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Chapter One – The Beginning
Due to climate change, humanity is reaching its end and a familiar resource has made its way from another planet to save it.
As the earth keeps plummeting into the dangers of climate change, it is up to one explorer to save humanity. The daunting task of saving planet earth is not an easy one to bear and with the earth running out of resources and with no new discoveries found, the explorer is ready to venture where none have ventured before – Planets beyond our current exploration.
Space exploration and new planets that are able to sustain life is the main initiative. Leaving all friends and family behind, the explorer is ready for the great unknown. 1st stop – Proxima Centauri, the closest star to earth. The launch is successful and the entire planet watches as the spaceship makes its way out of our atmosphere and into space.
3 years go by and the explorer is almost there. But wait…
Sirens begin to sound and the ship’s instruments begin to report what is happening. The explorer realizes there is a rip in spacetime due to the collapse of the star. Proxima Centauri seems to have reached the end of its cycle and has now collapsed in on itself creating a Black Hole. The explorer rushes to turn the ship around to escape, but it’s too late. The Black Hole has too strong of a gravitational pull, and Earth’s last hope seems to be gone as the ship sinks deeper and deeper into nothingness. As the explorer is fully engulfed, there is a moment of silence as the ship is doing everything possible to not shatter into pieces. | <urn:uuid:e6e25a67-66e3-4148-9a0a-2a0791a08426> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://explorezanna.com/2020/05/chapter-one-the-beginning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960059 | 330 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Philadelphia Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week 2020
Providing minority business owners with access to resources and connections.
Minority Enterprise Development (MED) Week highlights minority businesses and the resources that help them grow. Throughout the week, organizations from across the region will host virtual events focused on this year’s theme, “Preparing for the Next Normal.”
Join the Office of Economic Opportunity and kick off the 36th annual Philadelphia MED Week! You’ll also hear about how the City is working to modernize procurement practices.
Attendees will discuss their experience with transitioning a small business during a global pandemic and share strategies for success.
Becoming certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) and Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) opens doors to a network of other minority entrepreneurs. It can also connect you with corporate and government partners who want to work with women-owned and minority-owned businesses.
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Stabilizing messenger RNA may lead to COVID-19 vaccine development
The whole world seems to be holding its collective breath for development of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Numerous groups are developing vaccines, and a few of their formulations are in clinical trials. Whereas traditional vaccine development involves inoculation with an attenuated form of the virus or with a noninfectious antigen derived from a viral protein, two groups, Moderna (in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health) and BioNTech (in collaboration with Pfizer) are taking a novel approach: directly administering to patients messenger RNA, or mRNA, that encodes viral antigens. Work from my lab carried out in collaboration with researchers in Poland and Germany over 30 years is playing a part in the BioNTech/Pfizer trials.
Our work centers around the cap of mRNA, a unique structure consisting of 7-methylguanosine linked 5′-to-5′ via a triphosphate bridge to the first encoded nucleotide of mRNA. I became interested in caps as a result of postdoctoral work in the lab of Bob Schimke, which I joined in 1970. Bob wanted to know whether cells producing very high proportions of a single protein did so because of gene amplification. Choosing the estrogen-stimulated chick oviduct as a model system, his strategy was to count genes by hybridization kinetics before and after estrogen administration. This was before the days of recombinant DNA, so we needed to purify ovalbumin mRNA by biochemical techniques, which in turn necessitated an assay for ovalbumin mRNA. The rabbit reticulocyte lysate system previously had been shown to synthesize duck hemoglobin in response to duck RNA. We found that oviduct RNA added to this system resulted in synthesis of ovalbumin; our paper and another one in in 1971 were the first to show mRNA-directed synthesis of a nonglobin protein in rabbit reticulocyte lysate.
At that time, mRNA was understood from genetic studies but virtually unexplored as a biochemical entity. The ability to obtain it in milligram quantities now opened up the possibility of a wide range of new studies. While still in the Schimke lab, I wrote my first NIH grant proposal after I had been offered an assistant professorship at University of Kentucky Medical Center. One of the specific aims was to determine the structure at the 5′-end of mRNA. I was unaware that several well-established labs already were engaged in this search. By 1975, before the first renewal of my NIH grant was due, Aaron Shatkin had scooped me completely. Fortunately, this was not a dead end — many fascinating things about mRNA remained to be explored.
The presence of a cap on mRNA greatly enhances its translational efficiency. Small-molecule analogs of the cap, such as mononucleotides and dinucleotides that include 7-methylguanosine, are useful tools to study initiation of protein synthesis because they compete with mRNA for recognition by the translational machinery. Early in my studies of the cap and initiation of translation, I began a long-lasting collaboration with Ed Darzynkiewicz of the University of Warsaw, who had done postdoctoral work with Aaron Shatkin to make cap analogs at about the same time I was starting my lab at the University of Kentucky. Ed and his colleagues synthesized a large collection of cap analog inhibitors of translation, but at one point we wished to synthesize entire mRNAs containing modified caps. A relatively simple method for this had been developed by Walter Fiers, but it led to cap dinucleotides being incorporated in both the normal and reversed orientation. We developed and patented what we called “anti-reverse cap analogs” by blocking the 3′-OH of 7-methylguanosine; these mRNAs had higher translational efficiency both in cell-free systems and when introduced into cultured cells.
The anti-reverse modification also made it possible to introduce structural changes at individual phosphate moieties that would be located unambiguously with respect to the body of the mRNA. We used this to explore whether changes in the phosphate moieties could alter the rate of mRNA degradation, an essential and highly regulated process for the control of gene expression. In one degradation pathway, the first step is cap removal by the pyrophosphatase complex Dcp1/Dcp2, and then the RNA chain is hydrolyzed in the 5′-to-3′ (front to back) direction by the exonuclease Xrn1. Pyrophosphatase cleavage occurs between the alpha and beta phosphate moieties.
Ewa Grudzien–Nogalska, a postdoc in my lab at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and previously a Ph.D. student in Ed’s lab at the University of Warsaw, examined cap analogs that, when incorporated into mRNA, retarded mRNA degradation. Collaborating with one of Ed’s colleagues, Jacek Jemielty, Ewa found that substituting a methylene group for the alpha-beta bridging oxygen prevented Dcp1/Dcp2 from cleaving the triphosphate bridge, which in turn stabilized the mRNA against 5′-to-3′ degradation in cultured cells. Unfortunately, this modification also reduced the translational efficiency of the mRNA.
Next, Joanna Kowalska, a Ph.D. student in Jacek’s lab, synthesized cap dinucleotides in which sulfur was substituted separately for each of the nonbridging oxygen atoms in the triphosphate chain. Two isomers of the sulfur-for-oxygen substitution at the beta phosphate were resistant to Dcp1/Dcp2 hydrolysis and, when incorporated into mRNA, conferred enhanced stability in cultured cells. Surprisingly, they were translated more efficiently than mRNAs capped by the parent (oxygen-containing) dinucleotide. This technology was patented by LSU and University of Warsaw. Another series in which nonbridging oxygens were substituted with BH4 groups was synthesized, patented and found to have the same property of both higher translational efficiency and higher stability.
The ability to make synthetic mRNA that was more stable in cultured cells attracted the attention of Ugur Sahin, an oncologist at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, who had long sought personalized vaccines for cancer immunotherapy. When Ed and I attended the RNA Society meeting in Berlin in 2008, Ugur drove up from Mainz to have dinner with us and explore the idea of using our stabilizing cap analogs in the clinic. The plan he described, and ultimately accomplished, was to sequence all the RNA from a patient’s tumor to discover all proteins being expressed, compare them to the canonical proteins to find aberrant proteins synthesized by the cancer cells, make synthetic mRNA encoding these neoepitopes, and then inject it into patients where it would be taken up and translated by antigen-presenting cells, thereby activating T cells that would attack the patient’s cancer cells. His plan was astonishing to me because mRNAs are unstable in the lab and cell and most mammalian cells are extremely inefficient in taking up intact nucleic acids. However, I subsequently learned that a type of antigen-presenting cell, the immature dendritic cell, is different from most cells because it takes up mRNA by micropinocytosis, being specialized in sampling its environment for potential pathogens. Ugur’s group was interested in our mRNA-stabilizing cap structures because mRNA persistence in dendritic cells results in more translation, more neoepitopes produced, and a greater T cell response. They subsequently demonstrated that this occurred with a model antigen in mice.
To realize the goal of RNA-based cancer immunotherapy, Ugur founded BioNTech in Mainz in 2008, which then licensed the patents for our mRNA-stabilizing cap analogs from LSU and the University of Warsaw. Clinical trials for safety with malignant melanoma patients produced favorable results. BioNTech then partnered with Genentech to pursue RNA-based cancer immunotherapy trials for efficacy and comparison to standard treatments.
When the novel coronavirus appeared In China last year, BioNTech already was experienced in using mRNA to produce an immunological response, so it moved quickly to partner with Pfizer to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. German clinical trials began in April and U.S. clinical trials began in May. Four formulations are being tested, two of which utilize cleavage-resistant caps and two of which utilize other features that enhance translational yield. Compared with traditional vaccine development approaches, which may require 12 to 18 months, production of mRNA-based vaccines can be as short as four months.
Yogi Berra is credited with observing, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” We don’t know which vaccine approach will be the most successful. However, it is clear that only when a vaccine is available will we have protection against COVID-19 and its destruction of health and economic well-being. A silver lining to this dark cloud is that we likely will have new tools with which to develop vaccines more rapidly against the next dread disease that appears, something that likely will be the rule rather than the exception in our increasingly interconnected world. The speed and flexibility of inducing an mRNA-based immunological response makes it likely that this will be a major component of our toolbox.
Louisiana State University is one owner of the patents for mRNA-stabilizing cap analogs that are currently licensed by BioNTech. As one of the inventors, Robert Rhoads receives from LSU a small percentage of income generated by these patents. To date, no income has been derived from the COVID-19 initiative.
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CHICAGO (CBS) -- A new study has found a connection between people who are malnourished with having longer hospital stays.
Researchers from Advocate Health Care and Abbott Laboratories screened new hospital patients for nutrition deficits. If patients were malnourished or at-risk of malnourishment, they were given two bottles of a nutritional supplement a day along with their regular hospital meals to make them nutritionally healthy, according to Dr. Tom Summerfelt, vice president of research and innovation at Advocate.
Summerfelt said that resulted in patients staying in the hospital, on average, about five days, compared to the old average of seven days.
"When you take away all that other stuff that was going on, and just leave nutrition there, that seems to be what's happening; that nutrition was causing that reduction on average of two days, which is about $3,000 just in the room charge," he said.
Advocate plans to implement nutritional screening in hospitals starting next year, according to Summerfelt. He said patients do not necessarily have to be emaciated to be lacking nutritionally. He said it could be that a person who has felt ill did not feel like eating as much as usual for awhile.
"It's not that the patients are eating poorly – I mean, sometimes they are – but like all of us, when you're sick, or you're not feeling well, or you're getting ready to have surgery, or whatever, you don't always feel like eating," he said.
A four-question screening test includes asking if patients had lost weight without trying in the last 30 days, and if they're not as hungry as much as they have been in the past.
"If they were identified as being malnourished, or at risk of being malnourished, they got the same food orders up from the kitchen; except they got an additional supplement, and it was usually two bottles a day of oral nutritional supplementation," Summerfelt said.
Those patients were also less likely to be re-admitted to the hospital within a month, according to Summerfelt.
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The pattern of the coverlet is called Lover’s Knot with Pine Tree Border. The Goodwin Guild was established in Blowing Rock, NC in the early 1950s after leaving Cedar Bluff, VA. As the coverlet has a Goodwin Guild tag, it could date from as early as that move to North Carolina. The Goodwin coverlets were made with traditional pattern drafts that had been gathered from home weavers in the region, including the Lover’s Knot with Pine Tree Border, Olive Leaf, Rings and Flowers, and Whig Rose.
Goodwin Guild Coverlet
William Craig, Sr., a Decatur County weaver and farmer, wove this 1854 coverlet. He had a shop in Greensburg where the present MainSource parking lot is located. His son William Jr., a weaver also, moved from the shop back to the farm to raise “porkers” (pigs). Craig Sr.’s trademark, a pipe, is in the weaver’s block of the coverlet. People from a thirty-mile area brought their wool with them, which they had spun and dyed. They then placed orders for the $5.00 coverlets which could be woven in one day from sun-up to sunset if the loom was threaded.
Double Irish Chain Pattern. Made in the 1840s or 1850s.
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CHAPTER 12 HELPING WITH MALADAPTIVE RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION PATTERNS BETWEEN SOCIAL WORKERS AND CLIENTS M aladaptive patterns analogous to those that surface between members in families and groups often arise in the relationship between clients and social workers. Summary of Content 1. Types of Maladaptive Patterns Disruptions in encounters between clients, their workers, and the agency reflect their respective efforts to maximize their influence over the situation and the process. Workers may influence their encounters with clients through premature and superficial reassurance and interpretation, imposition of values and solutions, impatience with the process, avoidance of relevant content and feelings, or inadequate exploration. Clients’ efforts to influence the focus and direction of the helping pro- cess may be reflected in active behaviors like provocation, intellectualization, interruption, and projection passive behaviors such as withdrawal, artificial compliance, and silence flight behaviors such as “instant” recovery, can- celed appointments, and abrupt termination and avoidance behaviors such as changing the subject, withholding information, minimizing concerns, and forgetting appointments.
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Panama Canal opening 100 years ago marked by coin from Niue
- Published: Aug 15, 2014, 6 AM
One hundred years ago, the Panama Canal opened, cutting shipping time drastically between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and revolutionizing global commerce.
The Helvetic Mint, a private Swiss-based company, has announced a new Prooflike 2014 .999 fine silver coin for Niue to celebrate the anniversary. The coin, which weighs 50 grams and measures 50 millimeters in diameter, features a colorful printed scene of a ship (possibly the SS Ancon, the first vessel to officially traverse the canal).
Below the scene is a stylized image of the obverse of French artist Louis Oscar Roty’s medal honoring the completion of the canal. Palm leaves, shells and other nautical elements, and the inscription 100 YEARS PANAMA CANAL complete the reverse design.
The obverse features the Raphael Maklouf effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
The Panama Canal is a 48-mile-long (77.1-kilometer) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.
One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the amount of time taken for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan.
In 1877 two engineers, Armand Reclus (an officer with the French Navy), and Lucien Napoléon Bonaparte Wyse, surveyed the route and published a French proposal for a canal. In 1881, the first attempt to construct a sea-level canal began under the leadership of Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, but had to stop because of engineering problems and high mortality due to disease.
The United States took over the project in 1904, and took a decade to complete the canal, which was officially opened on Aug. 15, 1914
The Prooflike coin has a mintage limited to 500 pieces and retails for €129.95 (about $174 in U.S. funds).
No U.S. distributor was established at publication time.
To order from the issuer, telephone the Helvetic Mint at (011) 41 41349 20 13 or visit its website.
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This is a crucial workshop for all teams who work in a fast-paced environment and hybrid teams, with a mix of face to face and remote workers.
Positive and authentic communication across a team is a foundation of building trust. Whilst we all aspire to open and honest communication so often it can be a challenge to achieve for a whole host of reasons.
Powerful Communication includes both appreciating positive output and performance from a team member and giving regular feedback across a team – with positive intent.
It seems this vital skill for all team members is often one of the biggest challenges.
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or Have you noticed someone is doing really well in an area- but you fail to tell them you’re observations, or pass the positive things on to your manager? In reality – we need to give 6 x more positive feedback to our teammates as constructive feedback. Did you know 67% of teammates say they get to little positive feedback? Leaders are often expected to be the ones who solely give both positive and critical feedback in a team – yet the best teams have a consistent stream of performance base feedback across a team…and the most powerful practise is to ensure there is positive intent.
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Performance-based communication can and should be given up down and laterally within a work environment. Giving positive and constructive performance-based feedback effectively is a skill. And like all skills, it takes practice to build your confidence and improve.
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U.S. Accuses Iran Of 'Possible Undeclared Nuclear Activities'
By RFE/RL September 10, 2019
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused Tehran of not fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying that Iran's behavior "raises questions about possible undeclared nuclear material or activities."
Pompeo tweeted on September 10 that Tehran's "lack of cooperation" with the United Nations nuclear watchdog "fits into Iran's 40-year pattern of lies."
"The world won't fall for it," Pompeo said. "We will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon."
Pompeo's Twitter statement came as Washington continues attempts to get other countries to increase pressure on Iran ahead of the 2019 United Nations General Assembly session.
But shortly after he tweeted those remarks, Pompeo told reporters it was possible that President Donald Trump could meet with Iranian President Hassan Rohani "with no preconditions" on the sidelines of the UN gathering, which starts on September 23.
France has been trying to convince Trump to meet with Iranian leaders, raising expectations that Tehran's nuclear program and its nuclear deal with world powers will be a major agenda item at the UN session.
Criticism of Iran from Washington was prompted by a meeting of the IAEA board of governors on September 9, where IAEA acting Director-General Cornel Feruta said he had informed Iranian officials during a recent visit to Tehran about the importance of "full and timely" cooperation with UN nuclear inspectors.
It also comes after IAEA inspectors reportedly found traces of nuclear material at a warehouse identified by Israeli intelligence officials as an undeclared nuclear facility.
"I also stressed the need for Iran to respond promptly to agency questions related to the completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations," Feruta said.
A recent IAEA report suggests Tehran has not been as forthcoming as hoped when responding to questions from IAEA inspectors.
Amid the questions raised about the warehouse, Iran has announced that plans to use more advanced centrifuges than allowed under its nuclear deal with world powers.
The IAEA has confirmed the installation of new centrifuges and said they had been prepared for testing.
Iran has already surpassed the limits set in the 2015 nuclear accord about enrichment purity and stockpiles of enriched uranium.
Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018 and has reimposed crippling economic sanctions against Tehran. Washington also has been pressuring other countries to follow suit.
But French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal by creating a $15 billion line of credit for Iran in order to entice officials in Tehran to continue honoring Iran's obligations under the accord.
Macron has also been seeking to arrange a meeting between Trump and Rohani -- possibly at the upcoming UN gathering in New York.
On September 9, Trump told reporters that a meeting with Rohani "could happen."
"No problem with meeting," Trump said. "Iran should straighten out, because frankly they are in a very bad position right now and they should straighten it out because they could straighten it out very easy."
With reporting by Reuters, AP, AFP, and dpa
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Despite a string of recent successes by West Coast communities to block the construction of oil-by-rail facilities, the oil industry has no plans to give up using rail to move oil to the West Coast. And it isn’t hard to understand why. There are no plans for oil pipelines from North Dakota to California or Washington. And with indications that the Bakken field may already be declining, any investment in such a project is highly unlikely.
And unlike at East Coast refineries, those in the west don’t have the option to buy light crude from Africa, delivered via tanker, which is a better option than buying Bakken oil from North Dakota or Montana, delivered by rail, when oil prices are low. That’s why the oil industry continues to pursue its long-term plans to move oil west via train.
The company Global Partners has been a major player in oil by rail, with facilities on the East and West Coasts. However, with the recent drop in oil prices, it has stopped shipping oil to the east and recently wrote off $81 million to cancel leases for oil tank cars. Despite these recent setbacks, the company is attempting to buy an oil storage facility on the Columbia River in Oregon. And since the storage facility already has the required air permit to operate an oil-by-rail facility, Global Partners would not have to obtain any local approvals to operate the facility — thus avoiding any local opposition to the project. The most recent Bakken oil-by-rail derailment and fire occurred along the Columbia River in Mosier, Oregon, in June 2016.
Global Partners and others in the industry appear to be betting that oil prices will climb higher and make oil by rail a profitable option once again.
Miles Johnson of Columbia RiverKeeper explained to Northwest Public Radio what this acquisition would mean for Global Partners and for the area along the Columbia River:
“To us this is a pretty clear signal they think crude oil prices could increase again. And if they did, Global Partners would be sitting on a fully permitted oil terminal they could just put into operation without the type of review that a major oil terminal like the one in Vancouver has been receiving.”
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is also expected to make a decision in the next few months on the Tesoro/Savage facility in Vancouver — which if approved would be the largest oil-by-rail facility in the country. Dan Riley of Tesoro gave the simple explanation of why the company is pursuing the project in Vancouver, saying, “There are no pipelines to the west.”
In another move potentially paving the way for oil-by-rail shipments to the West Coast, a judge recently ruled in favor of Phillips 66, allowing the company to sue the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors in an attempt to reverse the California county’s decision to reject an oil-by-rail facility there.
Industry Plans to Fight “Tsunami” of Opposition
The Surface Transportation Board (STB), an independent federal agency presiding over railroad disputes, made a decision in September of 2016 that changed the rules regarding oil-by-rail facilities. That decision essentially said that oil companies could not claim “pre-emption” for oil-by-rail facilities, a concept which allows rail companies to “pre-empt” any local laws regarding rail facilities. Oil companies have been trying to claim this same right, but the STB ruled that only rail-owned, not oil company–owned, facilities were subject to pre-emption.
This decision gave authority to communities when it came to decisions regarding new oil-by-rail facilities, and based on that ruling, the community of Benicia, California, rejected one such proposed project from oil company Valero.
This concept of letting communities decide their own fate didn’t go over well with the industry, a point made clear by an oil industry lawyer at the 2016 Energy by Rail conference.
Kevin Sheys is a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm Nossaman, LLP, and at the conference, he gave a presentation that focused on the STB decision. In his presentation, one slide asked, “What Is The Energy By Rail Tsunami For the Next Four Years?” The following slide answered the question, stating, “Local Regulation of Crude Oil/Ethanol Unit Train Unloading Projects.”
Sheys offered up local oil-by-rail facility regulation as the biggest challenge facing the industry — one so big that he believes it will require direct action from the White House.
“I think that in the next four years, there is an issue that the administration will have to deal with,” Sheys told the conference. “… and the issue is local regulation of crude oil and ethanol unit train unloading projects.”
“There is a very significant loophole … Localities are blocking the refineries and the energy companies that are building crude-by-rail offloading facilities and ethanol transload facilities,” he went on. “They are doing it because these are not rail projects.”
It turns out Sheys was the lawyer for the Valero project in Benicia — the case that the STB ruled on in September of 2016.
“Valero,” Sheys said, “This is the one that pains me the most because it is my project. Valero sought a ruling from the Surface Transportation Board trying essentially to close this loophole.”
Sheys reiterated several times that he thought the federal government would have to deal with the issue either directly or via the Department of Transportation and then explained why he thought the issue would need to be resolved in the next four years, regardless of who sat in the White House:
“At some point, and I think it will be in the next administration, the prices for oil are going to come up. The demand and the options for Bakken oil are going to re-establish themselves and the refineries, particularly on the West Coast, that have been trying to get ready for this uptick will not be ready because these projects have been blocked. And somebody somewhere in the administration is going to have to explain how we solve that problem.”
He says, based on his experience working with Valero in Benicia, that the company considered Bakken crude oil as “essential” to Valero’s competitiveness over the long term.
Rolling Pipelines Here to Stay
While new pipelines like the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota — combined with the current low oil prices — have led to drops in how much U.S. oil is shipped by rail, it is clear the oil industry will continue to use rail to move its product between places where there are no pipelines.
For another example, look to the current rebound in tar sands oil shipped by rail, a boom attributed to the lack of pipeline capacity. Goldman Sachs–backed company USD Partners also just announced an expansion of its tar sands–by-rail facility in Texas.
Would the industry prefer to move all of these flammable products via pipeline instead of rail? Most likely.
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On Her 100th Birthday, a Holocaust Survivor Looks Back
Honoring victims of Nazism and exploring learning opportunities on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Editor’s note: January 27th marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. In honor of the occasion, the United Nations General Assembly has designated the date as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this anniversary, member states are encouraged to honor the victims of Nazism and to develop educational opportunities to prevent future genocides.
In this spirit, we are sharing this blog post from our partners at USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, originally posted on January 10, 2019 in celebration of the 100th birthday of Holocaust survivor Charlotte Kern.
At the end of the blog post, find a link to the Charlotte’s video testimony and learn how access to the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History inspires insights and understanding for students and researchers of genocide at 40 Hungarian institutions.
Holocaust survivor celebrates major milestone
We at USC Shoah Foundation are wishing a happy birthday to Charlotte McKern, who was among the roughly 20,000 Jews from Germany and Austria who survived the Holocaust by taking refuge in Shanghai, China.
Today, the resident of Sydney, Australia turns 100.
Born Charlotte Cohn on Jan. 10, 1919, the centenarian grew up in Berlin with her parents and two older siblings. The daughter of a solicitor, she was raised in comfort and attended a private school. In her 1995 testimony with USC Shoah Foundation, Charlotte recalled a happy childhood that ended abruptly when Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany on Jan. 30, 1933.
The next day, she was greeted at school by a girl wearing a blouse adorned with a swastika.
“She said, ‘Have you heard the joyful event?’” Charlotte said in her testimony.
Not long after, Charlotte got in trouble for scrawling “Death to the swastika” on a classroom blackboard.
“It could have cost me my life,” she said. “I was called to the school officials and I was warned that the Gestapo will get in touch with me.”
As antisemitism in Germany intensified throughout the 1930s, Charlotte’s parents encouraged her and her siblings to leave the country. She spent some time with her sister’s family in Italy, but that country’s dictator, Benito Mussolini, soon adopted anti-Jewish laws, forcing them to seek another avenue of escape. They obtained visas for Shanghai and wound up on a ship to China.
Once in Shanghai, Charlotte’s family life flourished. She and her sister sent for their parents and grandfather, all of whom made it over safely. It was there where she also met her first husband, Robert Grosslight, a physician who’d been released from the Dachau concentration camp in Germany to leave for Shanghai.
When she contracted typhoid fever, he treated her.
“At this time I decided I will marry Robert,” she said in her testimony, with a chuckle. “He didn’t even know yet.”
They were married on a humid Shanghai day on Sept. 1, 1940. He borrowed somebody’s oversized hat to protect his face from the sun; she fashioned a wedding dress out of white curtains.
For a while, things were good. Robert worked at a hospital; her father took a job as a judge who sat on an arbitration board to resolve disputes within the Jewish population.
“Shanghai was quite amazing. It was like a little Jewish state with its own hospital, with our own arbitration board, concerts and operas,” she said. “We managed somehow – little Israel, in a way.”
On Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor, and everything changed. The Jewish population was forced to a “designated area.”
“They never called it ghetto,” she said, but that’s what it was.
Koreans who served in the Japanese military made surprise visits with bayoneted rifles. Once, when Robert was working, one such officer briefly stormed into her room.
“They terrorized us and kept us under constant control,” she said. “They had a sort of jail for people whom they thought were against them. … They were like a police state, but they didn’t kill us.”
Ironically, the bigger mortal danger turned out to be the American military.
“More people were killed by the American bombs than by the Japanese,” she said.
Shortly after the war, in Shanghai in 1946, she and Robert had their son, George Grosslight. The family moved to Sydney, Australia, and Robert started a medical practice. But he soon developed heart disease and died in 1955 at age 41.
“That was worse than Shanghai and everything,” Charlotte said.
She later met Howard McKern, a prominent chemist; they married in 1963.
“I’m grateful every day for him,” she said in her 1995 testimony. “Luckily, he says the same about me.”
Howard died in 2009 at age 92.
As hard as life was in Shanghai, Charlotte said she never lost hope.
“The community spirit was very good,” she said. “We thought one day it will finish and we will live. We were optimistic. I never believed in dying.”
See a sample of Charlotte McKearn’s video testimony.
Hungary’s Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ) has made the Visual History Archive available to students and researchers at its 40 member institutions.
“The Visual History Archive includes rich content about local history in Hungary – including more than 1,300 Hungarian interviews that enable students and researchers to gain further insight into and understand their history,” said Professor István Monok, General Director of the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Science and President of EISZ Programme Board.
“Having access to these primary sources will ensure that these stories will never be forgotten.”
Watch the new video to learn more about the extraordinary partnership between EISZ and the USC Shoah Foundation.
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This will inevitably mean addressing the documents that are available to browse online, but have not been indexed, or are only available to view in person at local archives or record offices.
Church court records, for example, are an almost untapped resource on moral offences such as adultery, cruelty, infidelity and defamation. Coroners' records often give a wealth of detail concerning the circumstances of unnatural and sudden deaths. Manor court rolls contain a treasure trove of information on tenure, conveyancing, deathbed transfers, marriage and illegitimacy, and crime and punishment for two centuries before parish registers begin in 1538.
There is plenty of professional help out there, but it is a good deal cheaper, and far more satisfying, to 'do it yourself'. There is nothing inherently difficult about reading old handwriting, but it requires a good deal of patient and guided practice to develop the range of skills needed for a reasonable level of competence.
Handwriting changed over time, and different scripts were used in different records. Fifteenth century 'secretary' hand was unlike Tudor secretary, and late sixteenth century secretary was different from the 'mixed' hands of the later seventeenth century. The handwriting in the records of the central law courts was nothing like the handwriting in parish registers of the same date. Indeed, some letter forms, particularly in legal documents, are so unlike modern letters that even in the eighteenth century they are almost impossible to read. Without some training, it would be difficult to even guess at the following:
Tables of alphabets covering the three main classes of script, secretary, italic and court, and showing how the letters changed over time, are a great help when approaching documents from an unfamiliar source or era.
Parchment was a costly item, and a system of abbreviations was used to save on space. Some abbreviations are still with us today: Mr, Mrs, Dr, £.
There are three very common abbreviations in these two lines from a 1614 rental:
Like any skill, you learn best by doing. Tables of alphabets and symbols are useful aids, but the application of theoretical knowledge is less important than a good deal of patient practice. For this, you need reliable transcripts of original documents to check the accuracy of your own work. Parish registers transcribed towards the end of the nineteenth century are often of an exceptionally high quality. Spend a few hours transcribing the sixteenth century registers of St Peter Cornhill or St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London, available to browse Ancestry, then compare your efforts with transcripts, which may be accessed without charge from the website of The Harleian Society. You will have a good grasp of Tudor secretary hand within a few hours. However:
If you are looking to extend your family history into the sixteenth century, expect to do all the searching yourself. At least half of all entries - and sometimes every single entry - in the online indexes of sixteenth century sources on the major genealogy websites are mistranscribed. In the online index for the two City of London parishes mentioned above we find, to name just a handful of errors, Sdle (for Idle), Rones (for Spoure), Tuderson (for Anderson), Uslengyng (for Volentyng), Tylys Sozeser (for Gylys Forester), and Spevey Cockingyam (for Steven Bockingham). A good transcript is a great aid to the researcher; a poor transcript is worse than useless, as you may well assume that the name you are looking for is not there. It follows from this, that if you are transcribing a document, you should never 'force' a word to fit what you think it should say. There are likely to be plenty of unfamiliar words, particularly in sources such as wills and inventories, and a glossary of words and terms used in farming and probate records will be invaluable.
You can't avoid Latin if you are going to extend your research beyond the eighteenth century. Many sources, such as parish registers, or the probate clauses of wills, need only a basic level of Latin, which can be easily picked up with the help of a basic Latin textbook. Professional help may be required to translate complicated legal records, but with adequate palaeographical skills, you will be able to identify relevant names and places in any document, which will cut down considerably on paid time. In this late seventeenth century bond, all the useful details can be extracted, without any need to translate the whole document:
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Suijin (水神 water god) is the Shinto god of water in Japan. The term Suijin (literally water people or water
deity) refers to the heavenly and earthly manifestations of the benevolent Shinto divinity of water. But it also refers to a wide variety of mythological and magical creatures found in lakes, ponds, springs and wells, including serpents (snakes and dragons), eels, fish, turtles, and the flesh-eating kappa. As The God of Water, Mizu no Kamisama, Mizugami, or Suijinsama, he is widely revered in Japan.==Also Called==
- The Water God
- Sui-ten/Suiten 水天
- Sui-ō/Suiu 水王
- Varuna in the Hindu pantheon
- Suijin is sometimes conflated with Ryūjin, the dragon kami who is also associated with water. Fudō Myōō is also sometimes termed Suijin because of his association with the waterfall. In most cases, however, Suijin appears simply as a stone plaque, or even a simple small stone set upright near a spring’s emergence.
- The Water Kami is the guardian of the fishing folk, and a patron saint of fertility, motherhood, and easy childbirth. One reason people worship and praise the Water Kami and give offerings to it is to hope for pure and unpolluted water for human consumption, as well as for other uses like agriculture and sanitation. Other reasons of worship include praying for success in fishing trips, praying for successful and good fertility and motherhood, as well as for easy childbirth.
- Shrines devoted to the worship of the Water Kami are called Suitengū Shrines. One example is the Suitengū Shrine in Kurume (Fukuoka), which is the main shrine of all Suitengū Shrines in Japan. It is especially famous to those praying for safe and easy childbirth. Another famous Suitengū Shrine is the Tsukiji Suijin Shrine, located in the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo, in order to protect and watch over the fishers and their businesses.
- Throughout Japan this deity is widely worshipped at Suitengū Shrines and through the means of votive stone markers devoted to the Water Kami throughout the countryside. Most of these stone markers can be found enshrined at dikes of agricultural irrigation canals, along rice paddy fields, at mountain springs, normal springs, streams, rivers, wells, household wells, and even inside sewage water and septic tanks. When a Suijin stone marker is enshrined at mountain springs, that form sources for agricultural waterways, it is often labeled as Water distributing kami (mikumari no kami 水分神), in which cases they may also be associated with the kami of the mountain (Yama no Kami 山の神).
There is a vast amount of festivals that are dedicated to the Water Kami, most of them being concentrated in summer and winter, though emphasis is particularly placed on observances in summer. The core of the summer festival is found at the Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto and at the Tsushima Shrine in Tsushima (Aichi Prefecture). The observances have the significant role of exorcism of bad spirits and purification, especially aimed at dangerous epidemic diseases and water-related disasters which commonly happen during the summer. An example list of some of the festivals based on worshipping Suijin (this list does not include all festivals):
- Suijin Matsuri, December 1st and June 15th
- On these days in Japan, various locations hold the Suijin Matsuri, a Shinto celebration and ceremony to honor the Kami of Water.
- Kamakura Matsuri, Akita Prefecture
- Around February 15 - 17 each year. Igloos (called "kamakura") are built with a small alcove inside dedicated to Suijin, who is honored during this festival to ensure good crops in the coming year. This festival has a history of over 400 years.
- Suijin-sai, April 3, Funabashi Fishing Harbor (Chiba)
- A festival to pray for a good fishing haul and safety at sea. All fishing boats from the area gather in the harbor with their flags streaming in the wind, and a "Kagura" ritual (sacred Shinto music and dance), dedicated to the god of the sea, is performed onboard the vessels. An important ritual since the Edo Period, the festival is called Funa-sai for short.
- Suitengu Spring Festival, Kurume City (Fukuoka), May 3 - 5
- This annual festival, held at the Suiten-gu Shrine in Kurume City, is reportedly over 800 years old. Participants pray for safe and easy child birth, for protection from drowning, and to ask for the safety and health of children. This festival is also held at other Suiten-gu sites in Japan on May 5th. Another major festival in Kurume City is the Water Festival, which takes place from August 3 to 5.
- Okinohata Suitengu Festival, Yanagawa (Fukuoka), May 3 - 5
- Held on the canal by the shrine for three days and nights, with about 30,000 visitors. Many pray for their children to be protected from drowning.
- Gion Festival, Around July 25, Near Tsukuba (Ibaraki)
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This handbook establishes guidelines for data and test procedures, that should be completed prior to the issuance of a Contractor Flight Release (CFR) or Airworthiness Release (AWR) to conduct flight testing of armament on U.S. Amy aircraft. A CFRIAWR is required for aircraft ground firing tests with the rotors turning, and for aircraft flight tests, both non-fuing (captive carriage) and firing. The guidelines include documentation on armament configuration design, analyses, component tests and aircraft ground tests. The documentation is required so the government can conduct an airworthiness assessment in order to ensure that U.S. Amy aircraft are safe to flight test. The requirements should be tailored based on the nature, magnitude, complexity and integration risk associated with the new or modified armament system. The difference between an "airworthy" system and a "qualified" system is the degree to which the system meets specification requirements and provides the system "performance" expected by th user. For a tutorial on the overall helicopter airworthiness qualification process, including flight releases, see ADS-5 1-HDBK. For purposes of this handbook, the terms "armament" and "weapon" are interchangeable.
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• JSSG-2010-7 Crew Systems, Crash Protection Handbook
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• MIL-STD-461 Requirements for the Control of Electromagnetic Interference Characteristics of Subsystems and Equipment
• MIL-STD-704 Aircraft Electric Power Characteristics
• MIL-STD-8 10 Test Method Standard for Environmental Engineering Considerations and Laboratory Tests
• MIL-STD-882 Standard Practice for System Safety
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The Heart Pump Devices Market to find inspiration in the advancing technologies as the latter makes the procedure simplified and enhances its acceptance level. Heart pump devices assist in cardiac circulation. The device works by either partially or completely replacing the function of the heart. Used mostly for patients recovering from heart attack or cardiac surgery, these heart pump devices aim at providing support for a short span. Heart Pump Devices are mechanical pumps that are used to support the function of the heart and blood flow in individuals with unhealthy hearts. Heart pump devices receive blood from the lower chamber of the heart and pump it to the body and vital organs.
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Prevalence of cardiovascular diseases can be considered the prime driver for the heart pump devices market. At the same time, weak immunity is triggering several diseases which end up affecting the heart in a significant way. The market is enjoying the most the tussle going on between existing major players and new entrants. New players, with their product in an affordable range and innovation, are substantially challenging the market titans which is drawing in strategical changes. These tactical moves are clearing the path for further market expansion. In addition, new products are getting approval which can widen up the horizon for the heart pump devices market. However, the high cost of the devices can pull back the leash of the expected growth considerably.
Heart Pump Devices Market – Players Covered
Some of the key players in the Heart Pump Devices Market are
- Syncardia Systems
- Berlin Heart
- Thoratec Corporation
Heart Pump Devices Market – Segmentation
The Global Heart Pump Devices Market is segmented by type, product, therapy, and end-user.
Considering type, the market is segmented into implantable heart pump devices and extracorporeal heart pump devices.
By product, the market is segmented into intra-aortic balloon pumps, ventricular assist devices, and total artificial heart. Based on ventricular assist devices, the market is again segmented into right ventricular assist devices, left ventricular assist devices, bi-ventricular assist devices, percutaneous ventricular assist devices, and transcutaneous ventricular assist devices.
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With reference to therapy, the market is segmented into bridge-to-candidacy, bridge-to-transplant, destination therapy, and others.
On account of end-user, the market is segmented into hospitals and clinics, research institutes, and ambulatory surgical centers.
Heart Pump Devices Market – Regional Analysis
The Americas dominates the Global Heart Pump Devices Market owing to the increasing aging population, which eventually leads to the increasing patient population. Additionally, the increasing cardiovascular disorder rate along with rising government initiatives for the research and development of innovative and advanced products are likely to enhance the growth of heart pump devices in the North American region. The American Heart Association estimated that 31% of the deaths in the U.S. were due to cardiovascular disorders in 2015. Similarly, the American Heart Association, funded over USD 163 million during 2015 to 2016 for the research and development of 980 research projects related to cardiovascular disorders. Additionally, the firm stated that cardiovascular disorders claim more deaths than cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases. These factors are likely to drive the growth of the American heart pump devices market.
Europe accounts for the second largest market due to the increasing rates of cardiovascular disorders and obesity. Additionally, the increasing government support and increasing healthcare infrastructure along with the increasing demand for minimally invasive treatments are driving the growth of the heart pump devices market in Europe. For instance, Eurostat estimated that over 19.2% of the population in Europe was aged 65 and above. This increasing older population is likely to lead to the rising patient population. These factors are likely to drive the growth of the heart pump devices market.
Asia Pacific is the fastest growing market for heart pump devices whose growth is attributed to the rising population and improved standard of living. Additionally, the increasing healthcare spending and demand for new and innovative treatment options are likely to drive the growth of the market. India and China are the major contributors to the market growth due to the rapid development of healthcare infrastructure in these regions and increasing demand for diagnostic services.
On the other hand, the Middle East and Africa is expected to witness slow growth due to limited access to healthcare facilities and affordability issues among the population. In the Middle East, the growth of the Heart Pump Devices Market is driven by the increasing availability of new and advanced diagnostic and treatment methods for various chronic diseases.
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The Cane Corso is a powerful and athletic Molosser breed, without being too heavy and “over-muscular” as its larger cousin the Mastino Napoletano. For centuries the breed has been used as a multi-purpose dog, and it can still be used as such.
The Corso has a stable mind, is alert and protective and is doing well in obedient training, it is submissive to its human family, yet suspicious, alert and threatening to strangers, which makes them formidable family guardians.
The Cane Corso shall be longer than its hight, his head large and clearly show that he belongs to the Molosser-group. The drooping ears are almost always cropped in the shape of an equilateral triangle. The tail is set fairly high, is very thick at the root and is usually docked at the fourth vertebra.
The Corsos has a very thick shiny coat with a light undercoat. The colour given in the original standard is black, plumb-grey, slate, light grey, light fawn, deer fawn, dark fawn and tubby (very well marked stripes on different shades of fawn and grey). In the fawny and tubby subjects, there is a black or grey mask only on the muzzle and shouldn’t go beyond the eye line. A small white patch on the chest, on the feet tips, and on the nose bridge is accepted.
Height at withers for males is 64-68 cm. (25-27 in).
Height at withers for females is 60-64 cm. (23,5-25 in).
Weight for males range from 45-50 kg. (99-110 lbs), ratio weight/size O.710 (Kg/cm).
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This article first appeared on iCatCare here.
Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a viral illness of cats that happens all through the world. It is a posh illness to diagnose and in the previous couple of years, important developments have occurred within the remedy of this beforehand deadly situation.
Further info for veterinarians may be discovered here.
FIP was beforehand deadly for many cats. However, within the final 3 years, important developments have occurred in remedy. Studies have proven that antivirals may be efficient in curing FIP. This has led to a progress in unlawful provides of those medicines, offered to understandably anxious caregivers. Since 2021 a authorized provide of remdesivir and GS-441524 has been out there within the UK and Australia, and by way of export to different nations. Please click on here for extra particular details about these medicine and communicate to your vet to debate remedy choices in case your cat is identified with FIP.
FIP is brought on by an infection with a virus referred to as feline coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a typical group of viruses that usually infect the higher respiratory tract (nostril and throat) or gastrointestinal tract (intestines) in several animals. COVID-19 is a coronavirus however the coronavirus inflicting FIP shouldn’t be the identical and solely infects cats. Coronavirus an infection is extraordinarily widespread in cats, particularly the place giant numbers of cats are saved collectively. It is estimated that 25–40% of family pet cats have been contaminated with FCoV, however the an infection charge will increase to 80 – 100 per cent for cats saved in multi-cat households or colonies.
Coronaviruses are frequent and located within the faeces of many cats. In most cats, an infection causes no indicators or simply gentle diarrhoea that resolves with out remedy. However, sometimes, the virus mutates (modifications) inside a cat, and if their immune system reacts in a sure method, they may develop a illness referred to as FIP. This is vital, as discovering coronavirus in a cat doesn’t imply they’ve FIP, and it isn’t potential to constantly inform the distinction between a coronavirus inflicting FIP and one inflicting no indicators in any respect by simply discovering the virus itself.
In a cat that develops FIP, the virus spreads all through the physique and may trigger a variety of various indicators because of the method it interacts with the cat’s immune system.
Signs of FIP
FIP may cause many alternative medical indicators, relying on the components of the physique affected and the way the immune system reacts. Early indicators of FIP are normally very obscure with a fluctuating fever (excessive temperature), lethargy and diminished urge for food being frequent. After a interval of a number of days or perhaps weeks (or typically even many months) different indicators normally develop. Classically, FIP has been divided into ‘moist (effusive)’ and ‘dry’ types, however really cats are more likely to have each at completely different instances, or a mix of each shows. One of the challenges of diagnosing FIP is that the medical indicators are sometimes obscure and never particular for FIP and may be seen with different ailments.
Wet or effusive illness
In this manner or stage of illness there may be accumulation of fluid throughout the belly cavity (leading to belly distension) and/or the chest cavity (leading to respiration difficulties). The fluid accumulates as a result of an infection with FIPV causes injury to and irritation of blood vessels (referred to as ‘vasculitis’) which leads to fluid leaking from the blood into the stomach or chest. Cases that develop fluid accumulation within the stomach are accountable for the unique title of this illness, ‘peritonitis’ referring to the irritation that happens within the lining of the belly cavity. The fluid that types sometimes is thick and brilliant yellow in color and comprises quite a lot of protein. However, different ailments (together with some liver ailments and cancers) may also trigger an analogous fluid accumulation.
Other types of FIP
FIP can have an effect on any organ of the physique and so different types of FIP (typically termed ‘dry’ FIP) contain the formulation of granulomas (lots of virus and inflammatory cells) and the indicators will range in response to the organ affected. This irritation impacts the eyes in round 30% of instances and the mind in round 30% of instances, however may also have an effect on nearly any tissues within the physique together with the liver, kidneys, lungs and pores and skin. Thus, a variety of indicators could also be noticed together with neurological illness (e.g., a wobbly and unsteady gait or suits), bleeding within the eyes and different obscure indicators of illness which will happen with lesions within the liver, kidneys or different inside organs.
What cats are most frequently affected with FIP?
Although FIP can happen in cats of any age, it’s most frequently seen in younger cats. Around 80% of instances identified are in cats lower than 2 years previous, and plenty of instances are seen in kittens round 4-12 months previous. FIP can be extra frequent in cats saved in teams or colonies (particularly breeding households) as that is an atmosphere the place FCoV infections are unfold simply. A crowded atmosphere might also contribute to emphasize, which generally is a consider illness improvement because it compromises the cat’s immune response. There is proof that genetics may also play a task in susceptibility to illness, though that is advanced. Many cats that develop FIP are actually in single cat houses, regardless of coming from multi-cat environments.
How is FIP identified
FIP is a really tough illness to cope with as a result of there aren’t any medical indicators which can be particular for the analysis of FIP, and no easy blood take a look at to substantiate a analysis. FIP could also be thought of extra doubtless when:
- Cats are exhibiting medical indicators appropriate with FIP
- Cats are in a better danger class (e.g., youthful cats, colony cats, and many others.)
- Typical modifications are seen on routine blood exams – these might embrace
- Lymphopenia (low numbers of lymphocytes, a kind of white blood cell)
- Neutrophilia (elevated numbers of neutrophils, a kind of white blood cell)
- Anaemia (low pink blood cells)
- Elevated globulin concentrations (one of many main teams of proteins within the blood)
- Elevated liver enzymes (eg, ALT, ALP)
- Elevated bilirubin (and jaundice or yellowing of the gums and eyes)
None of those blood modifications are particular for FIP, occurring with different ailments too, but when a number of modifications are seen together with acceptable indicators, a analysis of FIP turns into extra doubtless. Many of those abnormalities might also not be current within the early levels of the illness however might change into evident because the illness progresses. Thus, some exams that give regular outcomes might must be repeated later.
If fluid is current within the stomach or chest cavity, acquiring a pattern of the fluid and analysing the cell and protein content material may be extraordinarily useful. With FIP the fluid invariably has a excessive protein content material and additional evaluation of cell sorts and forms of protein current may be helpful. Further exams on fluid may be carried out to search for the virus (PCR for instance). Looking for fluid is a vital a part of investigating a cat for FIP so xrays, and notably ultrasound, may be very useful and once more might must repeated later because the illness progresses.
Other exams that may additionally typically be useful embrace:
- Further evaluation of proteins within the blood (e.g. measuring the protein acid-1-alpha glycoprotein [AGP])
- MRI scans of the mind
- Evaluation of a cerebrospinal fluid pattern (the fluid that encompass the mind and spinal wire) in instances the place there are neurological indicators
- Evaluation of fluid from the attention (aqueous humour) in ocular instances
- Needle samples of lesions in organs and lymph nodes
- Biopsies (tissue samples) taken at surgical procedure
Looking for the presence of antibodies towards the virus in a blood pattern (coronavirus serology) is of very restricted worth – antibodies towards FCoV develop when a cat meets coronavirus – this doesn’t imply they’ve or will get FIP. A really giant variety of completely wholesome cats are due to this fact optimistic on this take a look at, and it shouldn’t be used for analysis.
Confirming a analysis of FIP
To verify a analysis could be very tough, however normally discovering the standard kind of effusion or irritation and discovering the virus in the identical areas may be helpful. Ways to search for the presence of the virus embrace immunocytochemistry and immunohistochemistry (staining the virus so it may be detected) and PCR (testing for the viruses genetic materials). These exams may be carried out on fluids, needle samples, biopsies and different samples. Remember, it isn’t sufficient to seek out simply the virus as cats with out FIP might have coronavirus, we should put collectively the puzzle of medical indicators, imaging findings fluid and needle samples and virus detection exams.
Treatment for FIP
There have been important current developments within the administration of this as soon as deadly situation. Recent analysis by Professor Niels Pedersen of University of California, Davis, has proven that some newer anti-viral medicine akin to GS-5734 and GS-441524, utilized in people towards some rising viruses, could also be efficient. Additionally, remdesivir, a prodrug of GS-441524 has change into out there legally within the UK and Australia. The drug has been used to deal with human viral infections together with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). Initial expertise has been optimistic with response charges of round 80% and due to this fact we’ve purpose to be optimistic. The remedy stays costly and requires a protracted course of remedy (84 days) so veterinarians must be aware of dedication and value concerned plus potential for relapse. We look ahead to studying extra in regards to the remedy of FIP over the following few years. Black market merchandise stay out there, however of unknown content material and security so authorized medicine must be chosen for the remedy of FIP in cats.
Prevention of FIP
A industrial vaccine is out there in some nations to assist shield towards FIP. However, this vaccine (whereas exhibiting some efficacy) can solely be given to kittens over 16 weeks of age. The main indication for utilizing such a vaccine could be in breeding households, particularly with a historical past of FIP, however by the point a kitten may be vaccinated (at 16 weeks) they’d nearly invariably have already been uncovered to FCoV an infection and so the vaccine most likely has little or no worth.
Reducing the chance in breeding households
FIP is least frequent in family pets. The danger may be minimised by acquiring cats from a supply with comparatively few cats and by conserving cats in small steady teams (lower than 5 cats in a family).
In breeding catteries, eradicating coronavirus infections is extraordinarily tough, because the virus is so ubiquitous, and it’s unsuitable in most conditions to aim this. A extra sensible strategy is to make use of measures to cut back the chance of FIP occurring, however recognising that on events, this may increasingly occur even in the perfect run catteries. Good follow to minimise the chance of FIP would come with:
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- Avoid conserving giant teams of cats and having a number of litters of kittens at anybody time
- Keep cats in small remoted teams (ideally not more than 4 cats in every group – this reduces the chance of endemic FCoV an infection)
- Have no less than one litter field for each two cats, situated in straightforward to scrub and disinfect areas
- Keep litterboxes away from meals and water bowls, and clear/disinfectant them commonly (no less than each day)
- Avoid stress and preserve good hygiene and preventive healthcare for all cats
Wherever FIP happens is an issue in a gaggle of breeding cats:
- Consider preferentially breeding from older cats, as these will much less doubtless be shedding FCoV
- Consider isolating queens simply earlier than they provide delivery and conserving the queen and kittens remoted from all different cats till the kittens are homed, as a way of decreasing the chance of FCoV unfold to kittens
- Stop breeding from any queens or felines that repeatedly produce litters of kittens that develop FIP as they might be passing on FCoV an infection or could also be passing on genetic susceptibility to illness
- Carefully evaluation administration and hygiene insurance policies
- If confronted with an outbreak of FIP, cease all breeding for a number of months
Reducing the chance in rescue and rehoming amenities
Good hygiene and avoiding overcrowding are important methods for minimising the chance of FIP. Cats ought to ideally be housed individually, or if this isn’t potential, they need to be saved in small steady teams. Litter bins and cleansing/disinfection must be managed as in breeding households.
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Learning for kids may start even earlier than you think
Many parents worry about what schools their children will go to, often starting as early as their pre-school days. But a new study points to the importance of critical stages of early learning even before children enter pre-school.
The research, completed at New York University Center for Neural Science, sought to better understand these critical periods in early-life learning. The head of the study hypothesized that children need healthy activation before being in a school setting in order to promote learning and memory function.
The researchers studied rats 17 days after birth, or the equivalent of three years old for a child. This is a time when children forget episodic memories, which are typically memories of who, what, when, where, why and other associated emotions. This phenomenon is known as infantile amnesia, as adults typically are unable to retrieve episodic memories that took place between the ages of two and four years old.
They compared this younger group of rats to another group that were 24 days old, or the equivalent of a six to nine year old. Children at this age are able to create and retain memories.
Both groups were placed in a new environment where there were two compartments, one that was “safe” and another where the rats would receive a small shock to the foot. All rats started in the “safe” environment until a door automatically opened, allowing them to enter the “shock” environment.
It came as no surprise that the younger group entered the shock environment and almost immediately forgot the experience, returning a day later to be shocked again. The 24 day-old rats also had an expected reaction as they first entered, were shocked and never returned.
The surprising finding came when the researchers prompted the younger rats later in life with reminders of the experience. They discovered that the rats did, in fact, have a trace of the memory. They concluded that while these memories may not be fully remembered, early life experiences can easily influence cognition and behavior in adults.
“Using learning and environmental interventions at an early age is extremely valuable in memory encoding and ultimately in cognitive development,” says Dr. Nishant Shah, a pediatric neurologist at Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. “Reading to infants and young children as well as talking to, singing to and playing with young infants is instrumental in a child’s cognitive development.”
“Studies such as this are an excellent reminder of the fascinating plasticity and the remarkable potential of the infant brain,” says Dr. Shah. “It is worth emphasizing that learning experiences in a child start at a very young age, much younger than previously believed.”
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As discussed in last week’s blog post, the family meeting is an essential tool for communicating with members of the health care team when you or your loved one is hospitalized. I have participated in numerous family meetings as part of the medical team, but I have also been on the other side of the table as a family member. Despite my formal medical training, these experiences have sometimes been frustrating and disappointing. However, the outcome would have been much worse had I not been prepared. Would you ever attend an important business meeting without doing your homework? Of course, not. There is much more at stake when a family member is seriously ill. Below are some tips that will help you get the most out of your next family meeting.
Develop a list of questions prior to the meeting. Consider the following:
- What is the working diagnosis?
- What tests have been done and what are the results?
- What is the treatment plan?
- What is the expected duration of the hospitalization?
- Will your loved one be able to return home after hospital discharge or will they have ongoing needs requiring transfer to a rehabilitation facility?
- What can you and other family members do to assist with recovery?
Ask clarifying questions. If the team is using a lot of medical jargon, ask them to rephrase in lay terms.
Identify one or two people who will speak on behalf of the family.
- It can be confusing and disruptive to have multiple family members speaking at once. The meeting will run more efficiently if there is a sense of cohesion and order among the family.
Take notes during the meeting.
- You will be filled with many emotions and will not remember much of what was said, so it is important to write things down.
Establish a plan for effective communication moving forward.
- Provide the name and phone number of the primary caregiver and the health care agent, if one has been assigned. (See blog post on Health Care Power of Attorney.)
- Write down the names of the physicians caring for your loved one, including the specialists. Ask how you can contact them if needed.
Knowledge is power. This information will empower you to effectively partner with the health care team and advocate for your family member’s best interests.
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IUCN’s network of experts have used GBIF-mediated data in 25 per cent of the new and updated assessments included in the recent update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ (Red List).
These latest Red List assessments analysed the extinction risk faced by more than 7,500 species, comprising hundreds of vascular plants, fishes, reptiles and amphibians as well as dozens of insects and mammals. Data-use citations of 140 downloads uniquely identified with DOIs improves the transparency and reproducibility of a portion of the 1,839 assessments citing the use of GBIF as a source of data in their bibliography.
The GBIF network's contributions to the Red List are not limited to data. A team from Uganda's National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFiRRI) led by Laban Musinguzi, currently a GBIF regional support contractor for Africa, examined Afrotropical freshwater fishes and contributing 29 new assessments, each of which provides direct links to GBIF-mediated data supporting their findings.
More than half of the assessed species included in the update are categorized as Least Concern, however, nearly 2,500 species are considered threatened (i.e., Vulnerable, Endangered or Critically Endangered), while 21 species are considered Extinct. This includes the giant atlas barbel (Labeobarbus reinii), a freshwater fish endemic to Morocco that was last reported in 2001.
Known for its migrations from Mexico and California in the winter to summer breeding grounds throughout the United States and Canada, the migratory monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus subsp. plexippus) is one the new additions to the List. The assessors used GBIF-mediated occurrences to map the distribution and calculate the extent and area of occurrence, categorizing the butterfly as Endangered under Red List criteria A2ab.
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Elevated cholesterol levels aren't caused by a high cholesterol diet alone. The fact is, a combination of factors affects your cholesterol levels. There are two main categories of risks that contribute to high cholesterol—those that you can't change (uncontrollable risks) and those that you can (controllable risks).|
Uncontrollable Risk Factors
These variables are out of your control. Although you can't do anything to change them, it's important to know whether you fall into any of these higher-risk categories. How many of these risk factors do you exhibit?
- Your age. Your risk of developing high cholesterol increases as you age. Men over age 45 and women over 55 are at higher risk than their younger counterparts.
- Your gender. Overall, men are more prone to high cholesterol than women—until women reach 50 to 55 years of age, that is. Naturally occurring cholesterol levels in women increase around this age.
- Your family history. Your family has given you more than your eye color. They've also partly determined your risk for several conditions and diseases. Some people have a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. Your risk is higher if an immediate family member had high cholesterol and/or its associated problems (like heart disease), especially at a young age (under 55).
- Your race. Somewhat related to family history, your race can also predetermine part of your cholesterol risk. In the U.S., African Americans, for example, are more likely to develop high cholesterol than Caucasians.
Controllable Risk Factors
Factors that you can control are related to your lifestyle—the choices you make each day about what to eat and whether or not to exercise. These are areas of your life where you can take control to improve your cholesterol levels and enhance your overall health.
When you have other existing health conditions, you are compounding your risk of serious complications and disease if you don't lower your cholesterol. Add high-risk factors into the picture (family history, age, race) and your risk is compounded even more. The good thing is that you can break that chain of progressive disease at any point by changing what you can control.
- Your diet. Since your body makes about 80 percent of its cholesterol, the other 20 percent comes from the foods you eat. If your diet is high in cholesterol-promoting foods (saturated fat, cholesterol, trans fat) and low in heart-healthy foods (healthy fats, whole grains, fish, fruits and veggies), then your diet is probably contributing to your high cholesterol levels.
- Your activity level. Inactive people are an increased risk for high cholesterol. Regular exercise naturally decreases the LDL (bad) cholesterol levels in your blood while increasing your HDL (good) cholesterol levels. Exercise does not have to be strenuous to offer benefits.
- Your weight. Being overweight increases your blood cholesterol levels since your body stores the extra calories you eat as triglycerides. When these triglyceride levels are high, HDL (good) cholesterol levels tend to be low. Losing just 10 percent of your body weight (if you are overweight) can improve your cholesterol levels.
- Smoking. Did you know that smoking is the leading preventable cause of heart disease, due to its effects on your arteries, heart, blood pressure and cholesterol levels? Smoking damages the walls of your arteries and lowers your HDL (good) cholesterol levels. Quitting can stop (and potentially reverse) a lot of the existing damage to your body, and improve your cholesterol.
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It’s not the sort of advice you might expect from your optometrist but current research from McGill University in Canada suggests that playing the video game Tetris may be an effective way of improving a lazy (amblyopic) eye.
Good vision requires more than just a healthy eye. The eye sends electrical signals via the optic nerve to the part of the brain used for visual processing. We call this process the visual pathway or visual system. The visual system is not fully developed at birth. Good development requires each eye to be seeing well in order to build the connections between the eye and the brain. If one eye sees better than the other, the connections it builds will be stronger, leading to a dominant eye that suppresses the other one. This development continues from birth until about 8 years old.
During this time there is a chance to balance the two eyes by covering the stronger eye forcing the weaker eye to behave better. This is only successful in some children and generally accepted not to work in adults at all. The earlier that treatment is started the better the outcome. This is why eye testing from about 3 years old is advised in all children. This should be even earlier if you have a family history of eye problems, if you think you see a squint in your child’s eyes or have any concerns that they are not seeing well.
So could video games offer the answer to improving vision in adults who currently have no other treatment options? By connecting differently shaped blocks as they fall in Tetris, the eyes are forced to cooperate with each other, alleviating suppression of the weaker eye and retraining the brain to use both equally. Results from recent research suggested promising improvements in the vision of the weaker eye and in 3D perception.
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Yozgat is rich in natural beauty and historical artifacts. Many of the historical works of Yozgat, which are on important commercial roads, have not reached our time. His main works are:
Ulu Jami: It was built in 1779 by Mustafa Bey of Çapanoğlu. It is also known as Çapanoğlu Câmii.
Capanoglu Süleyman Bey Cemisi: It was built in 1794 by Çapanoğlu Süleyman Bey. The cutting stone workmanship is great for the art of interior and exterior ornamentation. These two casinos are referred to as inner and outer casinos since they are at the front of the Grand Umin.
Cevahir Ali Efendi Câmii: It was built in 1788 by Ali Efendi. It is quite rundown today.
Başçavuşoğlu Camii: It was built in 1880. The art of wood beads is great. Tavanı Baroque is covered with motifs.
Çapanoğlu Câmii: It was built in 1749 by Ahmed Pasha. It is in the Yerköy district. Stone work and interior decorations are very beautiful.
Clock Tower: In 1870 the Municipal Reich was built by Tevfikizade Ahmed Efendi.
Ankova Harâbeleri: There is a remnant of Ankova, an ancient Hittite city, in the village of Alisar in the district of Sorgun. Many works were found to illuminate Hittite. Most of them are in the Museum of Ethnography. This mound contains 5000 years of artifacts. They are said to be of copper and bronze age. Çengeltepe Höyüğü: In the village of Çengelköyü of the central district, the first bronze devrine monuments before the reign were found. The walls of the buildings built four thousand years ago are still standing. Kerkenez: It is an ancient Hittite city. Hattusha: It is the Hittite capital. It is surrounded by a mound of seven kilometers. The city is entered from the 7th gate. It is a unique example of Hittite imagination with underground passages. Besides these ruins, there are written rocks that symbolize religious beliefs. Türüdüler Village Caves: It is in Şefaatlı district. Târihin is a cave from ancient ages.
Stories: Bosphorus; It is a historical capital. Çeşka Castle: 5 km distance to the city center. Goat Castle: It is 25 km away from Yerköy province.
Mesîre places: There are many places of mesure spread in various places of the province. Some of these are:
Çamlık: 5 km distance to the city center. Çamlık, which is close to 264 hectares, was converted to a national park in 1956. It is a resting place with clean air, abundant water and a wonderful plant cover.
Meadowland: It is located in Meadowland. It is a lush forest that has been made of larch, spruce, oak, beech and poplar trees. He is ready to hunt and camp.
Dark Creek: It is located between Yerköy and Şefaatli. Pulling water flows through the middle. There is a place with greenery, game animals and fish.
Akdağ Forests: The Akdağmadeni area is covered with forests. It is a nice picnic place with cold water springs and springs. Fight the game animals.
Drinks and spas: Yozgat is a city rich in springs and sanitary waters. Important spas are:
Sarıkaya Thermal Springs: It is in the Sarıkaya district, 79 km distance from the city center. Accommodation facilities are good for the waters of the hot spring, rheumatism, neuralgia, nephritis, skin and gynecological diseases.
Karadikmen Kaplıcası: It is in Karadikmen village connected to Akdağmadeni district. The drinking water of the non-existent spring water is good for rheumatism and gynecological diseases such as liver, bile ducts, intestinal diseases and urinary tract diseases, bathing as 4-5 glasses a day for drinking.
Yeşilova Hot Spring: 2 km distance to Sorgun town. The hot springs available in the facilities are useful for bathing rheumatism, nephritis, neuralgia and gynecological diseases as well as drinking, intestinal, intestinal, liver and bile duct disorders. It is 38 km far from the city center.
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The PrimateCast rolled out its mobile podcasting unit once again to cover the meetings of the International Primatological Society held between August 11-16, 2014. The theme of this year's congress, which was held at the Melia Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, was 'meeting the challenges of conserving primate diversity'.
In the first installment of this five-part podcast series, we introduced some of the graduate students from PRI who helped interview the 20 guests that appear in the series, and then spoke with two of the organizers of IPS 2014, Dr. Bert Covert and Dr. Steve Schapiro. This time around, in the second installment, we discuss why conservationists and welfare advocates need to consider the role of infectious disease in primate population management.
In the first interview, Dr. Tom Gillespie explains a couple of projects he is involved with that tackle the complexities of primate biodiversity conservation, infectious disease transmission between wildlife, domestic animals and local humans, and their links to public health. These large-scale projects are being undertaken at Gombe in Tanzania and Ranomafana in Madagascar. Then we hear from Dr. Julio-Cesar Bicca-Marques about yellow fever outbreaks in howler monkeys, and how important such outbreaks may be to the future viability of howler monkey populations in Brazil and elsewhere in South America. Finally, we chat with Dr. Joe Bielitzki about the important matter of poaching and subsequent confiscation of primates, specifically with regards to the process of transitioning those animals, usually the young of poached mothers, into sanctuaries or other suitable new locations. Dr. Bielitzki draws on his vast experience in primate biomedicine to suggest a new strategy that rests on consideration of the microbiome - the full community of microorganisms that live upon and within us all, helping to make us who we all are. For anyone seeking more information about our guests and their activities, please click on their institution names in the list below to follow links to their respective academic pages.
*Please allow time for the audio to buffer if you have a slower internet connection
We'd like to sincerely thank all of our guests on this episode as well as on the entire series of podcasts from our coverage of the 25th Congress of the International Primatological Society. Join us next time when our guests will be Dr. Tatyana humle, Miles Woodruff, Debbie Cox, Noel Rowe and Dr. Augustin Basabose for a thematic podcast focusing on primate conservation.
Be sure to check out our other podcasts featuring interviews with leading scientists in primatology and beyond.
Join us on The PrimateCast, and feel free to visit us at Facebook and Twitter and leave comments and feedback on this or any other podcast in the series. You can also subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.
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Barefoot discusses addiction and how to free yourself from it if you need to
Transcript of video
Addiction is intrinsic to being alive. All nature addicts itself to its own forms. So like a flower addicts itself to be the shape of being a flower, we addict ourselves to the set of coordinates that we set up in which to frame the story that we’re telling ourselves. None of us really exist as we think we do. We’re collections of thought habits, thoughts that addict themselves into a shape. So addiction in itself is not a bad thing.
Secondly when we look at the substances we tend to addict ourselves to, they are generally poison. Now poison isn’t necessarily bad. In fact it’s quite clear from its use that we need poison to some extent. It’s the thing that gives it all a bit of grit, otherwise it becomes a bit too blancmangy. It’s just how much of the poison you use.
And it develops from a compact you make with yourself and the poison, some kind of agreement that you set up at a certain point in your life that you will devote yourself to the intake of this poison come what may to the level that you decided to do it and therefore begin I would suggest by examining the compact, the contract you’ve made and changing it. Everyone’s allowed to change the compact.
For example, I used to love single malt whisky. And I made a compact with myself that from now on I am no longer obliged to continue using that medicine because I was over using it and it was poisoning me. And instead I made a contract with myself to find the warmth that I felt in my chest and the increase of self-confidence that that gave me and the love that I feel from everyone around me, I would access that naturally from with him because obviously these were qualities I could find within me.
So whatever your particular poison, or poisons you’re addicting yourself to, look at the contract, change the contract and change it to one where you will either completely replace that stimulus to get the desired effect or reduce the amount you use it to get that effect and rely on accessing the effect from within you naturally just by will, because we can. It just takes a little bit of practice and it’s not as physically spectacular, there's nothing like a sudden shift of feeling that you get when you drink, or take drugs, or do whatever, but over time, which is what counts, it develops the feeling that you've been looking for in the substance.
The Native American style is to talk to the spirit of the substance and pray to it to release you. That's anthropomorphizing things, it’s just words and depends on your mood at the time.
The other thing that the Taoists suggest - and again this is not trying to answer the question in one, this is a huge subject, there is no glib response to it that would satisfy and I wouldn’t trust one that said it was either - you only have so much time and mental focus on any given day and the more of it you devote to healthy addictions, the less of it you'll have available to devote to the unhealthy addiction. So for example, suppose you were to do yoga, tai chi, qigong, something that would change your state naturally as a daily discipline, at least for the time you were doing that, and maybe for a short while after, and maybe for a little while before, you wouldn't be inclined to indulge the other addiction as much. And over time the balance changes. And at the very least, by doing something constructive like that, you’re strengthening yourself to offset the pernicious effects of whatever poison you’re taking.
Right now though, if I was going to be looking at dropping an addiction, I think I would start by talking to the spirit of the substance and having a proper good conversation and negotiating an exit or a change of levels of abuse.
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Santo Domingo.- Last July 15, the Government delivered 124 million pesos to 127 agricultural producers, as part of the Valle Nuevo Rescue Plan, but the list of beneficiaries does not match the census carried out in 2016, which gave rise to the compensation.
In an act headed by President Luis Abinader and the Minister of the Environment, Miguel Ceara Hatton, the payment of compensation to farmers in the municipality of Constanza continued, in compliance with resolution 0016-2021.
At that time, in a press release, the Ministry announced that the 127 farmers who received checks are those who had up 120 hectares within the protected area and who had been waiting for compensation since 2016. The note stressed that these payments fulfilled the promise of former Minister Orlando Jorge Mera to return to these producers what they had been waiting for for years.
For weeks, before the checks were delivered, Diario Libre requested the list of beneficiaries through different channels, including through the Office of Free Access to Information. There was no response until the delivery of the compensation was made public on July 15.
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Seif Haridi is Chair-Professor of Computer Systems specialized in parallel and distributed computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). He led a European research program on Cloud Computing and Big Data by EIT-Digital between 2010 to 2013, and is a co-founder of a number of start-ups in the area of distributed and cloud computing including HiveStreaming and LogicalClocks.
He is well-known for the textbook "Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming" which explains many difficult programming concepts in a simple and insightful way. For more than ten years he has been teaching two popular courses on distributed algorithms and peer-to-peer computing at KTH. His research is focused on the combination of systems research and theory in the areas of programming systems and distributed computing. He is a co-designer of SICStus Prolog, the most well known logic programming system, and the Mozart Programming System, a high-quality open-source development platform based on the Oz multi-paradigm programming language. Recently, together with his research group, he has been contributing to the design of Apache Flink, a Big Data distributed engine for streaming analytics, and HOPS the first European complete platform for data-analytics and machine learning. HOPS-FS the file system of HOPS won IEEE Scale Prize 2017 as the most scalable HDFS filesystem. | <urn:uuid:3b191fb1-1b90-4408-aad1-2038b4dea8c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://2019.european-big-data-value-forum.eu/speakers/seif-haridi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947367 | 311 | 1.875 | 2 |
Forex exchanging is probably the most blazing subject with regards to the universe of stocks and exchanging industry. This sort of exchanging alludes to the most common way of buying just as selling of unfamiliar trade monetary forms from different nations everywhere. In actuality, the forex exchanging works very much like a normal stocks exchanging wherein the unfamiliar monetary standards fill in as the portions of a specific foundation in one country. This really may sound so odd to you in case you are still amateur in the exchanging business. Consequently, you need to essentially know on some forex exchanging tips which you should consider to be effective on your interest in the exchanging business.
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You might imagine that utilizing a thick exchanging framework is the most ideal way of winning in a forex market. In case honestly, this idea is just a confusion in the exchanging business in light of the fact that the best exchanging framework to utilize any exchanging market is just the basic one. Along these lines, you can undoubtedly fathom every one of the things which you need to do and dispose of various components. Consequently, any reasonable person would agree that you just need to procure a straightforward forex exchanging framework wandering the universe of forex market.
Without a doubt, setting out in the realm of exchanging industry might be too unsafe on your part particularly in case you are still fledgling the business world. Be that as it may, you can without much of a stretch arrangement with all the exchanging difficulties whenever you have placed into your brain all the previously mentioned tips concerning the exchanging system the forex market. You likewise need to set in motion every one of the tips referenced above to have ensured rewards in the exchanging domain of forex. All things considered, you need to try to use an attempted and tried forex exchanging framework request to obtain a reliable productive seeds of cash in the exchanging business sector of forex ordinary. | <urn:uuid:a0ca2197-f449-4baf-a161-74e806294633> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://finances-247.com/forex-trading-tips-become-an-expert-trader-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959333 | 620 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Black Santas are showing up at US Disney parks this season for the first time
Los Angeles (CNN) – Without official announcements or fanfare, America’s Disney Parks are including a black Santa Claus in Christmas celebrations this year for the first time in the company’s 66-year history of the company’s theme parks.
Both at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a black Santa has been spotted at some after-hours Christmas gatherings and parties.
A Disney spokesperson told CNN that Santa Claus is portrayed in various ways in local and regional communities and around the world – and with that in mind, Santa Claus will reflect the diversity of the surrounding communities at Disneyland Resort and Walt. Disney World Resort.
As expected, Disney guests and the general public took to social media with strong opinions.
Twitter user @maciiannn posted: “I’m pretty sure I just caught the very first black Santa to be at Walt Disney World and I’m seriously crying tears of joy.”
But Twitter user @hawksmurray commented on the news, saying, “Everyone knows Santa isn’t black, they shouldn’t be making a black Santa just for a publicity stunt.”
Some users responded to this by saying “Everyone knows Santa Claus is not real”.
Victoria Wade, a theme park social media influencer who is black, tweeted about including a black Santa Claus in Disney parks, writing: “Never in my life did I think Disney would put actually a black Santa Claus in the parks. ”
The move made her emotional and more likely to spend money to attend the parks Christmas parties, she said in her post.
âWith Disney implementing this change as part of its diversity and inclusion initiative, it really makes me feel more comfortable and seen when I visit the parks,â she said. told CNN.
“In the end, it makes me feel more accepted, welcome and I am delighted with what it will do for kids from all walks of life when they visit Disney parks.”
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Foundation Stage Weekly Newsletter
Puffins and Penguins Weekly Newsletter 5th April 2019
Dear Parents and Carers,
It has been a very Eggciting week!
Puffins and Penguins invited Preston Community Pre School in to class to join them for an Easter Egg Hunt. They were fantastic hosts and great role models using all our school values. We are very proud of them.
On Thursday, FOPPS (PTA) organised an Easter Egg Hunt in the Woodland Camp. We had fun searching for the treats, thank you FOPPS.
Each child will be coming home with a Maths activity pack for the Easter holidays. We have included games and activity sheets but feel free to be as creative as you like. The focus is on addition, subtraction, one more and one less. Do not forget to keep counting backwards 20-0.
We would like to take this opportunity to say how proud we are of all the children for working so hard this term. We appreciate all your support and look forward to starting the summer term on Tuesday 23rd April.
Learn to Swim Sessions
We still have places available on our Learn to Swim sessions. These lessons are aimed at children in Puffins, Penguins and Owls classes. Sessions will be run by our swimming qualified staff. Lessons are half an hour after school, with a maximum of five pupils per teacher. Two teachers poolside, with Lifeguard training. We are offering 20 places initially on a Wednesday straight after school. We will safely hand over children from the class teacher to the swim teacher. Therefore, there is no need to pick up your child until 4:30pm. However we have a new covered seating area, and you are most welcome to watch your child swim. Dates are Wednesday 1st May to Wednesday 24th July. If these twenty places fill up we will organise and advertise a second day after school.
Sessions are all bookable online and payable in advance. We want the lessons to be value for money and have decided to trial this at £59 for 12 lessons. Please book via www.eduspot.co.uk
- If you download a free QR reader app you will be able to scan the code on the newsletter and join in with Mrs Bastin counting backwards from 20-0.
- Complete the games in the activity pack
- Keep a simple diary of the exciting things you do in the holidays
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Mechanism Design for Social Good workshop sets example for diversity and social good in research
When MS&E PhD candidate Faidra Monachou set out to organize the fourth Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG '20), she built solutions from her field of research into the conference itself.
Monachou, together with co-program chair Francisco J. Marmolejo Cossío of the University of Oxford, and a Steering Committee including MS&E Prof. Irene Lo, designed the workshop to be multidisciplinary, focused on applicability, and inclusive of communities that are typically underserved in academia.
The result was a diverse group of attendees and ideas, presented for that group. Invited speaker Natalia Ariza Ramírez, Economist at National University of Colombia and former Vice Minister of Education in Colombia, gave her plenary talk on educational interventions in Colombia in Spanish with live interpretation to English. A discussion panel with experts from Latin American and Caribbean communities (LAC) was hosted in Spanish, again with live interpretation. And real-time interpretation to Spanish was provided for the rest plenary talks given in English.
To achieve this novel linguistic diversity for a conference of this type, the organizers designed for it from the beginning. Monachou and team knew that a significant barrier for the participation of Latin American communities in similar initiatives has been language—almost all US-based conferences are held in English only. To overcome this barrier, the organizers released the Call for Participation both in English and Spanish, and Spanish-speaking Program Committee members reviewed and shepherded several submissions written entirely in Spanish.
Additionally, the organizers coordinated outreach to under-represented communities and institutions, many of whom faced financial difficulties or were based in the Global South. To overcome financial barriers, organizers worked with the MD4SD ’20 Diversity & Inclusion chairs, including MS&E PhD candidate Wanyi Li, to identify candidates for registration fee waivers. Altogether, waivers were granted to 190 participants. For participants without reliable internet access, MD4SD ’20 provided 21 data plan scholarships, 18 of which were awarded to participants in countries across the African continent.
As a result of these and other efforts, more than 700 attendees registered from 59 countries around the world. Over 20% of registrants identified as Black, African American, or African, and 18% were of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin.
Social good across disciplines
MD4SG '20 highlighted research where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, have the potential to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and marginalized communities.
For example, Monachou and team explicitly opened MD4SG '20 to submissions from legal scholars. Legal experts joined other researchers, policymakers, and domain experts and professionals interested in improving equity in a variety of domains such as education, labor, environment, healthcare, algorithmic fairness, and digital platforms.
Participants had backgrounds in computer science, AI, operations research, economics, public policy and humanities, and many of the 138 submitted papers combined methodologies and insights from multiple fields.
For example, the paper "Feminicide and Machine Learning: Detecting Gender-based Violence to Strengthen Civil Sector Activism" by lead author Catherine D'Ignazio, Professor at MIT, highlighted a highly relevant topic to the Latin American region by adopting machine learning tools to understand the complex issue of feminicide and inform policy at all levels. This paper was a co-winner of the MD4SD New Horizons award.
At the intersection between mechanism design and human-computer interaction, the paper "Modeling Assumptions Clash with the Real World: Configuring Student Assignment Algorithms to Serve Community Needs" by UC Berkeley team Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen, and Professor Niloufar Salehi studied how the theoretical guarantees of the San Francisco Unified School District's student assignment algorithm can differ from the practical behavior of parents using the algorithm. This paper also received the New Horizons award.
Beyond science, policy, and humanities, the workshop even explored the intersection between art and mechanism design for social good. Keynote speaker Stephanie Dinkins, Artist Fellow at the Berggruen Institute, talked about her practice as a transmedia artist working with AI, which "employs lens-based practices, emerging technologies and community engagement to confront questions of bias in AI, consciousness, data sovereignty and social equity," according to Dinkins.
Policy design for social good
Several of the award-winning papers at the workshop focused on policy design, on topics such as educational policies for admissions at University of California, school choice in Peru and San Francisco, HIV prevention methods for homeless youth, and discrimination in labor markets.
Related to the workshop theme of bridging research and policy, award-winning papers highlighted new research directions for policy-oriented work in the MD4SG community. More specifically, the winning papers that equally shared the Best Paper Award focused on the design of effective educational policies in the United States and LAC.
The paper "Top Percent Policies and the Return to Postsecondary Selectivity" by Zachary Bleemer (UC Berkeley) used novel data from the "Top Percent" admissions policy at University of California to analyze the impact on barely-eligible applicants (typically from disadvantaged backgrounds) on their university admission and future career outcomes.
The paper "Competition under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies" by incoming Stanford GSB Professor Claudia Allende studied the role of peer preferences in school choice and the design of optimal assignment policies at elementary schools in Peru.
In general, education in LAC was a central theme to the workshop; the keynote talk by Dr. Natalia Ariza Ramírez focused on the implementation of the "Ser Pilo Paga" program aimed to make education in Colombia more accessible and equitable, while two contributed talk sessions and a discussion panel with experts from LAC also focused on education policy in practice.
A social conference
In the midst of the isolation caused by COVID-19, Monachou and team expressed how valuable the social angle of a workshop like MD4SG '20 can be. According to Monachou, a common remark on the post-workshop participant survey was that participants enjoyed the social nature of the gather.town platform, which offered an environment wherein participants could "walk" their avatar through virtual space to meet and chat with other participants in a more casual way than traditional video conferencing platforms like Zoom. MD4SG partnered with Virtual Chair, who designed the virtual space for the conference and facilitated its technical logistics.
In fact, the social aspect of the workshop was so successful that MD4SG is currently in the process of providing a similar social space on a regular basis for MD4SG members throughout the year.
MD4SG '20 was organized by program chairs Monachou and Marmolejo, Steering Committee Prof. Lo, Rediet Abebe (Harvard University), Ana Stoica (Columbia University), Kira Goldner (Columbia University), Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University), Illenin Kondo (University of Notre-Dame), and Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh).
MD4SG is a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional online research initiative, which promotes research at the intersection of computer science, operations, economics, humanities and other disciplines, with the mission of bringing together a range of expertise to tackle problems impacting disadvantaged communities around the world.
Since its foundation in 2016, MD4SG has grown to a community of more than 1,700 participants and organizes workshops, tutorials, colloquium series at events such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference on Economics and Computation (EC '20), Data Science Africa Summer School, ACM COMPASS, and more. MD4SG has seven working groups covering topics such as bias, discrimination, and fairness, developing nations, environment and climate, data economies, inequality, and civic participation.
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There’s a lot to love about oatmeal. The popular breakfast food is made from hulled oat grains, and can be found in a number of varieties, including milled, rolled, and steel-cut. Health-wise, it offers a nutritious boost to any diet, with a high protein content and a big dose of dietary fiber. Oatmeal also contains lots of vitamin A, as well as iron, calcium, vitamin B-6, and magnesium. That it’s delicious too is just an added benefit
Of course, you may have already known that oatmeal is a good choice as part of a well-balanced diet. But is oatmeal good for dogs, too? Let’s explore.
The Benefits of Oatmeal for Dogs
All of the things that make oatmeal good for humans also makes it good for dogs—with a few caveats.
A reason why oatmeal is a healthy option for dogs is that it’s relatively bland on its own. Oats cooked just with water—and with no added milk, sugar, or other rich oatmeal toppings—offer your pup a wholesome snack or meal topper that provides all of the vitamins and nutrients mentioned above without any additives that you have to worry about.
It can also be a good way to sneak more water into your dog’s diet, particularly if you add extra warm (not hot) water to the oatmeal after it has cooked.
Because of oatmeal’s high fiber content, it’s often recommended as a way to sneak a bit of extra fiber into the diet of dogs who suffer from gastrointestinal or bowel issues, though if your dog has a sensitive stomach, it’s best to check with your vet before adding any “human” foods into their bowl.
How to Feed Your Dog Oatmeal
The secret to making sure that oatmeal is a healthy snack for your dog is to ensure you choose the right variety and that you cook it correctly. Follow these guidelines to avoid any issues:
- Cook it. Cook oatmeal before giving it to your dog instead of feeding them raw oats.
- Whole grains are better. Only serve your dog oatmeal made from whole grain oats. Processed grains offer less health benefits, and may upset your dog’s stomach.
- Stick to the basics. If serving pre-packaged oatmeal, check the ingredient list first. Some pre-packaged oatmeal varieties contain added sugar or other flavorings.
- Keep portions small. Plain, cooked oatmeal contains about 150 calories per cup. While that might not sound like a lot, keep in mind that dogs require significantly fewer calories than we do (a 25-pound dog, for example, should only be eating about 550 calories a day to maintain their weight). So when it comes to feeding your dog oatmeal, a spoonful or two is usually more than enough.
- Don’t use it as a meal replacement. Even though oatmeal has plenty of good benefits for dogs, it’s still missing many of the nutrients necessary for a well-rounded canine diet. Use it as a snack or a meal topper—instead of as a meal itself—to ensure your pup still gets what he or she needs.
What You Can Add to Your Dog’s Oatmeal
While things like brown sugar and maple syrup are out, there are still plenty of extras you can put in your dog’s oatmeal to make it more exciting.
- Peanut Butter: Most dogs already love peanut butter, and a teaspoon or so of an all-natural, no sugar added variety makes a great addition to your dog’s oatmeal.
- Fruit: Cut up some dog-friendly fruit into bite-sized pieces and stir it in. Some good options include bananas, strawberries, blueberries, or apples.
- Pureed Pumpkin: Make oatmeal even more fiber-ful by stirring in some pureed pumpkin. Just be sure it’s pure pumpkin, and not pumpkin pie filling.
- Cinnamon: Cinnamon is a natural anti-inflammatory and also a great way to add more flavor without adding calories (plus dogs love it!).
- Plain Yogurt: Plain Greek or standard yogurt is a delicious addition to oatmeal and will bring in a further boost of calcium and vitamins. Avoid flavored yogurts, though, which often have a very high sugar content.
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” Doble Steam Cars,” by J. N. Walton. 203 pp. 8-3/4 in. x 5-5/8 in. (Light Steam Power, Kirk Michael, Isle of Man, 37s. 6d.)
Although steam cars have been dead for many years historical interest in them is considerable, while there are even die-hards amongst the Light Steam Power fraternity who still build external-combustion-engined vehicles. So this book about Doble steam cars, which were regarded as the Rolls-Royce of their class, and which also covers Doble ‘buses, lorries and railcars, will be welcomed by the specialists in this field. It has a Preface by Abner Doble himself and gives very complete and interesting coverage of all the Doble productions, from those of the First World War days, through the Doble-Detroit and Models D, and F, to the Doble steam ‘buses, Henschel-Doble and Sentinel-Doble triple-expansion designs. Copiously illustrated with pictures of contemporary and restored Dobles, and many diagrams, and containing quotes from Company reports, catalogues and instruction books, this book will be fascinating in the extreme to steam-car enthusiasts. There is considerable detail about the later Doble engines and steam engine valve gear in general, so that this work stands as the only comprehensive description of Abner Doble’s productions and also contains much useful information, free from the cloud of myth and exaggeration, for future development. The story of the silent power of Doble steam cars is certainly well told in this book.—W. B.
Patrick Mennem has written a soft-cover book for those about to take the driving test and who wish to drive well after they have done so. A bit superficial, it contains some useful information for wives and girl-friends; the latter should appreciate the remark in Chapter 5 that ” … remember that the steering wheel, and nowhere else, is the home for your hands when driving.” Published by Newnes, ” Pass Your Test—and Drive Well ” costs 3s. 6d. | <urn:uuid:325d766d-9b54-457c-b34b-13a51f47bdab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/march-1967/34/book-reviews-march-1967-march-1967 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939718 | 452 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Should you split queens in blackjack? Like all forms of gambling, when you split blackjack cards, you must weigh up risk against reward. While you stand to win twice as much in a hand by splitting, logic dictates that you can also lose twice as much if it goes wrong. The risk is why we don't recommend splitting every single pair, all of the time.
Can you split 2 different face cards in blackjack?
In blackjack, the standard rule is that if the player is dealt a pair of identically ranked initial cards, known as a pair, the player is allowed to split them into separate hands and ask for a new second card for each while placing a full initial bet identical to the original wager with each.
What cards do you split?
If you hold two cards that are the same number in your hand, like two eights or two sixes, you can split them apart and play each one like two separate hands instead of one.
Should I buy insurance if I have blackjack?
To take it, you must put up half your wager. If the dealer has blackjack, you win the insurance bet, usually at 2 to 1 odds - meaning you break even on the hand. If the dealer doesn't have blackjack, you lose the insurance bet. The verdict: Even if you think you're psychic, it's best to avoid insurance bets.
What does a blackjack pay?
Under traditional rules, a natural blackjack (the player draws an ace and a ten-value card) pays three to two, meaning a $100 bet returns $150. All other bets pay even money; if the player busts before the dealer, he loses, and if the player and dealer tie, it is a push (neither side wins).
Related guide for Should You Split Queens In Blackjack?
What are the blackjack odds?
Blackjack has the best odds of winning, with a house edge of just 1 percent in most casinos, Bean said. Plus, you are playing against only the dealer, not hooded poker champions. "Blackjack is one of our easiest games to play," Bean said.
Do you split 10s against a 5?
Not necessarily. Card counters sometimes split 10s when the dealer shows a 5 or 6 but only when the remaining pack of cards is loaded with 10s, which card counters would know because they are tracking the high and low cards.
When should you stop playing blackjack?
With a soft hand, the general strategy is to keep hitting until a total of at least 18 is reached. Thus, with an ace and a six (7 or 17), the player would not stop at 17, but would hit. The basic strategy for doubling down is as follows: With a total of 11, the player should always double down. | <urn:uuid:2cd3b9af-d950-4801-8437-af92b40e4bf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sonalsart.com/should-you-split-queens-in-blackjack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969141 | 583 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Business development involves processes and jobs to create and implement business development opportunities within and among businesses. It’s a subset of these three fields of business, economy, and organizational theory. Business development is an umbrella term for the promotion and growth of businesses as well as their expansion or improvement. It involves the strategic planning and management of a business’s development. It considers how changes in technology and policies affect organizations.
Strategic partnerships are business development activities that contribute to the growth of a business through the creation of new or renewed partnerships. These are typically long-term relationships that can reap significant benefits for both parties. Such partnerships are crucial to business development because they offer access to previously unavailable resources, expertise, and knowledge that can only be provided by specific companies. Strategic partnerships also foster the creation of future opportunities that will positively impact their respective fields. Many businesses use their marketing budgets and human resources in order to establish strategic partnerships.
Marketing initiatives, on the other hand, refer to the marketing programs of a company that drives its business development. The marketing initiatives of a company, therefore, are the ones that lay the foundation for its future growth. In addition, these initiatives include research and development. These initiatives further their objective of creating new markets, products, and services. One example of a marketing initiative is launching a product or service to address a perceived or predicted market need.
Another strategy for business development is vendor management. This includes the identification, procurement, and sale of various commercial and generic technical equipment and materials. Vendor management also involves tracking sales and the resulting income. This methodology has two distinct objectives: one is to generate more revenue and increase profit margins. The second aim is to ensure a constant flow of available materials and equipment in order to meet customer requirements.
Another important strategy for the business development team is customer relations. This refers to the strategies and actions that a company takes to maintain and develop a positive relationship with its customers. For this to be successful, the company must be able to build a strong customer base. It uses several channels such as advertising, sales, technical assistance, support, and supervisory roles. This customer base allows the company to expand its market share. These strategies for business development can also include product development, technological innovation, and research and development activities.
In addition to marketing and vendor management, there is another vital area for business development strategy. This is the networking aspect of developing new markets and products. This can either be done through internal means, such as recruitment of talent and development programs, or external means, such as networking in trade fairs, conventions, and international conferences. The key to developing new markets and products lies in identifying a target audience. The key to the success of this strategy lies in developing a target audience, understanding their needs and interests, and then providing the right kind of product or service to them.
For this to be effective, it is important that the professionals involved in the process have an understanding of the target audience and know how to reach out to them in a way that they will be responsive to the efforts. For this to be achieved, the professionals involved in the process should not only have good market research knowledge but also the marketing knowledge required to convert this information into buying decisions. One great example of such a social media marketing initiative is cold calling strategies. Cold calling can sometimes backfire because people tend to perceive these types of business development strategies as a form of advertising. Consequently, people become defensive when they are called and may not be willing to talk to anyone.
Another important area for developing a business development strategy is the need to adapt to changing business conditions. There are different strategies used to deal with these situations. Some of these strategies include short-term planning, rapid crisis response, crisis management, and long-term strategic planning. Some of these tactics are easier to employ than others. However, the right tactic will make all the difference in the world. | <urn:uuid:8bacf19c-f042-486d-a86c-c28b211e56bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beautifulyoupc.com/how-business-development-strategies-can-help-you/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955092 | 793 | 2.984375 | 3 |
MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading alternative protein producer Calysta today announced a $30 million investment from BP Ventures to support a worldwide rollout of Calysta’s FeedKind® protein, which can help improve global food security, one of the greatest challenges facing the world today.
The investment will help Calysta expand production of its sustainable single-cell protein, which is produced through a proprietary, commercially-validated gas fermentation process using naturally occurring, non-GM microbes with the unique ability to use methane as their energy source. Through extensive customer trials around the world, FeedKind protein has been demonstrated to be an effective, safe and nutritious feed ingredient.
“Welcoming BP as a partner is a tremendous step forward for FeedKind protein and the best indicator yet that Calysta’s solution to food insecurity in a resource-constrained world can and will achieve global scale,” said Alan Shaw, Ph.D., Calysta President and CEO.
“The problems facing our food production supply chains have never been more clear, with increasing evidence that land and water scarcity are key challenges to meeting future demand for protein. FeedKind makes more from less, producing feed for livestock, fish and pets while making smarter use of our resources.
“We look forward to working closely with BP as we prepare to deliver this product to the world. Calysta will benefit from BP’s operational excellence and focus on safety when deploying multiple production plants.”
The investment agreement will also see BP and Calysta establish a strategic partnership around gas and power supply.
Meghan Sharp, Managing Director, BP Ventures added: “We are really excited to be working with the team at Calysta, bringing them into the BP Ventures family as we seek new commercial opportunities for our gas business. Their technology complements our core business while providing opportunities for sustainable products for tomorrow.”
Calysta’s patented, state-of-the-art fermentation process uses no arable land and very little water, and does not compete with the human food chain, meaning more food can be produced with less resources. In aquaculture, Calysta’s initial market opportunity, FeedKind is seen as a key enabler for growth by reducing reliance on conventional sources of proteins.
As the global population grows from 7 billion in 2010 to a projected 9.8 billion in 2050, and incomes grow across the developing world, overall food demand is on course to increase by more than 50 percent, and demand for animal-based foods by nearly 70 percent. FeedKind protein can help achieve a sustainable food future by meeting the growing demands for food while avoiding deforestation and allowing the restoration of abandoned and unproductive land.
FeedKind is already being produced from the company’s Market Introduction Facility (MIF) in Teesside, England to support market development activities with leading animal nutrition companies around the world.
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Calysta, Menlo Park, CA, is an innovator in sustainable products to improve worldwide food security. Calysta develops and commercializes FeedKind® protein, an alternative feed ingredient for fish, livestock and pet nutritional products.
About BP Ventures
- BP Ventures was set up more than 10 years ago to identify and invest in private, high growth, game-changing technology companies, accelerating innovation across the entire energy spectrum. Since then, BP has invested over $500 million in technology companies across more than 50 entities with more than 300 co-investors.
- Venturing plays a key role in BP’s strategy to tackle the dual challenge of meeting the world’s need for more energy, while at the same time reducing carbon emissions.
- BP Ventures focuses on connecting and growing new energy business, focused on our core upstream, downstream and alternative energy businesses. In addition, it makes strategic equity investments in advanced mobility, low carbon and digital.
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Creative professions have many difficulties, sometimes even more than technical ones. Sometimes, to master the career of an actor, director, screenwriter, etc., you need to invest your whole soul and simultaneously give up many aspects of ordinary life. Film and theater students have a lot of electives and rehearsals, because of which they do not have enough time to work or look for income. Some students need financial support to help them cope with their studies and at least make their life a little easier. There are several papers that a student needs to prepare to receive a scholarship, and this isn’t easy even for those who study in a creative profession. This post will find a list of scholarships for students who want to receive financial support to study film or theater.
Shakespeare had so much to say about the theatre, and yet so much he could keep silent about it. The thing is that even in the most creative areas, there is a place for pragmatism because the financial part decides a lot. Some students cannot follow their dreams because their families cannot help during their studies, and they have to choose professions that will allow them to work. Sometimes students’ dreams collapse due to a lack of funds, but the good thing is that many different scholarships give students a chance to fulfill their dream and get the desired education in the US. Difficulties may also arise with a personal application for a scholarship. Still, the EssayShark essay writing company can quickly help them and show them the best side that will qualify for a grant.
The primary purpose of the Against the Grain Scholarship is to help with tuition fees for Asian American college students. The Against the Grain Productions panel will judge the candidate based on their portfolio and essay, leadership experience, letters of recommendation, and academic grades. If the candidate is selected, he will have to go through an interview over the phone or in person. Students must have time to submit an application and prepare documents before May 31 to consider it. The scholarship winner will receive $1,000, which they can use to pay for their college education.
non-profit organization Arts for Life provides scholarships to students actively interested in different types of creativity. The organization offers an excellent opportunity for graduates to receive financial aid for a college education. To be eligible, a student must demonstrate two different works or monologues. You can also show one monologue and separate work in which you need to show your singing abilities. Both parts should be current and written against a neutral color background. A total of 25 candidates will receive a scholarship equivalent to $1,000.
Austin College gives people interested in theater the opportunity to receive a theater scholarship. A potential scholarship holder must pass an audition or show a portfolio presentation and interview. Each year, students will be given several payments for various amounts up to $4,000. A scholarship may be awarded each year if the college theater department declares that the student meets expectations.
The Black Congress Foundation provides financial assistance to students who major in the performing arts through the Spouses Performing Arts Scholarship. Those who wish to receive aid must submit a resume, a new photo of themselves, an essay, two letters of recommendation, an official transcript, and two sample visual recordings, each lasting two minutes.
Cinema can play with different colors and be cruel to its followers, but many organizations are happy to help students cope with finances. Read the list of scholarships and find the opportunity for you to get support.
The One Earth Film organization gives young filmmakers from 3rd grade to 25 years of age the opportunity to participate in the competition and receive cash prizes that they can use for their education. Applications are accepted until midnight June 25, 2023. Film screenings will take place on September 18, and the best will be selected to participate in the One Earth Film Festival in March 2024.
The WCEJ Thornton Foundation Music & Art Scholarship will be awarded to five individuals who wish to pursue the arts in higher education. It should be borne in mind that preference will be given to already established specialists in the field of art. To apply, write about how you want to impact the world with your art positively. In addition, it is desirable to send examples of your works!
Each year, the scholarship is awarded as a DSLR to five high school students and $2,500 to six university students. The nominees submit photojournalistic images that best fit the year’s chosen theme. In addition to the photograph, students must submit an essay with a detailed explanation of their picture, a transcript provided by the school, and letters of recommendation. This scholarship is provided by the James Alan Cox Foundation, founded in honor of the television photojournalist.
The Women in Film Scholarship Program offers women of all ages and backgrounds the opportunity to explore the world of film. The scholarship is offered to female students currently studying at significant film schools across the country. This scholarship program aims to keep a strong female voice in television, film, and media. This is an excellent opportunity to get support and, at the same time, not be dependent on prejudices about gender and how exactly women can change the world.
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It is easy enough to see in proper perspective the progress made during the first quarter-century covered by this survey and to say with confidence that at the end of it electronics technology was rapidly moving into Phase III, the era of high-definition television, industrial electronics, microwaves and radar. Enormous advances have been made during our second quarter-century, but have we in fact moved into a distinctly new phase of development during the period? If so, when and why? Has anything been introduced to compare with such far-reaching developments of the 1911-1936 period as the amplifying/oscillating valve, the exploitation of the HF and VHF bands, telephony, sound broadcasting and scientific electronics?
All those questions are more appropriate to a debating society meeting than subjects for dogmatic pronouncements. It would be ridiculous to deny, though, that most of the techniques of 1936 have been refined almost beyond recognition and that many basically new things have come in. Of these, outstanding examples are transistors and masers, both of which depend on recent extensions of man's knowledge of the nature of matter.
Looking back over the longer term, it seems impossible to find a yardstick to measure the tremendous progress of the full half-century. Nearly all the activities with which we and our readers are now concerned had not even started when we began in 1911. A Rip van Winkle from our Volume I, resuming his readership during the past few months, would find most of our present contents entirely beyond his comprehension.
But our Rip Van Winkle of 1911 would discover one thing to seize upon. In his day, range of communication was the simple yardstick and the main criterion of progress; since wireless began each successive increase of distance had been a landmark. Remembering that Clifden, the wonder-station of his time, had just managed to achieve a dependable range of 2,000 miles, he would read with amazement of 'successful communication out to a distance of 23 million miles' with a space vehicle. And would he be far from the truth in thinking that increase in range gives a fair measure of the achievements of the half-century?
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Did you ever watch House, M.D. and think “something’s missing here?” Of course you did! The biggest thing pretty much everyone misses when watching a medical/hospital show is fancy sci-fi graphics and CGI tricks.
It might seem far off now, but one day we’ll have all the medical advancements you can ever want to make your sci-fi nerd-fest a reality. Some of them are actually already on the way! Not saying they’ll be usable anytime soon, but we’ll get there. Let’s take a look at the coolest ones.
3D Printed Drugs
I mean, why evolve if you can’t make drugs better, right? Also, I’m not talking about “this feels great” drugs but actual medicinal drugs. Think aspirin, not LSD.
Faster Medicine Research
Speeding up clinical trials is one of the biggest things that we could do with technological advancements. We could “grow” (more like emulate, really) human cells on microchips and use them to endlessly test new medicine and skip animal testing altogether!
Using a VR headset to see the entire person’s body? Hell yes. No more having to open someone up to see what’s wrong on the inside. Microsoft is working on the HoloLens that should make this possible. But it’s Microsoft, so it might randomly crash midway through scanning someone’s arm.
Need a lung? We’ve got you covered. Need a kidney so you can sell your real one for a quick $10,000? We’ve got you covered to. It’s not what it was built for, but the technology supports it.
3D Medical Prosthetic Printing
Like Luke Skywalker, this would allow people to print actual personalized hands. Become a Jedi master today! Force training optional.
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FTIR Emission Monitoring System
The Emission Monitoring System (EMS-10™) is a fully automated FTIR-based gas and emission monitoring system. The EMS-10 is capable of accurately analyzing many compounds simultaneously at high spectral resolution. The elegant integrated design incorporates complete control of all gases including the sample stream, zero gas and calibration gas with software from the large front panel touch screen or keyboard. This system is ideal whenever and wherever gas steams must be analyzed for composition, impurities, and hazardous air pollutants.
The EMS-10 can handle hot and wet samples with nitrogen and calibration streams using a single sampling pump and particulate filter, making it ideal for a wide variety of applications. The EMS-10 comes completely integrated with the MAX-iR gas analyzer with LN2 extended dewar, the ASC-10TM automated sample console, computer, touch screen, and associated electronics all enclosed within a transportable rack-mounted frame for easy transport. | <urn:uuid:a106e8e2-5e88-4b16-a8a2-dc629b4f0ca1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maxanalytical.com/max-ems-10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.890649 | 199 | 1.554688 | 2 |
If you’re having problems like low water pressure, then it might be time to replace your pipes. Low water pressure can mean that there is corrosion in your current pipes, which could eventually mean holes or leaks that can cause much bigger problems. If you’re building a new home, adding to an existing structure or remodeling, then you might also be considering installing new piping. Figuring out the cost of piping can be tricky and somewhat intimidating for homeowners. The first step will be to find a reputable plumber to help you with your project. You’ll need an experienced plumber to help you determine which material will work and the best way to install piping with the current state of your home. Once you find a professional, then pipe installation costs will depend on a couple of factors.
Cost To Install New Plumbing Pipes
|TYPICAL RANGE||$350 – $1,750|
The size of your home will affect the cost of piping because the larger the home, the more piping that will need to be installed. This also includes the amount of sinks, showers, bathtubs, toilets or anything that will need pipes that are in your home. Having a lot of appliances to set up will raise the pipe installation costs.
Number of Stories
Another factor for the cost of piping is the amount of stories in your home. The higher that the plumber needs to work, then the higher the pipe installation costs. This will affect the labor costs to get piping up in the top parts of your home.
There are two materials most commonly used for home piping: copper and PEX. PEX is flexible plastic, which makes it easy to install. This is an especially good option if you’re replacing current piping because there might need to be fewer holes opened in walls for access since PEX can be snaked into walls.
Other benefits are that the flexibility of this type of piping helps to prevent bursts and is not prone to corrosion. It also retains heat, which will conserve energy.
Pipe installation costs will typically be lower with PEX. However, it cannot be recycled and allows for possible water contamination from the plastic, though the risks of that are not proven. PEX also cannot be used outdoors due to UV sensitivity. Copper piping is bacteria resistant, not UV-sensitive and can be recycled. It also performs well in natural disasters and doesn’t leach harmful chemicals or gases, making it a good environmental option. However, copper piping can burst and corrode, so that is something to consider depending on your location. Pipe installation costs will be higher with copper piping.
Demolishing Existing Pipes
If you’re replacing your existing piping and not installing from scratch, then the amount of demolition required will definitely affect pipe installation costs. All of the factors mentioned above will help to determine the cost of piping if it requires demolition. The more walls that need to be cut, the higher pipe installation costs will be. Overall, the cost of piping will depend on the size of your home and the materials your plumber chooses. Make sure to talk to at least three professionals to make sure you find someone who you can trust. They will be able to come up with a plan that will work for your location and your home. | <urn:uuid:1220f426-3d67-44f0-85f2-b75a43d4b12f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.talonplumbing.com/2018/04/01/plumbing-pipe-installation-cost/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939974 | 712 | 2 | 2 |
The decision to start taking the Canada Pension Plan at 60, or to wait until as late as 70, is one that requires some thought.
Starting early gives you the satisfaction of enjoying a benefit that you’ve paid into all your working life. Waiting gives you a much bigger payment.
But as the case of two Nova Scotia retirees Winston and Sheila Billard shows, even the best laid plans can go astray.
Winston, 72, is a retired teacher who lives in Cape Breton and paid into the Canada Pension Plan for 37 years. He started drawing the pension when he was 63 and last year was receiving $883 a month.
His wife Sheila, a nurse, made contributions for 44 years. She enjoyed being active and continued to work part-time at a local nursing home into her 60s. This additional income, plus other pensions and savings, meant the couple didn’t need her pension immediately, so she delayed taking CPP.
Last year, when Sheila was 66, she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. She applied for CPP and received two monthly payments of $1,053 before she died in June.
In addition to the distress surrounding his wife’s death, Winston received two other shocks when he applied for her survivor pension. Most pension plans have a default survivor benefit, often at 60 per cent which can be adjusted upward. If one spouse dies, the other gets a reduced, but substantial, monthly payment to maintain their lifestyle.
Not so in the case of the CPP. Even if both spouses have contributed all their lives as in the case of the Billards, the survivor is only entitled to the maximum of one full benefit. The rationale is the notion that nobody should be able to get more than the maximum that one person would receive who had worked all his life.
Had Winston not worked he would have been entitled to 60 per cent of his wife’s benefit.
“I was shocked,” Winston says. “I thought this must be a mistake.”
The second shock was the size of the benefit he would receive. He is getting just $22.75 more a month which doesn’t bring him up to the maximum. When Winston appealed the payment they showed him the details of the calculation and said he could not be paid any more.
He’s now getting $933 a month, including the $22.75 versus the 2013 maximum of $1,012.
“It doesn’t seem fair,” he says. “In my case, the extra amount would not buy me a good meal in a restaurant,” he says. “This in effect is another form of taxation with the government the winner.”
It doesn’t seem fair, but it would require a change in legislation to get Winston a better deal. Amélie Maisonneuve with Human Resource & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) which administers the CPP, could not discuss the specifics of the case. She offered her sympathies, but says HRSDC has strict rules it must apply.
“The rationale for establishing a limit . . . reflects the principle that no person should receive a combination of pensions that is greater than the amount payable to an individual who made the maximum contributions to the Plan throughout his or her working life,” she said.
She added that survivor’s benefits are meant to provide some help, not a second income.
“The benefits are not intended to replace a second source of household earnings or the retirement income of a dual-earning family,” she said.
The CPP is governed by the principle of pooled risk. This recognizes that some people live longer than others and will get more benefits from the fund. The money that would have gone to pay Sheila Billard’s benefits is now available for another Canadian’s pension.
The Billard’s case might seem to make a good argument for why we should all take CPP early.
But Fred Vettese, chief actuary at human resource consultant Morneau Sheppel, says not. While offering sympathies to Winston Billard, he says the odds are in your favour if you wait. If you’re healthy and can wait, you should, he says.
HRSDC says if you delay CPP until 70 you will receive roughly double the amount that you would have received at age 60 and 42 per cent more than what you would get at age 65.
Statistics Canada says a 65-year-old Canadian can expect to live, on average, another 20 years, so by waiting, you get a bigger payment that is inflation protected for a long time.
The great unknown is longevity. Statistics and probability are one thing, individual circumstances another. While it’s likely that we’ll all live longer and probable that we will, that’s cold comfort when life gets in the way.
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5 factors driving Michigan's economy higher in 2015
- Detroit's bankruptcy clears the way for more investment in the city.
- The Michigan economy will continue to add temporary jobs.
- Tourism will be a major driver of growth for the city in 2015.
Michigan's economy is definitely on the upswing and the new year promises more of the same with the state's unemployment rate on a downward trajectory, auto sales on a tear and the happy surprise of below-$2-a-gallon gasoline putting extra cash in pockets and priming sales of highly profitable SUVs and light trucks.
To be sure, there are always unexpected obstacles to good economic growth, but the stars and dollar signs seem to be lining up for an upbeat 2015. State officials, analysts and corporate leaders interviewed by the Free Press point to positive growth and job creation for 2015.
University of Michigan economists in their annual forecast predict nearly 60,000 new jobs for 2015 and another 73,000 in 2016. The state added 39,000 new jobs from November 2013 to November 2014, and the state unemployment rate has fallen from 7.8% to 6.7% as of November 2014.
J. Patrick Doyle, CEO of Ann Arbor Township-based Dominos Pizza, one of the nation's best performing stocks of the last several years, said pizza sales increase when more people have jobs. He said the state and nation should keep improving.
"We're going to continue to grow. Overall a lot of the foundational pieces are in place in the state," he said. "So I'm generally very optimistic about the state and about the country."
Here are five key trends analysts and experts expect for the Michigan economy in 2015
■ Gas prices will power additional spending and jobs.
With gas prices below $2 a gallon at some stations, consumer confidence is high, and that's great news for businesses. The Detroit Three automakers, whose product portfolios are still weighted more heavily toward highly profitable bigger vehicles, are expected to benefit as shoppers rush to the showroom.
Low oil prices aren't good for the smattering of oil drillers and natural gas companies in Michigan, but that sector of the state's economy is far smaller than in the major energy producing states in the U.S.
"My gut tells me it's a positive for Michigan because it's leaving more disposable income in the hands of our citizenry," said Michael Finney, chief economic adviser to Gov. Rick Snyder.
■Tourism will fuel job growth.
Michigan's hospitality sector is surging. Hotels, resorts and tourist destinations, particularly in the northern part of the state, are flourishing. The leisure and hospitality sector is expected to add about 9,000 jobs in 2015, according to the U-M forecast.
■Manufacturers won't add many jobs.
The auto industry can handle most of the demand for new cars with the plants that it already has. Don't expect new assembly plants in Michigan or many new shifts. With U.S. auto sales potentially reaching the 17 million mark in 2015, auto factory employment may not get much higher in Michigan.
The manufacturing sector is expected to add only about 6,000 jobs in 2015. By comparison, it added 77,000 manufacturing jobs from 2011-13.
■Investors will seek out downtown Detroit.
Economic development officials report renewed interest from prospective investors in downtown Detroit following the consensual resolution of the city's Chapter 9 bankruptcy.
With a plan in place to overhaul city services and drastically reduce blight, Detroit has greater appeal to investors. But most of the investment will concentrate in the central business district, not reaching into the city's poor neighborhoods.
■The temporary staffing sector will continue to grow.
Taken together, temporary jobs and contract positions represented an estimated 36% of Michigan's job growth since 2009, according to federal figures. Employers are leaning heavily on temporary jobs to create flexible workforces, making it easier for them to shed jobs as the economy shifts. Watch for companies to add more temp jobs in 2015.
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Wow – it’s been a crazy holiday season! Lots of work, lots of play, some short travels, plenty of time with relatives and not quite enough time with some friends… It is certainly good to be back in the swing of regular work!
Through the holidays, as we were visiting people and their pets across the state, a constant challenge we faced was the kiddo doing whatever she could to get our attention. At one point, I recall reminding my husband to ignore her for something annoying but harmless that she was repeatedly doing to gain our attention. “Bad attention is better than no attention at all.” Sure enough, we walked away from her and it stopped… then she went on to the attention getting thing.
Rewarding for the good things, ignoring the bad, attention-seeking behavior is something that can work for both children and dogs. Recently, a colleague posted a note to our group seeking recommendations to divert a child who was repeatedly pestering her elderly dog. This is a child who has been taught since infancy what is appropriate and inappropriate with dogs, and could explain it to you if you asked. However, after some discussion within the group, someone suggested that it may be attention getting behavior on the part of the child. Bingo! There is a 9-month-old sibling as well as multiple dogs in the household with whom to compete for attention, and this appeared to be a successful attention-getting tactic, much to mom’s dismay. So mom determined that discussion-free time-outs would follow, along with diversionary tactics to give the child the attention she was seeking for doing appropriate behaviors.
How often I tell people in basic dog training courses to remember to reward the appropriate behaviors and ignore attention-seeking behaviors. This does not mean to ignore all bad behaviors; of course, if a puppy is destroying furniture, then a sharp interruption followed by a redirection would be better suited to protecting the furniture as well as the well-being of the pup. However, there are so many things that our kids and our dogs do to get our attention, with the thought that “bad attention is better than no attention at all.”
Yet, sometimes, ignoring the attention seeking behavior can prove extremely challenging. For the child who is screaming, or dog who is barking for attention, ignoring it could lead to a serious headache before the behavior finally goes away. What’s more, before a behavior disappears permanently, the appearance of an extinction burst may occur. An extinction burst is a sudden increase in the undesired behavior, or sometimes, a recurrence of the behavior after it appeared to have been extinct already. This is a natural part of the training process, and if the trainer or parent is consistent in not inadvertently rewarding the unwanted behavior, it will eventually go away completely. I have used this process with dogs as well as with my daughter with great success, though that extinction burst can be an exhausting challenge!
So, if your child or dog, or both of them together, are doing annoying or inappropriate things just to get your attention, take a breath and remember to ignore it (or give a silent, non-interactive time-out.) To quote Edward Counsel: ”Patience is stronger than force.” As challenging as patience can be sometimes, I will do all I can to remember that. | <urn:uuid:0f8fe41e-0294-42d7-9bdb-5076d005ae89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://caninehigherlearning.com/CratesAndCribs/2013/01/15/watch-me-watch-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.97435 | 686 | 2.09375 | 2 |
There’s nothing like getting behind the wheel of an actual sports car and thrashing it around at the track. However, most people who own sports cars that aren’t professional drivers would rather not risk totaling it at a track day. Thankfully, these five racing simulators allow you to recreate that experience at home. Continue reading to see more.
When is a racing simulator not just a moving platform placed in front of a display? When it makes use of the interior of a real car that was meticulously put back together with a Gran Turismo wheel, complete with shifter and gauges. If you want to view only the racing portion of the video above, fast forward to 6:37.
It’s called the TL1 and will cost you $55,000USD, but wealthy racing enthusiasts can now finally bring the track experience home. This system is basically “an ultra-realistic simulation of being behind the wheel, all brought to life thanks to three projectors which combine to give the driver a crystal-clear 180-degree view of the road.” Not just a racing seat and three LCD monitors, the TL1 has a “built-in seat [that] rocks and rolls according to the onscreen action. The manufacturer, Motion Simulation, says: ‘The cockpit includes a motion transducer option that operates in a far more accurate and efficient way than bass shakers (speakers).
Unlike other racing simulators, “BlueTiger gives riders an exciting and realistic experience by precisely matching the motion of the simulator with the vehicle action inside the game. Our patent-pending geometry and proprietary electronics are the secrets to our low-cost high-performance simulators. With BlueTiger you feel dynamic forces like centrifugal force, physical position like tip on a high banked oval, and details right down to the texture of the road.”
2. Robotic Arm
Engineers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany have converted a robotic arm into a nifty F1 racing simulator. Basically, “players sit in a cabin on a robot arm about 7 feet off the ground and drive a Ferrari F2007 car around a projected track; the robot arm, a type usually found in amusement parks, whips the driver around to simulate the Ferrari’s motion.”
1. BRD 06
The BRD 06 is the world’s first “1:1 scale F1 [racing simulator] with a fiberglass and carbon fiber composite monocoque chassis.” Other features include: F1-style lever paddles, a purpose-built accelerator, three 24-inch displays, and a 5.1 surround sound system. Powder coated steel motion platform construction combining high strength and a modern architectural look. Utilizes the highest grade low friction linear slide technology, for smooth and reliable operation. | <urn:uuid:55fb5c99-573b-48a1-806f-b6b9da1cc469> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techeblog.com/top-5-coolest-racing-simulators-that-bring-the-racetrack-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.920475 | 612 | 1.734375 | 2 |
A right plan will be beneficial for you to move from difficult years to a relaxed and comfortable retirement. The best tip is to arrange your withdrawal from the world of work as early as possible.
If you want to live in a rich and capable condition during your retirement, then you can get retirement planning instructions from reputed companies.
Basically, you should have a good bond with your colleagues. And you certainly realize that friendship and reciprocal interaction is very important for companies to be productive and successful.
You must be able to understand that the earlier you manage your pension plan, the more funds will be arranged for your future.
But when your retirement arrives, you must leave your second home and that’s when you realize some important changes that you will experience. Pension planning advice should include guidance on how you should manage your relationships with people in your company.
The five days that you normally spend in your work and the sudden evolution that takes you to stay at home 24/7 may be an extraordinary change for someone to get used to.
Some people become very directionless during their retirement because it is very important to plan your future. If you are married then you can discuss your retirement plan with your spouse and ask someone to face retirement with you to do many good things.
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Essay checklists for final drafts are crucial for learners to confirm all the elements the teacher requires are present in their work before submitting it. I give my students a short list right on the submission page in my online course as a reminder. It isn’t a comprehensive composition list; it’s more of a last-minute, final inventory.
Here’s a simple one I’ve created:
Does the essay have a full introduction? Does the introduction inform the reader of the essay’s topic and include a statement about the main idea/thesis?
Does the essay contain supporting details/evidence in the middle paragraphs? Do I include information that helps to build on the main idea and give the reader a clear picture of the themes? Do I include facts, statistics, examples, or reasons to support the main idea? Have I written at least 2 middle paragraphs?
Does the essay have a full conclusion? Does the conclusion adequately summarize the essay by highlighting each of the essay’s main points?
Is the entire essay written in my own words? Did I check for plagiarism? If I did any research, did I paraphrase the experts’/writers’ words and cite the sources?
Does the essay repeat information that I can delete to make the essay more concise?
Do the paragraphs contain a variety of sentence types to keep the reader’s interest?
Have I spell-checked the entire essay?
Is the essay written with proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation?
Is the essay free of slang or texting shorthand (such as “u,” “ur,” “LOL,” or “BTW.”)
My town’s beloved children’s bookstore, the Magic Tree Bookstore, is closing at the end of October due to low customer turnout over the last few years. I am very sad to see our village treasure disappear. I’ve bought several of my nieces’ and nephews’ birthday gifts from this store, and I’ve always enjoyed browsing the aisles and conversing with the friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Presumably, they’ve lost a lot of business because of competitive sales via major online retailers. In a Facebook post, the owner of the Magic Tree said people just aren’t going in to buy books. My guess is even in a #ShopLocal-focused village such as Oak Park, people are choosing to buy the majority of their books online. Of course, this is happening to other types of small businesses, as well as bookstores, all over the U.S.
The loss of small businesses in any town or city underscores the constant need to shop locally. Small businesses not only contribute to the local economy, but also foster the culture of the area. Magic Tree organized several story readings and book signings by various authors. They also hosted other fun events, such as a children’s Christmas choir performance.
Fortunately, we still have a few indie bookstores throughout the Chicagoland area. Here is a good article from IndieBound on the value of buying books from independent bookstores. On the same site, you can find local, independent bookstores near you: Indie Bookstore Finder.
Last week, my husband and I had the pleasure of seeing poet and novelist Julia Alvarez read some of her work at Dominican University’s Caesar and Patricia Tabet Poetry Reading, a wonderful annual event for students and staff and a generous gift for the surrounding community. Her poems reflect her life and emotions about growing up in the Dominican Republic, coming to the U.S., and living in two cultures and languages. She is an amazing storyteller, full of moving anecdotes of childhood and family life.
One particularly interesting topic she talked about was fluency and the complexities and nuances of languages and translating personal experiences from one language into another. She explained how it can be difficult to not be able to express one’s own perspective in a narrative when limited by language. She touches on this subject in a book she’s been working on for years now.
Here’s a short list of resources to learn more about her writing:
SCBWI also offers an award (in conjunction with the Work-in-Progress award) for unpublished writers and illustrators over 50 years old. The deadline is March 31, 2018. Details at Karen and Philip Cushman Late Bloomer Award
Quizlet is a useful edtech tool for creating self-checks. Teachers and students can create sets of cards that the user can then turn into different study modes: flashcards, matching, fill-in, spelling, and even a planet-attacking asteroid game (which is actually pretty fun).
I just created my first Quizlet sets; the site was very easy to use. You can type everything directly into the application or simply import your quizzes from Word, Google Docs, or other programs.
A basic account is free, but you can upgrade to a paid account, which offers more data based on students’ activity and progress as well as other enhanced features. Additionally, upgrading to a paid account removes the ads from your page.
Anyone working in both print world and web world knows the frustrations of the designers they work with. Preparing images for print or web can involve many steps.
Admittedly, I’ve found preparing files for print to be a lot more complicated than for web. That said, once you understand why image settings have to be set up a certain way for good quality, the process of preparing images becomes a lot more straightforward and painless.
Print materials (books, flyers, anything sent to a professional printer) are specially created and maintained using specific software; these materials are generally referred to as press-optimized or prepress files (often also referred to as press-ready,print-optimized, camera-ready, orprint-ready).
Press-optimized means that every image (photo or illustration), font, and ink color is specially formatted for print so that they’ll display correctly on a printed page.
Prepress specifications (or specs or job definitions) are configured in various settings throughout a software program (such as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop). These specs usually relate to ink, crop marks, bleed, and other print-related settings that the prepress department determines based on the type of material being created.
Webpages are specially created and maintained using specific software that allows you to write and edit HTML code. You can create a webpage either in a web design program (which is basically an HTML editor such as Adobe Dreamweaver or Ultra Edit) or within another program that contains an editor for creating webpages (such as WordPress). Any file that is specially designed for the web is often called web-friendly, web-ready, or web-safe.
Web-friendly means that every image, font, and screen color is specially formatted for the Internet so that they’ll display correctly on a webpage.
The Differences between Vector, Raster, and Bitmap
The differences between the terms vector, raster, and bitmap are the basis for computer graphic design in both print and web world. Images are divided into two types: vector and bitmap. An image is either a vector or bitmap depending on how it was created, not on its final output. (This is explained more later.)
Vector images are images that are created using many individual, scalable objects; these objects can be lines, points, curves, or shapes. They’re defined by mathematical equations rather than pixels, so they always render, or display, at the highest quality. Some examples of drawing programs used for vector illustrations are Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Inkscape, Sketchup, and CAD programs. This original robot image (right) is a vector; it was drawn in an illustration program. However, to place it here in an online environment, it had to be saved as a .png file, which is a web-ready file format.
Bitmapped (also called rasterized) images are made up of pixels (on screen) or points of ink (on paper). Bitmap and raster are used interchangeably in the industry; they mean the same thing. The termrasterization means the process of turning a file into a bitmap.
Digital photos and scanned images are bitmapped images. Photos are automatically rasterized because they’re pixel-based; there’s no such thing as a vector photo.*
*NOTE: You can vectorize a photo, but that means turning the photo into an image of lines and shapes; the final result will look something like a digital painting. To convert a photo or other bitmapped image into a vector, graphic artists use a tracing option and other tools, combining XML and other sophisticated methods.
Examples of pixel-based programs used to edit bitmaps such as photos are Adobe Photoshop, Corel PaintShopPro, Cyberlink PhotoDirector, GIMP, and the dozens of free online photo editors available now.
Images Rasterized for Output
Before an image can be rendered, or displayed, it has to be rasterized. All final images must be rasterized for output, which means what you see on a computer screen or printed out (even on a plain, old desktop printer) is rasterized. The rasterization process for print involves ink (dots on a page); the rasterization process for web involves pixels (pixels on the screen). So, what you see in a printed book and what you see on-screen is technically a rasterized image. Again, on final output (on screen or in print), all images are bitmapped images.
Even if your original file is a vector, it has to be rasterized for output. A vector is a vector up until you save it for print or web; in other words, the working file is vector, not the final image. This is why many graphic designers use the term vector-based; a vector image saved for print or web becomes vector-based. A vector in print is only a true vector if its final output is rendered in lines, curves, etc. For example, plotter printers are true vector printers because they print by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper, unlike modern printers, which use drops of ink (dots). Because the plotter pen actually draws lines, curves, etc., the printed image is a true vector.
Again, images have to be rasterized to be printed or displayed on a webpage. At a printer, the prepress department rasterizes all files, such as PDFs or InDesign files, by sending them all through what’s known as a Raster Image Processor, or RIP. When you’re designing for web, you rasterize by saving your image files generally as JPEGs, GIFs, or PNGs.
Image Filetypes Generally Used for Print and Web
EPS, TIFF, AI, PDF
PNG, JPEG, GIF
What’s Considered an Illustration?
This seems like an obvious question, but the term now means more than just traditional hand-drawings. An illustration is any image that is drawn either by hand and then scanned in or drawn using illustration software. In simple terms, it is anything that isn’t a photo.
An illustration doesn’t automatically mean it’s a vector, and vice versa. Illustrations can be either vector or bitmap, depending on the program used. Using a vector-based program such as Adobe Illustrator is the ideal way to create illustrations. In fact, you should never use Photoshop or any photo editing program to draw line art; it’s best to do all drawings in a program specifically designed for vector drawing.
If an illustration is bitmapped, then you do have to use Photoshop or another pixel-based editing program to edit it.
How Can You Tell if an Illustration Is a Vector or Bitmap?
The short answer is, you can’t tell. It’s nearly impossible to determine whether an image is a vector or bitmap just by looking at it, especially if the quality is high.
The easiest way to find out is to open the file in an illustration program. If the image is made up of lines, points, curves, etc., you’ll see the various paths, endpoints, and anchor points, indicating it’s vector-based. If the image is just a square or rectangular with no paths, endpoints or anchor points, it’s made up of pixels, indicating it’s a bitmap.
That being said, though, right off the bat when you see a photo, you’ll know it’s bitmapped because photos are always bitmapped, right? Well, maybe not. How do you know that what you’re looking at is a photo in the first place? You’d be surprised at the photorealistic images out there, ones that could fool even the most trained artistic eye. Some photorealistic images are vectorized images created from bitmapped images.
DPI means dots per inch; ppi mean pixels per inch. It refers to the resolution on print and on-screen, respectively. DPI refers to the dots of ink per inch on paper; ppi refers to the number of pixels per inch on a computer screen. Unfortunately, most image editing programs nowadays interchange the terms dpi and ppi, which is confusing. Don’t worry over whether it says ppi or dpi in the program. All you need to be concerned with is the number before it.
For print, 300 is the ideal number, although a bit below is ok, depending on the quality of the image. Don’t go below 200, and below 180 is unthinkable for print.
For web, 72 ppi is the standard, but why such a low resolution? Because a higher resolution means a bigger file size, which in turn can cause long load times for images on a webpage, depending on the user’s Internet connection. Keeping the file size low ensures that most people will be able to see the webpage load quickly.
Resampling an Image
When you try to increase the ppi of an image, Photoshop will require you either reduce the print size or resample the image to keep to the size you have it at.
Resampling means adding pixels to the image. This is usually done when you want to increase the size of the image, from a lower ppi to a higher ppi. To add pixels, Photoshop “manufactures” pixels by emulating the pixels already present in the image—it is generally not a good way to go for print because photo editing programs aren’t sophisticated enough (yet) to reproduce pixels. In fact, designers avoid it unless there’s no other choice, especially for print. Here is a good article describing resampling.
Increasing the pixel depth—in other words, scaling up—rarely does anything for quality for print. Resampling photos often produces horrific print results, even though people try to do it all the time. When you see a fuzzy, poor quality photo in print, resampling is likely the culprit. (See the pixelated image below, which was caused by resampling.) That said, however, if the photo is very simple, with little differentiation in shapes and colors, resampling might work. “Might” is the operative word here, though. You might have to play around with it to see if resampling will work ok or not.
Resampling for web works much better than it does for print. Again, though, it’s best to play around with the image.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When working with JPEGs, save separate copies each time you work with the image. Every time you open and save a JPEG, there is some loss in quality; the reason for this is that it reduces the size on a webpage, making loading on a page quicker.
Optimizing for Print and Web
Every image has to be optimized for either print or web.
Optimizing images for print
Photos – save as TIFF, 300 dpi
Vector illustrations – save as EPS , 300 dpi
Bitmapped art – save as TIFF, 300 dpi
Color: grayscale for black and white images, CMYK for 4-color, spot color for 2-color.
Optimizing images for web
Photos – save as JPEG, 72 ppi
Vector illustrations – save as PNG (or PNG-24) , 72 ppi
Bitmapped art – save as PNG , 72 ppi
Color: Use Web colors only in photo and illustration programs. Web colors are automatically RGB. However, the good thing about using the Save for Web and Mobile Devices option is that the program automatically converts any CMYK or print-related image data to web-only—so a print color gets automatically converted to RGB when you use PNG, GIF, or JPEG.
Use a photo editing program to edit the pixels in bitmapped images.
Use an illustration program to edit vector art.
Use a photo editing program to edit photos.
Do not use word processing programs or layout programs to do drawings. Any drawing should be done in a program specifically designed for illustrations.
Keep your original illustrations as EPSs, then export/save them to whatever file format is necessary for your purpose.
Be sure to talk to the friendly neighborhood graphic designers or prepress techs at the vendor with whom you’re working. Ultimately, they will advise you on the best ways to optimize images for high-quality, save files, and make the overall process a lot more headache-free for both teams.
Right behind our house there’s a pretty park, and during warmer days, my husband and I can hear kids laughing and playing (which are the best sounds of summer, really). It always reminds me of this sweet old poem:
HOW do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
Millions of free images are available online for anyone to use. Many are in the public domain; many are not.
“Free images” are not the same thing as public domain images; they’re usually not free from stipulations. For example, images may be bound by various Creative Commons licensing conditions. Organizations or individuals who post images for anyone to use may have restrictions on their use.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of being diligent in checking copyrights, licensing, and other restrictions. Unless the individual item information explicitly tells you that it’s in the public domain, don’t assume it is. And even if it says it’s in the public domain, verify it by evaluating the site and the site owner to see if they’re reliable resources.
Guidelines for Using Free Images with Restrictions and Public Domain Images
The guidelines listed below are useful when you’re using any images, including public domain ones. Before you use an image, be sure to do the following:
Check the acceptable usage depending on your purpose:
Will it be displayed on a website? (including password-protected websites)
Will it be printed in any type of paper-based publication?
Is it for educational, nonprofit, personal (your own website), or commercial purposes? [Even if a nonprofit organization is using an image for educational purposes, stipulations for nonprofits may differ from those for strictly educational institutions (.edu schools).]
How long will the image be displayed on your website or printed in the publication? What is the length of time you can use the image?
Are you planning on editing the image (cropping, changing colors, adding layers, etc.), or do you want to use the image in its exact original appearance?
How do you plan to use the image in your page layout? What are the acceptable dimensions of the final image or layout? (Determine inches if it’s a print image and pixels if it’s a web image).
Determine the specific attribution statement or caption required. (See #3 below).
Determine any model or property release agreement information.
Save the information. Save a PDF of the webpage that contains the usage information and keep it in a folder with the downloaded images.
Credit the source. The organization/owner of the collection or image often kindly requests an image credit; be sure to honor that request by including the citation in a caption, even if it’s not required to do so. Even if they give suggested wording, be sure to include all the relevant information.
Link to the source. When using an item online, link back to the original source if you can. You can link to the item data in the digital collection by inserting the URL in the image display settings. You can also add the link in the caption or in a references section if you have one. This information isn’t just a courtesy to the organization—it’s also helpful for a reader who may want further information on the image.
Finding free, high-quality historical public domain photographs or illustrations for personal, educational, or nonprofit use can be daunting. Editors, instructional designers, and teachers know all too well the copyright issues and costs associated with using images in materials. However, over the past decade acquiring images has become a lot easier as organizations have been making their public domain image collections available online. Thanks to libraries and museums, thousands of free images are increasingly becoming available for any use, including commercial purposes.
For example, the New York Public Library recently released to the public about 200,000 public domain images from their online digital collection. Anyone can download and use high-res photographs, maps, manuscripts, sheet music, streaming video, and more. You don’t need to obtain permission from the NYPL or any other copyright holder to use the public domain materials. For more information, visit their info page on the collection, Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse.
Using the NYPL’s Search Options
The easiest way to look for public domain images on their site is to do the following:
Like most history buffs, I’ve visited these sites and have gotten immediately sucked in, spending hours viewing photographs and illustrations related to dozens of topics. Even if you don’t plan on using the images for any particular purpose, you’ll still enjoy perusing these collections.
You’ve Found the Perfect Image—and It’s Free! But Before You Use It . . .
Next week, my Purdue advisor, Dr. Staci Trekles, my colleague Kathleen Gordon, and I will be presenting at the 12th Annual SLATE conference in Naperville, Illinois, October 22, 2014. The SLATE conference is an annual learning and technology conference for educators and trainers integrating various technologies with both F2F and online courses.
To create an announcement for our presentation, Staci suggested I use Tackk.com. I signed up, and within five minutes I was hooked. I love Tackk! It’s ridiculously easy and fun to use–and it’s free to sign up.
As an ed tech tool, this one is perfect for both students and teachers to create announcements, fliers, posters, and other types of web pages for various assignments. You can embed videos and other media, create buttons, add forms, and modify colors easily and quickly. The nice thing is, you can embed the whole Tackk into another web page. To embed, just grab the embed code and paste it into the HTML of your site. Below is our announcement embedded: | <urn:uuid:74296951-c3ae-4a22-8691-957a02ce1b18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sunilasamuel.com/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922734 | 5,340 | 2.265625 | 2 |
A Swedish company called Northvolt announced to have successfully recycled a lithium-ion battery cell containing a nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) cathode, using only metals recovered from battery waste.
The company says its “Revolt” recycling program has become the first to recycle an electric car battery using 100% reused materials.
All of Northvolt's recycling and manufacturing measures took place at one site, within its laboratories in Västerås, Sweden. And it's a significant breakthrough for the global battery industry as it seeks to make the nascent electric car industry truly sustainable.
The bad news is that today we are in a bad way with the recycling of electric car batteries
Tesla vehicles themselves (the world's largest producer of electric cars) are unsustainable because they require intensive extraction of raw materials to produce lithium-ion batteries. Don't get me wrong: Tesla has done its best for sustainability so far. It is that in general current manufacturing practices are counterintuitive and unwise in the long run.
There is work to be done before we can call these electric cars green (and it has to be done by 2035).
The good news is that it can be done
The recycling process can recover up to 95% of metals in electric batteries, maintaining a level of purity comparable to the "virgin" material. This is what the Chief Environmental Officer said in the press release Emma Nehrenheim by Northvolt. The next step is to find out if Northvolt and other companies can develop these new recycling processes in preparation for the second "wave" of dead batteries.
The cycle of electric cars now on the market will run out within 5-7 years). In total, 250.000 tons of electric vehicle batteries will reach end of life in 2030.
How Northvolt's recycling process works
Recycled cobalt, manganese and nickel used in the new battery cell were collected from the battery waste. Like? Through a low energy hydrometallurgical treatment. The treatment involves the use of an aqueous solution to isolate the metals and empty them of remaining impurities.
Now the result, a fully recycled electric car battery, has to go from laboratory to mass production. More time needed: Northvolt expects to produce cells with 50% recycled material on an industrial scale by 2030.
A gigabyte recycling site of 125.000 tons of batteries per year
In line with this goal, the company's large-scale Revolt Ett recycling plant in Skellefteå, Sweden will be expanded to make room for the recycling of 125.000 tons of batteries each year.
This expansion will make Revolt Ett the largest battery recycling plant in Europe, as well as the only large-scale recycling factory capable of reusing lithium, cobalt, manganese and nickel, among other metals. We are talking about 30 GWh of battery production every year. Other metals recovered from Revolt Ett will include aluminum, copper and plastics, and all of these can be recycled into production streams via third-party activities.
Electric challenges and opportunities
The electric car revolution is picking up speed, and a commitment to the circularity of production processes is crucial. In August, Tesla said it could recycle 92% of battery cell materials, after recovering 1.300 tons of nickel in 2020.
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Oh man, are we about to go through the whole circus again? A South Korean foreign affairs ministry official highlighted that Singapore might play host again to a meeting between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official informed The Korea Herald that the shortlisted venues for the second summit between the two leaders are likely to include Singapore, Hawaii, and Vietnam. Hawaii, however, might not be a likely choice as the American state does not have have a North Korean embassy. Singapore, on the other hand, does have one at High Street Centre.
The source noted that officials have considered holding a meeting at Panmunjom, the truce village in the Demilitarized Zone straddling the borders between North Korea and South Korea. “…the probability of this becoming a reality seems to be slim,” the source said.
North Korea does have an embassy in Vietnam as well, but Trump has noted in the past that he’d prefer having a meeting in a glamorous location.
It was yesterday that South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in announced that the anticipated follow-up meeting between Trump and Kim will be taking place soon. In fact, the US is said to be “negotiating a location” on Sunday.
In all likeliness, Singapore could be hosting the two leaders once again, given that the first summit — a historic meeting that had the city-state footing a $20 million bill — went down without a hitch. After years of undiplomatic exchanges, US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un faced each other for the first time and shook hands on Singapore soil back on June 12, 2018.
President Trump declared victory following the historic summit. Surprisingly, and perhaps naively, the president proclaimed that everyone can sleep well now that North Korea — a sensitive, impoverished nation with the capacity to launch nuclear weapons anytime — no longer poses a threat or a problem.
On top of that, Trump’s post-summit compliments and commendations of Kim and the dismissal of North Korea’s appalling human rights record is really more of a victory for the other side. For those trying to cling on to any silver lining available, however, the historic summit could be seen as a symbolic US-led step to pave the way to actual denuclearisation in the Korean peninsula.
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|Alternative names||Karoo Array Telescope|
|Part of||South African Radio Astronomy Observatory|
|Location(s)||Meerkat National Park, Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Namakwa District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa|
|Organization||Department of Science and Innovation|
National Research Foundation
|Wavelength||3 cm (10.0 GHz)–30 cm (1,000 MHz)|
|First light||16 July 2016|
|Telescope style||radio interferometer|
|Number of telescopes||64|
|Diameter||13.5 m (44 ft 3 in)|
|Collecting area||9,000 m2 (97,000 sq ft)|
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MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in Africa, and the locally designed and built MeerKAT was incorporated into the first phase of the SKA. MeerKAT was launched in 2018.
Along with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), also in South Africa, and two radio telescopes in Western Australia, the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), the MeerKAT is one of four precursors to the final SKA.
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MeerKAT is a precursor for the SKA-mid array, as are the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA), the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA).
It is located on the SKA site in the Karoo, and is a pathfinder for SKA-mid technologies and science. It was designed by engineers within the South Africa Radio Astronomy Observatory and South African industries, and most of the hardware and software was sourced in South Africa. It comprises 64 antennas, each 13.5m in diameter, equipped with cryogenic receivers. The antennas have positions for four receivers, and one of the three vacant positions will be filled by S-band receivers provided by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR). The array configuration has 61% of the antennas located within a 1 km diameter circle, and the remaining 39% distributed out to a radius of 4 km.
The receiver outputs are digitised immediately at the antenna, and the digital data streams are transported to the Karoo Array Processor Building (KAPB) via buried optical fibres. The antenna signals are processed by the Correlator/Beamformer (CBF) digital signal processor. Data from the CBF is passed on to the Science Processor computer cluster and disk storage modules. The MeerKAT antenna data is also made available to a number of user-supplied digital backends via the CBF, including pulsar and fast radio burst (FRB) search engines, a precision pulsar timing system, and a SETI signal processor. A time and frequency reference (TFR) system provides clock and absolute time signals required by the digitisers and other telescope subsystems. This TFR system comprises two hydrogen maser clocks, two rubidium atomic clocks, a precise crystal oscillator, and a set of GNSS receiver systems for time transfer with UTC.
The massive computing and digital signal-processing systems located at the KAPB are housed in a large shielded chamber (or Faraday cage) to prevent radio signals from the equipment interfering with the sensitive radio receivers. The KAPB itself is partially buried below ground level to provide additional radio frequency interference (RFI) protection, and to provide temperature stability. The KAPB also houses a power conditioning facility for the entire site, including three diesel rotary UPS units that provide an uninterrupted power supply to the whole site.
A long-haul optical fibre transfers data from the KAPB to the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and SARAO office in Cape Town, and provides a control and monitoring link to the SARAO operations centre in Cape Town. Telescope data processing and reduction is executed on compute facilities provided by the MeerKAT SP systems, and on other high performance computer facilities provides by MeerKAT users.
MeerKAT inaugurated in July 2018 consists of 64 dishes of 13.5 metres in diameter each with an offset Gregorian configuration. An offset dish configuration has been chosen because its unblocked aperture provides uncompromised optical performance and sensitivity, excellent imaging quality and good rejection of unwanted radio frequency interference from satellites and terrestrial transmitters. It also facilitates the installation of multiple receiver systems in the primary and secondary focal areas and is the reference design for the mid-band SKA concept.
MeerKAT supports a wide range of observing modes, including deep continuum, polarisation and spectral line imaging, pulsar timing and transient searches. A range of standard data products are provided, including an imaging pipeline. A number of "data spigots" are also available to support user-provided instrumentation. Significant design and qualification efforts are planned to ensure high reliability to achieve low operational cost and high availability.
|Number of antennae||64|
|Dish diameter||13.5 m|
|Minimum baseline||29 m|
|Maximum baseline||8 km|
|Frequency bands (receivers)||0.58 – 1.015 GHz|
1 – 1.75 GHz
8 – 14.5 GHz
|Continuum imaging dynamic range at 1.4 GHz||60 dB|
|Line-to-line dynamic range at 1.4 GHz||40 dB|
|Mosaicing imaging dynamic range at 1.4 GHz||27 dB|
|Linear polarisation cross coupling across −3 dB beam||−30 dB|
MeerKAT's 64 dishes are distributed over two components:
- A dense inner component containing 70% of the dishes. These are distributed in a two-dimensional fashion with a Gaussian distribution with a mean dispersion of 300 m, a shortest baseline of 29 m and a longest baseline of 1 km.
- An outer component containing 30% of the dishes. These are also distributed in a two-dimensional Gaussian distribution with a mean dispersion of 2,500 m and a longest baseline of 8 km.
To acquire experience in the construction of interferometric telescopes, members of the Karoo Array Telescope constructed the Phased Experimental Demonstrator (PED) at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town between 2005 and 2007.
Construction of the MeerKAT Precursor Array (MPA – also known as KAT-7), on the site started in August 2009. In April 2010 four of the seven first dishes were linked together as an integrated system to produce its first interferometric image of an astronomical object. In Dec 2010, there was a successful detection of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) fringes between the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory 26 m dish and one of the KAT-7 dishes.
Despite original plans to complete MeerKAT by 2012, construction was suspended in late 2010 due to budget restructure. Science Minister Naledi Pandor denied the suspension marked any setback to the SKA project or 'external considerations'. MeerKAT construction received no funding in 2010/11 and 2011/12. The 2012 South African National Budget projected that just 15 MeerKAT antennas would be completed by 2015.
The last of the reinforced concrete foundations for the MeerKAT antennas was completed on 11 February 2014. Almost 5000 m3 of concrete and over 570 tonnes of steel were used to build the 64 bases over a 9-month period.
MeerKAT is planned to be completed in three phases. The first phase will include all the antennas but only the first receiver will be fitted. A processing bandwidth of 750 MHz is available. For the second and third phases, the remaining two receivers will be fitted and the processing bandwidth will be increased to at least 2 GHz, with a goal of 4 GHz. With construction of all sixty-four MeerKAT antennas complete, verification tests have begun to ensure the instruments are functioning correctly. Following this, MeerKAT will be commissioned in the second half of 2018 with the array then coming online for science operations.
On 13 July 2018, the Deputy President of South Africa, David Mabuza, inaugurated the MeerKAT Telescope, and unveiled an image produced by MeerKAT that revealed unprecedented detail of the region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy.
The 64 MeerKAT antennas will be incorporated into Phase 1 of the SKA Mid Frequency Array once the 133 SKA dishes have been built and commissioned on the Karoo site, resulting in a total of 197 antennas for the SKA array. All of the infrastructure currently associated with MeerKAT will be transferred to the SKA array. The KAPB has the capacity to house the additional equipment required by SKA Mid.
MeerKAT Phase 1
MeerKAT Phase 2 and 3
|Number of dishes||7||64||64|
|Receiver bands (GHz)||0.9 – 1.6||1.00 – 1.75||0.58 – 1.015|
1.00 – 1.75
8 – 14.5
|Max processed BW (GHz)||0.256||0.75||2 (goal 4)|
|Max baseline (km)||0.2||8||20|
|Min baseline (m)||20||29||29|
The science objectives of the MeerKAT surveys are in line with the prime science drivers for the first phase of the SKA, confirming MeerKAT's designation as an SKA precursor instrument. Five years of observing time on MeerKAT have been allocated to leading astronomers who have applied for time to do research.
The South African Department of Science and Technology, through the NRF and SARAO, has invested more than R760 million in infrastructure on the South African SKA site. The innovative design and engineering of the infrastructure established for MeerKAT, as well as the RFI-quiet environment, favourable physical site characteristics, and on-site technical expertise has positioned the site in the Karoo as an ideal location for other radio astronomy experiments.
The HERA (Hydrogen Epoch of Reionisation Array) radio telescope is one such instrument co-located at the South African SKA site. HERA is designed to detect, for the first time, radio signals from the very first stars and galaxies that formed early in the life of the universe. South African engineers and scientists are working with their colleagues at the University of California Berkeley in the US, and Cambridge University in the UK, to build HERA and exploit its unique and fundamental scientific capabilities.
Other experiments which have been constructed at the SA SKA site include PAPER (the Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Ionisation) and the C-BASS (the C-Band All Sky Survey).
To ensure long term viability of the Karoo site for the MeerKAT and the SKA, and for other radio astronomy instruments, the South African Parliament passed the Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act, in 2007. The act gives the Minister of Science and Technology the authority to protect areas, through regulations, that are of strategic national importance for astronomy and related scientific endeavours.
In September 2019, an international team of astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope discovered enormous balloon-like structures that tower hundreds of light-years above and below the centre of our galaxy.
South Africa and SKA science and technology
The experience gained by South African engineers in the design and construction of MeerKAT had been carried over to the SKA design, reducing risks and development costs. South African engineers within SARAO and South African industrial partners have participated in 7 of the 11 SKA engineering design consortia, contributing about 10% of the workforce in these internationally distributed consortia. The Infrastructure South Africa Consortium and the Assembly, Integration, Verification (AIV) Consortium have been led by SARAO, and there was South African participation in the DISH Consortium, Science Data Processor (SDP) Consortium, the Signal and Data Transport (SaDT Consortium), the Telescope Manager (TM) Consortium and the Mid-frequency Aperture Array Consortium. South African engineers have overseen the system engineering aspects of 5 of the consortia. SARAO has signed an MoU with the SKAO to provide resources to the Bridging Activities that will continue the development of SKA subsystems now that the consortia have concluded their work. Participation by South African industrial partners in previous consortium work and future Bridging Activities is facilitated by SARAO through the Financial Assistance Programme (FAP) funding initiative.
Scientists from SARAO and South African universities are well represented on the various SKA Science Working Groups (SWGs), with about 10% of the authors of papers in the SKA Science Book having South African institution affiliations. The MeerKAT Large Science Projects (LSPs) are closely aligned with the SKA science case, and there is a large membership overlap between the LSP teams and the associated SWGs.
Capacity development for radio astronomy in Africa
To create the required skills to design, construct and operate the SKA and MeerKAT telescopes, and to make optimal use of these radio telescopes for research, once commissioned, SARAO initiated a capacity development programme, in 2005. The programme is fully integrated into the operations of SARAO, and it is crafted to develop and retain the excellent researchers, engineers and artisans required to ensure that the MeerKAT and SKA will be successful in South Africa. To date the programme has provided more than 1000 scholarships and fellowships across all relevant academic levels, and for a range of relevant qualifications. The programme is coveted by academic colleagues from abroad because of its success in developing, from a low base, significant expertise in radio astronomy over the past 14 years.
|Science projects||Research leaders|
|Testing Einstein's theory of gravity and gravitational radiation – Investigating the physics of enigmatic neutron stars through observations of pulsars.||Prof Matthew Bailes, Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Australia|
|LADUMA (Looking at the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array) – An ultra-deep survey of neutral hydrogen gas in the early universe.||Dr Sarah Blyth, University of Cape Town, South Africa|
Dr Benne Holwerda, European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Dr Andrew Baker, Rutgers University, United States
|MESMER (MeerKAT Search for Molecules in the Epoch of Reionization) – Searching for CO at high red-shift (z>7) to investigate the role of molecular hydrogen in the early universe.||Dr Ian Heywood, University of Oxford, United Kingdom|
|MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey for atomic hydrogen and OH lines in absorption against distant continuum sources (OH line ratios may give clues about changes in the fundamental constants in the early universe).||Dr Neeraj Gupta, ASTRON, The Netherlands|
Dr Raghunathan Srianand, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, India
|MHONGOOSE (MeerKAT HI Observations of Nearby Galactic Objects: Observing Southern Emitters) – Investigations of different types of galaxies, dark matter and the cosmic web.||Prof Erwin de Blok, University of Cape Town, South Africa|
|TRAPUM (Transients and Pulsars with MeerKAT) – Searching for and investigating new and exotic pulsars.||Dr Benjamin Stappers, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, United Kingdom|
Prof Michael Kramer, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany
|A MeerKAT HI Survey of the Fornax Cluster (Galaxy formation and evolution in the cluster environment).||Dr Paolo Serra, ASTRON, The Netherlands|
|MeerGAL (MeerKAT High Frequency Galactic Plane Survey) – Galactic structure and dynamics, distribution of ionised gas, recombination lines, interstellar molecular gas and masers.||Dr Mark Thompson, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom|
Dr Sharmila Goedhart, SKA South Africa, South Africa
|MIGHTEE (MeerKAT International GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration survey) – Deep continuum observations of the earliest radio galaxies.||Dr Kurt van der Heyden, University of Cape Town, South Africa|
Dr Matt Jarvis, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
|ThunderKAT (The Hunt for Dynamic and Explosive Radio Transients with MeerKAT) – e.g. gamma-ray bursts, novae and supernovae, plus new types of transient radio sources.||Prof Patrick Woudt, University of Cape Town, South Africa|
Prof Rob Fender, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
|Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life, commensal survey – e.g. SETI.||Dr. Andrew Siemion, Berkeley SETI Research Center University of California, Berkeley, United States|
African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN)
The African Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network (AVN) is an important development towards building SKA on the African Continent. The AVN programme will transfer skills and knowledge in the SKA African partner countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia) to build, maintain, operate and use radio telescopes.
MeerKAT will also participate in global VLBI operations with all major radio astronomy observatories around the world and will add considerably to the sensitivity of the global VLBI network. Further potential science objectives for MeerKAT are to participate in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence and collaborate with NASA on downloading information from space probes.
- Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder
- Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory
- List of radio telescopes
- Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization
- South African Astronomical Observatory for optical astronomy in South Africa
- Square Kilometer Array
- "Precursors and pathfinders". SKA: Square Kilometre Array (Public Website). Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- Campbell, Keith. "SA radio telescope soon to start component and system tests with first two dishes". www.engineeringnews.co.za. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- "MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way". 13 July 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
- "SKA Africa eNews". SKA South Africa Project. Archived from the original on 15 October 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- "MeerKAT Concept Design Review". MeerKAT. Archived from the original on 14 October 2010. Retrieved 29 May 2011.
- "History of PED". Karoo Array Telescope. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- "Progress with KAT – XDM". Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory. Retrieved 30 June 2009.
- Campbell, Keith (29 May 2009). "Radio telescope project advances with issue of tender". Martin Creamer Engineering News.
- First HartRAO-KAT-7 VLBI fringes signal new capability Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Science and Technology Dept Budget Vote 2009/10 Speech, 18 June 2009
- Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project plans on schedule states Pandor 9 November 2010
- South Africa National Budget – Estimates of National Expenditure, Table 34.6 "Research, Development and Innovation" page 766
- South Africa National Budget – Estimates of National Expenditure page 764
- "MeerKAT telescope foundations complete". Phys.org. 11 February 2014.
- Tshangela, Lebo (16 May 2018). "MeerKAT telescope is complete". SABC News. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- "South Africa's MeerKAT telescope discovers giant radio 'bubbles' at centre of Milky Way". Public Website. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
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Legend of the Candy Cane: A Candymaker’s Witness – A candymaker wanted to make a Candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white hard candy. White to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of Jesus; and hard to symbolize the Solid Rock, the foundation of the Church and the firmness of the promise of God. Plus now with a free printable version.
Legend of the Candy Cane: A Candymaker’s Witness
The candymaker made the candy in the form of a a “J” to represent the precious name of Jesus, who came to earth as our Savior. It could also represent the staff of the “Good Shepherd” with which He reaches down into the ditches of the world to lift out the fallen lambs who like all sheep, have gone astray.
Thinking that the candy was somewhat plain, the candymaker stained it with red stripes. He used three small stripes to show the stripes of the scourging Jesus received by which we are healed. The large red stripe was for the blood shed by Christ on the cross so that we could have the promise of eternal life.
Unfortunately the candy became known as a candy cane–a meaningless decoration seen at Christmas time. But the meaning is still there for those who have “eyes to see and ears to hear.” I pray that this symbol will again be used to witness “THE WONDER OF JESUS AND HIS GREAT LOVE,” that he came down at Christmas and remains ultimate and a dominate force in the universe today.
What’s is a candy cane?
- Candy – His love towards us is sweet. (Candy Devotional)
- Stripes – By His stripes we are healed.
- Letter – “J” for Jesus , the reason for the season.
- Shape – Shepard’s staff. (Shepherd’s Rod or King’s Scepter)
- Color – White, He cleansed our sins. (All Things White)
- Color – Red, His blood shed for us. (All Things Red)
I hope when you see a candy cane that it will remind you of our Savior who came to be born to die for our sins. Christmas is all about the birth of our Savior. He was born to save His people. Maybe you can add these points to the candy cane when you hand them out to people as a gift. This would be a great way to share with others at church.
Do you have any more Christian points to add to what a Candy Cane is? Do you know the author? Please share your comments below!
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Check out this blog post from Light House Devotions by Joe Rodriguez. It talks about stripes in candy canes, barber poles and even light houses.
National Candy Cane Day
This day is held annually on December 26.
Facts about the Candy Cane
- In 1844, a recipe for a straight peppermint candy stick, which was white with colored stripes, was published.
- The average candy can is 5 inches tall.
- While most candy canes are not sugar or calorie-free, they do not have any fat or cholesterol.
- Striped red and white candy canes were first introduced in 1900.
- The first machine to make candy canes was invented in 1921 by Brasher O. Westerfield. Until then, they were made by hand.
- Traditionally the flavor for candy canes is peppermint, but there are a variety of flavors.
- Alain Roby, Geneva pastry chef, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest candy cane, measuring 51 feet long.
- The first known to be mentioned in association with Christmas in 1874.
- As early as 1882, candy canes have been hung on Christmas trees.
- A lot of forklore about candy canes.
*This was found online somewhere and used in a past issue of Patterson Post. (Post 2001), the very first issue of Patterson Post. Also first published on Courageous Christian Father on December 13, 2013 and last updated/republished November 30, 2020.
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Last week, Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro democracy leader of Myanmar (formerly Burma) was feted at The Electric Burma Concert in Dublin, Ireland. On the eve of her 67th birthday, Bono presented Suu Kyi with the Amnesty International Ambassador of Consciousness Award. Just hours before, Suu Kyi was in Norway to receive her Nobel Peace Prize. Both of these awards are long overdue; Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize way back in 1991, and the Amnesty International award in 2009.
Her story plays like Hollywood movie: Suu Kyi hailed from a political family in Burma, was educated in Oxford, England, where she eventually married the love of her life. Suu Kyi returned to her native Burma to care for her dying mother and found herself at the forefront of Burma’s political reform, where she would be detained for 24 years,15 of those under house arrest. Her husband died in Oxford while she was imprisoned; the Burmese military denied his request for a visa 30 times. She was released in November 2010, and won a seat in Myanmar’s Parliament this past April.
The concert, a celebration of freedom for the former dissident, featured dance, spoken word, performances by Bono, Bob Geldof (founder of “Live Aid”), Angelique Kidjo—and Lupe Fiasco, the only American artist who performed at the show.
It was only appropriate that Amnesty International invited Lupe, a Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist whose lyrics constantly challenge the status quo, to participate in a concert celebrating a woman who was incarcerated for speaking out against governmental oppression, forcing political change through peaceful resistance. Fiasco debuted his new single, “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” to an international audience and performed a single from his last album “Lasers” entitled “Words I Never Said.”
Both songs are befitting for a celebration of freedom for Aung San Suu Kyi. “Words” is a rally call for social activism, admonishing, ‘“if you don’t become an actor you will never become a factor…” Fiasco himself declares he’s “a part of the problem, and the problem is I’m peaceful and I believe in the people.” “Freedom Ain’t Free” gives a shout out to “all the rebels in small cells keeping their mind big.” No wonder the producers of Electric Burma tapped this lyrical genius to fete the ex political prisoner.
I am not just a fan of Lupe Fiasco, in full disclosure, Fiasco happens to be my client of 12 years. I have never had the inclination to merge my journalism and clients of my entertainment law practice until now. Yet, there is something about Lupe's depth and mind that intrigues. I sat down with Lupe in Dublin prior to the concert to discuss his thoughts about being involved in such a historic celebration and about his activism, and of course, his 4th album “Food & Liquor II: Great American Rap Album Part 1,” which will be released on September 25, 2012.
EBONY: Why is this cause, celebrating a social activist like Aung San Suu Kyi, important to you?
LF: I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks of society and different viewpoints to be focused on the struggle for equality and democracy. We need as many champions for the cause and as many events as possible to help keep this in focus.
EBONY: Chicago, your hometown, has been in the news lately for the rash of violence and killings. How is Aung San Suu Kyi’s struggle tantamount to what is happening in Chicago?
LF: I think human rights violations, mass murders, wherever they may take place, all stem from corruption, a failure in the system based on greed, a want for power, trickling down, as it was in Suu Kyi’s Burma. In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront. We are all unified in our intention to keep things peaceful and positive.
EBONY: You have been very vocal about the fact that you don’t vote. But Suu Kyi brought about change and forced democracy by people voting her into the presidency. How can you be a positive proponent for change by not voting? How do you reconcile that irony?
LF: I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have. Voting changes some things, but those grand sweeping changes that most of us are looking for, those do not happen by voting. All the big revolutions, whether it’s the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people’s voices and those things weren’t voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting.
EBONY: Do you seek to effectuate change through your music? Is music then, your medium?
LF: Yes, music is my medium, just by default because I have to talk about something. Once you exhaust the material things, you seek to learn, you talk about new things. I don’t do that consciously for people to “follow me” because I prefer critical thinking. I want people to ask questions, what am I agitating? What am I getting you to think about? I hope to get you to challenge your point of view, maybe gain a different point of view, just to think.
EBONY: Let’s talk about your new single, “Freedom Ain’t Free”, what’s your message there? What are you trying to get people to think about?
LF: I question the concept of freedom. Is freedom really “free”? You have to pay for everything; everything comes at some type of cost; are you just going from one form of subjugation to another? As I said, I am just making statements. The song is a collage of different scenes through American history, and American pop culture. The struggles of Native Americans, the black community, the white community, the struggles of the far reaches of the U.S .empires.
EBONY: Lastly, tell me about the concept behind “Great American Rap Album, Part 1.”
LF: I don’t want to give too much away just yet, but is basically about my perspective of America and rapping. Just those two things: you will get songs about rapping and songs about America.
And with that, the celebration of freedom began.
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Next month Oxford University Press will publish The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought edited by Nicholas Adams (University of Edinburgh), George Pattison (University of Oxford), and Graham Ward (University of Oxford). The publisher’s description follows.
‘Modern European thought’ describes a wide range of philosophies, cultural programmes, and political arguments developed in Europe in the period following the French Revolution. Throughout this period, many of the wide range of ‘modernisms’ (and anti-modernisms) had a distinctly religious and even theological character-not least when religion was subjected to the harshest criticism. Yet for all the breadth and complexity of modern European thought and, in particular, its relations to theology, a distinct body of themes and approaches recurred in each generation. Moreover, many of the issues that took intellectual shape in Europe are now global, rather than narrowly European, and, for good or ill, they form part of Europe’s bequest to the world-from colonialism and the economic theories behind globalisation through to democracy to terrorism. This volume attempts to identify and comment on some of the most important of these.
The thirty chapters are grouped into six thematic parts, moving from questions of identity and the self, through discussions of the human condition, the age of revolution, the world (both natural and technological), and knowledge methodologies, concluding with a section looking explicitly at how major theological themes have developed in modern European thought. The chapters engage with major thinkers including Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Barth, Rahner, Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Wittgenstein, and Derrida, amongst many others. Taken together, these new essays provide a rich and reflective overview of the interchange between theology, philosophy and critical thought in Europe, over the past two hundred years. | <urn:uuid:c7f6680a-c70c-404b-a5f6-a5eb7a18fba7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawandreligionforum.org/2013/04/25/adams-pattison-ward-the-oxford-handbook-of-theology-and-modern-european-thought/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.914849 | 396 | 2.109375 | 2 |
CERAFILTEC takes pride to announce the opening of CERAFILTEC South Africa. The entity, located in Gauteng, Kempton Park, received its first project order last week already.
The CERAFILTEC technology will be implemented in a brownfield project replacing a settler system followed by a pressurized polymeric ultrafiltration membrane. The existing system reached its performance limits due to the changed raw water characteristic of the brackish groundwater source. CERAFILTEC engineering provided a process concept to reduce hardness and to remove the precipitants including colloidal silica by using ceramic flat sheet membranes. Due to the very compact design, the plant capacity will be increased by 50 % to a total filtered water flow of 1,680 m³/d.
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Fire near Arctic Circle sign prompts campground evacuations
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A wildfire burning near the Arctic Circle turnout on Alaska’s Dalton Highway has prompted evacuation of a nearby campground.
The wildfire is burning on the west side of the highway, which is also known as the haul road since it is used to haul supplies to the North Slope. The fire is near the Arctic Circle sign that is popular with tourists who drive the highway.
The fire has prompted the evacuation of a campground with 19 camp sites about a mile (1.61 kilometers) away.
It was not immediately clear how many people were at the campground. But Geoff Liesik, a spokesperson with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service, said the site is popular with those celebrating the summer solstice, which is Tuesday. The site is also popular with tourists, getting their photos taken at the Arctic Circle sign.
The nearest community is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) away, Liesik said.
Twelve smokejumpers were working the Fish Fire, aided by aerial support.
Fire officials said the fire, started by lightning, has burned on less than 1 square mile (2.59 square kilometers) in black spruce, with isolated torching.
People are asked to avoid the area because of the ongoing evacuation, fire activity and smoke across the road.
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Ideally, copy-editing is done prior to proofreading. In addition to checking spelling, grammar and punctuation, I include the following in my copy-editing service:
- improving the readability, clarity and fluency of the text
- removing monotonous repetition of words and phrases
- checking for ambiguity and suggesting solutions
- checking that tenses are used consistently and noting where there is a problem with inconsistency
- checking that any style guide has been complied with and correcting the text where necessary (excluding formatting/layout)
- checking that the chapter headings and subheadings in any Table of Contents match those in the text
- checking that abbreviations are noted when a term is first mentioned and noting where they are not
- checking that the treatment of quotations that are embedded in the text and those that are displayed is consistent (e.g. that quotations of up to a certain number of words/lines are embedded and that the layout for displayed quotations is consistent) and noting where this is not the case
- checking that the headings/captions relating to tables, figures and illustrations appear to be consistent in terms of font size and type and capitalisation and noting where this is not the case
- checking any numbered sequences and making a note if any sequence is incorrect
- checking the layout of lists and advising whether the style is consistent across the text or within each list and noting inconsistencies
- identifying any overuse of things such as italic, bold and capitals
- although checking all factual content isn’t one of the checks done, I will be alert to errors such as misspelled names of people, documents or buildings and misquoted material and will check or query them
If you’d like to find out more about my copy-editing services, please get in touch using the Superscript contact page
Proof-editing is quite a new term. It is a combination of proofreading and copy-editing that is done at the same time. Lots of clients are very happy with this one-step service – it meets the needs of their text and doesn’t strain their budget.
Many of my (non-publisher) clients say that they want a text proofreading, but when I look at the file it’s clear that it needs more than this, and ideally should be copy-edited. But a lot of people don’t have the time or the budget to ask me to copy-edit a text and then proofread it at a later date once they’ve made the relevant changes. They want me to do ‘whatever’s needed’, and often they’re not really clear about what this is.
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Red lightning, also known as a "sprite", is an intriguing weather phenomenon associated with certain very intense thunderstorms. While an ordinary lightning flash extends downward from the clouds to the ground, a sprite shoots way up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
However, red lightning it only lasts for a millisecond or so, which makes it difficult to observe and study. Here’s a look at what scientists have learned so far about the phenomenon.
What are lightning sprites?
Given their elusive nature, "sprite" is an appropriate name, although this is actually an acronym that stands for: Stratospheric Perturbations Resulting from Intense Thunderstorm Electrification. Like regular lightning, red lightning is caused by a build-up of electrical charge in clouds, but in this case the excess charge is released to the ionosphere — around 50 miles (81 kilometers) up — rather than to the ground.
Sprites are usually red in colour, and can range in shape between a jellyfish and a carrot. Compared to an ordinary flash of lightning they can be huge in size, often as much as 30 miles (48 km) across.
Although it looks so striking when captured in a photograph, red lightning isn’t easy to observe from the ground, because it occurs high above the cloud layer. It can be observed more clearly from high-altitude planes, including specially instrumented research aircraft and it's also been observed by astronauts on the International Space Station.
Red lightning isn’t the only upper-atmosphere phenomenon that can be triggered by thunderstorms. Collectively known as Transient Luminous Events, or TLEs, other examples include blue jets, which are optical ejections from the core region of a thunderstorm, and "elves" (Emission of Light and Very low frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic pulse Sources), which are rapidly expanding disc-shaped regions of luminosity.
Red lightning sprites in space
In common with many weather phenomena, red lightning could in principle occur on other planets that have an atmosphere, not just Earth. It’s been known, for example, that ordinary lightning is a common occurrence in Jupiter’s atmosphere ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 probe flew past the giant planet in 1979.
In the case of sprites specifically, researchers at Tel Aviv University carried out an experiment in 2011 to test whether they could occur on Jupiter, its neighbouring gas giant Saturn, and our own near-neighbour Venus.
They re-created the atmospheres of these planets in their laboratory and passed electrical discharges through them. They found that under the right conditions, sprites could form on all three planets. In the case of Jupiter, the theory was finally confirmed in 2020, when observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft showed that both sprites and elves do indeed occur in the planet's upper atmosphere.
Observing sprites from space
Anecdotal accounts of lightning-like phenomena occurring above thunderstorms go back to the 19th century, but it was only in the 1950s, when red lightning was observed from airliners, and tentative physical theories were described, that it entered the scientific domain.
The first photograph of a sprite was taken by accident 1989, when a team from the University of Minnesota recorded an upward flash from the cloud tops while they were testing a low-light TV camera.
Over the next few years, video recordings made by astronauts on the Space Shuttle captured several more examples, placing the phenomenon on a much firmer observational footing.
For more information about weather phenomena check out, "An Introduction to Space Weather (opens in new tab)" by Mark Moldwin and "Space Weather Fundamentals (opens in new tab)" by George V. Khazanov.
- Meghan Gambino, "Scientists Capture Rare Photographs of Red Lightning (opens in new tab)", Smithsonian magazine, August 2013.
- Kristine De Abreu, "Natural Wonders: Sprite Lightning (opens in new tab)", ExplorersWeb, January 2022.
- University of Alaska, "Red Sprites, Blue Jets and Elves (opens in new tab)" accessed July 2022.
- Deborah Byrd, "What are lightning sprites? (opens in new tab)", EarthSky, August 2020.
- NASA, "Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning (opens in new tab)", June 2018.
- Jeremy Thomas, "UW Sprite Balloon Experiment 2002 (opens in new tab)", University of Washington, October 2002.
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It gives me great pleasure to announce that I have begun a podcast based on the content of my books in the Smart Student's Guides to Philosophical Classics series.
The first podcast is UNDERSTANDING PLATO. Like the book, it is about Plato's Socratic dialogues and his celebrated Republic. The podcast is divided into episodes of about 20 minutes.
Each episode is about one dialogue or a part thereof, beginning with Euthyphro. Several episodes have already been published.
Future episodes will be broadcast weekly on Monday evenings at 5 pm PST. All past episodes are saved and can be heard on the sites listed below.
Each podcast will be based on a volume in the Smart Student's Guides series. Listener experience will be enhanced if you have a copy of the book to consult during or after the broadcast.
Future podcasts will be about Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism and On Liberty, and David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
Here are a few sites where you can find the podcast and all published episodes:
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Following the popular post about how to get a great guitar tone from amp sims I’d now like to adress the challenge of bass. Like me, a lot of home studio owners/bedroom guitarists don’t even own a physical, electric bass. Well, just like with drums, you can solve that using a virtual bass plugin in your DAW. If you do have an electric bass, the tips here probably apply anyway as I’ve gotten them from the magnificent Systematic Mixing Guide e-book.
What you need
- A DAW (a musical production application) like Reaper, Cubase, Logic, Protools etc.
- A virtual bass amp plugin like B.O.D 2.0 by The Serina Experiment.
- (Optional) A TubeScreamer sim like the TS808 by TSE.
- An electric bass plugin like one of those I blogged about earlier. For this post I used an even simpler one with no settings at all (that sounds better than VB-1): 4front bass.
The basic idea
To get a great metal bass tone (it’s always metal with me, I think you know that by now :-) ) you need to apply distortion. In metal, the bass is supposed to act like a third, tuned-down guitar, that glues the regular guitars together while at the same time providing bottom and rhythmic stability. A regular bass guitar just plugged into an amp will be great for 70s disco music, but it won’t glue with distorted guitars. In the documentary about Lemmy there’s a great clip where he shows the difference, just cranking up the gain on his amp.
However, for production use, just applying distortion to a bass track will muddy it up and it will mess with the distorted guitars. The trick is to separate the track into three separate, parallel tracks that will handle different parts of the bass’s frequency spectrum and create a blended tone. The bottom track is left as it is, you want the bottom to really be felt without trashing it to pieces with distortion. One of the two other tracks are slightly distorted two provide some grit in the mids and the other one is more distorted to get that nice glueing effect with the guitars.
I’m going to show how I do it in Reaper, just adapt it to the concept and workflows in your DAW if you are using something else.
I use in total 6 tracks for bass, organized as follows:
Starting from the bottom:
Bass MIDI track
This track holds the actual MIDI patterns for the bass. I’ve chosen to put this in a sub track below the track with the actual bass plugin. The reason is to be able to easily add more MIDI tracks to test different note/riff variations without having to mess around with takes on one single track. This track has no plugins. IO is default: sends to parent/master (i.e. to the Bass Plugin track).
Bass Plugin track
This track is the parent of the Bass MIDI track and receives all of its signal. It has just one plugin, the electric bass plugin. For this post I used the very simple 4front bass. You can use any electric bass VST. Sometime down the line I’ll probably buy Trillian, but until then I get along with cheap/free alternatives.
This track does not send to parent/master. Instead it sends to the three tracks above it: bottom, overdrive and distortion (see below).
This is the low range of the bass track, that will provide the boom that you feel more than hear. The bass plugin track sends all of its signal here, so an EQ plugin on the track filters out just the part we want – a slow low pass centered around about 400 hz:
The overdrive track provides the major part of the mids from the bass track. First, add a filtering EQ with a high pass around 500 Hz and a low pass around 5 kHz. We will apply the same filter to the distortion track (see below). As noted in Systematic Mixing, this will leave quite a hole in the bass frequencies in the low mids, somewhere around 400 to 600 Hz. This is quite intentional, as it is the zone where bass usually fights a small war with distorted guitars without filtering:
Secondly, we apply an amp sim to get some texture to the sound. Any guitar amp sim or overdrive pedal will work, but in this case we’ll use the bass amp sim B.O.D. by The Serina Experiment. It doesn’t really have a lot of gain so it will work well for this track. Here are the settings I use:
The distortion track provides the final glue between the bass and the distorted guitars. I couldn’t quite get B.O.D. to provide a distorted enough sound from the bass on its own, so I decided to stick an overdrive (a TubeScreamer sim) in front of it. Another option would have been to replace it altogether with a guitar amp sim instead. First the sound is filtered by EQ set exactly like the one on the distortion track. The TubeScreamer is second, set just as you would to excite a guitar amp – gain 0, level max and tone level. Finally the bass amp sim:
This is the root track that collects the three parallel bass tracks into a blended tone. It can be used to control the overall bass volume in the mix. Default sends (to master/parent).
Here’s a sample of what the different bass tracks sound like – first the final blended tone, then the plugin tone without filters, third the bottom track solo, fourth the overdrive track solo, fifth the distortion track solo and finally the blended tone again:
And here’s what the bass sounds like in a mix with guitars and drums:
Update: The Real Results
So, I got a bit of heat for this post, and quite deservingly. No matter the amount of mixing tricks you can’t really make a bad plugin sound good. The examples above sound OK in a mix, but you can’t really say they sound great :-). So I finally got a really good bass plugin: Spectrasonics Trilian. So, here’s an example of the mixing techniques above applied to a 5-string bass for a different song:
This is an applied use of the theory and tips in the bass chapter in the Systematic Mixing Guide. Get it, you won’t be disappointed.
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Mechanization and Automation of Mining; Published: July 1989; Comparative performance estimates of potash ore continuous mining machines. L. M. Lyuboshchinskii, A. A. Nasyrov, V. V. Savitskii & L. S. Chuchelova Soviet Mining volume 25, pages 353–355 (1989)Cite this article
2021-12-14 · Solution Mining: Solution mining can substitute for conventional shaft mining in potash deposits that occur below 3,000 feet. Vertical pipes are drilled to supply water to the ore zone and a return pipe brings the saturated brine to the surface where it is evaporated in surface ponds leaving potash. Potassium Uses.
2021-5-28 · 2.1 Phosphate Rock and Potash 6 2.2 Phosphate Rock Mining and Beneficiation 6 2.3 Potash Mining and Beneficiation 10 3. The Environmental Approach of the Phosphate Rock and Potash Mining Industry 14 3.1 The Environmental Challenges 14 3.2 Mine Development: Exploration, Planning, Approval and Construction 15 3.3 Extraction 17 3.4 Handling 22
Potash Wikipedia. All commercial potash deposits come originally from evaporite deposits and are often buried deep below the earths surface potash ores are typically rich in potassium chloride kcl sodium chloride nacl and other salts and clays and are typically obtained by conventional shaft mining with the extracted ore ground into a powder
2007-4-26 · Underground Methods and Mining At Intrepid Potash, ore is mined from the active faces via Joy remote-controlled continuous mining machines (Fig 1). Cuttings from the rotating carbide-tipped cylinder are loaded onto electric underground haulage vehicles, which transport the ore to the conveyor. Two types of haul vehicles are used; one employing ...
2020-11-20 · All borers are directly connected to the massive underground conveyor network that moves the ore from the cutter head to the shaft in a continuous process. Mining excavates an 8 ft. high room consisting of three layers of interest. A 4.3 ft. layer of high grade ore, a 1.7 ft. layer of low grade ore, and a 2.5 ft. layer of moderate grade potash.
Solution mining can substitute for conventional shaft mining in potash deposits that occur below 3,000 feet. Vertical pipes are drilled to supply water to the ore zone and a return pipe brings the saturated brine to the surface where it is evaporated in surface ponds leaving potash. Uses. Potash is used primarily as a fertilizer in agriculture.
2021-2-26 · The Cory mine is a conventional underground mining operation whereby continuous mining machines are used to excavate the potash ore by the long room-and-pillar, and in recent years, by the stress-relief mining method. Continuous conveyor belts transport ore from the mining face to the bottom of the production shaft.
The Lanigan mine is a conventional underground mining operation whereby continuous mining machines are used to excavate potash ore by the stress-relief mining method in the A Zone and the long-room and pillar mining method in the B Zone. Currently, in any specific mining block, only one zone is mined (i.e. bi-level mining is not in practice).
References MOSAIC EXTRACTS FIRST LOAD OF POTASH ORE IN THE WORLD''S LARGEST PIT PROJECT. Using a 6-rope KOEPE winder by SIEMAG TECBERG, at 10.48 local time on 18.12.2018 the first load of potash ore from the new Mosaic Esterhazy K3-Mine in Canada was brought to the surface and sent for further processing.
Abstract. The mining of large underground potash deposits presents an unusual challenge because the quantity of ore to be mined is very large, the value of the ore is relatively low, there is extreme competition, and most dominately, at the depth of many potash mines there are severe stress and creep (plastic flow) problems.
2019-2-27 · Mining machines at Rocanville use potassium sensing technology to ensure that rooms are always cut in the best available potash ore. It is difficult to determine at which mining height certain Mineral Resources and Reserves will be cut in the future, so the more conservative mining height of 2.51 m (8.25'') was applied to Mineral Resource and ...
The Allan mine is a conventional underground mining operation whereby continuous mining machines are used to excavate the potash ore by the stress-relief mining method. Continuous conveyor belts transport ore from the mining face to the bottom of the production shaft.
2021-11-4 · Readying K3''s South Shaft Headframe for Production. November 4, 2021. The future of Esterhazy is taking shape. Rich potash ore continues to be hoisted up K3''s completed north shaft at an average rate of more than 30,000 tons per day, and final work is underway to begin production at K3''s south shaft later this month.
2017-10-6 · methods similar to those used for extracting coal (i.e. mechanised longwall mining). Potash may also be extracted by injecting a heated brine into the mine workings to dissolve the potash in-situ, the resulting solution is then pumped to the surface and the potash recrystallised by evaporation (PotashCorp, 2016).
2020-11-30 · The creation of modern machines and improvement of existing designs of rock cutting bodies of combines is constrained by the lack of experimental studies of the process of separation of successive elementary cleavages during the potash ore cutting with cutters of winning machines. The potential of the cross cutting pattern of potash ore is shown, since the …
2020-2-3 · POTASH MINING 5 The ore cut by the boring machine is deposited directly onto a movable (extensible) conveyor belt, which delivers it to a permanent belt. There can be as many as 25 miles of underground conveyor belts in the larger mines, transporting up to 2000 tons per hour of ore to the shaft.
2020-4-10 · Conventional mining: When potash deposits are less than 1.5 kilometres deep mining is done using underground shafts and tunnels into the rock. Ore is lifted to the surface in a container similar to an elevator. Ore: An ore is a type of rock that contains important minerals including metals. The ore is extracted
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More indigent households are set to benefit from food parcels to cushion them against the affliction of poverty after CDM received additional donation to beef up the District Food Banklast week Friday 14 August 2020.
Launched in April and the first in the province, the Capricorn District Food Bank is a co-operative initiative between government, aid organisations and business aimed at centralising the distribution of food parcels in a transparent and fair manner as a response to the devastating effects of Covid-19 lockdown.
When receiving the donation, Executive Mayor Cllr John Mpe said the additional donation will go a long way in providing social relief to the indigent households and those whose livelihoods were interrupted by the Covid-19 regulations and left many with uncertainty about food security and bereft of hope.
So far the Food Bank has provided food parcels to 20 755 households – which comprise of 1 898 in Blouberg, 1,587 in Molemole, 4,228 in Lepelle-Nkumpi and 13,042 in Polokwane. With today’s donation, 16 traditional authorities will receive food parcels for distribution to the needy in their areas and prioritize child-headed families and people with disabilities.
Mpe expressed gratitude to the donors and thanked them for the “selfless efforts which demonstrate that indeed ours is a caring region and we therefore thank you for dispensing Ubuntu and lending a heping hand to those in need, whose plight was magnified by current unfortunate circumstances beyond their control”.
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I wanted to get this information out as a follow up to my recent blog post, Managing Your Finances In Times Of Crisis, where I provided some key steps to weathering crisis like divorce or our current viral disruption. It is a short read that I am recommending for anyone feeling overwhelmed or wondering what to do. In it, I recommend six steps and considerations for financial management during a crisis, but I wanted to further inform you by providing some key links to the pertinent organizations, agencies or creditors. I recommend bookmarking this post for easy future reference.
Six Steps to Managing Your Finances In Times Of Crisis
- Food, shelter and safety come first.
- Before you pay (or don’t pay) anything, look at your options.
- Communication is vitally important.
- Budget and declutter to free up cash flow.
- Triage your debt payment.
- Realize that some things will be out of your control.
Below is a list of some of the key links and resources for managing your financial situation during COVID-19.
- For IRS information
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Most of our understanding about evolutionary changes and the formation of new animal species is based on the historical record. But a relatively new population of barn swallows in Argentina may help scientists see those changes firsthand.
The ubiquitous barn swallow, found on every continent except Antarctica, is a wondrous migrator. The barn swallows of North America journey over 12,000 miles in migrations as far south as Argentina and back every year. They breed in the north, then winter in the south, following a six-month cycle of movements dictated by the changing seasons.
David Winkler, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and his collaborators say a new population of barn swallows near Buenos Aires, established only about 30 years ago, has adapted both its migration cycle and its breeding cycle in a dramatically short time.
The birds in this population have shortened their migrations by more than a third, traveling only to the equator for winter, then back down to Argentina to breed. The birds were tracked using software developed at Cornell.
“This population of barn swallows has dramatically changed its annual migration and its annual cycle, both recently. It raises questions about what mechanisms are behind changes in these characteristics,” Winkler said. “Most biologists are conditioned to think that changes this extreme must be a result of some drastic change that necessitates adaptation, via natural selection over many generations, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. And when a change like this occurs so rapidly, we have to ask, how much of this could be changed by individuals in a single lifetime?”
Winkler and his colleagues have found evidence that some northern-born swallows are still migrating south and joining the new population to breed in Argentina, rather than returning north.
“There are certainly ecological differences between the northern and Argentine breeding grounds, which could select for genetic differences in the birds,” Winkler said. “But immigrants from North America likely continue to bring in northern genes, slowing any sort of genetic selection on the Argentine population.”
Nevertheless, the researchers speculate that the Argentine population could be a step toward a new subspecies of barn swallow. The mechanisms that are driving these barn swallows’ migration behaviors and life cycle timing may be similar to those that drove skuas and terns in the past: Both are seabirds with far-northern and far-southern sister-species pairs.
“Rather than interpret this new swallow population as a mere oddity, this colonization may be the initial phase of an evolutionary process,” Winkler said.
Likely the biggest factor that’s made Argentina more inviting for barn swallows is the expansion of human infrastructure over the past 50 years, he said. Barn swallows make their nests under bridges, building eaves and, yes, in barns.
“Barn swallows have adapted to people for many, many hundreds of years,” Winkler said. “Well over 99 percent of the nests of barn swallows are in some kind of human-made structure.”
Winkler and his colleagues studied the swallows’ migration by capturing individual birds and outfitting them with solar-geolocation loggers. They looped flexible polymer string around each bird’s legs and up around its back, where a knot fastened with a dab of superglue kept the trackers in place.
The findings were published March 16 in Current Biology. Co-authors include Cornell graduate student Marshall Iliff, and scientists in Argentina, Russia and Canada.
The research was supported by funds from Cornell, the U.S. National Science Foundation, Environment Canada, and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina.
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Hear from top scholars on the language of Scripture in this special Hartford Seminary symposium. A Compassionate Response: What it Means to be a Neighbor Father Joseph Cheah University of Saint Joseph The word compassion comes from the Hebrew word rehem, which means a mother’s womb. To be compassionate is to have a deep feeling a woman has for the child that comes forth from her womb. In the parable of the Good Samaritan, it was the Good Samaritan who exemplifies this sort of compassion by offering liberating assistance to the half-death man lying on the side of the road. Father Cheah will examine what this good Samaritan, a foreigner and racialized other, teaches us about what it means to be neighbor and exemplifies for us the value of strangers in our midst. Dr. Deena Grant Exploring Jewish and Christian Translations of Scripture: Practical Applications Is translation interpretation? We will explore together ways that translation can influence meaning by discussing a variety of diverse translations of the identical Scripture passages. The Book of Job, Islamic Thought and the Gospels Dr. Steven Blackburn Retired from Hartford Seminary As a rising tide of Islamization began to engulf both Jews and Christians in Mesopotamia by the mid 8th century C.E., interpreters of Jewish scripture presented their writings in ways that were accessible to Muslims through preferences for vocabulary with an Qur’anic cast. The translation of Pethion ibn Ayyub of the Book of Job betrays not only affinities to Islamic thought but simultaneously attempts to harmonize Job’s teaching with portions of the Gospels. Does Everyone in Heaven Speak Arabic? Dr. Suheil Laher Adjunct Professor at Hartford Seminary ‘When God is angry, He sends revelation in Arabic. When He is pleased, He sends revelation in Persian.’ What might have led someone to claim the Prophet Muhammad had said these words? The Qur’an is central to Islamic belief and practice, as God’s words. But what exactly is meant by the phrase, “God’s words.” Is Arabic “the language of God”? And if so, how much leeway is there for prayer and sermons to be in other languages? Will everyone in Heaven speak Arabic? Dr. Laher will discuss these theological and ritual questions, and how they impacted and were impacted by socio-political factors. Register here. | <urn:uuid:035f5f4d-cc33-47e5-99b4-ea6900f1996a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/event/jewish-christian-and-muslim-perspectives-language-scripture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935534 | 525 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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Lightly sweetened Greek yogurt gets studded with fresh strawberries and chocolate chips then frozen so you can break it into chunks just like chocolate bark (but healthier!). This colorful snack or healthy dessert is perfect for kids and adults alike. Use full-fat yogurt to ensure the creamiest bark possible.
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This raspberry cobbler is an easy dessert to whip up when you have fresh raspberries on hand. This version is lower in sugar than traditional cobblers and packed with berries that lend a sweet-tart flavor.
The better the peaches, the better this simple peaches and cream will be! Honey sweetens the cream just enough, allowing the sweetness of the peaches to shine through.
After you haul all your fruit home from the orchard or farm, bake a batch of these bars. Change up the fruit with the seasons—peaches come summertime or apples in the fall.
Whir up frozen bananas into an “ice cream” without the cream! Peanut butter adds a natural swirl of flavor for a sweet and satisfying dessert with no added sugar.
A healthy peach cobbler is an old-fashioned, crowd-pleasing dessert that showcases summer's sweet produce. Use fresh peaches when they are in season. The rest of the year, you can use frozen peaches for a quick and easy homemade dessert.
Try this cherry sorbet recipe with a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream or some more chopped cherries on top.
One batch of dough does double duty as both the crust and streusel topping to make one of the easiest desserts around.
This rustic galette has flavors that are reminiscent of an Old-Fashioned cocktail. To really amp up the connection, you can top it with a dollop of bourbon-spiked sweetened whipped cream. Note: We did try this with thawed frozen cherries but even after draining them at multiple points in the recipe, they still exuded a lot of liquid—it's best made with fresh.
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Measure of the duration of a filter’s useful service. This is based on the amount of standard contaminant required to cause differential pressure to increase to an unacceptable level – typically 2 – 4 times the initial differential pressure, a 50 – 80% drop in initial flow, or an unacceptable downstream amount of particulate matter.
A porous material for separating suspended particulate matter from fluid.
The permeable portion of a filtration system that provides liquid/solid separation, such as screens, papers, non-wovens, granular beds and other porous media.
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Well, it happened. The House passed the Senate Fiscal Cliff ‘deal’ and now tax rates will go up on those making over $400,000 and spending cuts have been kicked down the road.
So how much tax revenue did this deal raise?
“The Senate bill would raise roughly $600 billion in new revenues over 10 years, according to various estimates.”
That’s $60 billion per year so let’s see how that increased revenue compares to the total Federal spending and Federal budget deficit. Using estimated 2012 Federal Government spending and deficit estimates, I created the following graphs.
You can see that this increased tax revenue is a mere drop in the bucket of our overall budget deficit (1.6% of total spending and 4.5% of our 2012 deficit).
I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again, WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM, NOT A REVENUE PROBLEM!
Here is a graph of the Federal Government outlay categories as a percent of our estimated 2012 tax revenues.
In case you don’t know, the “Pensions”, “Health Care” and “Welfare” line items are comprised of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment Insurance, Welfare and Food Stamps. Now let’s see what percentage of US tax revenues is required to fund these entitlement programs.
That’s right, 90% of all the money the US government takes in from tax revenues goes to fund these programs.
Is that any way to run a country? 90% of all tax revenues will be redistributed to those who don’t work or pay taxes? If you were founding a new country, would this be the way you’d set it up? Of course not!
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September 2, 2012: South Sudan once again stated that it is not interested in dividing the disputed Abyei region. Sudan has suggested that Abyei be divided between Sudan and South Sudan, with part of Abyei remaining in Sudan’s South Kordofan state and the southern portion joining South Sudan’s Bahr al-Ghazal state. Abyei has oil. According to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Abyei was to have its own special referendum to determine if it would become part of Sudan or South Sudan. The referendum was originally scheduled for January 2011, but it has never been held and as long as Sudan and South Sudan remain on the edge of war, it will not be held. Many of the pro-South Sudan Dinka Ngok tribespeople have had to flee their homes in the region in order to escape attacks by various pro-government militias and the Sudanese Army. The Sudanese Army attack in May 2011, created another 100,000 refugees. The north doesn’t want the Dinka to return because they would presumably vote for joining the south. The north, however, wants pro-northern tribes (like the Misseriya) to be able to vote. South Sudan says it wants a final settlement reached and that must be based on a fair referendum. At the moment a UN-sponsored peacekeeping force UNISFA (UN Interim Security Force for Abyei), composed of a brigade of Ethiopian troops, is deployed in Abyei.
September 1, 2012: The Sudanese Army claimed it defeated a SPLM-N rebel attack in South Kordofan state. SPLM-N fighters attacked an army unit near the town of Rashad (northeastern part of the state). The SPLM-N later issued a statement that said its forces had attacked the Sudanese Army’s Migreh camp near Rashad at 3 a.m. on the morning of August 29, and killed four Sudanese soldiers. The SPLM-N claimed the attack was retaliation for government raids on rebel villages (burning and looting forays according to the rebel statement).
UNISFA reported that Ethiopian soldiers intervened in a serious fight that erupted between a group of Dinka Ngok tribesmen and Misseriya tribesmen. The report described the incident as a riot which broke out at a market in Abyei. The peacekeepers broke up the confrontation and closed the market. All too often tribal brawls in Sudan and South Sudan escalate into more serious armed confrontations. A tribal brawl in Abyei could quickly start another round in the Sudan-South Sudan War. This past summer, the Ethiopian soldiers in Abyei have intervened in several confrontations between the two tribes, including a particularly rough incident which occurred in July on the first anniversary of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan. The Dinka Ngok were celebrating the anniversary and some Misseriya tribesmen didn’t care for their exuberance.
August 31, 2012: Sudan decided it will not serve on the UN’s Human Rights Council. Human rights organizations (quite publicly) and diplomats from several democracies (less publicly) had severely criticized the UN for giving Sudan a seat on the council. Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, is under indictment for war crimes and genocide by the ICC (International Criminal Court). Sudan faces numerous allegations of human rights violations (many of them backed by very hard evidence) by its security forces and tribal militias working for the government. The government of Sudan likely decided it would suffer even more media criticism if it did not withdraw its nomination for the council. In 2006, the Human Rights Council replaced the UN Human Rights Commission.
August 29, 2012: The Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdel Wahid (SLM-AW) rebel group in Darfur has asked the UN to appoint a genuinely neutral individual to head the UNAMID (African Union-United Nations Hybrid Mission in Darfur) peacekeeping operation. The former civilian head of the mission (official title is Joint Special Representative) resigned from the position at the end of July. Darfur rebel groups complained that the former UNAMID leader favored the Sudanese government.
August 28, 2012: South Sudan claimed that rebel commander David Yau Yau is trying to recruit Murle tribesmen who object to the government’s tribal disarmament program. Yau Yau in 2010, reached a peace agreement with the government but earlier this year went back into the bush. He is a member of the Murle tribe. The government sees Yau Yau as a real threat. On August 27, the South Sudan reported that Murle’s militia had ambushed a military convoy in the Pibor area the previous week and killed 24 South Sudanese soldiers. 200 soldiers were in the convoy. The convoy had been dispatched to locate Yau Yau’s militia.
August 26, 2012: When South Sudan signed the new oil agreement with Sudan officials estimated that that it could take 12 months to return its oil fields to full production. Full production is around 350,000 barrels a day. The 12-month time frame was based on reports of damage to production facilities as well as the need to improve production infrastructure.
August 23, 2012: Sudan accused South Sudan of trying to appoint a new interim government for the disputed Abyei region. South Sudan rejected the accusation. Sudan and South Sudan had agreed to appoint a temporary administration for Abyei. Each nation would have seven representatives on the administrative council. South Sudan has accused the north of refusing to consider its nominees. The two Sudans are supposed to begin another round of negotiations to settle the Abyei question in early September. | <urn:uuid:492c8289-14ff-4af8-a8f0-69dd290c0113> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://strategypage.com/qnd/sudan/20120906.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.965248 | 1,912 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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Brentford Councillors - Stephen Walker
IntroductionJanet McNamara has researched details of the men who served as Brentford Local Board Members and Councillors, see intro page for more details of early local government structure.
Stephen WalkerMr Walker was an early member of Brentford Local Board and his name is on the dedication stone at the Sewage Pumping Station built in 1883.
He was born in Leatherhead and in the 1841 census was living with his parents, George and Sarah. George was a carpenter as was his older brother, another George. Stephen was 12 and he had a younger brother and sister.
In 1851 he was living in the household of Joseph BRADLY who was a commercial traveller in High Street, Old Brentford near the GOMM family. (Close to Pump Alley which runs(ran?) south between numbers 69 and 70 High Street)
In the March quarter 1853 he married Maria WINKLEY (West London 1c 141) and by the 1861 census they were living at what would seem to be no. 79 High Street, the western corner of Dock Road.
He was 32 and a ‘clerk in timber yard’. His wife Maria was 30 and had been born in New Brentford. They had a son Stephen Arthur aged 6 whose birth had been registered in Brentford in April 1854 and another son, Walter Winkley who was 5. They were both born in Brentford. There was also one servant.
They were still in the High Street (no. 79) with a daughter Minnie (3) in 1871. Stephen is described as ‘Manager to Timber Merchant’ and there were 2 servants resident.
The 1881 census shows they had moved to Park Lodge, Boston Road.
In 1883 he was a member of Brentford Local Board and was an Executor of the Brentford Timber Merchant James Montgomrey. At time of his death in 1891 he was a partner in the timber company and his home in 1861 (79 High Street) was near the timber depot.
He died in his office on 23.1.1891 aged 62 with the notice of his death in the Middlesex Independent making it clear that although he was very highly regarded he and the editor (W.H. Jackson) had regularly disagreed with one another in their work on the Local Board.
He is buried with his wife Maria (11.10.1830 -2.3.1884) in South Ealing Cemetery. This is also the grave of his son, Major Stephen Arthur Walker 20.4.1854 – 19.11.1918 with mention of his wife, Ellen. Reports of both their funerals were in the Middlesex Independent newspaper.
There is a memorial in the chapel at St Paul’s Church Brentford which would seem to have been in another position before there church rebuild. It says:-
’10 March the Will of Stephen Walker late of High Street and of Park Lodge Brentford in the County of Middlesex Timber Merchant who died 28 January 1891 at High Street Brentford was proved at the Principal Registry by Stephen Arthur Walker of Hughenden Windmill Road Traveller and Walter Winkley Walker of Park Lodge Mercantile Clerk the Sons and John MEYERS of Boston Road Brentford gentleman the Executors Personal Estate £20,686.3.10d. Re sworn April 1893 £20,886.3.10d’.
His elder son, Major Stephen Arthur Walker had died in a Nursing Home in Ealing on 19th November 1918 and is buried with his parents in South Ealing Cemetery, The report of his funeral in the Middlesex Independent on November 27th 1918 gives his address as Denham Lodge, Ealing and Hughenden, Worthing.
The principal mourners were his daughters and his brother and sister in law. His son Lieut. S Walker was on active service.
There was a large contingent of Ealing cadets. Major Walker had been their commanding officer.
There is also a memorial in St Paul’s Church for his son Walter.
Other materialJanet has also provided photos of his gravestone, a photo from his time of serving as a councillor, an example of his signature and accounts of his death and funeral from local newspapers. To be added as time permits.
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In this task you will create a circuit that turns the led on, when any two of three switches are pressed together. The different colors are used for visualization, in the lab there might not be as many colors of wires.
In this task we use a counter circuit to create a up-counter, that increments its output on pressing of a switch. The output is displayed on a binary led display. The circuit only counts from 0 to 9.
74HC Datasheet PDF – Texas Instruments
In this task all inputs of dagasheet counter circuit are not used. Also Borrow and Carry inputs are not used. The circuits below are available.
You have several ways to implement the Half Adder that can be done with two circuits. Below is an example of placing the components. Note that the pull-down resistors are only needed for inputs that come directly from switches.
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The figure has them in all inputs. Note also that if you end up using NOR circuit, its inputs differ from other circuits.
When you are designing try to think of next task also, so you can easily continue to build a Full Adder from your Half Adder.
Datasheet have several ways to implement the Full Adder that can be done with three circuits. Implement Demultiplexer one input, that is connected to one output of two with a select switch using the circuits available. Implement Multiplexer two input, one of the is connected to the output with a select switch using the circuits available.
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There’s a need to better balance clinicians’ evidence-based bias and older patients’ value-based preferences in shared decision-making, write a collaborative of researchers and advocates from Queensland and New South Wales.
Older people today may be more willing to discuss end-of-life treatment preferences than in the past two decades. However, solely focusing on decision-making may burden uninformed patients and distressed caregivers and families.
While shared decision-making implies shared responsibility for the best outcome, inadequate communication, complex advance directives and the urge for medicalisation can negatively impact the process. The way forward includes public education on the purpose, harms and benefits of life-sustaining therapies and awareness raising among clinicians about attitudes and interventions that may not be in the patient’s best interests.
In the absence of a family member or surrogate, clinicians often find themselves having to guess or assume older people’s end-of-life care preferences and goals in non-ideal settings such as the hospital emergency department after flare ups of chronic illness.
These discussions tend to manifest as transfer of information about the medical aspects of dying rather than as timely and honest consultations resulting in joint decisions. This means missed opportunities for timely referral to palliative care, which could minimise preventable harm and preclude the achievement of a good death.
Reasons reported in the medical literature for delayed clinician-patient discussions about end-of life preferences include:
- lack of skills or self-confidence in communication
- prognostic uncertainty and lack of recognition of dying trajectory
- apprehension about patient’s responses to bad news
- clinicians’ lack of time to support patients after sensitive conversations
- perceptions that families cannot accept a poor prognosis
- clinicians’ sense of failure when patients deteriorate or die under their charge.
Whose values and preferences?
Families perceive the concept of a good death as acceptance of the impending death, preservation of the dying person’s dignity, respect for treatment choices and taking a sense of control. They place more emphasis on value-based medicine, an approach that meets their unique needs and preferences. Whereas clinicians may be more concerned with successful hospital discharge after technically effective treatments based on evidence.
Available evidence suggests that clinician values and preferences have significant influence on the likelihood and nature of end-of-life discussions. Clinicians are more inclined to discuss options with people who are married or have an accurate understanding of their prognosis and less prone to do so if the patient is of advanced age.
Further, clinicians are more likely to recommend withdrawal of active treatment in the presence of cognitive deficit, artificial feeding, uncontrollable pain, multiple comorbidities, poor functional status or if an individual is unable to communicate.
However, this may not be acceptable in all cases. Concerning indication exists that religious physicians are more likely to recommend full medical or palliative treatment regardless of prognosis only if they believe it will improve quality of life.
Satisfaction with decision-making is lower when decisions are inconsistent with a person’s preferences. But unfortunately, the prevalence of advance health directives is also low in Australia. Thus, assistance for surrogates and clinicians in determining patient values and preferences is not always available.
Solutions for a better future
Overly optimistic intervention outcomes by both individuals and doctors can lead to over-diagnosis and overtreatment. Several strategies targeting individuals or populations have been identified to empower older people and surrogate decision-making and address clinicians’ biases:
- explicitly disclosing prognosis and options to achieve realistic expectations and obtain informed consent
- involving more than one clinician of different occupation in the recommendation and refraining from seeking to unduly influence patient choice
- actively inviting surrogate non-clinician decision-makers into the discussion and using structured decision aids
- holding the conversation at several time points along the journey to ascertain patient or family stability of and satisfaction with the decision.
Some people who may prefer to die at home are unaware of the burden that may impose on informal caregivers, or the limited availability of palliative and community support services.
Work remains to raise public awareness about the limitations of modern health care, the inevitability of death from advanced chronic illness and the benefits of de-medicalising dying.
A public education campaign to improve the uptake of advance care directives and awareness of available facilities or health packages could help map services to individual’s needs and preferences. This may help achieve a better balance between clinicians’ evidence-based practice and societal attitudes.
We need to support older people in end-of-life discussions for genuinely informed decision-making aligned with their wishes and values so they can take control over their own quality end of life.
This article was written by the Improving End-of-life Advocates. The authors include Associate Professor Magnolia Cardona, Mr Ian Jun Yan Wee, Ms Ebony T Lewis, Dr Jenny Hunt, Professor Ken Hillman, Dr Sally Greenaway and Dr Danielle Ní Chróinín.
A longer version of this article appears in Australian Ageing Agenda magazine (Jan-Feb 2020)
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ガンバルマン Gannbaruman Ryuichi Kakurezaki(b.1950-) 5000K
幅 13 ×奥行 10 ×高さ 16 cm ガンバルマン gannbaruman Ryuichi Kakurezaki(b.1950-) created a new wave in the ceramic art. Initially his style was so unique in Bizen. Being accepted by Japanese academic people seemed to be hard. But his finely designed functional pieces became more and more popular. He gained uncountable number of awards and his style became very popular in the modern ceramic art. Now he established a new tradition in the history.
RYUICHI KAKUREZAKI (b.1950-)1950 Born in Nagasaki1973 Graduated from Osaka University of Art1988 Grand Prize, the 5th Contemporary Tea Ceremony Utensils Exhibition, Tanabe Museum (also in 1992) 1990 Became an official member of Japan Craft Association1995 Grand Prize, the 8th MOA Okada Mokichi Award1996 The Japan Ceramics Association Award1997 Bizen Ware, A Thousand Years of Traditional Beauty, National Ceramic Museum, France1999 50 MAITRES Les arts applique dans le Japon Contemporain, Mitsukoshi Paris/Tokyo2000 Invited to Tea Ceremony: Contemporary Forms, Helsinki Museum, Finland2005 Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Japan society, USA2010 About the Tea Ceremony, A viewpoint on Contemporary Kôgei, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo | <urn:uuid:c86120fc-c265-471b-bea4-3d766bcec3ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onihagi.com/l/%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3-gannbaruman-ryuichi-kakurezaki%28b-1950-%29/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.851381 | 325 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Enjoy these funny, famous and offbeat Irish quotes and quotations!
"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots." - Actor Sean Connery
"The European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe." - Michael O'Leary, CEO of budget airline Ryannair, who has also called the European Union an "evil empire" where "any hint of innovation is left at the door."
"Remember the Celtic Tiger? Well, she turned out to be a pussycat with a shamrock. Ireland was the hot country of the 2000s as youth from throughout the euro zone flocked there for jobs in finance, software development, restaurants, what have you...That was then. A property bubble burst badly, leaving Irish banks technically insolvent and the government deeply in debt — its ratio of deficit to GDP, at 14.3%, is higher than that of Greece...he Irish government pledges to cut more, but you can’t get blood from a blarney stone." - Howard Gold, Marketwatch.com 9/27/2010
"The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill." - Harold Nicolson
"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun." - Actor Gabriel Byrne
"There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear." - Edmund Burke
"Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment." - Leonard Wibberley, Irish author of comic novel "The Mouse That Roared"
"I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess." - Gregory Peck
"When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials." - Former U.S. General Barry McCaffrey
"A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else." - Author John B. Keane
"Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century." - Author John McGahern
"The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland." - Irish President McAleese
"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit." - Seamus Heaney
"I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it." - Author John B. Keane
"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war." - Gerry Adams
"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island." - Gerry Adams
"A drunkard is a dead man, and all dead men are drunk." - Yeats
"He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue." - Jonathan Swift
"Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning." - Joseph O'Connor, "Two Little Clouds"
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." - Sean O'Casey
"Travelling - I was all my life at it. I'd still rather be travelling around. I'm always thinking of it. It was a better and a nicer time on the road - more freedom along the roads. We'd be selling tinware, saucepans, cans - country people knew us well at those times and were very nice." - Former Irish Traveller (or "Tinker") Nan McDonagh
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor
"I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted." - Soccer superstar George Best
"It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it." - Actor Daniel Day Lewis (who has lived in Ireland at various times), quoted while looking down from the mountains of Luggala, County Wicklow in The New York Times
"No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream."- Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847), in an 1831 letter to Bishop Doyle.
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." - Winston Churchill
"He was a one-off, a unique figure of medieval power, intrigue and complexity, surrounded by mystery and money, and protected by populism and cleverness and the well-timed one-liner." - Maire Goeghegan-Quinn, former Irish cabinet member, speaking of three-time Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who died June 13, 2006
"You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you." -
BBC Ireland reporter Leo Enright.
"He is the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning." - Charles Haughey's description of his successor as Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern.
"I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know." - Actress Sandra Bullock
"My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'" - John McGahern, Leitrim author who wrote "The Barracks" and five other novels
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." - Sean O'Casey
"Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?" - Eamon De Valera, on Victory Day in Europe, May 8, 1945, responding in a radio speech to criticism by Winston Churchill of Ireland’s neutrality in World War II, a speech in which De Valera also thanked Churchill for not invading Ireland.
"It was a bold man who ate the first oyster." - Jonathan Swift
"Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on." - James Cagney
"If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
In the Pool they told us the story
How the English divided the land..." - John Lennon, "The Luck of the Irish" (song)
"In some of these institutions the buildings were designedly rendered gloomy by the windows being obscured, so that the inmates were severed from the outside world almost as effectively as if they were in prison." - From a report on Ireland's Magdalen Asylums published in 1907 by a humanitarian group from London
"Well, it takes all kinds of men to build a railroad." "No sir, just us Irish." - Railroad barons in "Dodge City," Warner Bros., 1939
"I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool." - Charles Lindbergh
"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care." - George Bernard Shaw
"Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process." - William Butler Yeats
"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies." - George Bernard Shaw
"I am a drinker with a writing problem." - Brendan Behan
"I only drink on two occasions - When I am thirsty and when I'm not thirsty." - Brendan Behan
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." - Flannery O'Connor
"Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse." - George Bernard Shaw
"You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer." - Hal Roach
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C. S. Lewis
"There is, for whatever reason, an international tendency to be well-disposed towards Ireland - a tendency that elevates us beyond our actual standing on the world stage." - Ivana Bacik, Irish barrister and Labour Party candidate
"As I walked back to the car, I chatted with an Englishman, who confirmed that, indeed, sheep are dropping into the oceans around Ireland at a regular rate" - Margeret Lynn McLean, noting the general lack of fences along cliff edges on Irish farms, "Insights on Ireland"
"Anyone under 35 feels like they are going through a meat grinder...It's almost as if the economy is eating its young." - Eddie Hobbs, host of the popular Irish TV show "Rip-Off Republic"
"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." - Sigmund Freud (speaking about the Irish)
"He comes from a brainy Cork Family." - First line of a British police dossier on Michael Collins, discovered by Collins himself during a raid on Dublin Castle
"For the good are always the merry, Save for an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance" - W.B. Yeats, "The Fiddler of Dooney"
"I used to go missing quite alot...Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World." - George Best
"This day is a happy one for America. In some places Americans get a little too happy." - President George Bush, greeting Bertie Ahern at the White House on St. Patrick's Day 2004
"When I realized what I had turned out to be was a lousy, two-bit pool hustler and a drunk, I wasn't depressed at all. I was glad to have a profession." - Irish Pool Player Danny McGoorty
"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it." - Oliver Goldsmith
"In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors." - J. R. Moehringer, "The Tender Bar"
"Today I come back to you as a descendant of people who were buried here in pauper's graves." - President Ronald Reagan, on a visit to Ballyporeen in 1984
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet." - Oliver Herford
"Even if the ball was wrapped in bacon, Lassie couldn't find it." - Heard from an Irish caddie, after a particularly bad shot.
"Those who drink to forget, please pay in advance." - Sign at the Hibernian Bar, Cork City.
"He was the chaplain's clerk, a slender Irishman with prematurely gray hair, melancholy eyes. His voice was the glory of the prison's choir." - Truman Capote, "In Cold Blood."
"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt." - Edna O'Brien
"The worst threat to Irish farmers is not foot and mouth disease, but a postal strike." - Popular saying in rural Ireland, referring to Irish farmers' heavy dependence on government subsidy checks to survive.
"As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery." - Author John McGahern
"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does." - Shane MacGowen, lead singer/songwriter for The Pogues.
"I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually." - Elvis Costello
"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." - G.K. Chesterton
"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious." - Brendan Gill
"I tell you this - early this morning I signed my death warrant." - Michael Collins, after signing a treaty on December 6, 1921 with England creating the Irish Free State as a dominion within the British Commonwealth. He was later assassinated by partisans unhappy with the deal.
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." - Jonathan Swift
"I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on." - Tom Hayden
"If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company." - JFK, during a 1963 visit to Ireland.
"Ireland, thou friend of my country in my country's most friendless days, much injured, much enduring land, accept this poor tribute from one who esteems thy worth, and mourns thy desolation." - George Washington, speaking of Ireland's support for America during the revolution.
"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious." - Edna O'Brien
"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned...for he will go out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we only be drownded now and again." - John Millington Synge, in his book "The Aran Islands," 1907
"I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting." - Pierce Brosnan
"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time." - Jack Nicholson
"My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking." - James Cagney
"Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists." - Alan Parker, director of "The Commitments"
"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement." - C. S. Lewis
"I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man." - The late Wellington Mara, owner of the New York Giants, in reponse to a critical story by a sportswriter.
"As an intending Trappist, he would have to turn his back on pleasure but that would not be so easy because he knew of practically nothing which could be called pleasure." - Flan O'Brien, "The Dalkey Archive"
"It is a curious contradiction, not very often remembered in England, that for many generations the private soldiers of the British Army were largely Irish." - Cecil Woodham-Smith
"The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away." - Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon
"I have never seen a West Cork farmer with an umbrella, except at a funeral. His father or grandfather, who went to the creamery with an ass and cart, insulated himself against the vagaries of the heavens with a thick woolen overcoat and slightly greasy flat cap. Little rain permeated the oxter or the headgear. Beneath the outer layer, which could weigh a hundredweight when well soaked, the man remained dry and warm." - Damien Engright, "A Place Near Heaven - A Year in West Cork"
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting." - John Millington Synge
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's simply that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." - Brendan Behan
"How would you know a Cork footballer? He's the one who thinks that oral sex is just talking about it." - Author John B. Keane
"The isles of Aran are fameous for the numerous multitude of Saints there living of old and interred..." - Roderick O'Flaherty, 1684
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?" - Quentin Crisp
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." - George Bernard Shaw
"There can be no tradition without innovation." - Earle Hitchner, Irish music journalist
"What was it that made Maggie leave Ireland, forsake her siblings and parents and flee to New York in the 1800s, we never knew. We yearned to know, because she was the first in a long line of leavers, the matriarch of a clan of men and women who made mysterious and dramatic exits. But her reason for leaving must have been too awful, too painful, because Maggie was said to be a born storyteller, and that story was the one she would never tell." - J.R. Moehringer, "The Tender Bar"
"Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them." - Maureen O'Sullivan, who played "Jane" opposite Johnny Weissmuller in "Tarzan The Ape Man" and five other "Tarzan" movies in the 1930's. She was born in Boyle, County Roscommon
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind." - Frank McCourt
"How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams." - Bram Stoker, from "Dracula"
"We are not going to apologize for any small role we may have played in helping to remove a dictator who made his people suffer for 20 years, carried out horrific acts and didn't care about democracy. He is gone now, and thank God for that." - Bertie Ahern, in May of 2003, discussing the US military's use of Shannon Airport as a stopover point for operations in Iraq.
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Frameworks & Approaches
Frameworks & Approaches describe popular ways to gather and make sense of data.
Organisations and individuals grow in the direction of what they repeatedly ask questions about and focus their attention on.
The purpose of Appreciative Inquiry is therefore to build on the root causes of success – not of failure, to build on our strengths – not our weaknesses.
David Cooperrider – founder of Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry – A Learning Clip
HOW IT WORKS
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is both a planning and evaluation tool that focuses on strengths and assets rather than problems and deficits in a community, organisation or programme.
It follows four steps:
- DISCOVER: Identify processes that work well and make positive progress.
- DREAM: Envision processes and action that would create even better futures.
- DESIGN: Plan and prioritise actions.
- DESTINY (or DEPLOY): Implement the proposed design.
LOCAL CASE STUDY
Explore a local example of Appreciative Inquiry being used to help a local community organisation evaluate how effective their outreach programmes have been.
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The cycle repeats as new discoveries are made through reflection on what has changed and what seems to be working well.
AI seeks to uncover the best of what a community, programme or organisation is currently doing, by interviewing participants.
The interviews encourage participants to examine what is good about their current situation and explore what works well within the community or programme.
Data from those interviews helps construct a plan to enrich the community or improve the programme by building on what already works and what is already considered to be successful.
- Creates energy and motivation.
- Engaging, powerful, uplifting.
- Can be transformative by focusing on strengths rather than problems.
- Well proven in a diverse range of contexts.
- Compatible with Kaupapa Māori approaches.
- Critics say AI focuses only on the strengths and positive aspects of a community, person or organisation so it may make decisions based on an unbalanced understanding of the issues.
- People may feel that their problems and issues are being minimised.
- AI is a holistic approach to development, including planning, action and reflection – so if you’re just looking for an evidence-gathering approach or to evaluate, this may not be appropriate as it requires a commitment to the whole cycle. | <urn:uuid:d770a8fc-b28c-429d-b5d0-e2922f530f5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whatworks.org.nz/appreciative-inquiry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.910311 | 536 | 2.75 | 3 |
Employees today have changing expectations of the relationship between life and work. In the past, these spheres were kept separate from one another. Today, workers see work and life on a continuum where one constantly enriches the other in a reinforcing loop. Our research shows that when a workplace implements benefits that foster this fusion of work and life, more than three-fourths of employees feel more productive and engaged on the job.
How can a workplace unlock this cycle of enrichment? By providing benefits that encourage stability, flexibility, and personal growth.
Employers can offer employees the stability they need to thrive through benefits that help cope with major life events. Eighty-seven percent of employees feel that workplace benefits like life insurance and long term disability insurance provide a pathway to mental wellbeing, removing anxieties that stand in the way of the cycle of work-life enrichment. In fact, a growing reason employees take a job is due to benefits that create stability outside of work, such as retirement, dental and auto insurance.
This sense of stability is so important that sixty percent of employees are seeking an even wider array of non-medical benefits from their employer at their own expense.
Beyond stability, flexibility is one of the most sought after benefits, particularly when it comes to remote work. When employees are free to tend to their needs outside of work through benefits such as remote working,
71 percent report feeling a greater sense of trust from their employer. Further, nearly three-quarters of employees who work remotely one day per week report a more familial relationship with their coworkers
By deepening feelings of trust and familiarity between employer, employee and team members, companies can help further the cycle of enrichment between work and life.
On and off the job, workers want to feel that they are progressing toward their goals. However, employers remain more confident that they are providing the skills and commitment their employees’ desire than workers do. One vital area of opportunity for work life enrichment is training that applies to both professional and personal growth. And with “soft skills” ranked as the highest priority for development among employees and employers, it is easy to see how investing in training can help add momentum to the cycle of work life enrichment.
Unlocking the full potential of today’s employees means providing benefits that meet worker’s evolved expectations of work and life. Organizations that commit to practices that allow employees to thrive on and off the job will not only attract workers but retain them — while engendering high levels of satisfaction and productivity.
The Road to a More Human Workplace
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Do you know where Uruguay is? What’s to know anyway, another backward country that can’t even figure out how to run its own affairs. What’s to know is that people have lived and died there for as long as people have lived and died anywhere else in this hemisphere. A small country, but still a country, Uruguay sits between Brazil and Argentina on the Atlantic coast of South America, whose major port town, Montevideo, takes its name from the Portuguese for ” I see a mountain” Monte vide eu.
The Portuguese sailors who had landed there first had seen El Cerro, and perhaps after so long at sea it appeared a mountain to their eyes, but to Ignazio Firielli, freshly arrived from Italy in 1911, compared to the Alps of his former homeland, it’s merely a hill. However, seeking to start a new life following the death of his mother and father — the latter had killed the former and then himself — he’s not about to be overly particular about these things. Finding work and surviving is what’s important for him now. After four years of empty work, chance takes him into a poker game with the members of a traveling carnival and his eventual employment as their new stable boy. It’s thus that he travels inland and meets the woman who will be his wife, Pajarita, who will give birth to Eva, who in her turn will bear Salome, who in turn will give birth to Victoria.
The Invisible Mountain, the new novel by Carolina De Robertis published by Random House Canada, traces the history of Uruguay since 1900 through the eyes of its women. For, while Ignazio plays a necessary role in the proceedings, it’s the first three generations of this family’s women who we follow through the pages of this story as their struggle to find themselves runs parallel to their country’s struggle for freedom. The story begins before Ignazio even sails to South American, and while it could be said to begin with the founding of Uruguay, as according to Pajarita’s aunt Tita her great-grandfather was Jose Gervasio Artigas, the great liberator of the country who led the fight for independence with gauchos, Indians, and freed slaves, it really begins with the birth of Pajarita.
Pajarita’s mother died giving birth to her, which was how her aunt Tita came to live with her and her brother Aritgas. However, shortly after she was born one night, the family laid down to sleep and woke the next morning to find the child had vanished. For the rest of the year Tita scoured the countryside surrounding the small village where they lived for the baby with no success. The following New Years Day, however — 1900 — Pajarita was found in the top of a tree thirty meters above the ground. It was only after Aritgas went to fetch Tita and she shooed the assembled villagers away from the tree, that it shook itself and Pajarita flew into her aunt’s waiting arms. Which is how she was given the name meaning “little bird.”
Pajarita, her daughter Eva, and her granddaughter Salome are our guides through the twentieth century in South America. Pajarita listens to her brother as he recounts life in Brazil, and the constant battle for power there make her and her friends grateful for their peaceful existence in Uruguay. There are laws protecting workers, unions, and good schools for their children. Eva has opportunities to better herself that her mother lacked. However, events — and her father’s demons — change the course of her life irrevocably. Hoping to find a better life, Eva flees to Argentina and the bright promise offered by the new government of Juan Peron and his wife Evita.
Argentina almost proves a disaster, but she’s saved from ruin and maybe death by Dr. Robert Santos, who not only nurses her back to health in hospital, but falls in love with her. Instead of doing what other men his class have done for generations and taking a low born mistress, he shocks and appalls his family and friends by breaking off his engagement to a society girl in order to marry Eva. As well as having two children, Robert and Salome, Eva’s nascent talent for poetry begins to bloom during her marriage, and she even manages to publish the occasional poem. However, the shiny promise of the Perons tarnishes with corruption, and when Eva assists a colleague of her husband’s in writing a memorandum about the torture and framing of a political prisoner, she and her family are forced into exile. Late one night, they steal away on a boat back to Uruguay.
The Uruguay that Salome experiences, though, is one heading down the path of oppression, and by the time she graduates from high school she has become a member of an urban guerrilla group dedicated to overthrowing the government. After her cell successfully kidnaps an American special adviser to the police — he’s teaching them torture techniques to be employed on political prisoners — it’s only a matter of time before she is arrested, tortured, and jailed. Part of her torture consisted of rape, and so the fourth generation, Victoria, is born in prison. At a month old, when the guards take the baby away to be christened, it is stolen by resistance members who managed to escape and sent away to live with her brother Robert in California.
The Invisible Mountain is fascinating and beautiful in the way De Robertis is able to mix grim reality with the elements of the fantastic that seem to be a hallmark of the best South American fiction. What makes the book so effective is the masterful job the author has done with creating the characters populating the story. While it would have been easy and simplistic to make men the villains of the piece, she ensures that the reader spends enough time with each so we can no more blame them completely for what happens than we would blame the rock we stub our toe on by accident. Of course, the three women are the lead characters, and, therefore, we know them the best. De Robertis has created masterful portraits of each of them.
While they are the heroines of the piece, they are not made out to be specifically heroic or perfect. In each case, we are shown their weaknesses, as well as their strengths, so while we may admire them, we don’t idealize them. This is not an attempt to make women out to be anything more than they are, and because of that we respect and admire the characters all the more. It’s in spite of their frailties that they are able to stand up and be proud of themselves, and that’s an impressive accomplishment in any character no matter what their gender.
You may not have known much about the small South American country of Uruguay before starting to read The Invisible Mountain, but, once you’ve finished it, you’ll not only have a good grasp of its history, but a deeper understanding of South America in general. While the three women are the major characters, Uruguay itself is a character that makes its presence felt throughout the book. You’ll never think of history as boring and impersonal again after reading this book and its intimate introduction to Uruguay. | <urn:uuid:1f720ee2-4833-4e5f-bc6a-208b8cc42542> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogcritics.org/book-review-the-invisible-mountain-by/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.980277 | 1,529 | 2.40625 | 2 |
After journalist Terry Anderson was taken hostage by a terrorist group in Lebanon in 1985, he spent much of six years in tiny cells completely by himself. Trapped in solitude, he found his mind inexorably breaking down.
"Where are all the things I learned, the books I read, the poems I memorized?" he asked himself. "There's nothing there, just a formless, gray-black misery. My mind's gone dead."
At times he was put with other captives, which he found far preferable. But in 1986, he was returned to solitary confinement, and soon he hit the end of his rope. He began smashing his head into the wall, over and over, until his jailers stopped him. Even after his release from captivity, he told The New Yorker magazine, he felt himself enveloped in a mental fog.
For many American prison inmates, detention in a tiny space with minimal human contact is routine and unending. They may spend 22 or 23 hours a day in a cell measuring six feet by eight feet. When they are let out for exercise, they may also be alone. Like Anderson, they may descend into despair or madness.
In recent decades, our correctional institutions have made ever-increasing use of solitary confinement. By 2005, more than 80,000 prisoners were held this way. The total exceeds that of any other country in the democratic world.
But the tide may be turning. On Wednesday, the New York state government reached a settlement banning the use of extreme isolation for juveniles and limiting it for adults. Other states are reassessing the practice, and Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will convene a hearing on it.
This is not the first time Americans have gone through this learning sequence. The use of isolation originated in this country in the early 19th century, with the purpose of spurring criminals to reflect on their misdeeds and repent.
Stuart Grassian, a psychiatrist and former professor at Harvard Medical School, writes that the results were "catastrophic. The incidence of mental disturbances among prisoners so detained, and the severity of such disturbances, was so great that the system fell into disfavor and was ultimately abandoned."
Americans of that era eventually saw that isolating prisoners was not only inhumane but self-defeating, making criminals worse instead of better. Even the Supreme Court, which was not dominated by liberal activists when it addressed the matter in 1890, expressed grave objections.
But less than a century later, all of that was forgotten in a frenzy of tough-on-crime measures, including "supermax" prisons that imposed extreme isolation on the worst offenders—and, in the words of a federal court, skirted "the edge of what is humanly tolerable for those with normal resilience."
Many inmates find the experience beyond the edge of tolerability. The most vulnerable ones "suffer from states of florid psychotic delirium, marked by severe hallucinatory confusion, disorientation … and by intense agitation and paranoia," wrote Grassian in the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy.
Even the strongest individuals, he noted, "will experience a degree of stupor" as well as "obsessional thinking, agitation, irritability, and difficulty tolerating external stimuli." Inmates in solitary, a study found, are seven times more likely to commit suicide than similar prisoners in normal cells. For those who survive, the emotional effects can last for decades.
Politicians may be disinclined to worry about the use of extreme isolation, much less to take action to improve the treatment of criminals. But there are at least two good reasons for the law-abiding citizenry to care.
The first is cost. Housing a prisoner in isolation costs as much as sending him to Harvard—about $60,000 a year, at least double the expense of normal incarceration. This policy is one reason states now spend eight times as much on corrections as they did 30 years ago.
The second reason is that most of these inmates won't be incarcerated forever. The vast majority will be released back into society. Extreme isolation is about the worst possible training for living and working peaceably among others.
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It would not be that unfair to suggest that there is a greater degree of complacency surrounding health and safety issues in the office, compared to a building site environment.
Understandably, dangers and health hazards are all around you if you are working with heavy plant machinery and equipment and handling hazardous materials on a daily basis, but an office contains a number of hidden dangers that need to be addressed in order to keep everyone as safe as possible. An office job involves a lot of technology, such as computers and printers, alongside a large number of employees in a small, indoor space. Companies have to take measures to protect their staff in these circumstances, such as regularly having their air conditioning maintained by companies such as those found via expressplumbingnj.net/service-area/toms-river-hvac-services/, in order to keep the air fresh. Without doing this, health hazards could occur.
Companies like www.claimsdirect.co.uk handle compensation claims for workplace accidents and injuries on a regular basis. It is feasible to suggest that some of these incidents maybe could have been avoided with better health and safety awareness.
Slips, trips and falls
These are the three most common type of office injury recorded every year and according to the National Safety Council, office workers are actually 2.5 times more susceptible to a disabling than workers outside of this type of work environment.
Offices can quickly become cluttered with boxes, files and other items that can easily become a tripping hazard. Trailing wires and rugs that are not properly secured or positioned can soon become instrumental in causing someone to suffer a debilitating slip, trip or fall.
Injured while sitting
Whilst you need to address the obvious visible hazards and make sure that walkways are clear of clutter and items cleared away out of harm’s way, there is also the question of ergonomic injuries to address.
HSE guidelines on office safety cover a number of aspects and provide a useful office risk assessment tool to help your identify key issues and dangers.
Many reported injuries in an office setting are related to ergonomics. Office workers spend a large part of the day sitting at a desk and working on a computer, which leaves them vulnerable to strains and injuries, related to their posture and the use of repetitive movements.
You will need to not only tackle the hidden dangers that are near your desk, but deal with the elephant in the room too, which is the workstation itself, as it may be causing physical ailments and problems if the chairs, desks and computer equipment are not conducive to your good health.
Sick building syndrome
You may well have already heard of the term sick building syndrome, which is a collective term that refers to a variety of health-related symptoms that can affect office workers.
Indoor air pollution and problems with inadequate ventilation can contribute to a variety of health issues and symptoms. There are still ongoing studies into the effects of improper temperatures, poor humidity and even what effect the colour of the walls has on our physical and mental wellbeing. By investing in a good air conditioning system, perhaps fitted by a company like Service Legends, you can take more control over what you and your employees are breathing in. By visiting a companies repair website, such as https://www.servicelegends.com/services/ac-repair/, you can research into the best ways to maintain this system and how to make sure it is running smoothly, with the help of a professional company.
It is certainly an area of concern that needs to be addressed when you are considering health and safety in your office.
It is advisable to conduct a thorough risk-assessment that looks at all aspects of office safety from the suitability of the chairs to the quality of the air.
Thinking that your office is a low-risk environment would be a mistake, especially when you view the level of recorded accidents and incidents each year.
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These three components alone can range from minimalistic to advanced. The control unit is the main operating panel for your
home security system. This unit receives the signals from the sensors placed around your home, and triggers the alarms or contacts the home security center to notify them of any trouble whenever appropriate. The control unit may be power
ed by electricity that runs in your home, or by battery power. Some systems are set up so that if the power in your house goes out, a battery backup will kick in and run the control unit until power is restored. Once the power flips back on, the backup battery system will automatically recharge. The sensors, or switches, are the second part of the security system. The most basic alarm systems have these sensors fitted in the frames of windows and doors so that if they are opened, the circuit is broken and the alarm is triggered. Some are installed in a way that allows them to detect if someone tries to break in through a window by shattering the glass or removing one of the panes. Others may detect motion inside or outside of the home. The third essential part of a home security system is the alarm. | <urn:uuid:7206203f-86f6-4e30-8807-2ae16a46ca01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.spielfuchs.net/home-security-san-francisco.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94381 | 238 | 2.21875 | 2 |
German mayors issue Russian gas warning to Berlin
Berlin’s policy of abandoning imports of Russian natural gas is likely to create hardship and spark unrest, seven mayors from the German island of Ruegen wrote in a letter to the regional and federal governments on Wednesday. They also urged the federal government to allow gas imports via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, given the current technical difficulties with Nord Stream 1 – something Berlin has steadfastly rejected.
In a letter addressed to the federal economy minister, Robert Habeck, and Manuela Schwesig, the prime minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the mayors “strongly condemn” the current conflict in Ukraine but urge the government to consider the damage its policy could do to the German population and the economy, according to news agency DPA.
“We are of the opinion that the path taken by the federal government to disconnect from Russian energy sources is not the right one,” the seven mayors wrote. Initially drafted by the leaders of Bergen, Binz, and Sassnitz, the letter was later signed by four more jurisdictions on Ruegen, Germany’s largest island and a popular tourist destination.
Giving up gas imports from Russia would mean an explosion in the cost of living, which would lead to social instability and unrest, the mayors wrote, according to German media. Calls from the federal government to save energy – such as showering less and foregoing hot water – “defy understanding,” they added.
“As the mayors of this island, we don’t want to have to accept any further restrictions,” Sassnitz city manager Frank Kracht told the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern affiliate of the TV station NDR.
Rejecting proposals to expand the number of wind turbines near residential areas, calling them a health hazard, the mayors advocated “a general rethinking of the solution to the current problems in relations with Russia.”
Among their suggestions was to receive additional natural gas via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Finished in late 2021, the pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea was awaiting the operating permit from Berlin – which was suspended indefinitely on February 22, two days before Russia sent its troops into Ukraine.
The NS2 was supposed to double the volume of Russian gas exports, but was delayed by US sanctions geared towards protecting Ukraine’s gas transit earnings. Nord Stream 1, which continues to supply Germany with gas, is currently operating at 20% capacity, due to maintenance requirements. Its operator, Gazprom, says several turbines at the Portovaya compressor station need servicing to maintain certification. The first one was held up by Canada, citing the sanctions on Russia, until Berlin requested an exemption. The NS2, however, does not use Siemens turbines, and can be maintained regardless of the sanctions.
Berlin has refused to even consider the possibility of using the NS2, however. Economy Minister Habeck says the pipeline cannot operate without certification. He also accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to undermine EU solidarity with Ukraine by driving up the price of gas.
“Putin has the gas, but we have the power,” Habeck said on Tuesday, appealing to Germans to stand together.
Recent polls show widespread pessimism in German industry regarding future business prospects. Commenting on the turbine delay last week, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said gas shortages could lead to an insurrection.
“If we don’t get the gas turbine, then we won’t get any more gas, and then we won’t be able to provide any support for Ukraine at all, because then we’ll be busy with popular uprisings,” she told TV outlet RND. Baerbock hastened to add that this may have been “exaggerated,” and insisted that most Germans support sending weapons to Ukraine. | <urn:uuid:6afb4c8e-f7f1-40f6-b0e3-81cc7806b6cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rt.com/news/559740-german-mayors-nord-stream-letter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956266 | 809 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Green taxes which are blamed for adding up to £150 to every power bill will not be cut as the result of a government review of rising energy bills announced today.
Dieter Helm, an Oxford academic and critic of wind and solar power, has been hired to lead the official review of energy bills - but has been told he cannot suggest any “detailed” changes to green taxes.
Electricity prices will increase by 12.5 per cent, adding £76 to the typical annual bill, from next month for British Gas's customers.
The company said the cost of green subsidies levied on bills has created "significant pressures" and suggested that it had no choice but to respond by raising prices.
The UK is legally obliged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050.
Green levies on bills are used to pay for loft insulation schemes and subsidies for renewable energy projects.
The Tories have repeatedly threatened to take action to curb the costs of these environmental taxes, which were reportedly branded "green cr*p" by former Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister, pledged to cap energy price rises for 17 million households during the election.
The Government said the review “will deliver on Government’s commitment to consider how to keep energy costs as low as possible”.
The terms of reference of the review “will consider the key factors affecting energy bills, including but not limited to energy and carbon pricing, energy efficiency, distributed generation, regulation of the networks, innovation and R&D”.
But it added: “The review will not propose tax changes.”
The review also said that the Government’s “carbon targets need to be met, while concurrently ensuring security of supplies of energy, in the most cost effective way”.
But it said its recommendations had to be on "how these objectives can be met in the power sector at minimum cost and without imposing further costs on the Exchequer".
Alex Neill, managing director of home products and services for Which?, said: "It is right to look at how to keep costs down, but yet another review is going to be cold comfort to the millions overpaying on their energy bills right now.
"Consumers need to see urgent action from the Government and regulator to tackle the lack of competition in the market and to ensure they are getting a good deal."
Will Hodson, co-founder of consumer collective The Big Deal which focuses on bringing down energy bills, added: “Energy prices are an urgent problem for British households right now.
"With this review, the Government is simply kicking the can down the road.”
“If this review leads to any reduction in costs, they will come into effect many years from now. Only a price cap can protect consumers from rising bills this winter.”
“Reviewing costs in Britain’s energy system should not excuse government from tackling greed in Britain’s energy companies.”
Prof Helm, an economist at Oxford University, defended the review saying: “The cost of energy always matters to households and companies, and especially now in these exceptional times, with huge investment requirements to meet the decarbonisation and security challenges ahead over the next decade and beyond.
"Digitalisation, electric transport and smart and decentralised systems offer great opportunities. It is imperative to do all this efficiently, to minimise the burdens.
"Making people and companies pay excessively for policy and market inefficiencies risks undermining the objectives themselves.
“My review will be independent and sort out the facts from the myths about the cost of energy, and make recommendations about how to more effectively achieve the overall objectives.”
Prof Helm has previously been highly sceptical that green energy can do enough to cut emissions.
He wrote in the Spectator magazine: "Current renewables like wind turbines, rooftop solar and biomass stand no serious chance of making much difference to decarbonisation. It’s simply a matter of scale."
Greg Clark, the Energy secretary, said: "We want to ensure we continue to find the opportunities to keep energy costs as low as possible, while meeting our climate change targets, as part of the Industrial Strategy."
A source said the department disputed British Gas' claim about the cost of green levies on bills, saying "we don't recognise their figures" and adding that the costs were only a "small proportion of household energy bills".
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DPhil Projects available at the BreatheOxford Lab
Dr Pattinson is pleased to accept applications from prospective DPhil applicants. Current projects available are as follows. Please feel free to get in touch by email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Project 1: Interoception in health and disease - a Bayesian approach
Interoception is the term used to describe the way the brain senses the internal state of the body. Homeostatic regulation of physiological systems such as the lungs and the cardiovascular system depends fundamentally on the correct interpretation of these interoceptive signals.
Our research group has developed a novel method for measuring interoceptive processes via a breathing task. We wish to use and further develop this task to help us understand individual differences in interactions between the mind and body, with a particular focus on the perception of breathlessness.
This project will use existing and prospectively collected experimental data to test hypotheses relating to how differences in interoceptive abilities between people may relate to underlying psychology and physiology. The project will examine how interoception may change in disease states (for example in lung disease and potentially in acute mountain sickness). Analysis will include the use of computational models to help understand interoceptive decision making. A background in psychology or physiology would be useful for this project, as would an interest in learning computational approaches under supervision.
Project 2: Using big neuroimaging data to understand symptom variability in asthma.
Breathlessness in asthma is incredibly variable, both between individuals but also within individuals on different occasions. Symptoms correlate poorly with medical markers of lung damage, but more strongly with psychological state. This project will interrogate multi-modal brain imaging, behavioural and clinical data from the UK Biobank Imaging Project (https://imaging.ukbiobank.ac.uk/).
The DPhil will give the successful candidate training in machine learning techniques, which will help harness the power of the large sample size in the UK Biobank to inform between-subject variability in asthma. The work will directly inform personalised medicine approaches for the treatment of asthma. This project would particularly suit a candidate with a strong mathematical/engineering background interested in medical applications. | <urn:uuid:c62d4075-306e-46d7-aaa8-e3b8b7c692be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/research/breathe-oxford/news-and-events/more-group-news/dphil-projects-available-at-the-breatheoxford-lab?4a984696-196f-11ed-930d-06ec9236112e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92159 | 448 | 1.75 | 2 |
OVERVIEWThe idea behind this matcher is to find sustained changes in latency.
The median matcher takes a number of past median latencies. It splits the latencies into two groups (old and new) and again finds the median for each groups. If the difference between the two medians is bigger than a certain value, it will give a match.
DESCRIPTIONCall the matcher with the following sequence:
type = matcher pattern = Median(old=>x,new=>y,diff=>z)
This will create a matcher which consumes x+y latency-datapoints, builds the two medians and the matches if the difference between the median latency is larger than z seconds.
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Two patients with a history of frequent recurrent corneal erosion for whom standard medical therapy was determined ineffective had phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) with an excimer laser. Before treatment, one patient had four episodes in a six-month period; the other had ten to 20 recurrences with four serious episodes in a seven-month period. After PTK, neither patient had a recurrence after 18 months follow-up. Subjectively, both patients felt the treated area healed faster than previous abrasions. Vision, refraction, keratometry, and corneal thickness measurements appeared unaffected by the treatment. | <urn:uuid:69e75c59-16ee-4ece-80de-48f633a8c69e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8201570/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957952 | 128 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Nurture Inc. is named as a defendant in a new lawsuit under California’s Proposition 65, based on allegations that raviolis and other food products marketed to toddlers contain more lead than allowed under state law.
Ecological Alliance LLC also has sued two retailers who sell Nurture’s food products: Target Corp. and Whole Foods Market California Inc.
Plaintiff’s testing revealed one serving of Happytot cheese and spinach raviolis exposes a child to roughly 6.23 micrograms of lead, according to the lawsuit filed in L.A. County Superior Court. That’s more than 12 times greater than Prop 65 allows per day (0.5 micrograms) for lead, Ecological Alliance alleged.
The suit further alleged plaintiff’s testing found one serving of Happytot apple spinach and oat bars expose a child to about 0.54 micrograms of lead.
Neither product, whose lead levels were uncovered through independent testing, carry a Prop 65 warning, according to a June 15 press release announcing the lawsuit.
Also known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, Prop 65 requires businesses to warn Californians about significant exposures to chemicals that cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Ecological Alliance is requesting a preliminary and permanent injunction to bar the defendants from producing, distributing and selling the food products without first furnishing a “clear and reasonable warning” under Prop 65.
The lawsuit also seeks reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, as well as civil penalties based on an amount the court considers appropriate.
Nurture and other manufacturers of foods marketed to tots have come under fire after a congressional report in February found baby foods contain “dangerous levels” of heavy metals, including lead.
Manufacturers of several brands of baby food face dozens of proposed class action lawsuits across the country. The suits allege various causes of action—from unfair business practices and violations of state consumer protection laws to unjust enrichment and fraudulent concealment and omission.
Vineet Dubey, an L.A. lawyer who filed the Prop 65 lawsuit on behalf of the Ecological Alliance, said in the press release that lead poisoning can “seriously damage a child’s brain and nervous system, stunt their growth and development, and cause hearing and speech problems,” as well as result in behavioral problems and affect a kid’s ability to learn.
Nurture said in a statement that it “stands by the quality and safety of all of its products.” While the company declined to comment substantively on the pending lawsuit, Nurture said it intends “to vigorously defend this case.”
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"Tip shuh" is a phrase in Khasi which means "to know more". It is also used as a contraction in spoken Khasi to mean "I don't know anymore".
Ngan pyrshang ban im ban leh katkum ka kyrteng ba nga lah jied ia lade; ka jingthmu ka long ban tip shuh na ka bynta ia lade bad ban pyntip shuh ruh ia kiwei.
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My hero is my mom. She had a hard life. When my brother and I were born, my mom was married to a man who was not a nice man. He hit her and called her a lot of bad names. She thought that it was anger issues. When I was about seven years old my mom had enough of it because she had lived with it for seventeen long years. She had decided to divorce him. That was not an easy thing to do. While the papers were being filled out something happened. He committed suicide. That was the last thing we expected. That was hard for her. Then a couple of months later her father died. And she got through that. Now and as an 11 year old, I can understand that she is filing for another divorce. She has done things that I would never would be Able to do.
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The Work Opportunity tax credit (WOTC) is a federal income tax credit that's available to businesses that hire members of certain "targeted" groups. Here's how your business may be able to benefit from this potentially lucrative tax break.
The WOTC encourages businesses to hire from certain categories of workers who face significant barriers to employment. The allowable credit amount is based on a portion of wages paid to an eligible worker during the first year of employment or, in some cases, during the first two years.
Businesses can claim the credit for eligible workers whose employment begins before January 1, 2020. But there are numerous rules and restrictions, including the following provisions:
Minimum hours of work. No credit is available unless the worker completes at least 120 hours of work. The credit is reduced if the individual works at least 120 hours but less than 400 hours.
Rehired workers. The credit is available only for new hires. Wages paid to an individual who was previously employed by your business and is rehired don't qualify.
Related parties. Wages paid to certain individuals who are related to the employer or business owner don't qualify.
In addition, a business can't claim a compensation deduction for any portion of wages claimed as a WOTC. For instance, if the allowable credit for an employee is $2,400, you can't deduct that amount of wages as a business expense. Wages above $2,400 can be deducted as employee compensation expense, however.
Current law provides the following categories of WOTC-eligible workers:
The last targeted group was added to the list under the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes (PATH) Act of 2015. Since January 1, 2016, the WOTC has been available for hiring long-term unemployment recipients, defined as those who have been unemployed for a period of at least 27 weeks and who received state or federal unemployment benefits during all or part of that time.
Individuals who are members of a targeted group generally must be certified by a designated local agency by the day the individual begins work or shortly thereafter. In addition, employers should complete a prescreening notice with the applicable local agency on or before the day an individual is offered employment to maintain eligibility for the WOTC if a new hire isn't certified on or before the day he or she begins work.
The employer also must submit additional forms to the Department of Labor. The paperwork can be a little overwhelming, so it's important to consult your tax professional for assistance.
How much can you save with the WOTC? In most cases, the credit equals 40% of eligible wages paid to an employee during the first year of employment, up to a maximum of $6,000 of wages. That translates into a maximum credit of $2,400 per employee. However, there are several exceptions to this general rule.
The credit for a qualified summer youth employee equals 40% of eligible first-year wages, up to a maximum of $3,000 of wages. This translates into a maximum credit of $1,200 per employee. The employee's period of service must be between May 1 and September 15.
The WOTC for a long-term family assistance recipient equals 40% of eligible first-year wages up to a maximum of $10,000 (for a maximum first-year credit of $4,000) plus 50% of eligible second-year wages up to a maximum of $10,000 (for a maximum second-year credit of $5,000).
In addition, the WOTC can be based on more than $6,000 of first-year wages for several categories of qualified veterans. First-year wages means eligible wages paid for services rendered during the one-year period beginning on the day the individual starts work for the employer. The increased first-year wage amounts for qualified veterans are as follows:
When businesses hire veterans and people who are down on their luck, they help their local communities and engender goodwill. As an added bonus, they might qualify for the WOTC. Contact your tax professional if you have questions or need help with the forms required to claim this potentially lucrative credit.
Calculating the Work Opportunity tax credit (WOTC) can be confusing. Here's an example to illustrate how it works.
Suppose that on December 1, 2017, your business hires a qualified veteran who's entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability. He was discharged from active duty on September 30, 2017. Your business pays him $4,000 of wages in 2017 and $44,000 of wages for the period from January 1, 2018, to November 30, 2018.
For 2017, your business is entitled to a WOTC of $1,600 ($4,000 x 40%). For 2018, your business is entitled to a WOTC of $3,200 ($8,000 x 40%).
Important note: The total amount of WOTC-eligible first-year wages is limited to $12,000. Your business would be eligible for a credit based on $4,000 of wages paid in 2017, leaving the remaining $8,000 of WOTC-eligible wages for 2018.
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It isn't the Iraq war. It isn't health insurance. It isn't off shore oil drilling. Pure and simple, it's the mortgage/financial crisis in the U.S.
The destruction of personal wealth over the last two years has been enormous: Americans stand to lose $8 trillion (U.S.) in housing wealth, or $110,000 per household.
Take the gigantic U.S. housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which backstop about half of all U.S. mortgages. The two firms now are essentially illiquid and need a bailout only Washington has the means or will to provide. Their complaisant regulator allowed Fannie and Freddie to underpin a combined $5.4 trillion in mortgages and other liabilities with a laughable $54 million in capital. That 1 per cent reserve ratio compares with government-mandated ratios of 3.5 per cent to 9.5 per cent at commercial banks.
Hank Paulson, the U.S. treasury secretary, boasts of the "bazooka" granted him by Congress to rescue Fannie and Freddie, whose collapse could take down the U.S. financial system.
Some institutions have been fined for their participation in this fraud like Citibank and Merrill Lynch. However, the individuals behind it like the former Citibank CEO, Charles Prince and Merrill Lynch CEO, Stanley O'Neil, got off easy with multi million dollar severance packages.
Shouldn't there be some individual accountability for these actions?
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European Parliament heeds UN call for action on human rights abuses in Kashmir
The 2018 Kashmir-EU Week took place in the European Parliament from the 5th – 16th Nov 2018. The event was hosted by Wajid Khan MEP and Dr Sajjad Karim MEP. As in previous years, the Conference was organised by the Brussels-based NGO the Kashmir Council-EU. This year the Kashmir Council-EU was able to draw on the support of the Kashmir Global Council represented by its Chairman Farooq Siddiqi.
For the third year in succession, the Conference was attended by H.E. Raja Farooq Muhammad Haider Khan, Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The Prime Minister delivered the keynote address on the conditions for a lasting peace in Kashmir. Other highlights of the conference programme were a survey of the current situation on the ground presented most vividly by the noted human rights activist and Chairman of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, Khurram Parvez, and an exhibition of striking images of the civil unrest in Kashmir taken by the Belgian photographer Cedric Gerbehaye.
Participants were welcomed by the Chairman of the Kashmir Council-EU, Ali Raza Syed. In his opening remarks, Mr Syed stressed the suffering caused by the Kashmir conflict to ordinary Kashmiris and the importance of finding a way to bring this 70-year old dispute to an end. Mr Syed welcomed as a landmark initiative the publication on the 14 June 2018 of the report on the situation of human rights in Kashmir by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He paid tribute to Wajid Khan MEP for his success in securing an agenda slot for a public hearing on Kashmir to be held during a session of the Standing Committee on Human Rights on January 23, 2019.
The Conference was well attended with important interventions by several MEPs and stimulating contributions by various invited experts. An important innovation on the programme for this year’s Kashmir-EU Week was the scheduling of some events to take place during the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg. The extension of the Conference to include Strasbourg was a great success. In fact, feedback, both formal and informal, indicates a high level of satisfaction with both the content and the organisation of this year’s Conference.
The Conference programme ended with the preparation of a draft Final Statement to be presented to the European Parliament. This Statement contains recommendations regarding the possible role of the European Parliament in launching a sustainable peace process. The full text of the Statement can be accessed here: The Final statement from the 2018 Kashmir-EU Week to the European Parliament on the current situation in Kashmir | <urn:uuid:242edb48-73f2-471f-98fa-660daff99520> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kashmircouncil.eu/european-parliament-heeds-un-call-for-action-on-human-rights-abuses-in-kashmir/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960887 | 545 | 1.84375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON — The American Meat Institute is urging the Food Safety and Inspection Service to move forward with the rulemaking process regarding its petition to allow the use of electron-beam irradiation on beef carcass surfaces as a processing aid.
"Given the substantial food-safety benefits this technology offers it seems that the technical issues being raised four years after the petition’s submission can be appropriately addressed during the notice and comment rulemaking process," said James Hodges, A.M.I. executive vice-president in a letter to Jerold R. Mande, U.S.D.A. Deputy Undersecretary of Food Safety.
"A.M.I. has asked that F.S.I.S. recognize e-beam irradiation as a processing aid when applied to the surface of chilled beef carcasses and that the agency treat this process no differently than it treats any other processing aid," Hodges said. He added that "A.M.I. has provided the necessary research and rationale to support our request."
Mr. Hodges asked Mr. Mande for an opportunity to meet to resolve any issues of concern and to clarify any misunderstanding that might exist regarding the regulatory process to implement this "promising technology". | <urn:uuid:afa03bab-be8c-41f6-b35c-af897d4ec77a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/173-f-s-i-s-urged-to-move-ahead-on-carcass-irradiation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956706 | 252 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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Town launches Medical Reserves
The Board of Health is calling on residents to make Winchester safer by volunteering for the new Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).
The Board of Health has just started to recruit for the MRC, which would act as a citizen-based unit providing support to residents in the event of a crisis.
Jennifer Murphy, director of the Board of Health, said that ideally the MRC would have the ability to handle a range of potential problems. She encouraged all residents to volunteer, including not only medical specialists such as physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, veterinarians and epidemiologists, paramedics and psychologists, but also those interested in administrative or clerical work.
"The Board of Health is too small to handle a large scale emergency," said Murphy. "We are relying on the residents in Winchester to step forward and offer their help and expertise to help fellow residents and neighbors."
After sending out a mailing to residents on MRC, the board has already received 80 responses.
MRC was launched in response to President Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address, when he appealed to all citizens to volunteer in support of their country. The program acts as part of Citizen Corps, a national network of volunteers dedicated to ensuring hometown security.
"The push is on after 9/11," said Murphy. "The nation needs to be prepared for any disaster."
Should a crisis occurs, the Board of Health will notify volunteers by using reverse 911, a computer system capable of contacting large databases of people in a short period of time. Otherwise, Murphy is still in the process of developing the program. "We're in the recruiting phases right now," she said.
But she has already decided to hold seminars for volunteers on "public health themes," including personal protection, avian flu and anthrax. "We think it will keep people interested," said Murphy.
The program will be funded in part by the federal government. Every year, the federal government gives the state money to distribute to local towns for emergency preparedness initiatives.
The state has divided towns across the commonwealth into different emergency preparedness regions. Winchester belongs to a region with 34 towns, all of which are in the process of launching MRC. Once all 34 towns develop MRC programs, a crisis can be responded to on a regional basis, said Murphy.
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- 1 Has the UK left the EU?
- 2 Does the EU still exist?
- 3 What is the European Union today?
- 4 When did the European Union end?
- 5 Can I keep my EU passport after Brexit?
- 6 Can I move to UK after Brexit?
- 7 Why is Norway not in the EU?
- 8 Which countries are not in the EU?
- 9 How many countries are in the EU after Brexit?
- 10 Is EU a word?
- 11 Who controls the EU?
- 12 What are the advantages of using the euro?
- 13 Which countries started the EU?
- 14 When did we join EU?
- 15 Which countries joined the EU in 1993?
Has the UK left the EU?
After the December 2019 election, the British Parliament finally ratified the withdrawal agreement. The UK left the EU at the end of 31 January 2020 CET (11 p.m. GMT). During the transition, the UK remained subject to EU law and remained part of the EU customs union and single market.
Does the EU still exist?
The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. European Union.
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What is the European Union today?
The European Union ( EU ) is a unique economic and political union between 27 European countries. Thanks to the abolition of border controls between EU countries, people can travel freely throughout most of the continent. And it has become much easier to live and work in another country in Europe.
When did the European Union end?
2016–2020: Brexit On 23 June 2016, the citizens of the United Kingdom voted to withdraw from the European Union in a referendum and subsequently became the first and to date only member to trigger Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU).
Can I keep my EU passport after Brexit?
Is my EU /UK passport still valid after Brexit? Will I have to get a new blue passport to go to the EU? UK passport holders will be able to travel to the EU /EFTA on their passport as long as it is less than 10 years old and has at least six months left on its expiry date.
Can I move to UK after Brexit?
If you were living in the UK before 1 January 2021, you may continue to live and work there. However, you will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme for settled or pre-settled status if you haven’t already. You have until 30 June 2021 to do so.
Why is Norway not in the EU?
Norway has high GNP per capita, and would have to pay a high membership fee. The country has a limited amount of agriculture, and few underdeveloped areas, which means that Norway would receive little economic support from the EU. The total EEA EFTA commitment amounts to 2.4% of the overall EU programme budget.
Which countries are not in the EU?
The European countries that are not members of the EU:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina**
How many countries are in the EU after Brexit?
Over time, more and more countries decided to join. The Union currently counts 27 EU countries. The United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union on 31 January 2020. The 27 member countries of the EU.
Is EU a word?
EU is an abbreviation of ` European Union ‘.
Who controls the EU?
The European Council sets the EU’s overall political direction – but has no powers to pass laws. Led by its President – currently Charles Michel – and comprising national heads of state or government and the President of the Commission, it meets for a few days at a time at least twice every 6 months.
What are the advantages of using the euro?
Benefits of the Euro
- Lower transaction costs.
- Price transparency.
- Eliminating exchange rate uncertainty.
- Improved trade.
- Improvement in inflation performance.
- Low-interest rates.
- Inward investment.
- Benefits to the financial sector.
Which countries started the EU?
Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom join the European Union, raising the number of member states to nine. The organisation founded in 1957 which is now known as the European Union, originally had six members: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
When did we join EU?
The United Kingdom joined the European Communities on 1 January 1973, along with Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. The EC would later become the European Union.
Which countries joined the EU in 1993?
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Escape Across the Border: A Search for a Better Life, the latest by the author Ramon Archer, is based on the real-life events of Nadia and Rudy – a couple who lived in Yugoslavia during the reign of a tyrannical, communistic government that took over Yugoslavia after World War II. This book tells Nadia and Rudy’s desperate and miraculous escape to Austria, where they were in a refugee camp for fourteen months. After the hardship of fourteen months, they were finally released to Canada, where they started a new life.
“Escape Across the Border: A Search for a Better Life” is a book that will inspire anyone. The sheer bravery and perseverance of Nadia and Rudy will enthrall readers and keep them captivated till the last page. Nadia and Rudy’s daring escape from Yugoslavia to free themselves from the dictatorship and their constant struggle to survive to make this book a page-turner.
In their quest to find a better life, Nadia and Rudy walked for three days with very little water and no food to cross the border. On their way, they encountered a heavily patrolled bridge several miles from the border. When they finally arrived, they were almost captured by the border guards. Somehow they escaped before they were caught and executed.
When asked about what motivated him to write this book, Ramon Archer said, “This is a real life story about love, adventure, faith and sheer guts. This couple, Nadia and Rudy, faced the most difficult time of their life with aplomb because they had each other. Their love for each other and for life kept them going. This is what made me write this”.
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