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The first thing that you are going to need to do is to learn about the different types of online scams and frauds that are being used on the Internet. If you don’t know what the basics of the more popular scams are then you are not going to be able to spot a real scam or fraud if you encounter one. The reason for this is that many times the people who create these scams are very good at what they do and will use real company’s logos and tag lines so that you think it is real. But what they don’t realize is that there are still ways to tell that the email or website is a fake when you compare it to the real website.
Difficulty rating: Easy to Moderate
One thing that you are going to need to do is to look for some misspellings on the email. Many times words will be misspelled slightly; this won’t be anything major but there might be two “e’s” in a word that is only supposed to have one letter “e”. You can also look for characters in the wrong place. For example, you can have three semicolons between phrases when there shouldn’t be any. These things can all be spotted on a phishing email and can help you to spot that the email is not authentic.
If you do not have an account with the company that is sending the email and they are telling you that your account needs to be updated then it is obviously an online scam or fraud. Watch to see what companies the emails are coming from.
Another thing that you need to look at is how the emails are being addressed to you and what they are asking for. More often than not a company that you have open accounts with is not going to address you as “customer” but they are going to address you by your last name at least because they will want to personalize the email. But they also won’t ask for personal information online. If they feel your account needs to be updated they will contact you some other way such as telephone or sending you a form through the mail.
Another way to spot an online scam is if you receive an email telling you that you have won the lottery in some other country and all you need to do to claim the prize is to send this much money to this address and you will get your winnings directly. You can also just receive an email stating you have won this “prize” and all you need to do is give the company some personal information and they will send the prize directly to you. Keep in mind that playing an international lottery while living in the United States is illegal, the same holds true if you play the United States lottery and live in another country.
•One of the best websites that you can go to for information about online scams and frauds is Snopes. They have a wide resource of scams and frauds that have hit the Internet and they will tell you if the scam or fraud is really a scam or a fraud or if it is actually something legit.
•Another great website to visit for numerous information about online scams and frauds, including what agencies you can report the crimes to, you need to visit Wired Safety.
But one thing that you are going to need to keep in mind is that every online scam and fraud is going to have certain signs that you can use to spot if it is a scam or not. So what you want to do is to become familiar with all of the popular scams so you know what to look for. | <urn:uuid:4f4c75c5-ae34-4f78-a485-9a4161b60c44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.surfnetkids.com/tech/1208/easy-ways-to-spot-a-fraudulent-email/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970566 | 753 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Teachers will be able to:
- Learn the basics of Kahoot!, an EdTech tool.
- Apply gamification to education.
- Engage students using technology.
- Maximize time in grading and scoring.
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In this personal finance and economics webinar, teachers will learn how to use Kahoot!, an EdTech tool, in the classroom.
We will learn the basics of how to most effectively use Kahoot, a free, online and customizable trivia game tool that allows educators to engage their students and make learning fun.
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Part I of this Article will provide a brief background to the fight against terrorism as seen from an inter-American legal and institutional standpoint. Part II will discuss the more significant details of the Convention and the negotiations in the Permanent Council's Working Group that produced it. In II(A), the authors review the conflicting views among delegates about whether the OAS should have been negotiating a “comprehensive” anti-terrorism treaty (complete with a legal definition of terrorist acts) or follow the suggestion of the United States and adopt a less ambitious treaty providing some “added value” (by incorporating by reference the law-making of previous United Nations (“U.N.”) terrorism treaties). In II(B), the authors discuss treaty provisions dedicated to cooperation among hemispheric governments. In II(C), the Article explains treaty provisions on denying terrorists the benefits of asylum, refugee status, and the political offense exception in extradition law. In II(D), the treaty's role as a supplement to other extradition treaties is noted. In II(E), the Article discusses what the treaty says about the money side of terrorism--what the hemisphere will do about tracking money, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. In II(F), the controversy over whether to mention human rights in the Convention is explained. In II(G), the authors discuss treaty provisions on permitting the transfer of prisoners among different countries in the Americas. In the Conclusion, the authors note that the American republics have taken a significant step forward in the codification of international law by negotiating a practical multilateral instrument.
Enrique Lagos and Timothy D. Rudy,
Preventing, Punishing and Eliminating Terrorism in the Western Hemisphere: A Post-9/11 Inter-American Treaty,
26 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1619
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Real-world data from the U.K. showed that efficacy of a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine waned significantly at the 10-week mark, leaving boosted individuals at risk of infection with Omicron.
In a December 23 U.K. Health Security Agency (HSA) technical briefing, vaccine efficacy against symptomatic infection generally fell to around 40% some 2.5 months after a booster dose.
Meaghan Kall, a PhD candidate and an epidemiologist at the HSA, tweeted that this effect "is not seen with Delta."
For its analysis, the agency assessed 147,597 Delta cases and 68,489 Omicron cases from November 27 to December 17.
It found that for those with a Pfizer primary series and booster, efficacy against symptomatic disease was 70% immediately after the third dose but fell to 45% at 10 weeks or longer.
Those who had a Pfizer primary series but a Moderna booster saw protection against symptomatic disease hover around 70% to 75% for up to 9 weeks post-boost.
For those with a primary series of AstraZeneca, efficacy peaked at 60%, 2 to 4 weeks after either a Pfizer or Moderna booster, then fell to 35% with Pfizer and 45% with Moderna by around 10 weeks.
The report didn't include data on vaccine efficacy against severe disease, including hospitalization and death, because the number of Omicron cases admitted to the hospital following a positive test was too small to create an estimate, tweeted Freja Kirsebom, PhD, of HSA.
Still, "based on experience with previous variants, we do expect [vaccine efficacy] against the more severe outcomes such as hospitalization to be substantially higher than [vaccine efficacy] against symptomatic infection," Kirsebom noted.
Data from Israel also has suggested waning efficacy after a booster dose, though that country's data pertain to the Delta variant. Last week, the expert panel advising the Israeli government recommended a fourth vaccine dose given at least 4 months after a third shot for certain groups: those ages 60 and up, immunocompromised people, and healthcare workers.
Data from the Israeli advisory committee shared with the New York Times showed a doubling in the rate of infection with Delta among people ages 60 and up within 4 or 5 months of the third shot, but it did not offer specific numbers. There was no clear indication of reduced efficacy against severe disease, according to the news report.
Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has been advocating for a fourth shot of a COVID-19 vaccine for U.S. healthcare workers, who were among the first to receive their booster doses starting in September. They are about to face a substantial increase in exposure risk due to the Omicron wave, leading Hotez to write in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that "We must take quick action to prevent instability in our health system. If there are data to support its safety and impact, an emergency fourth shot might be offered to those healthcare workers now several months out from their booster shot. Doing so could reduce the risk of breakthrough symptomatic infection and keep these individuals on the job."
The HSA report did offer some good news -- additional confirmation of other early findings of reduced illness severity with Omicron. It found about a 60% reduced risk of hospital admission with Omicron compared with Delta (HR 0.38, 95% CI 0.30-0.50) based on 70 hospital admissions with Omicron and 3,884 with Delta.
A separate updated HSA risk assessment put infection severity in the lowest-risk "green" category based on these findings and three other analyses:
- An Imperial College London analysis showed about a 45% reduced risk of hospitalization
- An analysis from Scotland showed about a 70% reduced risk of hospitalization
- An analysis from South Africa showed about an 80% reduced risk of hospitalization
Kall cautioned that the findings have low confidence because these are early analyses with small numbers of hospitalizations, limited follow-up time, minimal adjustment for previous infection, and limited spread into the most vulnerable age group.
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Why the Trucking Industry is important for the economy
To ensure safe and speedy delivery, every business relies on the industry of trucking. Trucking firms in San Diego handle more freight than trains, ships, or planes. Without trucks, the cargo would not move from ports, rail yards, and airports. A slowdown in the economy may result from a slowdown in the transportation industry.
What is the impact of the Trucking Industry Impact The Economy?
Trucks make their first economic contribution by transporting raw materials from factories. Trucks transport raw material from local sources, such as mines and quarries farmers, loggers, and mines to factories that need their use to manufacture products. The final product is shipped via trucks to retailers or wholesalers or to other transportation channels which permit the transportation of the products via plane or ship to destinations all over the region or the globe.
It's approximately $140 billion per year in shipped goods, according to technology and business websites. Shipped goods include agricultural products such as fish furniture and stone as well as mineral, motor vehicles wooden and textiles coal, leathers, and petroleum.
A large number of small trucking companies San Diego operate under the owner-operator model. That means the driver of the truck is an individual. The larger trucking companies typically employ union drivers. As well as protecting the rights of workers in the trucking industry Unions also contribute to the protection of trucking firms. A strike of this size could lead to the economy being closed, which may lead to shipping delays and huge price hikes as retailers struggle to meet consumer demands.
Business Insider reports that the trucking firm San Diego makes approximately 84 % of all revenue from the commercial transportation industry. The company's annual revenue is about $650 million. Due to the significance of the industry of transport, various regulations have been put in place by federal, state, and local authorities. To ensure the safety of roads, laws are in place that restricts trucks from driving on certain roads and requires trucks to obey speed limits that are lower. They also prohibit truckers from operating while resting. The trucking industry's members collaborate to create industry-wide best practices and standards in order to influence policy and control public perceptions of the trucking industry.
What effect can the stakeholders have on a company?
Small trucking businesses are usually in the hands of clients' labor unions, trucking associations. Different stakeholders play various roles and influence business issues such as worker pay or shipping volume. Some stakeholders have a direct impact on small trucking companies by influencing regulations at the sectoral level. Everyone involved shares a concern, however, each has its own agendas and goals.
A variety of stakeholders can impact a small trucking business. Trucking associations are lobbyists for the state, local, as well as federal governments. Local postsecondary institutions of higher education and labor unions can train future truck drivers and workers.
They were formed to educate workers about worker rights and help them gain bargaining authority. The Teamsters report that its members earn on average 27 percent more than workers who do not have union representation. The amount of the benefits and wages trucking companies are required to pay are directly affected by the labor unions.
Many community stakeholders, including law enforcement agencies as well as educational institutions and other groups, could impact small trucking companies San Diego.
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As a psychology major, I was surprised to find myself contributing and writing for an HDFS open textbook. “What does any of this have to do with the human psyche?” was something I was asking myself before I started research and writing. While we learned of in HDFS 201, I didn’t really start to fully grasp the concept until I started writing for this project. It’s not just sociology and psychology that comes into play when we talk about social justice, but instead a strong cooperation of multiple disciplines are involved in understanding how inequality and injustice occur. Everything is connected whether we realize it or not.
After the events that happened during the spring and summer of 2020, it feels very gratifying to try and help educate others on topics and ideas that I myself didn’t fully understand when I began writing. I don’t necessarily consider myself a great writer, but challenging myself to do this project has only made me a better student. If there’s anything that I would like for someone to take away from this reading, it’s this: for some, it is easy to deny that many of the ideas discussed (such as intersectionality and institutional racism) exist. Human civilization and society stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. Many modern institutions and values in the United States were founded on the antiquated idea that those pertaining to a certain class and race were superior to others. Context matters and it shouldn’t be ignored.
With that being said, I want to thank everyone who collaborated on this project for being some of the most open-minded and friendly people I’ve met!
Following is a series of short essays that explore various groups who experience injustice and the ways that overlap with the justice system.
What does Justice look like?
The last few words of the United States Pledge of Allegiance are “with liberty and justice for all.” It’s part of our nation’s identity. The unfortunate reality is that our justice system wasn’t ever made to be fair. The first form of police in the southern part of the United States were slave patrols. Their purpose was to capture escaped enslaved people, to prevent further escape, and to discipline those enslaved. For hundreds of years in the United States the justice system’s job was to enforce the idea of White supremacy, and to limit the rights of women and people of color. This can be seen in Supreme Court cases such as Dredd Scott Vs Sanford, where the Supreme Court ruled that anyone with African ancestry could never become a citizen of the United States, and therefore not be able to sue in federal court. The Supreme Court also seized this opportunity to rule that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. This meant that the federal government couldn’t prevent slavery in certain territories. This decision was unsurprising to many Americans, because seven of the nine Supreme Court justices at the time of the Dredd Scott decision had been appointed by pro-slavery presidents. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the majority opinion for the Dredd Scott case, wrote in reference to the legal status of African Americans, “They are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizens’ in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States.”
While there may not be laws, rules, and regulations that explicitly target people of color () today, there do exist many that their entire origins are based on racism and prejudice (See Housing Chapter: Redlining). In many cases, those whose duty is to exercise the law simply choose to ignore crimes that are being committed against POC. For example: 37 percent of cases involving missing/disappeared Native American women are dismissed by the US Attorney’s Office. To learn about the search for missing and murdered Indigenous women, listen to this 1A podcast.
This is a pattern that goes back to at least the 1920s when local law enforcement neglected to properly investigate murdered Native Americans during the infamous Osage Indian Murders. The Osage Indian Murders show one of the more blatant attempts of a government trying to circumvent justice in order to oppress and marginalize a group of minorities. The Osage people of Kansas were relocated to a reservation in Oklahoma around 1870. It later became known that the Osage reservation is located on top of one of the largest oil deposits in the country. As a result of this, the Osage people saw an extraordinary increase in wealth. The United States Congress eventually passed a law requiring a guardian to assume control of every Osage’s finances until they were deemed ‘competent’. The guardians were of course always White males, who usually didn’t have the best interests of the Osage in mind, often defrauding them.
“Justice” Depends on Race
There currently exists a disparity in the United States that has been rapidly increasing particularly within the last two decades. African Americans face harsher punishments than a White person would for committing the exact same crime. If you compared the sentence of a Black person and a White person for a similar crime, Black people serve sentences around 19% longer than White people do on average. Not only do Black people serve longer sentences, but the more Afrocentric features someone has the more likely they are to be sentenced to death. This recent disparity while having many causes, can largely be attributed to the Supreme Court ruling on the case of United States vs Booker. The Supreme Court ruled that judges didn’t have to strictly adhere to mandatory sentencing regulations that were created in 1984 under the Sentencing Reform Act, a bipartisan bill that aimed to increase fairness and consistency of sentences (whether this reform actually worked could be debated as well, because the Reagan administration doubled down on Nixon’s War on Drugs during his presidency; the policies introduced during this time disproportionately targeted ). Instead, the federal government found that the United States vs Booker ruling actually has been counterproductive to the Sentencing Reform Act, and actually created more sentences inconsistent with regulations, and a greater racial disparity as well. Since judges can use the regulations as just advisory, their biases and preconceived notions of people of color have a much larger role in the sentencing of minorities than they did before 1984.
The War on Drugs
Originally coined by former president Richard Nixon, the War on Drugs was first started as a campaign by the Nixon administration. Although it wasn’t known as “the War on Drugs” until 1971, drug reform in the United states dates back many years all the way to the beginning of the 20th century when the first drug prohibition policies were being passed. The Harrison Narcotics Tax of 1914 was one of the first federal laws to regulate drugs. On paper the aims of the Nixon campaign were to try and shrink the drug trade in the United States and prevent new addicts through various policies, which includes the creation of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and giving increased funding to law enforcement agencies (LEA) to actively seek out drug charges. Drug crime was so low on the priority list for most LEAs when the ‘war’ started, that many agencies did not try to enforce the new policy. To try and get all LEA to participate in the war, the federal government provided them with a few incentives. Firstly, they could compete to receive federal cash grants. This allowed many agencies to expand their number of officers and to start a new narcotics task force in order to increase the number of arrests. Simply put, more arrests and convictions equals more money for the agency. In addition to giving money to LEA, the federal government also provided cooperating agencies with Intelligence, special training, and equipment in order to carry out the war. To top it all off the government let agencies keep almost all of the money that they seized in drug raids. Overall this system has led to issues such as the militarization of the police and an increase of in prison for nonviolent crimes. Even one of Richard Nixon’s own aides has admitted that the War on Drugs was used as a means to incarcerate Black people.
The Militarization of Police
As a direct result of the War on Drugs, the police in the United States are given more freedom and weaponry than ever before. Concerns have been raised recently regarding what is called “Warrior Culture” that is present in many police departments, where officers are encouraged to take a “warrior’s mindset” This sometimes is in contrast to academy training and is instead encouraged by fellow officers, but not always. The warrior mindset can also be understood as an “Us vs Them” form of thinking. Police are being taught that they live in a hostile environment that is out to get them. Rookie officers are told constantly that their lives are in danger and that they should be scared or else they could die. Many departments say that their first and immediate goal is to make sure officers are unharmed and get home safely; this tends to foster fear in officers and causes overestimation of danger. As a result, officers are more likely to treat ordinary citizens as a threat and to escalate the situation entirely. This counter-intuitively raises the risk of death for both police officers and citizens. In order to benefit our communities to the best of their ability, police must work closely with the communities that they are serving. A heavily armed and paranoid police force does not mesh well with people who are growing ever more distrustful of police. For many decades, national confidence and trust in the police have remained at around 60%. Unsurprisingly trust and confidence for the police are much lower in minority communities. African Americans’ trust of the police sits at just 31%.[/footnote] While minority communities could greatly benefit from a well-trained police presence, they are often disproportionately arrested, harassed, disrespected, and made victims of police brutality.
During the 2015 BET awards Kendrick Lamar performed his hit song “Alright” off of his album To Pimp a Butterfly, whose lyrics have been praised by critics for being politically-charged and a socially relevant commentary on the struggles of the modern African American. At some point in the performance, Lamar stood on top of a police car that has been vandalized, a symbolic statement for many viewers showcasing his support for those protesting the killing of unarmed Black men and condemning the police for their actions. In 2014 and 2015, many high profile cases of police brutality emerged. To name a few: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, and Freddie Gray. There were over 1,059 known police killings in the United States in 2014, many of whom were unarmed. It was during this year that the Black Lives Matter movement gained large traction. Lamar faced backlash from those critical of the Black Lives Matter movement. Lyrics such as “… and we hate po-po, wanna kill us dead in the streets fo-sho” got the attention of Fox News pundit Geraldo Rivera, who said “This is why I say that hip-hop has done more damage to young African-Americans than racism in recent years. This is exactly the wrong message.” Lamar responded by saying, “Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation. This is us expressing ourselves.”
People of Color are more likely than White people to be victims of police brutality, African American men, American Indian/Alaskan Native women, and Latino men to be more specific. African American men are the most likely out of all races to be victims. Black men face a 1 in 1000 chance of being killed by police throughout their lifetime. The blame for all of this is all too often placed on minorities. Kendrick Lamar’s words are affirming for many young people. Lamar’s words still ring true today. With the recent death of George Floyd as well as Breonna Taylor, the United States has seen a surge of protest across all 50 states. There are many parallels that can be drawn from the civil rights movement of the 1960’s as well as the 1992 Los Angeles riots, but there is also unique history happening right in front of our eyes. With the relatively recent rise of smartphone cameras, people can now capture police brutality with relative ease, as well as being able to upload it straight to the internet as it happens. While some would hurry to dismiss the problem of police abusing their power as just ‘ a few bad apples,’ we can now see that police brutality isn’t a rare or isolated incident. There is a clear pattern of abuse, one that has been occurring in this country for centuries. It is clear that police brutality is a systemic problem in the United States.
Gender, Underrepresentation, and Intersectionality
With many of the high profile cases of police brutality being about men, women of color are often forgotten in the discussion. Due to this there unfortunately are not many studies particularly focusing on the experiences of minority women. The most oppressed voices are usually the least heard. Women of color are at the intersection of gender and race and are victims of police violence just as much as men of color. Physical violence isn’t the only way women suffer at hands of the police, they are also more likely to face sexual assault as well. Sexual assault is the second most reported form of police misconduct in the United States. women are most vulnerable to sexual violence by the police. Fifteen percent of transgender women report being sexually assaulted while in police custody, while African American transgender women report an astounding 32% assault rate. Some of these instances of sexual violence occur during ‘searches’ where officers look for narcotics or other paraphernalia. Black men are also often victims of police sexual violence as well.During an investigation by Associated Press News on police sexual misconduct, it was discovered that over 1,000 police officers lost their jobs over a six-year period for sex-related crimes. The Say Her Name movement was started to bring light to the issues women of color face. We can quickly see a pattern forming. The more instances of in your life, the more likely you are to be a victim of violence and systematic oppression.
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An approach originally advanced by women of color that finds it critical to look at how identities and characteristics (such as ethnicity, race, gender, etc.) overlap and influence each other to create complex hierarchies of power and oppression.
A person’s sense of self as defined by and in relation to the combination of social characteristics, roles, and groups to which they belong.
An acronym for “person of color” or “people of color.” Can refer to individuals with a skin tone other than white.
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- How should one translate the term gyne (either “woman” or “wife”).
- How should one translate the expression hesychia manthaneto? Does it mean she is to “learn in silence” (i.e., don’t speak out publicly, so KJV) or she is to “learn quietly” (i.e., she is not to disrupt worship, so NASB)?
- To whom or what is she to be in “full submission” (pase hypotage)? The object of this submission is unstated. Does Paul mean she is to be in submission to the church, in submission to men generally, or in submission to her husband?
- How should one render the phrase ouk epitrepo? If one translates it absolutely, “I do not permit”, it indicates habitual practice (so NIV). If one translates it periphrastically, “I am not permitting”, it indicates a temporary restriction for the present time, e.g., “I am not [i.e., at this time] giving permission for a woman to teach…” (so JB).
- What is the meaning of the infinitive authentein, a rare word that appears only here in the New Testament? It certainly is not the usual Greek word that Paul uses to describe authority. Does it mean “to have authority over”, implying a prohibition of female leadership altogether (so NASB)? Does it mean “to dominate”, implying an abuse of leadership power by women who are already leaders (so Berkeley Version)?In addition to translation issues, there are significant interpretive issues, particularly in the latter part of the passage.
- Why does Paul say Adam was created first? Does he intend this as a statement about rank (i.e., Adam was superior to Eve) or a statement correcting a popular Ephesian myth (i.e., a myth advocating that the woman was the first created being)?
- Is Paul’s statement that the woman was deceived intended as a derogation toward all women (i.e., women are not to be trusted) or the refutation of an Ephesian myth (i.e., a myth advocating that the woman was the source of all wisdom)?
- How is the woman “saved” through child bearing? The grammar is complex, for literally it reads, “She shall be saved….if they remain in faith…” Who is the “she” and who are the “they”?The most restrictive approach to this passage (sometimes labeled “hard patriarchalism”) sees it as a categorical prohibition. Here, women are to be silent in a congregational setting. They can listen, but they cannot say anything. They must be in total submission to men. Under no circumstance may they teach men. They can have no leadership role in the church, at least if such a role would require them to be directive to men, for they were divinely created to be in submission to men. To do otherwise would usurp the woman’s God-ordained role to be under male authority. The order of creation is hierarchical. Adam was created first; therefore, males are superior. Eve, not Adam, was deceived in Eden. Women are by disposition inclined to be fooled, and therefore, they are more apt to be tricked into transgression.A less restrictive approach (sometimes labeled “soft patriarchalism”) reads the passage as allowing women to learn quietly so long as they do not disrupt the worship service. They should be in submission to their husbands, and they cannot be a teacher of men, though they may teach other women and also young children. They cannot serve as overseers or elders, since such a role would be a usurpation of the God-ordained pattern that men are to be the primary leaders in the church, but they can serve in lesser roles (e.g., administrative, supportive, secretarial, etc.). The creation sets the hierarchical order. Men were created first; therefore, men should be the primary leaders. Eve was the first to fall into disobedience; therefore, women should not be the primary leaders. However, women may serve in subordinate roles in the church so long as they serve under the jurisdiction of a male leader. They may speak publicly, so long as they do so in submission to their husbands or fathers or male congregational leaders.An egalitarian approach reads the passage as a temporary restriction upon women in the Ephesian church due to the rise of a matriarchal heresy with roots in Ephesian paganism and the beginnings of Gnosticism. This position emphasizes the cultural context of Ephesus (1 Ti. 1:3), a Roman city with an extensive history in mother goddess worship and whose patron deity, Artemis, was famous throughout the Roman world. When Gnostic ideas began to infiltrate Ephesus via Judaism, the notion of feminine mediators was advanced so that men could only learn the esoteric knowledge of the Gnostics from women, several of whom are known by name. To be sure, what we known of Asian Gnosticism comes from documents somewhat later than the writing of the pastoral letters (2nd century AD), but at the same, many scholars have suggested that incipient Gnosticism (i.e., an early developing form of Gnostic thought) probably underlies not only the Pastoral Letters, but also Paul’s Colossian letter and perhaps the letters of John. The female was perceived to be the primal source of spiritual knowledge, an idea present in Ephesian myths but transferred over into formative Gnostic teachings. Such mysticism held that Eve pre-existed before Adam, and in fact, was responsible for infusing him with life. Sophia Zoe (= Wisdom-Life), an alias for Eve, created Adam before the fleshly Eve was removed from his side. She breathed life into him, and she is the one who holds the power of enlightenment. Adam was ignorant of the true state of affairs, tricked into believing that he was created first. His enlightenment—the Gnostic secret knowledge that his source of life was the feminine-divine—could only be revealed by the woman, and the Gnostics’ claim was that they held the key to this enlightenment.If the foregoing culture of Ephesus lies behind Paul’s statements in 1 Timothy, which I think it probably does, then the reading of 1 Timothy 2:11-15 takes on quite a different cast. Certainly, there could hardly be a more pointed disagreement between St. Paul and the Gnostic mythologies:GNOSTIC LITERATURE ST. PAULThe Hypostasis of the Archons, 2.89 1 Timothy 2:13The spirit-filled woman came to him For Adam was formed first, thenand spoke with him, saying, “Arise, Eve.Adam.” And when he saw her, he said,“You are the one who has given melife.”On the Origin of the World, 2.5.116 1 Timothy 2:14But let us not tell Adam because he is And Adam was not the onenot from among us, but let us bring a deceived; it was the womansleep upon him, and let us teach him who was deceived and becamein his sleep as if she [Eve] came into a sinner.being from his rib…That some sort of feminine aggression was prominent among Ephesus’ false teachers seems apparent, for Paul rebukes the ostentatious dress of such women who flaunted themselves in public worship (1 Ti. 2:9-10). He calls to silence any women leaders who were given to malicious talk (1 Ti. 3:11; 5:13) and rebukes those spreading “godless myths and old wives’ tales” (1 Ti. 4:7). Near the end of the letter, he warns against “godless chatter” and “opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge” (1 Ti. 6:20-21). His language about “what is falsely called knowledge” is an admirable description of what we know of Gnostic thought a few decades later. How far developed Gnostic ideas were at this early stage is difficult to ascertain, but the similarities are striking. In any case, Paul was blunt: such female-perpetrated heresies already had induced some to turn away from the true gospel of Jesus Christ to follow Satan (1 Ti. 5:17).
If this is the context, then Paul’s restrictions in 1 Timothy 2:11-15 are to be read in their local setting. He is not issuing universal demands that women never speak in church, never occupy positions of leadership, or never are allowed to teach. Rather, he is emphatically shutting down a virulent heresy in Ephesus, demonstrating by his citations from the Book of Genesis how distorted was this false teaching. The feminists were wrong: Adam, not Eve, was created first. Eve, not Adam, was deceived by the snake. | <urn:uuid:8965bdc6-acdd-4c3b-92af-79e2a6ddabd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.twotwentyeight.com/2015/08/did-paul-forbid-women-to-teach.html?showComment=1440081045435 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973349 | 1,896 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Gladiators and Christianity Clash
Gladiator shows were brutal fights between slaves. The Roman government forced these slaves to fight each other to the death. Sometimes they would fight with swords and spears. Sometimes they would flood the arena and fight from ships. At other times they would fight from chariots. Sometimes gladiators would be made to fight ferocious wild animals. Most of the time, the fights ended when the gladiators were brutally murdered by another gladiator or a vicious animal.
The Roman people loved watching these men die. Thousands of Roman citizens would pack the stadiums to see gladiators fight. Sometimes, hundreds or thousands of gladiators would die in one day. And sometimes, the gladiator fights would be held every day for months at a time. Tens of thousands of gladiators died over the years.
When Jesus’ teachings began to spread, his followers realized that the gladiator shows were not good. The killing of gladiators was murder, Christians said. Furthermore, the gladiator shows taught people to be cruel, heartless, and to treat their fellow human beings like animals. Many of the early Christian leaders taught their fellow Christians not to attend the gladiator shows because they glorified cruelty and sin.
In fact, the story is told about Telemachus—a man who was known as a Christian. In about A.D. 404, he attended a gladiator show. When he saw the cruelty and violence of the show, he jumped into the arena and tried to stop the gladiators from killing each other. The crowd was so angry with him for attempting to stop the fight that they stoned him to death.
When the emperor of Rome, Honorius, heard of Telemachus’ bravery, he outlawed all gladiator shows throughout his empire.
Although some historians are not sure that the story of Telemachus is true, there is no doubt that Christians, following the teachings of Christ, played a large part in helping the government to see that gladiator shows were immoral and cruel. It is wonderful to see all the improvements in society that those who follow the teachings of Jesus have helped to accomplish over the years.
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New Zealand is a fabulous country for camping. There are so many wonderful natural sites to see, and a huge variety of places to camp, from caravan parks, to national parks to free camps. But in order to really make the most of free camping in this country and to really open up your camping options, you need a vehicle or caravan that is Certified Self Contained (CSC). So what does that mean, and how can you achieve it?
Certified Self Contained (CSC)
The term Self Contained in its most pure form simply means you have everything you need to camp contained within your vehicle, and everything remains contained within your vehicle for the duration of your stay. This means you can essentially camp anywhere without the need for any outside assistance or any facilities. So not only do you need to have adequate water supply for your needs, you also need to have grey water tanks to catch used water, as well as a toilet for human waste, and a bin to take all your rubbish away with you.
In order to ensure freedom campers are genuinely self-contained before they camp at places that require it, there are some fairly strict, but clear guidelines for campers to meet. If they are able to meet those guidelines then they can have their vehicle inspected by a certified officer, who can then deem it Certified Self Contained. This certificate and associated little blue sticker that gets attached to your vehicle shows off to the world, and the local authorities, that you can meet the Self Containment standards, and are therefore eligible to camp in places that require people to be CSC to stay there.
So what are the guidelines?
The guidelines basically require campers to be able to sustain themselves for at least three days between water top ups and dump points. In order to be able to do this the minimum requirements are as follows:
- Fresh Water, at least 4L per person, per day. So if your caravan sleeps four people, you’ll need a water tank that holds at least 48 litres
- Grey Water tank also needs to hold at least 4L per person, per day. It must be vented, and if it’s a smaller capacity than your fresh water tank, then it must be monitored too so you can easily see when it is reaching capacity.
- A Sink that is connected to your sealed grey water tank via a smell/water trap.
- An Evacuation Hose that’s at least 3m long for fixed tanks, or long enough to connect to a sealed portable grey water tank.
- Toilet, can be portable or fixed. Must have a capacity of at least 1L per person, per day for three days. So for four people your toilet needs a holding tank of at least 12L. This toilet must be able to be used with the bed made up, and there must be adequate room to use it inside the vehicle. (These rules are to prevent people just shoving a toilet in the boot of their car and calling it, ‘self contained’). If these requirements are met you are however still allowed to use your toilet outside the vehicle inside a toilet tent if the campsite you are at allows it.
- A bin with a lid, no size requirement.
You can also get your vehicle certified for more people than it actually sleeps if you have the capacity. So for example our caravan sleeps four, but it is certified for six as it has larger than needed fresh/grey water tanks and a larger portaloo than needed to meet the guidelines. This means if we have two extra people travelling with us, and we’re staying at a campsite that allows it, they can sleep in a tent/their vehicle and still meet the CSC requirements by using our facilities.
So how did we do it?
We’re travelling in a 1972 vintage caravan that we stripped back to bare walls and completely renovated. It had a small old rusted water tank, but nothing else as far as self containment went, so we needed to start from scratch. We wanted to be fully self contained and off grid. So not only did we plan to meet the CSC requirements, we also included in our renovation the capacity to create our own power supply. For us, as a family of four, all we needed to meet the CSC requirement were fresh and grey water tanks of at least 48L, and a toilet with a capacity of 12L. However in reality, this is nowhere near enough for life on the road. So this is what we did:
In an ideal world we’d say the greater the water capacity the better, but unfortunately it’s not quite that simple – every extra litre of water you carry equals another kilo of weight to tow. So you need to weigh up (literally) your water needs with your weight limits and come to a happy compromise. For us we decided on 95L tanks for both fresh and grey water, which adds essentially another 95kg of water weight to our caravan, plus the weight of the tanks themselves. Keep in mind that you’re unlikely to have both tanks full at the same time. The fresh water shifts to the grey water tanks as it’s being used, so having the two tanks is really a redistribution of weight, rather than doubling the weight.
We ordered the tanks direct from the manufacturer and picked them up when they had finished being fabricated. We chose tanks made of heavy duty plastic so they’re not too heavy, but still sturdy and unlikely to become damaged, that were slim, so they would fit underneath the caravan (old caravans are low to the ground), and with baffles to stop the water moving around too much when in motion. The manufacturer was also able to put threaded holes in the tank for all our connections at a place of our choosing.
We had someone else weld some brackets to connect the tanks to the bottom of the caravan, and then after that we did the rest ourselves. We fitted a new water filler inlet to the side of the caravan to use to fill up the freshwater tank, from the freshwater tank the water is taken up and out the tap into the sink via a 12v pump. From there, after we take the plug out, the water goes down via a smell trap into the grey water tank where it sits until we reach a dump point and can empty the tank. When we need to do so we connect a waste water hose to an outlet on the side of the caravan, turn the tap, and the grey water runs out the waste water hose and into the dump point. Then we refill the fresh water tanks and start again.
We used a standard tap and sink from Bunnings rather than RV specific options that for some reason seem to cost three times as much.
We also know from experience that a 12L holding tank on a portaloo fills up really quickly, but that as a portaloo tank needs to be lifted and manually moved to a dump point, a larger tank can quickly become too heavy to lift. So again, it’s about finding a happy medium. We choose a portaloo with a 21L holding tank, which seems to be just about right for us. And while a portaloo is probably the easiest toilet solution for most people, it is by no means the only option – you could install a fixed toilet, or even put in a composting toilet if you prefer.
Getting the CSC paperwork
There are a number of ways you can get your self containment set up certified. You can find a certification officer and pay them to inspect the RV and sign it off. Or you can do what we did and join the NZMCA and have a volunteer come out and inspect it for you. As we were planning to join the NZMCA anyway, we found this a fantastic additional service as it cost us absolutely nothing for the volunteer to come out (although be aware some do charge a small fee for their time) and nothing for the certification paperwork.
He was able to sign us off and give us our coveted little blue ‘Certified Self Contained’ sticker for our caravan straight away, with the rest of the paperwork arriving in the mail shortly afterwards. The NZMCA volunteer was also a wealth of information and knowledge; he was extremely helpful with advice, and happily answered all our questions (of which there were many!)
Was it worth it?
Yes. 100% yes. Sure it was a process to get it sorted. Sure it was a massive learning curve fitting out a caravan like this having never done it before. Sure, it wasn’t exactly cheap to do. But now we have our pick of campsites throughout the country, and already we’ve stayed in some absolute pearlers that we wouldn’t have been allowed to access if we weren’t CSC.
Now there is some controversy in certain circles about whether this whole self-containment thing is really necessary at all. But wherever you stand on that debate doesn’t change the fact that it is currently required if you want to make the most of all the camping options available in NZ.
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The RCN-CCUS and Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) partnership, which commenced in 2013 to facilitate educational outreach in the field of CCUS, has continued this year. Founded in 2004, RECS is the premier carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) education and training experience in the U.S. that is helping to prepare a world-class workforce, enhance U.S. competitiveness, nurture career networks and facilitate research opportunities and technology breakthroughs.
The RECS network represents the nation's best-in-class in the CCUS field. Each year, the program accepts 30 graduate students and early career professionals who receive classroom instruction from globally recognized scientists and industry leaders in CCUS as well as embark on various CCUS site visits and hands-on field activities. The intensive 10-day interactive program covers the range of science, technology, policy, and business topics associated with CCUS deployment.
This year, the RECS 2014 program was held in Birmingham, Alabama from June 1-10, 2014. Participants visited several facilities owned and/or operated by Southern Power Company, including Plant Miller, the National Carbon Capture Center, Plant Berry, and Kemper County Energy Facility. They also spent time at the Tuscaloosa Core lab and participated in core matching experiences. Lectures included a variety of topics that ranged from air capture technologies, to integrated CCS with enhanced oil recovery, to CO2 Storage via Carbon Mineralization from Dr. Greeshma Gadikota from the RCN network.
As we did last year, RCN-CCUS continued to provide financial support for RCN-CCUS students to attend RECS. RCN-CCUS faculty also volunteered as instructors this year. The RCN-CCUS sponsored the RECS program with a contribution of $10,000. The students that were nominated from across the RCN and five students were accepted to participate in the RECS 2014 program: Maxim Stonor, Christophe Jospe and Junfeng Wang (Columbia University), Wenying Quan from Pennsylvania State University, and Nicolas Bompard from University of Southampton (UK). Student experiences were enriched by field trips and discussions with subject matter experts.
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4 February, 2015A worker was killed at Rio Tinto’s mining operations in Madagascar on 28 January, less than a week after a fatality at Rio Tinto’s minority-owned mine in Indonesia.
A worker operating an excavator next to a tailings pond on the night shift at Rio Tinto’s QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) died on January 28 when his excavator fell into the pond.
Although his colleagues immediately called an emergency line for help, the worker was not located until 17 hours after being submerged in the pond. His body was found outside the cabin of the excavator after the water from the pond was drained.
IndustriALL affiliate FISEMA represents workers at Rio Tinto in Madagascar. FISEMA is raising questions about the cause of the incident, why it took 17 hours to find the deceased worker’s body, why the worker’s body was found outside the cabin, and whether such dangerous work should be carried out at night.
This incident casts doubt on whether Rio Tinto has adequately considered safety of night shift workers as well as having in place appropriate emergency equipment and procedures. We urge Rio Tinto to work closely with FISEMA to identify the causes of this fatality and take all measures necessary to ensure this never happens again.
said IndustriALL Assistant General Secretary Kemal Özkan.
The January 2015 fatalities in Madgascar and at Rio Tinto’s minority-owned Grasberg mine in Indonesia – where 39 workers have been killed over the last two years – calls into question Rio Tinto’s often-stated claim that it puts a high value on worker safety.
“Numerous unions at Rio Tinto around the world have told IndustriALL that Rio Tinto applies health and safety procedures in an arbitrary way; pressures workers to put production before safety; disciplines workers for refusing unsafe work; and does not genuinely address workplace hazards. We demand that Rio Tinto change these practices immediately in order to live up to its safety claims,” stated Özkan. | <urn:uuid:72de7e2e-b82b-4d4b-98d8-f5a22dcc26eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.industriall-union.org/safety-first-another-fatality-at-rio-tinto | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964669 | 428 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Queen Elizabeth will not attend the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday amid ongoing mobility issues.
Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday that the decision was made in consultation with her doctors as she “continues to experience episodic mobility problems” and had “reluctantly” decided not to attend.
“At Her Majesty’s request, and with the agreement of the relevant authorities, the Prince of Wales will read the Queen’s speech on Her Majesty’s behalf, with the Duke of Cambridge in attendance,” the palace said in a statement.
It will be the third time during her reign that Queen Elizabeth, 96, has not opened Parliament. She previously missed the opening in 1959, when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew, and in 1963, when she was pregnant with Prince Edward.
The State Opening of Parliament is a centenary ceremony marking the start of the legislative year. The show traditionally begins with a carriage ride to the Houses of Parliament, followed by the monarch reading the Queen’s Speech which sets out the government’s legislative agenda at a joint session attended by members of the House of Lords and the House of Representatives. of the Commons.
It will be the first time that Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, will have an official role at the event.
Tested positive for COVID-19 in February
Britain’s longest-serving monarch, the Queen last appeared in public during a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the life of Prince Philip, her husband of more than 70 years, who died last year.
He has spent much of the last two years at Windsor Castle, west of London, where he took refuge during the pandemic. He has continued to work throughout this period, although most of his tasks have been carried out virtually, including meetings with ambassadors, health workers and schoolchildren.
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29.5. Common Post-Installation Tasks
The following sections are about common post-installation tasks.
29.5.1. Set a randomly generated key as an additional way to access an encrypted block device
These sections are about generating keys and adding keys.
126.96.36.199. Generate a key
This will generate a 256-bit key in the file
dd if=/dev/urandom of=$HOME/keyfile bs=32 count=1 chmod 600 $HOME/keyfile
188.8.131.52. Add the key to an available keyslot on the encrypted device
cryptsetup luksAddKey <device> ~/keyfile
29.5.2. Add a new passphrase to an existing device
cryptsetup luksAddKey <device>
After being prompted for any one of the existing passphrases for authentication, you will be prompted to enter the new passphrase.
29.5.3. Remove a passphrase or key from a device
cryptsetup luksRemoveKey <device>
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The ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table control, written in jQuery, organizes and summarizes business data and displays the result in a cross-table format.
The ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table simulates the pivot table feature of Excel. The data source for the control can be an OLAP or pivot data source.
All the features work smoothly on desktop and tablet devices. Features such as drill up and drill down, filtering, sorting, and report manipulation can be done on the fly.
The responsive support allows the control layout to be viewed on desktop and tablet devices.
End users can easily slice and dice the OLAP cube elements of their choice to visualize performance, trends, outliers, and more.
With slice and dice, you can create a new view for end users by selecting dimensions and measures from the OLAP cube and filtering them.
The KPIs are a collection of calculations associated with a measure group that evaluates business success.
Extensive support has been provided to load and render large amounts of data without any performance constraints through paging or virtual scrolling.
Named sets simplify MDX queries and provide useful aliases for complex, commonly used set expressions.
You can create and display dimensions and measures on your own.
The pivot table field list, also known as the pivot schema designer, is a powerful tool that allows you to create and manage a pivot table with either multidimensional or pivot data sources. End users can drag fields and filter them at runtime to create pivot reports as needed.
Built-in support for drill down (expand) and drill up (collapse) to visualize the grid information in both abstract and detailed views.
Users can edit values at runtime and save their changes to the underlying data source, thereby reflecting the update in all the cells.
Built-in header and Excel-like filter UIs with advanced filtering options to easily filter and view data as required. It is also possible to filter by code-behind.
Displays only select values for a field. It can be achieved either through the UI or code-behind.
Sorting supports ordering rows and columns based on labels or values.
Orders the column and row header text in ascending or descending order.
Provides extensive support for you to define your own custom summaries, plus 10 built-in summary types. You can apply this only for pivot data sources and perform though reports in code-behind.
Allows inserting new calculations at runtime and features 16 built-in calculation types. You can apply this only for pivot data sources and perform though reports in code-behind.
The calculated field, otherwise known as unbound field generates unique field with our own calculated value by executing a simple user-defined formula. This functionality is applicable only for pivot data sources.
Expression fields generate data by executing a user-defined expression. The generated data is specific to a few fields from the underlying data source. You can apply this only for pivot data sources and perform though reports in code-behind.
The drill-through feature easily obtains a list of raw items for a particular value cell or summary cell.
Number formatting and date formatting helps to transform the appearance of the actual cell value. This functionality is applicable only for pivot data sources.
The subtotals and grand totals are calculated automatically by the pivot engine, inside and displayed in the pivot grid. It helps users to make decision based on the totals. Also, user can show or hide subtotals and grand-totals for rows and columns.
User can retrieve information about a particular cell on hyperlink cell click. It later allows you to perform custom operations programmatically.
You can perform custom operations in code-behind on right-clicking a cell. For example, a context menu or dialog can be created or invoked on right-clicking.
Provided extensive support for selecting a range of value cells.
It provides basic information about a cell while hovering over it with the pointer.
You can easily resize each column’s width with a simple drag operation at runtime.
You can save reports from the current session as a stream in a database for later use.
Ships with a set of 13 stunning, built-in themes namely azure, lime and saffron in light, dark and gradient patterns.
The appearance the control can be customized to any extent in code-behind.
Easily customize all aspects of the control’s appearance using the Theme Studio utility.
For a great developer experience, flexible built-in APIs are available to define and customize the ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table control. Developers can optimize the data bound to the control and customize the user interface (UI) completely using code with ease.
Our ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table has been developed to make it possible for people with disabilities to use and interact with the control.
Allows users from different locales to use the control by applying appropriate date formats, currency formats, and number formats.
The pivot grid allows users to customize the text in the user interface based on the local culture.
The text direction and layout of the pivot grid control can be displayed from right-to-left(RTL) direction.
The ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table will work on all major browsers across Windows and macOS. It is written in jQuery to provide the same working experience on popular browser like Chrome 17+, Firefox 22+ and Internet Explorer 8+. It also works with various platforms like ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, TypeScript, PHP and JSP.
The ASP.NET Web Forms Pivot Table control has built-in integration with popular third-party frameworks such as Angular, React, Ember, and Aurelia. Check out the control unique features for each platform.
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We have the assignment of creating a learner-centered syllabus. I thought it would be so much fun to create a syllabus for an ideal class I myself would like to teach one day but, upon reflecting on how much I currently teach and the need to make changes in our classrooms NOW, I ultimately decided to make a learner-centered syllabus based on the lab classes I teach. Certainly, this stood to be a challenge because when teaching a lab class I do not have entire control over the course/content but, creating this syllabus showed me I DO have control over the environment and the learner-centered atmosphere I create and it all starts with the syllabus. Did any of you out there implement a syllabus structured around lab classes? If so, what was your experience and some unique ideas you were able to implement? | <urn:uuid:a3c21153-df68-4867-a168-77a7ce99122c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/bigdreamer/2012/03/11/learner-centered-syllabus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960328 | 170 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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COVID-19 has disrupted practically every aspect of life on earth as we know it. The rate of infection and mortality from this coronavirus is appalling, especially in the U.S., with numbers worsening as we head into the winter flu season. There are more than 8 million cases and 220,000 deaths, perhaps reaching 400,000 by year’s end. Many hospital ICU beds are full.
Scientists have told us what to do: wear a mask, keep your distance, avoid large gatherings, wash hands, and stay outdoors as much as possible when socializing.
But so many people battle these simple measures. It reminds me of initial resistance to wearing seatbelts in cars or helmets on motorcycles. The spurious objection that these requests encroach on civil liberties is absurd. Licenses are required to drive, own a firearm, hunt, fish, and do a myriad of other things. Why are these requirements not an intrusion on civil liberties, but wearing a mask is?
In addition to the obvious impact on our daily activities, COVID-19 has exerted unintended consequences that can pose long term risks to our health. Americans have scaled back multiple health care initiatives to an alarming degree.
Vaccinations have plummeted, even as we enter the flu season. Critical childhood vaccinations for hepatitis, measles, whooping cough and other diseases have declined significantly. Measles was already increasing before this year, possibly due to the growing strength of the anti-vaccination movement. Fewer children vaccinated because of coronavirus fears could worsen the trend. Childhood immunizations fell about 60 percent in mid-April in 2020 compared to 2019, ranging from 75 percent for meningitis and HPV vaccines to 33 percent for others like diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis.
Screening colonoscopies are almost nonexistent as are other preventive health care procedures like prostate checkups, mammograms, Pap smears and glaucoma evaluations. Routine doctor office visits have declined greatly. The potential consequences are an increase in vision loss; colon, breast, and prostate cancers; communicable diseases like measles and mumps; and reduced screening for illnesses like hypertension, diabetes, and coronary disease.
Equally or even more alarming is a decline in hospital admissions for acute illnesses like heart attacks. For example, a multicenter survey in Italy found almost a 50 percent reduction in admissions for acute heart attacks compared with the equivalent week in 2019. The decreases were associated with parallel increases in mortality and complication rates. Similar trends have been noted in England, the U.S., and other countries as well.
COVID-19 has frightened patients from seeking medical help for life threatening problems, as well as from preventive measures. We cannot let the trend continue. As we’ve heard in countless newscasts from scientists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, we as a nation must come together to fight this pandemic as a unified population.
Listen to the scientific experts, not the carnival barkers. Do as these recognized experts advise. Wear your mask and wash your hands! Get the COVID vaccination when it becomes available. Waiting for “natural herd immunity” to occur is dangerous and could result in over 2 million deaths.
And don’t forget the usual, but important, preventive measures, and seek medical help as you would have before the pandemic struck. Your life may depend on it.
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Compressors, generally used to increase the pressure of a gas, are an integral part of many production processes in the oil and gas, energy and chemicals industries. They are highly specific to each process for which they are designed. As a result, they are mostly custom-manufactured, expensive and difficult to replace.
Compressors operate with very fast dynamics, and even a slight disturbance to a process’s steady state could lead to a compressor surge, which is the point at which a centrifugal compressor cannot add enough energy to overcome the system’s backpressure. A compressor surge can lead to the unit malfunctioning, including rapid flow reversals and changes in axial thrust, high vibration and damage to rotor seals and bearings, which could necessitate equipment replacement. Additionally, surge is dangerous for individuals working near the compressor and can lead to a process becoming hazardous, especially if process gas is released to the surrounding atmosphere.
To combat compressor surge, specialized control systems are designed and implemented into processes. Control systems are enacted to maintain fluid flow to the compressor, which keeps the unit from surging.
Activated Dynamics Offers an Easy-to-Use Solution
Predicting which process conditions will cause the compressor unit to surge — and designing the subsequent control scheme — is a challenging, involved task. Activated Dynamics in Aspen HYSYS® allows users to get started earlier with dynamic analysis of compressor operation to ensure uninterrupted operation.
Activated Dynamics enables users to easily transition from steady-state models to dynamic models, to better address costly compressor upset and failure. Pre-made templates (with an option to create custom templates) allow users to configure dynamic compressor subflowsheets with one click, including all the necessary equipment and control schemes. Pre-made scenarios and results forms are also automatically generated after converting an existing steady state case to reduce model setup even further. Activated Dynamics provides support for cases involving one-, two- or three-stage compressor systems.
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More great insight from Phil La Duke.
By Phil La Duke
When someone dies in the workforce through no fault of his or her own it’s undeniably a tragedy. But in many people’s minds, line of fire injuries—those injuries that result when a worker places his or her body in the direct path of a serious hazard—the injured worker must bear at least some culpability for his or her injury. It’s especially easy to dismiss a line of fire injury as the worker’s “own damned fault”, but is it?
Before I continue I should disclose something about myself that could bias me on this topic: my grandfather died on the job from a line of fire injury. In the case of my grandfather, he was driving a tractor (he was a farmer in the 1950’s having left a lucrative career installing conveyor belts—a job that required extensive travel—so that he could spend more time at home with…
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Nonfatal Motor Vehicle Related Back over Injuries Among Children - United States
Motor-vehicle (MV)-- related backovers (i.e., incidents involving kids being struck by or rolled over by an automobile moving in reverse) represent a danger for severe injury and death. To identify nonfatal MV back over injuries amongst children, CDC evaluated data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System All Injury Program. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that, during 2001-- 2003, an estimated 7,475 kids (2,492 per year) aged 1-- 14 years were dealt with for nonfatal MV back over injuries in U.S. health center emergency situation departments. The report likewise highlights distinctions in type and severity of MV back over injuries by age and highlights the need for reliable interventions. NEISS-AIP information can increase the understanding of nonfatal MV back over injuries and assist guide the advancement of avoidance techniques, such as education, ecological improvements, and modifications in automobile design, that might help reduce these injuries amongst children.
NEISS-AIP offers information on approximately 500,000 customer item-- and injury-related ED cases each year. Run by the U.S. Consumer Item Security Commission, the program gathers data on initial sees for all types and reasons for injuries dealt with in EDs (3 ). NEISS-AIP information are drawn from a nationally representative subsample of 66 of 100 hospitals chosen as a stratified likelihood sample of U.S. health centers with a minimum of six beds and a 24-hour ED.
For this study, MV back over injury cases were recognized from narratives abstracted from medical records. NEISS-AIP obtains data for each nonfatal injury concerning the principal medical diagnosis, body part primarily affected, external cause of injury, ED discharge personality, and location of the event (e.g., home or public place). Cases were defined as nonfatal injuries to children aged 1-- 14 years as an outcome of being struck by or rolled over by an MV (e.g., vehicle, truck, van, or sport energy lorry) relocating reverse in a driveway, parking area, or on a street. Cases including child pedestrians (i.e., children standing, sitting, lying, playing, or strolling) or kids riding bikes or tricycles near or behind an MV were consisted of. Cases including children injured while getting into or out of fixed MVs were left out.
Each case was appointed a sample weight based on the inverted probability of choice; these weights were summed to offer nationwide quotes of MV back over injuries. Price quotes were based upon weighted information for 168 kids treated for MV back over injuries at NEISS-AIP medical facility EDs throughout 2001-- 2003. Population approximates for 2001-- 2003 were obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau to compute injury rates. A direct variation estimate procedure was used to calculate 95% confidence periods (CIs) and to represent the complex sample design.
Of the 168 cases identified, 81 (48.2%) involved children aged 1-- 4 years; 92 (54.8%) of the children were male. Injuries occurred mainly to the head, face, and neck region (47 cases [28.0%] and to the extremities (90 cases [53.6%].
- Injuries to the head, face, and neck region decreased with age, from a high of 31 (38.3%) among children aged 1--4 years to a low of three (7.5%) among those aged 10--14 years. Injuries to the extremities, specifically the lower part of the body, increased with age, from 24 (29.6%) among children aged 1--4 years to 29 (72.5%) among those aged 10--14 years.
- Ninety-four (56.0%) children sustained minor contusions and abrasions, and these varied by age group, from 40 (49.4%) among those aged 1--4 years to 25 (62.5%) among those aged 10--14 years. More serious injuries, such as fractures and internal injuries, occurred among 47 (28.0%) children; this proportion decreased with age, from 32 (39.5%) among children aged 1--4 years to seven (17.5%) among those aged 10--14 years.
- The 168 study cases were weighted to provide estimates for the United States overall. During 2001--2003, an estimated 7,475 (CI = 4,453--10,497) children were treated in EDs for nonfatal MV back over injuries, at an annual rate of 4.40 per 100,000 age-specific population (CI = 2.62--6.18) (Table). Among all ages, the rate for females (4.60) was slightly higher than that for males (4.21).
Approximately 86% of the injured children were classified as pedestrians; these children sustained MV back over injuries at a rate six times greater (3.78) than that of children who were riding a bicycle or tricycle (0.62). Nontraffic events (i.e., those not occurring on public roadways) accounted for approximately 61% of MV back over incidents, a rate of 2.67. Location of the incident was known in approximately 80% of cases; the majority of injuries occurred either at home (47.4%) or on public property (31.9%). For at least 40% of all cases, injuries occurred in driveways or parking lots. A majority of injured children (78.1%) were treated and released from the ED.
Reported by: R Patel, MPH, AM Dellinger, PhD, Div of Unintentional Injury Prevention; JL Annest, PhD, Office of Statistics and Programming, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC.
The findings in this report suggest that an approximated 2,492 kids aged 1-- 14 years were injured yearly after being struck by or rolled over by an MV moving in reverse. Numerous were pedestrians near or behind an MV and were at house when the incident occurred. The bulk were treated and launched from healthcare facilities. A study by the National Highway Traffic Security Administration analyzed death certificate data and recognized around 47 deaths in 1998 amongst children under the age of 19 years that were attributable to MV back over injuries (4 ). Of these deaths, 21 took place in driveways. The results of this study are consistent with those of other research studies that show the risk children face when left ignored near or behind an MV (1,2,5-- 7).
The findings in this report are subject to at least 4 restrictions. Initially, NEISS-AIP catches only injuries dealt with in medical facility EDs and does not include kids seen in doctor workplaces and clinics or who may not have gotten treatment. Second, NEISS-AIP provides nationwide estimates just and does not allow for quotes by region, state, or local jurisdiction. Third, cases were recognized from narratives acquired from medical records, but not all medical charts consisted of total descriptions of occasions, such as whether a car was in reverse. Finally, in cases with numerous injuries, only information regarding the most serious injury are taped.
Various prevention strategies, including education, ecological modifications, and modifications in automobile design, may minimize the risk for MV back over injuries among kids. Public education to increase awareness among parents and caregivers need to highlight the following: 1).
grownups ought to adequately supervise kids who are playing in areas near parked MVs, 2) drivers need to look carefully for children prior to and while backing up, and 3) MVs must be secured garages or driveways with secrets stayed out of reach of kids (6,8). Possible environmental modifications consist of fenced driveways, fenced play areas away from driveways and streets, and circular driveway designs that get rid of the have to back out. Prospective car adjustments include back-up warning alarms when automobiles are put in reverse or mirrors, noticing gadgets, or cameras to alert motorists to out-of-sight objects, such as small children (1 ). Research is needed to identify the effectiveness of such approaches.
Information from injury surveillance systems such as NEISS-AIP highlight the avoidable morbidity and mortality arising from MV-related back over injuries in children. Efficient engineering and ecological methods to avoid MV-related back over injuries have to be recognized, assessed, and disseminated to public health and transport officials and policy makers for application nationwide. On the other hand, motorists and caretakers can take basic precautions to prevent these injuries. To this end, kid MV safety programs and health specialists ought to make sure that parents, caregivers, and the public are aware of the risks for injury connected with MV backovers and appropriate prevention procedures.
This report is based on information contributed by T Schroeder, MS, C Irish, and other staff, Div of Hazard and Injury Data Systems, US Consumer Product Safety Commission. K Gotsch, MPH, P Holmgreen, MS, Office of Statistics and Programming, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC.
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2. Agran PF, Winn D, Castillo D. Unsupervised children and youth in vehicles: a risk for pediatric trauma. Pediatrics 1991;87:70--3.
3. CDC. National estimates of nonfatal injuries treated in hospital emergency departments---United States, 2000. MMWR 2001;50:340--6.
4. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Data collection study: deaths and injuries resulting from certain non-traffic and non-crash events. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; May 2004. Available at http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/studies/nontraffic-noncrash/images/noncrash.pdf.
5. Brison RJ, Wicklund K, Mueller BA. Fatal pedestrian injuries to young children and youth: a different pattern of injury. Am J Public Health 1988;78:793--5.
6. Nadler EP, Courcoulas AP, Gardner MJ, Ford HR. Driveway injuries in children and youth: risk factors, morbidity, and mortality. Pediatrics 2001;108:326--8.
7. CDC. Injuries and deaths among children and youth left unattended in or around motor vehicles---United States, July 2000--June 2001. MMWR 2002;51:570--2.
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When Secretary of State for Transport Justine Greening announced approval of plans for a high speed rail network, known as High Speed 2, public opinion was immediately split. HS2, scheduled to be completed by 2033, will cut across the countryside at speeds of up to 400kph, shortening trips from London to the north.
Some criticised its proposed budget of £32.7bn, costing taxpayers roughly £1,000 per family. Others were thrilled by the prospect of saving about an hour on their commutes. The one thing everyone can seem to agree upon is that the public transport system needs to change. Whether it’s high ticket prices, increased carbon emissions, slow travel times, or crowded cars, a solution is needed.
It’s nearly impossible to predict the economic and environmental impacts HS2 will have on the countryside and destination cities of Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Edinburgh. The Department for Transport recognises that intercity rail lines are congested and in need of relief. But critics say HS2 should be part of a long-term plan, not a short-term solution to a problem that needs immediate attention.
‘One of the concerns we have is it’s almost like the government is developing high speed rail as a proxy for having a long-term transport strategy,’ says Richard Hebditch, from Campaign for Better Transport. HS2 needs to be part of a larger scheme aimed at reducing carbon emissions and shouldn’t be viewed as the sole solution.
‘When high speed rail comes along we need to make sure that doesn’t mean we’re making cuts to services elsewhere across the country, where we need those services to improve in order to encourage people to use the railways and not drive so much,’ he says.
The government’s current plan is to channel money being used for the Crossrail engineering project, which will connect 37 rail stations across Greater London, into High Speed 2 when Crossrail is completed. The argument is that this will ensure money isn’t taken away from other infrastructure projects, when scheduled construction begins in 2017.
‘If they stick to their word then we’re broadly happy with that,’ Hebditch says. ‘But if the economic climate remains difficult for some time, it will be a bit of a challenge for government to maintain that level of expenditure.’
Like Hebditch, Rupert Fausset, from Forum for the Future, believes High Speed 2 could be a success if it is approached in the right way.
'I’d like to see High Speed 2 as part of a strategy for low-carbon transport,’ he says. ‘So don’t think about just one rail line. Don’t even think about just the rail system. Think about, and plan, the whole system together, and we don’t really have a great tradition of doing that.'
Thinking about the whole system includes encouraging people to choose rail over car for short-term trips as well, not just journeys from London to northern cities.
If more people choose cycling or walking over driving the impact could be immense. Car journeys of between 2-5 miles account for 1.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to figures from the DfT.
Trips within this range are typical of a daily commute to work within a city and could be significantly reduced if people swapped personal vehicles for bicycle or rail. If HS2 alleviates congestion within hubs, such as Manchester, some suggest there could be more room for commuters within the city on rail lines. But it’s hard to tell what the impact will be.
More, more, more
High Speed 2 is indicative of the culture we live in, Fausset says. Bigger is seen as better, and growth is always the solution.
'If there is anything that doesn’t work about this, it’s that it’s about the culture of more,’ he says. ‘It’s more travel; it’s faster travel. More, more, more. When the direction we really need to be going in for true sustainability across the overall global system is, in the developed countries, to be levelling off and not grabbing for more, and not trying to move further and faster.'
The Government cites Britain’s Victorian railway boom as proof that expansion is necessary and good. ‘The time has come again to seize the moment, to be ambitious and to show the world that this is a can-do country,’ Greening said in a statement on January 10th.
HS2 is being heavily championed as a greener substitute for air travel, with advocates saying faster rail service will cut down on short flights to northern cities like Manchester and Edinburgh. This, in turn, will reduce carbon emissions. But opponents say discontinued local flights will simply be replaced by intercontinental flights.
‘You could end up with flights that are 10 times more carbon generating than the ones you succeed in getting removed,’ says Peter Delow, a resident in the Warwickshire village of Cubbington and chair of the local opposition group.
What’s more while the government is pushing rail as a green option, it is also drawing up plans for a controversial international airport on the Thames Estuary.
Mayor Boris Johnson reiterated the need for an alternative to Heathrow this month. ‘Passenger demand for London’s airports is forecast to increase from 140 million passengers a year in 2010 to 400 million passengers a year by 2050,’ he says. ‘Yet the UK lacks a clear long term vision for how to respond.’
The Government is due to publish its plan for the UK’s airports and potential new ones this March. But opposition has already emerged, with some calling the project 'Boris Island.'
A for 'London' project?
The Government has gone out of its way to make HS2 as palatable as possible, offering extra incentives for affected homeowners, while extending tunnels and cuttings to minimise effects on Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, such as the Chilterns. But for many, high speed rail will never be appealing.
Opponents say HS2 is not worth the amount of time saved for commuters, about an hour on journeys to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, according to the DfT. Action group STOP HS2, says the rail line will have devastating impacts on rural villages and the environment, will increase carbon emissions and will mostly benefit London.
Action group member Rae Sloan has lived in the Berkshire village of Twyford for about 30 years. HS2 will cut through the countryside near her village. ‘The volume of it will be horrendous,’ she says. ‘One train every 2-4 minutes is equally obscene. When you look at the larger picture it is just absolutely ridiculous.’
Action group member Mike Geddes, from the Warwickshire village of Offchurch, says money could be better spent improving the Main Line and inter-regional transport links.
‘We should spread the money that would be spent on HS2 around the country, dealing with the multitude of transport problems we already have,’ he says, adding that HS2 ‘is not part of a serious integrated transport strategy.’ Though even if it were, Geddes says he still would not support it because there are much quicker and cheaper ways of dealing with anticipated transport demand. And despite Greening’s approval of the proposal, he’s optimistic something can still be done.
‘Everytime HS2 is referred to in the media it’s referred to as the “controversial HS2”. So we think we’ve made a lot of progress in pointing out how controversial it is, and we aim to carry on.’
Labour and Prescott's big plans
The hype surrounding HS2 is reminiscent of John Prescott’s White Paper of 1998, the basis for a 10-year transport plan aimed at better integrating public transportation services within rural communities. Though Prescott helped usher in an era of optimism surrounding transport, 14 years later many people are asking whether or not his paper actually brought about the changes it promised.
‘He was so focused on the overarching strategies and the grand statements about what they would do for transport that the detail wasn’t worked through enough, and then they failed to deliver on it,’ Hebditch says. ‘And they reverted to the old ways of approaching transport, which is building lots of roads. I think you need both.’
Both a long-term transport plan, and list of individual goals, will ensure that investment in HS2 does not detract from investments in existing rail lines.
Individual repairs won’t be sustainable in the long run, with new lines providing the relief needed, said Greening in her January 10th statement. ‘When it came to HS2, I could have made the easy choice,’ she says. ‘I could have gone for the short-term option, relying on a patch-and-mend approach and leaving our rail networks overstretched, overburdened and less resilient.’
It is true that simply fiddling with existing lines isn’t enough, Hebditch says. New lines are needed to truly alleviate congestion and increase capacity. This will not only allow more room for commuters, but also for freight.
‘You do need that mixture of an overall framework but then putting in place the concrete measures you need and making sure they get delivered,’ he says.
Ralph Smyth, from Campaign to Protect Rural England, supports the principle of a new high speed rail line. But says he worries the polarised debate has turned the focus towards whether high speed rail is right or wrong, when attention should really be paid to the policy and design choices that determine how sustainable it is.
‘If you think where we need to be in 50 years and try to work backwards, for example working out how our transport system needs to change if we are to move beyond oil, then it’s difficult to argue that a new high capacity railway line should not be part of the solution,’ he says. ‘The question is would the Government’s proposals fit with that?’
Smyth says HS2 needs to be 'futures-proofed', and ‘radical cuts to carbon emissions and greater protection of the natural environment are more credible than futures where very high speeds are useful.’
But with the government set to move forward, and action groups ready to stand their ground, the battle is far from over. Still, Fausset says nothing is set in stone yet. ‘Until you’ve poured a certain amount of concrete, things can change.’
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The two countries, Lebanon and Israel, are racing to stake their own claims for a demarcation line in the Mediterranean Sea, where energy reserves have been found.
Both countries have asked the United Nations to mediate in the matter since Israel and Lebanon have no relations.
The sea boundary dispute could trigger a new conflict over lucrative gas and oil reserves. Israel recently discovered two gas fields off its coast, and energy companies believe other reserves could be in the area.
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Agreeing to Disagree
Couples with a divisive issue have many paths they can take, but not all of them are good ones. Some couples will choose to sever their relationship permanently, and it may be more common among those who do not have children together. A long term relationship is often one where two people have realized they have many fundamental disagreements, but they have worked past many of them. Just one small issue could permanently divide them, but some are still willing to work out a compromise. Agreeing to disagree could be the best way to maintain their relationship, and many couples with children are willing to do just that.
Whether or not children are part of a relationship, it is important for two people building a life together to be able to find ways to agree or compromise. Small issues about where to spend each holiday can blow up into major gaps in any relationship. Even what is being served to commemorate a particular event can become a divisive issue when two people have their own traditions and emotional involvement.
Working out compromises is not always easy or possible. Some couples find that they would rather leave than create a plan that satisfies neither of them. Others are determined to stay together, so they may spend a great deal of time finding their own ways to settle the issue. Those who are still having difficulty may find that professional counselling could be helpful.
Being able to make compromises with a partner is part of adjusting to life together, but it can become more difficult as the years progress. One partner might feel they have given in enough, and they could be unwilling to do it even one more time. The person who loves them may have to step up to make their own sacrifice, and each of them will have to decide whether or not it is enough to save the relationship. | <urn:uuid:3eef312b-c2da-4212-92e8-75d8049d45df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.conservatoireeast.co.uk/agreeing-to-disagree | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983888 | 360 | 2.46875 | 2 |
The Chinese Ministry of Public Safety recently held a conference in the Tibetan capital city of Lhasa. The conference covered the Grand Tibetan Region which goes across four other provinces (Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan). The conference believed that, although the overall situation is relatively quiet, the task of maintaining social stability in Tibet is still a huge challenge. The key strategy guiding the near term work is to proactively engage. Actual planned steps include: (1) enhance the “prevention and control system”; (2) enhance border checks; (3) improve emergency handling capabilities; (4) significantly improve education and “mental development”; (5) increase investment in equipment and technology. The conference called for stronger support from other provinces.
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- 1 Who is the first Catholic saint?
- 2 Is there a saint Carlos?
- 3 Who is the patron saint of dieting?
- 4 Why is Charles Borromeo a saint?
- 5 What does Borromeo mean?
- 6 Who is the most beautiful saint?
- 7 Who was the first female saint?
- 8 Who is the oldest Saint ever?
- 9 Who was made a saint in 2020?
- 10 Why did Carlo Acutis die?
- 11 Can you be a saint while alive?
- 12 Is there a saint for anxiety?
- 13 Who is the patron saint of love?
- 14 Can I pray to lose weight?
Who is the first Catholic saint?
So, the answer the question literally and as written, the first Catholic saint was St. Udalric, who was canonized by Pope John XV in 993.
Is there a saint Carlos?
Carlo, who lived in Milan, was beatified, or declared “blessed” by the pope, on Saturday after a miracle was attributed to him earlier this year. The ceremony, in Assisi, Italy, was the second-to-last step before Carlo can be canonized as a saint.
Who is the patron saint of dieting?
Saint Charles Borromeo is the Patron Saint of Obesity and Dieting.
Why is Charles Borromeo a saint?
He is the patron saint of bishops, cardinals, seminarians, and spiritual leaders. Borromeo received a doctorate in civil and canon law from the university of Pavia in 1559. When the council closed, Borromeo served in executing its decrees and was largely instrumental in bringing out the Roman catechism in 1566.
What does Borromeo mean?
Spanish: habitational name from the Borromean Islands in Lago Maggiore, Italy, borne by St. Carlo Borromeo (16th century). Similar surnames: Borne, Terrones, Borre, Borom, Cotroneo, Berrones, Morrone, Borrello.
Who is the most beautiful saint?
Rose of Lima
|Saint Rose of Lima T.O.S.D.|
|Born||Isabel Flores de Oliva April 30, 1586 Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru|
|Died||August 24, 1617 (aged 31) Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru|
|Venerated in||Catholic Church Anglican Communion|
|Beatified||April 15, 1667 or 1668, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement IX|
Who was the first female saint?
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, née Elizabeth Ann Bayley, (born August 28, 1774, New York, New York [U.S.]—died January 4, 1821, Emmitsburg, Maryland, U.S.; canonized 1975; feast day January 4), first native-born American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the oldest Saint ever?
Chronological list of saints in the 1st century
|Pope Clement I||Rome||100|
|John the Apostle||Bethsaida, Galilee||100|
|Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilla||100|
|Prosdocimus||Antioch, Asia Minor||100|
Who was made a saint in 2020?
The pope is on it. Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 and is set to be beatified in October 2020.
Why did Carlo Acutis die?
Acutis died of acute leukemia on Oct. 12, 2006. He was put on the road to sainthood after Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Acutis: The healing of a 7-year-old Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after coming into contact with an Acutis relic, a piece of one of his T-shirts.
Can you be a saint while alive?
For starters, the type of saint we’re talking about is a heavenly being, so according to the church, you can ‘t be canonized while you ‘re alive (normally the process doesn’t start until at least five years after death). Martyrs are people who died because of their faith.
Is there a saint for anxiety?
Patronage. St. Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness and anxiety.
Who is the patron saint of love?
|Patronage||Affianced couples, against fainting, beekeepers, happy marriages, love, plague, epilepsy, Lesvos (for Catholics)|
Can I pray to lose weight?
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You know what’s awesome? When women help women. And that’s exactly what our favorite confidence quotes for women do. Read on.
We all do better when we learn from each other.
And these confidence quotes for women help us do precisely that.
From the mouths of writers, philanthropists, performers, advocates, and activists, these words help inspire us to open the page to our next chapters.
And here’s why they’re so necessary.
In this article: 📝
- The gender confidence gap
- Self-confidence quotes for women
- What is an inspiring quote for confidence?
- What is a strong woman quote?
The gender confidence gap
Yep, if you were wondering, it’s real.
A recent study showed that female workers are far less inclined to sell themselves, their skills, and their experience.
And while that doesn’t explain away the differences in opportunity between genders, it does give us insight into how to begin improving the situation.
In 2021, the largest global study to understand, measure, and increase women’s confidence was conducted.
Apart from uncovering something that may be pretty intuitive—that women’s confidence is generally on the low end—they discovered something else: confidence is not something you can grow on your own.
You need to do it in community, with other people.
We need to receive from, give to, and grow with one another.
That’s why we must cultivate support systems.
(Psst. Peanut can help with that.)
There’s no way we can do this alone.
Self-confidence quotes for women can provide a spark of inspiration to help build community and make the world a better place for women.
Self-confidence quotes for women
First, a quick note: We love these incredible words, but we know they might not be enough if you’re feeling really low.
If you are feeling anxious or depressed, know that help is available.
Whether that means talking to a counselor, doctor, friend, or family member, know that you don’t have to do this alone.
Head here for resources from the National Institute of Mental Health.
So with all that in mind, let’s dive in. Read on for our favorite self-confidence quotes for women.
What is an inspiring quote for confidence?
- “If you can dance and be free and be embarrassed, you can rule the world.” — Amy Poehler
- “Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.” — Ava DuVernay
- “I am experienced enough to do this. I am knowledgeable enough to do this. I am prepared enough to do this. I am mature enough to do this. I am brave enough to do this.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- “Own yourself, woman.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved
- “The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.” — Beyoncé Knowles
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
- “Females are the most beautiful, gorgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think that we are gorgeous no matter what size we are.” — Alicia Keys
- “Once I learned to like me more than others did, then I didn’t have to worry about being the funniest or the most popular or the prettiest. I was the best me and I only ever tried to be that.” — Issa Rae
- “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” — Erin McKean
- “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” — Judy Garland
- “Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.” — Kerry Washington
- “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” — Nora Ephron
- “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis
- “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett
- “You make a choice: continue living your life feeling muddled in this abyss of self-misunderstanding, or you find your identity independent of it. You draw your own box.” — Megan Markle
- “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
- “I tell myself, ‘You’ve been through so much, you’ve endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.’” — Serena Williams
- “How wild it was, to let it be.” — Cheryl Strayed
- “Don’t be afraid. Because you’re going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don’t be afraid.” — Joan Jett
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Don’t let anyone speak for you, and don’t rely on others to fight for you.” — Michelle Obama
- “You had the power all along my dear.” — Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- “We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” — Kavita Ramdas
What is a strong woman quote?
These quotes come from some of our mightiest heroes:
- “I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” — Malala Yousafzai
- “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” — Audre Lorde
- “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- “Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.” — Nikita Gill
- “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” — Melinda Gates
- “Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.” — Rebecca Solnit
- “I’m a woman
— Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman
- “There will be people who say to you, ‘You are out of your lane.’ They are burdened by only having the capacity to see what has always been instead of what can be. But don’t you let that burden you.” — Vice President Kamala Harris
- “The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that’s the point.” — Shonda Rhimes
- “Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You’re not too fat. You’re not too loud. You’re not too smart. You’re not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.” — Jessica Valenti
- “The woman who doesn’t require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” — Mohadesa Najumi
- “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” — Coco Chanel
- “Women are the real architects of society.” — Cher
- “The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.” — bell hooks
- “Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes,’ we have standards.” — Marilyn Monroe
- “Don’t think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women.” — Gloria Steinem
- “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” — Dolly Parton
- “Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” — Helen Keller
- “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” — Nancy Pelosi
- “We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.” — Shirley Chisholm
- “Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” — Stephanie Bennett-Henry
- “I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue—my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.” — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
- “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” — Marge Piercy
And if you’re looking for some more words of inspiration, here are some avenues to explore:
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So let’s raise our voices, our hands, and our children in a way that feels aligned with our desires and strengths.
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Love is easy. Living together isn’t. Most of us aren’t very good at handling conflict. We resort to fight, flight or avoidance.
Look around you. Our political parties are incapable of resolving their differences. Neighboring countries in the Middle East can’t even sit down together and discuss their troubles. Our relationships are no exception. Like being stuck in a gridlock traffic jam on I-5, our marital engine comes to a grinding halt when we disagree.
What are the common sources of conflict in relationships? The big five, in no particular order, are sex, money, children, in-laws and household chores.
Bob wants to spend money on a new boat. His wife wants to buy a new stove.
Mary is a saver. Bill is a spender.
Joe wants his kids to go to religious school. Sarah doesn’t.
Tom is strict with the kids. Hannah is lax.
Dianna likes to make love way more frequently than her husband.
Joe likes to have everything in its place. Sarah couldn’t care less.
This list is endless. Sometimes lucky couples may just have one big area of conflict. Less fortunate spouses can have several topics of divergence. My wife and I get along famously, except we had huge differences about many areas of parenting. It took years for us to sort them out — and by then the kids had left home!
It seems that opposites attract. And then they spend the next 20 years trying to get their spouse to be just like them. Our differences are the soil in which conflict grows.
Here are some ways of addressing differences:
Take them head on. I know it’s tempting to avoid conflict, sweep differences under the rug or walk around them. But they’re not going to go away. These differences of everyday life will be like a thorn in your side that keeps causing pain. Make the decision to address them, even if you feel hopeless that you can resolve them.
Don’t discuss these issues when you are angry. The worst time to discuss a complex issue is when you’re mad. Most likely you will say something that will escalate the discussion into a shouting match. It is impossible to resolve these concerns when you are angry. Agree upon a time to discuss a conflict when you are both likely not to be hungry or tired.
Send each other written proposals for change. Sometimes it’s hard to talk about emotional issues face to face. Each person is liable to react to the other person, rather than to respond to their ideas. Write up a proposal, send it by email and ask for a response by email. Send messages back and forth until you are ready to sit down and talk.
Don’t use text messages to resolve big concerns. Fifty characters are not enough communication to solve challenging problems but can be enough fuel to ignite a fire! Save texting for unimportant brief communiques.
Don’t give up. The secret sauce in labor negotiations is simple. Don’t stop talking until you make a deal. In my experience, couples give up trying to solve difficult problems way to soon.
Give a little, get a little. I know this is hard. I am pretty stubborn myself and usually think I’m right. Take a deep breathe, swallow your pride and compromise. If each person moves in baby steps toward the other person, you will find yourself closer to each other than when you started.
Think before you speak. Words are very powerful. Once you say something, you can’t take it back. You can apologize for saying it, but it is not like an email you can recall.
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Your plum tree needs a mate.
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Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (DSÖ), Kalite Risk Yönetimi Taslak Kılavuzunu revize etti (İng)
WHO publishes revised Draft Guideline on Quality Risk Management
In August 2010, the WHO published a draft guideline on quality risk management (QRM). With its 24 pages divided into 6 chapters. Now, this draft has been revised and published for comment. The new document is slightly more extensive than the previous draft. The current draft is divided into 7 chapters containing diverse subchapters.
The aim of this guideline is to assist the development and implementation of effective QRM covering activities such as research and development, sourcing of materials, manufacturing, packaging, testing, storage and distribution. In the past, hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) methodology, traditionally a food safety management system but subsequently applied to other industries, has been the basis of WHO risk management guidance to the pharmaceutical industry.
In most countries compliance with good manufacturing practices (GMP) (including validation), drug regulatory activities and inspections, together with supply chain controls throughout the product life-cycle, provide good assurance that risks are largely controlled. However, where control is less effective, patients may be put at risk through the production of medicines of inadequate quality. The assessment of individual risks related to specific products and starting materials and the recognition of hazards at specific stages of production or distribution should permit regulatory authorities to improve control of medicines by increasing the effectiveness of their activities within the limits of the available resources. Quality risk management (QRM) is a process that is relevant to all countries and should provide a rationale to understand risk and mitigate it via appropriate and robust controls.
International guidance has emerged that is of specific relevance to the pharmaceutical industry and which addresses the full scope of pharmaceutical industry QRM more effectively than HACCP principles, including how to structure regulatory filings using a risk-based approach. Consequently, this WHO guideline has been developed as an update of WHO advice to the pharmaceutical industry, taking account of this new guidance.
In order to protect patients, in terms of quality, safety and efficacy, international medicines regulatory authorities (MRAs) are recommending pharmaceutical manufacturers to adopt a risk based approach to the life-cycle of a pharmaceutical product. Some MRAs are requiring the adoption of a risk-based approach for certain specific areas in the life-cycle of a pharmaceutical product, e.g. for environmental monitoring for sterile products manufacturing. While the choice of the tools to support the QRM approach is optional and may vary, they need to be appropriate for the intended use.
QRM is the overall and continuing process of appropriately managing risks to product quality throughout its life-cycle in order to optimize its benefit/risk balance. It is a systematic process for the assessment, control, communication and review of risks to the quality of the medicinal product. It can be applied both proactively and retrospectively. This guideline will align with the general framework described within other current international guidance on this subject.
The document is largely based on the ICH Q9 guideline and uses its common terminology. Unlike ICH Q9, the draft presents detailed explanations as well as detailed provisions. For example, at least one “Risk Review” should be signed by the quality assurance unit. Verification of the QRM processes and specific QRM applications should be performed by a third party. Chapter 5 (Risk Management Tools) refers to tools which are also described in Annex I of ICH Q9. In addition, a risk matrix in a tabular form describes examples and risk management tools (methods, description of the methods, potential applications) A publication of the “Manufacturing Technology Committee” from the “Pharmaceutical Quality Research Institute” (PQRI-MTC) dated from 2008 is explicitly quoted for the examples presented. | <urn:uuid:b99ad6b0-d917-47e9-b54e-4a65873326ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iyiklinikuygulamalar.com/kalite-risk-yonetimi-taslak-kilavuzu-revize-edildi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943385 | 793 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is organizing Climate Change Awareness Campaign and National Photography Competition. The competition will be open to all participants till 26th January, 2022, as part of pre-event activities leading to the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav- Smart Cities: Smart Urbanization’ event on 4th and 5th of February, 2022 at Surat, Gujarat. Both the campaign and competition aims to sensitize the challenges posed by climate change, enrich the participants with ideas to solutions, and promote climate action in cities.
Climate Awareness Campaign:
The campaign will include Municipal Commissioners and key heads of urban local bodies and Smart City CEO’s creating awareness across educational institutions including schools and colleges within their cities to align young minds to the challenges and solutions associated with Urban Climate Change and Sustainability. Cities will be organizing one or more of the following activities in their cities leading up to the event
- Climate Change Awareness Campaign: The city officials will create awareness across academic institutions on Climate Change and Sustainable actions.
- Social Media Campaign on Climate Change: The city officials will carry out a social media awareness campaign where City leaders Mayors/Municipal Commissioners/Smart City CEOs will be talking about climate actions, that can be implemented within their city. The issues that will be taken up for discussion include inter alia plantation drive, cleaning of water bodies, recycling of e-waste, promoting the adoption of solar energy within residential and commercial buildings, or any other initiative which promotes climate adaptation or mitigation actions.
- Promote Photography Competition: A City level Photography competition will be organised based on the theme of climate change.
Details of the events are available at https://niua.org/c-cube/content/climate-change-awareness-campaign
National Photography Competition:
The participants are invited to submit photographs which are either focusing on the impacts of climate change on Indian cities and actions taken by individuals, communities or city authorities to adapt/ mitigate climate change. To participate in the competition, photographs should be submitted in two categories:
- Climate Impacts in Cities
- Climate Actions in Cities
The selection of photographs will focus on content, composition and technique. All interested photographers and climate enthusiasts can visit https://niua.org/c-cube/content/national-photography-competition for details of participation. The submission of photograph shall close on 26th January 2022 at 11:59 pm.
About Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of progressive India and the glorious history of its people, culture and achievements. This Mahotsav is dedicated to the people of India who have not only been instrumental in bringing India thus far in its evolutionary journey but also hold within them the power and potential to enable Prime Minister Modi’s vision of activating India 2.0, fuelled by the spirit of Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav is an embodiment of all that is progressive about India’s socio-cultural, political, and economic identity. The official journey of “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav” commenced on 12th March 2021 which starts a 75-week countdown to our 75th anniversary of Independence and will end post a year on 15th August 2022. | <urn:uuid:a1c476a6-d030-4020-a10e-7718b3a53a5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/event-detail.htm?10684 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928303 | 692 | 1.8125 | 2 |
For Episode 408 of The Paleo Solution Podcast we have guest Dr. Emory Liscord. Dr. Liscord is an Emergency Medical Physician and Assistant Medical Director at the Deptartment of Emergency Medicine Maine General Medical Center.
00:46 – Summary/Pre-Intro
1:57 – Intro and Dr. Liscord’s background
4:26 – Why Dr. Liscord chose emergency medicine
6:30 – Medications, and “less is more”
8:43 – Pre-diabetes while marathon training
13:49 – Seasonal eating
14:30 – Grand Rounds about the ketogenic diet at the hospital
15:44 – Where are the current problems in healthcare
19:01 – Conflicts of interest in medicine and subsidies in the food industry
23:10 – Where to initiate change
24:43 – Problematic features of the insurance system
31:18 – History of healthcare in the USA and changes from WWII
34:50 – Experimenting to find better healthcare systems
37:02 – Calling representatives really matters
38:44 – Work with the Chickasaw Nation
40:28 – Conversations in your community and strategies for patients
44:30 – Hospital changing snack foods story
48:30 – Food addiction, social pressure, and psychology
51:21 – Incentives and subsidies
54:28 – Future of Dr. Liscord’s outreach in the community
56:43 – Dietary dogma
59:30 – Where to find Dr. Liscord
Podcast: SimplyHealthME podcast
Facebook: SimplyHealthME Facebook page
Paleo Solution – 408
Robb: Hey, folks, six listeners can’t be wrong. Another edition of the Paleo Solution podcast. I really had a fun time today. I got to talk to Dr. Emory Liscord. She is the assistant medical director at the Department of Emergency Medicine Maine General Medical Center. She has a really fascinating story battling with some health issues from a diet that was not matched to her physiology despite being a medical student and a marathon runner.
She’s just right in the front line of where current healthcare situation is. I believe she quoted about 90% of the things that she sees as an emergency room physician, they’re preventable. But that prevention involves a massive number of issues ranging from our food system to social processes. We dug into a lot of this stuff. I don’t know that we got to a concrete answer on anything other than, holy smokes, this is a complex topic. But really had a great time talking with Dr. Liscord. I think that you will enjoy it too.
Hey, Doc, are you there?
Emory: I am here, Robb.
Robb: Cool. Dr. Liscord is with me. We had a minor technical issues which have resulted in a hardwire Ethernet connection and sitting Indian style in your basement, it sounds like.
Emory: Exactly. It’s fantastic. Love it.
Robb: Doc, thank you for coming on the show. Thanks for navigating the little technical difficulties that we had getting going. You shot me an email recently.
Emory: Yes, I did.
Robb: And made an introduction. Can you tell the listeners about yourself? I covered some of this in the introduction but it would be great to get a little bit more of your background.
Emory: Absolutely. So, I’m an emergency medicine physician. I graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and did my emergency medicine training at Boston Medical Center. I was looking for the craziest busiest ER in all of New England and that’s where I landed. The reason that I reached out to you, Robb, is because I left Boston and I moved to a rural area in Maine and just started to pay attention to what I was seeing in the emergency department which really was quite different from what I expected to be treating when I went into that specialty. I’ll tell you — go ahead.
Robb: No. You go ahead.
Emory: Yeah. It’s wild. I would say, probably 80% to 90% of what I see in the emergency department is 100% preventable by lifestyle modifications. I just, through my own health journey, and I’m happy to talk about this or not, but I started running marathons in medical school. As a lean marathon runner I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes.
Somebody who was not in medicine gave me the Primal Blueprint. That was one of my first introduction to this world. I’ve just have gone down the rabbit hole ever since and just really frustrated with my own profession, the healthcare system, and the lack of resources that I’m seeing that my patients have here in Central Maine. My husband and I started a health advocacy group and we teach classes in the community and I’m trying to teach other physicians about healthier way of living. That’s my background.
Robb: That’s amazing. We get a lot of questions around career path. I definitely want to hear more about your own health journey but why did you choose emergency medicine? A lot of folks, they’ll fire an email and they’re like, “Hey, I want to make a difference. Should I do this? Should I do that?” Without knowing the person. How are you wired up and why did emergency medicine appeal to you?
Emory: Right. I mean, I think I would say I’m a bit of an adrenaline junkie.
Emory: So, let’s just put that. We’ll put that out there. But the other thing was, in medicine, you make a decision.
It’s do you like taking care of people who are mostly well or do you like taking care of people who are ill? If that makes sense, critically ill, acutely ill? I found that I thought I’d be a family doc. I went into medicine with family docs in my family and I assumed that’s what I would do. But I found that it was just — I felt the visits were short. People weren’t making a change. They weren’t getting better.
An ER for me was very tangible. Somebody comes in, they have a dislocated shoulder, boom. I can put that back in. Someone’s in a car accident, I can stabilize them. Somebody has a heart attack — The thing is that, and this comes out of the military really, is that medicine is fantastic if you want to live to tomorrow. We really got it down. I mean, emergency medicine is really good.
But the chronic stuff, as you know, is just we are failing and flailing and people are getting sicker. And so I liked that being able to tangibly make a difference in that moment but what I’m realizing is I make right now with my practice every day, it’s like I see people and, yeah, I can stabilize them when they have their heart attack or their stroke but they’re back in a couple weeks later with something related and it’s just the more medicines people are on the sicker they’re getting. It’s so frustrating.
Robb: It is. I remember doing my undergrad. I worked as a pharmacy tech. Folks would come in, they’d be older, maybe mid 60s, late 60s. Oftentimes they would comment, “Well, this is my first prescription.” Almost like a badge of honor. They typically were reasonably lean, reasonably healthy. They were just this interesting demographic of older folks coming in, first prescription. And then son of a gun if it wasn’t like now it’s two, three, four, and it seemed like the wheels fell off.
On lunch breaks, I’d talk to the pharmacists. I’m like, “Hey, do you notice this trend?” And they’re like, “Yeah.” And it’s just one of those things where we would talk about it a little bit but we didn’t really know what to do. This was five, six years or maybe even longer than that, before any of this ancestral health stuff got on my radar. But even at that point–
Emory: People were starting to realize. I mean, if you think about it, we went from, “Okay, let’s put statins in the water,” to, “Oops, it causes diabetes in 40% of women.” Oops. Basically, we have a philosophy with our work which is less is more. The less you put — You do not need a pill, a supplement, a shake. You don’t need anything. You actually need to take a lot of stuff away, in terms if you want to see better health, and that includes prescribed medications.
I’m actually doing a fellowship in obesity medicine which I really like that, the Obesity Medicine Association. This is western medicine but they have really — They have Stephen Phinney, Jeff Volek, Jason Fung are all lecturing at these obesity medicine conferences. They’re on the cutting edge of nutrition. I’ve said to my husband in the emergency room I don’t think I’ve ever in the — how long have I been doing this? Eight, ten years. I never have seen an obese person over the age 80 because you just don’t live that long when you have so much weight.
Robb: Right. That totally makes sense. Hey, let’s dig in a little bit more about your health situation because, again, if we went to maybe the more mainstream dietetics scene, the Alan Aragons of the world, it’s basically eat more or less whatever you want, just watch the amount. And if you exercise, all is right in the world.
Emory: Right. Exactly.
Robb: You’re super well-educated. Dartmouth is arguably one of the best medical schools in the world so, clearly, you are smart. And you had the gumption to do both medical school and embark on marathon training. I could probably make an argument that lurking in the background of all that, there was some sleep deprivation and some hyper vigilant state that was probably contributing to this, but how did you, as a young smart medical student, develop pre-diabetes through the process of embarking on marathon training?
Emory: I know. Isn’t it wild? Well, I mean, I’m not really sure but I’ll tell you that nobody in my family has diabetes. Everybody is pretty lean so it doesn’t run in my family because I’m sure genetics, I believe that genetics does play a role, not completely. I had started getting into running as, I would say, productive procrastination.
It was the one time I didn’t feel guilty for not studying, was when I was out for a run. But I fueled with gels, crackers. I mean, I was the low fat high carb. Popcorn, I would eat two bags of popcorn for a meal. I mean, this was what we did. This is endurance training. And then when I was in residency I actually got pregnant in residency — that’s not stressful — and then I was diagnosed.
My hemoglobin A1C was a lot higher than I would expect. That’s when I started looking at ancestral health. Once I cut my carbohydrates down a little bit — it wasn’t even ketogenic. We’re talking down to 100-150. I normalized my hemoglobin A1C and I started to just feel a whole lot better. This is what really clicked for me. Ever since then I haven’t looked back. My son is six now, so that was six years ago.
Since then I sort of — I’m still running. I actually used to work the medical tent at the marathon in Boston and I took care of some of the bombing victims during the Boston marathon bombing. I always made this goal that I wanted to run the Boston marathon. But I didn’t really want to raise money so I wanted to qualify. But I didn’t want to get diabetes so how do you run, how do you train for a marathon and not get diabetes eating all this high carb stuff?
That’s when I got really into the more fat-adapted running, the ketogenic athlete type, working towards low carb running. It was great. I qualified for Boston. I ran Boston and fueled on fat. It was great.
Robb: That’s awesome. I love that you mentioned that you didn’t have to go into the extreme ketogenic world. It’s so funny. Keto is amazing. It’s such an underutilized tool. But the world has become this thing where it’s either keto or you’re eating Kitavan level of carbs and there’s no middle ground.
Emory: People are too dogmatic and you get into trouble. I’m super interested in epigenetics and genetics and one thing I’ve realized is probably related to our genetics but people have different genetic polymorphisms that maybe they don’t metabolize saturated very well. Maybe they do better on a high carb or at least, I would say, never eating processed food. I think that’s one thing we can all agree on.
I think being dogmatic, you come into a lot of problems with that. I think keto is extraordinarily powerful for people who have metabolic disease but I also think that eating a sweet potato when you’re training for a marathon is okay and you shouldn’t have to beat yourself up about that.
Robb: Well, and it’s funny, you established the crazy thing. Let’s look back to what Atkins recommended ages ago. Let’s really ratchet carbs down, get the metabolic syndrome reversed and now let’s titrate you up, focusing mainly on whole unprocessed foods to a point where you’re able to maintain weight and general metabolic health? Are you generally feeling well? If we tip over that, then let’s just reel it back in.
That just seems like a very reasonable approach. It’s very customizable too. We don’t know exactly where you are on that spectrum. We don’t know where you will finish when everything is said and done, again, because of genetic and epigenetic considerations. But within that, we can really dial this whole story up and down. You propose that and it’s like madness.
Emory: Yeah. I think also something that I’d been super interested in just over the summer is the idea of being more seasonal and I’m learning that you’re more insulin sensitive in the summers. Everything is on a circadian rhythm. We’ve learned that from the work of Satchin Panda who you probably have read about. Maybe in the summertime when you’re picking blueberries, you can eat some blueberries. It’s okay.
But in the winter months when we didn’t have access to a lot of starchy vegetables and whatnot, maybe we are eating more fat and meat and I think that’s also, once you’re metabolically flexible, that is definitely a nice way to be able to enjoy the seasons and not be so dogmatic. But I do think that — and I know you guys have the Keto Masterclass. I was just reading about it on your website. I think that’s awesome.
Actually, we’re doing grand rounds on the ketogenic diet in October this year, which is I don’t know if you’re familiar with what grand rounds is but this is the whole hospital, all the physicians in the hospital are invited and they do a lecture on a topic. I’m really excited about it. I’m a little nervous about what my cardiology colleagues are going to say. I got to know the lipid stuff at the back of my hand.
Robb: That’s amazing. Do you know who is speaking at that event? It’s a multi-series event usually, right?
Emory: No. So, grand rounds is every week and all hospitals hold grand rounds and it’s just on different topics and all specialties are invited. One of my colleagues, Dr. Madore, is a functional medicine physician in the area and we’ve teamed up trying to make change in our community. He invited me to help him with that. We’re really excited about that.
Robb: That’s awesome. I will forward you a bunch of papers I received from Bill Cromwell who’s the developer of the LPIR Score and all that NMR technology.
Emory: Awesome. That would be super helpful.
Robb: Yeah. He’s an amazing guy. I want to ask this question but I don’t want it to be super leading.
Robb: Where are the problems in the current healthcare, sick care system?
Emory: Oh, yes. I love this subject.
Robb: If you were to delineate five points or ten points or whatever, where would we tackle this? I mean, it could literally start anywhere from food production or whatever you want to jump into.
Emory: Yes. First, I would say defining what I run into in my community. So, my kids are — One is at daycare and one started kindergarten. I will tell you that this has been a struggle for me. I have been trying to get them to serve food that is unprocessed and real food at the daycare and the school. I just got the lunch list and it’s like Mac and Cheese for lunch and crackers for a snack.
What I think the problem is, because I’ve gone to some of the administrators in these organizations, and the problem is they get federal funding so they have to follow the “USDA guidelines.” Now, personally, I think that the USDA guidelines are pretty general. You don’t have to serve processed carbohydrates. You could serve some sweet potato or something like that.
But the problem is, I think, following the USDA guidelines and that’s at a federal level. And then the other problem is just the money, just the cost. I live in farmland so I think there are creative ways to get around that, partnering with local farmers and whatnot. But it takes organization and I think that organizations are just so resistant to change.
That’s at a local kind of organizational level. These are problems we’ve run into. But from a physician, this is the biggest challenge. I have a lot of colleagues who, because I associate with people who are familiar with this stuff, I have friends, a lot of physician friends who practice intermittent fasting, time-restricted feeding, a lot of them are intermittently ketogenic, they’re aware of this, but I’ve talked to them about their practice with their patients and their fears lie in the fact that the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association have these guidelines.
They worry medically legally. Once you have an MD or a DO next to your name, if you say something different from a guideline, someone could come back and hold you accountable legally. Physicians, even though they might know this stuff, they feel like their hands are somewhat tied because they’re supposed to follow these guidelines and their practices are monitored. Does that make sense?
Robb: Absolutely, absolutely, yeah.
Emory: It’s almost weird because my husband is a personal trainer and does some health coaching with his clients and it’s–
Robb: He almost has more latitude than you.
Emory: He has way more, in fact, to the point where I’m like, no, I can’t even have a one on one meeting with someone because then if somebody can say I’m their physician they can say what I say as medical advice. Even if you have every disclaimer in the world, it doesn’t protect you. And so I think where we really need to make change is at the more institutional level but, unfortunately, as you probably know, within these governing bodies in medicine are conflicts of interests.
You can’t really find them easily but if you go on the American Heart Association, the American Dietetic Association, when you start looking, you start to see that they get some of their funding from parts of the food industry or the pharmaceutical industry. It’s just really hard to compete with big business. I can’t compete with the Coke brothers. I can’t.
I don’t know how to do that. I think I’m feeling right now like I’m going to approach this from a local level. I’m really going to start getting involved with the school board, getting involved with local because I feel like that seems more approachable to me but I do believe we need help at the federal level as well.
Robb: Yeah. It’s so interesting and such a morass. I seem like a crazy person because for ages I’ve been talking about the subsidies that are generating this junk food catastrophe. If you look back when Richard Nixon was getting reelected in 1971, I think, he needed a conservative voting base to support him and they had largely disbanded the farm subsidies programs that were enacted during World War II but they were still on the book. They were still there. There was still a template.
They just ramped that up. He got his voting base. And then there were a couple years — I was born in 1972 and I vaguely remember this period of time where the news pieces would talk about these warehouses of food just rotting and spoiling. So then they had to figure out what to do with this stuff. That’s when high fructose corn syrup was developed and all this other stuff.
Parallel to that was this fear of fat, fear of animal based fat, and this emergence of this super cheap seed oils that could be hydrogenated. So, it was just this perfect storm. But you’ve got that subsidies part on the one hand. You have the collusion part maybe at the upper end. CrossFit is interesting in that they’re the only entity that has a global reach that has been talking about the collusion between basically like Coke or, let’s call it Big Sugar, and the influence that they had on things like the Affordable Care Act.
There was this provision of exercise as medicine. The basic line item was, hey, we need to get people to exercise more. We’re going to government subsidize coaches and personal trainers to exercise these people but you will not comment on the qualitative nature of their diet and, oh, by the way, they can have up to six servings sugared sodas a day and that’s fine. I threw this on my Facebook page the other day and people lost their minds.
Emory: I know. I mean, I just — we have a Facebook page as well and I just posted an article about just the history of the vegetable oil industry and where that comes from and it’s just you reading, “Ew.” I mean, and it’s everywhere and it’s so — It feels overwhelming although I have to feel hopeful because at least in the field of western medicine, like I said, this fellowship, people ask me what are you going to do with this fellowship? I mean, you’re an emergency medicine doctor. You’re going to do weight loss counseling in the ER? Probably not.
But what I do want to do is I want to get those, that accreditation so that I can now go to talk to physicians where I am a clinical professor at the University of New England in Maine and so I can speak to medical students and teach in the community. It feels overwhelming.
Robb: It is in a way. I think that your point about starting at the grassroots level is really the only way this is going to happen. It’s really fascinating to me. Our clinic here in Reno, we have worked with police, military and fire. We did a two-year pilot study that–
Emory: I heard about that. That’s awesome.
Robb: It saved the City of Reno $22million, 33 to one return on investment.
Emory: And we need this because money talks and people are not going to make change unless you can prove that it’s actually going to be cost effective.
Robb: Right. But within our current reimbursement model, none of the incentives are really aligned to make this stuff work. One thing that’s been changing recently, and this might be something that you look into as far as folks to reach out to, the self insured captives are the first entities that are realizing that they have maybe an eight to ten year window before they’re effectively bankrupt.
This is true virtually across the board in all westernized societies, maybe 15 years or something. But when you overlay population increase with healthcare increase, there is — it’s an exponentially increasing story, all kinds of other collateral damage with that, amputations and dialysis and all that stuff. It’s basically going to bankrupt societies.
Emory: Yes, it is.
Robb: People will say, “Well, socialize the medicine, and do this and do that.” That doesn’t change the curve on this at all. Gosh. Again, I want to ask this but I don’t want to do too leading of a question here, but what do you see as being the problematic features of the insurance system as it stands right now with regards to healthcare? How is it contributing to this problem?
Emory: Right. Well, I’m a little radical. I sort of am more of a socialized medicine person. I feel like we need to focus on preventative care and, frankly, I’d like to take the middle man out of things, insurance companies and billers and coders and all that stuff. I’ll tell you, my mom was over in Scotland a couple of years ago and she had some chest pain. My mom is healthy, has really no medical problems, doesn’t take some vitamin. But she’s an older woman who had chest pains.
She goes to the emergency room in Scotland she gets worked up and gets her cardiac work up or whatever. She gets discharged. She goes, “Where’s the billing department so I can pay my bill?” And they were like, “What?” They don’t even have a department. There’s no billers. There’s no coders. All that money that hospitals spend on that middle man stuff is just gone. It’s not a cost for them.
I’m a little more extreme in the sense that I feel that we need to focus on lifestyle and prevention. The pharmaceutical companies, people make a lot of money when we’re sick because the food industry makes a lot of money, the pharmaceuticals company. It’s just like war. People say they don’t want war but there’s some people who make a lot of money when we go to war. And the same is true for when people are really sick. I’m a little more radical, probably than you expected.
Robb: No, it’s interesting. I tend to be more in this libertarian market-oriented camp. Some of my thought, and it’s all crazy stuff, but I would love it if there were five American medical associations. Each one of them could plant a flag and go around and say, “We’re the high carb, low fat vegan camp. Here’s where we go. Hey, here’s the ancestral health camp and here’s this camp and here’s that camp.”
And then have them compete against each other. A fascinating fact. I don’t think that that’s really necessarily going to happen. But there is some interesting stuff. If you look at the cost of Lasik eye surgery over the course of time, it’s followed this thing called Moore’s law where it’s basically gotten much, much better and much less expensive over the course of time. And there’s no reimbursement for it at all. It’s all elective care. It’s out of your pocket.
Singapore has a really interesting system where it is a State-mandated healthcare system. They run the whole thing via health savings account. If you’re poor then the State puts money into an account but you basically then are in charge of where you put your healthcare dollars and everything is completely transparent. Like you go into a Chinese food restaurant and you’ve got the menu of options and what have you, and this is by no means perfect but they’re spending what they produce. I lean towards this kind of market-centric innovations.
Emory: Right. I see what you mean. That’s super interesting. I guess, the only thing that – I mean, you said the government would put money into health savings account for people who can’t afford it. A lot of the folks that I take care of in the emergency room, the bulk of people are people who are struggling financially. They don’t have the money to spend on gym membership or a health coach or this or that and so I just worry about – and they don’t have access to healthy food even though we live in farmland.
They might not have money to put in gas to drive to a farm. That sort of thing. And so I do tend to feel – I worry about that segment of population that just is really doesn’t really have anything extra when it comes HSAs. That’s the only problem with HSAs. And we have an HSA. I like that because we’re healthy and we can choose what to use it for. But I could see it being an issue if somebody has nothing or somebody gets something terrible that happens and it’s a huge cost.
Robb: Right. And that’s how they set these things up. They have a catastrophic plan and then they use the HSA for more the discretionary stuff day to day.
Emory: But, I guess, people have more power and more decision making around their own healthcare which is really nice.
Robb: The challenge, and this is the thing that I always try to figure out of balance with is we want these nets so that people don’t just augur completely into a mountainside with this net.
Emory: Right. You need the nets because, otherwise, it’s more expensive for society. And that’s what I see. People use the ER. People use the ER all the time for their regular care because they don’t, they can’t afford the office visit for their primary care doctor. You know what I mean? So they use the ER, which is more expensive, but they don’t technically — I have to see everybody who comes through the door which is what I like about my job. But that means people are using it inappropriately.
Robb: Right. But the danger that sometimes emerges with these programs is the safety net becomes a noose that they can’t get out of sometimes generationally. The Singapore model is interesting where these HSAs, let’s say somebody they’ve been unemployed, they’re getting some governmental assistance, they’re putting this money in their HSA account. When they get a job that pays much better, that money goes with them so they’re not losing that. For some folks, if they get destitute enough, they end up having a low middle income based around subsidies, basically, and they might need to earn $70,000 a year to match the degree of governmental expenditures that they get. That’s sometimes a monumental hurdle to get the person out of that scene. Some of the nervousness that I have too is the government hasn’t really been making good decisions around the dietary recommendations.
Emory: I agree with you. I totally agree with you. I like the idea of thinking out of the box, actually. I mean, I’m not by no means expert on health policy but before I went to medical school I did some research for a physician down in Rhode Island who in his small town of Scituate, Rhode Island, they were piloting something called population based primary care where everyone in this geographical area paid in and they had access to their local doc.
It was primary care so it didn’t cover catastrophic but it’s a grassroots way of dealing with lapses in healthcare coverage. It’s just another thinking out of the box thing to do. You get a nice group of people. They know each other personally and they’re just invested in their community and in their neighbor. Because the truth is, people do want their neighbors to be healthy but it’s hard when it’s this huge corporation and it doesn’t feel so personal.
Robb: Right. It’s interesting. I’ve been tinkering off and on with a book on this topic for seven years. Before World War II, all of the healthcare in the United States looked largely like what you just described. People tended to carry a catastrophic plan. That was mainly cash and carry but also a ton of these things that look Medi-Shares where people would group aggregate around their church or different civil organizations and stuff like that.
The interesting back story with the changes around World War II, there was a wage freeze in the States because it was looked upon as gauche that people might get paid more than these deployed GIs shot and blown up and everything. They froze wages. As with all this stuff, you try to control one thing and then something else pops up. What the company started doing was incentivizing benefits packages.
They said, “Hey, what if we give you free healthcare?” This was the beginning of this third party payer system. The third party payer system didn’t really exist prior to the end of World War II and then over the course of time it’s just grown and it has supplanted virtually all — Again, other than plastic surgery and things like Lasik, the selective medical interventions, most of medicine now nests under this third party payer system, which is just really a bleak system.
If you’re the doctor, I’m the patient and somebody else is paying for it, the payer really wants to screw you over. They don’t want to pay you anything. They have a whole algorithm where like one-third of claims they just don’t pay out right and you’ve got to follow up on them and hopefully you don’t – And me, if I’m paying into this kitty, I don’t really care what the ultimate cost is. As the medical provider–
Emory: That’s so fascinating. I didn’t know that history.
Robb: Yeah. And then as the medical provider, whether it’s a hospital or a private practice doctor, if those even exist anymore, they have to constantly continue to ratchet their cost up to absorb the shenanigans on the part of the third party payer. If we bought tomatoes or cars this way, it would be absolute chaos. Yeah, it’s interesting. But this is some of the stuff that I think is really worth having conversations around. It’s so big and so complex that we definitely need to just kick this stuff around.
I think people are willing to do a lot of experimentation. This is some of the stuff that was — I would love if the federal government said, “Okay, all 50 of you states, you guys are going to do some experiments. Tinker with this for five years. And then we’re going to look at best practices and we’re going to make best practice recommendations across the board.”
This is actually what happened under Bill Clinton with his Welfare Reform Act. Instead of them assuming that they had an answer, they actually take it back to the States and they had 50 different reaction vessels trying to go through this. Some of the attempts were absolute disasters. You couldn’t imagine that people thought these were good ideas. And then other things were really good. There were some work programs and creating some skin in the game and incentives. I guess, it would make me happy, and I think it would get much more traction as far as finding legit solutions if we had multiple experiments going on instead of just this one mega experiment.
Emory: Yeah, I agree. One of the reasons that my husband and I moved to Maine was for that. We felt Boston, Massachusetts just was — It’s big. It’s busy. There’s just a lot of people. But Maine, it’s really — you definitely have access to your local politicians. You have access to local — You can get involved in a way that it’s harder to do on a national level or on a bigger state.
When it comes to healthcare, I’d been feeling out how can I get involved? What do I really want? Who can I talk to? Because I live literally a stone’s throw to the State house. As a physician, I definitely am trying to feel out but I don’t know. I’m sort of like — I think this conversation is so interesting. I don’t know. These conversations are so important to have because I’m not sure what would be the best. I don’t know what I want to go fight for.
Robb: It’s interesting, the work that we’ve done with the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, which they are a nonprofit legal entity that basically like when the Feds go and try to shutdown an Amish dairy because they’re selling raw milk, these are the people that basically intervene on their behalf.
Emory: That’s fantastic.
Robb: Amazing people. They said something that’s really interesting. Emails don’t matter. Letters have a little bit of influence. But if ten or 12 people call a representative and call them and articulate a point and this representative hears this point, phone calls and in person stuff really does matter. It really does influence things.
You wouldn’t think that it would but what they’ve mentioned, they’ve been in these down to the wire situations where they’re trying to get bills passed to legalize the sale and even possession of raw dairy and some stuff like that. The phone calls have ten or 12 people ended up swinging the thing such that the representatives bought in on them. I think that we do really underestimate the power that we could have if we even had a few folks call or show up in person to the public representatives.
Emory: Yeah. And I’ve heard that about the email thing. I remember hearing that. Because you can always generate all these emails from bots or whatever. Obviously, my technical stuff is a little lacking. I know that it’s harder. So, yeah, showing up in person. Yeah, it’s a big problem.
Robb: It is. We’re doing some work with the Chickasaw Nation and just a dramatically insulin resistant population facing some really dire healthcare costs in the foreseeable future. After getting back from hanging out with them for a full week out in Oklahoma, what was fascinating is talking to the doctors, talking to the health coaches that they have. There was a profound sense of the need to provide skin in the game for the participants in their programs. The lack of incentives for people to be bought into this they feel is actually at root cause to the current problem that they have.
Emory: So, what incentives are they talking about?
Robb: Both financial and social. With my NDA, that’s as deep as I could go into it. It’s fascinating though because it starts looking very marketized and they’re still — the charter of these folks is to provide the utmost service to the people of the Chickasaw nation but what’s fascinating is they are fully in recognition that their current model, which is incredibly generous but requires no real buy in with regards to dietary choices and exercise and everything.
That’s not going to fix anything. They’ve rolled out various initiatives and they’ve been — They’ve mainly been getting the people who already ate well and went to the gym.
Emory: Yeah, I know. I think having the — What we found around here is that having conversations in your community is probably makes the biggest difference. I work in an ER. Everyone is unhealthy. I work shift works. So does everybody else. There’s always junk food around in the ER because people are stressed. They stress eat. I mean, it’s like the worst.
I just started doing time-restricted feeding a couple of years ago and that’s where I started the conversation. I just started being honest about — People would ask, “What do you do for health?” And I always thought people would think I’m crazy if I’m like, “Yeah, I don’t eat breakfast.” But I just started having conversations and now going to the ER and everyone is like, “Hey, are you ready to break your fast yet? Yeah, I’m just going to get some eggs downstairs.”
It’s normalized it in an environment where that was totally abnormal a year ago. And I really — That’s then probably just having these conversations and educating people about — I mean, I think educating people about actually their physiology and hormones and getting a little more science-y is really helpful. If people have that kind — if they’re able to understand that, which a lot of people are.
Robb: I don’t know if you know Mark Cucuzzella but he’s a VA system doc, rural West Virginia, low carber, marathoner. The guy has run some marathon, like 30 years in a row or something like that, an amazing guy. But he deals with a very rural population and he’ll have folks show up in the emergency room with a blood sugar of 500 and they’re doing 200 units of insulin a day or something.
He shows them a sheet of green foods, yellow foods and red foods and he’ll go through and say, okay, what on this green list will you eat for breakfast? Boom, boom, boom, here’s breakfast. What will you eat for lunch? Boom, boom, boom. One or two things on the yellow list, nothing from the red list. And he’s getting some really remarkable results with that.
He makes himself super accessible and he — Circling this back to early in the conversation and the risk exposure, what he is recommending are whole unprocessed foods. He monitors their meds closely. And then at the end of the day, if somebody were to ask him, “How can you justify what you’re doing?” Their meds go down and their lab values improve.
Emory: Exactly. I have a very good friend who does some admin but also practices medicine in the VA system in Maine. She’s a primary care doc. What she tells her vets is, basically, if a caveman couldn’t have eaten it then you shouldn’t. If you have to open it, if you have to open a package, you shouldn’t be eating it. She gets a lot of — that’s been huge. The other thing is she’ll have people, if they have an iPhone, get MyFitnessPal and she just says just 100 carbohydrates a day. If you can log stuff and just start to notice where stuff is.
She’s got vets coming in going, “Hey, Doc, I’m off my insulin. I lost 50 pounds.” It’s so powerful. It’s like she’s actually asking them to do less, take something away, not add something and they’re getting better health. I’m so excited about this. Sometimes we’ll talk to people about this on my overnight shifts when it’s a little slow, somebody is saying they have back pain and I’m like, “Honestly, you need to lose 50 pounds.”
This one woman who I talked to about this, she had chronic abdominal pain. This was months and months ago. I had suggested, “Hey, you should read this book called the Obesity Code,” or talking to her a little bit about insulin and stuff. She came back for some sort or muscular skeletal thing a couple of months later and told the PA who saw her, “Oh, yeah, I’ve lost 40 pounds. My husband has lost 60.” Just from my small conversation. That was probably like 20 minutes long. That was a motivated person who was obviously interested in learning about it. It’s pretty crazy. It’s not that complicated.
Robb: No, it’s not. It’s really not. No. It’s incredible. I just have to share this story with you. Because I have some questions. But we were talking some folks who have a beautiful hospital, hospital system, and they were recognizing the food that we have in the vending machines and the cafeteria, 90% of it is junk. We’re going to totally revamp this thing. They went to like — the snacks were basically fruit and jerky, more or less.
Emory: I love it.
Robb: Yeah, which was amazing.
Emory: This was a public school?
Robb: No, this was a hospital.
Emory: Oh, the hospital.
Robb: Privately-owned hospital. Okay. So, here’s the situation. All of the junk food, sodas, all that stuff had been removed. The employees don’t have access to it, the patrons, the people that would go in and out. What do you think happens after that?
Emory: To the health of the employees?
Robb: Just in general, what happens? I knew immediately. They told me that they did this and I knew exactly what happened.
Emory: I don’t know.
Robb: I said, “One of your staff members started bringing sodas and snacks and selling them.” And they did. There was a nurse in the ICU. They named her Nurse Snickers. She would go to Costco and buy a flat of Snickers and then she would dispense these things from her desk to the staff. They did give it to very many patients. Some of the patients caught wind and she would give it to them instead of selling it to them.
And then there was another individual that would basically smuggle in a flat of soda and then they would go track this guy down. This is a little bit of my circle back, again, where if people don’t understand economics and markets they are doomed to find solutions. Because it was very well-intentioned but they didn’t have any leverage over the next step to this thing. Whenever you create a police state, a prohibition type situation then you create a black market almost inevitably. You’ve got to be really crafty about how you align incentives around all that stuff.
Emory: Right. I think you need buy in from everyone involved. I do some administrative time at the hospital and I had a meeting with this wellness committee because I’m trying to do, bring them in and do health coaching during the shifts for the nurses that work 12 hours, which is crazy. We were talking about, okay, when it’s a bad day at the hospital, what does admin do? They go out and buy pizzas.
But everybody I talked to is trying to lose weight and be healthy so why are we putting this right in front of people who potentially could have food addiction or have their own issues with this food? She said that in their department, in the wellness department, what happened is they really sat down as a group and it was kind of like group therapy. They talked about their struggles and said instead of admin telling them to do something, they as a department made the decision that they want to be a health conscious department.
So, it came from the employees, not from admin. That was really powerful for me because I think it really has to come from the employees. It can’t come from me waiving my finger and saying, “We’re going to stop buying you pizza,” you know what I mean? More like, let’s have a conversation as a department what kind of department do we want to be?
Do we want to foster resilience and mindfulness and health? Or do we want to be all stressed out because our job is really stressful and it’s made worse by some of these choices? That was really interesting to me when she said that. I hadn’t thought of that because I was like, “Well, as the administrator, I’m going to come in and make everybody–” That doesn’t work because you don’t have buy in.
Robb: It’s fascinating. It’s fascinating. It’s a thorny topic talking to people about aligning incentives and you sound like this heartless person.
Emory: Especially when you talk about food because there’s so much emotion and guilt and shame. I really do believe that some people really struggle with food addiction and I think until we acknowledge that then it’s going to be hard to change things at least for those folks. My husband and I say this all the time. If you have a family member who struggles with alcoholism, you’re not going to see him at Thanksgiving and say, “Oh, have a beer. You’ve done so well over the past eight years. You can have one.” Everybody knows that’s sort of ridiculous and yet we do that to our friends and family members when it comes to food and sugar. “Oh, you’ve done so well. Just eat that cookie.”
Robb: We did a survey of our followers and one of the primary challenge points that people have is what we broadly put under the bucket of social and it was that friends, family members, coworkers, fellow students, whatever their situation was, it’s so interesting. We notice this ages ago but if you show up at work or school or what have you and you’ve got a bag of Doritos and a big soda and all this stuff, nobody says a damn thing.
But if you show up with chicken breast, an avocado and you’ve got iced tea with a little MCT oil in it, people will lose their minds. They’ll tell you you’re going to die on the spot and they will do their level best to derail you. It’s like, “Hey, man, here’s the bowl of peanut M&Ms.”
Emory: Right. And part of that is their own stuff. People bring their own stuff and then always misery wants company. People worry that if you’re eating healthy — Because I’ve struggled with that. I mean, my parents raised me to be mindful of what we’re eating.
I remember comments from friends. It’s like people think that I’m judging them for eating junk and I’m like, “Look, Dude, I’m just doing my own thing.” But they get insecure about it. People who make unhealthy choices get insecure when they’re around people who eat healthily and so if you can get someone to indulge with you, you feel better. There’s so much stuff that people do with their own food. It’s so unfortunate because it can be such a pleasure and such a wonderful thing eating good food.
Robb: Yeah. And to your addiction analogy, you really don’t have to take cocaine or alcohol or what have you. You can really avoid that. But at some point you will eat again. Even if you do an extended fast.
Emory: Right. And it’s around you all the time.
Robb: It’s around you.
Emory: I actually went to the grocery store once. I was with my kids. When we’re on the checkout line, there’s a bunch of candy and I say to my kids that’s not real food, we just don’t eat that. That’s not real food. And that’s a bunch of chemicals. I went to the manager and I said, “Look, have you guys ever thought about getting rid of all this stuff in the aisles because it’s really not fair to kids.” He said, “Well, these big food companies pay for their slot.” At the grocery store, which I didn’t realize but I should have known. But, yeah, it was just like, “Oh, okay.”
Robb: Yeah. And this, again, we’re getting back into the incentives. The government should not be in the business of subsidizing sugar and processed seed oils. A Twinkie should not be cheaper than an apple. That’s just, again, creating all these super misaligned incentives. Even in Mexico, they enacted a pretty frisky tax on sodas, which again, I would tackle it first from let’s stop subsidizing this stuff.
The US government still both subsidizes and taxes tobacco which is like a foot on the brake and the gas pedal at the same time, absolutely befuddles me but whatever. But they did get a pretty significant change in consumption behavior like that, that punitive tax on the sodas. And there is a sweet spot there. It’s interesting. If you make them too expensive out in the open market then you create a black market that will provide stuff cheaper.
Emory: Right. People get all, “I don’t want somebody telling me what to eat.” But I have to say we all pay for it in the end. And I say the same thing. We don’t have a helmet law in Maine for motorcycles and I had this guy once who was transferred to Boston Medical Center who was in a really bad motorcycle accident. He was in New Hampshire so he wasn’t wearing a helmet.
I said, “You crazy man, you weren’t wearing your helmet? What were you thinking?” And he was like, “Well, I just figured that if I got in an accident, I’d rather just die.” And I’m like, “But you won’t die because that’s how good medicine is. We’ll keep you alive. You’ll be in a nursing home. You’ll have a peg to help you eat and all this stuff.” And I’m like, “I know it’s your right to not wear a helmet but you’re going to pay for that.”
Robb: Stuff like that. And this is some interesting stuff where to the degree — Generally, insurance like that would be more catastrophic but if dude wants — One, I think, I love riding motorcycles but I haven’t done it for ages. Now that I have kids I probably never will other than maybe a dirt bike. But if you want to ride a motorcycle you should probably pay a pretty frisky premium just as a baseline because the likelihood of you costing a lot is fairly high. And if you’re in one of those States — Nevada is a State that doesn’t have a helmet law, and you choose not to ride with a helmet, your premium each month should be like $5,000 for that.
Emory: But people sometimes don’t have insurance. I mean, a lot of people don’t have insurance that ride motorcycles.
Robb: Absolutely. But that’s where you definitely have to start aligning incentives at some point. We can’t just collectively deal with that stuff and just keep tapering over the problem.
Emory: Yeah, exactly.
Robb: That’s fascinating.
Emory: So fascinating.
Robb: What are some of the — So, clearly, you are trying to reach out to your local community, local governance, making inroads there. What do you see that looking like over maybe three to five years? What are the bright points that you’ve seen with that?
Emory: Right. That’s such a good question because it’s definitely something that I’ve been soul searching about as of late. I mean, I think where I’m going is — My husband and I have a podcast for local Mainers, Simply Health ME and we do classes and I do — I’m talking at the library about kid’s nutrition, health.
I think that as I get this obesity medicine training I’d like to branch out and maybe teach physicians in the area and then, of course, try to figure out how I can make a change with the school board, just local level stuff. But I have to be honest. I have a five-year-old. I have a three-year-old. I work full time as a physician. It’s a delicate balance as I’m sure you’re quite aware of. It’s like, okay, I’m really passionate about this but I also have to keep my sanity and keep my own health. I’m in the middle of doing a lot of soul searching about that very question.
Robb: That’s awesome. Well, I mean, this is year 20 for me in this process. Honestly–
Emory: And it’s probably ever changing.
Robb: It is ever changing and, honestly, we’ve made more progress in many ways than I ever thought that we would. I never thought I would live to see a venture capital backed ketogenic diet intervention like Virta.
Emory: I know. That is amazing to me.
Robb: It’s amazing but then at the same time I’m seeing ever more of a tendency for folks to slide towards wanting to consolidate power within the government and make recommendations from that point and this is where like the big food — If the stuff is all broken up, if we had 50 food and drug administrations at the State level, that’s a lot more people that you need to buy off and cohort, coerce and everything versus one or a singular entity. The dominant story that’s coming more and more from this government level dietary recommendation is very strong in that plant-based vegan approach which can have advantage to some people but this is–
Emory: But again, dogma is always bad. If you were stuck in one — You have to recognize it depends on the person. That’s one thing. I like low carb high fat. I like a keto approach. But you know what, I don’t judge people who decide they want to go vegan or vegetarian. It might work for them. The problem is getting so divisive over this stuff. And really it all comes down to not eating processed food. I mean, that’s what it all comes down to. There’s actually an underlying commonality between all this stuff.
Robb: Right. That was the recent diet fits intervention where they had a healthy low carb group, a healthy high carb group, both groups lost virtually the same amount of weight but what was interesting is that both groups started off as what we would perceive as being these extremes and they had a tendency over time to drift to this middle ground and it’s that middle ground that interestingly which is right square with the recommendations from the American Dietetics Association and what have you.
There was that learn program that was compared and the A to Z diet study, Atkins, Ornish, et cetera, and this learn thing is like — This is going to sound terrible, but like every dietitian’s wet dream. Do not have any commentary about food quality. Literally there was no commentary about food quality, just portion control, just only have a third of a Twinkie and all that stuff.
Not surprisingly, out of that dietary intervention, the learn protocol performed the worst. It performed a bit worse even than the Ornish intervention, which I’m not really a fan of. To your point, we have to pick something. It’s either high carb, low fat or higher fat lower carb and we really have to stay out of the middle which is the snack aisle and the buffet and all the rest of that stuff.
Emory: Exactly. And you have to — Also finding things that work for you outside of, obviously, processed food. My friend who works at the VA, her dietician is really anti-ketogenic and really into the veganism but she goes, “Look, I’m not going to get my vets to be vegan. That’s just not going to happen, so let’s move on.”
Emory: My god, does that even make sense?
Robb: Right. Well, we definitely — we have a ton of job security.
Emory: We do.
Robb: Our work is not going to go away anytime soon.
Emory: I say that almost every day.
Robb: Well, Doc, it’s been so great chatting with you. I’m really honored you reached out to me. Can you let folks know where they can track you down on the interwebs to learn more about you?
Emory: Oh, sure, yeah. We have a website. I do some blog posts, my creative outlet, simplyhealthme.com. And then we have a podcast, Simply Health ME, for Maine, of course, and then a Facebook page under the same name. Yeah, we do talk a lot about Maine but it’s general health stuff.
Robb: That’s amazing. I think that that really is where all this stuff starts, is the individual passion and building those relationships.
When I’ve spoken publicly and people say, “Why haven’t you gone to Congress or whatever?” I’m just like, “Are you kidding me?” If I’m able to get some traction, it’s going to be at the local level. And then over the course of time we may get some push further up the food chain. But at the end of the day, we really just have to take some personal accountability and get in and fight these fights.
And again, it’s interesting. These self-insured captives are really looking around closely at different wellness programs and wellness initiatives because they’re on the hook for dealing with these costs and all of them have a very short run before they’re effectively insolvent due to these healthcare costs. I think people are going to start asking some very pointed questions and start figuring out how to align the incentives to get better buy in this.
Emory: Yeah, I totally agree.
Robb: Well, Doc, it’s been such an honor having you on the show and hopefully get to meet you in real life.
Emory: Yeah, it’d be great. Enjoy the rest of the day.
Robb: Thanks. You too. We’ll talk to you soon.
Emory: All right, bye.
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What if we were to tell you that we found a spot in Auckland where you could be pretty much guaranteed to be the only ones sharing a picnic on a jetty under cover of a big Pohutakawa tree while gazing out over the water to the Harbour Bridge?
So first you’d ask us where it was. Then next you, like the locals did last year when Auckland Council bought back the land around the access way to Secret Cove, would tell us not to tell anyone else because it will become over run with people right?
Well no, actually we don’t think it will.
Last March Auckland Council completed a 10 year negotiation, buying back the rights to this 175sq m block of land to allow public access to the very aptly named Secret Cove.
The land had been purchased in the 1930’s by a group of 16 people to protect access to the beach, but then some tricky manoeuvring appears to have gone on and a caveat was put on it by neighbours – stopping access and resulting in a 10 year battle by council to get public access back again.
You probably read all this last year just like I did. It was everywhere! All the major outlets reported it, locals were up in arms because they were about to be over run by nosy picnic makers and it became the must do secret location.
Or did it?
You see here’s where it gets interesting… We should be top of the list of people to explore this spot. We’re always looking for new adventures and new things to see. We read about this and what did we do? Hmmm, nothing. Well for 9 months anyway. And then we went exploring. I typed in Secret Beach, Devonport, Auckland and up it popped.
It was a super hot day and so we expected to find loads of other people there too. But no, it was just the two of us. Sitting on a jetty, having a picnic, under cover of a big Pohutakawa tree while gazing out over the water to the Harbour Bridge.
It turns out that Auckland is big enough, that we’re all different enough, all set on our own adventures, at our own times for Auckland to have it’s own secret beach that’s going to say secret and secluded no matter how much we talk about it.
So we’ll share the address of Secret Cove because if coverage on the NZ Herald, The Denizen, Urban List and Stuff can’t make this spot over run with tourists then we surely can’t either.
You can find it down a very unassuming path, nestled in between two houses at 60a Stanley Point Road (GPS will find it fine). Despite council promises to put up signs there are still none and I hope it stays that way – there has to be some fun and challenge in the finding of such a spot.
You’ll wind your way down uneven steep stairways and then hopefully come out at a secluded and very secret cove.
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Architecture is always looking towards the future and it is important for those who have been in the industry for many years, as well as those just entering the profession, to keep in mind new trends, new techniques, and potentially new ways to develop cities and architecture as an art form over the coming decades. What areas are likely to pose a challenge specifically to the architecture world over the coming years?
The biggest challenge is apparent to everyone and concerns the environmental impact that we, as humans, have had and continue to have on the planet. Starting immediately, and running into the coming decades it will be vital for there to be a change of approach towards an environmentally conscious style of architecture. Within the EU all homes built after 2020 must be built to consume zero energy. With this form of mandate, it does help control the shift in focus, but as architecture has been relatively late to jump on board with the green outlook it might have taken something like this to make sure. Modern architecture must be about designing and building homes in ways that reduce energy consumption, builds water-saving systems, has better insulation, and lasts for much longer utilising sustainable materials wherever possible.
Another challenge is how to get in line with the principles of recycling and reuse. A solution must be found to ensure that there is a drastic reduction in the environmental impact of construction in all its forms. Construction and demolition are responsible for large percentages of solid waste in developed countries, and this must stop. It is important for architecture to help the construction world move away from the process of production, build, use, throw away (or demolish), and start again.
A shift in approach can already be seen in the significant increase in the numbers of renovation projects being undertaken rather than heading straight for demolition. Derelict buildings or old buildings about to be discarded by private or public enterprises, can be repurposed with clever architecture and design. The downturn in the economy has had an impact in pushing developers into renovation in many cases, but it is a positive thing for our future world that we do not immediately look to start from scratch when there is a perfectly good structure in place that can be redeveloped and renovated in a clever way. There is not much urban space left, and architects can certainly help shape the future world where we maximise the use of all spaces open to us.
This can also be seen in how structures and designs should focus on delivering quality of finish rather than quantity. Too many times over the years have we seen the development of poor-quality housing to pay lip service to the fact that a certain quota of houses have been delivered to the public. Instead, the focus must shift towards architecture that is environmentally sustainable, functional, but delivers quality of purpose in an inclusive way to the people, the communities, and the art of the local area in which it is being built. | <urn:uuid:cf214ce8-ebd1-46d5-8f2f-cb520cf588f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dinkoffarchitects.com/challenges-for-the-architecture-industry-to-face/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967235 | 575 | 2.734375 | 3 |
CHESTERTOWN, N.Y. — At the Tops Market on Main Street recently, there was a “Mega Meat Sale” — buy one pork chop and get another free.
There were specials on avocados, paper towels and fried fish. Craft beer shared shelf space in the brightly lit store with cases of Genesee, a local favorite.
Tops was cutting prices even though it had filed for bankruptcy last month, responding to pressure from behemoths like Amazon and Walmart — which are lowering prices and targeting new markets — and from discount stores like Dollar General. The food war that is raging across the country is weeding out the weakest links, leaving small and medium-size grocery companies struggling to stay afloat.
It wasn’t long before another wobbly chain followed Tops into bankruptcy. The parent company of the Southern stores Winn-Dixie and Bi-Lo said it would file for Chapter 11 protection by the end of this month, and close 94 stores.
“There is a tremendous shakeout in food retail right now,” said Burt P. Flickinger III, a managing director of the retail consulting firm Strategic Resource Group, whose family founded a grocery business more than a century ago.
Amazon’s $13 billion purchase of Whole Foods in June added a sense of urgency to the competition to feed American families, raising the prospect that the e-commerce giant would upend groceries just as it has every other aspect of retail. This month, Walmart responded with its own plan to start offering an online grocery delivery service in 100 cities.Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:5fbe404c-20bc-4140-a4de-c145e6c988f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ksinternational.me/blog/grocery-wars-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94861 | 333 | 1.53125 | 2 |
17 Aug What happens to your hormones during pregnancy?
Even though I specialize in reporting on how three key reproductive hormones (estrogen, testosterone and progesterone) affect women throughout their menstrual cycle, I get a steady line of requests from readers wanting to know how their hormone levels change when they’re pregnant. I usually give them general information, explaining that their estrogen and progesterone rise steadily.
But, that’s not the whole picture. The truth is, several key hormones involved with pregnancy rise. And now a study in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth provides a detailed graph charting exactly which ones and how high they get.
The study’s goal was to get a better understanding of how exposure to certain levels of hormones during pregnancy can impact the mother or child’s health immediately or in the future and to determine if hormone concentrations in the first two trimesters of pregnancy could predict hormone levels in the third.
To get this information, they examined blood samples of 71 women with healthy pregnancies through each trimester (weeks 10-12, weeks 20-22, weeks 35-37). They included women who were having their first child (primaparous) and second child (multiparous) and those who had two consecutive pregnancies to determine if there were any differences.
They charted what they found in the graph, which you can see here.
Here’s what they measured:
Estradiol: One of the three estrogens (estrodiol, estrone and estriol) produced in your body, this is the estrogen whose level rises and falls during your menstrual cycle and has the strongest impact on your moods, health and behavior during your cycling years. When I refer to “estrogen” in my Hormone Horoscopes and Hormonology Tips, I’m specifically referring to estradiol. After menopause, the level of this hormone drops significantly and stays low and steady. This estrogen is produced primarily in the ovaries and to a lesser extent by the adrenal glands and body fat.
Estrone: A weaker form of estrogen, it’s produced by the ovaries, placenta and body fat and is the predominant estrogen produced after menopause.
Progesterone: A hormone produced by the corpus luteum (what’s left over of the follicle after ovulation), it helps thicken the uterine wall.
Testosterone: Produced in small amounts in women compared to men, this hormone helps rev your sex drive and plays a role in helping maintain a pregnancy and develop male sex organs in a boy.
Prolactin: Produced in the pituitary gland (a small pea-sized protrusion in the base of your brain), this hormone enables you to make breast milk.
OPG and sRANKL: These two proteins–osteoprotegerin (OPG) and soluble receptor activator of nuclear factor kappaB ligand (sRANKL)–are involved in the regulation of bone resorption and bone mass and may play a role in birth length and birth weight.
As you can see in the chart above, the estrogens, progesterone, testosterone and prolactin rise throughout pregnancy–with the estrogens and prolactin having a steeper increase until week 22, then climbing more slowly. The proteins remain relatively stable in women with their first pregnancy and dip slightly in women with multiple pregnancies.
According to the researchers, during the first 9 weeks of pregnancy, estradiol, estrone and progesterone are churned out by the corpus luteum and to a lesser extent the ovary and adrenal gland. After that time, the placenta takes over and becomes the main source of these hormones.
Women who are pregnant with their second baby produce slightly less estradiol compared to their first pregnancy likely because the body metabolizes this hormone more efficiently in subsequent pregnancies. They also produce less progesterone and testosterone.
Curious if your hormone levels can predict the sex of your baby? Though this study found no hormone differences whether the baby was a boy or girl, prior research is conflicting. Some found links, others didn’t so the jury is still out.
I hope this information helps you gain a better understanding of what happens to your hormones during pregnancy.
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Global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas multiple times more potent than CO2, rose by 9% in the decade through 2017, putting Earth on a track to warm by more than 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to an international study scheduled to be released Wednesday.
Atmospheric levels of the gas—emitted by digesting cows, leaky gas pipelines, and natural sources such as wetlands—have increased 2 1/2 times from pre-industrial levels, researcher Marielle Saunois said in a press briefing in Paris. Human activity accounts for about 60% of methane emissions, led by growing herds of livestock and emissions linked to oil and gas production.
Methane’s warming potential over a century is 28 times that of an equivalent mass of CO2, the researchers said. The current path of methane emissions lies between the two warmest scenarios used in projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, implying large cuts are needed to meet Paris Agreement targets. Warming by 3 degrees would be double the rate scientists have identified as needed to constrain the worst impacts of climate change.
“We’re on track for a scenario that is rather hot, and above 3 to 4 degrees,” Ms. Saunois said in her presentation of the study. “Emissions are rising, particularly in tropical zones.”
After stabilizing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, methane emissions have been rising since 2007, accelerating since 2014, according to the study. Average annual emissions of methane rose to an estimated 596 million tons in the period through 2017, from 546 million tons in the 2000–2006 period.
23% OF WARMING
The study, the work of more than 90 researchers as part of the Global Carbon Project, was published in the journal Earth Systems Science Data. A related paper on methane sources published in Environmental Research Letters found agriculture and fossil fuels were the main drivers behind increased emissions.
Methane—chemical formula CH4—is responsible for about 23% of all warming produced by greenhouse gases so far, the researchers said. Its lifetime in the atmosphere of around 9 years makes the gas a good target for climate change mitigation. Stabilizing or reducing emissions would have an impact on global warming within a few decades, they said.
Tropical regions were the source of 64% of global methane emissions, while northern high latitudes contributed 4%. The study didn’t find a significant effect from melting permafrost, though Ms. Saunois said “if the permafrost melts strongly, the emissions will increase.”
Agriculture and waste represented 56% of anthropogenic methane emissions, mainly linked to growing numbers of ruminant livestock that burp it up as they digest, the study found.
Contributions from Asia and Africa increased as livestock herds expanded there, Ms. Saunois said. Europe was the only region to lower methane emissions over the period, helped by a drop in dairy cattle numbers and changes in how farms store and treat manure.
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Diving home prices, out of control mortgage expenses, credit card debt, job loss and health problems are among the reasons why millions of American consumers have found themselves in a financial pickle. Some consumers made poor choices leading to their present dire straits while others encountered external forces which have rendered themselves vulnerable.
Filing for personal bankruptcy should be a decision of the last resort, something you do only after you exhausted all of your other options. Those options include negotiating with your creditors, completing debt counseling and restructuring your debt. Still, after doing what you can on your part, you may have no choice: file for bankruptcy and reap the consequences of having your credit trashed.
Personal bankruptcy will stay on your credit record for ten years. You may be able to buy another home, a car or receive other credit well before that time, but there is a certain stigma associated with bankruptcy you need to be aware of.
In 2005, the US Bankruptcy Code was as per the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, an amendment to the code credited with tightening bankruptcy filing rules. Prior to that time it was easier for consumers to file for personal bankruptcy and walk away from their debt. The act requires consumers to receive counseling and take other measures before a judge rules on their case.
Of utmost importance is having legal representation as you work on your bankruptcy filing. Your attorney should be well versed in bankruptcy law, have handled many cases in the past (get references) and is able to answer your questions and outline a course of action for you. The National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys at nacba.org is one place to visit to search for personal bankruptcy attorneys in your area.
When meeting with your attorney, you’ll discuss two options: Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which liquidates your assets or Chapter 13, which is a repayment plan. Your attorney will help you with a means test which will determine if you can go the Chapter 7 route or whether you’ll have to file under Chapter 13.
Find out from your attorney how much he charges for his service. Some will want a flat fee while others may charge by the hour or based on your outstanding debt. Your attorney will advise you on how to handle creditors and when you’ll meet with them per bankruptcy code requirements and discuss every step to be taken including when your debts are discharged.
Keep in mind that not all debts are removed when filing bankruptcy including certain tax payments and student loan debt.
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As an American stationed in Germany you are conveniently located to visit different countries. Just west of Kaiserslautern lies the charming city of Metz, France. A short drive away you can get a glimpse into another culture, experience authentic French cuisine, be amazed by antique buildings, discover contemporary art, shop at one of the many French designer boutiques, catch a musical or play at one of the oldest opera theaters in Europe and more.
Metz at a Glance
Metz is situated near the tripoint along the borders of France, Germany and Luxembourg and on the banks of the Moselle and the Seille Rivers. This friendly city is a cultural, commercial and transportation center of Lorraine and it is one of eight cities in which the French government has targets for special planning and development. Metz dates back 3000 years and has many Roman ruins including an aqueduct, thermal baths and part of an amphitheater as well as many things preserved from the medieval period. Metz has been submitted on the France’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List due to its historical, cultural and architectural background.
Things to See
The Saint-Etienne Cathédral (Saint-Stephen Cathedral of Metz) is a magnificent Gothic cathedral that was built between 1220 and 1552. It is the most visited religious structure in Lorraine and the most luminous cathedral of France. Nicknamed God’s lantern, Saint-Etienne has the largest expanse (70,000 sq feet) of stained glass windows in the world. The windows are the works from master Gothic and Renaissance glass makers of the 13th to the 20th centuries. Three of the windows were made by the 20th century Russian Jewish painter Marc Chagall. Additionally, on exhibit at the cathedral is the collection of the Bishopric of Metz collection, artifacts of the Holy Roman Empire.
A branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, the Centre Pompidou-Metz is a modern and contemporary arts museum that was designed by the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and opened in 2010. Inspired by the shape of a Chinese hat, the building is marveled for its unique and complex roof structure.
The museum exhibits semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions from the collection of the French National Museum of Modern Art. Past works that were exhibited at the museum include Picasso, Miro and Calder. Live performances, films and talks also makeup the temporary exhibition. Additionally, at the museum are ongoing art workshops for kids and teens.
The Porte des Allemands (the Gate of the Germans) is a small, fortified castle which served both as a double door and a bridge over the river Seille. The castle gets its name from brothers Notre Dame des Allemands, who founded hospitals nearby. It was built around 1230 and has been a place of dispute for centuries between the French and German control.
Opéra-Théatre de Metz Métropole (Opera House) is one the oldest opera house in Europe. The 18th century theater (with 750 seating) features plays, dance and lyric poetry. Though the theater is quite grandeur and elegant, there is no strict dress code.
France is known around the world for its exquisite food and “to die for” pastries. The Covered Market (a large covered structure) should not to be missed when in Metz. At the historic market are permanent stalls and shops with local food producers and retailers. The building intended to be the palace for a bishop when construction began in 1785. However that plan was interrupted by the French Revolution, in which it became the Covered Market in 1833. Adjacent to the Covered Market is the Chamber’s Square (Place de la Chambre), a place where numerous of great restaurants and wine bars are located.
A few of the Metz local dishes are quiche, potée (a soup or stew), the Lorraine pâté (a mixture of cooked ground meat), and suckling pig (a piglet fed on its mother’s milk). Local pastries include Metz balls, the Metz cheese pie and a ganache-stuffed biscuit covered with marzipan, caramel and dark chocolate. The regional wine is the Moselle wine, which is seldom seen in the export market.
Metz hosts the second most popular Christmas Market in France during the months of November and December. Other events that bring visitors to the city are the popular Mirabelle Festival with open markets, live music, art exhibits, parades, fireworks and more; a literature festival; Montgolfiades hot air balloon festival and more.
How to Get There
This beautiful city will charm you with its culture, cuisine, history, art, shopping and so much more. Take advantage of your time abroad and proximity and discover the French city of Metz.
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Powered-up park patrol
Fargo Parks and Fargo Police are enjoying the benefits of an electric patrol motorcycle, supported in part by Cass County Electric Cooperative.
When Josh Marvig started his position as a dual patrol officer for Fargo Police and Fargo Parks in 2018, he knew he had a great gig to bridge any gaps to the community. When he helped integrate a new pair of kilowatt-powered wheels into the fleet, his love of the position amped up.
“With my own background of liking to ride motorcycles, the fact that I got to spend the entire summer riding a motorcycle around…” Marvig trailed off, beaming beside his ride. “People are super happy to see an officer in the parks. And when they get to see him on a unique vehicle – something that’s quiet, something they’ve never seen before – it’s definitely a conversation starter.”
Officer Marvig is breaking down barriers with his new, all-electric police motorcycle. The bike hit the parks this spring with help of several community partners, including Cass County Electric Cooperative (CCEC). By mid-September, Marvig had already racked up more than 2,200 miles on the motorcycle, covering more than 100 parks, 130-plus miles of trails and 2,300 acres of land that aren’t as easily accessible with a squad car.
“It’s done everything we expected and then some,” he said.
Other than police lights and decal graphics, the off-road-capable electric motorcycle looks like a normal motorcycle, but lacks the jolting roar of a gas-powered vehicle.
“It’s quiet and perfect for the parks – whether you look at that from a law enforcement standpoint, that people literally do not hear me coming, or for just blending in,” Marvig explained. “You’re taking that exhaust noise and those smells out of the parks, especially down trails and at events.”
As for range, the bike’s 160-mile battery has no problem covering a full patrol day. Marvig has never had to recharge mid-shift and simply plugs in at night to wake up to a full charge.
The savings are also adding up. In the month of August, the electric motorcycle cost only $1.60 in electricity to cover 400 patrol miles. For the entire summer, it cost just over $8 to charge and nothing was spent on maintenance (no oil to change). Marvig says most squad cars average only 10 miles per gallon, much of that consumed while the cars idle.
Brian Arett, director of the Fargo Park District Foundation, noted that CCEC was invaluable to securing funding for the motorcycle. The cooperative not only provided $6,000 in Operation Round Up grants and corporate funds, but also helped with a grant submission to the North Dakota Department of Commerce, which provided an additional $10,000 for the $20,600 fully loaded police bike.
“Cass County Electric’s enthusiastic support of this project underscores their incredible involvement in the communities they serve,” Arret said. “We are so fortunate for the role they played in making this project happen and very appreciative of their efforts.”
Commitment to community is a core electric cooperative value. Paul Matthys, CCEC vice president of Member & Energy Services, said that helping add an electric vehicle (EV) to the police fleet was a way to show that principle in action while spreading EV awareness.
“Cass County Electric is a pioneer in new technology, and we are the trusted energy advisors for our members and communities,” Matthys said. “The partnership with the Fargo Police Department is an excellent example of this, and we plan to use the technical data and statistics to educate members on EV technology.”
Officer Marvig knows his bike can’t do everything the police department needs, like transporting someone to jail or running license plates. However, he still thinks it’s just the start of electrification to come.
“I think there is a future there,” Marvig said. “And working with Cass County Electric with this project, I think it is cool that we can show that this is a completely electric vehicle – and a unique one.”
About the bike
Model: Zero DSR
Range: 163 miles (city)
Battery size: 14.4 kWh
Charge source: 120-volt outlet
Charge time: 10 hours
Recharge cost: $1.60
Max top speed: 100 mph
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56,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured in Japan, were handed over to the Ministry of Health in Kiribati on 21 August to strengthen Kiribati’s vaccination rollout.
“These vaccines will certainly go a long way in protecting our people from the potential risks of COVID-19, particularly the most vulnerable. I acknowledge that this vaccine donation will contribute to the immunity that we are beginning to attain from COVID-19. As a global health issue, I am pleased to note the strong interest of our partners in providing safe and effective vaccines for our people, which is warmly received and appreciated by the Government and people of Kiribati,” said the Minister of Line and Phoenix Island Development in Kiribati, Hon. Mikarite Temari.
“Based on Japan’s close friendship with Kiribati over the years, as well as on its commitment to enhance Kiribati’s resilience against COVID-19, Japan has decided to provide vaccines manufactured in Japan to Kiribati. I’m confident that this assistance will further strengthen the friendship between the government and people of Kiribati and Japan,” said the Ambassador of Japan to Kiribati, H.E. KAWAKAMI Fumihiro.
In addition to these vaccines, which will be a new milestone of Japan’s support to Kiribati, Japan has also supported the Pacific Island country through its Official Development Assistance including the bilateral grant worth AUD3.4 million for the procurement of medical equipment last year. Additionally, Japan has extended its support through international organisations such as UNICEF.
Japan highly commends the leadership of the Kiribati Government which has enabled effective COVID-19 prevention measures. In addition, this assistance will support Kiribati in its response against COVID-19 as well as in making headway towards its wider economic recovery.
“We thank the Government of Japan for this generous support, which will provide access to COVID-19 vaccines and protect communities in Kiribati,” said UNICEF Pacific Representative, (a.i.), Vathinee Jitjaturunt. “UNICEF is proud to deliver these vaccines through the COVAX Facility into one of the most remote countries in the world and will continue to support the Government of Kiribati to keep children, families and communities safe during this global pandemic.”
"These vaccines, generously provided by the Government of Japan through the COVAX mechanism, will provide a critical boost to the Government to Kiribati's vaccine rollout, allowing greater population access, including across many of the outer islands,” said WHO Country Liaison Officer for Kiribati, Dr. Wendy Snowdon.
As the co-host of the COVAX Vaccine Summit on 2 June 2021, Japan announced that it will contribute an additional USD800 million to COVAX, on top of the USD200 million already contributed. Japan also announced that they will supply vaccines manufactured in Japan to other countries and regions. At the PALM9 held on 2 July 2021, Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. SUGA Yoshihide, announced that Japan intends to provide a total of approximately three million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Pacific Island Forum countries.
The COVID-19 vaccines were received by the Government of Kiribati from the Government of Japan through the COVAX Facility – a partnership co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO), with UNICEF as the key delivery partner.
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By Will Dwinnell
By Will Dwinnell
As is in any discipline, talent within data mining community varies greatly. Generally, business people and others who hire and manage technical specialists like data miners are not themselves technical experts. This makes it difficult to evaluate the performance of data miners, so this posting is a short list of possible deficiencies in a data miner’s performance. Hopefully, this will spare some heartache in the coming year. Merry Christmas!
1. The data miner has little or no programming skill.
Most work environments require someone to extract and prepare the data. The more of this process which the data miner can accomplish, the less her dependence on others. Even in ideal situations with prepared analytical data tables, the data miner who can program can wring more from the data than her counterpart who cannot (think: data transformations, re-coding, etc.). Likewise, when her predictive model is to be deployed in a production system, it helps if the data miner can provide code as near to finished as possible.
2. The data miner is unable to communicate effectively with non-data miners.
Life is not all statistics: Data mining results must be communicated to colleagues with little or no background in math. If other people do not understand the analysis, they will not appreciate its significance and are unlikely to act on it. The data miner who can express himself clearly to a variety of audiences (internal customers, management, regulators, the press, etc.) is of greater value to the organization than his counterpart who cannot. The data miner should should receive questions eagerly.
3. The data miner never does anything new.
If the data miner always approaches new problems with the same solution, something is wrong. She should be, at least occasionally, suggesting new techniques or ways of looking at problems. This does not require that new ideas be fancy: Much useful work can be done with basic summary statistics. It is the way they are applied that matters.
4. The data miner cannot explain what they’ve done.
Data mining is a subtle craft: there are many pitfalls and important aspects of statistics and probability are counter-intuitive. Nonetheless, the data miner who cannot provide at least a glimpse into the specifics of what they’ve done and why, is not doing all he might for the organization. Managers want to understand why so many observations are needed for analysis (after all, they pay for those observations), and the data miner should be able to provide some justification for his decisions.
5. The data miner does not establish the practical benefit of his work.
A data miner who cannot connect the numbers to reality is working in a vacuum and is not helping her manager (team, company, etc.) to assess or utilize her work product. Likewise, there’s a good chance that she is pursuing technical targets rather than practical ones. Improving p-values, accuracy, AUC, etc. may or may not improve profit (retention, market share, etc.).
6. The data miner never challenges you.
The data miner has a unique view of the organization and its environment. The data miner works on a landscape of data which few of his coworkers ever see, and he is less likely to be blinded by industry prejudices. It is improbable that he will agree with his colleagues 100% of the time. If the data miner never challenges assumptions (business practices, conclusions, etc.), then something is wrong. | <urn:uuid:0c2f2f7e-7468-4590-99bf-dae02438f3db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartdatacollective.com/6-reasons-you-hired-wrong-data-miner/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951301 | 703 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Prior to the Education Act of 1870, education in rural areas was a very hit and miss affair, and school records, particularly in the case of Oxhill, are almost non-existent. Local report (unverified) says that the house now known as Croftdown and situated immediately opposite to the Church was once a school, and the architectural appearance would seem to lend credence to this. Kelly's Directory for 1850 lists William
Groves as school master, and again unverified local report says that he lived in this particular house, so it would seem to be not unreasonable to accept local report in this instance.
Another belief, firmly held to locally, is that the house now known as Payn's House was also a school, and one of the outbuildings of this house has been known to its various owners through several decades as “the schoolroom”. One of the Shirley family, Selina, who became Lady Huntingdon, was a great pioneer in the field of education, and is believed to have had an interest in a small school at Oxhill where her family had held land for many centuries. Diligent search has revealed no detailed information on this matter, merely a passing mention. The Lady herself never resided here, but spent the larger part of her life at Bath. However, in view of her family connections with the parish, it is not unreasonable to assume that she took a charitable interest in a school here, and that it was probably at Payn's House.
(Note- As a result of viewing this site a descendant of a pupil who is known to have spent some time at school in Oxhill has recently been in touch with the Village Historian providing details of a letter sent to Richard Edmunds at Oxhill. He was sent to the school with his elder brother Frederick in 1833.
The Board School in Oxhill (now the Village Hall) was opened in January, 1876, and cost £375 to build. The first Board was comprised of five well-to-do farmers and landowners, a Clerk to the Board, and the Rector who held this seat by reason of his office. There were thirty-three pupils from this small parish, but by the end of the year, the number had increased to seventy-six. The school log books are at present at the County Record Office, and give an interesting picture of Victorian and Edwardian school life so far removed from our present day standards.
One of our first teachers was a Mary Jane Clifford who had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. Reading between the lines, Mary Jane did not appear to be too happy. She writes that the children were dull and backward, but at that time she herself must have been very young. The children too had a very hard life, often having insufficient to eat, living in extremely overcrowded conditions, and very probably having to do an hour or two crow-scaring in the frosty dawn before coming to school on a sparse breakfast of bread and tea kettle broth.
She writes of children staying away from school to see the hounds meet, and the fact that on several occasions she was forced to visit the parents and remonstrate. She also had to send children home for coming to school “uncleanly” dressed. She faithfully records punishments for swearing, for telling an untruth, and for obstinacy.
There are reports of floods in the village which prevented children attending school, and on several occasions the schoolroom floor was several inches deep in water, necessitating temporary closure of the school. At least twice a week, Mary Jane gave the children lessons in morals. Honesty, truthfulness and obedience figure largely in these, and especially obedience to those in authority over them.
The School Inspector was a frequent and rather to be feared visitor. The children learned special songs for his visits, to which he would dutifully sit and listen, with how much pleasure is not recorded. The songs included "Home Sweet Home", "The Ploughboy", "The Farmyard", "Lightly Row", "The Father's Return", and similar ballads of the time. By the end of the year, the log books record that the Inspector was gratified by the good progress made.
The Rector at this time was the Rev. V. H. Macy, and he and his wife were frequent visitors to the school. He put the children through their catechism, and she inspected the girls' sewing. They also took along with them any visitors who happened to be staying with them at the time, which conjures up a mental picture of gracious ladies elegantly inspecting hemstitched handkerchiefs, and patting small aproned girls on the head.
Four of the older girls were appointed as Monitors at the rate of 1/- per week, to take it in turns to help out with the younger ones. This would seem to have been very necessary indeed if one school mistress had to cope with seventy-six children of varying ages all at once.
The log books continue until just after the war when the school was permanently closed. The school in the next village of Tysoe has been enlarged, and children from several surrounding parishes are now transported there by the school bus. The Education Committee made over the school by a Deed of Trust for use as a Village Hall. | <urn:uuid:9c20377f-c888-4586-b88c-d19f1f2deb3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oxhillcommunity.co.uk/Contents/ContentItems/4whnf56cqfejpw77d8qccyqpmt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.991709 | 1,091 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Act 1. Shadow Inc.
In our double episode on Election Hacking, we focused on Georgia – and in particular, Brian Kemp–the Republican Secretary of State. But mismanagement of elections is not something unique to the republican party, and the following story will demonstrate.
America isn’t the world’s biggest democracy, or its best-functioning democracy. But when we think of democracy in the world, we all look to the USA. Which is strange, because sometimes America’s elections system makes absolutely no sense. Like how, every four years, candidates battling for their party’s nomination flock to the state of Iowa to make speeches, eat corndogs and schmooze with voters.
For over half a century, America’s primary elections–the races that determine who gets to run for president on behalf of the party–have begun in this most unremarkable of states. There’s nothing wrong with Iowa, of course, but it’s a small state, which means it doesn’t hold much sway in the electoral college. And its population is overwhelmingly white, so you can’t really tell whether a candidate’s popularity in Iowa will reflect their popularity in more diverse states, like North Carolina or Arizona.
And yet, every four years, Iowa becomes the single most important story in politics. Simply by virtue of being first, it holds immense sway. Whoever wins Iowa is considered the frontrunner for their party’s nomination, earning positive media coverage, more fundraising, and momentum they can ride into the next few states. And it’s not just speculation–from Bill Clinton in 1996, through Hillary Clinton in 2016, every single Democrat to win the state of Iowa ended up as their party’s presidential nominee.
So there were a lot of high expectations for this year’s Iowa caucuses. Millions upon millions of dollars poured into the state, as candidates campaigned to sway voters one by one. With two dozen candidates in the running, every point mattered.
“[Maggie] So the issue with the Iowa caucus is they were introducing new technology into the mix.”
That’s Maggie MacAlpine, whom you may remember from our episode on Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race.
“[Maggie] and by they, I mean the Democratic Party.”
The Democrats’ problem in Iowa began in 2016. After Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders in the state, Sanders supporters cried foul, pointing to instances of possible mismanagement and fraud, like when a delegate for Sanders in the Grinnell Ward 1 precinct was quietly, inexplicably transferred to Clinton. Whether justified or not–we don’t have time to analyze the claims here–the confusion and lack of transparency meant that, by 2020, the system needed a change. The party needed a better, more transparent system for tracking and counting votes in Iowa.
One small company stepped in to help. They called themselves “Shadow Inc.”
Let’s address the obvious here. Shadow Inc.?! Are you freaking kidding me? Whoever hired Shadow Inc. to build a more transparent voting process in Iowa is the same kind of person who’d hire the Zodiac Killer to install their home security.
Perhaps what sold the Democrat party on Shadow was their unbelievably cheap price. The company designed an app for precincts to report vote tallies, taking only two months to build the entire thing, at a cost of only $60,000. Two months, $60,000. Even for a little iPhone game that’d be pretty good value on the dollar, but for a comprehensive voting system, that’s crazy little.
Shadow’s app was introduced to precincts just a few weeks before Iowans were set to vote, meaning volunteers didn’t have much time to learn the system. More importantly, there was no time to test it. Election day would be the first time anybody used the Shadow app. They could only hope that it, you know, worked.
Of course, it did not.
“[Maggie] it was basically a disaster. They were still updating the app up to the day before the caucus in test flight. They had no real app to download. They had – they only had the beta version.”
Just about everything that could have gone wrong, did. Many poll workers couldn’t sign into the app, and many others were unable to communicate with party headquarters–to, for example, report vote counts.
“[Maggie] They had not considered the fact that there were caucus locations in Iowa that didn’t have internet access or cell phone reception.”
A few poll workers were able to send some, incomplete data to party headquarters. But the database where the votes were collated required two-factor authentication, and employees at party headquarters weren’t allowed to have their phones with them.
After it became clear that the system was broken, precincts were asked to call in their vote counts to a centralized phone line. But…
“[Maggie] they released a phone number to – for people to call in the results instead of transferring them with the app and that phone number got leaked and then DDoSed, basically. “
For the first time in the history of Iowa’s caucuses, nobody knew who the heck had won. The two frontrunners–Pete Buttigieg, and Bernie Sanders himself–were in a tight battle, and nobody in the state had the data to figure out what the actual vote count was.
“[Maggie] now luckily, because election security experts and other people who have experienced administering elections raised flags about this app very early on, the catastrophe wasn’t as bad as it could have been and there were plentiful paper backups. [. . .] Basically if not for those paper copies, those paper backups, it would have been an even bigger disaster than it was.”
For days, the nation waited to find out the winner in Iowa. But the damage was already done.
The whole purpose of Iowa is momentum. Iowa is a story we tell ourselves, and repeat in the media every four years: that somehow whoever wins this little state will end up winning the nomination. It’s an excuse for the winning candidate to generate positive media coverage, earn more fundraising and convince voters in other states that they’re in the lead. But if no winner is announced? All of that goes away.
After nearly a month, the final results were confirmed. It didn’t even matter at that point, as the story had long since passed. Neither Pete nor Bernie were in as strong a position as they could have been, and for the first time since 1992, the winner of Iowa did not receive the party’s presidential nomination.
In the aftermath of election night, the public learned who was behind Shadow Inc. Its employees, it turned out, were mostly former staffers of Hillary Clinton–Bernie’s primary opponent in 2016. Its founder, a woman named Tara McGowan, was the wife of a senior strategist for Pete Buttigieg–Bernie’s primary opponent in 2020.
There’s a lesson here. In our episodes on election hacking last month, we were pretty hard on Brian Kemp–the Republican Secretary of State who oversaw his own, potentially compromised election in Georgia. Some of you may have interpreted our story as being politically motivated. Others may have felt vindicated, that a guy like Kemp belonged to the other party, not yours.
But make no mistake, listeners: corruption, and bad technology, cross party lines. In this age of political strife, maybe we can all come together in knowing that both teams are rigging the game, and doing it poorly.
Act 2. J and K.
On November 22nd, 1987, a hacker took over the signals of two Chicago-area TV stations and broadcast two rather bizarre and somewhat vulgar messages. This is the story of a man who thought he knew who this hacker was.
When the Max Headroom hacker hijacked two Chicago television stations on a single night in 1987, they aired a video message in which they were wearing a mask, and the background of their shot was covered up by plates of corrugated metal. So when the FCC opened an investigation to try and uncover the hacker’s identity, there was precious little evidence to go on. The only personally-identifying trait they could point to was the man’s lily-white butt, which he’d aired on national television while being spanked by a fly swatter.
The best lead the FCC had to go on was a tip about a warehouse in north Chicago where the hacker might have shot his video. But without a suspect, or a warrant to search the site, it was useless. The investigation fizzled out, and the Max Headroom hijacker was off the hook.
Two decades later, a programmer from Chicago named Bowie J. Poag went on Reddit to do an AMA. He began his post writing, quote:
“I believe I know who was behind the “Max Headroom Incident”
Bowie knew he would be met with skepticism, so he told his story from the beginning. The following passages are taken from his much longer post. Quote:
“When I was in my early teens, a number of my friends were into the local phreaking/hacking scene. (This was suburban Chicago, from about 1985 until 1993 or so.) [. . .] I spent countless hours/nights over the ensuing years hanging out with them on local BBS’es and dial-up chat systems, and the occasional in-person get together. Most of them were just casual acquaintances. In most cases, I only knew them by their handle, but a few I knew by name. Two of the people I knew were brothers. [. . .]
one of the two brothers, who we’ll call “J”, the one who I believe was behind it. Secondly, the person who I believe did it, J, has moderate to severe autism, and, at least at the time, was being cared for by his brother, who we’ll call “K”. [. . .]
K was a quiet guy. Even though he lived in this apartment with his girlfriend, he often took care of his older brother J who still lived at home. The degree of J’s autism was such that I doubt he could ever hold down a job, even a part time job. J, despite having fairly severe autism, and coming off as basically…crazy, was actually kind of funny. His sense of humor was sort of disturbing, sort of sexually deviant in nature. He wasn’t very personable, but he was funny.. The sort of person that you would feel kind of uncomfortable sitting next to as a kid, but he would grow on you after a while, and you would accept him as one of the group after realizing that his mannerisms were odd but basically harmless. No eye contact, ever, but the dirty jokes were funny, at least to me as a 13 year old at the time.”
For Bowie, J’s personality matched up perfectly with the Max Headroom hacker. They had the same graphic, off-putting sense of humor, like how J kept a can of nerve gas in his car–it just seemed like very few people would do that, but the same kind of person who would do that might also hack a T.V. station. They had the same manner of speaking: jumping, inexplicably, from one sentence to something entirely unrelated, then a third thing, without any throughline–a schizophrenic clutter of clashing topics and ideas. It was even in little mannerisms.
“the way he spoke was in line with the type of verbal mannerisms of the guy in the mask. Where most people would say “um” in conversation, J said “Oh” in various lengths. “Oooooh” if he struggled to find something to say. […] We [once] talked about what he did for a hobby. He was very proud of a radio he recently acquired, a police radio that he had hacked to cover practically everything “from whale farts to gamma rays.”, he said [. . .] J knew a great deal about not just the broadcast spectrum, but the electronics that underpinned that sort of stuff. By definition, J was a broadcast hacker. “
Bowie used many more instances of circumstantial evidence to connect J to the hacker, most of which we don’t have time for here. But all the circumstantial evidence in the world wasn’t enough to make a strong case. Rather, it was one particular memory which seemed like the key to everything. Bowie remembered a party he attended at K’s house, on the very night of the Max Headroom hack.
“J was at the party in the apartment that afternoon. I didn’t talk with him directly [. . .] but I did overhear what the others were talking about. They were referring to J planning to do something “big” over the weekend. I remember that word, “big”, because it piqued my curiosity as to what might be considered “big” by their standards. I later asked them collectively during the dinner we all had at Pizza Hut later that night what they were talking about earlier, what “big” was, and someone (probably K) told me to “Just watch Channel 11 later tonight.” …As sort of an offhanded suggestion. I did happen to be watching Channel 11 later that night, having forgotten about the whole “big” conversation earlier that day.”
If Bowie were telling the truth, this would be strong evidence that J was, in fact, the hacker. But if Bowie basically knew who the Max Headroom hacker was, all the way back in 1987, why didn’t he do or say anything until 2011? In an interview with Vice Motherboard, he recalled, quote:
“The fact that one of them told me to watch Channel 11 later that night was about as weighty as a remark as a dozen other things I heard that day from them. [. . .] I know it sounds strange, but, I honestly didn’t put two and two together at the time.”
Should we believe Bowie? Some of you have probably already made up your minds.
One person who didn’t believe Bowie was Rick Klein. As the Curator of the Museum of Classic Chicago Television, Klein was well-educated on the matter. He didn’t buy the J story, quote, “for a variety of reasons.” End quote. But the renewed interest in the case–the simple fact that people were talking about it again–seemed worth building on. As Bowie recalled in a follow-up Reddit post, quote:
“After the publication of the Motherboard/Vice Magazine article which talked about the incident, Rick Klein [. . .] and I agreed to stay in touch with each other; We’ve become friends in the process, too, which is kinda cool.. But anyway, in the meantime, I occasionally revisited the idea of examining the video/audio end of things in more detail, while Rick continued to interview folks connected with the local radio/television broadcast industry in Chicago at that time. My own efforts were met with some limited success, but Rick’s efforts have turned out to be vital.
Several weeks ago, Rick and I had the luxury of meeting and speaking with several engineers and technicians who were actively working for WBBM, WTTW, WGN, and other companies in the Chicago broadcasting community at the time. They yielded a wealth of very detailed information, including specifics about what kind of locations, gear, physical access, and more importantly, what sort of station-specific knowledge would have been necessary in order to pull off the intrusions themselves. This was the kind of heavy engineering-perspective knowledge that we had only bits and pieces to work with before, and had been trying to obtain for some time, with great difficulty.”
Bowie and Rick were no closer to any specific identity for the hacker, but they now had enough information to determine the exact profile of who the hacker could’ve been. Quote:
“After the last round of interviews [. . .] and having looked at the resulting evidence pile in total, Rick and I have concluded that the possibility of this having been an “outside job” is basically zero; To make a long story short, all the things which needed to have been possessed by an outside amateur or amateurs, no matter how talented, simply did not exist in the wild in 1987. This, and other information we were never able to corroborate, is what allows us to free J and K as suspects with full confidence. [. . .] J and K have been excluded as suspects in the Max Headroom incident. My original theory was incorrect.”
If J and K are off the hook – who, then, is the new suspect? Bowie says he has someone in mind – but he’s unwilling to disclose his or her name, nor provide any details on the findings of his and Rick’s investigation, and what exactly makes them think that it couldn’t have been an outside job. Bowie says that, quote:
“Fame and notoriety isn’t always positive, for one. Second to that, going public would potentially jeopardize any number of things. Suppose “Max” is now retired with pension benefits, or is still actively employed. Going public would risk both. Even though the statute of limitations has expired, the FCC would almost certainly strip such an individual of any right to participate in broadcasting.”
It kind of makes you think about the nature of the legacy these sort of hacks leave behind them. If we knew who was behind the Max Headroom hack- how would this knowledge affect our perception of their act? After all, most of us have some sort of a ‘mental image’ of the hacker – whether we see him as a Hero or as a Villain – and that image is largely based on our own ideals and values. How would this mental image change, if we learned who Max really is? For example, what if J was indeed the hacker. Would knowing that he was probably autistic – change your attitude towards his act?
Indeed, this legacy is one of the reasons Bowie gave for not disclosing more information from his investigation. Quote:
“There are a number of reasons for this, but the biggest one would probably be the hacker community itself..a large chunk of which views Max sympathetically, as something like a patron saint of old-school skill and anonymity. I know more than a few people who were actually inspired by the incident, and would be fairly pissed off if someone tried to tarnish that achievement. Just on balls alone, it’s a pretty strong contender for the greatest hack of all time. Messing with that legacy would be playing with fire.”
Food for thought, no doubt. In any case, yet again, twenty years after he did it the first time, the Max Headroom hacker had slipped through our fingers. But now we know one thing for certain–something that brings us a step closer to, maybe, one day, solving the mystery. It was an inside job. Quote:
“Rick is continuing to work the theory he has maintained all along, the angle that “Max” had ties to the local Chicago broadcast community. For my part, this pretty much marks the end of my direct involvement in the case.. I’m actually kind of happy about it, in a way, because at least it frees up the focus of the investigation to move where it appears it should. For what it’s worth, we recently obtained a photo of J. He seems like a happy, normal, well-rounded adult with a family…a far cry from the off-the-wall character I recall him being 27 years ago, when I was a newly-minted, nervous 13 year old at a party.”
Act 3. T-Shirt-Gate.
In our double episode titled ‘Yahoo’s Ugly Death’, we told the story of the two major data breaches that hit the company. We also discussed the mismanagement of everything related to cybersecurity in Yahoo. The following story will illustrate once again just how bad was this mismanagement.
In only her first year as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer had to deal with two major cyber incidents. The first didn’t even happen under her watch–four days before she took the job, around 450 million Yahoo accounts had been published to the dark web. Then, in January 2013, a phishing campaign began exploiting publicly-known vulnerabilities in Yahoo’s infrastructure in order to hijack user accounts.
Having that kind of year leaves a mark on a company. It forces you to respond: to rethink how you do security, and what you need to completely change in your approach.
Yahoo’s response to those incidents would be tested in the Fall. That’s when High-Tech Bridge, a small security firm, decided to do some experimenting. They went looking for security holes in popular websites, to see how quickly they could find them and how the companies in question would respond.
On September 18th, 2013 they tested Yahoo. They began to pour over Yahoo’s systems, scouring their defenses for any little crack. It was long, tireless work but, after much toil, they found something: a XSS vulnerability in Yahoo’s marketing solutions domain.
Also, I was just kidding. It wasn’t long, nor tireless work. The researchers found their zero-day in only 45 minutes.
High-Tech Bridge notified Yahoo of their discovery. Yahoo replied the following day. Quote: “Unfortunately this submission does not qualify for a reward because it has already been reported by another individual. Please continue to send in any other vulnerabilities that you may discover in the future.” End quote.
It was odd–Yahoo didn’t present any actual evidence that somebody had already found the bug. And if it really had been reported already, why hadn’t it been fixed yet?
The researchers didn’t spend too much time dwelling on the issue, maybe because it only cost them 45 minutes’ work. At that rate, maybe, they could try again and find something else.
And they weren’t disappointed. Within just a few days, they found three more XSS zero-days in two other Yahoo domains. It’s worth noting, too: these were not minor security failures. Saying there were three of them makes them seem pretty ordinary, but these were three critical vulnerabilities. If weaponized in a phishing attack, any one of them could allow an attacker to completely take over any Yahoo account.
So this was a major problem. On the 23rd, the research team rushed their findings to Yahoo. 48 hours later, Yahoo responded. They recognized two of the three vulnerabilities as original, “warmly thanking” the researchers and, as a reward, paying them in bounties.
For those of you unfamiliar: software companies put out “bounties” on zero-day vulnerabilities like these, to incentivize researchers and hackers around the world to do extra security for them. It’s a win-win situation–good hackers can earn handsome rewards, and the companies patch up holes which could potentially have cost them much, much more down the road, if the wrong kind of person found them first. Because of the sheer stakes in this game, bounty payments can range from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars. For critical vulnerabilities like the ones in Yahoo’s site, we’re talking about healthy payouts.
So, as a reward for finding these system-breaking bugs, Yahoo gave the researchers their reward: $25.
Actually, let me amend that. It wasn’t $25. It was $25 in Yahoo store credit. Plus a Yahoo t-shirt.
In a blog post, the CEO at High-Tech Bridge highlighted how it was more than just a personal embarrassment to have been compensated so little. Quote:
“Paying several dollars per vulnerability is a bad joke and won’t motivate people to report security vulnerabilities to them, especially when such vulnerabilities can be easily sold on the black market for a much higher price.”
That, ultimately, is the lesson here. When you don’t invest in cybersecurity, you become an easy mark. Hacking Yahoo, in the mid-2010s, became very profitable at a time when defending Yahoo was not.
Amid public pressure, the company agreed to change their policy, paying out industry-standard rates for bounties moving forward. High-Tech Bridge was, retroactively, given appropriate compensation. But a culture of cutting corners and failing to invest in security remained. That’s the reason why, in the years that followed, Yahoo fell victim to two of the biggest data breaches in history. Not because they were unlucky, or because their adversaries were too powerful, but because they just didn’t do much to stop it. | <urn:uuid:1b269c60-9529-4212-aa09-53290bdcb84f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cybereason.com/blog/malicious-life-podcast-100th-episode-special | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977682 | 5,708 | 1.5 | 2 |
Making sushi can be done in several ways, whether rolled in a sheet of nori, stuffed pockets inside out or even spread over vinegared rice. All this makes the sushi a versatile dish that can be eaten at any time during the day. Contrary to popular notion, not sushi refers to raw fish or raw seafood itself. Sushi actually is vinegared rice served together with raw or cooked seafood, and then dipped in a sauce before eating. Eat poke poke is the best place for sushi.
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It is important to note, however, that fish and other seafood that is used in making sushi can either raw or cooked. Although the traditional way that serves sushi involves placing a piece of raw fish on a bed of rice vinegared and then bind it with a band of nori, contemporary way serves the principal Oriental has embraced the use of non-traditional such as cucumber, mayonnaise, and wasabi sauce and even strip mango.
Maki sushi roll of nori, sushi, and the fillings were cut into medium size. Temaki sushi involves forming nori into a cone and stuffed with rice and fillings. Chirashi sushi only scattered sushi with vegetable toppings and spreads sashimi over sushi rice. You can also make sushi without using nori but knew a bag.
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Purpose of Curriculum Instruction
In accord with the college’s stated mission, it is the purpose of curriculum instruction to prepare graduates for employment as skilled and productive members of the workforce and continued academic success in their pursuit of further study.
Goals for Curriculum Education
- To provide an academic advising system that assists all students in setting and achieving appropriate educational goals.
- To require all students to demonstrate an appropriate level of reading, writing, and mathematics skill before taking college-level courses.
- To require all graduates, as appropriate for each degree, diploma, or certificate program, to develop the following:
- Communication Skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking)
- Mathematics Reasoning Skills
- Technological Skills
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Global and Cultural Awareness
- To require all degree graduates, as appropriate to each degree program, to further demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
- Humanities/Fine Arts
- Social Sciences
- To meet or exceed all North Carolina Community College System performance standards for curriculum programs.
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Options for Program Completion
ECC offers a wide variety of college credit curriculum programs. Students enrolled in curriculum courses at ECC can choose one of these options for program completion: the associate degree, the diploma, or the certificate. Classes in many areas are available day, night, on weekends, and through distance education. Admission to the college requires a high school diploma or its equivalent to enter an associate degree or diploma program. Students may need to take placement assessments in math, reading, computers, biology, and English before beginning their studies and may need to take supplemental courses in those subjects if they are required prerequisites and their scores so indicate. Supplemental courses do not count toward the number of course credits required for graduation.
Associate Degree Programs
The college awards four degrees: Associate in Arts, Associate in General Education, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science. The college designed the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees for those students who wish to transfer to a four-year college or university after completing their first two years at ECC. Associate in Applied Science degree programs prepare students for entry-level jobs in paraprofessional fields as technicians; however, students may transfer some credits to selected colleges and universities for further study. Students take general education courses in addition to technical and occupational classes. The Associate in General Education degree program is for the academic enrichment of students who wish to broaden their education, with emphasis on personal interest, growth, and development. Graduates are prepared for advancements within their field of interest and become better qualified for a wide range of employment opportunities. Degree programs require an identified sixty-four to seventy-six (64-76) semester hours of credit in a curriculum program. Each graduate must demonstrate competence in communication skills, mathematical reasoning skills, technological skills, cultural and global awareness, critical thinking, and sustainability skills.
Diploma programs are designed to provide training that will enable graduates to enter a technical occupation at the entry level and to progress rapidly to the skilled or craftsman level. Diploma programs require an identified thirty-six to forty-eight (36-48) semester hours of credit and include courses in communication skills and social sciences. In some curriculum areas, diploma programs are the equivalent of the first three (3) semesters of the associate degree program, and courses earned in completing the diploma count toward the associate degree.
Certificate programs train students for immediate employment, and they can generally complete the coursework in one (1) or two (2) semesters on a full-time or part-time basis. Students who successfully complete an identified twelve to eighteen (12-18) semester hours of credit in a curriculum program receive a certificate. In some curriculum areas, the courses earned in completing the certificate program count toward the diploma or associate degree.
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All Bright Dental Assisting School attained their license from the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools. The schools License is #7404. We offer a comprehensive course in Dental Assisting. The course is 12 weeks, Saturdays only from 8am-5pm. Each Saturday will consist of 4 hours of lecture and 4 hours of hands on training. Every student will have the opportunity to complete 20 hours of internship at the office of Bristow Dental Designs. Each graduate will receive a Certificate of Completion and Letter of Recommendation. For more information about how to start your career in dentistry email us at email@example.com.
The tuition for the Dental Assisting course offered by this Bristow Dental Designs is $3000.00
The above tuition covers all costs for the course.
The course will run twelve (12) consecutive Saturdays, eight classroom hours per week for a total of ninety six (96) classroom hours of instruction. This will include lecture material as well as clinical “hands-on” training. In addition, students will be required to complete twenty (20) hours of on the job training provided in the office at Bristow Dental Designs for a total of 116 total course hours. The students will also be responsible for studying at home for several hours per week.
The tuition fee includes all of the following:
•Permit to practice dental assisting from the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry
•Full mouth x-rays, complete dental exam, and models for the student
•One set of scrubs to be worn during class.
•All training and visual aids, materials and dental supplies used in the clinical training.
•Use of all equipment and instrumentation with actual “hands on” training during the course.
•A certificate of completion in Dental Assisting and a letter of recommendation outlining your training and experience will be awarded to all students who have attained a 70% or above grade average.
• Healthcare Provider CPR & AED Certification
•Training in all phases of General Dentistry including: Endodontics, Crown and Bridge, Cosmetic Bonding, Composite Restorations, Impressions, Oral Surgery, Periodontics, 4-handed dentistry, patient communication and much, much more!
There are no hidden costs or expenses once you get started.
School Enrollment Requirements:
All Bright Dental Assisting School offers Dental Assisting training to anyone 18 years of age or older. No prerequisites, training, or work experience is needed to take this course. No high school diploma or GED is required for enrollment. High School students still in school can enroll in the course once they are 18 years of age or older.
Tuition for the 12 week Dental Assisting Course is $3000. Payment may be made using one of the following arrangements:
Director of the School: Dr. Amanda Hendrickson, DDS
Dr. Hendrickson attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and graduated with honors receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Cell and Molecular Biology. She completed her dental degree from the University of Oklahoma. While at the university, she was elected into the Omicron Kappa Upsilon dental honor society, and received the Quintessence award for academic achievement and graduated with special distinction. Dr. Hendrickson is a member of the Oklahoma Dental Association, American Dental Association, Academy of General Dentistry, and the Tulsa County Dental Society. She has been practicing since 2007.
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More Americans than ever are freelancing. A recent Upwork study showed that 59 million Americans performed freelance work in 2021—36% of the entire U.S. workforce.
According to freelancermap’s 2021 survey, the top three challenges freelancers face are project acquisition, irregular income, and late payments. A retainer contract can remedy all three of these issues for freelancers.
Freelance retainers provide you with financial stability and even help manage your workload more easily. Still, they’re not always the best option for freelancers.
Gauge whether retainers are right for you by learning the basics in this post. And if you decide that freelance retainers are right for you, we’ve got you covered with tips for setting up these agreements.
What is a freelance retainer contract?
A retainer contract is an agreement signed between a freelancer and a client that establishes a steady working arrangement over a specified period. The contract should define the essential terms of your working relationship—how much work they expect you to deliver over a fixed amount of time and how much these services will cost your client.
The amount of work is most commonly defined in hours or deliverables:
- Hours: How many hours a week or month you’re available to work for your client
- Deliverables: The number of specific tasks you have agreed to complete
When you sign a freelance retainer, it’s a written guarantee that you are going to get paid in advance for work you have agreed to deliver. Without a retainer, getting paid as a freelancer usually means having to wait until after you have delivered the work to get paid.
Why use a freelance retainer contract
If you’ve ?become a freelancer, you most likely enjoy the sense of freedom and flexibility that doesn’t come with working as a salaried employee. The biggest sacrifice you’ve made for that independence is the lack of a regular paycheck.
Retainers allow freelancers to reintroduce a bit of financial stability into their working situations, along with a few other benefits.
A stable income
As a freelancer, your income probably fluctuates from week to week or month to month, depending on when you deliver work and when your clients pay you for the work.
Retainer fees provide a bit of relief. They set up a guaranteed amount of income that you know you’ll receive periodically, making it easier to plan and track your finances.
Even though a retainer might not cover all of your living expenses, it can provide some relief from the practice of having to hunt down new clients every month and chase them down to pay you for one-off projects.
A work schedule that’s easier to manage
When working on a retainer, you have a better idea of what your workload will look like day-to-day or month-to-month because you know how much work you must deliver.
When your work obligations are more predictable, it’s easier to schedule other projects around your stable workload.
The longer you work with a client on a retainer, the easier it is to gauge how long work will take to complete—helping you improve your work-life balance.
Ability to build comfortable work relationships
Retainers allow you to build familiarity and comfort by setting up long-term work arrangements.
The more you work with a client, the easier keeping them happy becomes. You get a feel for what they like, so you can deliver work that meets or even exceeds their expectations. As you build their trust, clients will likely give you more of a say in their projects.
What are the potential cons of retainer contracts?
Despite the common benefits of freelance retainers that make them so attractive to independent contractors, there are also potential challenges you should be ready for.
You might make less money for the same amount of work
It’s common for clients to ask for a discount on your rates when negotiating a freelance retainer contract. If this occurs, it’s up to you to decide whether the promise of steady pay and work is worth the pay cut.
Keep in mind that it can be hard to ask for a raise down the line when you’re on retainer. Once clients get used to a recurring fee, they’re often unwilling to renegotiate.
The best way to keep your freelance retainer rates growing is by proving your worth regularly. Use your exceptional work to justify periodic raises and remind clients that you would be difficult to replace.
You could become too dependent on one client
Retainers provide security and stability, but they’re not guaranteed to last forever. The loss of a significant retainer could force you to scramble to fill the financial hole left by that client until you can find more steady work.
Create a safety net by finding as many retainer clients as possible so that each represents a less significant percentage of your regular earnings.
It could be hard to say “no” to extra work
Comfortable client relationships with retainers can also have their downsides. Clients might want to take advantage of this familiarity and ask you to do more work than you have agreed to. And since you’re on good terms with the client and don’t want your relationship to sour, it might be difficult to say “no” to these requests.
Your best defense against this situation is to have the terms of your working relationship ?clearly outlined in your retainer agreement before you start working with the client.
How to price a retainer agreement and set your fee
There isn’t an absolute formula for calculating retainer rates. However, there are certain things you absolutely must consider when pricing your retainer agreement and setting your fees, including:
- A client’s willingness to pay for your services: Gauge the value you offer your clients in order to determine your worth. Why is putting you on a retainer a better option for your client’s needs than using multiple freelancers? Consider the rarity and complexity of your skill set, your knowledge of the client and their service/product, your experience, and your past work portfolio.
- Market freelancer rates: Browse popular freelancer platforms and job boards (Fiverr, FlexJobs) to get an idea of what people with your skill level are charging for services you offer.
- Your expenses: Consider your monthly costs and whether this fee and your other freelancer work will cover these expenses.
For a more detailed dive into how to go about setting your freelance rates when negotiating your retainer, check out this guide by Upwork.
Terms to focus on when creating a retainer contract
To protect yourself and your work properly, be very detailed when putting together your retainer work agreement. Clearly define the most important aspects of the contract so they aren’t left up to interpretation.
The retainer’s duration
Define how long the retainer will be in effect. When setting the retainer period, think about when you might want to try negotiating a higher rate. Don’t sign on for a year if you want to negotiate a raise every six months.
Consider including a notice period that the client must give if they want to cancel the retainer to avoid being blindsided. You can also protect yourself by including a trial period and break clause that allows you to void the agreement if the working relationship is not meeting your expectations.
The definition of work
There are two main ways you can define the scope of your services: pay-for-work or pay-for-access.
- Pay-for-work: You agree to deliverables. For example, you promise to create three blog posts or 30 social media posts per month.
- Pay-for-access: You are being paid for your time instead of the tasks you perform. Define your hourly rate or how many days per month you will be available to work for the client.
The definition of extra work
Be ready for the possibility of being asked to submit additional work outside the scope of your agreement. With these terms in writing, you can either refuse the work or bill your client for the extra work accordingly. For example, you can stipulate that any extra work performed can either be charged to next month’s retainer or billed separately on top of the existing agreement.
Retainers should guarantee that you are getting paid a set amount, on time, for work you are going to perform over a set period. Bill up front for each month and state the day that payments must be made.
To keep your clients on schedule, you can include additional fees for late payments or add a clause in the contract that says that you are not obligated to continue working until the balance hits your account.
Is a retainer agreement right for your business?
Freelance retainers are not for everyone. According to a recent Statista survey, 66% of freelancers say they do it because they want to be their own boss.
If financial stability is what’s most important to you, working on a retainer makes sense. You might want to avoid retainers if you’re more interested in expanding your freelance business’s client base, exposing yourself to different types of work, learning new skills, and diversifying your portfolio.
In the end, it’s all about priorities.
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Volunteers book fun, flexible 30-minute reading sessions twice a week through the Bookmark app. Currently they are providing much needed online reading support to children in schools across the UK, and with it being reported that one in four children had no schooling or tutoring at all during lockdown, there has never been a more crucial time to support children’s literacy and education.
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During the ATN International Education Summit, a panel of speakers that included Melbourne lord mayor Sally Capp, CEO of Australian Hoteliers Association Stephen Ferguson and the Australian Industry Group’s Megan Lilly discussed what they believe to be a lack of understanding and appreciation of the value of international education to the wider Australian economy and community.
“People say ‘well their families should be looking after them’. We are their family”
When combined, the education and tourism sectors are Australia’s largest services export – worth around AUD$66 billion to the economy last year and the two sectors are inextricably linked with one in four students having family or friends visit them while they study in Australia.
In 2019 this resulted in 300,000 visitors spending almost $1bn.
Australia has however announced its first secure corridor pilot program flight since the summit. Around 70 students will travel to the Northern Territory from Singapore in late October.
IEAA CEO Phil Honeywood said the initiative would be “a tonic for our beleaguered sector”.
Hey it’s a start!
Congratulations to everyone involved in this great NT initiative – it’s going to be a tonic for our beleaguered sector! https://t.co/DEwk0bY1uA
— Phil Honeywood (@PhilHoneywood) September 28, 2020
Speaking before the panel discussion on September 21, minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Simon Birmingham said along with the economic benefit, there are significant long term benefits of international education in the building of new relationships between countries and individuals that will help to drive strong people to people, business to business, and government to government links well into the future.
He said the government is committed to working with states and territories to bring students back as soon as possible and working with the sector to rebuild student numbers and position Australia as a world leader for international education.
However, the government and communities need to change their attitude towards international students if it wants to remain competitive, according to the panel.
In the state of Victoria, international students contribute $5 bn to the state’s economy, with its capital Melbourne usually home to more than 80,000 international students.
Capp said despite these numbers and the fact that international students are important to virtually every aspect of the community, their contribution both economic and cultural have largely been undervalued, something that’s been highlighted by their treatment during the pandemic.
“They’ve slipped through cracks because they’re not eligible for financial support,” she said.
“Unfortunately, people say ‘well their families should be looking after them’. We are their family. We should be looking after them. Not just during a crisis but all the time. We need to recognise their status, their importance to us and make sure they are recognised accordingly”.
Her sentiments were echoed by Stephen Ferguson who’s association represents over 5,000 hotels that employ a significant number of international students, as well as enjoying the benefits from the tourism associated with their presence.
“If we didn’t have the international students, we wouldn’t be able to do the work. They bring more money with them than they take home, they spend money, their families come over and spend money”.
He said he believes Australia has let them down and the country must do better.
“We go out to the world at large and say to the parents of the children: ‘We’re a safe country to send your kids to, we’ll look after them while they’re here. We’ve got a great set of values – mateship and friendship, looking after people who need a hand up.
“Yet the first tickle that things are a bit tough we say ‘all bets are off you need to go home’. That doesn’t stack up. If we looked after those people properly, they would have been the best ambassadors we could have ever had but we didn’t. We did the wrong thing by them,” he added.
‘Every dollar invested into international education brings at least $1.15 back into our economy. And that’s just the start of the value international students bring to Australia’
— Universities Aust. (@uniaus) September 21, 2020
The panel believes while the effects of the pandemic have and continue to be devastating there is an opportunity for a significant improvement in the relationship between Australia and its international education market.
Megan Lily from AI Group which represents 60,000 businesses across a range of industries said it’s time for a complete rethink.
“We’ve had a cash cow mentality with international education and I think there’s an opportunity for us to think about a better and more sustainable relationship that’s reciprocated.”
“If we keep thinking narrowly about international students… we’ll only get narrow results”
Capp said Covid has created a time of disconnect which needs to be used as a reset or we risk losing the market for good.
“If we keep thinking narrowly about international students, their value and the way they participate in our community and economy we’ll only get narrow results.
“That will be that they underwrite our tertiary education in Australian but it’s so much more and if we don’t start leveraging the relationship, outcomes and recognising and supporting the way in which they contribute we’re really going to miss the boat because every other economy is competing for this market,” she said.
“This is a call to action. We have been working with state and federal government to make a change. It ultimately sits with the federal government but there’s also a role for the community to understand the value which international students bring to the entire economy.”
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Translation:Да, до свидания!
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Just two exercises previous, I wrote до свидания for goodbye, and it was marked correct, but I glanced down and saw that до скорого was given as another option. So, I used the latter here (with дa) It was marked wrong. The comment was that the correct answer was до свидания. Go figure.
Those 2 words together do pronounce like да. Because it's used so much together it's pronounced as if it were one word. Is that correct? I've always heard it said like that, no idea if theres some grammatical reason. Maybe a native speaker! I think о-about, probably does the same thing when followed by a consonant that doesnt change it to об. ie: о ней. | <urn:uuid:14432d39-09ab-4151-8418-1895c838bad1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/12389103/Yes-goodbye | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971177 | 223 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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MOST RECENT LIST OF BOOKS
Please visit our Library for a most recent list of books for Male and books for Female.
These books will keep you knowledgeable about the Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug-Induced Diseases: Prevention, Detection, and Management, ASHP Best Practices: Position & Guidance Documents of ASHP, Rang & Dale's Pharmacology, and many more. These books are composed of different lessons that help you to learn and be well-informed.
We are pleased to announce the availability of Off-Campus access to the Digital Library Services of the NGHA & KSAU-HS to all active KSAU-HS students, faculty and staff. This is in ability to access the resources from w/in the University Campus. You can follow the following links below:
> Digital Library Menu
> Acknowledge (NGHA & KSAU-HS) to connect from within or outside the campus. We also updated the link in our College Website.
ACS Publications will now be accessible with in the KSAU-HS & NGHA Hospital to all faculty, healthcare professionals, staff, researchers and students.
No login or authentication is required to access the database.
All you need is just to type or click the following URL: http://pubs.acs.org/
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In addition we can say of the number 3482 that it is even
3482 is an even number, as it is divisible by 2 : 3482/2 = 1741
The factors for 3482 are all the numbers between -3482 and 3482 , which divide 3482 without leaving any remainder. Since 3482 divided by -3482 is an integer, -3482 is a factor of 3482 .
Since 3482 divided by -3482 is a whole number, -3482 is a factor of 3482
Since 3482 divided by -1741 is a whole number, -1741 is a factor of 3482
Since 3482 divided by -2 is a whole number, -2 is a factor of 3482
Since 3482 divided by -1 is a whole number, -1 is a factor of 3482
Multiples of 3482 are all integers divisible by 3482 , i.e. the remainder of the full division by 3482 is zero. There are infinite multiples of 3482. The smallest multiples of 3482 are:
It is possible to determine using mathematical techniques whether an integer is prime or not.
for 3482, the answer is: No, 3482 is not a prime number.
To know the primality of an integer, we can use several algorithms. The most naive is to try all divisors below the number you want to know if it is prime (in our case 3482). We can already eliminate even numbers bigger than 2 (then 4 , 6 , 8 ...). Besides, we can stop at the square root of the number in question (here 59.008 ). Historically, the Eratosthenes screen (which dates back to Antiquity) uses this technique relatively effectively.
More modern techniques include the Atkin screen, probabilistic tests, or the cyclotomic test.
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It’s no secret that being active is good for our mental health. Now, an international running brand wants to understand exactly how. ASICS launched its new worldwide study on the impact of movement on the mind on Global Running Day (June 2, 2021).
The study is happening live, with participants able to take part online at minduplifter.asics.com. The data collected will help inform the understanding of the relationship between movement and the mind on a global scale.
“Our sole ambition is to empower as many people as possible to experience the physical and mental benefits of movement,” said Yauhito Hirota, president and COO of ASICS. “By taking part in any number of our different events and activities running across the year, you’ll contribute to vital research to help us further understand the uplifting effect of sport. That way we can continue finding new ways to highlight and unlock the benefits for everyone in 2022 and beyond.”
In a preliminary study, researchers had 42 elite and everyday athletes go for a 20-minute run. Using a combination of advanced EEG and self-reported data, they found that a short amount of exercise did have a positive effect on the participants’ mental health.
“With exercise playing such a valuable role in the maintaining of our mental health and wellbeing, it is more important than ever that people can see and understand the positive link between the two,” said Dr. Brendon Stubbs, a leading exercise and mental health researcher who aided with the preliminary study. “Our ambition is to inspire as many people as possible to move their mind and reap those all-important cognitive and emotional benefits for themselves.”
On average, the participants experienced:
- A 13.4 percent increase in their levels of alertness
- A 15.9 percent increase in their degree of calm
- A 14.3 percent increase in how content they felt
- A 13.3 percent increase in their relaxation levels
- A 11.4 percent increase in how composed they felt
- A 9.7 percent increase in their energy levels
- A 2.9 percent increase in their focus levels.
ASICS Mind Mover
To join the movement, you can go to minduplifter.asics.com. You’ll be asked to scan your face with Mind Uplift, and to fill out a questionnaire. The next step is completing at least 20 minutes of exercise and then repeating the face scan and questionnaire.
The two functions will show the impact of movement across 10 emotional and cognitive metrics, including confidence, positivity, calm and focus.
The global data will be compiled into an interactive map, which will be available starting July 1, 2021.
You’ll also be able to share your results online using #UpliftingMinds.
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More than 90 volunteers from across UC Davis Health will provide medical support at the California International Marathon (CIM) on Sunday.
The race was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has returned this year with COVID-19 protocols in place, including proof of vaccination or a negative test within 72 hours of race day for runners and medical volunteers.
UC Davis Medical Center is providing the medical supplies and medical care on the course, which starts in Folsom and ends at the finish line medical tent at the State Capitol in Sacramento.
Volunteers from Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), Medical Reserve Corps, American Medical Response (AMR) and Folsom, Sacramento Metro and the City of Sacramento Fire Departments are also providing medical support for the event.
Brandee Waite, professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Katren Tyler, professor in Emergency Medicine, and Brian Davis, volunteer clinical professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, will be the co-medical directors of the race.
Approximately 9,000 runners from all over the world will compete in the marathon or marathon relay.
Gary May, UC Davis chancellor, Susan Murin, interim dean of the School of Medicine, Nate Kuppermann, professor and chair of emergency medicine, R. Lor Randall, professor and chair of orthopaedic surgery, Cassandra Lee, chief of sports medicine, and Marcia Faustin, assistant clinical physician in sports medicine and family and community medicine, will hold the finish line tape when the winners cross the finish line. | <urn:uuid:c66b36af-6504-4ef4-86bc-d2f58d5d36ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://health.ucdavis.edu/phs/news/headlines/medical-volunteers-prepare-for-california-international-marathon-on-sunday/2021/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919048 | 322 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Socially conscious firms and nonprofit organizations are aware of the financial breach between men and women and make an effort to compensate it with small-business grants designed to support female entrepreneurs.
Legitimate small business grants for women can give you the support you need to take your business or project to the next level. These five grants specifically aim to support women in business, nonprofits, and the arts
Small-Business Grants for Women
1. Cartier Women’s Initiative Grants
The Cartier Women’s Initiative annual grants are for women-led businesses in any industry anywhere in the world.
Each year, 21 businesses across seven world regions receive grant funding, business coaching, and a scholarship to attend international business school INSEAD’s Social Entrepreneurship Executive Education Programme. To participate, you have to be able to commit to spending three to four hours per week from January to April participating in the program, plus one week of in-person workshops in early May.
One laureate from each region receives $100,000, and two runners-up from each region receive $30,000.
2. Amber Grants
WomensNet, an entrepreneurial community for women, launched the Amber Grant in 1998.
Each month, the organization awards a grant of $4,000 to a woman-owned business. At the end of each year, one of the year’s monthly recipients receives an additional $25,000 grant.
3. Girlboss Foundation Grant
The Girlboss Foundation grants of $15,000 are for female business owners in design, fashion, music, and the arts. You must run an established business and use the funding for a project with goals you can achieve within 12 months.
To apply, you must submit an example of your work and a project proposal online or via snail mail. Several application cycles run throughout the year.
4. Eileen Fisher Grants Supporting Women in Environmental Justice
Environmental justice grants from sustainable women’s clothing retailer Eileen Fisher support nonprofit organizations and programs. To be eligible, nonprofits must demonstrate women’s representation in organizational leadership or create opportunities for women to pursue leadership roles in environmental solutions.
Eileen Fisher grants up to $200,000 annually in grants between $10,000 and $40,000.
5. Shirley Holden Helberg Grants for the Mature Women
The National League of American Pen Women (NLAPW) supports women who are professional artists, writers, and musicians through a biennial conference, webinars, scholarships, and grants.
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Fast food is enticing and popular despite the fact that we know it is not an ideal choice for our health and well-being.
Fast Food’s Effects on Brains
A fast food diet has many risks and effects on our bodies in a relatively short period of time. When we eat junk foods, the reward circuits within our brains activate and release the chemical dopamine. Our brains can become overwhelmed by the pleasure from these rewarding foods and in response, the brain adapts and makes more receptors for dopamine; an important chemical that promotes happiness and an overall feeling of well-being. Dopamine also supports the cognitive function, the learning capacity, alertness, motivation and memory. For susceptible people, they will experience withdrawal symptoms associated with depression and anxiety when they stop consuming them.
Another new study found that eating fast food is related to the shrinkage of the brain that leads to Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers suspect that just as the trans fats regularly found in fast food harden the arteries and impair heart function, they hurt the brain as well. They make your brain more sluggish, affect reflexes and the quality of brain responses. The chemicals in the food also affect the behaviour and cognitive functioning among children, resulting in hyperactivity.
Researchers have also found that high-saturated fats, high-salt, high-sugar fast food diet can quickly undermine your brain’s appetite control in a week. It changes the behaviour of the hippocampus which is the part of the brain that tells us when we are full. When we have eaten our fill, the hippocampus suppresses our desires to eat. However, eating too much fast food such as fries, pizza, burgers and fizzy drinks, affect this neurological appetite, resulting it to stop working. As a result, people overeat and lead to adverse health outcome such as obesity.
Fast Food & Early Deaths
Fast food is inexpensive, convenient and tasty but is often made with cheaper ingredients that do not provide nourishment essential for our maintenance of life and growth. High fat meat, refined grains, added sugar, sodium and fats, chemicals, addictives, artificial flavourings, preservatives are used instead of nutritious fresh ingredients such as lean proteins, whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables. There is also a lack of omega-3 fatty acids in fast foods which is important for health as we need them in our diets to improve brain’s functions and development, lower blood pressure, slow down the development of plaque in the arteries, reduce heart attack and stroke.
A single fast-food meal can actually exceed 2,300 milligrams of sodium and too much sodium causes your body to retain water, making you feel bloated and puffy. According to Harvard Medical School, excessive salt can also result in an enlarged heart muscle, contributing to a dangerous buildup of fluid in patients who have congestive heart failure. A high sodium intake is also responsible for kidney stones, kidney disease and osteoporosis. One Big Mac has 970 mg of sodium, well over one-third of the daily recommended allowance.
Dietary fiber (commonly found in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and seeds) plays a dominant role in the digestive system. Fiber is essential to keep your digestive tract working properly as it ushers wastes out of the body. It can help lower cholesterol and keep blood sugar levels normal. Unfortunately, most fast foods do not contain high dietary fiber contents.
Loaded with Calories/Sugar/Fats/Chemicals
A lot of food in fast-food restaurants will start your day off on the wrong foot with their high calories. The high calories in fast food can lead to repeated spikes in the blood sugar and a dangerous crash when blood sugar dips into hypoglycemic levels. That is when you can experience anxiety, trembling, confusion, and fatigue. Frequent soda intake can also lead to poor oral health as it increases the amount of acid in your mouth, which eventually causes tooth decay and cavities.
The iconic McFlurry at McDonald’s, with a sweet ice cream base and even more sugar mixed in, clocks in at a whopping 86 grams of sugar, almost as much as seven McDonald’s apple pies! One large fries will set you back more than 500 calories, more than a double cheeseburger and the hotcakes meal packs almost your entire day’s worth of sugar.
At fast food chains, ‘crispy’ means ‘breaded with sugar and fried in fat’. Deep fried patties, made with fattening buttermilk and topped with a heaping scoop of mayo dressing, gives one more fat than three slices of Domino’s cheese pizza, and more sugar than a glazed donut.
On the other hand, the grilled chicken in fast food does not mean they are healthier as they are cooked at high temperatures, producing char marks which cause cancer. Sodium nitrate is also used to maintain meat color and to inhibit bacterial growth. Both chemicals can break down into nitrosamines, substances with the potential to cause cancer.
Some oils are dangerous when heated to high temperatures over time as they release toxic compounds. Consumption of repeated heated oil may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, osteoporosis, affect liver and kidney structure and function. In fast-food restaurants, deep fryers are kept hot and active the entire day as cooking oil is reused in food preparation to save costs.
Trans fats in fast food cause a series of problems, from heart-related issues to elevated cholesterol and obesity. They also increase the risk of stroke as they clog the body’s workings akin to sand messes with the mechanism of a clock.
Phthalates, a class of endocrine-disrupting chemical toxins which are used to line plastic food and beverage packaging such as burger boxes, wrappers, disposable bowls, and bags for french fries, sides, and desserts, is found to increase levels of inflammation.
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Presented by Linda Johnson, LMFT, LAADC
Includes 3 CEUs for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs
This event is online. A recording will be available to registrants to view for 3 months.
It was never intended that our juvenile halls, jails and prisons be used as mental health treatment facilities, but that is a primary function of our detention facilities in this country. We have experienced an increasingly urgent need for mental health education, expertise and programming within our multidisciplinary justice systems. Youth may be particularly negatively impacted by contact with law enforcement, arrest, and subsequent detention, as it occurs during some of the most difficult and delicate developmental tasks of their lives.
More and more, the public and communities are turning to mental health professionals to intervene on those engaged in criminal activities, including our youth. At the same time that we are experiencing a political shift toward reform in juvenile justice - resulting in the reorganization and modification of existing programming (including mental health services) - there remains a shortage of resources to create and staff new mental health programs.
Though having strong and unwavering political, community and financial support to provide more and better quality mental health programming in juvenile justice systems would be ideal, it is not our current reality. Therefore, mental health professionals’ most powerful tools while working with this population include solid clinical assessment skills and therapeutic abilities, an understanding of systemic issues within juvenile justice, and the capacity for compassion and connection with alleged perpetrators.
During this presentation, we will review past and recent trends in juvenile justice with a focus on the associated mental health programming. We will explore the roles and necessary skills of forensic mental health professionals. We will also review some de-identified juvenile criminal cases with the opportunity to practice assessment and diagnostics, and discuss recommendations for treatment interventions.
The goal of this program is for participants to increase their understanding regarding the importance of clinically accurate intake assessment and diagnosis, and the need to provide more appropriate treatment interventions to juvenile justice-involved youth and their families.
1. Identify four reasons other than “criminal intent” that youth end up in the juvenile justice system.
2. Name three ways juvenile justice systems can more appropriately meet the growing mental health needs of youth.
3. List three ways mental health intake assessment can be used to benefit youth who encounter juvenile justice systems.
4. Identify two practices that have harmed or exacerbated youth mental health in our juvenile justice systems/programming.
About the Presenter
Linda Johnson earned a Master’s degree in clinical and research psychology from San Francisco State University. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Licensed Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LAADC) - both licenses are held in the State of California. Linda has been a practicing mental health clinician for 20 years and spent sixteen years working as a forensic mental health clinician in juvenile justice settings, with specialties including assessment, trauma recovery, addictive disorders, family systems, adolescent and transitional-aged-youth mental health needs.
During her years as a forensic mental health clinician, she assisted in the co-development of mental health programming, the facilitation of treatment and case management for detained and community-based juvenile-justice-involved youth and their families. She provided trainings to probation and institution staff, and to partnering mental health and community-based professionals. She also clinically supervised Master’s and Doctoral student interns yearly.
TARGET AUDIENCE: LCSW, LMFT, LPCC
If you miss any of the presentation, you will not be eligible for the CEUs. SCV-CAMFT is a CAMFT approved Continuing Education Provider (CEPA 052466). This course meets the qualifications of 3 continuing education credit for LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs. SCV-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
The views expressed in presentations made at SCV-CAMFT meetings or events are those of the speaker and not, necessarily, of SCV-CAMFT. Presentations at SCV-CAMFT events do not constitute an endorsement of the vendor or speaker's views, products or services.
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As of last Wednesday, after 33 years and six governors, Connecticut is moving toward the true meaning of equity and justice in education. I was moved at the monumental courage of Elizabeth Horton Sheff who filed the lawsuit to bring to the forefront that Hartford school students were still not on the same level playing field as white students in the suburbs.
I was one of the first students of Project Concern — an experiment based on a Harvard University study in 1965 — for Hartford residents to go to white suburban schools. I started at Burr School in Wethersfield, and then was in the fourth grade in the same school my little sister was going to, Noah Wallace Elementary School in Farmington, in 1973.
This bright-eyed and voracious reader with an open heart to learning loved the light colors of the school rooms and gymnasium. There was a tether ball in the playground for recess. I joined the field hockey team. I learned how to sing choral music with my first concert at the old Congregational church built in the 1600s. I had sleep-overs with friends who were smart just like me and open to learn more about who I was and where I came from.
I was an easy listener, an avid talker and natural teacher. I went on trips to Boston to learn about the Revolutionary War; and enjoyed my field trip to Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts.
I knew I was Black in a sea of white school children; but I was an embracing child wearing my Afro with a natural inclination to understand other people. I was not taught racism; and I knew that white kids were not smarter than me. I also knew that there was a difference in not only educational opportunities, but in economics as many of my friends’ parents were lawyers, doctors or businesspersons. The houses they lived in sometimes made me envy not living out in Farmington.
There were real advantages to having the types of jobs and resources that were not readily available to me or my family. My life was radically changed by the busing experience. I saw and experienced through my educational pursuits in Farmington, an opportunity to make a difference in the world. I was and am a change agent. I learned that being a part of Project Concern.
I graduated from Farmington High School in 1982. The prior year, school funding for buses was stopped so I had to take two city buses from Blue Hills Avenue to Farmington to go to school. The days that were cold and streets filled with snow were not fun; I don’t know how many times my sister and I and other Project Concern students were told by a police officer at the police station at the bottom of the hill of Farmington High, “go back home, the school is closed due to the snow.”
The education I received in Farmington prepared me for college. I have wonderful memories of serving on the school paper, “The Voice” as the managing editor and roving reporter. The only thing missing were classes on Black history. My pastor, Rev. Earl W. Lawson, a Boston Civil Rights Activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. supported me by coming to my 11th grade sociology class to talk about Black history.
As I said, I was a natural teacher. I wanted to always inform my friends and my teachers that the students who sacrificed much time to travel to a white school had history, meaning and purpose; that our being present in that educational system broadened the minds of the white students about the larger world; that intelligence is not gained through the osmosis of a white skin; that the world is larger and better when we see our lives intertwined with people different than us.
Now Sheff v. O’Neill, after a longer experiment to bring equity in education and academic excellence to Hartford students, has been won, I am elated that the state of Connecticut did not stop growing as a citizenry. I am still troubled that it took 33 years to come to victory and to an agreement that is backed up with the appropriations to build newer avenues to provide equal opportunity education; but it doesn’t take away my cheer and joy that truth and justice does win in the end.
I am excited about the longer outcomes of schooling with Hartford children and what they will become and the lives that may be saved from the very real school-to-prison pipeline because all children in Hartford and across our state will find out who God has made them to be and will have the means, tools and support from educators to learn, to grow and become greater because a “mind is such a terrible thing to waste.”
Cheering for the success of our children’s future, together.
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Amnesty International is turning its gaze on sexual terror again; but these human-rights abuses are not unfolding in Abu Ghraib or Guantánamo; they are taking place in a back room in a pub in Reading; down an alley in Oxford; on a sofa in someone's flat in Edinburgh. A report published this week by the human-rights organisation presents a picture of an epidemic of unreported, unpunished sexual assault in the UK. The most shocking bit? That a large number of the polled respondents are not shocked.
According to the study of attitudes toward rape in the UK, one third of those surveyed believe that women who flirt are partly at fault if someone rapes them. A third see women as being "partially or wholly" responsible for being raped if they are intoxicated. Finally, more than a quarter of those interviewed think women invite rape to some extent if they wear seductive clothing.
There is also a sort of "fair game" attitude at play: almost 15% thought a woman would be partly responsible for being raped if rumour had it she had slept around; 8% thought a promiscuous woman would be totally responsible for being raped.
Unsurprisingly, the reporting and prosecuting of rape is going down in Britain. The numbers are truly stunning: almost 13,000 rapes were reported to the police last year - which, according to the British Crime Survey, is probably only about 15% of the total number of rapes. Would you report a rape, given these attitudes?
Yesterday's news of a rape case that collapsed after the alleged victim told the jury she was unconscious from excess alcohol and could not remember what had happened will certainly do little to encourage victims to come forward. Despite the Sexual Offences Act of 2003 stating that someone who is asleep or otherwise unconscious will not be taken as having consented, the prosecution dropped the case saying, "drunken consent is still consent".
Your nightmare is only just beginning if you are brave - or foolish - enough to go to the police: the conviction rate for rape is 5.6% - the lowest ever recorded. Remember, that is 5.6% of the rapes reported. Believe it or not, things were better for British rape victims in 1977 in some ways: at least then, a third of rapes reported got a conviction.
Reading these numbers filled me with a series of horrific flashbacks. Twenty years ago, I worked in a rape-crisis centre in the UK. The stories I heard were horrific enough: the lovely, pale girl with the long black lashes who was gang-raped in the back of a truck and thrown out on to the road when they were done with her; she could scarcely venture out of her basement flat. The working-class home-maker who was raped by her neighbour, and was terrified her housing estate would find out because she would be ostracised. The teenager who was out with friends drinking one night on the high street and was pulled down on to some steps and raped by another teenager; she worried that because she had been drinking it was somehow her fault. There was the time I visited the high court for a trial of a man who had committed a brutal rape that had left his victim hospitalised; I remember the defence barrister set up the suggestion that this was all the result of a bit of sexy S&M play. Then there was the trial at which the judge held up the flimsy red underpants of the victim - for everyone in the court to smirk at.
This is what was clear: the agony of the rape was only the start. What remained toxic for years, if not for ever, for these survivors of rape, was exactly the kind of self-recrimination that the attitudes polled by Amnesty brought about: why did I walk down that street? Why did I have that second glass of wine? Why did I wear red underwear? Why did I smile at that man at that party? I learned from these brave, tormented girls and women that the crime itself is something you can eventually recover from, less easy to recover from is the social trivialisation of what happened to you, let alone the notion that it was your own fault.
How striking, in contrast, were the words of Elizabeth Neuffer, a gutsy Boston Globe reporter who died in Iraq last year. She came to talk to young women leaders in a gathering I hosted once about courage; and she told the story of having tried to cross a checkpoint in war-torn Bosnia. She was taken by the border guards and raped. Eventually she got away. What was new about her story is that she had no shame. It was something bad that happened to her, as bad things sometimes happen to people. But she told her story in a totally straightforward way, and it was clear that she had no sense of having been broken or damaged by this bad thing. Partly, it was the circumstances of the rape: if any rape could be seen as "pure" by the Amnesty respondents, it would be Elizabeth's. But partly, it was her attitude: "I refuse to be shamed."
But you can only have that attitude in a country in which shame and blame and criminal punishment really do fall on rapists and not on their victims. God knows we are getting things horribly wrong in many ways in America now, but sex-crime issues are getting better. There has been a sea change: 10 years ago, women were still "asking for it".
Today, there is a widespread understanding that if you are raped it is a crime someone else has committed. Police have been trained to deal sensitively with rape victims. Politicians try to outvie one another on being tough on rapists - indeed, Michael Dukakis lost the presidential election in 1988 because he was seen as not being tough enough. If a judge were to talk suggestively about a victim's clothing or drinking, he would lose his post. There is still work to be done: but last week a middle-aged attorney showed up for the belated DNA-driven sentencing of a man who had raped her two decades before. She insisted on using her own name in the papers: "I am not ashamed of having been raped," she said.
How did we get this shift? Not by a vague call for "changing attitudes", which is what leaders who feel powerless often ask for. The only way to change attitudes is, as the Amnesty spokeswoman said, through changing penalties. When rapists began to be locked up for rape - even rape of their wives, their dates, their ex-girlfriends, the kinds of rape that had been tolerated before - then attitudes on the street began to change. And when victims began to bring civil suits against their assailants, then attitudes really began to shift. The answer is not in softball advocacy but hardball politics.
Here is the problem for Britain: the parliamentary system. Because money doesn't play the role in UK politics that it does in the US, special interests can't put as much direct pressure on, for better or worse. Big Oil is a special interest - but so are rape victims.
The UK needs a high-profile national women's pressure group. Yes, it has the Women's Institute, but I doubt the major parties quake in their boots if they don't keep that membership happy. A women's lobby has to have the membership of a plurality of voters to scare the big boys. They need to say to politicians: look, here are our demands. We will throw the election to the party that takes sex crime seriously. Because, guess what? Potential sex-crime victims are not a minority. We are the majority.
I don't want to have to consider in 2005 the same anxieties we had in 1985. What will women think after yesterday's reports of another rape case thrown out of court because the victim had been drinking? It's not awareness that is going to dry those tears: it is slap-the-old-boys-around politics.
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Use a Digital Interactive Notebook copy : Creation – 4000 B.C.
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I may use resources that talk about “The Big Bang Theory.” I simply explain to my kids the timing is off and what the word “theory” means. I find no problem with this because I believe that God said, “Let there be light!” and *BANG* there was light! The “bang” that evolutionists believe in, came after the spoken word of GOD! | <urn:uuid:362aa581-d57e-4221-81be-017d47a65bf8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ohhappydaze.net/2016/05/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944389 | 169 | 2.0625 | 2 |
BOC Sciences Adds Phosphoramidites to Its Nucleotide Product Portfolio for Oligonucleotide Synthesis
BOC Sciences, having been a well-known supplier of biochemical and pharmaceutical raw materials for more than a decade, recently announced that it has added phosphoramidites to its nucleotide product portfolio for oligonucleotide synthesis.
Previously, DNA synthesis process was limited by the length, quality, and yield of DNA due to the inefficiency of reactions. Thanks to the discovery of nucleoside phosphoramidite in 1981, the situation has been improved dramatically. Until now, although phosphoramidite chemistry has been used for nearly 35 years, phosphoramidite and its modified variants are still the gold standards for DNA synthesis technology. In view of the significance of phosphoramidite, BOC Sciences has been dedicated to developing it for years and fortunately reaps some accomplishments.
Phosphoramidites have the best protective groups, which distinguish their chemical properties from those of other chemical processes. The ease of use and great efficiency allow phosphoramidite to produce lengthy oligonucleotide sequences of up to 200 base pairs. At present, hundreds of phosphoramidites are available at BOC Sciences for oligonucleotide synthesis. In addition to the common DNA phosphoramidites and RNA phosphoramidites, BOC Sciences also provides 2'-modified phosphoramidite, LNA phosphoramidite, etc.
2'-modification of the ribose ring is frequently used to improve oligonucleotide stability and resistance to nuclease activity in the body. RNA oligonucleotides synthesized with 2'-fluorophosphoramidite enhance the thermal stability of double-stranded RNA and the nuclease resistance of single-stranded RNA. Moreover, These 2'-fluoro-substituted phosphoramidites can be integrated into siRNA oligonucleotides for gene targeting and inhibition studies. To satisfy massive oligonucleotide synthesis needs, BOC Sciences, with first-class facilities and professional technicians, provides high-quality and reliable 2'-modified phosphoramidites.
BOC Sciences offers different LNA phosphoramidites to ensure efficient and accurate synthesis of locked nucleic acids (LNAs) and oligonucleotides containing LNA. The 2,4-bicyclic structure of LNA brings unprecedented affinity and specificity of LNA modified oligonucleotides. LNA monomers can be mixed with DNA and RNA monomers and most other known nucleic acid analogues and act synergistically.
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- Animal-origin-free raw materials, and no TSE/BSE risk.
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Gilbert's Brush Park plan offers bold new look in Detroit
Not since the Lafayette Park project a half-century ago has Detroit seen a residential development as ambitious as Dan Gilbert’s Brush Park project that breaks ground in a few weeks.
For one thing, the project — about 100 for-sale units and about 300 rental apartments on 8.4 acres just north of downtown — will come in at the top end of the price range for any rental or for-sale projects in the greater downtown when it opens in a year or so.
But more significantly, Gilbert’s people are breaking new ground architecturally. Gone are the faux historical styles that marked so many of Detroit’s recent projects. Instead of duplicating the peaked roofs, gables, chimney stacks and bay windows that pass for authenticity, Gilbert’s team opted for a bold modernist look.
This will be unlike any recent residential project in Detroit. The clearest analogy may be Lafayette Park. Built in the 1950s and led by modernist master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, it introduced sleek glass and steel buildings with flat roofs and great expanses of glass married to a thoughtful park-like plan. It created something new in Detroit and remains among the city’s most successful districts.
Gilbert’s team told me that the Brush Park project aims to do much the same — to usher Detroit into a new era of residential design that will set a standard for the quality of materials and urban planning. And it will do so by integrating the new modernist buildings with four of Brush Park's historic Victorian mansions that are being preserved and renovated.
“We didn’t play it safe,” said Steve Ogden, director of development for Gilbert’s Bedrock Real Estate Services. “It’s not your father’s Oldsmobile.”
The project cost was initially estimated at $70 million but will go higher, Gilbert's team said, although the final cost is not yet estimated.
Of course, we must await final construction to see if the reality matches the vision. Sometimes amazing designs get compromised because of budget constraints and other challenges on the way to a final ribbon-cutting. But so far this project promises to be what Detroit's planning director Maurice Cox calls something entirely new in modern urban development.
"I don’t think Detroit has ever seen anything like this," Cox said. "So many of the modernist new neighborhoods were done with a broad stroke, a demolition of entire areas, the removal of existing residents."
But the Brush Park design aims to blend the new with the iconic Victorian mansions that remain without trying to imitate them.
"I felt really early on that we are on to something here that could really set Detroit apart from other neighborhoods being built, that we can show contemporary new architecture fits beautifully into historic districts," Cox said. "We're writing the new history of historic districts in Brush Park."
Modernist in this case won’t mean an endless series of look-alike flat-roofed buildings. Gilbert’s team has worked with five architecture firms, led by Detroit-based Hamilton Anderson Associates, to produce a variety of styles that differ greatly in height, materials, and overall look. "It reminds people of the way neighborhoods used to feel, when you could walk down the street and there would be a variety of buildings," Cox said.
The designs range from multistory apartment buildings to two-story “carriage homes” and “duplettes,” or buildings featuring two apartments, one above the other, with extra tall ceilings. Materials on the exteriors of the various buildings range from glass and steel to brick and cedar.
Rooftop terraces — the project’s nod to backyards and community gardens — play a key role. They will be found throughout the district at various heights and configurations. Also weaving in among these various buildings are alleyways with surfaces that absorb rainwater and snowmelt and a park-like greenway open to residents and the public.
Stylistically, this projects jumps ahead of projects like the Crosswinds Communities units built along Woodward a decade ago in the Brush Park community. The design of the Crosswinds townhouses echoed some of the historic Victorian mansions that survive in Brush Park. Gilbert’s people rejected that approach.
“There’s still a few community members who say you should have just replicated Crosswinds, or just re-created single family historic Victorian homes,” said Melissa Dittmer, director of architecture and urban design at Gilbert’s Bedrock Real Estate Services. “In the end we felt that that would be almost disrespectful to the historic architecture that’s already there, and that it was best to design in a style, an aesthetic, for our time.”
The project is already winning positive reviews. The Congress of New Urbanism, an architecture and planning association, held its annual conference in Detroit last week and awarded the project its grand prize for design.
Steve Rosenthal, a principal of Gilbert’s Bedrock real estate firm and president of Rock Companies, a real estate development company operating in six states, said anything that tried to replicate the classic Brush Park mansions would have failed anyway, architecturally and financially.
“What’s been done previous to us is not something that works in our mind,” he said.
Rainy Hamilton, cofounder and principal of lead architect Hamilton Anderson, said the contrast between the modernist style and the older Victorian mansions will create a dynamic project.
“I think it’s going to raise the bar,” he said. “This town hasn’t seen contemporary design in some time. So when these products come online, it’s going to be an eye-opener and very attractive and appealing.”
No prices yet
While the prices have not been set yet, the rental rates and purchase prices will reflect that progression, from entry-level apartments to more expensive for-sale units and then more affordable units for seniors.
The project will respond to calls for affordable living options for longtime Detroit residents on limited incomes by making all the units in the senior apartment building in the affordable range. Rosenthal said some other affordable units will be scattered throughout the project.
The rapid pace of redevelopment in the greater downtown has driven up rental rates and condo prices and makes a more upscale project like Gilbert’s effort feasible.
“I’m a firm believer that good design raises real estate value and it’s going to improve community aspects in all ways,” Dittmer said. “While this will cost more in the end it’s going to provide a better product and it’s going to provide a community that the existing Brush Park residents are proud of, and it’s going to raise their real estate values, too, all the way down to the historic homes that are existing there.”
Dittmer said the team sought to provide a setting where residents can “age in place,” renting an apartment when young, then buying a carriage house when starting a family and finally retiring to an apartment for senior living. To provide needed services, the project also plans up to 20,000 square feet of retail and commercial space, a health center open to all residents, and multiple parking options.
Besides Hamilton Anderson Associates, other architecture firms designing portions of the project were Christian Hurttienne Architects of Grosse Pointe Park, Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) of Los Angeles, Merge Architects of Boston and Studio Dwell of Chicago.
Lorcan O’Herlihy, founder of the LOHA firm, said the project builds in enough retail and other amenities to create what he calls “amplified urbanism,” a catalyst to nurture growth beyond the immediate district.
“This starts to create a neighborhood, and that’s always important, not only looking at the buildings in terms of the housing but the other amenities,” he said. “So that not only people living in Brush Park but people in adjacent communities will come to eat, to meet people, to shop, so it’s a very activated, vibrant urban area.”
Winning the project
Mayor Mike Duggan announced in May 2015 that a Gilbert entity, Brush Park Development Company, had won the right to redevelop the extensive site, which is bordered by Edmund Street to the north, John R to the west, Brush to the east and Alfred to the south.
Detroit business and civic leaders investing in the Brush Park Development Company include Marvin Beatty, Sam Thomas, Pam Rodgers, Darrell Burks. and Freman Hendrix and Gilbert's Bedrock Real Estate Services.
Gilbert’s team won the project in competition with eight other teams that submitted proposals. The winning proposal included commitments that 51% of construction workers would be Detroit residents and 31% of overall construction dollars would be spent with Detroit-based contractors.
Since winning the project a little over a year ago, the Gilbert team has engaged city officials and Brush Park residents in dozens of meetings where streetscape details and architectural designs were hashed out.
The project includes the restoration of four historic Victorian homes within the project district, including the recently renovated Ransom Gillis home at 205 Alfred Street. The other Brush Park mansions to be restored and renovated include 261 Alfred, 287 Alfred and 295 Alfred.
Detroit-based architect Brian Hurttienne, who worked on the preservation of the four mansions, said the City of Detroit deserves credit for mothballing the four homes over the past 15 years to preserve them for future renovation. And he added that the mix of Victorian and modern architecture will work well.
"What's being designed today is for today," he said, "and it's in complete contrast to what was built in the 1800s. So I think it's pretty appropriate that they blend and mix, and it's a really great urbanist design right outside downtown Detroit."
Five Cool Facts in Brush Park Project
1. Multiple rooftop terraces create the urban equivalent of backyards and community gardens.
2. Projects allows residents to "age in place," moving from rental apartments to family-style condos to senior living
3. A park-like greenway traverses the project as a recreational amenity.
4. Modernist architecture creates bold new look for Detroit's revival.
5. Lots of retail and commercial space built into the ground floors of some buildings.
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Despite our careful attention to disinfection of equipment (CPR mannequins, other) and use of personal barriers, there is still a chance that you could be exposed to an illness in our training program, just as you might at the gym, grocery store, or restaurant. "Social Distancing" nationwide has reduced the transmission of the Coronavirus. Although we take measures to provide a safe environment, due to the nature of the services we provide, it is not completely possible to maintain social distancing between students making rescues on land or in the water.
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Why Do We Need Sleep?
Part 2 of theTED Radio Hour episode Maslow's Human Needs
About Russell Foster's TED Talk
What do we know about one of our most basic needs: sleep? Not a lot, says circadian neuroscientist Russell Foster. We know we need to do it to stay alive, but much about it remains a mystery.
About Russell Foster
Russell Foster is Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oxford. Foster studies sleep and its role in our lives, examining how our perception of light influences our sleep-wake rhythms.
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29 May 2022
| Dataset date: November 03, 2014-November 03, 2014
We have provided the 3 word addresses of each health centre within the West African Region.
what3words is a simple, real-time, location referencing system which solves many of the key logistical issues facing aid and humanitarian organisations, for whom street addresses, GPS co-ordinates, and other systems don't exist or are problematic.
Using words means non-technical people can find any location more accurately and most importantly, communicate it more quickly, more easily and with less ambiguity than any other system.
For more information, to get our API or batch encode your coordinates visit http://www.developer.what3words.com
7 February 2022
| Dataset date: November 19, 2014-November 19, 2014
This dataset contains a link to a Google Spreadsheet containing lists of the health facilities (including the facility name, status, facility type, location etc) in Guinea, Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone. The data was compiled by the Standby Task Force from various sources.
4 July 2021
| Dataset date: October 10, 2012-October 30, 2012
The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that play a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. This survey was conducted in October 2012 in Liberia in three counties (Maryland, Grand Gedeh, and Nimba) and in five refugee camp (Little Wlebo in Maryland; Solo, PTP, and Dougee in Grand Gedeh; and in Bahn camp in Nimba) hosting refugees from Côte d'Ivoire. It was organized by UNHCR and World Food Programme (WFP) in close collaboration with implementing partners, operational partners, and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) of the Republic of Liberia. This was the first of three SENS surveys that took place. Subsequent surveys took place in 2013 and 2015.
4 July 2021
| Dataset date: November 11, 2013-December 13, 2013
The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that play a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. This survey took place in the four Ivorian refugee camps (Bahn, PTP, Solo, and Little Wlebo) in Nimba, Grand Gedeh and Maryland Counties along the border with Cote d'Ivoire from November to December 2013. UNHCR and the World Food Programme (WFP) organized the survey in close collaboration with partners including Africa Humanitarian Action (AHA), International Refugee Committee (IRC), Merlin, Danish Refugee Council (DRC), CARE, and the Country Health Teams / Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Government of the Republic of Liberia. This was the second SENS to be conducted in the camps since the Ivorian refugee emergency in 2010 in Liberia; the first was in 2012.
4 July 2021
| Dataset date: April 07, 2015-May 02, 2015
The UNHCR Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes among populations affected by forced displacement. This survey was conducted in Bahn, PTP and Little Wlebo camps, which are located in Maryland, Grand Gedeh and Nimba counties lying along the border of Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. The three camps were hosting close to 29,000 Ivorian refugees including approximately 5,000 children aged below five years. The survey, which was organized by UNHCR in close collaboration with World Food Programme (WFP), UN Childrens Fund (UNICEF), CARE, African Humanitarian Action (AHA) and Country Health Teams / Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of the Republic of Liberia, was conducted from 7th April to 2nd May 2015. This was the third SENS to be conducted in the camps since the Ivorian refugee emergency in 2010 in Liberia; the first was in 2012 and the second in 2013.
10 November 2019
| Dataset date: December 31, 2015-December 31, 2015
EbolaGeonode was a partnership platform for sharing geospatial data, analysis and maps related to the Ebola emergency response. The platform was intended to minimize the time that GIS analysts spend locating up-to-date data. Users were able to make maps on the fly, view metadata, and access the reports behind GIS layers. Curators worked to ensure that the layers were recent, clean, useful, and legally and technically open.
25 July 2017
| Dataset date: September 19, 2014-March 25, 2015
In 2014, RIWI Corp. launched an online survey in Nigeria, Liberia, and Sierra Leone capturing public perceptions data from over 4,000 respondents on the status of Ebola in those countries. Respondents were asked a series of questions related to their confidence in government and aid agencies to manage the Ebola outbreak, as well as their own behavioral response to the infection. The data was collected using RIWI's patented Random Domain Intercept Technology™ (RDIT).
20 June 2017
| Dataset date: January 01, 1998-December 31, 2014
This dataset shows the extent of six climatic zones for West Africa.It is not intended for local studies but only for regional comparison. The dataset is one of the outputs of a complete GIS mapping study to calculate the hydropower potential of all West African rivers. The project was developed by ECREEE, the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, under the Small Scale Hydropower Program. For more information please go here: http://www.ecowrex.org/smallhydro
24 November 2016
| Dataset date: December 08, 2011-December 08, 2011
Leadership, innovation and targeted investments in a number of social sectors have led to transformative interventions and in many cases revolutionized people’s lives, says an annual report produced jointly by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union (AU), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), called “Assessing Progress in Africa Toward the Millennium Development Goals”. | <urn:uuid:febd5f7c-178e-4dd9-a10e-ef59094d7bcc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://data.humdata.org/m/group/lbr?ext_archived=1&force_layout=light | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943596 | 1,340 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Ohio County School and you will Smith College or university are the newest establishments so you can just be sure to free various other generation off undergraduates off shouldering a just about all-too-preferred weight: college student financial obligation.
Performing next slide, the new schools needs financing out of their financial bundles and you may as an alternative afin de philanthropic dollars with the so much more give support getting undergraduates. The option try rooted in a sense one to cost was at the center off federal conversations regarding beginner obligations.
Removing the necessity to use ranking colleges to draw and you may preserve good college students, but sustaining and scaling the insurance policy is actually problematic.
Extremely universities the help of its the strategy have high endowments, register affordable variety of needy college students consequently they are selective organizations. Some colleges mentioned on the ranks restrict eligibility or have had to lessen its applications.
Nevertheless, as the establishments vie to discover the best pupils – who’re much more speed-sensitive and painful otherwise may use up all your money – bolstering features in order to supplant obligations could become a main element of far more services bundles.
“Universities is actually legitimately worried about education loan obligations, however, also concerned that in case they won’t do that, they won’t have the ability to vie toward children they require,” told you Robert Kelchen, increased education teacher at the School away from Tennessee at Knoxville.
The fresh liberal arts college inside the west Massachusetts educates from the dos,600 lady in the student height, having good $2 billion endowment. It has got good esteemed character but Smith Chairman Kathleen McCartney desires in order to heart the inclusiveness with the brand new financial aid policy.
“There is a bona fide racial disparity inside the borrowing – 89 percent of your Black colored children had funds and only 56 percent of our White children,” McCartney said. “We’ve been concentrating on an intend to render racial justice and collateral, and in addition we thought we just need certainly to beat money. Which can send a robust message to our youngsters we are seriously interested in racial fairness.”
On 60 percent out-of Smith children trust educational funding and you will graduate which have typically $19,100000 in financial trouble. When you’re which is underneath the national mediocre from around $30,000, McCartney said she believes the school you can expect to create more. Double-fist endowment returns combined with a beneficial $fifty million current off a scholar has established a path.
The main currency have a tendency to funds you to definitely-day features out-of $step 1,one hundred thousand to possess lower-earnings children first off its college or university professions and you may $2,one hundred thousand gives for graduating seniors to continue lifestyle just after school. As a whole, brand new student help efforts show an excellent $eight mil yearly increase to help you Smith’s school funding funds. The institution needs it can prize over $90 million inside assistance next year.
Freshman Livie Johnston, 18, said she nearly cried immediately following reading McCartney’s email address proclaiming the new attempts. The newest Minnesota native have borrowed $step three,five-hundred in her own first 12 months and you may until now got expected relying for the financing up until graduation.
There is certainly an explanation simply 76 universites and colleges have adopted no-mortgage principles once the Princeton University’s seminal program into the 2001: It’s high priced
“I am completely covered by Smith’s educational funding for the next about three many years of my personal degree here, that renders a very massive difference with the affordability regarding grad university,” said Johnston, which intentions to big when you look at the English prior to looking for a great master’s education from inside the library and you will information science. “So it most takes a lot of the fret of.”
Providing undergraduates the opportunity to realize its desires without getting encumbered by financial obligation is what McCartney said Smith is attempting to help you promote. It is that it green?
“We have done the modeling so that although there is certainly good downturn, we’re going to be in a position to assistance this choice,” McCartney told you. “It is a real concern. And you may we’ll steward new endowment meticulously as a result it remains a top priority.”
Particular institutions, such Lafayette College or university during the Pennsylvania, possess lengthened their software to add so much more students. At the very least a couple, Carleton College or university inside the Minnesota and you may Claremont McKenna College inside California, https://paydayloanadvance.net/payday-loans-fl/spring-hill/ concluded its policies on aftermath of Great Recession of 2008. Several others, in addition to Dartmouth College and you can Yale University, has actually shorter the newest kindness of its rules to have center- and you may top-earnings pupils.
Some schools had been victims of their own achievement. Use the School of Virginia, which delivered AccessUVa inside 2004 for everybody undergraduates off group getting lower than double new government impoverishment tip. The brand new effort boosted socioeconomic range at the societal flagship. But can cost you nearly quadrupled while the enrollment mounted, best U-Virtual assistant. so you can reintroduce funds a decade afterwards.
College students protested the decision therefore the university maintained so it however provided good-sized financial aid packages to the people in need of assistance. In the aftermath, U-Va. scored higher contributions you to definitely strengthened services to have low-income children, but never resurrected the brand new no-financing effort.
In many ways, Smith matches the newest character of the typical college which have a zero-financing rules
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Lansing’s stars and stripes were unfurled in 2008, and point to national pride and local history
By Carrie Steinweg
LANSING, Ill. (July 3, 2021) – In early 2008, Lansing’s current mayor Patty Eidam was a village trustee and also vice president of the Lansing Historical Society. When attending meetings and events outside the village as a trustee, she noticed how many other villages in the area had their own flag representing their community.
“I looked into why Lansing did not have a flag and learned that in 1976 a contest was held for a Lansing Flag design. A winner was chosen, but there is no record of the design and no flag was ever shown,” said Eidam. “So, I took the idea of a contest to design a Lansing Flag to Mayor [Dan] Podgorski and the Village Board, and to the Lansing Historical Society and asked them to partner on a flag design contest.”
The revitalized contest guidelines indicated there was a minimum age of 18 to submit a flag design and that an explanation of the design should accompany each entry. There were a total of 25 entries submitted to the Lansing Historical Society. The society board selected five finalists to pass on to the Village Board, which ultimately selected the design of retired Lansing Police Officer Brad Borys.
At the October 21, 2008, Village Board meeting, the board formally adopted the design as Lansing’s Flag.
Symbolism behind the Lansing Flag
“I was inspired when the village was looking for a village flag design that shows what the village is about. I looked at the Chicago flag and what it represented and I came up with the idea,” said flag designer Brad Borys. “I wanted the flag to show respect to the red, white and blue of the U.S. and I wanted to show the three original areas of Lansing — Oak Glen, Bernice, and Lansing, which were incorporated to make our village one. As for the tan color stars, I wanted to show the color of the sand that was once the shore of Lake Michigan before waters changed, giving our village more dry land.”
Borys said that he hasn’t had any formal art instruction or training and his skills are self-taught. He also created the design for the village’s 911 uniform patches, which include both the police star and a fire department helmet.
The Lansing Flag has red, white and blue stripes representing the nation’s flag and three sand-colored stars representing the three original communities coming together to be incorporated into the Village of Lansing in 1893.
A flag for Lansing
“This project was special to me because I saw it as another opportunity for our village board to work together with the historical society on a positive project for our village,” said Eidam. “Now, as mayor, I still hand out copies of our village flag, to color, to students that visit the Municipal Center, or to take to classrooms when I visit schools.”
The Lansing Flag is displayed at all municipal buildings, including the village hall, fire and police stations, public works building, and at the Lansing Firefighters Memorial on Ridge Road.
“Our Lansing Veterans Memorial Ceremonial Honor Guard carries the Lansing Flag in parades and displays it at our Veterans Memorial,” said Eidam. “It is also on display at the headquarters of South Suburban Mayors and Managers in East Hazel Crest. Many of our local schools also display the Lansing Flag.”
The Lansing Historical Society has a limited number of Lansing Flags for sale for $100 each. To purchase, call 708-474-2442, ext. 176.
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Thought For Today: Entrance By Blood
“Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus.” (Hebrews 10:19)
The blood of Christ speaks a better word than the sacrificial blood of bulls and goats, because while it covered the transgression, the blood that Christ shed upon the cross cleanses from all sins.
The blood of Christ speaks a better word, because while the blood of the sacrificial lamb allowed the High Priest entrance to the Holiest of Holies within the earthly tabernacle, the blood of Christ, the Lamb of God, allows entrance for all into the Holiest of Holies and God’s presence in heaven.
The blood of Christ speaks a better word because it brings forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
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1 DO ONE THING
AT A TIME
The story goes that the Swiss artist duo Peter Fischli & David Weiss found this list of pithy instructions hanging in a ceramics factory in Thailand and replicated it for their piece How to Work Better (1991). These ten curious steps have been muraled over and again. Postcards and posters of it dangle from packing tape on splattered walls in countless studios and hang pinned from the carpety partitions of office cubicles – all with just a whisper of sarcasm and more than a little affection. The deadpan layout, the assertively wonky sans-serif all-caps lettering: a bit of halfway serious, self-helpish sloganeering in the annals of art. There’s something both funny and truistic about the list, a set of relatively bland common-sense rules that most everyone can agree with. “I like it quite simply because it acknowledges their awareness of the idea of practice rather than production, which indirectly points to the main aspect of what they do that I find really endearing,” wrote Ryan Gander in Tate Etc.
Best known for their jokey poetics of the everyday, Fischli & Weiss concocted magical Rube Goldberg devices for their most famous video The Way Things Go (1987) and stacked common objects into precarious sculptures that only lasted long enough for a photograph in Equilibres (1984/86). In their work, the tension between sincerity and irony reveals how much each depends on the other. One favorite is a 2013 commission made for the Serpentine, titled Rock on Top of Another Rock. Completed shortly after Weiss’s death in 2012, it’s exactly what it calls itself: “balance is most beautiful just at the point when it is about to collapse.” In other words, here are a couple of clowns of the highest order.
When Fischli & Weiss were given a retrospective at the Guggenheim a couple years ago, How to Work Better lent its name to the title of the exhibition. Chief curator Nancy Spector explained, “Since Fischli and Weiss’s work circulates around the diminishing differences between labor and leisure or work and play, we decided that the wonderful adage ‘How to Work Better’ and its slightly ironic message would perfectly represent the exhibition.”
2 KNOW THE PROBLEM
So often the diminishing difference between work and play involves labor bleeding into leisure: the gamification of work, toiling for free and calling it fun, clocking out after your day job to spend a few hours polishing Facebook’s share price. Just as often, this spurious wisdom lures us into trying to turn what we love into a money-making enterprise. There’s nothing wrong with this of course, but it’s all too easy to lose love in pursuit of profit. The longer I look at How to Work Better, the more I wish to do the very opposite. This “slightly ironic” turn is perhaps one the artists want me to feel.
I don’t want to be Tony Robbins, I want to be Bartleby. I want to stop working better. I feel the signs on factory walls beaming at me, posted by management in an attempt to increase productivity. From stacks of best-selling self-help books preaching their gospels of success, easy money winks with a toothy smile and the ten easy steps to make millions: as if your poverty was simply a failure of initiative. Living through a presidency built on the long con of being a successful businessman, I feel the urge to be less productive. I find myself attracted to all those actions that manufacture nothing, that fail to bring anything into existence. To waste time dreaming is a privilege few can afford, but nevertheless I consider it a human right.
One could argue that all actions produce something: a nap produces rest, the right kiss produces a blush of pleasure, eating a bucket of fried chicken produces slightly queasy fullness. It’s an argument that narrows all activity into various modes of production. If you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The language of commerce and labor have infected the way we talk about facets of life that have nothing at all to do with work. I remember hearing an intellectual once describe prisons under capitalism as “storehouses for excess labor” and it hurt all the way down. The language of efficiency, of higher productivity, of “working better” can, with a turn of phrase, steal away our humanity. “Arbeit Macht Frei” reads the wrought-iron over the gates of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. “Work Sets You Free.”
3 LEARN TO LISTEN
“How to Work Better (1991) is a manifesto comprising 10 persuasive but empty sentences, each with the aim of improving workplace productivity and morale … .”
from David Weiss’s obituary by Hans Ulrich Obrist in the Guardian
4 LEARN TO ASK
What does it mean to display the dictates of a factory in an impoverished country upon an office building in a wealthy nation with the most restrictive immigration policy in Europe? As John Kelsey writes onHow to Work Better: “the text becomes an ironic reflection on the way things go for commuter drones within a productively mobilized post-society, some of whom happen to be artists and curators: ‘SMILE’.” Who are the workers? Who benefits from the work? What’s work and what’s a hobby? Who gets to ask the questions and who gets to answer them? Who has the authority to speak? Are the answers good ones? What does it mean that we’re convinced by empty but persuasive sentences? Is their bland acceptability actually acceptable? Is it also kind of sinister? How often do you work? Are you paid enough to live? Do you think everyone feels the same? Is that fair?
Thirty years beyond How to Work Better, most everyone self-brands, working for hours paid only in clicks and views, the question looms: are these questions so well-known and their answers so defeatingly self-evident that nobody cares?
5 DISTINGUISH SENSE
Everything – even our attention – can be a commodity.
Though the post-work Utopia lies far beyond the horizon for most, I think we should resist the colonization of all of life by labor: for humans to be reduced solely to workers, to let everything have a price. Perhaps late capitalism has already won so completely that it’s just totally uncool to keep moaning about it. Given that most of us are forced to work, we might at least try to find something worth smiling about.
“Love what you do,” goes another work-y cliché, but look enough at this anodyne adage and you might see the trick. Even (perhaps especially) our love can be exploited. So fuck it: don’t love what you do. Hate it, fight it, wrestle it, push back, be fired against injustice and exploitation, go to work everyday because you despise poverty and despair, hate your shitty job all the more so you can find the force to quit it and find something better.
Nobody’s hates the actual act of writing more than writers. Celine wrote because it was the only way to get his nightmares out of his head. Thomas Mann once wrote, “Writers are a class of people for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others.” But for many writers and artists, dancers and dramatists, there isn’t that much of a choice. We have to do it. (“Everything is free now, that’s what they say. Everything I ever done, gonna give it away Someone hit the big score, they figured it out. They were gonna do it anyway, even if it doesn’t pay,” sings Gillian Welch.) Though I’m sure the question for some is how to make money from art, the question for many others is “how can I just keep doing this?”
Maybe this is simply another way not only to stop working better, but stop working. “Love what you do;” then the saying continues, “and you’ll never work again.”
6 ACCEPT CHANGE
“How to Work Better” inevitably foregrounds the question of work: the how and what of labor, artistic and otherwise – from the information navigation that now constitutes so much artistic and salaried labor to the materiality of industrial production that continues to prop up the global economy (as in that Thai ceramics factory) … And is the list itself an inspiring distillation of timeless wisdom or a depressing exemplar of patronizing corporate platitudes? “Accept change as inevitable” intones the sixth instruction – which can be read positively or negatively. Either way, it’s a maxim for surviving in today’s neoliberal economy.
Claire Bishop in Artforum, April 2016
7 ADMIT MISTAKES
Sometimes I want there to be only mistakes. Sometimes there are no such things as mistakes. If this “how-to” (or any of the “how-to’s” I’ve ever written) has any actual instructive use, the message is simple: there is no right, or “better” way. There’s never an easy solution to difficult problems. Refusing to “work better” is asserting my will to work any damn way I want.
8 SAY IT SIMPLE
I would prefer not to.
9 BE CALM
Looking at the ten steps of Fischli & Weiss’s How to Work Better, I can easily, happily, joyfully do the opposite. I think the artists would approve. I want to do a hundred things at a time. I want to set off into the unknown, having no idea what the problem is or what I’m going to discover. I want to forget things I learned, to lose the difference between sense and nonsense. Some things – good things – don’t ever change. Some things that are terrible also seem never to change. (“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept,” says Angela Davis.) Sometimes things can never be said simply and require whole books, entire lifetimes to articulate. I don’t always want to be calm, and there are many things I refuse to smile about. And in the end, like so many other refusers, I don’t want to be told what to do. Not by a sign.
How do most women feel when told by strange men to smile?
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Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that's almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. In this article, we'll cover:
Mesothelioma is a cancerous growth that attacks the linings of the chest wall, lungs, and abdomen. Pleural mesothelioma, the most common form of the disease, occurs in the chest and lungs, and can follow or occur alongside asbestosis, which is the scarring of lung tissue caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers, but mesothelioma often occurs alone. The other most common form of malignant mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma, attacks the lining of the abdomen.
Symptoms of mesothelioma often don't show up until 20 or more years after asbestos exposure but, at some point signs of the disease typically appear as:
Taken individually, the symptoms outlined above don't necessarily indicate mesothelioma. They could be related to a much less serious condition, or they may not point to any health problem at all. But since these symptoms could be cause for concern, especially in people who have worked around asbestos for long periods of time, your doctor will likely want to perform a number of diagnostic exams, including x-rays and pulmonary function tests.
Exposure to asbestos in the workplace is the leading cause of mesothelioma. In particular, people who worked in the heating and construction businesses decades ago may have been exposed to high levels of asbestos. The disease has also surfaced in a small minority of individuals who had had no known asbestos exposure. Millions of Americans were exposed to free floating, airborne asbestos from nearby factories, ship building yards, and asbestos mines and mills that were in operation from the 1930s through the 1970s, which may account for some of these problems.
In a number of instances, spouses or others who regularly handled and washed asbestos-tainted clothing have also contracted mesothelioma, and many have brought so-called "secondary exposure" asbestos lawsuits.
More recently, samples of talc products like baby powder have been found to contain measurable levels of asbestos, and manufacturers like Johnson & Johnson are facing thousands of lawsuits alleging a link between talc products and cancer, including mesothelioma and ovarian cancer.
Mesothelioma is an ultimately fatal disease. But, especially if caught early, it can be treated and slowed significantly. About 20% of mesothelioma sufferers live five years or more, often considerably longer, although more than half die within 18 months of diagnosis. Depending on how early it's caught, mesothelioma treatment usually involves drugs, chemotherapy, radiation and, in some cases, surgery.
In any personal injury case, including lawsuits over mesothelioma and asbestos exposure, the specifics of the plaintiff's health problems are critical to shaping the impact of the injury or illness, and it starts with an accurate diagnosis.
Diagnosis goes straight to the nature and extent of the plaintiff's damages , which includes all compensable losses—both "economic" damages like cost of future medical treatment and lost income, and "non-economic" damages like pain and suffering.
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INDUSTRIES WHERE FIBER OPTIC SENSOR TECHNOLOGY IS USED
Sensuron’s distributed strain and temperature sensing technology uses light across thousands of sensors to test and measure both the integrity of materials and improve the safety and performance of systems across industries.
By utilizing Sensuron systems, engineers can collect and analyze material and structural data in demanding environments. This helps to solve problems on a global scale and encourages the sustainable development, operation, and maintenance of equipment.
Sensuron’s Fiber Optic Sensing Technology Options Are Endless
Sensuron’s systems are used in:
- Aircraft – Monitor structural changes to aircraft in real-time while in flight
- Aerospace Launch Vehicles – Test temperature, strain, load, 2D deflection, and cryogenic liquid levels
- Satellites – Monitor the structural health of satellites
- UAV Testing – Monitor the lifecycle and stability of UAV components and equipment
- End-Of-Life Testing – Determine whether an aircraft is reaching end-of-life
- Automotive – Frame analysis for improved safety and handling
- Future Innovations – Influence future structural designs
- Fuel Consumption – Optimize structures to reduce weight
- Medical Procedures – Improve minimally invasive procedures
- Medical Devices – Monitor movement and placement of catheters, endoscopes and other surgical tools
- Structural Health Monitoring – Monitor the position and structural health of components, risers and rigs
- Nuclear Power Plants – Monitor the structural health of power plant components
- Renewable Energy – Wind turbine blade feedback control, load monitoring, and structural health monitoring
FIBER OPTIC SENSORS IN AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS
Stress and strain are the parameters that determine the longevity and operational safety of any flight-bound vehicle.
With thousands of sensors contained in a single hair-thin fiber providing these measurements, Sensuron’s fiber optic solutions provide a detailed picture of the health of an aircraft.
Sensuron enables engineers to test, monitor and analyze the integrity of structures and capture aircraft component positioning feedback through the continuous monitoring of strain, temperature, stress, loads, out-of-plane deflections, and three-dimensional shapes.
Armed with this data, engineers can create innovations that transform industries, improve safety, prolong the life cycle, reduce maintenance, and enhance in-flight efficiency of aircrafts – all resulting in reduced costs.
By providing a comprehensive picture of an aircraft’s health and performance, Sensuron’s technology ensures continuous innovation as well as the safe transportation of people and equipment around the world and into space.
- Physical Changes – Test, monitor and analyze the integrity of aircraft components against physical factors such as vibration, shock and extreme temperature
- Operation – Provide in flight information on actual flap and landing gear position
- Lifecycle Updates – Monitor the lifecycle and stability of critical components and substructures.
- Long-Term Changes – Determine exactly how loads redistribute as an aircraft ages or becomes damaged
- Safety – Enhance safety margins for mission success
- Minimize aircraft downtime and fine-tune maintenance schedules
- Improve fuel consumption through intrinsically safe fuel level measurement
- Monitor the shape of the wing and other deformed components
- Determine when an aircraft is reaching end-of-life
- Understand the response of complex airframes to flight conditions
- Provide in-flight feedback to control systems
- 2D deflection
- 100 Hz refresh rate
- 3D shape sensing
- Simultaneous interrogation of all channels
- Significantly more sensors
- Ultrafine spacial resolution
- Structural Health Monitoring – Unparalleled measurement capabilities and reliable assessment method of structural integrity
- Composite Embedment – Ensure composite manufacturing quality
- Cryogenic Tank Monitoring – Fully operational in extreme temperatures for fuel volume detection
- Flight Control Systems – Real-time monitoring and feedback
- Design Verification – Expansive coverage from sub-component to full-scale tests
- Conforming Wings
- Landing Gear
- Design Validation
- Quality Assurance
- Load Monitoring
- Flight Testing
- Ice Detection
- Magnetic Field
FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN CIVIL ENGINEERING & MINING APPLICATIONS
An aging infrastructure and rapidly growing technical advances have inspired new trends in civil engineering, such as mixed reality, UAV data analysis, and a bigger push for 3-D models.
Regardless of these trends, functionality and safety are still the primary drivers of sound construction, and mounting pressure continues to rest on civil, structural, and mechanical engineers to focus on design excellence.
From static testing of small components to fatigue testing of full-scale structures, Sensuron’s distributed sensing technology has transformed and evolved the methods used to conduct design validation and ongoing structural testing.
Using Sensuron’s distributed strain sensing technology, a single optical fiber provides an unprecedented level of insight into the behavior of a structure, enabling engineers to perform comprehensive model validation at thousands of discrete points.
This one-of-a-kind technology shows engineers precisely what happens over a continuous sensing length, and allows them to acquire high-resolution and highly granular data in real time.
The result is extremely accurate FEM validation as well as dependable ongoing structural health monitoring.
FIBER OPTIC SENSORS IN ENERGY APPLICATIONS
The energy industry is changing. Oil and gas resources are becoming increasingly difficult to access, while renewable technologies grow evermore critical to new energy solutions.
Companies are continuously searching for new and innovative ways to optimize production.
Sensuron’s optical sensing platform provides engineers with accurate, comprehensive views of strain fields, 3D shape, liquid level, temperature distributions, and more.
Sensuron’s technology embeds thousands of continuously distributed sensors along EMI-immune and chemically inert glass fibers. This unique ability ensures maximum coverage in even the most harsh and demanding environments.
Sensuron’s groundbreaking technology gives engineers an extra edge in their efforts to keep people safe, optimize production, and reduce costs.
- Electromagnetic Immunity – Immune to electromagnetic interference
- Environmental Integrity – Operates in harsh environments: -200 to 200 C, chemically inert
- More Data – Distributed profiles rather than discrete points for a more comprehensive picture
- Real-Time – Accurate strain, temperature, liquid level, and pressure data in real time
- Simplicity – Bypasses cumbersome and heavy wiring harnesses required by other sensors
- Maximize integrity of risers and rigs
- Provide control system feedback for wind turbine blades based on deflection and rotation
- Monitor the structural integrity of wind turbine blades
- Sense nuclear power plant component structural health and alignment
- Significantly more sensors (16,000+ on RTS125+)
- Simultaneous interrogation of multiple fibers
- 3D shape sensing
- 2D deflection
- Liquid level
- Dynamic events
- Wind Turbine Structural Health Monitoring – Blade deflection and load monitoring
- Rig Platform Structural Integrity Monitoring – Stress and strain monitoring and detection
- Tank Structural Integrity – Monitor pressure vessels in real time
- Shape Sensing
- Well Casing Sensors
- Pressure Vessel Monitoring
- Generator Temperature Distribution
FIBER OPTIC SENSING IN AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS
As the automotive industry makes the transition from steel to composites and other advanced lightweight materials, engineers are facing new design challenges.
Sensuron’s distributed sensing platforms can help remove uncertainty from designing with new materials.
By obtaining spatially continuous data along the entire length of an optical fiber, Sensuron’s technology provides engineers with accurate, comprehensive views of strain fields, 3D shape, liquid level, temperature distributions, and more.
All of these parameters can measured simultaneously and in real time. This unique ability ensures maximum coverage of an application and the flexibility to resolve challenges across automotive organizations.
- Multi-Sensing – Simultaneously sense multiple parameters
- Robust Platform – Replace multiple sensing systems with a single platform
- Fully Distributed Sensing – Spatially continuous measurements for a more comprehensive picture
- Better Data – Multiple times more data than conventional sensing technologies
- Having access to better data empowers engineers to detect design flaws earlier in product development, preventing costly failures after a product is launched. This ensures resources can be intelligently invested in projects that will be successful
- Legacy sensing technologies require a significant amount of time and expertise to install. Sensuron’s technology can be installed in less than one third of the time
- Standard data collection platform so dynamic and static tests can be conducted in a variety of environments
- Improve organizational efficiency be replacing multiple sensing technologies with a single Sensuron platform
- Dynamic testing
- 16-104m of sensing length
- Rugged platform
- Monitor Body Panels – Simultaneously monitor deformation, temperature, strain fields and more
- Static or Dynamic Testing – Test components to check for fatigue over time
- Chassis Characterization – Characterize composite and metal chassis in static or dynamic environments
- Model Validation – Optimize design and safety components and assemblies through model validation
- Measure Temperature Distributions – Exhaust system, engine room, radiator, break pads and more
- Characterize Materials
- Composite Embedment
- Rigidity Testing
- Seat Deflection Monitoring
OPTICAL FIBER SENSORS IN MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
Minimally invasive procedures and the associated tools and devices are becoming increasingly relied upon across the healthcare industry.
Existing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques are often restricted by the performance of electronic sensors, and catheter tracking devices aren’t providing a detailed enough picture of the location of delivered medicines and surgical sites.
Such shortcomings leave medical professionals unable to monitor the patient or device as closely as needed.
Whether as an independent sensor or part of an integrated component, Sensuron’s fiber optic sensing systems can provide more detailed and reliable feedback for these types of procedures.
Sensuron’s thin, flexible, high sensor density fiber optic technology provides information continuously along the entire length of a surgical instrument without the use of X-rays or ultrasound.
The technology enhances precision so surgery times can be decreased and the amount of imaging agents can be minimized.
3D location measurements can be plotted in real-time and displayed visually to provide surgeons with an accurate and instant view of an instrument’s position.
Sensuron’s sensing platforms equip engineers with the tools needed to create the next generation of minimally invasive surgical instruments.
The technology increases the probability of success and leads to safer, repeatable and effective healthcare methods.
This reduces the risk of complication during procedures and enables quicker recovery, thus improving long-term health for patients and decreasing the length of hospital stays.
- MRI – Magnetic resonance compatible
- 3D View – Three-dimensional positioning, temperature, pressure
- Real Time – Real-time data
- Small Size – Small diameter (200 micro meters) makes it ideal for minimally invasive procedures
- More Sensors – Distributed sensing capabilities
- Improved imaging technology in MRI systems
- Assistance with vascular procedures as well as detection to identify the severity of an artery blockage
- Determine shapes of objects during minimally invasive surgeries and probes
- Enable higher resolution instrument tracking while minimizing the complexity associated with traditional imaging methods
- Minimizes the injection of foreign material into the body
- High refresh rate
- High resolution and accurate 3D shape sensing
- High density of sensors in a single fiber
- Catheter Shape Sensing – Monitors placement and movement
- Robotic Tool Position Sensing – Performance precision and real-time feedback
- Monitoring Body Mechanics – Accurately determine the shape of the path in 3D
- Swallowing Diagnostics – Uses strain and 3D sensing
- Device Positioning
- Fractional Flow Reserve Catheter
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Cumilla – Cumilla Touris Spot – Where To Spend Night, Eat Local Food
You are eagerly invited to the city which is famous for khadi cloth and rasmalai (sweets). Welcome to Cumilla, an administrative region in the Chittagong Division of southeastern Bangladesh.
The Tropic of Cancer line has crossed Comilla district. Brahmanbaria in the north, Feni and Noakhali in the south, Tripura of India in the east, Chandpur, Narayanganj and Munshiganj in the west. Area: 307.33 sq. Km. Comilla district consists of 17 Upazilas. 11 parliamentary seats, 1 city corporation. The district consists of 175 unions, 3,6 villages, 555 hats and bazaars, a total population of 56,02,625, 5 government colleges and universities, 31 private colleges and thousands of other educational institutions. There are about four thousand industrial factories out of which one is EPZ and 8 are textile mills.
How to go:
visit our web site, and search your destination, there to contact the counter, you will get the information of the counter.
Comilla’s places of interest:
Tourist Attractions are:
Moynamoti War Cemetery –
Moynamoti War Cemetery is located at Pira Bazar in Cumila Cantonment, 5 km west of Cumilla city, adjacent to Dhaka-Chittagong highway. It is used to open from 8 am to 5 pm.
Magic Paradise is located 2 km away from Cumilla city. From Cumila Kotbari Biswabari, you can go to Magic Paradise by using local CNG for 20tk per head.
Lalmai hill can be reached by local vehicle from Cumi-lla city. The length of the hill is 4.6 km. Its height is 48 meters. The northern part of the hill is known as Moynamati hill and the southern part as Lalmai hill.
Shalbon Bihar is located at Kotbari in Cumilla district. it is the site of one of the ancient civilizations.
Dharmasagar pond can be easily reached from Cumilla city by any vehicle. At present, its area is 23.17 acres across Dharmasagar.
It is one of the many ancient sites of the Lalmai Mainamati archaeological site in Cumilla district.
Blue Water Park-
Blue Water Park located in Cumilla town. It is very easy to travel from the centre of Cumilla to Blue Water Park.
Dinosaur Park can be reached from Cumilla city.
You can reach Cumilla’s EPZ and reach Fun Town a little south from Dhulipara Chowmuhani.
Shah Shuja Mosque-
The Shia Shuja Mosque has survived with its glory in the district of Cumilla for 350 years. Rickshaws or taxis can be taken from Cumilla city to go there.
Utkhara shrine can be reached from Cumilla city. It is known that Chittagong is known as the city of Three hundred and sixty auliyas, Sylhet is the city of three hundred and sixty auliyas in and Cumilla is known as the city of three hundred auliyas.
Cumilla is located 3 km west of Kompaniganj Bazar. Can go there by bus/taxi. The Gomti river originates in the hilly region of Amarpur, Udaipur, Sonaimuri in the Indian state of Tripura.
Where to spend the night
You can rent a hotel room starts from 200tk to as much as you can. Among them-. Hotel Q Palace, Amania Rest House, Hotel Dreamland, Hotel Nidrabagh, Masum Rest House, Hotel Melody, Sabu Resthouses, Hotel Midtown, Hotel Meraj, Hotel Al-Falah, Asik Residential Rest House are some famous hotels.
You can book a room – booking room.
Where to eat
- Cumilla food?>>>it has a special meal in the afternoon. Rasmalai(sweets) of Matri Bhandar has been the tradition of Cumilla for ages. That address is the only famous Rasmalai Services in Manoharpur. All other services are used as pseudonyms.
- Passengers from Dhaka to Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar always have to stop at various cafe restaurants in Cumilla.
- In the city, you can find food in different restaurants, cafes and hotels within a very short distance
Cumilla is famous for khadi textiles. Khadi cloth is available in various shopping malls in Cumilla. You should go to Cumilla
Where can I get a vehicle? is the counter? What do I do if I don’t get a vehicle? Can I have a vehicle at night? Can I have a place to stay? Will the restaurant be open?
- Whenever you come to Cumilla or wherever you live here, you can easily reach your destination. You will find counters at all stations. Each station has different bus counters. Contact them to find your destination address.
- To find your counter, contact us by collecting the bus counter number below and we will give you specific information.
- Transportation system at Cumilla is open 24 hours a day. You will get the bus address by scrolling down.
- At every station in Cumilla, you can easily find hotels to stay. You can book a room by entering the link above.
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Alexander P. Lee, also known as "Officer O." in the redacted Reynoso report, was an officer with the UC Davis Police Department. He gained notoriety for pepper spraying peaceful, sitting protesters during the UC Davis protest on Friday November 18, 2011 at the direction of John Pike. He had been known for some time as "the second officer."
Lee, along with John Pike, is no longer a UC Davis police officer. Lee's employment with the University ended on July 11, 2012. The SacBee has revealed that Pike was fired; it is unknown how Lee's employment ended. The Yolo County DA's office has yet to determine whether or not to file criminal charges against the officers.
Lee is an Aggie who graduated with an undergraduate degree in 2008. While Lee was a student, he worked for the police department for over two years as an Aggie Host. He was recognized with an award his senior year. He returned to campus in 2010 as a security guard and was later hired on as a full police officer. It's likely that Lee was the least experienced officer present at the events of November 18.
The Vanguard has implied that delay in releasing the Kroll/Reynoso report was partly due to shielding the name of this officer, even though it had been widely known and is now (with the publication of the Vanguard's article) even more widely known. It has also stated that the University of California is now arguing for the release of Alexander Lee's name, since it is now part of the public record, citing the Vanguard release of the name as evidence.
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I will not pretend that this is an easy piece for me to write. I was absolutely certain that Hillary Clinton would not just win but win handily, and equally certain that Donald Trump, were he to be elected, would be a disaster as president, both because I disagreed with his policies and because I felt that his combination of erratic decision making and ignorance about the basics of government spelled nearly certain catastrophe. I can only hope I will be proven as wrong about the second as I was about the first.
For me, this mistake is particularly stinging. My book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, is about outsider and inexperienced leaders (I call them unfiltered leaders) and how and when they take power. Most of it is a study of outsider presidents; one of its central arguments is that the United States is far more prone to electing such leaders than any other developed country. Donald Trump could have stepped from its pages as the ultimate example of an unfiltered leader. That should have made me able to foresee his victory. Instead, my fear of the damage he might do, ranging from the destruction of the global trading system to legislated discrimination against minorities, made complete my denial of even the possibility of him winning. That’s my only explanation, and it is neither an excuse nor a consolation.
Having been so wrong about this election, I hesitate to make many predictions. Compounding that problem, of course, is the enormous degree of uncertainty surrounding what Trump actually wants to do as president and how much he will defer to Congress on the details, and even the broad strokes, of his policy agenda. But thinking about leadership and politics is what I do, particularly about surprising victors like Trump, so for whatever they’re worth, here are my initial thoughts.
Leaders like Trump — outsiders who are not supported by the established elites — generally have high variance in their performance. They do things that no one else would do, and because of that, they do either very well or very poorly. Their impact is maximized when the constraints on their freedom of action are minimized, and that’s the situation Trump will be in until at least the 2018 midterm elections. Republican control of the House and Senate, presumably soon to be followed by the immediate appointment of a conservative Supreme Court justice, will give a radicalized Republican Party the unified control of the government that it has not had since 2007. Thus we should expect the Trump administration to initially have an almost entirely free hand in shaping government policy. This worries me deeply, but it also creates an opportunity for the country, if Trump chooses to capitalize on it.
Although Trump did not win the popular vote, the precedent set by George W. Bush’s administration in 2000 strongly suggests that this will not significantly restrain Trump or his party, although it may decrease his legitimacy in the eyes of some. That he was endorsed by many major office-holding Republicans during the campaign suggests that, now that he is backed by the full power of the presidency, there is likely to be little Republican opposition to his agenda. Even if Republican leaders wanted to stand up to him, Trump has just worked the greatest political miracle in American history. What Republican politician who values his or her career would be willing to face that?
Let’s begin with the challenges for the Trump administration and then move on to the opportunities. The immediate crisis that President-elect Trump may have to deal with, as President Obama did, is financial market volatility. If the turmoil is only momentary, then the situation may stabilize by the time Obama leaves office. It’s worrying, however, that the global economy and financial system still have not fully recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, so we have to at least think about the possibility of a much longer-lasting downturn.
Compounding this, Trump ran on a fiscal policy that combines very large tax cuts primarily for the wealthiest Americans and very large cuts in spending, particularly social spending, directed at the poorest taxpayers — a position Republicans in Congress have similarly advocated. He seems likely to match this with protectionist measures that may substantially decrease global trade. Depending on the size of the infrastructure spending Trump is planning (including his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border), there may be a significant negative impact on both U.S. and international growth prospects. Economic forecasting is as much a fool’s game as political forecasting just proved to be, but the risk that we will see a major global recession is higher today than it was yesterday, possibly exacerbated by uncertainty surrounding the capabilities and intentions of the American government. This risk would be further heightened if Trump follows through on his musings about defaulting on the U.S.’s debt.
In terms of foreign policy, we may see immediate reevaluations of their situation from Japan, South Korea, and other U.S. allies protected by American security guarantees. Japan and Korea may reconsider their reliance on the American nuclear deterrent and contemplate withdrawing from the Non-Proliferation Treaty and acquiring nuclear weapons of their own. It’s far too soon to know whether they will do that, but we can be sure that serious discussions of this possibility have already begun in Tokyo and Seoul, among other world capitals. The NATO alliance is in jeopardy too. It seems likely that Russia, perhaps the most extraordinary victor of yesterday’s events, will test NATO soon.
But questions of economic and foreign policy feel sterile today. On a deeper level, we will have to wrestle with the question of what America’s identity is and what the country stands for. As a presidential candidate, Trump suggested that he wants the American armed forces to adopt policies including the use of torture and the deliberate killing of civilians. Will Trump pursue these plans as president? If he does, I have no doubt that members of the military will obey the law. But the law can be changed, and with Republican control of Congress, it might well be. Members of the American military may soon have to face ethical tests unlike any they have ever contemplated — not how to disobey an illegal order but whether to obey an immoral one. Members of Homeland Security will have to ask themselves if they are willing to deport Syrian refugees who have already been admitted to the country. These are the first two challenges that come to mind. There may be others.
All of these are, of course, a worst-case scenario. If I believe my own research — and I suppose I should — President-elect Trump also has great potential. I will admit that it is hard for me to visualize a successful Trump presidency, given his history of failures and scams in business and his vague and often self-contradictory agenda. But surely a successful presidency is at least possible, and I pray that’s what we see. What would it look like? What opportunities are open to Trump that would not be open to a conventional president? Unfiltered leaders succeed when they utilize the skills and knowledge of their experienced rivals and when they have insights and take approaches to which conventional leaders are blind.
Trump’s victory speech was, in that sense, encouraging. He reached out to Hillary Clinton and her supporters in tones entirely different from those he used in the campaign. He did not use the speech to stump for policies that seemed to single out particular ethnicities and religions. In fact, the major policy proposal he seemed to support was a public works initiative — something that most Democrats would support, and, in fact, might support more than most Republicans.
Trump’s campaign clearly spoke to a segment of the American population that felt profoundly abandoned by the way American society has changed. Some of that had to do with issues of race and gender, but much of it did not. The levels of anger and disaffection must be addressed. If Trump can find ways to do so that do not sacrifice core American values, then I (and, I’m sure, most Americans) will applaud him. I won’t pretend that I’m optimistic. But the possibility exists, and I hope that he and his party pursue it.
At the very least, Trump’s presidency will break the increasingly bitter deadlock that has paralyzed American government for the last six years. For at least the next two years, the Republican Party owns it. They control the government. Having blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, they threw out more than two centuries of tradition about how the government functions in a wager to gain complete control of the American government — and they won. The scale of that achievement, both its potential and its risks, cannot be overstated. Whatever happens next, for good or for ill, is their responsibility. Seize it, and Republican dominance of American politics for a generation is likely all but assured. Fail, and the fall from so great a height will be terrible.
In the face of this catastrophic defeat, Democrats have a number of obligations. The Democratic Party is in the weakest institutional position it has ever held in the history of the United States. If Trump succeeds as president, Democrats have no chance at a near-term comeback. But if he fails, what should Democrats do? The party should certainly run better candidates. It should certainly try to position itself better to counteract its Electoral College disadvantage. Far beyond that, though, it needs to commit to making a play for every American, not just trying to assemble a minimal winning demographic coalition.
The Democratic Party should commit to running credible candidates in every single one of the 435 Congressional districts and supporting every one of them with field offices that can report in on the real state of affairs on the ground. Just as important, it needs to learn how to speak in ways that address problems of racial justice without alienating white voters. This is certainly a difficult task, but President Obama’s 54% approval rating testifies that it is not impossible.
I can’t tell you what the future will bring. Countries are not what they espouse; they are what they do. The American creed has inspired billions of people around the world. Even if we have not always lived up to it ourselves, I have never doubted that it is real and powerful and that it can carry us through the darkest of times. We don’t know what will happen next. No one does. But if you had asked me yesterday morning what I believe, I would have told you that I believe in God, I believe in my parents, and I believe in the United States of America. However stunned I am by what happened last night, I still believe. | <urn:uuid:b3c9b1ea-f376-42d0-a866-4aa226207186> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hbr.org/2016/11/trump-is-about-to-test-our-theory-of-when-leaders-actually-matter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9751 | 2,162 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Sponsor and status
Sponsor. Representative for California's 19th congressional district. Democrat.
Last Updated: Mar 19, 2021
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May 16, 2019
Earlier Version — Agreed To
This activity took place on a related bill, H.Res. 30 (116th).
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The resolution was passed in a vote in the House. A simple resolution is not voted on in the other chamber and does not have the force of law. The vote was without objection so no record of individual votes was made.
H.Res. 257 is a simple resolution in the United States Congress.
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Resolutions numbers restart every two years. That means there are other resolutions with the number H.Res. 257. This is the one from the 117th Congress.
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Requiring each Member, officer, and employee of the House of Representatives to complete a program of training in workplace rights and responsibilities each session of each Congress, and for other purposes, H.R. Res. 257, 117th Cong. (2021).
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The Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) reports a flood outlook is in effect for the Credit Valley area, including Brampton.
CVC says the Surface Water Monitoring Centre of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry forecasts 20 to 40 mm of rain between April 29 and April 30, 2020.
At this time the flows and levels are in the seasonal range, but heavy rain might make for high runoff in all area watercourses. This means minor flooding may occur in low-lying areas alongside the Credit River and the river’s main tributaries.
Because of this potential flooding, streams, rivers and other areas might become treacherous, especially around culverts, bridges and dams. This means people should stay away from these dangerous areas, in particular keeping children and pets away.
The Watershed Conditions Statement for Flood Outlook is in effect through Friday, May 1 at minimum, and may be extended if necessary.
CVC says it will continue to closely monitor the water levels and general weather outlook, and if you want to get a look at CVC’s real-time monitoring you can check it out here. | <urn:uuid:cb850d4a-73f6-42a2-8ed8-049cb4724e5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bramptonist.com/a-flood-outlook-is-in-effect-for-brampton/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938872 | 228 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Volunteer to Give a Voice to a Child
Nobody longs for a safe and loving family more than a child who is need of protection from the courts due to abuse or neglect. As a court appointed special advocate (CASA) volunteer, you are empowered by the courts to help make this dream a reality. You will not only bring positive change to the lives of these vulnerable children, but also their children and generations to come. And in doing so, you will enrich your life as well.
What do CASA for Kids Volunteers Do?
Volunteers get to know the child by talking with everyone in that child’s life: parents and relatives, foster parents, teachers, medical professionals, attorneys, social workers and others. They use the information they gather to inform judges and others of what the child needs and what will be the best permanent home for them.
Who can be a CASA for Kids Volunteer?
A CASA for Kids volunteer is an ordinary individual at least 21 years of age with a high school diploma. Volunteers are chosen for their objectivity, competence and commitment to children.
CASA for Kids Volunteers complete 30 hours of training prior to receiving an assignment. During this training, CASAs learn about things like the Juvenile Courts proceedings, issues of abuse and neglect, cultural diversity, trauma, and self care. Your CASA for Kids Case Manager will introduce you to the court process by observing cases within the courts. They will be there throughout your time as a volunteer to offer support, input, and encouragement.
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2. Complete the CASA for Kids Volunteer Application
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The choice of wiring system for industrial, commercial, and domestic installations depends on the structure, application, supply voltage, load, appearance, and cost. Below the different types of electrical conduits are explained.
Different types of electrical conduit
The most common types of electrical conduits are:
Rigid metal conduit (RMC)
In this method, all wires are enclosed in a pipe called a conduit. The pipe is usually steel, sometimes aluminum, or brass (especially for swimming pool lighting). Conduit differs from a water pipe in that the interior surface is carefully prepared so wires can be pulled into it with a minimum of effort and without damage to their insulation. Also, the chemical composition of the steel in the conduit is carefully controlled so it will bend easily. Steel conduit usually has a galvanized or similar finish inside and outside. Some galvanized steel conduits and some aluminum conduits have an additional enamel or plastic coating for further protection against corrosion.
Intermediate metal conduit (IMC)
This is similar to ordinary rigid metal conduit and, size for size has the same outside diameter but thinner walls. That makes the internal area in square inches a little more than in ordinary conduit, and that size difference often makes a difference in allowable wire fill. IMC is installed in the same way as ordinary RMC. The threads are identical and RMC fittings can be used without modification. It is more likely to kink due to the reduced wall thickness, making it less tolerant of conduit hickeys. Conduit benders work very well. The only real application difference between the two products is that RMC is made in all trade sizes up to 6 in., but IMC goes only up to 4 in.
Both RMC and IMC can support boxes that have threaded hubs, or conventional sheet metal boxes to which hubs identified for this purpose were added.
Electrical metallic tubing (EMT)
A raceway that is similar to rigid metal conduit but of thin wall construction is called “electrical metallic tubing” (abbreviated EMT).
It is made of galvanized steel or occasionally of aluminum, either of which may have additional plastic or other protective coatings. The rules that apply to rigid metal conduits—such as the number of wires permitted, bending, supports—apply also to EMTs. It is made only in sizes through 4 in. It must be supported within 3 ft of every box, cabinet, or fitting, and additionally at intervals not exceeding 10 ft, regardless of size. If there isn’t any structural element available for support, the first point of support can be as far as 5 ft from the termination, provided the intervening tubing consists of an uncut length of EMT. In addition, an unbroken length of EMT can be fished. This may seem odd, but there are cases where you may be able to poke a length of tubing down into a wall cavity.
The internal diameter in the smaller sizes is the same as in rigid conduit, but in the larger sizes, it is a little larger. However, because the walls are so thin, EMT must never be threaded in the field (there is a patent in existence for a factory-threaded product, but it isn’t presently in production). Instead, all joints and connections are made with threadless fittings that hold the material through pressure.
Flexible metal conduit (FMC)
This material is often called “flex” or “greenfield.” It is similar in appearance to armored cable but is larger in diameter since it is an empty raceway and wires must be pulled into it after it is installed. It is available in steel or aluminum in both normal and reduced wall thickness. The aluminum and reduced wall steel products require care to prevent separating the convolutions, and they require the use of appropriate terminal fittings evaluated with these forms. Try to use connectors that clamp the entire circumference of the raceway in order to more reliably distribute pull-out forces, particularly in areas where the flex may be disturbed after installation.
Liquidtight flexible metal conduit (LFMC)
This material is similar to an ordinary flexible metal conduit, plus it has an outer liquid-tight nonmetallic sunlight-resistant jacket. It is commonly called “Sealtite,” which is the trade name of one manufacturer. In order to properly seat the connector, take care to cut the conduit squarely. Part of the connector goes inside the conduit, making a good connection for grounding continuity; part of it goes over the outside, forming a watertight seal. The plastic content in the outer jacket limits the amount of heat it will stand. In general, size your wires so the current they will carry does not exceed the 60°C ampacity column limits because higher temperatures will soften the jacket. You can exceed those limits if the product is marked accordingly. The product is made and can be used in the smaller 3⁄8-in. trade size for applications similar to those where 3⁄8-in. flexible metal conduit can be used (and with the same wire fill).
Liquidtight flexible nonmetallic conduit (LFNC)
This material has the same function as its metallic precursor but has a completely nonmetallic wall. It is available in three forms, two of which are relatively uncommon—the “A” type with reinforcement between the core and cover, and the “C” type having a corrugated wall without additional reinforcement. The “B” type, with integral reinforcement within the conduit wall, has become a very popular wiring method. This type does not have the restriction to 6 ft (unless a longer length is required for flexibility, a relatively unusual circumstance) that the other types share. As in the case of the metallic version, you have to be sure the enclosed wires don’t run above 60°C unless the product is marked accordingly. Both this product and the metallic version can be used outdoors, and even directly buried if listed and marked for this duty. Where exposed to sunlight, it must be marked for this duty as well.
Rigid nonmetallic conduits (formerly, Type RNC)
A rigid nonmetallic conduit is immune to conventional corrosive influences, although some industrial chemicals will attack it. There are several forms of this product for use underground. One form of underground conduit, a black, high-density polyethylene, can be supplied in continuous lengths on a reel; this form can also be shipped with preinstalled conductors. This form will burn and can’t be used in exposed locations or in buildings. However, the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) version can be used above and below grade and is the predominant type used. Recently a form of fiberglass has been successfully listed for use above grade, but it is comparatively difficult to terminate and its use is only a tiny fraction of PVC.
Electrical nonmetallic tubing (ENT)
As RNC is the nonmetallic counterpart to RMC, electrical nonmetallic tubing is the counterpart to EMT. It is made of the identical PVC in trade sizes up to 2 in., but in corrugated wall construction that allows it to be bent by hand without the application of heat. It can be supplied in continuous lengths from a reel. It is even available as a prewired assembly with specified conductor combinations already pulled in place. However, it is not a cable, and it is subject to all the normal restrictions for raceways, including the 360-deg bend rule. It must be supported every 3 ft and within 3 ft of terminations. It cannot be used outdoors or for direct burial; however, it can be used in cases where it runs in concrete, even if the concrete is below grade. | <urn:uuid:1c8ff8db-6a58-4761-b0e2-883dff7388c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.electricalterminology.com/electrical-conduit-types/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93968 | 1,596 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Whether you're having issues with coming out, problems in your romantic relationship or just general concerns about managing stress in your life; finding a therapist that is familiar and knowledgeable about the challenges of the the LGBT community can be crucial to a successful outcome of the therapeutic process.
Through the years the LGBT community has experienced cultural acceptance that has lead to the right to get married and adopt children just like their heterosexual counterparts. Despite these advances for the LGBT community, there is still a level of social stigma that makes living as a minority a source of stress. Some of the issues affecting the LGBT community:
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I usually have no trouble in keeping emotions suppressed when I’m giving a talk or sharing a testimony, and rarely get choked up, but today was different. It wasn’t even a Church talk — it was a talk to a group of Hmong people and some local Wisconsin natives at a celebration of National Lao-Hmong Recognition Day held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Lake Winnebago Area Mutual Aid Association. I was one of two keynote speakers for the event. I was asked to speak for an hour on the history of the Hmong people, the reasons for their coming to the US, and their tragic involvement in the Vietnam War, fighting for the US in a secret war in Laos that cost them everything. A native Hmong missionary, Elder Vue, was there as my guest to translate for me. The talk was going along well until I read the following passage from Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992, by Jane Hamilton-Merritt (Indiana University Press, 1993, pp. 220-221):
Determined to keep the enemy short of supplies, [General] Vang Pao had units staked out along all supply routes, particularly along Route 7 and in the Ban Ban area. Vang Kai, who had joined the Hmong “special forces” a year earlier at age 16, and who would eventually gain the rank of lieutenant, was a member of one of these 100-man units. His unit operated near Lat Sen, not far from Ban Ban. Vang Kai knew it was his duty to rescue American pilots. The order, as he understood it, was to make any sacrifice to get them out. There was never any quibbling about this order. He and other Hmong considered it their duty to save Americans.
NVA [North Vietnamese Army] forces surrounded Vang Kai’s unit. Radios screeched with frightened men calling for “air.” American jets responded, swooping in on enemy positions with bombs and strafing runs. During one day of heavy fighting, Vang Kai noticed smoke coming from an American jet. “Two pilots parachuted. Everyone, including the enemy, could see them. As we watched, an urgent message came over our radio: ‘Get the American pilots before the Vietnamese!’ Quickly coordinates were given to our radio man. It was our turn to rescue Americans.
“Since there were so many Vietnamese in this area, we knew we would have to fight to get there. We knew we had to be fast to reach the Americans before the Vietnamese did. Our rescue party of 100 started to run. We ran! Fighting! Running! Fighting! More than an hour of running and fighting. We reached the area first, but the Vietnamese were chasing us. One American pilot was hurt from the waist down; the other was also wounded, but could walk. We could not secure the area for the rescue chopper to get in. There were too many Vietnamese shooting and closing in on us. They would kill us all. We must take the Americans and run. We took turns carrying the one who could not walk. He was big and heavy. We ran, carrying him, until the two men carrying him couldn’t run any more. Then two other Hmong would pick him up and run. We ran like this, carrying one wounded American and helping the other. Still the Vietnamese chased us, firing. For several hours, we ran and fought.
“Finally, we outran the Vietnamese and got to the Lat Sen position. We secured the airstrip long enough to call in a chopper to take out the wounded pilots. When we got to Lat Sen, there were only 40 men left in our rescue party. The rest were lost.”
Years later when I asked Lt. Vang Kai, who was then living in Montana as a refugee, about the extraordinary loss of Hmong life to save the two Americans, he explained: “When the Americans arrived in Laos, the Hmong respected them and called them ‘sir.’ We were friends. We had a ba-sii ceremony for every American who came to live and work with us. We did everything we could to help the Americans. When the Americans were in trouble, we Hmong made a path with our blood to save them.”
The idea of 60 Hmong soldiers giving their lives to rescue two American pilots really hit me. I choked up and had to pause for a few seconds in this talk. The Spock-like side of me beamed up to some other planet while I was left to struggle with a wave of emotion all by myself. But the Hmong people there understood. I saw several wiping away tears themselves. They knew the price that their people had paid for America.
Over 100 American pilots were rescued in such desperate operations, and thousands more American lives were saved by the courageous fighting of the Hmong irregulars and brave Hmong pilots in the heavily bombed hills of Laos – a war that was kept secret from the American public for many years. Over 100,000 Hmong people would die as a result of the US bringing them into the conflict with the promise that we would protect them and never leave them should the Communists turn on them for supporting us. It was a promise that was broken when America suddenly pulled out, leaving a broken people to fend for themselves against vengeful, genocidal maniacs equipped with tanks, planes, and chemical warfare agents like Soviet-made “yellow rain.” To this day, thousands of survivors languish in refugee camps in Thailand or struggle in the jungles of Laos, Thailand, or Vietnam. America owes a great debt of gratitude for their service to us, yet many Americans just think of them as unwelcome foreigners who are here to exploit our welfare system, utterly ignorant of the reasons behind their arrival in the US.
The plight of the Hmong people continues to choke me up sometimes. We have about 150 Hmong people on the LDS membership rolls in the Appleton area, and it was my privilege to serve them as their bishop for five years when they were still part of the Appleton Second Ward and then for a few more years in other capacities when they were put into their own branch. They’ve been through a lot, and the challenges have not gone away. Their first branch president here is now a Baptist minister who has drawn many away from the Church, if that’s any hint at the challenges they have faced. Painful, painful memories – but wonderful, wonderful people.
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Although Donald Trump campaigned on a platform critiquing the unrestrained use of military warfare — most notably in Iraq — he has scrapped that posture since coming to office, favoring bellicose rhetoric over diplomacy. Trump has pushed to increase the military budget and demonstrated little interest in scaling back US intervention. In recent weeks, he approved the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, and committed more US troops to the Middle East.
As Iran and the broader region consume Trump’s foreign policy focus, the opposition in Venezuela is making a bid to attract his attention by tying President Nicolás Maduro to Iran and Hezbollah.
A year ago, Trump believed he could easily depose Maduro’s government and bring opposition leader Juan Guaidó into the Miraflores Palace. Trump recognized Guaidó as the official president of Venezuela and colluded on several schemes to push the Venezuelan military to side with Guaidó and remove Maduro. When these efforts failed, the US government continued to sanction the Venezuelan government and threatened countries and foreign businesses that worked with Maduro’s administration.
But Maduro hung on, and at this point, the United States has largely played its hand. Trump himself appears to have come to terms with the fact that Maduro is a “tough cookie” who might not leave office so quietly. Trump may sporadically rail against Maduro and issue sanctions, but the Venezuelan president maintains the loyalty of the military and has proven durable.
Thus the new strategy of linking Maduro to the Iranian government and Hezbollah. Last weekend, Guaidó traveled to Colombia to meet with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo at a counterterrorism conference. The express purpose of the trip was to allow Guaidó to present evidence to the United States that the Maduro government is conspiring with Hezbollah, a political party and military organization supported by the Iranian government but designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
In a January 20 press conference with Secretary Pompeo, Guaidó asserted that Venezuelans live under “a dictatorship with links with the ELN [a left-wing militant group in Colombia] and Hizbollah and who has not been ashamed to infiltrate the different organizations in murdering political leaders in Venezuela.” Pompeo sounded the same alarm, insisting that “whether it’s the ELN or the FARC, there are elements of Hizbollah throughout many countries in South America.”
Pompeo has long bought into such claims, asserting last February, in a Fox News interview, that “Hezbollah has active cells — the Iranians are impacting the people of Venezuela and throughout South America.” As early as under Hugo Chávez’s administration, US state, US military, and Venezuelan opposition members leveled unsubstantiated charges that Venezuela was actively working with Hezbollah and providing safe haven to its members. The goal was clear: give the United States a legal pretext to designate Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism and delegitimize Chávez’s government.
The Venezuelan opposition is now cribbing from the same playbook. Recognizing that Trump may be less interested in immediately deposing Maduro, the Venezuelan opposition is seeking to capitalize on Washington’s escalating tensions with Tehran. Just this week, Carlos Vecchio, Guaidó’s self-proclaimed ambassador to the United States, told the Washington Examiner that “we don’t have to wait for tragedy to strike to act” on Hezbollah’s alleged presence in Venezuela.
Much like with Soleimani and his alleged imminent attacks, both Pompeo and Guaidó offered no evidence to support any of their claims. It is unclear what “political murders” Guaidó was referring to in his press conference, and how and why Hezbollah might be involved. So, too, with Pompeo’s puzzling, unsubstantiated claim that Hezbollah is linked with the ELN and the FARC (another left-wing Colombian militant group).
At the same time, these muddled linkages are beside the point. Shaky claims have never stopped US leaders from assassinating individuals abroad or providing a pretense for military warfare. If US leaders and their allies can formulate a narrative to justify their actions abroad, they’ll do so. Drone striking an Iranian government leader visiting a sovereign country might have seemed inconceivable to some — yet it happened, and the news cycle has already moved on.
But we should be clear: what Venezuelan opposition leaders are pushing, aided by their conspiracy theorist ally Mike Pompeo, is brazen, desperate, and dangerous. Over the past year, they’ve encouraged military uprisings, external sanctions, and international isolation. US leaders in both parties have called on the Venezuelan military to defect and depose the Maduro government. Trump might not really care what happens in Venezuela, but many around him certainly do — people like Senator Marco Rubio and Trump adviser Mauricio Claver-Carone. They’d love to continue the United States’ history of overthrowing Latin American leaders.
The Venezuelan opposition has realized it has lost momentum. Its new play is a last-ditch effort to bring Washington riding back into the country. As desperation ensues, we shouldn’t put anything past either of them. | <urn:uuid:1cea9d89-b312-4bd1-acff-391db7271e07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jacobin.com/2020/01/venezuela-hezbollah-trump-pompeo-maduro-guaido | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951437 | 1,079 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Muslims around the world recently began celebrating the month-long holiday of Ramadan. This holy month is considered one of the Five Pillars of Islam, in which adult Muslims are accustomed to fasting from sunrise to sunset. This year is especially unique as widespread debate has ensued over whether fasting is appropriate amid the Corona crisis.
A cultural tradition that has developed over time, particularly in the Arab Muslim world, is that families watch television shows that were produced specifically for the month of Ramadan. After breaking the daily fast, families gather to watch the highly-anticipated dramas. The content is typically family-oriented, and each episode is aired once during the holy month.
The Ramadan television shows serve as a hallmark of the holiest month of the year. It is a phenomenon that is emblematic of the principles underlying the observance of Ramadan—sanctity, community, reflection and joy.
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In recent years, however, the Ramadan television shows have been sucked into the region’s political milieu. For...
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Having finished building the biosensor, we were able to efficiently determine psicose concentration. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of our project, we then needed to improve our sugar production by using our biosensor to select the best enzyme from a bank of D-psicose 3-epimerase (Dpe) mutants in order to maximize production.
Enzyme engineering currently relies on computation followed by directed mutagenesis on specific area of the protein. This maximizes the probability of improving activity for a defined number of mutants. But this approach restricts possible random conformational changes, with the potential to improve catalytic sites. But random mutagenesis requires the researcher to screen a much larger number of mutants, hence the need to use an efficient screening system, like the one we designed.
To achieve this, we first had to engineer our biosensor to allow insertion of the mutants into the vector, then construct the bank, and finally screen all the clones.
Mutant Drop Zone
Relying on the expertise we developed on Golden Gate assembly during the course of our project, we chose to use this strategy to insert our mutants into the plasmid. For this, we engineered the Mutant Drop Zone (MDZ). This short sequence (320 bp) works following the same principles as the Universal Biosensing chassis (BBa_K2448023 or BBa_K2448024): standardized fusion sites for Golden Gate that allow quick and efficient insertion. The mutant drop zone can also be used with traditional restriction-ligation but loses its high throughput ability.
The mutant drop zone is designed to fit between the second terminator of our biosensors and the iGEM suffix (Figure 1).
Construction of the Enzyme Mutants Bank
There are many methods available to build a bank of enzymatic mutants, depending on what you are looking for. We chose to use Error Prone PCR because it favors mutations during the elongation phase, thanks to a mutagenic buffer (for example imbalance in dNTPs concentrations) and low fidelity polymerases. This technique remains more efficient than chemical methods which rely on reagents to modify the sequence and is also safer for the user, as chemical mutagens are highly toxic. Moreover, it is an a priori free method compared to saturating mutagenesis like NNK.
To build the bank of D-psicose 3-epimerase from C. cellulolyticum (BBa_K2448021) mutants, we used the protocol described by Wilson & Keefe . This PCR has been performed on C. cellulolyticum Dpe gBlocks provided by IDT. Using custom primers, we were able to obtain variants with a theoretical average of 8 amino acids mutated according to , number of cycles and length of our sequence. We also performed a high fidelity PCR on the gBlocks in order to get our positive control, the non-mutated Dpe.
We then inserted the sequences in the mutant drop zone of the Psicose biosensor pPsiA-PsiR from Agrobacterium tumefaciens (BBa_K2448025) with downstream the Mutant Drop Zone using Golden Gate assembly since BsmBI sites were present in the overhangs of the primers (Figure 2). We transformed the Golden Gate product into E. coli K12 DH5α, even though it is not a strain designed for protein expression, it’s a well-known strain and it has been used to characterize the biosensors.
The screening of the bank has been performed following the protocol described in the ‘Protocol’ session of our wiki. Essentially, we cultivated all the clones present on the plates after the transformation and used a 96 well plate along with a plate reader to measure the fluorescence in each well. All tests were performed in technical duplicates. Fluorescence measurements (mCherry) have been normalized on cell density (OD600nm). In order to best evaluate enzyme activity, we have determined the optimal concentration of inducer, here the fructose (See details on the Bioproduction Part). Therefore, all screening process have been conducted with 50 g/L of fructose per well for 9 to 10 hours as this is the optimal measurement time according to our biosensor characterization (See details on the Biosensors Part).
According to raw data, fluorescence of the positive control containing the wt Dpe (BBa_K2448035) is around 4500 arbitrary units. Biosensor characterization allowed us to correlate fluorescence and psicose concentration. Then we can estimate that psicose produced by the wt Dpe enzyme to be around 10 g/L which is coherent with measurements perform in bioproduction (See details on the Bioproduction Part).
Figure 3 presents the outcome of our screening process. The most important observation is that 6 mutants showed an activity superior to the positive control, with 2 of them displaying more then 30% increase of psicose production. This represents 1,5% of the bank population, which is a very promising rate. As expected, the majority of the clones carry mutants with relatively low activity compared to wt Dpe, most of them showing an activity between 10 to 25% of wt and 46 clones exhibiting at least 75% of wt activity.
The results in Figure 3 show that our screening process works under realistic conditions. Indeed, the biosensor we developed is able to give accurate assessment of the psicose production on positive control clones carrying the wild-type enzyme, but also on bacteria carrying mutant versions of Dpe. This screening process also allowed us to screen around 400 mutants and discover at least 2 enzymes with potentially improved activity according to the fluorescence data.
Short Term Perspectives
From this point, we should recover the plasmid in order to sequence the mutant enzymes, and extract the sequence by PCR to put it in an expression vector. This would allow us to thoroughly assess its activity (See details on the Bioproduction Part).
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In order to bring this process to its full potential a much larger number of clones would be required to be screened. There are also other possibilities to improve on the process. First, this process could be strongly improved with the use of a flow-cytometer in order to quickly and efficiently sort the cells depending on their fluorescence. The use of such a device would empower this protein engineering method and make it high throughput. Then, running through more cycles of screening and bioproduction, to improve the D-Psicose 3-epimerase, would allow us to select mutants with higher activity, reaching unprecedented biocatalysis yields.
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[Elon Musk in 2009]: I’m certainly… I’m no saint. But I generally try to do the right thing.
[Stephen Colbert Interviewing in 2015]: Are you sincerely trying to save the world?
[Elon Musk]: I’m trying to do good things.
[Tony Stark to Elon Musk in “Iron Man”]: I’ve got an idea for an electric jet.
[Elon Musk in 2009]: Impossible? My middle name I suppose.
Second Thought: Elon Musk has a pretty big pitch: he’s the “good” billionaire using his wealth to protect the future of humanity. It’s gotten him something most billionaires don’t have: a fanbase.
[Elon Musk in 2021]: I’ve never signed a life-size version of me.
[Fan to Elon in 2018]: First, I want to say I love you.
Second Thought: A 2021 poll showed Musk with a 50% approval rating. Way higher than his fellow billionaires. This popularity has done very well for him.
[News Clip]: Musk is now the seventh richest man in the world.
[News Clip]: Musk is now the fourth richest man in the world.
[Jimmy Kimmel]: Elon Musk is now the world’s richest person again, according to Forbes.
Second Thought: We took a deep look into Musk’s entire career: court documents, SEC filings, and interviews to break down the story Elon tells about himself and how he leveraged it to accumulate wealth and power.
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Let’s skip Musk’s South Africa childhood. Critics say he inherited his money from his father’s African emerald mine, and Elon says that’s not true. He claims he rejected his abusive father’s ill-begotten wealth and came to North America as a teen with 2000 dollars to put himself through college. He knew he wanted to work with the internet.
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Second Thought: These disagreements led to the deal falling apart. This is a pattern for Elon: a need for sole credit and control. Zip2 sold and Elon made 22 million dollars, which he invested in his next project.
[Elon Musk in 1999]: I’ve sunk the great majority of my net worth into x.com, which is the new banking and mutual funds company. So this is an ATM, what we’re going to do is transform the traditional banking industry.
Second Thought: That quote defines Musk’s strategy: promise revolutionary technology, and highlight how he’s risking his own money. He also points out a key element of his success: wooing investors.
[Elon Musk in 1999]: Raising $50 million is a matter of making a series of phone calls.
Second Thought: As x.com took shape, investors and the board didn’t think Musk had the experience to be CEO, so they brought in Bill Harris. Elon’s co-founders were also unhappy. One accused Elon of promising the sun, moon, and the stars to the media when there was nothing there. Future SEC filings for the company even mention a lack of proprietary technology as a corporate risk.
The tech they did have was problematic. For example, there was a bug allowing bad actors to transfer funds from any other account in the nation’s banking system with just an account number, a major security flaw. A co-founder was so displeased with Musk he left and took many employees with him. Musk’s reaction? “We’ll hire more people.” Eventually, Musk pushed out CEO Bill Harris and replaced him with himself, to “centralize authority.”
X.com merged with a competitor, Peter Thiel’s ‘Confinity.’ Confinity owned a piece of technology called PayPal. Musk and Thiel got glowing press coverage, but because PayPal came out of Confinity, a lot of the coverage centered Thiel. According to Ashlee Vance’s 2015 biography, Musk kept championing the X.com brand, while most everyone else favored PayPal.
Eventually, the company scrapped x.com to focus on PayPal, a decision the press gave Musk credit for.
But mutiny was brewing. The executive Roelof Botha alleged Musk was hiding serious financial issues from the board. Employees put together a coup. They petitioned the board to fire Musk, and it worked. Musk was fired and replaced with Thiel. Botha said it was just in time. “It would have killed the company if Elon had stayed on as CEO for six more months.” Regardless, Musk hits it big when PayPal eventually sells: $180 million dollars. He had been laying the path for his next move since college.
[Elon Musk in 2009]: When I was in college, there were three areas that I thought would most affect the future of humanity: the internet, the transition to a sustainable energy and transportation sector, and space exploration, in particular, the extension of life to multiple planets. With the capital I got from the sale of PayPal I was able to go into both those areas.
Second Thought: Enter SpaceX and Tesla. Musk wasn’t with Tesla at the start. He invested in a company that already existed, but most media calls him a founder. What happened? We spoke with Edward Niedermeyer, author of Ludicrous, an in-depth examination of Tesla Motors.
Edward Niedermeyer: Elon Musk was not one of the original founders of Tesla. There were these two guys Martin Eberhard and Mark Tarpenning, who had actually incorporated the company. Musk came in because he wanted to do the same thing.
But, like with his previous companies, Elon was focused on publicity, specifically public perception of himself as the visionary founder.
Edward: Part and parcel of being a hot startup, right, is you have to have that sort of charismatic visionary founder. But it wasn’t Elon Musk. It was Martin Eberhard. Eberhard even had a Blackberry ad where he’s being presented just like Steve Jobs as this visionary tech guy. And I think that was exactly the kind of thing that Elon Musk really wanted out of Tesla as much as anything else.
He sent an email saying, like, this is embarrassing. You know, I’m an important part of this company. And I want to make sure that I’m included in the coverage. And in these emails that leaked it, it makes it very clear that being that guy, being the visionary figurehead of this company was really, really important to him.
So shortly after this whole exchange and Musk getting really angry about his lack of prominence in the media coverage, he went and wrote the top secret Master Plan blog post. And this was really Musk’s sort of coming out party positioning himself as really that visionary founder for Tesla. One of the interesting things is there’s really not a lot in that top secret master plan, strategically anyway, that Tesla wasn’t kind of already planning on doing.
Second Thought: It all culminated in Eberhard’s ouster and a series of lawsuits, leading to a settlement with an important stipulation: Musk could legally call himself a ‘co-founder’ of the company. Musk knew that to acquire more power he needed to be called a co-founder on paper. Musk has long insisted he never wanted to be CEO of Tesla, but after Eberhard’s ouster:
Edward: They brought in two different new CEOs before Musk himself eventually took over.
Second Thought: But Musk took over at a rough time: the 2008 financial crisis. Tesla needed an influx of capital. Musk’s usual strategies wouldn’t work.
[Elon Musk in 2009]: The sources of capital that would normally provide that such as the public markets, the debt markets, they’re in shambles
Second Thought: But a year earlier, Congress passed a 25 billion dollar loan program for the Department of Energy, part of which would go to developing low-emission cars. Musk went on a media blitz trying to convince the public that Tesla deserved the loan.
[Elon Musk in 2009]: I think it’s helpful to let your congressman, and senator know that you think companies like Tesla should get a portion of the ATVM program.
Second Thought: But public approval wouldn’t be enough. At the time, Tesla only had 1500 cars on the road and hadn’t truly proven that they could produce cars en masse or significantly reduce emissions. Tesla was stuck in a Catch 22. They needed to show they had the support of other corporate investors, specifically traditional automakers like Daimler, the makers of Mercedes and other cars, but Daimler wouldn’t be interested in investing if they didn’t get the loan.
Edward: He announced that the loan was approved before Tesla had even submitted a complete application for the loan, let alone received any kind of actual approval for it. By saying that this was a done deal, gave Daimler the confidence to partner with them. And having that partnership with a century old, one of the biggest names in the car business, in turn, gave the government the confidence in Tesla’s viability, to then ultimately give them the loan. And so it’s this, you know, circular trick that Elon plays.
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Second Thought: Most US companies don’t allow their executives to take out loans against their stock, but Tesla does. And Musk has taken advantage, borrowing millions of dollars for his personal coffers, using his Tesla stock as collateral. Loans don’t count as income in the eyes of the IRS or the public. But even without the loans, in 2021 Musk made 18,043x the average Tesla employee. Tesla justifies that wild ratio to investors in SEC filings by arguing Elon’s worth it:
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Second Thought: But he’s really using that wealth and power as all billionaires do: not to save humanity, but to crush it. He squashes worker power.
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Second Thought: And now that he has both power and a soapbox, his dangerous anti-government political beliefs are even more important. Previously, Elon was a liberal darling. Obama’s 2015 State of the Union seemed to be written for Musk.
[Obama in 2015 State of the Union]: Solar power…Tesla…re-energized space program…astronauts to Mars.
Second Thought: But as soon as Dems questioned Musk, he changed. Lashing out and announcing support for far-right figures and ideas. He likes the politicians willing to support his myth and let him continue building wealth at the expense of the rest of us. He isn’t the only billionaire doing so, but his skill at myth building and his massive popularity make him the most dangerous. Musk tells a story of a self-made billionaire using his money to save the world and enrich humanity, but he really built his wealth on the backs of others to enrich himself. | <urn:uuid:2973d954-dd06-4e7f-8adb-f439252db260> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perfectunion.us/how-elon-musk-got-rich-the-230-billion-myth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971612 | 3,386 | 1.507813 | 2 |
According to the RBC news website, the European Union’s planned carbon border tax may cost Russian exporters with a significant carbon footprint at least 1.1 billion euros per year, the largest penalty of any country.
The border fee, suggested as part of the EU’s grand goals to combat climate change and become the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050, would be charged on nations who do not take similarly dramatic efforts to reduce their own emissions. It would be brought in gradually beginning in 2026 and reaching full effect in 2035.
According to RBC’s calculations, Russia will likely pay more taxes to the EU than any other country.
According to RBC, the levy will apply to approximately 7 billion euros in Russian exports, or 7.3 percent of Russia’s overall exports to the EU in 2020. The tax is estimated to be 16% of the value of imported products, or 1.1 billion euros.
According to RBC’s calculations, the border fee will have the greatest impact on Russian iron and steel exports. RBC’s estimations were deemed cautious by Russia’s Economic Development Ministry.
While Russia, the world’s largest energy exporter, has pledged to lowering emissions under the Paris Agreement, it has been chastised for using 1990 as the baseline year, when the Soviet Union’s collapse ended almost all heavy industry.
As a result, while being the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter today, Russia’s necessary emissions reductions are significantly smaller than those of other countries.
In addition, the government intends to boost its fossil fuel production in the next years with an eye on the Asian market, while renewables have had a sluggish acceptance.
Russia’s finance minister warned this month that the government must brace itself for significant income losses as a result of the worldwide drive toward renewable energy and the resulting drop in demand for fossil fuels. | <urn:uuid:f6e075d2-c028-42e3-b420-1bb5caa45e13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://russiabusinesstoday.com/environment/eu-carbon-tax-may-cost-russian-exporters-1-1-billion-euros-per-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947477 | 396 | 2.828125 | 3 |
As the telecom industry transitions from LTE to LTE-Advanced, LTE-Advanced Pro, and ultimately 5G, which is still going through 3GPP’s standardization process, the telecom workforce, particularly field technicians responsible for building and re-building networks, will also need to evolve.
5G promises multi-gigabit per second speeds and incredibly low latency in support of enhanced mobile broadband, the internet of things and other services that will be tailored for the specific set of needs for various vertical industries and enterprises. And, while the widespread commercial availability of 5G is still years away, carriers are continuing to invest in upgrades to LTE networks by introducing features such as multiple-input, multiple-out (MIMO) and 256 QAM, for instance. At the same time, service providers are also investing heavily in deploying and obtaining fiber optic resources, and adding significant network density through increasingly advanced small cell deployments.
The point here is that the network is changing and becoming more complicated. For the techs that install and validate network infrastructure, this new landscape is significantly more complex than the type of macro deployments that dominated previous generations of mobile networks.
Marquis Dorais, Fronthaul Product Line Manager at EXFO, discussed this topic in a recent RCR Wireless News editorial webinar titled “FTTx: C-RAN, fronthaul and remote radio heads,” which is available to view here. “The mobile technician,” Dorais said, “they need to become actually experts and cover multiple technologies.” He name checked fiber, optical, CPRI, RF and Ethernet. “I would say that they really have to become…hybrid techs.”
While his comments are geared toward test and measurement, EXFO’s expertise, Dorais hits on the fact that 5G will be a blend of networks, wireless and wireline, that will include a wide variety of supporting technologies.
On the road to 5G, carriers are steadily deploying small cells to add pinpoint coverage and capacity in both indoor and outdoor scenarios. Finding technicians capable of deploying tens of thousands of small cells is a problem right now, which isn’t a great harbinger. At the HetNet Expo last year, Wireless Infrastructure Association President Jonathan Adelstein discussed the problem with Jay Brown, the CEO of Crown Castle.
Adelstein said technicians trained in cable pulling need to expand their skill sets to include small cell, distributed antenna systems and fiber work. “We need to have a workforce that’s trained and up for the job. We need to make sure we work with everybody we can. If we have a huge spurt in putting these small cells out and we don’t have enough folks,” that could slow deployments and investment.
Brown further addressed workforce issues: “We’ve found it to be incredibly challenging to find people to fill those roles. It’s one of the biggest challenges we’ve faced as we’ve grown the small cell business. We’ve worked pretty hard at bringing some folks outside of telecom into the industry and teaching them the business.”
There are lots of reports that discuss the number and type of jobs that 5G will enable, but far fewer that speak to job creation associated with the actual deployment of 5G. CTIA commissioned a report from Accenture, which claims the build out of 5G networks in the U.S. will create some 350,000 new construction jobs and a total of 850,000 jobs when considering supplier and other partners. | <urn:uuid:6f0f2846-1e94-4bcd-9630-5830cd5c8f8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rcrwireless.com/20170425/5g/5g-networks-hybrid-technicians-tag17-tag99 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.951818 | 743 | 1.882813 | 2 |
From the Fields - Time to Check Alfalfa Stands!
by Jim Morrison
Extension Educator, Crop Systems
Rockford Extension Center, University of Illinois
Phone 815-395-5710; FAX 815-395-5726
Even if alfalfa stands were evaluated last fall, it will soon be time to assess the overwintering condition of that crop. Stand density at the beginning of the growing season is one estimate of the potential productivity of an alfalfa field.
In pure alfalfa fields there are two commonly used methods to evaluate alfalfa stand density: plant count or stem count.
The traditional approach, especially in the early spring, has been to count plants in a square foot area. As a general guide, the suggested number of plants per square foot is:
- Greater than 12 in the spring of the first production year
- Greater than 8 in the spring of the second production year
- Greater than 5 in the spring of the third production year
A similar recommendation for a spring evaluation states that a two-year old stand with 6 or fewer plants per square foot, or a three-year old stand with 3 or fewer plants per square foot will not produce well.
The preferred method of stand evaluation is a stem count per square foot. This approach has been shown to be a good indicator of potential yield. Stem counts can be taken when the plants are 4 to 6 inches or taller. Count any stem that would be cut at harvest. If there are fewer than 39 robust stems per square foot, consider tearing up the
With either method (plant count or stem count), make several "counts" across the field so a representative sampling is obtained. Include a health assessment of the alfalfa crown and root by digging up a number of plants from different areas of the field and then splitting them length-wise to determine crown and root vigor. Roots that exhibit disease or severe discoloration in the crown or more than a couple of inches below the crown may not produce well. Healthy roots will have firm, white tissue on the inside.
Alfalfa plants experiencing winter injury will exhibit these symptoms: slow green-up, shoots on only one side of the crown (asymmetrical growth), uneven growth, and root damage (mentioned above).
Many factors (forage inventory, cash flow, available land, etc.) need to be considered when making a decision to keep an alfalfa field, but assessing the stand density is an important one, and perhaps the starting point. | <urn:uuid:34caeb3c-d067-4d09-a21b-2e9f303cb37d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://livestocktrail.illinois.edu/pasturenet/paperDisplay.cfm?ContentID=10218 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912244 | 540 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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GHESKIO: The Haitian Study Group on Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections
GHESKIO through its service and research activities, has emerged as a national and international leader in the fight against AIDS and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). | <urn:uuid:02328fc2-67a4-4420-a248-13c924cdc82a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://soundprint.org/global_perspectives/checkup/links.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.914205 | 214 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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