me to learn and progress, make new connections and advance my fields of interest.”
Yossie Calic, owner of Yozmot – Green Initiatives
“I had a wonderful, instructive, fruitful and rewarding experience studying in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. The department offers a variety of fields of studies, types of lectures, lecturers from different worlds (industry, planning, infrastructure), and the quality of studies is uncompromising. It was a fascinating meeting with a large variety of students from different backgrounds and societies – Arabs, Druze, Circassians and Jews, leading to mutual benefits and fascinating meetings. The level of services to students at the University of Haifa in general, and in the department in particular, is one of the best I have met, everyone wants to help. The atmosphere at the university and in the department is simply wonderful, matching to the quality of the people, with the view and the clear air in the surrounding forest and the constant wind. A quality of life that connects well with the focus of the department – preserving the environment.”
Omar Asi, environmental consultant at GEOMORE and research engineer at the Galilee Society
“In my fist degree as Environmental Engineer in Germany, the focus was almost always on technical issues. I felt that this was not sufficient to deal with environmental problems. In NREM at the University of Haifa, I learned more practical tools which help me to handle problems using a holistic approach, not only the technical but also the economic and spatial (GIS) components, as well as the legal and regulatory framework.”
Odelia Schrire, Coordinator of Environmental and Educational Projects
“In the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Haifa, I was exposed to diverse fields, charming friends, professional lecturers and supportive staff. The studies contributed to my work as a coordinator of environmental and educational projects. They also paved the way for further research work in the doctoral program. The diverse courses included environmental issues, tools for managing and leading change, and the acquisition of in-depth knowledge of statistical research tools needed to conduct academic research. In the thesis research, I chose to focus on environmental education, believing that this is the area in which I can contribute and influence. My research examined the impact of a creative project using digital tools, on raising the environmental awareness of high school and college students. The research process was enriching and instructive, thanks to my excellent facilitators, Prof. Ofira Ayalon and Dr. Tzipi Eshet. The general atmosphere is very pleasant, maybe because of the sensitivity and caring of those who understand that there is only one Earth.”
Noy Kadosh, Research assistant at University of Haifa and Technion
“Classes were flexible and convenient. As someone who chose to evolve in the research direction, I found the thesis program very suitable for me. The range of research fields in the department is very broad and I could easily find myself growing and developing. The flexibility of the program allowed me to take courses that interested me to explore my research ideas. I enjoyed my thesis very much and I have the luck to keep working with my instructor.”
Riki Levin, Teacher at Allians school Haifa
“Studies in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management in Haifa were varied and presented different positions and approaches in the field. The atmosphere is pleasant and the teaching staff is attentive and assisted with every request and need. The studies broadened my horizons, encouraging curiosity and a desire to explore, study and know. The different courses encompassed a wide range of fields that helped me in my research work and gave me the skill to use a wide variety of data analysis tools. During my studies, I was exposed to different environmental approaches that encourage creative, different and different thinking.”
Dr. Shira Daskal, Expert in economics and environmental regulation, researcher, consultant and lecturer
“In the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at the University of Haifa, I had the privilege to study and work with leading academic staff in their fields in Israel and around the world in a challenging, supportive and praiseworthy environment. The Department opened up new horizons to me. I was exposed to fields of knowledge, approaches and methodologies that enhanced my professional abilities and contributed to me both theoretically and practically. The practical tools I acquired served me in my work in many different fields. The challenge of managing natural and environmental resources for our existence, our children, grandchildren and future generations is not only a challenge, it is a mission, and I highly recommend coming to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management to learn how to do it.”
Tommy Yedidya, Environmental Management System coordinator, Israeli Airports Authority
“The studies in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management were fascinating and unique. The attitude of the faculty and the atmosphere in the department was positive and supportive. One of the difficulties in entering the job market after studying is the lack of work experience and the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management gave me practical and up-to-date tools that helped me to develop professionally and integrate in the employment market.”
Zeana Muhammad Ganem, Counselor for scientific research, Agricultural farm Ein Shemer
“Studying in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management was a fascinating experience. These studies have given me practical tools and a broad and important knowledge in the field, which are essential for my professional development.”
Yossi Elazar, Noise prevention coordinator, Haifa Bay Municipal Association for Environmental Protection
“The study experience in the Department is interesting and unique. There is always a positive atmosphere. The elective courses are multi-disciplinary and give the possibility to choose a direction to work on in the future. Today I deal with noise and radiation. I first studied the subject of radiation as part of my final M.A. project.”
Naama Lev, Community and educational gardens coordinator, The Society for the Protection of Natural in Israel
“I highly recommend the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management. The Department offers a variety of interdisciplinary studies. The lecturers include both academic staff and experts in the field, thus enabling an interesting perspective on subjects of study. Meeting students with backgrounds in a variety fields of knowledge is a fascinating and enriching learning experience. The studies take place in a pleasant and supportive atmosphere that encourages success.” | <urn:uuid:51d8930d-c9c5-4156-8c63-d183de6f968e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nrem.haifa.ac.il/?page_id=58&lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951052 | 1,965 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Pope Francis has stressed the need for all of us to “walk with migrants.” This means not to solve everyone’s problems, but rather to accompany migrants in their journeys in life.
Catholic social teaching regarding migration has developed certain principles that may seem contradictory at first view.
The Catholic Church has been involved with refugee resettlement in an organized way ever since World War II, when millions of displaced people in Europe were resettled in various countries.
The U.S. immigration system should meet the needs of our communities and nation, but it often fails to do so.
Can our broken immigration system be reformed? I believe it can be reformed to meet our nation’s labor, family reunification, and humanitarian goals, and it can be done on the basis of sound information.
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UNITED NATIONS: The World Bank has reduced India's growth projections for the current fiscal year to 7.5 percent, citing a global economic slowdown as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the country will keep its status as the world's fastest-growing economy.
The Bank's Global Prospects Report lowered India's GDP prediction by 0.5 percentage points from its April forecast of 8 percent, when the impact of the Ukraine war was just beginning to be noticed, and by 1.2 percentage points from its January forecast of 8.7 percent.
It expected India's growth to be 8.7 percent in the previous fiscal year. The global economy's growth rate was decreased by 1.2 percent, from 4.1 percent in January to 2.9 percent, according to the report.
President of the World Bank, David Malpass, has given a strong warning that the world is on the verge of stagflation, which is defined as economic stagnation combined with rising inflation. "Even if a worldwide recession is avoided, stagflation's suffering might last for years unless large supply increases are implemented," he warned.
"Headwinds from rising prices, supply chain disruptions, and geopolitical tensions offsetting buoyancy in the recovery of services demand after the epidemic," according to the Bank. "Rising inflationary pressures necessitated an unscheduled policy interest rate hike in May," the statement read. | <urn:uuid:7c297720-a677-4db7-9f5b-cb327f0b7fd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.newstracklive.com/news/world-bank-slashes-indias-202223-growth-to-75pc-but-will-keep-top-spot-sc57-nu318-ta318-1233111-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960926 | 287 | 2.25 | 2 |
How do species that interbreed become reproductively isolated? If hybrids are less fit than parental types, natural selection should promote reproductive isolation by favoring the evolution of premating mechanisms that prevent hybridization (a process termed reinforcement). Although reinforcement should generate a decline in hybridization over time, countervailing forces of gene flow and recombination are thought to preclude natural selection from enhancing and finalizing reproductive isolation. Here, I present recent estimates of hybridization frequency between two species of spadefoot toad, Spea multiplicata and S. bombifrons. I compare these recent measures of hybrid frequency with previously published estimates and show that hybridization between these species has declined precipitously over the past 27 years. Although previous studies suggest that reinforcement possibly accounts for this decline in hybrids over time, three alternative hypotheses also can explain the observed decrease in hybridization. First, if one of the two interacting species becomes rare, opportunities for and incidence of hybridization may decrease. Second, if one of the two interacting species is initially rare, hybridization may be initially common if the rare species has difficulty locating conspecific mates. Third, if hybrids are produced only in particular environments, hybrid frequency may decline if habitat changes result in loss of those environments that promote hybrid formation. I found no support for these three alternative explanations of the decline in hybrids. Instead, reinforcement appears to best account for the evolution of enhanced reproductive isolation between these species. Moreover, the finding that hybridization declined precipitously in only 27 years suggests that many systems that have undergone reinforcement may be overlooked because reproductive isolation between the interacting populations or species may already be complete.
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Imagine: Reflections on Peace
Published in English as Imagine: Reflections on Peace and in French as Imagine: Penser la Paix.
408 pages, 200 photographs.
Available online and in selected bookstores across the US, UK and Europe on Oct. 6, 2020.
Price: $49,95 | £39 | €45
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April 17, 2004
I’m reading this and that about biometrics, and I have a quick question – fingerprints, as well as every other biometric method of identification I’ve read about including face-recognition, retina-scanning, and so forth is declared to be a unique identifier; you, and only you, have fingerprints, retinas or a face that looks like that.
That’s it, really. I’m hardly versed in the science, but I can’t find the bit where it says “yeah, we took several thousand people’s fingerprints, and several thousand other people’s fingerprints, and we checked partials and stuff, and yeah – it turns out they’re actually unique identifiers.” Because, apparently, that information doesn’t exist.
I realise that I’m not qualified to make broad, sweeping generalizations about an entire field, here, but this appears to be true of the entirety of the forensic biometrics field at the moment.
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China is the first in the production of vegetables, and this production is very important for the Chinese, and more than 40% of the workforce is employed, as vegetable production reached 52% of the global total production, 600 million tons annually, according to the 2017 statistics.
India ranks second in the production of large quantities of vegetables, due to the fertility of its soil and the state’s interest in agriculture more than what led to China being the second largest in world production and annually produces 140 million tons, which equals 15% of global total production and most of their population depends on agriculture.
The United States ranks third in agricultural production in general and vegetables in particular, because it relies on modern methods and techniques in vegetable cultivation, as 45 million tons annually are produced, according to recent statistics, equivalent to 5% of the total vegetables in the world.
Among the most proven countries in many industries and production and played a large role in the production of large quantities of the total vegetables in the world, and now produces 35 million tons annually
That is, by 4% of world total production, and this proportion is expected to double, according to Turkish economists’ analyzes.
Iran has a large balance in the global production of vegetables and is a source of export to neighboring countries. Vegetables are produced with high-quality technologies and annual vegetables are produced 27 million tons, equivalent to 3% of the world’s vegetable production.
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Bat researcher Cynthia Moss can barely see how swiftly her subjects slice through the air. Nor can she hear them when they speak.
That hasn’t stopped the professor from creating a body of research that clarifies just how much is known about the winged creatures. The findings are part of a bigger effort to use what is known about bats for mankind’s benefit.
Ms. Moss, director of the University of Maryland’s Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, has been studying how bats use echolocation to sort through the clutter around them.
Echolocation, discovered by Donald Griffin in the 1930s, helps creatures including bats, dolphins and porpoises find their way. It’s like an animal sonar in which creatures give off sonic pulses and base their movements on how the sound bounces back to them. The pulses aren’t audible to human ears, but Ms. Moss and her crew — four graduate students, three post-doctoral students and two assistants — use sensitive microphones to capture their sounds.
Ms. Moss’ research has shown, among other things, that bats have a complex way of sorting through environmental clutter to reach food. Her work also reveals that their sonic pulses are not just tied to their respiration and wing beats, but also to the information coming back to them.
Bats, despite the popular conception, aren’t universally blind, but they do use sound to get around, bathing their immediate surroundings in noise to make their way.
Ms. Moss’ bat lab features roughly 35 creatures from tropical climates. Their impromptu cave is kept at a relatively high humidity and at about 70 degrees to keep the bats comfortable.
It’s hard to see more than a dozen at a time. They hide from view in the room, with only a few flying at any one time.
Ms. Moss says one aspect of her research has revealed that many bats create a “mental map” of their environments to help them move efficiently from place to place and without hurting themselves. The bats use echolocation techniques to construct the maps, which they use not only to maneuver around obstacles, but also to find replenishable food sources.
Technology makes much of Ms. Moss’ work possible. One stark example is how she uses video cameras and computers to catch bats in flight, then slows the footage so they can be studied. To the naked eye, the flights are too quick to spot much detail.
Another lab features microphones placed along the walls to capture the bats’ vocalizations. The microphones record the sounds made by the bats, a vocabulary of high frequencies that the human ear rarely can detect.
“We can reconstruct the directional paths of bat sound,” Ms. Moss says. “It allows us to study them in a new way.”
Thomas H. Kunz, professor of biology and director of the Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology at Boston University, says bats get a bad break in popular culture.
“In Western religions, bats are considered evil, with images of evil featuring bat wings, while angels have pretty white wings,” Mr. Kunz says. “People over the centuries have associated bats with the night and darkness and fear.”
Pragmatism is changing that, he says.
“The attitude of people today is quite different,” he says, because many of the 45 bat species in the United States feast on insects. “People are recognizing the role bats play in the environment.”
Mr. Kunz has been studying agricultural regions in Texas and the role bats play within the ecosystem. Bats that feed on fruit help disperse seeds and maintain forests, while nectar-eating bats play a role in pollination for various plant species, he says.
Migration has been one of the biggest topics bat researchers have had trouble exploring.
“You tag a bat and capture it someplace else, but you don’t know when it goes or how it goes,” Mr. Kunz says.
He is working with Doppler radar technology to help understand migration patterns.
“On a clear night, we can pick up bats,” he says of the 150 or so Doppler devices around the country.
“We’ve learned something about how bats disperse from caves at night,” he says, adding that because Mexico does not use Doppler systems, his research comes to a halt at the border. “We can pick them up as they emerge in the atmosphere. Just recently, we learned we can track them to agricultural regions, whether it’s cotton or corn.”
This summer, he also will be conducting research using radio tracking devices affixed to some of the bats.
The bats’ bodies may be about the size of a human thumb and weigh about 12 grams, but the transmitters are tiny enough to have no effect on the bats’ flight plans. A suitable transmitter must be less than 5 percent of the bat’s body weight, Mr. Kunz says.
Ms. Moss and her fellow bat researchers are doing more than informing the public about a fascinating creature. Their work is beneficial to humans in a number of ways.
Allyson Walsh, director of the Lubee Bat Conservancy in Gainesville, Fla., says she is working with researchers at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study bats’ flight behavior for the Air Force.
“We are looking at the flexible wings of bats [to determine] how to design flexible wings [for] aircraft for navigating urban canyons,” Ms. Walsh says. “We’re just beginning to understand the aerodynamics of having flexible wings.”
Ms. Walsh cites another project in which chemicals exuded by some bats are being studied for mosquito-repellent properties they may have. Some tropical bats exist around swarms of mosquitoes but don’t suffer from their bites, she says.
Barbara French, a science officer with Bat Conservation International in Austin, Texas, says bats have influenced technology to help the blind and soon may offer comfort for stroke sufferers.
Some canes for the blind feature echolocation-like gadgets that emit ultrasonic sounds. The pulses are translated into tones, with different tones representing different objects, Ms. French says.
Another promising bat-inspired innovation involves treatment for stroke victims. Ms. French says medical researchers are testing a solution genetically engineered to mimic the protein in vampire bats to dissolve blood clots.
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While gender equality may mean different things around the world, its benefits in business are undeniable: a company that sees a 1% increase in gender diversity will also enjoy a 3% increase in revenues. Women are empathetic leaders, they strive towards collaboration, are natural networkers and love building bridges. So, how can we push more equality in business around the world and what are the steps necessary to achieve that goal?
In our webinar – Giving a Voice to all Women in the International Economic Environment, an initiative by Elite Business Women – we spoke to Madiha Raslan, President at Women Leaders Council of Lebanon, Arshi Ayub Mohamed Zaveri, Senior Advisor, Royal Family Office, UAE, Martina Rogato, Sustainability Advisor & Professor. Head of Delegation Women20 Italy (G20) and TEDx Speaker, and our own Bianca Tudor, Founder & CEO, Elite Business Women and a WBAF Senator. The panel was moderated by Andreea Groenendijk-Deveau, entrepreneur and award-winning communicator, and our partner in this initiative.
Gender equality in business means different things around the world, from inclusion to women’s general rights. What are the areas that we’ve seen real success in and how we can do better?
Bianca Tudor: We have the balanced gender boards amendment by the European Commission. Their aim is to have 20% women in board positions by 2020. In 2019, there were 11% women in board positions and now there are 20.3% women in board positions. So, it has been a good initiative. What we need to do is to raise awareness about the benefits of gender equality and women inclusion in the economic environment. For example, for every 1% increase in gender diversity in companies, the company will have an increase with 3% in their turnover. So, for a company CEO, it is a good argument, because, as business owners, we look at a company’s profitability.
We’re on a rise, we still have to be aware of educating young girls, because it starts from the basics, it starts from the ground up, educating young girls. And that’s where I should mention that it’s not about polarizing men and women, it’s about bringing together the skills and the knowhow we have together as a team.
For every 1% increase in gender diversity in companies, the company will have an increase with 3% in their turnover. So, for a company CEO, it is a good argument, because, as business owners, we look at a company’s profitability.
Bianca Tudor, Founder & CEO, Elite Business Women
Madiha Raslan: In Lebanon, for example, in the banking sector, more than 51% of employees are women. And in many other sectors too. But in decision-making positions, women are absent. What we are trying to do is to lobby towards raising the percentage of representation of women in the boards of directors, in decision-making positions. I think that at some point we proposed to do that through legislation and to get incentives for private companies recruiting women and appointing them in decision-making positions. Maybe through lowering taxes for these companies. We have many ideas on this.
I, too, believe that we have to raise awareness, to highlight the roles of women, to talk more and communicate more on their success stories, but also to lobby with men and choose liberal men who really stand for women and for them to speak and say out loud how successful the experiences were when women were leading.
How do you work with men to empower more women to go into business? What kind of support have you seen from the men in business, because obviously, we can’t do it without their support?
Arshi Ayub Mohamed: Female entrepreneurship is often a difficult role. I think empowerment is a very large word, as a concept per se, and everyone speaks of empowerment like it is very easy. Well, I think it takes a lot to be able to empower somebody. It is just not by providing an equal opportunity. It is a huge responsibility that someone undertakes when they intend to empower somebody, whether there’s a community, whether there’s a person, whether there’s a cause. So, empowerment has a lot to do with providing them with the freedom to be able to express themselves within the social and cultural norms of their society or of their country.
So, when it comes to entrepreneurship and empowerment of women, the best example is of the United Arab Emirates. We have huge offices that are held by female ministers, female cabinet ministers and the statistics speak for themselves. We have 46.6% women in the workforce compared to 2.2% in 1975. So that speaks for itself on terms of how many women are coming forward when looking at leadership positions.
Empowerment has a lot to do with providing them with the freedom to be able to express themselves within the social and cultural norms of their society or of their country.
Arshi Ayub Mohamed Zaveri, Senior Advisor, Royal Family Office
Martina Rogato: In Italy, we are not in a gender equity situation, we are among the worst countries in Europe, according to the World Economic Forum, in terms of gender equity in business, but also in politics, and in the labour force. In the last few years, we introduced a law that obliged all listed companies to have, at least, 40% women in their board of directors and we created a law to up gender equity and we are seeing the positive effects of introducing this mandatory law on quota.
There are more women in decision-making positions, companies are performing better. So, the effect was very positive, but it was a shame that it took us introducing legislation in order to have more women in decision making-positions in companies. From a G20 perspective, decision making and women in entrepreneurship are two of the key topics that we will discuss in at the summit in Saudi Arabia later this year.
How can women lead the way towards more cooperation, more business? And how can we open the doors for other women across the globe to get the chance to make a real impact?
Arshi Ayub Mohamed: Fortunately, we’re living in a time where technology plays a very pivotal role in terms of connecting people. Unfortunately, when we started off, we never have any mentorship. So today, when somebody asks me to mentor young, beautiful students, I’m very very honoured and happy to do that.
And one very important aspect for promoting women entrepreneurship would be to never fear each other’s strengths. Always use them to your greatest leverage. So, as partners, as colleagues, as friends or any relationship that you hold together, it is important to stop being fearful, to be able to communicate everything with cadence and clarity and to find a common ground for partnership in business. Because what may work for other persons in the European Union may not work in the GCC and vice versa, to be able to find this business cultural social ground for work is extremely important. Find common ground, and, very important, work with like-minded individuals. We can never work with opposites. It is important to work with like-minded individuals.
How do you build these bridges?
Martina Rogato: We can do it by promoting good initiatives, showing good practices, creating networking opportunities among women and mentorship – with my own organization, we really believe in mentoring. We created and launched the 5th edition of Inspiring Mentor. Inspiring Mentor is a mentoring program where we matched 200 young women with 200 senior professionals, coming from different backgrounds. The idea is that we are trying to support gender equity, giving the chance to young men to have female role models, to discover a new kind of leadership, the female leadership. Perhaps when a young man dreams to become as successful as a woman, we will start seeing real results.
When women advise, what is the approach when supporting others build successful companies and initiatives? What is unique to women in this context?
Arshi Ayub Mohamed: When it comes to advising businesses and when it comes to generally stating or presenting a point forward, the fact that it comes from a woman, that is number one, the fact that it comes from logic is more important. You need to have a very, very logical discussion when you want to discuss any sort of business initiative, any sort of initiative that impacts the society or a community or any sort of work area. So, logical explanation and advice are extremely important, beyond any gender bias.
This is because you can’t always team a huge group of women on a project just because you want to promote empowerment, or just because you want to have women in that position. In fact, it needs to go by merit. If a man is good, he deserves the position, if a woman is good, she clearly deserves the opportunity. So, the fact that there has to be zero bias when it comes to anything, whether it’s gender, whether it’s expertise, anything, it has to be equal for everybody based on merit. That is what I personally look at. When it comes to any sort of advice, often it comes from a lot of experience in that specific field
Madiha Raslan: It’s well known that women are loyal, they are less corrupt and this has been proved and shown through international studies, it is not just my own personal opinion. Women are team players and the ego is less when compared to the men. Women are compassionate and it’s not a weakness. Women have social intelligence skills which help her more in building the team. Women have a new approach to solving problems because they communicate more. As a leader, as a business owner, I think adding all these skills and all these values, women tend to build a long-term relationship with their employees and team members.
We have to raise awareness, to highlight the roles of women, to talk more and communicate more on their success stories, but also to lobby with men and choose liberal men who really stand for women and for them to speak and say out loud how successful the experiences were when women were leading.
Madiha Raslan, President at Women Leaders Council of Lebanon
Bianca Tudor: What I am seeing from a business perspective is that women don’t think about the business in terms of the money, they have a lot of emotional involvement when they build their business, they think about providing for their families, they think about how they can contribute to their communities or to their societies. Sometimes a woman is a volunteer in NGOs – I am also a volunteer – they divide their time between a lot of areas and this is a good thing, and I love that about women.
Women are able to run the business, take care of their families, as well as being volunteers and being involved in communities and projects, I love that. I also see that women are keener to be mentored; sometimes men they don’t like being told how to run their businesses, but women are really keen to be mentored, we have mentorship programs, we have a lot of speakers sharing their knowhow in our businesses, so this is a good thing about women.
Women are great at working in teams – I think there’s huge potential in collaboration and in participating in networking events and in programs, so I will advise women to be really dynamic and go to networking events, business events, collaborate and stay in contact with people. What my mentor told me once was: “it doesn’t matter how much money you have in the bank, what matters is your network.” It’s your legacy, so building networks is a huge asset to businesses and women are really good at creating networks.
Martina Rogato: I don’t believe there are female characteristics and male characteristics. I think we have people, we have different persons, with their own peculiarities, and perhaps we are a bit stereotyped. Maybe there are some characteristics of human nature, like empathy, generosity, that are considered women characteristics or women strengths. We should go beyond stereotypes and talk about people, peculiarities of people’s and maybe help men in delivering also the feminine characteristics to either side. I also believe that probably the majority of women work with lots of passion and emotional commitment to what they do for a living.
When they work, they add a lot of passion and emotional commitment to work. I mean being emotionally when we are to engage people, push the team – it’s perfect and it’s fantastic. When we negotiate something, we should be less emotional and considering that we have a specific goal and it’s a negotiation we should be a little emotionally distant. So, I believe in differences between people but I also believe maybe women have some specific characteristics of empathy and emotionality in working that is good for empowering people, motivating people, but sometimes, for negotiations, is not.
From my international relations’ perspective, it’s very challenging to work with people coming from different cultures and backgrounds. So, in a negotiation it’s very important to be very focused on a specific goal you want to achieve because you can achieve whatever you want by just focusing on a few goals and negotiating, trying to find compromises. I’m learning how to negotiate; it is not something that comes naturally to me. I’ve learned how to be diplomatic and negotiate. Maybe these things, I don’t know if they’re female or not, when we negotiate if we had to opportunity to “feel” the other one – then it is easier to achieve our goals; trying to understand the other’s point of view, and maybe find a common solution, a common perspective. Well, it’s a challenging question but I think it’s something very focused on personality not on gender.
In a negotiation, it’s very important to be very focused on a specific goal you want to achieve because you can achieve whatever you want by just focusing on a few goals and negotiating, trying to find compromises. I’m learning how to negotiate; it is not something that comes naturally to me. I’ve learned how to be diplomatic and negotiate.
Martina Rogato, Sustainability Advisor & Professor
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Date Issued: 08/11/2000
Revision Date: 31/12/2021
As an employer, the Government of Saskatchewan (GoS) values the dignity of all employees and is committed to creating and maintaining a respectful work environment.
Every employee is entitled to employment free from harassment. All managers, supervisors and employees are expected to treat each other respectfully.
This policy applies to all workplaces of the Executive government and to:
- All employees appointed under
The Public Service Act, 1998;
- Individuals on work-experience placements;
- Volunteers working on behalf of Executive government; and
- Fee-for-service individuals and contractors providing services to the GoS.
This policy does not apply to individuals working outside Executive government. Employees of Executive government who feel they have been harassed by someone to whom this policy does not apply should discuss the matter with their supervisor and/or Human Resources (HR), who will take immediate steps to address the issues.
The government has zero tolerance towards harassment in the workplace. Harassment will not be tolerated.
No reported incident will go unaddressed. Allegations of harassment will be taken seriously and, if substantiated, addressed through corrective measures, which may include disciplinary action.
1. Permanent heads are ultimately responsible for fostering a work environment free of harassment.
2. Employees are responsible for creating and maintaining a respectful workplace and being aware of the process for addressing concerns regarding harassment.
3. Early problem-solving mechanisms, such as mediation, are preferred processes to resolve problems at the outset (where appropriate). These restorative processes focus on conflict resolution rather than blame or punishment.
4. The best resolution are those developed with direct participation of the Complainant(s) and Respondent(s)
5. The complaint process, including the investigation, if necessary, should be completed without undue delay.
6. Corrective action must be timely
7. Interference with the resolution of a complaint by threats, intimidation or retaliation; breaches of confidentiality; or complaints filed in bad faith will not be tolerated.
8. Disciplinary action will follow the PS-803 Corrective Discipline Policy.
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a collaborative, consensual approach to resolving disputes. ADR encompasses processes that usually involve a neutral third party who assists the parties in resolving disputes. Examples of ADR processes include facilitated problem-solving and mediation.
The person who makes a complaint of harassment or brings an incident of harassment to the attention of the employer.
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, nationality, ancestry, place of origin, or receipt of public assistance.
Discrimination includes, but is not limited to, unequal treatment based on one or more of the prohibited grounds under
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code.
Discrimination can be intentional or unintentional, direct or indirect. Harassment is a form of discrimination.
A creative process led by a third party that includes the Complainant(s) and Respondent(s) and may include a manager, Public Service Commission (PSC) Human Resource Service Teams, work group and/or the union (if applicable). The goal is to identify an acceptable resolution to the issue.
- 'harassment' means:
- any inappropriate conduct, comment, display, action or gesture by a person towards a worker:
- that either:
- is based on any prohibited ground as defined in The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018 or on physical size or weight; or
- subject to subsections (4) and (5), adversely affects the worker's psychological or physical well-being and that the person knows or ought reasonably to know would cause the worker to be humiliated or intimidated; and
- that constitutes a threat to the health or safety of the worker; or
- any conduct, comment, display, action or gesture by a person towards a worker that:
- is of a sexual nature; and
- the person knows or ought reasonably to know is unwelcome"; and
- 'worker' means, subject to subsection (6):
- an individual, including a supervisor, who is engaged in the service of an employer; or
- a member of a prescribed category of individuals;
but does not include an inmate, as defined in The Correctional Services Act, 2012, of a correctional facility as defined in that Act who is participating in a work project or rehabilitation program within the correctional facility".
3-1 (4) To constitute harassment for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(l)(i)(A)(II), either of the following must be established:
(a) repeated conduct, comments, displays, actions or gestures;
(b) a single, serious occurrence of conduct, or a single, serious comment, display, action or gesture, that has a lasting, harmful effect on the worker.
3-1 (5) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(l)(i)(A)(II), harassment does not include any reasonable action that is taken by an employer, or a manager or supervisor employed or engaged by an employer, relating to the management and direction of the employer's workers or the place of employment.
Note: Harassment includes any inappropriate conduct, comment, display, action or gesture by a person that is based on any the grounds identified in the Saskatchewan Government and General Employees Union (SGEU) or Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) collective bargaining agreements.
Harassment Prevention Coordinator (HPC)
Individual designated by the permanent head to fulfill the role as identified in this policy.
A fair and impartial fact-finding process to access whether the allegation(s) is founded, unfounded or made in bad faith.
A facilitated and voluntary process led by a trained mediator involving the Complainant(s) and Respondent(s) to help them attempt to resolve the matter.
The outcome of this process is a mutual understanding and a written, signed and recorded agreement to restorative action between those involved.
For purposes of this policy, permanent head means "permanent head or designate".
Permanent Head Advisory Panel
A panel of peers with whom a permanent head may consult prior to making a decision. At a minimum, the panel includes the Chair of the PSC and the Deputy Minister of Justice.
The employee(s) against whom a complaint has been lodged
For purposes of this policy, supervisor means (supervisor, manager or a person of higher authority within the Ministry".
For the purposes of this policy, the workplace includes, but is not limited to, the physical work site, washrooms, cafeterias, training sessions, business travel, field locations, conferences, work-related social gatherings or any other place where the employee is required to be in service to the employer.
Roles and Responsibilities
Maintaining a harassment-free work environment is everyone's responsibility.
Is responsible for:
- Reviewing the policy;
- Documenting incident(s) of harassment;
- Making their concerns known to the Respondent(s) or other appropriate person(s) (e.g., supervisor, Ministry Human Resource service Team and/or, if appropriate, shop steward) to review options for resolution; and
- Participation in the process to resolve the situation constructively.
For additional information, see Where to go for Information or Help section in this policy.
Employees (in-scope and out-of-scope)
Is responsible for:
- Ensuring employees are not exposed to harassment arising out of their employment; and
- Implementing this policy and its related processes and procedures.
At any time during the process of handling a complaint where behaviour of a criminal nature has occurred, or is thought to have occurred, the employee subjected to this behaviour must be informed that he/she has the opportunity to advance the complaint to the police for investigation. In cases where the employee has been afforded the opportunity to advance a criminal complaint but chooses not to do so, that choice should be respected except where there is an overriding concern.
Harassment Prevention Coordinators (HPC)
Are responsible for:
- Gaining a depth of expertise on the Anti-harassment Policy and related processes to fulfill this leadership role;
- Receiving written complaints for processing under this policy;
- Ensuring issues and complaints of harassment are appropriately addressed and documented;
- Ensuring appropriate follow-up and resolution takes place;
- Coordinating educational and awareness activities in their Ministry; and
- Reviewing and addressing concerns about how complaints were handled.
Managers and Supervisors
Are responsible for:
- Familiarizing themselves with the policy and all templates and tools for policy administration;
- Ensuring a harassment-free work environment and adherence to the policy;
- Stopping any harassment of which they are aware;
- Taking appropriate preventive or corrective action;
- Ensuring all employees' rights are respected;
- Supporting employees in the conflict resolution process; and
- Where appropriate, reporting incident(s) of harassment, witnessed and reported by others, to the HPC.
It is misconduct, subject to disciplinary action, for managers and supervisors who are aware of workplace harassment not to take immediate corrective action.
Have the ultimate responsibility for applying this policy within their Ministry. They are specifically responsible for:
Fostering a work environment free of harassment;
Holding managers and supervisors accountable for carrying out their responsibilities related to ensuring a harassment-free work environment and adherence to the policy;
Communicating this policy to all employees;
The designation of the Ministry's HPC;
Deciding if the Complainant(s) and Respondent(s) need to be separated pending the completion of the complaint process;
Determining if the complaint is founded, unfounded or made in bad faith; and
Making decisions for follow-up action to complete the complaint process, which may include discipline, up to and including dismissal
Ministry Human Resource Service Team
Is responsible for
Assisting employees when approached about matters involving harassment;
Assisting HPCs in their roles and responsibilities; and
Providing advice and assistance to the Permanent head throughout the process.
PSC Labour Relations
Is responsible for:
Interpreting the Anti-Harassment Policy;
Screening, monitoring and tracking harassment complaints; and
Coordinating external investigators
Respondent(s) must be notified in the event a complaint is made against them. Respondent(s) should review the policy and may work with their supervisor, HR and/or if appropriate, shop steward, to review options for resolution.
Respondents are encouraged to participate in the process in order to resolve the conflict constructively.
For additional information, see
Where to go for Information or Help section in this policy.
Bad Faith Complaints
Complaints should be undertaken with great care because they may result in pain and damage to the Respondent's reputation and disruptions in the workplace. Complaints made frivolously, maliciously, or without factual basis may constitute defamation, may be actionable by the Respondent, and may result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.
Please refer to the flowchart (Appendix A-1) and flowchart explanation (Appendix A-2) for an explanation of how complaints of harassment may be brought to the attention of the employer and processed
A Complainant may withdraw a complaint at any time. The employer may still be required to address the concerns raised in cases where:
- There exists a real or perceived threat to the health or safety of other employees;
- There is evidence that the Complainant(s) may have been threatened or may fear retaliation;
- Failure to resolve the matter might endanger an employee;
- The complaint alleges serious abuse of power; or
- Failure to follow through on a complaint would seriously damage the reputation of the public service.
The employer will not disclose the name of a Complainant or Respondent or the circumstances related to the complaint to any person except where disclosure is necessary for the purposes of restorative or investigative processes, or as required by law.
No one involved will discuss or share the information outside the restorative or investigative processes. Information is shared on a "need to know" basis and must not be shared further. Failure to preserve the confidentiality of information acquired during the process may result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.
Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
Employees are encouraged to use the Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) to receive immediate and confidential assistance for a work, health or life concern. For more information about EFAP, visit Taskroom.
Nothing in this policy precludes the employee's ability to access their rights or provisions through the Collective Bargaining Agreement, The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, The Saskatchewan Employment Act, The Workers' Compensation Act, 2013, workplace violence policies, or any other legal avenues available.
Typically, harassment cases do not involve conduct of a criminal nature. However, in exceptional cases, the actions may amount to criminal behaviour.
Employer's Right to Manage
This policy will not, under any circumstances, be used to impede, limit or constrain the employer's right to manage. For example, work assignments, operational reviews, performance reviews, coaching, work evaluation and disciplinary measures taken by a manager or supervisor, in good faith for valid reasons, do not constitute harassment.
Supervisory and management actions must remain respectful of the individual.
Evidence and Documents Relating to the investigation
Due to the possibility of subsequent action, e.g., legal proceedings, arbitration, judicial review, review by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission or Occupational Health and Safety, Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, materials related to the investigation will be retained in accordance with archival requirements set out in the Administrative Records Management System, 2014 (ARMS
Retention of the investigator's materials related to the investigation will be outlined in each investigator's contract for services.
Upon completion of the process, the Ministry will return all investigative materials to Labour Relations, PSC.
Representation and Support
Employees in a bargaining unit have a right to union representation during any of the processes outlined in this policy.
Individuals outside the bargaining units may be accompanied by a person of their choice, such as HR or a co-worker.
Where an out-of-scope Respondent seeks legal counsel and ultimately there is no finding of harassment, the Permanent head may authorize reimbursement of reasonable legal fees.
Retaliation is strictly prohibited against anyone who has reported harassment or participated in the complaint process. Any signs of retaliation should be reported immediately to a supervisor, HR, Labour Relations PSC or the union (if applicable).
Retaliation will result in disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.
The policy is not intended to inhibit normal social interaction in the work environment.
Where to Go for Information or Help
Employees may access any of these avenues at any stage of the process:
- Ministry Human Resource Service Team;
- Ministry Harassment Prevention Coordinator (HPC);
- Occupational Health and Safety, Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, (1-800-567-7233);
- Local union official (no union official will be involved when the Complainant and Respondent are both out-of-scope);
- SGEU (if applicable):
- Regina 1-800-667-5221
- Saskatoon 1-800-667-9791
- Prince Albert 1-800-667-9355
- CUPE 600-3 and CUPE 600-5 (if applicable):
- Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (1-800-667-8577);
- EFAP (1-844-880-9142); or
- Police (if an assault or other crime is alleged to have occurred).
The Saskatchewan Employment Act
The Public Service Act, 1998
The Saskatchewan Human Rights Code
The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020
Administrative Records Management System, 2014 (ARMS 2014)
Appendix A-1: Flowchart
Appendix A-2: Flowchart Explanation
Appendix B: Examples of Harassment
Appendix C: Harassment Complaint Form
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CIP Code: 29.47.0303.01
Program Description: The mission of the Industrial Electrical Maintenance program is to provide diversified maintenance training to students to meet the occupational needs of prospective employers in our community.
This course will provide a thorough understanding of the methods of diagnosing, troubleshooting, and repairing industrial equipment. Each unit of study is approached by starting with the basic theory involved. Students receive actual experience on equipment with factory-approved methods of repairing and maintaining them.
Students receive individual instruction and learn the use of tools, special equipment, technical manuals, circuit analysis, service specifications, diagnosis, and repair. Students are trained in disassembly, repair, and reassembly of hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and electrical systems on industrial equipment.
Students can progress into the Mechatronics curriculum which incorporates advanced studies and troubleshooting in electronics, fluid power, motor controls, PLCs, robotics, and mechatronics manufacturing.
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Learning cities promote green and healthy environments, strive to achieve equity and inclusion, and support decent work and entrepreneurship. They are therefore key drivers of local-level sustainability in both urban and rural areas. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) starts at home and grows through learning cities. Increasing the learning cities’ capacity to integrate ESD programmes and perspectives into their planning and decision-making processes is essential.
The video tutorial, How to Integrate ESD at Local Level in Learning Cities, provides answers to the following questions:
- Why integrate ESD into learning cities?
- How can ESD be integrated into learning cities?
- What can learning cities do to promote ESD?
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A Practical Guide to Causal Dataset Repairs in Machine Learning
Causality studies the relationships between certain events or processes in terms of cause and effect. More recently, this area has been used in machine learning to identify the causal relationships between the different features and outcomes within a dataset. This is usually represented by a casual graph, which depicts the various features/attributes and the outcome variable as nodes, and the relationships as arrows.
A causal graph can be used to highlight certain paths that represent bias within the dataset. These are paths starting from the sensitive attribute node, such as gender or race (demographics more likely to experience discrimination), and ending at the outcome node. They can go directly from the sensitive attribute to the outcome variable (direct discrimination), or also pass through ‘unjustified’ attributes (indirect discrimination). Certain dataset repair methods can be applied, which aim to eliminate the causal paths linked to discrimination, and therefore remove the bias associated with the sensitive group. These types of repair techniques can be highly effective debiasing tools, however, there exist some known challenges, such as being difficult to apply in practice.
IMI MIRA Laura Hattam explores these issues further, firstly, by looking at various approaches for building causal graphs. Then, some causal debiasing methods from the literature are presented, with one implemented. The overall objective of this article is to provide a practical guide for practitioners that have an interest in causal dataset repairs.
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British Froebelian Women from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century presents a series of critical case studies of individual women who worked and advocated for the cause of Froebelian and progressive pedagogy in Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The book presents a compelling picture of how women have contributed in powerful ways to educational life and child-centred practices.
The book examines the beliefs and values of its subjects, offering crucial insights into how these women forged their professional identities and practice as new thinking about education and childhood emerged, and considers the differing forms of inspiration they drew from their connections with the Froebelian community.
This book will be of great interest for postgraduate students and academics in the fields of Women's Studies, History of Education, Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Studies.
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When most people think of eating healthy, fruits and vegetables are at the top of the list – and rightfully so! However, not all vegetables are created equal, and some are considerably richer in nutrients than others. So, as you’re shopping in the produce section of your supermarket this week, consider stocking up on more of these healthy vegetables.
Broccoli is a versatile vegetable that is one of the healthiest ones you can find on the planet. It is especially rich in vitamin K and vitamin C. Research studies have linked the nutrient content in broccoli to lower risks of diseases and better overall health. Broccoli works well in stir-fry dishes, soups, pasta, and simply steamed. Try Seagate’s broccoli supplements for all these health benefits and none of the taste.
Kale has become somewhat of a health trend in recent years because of all of the health benefits is promises. This leafy green vegetable has lots of vitamins K, C, and A while being very low in calories. Research studies have linked eating more kale to healthier cholesterol and blood sugar levels. Kale works well in salads, pasta, and baked kale chips.
Asparagus is a great source of magnesium, vitamin K, vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin B6. These vitamins help the body with blood clotting, the immune system, and an antioxidant boost. You’ll get the most nutrients out of asparagus by eating it raw, but you can also steam it, grill it, or roast it in the oven with your favorite sauces and spices.
We also love carrots because of how healthy they are for good eye health, fighting disease, and other benefits. These vegetables are a great source of vitamin A and beta-carotene. It’s easy to add carrots to your diet by eating them raw with hummus, cooking them into casseroles, or by making natural juice with our carrot powder.
Brussels sprouts are very nutrient-rich as well and contain vitamins A, B6, C, and K, as well as folate, manganese, and iron. They have a high fiber content to help with digestive regularity and also antioxidants to support brain and cellular health. Roasted Brussels sprouts work well in salads and casseroles, and you can also add them to pot pies, stir-fry recipes, and onto skewer kabobs.
Spinach is a green leafy vegetable that really packs a punch in terms of nutrition content. It is a good plant-based source of calcium, iron, and antioxidants. It contains a good amount of vitamins K, A, and C too. Anyone who eats a meat-free or dairy-free diet, in particular, should try to eat more spinach each week. Spinach salads make a very healthy lunch, or try adding spinach to smoothies if you don’t like the texture.
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Combine (overlap) two diffrent variables
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need help to find overlap two diffrent variables (find where the values ar the same) xdate (180 values one row) and xdate_month (288 values on row). The two variables contain matlab numbers for date and starts and end with:
xdate: [NaN.....730867......735827.....NaN] ther are some NaN in the end and in the start
xdate_month: [726848.......735583] no NaN values.
When l have the overlapping values, x I can plot x with a y1 and y2 variables (y1 variables are observed gross primary production (GPP) values and y2 are modelled GPP on the same plot.
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Bill la Forge
b.laforge at jxml.com
Fri Oct 9 16:54:15 BST 1998
From: Graham Moore <graham.moore at dpsl.co.uk>
>> Simple application code that implements Element can be in
>> the DOM tree directly, but would not have access to parse events.
>> Application code held by a wrapper or participating in an
>> aggregate would support an api or a design pattern (which
>> is to say, JavaBeans), which benefits indirectly from parse
>I think where this leads us is to a situation where an application is
>effectively a LISP evaluator and the XML has become an S-Expression.
>But to keep things simple the parse events should for the moment be used to
>build the DOM and its mixed-in functionality. The app thens invokes methods
>on the functional DOM.
>I like the idea that XML is LISP though.
Typically, parse events should be used to build the DOM tree.
Again, a variety of approaches and perversions should be accomodated.
Some application objects would be aware of the DOM tree and not have
any methods that are called as a result of a parse event.
At the other extreme are application objects which are unaware of the
DOM tree, but which have methods called as a result of various parse
A JavaBean may have various properties set at START ELEMENT.
It may raise an exception as a result. The exception can then become
a SAXParseEvent which identifies the element in the XML document
where the exception occured.
At END DOCUMENT, a refid may be resolved as an application
object which supports listener registration. The referenced object
is then called to register the event listener object which had the
Coins currently supports both of the above.
Perhaps we could generalize and say that the data held by SAX parse
events is important for building the DOM, and that that data is not
needed by the XObject, but still there may be methods that need to
The two events that I see as important here are end-element and
end-document. And the important data is Location, which is needed
to generate useful SAXParseEvents.
This suggests another interface which may optionally be implemented
by an XObject:
public interface XObjectParseEvents
endElement(org.w3c.dom.Element element, org.xml.sax.Locator locator)
endDocument(org.w3c.dom.Element element, org.xml.sax.Locator
In the above, element might be the object being called, or it might be the
wrapper which holds the object being called, or the mixin in the same
The value of this is that the DomBuilder need not be entirely SAX
allowing a better integration between the parser and the DOM.
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When you tap into your creativity and stay true to your values and vision, you can create an impression that grabs guests’ attention and always keeps them coming back for more and more. And that’s the key to the walk of life in every profession. With this thought, let’s find out everything you need to know about the oldest restaurants in the world.
Oldest Restaurants In The World: An Overview
In today’s food-obsessed world, new restaurants appear overnight and disappear quickly, in contrast to the oldest restaurants in the world. According to an Ohio State University study on failed restaurants, 60% fail within the first year and 80% fail within the first five years.
Even after this rate of success, some of the world’s oldest surviving businesses happen to be restaurants, and some date back to the 9th century. In a time when restaurants are likely to come and go like the seasons, there are a few standout stars that have somehow stood the test of time. And not some months or decades; we’re talking a few centuries.
Let’s see the list of the oldest restaurants in the world based on some historical data with details of their signature dishes and other engaging stories about the establishment of the oldest restaurant in the world.
1. St. Peter Stiftskulinarium. Salzburg, Austria (Established in 803)
St. Peter Stiftskulinarium is believed to have been operating since before AD 803, which makes it the oldest inn in Central Europe and the oldest restaurant in the world. Located inside Peter’s Abbey, the establishment has been serving for over 1200 years.
While no one knows for certain when St. Peter’s first opened, the year 803 is usually cited because that is when the first mention of it appears in print in the work of the scholar and monk Albumin, a devout follower of Charlemagne.
St. Peter Stiftskulinarium is said to have served both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Christopher Columbus. According to the visitors, the specialty dish is tafelspitz, which is an Austrian dish comprising boiled beef with minced apple and horseradish.
2. The Old House. Wales, UK. (Established in 1147)
The Old House in Maesteg, a town in Wales, is a unique piece of Welsh history. The Old House, which dates back hundreds of years, has been restored to its former glory. The signature dish of the restaurant is the Old House pie. An individual house-made pie served with traditional peas and chips, with fillings that change every day. Add this one of the oldest restaurants in the world to your list if you’re planning to visit the UK.
3. The Sheep Heid Inn. Edinburgh, Scotland. (Established in 1360)
The Sheep Heid inn in Edinburgh dates back to 1360 and is located in the heart of the city. The pub’s signature and the awesome dish is its prime selection of steaks served with rustic chips, roasted mushroom confit tomato, and tasty parsley butter. Supplied right by British and Irish farms, the steak collection of the restaurant is aged for a minimum of 21 days to deliver the best possible flavor and texture.
4. Hotel Gasthof Löwen. Liechtenstein, Europe. (Established in 1380)
Hotel Gasthof löwen in the capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz was founded in 1380. It has been serving happy patrons veal with vegetables since 1380. Among the restaurant’s food menu offering international and local cuisine, the sliced veal “Zurich style” with rosti and vegetables has been called the hotel’s special meals.
5. Bianyifang. Beijing, China. (Established in 1416)
Bianyifang is a Chinese restaurant in Beijing. It is well-known for its specialty, Peking Duck. Bianyifang Restaurant was established over 600 years ago. It is exclusive to the culinary tradition that started during the Ming Dynasty. It was started in a different, much smaller location but was expanded with virtuous perception in 1827.
6. Zum Franziskaner. Stockholm, Sweden. (Established in 1421)
Founded by German monks in 1421 in connection with King Erik of Pomerania, allowing the monks to charge for food and drink, Zum Franziskaner Restaurant is no longer in its original form. In fact, it has been rebuilt several times, with various incarnations serving as a sailor’s tavern and fine-dining food. Despite their exceptional services, the restaurant continues to serve the same beer selection (brewed by the monks, naturally).
7. Honke Owariya, Kyoto, Japan. (Established in 1465)
Honke Owariya began as a confectionery shop that relocated from Nagoya’s Owari region to Kyoto. Honke Owariya, one of the world’s oldest restaurants, first-served its famous soba rice cakes but eventually began making soba noodles around 1700, making it Kyoto’s oldest soba shop.
The restaurant has been in business for over 550 years and has perfected its recipes for sesame seeds, shrimp tempura, wasabi, nori, Japanese leeks, and grated daikon.
8. La Tour d’argent. Paris, France. (Established in 1582)
La tour d’argent is a high-end restaurant with one Michelin star that claims to have served King Henry IV. The restaurant once held one of the world’s highest honors, three Michelin stars. However, it lost one star in 1996 and another in 2006.
The restaurant has impressed Parisian diners since 1582, but it didn’t solidify its now-signature item, pressed duck, until 1919. Order that renowned dish with a combination of wine and treat yourself to one of the very famous and oldest restaurants in the world.
9. Zur letzten Instanz. Berlin, Germany. (Established in 1621)
Throughout its illustrious history, Zur Letzte Instanz has served everyone from Napoleon to Beethoven to Angela Merkel. It was first mentioned in print in 1561, but it wasn’t until 1621 that it was transformed into a tavern, which it still is today. The building, which was only a block away from the Berlin Wall during the Cold War, had to be rebuilt in 1963 after extensive damage from World War II was deemed irreparable.
10. White Horse Tavern. Newport, Rhode Island, USA. (Established in 1673)
The building that is home to the White Horse Tavern was built in 1652 and later sold to William Mayes in 1673. It quickly became a gathering place for the General Assembly, Criminal Court, and City Councils of the Colony. As a result, it is known as the “birthplace of businessman’s lunch.”
11. A la Petite Chaise. Paris, France (Established in 1680)
A la Petite Chaise, Paris’s second oldest restaurant, has been a meeting place for the social, political, and artistic elite since it opened in the late 17th century. The menu includes textbook-perfect renditions of French classics such as foie gras, escargot, and French onion soup.
12. Sobrino de Botin. Madrid, Spain (Established in 1725)
While lots of the restaurants on this list are much older, Sobrino de Botin‘s claim to fame is that the restaurant holds the name in the Guinness Book as the oldest restaurants in the world because it remains in its original building with the same interior from the 18th century.
To dine in the restaurant, which was originally named Casa Botin, was opened by a French cook named Jean Botin and his Austrian wife. The Botins never had children of their own, so they passed on the restaurant to Mrs. Botin’s nephew, and then it was renamed Sobrino de Botin. You should definitely try its legendary suckling pig and roasted lamb.
13. Fraunces Tavern. New York, USA. (Established in 1762)
In addition to being America’s oldest restaurant, New York City’s Fraunces boasts some pretty impressive and important connections with the country’s culture as well. George Washington took up residency in the building during the American Revolution, transforming it into his formal headquarters and eventually negotiating peace with the British inside it. On today’s date, it’s a whisky bar and restaurant at the southern tip of Manhattan.
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