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As with most of the species with whom we share this planet, we are wired to sense and adjust to the seasonal patterns of our natural habitats. When the trees shed their leaves, the autumn sunshine softens and we start to prepare for the not-so-inevitable snow, it is nature moving towards the next summer.
The shorter days and longer nights will, all the same, trigger our body to prepare for the season ahead. The first thing to understand is, sensitivity to changes in seasonal patterns is a healthy emotional response. When we accept that circumstances change, we are better positioned to change too, if we so choose.
There’s also something calming about seeing this transition as a gift from nature. After all, we don’t need to look far to see that our social cycles, for various reasons, have long been attuned with the seasons. It is not a coincidence that Autumn is the season for hope, contemplation, renewal and rebirth. You might say it’s the “old normal” and we have been celebrating it for the longest time with candles that bring light into our homes and our hearts. | <urn:uuid:9a3a9165-2637-4b37-a534-fb168c552957> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://happyhubcentral.com/light-up-your-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.942057 | 233 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The directors of ArtCircle are delighted to announce its first exhibition, Focusing Room, a presentation of seminal works relating to light and space by artists Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Nanda Vigo, Alberto Biasi, Christian Megert, Peter Sedgley, Nicolas Schöffer and Grazia Varisco.
Many of the works that feature in the presentation have never been shown in the UK before, and include Adolf Luther’s epic installation, Focusing Room (1968), on loan from the Museum of Modern Art in Goslar, Germany. Comprised of twenty concave mirrors arranged on sets of five on a wooden table and spot-lit from above, this interactive installation renders light visible as its own autonomous, matter-less medium.
The exhibition’s curator, Bettina Ruhrberg, says of the show: ‘The art of the 1960’s and 70’s was revolutionary art for a revolutionary age. A whole generation of artists both in Eastern and Western Europe, and in America, were fascinated by the phenomena of light and the perception. Enthusiastic for technology and geared to science, the artists saw themselves as experimental researchers in the field of optics. Their interest was concentrated on the seeing process in motion. They abandoned the traditional pictorial space and integrated practically the whole sensory apparatus into their artistic concepts. Using industrial materials such as mirrors, fluorescent tubes, aluminium and Perspex, they made beholders and their movements integral components of the artwork. This art set out to surprise, involve, overwhelm and appropriate the beholder.
‘The extent to which the physical and psychological space was conquered – in the sense of being redefined – is revealed by this exhibition of works from the circle of Kinetic Art and Zero. Centering on the sensational ‘Focusing Room’ by Adolf Luther (1968), which, alongside the light room by the group Zero at the documenta 3 (1964) was among the major early experience spaces in art. The works embrace beholders in a special way, allowing them to experience unfathomable spaces and poetic light games.’
In keeping with ArtCircle’s business concept, Focusing Room is a pop-up show, and will be staged on the first floor of 48 Albemarle Street, a four storey-white stucco building in the heart of Mayfair. It is the first of three presentations to be mounted in London this year; others will follow in cities around the world.
Founded by Natasha Chagoubatova, Elena Sereda and veteran German gallerist Volker Diehl, ArtCircle works with museums, commercial galleries, collectors and artists’ estates to stage short-term selling exhibitions featuring works by artists of historical importance. Central to its philosophy is to work closely with internationally renowned curators and art historians, which enables the organisation to realise museum-quality, scholarly shows on a more intimate scale than might otherwise be possible.
Adolf Luther (b. 1912, Germany, d.1990) was a self-taught painter and light sculptor. Adolf Luther sought to ‘represent truths lying beyond optical reality’ with dark matter, glass, mirrors, lenses and lasers. Luther experimented with Color Field painting before developing an interest in light as an autonomous medium. He began creating installations using reflective objects and lenses to capture light and movement. InLaser Space(1970), smoke renders laser beams visible, forming a continuous and variable spatial experience in which light acts as a moving element. Likewise, the exploration of materiality and its relation to light extends to works such as Light and Matter (1960), a black relief-like chalk, oil, and pigment work on hardboard. Propelled by a penchant for fusing painting, relief and sculpture, Luther’s artistic practice included ‘dematerialisations’, assemblages and installations of destroyed materials that linked him with Zero.
Alberto Biasi (b.1937, Italy) is today considered a pioneer in the broader field of Kinetic Art. A founder of the ground-breaking Gruppo N in the 1960s, Biasi was one of the first artists to experiment with the illusory possibilities of non-traditional art materials in works that border two- and three-dimensionality. Though the Gruppo N disbanded in 1967, Biasi has continued to explore the concepts that first intrigued the group during this period. Explosions of vibrant colour and astounding geometric precision, Biasi’s work explores optical effects through the use of pedestrian materials like PVC strips and painted designs.
Nanda Vigo (b.1936, Italy) started her own atelier in Milan in 1959, and soon after began to exhibit her designs in many galleries and museums around Italy and Europe. She later earned a degree in Architecture and began formulating her own theory of space and time, autonomous to artistic practice. Her more recent designs have stemmed from this exploration, focusing on sensory impulses through materials such as glass, mirrors and neon lights. She has famously collaborated with Italian designer Gio Ponti, as well as the Arte Povera pioneers Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Her work was featured in multiple iterations of the Triennale di Milano, as well as at the Venice Biennale in 1982.
Christian Megert (b. 1936, Switzerland) is a member of the Zero group, founded in the 1960s. He creates abstract geometric constructions and environments using mirrors as his primary material. Additionally, he incorporates wood, lights, and motors into his mirror projects to create a disorienting sensation for viewers as they walk through his constructed environments. Attempting to create an infinite space that is ‘without beginning or end’, simultaneously static and in flux, Megert sees the viewer as a participant who must activate each piece.
Heinz Mack (b. 1931, Germany) studied painting at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 1950 to 1953. Following his studies, Mack applied himself to abstract painting, developing his first ‘Dynamic Structures’ in painting, drawing, plaster and metal relief. In 1957 he founded the Zero group with Otto Piene and organised an influential series of evening exhibitions at his studio in Düsseldorf. Zero’s last group exhibition took place in Bonn in 1966. In June 2014, Mack unveiled The Sky Over Nine Columns, an installation of 850,000 mosaic gold leaf tiles covering nine seven-metre-high columns, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice; it subsequently travelled to Istanbul (2015-16), Valencia (2016), and St. Moritz, where it was installed until March 2017. Mack’s works can be found in numerous public and private collections worldwide. | <urn:uuid:3402edb2-0da0-41af-b194-ba829c9f7848> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meer.com/en/26329-focusing-room | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955529 | 1,410 | 1.609375 | 2 |
This is a list of clothes in Sundanese. This can enable you to describe what you are wearing or what dress you would like to purchase from a store.
|Socks: kaos kaki
|Sweater: acuk haneut|
|Gloves: sarung panangan|
|Watch: jam panangan|
Now we will see some of the expressions used above in a sentence. They could be used when trying new clothes or when complementing others.
|These shoes are small: sapatu ieu alit teuing|
|These pants are long: calana paos ieu paos teuing
|I lost my socks: abdi kaleungitan kaus suku|
|She has a beautiful ring: anjeunna gaduh ali nu geulis
|Do you like my dress?: resep ka baju abdi?|
|It looks good on you: sae kanggo anjeun|
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Understanding our identity in Christ gives us purpose. God has a specific purpose for each of us, a unique calling for each individual. Our shared and primary purpose is to become disciples (followers) of Jesus Christ. Our secondary callings are unique and are birthed out of our submission to the primary calling.
The body of Christ misses out when we attempt to force all women into one constrained understanding of the role and responsibilities of women. Christ’s transformation does not mean we blindly do as other good and godly people say we should. If we are simply content to go along just to get along, we will never come to realize our true purpose in life. A great mentor and a safe community of believers will consistently point us to Christ and challenge us to follow him as we seek clarity on our faith journeys. A godly mentor models Christ’s character, while calling us to completely surrender our will and desires to God’s will for our lives.
God is the creator of all things, and his creative vision is big enough to include women from all walks and stages of life, from different backgrounds and cultures. His kingdom purposes transcend generations. His will is big enough to include young girls like Rhoda, who commit themselves to prayer, and virgins like Mary, the young mother of Jesus. His plans are big enough for women like Elizabeth, Rachel, and Hannah—all of whom experienced prolonged seasons of infertility. His purposes include women with pagan pasts like Ruth, prostitutes like Rahab, and rejected, widowed, adulterous women like the Samaritan woman at the well. He sees marginalized and enslaved women like Hagar, and old women like the prophetess Anna. We compassionately embrace women like these because God’s purpose and plans include all of them. God’s purpose includes you as well!
Sadly, we live in a world where women constantly receive messages that communicate, You are not valuable: You’re not smart enough for this job or capable enough to earn that amount of income. You are not skinny enough to fit into those jeans. You are not attractive enough to date that guy or to have a man fully commit to only you. You’re not competent enough to be a leader. You are not a great parent. You are not an excellent wife. And when we feel insecure or feel inadequate, it is easy to degrade or reject women who are either more confident than we are or who have made different choices from our own. This rejection somehow makes us feel better about ourselves and more comfortable with our choices, if only for a moment. | <urn:uuid:76143eb1-ab43-4fd9-9195-3788b38df571> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christianitytoday.com/women-leaders/2016/april/god-calls-all-women.html?start=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953014 | 530 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Right now I'm enduring winter in snow-encrusted Boston, but my head is in The Woodlands, Texas, where more than 1,200 researchers have gathered for the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. The LPSC is always a 'best bet" for hearing new discoveries about the solar system, and yesterday got off with a bang as scientists discussed water ice on the Moon — not whether it's there, but how much of it might be lying around.
I think 2009 will be remembered as the year we finally convinced ourselves that water is present on the Moon. Planetary scientists have speculated about its existence there for decades, because some craters at the lunar poles never, ever see sunlight and thus might serve as "cold traps" where ice (arriving on comets, presumably) could remain stable. But last year three lunar spacecraft returned results that have made the case for lunar ice all but certain.
The most dramatic findings came after NASA "bombed" the polar crater Cabeus last October 9th with its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) — though it took mission scientists a while to certify that the impact had dredged up water from the crater's shadowed floor.
It turns out there's more to this story: Yesterday NASA-Ames scientist Anthony Colaprete announced that, in addition to water, LCROSS had unearthed a whole kettle of volatile compounds in the plume of impact debris that rose from Cabeus. So far the tally includes sulfur dioxide (SO2), methanol (CH3OH), and the curious organic molecule diacetylene (H2C4).
Utilizing a compact synthetic aperture radar, Mini-SAR detects changes in the polarization of radio waves reflected off the lunar surface. Water ice is transparent to radio energy and causes the radar pulses to be scattered multiple times, creating a distinctive polarization echo. Spudis thinks the deposits inside some polar craters could be nearly pure ice. If he's right, think of the potential for lunar tourism! Imagine a cozy chalet perched atop the rim of a lunar crater, basking in a perpetual lunar sunset and with the resplendent Earth periodically bobbing into view from behind a distant peak. Then you jump into your super-insulated space suit, slap on some sticks, and schuss straight down the inner rim until you bottom out. But watch out for those lunar moguls — in space, no one can hear you "screaming starfish." | <urn:uuid:db8a8194-4043-4cba-a542-04775bcab319> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/ski-luna/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934204 | 514 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Cuomo to develop pollinator protector plan
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today announced that New York will create an interagency taskforce to develop a pollinator protection plan to promote the health and recovery of bees and other bugs that help the state's agriculture.
The move comes amid growing concern about the decline in bees and other species that help pollinate crops across the nation. New York has among the largest agricultural industries in the country.
Cuomo's office tagged the price of pollinators – which include various types of bees and butterflies – at about $500 million a year.
The commissioners of the Department of Agriculture and Markets and the Department of Environmental Conservation will meet with farmers and researchers to develop a plan to save and grow the pollinators, Cuomo said.
“Pollinators are crucial to the health of New York’s environment, as well as the strength of our agricultural economy,” Cuomo said. “By developing a statewide action plan, we are expanding our efforts to protect these species and our unparalleled natural resources, and making an important step forward in our commitment to New York’s ecological and economic future.”
Cuomo's office said the taskforce will consider:
· forming partnerships with research institutions to expand the collection and sharing of data related to pollinator health issues
· fostering cross-sector (beekeepers, landowners and pesticide applicators) information sharing and coordinated efforts;
· developing strategies for a public education and engagement campaign;
· identify habitat enhancement projects, including foraging opportunities
· developing best management practices for landowners, state agencies, pesticide applicators and beekeepers;
· evaluating the effectiveness of New York’s programs, certifications and incentives related to pollinator health; and
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With a landscape that is as vast as it is rugged, dominated by the oldest, driest desert in the world, the untamed land of Namibia is the perfect destination for those seeking the raw spirit of Africa. Known as the land God made in anger, with its wild beauty Namibia is a photographer’s dream destination. It boasts raging seascapes, jagged mountains, desolate deserts, dazzling wildlife, colonial cities, and unimaginably vast open spaces.Deserts and dunescapes with rare and uniquely adapted plant and animal life.
A trip to Namibia offers a host of tours and trips to the discerning traveller. From the Namib Desert and coastal plains found in the west, to the Central Plateau and the Kalahari, right through to the densely wooded bushveld of the Kavango and Caprivi regions, the stunning Sossusvlei in the South and the largest telescope in the worlsd, Namibia is a land of rugged, untouched beauty.
Despite its harsh climate, Namibia has some of the world’s most spectacular national parks. Experience a unique African wildlife safari in the Etosha National Park in North Western Namibia, or scour the dune fields and desert plains of the Namib-Naukluft Park in Western Namibia. Windhoek, in the Central Plateau, is the country’s geographical and commercial heart, with a thriving cultural heritage, while surfers and beach-lovers won’t want to miss the incredible coastline at Swakopmund. | <urn:uuid:34439a66-4a7c-4064-90a9-ba80b3df4cf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tasafaris.com/destinations/namibia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.888371 | 325 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Included in the 2 trillion dollar Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act is a provision that allows homeowners with government guaranteed loans (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to request up to 12 months of mortgage payment forbearance.
Under the CARES Act a homeowner may ask for 6 months of loan payment forbearance that is renewable for another 6 months. In other words, a qualified homeowner can go an entire year without making a single mortgage payment.
What exactly is a mortgage payment forbearance?
Well, it simply means that a payment does not have to be made presently, but eventually the skipped payment must be repaid.
How are skipped payments to be paid?
There are basically three options here:
- Reinstatement: Make a one-time payment for the amount due.
- Repayment Plan: Pay extra each month on the amount due.
- Loan Modification: Rewrite the mortgage loan to pay the amount due over the remaining term of the loan.
In addition to allowing for a payment forbearance, FHA and Freddie Mac loans will also receive the following benefits:
- Waiving assessments of penalties and late fees,
- Halting all foreclosure sales and evictions of borrowers living in Freddie Mac-owned homes until at least May 17, 2020,
- Suspending reporting to credit bureaus of delinquency related to forbearance,
- Offering loan modification options that lower payments or keep payments the same after the forbearance period.
Not sure if you have a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac Loan?
USDA Rural Housing Development Loans.
A similar loan deferment program is also being sponsored by the USDA home loans.
Contact Your Mortgage Company:
Bank of America
Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC
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A targeted intervention to increase the diesel rebate to the agricultural sector would buffer the cost pressures that impact food prices, while also being a more sustainable option over the coming months given pressures to the fiscus, says agricultural industry organisation Agri SA chief economist Kulani Siweya.
The agricultural industry and consumers alike are facing a significant hike in the price of fuel from June, with some estimates putting the increase in the region of R4 a litre if the R1.50 general fuel levy relief is not extended.
An increase of this magnitude will have serious knock-on effects for food security in South Africa, Siweya states.
"The need for relief to farmers is especially urgent in that there is high demand for fuel in many parts of the sector as it is still harvesting season for a number of commodities, including summer grains and fruits like citrus. Winter crops, including wheat, are also currently being planted.
"This makes these commodities sensitive to the current increase and highlights the need for a targeted and sustainable intervention that can help mute food price increases in coming months," Siweya notes.
The consequences of rising fuel prices have already been acutely felt in the agricultural sector, where fuel is one of several input costs that have been rising sharply, placing significant pressure on a number of agricultural commodity sectors.
Further, while farmers have little control over food prices beyond the farm gate, increasing input prices have already been felt by consumers, who are facing the impact of these cost pressures in the form of higher food prices.
Local agricultural producers qualify for a diesel rebate, which offers relief from the Road Accident Fund (RAF) levy and the fuel levy and is currently industry-dependent. A certain percentage of a local producers' fuel qualifies for this rebate, with 100% of this percentage being exempted from the RAF levy, and 40% of it from the fuel levy.
"This tool is very well placed to help cushion the sector from increasing fuel costs. This could be achieved by either increasing the percentage of producer fuel which qualifies for both the RAF and fuel levy and/or increasing the percentage of relief from the fuel levy," says Siweya.
"An intervention such as this would be both targeted and strategic, as one of the biggest negative externalities of fuel price increases is their impact on the price of food and food security in general. Cushioning the increase in this manner would go a long way in ensuring farmers remain viable and help feed the nation," he adds.
Agri SA will continue to engage its members, communities and government to ensure the agricultural industry keeps South Africans adequately supplied with food in these uncertain and difficult economic times, he says. | <urn:uuid:84fefa81-645f-4ab0-b17b-f4142b09c71b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/agri-sa-proposes-diesel-rebate-scheme-increase-to-buffer-food-prices-from-fuel-hike-2022-05-31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95765 | 543 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The Pantone Colour Matching System is largely a standardized colour reproduction system. By standardizing the colours, different manufacturers in different locations can all refer to the Pantone system to make sure colours match without direct contact with one another. The Pantone Matching System (PMS) is a proprietary colour space used in a variety of industries, primarily printing, though sometimes in the manufacture of coloured paint, fabric and plastics. The Pantone colour guides have been widely adopted and are used by artists, designers, printers, manufacturers, marketers and clients in all industries worldwide for accurate colour identification, design specification, quality control and communication. Pantone recommends that PMS Colour Guides be purchased annually, as their inks become yellowish over time. Colour variance also occurs within editions based on the paper stock used (coated, matte or uncoated). The below chart is intended as a reference guide only. The Pantone colours here have been matched as closely as possible. Use official Pantone colour product for most accurate colour.
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A young man who died at Huddersfield Leisure Centre has been named.
Lucas Dean, 20, of Marsh, was discovered early on Saturday morning and is thought to have taken his own life.
A spokesman for Kirklees Active Leisure (KAL), which runs the centre, said: “A tragic incident happened at Huddersfield Leisure Centre on December 31.
“A member of the KAL team appears to have taken their own life whilst in the centre.
“The thoughts of KAL are with the family and friends of this staff member at this very sad time and we would offer our sincere condolences to them.
“KAL have no further comment to make.”
Police were called shortly after 8am on Saturday and confirmed officers attended and a 20-year-old man was later pronounced dead at the scene.
The centre remained closed on Saturday and re-opened on Monday.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed Mr Dean’s death is not being treated as suspicious and there will be no further police involvement.
An inquest will be opened and adjourned at Bradford Coroner’s Court tomorrow (Friday) by senior coroner Martin Fleming.
Helplines and websites
If you’re struggling to cope with mental health issues here are some of the ways you can access help.
Samaritans (116 123) operates a 24-hour service available every day of the year. If you prefer to write down how you’re feeling, or if you’re worried about being overheard on the phone, you can email Samaritans at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Childline (0800 1111) runs a helpline for children and young people in the UK. Calls are free and the number won’t show up on your phone bill.
PAPYRUS (0800 068 41 41) is a voluntary organisation supporting teenagers and young adults who are feeling suicidal.
Depression Alliance is a charity for people with depression. It doesn’t have a helpline, but offers a wide range of useful resources and links to other relevant information. http://www.depressionalliance.org/
Students Against Depression is a website for students who are depressed, have a low mood or are having suicidal thoughts. Bullying UK is a website for both children and adults affected by bullying. http://studentsagainstdepression.org/ | <urn:uuid:9933750a-915e-4684-a940-e2925b1879e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/young-man-who-died-huddersfield-12409571 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961431 | 503 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Biodynamic at its simplest
Biodynamics is a holistic, ecological, and ethical approach to farming, gardening, food, and nutrition, rooted in the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. Biodynamic philosophy considers the interconnectedness of the land, plants, animals and people, setting out guiding principles that, by nature, promote biodiversity, the humane treatment of animals, and social responsibility.
What Certified Biodynamic means for our products and practices
The Girl & The Olive products are certified biodynamic or organic, meaning they are as pure and natural as possible.
However, to achieve Biodynamic certification we need to have 95% Biodynamic ingredients
eg The Calendula Cream reached 92% only so we could not achieve accreditation. In such cases we have listed the accredited ingredients instead.
To achieve Demeter Biodynamic certification:
Ingredients from agricultural origin must be a minimum 95% certified Demeter Biodynamic.
Contain only natural ingredients and a small number (5%) of permitted additives & preservatives.
Contain no genetically modified organisms.
Water – often a major ingredient in cosmetic products – should be of the highest quality: spring water or distilled water is preferred.
Contain no nanoparticles or synthetic fillers.
The certification is assessed and renewed annually, with strict regulations that impact more than just our skincare, from energy use during manufacturing, to packaging and product biodegradability. | <urn:uuid:5ba5123f-b77b-48db-a9f3-374fe37ecefb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegirlandtheolive.com.au/pages/biodynamic-skin-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92923 | 286 | 1.882813 | 2 |
1. This meta-analysis revealed a positive association between habitual consumption of sugar sweetened beverages and the incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DMII), independent of adiposity.
2. Consumption of artificially sweetened beverages was positively correlated with the incidence of DMII as well, but biases and confounders complicate the analysis.
3. The association between fruit juice consumption and DMII was unclear.
Evidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent)
Study Rundown: The potentially deleterious health effects of consumption of sugar sweetened beverages have received significant media attention recently. Some have claimed that artificially sweetened beverages and fruit juices may offer healthier alternatives. However, the association between consumption of each type of beverage and the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DMII) has not yet been fully characterized. This meta-analysis extracted data from 17 prospective studies representing more than 38,000 unique cases in order to definitively analyze the association between beverage choice and DMII, while reducing confounders and biases.
The findings showed that an increase of 1 serving (250 g) per day of sugar sweetened beverages was associated with a 13% greater incidence of DMII when adjusted for adiposity. Additionally controlling for adiposity, artificially sweetened beverages and fruit juices were associated with an 8% and 7% greater incidence of DMII respectively. Upon sensitivity analysis, the quality of the association between sugar sweetened beverages and DMII remained strong, while the results for the other types of beverages were more equivocal. The study also calculated a population attributable fraction of DMII from the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages to be 8.7% in the US and 3.6% in the UK, resulting in an excess 1.8 million and 79,000 DMII cases in each country over 10 years respectively.
Though this study was limited by potential residual confounding and incomplete cohort identification, it offers an objective and detailed epidemiological analysis of the connection between sugar sweetened beverages and the development of DMII. Additionally, while causality has not been established, this study suggests that reducing one’s consumption of sugar sweetened beverages is protective against the development of DMII, and switching to artificially sweetened beverages and fruit juices may not be justified.
In-Depth [systematic review and meta-analysis]: This systematic review and meta-analysis utilized data from 17 cohorts for a total of 38,253 cases, representing 10,126,756 person-years of follow-up, to analyze the association between the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSB), artificially sweetened beverages (ASB), and fruit juices (FJ) and the development of DMII. Controlling for adiposity, a known confounder between beverage consumption and DMII, the study found an increased 13% risk (CI95% 5.8 – 21%) of DMII with an additional single daily serving of SSB. ASB and FJ consumption was also associated with an 8% (CI95% 2.1 – 15%) and 7% (CI95% 0.8 – 14%) increased risk respectively. SSBs were consumed by 54.4% and 49.4% of people in the US and UK respectively, with concomitant average daily dosages of 284 g and 114 g. Based on this exposure, population attributable fractions of DMII cases were 8.7% in the US (CI95% 3.9 – 12.9%) and 3.6% in the UK (CI95% 1.7 – 5.6%).
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In the second edition of the NITI Aayog health index report card (The Indian Express, June 26), Kerala was once again ranked the best among the states while Uttar Pradesh was at the bottom. The “Healthy States, Progressive India” rankings.
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We humans have always been fascinated with supernatural powers from folklores, and storybooks, etc. But here I am not referring to any superheroes from Marvel or DC comics, but the evil female demons that have been popular in the Greek or Indian mythologies. For those who might not be aware of the fact that there is a special study on demons or beliefs by the people. It is called demonology.
This article will list down the names and meanings of demons, devils, and other supernatural power beings worldwide. We will be listing down the names of female demons, which can be preferred by you regarding your character. Around the world, there is so much information revealing the past about the demonic creatures.
There is one usual query or curiosity that might have stuck in your mind. This is whether these evil beings have souls or they wander without them. The exact answer to this question is they are the corrupted souls beyond one’s belief. If you are fond of reading literature, then you might have come across some literature that uncovers important and unknown facts about demons.
There is a notion that devils roam without souls and are mostly presented as symbols of evil. But the truth is all are not bad. It is up to you to decide whether your demon character would fall in the bad or good category. The names of demons can be searched in many places. An example is a game called Dungeons And Dragons. Today, this article will comb down all the demonic names especially for your characters. So what to wait for, let’s begin.
List of female demonic names
Today in this article we are going to list down the several names of female demons inspired by demonology, folklore, and theology worldwide. In literature around the world, there is an unending list of female demons that we are going to cover below. The first one to name is:
Since our topic is based on the names of female demons, then Abyzou is one such good pick for your character. The name of this demoness is derived from Jewish folklore. Abyzou is a cruel demoness who is infamous for bringing miscarriages, infant death, and jealousy. Her reason for bringing miscarriages is because she could not become a mother.
She is the demoness from Indian mythology from the Dwapar Yug, the age of Lord Krishna, the glorious eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Going by the story, Kansa always played tricks in sending one of his demons to kill infant Krishna. But all met with their death. Then he called upon Putana to kill him.
Putana assures Kansa that he won’t be living for long, as she will do the needful. Seeing her confidence, Kansa asks about how she will do it. To this Putana replies that she will fool the baby into feeding him with her breast. But instead of milk, he will be consuming poison. Finally, she was killed by Krishna when he sucked her nipples too hard.
Like Abyzou, Achlys is also the name of a female demon derived from Greek folklore. She is known to bring night as an indication of approaching chaos. Achlys is represented as a symbol of silence before the unknown devastating storm. And somewhere it is used by most people in India also, where they predict something unfortunate to happen after a brief silence.
Elizabeth might seem a pretty and captivating female demon name but let me tell you she was the female vampire who ate the flesh of young girls. She lived centuries ago in Hungary from 1560 to 1614.
Empusa was the spookiest and gothic female shape-shifting demon from Greek folklore. Her name means one-footed. Like Elizabeth, she also pounced upon the flesh. But there is a difference. Elizabeth preyed on young girls, whereas Empusa made young men her target during their sleep, and drank their blood and ate their flesh.
Al Ana is also one of the popular names in the female demon category. This evil name is derived from Turkish mythology. Al Ana is an evil-spirited demoness, who resided near lakes, rivers, and streams. Going by the story behind this famous demoness, she is known as an ugly-looking old woman with a hairy body, long tresses, and huge breasts that she used for cleansing her clothes.
Al Ana is depicted as a cruel evil woman who would kidnap the newborns of humans, and replace them with her own. And her babies would appear in deformed and disable bodies. In some regions of Anatolia, the practice is still followed by the mothers to save their babies from the clutches of Al Ana.
To save their children mothers have to be the guardian of them, tying the red ribbon around his hand, and not changing nappies during sunset hours. And not to look anywhere when the baby sleeps. It is a popular demonic girl name to refer to your character.
Singhika was a demoness in the Hindu mythological epic Ramayana. She had this strange power of grabbing the birds merely by its shadows to feed herself. Because of this, she was also called Chayagrahi. Singhika swallowed anything that came her way. Once she encountered Lord Hanuman while flying towards Lanka in search of Sita, kidnapped by Ravana.
The oceanic demoness applied her power on him and gulped him once. But Hanuman caused much harm to her internal organs when he was inside her body. Fearing more devastation, Singhika fled to an unknown place. She is even associated with the famous Bermuda Triangle, where many airplanes and ships disappeared.
Naale Baa is also one of the popular female demon names. It is a famous spooky urban folk legend in Karnataka and Bangalore from the 90s decade. According to folklore, Naale Baa was a bridal witch that roamed the streets to find her husband. She used to knock on every door. This female demon picked sole-earning male members of the family and brought bad luck to the household. The Bollywood movie Stree was based on it. | <urn:uuid:271edc87-58b5-41f7-9dea-1cfcc002ddd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tlwastoria.com/top-female-demons-names/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972161 | 1,280 | 1.5 | 2 |
Released just two weeks after the conclusion of WandaVision, FATWS investigates the global fallout following the return of the billions of people who were erased from existence during the events of Avengers: Infinity War. While Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and WandaVision all began to address some of the social and economic effects of Thanos’s Snap and the return of the world’s population, FATWS delves beyond those surface-level stories and confronts the refugee crisis and the communities of displaced persons facing increasingly calamitous hardships in our world. It is quickly revealed that Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers are members of the forced migrant community who were cared for by the matron Mama Donya and are engaging in their actions against various nations and state entities because of the newly reignited refugee crisis.
In the events of Avengers: Endgame, following the Snap/Blip, which caused half of all life in the universe — including half of the population of humanity on Earth — to be erased from existence, the Avengers manage to bring those erased back to reality. FATWS introduces the Global Repatriation Council (GRC), an international organization tasked with reestablishing the lives, homes, and legal status of formerly erased persons. As they had been gone for five years, the political realities of the world had changed to accommodate the reduced population. While the new job opportunities and increased resources were incredibly significant, perhaps the largest positive political change was an end to the refugee crisis. Countries opened their borders and welcomed people into new lives as they contributed to the rebuilding of human civilization. Then five years later, the return of the erased persons doubled this newly adjusted population and the refugee crisis restarted as the sovereign nations that had welcomed the refugees began the process of expelling them.
Enter Karli Morgenthau and the Flag Smashers, dedicated to resisting the efforts of the GRC. Stealing the super soldier serum from a scientist in the fictional nation-state of Madripoor, they become an unstoppable covert force that disrupts GRC efforts and spreads a new kind of anti-nationalist philosophy. Their chant of “one world, one people” resists the efforts by the powers-that-be on the global stage to brand them as violent terrorists only interested in destruction and savagery. They find refuge with sympathetic supporters around the globe and manage to create a network of communication that grants them unfettered transnational mobility.
Falcon takes a circuitous journey through the six episodes on his collision course with Karli. For a series that moves through some plot points far too quickly, a surprising amount of screen time is given to various shots of the New Orleans waterways and Sam’s efforts to help his sister and their family fishing business. Encountering Isaiah Bradley, Falcon is horrified to learn that the US government not only covered up the success of his super soldier transformation, but also imprisoned and experimented on him for years to discover the secret of his success. What was once a given for the legacy of Captain America — Wilson replacing Rogers — becomes complicated as the series brings a part of the Black experience to the MCU, addressing the ongoing atrocities perpetrated against Black communities in the United States. Isaiah Bradley wants no part of the Captain America legacy, and tells Wilson that the US would never permit a Black Captain America and that, “even if they did, no self-respecting Black man would ever want to be.”
While Wilson’s transformation from Falcon into Captain America is the show’s ultimate purpose, Barnes is on his own journey to redemption. Though audiences of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War had multiple opportunities to see the Winter Soldier massacre innocents while enthralled under Hydra’s conditioning, FATWS also shows flashbacks from the former villain’s exploits as he casually dealt death on the criminal organization’s orders. Barnes’s friendship with an elderly Asian man early in the series shows his sincere efforts to redeem himself, though he is frustrated by failure multiple times as owning up to the evil actions of his past.
Perhaps even more so than Wilson, Barnes cannot stand the thought of John Walker as the new Captain America. He and Wilson ignore Walker’s early attempts to join forces, a move that would legitimize Walker’s new identity as the national superhero. Their view of Walker is soon shared by the wider public after Walker is seen killing a helpless combatant in a fit of rage, having lost his close friend in the preceding fight. Walker’s decision to use the final dose of the super solider serum to empower himself adds a wrinkle to Barnes and Wilson’s plan, but they manage to defeat him and he is stripped of his nascent heroic status and expelled from the military.
As mentioned in the introduction, each step of the series’s narrative increases its promise of confronting the institutional and political injustices in our world. Not only are the revelations of Isaiah Bradley and the corruption and downfall of John Walker powerful commentaries on how those in places of precarity and privilege are harmed and cause harm through the machinations of the larger systems of capitalist power in the United States, but the series hints at a different possibility with the Flag Smashers and the massive grassroots system of support that facilitates their success. “One world, one people” in this case goes beyond an empty platitude because those saying it are displaced persons with no other option than to exist as part of the “one world.”
However, with FATWS well positioned to show a better vision for the future, the series goes off the rails as the events at the end hit a kind of reset button that ultimately leads back to the status quo for the MCU. While the first hints of this change in direction occur before the final episode, the events of the finale nail the coffin shut on the potentialities of the new ethos presented in the first half of the series.
Our first look at Wilson in the finale shows us the new winged Captain America, wearing a suit that provides a perfect combination of the abilities of airborne combat and the armored durability and enhanced strength to preserve the vision of Falcon with his new identity as the national hero. The new Captain America visits Isaiah Bradley to explain his decision to take up the mantle and that Black Americans “built this country. Bled for it. I’m not gonna let anybody tell me I can’t fight for it. Not after what everybody before me went through.” Though Wilson’s success in the preceding confrontation with all of the political factions involved does prove that he can be effective in the role of Captain America, this claim is also a resistance against what Isaiah Bradley stated, as mentioned earlier, that “no self-respecting Black man would ever want to be” Captain America. It’s only after showing Bradley a new addition to the Smithsonian featuring Bradley and honoring his service that he approves of Wilson’s new role. Thus, with such an effective indictment of the US government in their brutal treatment of Bradley in hand, the show instead decides to allow that oppressive system to erase the worst of those actions with a simple apology rather than a gutting and restructuring of the status quo.
That the GRC is an international organization seems to be more symbolic than representative of a real global effort. As usual, the strongest economic powers — most significantly the United States — are at the heart of its governing structure, and they represent a thoroughly nationalist political agenda reflective of the UN Security Council or Davos: a group meeting out of supposedly shared global concerns but ultimately serving only the interests of their own sovereign nations. The new Captain America confronts the members of the GRC’s governing council following the last big fight of the series finale to chastise them for their failures. His speech to them — broadcast on camera to the entire world — is the series’s final abandonment of the powerful ideas that it introduced. He says,
This girl died trying to stop you, and no one has stopped for one second to ask why. You’ve gotta do better senator. You’ve gotta step up. Because if you don’t, the next Karli will. And you don’t wanna see 2.0. People believed in her cause so much that they helped her defy the strongest governments in the world. Why do you think that is? Look, you people have just as much power as an insane god or a misguided teenager. The question you have to ask yourself is, how are you going to use it?
Rather than calling for the dismantling of the structures of power that have always led to oppression in favor of something more equitable, Wilson chooses to give the power back to the nationalists of the sovereign nations of the world. These are the same people — or at least, the latest versions of the same people — who imprisoned and experimented on Isaiah Bradley and kept refugees locked outside of their national borders until their best interests dictated otherwise. With this choice, Wilson is not effecting any kind of lasting change in this scene, but is rather claiming that we should all trust in the ability of capitalists to show unprecedented remorse and set their own self-interests aside.
It’s shortly before and after this speech that Karli and the remaining Flag Smashers are killed in their struggle for agency in a world that despises the displaced. Wilson’s utterly tone-deaf speech discards the concerns of the millions of people Karli was fighting for in favor of the same governments that have killed far more people than the Flag Smashers ever did. Throughout the entire series, it is apparent that the supporters of the Flag Smashers are everywhere and inhabit many levels of society, but with the death of Karli and the other super soldiers, the series has removed the only voices left that were loud enough for us to hear.
In the end, the only change to come out of FATWS is a new Captain America, as Wilson returns to New Orleans for some nice music and scenes of food and fellowship in a community still drowning in debt. But there are only smiles to be found because everything is okay now, right? Wakanda has equipped the new American national hero with a suit that will allow him to champion a nation built on slavery, Walker has found some undeserved hope of redemption as the US Agent, and Karli, the “misguided teenager” fighting for the millions of refugees looking for a home in the world, is now as dead as her dream.
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Coda (file system)
This article needs to be updated.(September 2013)
|Developer(s)||Carnegie Mellon University|
|Supported operating systems||Linux kernel, NetBSD FreeBSD|
8.0.2 / May 29, 2020
|Type||Distributed file system|
Coda is a distributed file system developed as a research project at Carnegie Mellon University since 1987 under the direction of Mahadev Satyanarayanan. It descended directly from an older version of Andrew File System (AFS-2) and offers many similar features. The InterMezzo file system was inspired by Coda.
Coda has many features that are desirable for network file systems, and several features not found elsewhere.
- Disconnected operation for mobile computing.
- Is freely available under the GPL
- High performance through client-side persistent caching
- Server replication
- Security model for authentication, encryption and access control
- Continued operation during partial network failures in server network
- Network bandwidth adaptation
- Good scalability
- Well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failure
Coda uses a local cache to provide access to server data when the network connection is lost. During normal operation, a user reads and writes to the file system normally, while the client fetches, or "hoards", all of the data the user has listed as important in the event of network disconnection. If the network connection is lost, the Coda client's local cache serves data from this cache and logs all updates. This operating state is called disconnected operation. Upon network reconnection, the client moves to reintegration state; it sends logged updates to the servers. Then it transitions back to normal connected-mode operation.
Also different from AFS is Coda's data replication method. AFS uses a pessimistic replication strategy with its files, only allowing one read/write server to receive updates and all other servers acting as read-only replicas. Coda allows all servers to receive updates, allowing for a greater availability of server data in the event of network partitions, a case which AFS cannot handle.
These unique features introduce the possibility of semantically diverging copies of the same files or directories, known as "conflicts". Disconnected operation's local updates can potentially clash with other connected users' updates on the same objects, preventing reintegration. Optimistic replication can potentially cause concurrent updates to different servers on the same object, preventing replication. The former case is called a "local/global" conflict, and the latter case a "server/server" conflict. Coda has extensive repair tools, both manual and automated, to handle and repair both types of conflicts.
Coda has been developed on Linux and support for it appeared in the 2.1 Linux kernel series. It has also been ported to FreeBSD. Subsequently, obsoleted there, an effort is under way to bring it back. Efforts have been made to port Coda to Microsoft Windows, from the Windows 95/Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open-source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.
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Too often we don’t do something for fear of making a mistake. Taking action on DEI is a good example of this. We’re afraid to misstep, alienate, exclude or worse, do exactly what we’re trying to avoid.
But that shouldn’t stop us from taking steps, even small, uncomfortable ones towards creating more inclusive and psychologically safe work environments. That’s why Bernadette Smith encourages little changes, a lot of the time.
When we break things down, and improve our infrastructure, relationships, habits, rituals, and cultures, one step at a time, we quickly impact the whole. Bernadette talks on People at Work about how to do this with her simple ARC method: ask, respect, connect.
When we arrive with humility and curiosity, we’re able to make progress, even if we make mistakes along the way. The key is to keep the momentum up and collect little wins along the way. | <urn:uuid:06fe1890-d01f-476e-bf26-b510aa63aa74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.jostle.me/blog/people-at-work/bernadette-smith | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.910373 | 203 | 2.15625 | 2 |
|Born||1949 (age 72–73)|
Nikki Craft (born 1949) is an American radical feminist activist and writer.
In 1975, Craft presented the Rockwell International board of directors with "...naked doll[s] splashed with blood-colored paint" to protest their B-1 bomber called "The Lancer". The same year, Craft founded Women Armed for Self Protection (WASP), which advocated armed self-defense for women in the effort to keep violent men from assaulting them: "Women must perceive themselves as being worth defending. In a life threatening situation there must be no hesitation to pull the trigger", an activist group she was part of articulated. She also recorded "The Rape Song" about Inez Garcia and Joan Little.
In 1976, Craft co-founded the Kitty Genovese Women's Project (KGWP) when she and another activist posed as sociology students under the pretense of doing a "statistical study on violent crimes" and obtained the names of every indicted sex offender in Dallas County from 1959 to 1975. This was before such records were kept on computer; the activists worked for nine months writing all the names down on index cards. A year later, 25,000 copies of the KGWP newspaper were published. The paper listed all 2,100 sex offender indictments, 1,700 of which were multiple offenders, and was distributed throughout Dallas. On March 8, International Women's Day, the group read the names over local community radio KCHU for 13 hours.
In 1979, Craft helped organize the first Myth California Anti-Pageant in Santa Cruz, California. In 1980 Craft joined other pageant protesters and over the next nine years conducted other actions, including throwing raw meat on the stage and pouring the blood of raped women across a pageant entryway. One year three men locked arms on stage, yelling "Men Resist Sexism! Men Resist Sexism!" preventing the crowning until they were dragged away. There were many arrests, and each year the crowds grew larger at the anti-pageant protests which later resulted in the Miss California pageant leaving Santa Cruz. The protests continued in San Diego and in 1988, after the pageant left Santa Cruz and moved to San Diego, the winner of a local pageant unveiled a banner from her bra at the state finals that read "Pageants Hurt All Women." A documentary called Miss... or Myth? examines these protests.
In August 1984, Craft was arrested on Herring Cove Beach at Cape Cod National Seashore while protesting the park's public nudity regulations by sunbathing topless, refusing to put on a shirt when contacted by park rangers. After the U.S. Attorney's office declined to prosecute the case several months later, she returned to Cape Cod the following July and repeated the challenge, this time in the parking lot of the ranger station. She later organized a class action suit funded by the Naturist Society against the federal government, which manages the Seashore. Later in the proceedings, she and others withdrew from the case because the Society's attorney had made concessions to the respondents related to clothing requirements for Seashore visitors that included gender distinctions, specifically, the covering of women's breasts.
In 1986, Craft was arrested in Rochester, New York with six other women who were topless or "shirtfree" in public. The case was dismissed on appeal six years later, thus weakening the New York "exposure of a person" state law when pertaining to woman's breasts.
In 1990, Craft opened the Andrea Dworkin Online Library. In 1992, Diana E. H. Russell dedicated her book Femicide to Craft. In 1997 Dworkin dedicated her book Life and Death to Craft. In 2000, Craft and D.A. Clarke organized "Feminists for Nader" and campaigned for the Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000.
In 1995, the feminist journal On the Issues published Craft's article entitled "Busting Mister Short-Eyes" about a naturist child rapist sentenced to 30 years in prison, partly as a result of Craft's advocacy.
In 2001, she protested the War in Afghanistan and called upon other feminists to do the same. In 2005, she created the "Hustling the Left" website, criticizing leaders in leftist and progressive movements who published articles, interviews and expressed public cooperation with Larry Flynt and his magazine, Hustler. The website took its name from a June 2005 article by feminist activist Aura Bogado, who protested the promotion of Flynt's support by the anti-war group Not in Our Name. Craft also runs the "No Status Quo" website. | <urn:uuid:54d87a0f-b984-4cd4-b562-fc2b12679f94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Nikki_Craft | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960826 | 1,010 | 2.21875 | 2 |
History & Traditions
The story of Rocky Mountain College is really a story of three colleges. The first was Montana Collegiate Institute in Deer Lodge, which enrolled its first class in 1878. Shortly after classes began in Deer Lodge, Mont., Wesleyan College opened its doors in Helena. In Billings, the current site of Rocky Mountain College, Billings Polytechnic Institute (BPI) began recruiting students from across the country at the turn of the century. The three schools became one entity in 1947 - Billings Polytechnic Institute, which was to become Rocky Mountain College - Montana's first and finest.
From its very inception in 1878, the students of Rocky Mountain College have been leaders. In 1947, the students petitioned to rename BPI to Rocky Mountain College. They also took it upon themselves to accelerate the expansion of the College, and they even constructed the new buildings as a way of paying for their tuition. The sandstone rocks were quarried from the Rimrocks and the campus rose from the surrounding farmland to become one of the best-rated colleges in the West.
Today, RMC students are not all that different from those of the past. Rocky Mountain College still attracts and produces leaders who make a difference in the College and their communities.
Rocky Mountain College Church Relations
Rocky Mountain College is historically related to the United Church of Christ, the United Methodist Church, and the Presbyterian Church (USA) – denominations traditionally committed to the pursuit of knowledge, religious tolerance, and free inquiry and to such values as service, community, and character. These denominational relationships have helped to inform the mission and core themes of the College and are apparent in the College’s mission to educate future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision-making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence. Additionally, the College promotes the development of the whole person and provides opportunities to enhance students’ intellectual, emotional, physical, and spiritual growth both on campus and through connections in the local and global community. Learn more about RMC spiritual life.
Rocky Mountain College Buildings on Campus
- Alden Hall was constructed in 1937.
- The funds for the building were raised as part of one of the many major fundraising efforts by the Eaton brothers.
- Alden Hall was made possible by a gift of the Alden Trust, founded by the late George Alden of Worcester, Mass.
- It was the last permanent structure built on the campus until the Paul M. Adams Memorial Library was built in 1959.
- Alden Hall served as a men's dormitory until 1973 when it was converted to faculty offices and classrooms.
- The students of the 1969 business management class became involved in the decision process for the creation of Anderson Hall by completing a short case study of the proposed new residence hall.
- The namesake for the new residence hall was Lula Jellison Anderson.
- Anderson was born in 1890 in Ubet, Mont., and later moved to Billings and attended Billings Polytechnic Institute.
- She graduated in 1911 as a member of the first graduating class of the institute.
- Anderson Hall was completed in 1970, with 20,000 square feet for housing 82 students as well as the residence hall director.
- The hall was remodeled in 1998.
Bair Family Student Center
- Bair Family Student Center was constructed in 1960. It was first remodeled in 1985 and again in 1995. Renovations doubled the size of the building to 30,000 square feet.
- It is named for the Charles M. Bair Family Trust that was created after the death of philanthropist Alberta Bair in 1993.
- The building houses dining services, including a cafeteria and the Bear's Den coffeeshop, a student lounge, the RMC bookstore, the mailroom, Outdoor Recreation and Student Activities programs, and Administrative offices.
- Solar panels on top of the building provide more than 13kW of power. Students may track the output on a touchscreen in the hallway.
- An interesting aspect of the building is the 13-foot metal bear sculpture by Lyndon Pomeroy erected south of the building. The artwork was sponsored by Hoiness LaBar Insurance, Ossie Abrams, and David Orser.
Bair Science Center
- The fall of 1981 included the opening ceremony for the Bair Science Center, officially named the Charles M. Bair Family Center for the Sciences.
- The construction of the new building allowed the biology, chemistry, computer science, geology, mathematics, and physics departments to move from Eaton and Tyler Halls.
- Bair Science Center is scheduled for renovation.
Dr. Charles Morledge Science Building
- The Dr. Charles Morledge Science Building was completed in spring 2018.
- One of the most advanced laboratory facilities in the region.
- Advanced research and teaching spaces in every discipline of the natural arts.
- The third floor of the building houses the Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) program. This program space contains a state-of-the-art classroom, laboratory, home environment lab, conference room, and student study spaces.
- Purchased in 2020, Conner Hall is named in honor of Rev. Cloyd and Mrs. Pearl Conner for their service and advocacy on behalf of Rocky Mountain College.
- The building, located at 2411 Village Lane, houses the entirety of the PA program including its academic, administrative, and clinical functions. With over 8,400 square feet, the facility includes a lecture hall, a conference room, eight medical exam rooms, lab spaces, a student lounge, an ER training laboratory, and faculty and administrative offices.
- Opened in 1909, Eaton Hall was originally known as the Science Hall. It was a gift of several local businessmen who were involved with the formation of BPI.
- Today, Eaton Hall houses administrative offices including student records, academic computing, institutional advancement, and the business office.
Fortin Education Center
- Opened in 1969, the Fortin Education Center is named in honor of local philanthropist Phillip N. Fortin.
- The Fortin Education Center added 80,000 square feet to the RMC campus, an increase of over 50 percent of the existing campus space.
- In addition to classrooms, two gymnasiums, a swimming pool, and an auditorium, the Fortin Education Center also houses the health facility, which is named for Dr. John H. Bridenbaugh, the college physician from 1958 to 1967.
- Jorgenson Residence Hall was dedicated on October 25, 1964.
- It was the newest residential facility on RMC's campus, offering accommodations for 156 men.
- The residence hall was remodeled in 1988 into 48 one- and two-bedroom apartments with outside entrances, individual kitchens and bathrooms.
- It currently functions as housing for upper-level students or students that are married and/or with families.
- Completed in 1913 and originally called the YMCA Boy's Dormitory, Kenney Hall had rooms for 50 boys as well as a YMCA activities floor.
- The building also temporarily served as housing for Italian prisoners of war during World War II.
- Kenney Hall was named for A.W. Kenney of Lakewood, N.J. He was the first donor.
- Kenny Hall was demolished in 1973 due to water damage and structural deterioration, and some of its stone blocks, including its cornerstone, were incorporated into Bair Science Center, which occupies Kenney Hall's site.
- Construction on Kimball Hall began in 1913.
- Upon dedication in February of 1914, it was the first official dormitory for women on the BPI campus.
- Donors came from 34 states and Canada, but the main contributor was Mrs. Flora Kimball of Portsmouth, N.H.
- The final cost of the building was $15,000, half of what it would have been if not for the efforts of student labor.
- Stones for the construction came from the school quarry.
- The building was originally designed for 40 students, but when demand increased, the building was modified to house 60.
- For several years it was unoccupied and used for storage, and the building was scheduled for demolition in 1996.
- Efforts by the Montana Historical Preservation Office and interested parties at RMC kept the building from being torn down.
- Now named Morledge-Kimball, the hall received renovation and restoration in 2009. An addition holds new classrooms and faculty offices, while the original spaces have been refurbished.
- Losekamp Hall's official dedication occurred during commencement week in 1919.
- Losekamp Hall is allegedly a haunted building; the favored rumor is that John Losekamp killed his wife on the third floor and to this day one of them roams the building at night. Many students are unaware that Losekamp never married and died before construction was completed.
Paul M. Adams Library
- In September of 1957, President Herbert Hines began the project of building a new library.
- The new library was named for Paul M. Adams, a professor from 1905 to 1935 with Intermountain Union College, a predecessor of Rocky Mountain College.
- Construction was completed in 1959.
- In 1998, following a successful $4.2 million fundraising campaign, construction began on the new DeRosier Educational Resource Center, an addition to the Paul M. Adams Library.
- The addition added 14,670 square feet and houses computer labs and a distance learning area.
- Built in 1916, Prescott Hall is named for Amos Prescott, a patron of Billings Polytechnic Institute.
- It was built mostly by student labor with sandstone from the school's quarry. Construction was directed by a stone mason and the instructor of industrial arts.
- In late 1944 the commons area served meals to over 300 Italian and German prisoners of war that were housed on campus.
- Along with acting as a dining hall, the building housed a cannery and granary in the basement until 1961. This granary was where the Green and Gold Milling Company began operating in 1932. Students worked in the mill to earn money for their education, making flour and Green and Gold Cereal, which was sold throughout Montana and Wyoming.
- Prescott Commons was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1982.
- Completed in 2004, Rimview Hall is the newest residence hall facility on campus.
- Containing 50 four-person suites, it houses mostly sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
- The building blends the 21st century with the historical feel of campus.
- Completed in 1922, the original sign called it the "School of Technology." The name has since been shortened to Technology Hall or simply, Tech Hall.
- The building is still in use today, containing labs and offices for the computer science program, as well as offices for art department faculty, a small gallery, and laboratories for metalworking, clay, painting, and drawing.
- The Ryniker-Morrison Gallery exhibits the art work of RMC students and faculty along with visiting artists.
- Technology Hall also houses the facility services department.
- This sandstone building, designed in what is referred to as the "Collegiate Gothic Style," was completed in 1930.
- The principal donor, Mrs. G.W. Mehaffey of Brookline, Mass., contributed to the building as a memorial for her father, W. Graham Tyler, a contributor to BPI scholarships.
- The groundbreaking ceremony took place on Oct. 26, 1928, and the building was dedicated and completed by 1930.
- Tyler Hall originally served as a residence hall for more than 60 students and a house mother, who had her own apartment in the building.
- Tyler Hall continued to house students until 1971.
- The building now houses the education program, classrooms, and faculty offices.
- Widenhouse Hall was built in 1971 in honor of a former president of the college, the Rev. Phillip M. Widenhouse, who served from 1958 to 1966. | <urn:uuid:3adf33d2-b077-4175-a390-97b3b5e42475> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rocky.edu/about-rmc/history-traditions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970276 | 2,551 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Introduction Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMD) are a significant health burden globally. Smoking, alcohol, and betel quid are the main risk factors. Lack of screening methods has been highlighted as a significant challenge in management. Salivary biomarkers are proposed as noninvasive diagnostic tools. The aim of this systematic review was to study salivary biomarkers reported in OSCC and OPMD. Specific objectives were to select a salivary biomarker panel suitable for early detection of OSCC and OPMD and to assess relationships between salivary biomarkers and risk factors. Methods Electronic literature search was conducted in academic databases (Scopus, Medline, Embase and Web of Science) without any restrictions. Following calibration, two blinded reviewers screened the studies and extracted data. A risk of bias assessment was conducted using Newcastle Ottawa scale. 295 studies were included with descriptive data analysis. Expert opinion A salivary biomarker panel including Interleukin (IL) 1 beta, IL6, and IL8 was selected for OSCC and OPMD. Reported relationships between salivary biomarkers and risk factors are discussed and research gaps are highlighted. Future research should be directed to assess potential salivary biomarkers and their relationships to risk factors in order to understand the biomarker's role in disease initiation.
- Oral squamous cell carcinoma
- oral potentially malignant disorders
- risk factors
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Washington, D.C. — The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) will host a session on “Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment” at the 2019 NASCC: The Steel Conference in St. Louis. The Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance (SSSBA) announced its session on “Research and Construction of Press-Brake-Formed Steel Tub Girder Bridges.”
The AISI session is on Friday, April 5, 2019 from 8:00-9:00 a.m. in Room 127. It will be hosted by Mark Thimons, P.E., LEED AP-BD+C, AISI’s vice president of sustainability; and Brandie Sebastian, LCACP, AISI’s director of sustainability.
“Several codes, standards and green building rating systems now encourage the development of whole building life cycle assessment for new building designs,” said Thimons. “This session is targeted to architects and engineers and will investigate how these assessments are conducted. It will also identify some of the potential challenges in the process.”
Thimons and Sebastian will present preliminary findings from a study underway to compare whole building life cycle impacts of steel and wood mid-rise structures. The session awards 1.0 PDH.
The SSSBA session is on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 from 9:15-10:15 a.m. in Room 130. The session will be conducted by Karl Barth, Ph.D., the Jack H. Samples Distinguished Professor of Structural Engineering at West Virginia University; and Guy Nelson, S.E., P.E. of TEG Engineering, LLC. Participants are eligible for 1.0 PDH.
“Press-brake-formed steel tub girder bridges are a cost-effective, time-saving solution for replacing structures of up to 140 feet, which make up most of the U.S. bridge inventory,” said Rich Tavoletti, director of the Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance. “This session is an introduction to this innovative bridge solution. It will cover recent research and case studies of projects now in service, and explain some lessons learned along the way. It’s designed for engineers and fabricators, but we encourage anyone who is looking for a new way to meet their ongoing bridge design and installation challenges to join us.”
The Short Span Steel Bridge Alliance will also host an exhibit at the conference. Rich Tavoletti will be available at Booth 539 to discuss short span steel bridge solutions.
2019 NASCC: The Steel Conference is hosted by the American Institute of Steel Construction and will take place April 3-5, 2019 at America’s Center Convention Complex. It is the premier educational and networking event for the structural steel industry, bringing together structural engineers, steel fabricators, erectors and detailers.
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Minecraft default tick speed. Simply put, a game tick is the unit of time in Minecraft. The default tick speed in Minecraft is 20 ticks per second. It means that one tick occurs every 0.05 seconds. The advancements or updates in Minecraft happen based on ticks. The day in the game lasts for 24000 ticks. In real life, that would be 20 minutes. most disturbing albums
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- Tick per second: ... Cấu hình hình ảnh chuẩn để giảm lagMinecraft tăng FPS (Cũ: 1.8.9 - 1.17.1) Cài đặt hình ảnh chuẩn để giảm lagMinecraft tăng FPS (Mới: 1.18+) Mình sẽ giải thích một số thứ cho bạn dễ hiểu, từ đó có thể tự tùy chỉnh theo ý của riêng mình. .
Minecraft server lag is when the server can't keep up with running the Minecraft server and performance is dropped which is notcible in game. This is measured in TPS (Ticks per second) and for PirateCraft isn't usually the cause of lag, we have a constant 19.5-20 TPS. 20 is the highest TPS can be (the Best a server can run at). Steps: On your server, run the command timings on . Leave your server running for about 30 mins, as the timings collects data for the report. After 30 mins, run the command timings paste, and go to the link it makes in console. This is where the fun starts, looking through the timings to see what is causing the lag.
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- No disconnects due to long ticks - Generally lower ping and a more responsive server Note however, that Tick Dynamic will not help for every case, certain events will still cause the TPS to drop, or cause noticeable lag. Some examples for this are: - World Generation taking a significant amount of time for a tick. the lag pie chart. these lag spikes can take anywhere from 1 second to half a minute or more and decreases my fps from a normal 60 to about 1. these tick spikes are signifegently more rare in the end dimension. and if i lower both my render distance and entity render distance it dicreases the liklyhood of the spikes occuring. Attachments.
How to Change Tick Speed in Minecraft. To change the tick speed in Minecraft, open up your chat box in-game, type "/gamerule randomTickSpeed" and then enter a value. A lower value means fewer ticks, a higher one means more ticks. If you're playing on bedrock, the highest you can go is 4096. If you're on Java there's no limit to the.
If you want to use Optifine on Badlion Client, all you need to do is enable the "Optifine" option in the launcher before launching the game. It is very important that you install Optifine first if you want to use shaders in the Badlion Client. For more information on how to install a shader check out our article on it here.
Here are a few steps to modify the tick speed of Minecraft in minutes. 1) Go to your Minecraft.ini file, located in the .minecraft folder. On windows, it will be in “C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\.minecraft.” ... For instance, if you were playing on a server with a slower tick speed, there may be less lag than running at a higher tick speed. I've been experiencing ridiculous ticklag giving me 1 fps on a particular Minecraft installation that I haven't experienced previously. I have recently run much larger modpacks and have not had this issue (this one runs 68 mods). The F3 + shift pie chart is 99% tick, and I have attached a report I got from running /debug start for around 2.
However, despite the preexisting tick settings, different players may experience different tick durations. Lagging in the gaming console or computer can lengthen the duration of a single gaming tick. This would suggest that in such rare instances, a singular Minecraft tick may be longer than the standard 0.5-second mark.
Minecraft Forge. Support & Bug Reports. Tick lag in 1.12.2 modded forge server, can't find cause. By sabinoplane, March 14, 2019 in Support & Bug Reports. Share. 0. Posted March 14, 2019. Search: Spigot 0 Tick Farm. Source: (Baumann, 2009) Example Point prevalence (crude) of porcine circovirus type 2 in Bulacan Piggery Farm Crude Stratified Age (months) Herd Size PCV2 + Point Prevalence Total 1012 439 0 yml, just in case I'm putting the config in the wrong place Feed it bonemeal and water and it will tick all crops Ever needed to merge multiple.
If you want to learn how to stop lag on your Minecraft server, this is the video for you. I go over exactly how you can increase your Minecraft server's perf. Explore os vídeos mais recentes com as hashtags. Toning down the intensity of animations and hover effects, and blocking GIFs and emojis from playing automatically, can help reduce lag in Discord . 1. Open Discord's User Settings pane. 2. Switch to the Accessibility side tab. 3. Activate the switch next to Enable Reduced Motion.
Steps: On your server, run the command timings on . Leave your server running for about 30 mins, as the timings collects data for the report. After 30 mins, run the command timings paste, and go to the link it makes in console. This is where the fun starts, looking through the timings to see what is causing the lag.
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A gametick is where Minecraft's game loop runs once. The game normally runs at a fixed rate of 20 ticks per second, so one tick happens every 0.05 seconds (50 milliseconds, or five hundredths of a second, or one twentieth of a second), making an in-game day last exactly 24000 ticks, or 20 minutes.
In addition, building organized farms also avoids overpopulation lag. In addition to the lag causes above, increasing loaded chunks in the game world can impact Minecraft’s tick speed. To check the current Minecraft’s ticks per second value while playing, press alt+F3. However, only the server’s host can see those stats in multiplayer. This "tick" lag is gotten so stupidly out of hand that the game is nearly unplayable. This is all done on the exactly the same graphical settings on the exact same map (forge with mods while paused, stays at 55-68 fps) (Forge with mods un paused, stays between 2 - 12 fps goes to 28 max when blue "tick" measure goes down).
Search: Minecraft Server Launcher Closes. Browse detailed information on each server and vote for your favourite * This program is to be run as a background process and launch the game server much like HEAT used to work Set up multi-player servers today by following the detailed instructions provided jar file to launch!
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A tick refers to Minecraft's process for updating every creature, block, and global event in the game for every "chunk" of the map.. The game normally does this 20 times per second. Everytime you do something in the game, it is only processed on a tick. Place a block, destroy a block, Shoot a monster, etc.
If the amount of Free memory is less than 100MB, then there is a big chance the lag is caused because your server is running out of RAM. Server TPS Lag: TPS stands for ticks per seconds. TPS is used to measure performance and stability of
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The 14th Finance Commission has been hailed as ‘path-breaking’ for recommending larger fund allocations to state governments and giving them more autonomy in spending these funds. In this article, Meera Mehta and Dinesh Mehta highlight that the Commission has also recognised the need to trust and respect local government bodies, and has allocated much larger funds to them. Will this approach work and will state governments cooperate?
The 14th Finance Commission (FC) has been hailed for its path-breaking recommendations in ‘cooperative federalism’1 with a significant increase in the share of state governments in the divisible pool2. What has not been recognised is the fact that the 14th FC has also been quite generous in recommending a larger grant to local governments (includes Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and Urban Local Governments (ULGs)). The allocation to local governments is over twice the amount recommended by the 13th FC, and for ULGs it is nearly three times relative to the 13th FC recommendations.
Deepening federalism: Increased flow of funds to local governments
The 14th FC has given due consideration to the fiscal federalism framework in India by devolving a larger amount to local governments. In doing this, the 14th FC has deepened the decentralisation process that was initiated by the 73rd and 74th3 constitutional amendments. Although as per its mandate, the FC does not directly deal with local governments, it is required to recommend “the measures needed to augment the Consolidated Fund of a State to supplement the resources of the Panchayats and Municipalities in the state, on the basis of the recommendations made by the Finance Commission of the State.” These “measures could be recommendations on both grants in aid as well as suggestions for steps to be taken by the States in this regard.” (Terms of Reference of the Finance Commission). The onus will also be on the state governments to share a larger share of resources they will receive with local governments through unconditional and predictable transfers, as well as to help build local government capacity.
The 14th FC has recommended Rs. 287,436 crore (US$48 billion approx.) for all local governments. This fund is to be distributed across the states on the basis of population and area. The 14th FC has not used the approach adopted by the previous FC of recommending the local government grants as a share of the divisible pool. It suggests that the constitutional provisions regarding the role of Finance Commission do not provide for a share of ‘divisible pool’ for local governments. Hence the allocation to local governments has to be a fixed amount as a grant-in-aid.4
The grant recommended by the 14th FC for local governments is much higher than before, both in amount and in terms of the share of the divisible pool. In doing this, the 14th FC has set the bar much higher than the previous FCs. While there was a clamour by various state and local governments to allocate at least 5% of the divisible pool to local governments, the 14th FC has recommended a grant-in aid for local governments that is equal to an estimated 3% of the divisible pool. This is higher than the recommended allocation of 2.5% by the 13th FC. It is hoped that subsequent FCs will consider higher allocations to local governments, in line with what is practiced in other federal countries such as Brazil (see, for example, Sen et al. 2014 and Arvate et al. 2015). In Brazil, the municipalities receive transfers called Municipalities’ Participation Fund, which are “23.5% of the income taxes and industrialized products taxes that are collected by the federal government" (Arvate et al. 2015).
Figure 1. Grants-in aid by 14th FC to urban and rural local governments
It is not very clear how the 14th FC has estimated the quantum of local government grants. It says, “we have worked out the total size of the grant to be Rs. 2,87,436 crores, for the period 2015-20, constituting an assistance of Rs. 488 per capita per annum ”. The only reference made was to the annual per capita estimates ranging from Rs. 195 to Rs. 1,211 for the four State Finance Commissions (SFCs) that were co-terminus with the 14th FC (p.112/9.67) It would have been good to have more explanations on how this amount of Rs. 488 (US$8.1 approx.) is arrived at. Similarly, a rationale might have been provided for using the same amount for both rural and urban areas as the cost of urban public services is likely to be higher. Of course, the equal per capita grant for ULGs recommended by the 14th FC is better than that of its predecessors, which had all given a higher per capita grant to rural local governments.
Previous efforts to estimate per capita requirements are based on updating Zakaria committee norms (Zakaria 1963)5. Another effort was made by the High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia, set up by the Ministry of Urban Development in May 2008 for estimating the investment requirement for urban infrastructure services. As we can see in Figure 3, the 14th Finance Commission’s estimates of per capita requirements are far below the recommended amount by these two committees.
Figure 2. Per capita grants to rural and urban local governments by FCs
Figure 3. Comparison of 14th FC grants for urban local governments with norms
The 14th FC has continued with the 13th FC recommendation of making these grants available to local bodies in two parts – a basic grant and a performance grant, in a ratio of 90:10 for PRIs and 80:20 for ULGs. The basic grant is an unconditional grant, intended to be used by local bodies to deliver basic services. In the words of 14th FC, “the purpose of basic grants is to provide a measure of unconditional support to the gram panchayats and municipalities for delivering the basic functions assigned to them”.
The 14th FC has kept aside a small portion (10% for PRI and 20% for ULGs) as performance grant. Performance grant is meant to instil improved information on local finances and outcomes as well as focus on increasing own incomes of local governments. The performance grant to urban local governments is to be given if they fulfil three conditions – have their accounts audited, improve own revenues, and publish service-level benchmarks.
The 14th FC observes that reliable information on local government finances is not available in India and the performance grant is conditional upon local governments “making available reliable data on local government receipts and expenditures through audited accounts; and improvement in own revenues”. In addition, the ULBs have to measure and publish service-level benchmarks for basic services.
The 13th FC had listed nine conditions for ULGs to become eligible for performance grant. Most of these conditions were for state governments, rather than local governments. The 14th FC has made a healthy departure in doing away all those conditions (except the one on service-level benchmarks). In doing this, the 14th FC has stuck to its core mandate of ensuring proper accountability of local finances and delivery of services. Insisting on audit of local government accounts is an important step in bringing about transparency and accountability at the local level. In every state, a Local Fund Audit exists as an independent audit department under the administrative control of the finance department of the state government. However, there are severe delays in auditing accounts of all the panchayats and municipalities. In major municipal corporations, an internal audit department exists, which at least ensures some scrutiny, but in other local governments, there is very little check on how the funds are spent.6
The second condition of demonstrating increase in own-source revenue is also important. The limited information suggests an overt dependence of local governments on grants from state governments and the centre. Increasingly, state governments have taken away buoyant sources of revenues from local governments. For example, in Punjab and Rajasthan, the state governments did away with property tax (although it was reinstated later). More recently, Maharashtra has abolished local body tax (LBT). While seeking an improvement in own-revenue sources of local governments, the 14th FC could have also suggested that the state governments should enhance the fiscal domain of local governments. Only then one can expect some stability and growth in local revenues. Further as pointed out by the 13th FC earlier, “The proposed introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will remove some tax instruments traditionally allocated to local bodies. These include entertainment tax, entry tax, as well as share in stamp duty. It is, therefore, important that local bodies be provided with a buoyant source of revenue as an alternative to fixed grants. This will also be in line with best international practice.”
Of course the local governments need to improve efficiency in collection of key local taxes such as the property tax, as well as user charges for key services. They also need to ensure that these are indexed for regular revision to match increase in service delivery costs.
The third condition laid down by the 14th FC requires an urban local government to “publish the service level benchmarks relating to basic urban services each year and to make them publically available”. This helps ensure a focus on service outcomes, a practice already initiated by over 1,800 ULGs as a result of the earlier 13th FC recommendation. The 14th FC condition will provide an incentive to sustain this. While the 14th FC has put onus squarely on ULGs, both the central and state governments will need to support, strengthen and sustain this process to ensure that the smaller municipalities are able to meet these conditions in a timely manner, while the quality of information is improved over time.
The 14th FC recognises the need to trust and have respect for local bodies as institutions of local self-governments. This is in sharp contrast to the treatment often meted out by state governments to local bodies. In most states, local governments have limited administrative and fiscal powers. The lack of capacity of local governments is often cited by the state governments as a reason to further curtail their fiscal powers. In many states, local governments have limited responsibilities, and the decentralisation process envisaged in the 73rd and 74th constitutional amendments has largely remained on paper (see, for example, Sivaramakrishna 2000).
In such a climate of distrust of the local governments by the state governments, the 14th FC has put a lot of faith in the state government to operate in a trust-based approach. In view of the impending changes with the introduction of GST, adequate compensation to ULGs for their loss of income will need to be ensured. The past experience has not been very good in this regard. Many state governments, on abolition of octroi (a tax on entry of goods within the city limits) and in some cases even property tax, had promised compensatory grants to ULGs with an annual increase to maintain the buoyancy. However, compensation to local bodies has remained static and is often not released in time.
One hopes that the trust-based approach adopted and recommended by the 14th FC for local governments will also be adopted by the state governments; and that they will transfer all the promised resources to local governments in a timely manner. They will also need to support the smaller local governments and help build their capacity to meet the 14th FC conditions to ensure that the resources do not accrue only to larger ULGs that are able to meet the three simple conditions laid down by the 14th FC for performance grants.
- The phrase “cooperative federalism” has been used by the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government to denote a “vibrant and functional federal structure” where states are given their due.
- The divisible pool is the portion of gross tax revenue which is distributed between the centre and the states. It includes all central taxes excluding surcharges and cess, which the centre is constitutionally mandated to share with the states.
- The 73rd and 74th amendments to the Indian Constitution gave constitutional status to local governments in rural and urban India.
- See para 9.65, Report of the Fourteenth Finance Commission, available at http://www.fincomindia.nic.in.
- Report of the Committee of Ministers constituted by the Central Council of Local Self Government on Augmentation of Financial Resources for Urban Local Bodies, Government of India, New Delhi (Zakaria 1963), is still used as a basis for estimating urban expenditure requirements.
- For example, the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) website suggests that during the period 2003-04 to 2010-11, only five Audit Reports (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu) on Local Bodies were issued for placement before the State Legislatures); Also see: https://data.gov.in/catalog/cag-local-bodies-audit-reports#web_catalog_tabs_block_10
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- The High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) (2011), ‘Report on Indian Urban Infrastructure and Services’, Committee for Estimating the Investment Requirements for Urban Infrastructure Services.
- Zakaria, R (1963), ‘Report of the Committee of Ministers constituted by the Central Council of Local Self Government on Augmentation of Financial Resources for Urban Local Bodies’, Government of India, New Delhi. | <urn:uuid:8cab2794-f9c7-4514-a0bf-222cae4f26f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/agriculture/14th-finance-commission-a-trust-based-approach-towards-local-governments.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951844 | 3,036 | 1.90625 | 2 |
We all know what a girl looks like, and there are a lucky few of us who may have been able to see a fox. But have you ever encountered a fox girl? Well, we have all you need to bring this curious creature to life – let’s get started!
Step-By-Step Images and Instructions
Start by taking a black pen, and drawing a curved, pointed shape at the top of your page, with the pointed tip heading towards the top right.
Repeat this shape to the left of the first, this time pointing the tip towards the left.
Add thick, pointed lines, like eyebrows, to the top of these shapes…
And then add a small ring inside the right shape, with a smaller circle in the center to create an eye.
Repeat this with the shape on the left, giving you two piercing eyes…
And then add a triangle to the bottom of these. Fill this in almost completely, leaving a small white line at the top.
Draw a large, half-circle shape below the triangle nose to create a mouth.
Add a line just inside the top of the mouth, and then draw a small curved line at the bottom.
Shade the space in between these shapes with a black pen.
Add a small curve just below the mouth…
And then use the black pen to draw small dots below the eyes, and around the nose.
Add a thicker curve below the one at the bottom of the mouth.
Now, create a point in between the two eyes, slightly above them. Bring a curved line down from this point, and repeat this on the other side, so that you have an inverted “V” shape around the eyes, nose, and the top of the mouth.
Next, add a “loop” to the left of the mouth, and take the right end of this down in a wavy line towards the bottom of the page.
On the left of the “loop”, take the like across and add another “loop” pointing towards the top left-hand corner of the page – this is the first finger. Repeat this shape with three more fingers to the left, and then bring the curve down and in, and then down towards the bottom right-hand corner of the page.
Connect the line at the bottom of the thumb to this one…
And then add another “V” shape to frame the bottom of the face.
Bring two curved lines down from the bottom of the face, and angle these out at the bottom.
Now, return to the line on the top left, and continue this down over the fingers.
Add a curved line to the right of the neck and the bottom of the face…
And then add a square “U” shape to the bottom of the face to create the neckline. Add a triangle to the bottom of this, and then three marks above this.
Add another line to the outside of the lines of the neckline, creating a top with straps.
Bring a curved line down below the arm on the left, and add a point to the right side, before bringing a curve down. Join these at the bottom with two curved, horizontal lines.
Add curved lines connecting the bottom of the top to the end of the page, and then add a thicker “crescent moon” shape in the center.
Now, add a tall, thin, slightly curved “U” shape to the side of the right arm.
Take a curved line down from the bottom of this to form the right arm…
And then add another large, “crescent moon” shape to the left side, starting at the bottom of the shirt, and finishing just below the hand.
Add a jagged line just below the tip to create that distinctive fox tail…
And then add a curved, horizontal line to the right of the left arm.
Now, draw a thinner curved line across the top of the head…
And add a pointed fox ear to the right of this.
Add a smaller, jagged shape just inside this…
And then repeat this on the left end of the line.
Add another curved line in the center, connecting the two ears, and then bring a curved line down on either side.
Add half-circles to these side lines…
And connect these to the bottom of the ears with more curved lines. Then, bring a longer line down from the side of each of the ears.
Add three sharp, curved lines inside each ear.
Use a green pen to shade the bottom of the body, the tops of the half-circles – or headphones – and the section above these.
Fill in the rest of the headphones with a yellow pen, and use the same shade for the shirt.
Grab a dark green pen for the bottom of the shirt…
Use an orange pen for the hair, the tail, and the inside of the ears…
And then use a lighter orange pen for the skin of the face and the arms.
Grab a pink pen, and add light spots of color to the cheek.
And there we have it – your very own curious fox girl, ready for her next adventure. But where will her wild spirit take her? | <urn:uuid:4b373bd8-e679-4723-803f-adf6ae4936f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drawswan.com/how-to-draw-a-fox-girl | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.871434 | 1,226 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in health care prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a question that has long dogged those who buy insurance: Are we getting the best deal we can?
As of July 1, health insurers and self-insured employers must post on websites just about every price they’ve negotiated with providers for health care services, item by item. About the only thing excluded are the prices paid for prescription drugs, except those administered in hospitals or doctors’ offices.
The federally required data release could affect future prices or even how employers contract for health care. Many will see for the first time how well their insurers are doing compared with others. The requirements stem from the Affordable Care Act and a 2019 executive order by then-President Donald Trump.
And according to Kaiser Health News, the new rules are far broader than those that went into effect last year requiring hospitals to post their negotiated rates for the public to see. Now insurers must post the amounts paid for “every physician in network, every hospital, every surgery center, every nursing facility,” said Jeffrey Leibach, a partner at the consulting firm Guidehouse.
“When you start doing the math, you’re talking trillions of records,” he said. The fines the federal government could impose for noncompliance are also heftier than the penalties that hospitals face.
Federal officials learned from the hospital experience and gave insurers more direction on what was expected, said Leibach. Insurers or self-insured employers could be fined as much as $100 a day for each violation, for each affected enrollee if they fail to provide the data.
Entrepreneurs are expected to quickly translate the information into more user-friendly formats so it can be incorporated into new or existing services that estimate costs for patients. And starting Jan. 1, the rules require insurers to provide online tools that will help people get upfront cost estimates for about 500 so-called “shoppable” services, meaning medical care they can schedule ahead of time.
Everyone will know everyone else’s business: for example, how much insurers Aetna and Humana pay the same surgery center for a knee replacement.
“These plans are supposed to be acting on behalf of employers in negotiating good rates, and the little insight we have on that shows it has not happened,” said Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, an affiliation of employers who offer job-based health benefits to workers. “I do believe the dynamics are going to change.”
“Maybe at best this will reduce the wide variance of prices out there,” said Zack Cooper, director of health policy at the Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies. “But it won’t be unleashing a consumer revolution.”
Still, the biggest value of the July data release may well be to shed light on how successful insurers have been at negotiating prices. It comes on the heels of research that has shown tremendous variation in what is paid for health care. A recent study by the Rand Corp., for example, shows that employers that offer job-based insurance plans paid, on average, 224% more than Medicare for the same services.
Tens of thousands of employers who buy insurance coverage for their workers will get this more-complete pricing picture – and may not like what they see.
“What we’re learning from the hospital data is that insurers are really bad at negotiating,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor in the department of health policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, citing research that found that negotiated rates for hospital care can be higher than what the facilities accept from patients who are not using insurance and are paying cash.
That could add to the frustration that Mitchell and others say employers have with the current health insurance system. More might try to contract with providers directly, only using insurance companies for claims processing.
Other employers may bring their insurers back to the bargaining table.
“For the first time, an employer will be able to go to an insurance company and say, ‘You have not negotiated a good-enough deal, and we know that because we can see the same provider has negotiated a better deal with another company,’” said James Gelfand, president of the ERISA Industry Committee, a trade group of self-insured employers. | <urn:uuid:1d617038-6bef-4571-b7c1-336d8cbf1203> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.workcompacademy.com/2022/07/july-1-starts-national-game-changing-healthcare-cost-disclosure-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962226 | 917 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Marin Biomass Project
The Marin Biomass Project was developed to explore sustainable uses of biomass feedstocks being generated in Marin County, an urbanized coastal region in California comprised of towns and cities, mixed woodland, agricultural lands, and preserved open space. The Project was developed in response to increasing flows of biomass materials generated by wildfire prevention activities and by landfill diversion efforts in the County overseen, respectively, by the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority (MWPA) and by Zero Waste Marin (ZWM). Materials in the flows of interest range from woody biomass generated by woodland thinning and landscape trimmings to source-separated and mixed organic streams generated by the collection of metropolitan wood debris, food scraps, yard materials, and agricultural biomass.
The concern is that these biomass flows are greater than the handling capacity of available infrastructure and that strategic coordination and capital investment is needed to build an economy that turns them into ecologically sound, value-added products. The purpose of this Project is to support nimble and sustainable development of new biomass utilization infrastructure and economic opportunities in Marin County. The goal of the Project is to ensure that biomass utilization pathways support wildfire prevention and landfill diversion, while also reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The Project has been developed to be collaborative and to foster cooperation among stakeholders in biomass utilization, particularly the public authorities who oversee and the private organizations that manage biomass management infrastructure and processes. Development of a forum, called the “Marin Biomass Collaborative,” is already underway and is intended to support rapid implementation of recommendations developed during the Study.
The Marin Biomass Project is one of five pilot projects selected in 2021 by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and awarded a $500,000 grant to identify solutions that overcome barriers to biomass feedstock utilization.
For more information about the Marin Biomass Project, contact Project Manager Chad White.
Biomass Utilization Study
The Marin Biomass Project has laid the groundwork for a strategic assessment of biomass flows and utilization opportunities in Marin County. This Biomass Utilization Study (Study) is intended to produce information that will support strategic conversations and capital investment among public and private stakeholders in the County, as well as to produce insights and lessons relevant for other urban-rural coastal regions in California.
This Study involves a detailed evaluation of the potentially recoverable biomass feedstocks in Marin County. It also involves the assessment of infrastructure and products that can utilize these feedstocks in the most economically and environmentally responsible manner possible. Specific Study deliverables include:
- Confirmation of biomass feedstock amounts, types, and characterization in Marin, both current and projected.
- Identification of the most promising biomass utilization pathways in Marin.
- Economic analysis of the feasibility and economic development potential of each biomass pathway most suitable for Marin, and how they might be improved.
- Carbon analysis of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon sequestration potential of each pathway most suitable for Marin, and how they might be improved.
- Recommended pathways, practices, and infrastructure for improving biomass conversion in Marin, and their potential applicability elsewhere in the urbanized coastal region of California.
Marketable uses of biomass to be explored include compost, mulches, and biochar for use on local gardens and agricultural landscapes; pyrolysis/gasification for electricity, biochar, and/or hydrogen; increased anaerobic digestion of organics for electricity and co-composting of anaerobic digestate for soil amendments; and diversified wood products, among others. | <urn:uuid:06666946-0bcb-451d-bfe5-26e5c21a45d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marinrcd.org/marinbiomassproject/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.921799 | 735 | 2.859375 | 3 |
There's more to cholesterol than meets the eye
Glaucoma sometimes is called the silent thief in the night, because the eye can be damaged irreversibly before a person experiences any vision loss.
In a healthy eye, tissue called trabecular meshwork controls pressure by draining aqueous humor, the clear fluid filling the space between the cornea and lens. This drainage system clogs up in glaucoma, fluid builds up and the resulting pressure damages the optic nerve that sends visual signals to the brain. In severe cases, the eyes can bulge out.
Understanding how trabecular meshwork cells sense and respond to elevated eye pressure — a type of mechanical stress — is a major goal of researchers in David Križaj’s laboratory at the University of Utah. They study a mechanotransducer, a protein that senses and responds to mechanical stress, called transient receptor potential vanilloid 4, or TRPV4. When activated in trabecular meshwork, TRPV4 promotes aqueous humor drainage.
Previously, the researchers reported that a known risk factor for glaucoma, cholesterol, activates TRPV4 in retinal glia cells, which are at the back of the eye. Now, in a recent article published in the Journal of Lipid Research, Monika Lakk and colleagues report that cholesterol depletion activates TRPV4 in trabecular meshwork cells at the front of the eye — an unexpected result.
“Cholesterol has been public enemy No. 1 in the eye of the public for a long time due to its dysregulation in cardiovascular, neurologic and metabolic disease, and has been shown to subserve multiple types of inherited and acquired vision loss,” Lakk said.
On the other hand, cholesterol plays a crucial role in maintaining homeostasis. The finding that cholesterol regulates TRPV4 in opposite ways depending on its location (front versus back of the eye) demonstrates this complexity. “Clinical solutions may require a thorough understanding of the local biomechanical and cellular context,” Lakk said.
According to the researchers, increased membrane cholesterol in trabecular meshwork cells may dampen the mechanical stress signals caused by high blood pressure and prevent overstimulation of TRPV4 — a protective mechanism that may become dysfunctional in glaucoma.
By just stretching the trabecular meshwork cells — simulating what happens with glaucoma — the researchers were able to deplete membrane cholesterol, which activates TRPV4.
“This study was an exercise in surprise,” Lakk said. “We were completely unprepared for the finding that membrane lipid composition itself is a function of the biomechanical milieu.”
When a person experiences chronic stress due to conditions such as heart disease and glaucoma, she explained, “The cellular remodeling that takes place may involve the entire body and a myriad of processes and mechanisms that may flow under the radar of investigators focusing on immediate targets.”
The researchers have knocked out the TRPV4 gene in multiple eye cell types in mice and are investigating how these cells, which are unable to sense and respond to mechanical stress, affect eye fluid pressure and vision. Since cholesterol can turn TRPV4 on or off in different parts of the eye, their research suggests that glaucoma patients may benefit from carefully balanced diet regimens.
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Agriculture accounts for nearly 27 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions that are harming our environment.
As the world tries to cut back on pollutants to save the planet, people’s source of food could be affected.
Soil and fertilisers release nitrogen that has proven to be a much stronger cause of climate change than carbon dioxide.
The excess gas often goes into waterways and contaminates drinking supplies. It is also released into the air, polluting skies and putting people’s health at risk.
The Netherlands is one of many nations that has taken measures to reduce nitrogen pollution and a number of farms may have to be closed down. And that has angered many Dutch farmers who protested against the plan on Wednesday.
So what will this mean for the future of farming in the Netherlands and elsewhere?
Presenter: Kim Vinnell
Sjaak van der Tak – Former mayor of Westland, Netherlands and chairman of the Netherlands Agricultural and Horticultural Association
Hilde Anna de Vries – Campaigner for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity at Greenpeace Netherlands
Richard Tiffin – Former director of the Centre for Food Security at the University of Reading and chief scientific officer at Agrimetrics. | <urn:uuid:42131553-643f-40d7-905c-374f7f9fbf3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/7/7/will-efforts-to-stop-nitrogen-pollution-harm-farmers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942273 | 247 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a weekly roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Everglades Foundation, Captains for Clean Water, Bullsugar.org, and Conservation Hawks (among others), we’ll make sure you’ve got the information you need to understand the issues and form solid opinions.
If you know of an important issue–whether it’s national or local–that anglers should be paying attention to, comment below, and we’ll check it out!
1. Join Orvis and Other Companies in Supporting Montana’s “Yes For Responsible Mining” Initiative
In Montana, nearly 10,000 miles of stream are acidic or laced with heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic. This perpetual pollution – nasty stuff that literally lasts forever – from both modern and historic mines has polluted aquifers, destroyed fish and wildlife habitat, and created public health hazards across the state. Tax payers are on the hook to pay for these clean-up efforts, which the companies that caused the damage are often long gone
A new ballot initiative (No. 186) would “deny a permit for any new hardrock mines in Montana unless the reclamation plan provides clear and convincing evidence that the mine will not require perpetual treatment of water polluted by acid mine drainage or other contaminants.”
To get on the ballot, supporters of the Yes For Responsible Mining initiative 186 needs to gather 25,000 signatures on a petition by June 22. It looks like they’ll reach that goal, but don’t let that stop you from signing the petition. For information on events or locations where there will be signature gatherer, please contact Jeff Lukas (email@example.com; 406.546.8406) or Megan Harbaugh (firstname.lastname@example.org 406.541.8816).
Opponents of the initiative (i.e. mining companies and their supporters) are sure to bring big dollars to the fight before November. Every dollar you can donate to the cause will help ensure the future health of the rivers that make Big Sky Country such a wild-trout Mecca.
2. Montanans Battle Climate Change
Say the words “climate change” in any group of more than five people, and your sure to start a political debate. The problem is that the politics sometimes overshadows the actual science. But, as Meera Subramanian notes in her recent article on Inside Climate News, Montana’s climate is warming at a rate faster than the national average–and this is not good news for trout.
At the center of the article is Craig Fellin, who has run Big Hole Lodge since 1987 and has seen the effects of a warming climate on his local fisheries. A lifelong conservative and conservationist who believes in “Republican ideas of smaller government and less taxes and more pro-business,” Fellin has come to believe that man is responsible for the warming climate. | <urn:uuid:9553bd6e-616d-4881-9af4-fba1e99d7a60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/wednesday-wake-call-06-13-18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919918 | 649 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Self-care tips to improve your wellbeing & boost your self-confidence
Written by Angela, 15th April 2019
Self-care is something we hear a lot about nowadays. We are told repeatedly that we need to practice self-care but sometimes, especially when we are wrapped up in our busy lives, it can be difficult to understand what we can actually do to improve our mental health & wellbeing.
At Sensoria, we believe self-care doesn’t have to be over-complicated. In fact, self-care can be built into part of your everyday life.
With Mental Health Awareness Week around the corner, the Therapists at Sensoria got together to discuss what exactly our clients can do to make sure they are practising self-care.
Here are our self-care ideas for “the real world”…
Skin care routine
A lot of us have a daily and nightly skin care routine. Whether it takes you 2 minutes or 20 minutes, it’s your precious “me-time”.
When you have a few extra minutes to spare, your night-time skin care regime could be boosted. Perhaps you could combine gentle exfoliation with a mini face massage. Or simply, use a sleep-enhancing night cream to release facial tensions and stimulate feel-good hormones.
At Sensoria, you can purchase Dermalogica products for use at home – which can be the perfect addition to your self-care regime.
We always think that Sundays are usually the perfect day for self-care. Or whichever day is your day off. Time to shut down, unwind, dim the lights, light a scented candle and play some relaxing music. The most important thing is that you focus and enjoy the moment – staying present.
When discussing this with our Skin Therapists, we all agreed that applying a nourishing or deep cleansing face mask is a great way to practice self-care. You could perhaps soak in the bath and even add some oil – just take care if you have sensitive skin, as some oils can cause irritation.
Dermalogica face masks
Did you know that you can purchase Dermalogica face masks from our salons in Tarporley and Ellesmere Port (near Cheshire Oaks)?
Face masks are not only the perfect addition to your self-care regime, but they are proven to help you achieve healthy skin.
We have a variety of face masks available to suit your skin care needs. Read our guide to selecting the right face mask for your skin.
Did you know we currently have up to 30% off on selected skin care face masks?
Also, all our skin care masks come with free mask removal sponges.
Self-care by visiting a beauty salon
Many of us lead busy lives. Lives that usually revolve around other people. Our relationships, our children, our colleagues – all commitments that certainly nourish us. But at times, it’s okay to say the opposite. The people in our lives can exhaust us too.
Putting time aside to spend alone has been proven to be extremely beneficial to your mental health & wellbeing. However, when we discussed this among our Therapists we did all agree that sometimes it’s hard to spend time alone. It can be challenging to just be still because we feel like we should be doing something. Or attending to someone, answering to someone, checking in with someone and so on.
Some of our clients have been known to admit that the only time they truly relax and slow down is when they visit our salon. Alone. We can really understand that.
Visiting Sensoria should not always be seen as an indulgence. Of course, we love to hear that you are treating yourself by visiting the salon but we think it’s even better when you take regular time dedicated to your self-care. Even if only for a few precious moments.
Skinsolver® express facial
In fact, self-care doesn’t always need to be time-consuming. Yes, some of our facials, like our Dermalogica Proskin60®, are perfect for when you have more time to dedicate.
However, if you’re pressed for time but still want to take care of your skin you can book in for a 10-minute treatment. Our Skinsolver® facial is an express, seated skin-care pick-me-up designed to make your skin glow, in minimum time.
It may only be a few minutes to yourself, but we always recommend our clients to really slow down and be mindful of the treatment – regardless of the time. Don’t rush your mind. Enjoy the product textures and aromas. Even just ten minutes focusing on your self-care can do wonders for your mental health & wellbeing.
For our Ellesmere Port salon book here. Tip: Our salon is a 3-minute drive from Cheshire Oaks & easy to get to from Chester.
Massage therapy & positive body image
Another important aspect of self-care is how we feel about ourselves. More specifically, about our bodies – the vital and hardworking vehicles that we tend to take for granted at times.
During our self-care discussion, our Therapists all agreed that, in massage therapy, our priority is making you, our client, feel good in your body.
In fact, massage therapy is proven to have strong links with feeling body confident. When you have low self-esteem it’s natural to want to shy away. However, booking in for a regular massage can help you nurture a healthy self-connection.
Our professional Massage Therapists always provide a comfortable and relaxing environment for our clients. We teach you to accept your body through caring, safe and approved touch that can boost your self-esteem and inner peace.
We know starting massage therapy can still be a daunting prospect. That’s why we always recommend speaking to one of our friendly Therapists who can suggest a great way to get started.
Beginning massage therapy
For instance, our Head in the Clouds massage is a great place to start. This massage focuses on not only your head but your upper arms, upper back, neck and facial pressure points.
If you are perhaps feeling nervous about the prospect of unclothing, this massage requires minimal clothing removal and will teach you the benefits of massage, while reducing anxiety.
You will be able to experience first-hand the therapeutic touch of our Massage Therapists and learn to trust them for future treatments.
Did you know that we are giving a free head & neck massage with any Dermalogica treatments when you book in May with our Skin Therapists Charlotte, Nathalie or Annie? This could be a great way to sample massage therapy.
Health, beauty & wellbeing in Cheshire
At Sensoria, we have always taken a holistic approach to beauty, health and skin care. When it comes to your mental health & wellbeing we understand there are no ‘quick fixes’ and it’s necessary to nurture your emotional needs, as much as your physical needs.
Our friendly team of Therapists are trained experts in delivering exceptional service to our clients. We are not about simply making your skin glow, your nails shine or your muscles relax – we are about making you feel beautiful, happy and healthy on the inside. Being part of our clients’ self-care regime is really important to us.
For more practical advice on self-care, wellbeing and any of our holistic health, beauty & wellbeing treatments get in touch today.
Award-winning beauty salon
Thank you to our team of Therapists who contributed some wonderful self-care tips. They are part of the reason we have been shortlisted as a BABTAC & CIBTAC Beauty Salon of the Year Awards finalist 2019! Read more about this here.
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There has been wide speculation about the alleged correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market, but, according to new data, it’s Bitcoin and gold that have been moving in tandem with each other.
In its latest report, Coin Metrics shows that the correlation between gold and the world’s number one digital currency by market cap is quite high and has been so for the past several months.
As seen in the chart below, during the COVID-19 market selloff, Bitcoin lost more than half its value and fell into the $4,000 range, while gold was trading for under $1,500.
The chart above from Coin Metrics suggests that February and March saw Bitcoin and gold reach their lowest points for the year, with BTC losing more than half its value in just a few months and gold shedding several hundred dollars. The next two months, however, would see both assets spiking alongside each other and moving into higher ranges, with BTC hitting the $9,000 mark and gold shooting back above $1,700.
Data released in April from mutual fund manager VanEck backs this up. It shows that correlation between Bitcoin and gold has been the norm ever since the market selloff in late February, which occurred during the initial spread of the coronavirus.
From mid to late March, Bitcoin’s correlation with gold shot up to 0.47, where 1 is a strong positive correlation and -1 is a strong negative correlation.
At the end of April, the correlation between Bitcoin and gold increased to 0.49, while VanEck notes a year-to-date figure between the two of 0.42. This shows that Bitcoin and gold have been correlated closely over the last year.
But this hasn’t always been the case. Looking at the relationship between Bitcoin and gold from 2012 to March 2020, there is no correlation between the two assets—at just 0.03. This is likely due to Bitcoin’s huge price rise during that time.
“We note that bitcoin’s correlation with traditional asset classes have begun to increase during the COVID-19-induced global market selloff,” wrote VanEck. “Most notably, Bitcoin’s correlation with gold has reached levels never seen before. We believe this may further cement its potential as ‘digital gold.’”
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Annnd, I'm going to pause right there. This is my first post since arriving in Jerusalem that will really touch on religion. I suspect a lot of them will, and because of that I just want to provide a little disclaimer right here, right now.
I was born into what, by process of elimination, would be considered a Christian home. I am Jewish by choice. That doesn't mean that I think Judaism is the one, true religion and everyone else is wrong. It simply means that it is the one that works best for me. As I write over the next two years, just assume that there are a lot of adjectives like "allegedly," "supposedly" and "theoretically" implied in my writing. Who am I to say what did or didn't happen (and where!), often to the contrary of another person's faith? Nobody, that's who.
Whew! We now resume this Bethlehem blog, already in progress.
Our first stop on this whirlwind tour was The Church of the Nativity, a basilica commissioned in 327AD by Constantine and his mother Helena over the site popularly thought to be the birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth. The original was destroyed during the Samaritan Revolts and eventually replaced in 565AD by the current structure. The church adds to my collection of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and holds the distinction of being the first to be listed under Palestine (By UNESCO, not by me. Though by me, too, I guess.).
One enters the church through a tiny little door known as "The Door of
Humility," because you have to bow in order to enter. Or you could Limbo. That probably works, too, and is often humiliating. The original purpose of the entryway's small size, however, was more pious than practical: it helped deter vandals and invaders.
Once inside, you will find yourself pushed, shoved, and trampled over by pilgrims and tourists fighting for space that doesn't exist. It's CROWDED. Chaos ensues as tour guide speaks over tour guide, cameras flash, children find ways to run despite there being no space to do so, and the devout try to light candles and find a moment's peace despite their surroundings.
Toward the back of the sanctuary you will find a staircase leading to the Grotto of the Nativity, where Jesus is said to have been born. The exact spot is marked by a 14-pointed silver star set into a marble floor and surround by lamps. The altar is denominationally neutral. It is also crowded. This is a picture of TJ standing in front of it. I promise.
Another altar in the Grotto, maintained by the Roman Catholics, marks the site where Mary laid the newborn baby in the manger. After posing for this picture, I stood and hit my head on the ceiling and said "Ow!" Only….I don't think I said ow. I think I may have, possibly, said something you shouldn't say in a church. Oops.
The Tree of Jesse (aka Call of David), on display at the entrance, was blessed by Pope Benedict XVI during his 2009 trip to the Holy Land. The Bas-relief represents the visit of the prophet Samuel to Jesse (seated, surrounded by seven of his sons). On the opposite side is David, the youngest son, arriving with his flock. The angel reminds us that the promises made to David have been fulfilled with the Incarnation of the Son of God. The tree symbolizes the genealogy of Christ, who is situated at the highness place in the sculpture.
Beneath The Church of St. Catherine lay a a series of caverns that make up the remains of an ancient monastery. The caves contain a number of chapels, one dedicated to St. Jerome, who spent 30 years translating the Hebrew Bible form Hebrew into Latin, and the New Testament from Greek into Latin.
Next on the agenda was the Milk Grotto Chapel. It is said that Mary and Joseph stopped here to feed baby Jesus while journeying to Egypt. Legend tells that a drop of Mary's breast milk touched the ground, causing the red rock of the grotto to turn white. It is said that the rock has healing properties, were it to be ground up and consumed. Make of that what you will, but I know what *I* think. Nevertheless, if you google this place you will find all sorts of miracles that the grotto has caused to occur. There's not much to the place other than a nifty sculpture of the Holy Family and a few images of Mary breastfeeding the baby. Oh. There were also some young female tourists at the entrance arching their backs and poking their breasts out seductively as they posed for pictures. Way to keep it classy, people.
We next made our way to Manger Square, passing numerous craftsman shops along the way. Tourism is the leading industry in Bethlehem, and many people make their livings carving intricately detailed nativity scenes and selling them in their souvenir shops.
Manger Square is of course named after the manger in which Jesus was born, and the Church of the Nativity lies at the edge of the square. This being December, Christmas is exploding all over Bethlehem, and Manger Square is the focal point of the celebration, with a giant Christmas Tree and a beautiful manger taking center stage. Bethlehem's only mosque, The Mosque of Omar, lies across the square. Named after the second caliph, Omar Ibn al-Khattab, the mosque was built in 1860 on land provided by the Greek Orthodox Church in honor of Omar, the Prophet Mohammed's father-in-law. In 637, Omar took Jerusalem from the Byzantines and stopped for prayer at the Christian Church of the Nativity. He declared that the church would remain a Christian shrine and that Christians, even under Muslim rule, would remain free to practice their faith.
The tour portion of our journey concluded at Sheperd's Field, located two kilometers outside of Bethlehem near the town of Beit Sahour (بيت ساحو). Christians believe this to be the site at which an angel appeared to the shepherds and announced the birth of Jesus.
8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. 10 Then the angel said to them, "do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger." 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying: 14 "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"
The main attraction here is the Church of the Angels (above), a modestly sized, domed house of worship featuring three paintings each depicting a different aspect of the birth narrative from Luke 2.
Underneath the church is another church, built in a cave by Saint Helena in 325AD. This cavern is thought to have been the shelter used by the shepherds on that fateful night.
The tour concluded with a short (though it felt like it lasted forever. FOREVER!) stop at one of the tackiest gift shops I've ever seen. So tacky that they even sell postcards of their shop. So tacky that they replaced the baby Jesus with a disco ball. You know how Christmas has become so commercialized with decorations going on sale right after Halloween and Black Friday consumingThanksgiving? That's kind of what this place does to the Holy Land. Everything was priced in US Dollars. I couldn't believe it. They did offer a 30% discount, though. But guess what. It's still more expensive, and of a lower quality, than just about anything you will find in Old City Jerusalem. There, that's your PSA for the day.
After the attempted tourist exploitation, we crossed the street and settled in for a delicious lunch of wine, meatballs, smoked chicken, and hummus at the Grotto Restaurant. I didn't take any pictures of the food because it was served family style at a table of eight and those hungry vultures weren't playing. I was too busy fighting for food, so you'll just have to trust me that it looked (and tasted) amazing. Speaking of amazing, how about that dining view?
That wrapped up our day in Bethlehem. I headed home and promptly started writing. Then I took a break. Then it began to snow (Not that same day…it was a long break). Then the snow melted. Then I continued taking my break. But, lo! We won two tickets to the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass!
As chronological writing demands, I simply had to get this one all wrapped up in a pretty little bow for you all so that tomorrow I can regale you all with tales of this evening's adventures!
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TEAM TRAINING: Back Office Terminology & Definitions
Periodontist: A specialty dentist who’s focus is on the structures surrounding the teeth as well as gums. Periodontists are primarily concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment regarding diseases that affect those structures. An example of such disease would be periodontitis (an advanced case of gum disease). While being trained to be a general dentist they went on to complete extra studies to become a periodontist.
Prosthodontist: A specialty dentist who works with the artificial replacements within the mouth; such as the manufacturing, design and placement of such artificial replacements. An example of this could be an implant. Same situation as above, they went on to become a specialized dentist.
Prosthetic cases: As relating to the definition above, this would be one or more artificially made devices which are used to look like and preform the same as a natural tooth.
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Probiotic Supplements Can Help Coral Reefs (Just Like They Help People)
According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, approximately four million American adults take probiotic dietary supplements to help with issues such as digestion, allergic reactions, and mental acuity. Probiotics are like ‘good guy’ bacteria that help fight ‘bad’ germs, which they do by reseeding an individual’s microbiome. (It is the community of necessary bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live in or on tissues and bodily fluids and help humans maintain general health.) Dietary supplements are not the only way humans can. ingest probiotics. Yogurt, kefir, and fermented vegetables, for example, contain a lot of it. This means that most people don’t need to spend the money to buy probiotic pills. Still, supplements can often help people with stressed physiology.
Surprising new research from an international team of scientists suggests that even stressed coral reefs can benefit from probiotic supplements.
Coral reefs are a lot like Russian nesting dolls
Inside coral reefs are communities of tiny, soft-bodied animals called polyps. Cut, they are related to anemones and jellyfish.
Although polyps are usually transparent and colorless, inside each live millions of microscopic algae with brilliant hues. The relationship between polyps and algae is symbiotic. Polyps provide algae with the compounds it needs to photosynthesize. The algae give the color of the coral as well as the amino acids, glucose and glycerol. Polyps use chemical compounds to make proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
To sum up the geometry: Inside the reefs live polyps. Inside the polyps live microscopic algae that give the polyps nourishment and bright colors.
Reefs are multi-dwelling housing complexes made of exoskeletons
Polyps extract calcium and carbonate ions from the seawater around them and use the ions to make calcium carbonate (limestone) exoskeletons. Exoskeletons are rigid cup-shaped envelopes that polyps secrete from deep within their anatomy and then settle inside. Exoskeletons are essential to the life of coral reefs. Indeed, they are the reefs. When hundreds of thousands, if not millions of exoskeletons merge, they can weigh several tons.
In addition to protecting polyps, reefs provide hiding places as well as pastures and hunting grounds for a wide variety of marine life, and are therefore important for the health of the oceans in general.
Why is reef bleach
When stressed by factors such as high water temperatures or loss of light or nutrients, polyps cannot physiologically support the algae that live inside. As a result, they expel them. With the disappearance of algae, polyps lose their color, just like reefs. (Limestone is white. It’s the polyps that come out of their homes that color the reefs.) Bleached coral reefs aren’t necessarily full of dead polyps, but they are full of physiologically endangered polyps.
Unfortunately, over the past decades, coral reefs have been under unprecedented stress from global warming. As the reefs turn white and then die off, the hiding and feeding sites for thousands of fish and other marine life disappear.
Probiotic treatments for bleached coral
Just as a human’s health depends on their microbiome, the health of every component of a coral reef, from limestone to algae, depends on communities of bacteria, fungi and viruses. New research conducted by an international team of scientists and published in the peer-reviewed journal Scientists progress demonstrates that at least one type of coral reef can benefit from probiotic treatment, as some humans do. In this new study, beneficial microorganisms for coral treatments (BMCs) were used to save polyps and reefs from the effect of drastic increases in temperature.
Scientists have worked with a species of coral called Mussismilia hispida, which they collected in 80 fragments from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil and placed in an aquarium that mimicked natural conditions. The team caused the fragments to bleach by gradually increasing the water temperature from about 26 degrees Celsius to 30 degrees over the course of eight days. They kept the temperature high for ten days, and then gradually for four days, they lowered the temperature to 26 degrees. After that, the temperature was kept stable for a 23 day “recovery” period. Before and during the increase in temperature as well as during the decrease in temperature and the recovery period, a group of corals were regularly treated with BMCs made up of six different bacterial strains. Coral fragments in a control group were treated with a placebo saline solution.
All corals that had been treated with BMCs survived the bleaching event. Like Raquel S. Peixoto from the Institute of Microbiology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the Saudi Arabian Red Sea Research Center at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology explained in an email that “probiotics have not “only” improved bleaching, but also (and in fact!) prevented coral dying. While 100% of the coral fragments treated with BMC survived, only 60% of the fragments treated with the placebo survived.
Unsurprisingly, the team of scientists suggested that with global warming and the increased frequency and severity of ocean warming events, a new intervention like probiotic inoculations could end coral mortality. and what they suggest should be called “post-heat stress disorder.” If probiotic inoculations work, they could save not only corals, but also the thousands of marine animals that depend on reefs for grazing, security, and hunting grounds.
A huge challenge yet to be resolved, however, is how to inoculate large-scale reefs into the wild. In his email, Peixoto suggested, âWe have several strategies, some of which are worked in collaboration with engineers and involving robots and artificial intelligence as well as the development of slow release delivery systems. These could include bacterial pills that could slowly release bacteria onto the corals for 20 to 30 days. With such an approach, we may only need to inoculate the reef one to three times during a bleaching episode. Our idea would be to use the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) bleach alerts to know when and where a bleach event would occur, then inoculate the reef just before and during the event.
As Peixoto also explained, time is running out for coral reefs. Whatever approach scientists test and choose, they must act quickly.
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Quantum chaos is referred to as the study of quantum manifestations or fingerprints of classical chaos. A vast majority of the studies were for nonrelativistic quantum systems described by the Schrödinger equation. Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators, which are described by the Dirac equation in relativistic quantum mechanics. A new field has thus emerged: relativistic quantum chaos. This Tutorial aims to introduce this field to the scientific community. Topics covered include scarring, chaotic scattering and transport, chaos regularized resonant tunneling, superpersistent currents, and energy level statistics - all in the relativistic quantum regime. As Dirac materials have the potential to revolutionize solid-state electronic and spintronic devices, a good understanding of the interplay between chaos and relativistic quantum mechanics may lead to novel design principles and methodologies to enhance device performance.
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- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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Kitchens used to be a functional area intended solely for food preparation. Today, however, modern kitchens perform a wide variety of tasks, such as having breakfast or having a coffee in the middle of the morning or a snack in the afternoon, helping children with their homework or enjoying a glass of wine while preparing dinner as a couple. Therefore, having enough light to work comfortably is an essential aspect in the design of any kitchen .
Common mistakes in kitchen lighting
- Use a single lamp or spotlight in the center of the kitchen to illuminate the entire space with it.
- Locate several points of light, but only on the ceiling . Kitchen cabinets will cast shadows on the counter, making it difficult to see in this work area .
- Not having enough switches to illuminate each area of the kitchen separately or to regulate the light intensity in the different areas of the kitchen .
Tips for correctly lighting the kitchen
The kitchen is a multinational space , which is why it is essential to incorporate different types of lighting into it. These are the keys to do it correctly
- Incorporate point lights
A spot or task light can make things like cutting, peeling, or following a recipe from a cookbook easier. For this, small halogens can be incorporated under tall kitchen cabinets or pendant lamps on a central island. Extractor hoods usually have a built-in light to facilitate work in the cooking zone .
- Regulate the light
Regulating the light intensity of the kitchen allows you to create a relaxed and warm atmosphere at certain times of the day. A very popular option is the rows of small lights that are usually located under kitchen furniture or hidden in ceiling moldings. Rack lights can also help control the light intensity of the kitchen and create a soft ambient light.
- Decorate with light
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Unparalleled Emperor of Immortal World
"Teacher Jiang, I want to learn to play the flute. Can you teach me?" "Alright, come to my room tonight." "Teacher Jiang, the Unparalleled Heavenly Emperor wanted to acknowledge you as his teacher. He has knelt for three days and three nights already!" Do you want to bother me with such a small matter? "Let's place him among the students with the lowest cultivation." Ah? "He is a Heavenly Emperor!" Oh, I forgot. Then put him among the students who have yet to start cultivating! " In the Immortal Pet Continent, cultivators were respected. I, Jiang Feng, am one of the most respected amongst all. My name is the Ancestor and I command all the heavens, who would dare disobey me! Close]
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We’re all in this together. Flattening the curve demands a fight on all fronts, and our customers are among those leading the charge. Your uplifting stories, adaptability to change and profound creativity have been truly remarkable. We are deeply grateful for your efforts.
When Detective Kelly Gorham of the City of Portland Police uploaded heartwarming artwork to StickerYou.com and ordered these designs as tens of thousands of stickers and magnets, we had to reach out and find out more.
What began as a simple trip to Walmart for art supplies to keep her kids busy during what was originally to be two weeks at home, became an incredible and valuable lesson about how art and mindfulness can help the people who need it most in these unprecedented times.
Kelly and her 11-year-old daughter CJ began by drawing Shawnee Peak, the famed Maine ski hill whose slopes form the letters “L-O-V”, to which the artistic duo added an “e”.
CJ had the thought to create stickers of these for her friends to put on their hydro flasks. Little did she know this project was about to take on a much greater importance.
The next week as the pandemic worsened and “crisis schooling” became more indefinite, CJ and Kelly took art class to the next level. They created two more images, one of the state of Maine, and the other of the USA, on which they inscribed strong messaging about necessary actions to #StopTheSpread, and thanked the various groups of people who are on the front lines.
The idea was born to give back to the less fortunate by selling these works as both magnets and stickers, with a portion of the proceeds going to three nonprofit organizations that Detective Gorham works very closely with: The National Children’s Advocacy Center, the Cumberland County Children’s Advocacy Center and the Trauma Intervention Program in Maine.
Read on for Kelly and CJ’s story about why this was so important to them:
SY: States have differed in their handlings of the COVID-19 pandemic. What is it like in Maine? How are people dealing with the stress of it all? How are you coping yourself?
KG: Maine is, like many states, experiencing lockdown. We’re middle class and never have to worry about going without basic needs. While it can sometimes be stressful, it’s nothing as compared to what some people go through. One thing about COVID-19 is that I feel it’s pushing everyone to their maximum limits. I see so many people finding ways to give back. I investigate sex crimes including those committed on juveniles so I see the vulnerable, the less fortunate, the preyed upon, the homeless. They need more support than ever at this time, so hopefully our initiative can go a long way towards helping them. Doing our part to help is our way of coping. I also cope with daily exercise, good nutrition, and now art!
SY: The images of the state of Maine and the USA where you thank all the groups on the front lines of the outbreak are very powerful. What inspired you to create them?
KG: My mother Cheryl (CJ’s grandmother) was an incredible artist and I was creative and artsy in my teenage years, but kind of lost my passion for art after my mother passed in 1995. It wasn’t until this year when CJ asked me to paint Shawnee Peak that I got back into it. I felt a calmness I have not felt in some time and it brought back so many beautiful memories of my mother. CJ had the idea to sell these stickers and give the proceeds to the underprivileged. I felt a “proud momma” moment as CJ’s idea to raise money for others was heartfelt and her own. I talked to her about my job as a police detective and all the victims and survivors I work with. I want our children to know that they are so very loved and incredibly blessed and that some aren’t so fortunate. We then focused on spreading the word and ensuring that everyone was doing their part to “Stay Home”, “Wash Your Hands”, respect “Social Distancing” and we did so through our art. We designed the Maine and USA stickers with all of our essential professions in mind… including parents. Don’t get me wrong, we know we forgot a bunch of other groups of people that we should be thankful for who are putting themselves at higher risk for us day in and day out.
SY: The images don’t require words for others to understand its meaning. If you were to use words to express your feelings to others about the COVID-19 pandemic, what words would you use?
KG: Some of my kids’ friends have asthma which puts them at higher risk. When I saw videos of teenagers partying it up at spring break I found it to be way out of line. Relationships are number one. What I would say to everyone is to think of your kids, your partner, your parents, your grandparents. What if they were to catch COVID-19 and were at higher risk of death? We all have to treat this as though we could lose someone to the virus. Just stay home and respect everyone as much as you would your loved ones. That’s what’s going to get us through this.
SY: How would you like to see this image used by other people?
KG: As I said, I think we’ve missed a bunch of people to thank but at the end of the day we all need to have respect for human beings. Be patient with those on the front lines. And take the measures necessary to stop the spread. The only way we will overcome this is if we do it together. We can’t have half the world doing the right thing and the other half ignoring this issue because the half ignoring what they should be doing affects the entire world.
SY: What role do you see art playing in uncertain times like these?
KG: We hope that the art unites people and teaches all kids and all people for that matter that they can do their part. CJ came up with the idea - so if the world gets through this pandemic and kids are learning coping skills at such a young age that most adults don’t even have, imagine how our kids will be 20 years from now having endured this? If we can ingrain these values of giving back and sticking together in our kids now, they will be 10 times better and more ready for anything than we’ve ever been.
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Cultures carved onto stone.
Different cultures and eras come together in art, Acqueforti Tiles are stones decorated with the knowledge and passion of expert craftsmen, suitable for cladding and floors. Enhanced during the Renaissance, the essence of these acqueforti carvings flourishes once more in our era, expressing itself in unique customizations, along with the elegance of gold and the reflections of silver when required, to reflect different styles and tastes.
Reflections of particular elegance.
In this collection the stones are divided into smaller shapes, finely arranged one next to the other, to create trends and artistic styles that enclose a particular elegance, sublime in its reflections, poetic in its features and artistic in its many aspects. Ancient, modern or contemporary, the soul of Acqueforti Mosaics manifests itself in a unique light, highlighted in every detail.
ardesia graphite - ardesia multicolor - aster - bianco carrara - biancone - black cosmic - blaze - bluebelge - botticino - crema luna - goya - grigio bardiglio - jacana - londongrey - makramé - nero marquinia - new smoke - noisette - rosso francia - travertino chiaro - travertino noce - travertino rosso - tundra - vertigo
gold, silver, copper, indaco, rocher, reflex chrome, shell, ash
dorato, argentato, bronzo, cuoio, fumé, malachite, platino, sand, lacca bianca
naturale, caffé, blu, cocoa, crema, marron, muschio, prugna
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04/07/2022 – Slovenia has achieved a strong post-pandemic recovery with record-high employment, but high inflation, supply chain bottlenecks and other impacts from the war in Ukraine are draining economic momentum. Slovenia should focus on reining in inflation and then accelerating reforms to bolster productivity and foster stronger and more sustainable growth for the longer term, according to a new OECD report.
The latest OECD Economic Survey of Slovenia says that, as for many countries, Slovenia’s economy faces heightened uncertainty since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, adding to pre-existing challenges such as labour shortages and population ageing. The Survey recommends strengthening public finances along with growth-friendly tax reforms and measures to improve worker skills and mobility and speed up the digital transition.
“Slovenia’s economy was recovering well from the COVID-19 crisis, but the war in Ukraine is amplifying inflationary pressures, exacerbating supply chain disruptions and weighing on growth,” OECD Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary-General Laurence Boone said, presenting the Survey alongside Slovenia’s Minister of Finance Klemen Boštjančič. “An ageing workforce means Slovenia needs much stronger productivity growth to keep raising living standards as well as strengthening the pension system. Overcoming these challenges will require structural reforms to build a more digital, sustainable and productive economy.”
Slovenia’s economic activity surpassed its pre-pandemic level in 2021 with GDP growth of 8.1% as government support equivalent to around 10% of GDP cushioned incomes and businesses. The Survey sees GDP growth slowing to 4.6% in 2022 and 2.5% in 2023. Inflation has accelerated to its highest level in 20 years, and is projected to remain high.
This makes it even more important to prepare for the rising pressure on public finances from an ageing population and shrinking workforce in terms of lower receipts and unfunded increases in pension benefits. With Slovenia facing one of the highest pension spending increases of OECD countries in the years ahead, the Survey recommends lengthening contribution periods and a higher statutory retirement age to secure better retirements.
Over the longer term, Slovenia’s growth needs strengthening. In this respect, decentralised wage setting could improve labour market dynamics, by enabling firms to use pay to attract workers and creating incentives to invest in training. Better governance of state-owned enterprises and enhanced competition can also optimise labour resources across the economy.
The tax system could be made more growth friendly by reducing labour taxation, which can act as a disincentive to work, and by increasing consumption and property taxes. Slovenia should also remove some of the exemptions and allowances that narrow its income tax base.
To meet its objective of becoming one of the five most digitalised European Union countries, Slovenia will need to expand access to affordable high-speed internet, improve digital competency among the general population and skills among workers, and increase firms’ adoption of digital tools.
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These stories show the human impact of the Trump Administration’s disregard for science, human life and the environment.
EPA workers need everyone’s help to protect human health and the environment to keep America safe.Gary Morton, President of AFGE Council 238
To destroy the planet, Trump and EPA Administrator Wheeler need to destroy the EPA. And to destroy the EPA, they have to silence the collective voices of EPA workers.Taly Jolish, former local union president and current AFGE member
If EPA is committed to racial justice and eliminating white supremacy in our offices, we must maintain telework through the end of this pandemic and put safety first, plain and simple.Felicia Chase, AFGE member at EPA Region 5’s Water Division
As EPA workers, we protect human health and the environment every day--and we cannot remain silent.Nicole Cantello from AFGE Local 704
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Why DiDi Chuxing's Business Model is so successful?
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DiDi Chuxing’s Company Overview
Didi Chuxing is the world’s leading mobile transportation platform. The company offers a full range of mobile tech-based mobility options for nearly 400 million users across more than 400 Chinese cities, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Minibus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As many as 20 million rides were completed on DiDi’s platform on a daily basis in October 2016, making DiDi the world’s second largest online transaction platform next only to Taobao. DiDi acquired Uber China in August 2016.www.xiaojukeji.com
DiDi Chuxing’s Customer Needs
Life changing: affiliation/belonging, motivation, self-actualization
Emotional: reduces anxiety, provides access, badge value, design/aesthetics, attractiveness
Functional: saves time, simplifies, reduces risk, organizes, connects, reduces effort, reduces cost, integrates, avoids hassles, sensory appeal, makes money, quality
DiDi Chuxing’s Related Competitors
DiDi Chuxing’s Business Operations
Archetypes of business model design:
The business model archetypes include many business personalities and more than one business model linked to various goods or services. There is a common foundation behind the scenes of each unit, but from a management standpoint, each group may operate independently.
This pattern is based on the capacity to convert current goods or services into digital versions, which have several benefits over intangible products, including increased accessibility and speed of distribution. In an ideal world, the digitalization of a product or service would occur without compromising the consumer value proposition. In other words, efficiency and multiplication achieved via digitalization do not detract from the consumer's perceived value. Being digitally sustainable encompasses all aspects of sustaining the institutional framework for developing and maintaining digital objects and resources and ensuring their long-term survival.
Access over ownership:
The accessibility over ownership model is a business concept that allows consumers to utilize a product without owning it. Everything serves a purpose. As a result, consumers all across the Western world are demanding more value from their goods and services, and they are rethinking their relationship with stuff.' Furthermore, with thriving online communities embracing the idea of access above ownership, the internet is developing as a robust platform for sharing models to expand and prosper.
A digital strategy is a strategic management and a business reaction or solution to a digital issue, which is often best handled as part of a broader company plan. A digital strategy is frequently defined by the application of new technologies to existing business activities and a focus on enabling new digital skills for their company (such as those formed by the Information Age and frequently as a result of advances in digital technologies such as computers, data, telecommunication services, and the World wide web, to name a few).
Combining data within and across industries:
How can data from other sources be integrated to generate additional value? The science of big data, combined with emerging IT standards that enable improved data integration, enables new information coordination across businesses or sectors. As a result, intelligent executives across industries will see big data for what it is: a revolution in management. However, as with any other significant organizational transformation, the difficulties associated with becoming a big data-enabled company may be tremendous and require hands-on?or, in some instances, hands-off?leadership.
Innovation is the outcome of collaborative creativity in turning an idea into a feasible concept, accompanied by a collaborative effort to bring that concept to life as a product, service, or process improvement. The digital era has created an environment conducive to business model innovation since technology has transformed how businesses operate and provide services to consumers.
Codifying a distinctive service capability:
Since their inception, information technology systems have aided in automating corporate operations, increasing productivity, and maximizing efficiency. Now, businesses can take their perfected processes, standardize them, and sell them to other parties. In today's corporate environment, innovation is critical for survival.
Keeping the purchase price low by avoiding mediators and maximizing supply margins is a win-win situation. In finance, disintermediation refers to how money is removed from intermediate financial organizations such as banks and savings and loan associations and invested directly. Disintermediation, in general, refers to the process of eliminating the middleman or intermediary from future transactions. Disintermediation is often used to invest in higher-yielding securities.
New job trends:
The workforce as a whole is gravitating toward remote, dispersed teams comprised of freelancers and independent contractors. Workplace customization extends beyond IT and gadgets; workflow, behavior, and expectations are modeled after real-world applications. These are novel methods of job search.
The on-demand economy is described as economic activity generated by digital marketplaces that meet customer demand for products and services via quick access and accessible supply. The supply chain is managed via a highly efficient, intuitive digital mesh built on top of current infrastructure networks. The on-demand economy is transforming commercial behavior in cities worldwide. The number of businesses, the categories covered, and the industry's growth rate are all increasing. Businesses in this new economy are the culmination of years of technological progress and customer behavior change.
It is a legally sanctioned technique of duplicating a technology in which, rather than beginning from scratch, one starts with an existing product and works backward to determine how it works. Once the product's basic principle or core idea is established, the next stage is to replicate the same outcomes using other methods to prevent (legally prohibited) patent infringement. The cost of manufacturing is significantly lowered.
Mobile first behavior:
It is intended to mean that as a company thinks about its website or its other digital means of communications, it should be thinking critically about the mobile experience and how customers and employees will interact with it from their many devices. The term is “mobile first,” and it is intended to mean that as a company thinks about its website or its other digital means of communications, it should be thinking critically about the mobile experience and how customers and employees will interact with it from their many devices.
Revenue sharing occurs in various forms, but each iteration includes the sharing of operational gains or losses amongst connected financial players. Occasionally, revenue sharing is utilized as an incentive program ? for example, a small company owner may pay partners or colleagues a percentage-based commission for recommending new clients. Occasionally, revenue sharing is utilized to share the earnings generated by a corporate partnership.
Uberization is a phrase that refers to a shift to an operational paradigm that allows economic actors to trade underused capacity of existing assets or human resources at near-zero transaction costs. The word Uberization is taken from the company's name. Thus, the model's operational expenses are distinct from those of an established company.
From push to pull:
In business, a push-pull system refers to the flow of a product or information between two parties. Customers pull the products or information they need on markets, while offerers or suppliers push them toward them. In logistics and supply chains, stages often operate in both push and pull modes. For example, push production is forecasted demand, while pull production is actual or consumer demand. The push-pull border or decoupling point is the contact between these phases. Wal-Mart is a case of a company that employs a push vs. a pull approach.
The Lean Start-up methodology is a scientific approach to developing and managing businesses that focuses on getting the desired product into consumers' hands as quickly as possible. The Lean Startup method coaches you on how to guide a startup?when to turn, when to persevere?and how to build a company with maximum acceleration. It is a guiding philosophy for new product development.
The sharing economy eliminates the necessity for individual asset ownership. The phrase sharing economy is an umbrella word that encompasses various definitions and is often used to refer to economic and social activity that involves online transactions. Originally coined by the open-source community to refer to peer-to-peer sharing of access to goods and services, the term is now occasionally used more broadly to refer to any sales transaction conducted via online marketplaces, including those that are business to consumer (B2C) than peer-to-peer.
This pattern allows the business to adjust its rates in response to national or regional trends. Dynamic pricing is a pricing technique known as surge pricing, demand pricing, or time-based pricing. In which companies establish variable prices for their goods or services in response to changing market conditions. Companies may adjust their rates based on algorithms that consider rival pricing, supply and demand, and other market variables. Dynamic pricing is widely used in various sectors, including hospitality, travel, entertainment, retail, energy, and public transportation.
Two-sided marketplaces, also called two-sided networks, are commercial platforms featuring two different user groups that mutually profit from the web. A multi-sided platform is an organization that generates value mainly via the facilitation of direct contacts between two (or more) distinct kinds of connected consumers (MSP). A two-sided market enables interactions between many interdependent consumer groups. The platform's value grows as more groups or individual members of each group use it. For example, eBay is a marketplace that links buyers and sellers. Google connects advertising and searchers. Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are also bidirectional, linking consumers and marketers.
New technologies that are now being created or produced in the next five to ten years will significantly change the economic and social landscape. These include but are not limited to information technology, wireless data transmission, human-machine connection, on-demand printing, biotechnology, and sophisticated robotics.
A disruptive technology supplants an existing technology and fundamentally alters an industry or a game-changing innovation that establishes an altogether new industry. Disruptive innovation is defined as an invention that shows a new market and value network and ultimately disrupts an established market and value network, replacing incumbent market-leading companies, products, and alliances.
Disrupts by offering a better understanding that customers are willing to pay for. Experience companies that have progressed may begin charging for the value of the transformation that an experience provides. An experienced company charges for the feelings consumers get as a result of their interaction with it.
Take the wheel:
Historically, the fundamental principles for generating and extracting economic value were rigorous. Businesses attempted to implement the same business concepts more effectively than their rivals. New sources of sustained competitive advantage are often only accessible via business model reinvention driven by disruptive innovation rather than incremental change or continuous improvement.
Product innovation is the process of developing and introducing a new or better version of an existing product or service. This is a broader definition of innovation than the generally recognized definition, which includes creating new goods that are considered innovative in this context. For example, Apple launched a succession of successful new products and services in 2001?the iPod, the iTunes online music service, and the iPhone?which catapulted the firm to the top of its industry.
Companies that add value across many markets and sectors are referred to be layer players. Occasionally, specialist companies achieve dominance in a specific niche market. The effectiveness of their operations, along with their economies of size and footprint, establish the business as a market leader.
Peer to Peer (P2P):
A peer-to-peer, or P2P, service is a decentralized platform that enables two people to communicate directly, without the need for a third-party intermediary or the usage of a corporation providing a product or service. For example, the buyer and seller do business now via the P2P service. Certain peer-to-peer (P2P) services do not include economic transactions such as buying and selling but instead connect people to collaborate on projects, exchange information, and communicate without the need for an intermediary. The organizing business provides a point of contact for these people, often an online database and communication service. The renting of personal goods, the supply of particular products or services, or the exchange of knowledge and experiences are all examples of transactions.
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Week 8: Signature Assignment – Evidence-Based Project ProposalWeb Page Points: 200 | Due Date: Week 8, Day 7 | CLO: 2, 5 | Grade Category: Assignments Assignment Prompt The purpose of the signature assignment is for students to apply the research and EBP concepts they have learned in this course and develop a framework for the initial steps of the students capstone project. The assignment allows the student to initiate the steps for planning, researching, and developing an evidence-based practice intervention project proposal. On or before Day 7, of week eight each student will submit his or her final proposal paper to the week eight assignment link in D2L. This formal paper will include and expand upon work completed thus far in prior assignments. Essential Components of the Final Project Proposal will include: Introduction Provide an introduction to your topic or project. The introduction gives the reader an accurate, concrete understanding what the project will cover and what can be gained from the implementation of this project. Overview of the Problem Discuss the problem, why the problem is worth exploring, and the potential contribution of the proposed project to the discipline of nursing. Project Purpose Statement Provide a declarative sentence or two which summarizes the specific topic and goals of the project. Background and Significance State the importance of the problem and emphasize what is innovative about your proposed project. Discuss the potential impact of your project on your anticipated results to the betterment of health and/or health outcomes. PICOt formatted Clinical Project Question(s) Provide the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Expected Outcomes and Timeframe for the proposed project. Literature Review Provide the key terms used to guide a search for evidence and discuss at least five (5) summaries of relevant, credible, recent, evidence-based research studies to support the project proposal. Critical Appraisal of Literature Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence, what is known from the evidence and what gaps in evidence were found from the appraisal of evidence-based research studies. Develop an EBP Standard Describe two to three interventions (or a bundle of care) from the evidence and discuss how individual patient preferences or the preferences of others will be considered. Implications Summarize the potential contributions of the proposed project for nursing research, education, and practice. Conclusion The outline/template for this assignment can be located here. Please use/follow. Expectations Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT Length: A minimum of 8 pages and a maximum of 10 pages (excluding the title and reference pages) Format: Formal scholarly paper in APA 7th ed format Reference Citations: A minimum of five, recent (past five years), peer-reviewed scholarly references cited in APA 7th ed format. Filename: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_Sig Assignment note: PICOT questions in the early stage of the appraisal process, and they were trying to answer a few questions, Do bedridden residents (P) with every two hours repositioning (I) compared to the ones with less repositioning (C) benefit from developing less or no bedsores (O) over a 90-day period (T)? For more information on EBP read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBP
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Assistant Teachers work alongside the teachers in every year group in Early Years and Primary School, enabling more attention to be given to each student and closer monitoring of the work.
Key Stage 1 Curriculum
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In Language and Literacy, we aim to provide a rich and stimulating environment in which children find interest and pleasure in communicating in English. They are offered many experiences to develop their interest in reading with fluency, accuracy, understanding and enjoyment.
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What is vasectomy?
Vasectomy is considered to be one of the most effective forms of birth control available today.
It is a surgical procedure that prevents sperm from entering the semen. A vasectomy can be performed using either a scalpel or a no-scalpel technique, which involves the use of an instrument called a vasclip to cut and seal off the tubes that carry sperm (vas deferens). The procedure is typically performed with local anesthesia and takes between 15 and 30 minutes.
Why Choose a Vasectomy?
A permanent method of birth control that is 99% effective sounds too good to be true. However, according researchers, vasectomies do come with an overwhelming amount of benefits that can improve the quality of life for the man and his partner.
Vasectomy is Low Risk and Quick
The vasectomy procedure is very low risk. It is of significant low risk that the vasectomy can be carried out as an in-office procedure in our practice at Desert Sky Urology.
Vasectomy has no effect on sexual function
The vasectomy procedure does not change a man’s hormone levels. Cutting the sperm ducts does not affect testosterone levels, and the penis is not involved in the operation. Therefore, there should be little to no effect on sexual function.
Vasectomy procedure is a quick recovery
The vasectomy procedure takes less than 30 minutes to perform.
Recovery time is usually less than a week, but some men experience symptoms for up to two weeks. After the vasectomy, you will be given detailed instructions on what to do during your recovery period. You should have someone drive you home after the procedure. Avoid driving for at least 24 hours. You may experience some mild discomfort and swelling in your scrotum that can last up to two weeks after the surgery. You should wear loose-fitting pants and avoid heavy lifting or strenuous activity for at least one week after your procedure.
Vasectomy is not that costly
Vasectomies are generally less expensive than tubal ligations.
Are you a good candidate for vasectomy?
But before you make any decisions about getting a vasectomy, it’s important to understand whether or not you’re a good candidate for the procedure.
Here are some of the things that might make you an excellent candidate for a vasectomy:
-You’ve been married for at least five years and have no plans to have more children in the future
-You’ve had at least one child with your current partner, but don’t want more children with anyone else in the future
-You have no plans to get pregnant in the future.
– You and your partner have decided that your family is now complete, or you are past your childbearing years
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Kathmandu- The government is to soon make appointments to the vacant ambassadorial positions to various countries.
The meeting of the Council of Ministers on Sunday has recommended names for appointment as ambassadors to three countries including India.
Top officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have said the names of individuals for appointment to the vacant posts of ambassador would be recommended soon. The Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee will conduct hearing on the recommended names.
It is learnt the Council of Ministers’ meeting recommended law expert and intellectual Nilambar Acharya to the post of ambassador to India, former ambassador Udaya Raj Pandey to the post of ambassador to Malaysia and joint secretary at the Ministry Krishna Prasad Dhakal to the post of ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.
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Whenever you need to know how many ounces are in fourteen pounds, all you need to do is calculate the ounces of 14 pounds. Here’s how to do it. One pound equals 16.1 oz, and two ounces equal 0.04 oz. If you want to know the conversion factor, you can use the formula below. You can also convert the pound to the ounces using the gram system.
In the Troy system, the pound and ounce are used for weight. In the metric system, a troy oz weighs 31.1 grams and an avoirdupois pound is 0.45359237 kilograms. The pound is the most commonly used weight unit in measurements of precious metals, gems, and opals. In most cases, a pound is equal to exactly 16.3 oz is equivalent to one pound.
The ounce is an important unit of mass and is used to measure the weight of an object. A pound equals one sixteenth of a kilogram, and an ounce is a quarter of a pound. In British imperial and customary systems, the ounce is commonly used for weighing precious metals. A troy oz weighs 31.1 g. In general, there are 16 ounces in a pound.
To convert pounds to ounces, multiply 14 lb by 16. A pound is equivalent to 0.35767 oz. Therefore, when you need to know how many ounces in 14 pounds, you can divide it by 16. The result is 3/14 lb. So, the answer to the question how many ounces in fourteen pounds is: oz = 14. If you’re wondering, then you should use the pound.
The pound is equal to 28.3 g. The ounce is also the unit of mass used in the United States and Britain. The pound is considered to be equal to 16 oz. The ounces in the United States are standardized. The troy oz is used to measure the weight of the gold and silver. Its mass is 31.1 g. So, the ounces in a 14 lb is the same as three / four oz.
If you want to convert a pound to ounces, you should multiply the pound by 16. A pound is equal to one-half pound of ounces. To convert ounces to lb, divide the pound by sixteen. A pound is the same as three ounces. A kilogram is the same as fourteen oz. It is also equal to a third of a gram.
To convert pounds to ounces, you should divide the pound by 16. If the two units are the same weight, then the pound is equal to three ounces. So, when it comes to determining the weight of an object, you should look for the pound. This is the same as the pound. A lb is a gram. The ounce is the same as a lb.
You should also know how many ounces are in a pound. Generally speaking, one pound equals 16. In the case of precious metals, the ounce is the weight unit for precious stones, including gold and diamonds. The ounce is the unit of measurement of a pound. In addition to weight, the troy oz is the unit of weight of a pound.
In case of weight, the pound equals 16 oz. A troy ounce is one sixteenth of a pound. To calculate the amount of ounces in a pound, divide the pound by sixteen. If you want to know how many ounces in a pound, you should divide it by the oz. The oz in a lb is the same as a pound.
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Enhanced application limits for crossed helical gearboxes using new geometries for smaller sliding paths or smaller contact pressures
Ruhr-University Bochum, Chair of Industrial and Automotive Drivetrains, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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Crossed-axis helical gear units are used as actuators and auxiliary drives in large quantities in automotive applications such as window regulators, windscreen wipers and seat adjusters. Commonly gear geometry of crossed helical gears is described with one pitch point. This article deals with an extended calculation method for worm gear units. The extended calculation method increases the range of solutions available for helical gears. In general, for a valid crossed helical gear pair, the rolling cylinders do not have to touch each other. In mass production of many similar gears, individual gears can be reused because they can be paired with other centre distances and ratios. This also allows the use of spur gears in combination with a worm, making manufacturing easier and more efficient. By selecting design parameters, for example the axis crossing angle or the helix angle of a gear, positive effects can be achieved on the tooth contact pressure, the overlap ratio, the sliding paths, the lubrication condition, the tooth stiffness and, to a limited extent, on the efficiency of the gearing. It can be shown that for involute helical gears, in addition to the known insensitivity of the transmission behaviour to centre distance deviations, there is also insensitivity to deviations of the axis crossing angle. This means that installation tolerances for crossed helical gearboxes can be determined more cost-effectively.
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BY MARKO TAIBOT
ADJUMANI: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2021
Michael Koma Kenyi, a refugee from Pagirinya refugee settlement, is among the many road crash victims recovering at Adjumani hospital.
Kenyi, a father of six, joined the bodaboda (motor cycle taxi) industry as his source of livelihood to supplement his food ration early this year when further reduction in food ration was announced by the World Food Program.
On November 7, 2021, he carried a passenger to Nyumanzi refugee settlement about 8 kilometers (km) away.
He left Pagirinya at 6:00 pm, and after successfully dropping his passenger, Kenyi met his misfortune during his return trip, his second road accident in ten years.
However the 2011 crash in Nimule, a border town in South Sudan was not as severe as this at Dzaipi.
At 7:30 pm before Dzaipi trading center, he lost the lights of his motorcycle but instead of going to fix them at a garage, he chose to improvise light with a torch.
Kenyi says he narrowly missed crashing into a pedestrian and swerved to the roadside where upon he fell off the motorcycle, injuring his head and the back.
“Because my torch was dim, when I realized that I was going to knock the pedestrian, I applied brakes so abruptly and I failed to control the motorcycle” he recalls of the incident.
Currently Kenyi is unable to sit on his own or pass urine. He has been connected to tubes and the doctors say that he needs an x-ray scan to examine the damages in his thoracic region.
His ordeal is one of the several cases of road accidents that led to the death of 92 people in 2020 and 129 people between January and September 2021 according to information from Adjumani district health department.
The department recorded a total of 2,826 people treated of injuries from road crashes last year and 1,666 people in the first nine months of 2021.
The data shows that pedestrians, bicycle riders and motorcyclists are more vulnerable to road crashes compared to other road users.
Globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says that road crashes cause nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and estimated 50 million injuries each year, making it the leading killer of children and young people worldwide.
As a result the United Nations general assembly resolution A/RES/74/299 declared a decade of action for road safety 2021-2030 with the target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50%.
In Adjumani districts, medics blame most of the crashes on reckless riding, drunk driving, poor mechanical conditions of the vehicles and motorcycles and the bad roads.
According to section 108 of the amended traffic and road safety act 2020 of Uganda, a person who causes bodily injury or death through reckless driving of motor vehicle, trailer or engineering plant commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment not exceeding ten years.
It adds that a person who causes bodily injury through reckless driving of motor vehicle, trailer or engineering plant commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred currency points or imprisonment not exceeding three years or both.
The same act defines reckless driving to mean, disregard for rules of the road or driving without proper caution and includes driving over prescribed speed limit, failing to use signals, disobeying traffic signs and signals.
The others are driving into another lane, using a hand held mobile phone while driving, driving on a public road without due care and attention or reasonable consideration for other persons using the road and driving while under the influence of drinks and drugs.
But the police in Adjumani say that few road accidents are reported to them as victims tend to settle matters with riders without police involvement.
Their records show that from January to September 2021 road crashes reported and recorded at police were 54 with seven fatalities and 76 injuries.
Of those reported cases, 26 involved motorcyclist, two were bicycle riders, one pedestrian and one baby while the rest were vehicle users.
Sam Odong, the police officer in-charge of traffic in Adjumani district, explains that pedestrians and cyclists are prone to road crashes due to over speeding, poor adherence to use of helmet, and drunk driving. He estimates that these causes account for 90% of the road accidents.
He also identified lack of training to ride motorcycles as another serious factor, noting that majority of the riders on the road do not have driving permits.
Some pedestrians, he added, become vulnerable because they do not walk where pedestrians should walk but they walk where cyclists are supposed to ride and vice versa.
Joyce Madrara, a survivor of a road crash in 2019, said she and the motorcyclist were knocked by a speeding vehicle with registration number UBS 943 when they had stopped to allow the vehicle to pass due to a narrow road.
She broke both legs and had to be transferred from Adjumani hospital to Mulago national referral hospital for specialized care.
The doctors initially recommended amputating her legs before changing their mind to support bones using artificial gadgets.
“My appeal to road users like drivers and motorists is that they should be mindful of other road users like pedestrians, especially children and persons with disability,” said Madrara.
“I now fear motorcycles, and I fear moving on roads because of the way people use the roads,” she added.
Marcelino Rubahamya, the Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) manager for western Uganda, acknowledges that although they have put road signs on all tarmac roads, gravel roads lack road signs.
He says even then, the road signs are frequently stolen by people and sold as metal scrap while on gravel roads communities attempt to create humps with soil in places where none is needed, leading to accidents.
Rubahamya underscored the need for road discipline and emphasized that motorcyclists need to undergo formal training to reduce road crashes.
However, he says the mandate to conduct road safety training has been shifted to the ministry of works and transport, leaving UNRA with only the responsibility to construct and grade roads.
Jimmy Adwek, the regional UNRA branch manager for northern Uganda, observed that on gravel or earth roads, riders and drivers raise a lot of dust which causes poor visibility for all road users.
“Most Ugandans do not follow road signs especially speed limits. For example on paved roads where they have put a speed limit of 100 Km per hour, some users drive at speeds beyond that limit,” he said.
Adwek acknowledged that UNRA sometimes faces challenges of maintaining some of the roads which become impassable and may cause road crashes.
He said crashes on bad roads could be minimized when road users are disciplined and cautious while using the roads.
Edward Gift Drici, the branch manager Uganda Red Cross Society in Adjumani, stated that the organisation is preparing to train bodabodas and other pedestrians on basic first aid skills because some of the minor injuries could be managed before referring them to a health facility.
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WEATHER MENTALITY FOR CORN AND SOYBEANS:
crop weather remains mostly good and should stay that way through the next ten days. Southeastern Canada’s crop conditions will remain mostly good. Canola in Canada’s Prairies varies from being too wet in the west to too dry in parts of the east. Rain will
fall periodically in the Prairies over the next couple of weeks, but the rain will be erratic enough to leave some of the drier areas in need of more moisture.
planting weather for coarse grain and oilseeds will be good over the next couple of weeks. Relief to dryness in east-central China last week has improved summer crop prospects in some areas. However, net drying in parts of the North China Plain and northern
Yellow River Basin this week will raise unirrigated crop stress. Flooding in rapeseed areas recently may have reduced crop quality and certainly delayed harvesting.
weather will be favorable for canola areas over the next ten days. South Africa’s western canola benefited from some rain during the weekend, but more is needed.
harvest has advanced well recently and will continue to move forward around periods of rain. Brazil’s Safrinha corn is maturing, although some late season filling occurred while dryness prevailed resulting in greater worry over late season yield and quality
declines. Brazil’s weather has not been seriously impacting late season crops, but some small impact is expected.
weather has been favorable for most crops. Some drier and warmer weather in the next week to ten days will be welcome in the wetter areas, but might drying a few locations in the northwest enough to raise some short term concern.
drying from the Volga River Basin into Kazakhstan could harm some summer coarse grain and oilseed crops if the trends last deeply into the summer.
weather will likely have a bearish bias to market mentality because of anticipated better U.S. weather and the National Weather Service outlook still calling for wetter biased conditions for the next 90 days across the lower Midwest, Delta and southeastern
WEATHER MENTALITY FOR WHEAT:
rain in Canada’s Prairies and eventually in the U.S. northern Plains will bring a little improvement to small grain crops, but more rain will be needed. Eastern and far south-central Saskatchewan and parts of Manitoba are still quite dry along with western
North Dakota and eastern Montana. Additional opportunity for rain will evolve later this week for some of the drier areas. In the meantime, parts of Alberta are still too wet and will stay that way for a while this week.
and eastern Ontario crop conditions will be mostly good over the next ten days.
harvest weather is expected in U.S. hard red winter wheat areas and a favorable environment for late season filling will occur in Nebraska, northern Kansas as well as across the Midwest this week. Wetter conditions next week could interfere with some farming
weather will be mostly good for winter crops, although there may be some need for drier weather in early maturing crop areas to protect small grains from wet weather disease. Drying from the Volga River Basin into Kazakhstan may be a threat to unirrigated
winter crops, but most of the region’s crops are still rated favorably today. Spring wheat areas in the eastern Russia New Lands are also experiencing mostly favorable conditions, but some rain is needed near the Kazakhstan border.
southern wheat quality may be slipping because of recent heavy rainfall. Drier weather will be slow to return and that may prolong harvest delays and concern over grain quality.
recent rain was good for improving establishment for wheat and barley across the nation, although more rain is still needed in many areas.
Africa recent rain in the far west was welcome, but rain is needed in other winter crop production areas. Rain coming up in Argentina during mid-week this week will be a tremendous help for wheat germination and emergence.
weather today will likely provide a mixed influence on market mentality.
5-day Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
OUTLOOK PREDICTS LIKELY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS ALASKA AND MOST OF THE CONTIGUOUS U.S.
OUTLOOK PREDICTS ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION TO BE LIKELY FOR SOUTHERN REGIONS OF ALASKA, INCLUDING ALEUTIAN ISLANDS AND ALASKA PANHANDLE
NORMAL PRECIPITATION IS ALSO LIKELY FOR MUCH OF EASTERN CONTIGUOUS U.S.
NORMAL PRECIPITATION LIKELY FOR MUCH OF PACIFIC NORTHWEST, NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ROCKIES, PARTS OF NORTHERN GREAT BASIN, NORTHEAST REGIONS OF FOUR CORNERS REGION
Futures Europe weekly commitments of traders report, 1:30pm (6:30pm London)
commitments of traders weekly report on positions for various U.S. futures and options, 3:30pm
weekly update on crop conditions
Cattle on Feed, 3pm
palm oil export data for June 1-20
Bloomberg and FI
export sales were within expectations, meal below, and soybean oil lower end of expectations.
took 320k old crop and 1.033MMT of new crop soybeans.
export sales were poor along with sorghum.
export sales topped expectations.
sales were 38,600 tons, good in our opinion.
US Initial Jobless Claims Jun-13: 1508K (exp 1290K; R prev 1566K)
Continuing Claims Jun-6: 20544M (exp 19850K; R prev 20606K)
US Philadelphia Fed Business Index Jun: 27.5 (exp -23.0; prev -43.1)
Canadian Wholesale Trade (M/M) Apr: -21.6% (exp -12.6%; prev -2.2%)
Canadian New Housing Price Index May: 0.1% (prev 0.0%)
Canadian ADP Revises April Job Loss To 2.4Mln From 226.7K
Employment Rose 208.4K In May
Corn ended slightly higher on drought expansion shown on today’s US Drought Monitor. While the week ahead sees no issues, the market was showing concerns over the worsening conditions. This puts
more eyes on Monday’s USDA Crop Conditions Report.
Heat across the western Corn Belt is supporting corn futures. We estimate managed money was net short 292,000 contracts headed into today.
Funds were net buyers of 1,000 corn contracts on the session.
China sold nearly 4 million tons of mostly 2015 crop-year corn from reserves on Thursday, bringing sales over a 4-week period to nearly 16MMT. Sinograin will about 663,000 tons from the 2016 harvest
U.S. generated 840 million ethanol (D6) blending credits during the month of May, up from 645 million during April.
USDA Cattle on Feed is due out at the end of the week. USDA May Cattle on Feed survey is calling for a 26.1% drop in marketings as meat plants slowed due to COVID-19.
The weekly USDA Broiler Report showed eggs set in the United States up 2 percent and chicks placed down 1 percent. Cumulative placements from the week ending January 4, 2020 through June 13, 2020
for the United States were 4.45 billion. Cumulative placements were down 1 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Korea’s FLC seeks 69,000 tons of corn for October shipment.
soybeans finished higher soy exports and on weather the past week that has shown drought expansion across the Corn Belt.
projected for the WCB and talk of China buying US agriculture products, including soybeans also underpinned the market.
soybean curve appears flattened out, despite China buying for November-January arrival. Large US production prospects are part of the reason. For the front month it could be related to lack of producer selling.
were net buyers of 2,000 soybeans and 2,000 soybean meal, and sellers of 1,000 soybean oil on the session.
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To unveil the complexity of the solar atmosphere, measurement of the magnetic field in the upper chromosphere and transition region is fundamentally important, as this is where the forces transition from plasma to magnetic field dominated. Measurements of the field are also needed to elucidate the energy transport from the lower atmospheric regions to the corona beyond. Such an advance in heliospheric knowledge became possible with the first flight of the international solar sounding rocket mission, CLASP. For the first time, linear polarization was measured in Hydrogen Lyman-Alpha at 121.60 nm in September 2015. For linear polarization measurements in this emission line, high sensitivity is required due to the relatively weak polarization signal compared to the intensity. To achieve this high sensitivity, a low-noise sensor is required with good knowledge of its characterization, including linearity. This work presents further refinement of the linearity characterization of the cameras flown in 2015. We compared the current from a photodiode in the light path to the digital response of the detectors. Pre-flight CCD linearity measurements were taken for all three flight cameras and calculations of the linear fits and residuals were performed. However, the previous calculations included a smearing pattern and a digital saturation region on the detectors which were not properly taken into account. The calculations have been adjusted and were repeated for manually chosen sub-regions on the detectors that were found not to be affected. We present a brief overview of the instrument, the calibration data and procedures, and a comparison of the old and new linearity results. The CLASP cameras will be reused for the successor mission, CLASP2, which will measure the Magnesium II h & k emission lines between 279.45 nm and 280.35 nm. The new approach will help to better prepare for and to improve the camera characterization for CLASP2. | <urn:uuid:f420cd51-ddf6-42a8-a3e6-2402448b1e2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ia-petabox.archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20170011703 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953492 | 373 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Your fingers might be fast, but are they strong enough to beat the world record for most mouse clicks in 100 seconds.
Hundred seconds is a long time, here speed is secondary and stamina comes first. You think you have what it takes to strike the mouse continuously for 100 seconds? Trt it now.
Note: Clock starts ticking with the first click.
Do you know the world record for most clicks in 100 seconds? It's 8.2 CPS. Challenge yourself to beat it.
The 'clicks in 100 seconds' is the mode with the maximum timeframe over which a player can test their clicking speed. Although it is very unusual for players to play a 100-second click speed game, many do it just for fun. This mode calculates the number of mouse clicks over the 100 seconds.
The process is the same as others where a player clicks on the grey box to start the game and then continues to click until the time stops.
Although 100 seconds might seem little on a day to day basis, the period is very long for the click speed game. The game requires continuous snap movements by fingers making it very painful when done over a long period.
If the player tries to click the mouse quickly, then it will tire them, even failing to complete the 100 seconds comfortably.
However, as there is a way for everything, this has a way to consistently strike the mouse at the same time not stringing your fingers.
All a player has to do is to practice clicking mouse at a constant pace. For example, if a player can comfortably click the mouse twenty times over 10 seconds, then they should continue it for the rest of the remaining 90 seconds. The trick will ensure that player scores more without incurring any pain on the fingers. | <urn:uuid:d5031cad-cc40-42bc-8235-366fe9e1af55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clickspeedtest.com/100-seconds.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950983 | 359 | 1.828125 | 2 |
- Kenya's bilateral debt to the United Kingdom was inflated by KSh 8.6 billion owing to a typing error
- Officials from Treasury said the amount was to be included in the Eurobond interest payments for the 10 and 30 years bonds taken in 2018
- The budgeting of KSh 8.6 billion is despite Kenya having cleared its direct loans to the UK in June 2020
The National Treasury inflated the size of the country's bilateral debt by an extra KSh 8.6 billion, after a typing error.
According to Business Daily, the extra monies were included in the repayment for a non-existent loan to the United Kingdom, despite Kenya having cleared its direct loans to the UK in June 2020.
The first Quarterly Economic and Budgetary Review, which has since been pulled down from Treasury's website, noted that the KSh 8.6 billion was paid in interest, putting the total debt service to KSh 41 billion.
Treasury said the amount was supposed to be included in the Eurobond interest payments for the 10 and 30 years bonds taken in 2018.
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Repaying Chinese loans
The typing error comes days after Treasury documents revealed that Kenya had paid KSh 29.86 billion to China in the quarter ending September 2021.
Business Daily reported that the country had paid the monies to ease a standoff over debt repayments that delayed disbursements to projects funded by Chinese loans.
The payments are also on the back of the opposition of a debt repayment holiday by Chinese lenders, especially Exim Bank.
TUKO.co.ke reported that Kenya owed China Ksh 730 billion as of September 2020.
Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani, when he spoke in Parliament in December 2020, said China accounted for 21% of the country's total external debt, which he gave as KSh 3.66 trillion.
Unhappy with loans
The findings come even as a report released earlier this year revealed that at least 62% of Kenyans are unhappy with the government's appetite for foreign loans.
Research by Infotrak Research and Consulting firm sampled 829 respondents from 24 counties and found that 81% of Kenyans feel either anxious, fearful or angry because of the level of the country's debt.
The poll further indicated that 43% of Kenyans perceive bad debt as money borrowed from foreign countries, lost, or wasted through corruption.
Fifty-two per cent of the respondents believed that the government's handling of foreign debt was poor.
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By A. O.
Everybody knows that bleeding will eventually stop when there is a cut or when an old wound starts bleeding again. Where the bleeding is, a blood clot forms that hardens and heals the wound in due time. This may be a simple and normal phenomenon for you, but biochemists have shown through their research that this actually is the result of a very complicated system at work. The lack of any one component of this system or any damage to it would render the whole process useless.
Blood has to coagulate in the right time and place and when normal conditions are restored, the clot should vanish. The system functions flawlessly down to the minutest detail.
If there is bleeding, the clot should form immediately in order to prevent the creature from dying. Furthermore, the clot should cover the entire wound and, more importantly, should only form over, and remain right on top of, the wound. Otherwise, all the blood of the creature could coagulate and cause its death, which is why the clot should form at the right time at the right place.
The smallest elements of the bone marrow, the blood platelets or thrombocytes, are crucial. These cells are the main elements of the coagulation of blood. A protein, called the Von Willebrand factor, ensures that, in their continuous patrol of the bloodstream, these platelets do not miss the place of the injury. The platelets that become entangled in the location of the injury release a substance that collects countless others to the same place. These cells eventually shore up the open wound. The platelets die after performing their duty in locating the wound. Their sacrifice is only a part of the coagulation system in the blood.
Thrombin is another protein that facilitates coagulation of blood. This substance is produced only at the location of the wound. This production must be neither more nor less than necessary and has also to start and stop exactly at the required times. There are more than twenty body chemicals called enzymes that have roles in the production of thrombin. These enzymes can trigger its reproduction or halt it. The process is under so much scrutiny that thrombin only forms when there is a real wound to the tissues. As soon as the enzymes of coagulation reach a satisfactory level in the body, fibrinogens that are composed of proteins are formed. In a very short while, a mesh of fibers forms a web, which is formed at the location of the escaping blood. In the meantime, patrolling platelets continue to become entangled and accumulate at the same location. What is called a clot is the plug that is formed due to this accumulation.
When the wound totally heals, the clot dissolves.
The system that enables the formation of the clot, determining its extent, strengthening or dissolving the formed clot undoubtedly, has an absolute irreducible complexity.
The system works flawlessly down to the minutest detail.
What would happen if there were small problems with this perfectly functioning system? For example, if there was coagulation in the blood even without a wound, or if the clot could easily break off from the wound? There is a single answer to these questions: in such cases, the bloodstream to the most vital and intricate organs, such as heart, brain, and lungs, would be clogged with clots, which would inevitably bring death.
In reality, this shows us one more time that the human body is flawlessly designed. It is impossible to explain the clotting system of the blood through the hypothesis of coincidence or “gradual development” as asserted by the theory of evolution. Such a carefully engineered and calculated system as this is indisputable evidence of the perfection in creation. Allah, Who created us and placed us on this earth, has created our bodies with this system, which protects us in many cases of injury that we encounter throughout our lives.
The clotting of blood is very important not only for visible injuries but also for the ruptures of capillaries in our bodies that happen all the time. Although unnoticed, there are continuously small internal bleedings. When hitting an arm against a door or sitting down too heavily, hundreds of capillaries are ruptured. These bleedings are immediately stopped by means of the clotting system and the capillaries are reconstructed in their normal condition. If the impact is more serious, then the internal bleeding is stronger, giving way to the bruising commonly termed “turning purple”. A human lacking the coagulation system would have to avoid even the smallest impacts. Hemophilic patients, having defective coagulation systems, live their lives like that. Patients with advanced hemophilia unfortunately do not survive too long. Even small internal bleedings, inflicted by a simple slip and fall, could be enough to end their lives. Due to this simple reality, each individual should consider the miracle of creation within his/her own body and be thankful to Allah, Who created that body flawlessly. This body is a blessing to us from Allah, a single cell of which we cannot even reproduce. When addressing mankind, Allah says:
“We created you, so why do you not confirm the truth?” (Al-Waqi`ah: 57)
A Note by the Editor:
Allah the Almighty says in the Ever-Glorious Qur’an what means,
“He [Allah] hath created the heavens without supports that ye can see and hath cast into the earth firm hills so that it quake not with you, and He hath dispersed therein all kinds of beasts. And We send down water from the sky and We cause (plants) of every goodly kind to grow therein. This is the Creation of Allah. Now show me that which those (ye worship) beside Him have created. Nay, but the wrongdoers are in error manifest!” (Luqman 31: 10-11)
“We shall show them Our portents on the horizons and within themselves until it will be manifest unto them that it is the Truth. Doth not thy Lord suffice since He is Witness over all things? How! Are they still in doubt about the meeting with their Lord? Lo! Is not He surrounding all things?” (Fussilat 41: 53-54)
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This is space. It’s sometimes called the final frontier.
And against the wash of stars a nebula hangs, vast and black, one red giant gleaming like the madness of gods . . .
And then the gleam is seen as the glint in a giant eye and it is eclipsed by the blink of an eyelid and the darkness moves a flipper and Great A’Tuin, star turtle, swims onward through the void.
On its back, four giant elephants. On their shoulders, rimmed with water, glittering under its tiny orbiting sunlet, spinning majestically around the mountains at its frozen Hub, lies the Discworld, world and mirror of worlds.
This 3D live wallpaper will take you into the fantasy world of the great English writer Sir Terry Pratchett.
The action of his books takes place on a fantastic planet. Planet that, as the name implies, is flat and has a disk shape. This world has its own laws of physics: the light is moving slowly, the magic here is material and in a rainbow of eight colors. In this world everything is possible; what we believe in myths, there is - the truth. Discworld rests on the backs of four elephants, which are located on a giant turtle Great A’Tuin, floating through space.
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When it comes to color yellow meaning, It is one of the most complex colors to decipher. This may be because yellow has so many different shades and hues. From bright lemon yellow to deep gold, the color can evoke emotions and feelings.
When it comes to color psychology, yellow is often associated with happiness and positivity. This is because yellow is the color of sunlight. It has been proven to stimulate our brains and help us feel more alert. Yellow can also create feelings of warmth and optimism.
On the other hand, too much yellow can be overwhelming. It has been known to cause anxiety and irritability in some people. If you are easily overwhelmed by bright colors, you may want to stick to softer shades of yellow.
When it comes to color meanings, yellow is often associated with happiness, positivity, and warmth.
This guide will explore the meaning of the color yellow and its symbolism. Whether you are using yellow in your branding or want to know how to use this color in your home décor, read on!
What is the color yellow meaning?
The color yellow has many meanings, including happiness, freshness, positivity, and enlightenment. It can also stand for caution and cowardice. A dull yellow may represent sickness and jealousy.
Yellow is a warm color that can help activate memory, encourage communication, and enhance vision. It is also said to build confidence.
Wearing yellow can show your happiness and cheerfulness, but be careful of wearing too much yellow as it may give off the impression of cowardice or deceitfulness.
If you want to yellow to help with memory or mental activity, try using yellow décor in your home or office.
Choose a softer shade like lemon or buttercup for a more calming yellow. These colors can still bring happiness and cheerfulness but won’t be as overwhelming as a brighter yellow.
Color Yellow meaning In Different Culture
In Japan, yellow is a common hue that is frequently associated with bravery.
Adult films in China are known as “yellow movies.”
In Russia, a popular term for an insane asylum was “yellow house.”
In Brazil, yellow is associated with happiness and goodwill.
Color yellow meaning in room
The color yellow is associated with happiness and optimism. It can be used to create a cheerful and inviting atmosphere in a room.
The downside to yellow is that it can be overwhelming if used in too large of a space. When using yellow in a room, it is important to balance it with other colors to create a cohesive and inviting space.
Yellow is often used as an accent color in rooms. It can be used to add a pop of color to a room that is mostly decorated in neutrals. Yellow can also be used to brighten up a dark room.
Some other popular meanings of color yellow
- Yellow ribbons are still used to welcome homes loved ones.
- Calling someone “yellow” or “yellow-bellied” is the same as calling them a coward.
- The term “mellow yellow” stands for laid and relaxation.
- The phrase “yellow journalism” is in reference to bad or irresponsible reporting.
- In China, yellow is the color of royalty, and has been used in art, clothing, and decoration for centuries.
- In the Middle Ages, yellow was associated with gold, and was used to represent wealth and power.
- It is also the color of caution and cowardice.
- In the United States, yellow is often seen as the color of happiness and optimism.
- Many school buses are painted yellow because it is thought to be a color that is easy for children to see.
- Yellow is also the color of summer, and is often used in advertising and marketing to represent warm weather and sunny days.
Meaning of color Yellow Shades
Light yellow: A versatile color, yellow is linked to fresh ideas and excitement despite its lack of confidence. The colors have an aggressive and dominant feel.
Olive: It has dark yellow, indicating caution, sickness, or jealousy. This color is primarily black.
Golden Color: This color represents wealth and prestige.
Lemon: The meaning of this color is happy and optimistic. It also symbolizes newness, cleanliness, and purity.
Daffodil: This is a very cheerful color that represents new beginnings.
Canary: This shade is associated with joy and happiness.
Buttercup: Another happy color, this shade is also linked to simplicity and youthfulness.
Tangerine: A mix of red and yellow, this color is associated with energy, excitement, and adventure.
Mango: This shade is a mix of orange and yellow, and it represents playfulness, tropical vibes, and summertime fun.
Saffron: A deep yellow; this shade is associated with wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual enlightenment.
Citrine: This shade of yellow is associated with success, prosperity, and good luck.
Now that you know more about the color yellow and its difference, think about how you can incorporate it into your life to boost your mood and creativity. Whether you wear yellow clothes, paint your walls yellow, or surround yourself with lemon-scented candles, a little bit of yellow can go a long way!
How does the color yellow affect our emotions and moods
The color yellow has a lot of effects on our emotions and moods. It is said that people who have a yellow streak are more creative, and yellow is said to be the happiest color.
When yellow is used in advertising, it is the most effective color. Yellow can also boost our energy levels and make us feel more optimistic.
Yellow has also been known to increase our metabolism and help us lose weight. There are a lot of benefits to yellow, but there are also some drawbacks. Too much yellow can be overwhelming and make us feel anxious.
Yellow spiritual meaning
When you work with the color yellow, you are working with the energies of confidence, manifesting, creativity and self-expression. The solar plexus chakra is all about connecting with your core identity and feeling comfortable in your own skin.
When you work with the color yellow, you can focus on bringing spiritual concepts and attainments into the physical world. It is a color of miracles and magic.
Incorporating the color yellow into your life can help you to boost your mood and creativity. Yellow is said to be the happiest color, and it can also help to increase your energy levels and make you feel more optimistic. If you are feeling down or anxious, a little bit of yellow can help to brighten your day.
The color yellow has a therapeutic or positive effect on someone who is psychologically and emotionally healthy, such as:
- Creativity and intelligence
- Optimism and happiness
- A sunny outlook on life
- Mental clarity and focus
- A positive attitude
- A desire to learn and grow
- Self-esteem and confidence
- Optimism and happiness
- A connection with nature
- Vitality and good health
But too much yellow can have Adverse or Negative effects on people if they have mental or emotional imbalances such as:
- Digestive problems
- Sleeping disorders
- Feeling critical or judgmental
- Fear of not being enough
Yellow Color Represent
Mind and intellect: Yellow, according to color psychology, stimulates our mental processes; it activates the left or logical brain.
Happiness and joy: Yellow is uplifting to the spirits and can help create a spark of enthusiasm for life.
Communication of new Ideas: Yellow is connected to creating and expressing innovative ideas and concepts.
Negative associations: Yellow is such a bright and exaggerated color that it can often be associated with negative feelings.
Exaggerated feelings: Yellow can often be seen as an over-stimulating color that can cause anxiety and feelings of nervousness.
Encourages Communication: Yellow encourages communication, helping us to express our thoughts and feelings.
Negative connotations: Despite its positive effects, yellow also has some negative connotations.
Physical illness: Yellow is sometimes associated with physical illness, such as jaundice.
Mental illness: Yellow can also be associated with mental illness, such as anxiety or depression.
Cautions: While yellow is a happy color, it is important to be aware of its potential negative effects.
Yellow Color Personality Traits
1. Friendly And Sociable
You’re probably quite friendly and sociable if you’re a yellow personality type. You likely enjoy being around family and friends, and striking up new friendships comes effortlessly to you. You’re a great company, and people enjoy spending time with you.
You also probably enjoy going out and socializing. You might form bonds of love and friendship that can last over a lifetime. If you’re away from your own family or don’t get along with relatives, you might make close friends that feel just like family.
2.Enthusiastic And Competitive
When it comes to competition, you’re probably quite enthusiastic and competitive. You hate losing, and you love to win. This makes you a great leader, as you’re always striving to come out on top. You’re also not much of a follower, preferring to take charge and forge your path.
3. Fidgety And Hot-brained :
The color red is associated with fire. This can lead to a fiery disposition that erupts unexpectedly. It’s only a little tantrum if you lose your temper, but it’s all soon forgotten and life goes back to normal.
Yellow Color Meaning when It Combining with Other Colors
- Yellow and White ~ Safe and Encouraging
- Yellow and Black ~ Attention and Energetic
- Yellow and Violet ~ Serene and Tranquil
- Yellow and Orange~ Playful and happy
- Yellow and Blue ~ Calm and Relaxing Music
- Yellow and Red ~ Exciting and Passionate
- Yellow and Green ~ Refreshing and optimistic, and fresh
- Yellow and brown ~ earthy and grounding
- Yellow and Pink ~ warm and inviting
psychological effects Of The Color Yellow
The color yellow has a lot of physical effects. When you see yellow, it can raise your heart rate and make you feel happy. Yellow is also the color of sunshine, so it can make you feel warm.
If you wear yellow, you might feel like you have more energy. Yellow is a bright color, so it can also help you stay awake. Some studies have even shown that yellow can improve your memory.
There are lots of lovely yellow flowers that you can buy to brighten up your home. Yellow is a happy color, so it is good to use in nurseries and children’s rooms. It is also an excellent color to use in kitchens, because it can make you feel more awake and help you focus while you are cooking.
Color Yellow Gemstones or Crystals List and Their meaning
Amber– Amber is a yellow crystal that has been used for centuries as an amulet or talisman.
Catrine– Balances through times of change, promotes patience
Diamond-Diamond is a yellow crystal associated with love, relationships, and emotional healing.
Emerald– Emerald is a yellow crystal that is considered to be a stone of wisdom and truth.
Heliodor -Heliodor is a yellow crystal associated with Solar energy and said to help attain one’s goals.
Honey Calcite-Honey Calcite is a yellow crystal that is said to help increase one’s energy and vitality.
Morganite-Morganite is a Faded yellow crystal associated with love and compassion.
Peridot-Peridot is a yellow crystal associated with abundance, prosperity, and growth.
Rhodochrosite-Rhodochrosite is a yellow crystal associated with love, compassion, and emotional healing.
Rutilated Quartz-Rutilated Quartz is a yellow crystal that is said to help attain one’s goals.
Sapphire-Sapphire is a yellow crystal associated with wisdom, truth, and understanding.
Topaz-This rare yellow gemstone that has long been considered a symbol of wealth, power, and prestige.
Zircon-Zircon is a Dark yellow crystal that is said to be helpful in manifesting abundance and prosperity.
The Yellow color meaning in love
The yellow color has many different meanings in different cultures. It is often seen as a happy and cheerful color in the western world. This is because the color yellow is associated with sunlight and happiness.
In love, the yellow color can mean different things. It can represent happy and joyous love. If you are in a relationship, the yellow color can define how your passion is growing and getting stronger. It can also express happy and positive feelings for your partner.
If you are single, the yellow color can represent the fluttery feeling of love and new relationships. If you are already in a relationship, yellow can describe the feeling of happiness and contentment that comes with feeling loved and being in love.
What Does the Color Yellow Mean in the Bible?
Yellow is one of the most prominent colors in the Bible and is often symbolic of negative things. This can be seen in many examples, including when Jesus was condemned to death for wearing a yellow robe and in the Book of Revelation when Jesus returns riding on a white color horse with “eyes like flames of fire” and his robe “dipped in blood.”
The color is also associated with falsehood, which can be seen in the story of Joseph revealing his brother Benjamin to their father Jacob, as well as Jesus telling his disciples that “he who stands firm to the end will be saved” (Matt 24:13).
The significance of yellow in the Bible is interpreted differently by different faiths. For Christians, yellow represents jealousy and pride as well as falsehood.
These negative associations are often made through its use as a symbol for Moses’ wrath when he hits the rock to draw water from it and turns his staff into a snake (Num 20:1-2), or when Jesus reveals himself as the messiah to his disciples by telling them to “beware of the yeast” (Matt 16:6). For Jews, yellow is seen more positively and represents light and joy in their faith. It is also used when referring to gold, which symbolizes both wealth and happiness.
Many other Biblical examples highlight the negative associations of yellow in religions worldwide. One such example is found when Joseph’s brothers see him coming toward them wearing a “gorgeous robe of many colors,” at which point they say to one another, “surely this is our brother coming to mock us; he must have taken his heart out!” (Gen 37:18-20). This story shows how even the most positive things can be turned negative when seen through jealousy and envy.
In conclusion, the color yellow has a wide range of religious symbolism. While it is often used to represent joy and light in some faiths, it more commonly takes on negative connotations such as jealousy, pride, and falsehood. Whatever its interpretation may be, there is no doubt that color plays a vital role in many religious traditions worldwide.
Yellow color symbolism
Yellow is the color of sun and happiness, but it can also be the color of caution and cowardice. In many cultures, yellow represents gold and wealth. In the West, yellow is the color of cowardice and caution, while in the East it is the color of wisdom and knowledge.
Yellow is also the color of illness and death in some cultures. In China, yellow is the color of mourning. In Japan, yellow is the color of courage and strength.
These are some popular symbol of Yellow color:
Sunshine helps in boosting self-confidence. Its bright yellow color makes it very optimistic. If self-doubt appears, it is the pale who tries to stop them from thinking about themselves. Yellow is the best color to reverse the frown. We aim to make all of us try equally hard for our yellow complexion.
When anxiety becomes overwhelming, the color yellow gives relief. We are free; we are free. This pleasant shade brings clarity and confidence to a complex situation. Take the advice in yellow during this intersection. So it’s easy to say goodbye to all your worries.
All the colors of the chakra have symbolic meaning, and the yellow chakra, also known as Manipura, is all about your ability to manage your mind.
Oddly enough, yellow can cause anxiety. Those who cannot develop better mental abilities are warned against the colors blue, white, or black. However, yellow creates negative thinking. An overactive mind will not accept such a result. Do not consume yellow dye unless taken in large doses or in diluted form.
It is known for its energy beams; yellow is attractive for its luminous essence. The yellow color gives joy and happiness. Best known for its vibrant colors, yellow is a source of optimism. The color yellow resonates strongly with a child in a simple way. That’s why most toys in America are yellow.
Promotes learning and practicality
Yellow stimulates the brain and promotes reasoning. This is an opportunity to get better at making informed decisions. If we feel that reality is holding us back, yellow reminds us how much we are destroying ourselves.
Final thought about color yellow meaning
The color yellow is a fascinating topic with many layers of meaning. Each culture interprets the color, and even within each individual, there can be different associations and meanings. We hope you’ve enjoyed this exploration of the symbolic power of yellow and that it has given you some new insights into how to use this versatile hue in your own life. If you have any thoughts or experiences with the color yellow, we would love to hear from you in the comments below! | <urn:uuid:b32abd8d-d873-487d-b3be-aa2415622eae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://angelmeaning.com/color-yellow-meaning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950937 | 3,822 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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The hashtag “should men and women retire at the same age in China” has sparked a heated discussion on Weibo with 86.83 million views. The debate was sparked by Zheng Bingwen, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, suggesting that Chinese men and women should retire at the same age.
Currently, women’s legal retirement age in China is 50 years old, while men’s is 60. This differs for cadres (Chinese officials) who can retire at 45 years old for women and 55 for men.
However, many netizens expressed that they didn’t support a change in policy to equalise China’s retirement age. Many commented that, as long as men and women don’t receive equal wages for equal work, the policy shouldn’t be implemented. Furthermore, some netizens argued that women are more prone to facing ageism when looking for a job later on in life.
Gender discrimination in the workplace is still a common phenomenon in China. Women aged over 25 are often asked if they plan to have children during a job interview and are more likely to face discriminatory behaviours, such as Career PUA.
In the UK, the retirement age has been increased and equalised to 66 for both men and women. According to a survey conducted by the United Nations in 2015, 66% of countries (166 countries and regions were surveyed) have an equal retirement policy.
Read more about gender roles in China:
- Changing attitudes towards women’s roles in China
- ‘Little Fresh Meat’ & Female Empowerment – China’s Shifting Gender Stereotypes
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Which are the Key Principles of Assessment? A Case Study of Policy Documents
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Assessment is at the heart of the student experience and is therefore of considerable interest to the higher education sector and beyond. Assessment is an integral part of educational systems and may serve different purposes. Historically, it has been the primary instrument used to monitor and measure achievement. While assessment of learning is still important, assessment for learning has become more widespread, encompassing a variety of methods and response formats. Anecdotal evidence suggests that in some instances the quest for innovative practices takes priority over theoretical issues of assessment practice. This study examined policies at five universities on four continents. The most frequently used criteria were, in order: Transparent, reliable, aligned, equitable, educative and ethical. | <urn:uuid:27311755-bada-4ff8-be48-eb4a2c779c82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/handle/11250/2479174 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.904343 | 222 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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Reconstruction of a Neolithic house. Image: CEMEX/Wessex Archaeology
Four early Neolithic houses (3700 BC) have been unearthed by archaeologists at CEMEX’s Kingsmead Quarry in Berkshire. The discovery is unprecedented on a single site in England and challenges our current understanding of how people lived more than 5,700 years ago.
This rare find will give us a unique opportunity to learn more about the earliest permanent settlements in prehistoric Britain and how such sites developed. At this time new practices were being adopted with people switching lifestyle from hunter-gather to settled farmer.
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Few houses of this date have been found in England and rarely has more than one been found on a single site. These discoveries by excavators from Wessex Archaeology are key to enhancing the knowledge and understanding of this period nationally and at a local level tell us more about the history of the area around the Rivers Colne and Thames near Windsor.Read the rest of this article... | <urn:uuid:158eca2c-971f-4ec5-8567-bb1a2eb0c732> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prehistoricarch.blogspot.com/2013/03/four-neolithic-houses-unearthed-at.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9533 | 207 | 3.578125 | 4 |
“Major” West Coast Earthquake Concern Growing as San Andreas, Melones and Elsinore Faults Spew More Carbon Monoxide
Beginning on February 26, NASA satellites in space began detecting staggeringly large emissions of Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas along the west coast. As evidenced by the satellite image below, the emissions were far too big, too highly concentrated and covered too vast an area to be man-made. On the satellite image below, the areas in black, purple and brownish-orange show the magnitude of the emission; it was utterly massive!
Scientists quickly determined that the CO was coming up out of the earth; being expelled out through seismic faults. What this means is the earth began moving in such a way on February 26, that pressure along the fault lines in California became so great, it expelled massive amounts of naturally-occurring carbon monoxide gas from the Monterey Formation of shale. In fact, the proximity of the CO emissions directly aligns with those formations! That’s a LOT of pressure!
When pressure builds up like this, it is not hard to understand that something has to “give” and when it does, there’s an earthquake. That’s why this emission of Carbon Monoxide is a warning sign of an impending, LARGE earthquake.
The last time an emission of Carbon Monoxide on this scale took place, was a week prior to the Gujarat Earthquake which devastated India; killing twenty thousand people and destroying 400,000 homes when the 7.6 quake struck in Jan. 2001.
Emission Easing, But Still Spewing in Several Specific Areas
After the initial emission of Carbon Monoxide on February 26 into the 27th , winds began to dissipate the Carbon Monoxide and carry it eastward, thinning it out as it traveled. Here is the satellite image from 12:00 Noon eastern US Time today (29 Feb 2016):
This easing of emissions can mean one of two things:
1) The pressure has receded and the danger is less, OR;
2) The pressure squeezed almost all the CO out and there’s simply not much left to push out; meaning the quake danger could still exist.
The simple fact is, we just don’t know which is the correct answer and we do not have the scientific knowledge to find out!
The fact that some of this CO is emanating from the Melones Fault Zone is problematic. There is no Monterey Formation there; it abuts the Sierra Nevada Mountains. So for a fault this far inland to be emitting CO while faults farther to the west (San Andreas) and south (Elsinore) are also exhibiting this same activity, gives an indication of the utterly massive amount of tectonic pressure taking place and the ENORMOUS area being affected by this tectonic stress.
If history is any indication of future activity, then, as took place in India in 2001, at some point within the next six or seven days (max) – there may be a **** MAJOR **** earthquake along one or more of these fault lines. If we doubt that such gas emissions may be related to earth quakes, and think perhaps the quake in India was a mere coincidence, bear in mind that India was not the only major quake where gas emissions took place in advance.
DO NOT PANIC — PLAN INSTEAD
The choice is completely yours as to how to use (or ignore) this information. One thing is certain: THERE IS NO NEED TO PANIC. But there may very well be a need to plan, AND PLAN FAST.
We urge you to plan, now. If the past is any indication of the future, within about six or seven days, we will all know.
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How To Apply Financial Aid For Coursera When You Have Enrolled Already
Coursera courses can help you learn many skills. You can choose to enroll in one of the multi-week courses or a specialization to learn specific skills. Courses last for between six weeks and three months. You can earn a certificate for successfully completing the series if you are able to get accreditation in your specialization. In addition to the courses, you can also earn a degree or certificate through Coursera. The website offers more than 4100 courses.
The certificates that you earn from completing a Coursera course are just as valuable as a college degree. These are generally recognized by employers and can be added to your resume. Employers will be able to see that you have increased your knowledge and are a specialist. Whether you’re pursuing a career change or an advance in your current position, a Coursera certificate can be an invaluable asset to your success. If you are interested in a higher-level job, you can get a certificate from a top university.
After you have registered with Coursera you will receive a verification email. To verify your account, click the link in the e-mail. From there, you can browse the site by typing keywords related to the subject of your course. Browse course pages, read the syllabus, and learn about the instructor. Click the green button to enroll. You’ll be prompted to answer a few questions about the course.
Coursera also offers the ability to download courses for offline viewing via its app. Coursera doesn’t create educational material. Instead, it works with top universities and educational institutions to offer quality online education. Coursera offers accredited certificates for its online courses. These certificates are issued by the universities that organized the course. There are more than 3000 courses available, so you have many learning options.
Unlike some other learning platforms, Coursera is safe to use. Its reputation is well-polished and well-known. It does not steal your payment or information, and has protected the details of thousands of users for years. It has a track record of delivering what it promises. Despite its reputation as a scam, the company is unlikely to cheat its customers anytime soon. That’s not to say that you won’t make money with a Coursera course, but you should make sure you’re comfortable with the security of your payments.
The website offers free courses that are recognized by leading universities around the globe. This will give you more credibility when potential employers look for someone with a university-backed certificate. You’ll also be able to easily transfer your certificate to other institutions, which can add a few thousand dollars to your budget. That’s good news for students on a tight budget. And don’t forget that a university-backed certificate can cost thousands of dollars if you want to get the job you want.
Coursera’s growth has been incredible. In just two years, the company has almost doubled its student enrolments and now has 68 million students around the world. It’s not only a huge educational platform, but also an employer’s best choice for workforce training. It offers online courses in almost every subject, including arts and music, mathematics, software development, and personal development. It offers both short courses and specialized specializations.
Coursera offers many courses. A certificate can be earned for the skills you need to start a company or find a job. You can also earn a degree or complete a certificate program. Coursera is backed by professors from Stanford and other prestigious universities. Coursera has also partnered with over 200 universities and companies. Coursera courses are industry-relevant, and highly affordable.
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Attendees will learn the advantages and limitations of the three tools (OFA front-end, Express 4GL, and Express Administrator) used by a DBA for design and maintenance of OFA databases. Attendees will gain a detailed understanding of the properties of several catalogs critical to implementing, maintaining, and customizing OFA databases and GL Link.
This presentation will cover the DBA tools and techniques used in customizing Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA). The background topics to be covered include OFA architecture, how OFA interacts with Express Server and Personal Express, GL link procedures and process, and how OFA structures and catalogs work behind the scenes. The major portion of the presentation will be a discussion of how to maintain the catalogs behind the scenes in Express 4GL, as well as loading data and structures via GL Link and custom data loaders. Some of the structure differences between using Oracle G/L link as a data loader and a standalone OFA application will be discussed. A sample custom data loader program will be shown as a take-home example of optional customizations. The advantages and limitations of using the three Oracle Express tools (OFA front-end, Express 4GL and Express Administrator) in conjunction with GL administrator for performing maintenance and customizations will be demonstrated.
Particular emphasis will be placed on the General Ledger setup, including chart of accounts, key and descriptive Flexfields, segment concatenation, rollup groups, parent/child relationships, and summary accounts. We will discuss the GL Link setup limitations, changing structures over time, and GL to OFA mapping. We will review known GL link issues, bugs, and workarounds.
We will discuss best practices in OFA customization and maintenance. Particular emphasis will be placed on DM.CATALOG (dimensions), LC.CATALOG (local code), MD.CATALOG (models), HI.CATALOG (hierarchies), FD.CATALOG (financial data item) and RL.CATALOG (attributes) showing best practices in customization and maintenance. Examples of adding items to the menu and tool bar will be demonstrated. A technical diagram applicable to Express 6.3 and GL 10.7, 11, and 11i showing the detailed interrelationships among OFA catalogs will be given to each attendee. | <urn:uuid:c967aa82-b7a6-4371-8206-ab13e4cf11b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vlamis.com/presentations/ofa-and-gl-link-tips-tricks-and-traps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.863302 | 486 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Stories with Spark
Learn to tell stories
Writers who have just found me tell me about their frustrations. They tell me how hard it is to:
- get the words to come out right
- get anyone to read their work – even their closest relations
- get sales and/or interest from agents and publishers
Looking for a way to get your audience to pay attention to your fictional or personal stories?
This book helps you tell stories that people find irresistible. Telling Stories with Spark is a no-nonsense, jargon-light book. In it, I help you understand what makes a story actually work.
Telling Stories with Spark
Humans are hard-wired to respond to stories above other kinds of language. You’ll get to the heart of what makes a good story work. It teaches you where you’ve been going wrong with the way you write your action. Understand the difference between showing and telling. Find out what that old saying ‘Show Don’t Tell’ really means, when broken down properly. You will also have the tricky matter of character dialogue untangled for you, and get some hands-on writing challenges to complete.
You get to see and have a go at putting one word in front of another in a way that will irresistibly grab your audience’s imagination. Until you have this sorted out, all the theory about plotting, character arcs, etc. is pointless. Order ‘Telling Stories with Spark’ today and make the transformation.
“Less than 2 years ago, I had a few vague ideas, a few scraps of stories and a strong urge to write. Them I met Deanne. I now have over 150 short stories under my belt, 3 picture books ready to be sent out into the big wide world and a first draft of a novel completed.
I’ve accrued accolades from a number of international competitions and been invited to read my work at artistic events. Working with Deanne has helped me hone my skills, regain my focus and feel confident in my work. I can’t wait to see where it takes me in the future.
Whether you’re a new writer or writing your third novel, a community to share ideas and receive encouragement is something special.
Follow my Club (Writers’ Pool) on Clubhouse to get this benefit. A community for writers to discuss, collaborate and support each other. It’s a non-judgemental, non-stuffy space which welcomes writers of all experience levels. It’s about helping each other up rather than knocking each other down.
Claire Fayers will be joining me on Clubhouse for a discussion and Q&A on 23rd September 2021 at 8pm (UK time). This is an exciting opportunity to listen to a traditionally published author give her experiences of being a writer of children’s books – and maybe even ask your own question!
Writing sprints are all the rage with writers and authors. It doesn’t matter whether you write fiction or non-fiction. They work whatever genre or sub-genre you write. A writing sprint is a closely focused period of time spent writing. Some writers do twenty-
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Prof Arnold Vulto speaks to ecancer at the 2019 Biosimilars Educational Advanced Masterclass for Pharmacists (P-BEAM) in Zurich about the highlights from this year's meeting.
He explains the main objective of this meeting which is to train pharmacists in the understanding of biosimilars - so they can educate others at their home institutions and facilitate the implementation of them.
Prof Vulto also explains the common myths surrounding the use of biosimilars in the clinic and the five main benefits these products provide.
He also gives an overview of the four key factors that contribute to the successful implementation of biosimilars.
ecancer's filming has been kindly supported by Amgen through the ecancer Global Foundation. ecancer is editorially independent and there is no influence over content.
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Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled a $60 million pot of money on Oct. 9 to help towns, city and county governments recoup some of the costs for handling the COVID-19 pandemic over the past seven months.
Many of these local governments have not received federal aid thus far from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, a landmark $2.2 trillion bill approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump at the end of March. And many have seen revenues across the board dry up – due to a loss of parking fees and tax revenue, for example – which coupled with the new costs, have yielded devastating blows on their finances.
Those new expenses have included items pertaining to public safety and health, overtime, remote technology, signage for residents to know what social services they can connect with, retrofitting public spaces for social distancing, and even increased sanitation and garbage collection with more residents staying home.
According to Murphy, 12 of the state’s 21 counties have not received any federal aid.
“We can ensure these costs are covered without the entire weight be[ing] shouldered by local taxpayers through higher property taxes,” Murphy said during a press conference in Evesham, where he announced the aid.
He ensured that there will be “strong safeguards” to ensure the funds are distributed and spent properly.
The new aid comes amid a stalemate between Capital Hill and the White House over a new iteration of the CARES Act package, which Democrats contend should include hundreds of billions of dollars in aid to state and local governments.
“It is about the states, the counties, the local municipalities who need this money,” U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-1st District, said Oct. 9. “This is about help for people.”
The funds are meant to cover costs for expenses incurred between March 1 and Dec. 30, 2020. They cannot be used to make up for lost revenue.
The breakdown of the 12 counties is as follows:
- Atlantic: $6,318,936
- Burlington: $8,187,352
- Cape May: $1,305,162
- Cumberland: $6,391,225
- Gloucester: $4,858,821
- Hunterdon: $948,183
- Mercer: $12,593,962
- Morris: $8,415,816
- Salem: $1,538,872
- Somerset: $6,367,176
- Sussex: $1,319,462
- Warren: $1,755,034
Hundreds of towns and cities within these counties are receiving aid.
Hamilton Township was awarded the largest grant, a total of $1.8 million, followed by Vineland in South Jersey, which was awarded $1.4 million. Atlantic City was awarded $906,120, Franklin Township was awarded $$890,366, Ewing was awarded $830,043 and Bridgeton was awarded $802,075. | <urn:uuid:3e673086-47df-422f-b35a-e1d7dddae538> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://njbiz.com/heres-breakdown-60m-covid-relief-nj-counties-towns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964939 | 638 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Most people are very familiar with glow sticks – we see them all the time around holidays like Halloween or Independence Day! Even so, glow sticks are still amazing to see in action. They create a soft light of just about any color that lasts for hours or days, and do this without producing any heat whatsoever (unlike electric light bulbs, which get super hot!). We create a glow stick reaction during our show that is super bright but doesn’t last very long, and do a neat experiment by mixing two different colors to see what happens.
Our glow stick liquids are bought straight from the manufacturer, Cyalume. These are the same people that make just about every other glow stick you come across! But for us, they made a special formula that is super-concentrated (Mua ha ha!).
The glow stick reaction is made of two parts: an oxalate solution and an activator solution. We simply mix the two together, and the liquid begins to glow! Our special formula glows extremely brightly, but only lasts for a few minutes at maximum brightness. It quickly fades to “regular glow stick levels”, and is completely dark after about 48 hours. Here it is in action:
(This video features our new brother, Gavin Science!)
Weirdly, the colors don’t mix like we expected! We think this may be because the dyes in each oxalate liquid react with each other to make a completely new color. Or maybe the red color is so strong that it overwhelms anything else you mix it with. Time for more experiments!
Both liquids are made of rather complicated organic* chemicals, but I’ll try to simplify it as much as I can here.
The oxalate solution mainly contains a compound called diphenyl oxalate along with a dye. The dye is what gives the glow stick its color. The activator solution contains some hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, (among other things). When mixed, the peroxide reacts with the diphenyl oxalate to form an intermediate compound called a peroxyacid ester (1,2-dioxetanedione). Quite a mouthful! This molecule is unstable, and quickly decomposes into carbon dioxide (CO2) gas. This releases energy which is captured by the dye molecules and transformed into the light we see. The reaction is illustrated below (click the image for a larger version):
The carbon dioxide produced in this reaction bubbles out, and looks like carbonation from your soda (and in fact, it’s the same gas! But you wouldn’t want to drink the glowing liquid). This happens in all glow sticks, but you may not notice it in regular ones because they are a weaker formula than ours. As you can see, organic* chemistry is very complicated, but can give us some very cool results!
While glow stick chemicals are said to be nontoxic, they still shouldn’t just be poured down the drain. We collect all our spent glow stick liquid in a special waste container, and turn it in to our local waste control office for proper disposal at a licensed facility.
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(Makes 4 pint-size jars)
4 pint-size Mason jars, with lids
1 lb. green beans, washed and trimmed one inch shorter than the jars
3 cups white vinegar
3 cups filtered water
1/4 cup pickling salt or kosher salt
8 dill sprigs, divided for each jar
12 peeled garlic cloves, divided for each jar
36 Tellicherry peppercorns, divided for
8 thin slices of habanero pepper, divided for each jar
Sterilize the jars and lids by boiling them in a deep pot of water for 10 minutes. Hold the jars in a 215°F oven to keep them hot until you are ready to pack and fill them.
Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Make an ice bath by filling a large bowl with equal parts ice and water. Drop the green beans into the boiling water and cook them for about two minutes, or until tender. Drain the green beans. Place them directly into the ice bath to stop the cooking process and leave them there for one minute, or until completely cold. Drain on paper towels.
Bring the vinegar, water, and salt to a boil in a nonreactive pot over medium-high heat and boil for five minutes.
Pack the hot jars with dill, garlic, peppercorns, habanero slices, and green beans. The beans should fit snugly but comfortably inside the jars. Pour the boiling vinegar mixture into each jar, filling the jars to one-fourth-inch from the top and completely covering the green beans. Screw on the lids. Refrigerate for at least 24 hours for the flavors to blend. They can keep in the refrigerator for up to one month. (Discard any vinegar mixture that
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Training & Placement
Greater Kolkata College of Engineering & Management
Training & Placement Officer
Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management under JIS Group,one of the pioneer institutes in B.Tech & Diploma.From the very first year,students undergo training in various aspects.Beside the normal curriculum ,students are also trained about the beyond the curriculum domain.From pre final year students are trained in various technical skills,aptitude and soft skills as per the industry standards. We take utmost care to groom our students to be successful in the corporate world.
We wish all the best to our students for their future endeavours & welcome the future technocrats to our eco – friendly college campus.
The main aim of GKCEM is to prepare its students so that they are ready to be employable as per industry need. So keeping in mind with this aim, GKCEM has an elaborate and intensive pre-placement procedure that takes place from day one, in order to develop more knowledge and become more attractive to the employers and crack the placement interviews easily.
An organized and exhaustive pre placement procedure is needed in order to develop the soft skills of the students, make them more comfortable in interviews as well as give them an opportunity for learning practical application of their knowledge through internships and industrial trainings.
In language laboratory, we train our students and help them to develop their communication skills effectively. The students are trained to read, write, and speak in English. The students are also trained in how to deal with stress interviews from day one so that they can crack any interview. Other soft skills like body language, dress code, attitude etc. are also taught here.
From GKCEM, we offer mock Aptitude Tests to the students so that they can easily crack Aptitude Test which is one of the integral components in the entire selection process. The areas normally covered in the aptitude tests of most companies are Quantitative ability, Reasoning, Verbal Ability and Basic Computer Skills. These tests are structured as per previous recruitment experiences.
The aptitude test normally includes questions based on:
- Quantitative Ability
- Data Interpretation
- Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension
- Logical Reasoning
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Most of the time in Ohio, spouses are the beneficiaries in their spouse’s will. However, with modern family structures being different and more diverse than in years past, the question of surviving spouse rights often comes up. While laws differ from state to state, Ohio inheritance laws state that a surviving spouse cannot be written out of a will. Ohio rights of a surviving spouse include the right to accept what he/she has been given under the deceased spouse’s will. Or, they may elect to take against the will within five months.
Electing to Take Against the Will
What does it mean to elect to take against the will? Included in Ohio rights of a surviving spouse is the ability to elect against the will for ownership or a share of real estate, financial investments or virtually any other asset. Manning & Clair recently handled a case where a woman, who had remarried, wanted to leave the family home where she and her second husband lived, to her four children from her first marriage. The home is where the children grew up and had sentimental value.
Her will specified the husband could live there rent-free if he wanted to. But, the children would receive the proceeds from the sale of home. The surviving spouse elected to move out of the house but wanted money from the sale. His initial request was denied, but upon appeal, the court ruled in his favor. So, when one of the children bought the home, he received a portion of the proceeds even though it went against the mother’s stated wishes.
How did this happen when it was specified in her will? As was mentioned earlier, Ohio rights of a surviving spouse include the ability to take an election against the will. This will let the court decide what is fair.
Protect Your Wishes After Death
In the above example, the wife should have placed the home in a trust. This would have helped ensure that her wishes were honored after her death. A trust is a legal contract that an attorney drafts. It names a trustee who ensures your assets are managed according to your wishes both during your lifetime and after your death. Potential benefits from establishing a trust include:
- Trusts avoid the probate process and may provide tax benefits.
- Trusts offer specific parameters for the use of your assets.
- Revocable trusts can help during illness or disability – not just death.
- Trusts allow for flexibility.
What Assets Can You Put in a Trust?
You can place real estate, investments, bank accounts, vehicles and recreational equipment, season tickets to sporting events, wine collections, etc. in a trust. If you own a business, we recommend creating a buy/sell agreement in a trust to protect the business. There are different types of trusts, so consult with an attorney to identify the best path forward.
Ohio Inheritance Laws Regarding Naming A Direct Beneficiary
Name a direct beneficiary to ensure that your assets are directed to the person(s) you want them to go to. Despite what many people think, if you have a direct beneficiary listed on an asset, directions in your will do not control who inherits what.
Unfortunately, if you do not name a beneficiary, Ohio inheritance laws state that your assets will go through probate. This can be a costly and drawn-out process. You can name multiple beneficiaries, and it is important to remember that if you designate a person with “special needs” as your beneficiary, you could put them at risk of unintentional disqualification of receiving these valuable government benefits. Again, consult with an attorney that specializes in probate law.
How to Divide Your Assets After Death
Follow these steps when deciding how you want your assets divided following your death:
- Spell out exactly what you want your estate to look like. And consult with us to make sure it is set up properly.
- Don’t assume that people will get along or do the right thing after your death – you must protect your assets.
- Be honest and realistic about the situation and consult with an attorney.
Contact Us to Learn More About Ohio Inheritance Laws
Manning & Clair Attorneys At Law have extensive experience working with families on estate planning, trust, will and probate law. You can expect attentive, personalized service at every step in the legal process. Whether it’s planning for your family’s future, executing a loved one’s will, or working through the probate process, Manning & Clair Attorneys At Law are ready to help. Contact us to start planning today!
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Recently, a group of West Virginia lawmakers passed a bill making it legal for West Virginians to consume raw milk and dairy products. At least one delegate brought in raw milk for the legislators, who cheerfully toasted to their victory.
Now, the state’s Department of Health has received an anonymous tip that the raw milk caused a vicious stomach bug, debilitating many of those same lawmakers. State health officials are investigating what West Virginia lawmakers say is probably just a coincidence.
“Some other colleagues that have similar symptoms that I’ve been experiencing,” said Republican Delegate Pat McGeehan. “[Delegate Scott Cadle] caught me in the hallway, offered a cup to me, and you want to try to be a gentleman…I had a small sip and walked away and tossed the rest of it.”
Raw milk advocates claim the beverage contains more nutrients, vitamins, and is a more ethical product. Yet few people now deny that raw dairy products can be very hazardous to public health.
The Food and Drug Administration “strongly discourages raw milk consumption due to the serious dangers of harmful microorganisms present in unpasteurized milk.” Plus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in all dairy product-related outbreaks reported between 2007 and 2012, fully 81% of the incidents involved raw milk or cheeses.
Typically, raw dairy products are pasteurized before being sold to the public. Most often, the milk is heated or subjected to high pressures, killing the dangerous microorganisms that can live in dairy items.
Still, even though raw dairy can be dangerous, West Virginia lawmakers and others say that prohibition is not the answer. Alcohol and tobacco are dangerous, and can still be bought by adults who understand the risks.
It’s a free country, and at least in West Virginia, that means the freedom to drink raw, unpasteurized milk.
Just be prepared to stomach the consequences.
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Pipe Fabrication Fast Fitting Up Machine is the process of cutting, bevelling, and welding piping components such as pipes, tees, elbows, flanges, reducers, and other piping components according to design documents. When a pipefitter is in charge of pipe installation and assembly, he or she may be expected to form the appropriate metals for the job.Pipe Fabrication Fast Fitting Up Machine Features:
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Dissolution of single carbon dioxide (CO2) bubbles in a vertical pipe of 25 mm in diameter are measured to examine the effects of the ratio λ of sphere–volume equivalent bubble diameter d to pipe diameter D, liquid Reynolds number ReL and surfactants on mass transfer. The bubble diameter d and Reynolds number ReL are varied from 5.0 to 26 mm (λ = 0.20 − 1.0) and from 0 to 3100, respectively. Millipore water, tap water and water contaminated with Triton X–100 are used for the liquid phase. Mass transfer coefficients kL are evaluated from changes in d. The kL decreases with increasing λ for bubbles in stagnant millipore water because of the decrease in bubble rising velocity due to the wall effect. Measured Sherwood numbers Sh do not depend on ReL because a turbulent fluctuation velocity in bulk liquid flow is much smaller than a relative velocity between a bubble and liquid. The mass transfer correlation for a bubble in a stagnant liquid proposed by Johnson et al. is applicable to a bubble in pipe flow, provided that a correct relative velocity between a bubble and liquid is substituted in the correlation. Due to the retardation of capillary wave, mass transfer coefficients for bubbles in contaminated water becomes smaller than those in millipore and tap waters.
Dissolution of a Carbon Dioxide Bubble in a Vertical Pipe
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Abe, S, Okawa, H, Hosokawa, S, & Tomiyama, A. "Dissolution of a Carbon Dioxide Bubble in a Vertical Pipe." Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2007 5th Joint Fluids Engineering Conference. Volume 2: Fora, Parts A and B. San Diego, California, USA. July 30–August 2, 2007. pp. 285-290. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/FEDSM2007-37490
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Whether male or female huskies are world famous for their beautiful look, intelligence, activeness and athletic features. Unique characters of husky dogs include their thick coat which usually is thicker than other dogs possess, expressive eyes and triangular ears.
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What are the main features of white husky female?
White husky dogs and bitches share many similarities in look except having a slight difference in size and weight. Female reaches to a height of 50 to 56 cm while male attains a height of 54 to 60 cm, male dog weights 20 to 27 kg while female weights 16 to 23 kg.
Husky females like to live alone most of the time, unlike the male. If you have got male husky he will always try to sit with you where ever you are sitting at home.
In case of female it will just visit time after time but most of the time she will prefer to sit in another corner of the house. Female husky is a bit passive than male husky.
Why are white husky females easy to train than male husky?
If you want an active and energetic companion for you then the male dog is your choice but if you want a pet which lives easily, follow you bitterly and is easy to train, then definitely you are looking for a white husky female.
White Female husky as compare to the male is less strong and less dependent on people. Naturally, they are more independent and less challenging and more obedient pays more focus during training and learn quickly like most dogs breed. Hence it is much easier to train a female husky than a male.
Which one is best for families having children white husky male or white husky female?
Regardless of sex both female and male are petted everywhere in families having children or without children. The white husky male is active and self-controlled, it may show aggression sometimes with rude behavior of children. While the white husky female is a bit passive and more loving to people and could be the best option for families having children.
How often a white female husky go into heat per year?
Size and breed of the dog have a great impact on how often the dog gets into heat. Small size breeds can get thrice a year while a giant breed can even go for once in 12 to 18 months.
Huskies are medium size dogs and mostly go into heat twice a year which is the normally the average heat cycles for most of the dogs.
What age does a white female husky go into heat?
Although it may vary with size to size and breed to breed, however, six months is the average age for getting into heat. In case of the first time, it may take more time.
The husky female normally goes into their first heat between 6 to 12 months of age. In rare cases, it may be earlier as 4 months.
How long is a white female husky in heat?
Heat duration may depend on the size and breed of the dog and also upon whether it’s her first time. In case of huskies, most of the times, in an earlier stage of heat cycle the female is not receptive to a male dog and takes some time to become fully receptive hence exact time is unknown but mostly it lasts about 18 to 21 days.
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Reviews warn that ISIS might make the most of the repercussions of the Russian battle in opposition to Ukraine to revive its exercise in lots of elements of the world, together with in Iraq
Iraqi forces face critical challenges in securing spare elements and ammunition for Russian weapons and tools, which make up round a 3rd of the Iraqi military’s arsenal, an official supply revealed. to the Ministry of Protection – to the native media – which plans to purchase weapons and the armament tools from Russia have been postponed, as a consequence of American and Western sanctions in opposition to Moscow following its battle in opposition to Ukraine.
This comes at a time when Iraq is witnessing a resurgence within the exercise of some armed cells, as Iraqi forces have launched a number of pre-emptive operations in opposition to ISIS operatives.
Results of the disaster
Educational and coverage researcher Dr Fadel Al-Badrany reveals that the Russian-Ukrainian battle has a transparent impression on Iraq throughout the framework of the worldwide system which has been affected when it comes to the movement of arms and even the costs of products and the like .
Chatting with Al-Jazeera Internet, Al-Badrany identified that upsetting this battle on this explicit area has greater than a query mark, as if the actor who instigated this battle was effectively conscious that 40% of imports iron, wheat, oil and different foodstuffs all come from Russia and Ukraine.
He careworn the necessity for the Iraqi authorities to undertake a impartial place within the face of this battle; Everyone seems to be ready for the character of the battle and who will win it, and it’s not in Iraq’s curiosity to lose one sport on the expense of one other.
Disable entry to weapons
Relating to the disruption of the arrival of weapons, safety professional Fadel Abu Ragheef says that Iraq relied on Russian weapons doctrine and a few of the French earlier than the US invasion of the nation in 2003, however the scenario subsequently modified.
Abu Ragheef added – to Al Jazeera Internet – that Iraq intentionally diversified its sources of armaments, as imports got here from Russia, Japanese European nations, Britain and the American facet. additionally.
Abu Ragheef doesn’t exclude the impression of the Ukrainian-Russian battle on the armament of Iraq, since some factories producing spare instruments for Russian weapons are positioned in Ukraine, which might be the primary motive for the disruption of a few of these transactions. .
He factors out that Ukraine was exporting plane engines that fought in opposition to the Islamic State to Iraq, including: “We don’t neglect the good function of the Russian Cornet system, which is the fourth technology of armored fight, and that’s the finest who destroyed and destroyed the traps of the Islamic State.”
Abu Ragheef notes that Western sanctions in opposition to Russia could hamper the contracting course of with the Russian facet, as Iraqi banks discover it tough to deposit funds or open credit score to banks that give to the Russian facet.
Reviews warn that the Islamic State might exploit the repercussions of the Russian battle in opposition to Ukraine to regain its exercise in lots of elements of the world, together with Iraq.
On this topic, the political scientist Amir al-Saadi affirms that with all of the preventive operations carried out by the Iraqi safety providers and the headquarters of the weather of the IS, many cells of the group are nonetheless current.
Al-Saadi reveals – to Al Jazeera Internet – particular operations carried out by Iraqi forces in opposition to the group’s cells deployed within the deserts of Anbar Governorate, Salah al-Din and Nineveh, and there are operations within the west of the nation, the final of which was within the border space of al-Qaim with Syria.
Relating to the impression of the disruption of the arrival of Russian weapons on the capabilities of Iraqi forces, Al-Saadi believes that it’ll not have an effect on the response to present crises, as a result of Iraq has a strategic reserve, however it might don’t delay- time period.
It reveals that Iraq, in its battle in opposition to so-called terrorism, has been in a position to diversify the sources of arms imports, though a lot of Iraq’s weapons doctrine relies on Japanese weapons. , and subsequently it’s doable to seek out options from Romania, Poland, Finland and Bulgaria which produce one of these weapon.
Al-Saadi factors out that Iraq is at present creating a army trade, not just for mild weapons, but in addition for medium and heavy weapons. It has the flexibility to fabricate mild and medium munitions, mortars and artillery, of every kind.
Reviews point out that Iraq is searching for appropriate options ought to the Ukrainian-Russian disaster proceed.
On this regard, safety and technique professional Sarmad Al-Bayati says that there are lots of options in case the arrival of Russian weapons is hindered, and we don’t neglect the presence of many Russian weapons in nations of the previous Soviet Union, in addition to Chinese language weapons weapons.
Throughout his speech to Al-Jazeera Internet, Al-Bayati expresses his perception that it’s not tough to acquire options to the Russian weapon, not like the American weapon, during which every half accommodates a code and a particular quantity, and it is exhausting to get an alternative choice to this one.
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The prefab Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) – a type of small residence typically built in backgardens – form part of Valenti’s greater Albizia Project, which spawned from his seventh-year dissertation.
The initiative aims to address Honolulu’s affordable housing shortage, while restoring native forests. Like other island economies, Hawaii’s heavy dependence on imports contributes to sky-high housing prices and the cost of living.
“A concern for homelessness in Hawaii is part of our core values, but we must also solve for the supply chain and ecosystem restoration challenges before pursuing commercial applications,” Valenti told Dezeen.
Valenti aims to also solve another problem of thirsty Albizia trees, which can grow up to five meters annually and are problematic as their proliferation chokes out water sources for endemic flora.
They were originally introduced to Oahu in 1917 to reforest land previously used for cattle farming. In an ironic twist, the Hawaii Invasive Species Council now encourages eradicating albizia trees to support the native ecosystem.
“There’s a surplus of this invasive species that people previously considered to be rubbish, just a problem,” he said. “I challenged that we think of it as a resource instead.”
With funding from sources including the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation and the US Forest Service, Valenti built a proof-of-concept called Lika on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Hawaii’s Manoa School of Architecture.
Lika’s design references traditional Pacific Islander architecture that uses solid timber, like the round thatch-roofed Samoan fale.
“In school we learned to base design concepts on elements of cultural significance, so I began investigating various low-tech, indigenous architecture in the Pacific Islands,” Valenti said.
“The beauty of indigenous architecture is in its simplicity and structural integrity.”
Since Albizia is a soft, low-density timber, he employed new technologies in wood engineering and CNC digital cutting to fortify and cut out boards, which were then glued into layered panels before being shaped into arches and beams.
Valenti describes it as a “new version of cross-laminated timber”.
“It’s laminated all in the same direction, but these panels are almost like a thick layer of plywood,” he added. “This would stabilize the wood and give it additional strength before cutting the parts.”
Lika’s dome-like design is not just low cost, but it also promotes air circulation by using wood louvers.
By eliminating three walls of a standard rectangular structure, natural airflow would reduce the need for air conditioning in Hawaii’s tropical climate. The ADU is covered with a waterproof canvas roof sourced from a locally owned manufacturer that creates fabric commercial awnings.
“The bulk of the time and labor intensity happens in the shop,” Valenti said. “Once everything is prefabricated, the entire structure can be installed in about a day.”
A number of American cities that face housing shortages are seeing a rise in ADUs, including Seattle, where Best Practice Architecture converted an unused garage into a small black cottage for an elderly family member, and in Toronto, where Measured Architecture added a laneway house to a narrow, residential property.
During this year’s recent Los Angeles Design Festival, a series of architect-designed granny flats were open for public tours. Also in California, British startup has teamed up with prefabricated housing company Koto to create a prefab, cabin-like unit that can be delivered to sites in San Jose in two weeks.
Photography is by Michelle Mishina.
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Curtis Kent Bishop
Curtis Kent Bishop was born in Bolivar, Tennessee in 1912 and moved to Texas with his family while still a child.
He attended Big Spring High School while working part time at the Austin American-Statesman, and after graduating in 1934 he went to the University of Texas where worked on the student magazine the Ranger as the editor and the student newspaper, the Daily Texan as a sports reporter.
After earning his bachelors degree, he went to work as a reporter for the Austin Tribune and made his job at the Austin American-Statesman a permanent position where he wrote a column called "This Day in Texas" which was syndicated throughout the state.
During World War II Bishop served with the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service in Latin America and in the Pacific Theater.
When he came back to Texas he continued his writing career and became known for his books rather than his newspaper reporting.
He wrote about sports and life in the American West. Several of his westerns were even made into motion pictures.
In total he wrote more than fifty books, though, some of them were published under a pen name. As well as several hundred magazine articles for youth readers, like Half-Time Hero (1956), and Dribble Up (1956), The First Texas Ranger: Jack Hays (1959), and Lots of Land (1949) which was written with James Bascom Giles.
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Because of the work he did while writing Lots of Land with Bascom Giles, the General Land Office of Texas hired Bishop to go through their archives. They were looking for help in preparing their case for the state of Texas during the Tidelands controversy
- a legal dispute between the United States and Texas involved the title to 2,440,650 acres of submerged land in the Gulf of Mexico between low tide and the state's Gulfward boundary three leagues (10.35 miles) from shore
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||0.3 mg/m3 (0.10 ppm) (OSHA PEL)
||The sampling train consists of a 13-mm glass fiber
filter in a Swinnex cassette (available from the laboratory), followed
by a standard silica gel tube. The filter and gaskets, within the
cassette used to hold the filter, are extracted in the field in exactly
1 mL of methanol. This extraction is very important so a volumetric
pipette calibrated to 1 mL must be used. The silica gel tube is
extracted with methanol at the laboratory. Analysis is performed by
gas chromatography (GC) using a nitrogen/phosphorous detector.
|Recommended air volume
and sampling rate:
|120 L at 1 L/min
|Detection limit of the
|Glass fiber filter 3.8 µg/m3 (1.3 ppb)
Silica gel 3.8 µg/m3 (1.3 ppb)
|Reliable quantitation limit:
||Glass fiber filter 3.8 µg/m3 (1.3 ppb)
Silica gel 3.8 µg/m3 (1.3 ppb)
|Standard error of estimate:
||As soon after sampling as possible, the glass fiber
filter and the gaskets holding the filter in place must be added to
1 mL of methanol. This is done to avoid sublimation of any acrylamide
particulate collected on the filter.
|Status of method:
||This method has been subjected to the established
evaluation procedures of the Organic Methods Evaluation Branch.
||Michael L. Shulsky
Methods Development Team
Industrial Hygiene Chemistry Division
OSHA Salt Lake Technical Center
Sandy UT 84070-6406
1. General Discussion
2. Sampling Procedure
1.1.1. History of procedure
1.2. Limit defining parameters (All values are based on the recommended
There is little published data on the collection of acrylamide, but manufacturers have used a variety of methods
due to the possibility of acrylamide being present as a
vapor or aerosol. The sampling procedures used include
filters, midget impingers, and adsorbent tubes.
Various analytical techniques have been employed: spectrophotometry with derivatization, refractive index measurements, titrimetry, GC with derivatization, direct GC, thin layer chromatography, polarography (Ref. 5.1.), and
liquid chromatography (LC). (Ref. 5.2.)
A glass fiber filter backed up with a silica gel tube was
evaluated for this procedure. It was found that solid
acrylamide will vaporize from a filter rather rapidly when
air is drawn through it. The filter is recommended for
collection of particulate acrylamide since the collection
efficiency of sorbent tubes is not known. Silica gel
tubes were chosen to back up the filter because they provide good collection and resorption efficiencies. Poor
desorptions were obtained from charcoal with methanol-
water mixtures. Other solvents were evaluated for resorption of charcoal, but did little to increase the resorption efficiency.
Gas chromatographic analysis was selected. The variability of conditions and columns are sometimes needed to eliminate interferences. A nitrogen-phosphorus detector (NPD)
was chosen because of its selectivity and sensitivity.
The plastic cassettes which hold a 37-mm filter were unsuitable for the sampling train. The cassette appeared to
be responsible for low and erratic recoveries of acrylamide. This was determined by spiking a known amount of
acrylamide on a glass wool plug inside a glass tube (both
parts silanized), and placing the glass tube ahead of the
plastic cassette in the sampling train. One hundred twenty liters of humid air, at approximately 75% relative
humidity (RH), was drawn through the glass tube assembly
cassette, and silica gel tube. The sampling train, including the glass tube assembly and rinses from the cassette
were analyzed separately. Acrylamide was found only on
the "A" portion of the silica gel tube. The recovery from
numerous tests of this procedure ranged between 65% and
100% . In order to check the technique of spiking the
glass wool plug, bubblers of isopropanol were used instead
of a cassette and silica gel tube. These tests gave 95 to
100% recovery. Therefore, it was assumed the cassette was
introducing errors in recovery. Smaller Swinnex cassettes
were tried with the same spiking technique. The recovery
was 95 to 100%.
1.1.2. Toxicity (This section is for information only and should
not be taken as the basis for OSHA policy.)
Acrylamide may be absorbed through the skin or by inhalation. Workers exposed to the dust for 4 to 12 weeks showed symptoms of muscular weakness particularly in the legs,
numbness of the limbs, absence of deep tendon reflex,
fatigue, and lethargy. These problems were slow to disappear, in some cases taking months. (Ref. 5.3.)
Acrylamide is used primarily in the production of polymers. Polyacrylamide is used as flocculent in water and
waste treatment. The paper industry also uses polyacrylamide for strengtheners. There are approximately 20,000
workers potentially exposed to acrylamide. (Ref. 5.1.)
1.1.4. Physical properties (Ref. 5.4. unless otherwise stated)
||71.08 (Ref. 5.1.)
||125°C (25 mm Hg)
||0.007 mm Hg at 25°C
sublimes at room temperature (Ref. 5.1.)
||propenamide, acrylic amide,
akrylamide (Ref. 5.1.)
1.2.1. Analytical detection limit
The detection limit of the analytical procedure is 0.9 ng
per 2-µL injection. This is the amount of acrylamide
which gave a chromatographic peak 5 times the baseline
noise. (Section 4.1.1.)
1.2.2. Detection limit of the overall procedure
This detection limit is 0.45 µg for each component of the sampling
train (silica gel tube and glass fiber filter). The above amount, 0.45 µg,
spiked on each collection media, gave a recovery equal to the analytical detection
limit. (Section 4.2.)
1.2.3. Reliable quantitation limit
The reliable quantitation limit is 0.45 µg for each collection medium which is equivalent to 3.8 µg/m3 or 1.3
ppb . This is equal to the analytical detection limit
since recovery never fell below 75% and the 95% confidence
limit remained within ±25%.
The reliable quantitation limit and detection limits reported in
this method may be better or worse than another analyst may obtain. This is due to the factors which will effect sensitivity of
an NPD such as age of the bead, the voltage applied to the bead,
and the flow rate of the carrier gas and detector gases.
The sensitivity for the analytical procedure over the
concentration range of 0.4 to 2 times the PEL based on a
120-L air volume is 6160 area units per µg/mL. This value
is the slope of the calibration curve. (Section 4.3.) The
sensitivity will vary with the instrument and data system
The recovery of acrylamide from samples used in a 15-day
storage test remained above 89% for samples spiked with 40
µg of acrylamide. (Section 4.6.) The recovery of analyte
from the collection medium during storage must be 75% or
1.2.6. Precision (analytical method only)
The pooled coefficient of variation obtained from replicate injections of analytical standards at 0.5, 1.0, and 2
times the PEL is 0.0312. (Section 4.2.)
1.2.7. Precision (overall procedure)
The precision at the 95% confidence level for the 15-day
storage test is ±14.8%. (Figure 4.7.) This includes an
additional ±5% for sampling error. The overall procedure
must provide results that are ±25% at the 95% confidence
1.3.1. The sampling device is small and portable.
1.3.2. Replicate injections of each sample are possible.
1.3.3. Samples are stable for at least two weeks.
1.3.4. The analytical technique is sensitive and selective.
1.4.1. The precision of the sampling pump is dependent on the
pressure drop across the sampling train.
1.4.2. The filter portion and gaskets, which hold the filter, of
each sample must be extracted with methanol as soon after
sampling as possible. It may be advantageous to place
exactly 1 mL of methanol in enough scintillation vials to
accommodate the expected number of samples prior to going
to the sampling site. After sampling, the cassette could
be unscrewed and the filter and gaskets simply dropped
into a vial already containing exactly 1 mL of methanol.
1.4.3. Methanol is toxic and must be handled cautiously.
3. Analytical Procedure
2.1.1. A personal sampling pump which may be calibrated within
±5% of the recommended flow rate.
2.1.2. Silica gel tubes containing a 150-mg and a 75-mg portion.
The tubes used in the evaluation were obtained from SKC,
Inc., and were 6-mm i.d. × 70 mm in length.
2.1.3. Scintillation vials with Teflon-lined caps, i.e., 20-mL.
2.1.4. The Swinnex cassettes with filters and gaskets can be
obtained from the laboratory.
2.1.5. Tygon tubing is used to connect the cassette to the silica
gel tube. This tubing should be as short as possible.
2.1.6. A 1-mL pipette is necessary for dispensing methanol into
the scintillation vials.
Methanol, reagent grade.
2.3. Sampling technique
2.3.1. Before going to the workplace, exactly 1.0 mL of methanol
is placed in scintillation vials and capped tightly. There should be enough scintillation vials with 1 mL of
methanol, to extract each filter sample taken.
2.4. Sampler capacity
2.3.2. A short piece of Tygon tubing is used to connect the cassette to the silica gel tube, such that the silica gel
tube is butted against the cassette.
2.3.3. Immediately before sampling, the ends of the silica gel
tube are broken, the cassette and silica gel tube are
connected, and the tube is connected to a sampling pump
with a flexible hose.
2.3.4. The sampling device, cassette followed by a silica gel
tube, is placed vertically on the employee to avoid channeling through the tube.
2.3.5. Immediately after sampling, seal the ends of the silica
gel tubes with plastic caps and wrap it lengthwise with an
official OSHA seal (Form 21).
2.3.6. As soon as possible, unscrew the cassette and place, the
glass fiber filter and O-ring gaskets in a vial containing
1 mL of methanol. Be certain the cap is tightly screwed
on the vial, then wrap the vial lengthwise with an official OSHA seal.
2.3.7. With each set of silica gel tubes send in a blank.
2.3.8. Submit a blank sample of the methanol used for extraction,
containing a blank filter and gaskets.
2.3.9. If a bulk sample is submitted for analysis, it should be
sent in a glass bottle sealed with a Teflon-lined cap.
Bulk samples must not be shipped in the same package with
2.3.10. Transport the samples, Swinnex cassettes, and corresponding paperwork to the laboratory for analysis.
Since a controlled test atmosphere could not be produced, an exact
determination of breakthrough capacity could not be obtained easily.
Instead, the retention efficiency for a high concentratlon of
acrylamide spiked on the silica gel tube was determined.
A study was performed by spiking a filter with a large amount of
acrylamide, then attaching a silica gel tube behind it.
One hundred-eighty liters of humid air (approx. 75% RH, 20°C) was pulled
through the assembled sampling train. The "A" and "B" portions of
the silica gel tube were analyzed. The "A" portion contained
0.644 mg of acrylamide while the "B" portion contained none. This
amount (0.644 mg) is approximately 17 times the amount for a sample at the PEL.
2.5. Desorption and extraction efficiencies
2.5.1. Desorption efficiencies were determined by liquid injections of methanol/acrylamide solutions onto the "A"
portion of the silica gel tubes. Studies were done over
the range of 2 times the PEL down to the detection limit
of the analytical procedure assuming a 120-L air volume.
Six tubes were prepared at each loading. The average
resorption efficiency was 97.7%. (Section 4.5.)
2.6. Recommended air volume and sampling rate
2.5.2. Extraction efficiencies for the filters were done at 40 µg
and 0.9 µg of acrylamide. These were prepared by liquid
injection onto the filters and immediately extracted with
1 mL of methanol. These gave 100% recovery so there is no
correction necessary for the filter portion.
The recommended air volume is 120 L at a sampling rate not to
exceed 1 L/min.
2.7.1. Other organic vapors may collect on the silica gel tubes.
Any other organic vapors present should be listed as possible interferences.
2.8. Safety precautions
2.7.2. Other organic particulate or aerosols may collect on the
filter so they should be listed as possible interferences.
2.7.3. Large amounts of dust may plug the filter, so it should be
watched if a dusty environment is encountered.
2.8.1. Eye protection should be worn during the breaking of the
ends of the silica gel tubes.
2.8.2. Methanol is a flammable and toxic solvent, so it should be
handled with care.
4. Backup Data
3.1.1. Gas chromatography equipped with a nitrogen/phosphorus
3.1.2. Microliter syringes, such as 2-µL and 10-µL sizes.
3.1.3. Analytical GC column. For this evaluation a 3-ft glass
column, 2-mm i.d. × 1/4-in. o.d., containing 10% Carbowax
20M with 2% KOH on 80/100 Chromosorb W AW, was used.
3.1.4. Pipettes and dispensers for standard preparation and sample desorption.
3.1.5. Volumetric, such as 5-mL and 10-mL sizes.
3.1.6. Small vials for desorption of silica gel.
3.1.7. A suitable method for peak area integration.
3.2.1. Acrylamide, reagent grade.
3.3. Standard preparation
3.2.2. Methanol, GC quality.
3.2.3. Helium, hydrogen, air; GC quality.
Nitrogen/phosphorus detectors may not be linear over a wide range
of analyte concentration. The linearity must be ascertained before a quantitative method is chosen. Standards covering the
concentration range in which the samples are expected to be should
be prepared by weighing acrylamide into two volumetric, diluting
them to the mark with methanol, and making dilutions of these
stock standards down to the desired range. Analysis of the dilutions to be used with the samples will show whether the detector
is linear or not.
If the detector is linear over the desired range, then a direct
correlation between area of the acrylamide peak obtained from a
standard and concentration of that standard can be made.
If the detector response is not linear, then a suitable calibration curve must be used to correlate the area of a peak to the
3.4. Sample preparation
3.4.1. The 150-mg portion of silica gel and the glass wool plug
are placed in one vial while the 75-mg portion is placed
in a second vial. The urethane foam plugs are discarded.
3.5. Instrument conditions
3.4.2. Each portion of silica gel is desorbed with 1 mL of methanol, periodically shaken to insure all the silica gel has
been wetted, and analyzed, at least 20 min later.
3.4.3. The filters and gaskets are extracted by the field personnel as per Section 2.3.6.
||3-ft glass 2-mm i.d. × 1/4-in. i.d.
10% Carbowax 20M/2% KOH on 80/100
Chromosorb W AW
||nitrogen - 20 mL/min
||Hewlett-Packard Alkali Bead
||air - 50 mL/min
hydrogen - 3 mL/min
3.5.2. A typical chromatogram is shown in Figure 4.8.
3.6.1. Any compound which has the same retention time as
acrylamide and will respond on a NPD will be an interference.
By altering chromatographic conditions, the interfering
compound may be separated. It may be necessary to change
analytical columns. A second column to use is a 3-ft
glass column 1/4-in. o.d. × 2-mm i.d. packed with 10%
SP1000 on 80/100 Supelcoport.
3.6.2. If a sample is calculated to be above the PEL, then a
confirmation should be done by mass spectrometry or another suitable method. Retention time on one column is
not considered proof of identity. Two different types of
packing should be used to compare retention times.
If either calibration method, linear or non-linear is used as
described in Section 3.3., the values obtained for samples will
be in concentration units. For each sample there will be results
for the glass fiber filter and the silica gel tube.
Example: Air Volume = 110 L
Quantitation method gives the following results:
Both collection media are extracted with 1 mL of methanol. Therefore, the total µg from the filter is a simple multiplication: 2
µg/mL × 1 mL = 2 µg while the total micrograms for the silica gel
must take into account the desorption efficiency, 97.7%. The calculation is as follows:
Glass fiber filter = 2 µg/mL
Silica Gel = 20 µg/mL
The total µg for the sample is obtained by adding the results of
the GFF to the silica gel results.
| = 20.47 µg/mL × 1 mL = 20.47 µg
2 µg + 20.47 µg = 22.47 µg
The air concentration for the sample is calculated by dividing the
total pg for the sample by the air volume in L.
22.47 µg/110 L = 0.204 µg/L = 0.2 mg/m3
The result for the sample is 0.2 mg/m3.
3.8. Safety precautions
3.8.1. Safety glasses should be worn in all designated areas.
3.8.2. All solvents should be handled in an exhaust hood and kept
away from sources of ignition such as heated injectors and
4.1. Detection limit data
4.1.1. The detection limit of the analytical procedure is 0.9 ng
per 2-µL injection. This is the amount of acrylamide
which gave a chromatographic peak five times the baseline
noise. (Figure 4.1.)
4.2. Precision (analytical procedure)
4.1.2. The detection limit of the overall procedure is 0.45 µg
per collection medium (3.8 µg/m3 or 1.3 ppb). The above
amounts spiked on each collection medium gave a recovered
amount equal to the detection limit of the analytical
procedure. (Figure 4.2.)
4.1.3. The reliable quantitation limit is equal to 0.45 µg per
collection medium, since neither the desorption no; extraction fell below 75% and the 95% confidence limit remained within ±25%. (Figure 4.3.)
Based on the data of Table 4.2., the precision of the analytical
method at 0.5, 1, and 2 times the PEL, given as a pooled coefficient of variation, is 0.0312.
Precision of the Analytical Procedure
|× target conc.
CV = 0.0312
The sensitivity of this analytical procedure is defined as the
area change per µg/mL change as found from the slope of the calibration curve. (Figure 4.4.) For the instrument and data system
used, the sensitivity was 6160 area counts per µg/mL.
4.4. Sampler capacity
Breakthrough studies could not be done due to instrument limitations. Therefore, a retention study was performed by spiking a
glass fiber filter with a large amount of acrylamide, placing a
silica gel tube after the filter, and drawing 180 L of humid air
at 1 L/min through the sample train. Analysis of the "A" and "B"
portions of silica gel showed 0.644 mg (644 µg) of acrylamide on
the "A" portion and none on the "B" portion. The amount, 644 µg,
is approximately 20 times the amount collected for a sample at the
PEL with a 120-L air volume. This would give a wide safety margin
for most samples.
4.5. Desorption and extraction efficiencies
4.5.1. Desorption efficiencies were determined at 0.4, 1.1, and
2 times the PEL (Figure 4.5.), and at 0.45 µg and 2.25 µg.
(Figure 4.3.) Silica gel tubes were spiked by liquid
injection and stored in a refrigerator overnight. Upon
analysis an average desorption efficiency of 97.7% was
|× target concentration
| = 97.7
4.5.2. Extraction efficiencies for filters were done by liquid
injection of acrylamide onto the filter and immediate
extraction with 1 mL of methanol. The amounts spiked were
0.9 µg and 40 µg. These gave 100% recovery, so no correction is necessary for the filter portion of the samples.
4.6. Storage test
4.6.1. It was not possible to generate a controlled test atmosphere of acrylamide vapors and instrument limitations
prevented the generation of an aerosol of acrylamide, so
the stability samples were prepared by liquid injection
onto the "A" portion of silica gel tubes. Thirty-six
samples were prepared. Six of the samples were analyzed
after generation to be used for day zero results. Fifteen
samples were stored under refrigeration (5°C) and the
remaining 15 were stored at room temperature. On every
third day when possible, 3 samples from each storage set
were analyzed. The results are given below with graphic
representation in Figures 4.6. and 4.7.
4.6.2. The storage stability of filters was not done since acrylamide was
known to volatilize from the filters upon storage. Storage stability of
filters spiked with acrylamide then extracted with methanol was done on several filters.
This showed 100% recovery from the methanol solution after
a 17-day storage time.
Figure 4.1. Detection limit of analytical procedure.
Figure 4.2. Detection limit of overall procedure.
Figure 4.3. Reliable quantitation limit.
Figure 4.4. Sensitivity.
Figure 4.5. Desorption efficiencies.
Figure 4.6. Ambient storage of acrylamide.
Figure 4.7. Refrigerated storage of acrylamide.
Figure 4.8. Analytical standard (16 µg/mL).
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Senate passes ‘Back the Blue’ bill that Democrats say will worsen racial disparity
A Des Moines woman who was the subject of repeated acts of domestic violence is suing the city’s police department, alleging officers failed to arrest her attacker as required by state law. (Photo courtesy of Des Moines Police Department)
The GOP majority in the Iowa Senate sent amended “Back the Blue” legislation back to the House with enhanced criminal penalties that Democrats said would worsen racial disparities in incarcerations.
The bill addresses some police benefits and provides qualified immunity to protect officers against lawsuits in some cases. It also raises penalties for rioting and other crimes associated with last year’s protests after the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
The Senate amendments would add active and retired law officers and prosecutors to a program that provides officers’ an alternative postal address for safety reasons; add qualified immunity language to several code sections; amend “bill of rights language” for officers and other emergency personnel; allow peace officers to participate in a certain group health insurance plan; deny local governments any state aid if they violate the new legislation; amend the definition of “assault” to include pointing a laser at someone; and expand the definition of eluding officers.
Sen. Rob Hogg, D-Cedar Rapids, and Sen. Nate Boulton, D-Des Moines, both objected to strengthening penalties for offenses such as rioting and eluding officers. That could disproportionately affect members of racial minorities because they have been jailed at a higher rate than others, they said.
Boulton offered an amendment, which was defeated, that would have eliminated the enhanced or new criminal penalties.
“When we start stretching these definitions and stretching the penalties, we start to see some very unfair implications in our communities,” Boulton said. “I don’t think any of us wants to see a situation where a senior skip day turns into a felony. I don’t think we want to see situations where tailgating activities become felonies, simply based on the eye of the law enforcement officer or the animosity between different communities within a small county.”
Hogg asked several GOP lawmakers if they considered the data on the disproportionate number of minorities in Iowa’s prisons before deciding to stiffen penalties for what he called “minor offenses.” Hogg said state data shows that Blacks make up 4.1% of Iowa’s population but account for 71% of the people in prison or on probation.
The legislation would in some case turn two-year sentences into five years, worsening the racial disparities, Hogg contended.
When Hogg asked several GOP senators what they had done to address the disparity, none answered him directly. A few declined to take his questions on the floor.
Sen. Chris Cournoyer, R-LeClaire, said it’s a matter of serving time for offenses, regardless of race.
“If someone commits a crime, and they are charged with that crime and convicted of that crime, then they serve the time or suffer the consequences of that crime,” Cournoyer told Hogg in response to a question.
Sen. Kevin Kinney, D-Oxford, a retired deputy sheriff, said, “The policy in this bill is going to hurt people in our communities.” Charging people with felonies that should be simple misdemeanors could make it hard for the offenders to get a job or housing, he said.
Kinney and other Democrats objected to a felony charge for eluding officers, noting that some caution their own family members not to stop for an unmarked vehicle or one that looks suspicious.
“I drove an unmarked car for 13 years,” Kinney said. “I didn’t wear a uniform for 13 years. I knew that if I went to stop someone and they didn’t stop, they couldn’t be charged with eluding. I’ve told my wife, I’ve told my daughter, that if you’re out on the interstate or if you’re on a rural road, and someone goes to stop you, you call 911 and you go someplace that’s lit so you can see and there are other people around. To be charged with eluding for this is crazy.”
Democrats also criticized the bill for not addressing benefits such as retirement and health insurance that police officers told them were key needs.
The bill does not ban racial profiling or traffic-stop data collection, key recommendations from GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds’ task force on police issues.
Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, a state criminal investigator who managed the bill, said the Democrats’ proposed amendments would have amounted to “Back the Blue lite,” by weakening the qualified immunity that police sought.
Dawson called the Democrats’ assertion that benefits such as sick leave were of primary importance “insulting” to officers.
“The top priority always has been cementing qualified immunity because of what is going on at the federal level. I think it’s insulting to law enforcement to say their top primary goal and this individual ‘Back the Blue’ bill is just to get (Sick Leave Insurance Program) benefits,” Dawson said.
The bill also protects officers’ personal information and allows police to seek damages against people or organizations who make false complaints.
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BUV 2022 4-Part Easter Series: Love Beyond Measure
Part 3: Good Friday – Love Changes Everything
For Jesus, the cross and the journey toward it was his passion.
‘Passion’ comes from the Latin: passionem meaning, ‘suffering, enduring’ and for Christians this refers to the short final period in the life of Jesus beginning with his triumphal entry into Jerusalem and ending with his crucifixion and his death on Good Friday. It includes, among other events, the last supper; Jesus’ agony in the garden; his arrest by the Sanhedrin priests; and his trial before Pontius Pilate. Those parts of the four Gospels, that describe these events, are known as the “passion narratives”
The PASSION of Jesus.
The Scriptures say, ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son’ (John 3:16) however, we need to understand that Jesus didn’t go to the cross unwillingly – he went because he too, was motivated by love – his passion.
His love for you and for me; his love for this world; his love for the people you either don’t love or find it difficult to love; his love for the unlovable.
Jesus’ love (beyond measure) motivates His passion.
Death conjures up images of the grim reaper or that of a graveside. We, in the west, have largely removed death from the living room and placed into the sanitized confines of the mortuary, away from our gaze, out of sight, and out of mind. We are uncomfortable with images of death, pain and suffering and we squirm at the notion that we all (each and every single one of us) will face death, trails and tribulations at one time or another.
Hebrews 12:2 states, ‘Jesus endured the cross’.
2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
The cross is where we see the convergence of ‘great suffering’ and ‘God’s forgiveness’. Psalm 85:10 sings of a day when ‘righteousness and peace’ will ‘kiss each other’. The cross of Jesus is where that occurred, where God’s demands, his righteousness, coincided with his mercy. We receive forgiveness, mercy, and peace because Jesus willingly took our punishment.
The German theologian Jurgen Moltmann expresses in a single sentence the great span from Good Friday to Easter. It is, in fact, a summary of human history, past, present, and future: “God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.”
Love changes everything…
Max Lucado in his book, Six Hours One Friday, tells the story of a missionary in Brazil who discovered a tribe of Indians in a remote part of the jungle.
They lived near a large river. The tribe was in need of medical attention. A contagious disease was ravaging the population. People were dying daily. A hospital was not too terribly far away—across the river, but the Indians would not cross it because they believed the river was inhabited by evil spirits. And to enter its water would mean certain death.
The missionary explained how he had crossed the river and was unharmed. But they were not impressed. He then took them to the bank and placed his hand in the water. They still wouldn’t go in. He walked into the water up to his waist and splashed water on his face. It didn’t matter. They were still afraid to enter the river. Finally, he dove into the river, swam beneath the surface until he emerged on the other side. He raised a triumphant fist into the air. He had entered the water and escaped. It was then that the Indians broke into a cheer and followed him across.
Isn’t that what Jesus did? He entered this realm, he entered the river of death, and he came out on the other side so that we might no longer fear death, but find eternal life in Him.
Can you think of a story of when someone sacrificed something of significance for you or for someone you know? What did that sacrifice cost? What emotions are stirred up when you reflect on sacrifices people make for others?
When life gets tough or when things don’t go as you might have planned how does this challenge your understanding of God and His provision in your life? Why so you suppose God allows us to go through times of pain and difficulty? Where is God when life gets tough?
For context, read Hebrews 12:1-13
- How does this passage speak to you in the circumstances of your life, past, present, or perhaps in the future?
- What do these verses reveal about the nature of God?
- What does God expect of us when we face pain, trials, tribulations, and struggle?
Are your passions in life in line with what God is passionate about? If not, what might you do to redirect some of your passions? What causes are you prepared to fight for or even give your life for?
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In this era of digitalization, where competition increases every second, jewellers are in search of a new path for being the 1st among all the competitors. Nowadays the best path of surviving in this era is to open an online store. According to a survey online sales reaches about 13% in 2020, the e-commerce platform is one of the best ways for entrepreneurs to expand their boundaries globally.
Why Facebook page for your jewellery e-commerce business?
Drawing more than 1.4 billion users every month, Facebook is one of the most important mediums for generating brand awareness and interacting with customers. Facebook marketing refers to both organic (free) postings/interactions, and paid, or "boosted" posts.
Facebook marketing is a must for every business today. Facebook offers several different marketing tools businesses can use, depending on what their goals are. You can target your posts at audiences using advertising filters - like income, interests and behaviour - driving people to your website or other apps where they can learn more about your products and ultimately make a purchase. You can also run advertising that helps build your community on Facebook, like "page like" campaigns.
How to build a Facebook business page for a jewellery e-commerce business
1) Building the basics of the page
The actual process of setting a Facebook page is relatively simple. A business owner logs into his or her personal account and visits the "Create a Page" subdomain on Facebook. From there, choosing a category - often "Local Business or Place" but sometimes "Brand or Product" if that aspect of an e-commerce business is well-established - and providing the relevant information such as website address and business description is easy.
Jewellery owners should have a version of their jewellery brand logo and several product images on hand to add to the page. Having such product images is of much importance as they will create the first impression of your business when some visitors contact the page.
2) Inviting & Increasing followers
Once your page is set up, the next step is to begin to build a following. This requires significant effort on the part of the jewellery store owner to leverage their personal and professional networks to create an initial base of followers.
Another important thing to do in this step is to add all the social media icons on all the pages of your jewellery e-commerce store, as it guides shoppers who are already interested in a store's offerings directly to its presence on social media.
3) Including share button
Adding share buttons to product pages allows customers to show off a product they're considering or get opinions from their friends, also directing these friends-of-friends to a store. Similarly, a share button for completed orders also spreads the word about the e-commerce business.
Few Facebook marketing tips for your E-Commerce store
Facebook can be a useful platform to get eyes on your e-commerce store. Here's how to make sure your Facebook marketing is on point.
1) Identify your audience: Facebook's Audience Insights tool lets you delve deeply into your potential customers to find information on gender, education, relationship status, location, language, Facebook usage and even past purchases.
2) Create a visual post: Make sure your e-commerce design is professional and highly visual so that your products or services sell themselves. Use professional photography and videos in addition to articles and testimonials about your products.
3) Facebook Live posts: Real-time video broadcasts that can instantly connect your company with your potential customers. Switch out your product images and videos regularly. Allow customers and observers to participate in creating and showcasing images and videos.
4) Announce & promote your jewellery product rigorously: put your products and services in front of an interested public to generate traffic and sales. Interact with your target audience and make sure to share any in-store promotions. It takes just a few minutes to create and upload these messages, including calls to action that suggest specific actions beyond engagement.
5) Run Facebook ads and Pixel: Running ads on Facebook is a sure-fire way to draw attention to your company. All you have to do is establish a Facebook Ads account wherein you pay to share your content with specific targeted audiences. This gets your ads in front of potentially interested customers to achieve conversion goals – that is, to convert lookers into buyers.
Running a jewellery e-commerce operation these days is competitive. A solid marketing campaign, augmented with well-planned Facebook outreach tools, advertising and a customer-oriented strategy, will run that extra mile to help your online company succeed.
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An appointment at the dentist’s office can be unnerving. And yet, one of the most common reasons people delay dental treatment is cost, not fear. This is especially true in Canada, where our regular access to free healthcare coverage can make unexpected dental premiums seem even worse than they really are. Even if you are currently taking advantage of a Health Spending Account, there are some compelling reasons to make an effort to lower your dental costs. Because most HSA plans require that you cover the expense up front and then wait for a reimbursement cheque in the mail, the costs of extensive operations such as root canals and crowns can still be untenable for some. Read on to learn a few ways to keep your dental healthcare costs down so that no treatment is out of reach!
- Shop around! Just like you would after receiving an unfavourable diagnoses, it can be worth your while to seek a second opinion in the dental world. Often, procedural capacities vary from clinic to clinic, and two dentists may have two drastically different pricing and treatment options for whatever condition you are dealing with. Though time is money, the time you invest in seeking a second opinion could save you a lot, especially considering how easy it is to access information with a quick phone call or Google search these days.
- Consider low-cost clinics. Some communities have constructed specialty health-care centers that offer dental and medical services that are priced based on the client’s ability to pay. Though you may encounter a long line or find yourself placed at the bottom of a waiting list, these community health centers can save you serious money. Place a call to your local health department to find a low-cost clinic nearby.
- Help a student, help yourself. Consider approaching dental hygiene schools. As part of their program, many hygienists are required to locate patients, and after exhausting their family and friend options, will sometimes even solicit people on the street. Save them the trouble, and yourself the cost, and submit yourself to a supervised cleaning by a student. These services are often basic, and will not help you when needing extensive dental treatments, but they are offered at discounted rates, and are sometimes even free. | <urn:uuid:ee79e4fb-9f4d-4c56-bc6b-0aa1f7274a8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.benecaid.com/fr/3-tips-to-keep-dental-healthcare-costs-down/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963583 | 447 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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Health Savings Accounts (HSA) are tax advantaged accounts that can be used to pay for qualified medical expenses. They are set up to be used in tandem with a HSA qualified medical insurance plan, which typically are referred to as high deductible. Often times the phrase ‘triple tax free’ is heard when discussing HSA’s, what does that mean? Any money contributed to an HSA is done so on a pretax basis, before the money gets taxed. While in the account, the money can potential grow tax deferred, and when the funds are used to pay for qualified medical expenses the withdrawal is tax free.
The annual limits in 2020 for contributions to an HSA are $3600 for someone using single coverage or $7200 for someone using family coverage for their medical plan. In addition, if someone is 55 years or older, they can also make an extra $1,000 contribution annually. Sometimes employers will also make a company contribution to an employee’s HSA account to help support the savings efforts. Unlike flexible spending accounts (FSA), there is no use it or lose it provision for HSA monies. Anything not used in a given year can remain in the account, and used at any time in the future. Any excess funds that someone has may be invested if they choose.
While one of the main purposes of having and using an HSA is to pay for medical expenses during one’s working years, they can also be helpful in retirement as well. HSA’s can be used to pay for Medicare costs such as part B or part D premiums. They cannot however be used to pay for a supplemental plan, or Medigap coverage. If someone is 65 or older and still able to access an employer sponsored health plan, those costs can be paid for with an HSA. Another use for HSA money in retirement, is to pay for tax qualified Long Term Care insurance premiums. There is an annual limit as to how much can be used to pay for this each year, based on one’s age. This limit increases as someone gets older. Finally, once age 65 is attained, an HSA may be used for anything other than medical expenses. Under this scenario, there may be taxes owed on the withdrawal, much like taking money from a tax deferred 401K or IRA.
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Since Sketch arrived on the scene (and Figma moved in and ate its lunch) there has been a glorious movement towards designers working with tooling that aligns with what is actually deployed. The design assets that are exported from these tools are actually close to workable code.
This trend has been exciting to watch and developers world-over have rejoiced.
The gap has narrowed.
But what if the gap could be completely removed? Figma et. al. have done a brilliant job and taken us close to the finish line, but unsurprisingly, it’s the final mile that’s the hardest.
Exported markup and CSS from these design tools are valid, but not quite right. Developers still need to take the assets and reformat and optimize. It’s much much better than ye olde flat image files, but there is still work to be done and this work lengthens the product cycle as well as introduces implementation risk.
How is this achieved? When designers design directly in the browser!
I have found that the learning curve of a tool like Figma is no easier than that of learning HTML and CSS. With modern IDE tooling for browser refreshing, syntax prompts etc, it takes nothing for me to work directly in a single file to craft a design from scratch. The outcome of this is:
- I never have to wonder how difficult it will be to build something I design – cause I built it.
- The design assets I hand over to the development team are effectively functional components (they love this!)
- The designs when shared for review are “real world” useable. Very little imagination is needed by Product Owners etc to understand how well the designs execute on their vision.
As tech product teams continuously look for ways to simplify their workflows and ship better products faster, this kind of refocus of the role of design can lend some serious superpowers.
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Projecting from the second floor of the Star Clipper Building is an iron bridge that extends out over the sidewalk; near the street the bridge is connected to an iron spiral staircase. The lightness of the iron members of the bridge and the stairs makes them almost disappear within the downtown landscape. The stairs were provided so that one could go directly to the newspaper office on the second floor. Nearby, at 423 Second Street, is the Brooks and Moore building, an Italianate business block. This 1873 building displays an exuberantly detailed entablature and cornice, and windows with projecting keystones and hoods.
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ALTHA, Fla. , April 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Neon Bloom, Inc. (OTC: NBCO) — Bazelet Oglesby, a global leader in the legal industrial hemp industry announced today that it has built, delivered, and planted its patented 0.00% THC Panakeia cannabis plants in South Georgia .
Following the company’s rural development initiatives, its first crop, located in Southwest Georgia , is the adaptive reuse of the former Green Valley Country Club. The site is one of several in Georgia that the Company will utilize to produce its 2021 Panakeia crop.
Panakeia is the first (USPTO) patented cannabis plant in the world. Panakeia plants contain 0.00% Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) an illegal substance under federal law that is found in all marijuana and hemp plants. Panakeia plants have the most promising of all cannabinoids for broad use in food, drug and cosmetic applications. Bazelet is the licensed patent, trademark and manufacturer of Panakeia and first-to-market in the development and innovation of THC-Free cannabis ingredients.
Called by some, the Tesla of cannabis, Bazelet built Panakeia plants allow access to the diverse and therapeutic compounds found in cannabis but with zero risk of breaking federal law and zero risk of unwanted intoxication from THC.
“Bazelet Oglesby is one of only a few companies positioned to establish legal cannabis as a respected, sustainable industry. We are honored and accept with responsibility, that we are part of authoring its history and excited to serve the Georgia market.” Said Gary Hennen , Director with Bazelet Oglesby.
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Bazelet Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francisco Ward commented that ” Georgia is expected to soon launch a new, low THC medical marijuana program. Bazelet is uniquely positioned to provide Georgia’s healthcare professionals exceptional cannabinoid derived products that are safe, effective and made from the world’s only 0.00% THC cannabis plant collection”.
About Bazelet Oglesby:
An innovative plant science company establishing itself as a world leader in tissue culture propagation and the production of young plants for the global horticulture industry. The company is a subsidiary of Bazelet Health Systems and Oglesby Plants International. Bazelet Health Systems, Inc. is wholly owned by Neon Bloom, Inc.
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A company needs to be profitable in order to thrive, and whether it is a small business or a large multinational company, having a team of accountants on hand is extremely important to determine whether its revenue is more than its expenses. Furthermore, accounting is also extremely important in order to understand which areas of the business are doing well, and which ones need close attention so as to turn them profitable.
Expert accountants can analyze important data regarding expenditure, investments, etc. and determine an ideal manner for reporting revenue growth. Unfortunately, even though most big companies have a dedicated accounting wing to take care of these processes, it is the small businesses which find accounting and finance a challenge. Only 40% of the small business owners feel they are knowledgeable about accounting, and only 42% of the small businesses have a controller for accounting, which is a worrying trend.
Contrary to expectations, managing the financial end of your business is not as scary as most people would presume. By creating a realistic plan with a well-thought out budget and diligently maintaining records correctly, you can ensure that your accounting checklist gets off to a flying start.
But then again, doing so is just the tip of the iceberg, and unless you familiarize yourself with how income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements work together, you might soon find yourself in trouble. Our accounting checklist for businesses will help you prepare to take on a variety of accounting functions while helping you streamline your tax preparation.
Here is a small business accounting checklist consisting of the 20 most important things to keep in mind while setting up a robust accounting strategy -
For most small to medium scale businesses, cash liquidity is extremely important in order to conduct daily tasks. Checking your cash flow daily can help you keep track of your expenditure, and is, therefore, one of the most important tenets of the accounting checklist for business startups. You should always be aware of you much you are expected to pay your vendors, while checking your daily incoming cash to notice seasonal and customer specific trends if any.
Although a tedious task in itself, recording your daily expenses is one of the simplest ways in which you can keep a strong hold over your businesses' day-to-day accounting functions. Make sure that all functions such as customer billing, vendor payment, etc. are recorded carefully on a daily or weekly basis, based upon the volume of work. Although you can easily use MS Excel files or even manual ledgers, we would suggest that you opt in for accounting software such as QuickBooks.
You should always ensure that all your invoices, however unnecessary they seem, along with any other cash receipts are always documented and filed properly for posterity. Nowadays you can make good use of scanning software to digitize all your invoices too, thereby reducing clutter.
Also make sure that you start different invoice files for different categories, such as a vendor file, a payroll file, etc.
Always keep track of your accounts payable and ensure that enough funds are available and have been earmarked so you can pay your suppliers on time. This, in turn, would ensure that you always maintain favorable relationships with them, while avoiding late fees, if any. Also, whether the payment is made by check or through an online transfer, always keep a copy of the invoices.
If you want to remain on top of your finances, always make sure that you are maintaining a file for unpaid vendors, including details about amount due, billing dates, due date, etc. This would ensure that every time you have spare cash available, you can finish off some payments and close a credit line for a better relationship with your vendors.
A healthy cash flow is always important and should be right at the top of the accounting checklist for small businesses. This is because knowing how much cash you will be generating over the coming months will help you set deadlines for the payment of various bills, both to the people you employ as well as to your vendors. This would also help you in the long run by allowing you to make better-informed decisions.
More often than not, invoices are due within 30 days of being raised, which in turn will help you forecast your revenue for the month. Therefore, when raising an invoice, always include the payment terms and the due date to prevent collusion. You can download a variety of invoice templates from the internet, or prepare your own using Microsoft Excel quite easily.
Although it might not seem that important, reconciliation of all your cash business transaction entries need to be accurate so that you always know how much cash liquidity you have available on a monthly basis. This also makes it easier to correct errors or find omissions which can then be looked into and corrected.
Sometimes, due to unforeseen circumstances, you might not get paid back in time. Therefore, always maintain a ledger separately to record all past-due invoices so that you can keep a track of how much you are owed while being able to reach out to the people who owe you money much more easily. This is also helpful at the end of the year when you need to give the details to collections or write off an unpaid debt as a deduction.
One of the most overlooked areas in most businesses is the inventory which is maintained, and therefore is an extremely important point in the accounting checklist for startups. Make sure you can take some time out to check your inventory and reorder products while clearing older ones. By checking regularly, you can always make necessary adjustments so as to ensure you never have too many items in stock, or too less.
While payroll is a monthly recurring thing, tax payments are more haphazard in the manner they need to be paid. Be it federal, state, or other local taxes, it is always important to accurately report and deposit the applicable tax that you need to pay.
At the same time, you can also review the payroll before disbursement so that whatever corrections need to be made, can be made immediately. If you have a lot of employees, then you can even loan out this task to a payroll service provider.
Your income statement is always a great source of information when you want to deduct accurate profit/loss ratios while telling you exactly how much you have earned over a month or a year, while detailing the expenses. You can check historical profit loss statements to compare yearly performance while finding out problem areas in your business. Comparing it against your budget is also extremely useful, letting you find out how close you are sticking to your goals.
By comparing your monthly balance sheet to the same months from the previous year, you get better clarity of how your assets and liabilities are performing YoY. By looking out for significant trends and changes, you can better predict future outcomes, and take evasive actions, when necessary.
In the US, the IRS, as well as the most states, require payroll reports to be submitted to them on a quarterly basis, along with any other payments. Once again, make sure that your quarterly payroll reports are in order, and if too much to handle, always take help from a payroll service provider.
The IRS requires that you report the annual earnings of all your employees via from W-2, as well as for any independent contractor (form 1099). The deadline which the IRS maintains is the 1st of February, and within this date, you must mail copies of all the necessary forms. To better manage your time, you can consider e-filing services available online.
An accounting checklist would be empty without this suggestion. Filing taxes is always a hectic proposition, and carefully reviewing your company's financial reports either alone or with someone else is always a good idea. Before signing off your tax returns, review the same for accuracy unless you want to be audited by the IRS. In such cases, accounting software manifests themselves into saviors and can not only help you save time but costly errors as well.
In many cases, if your business requires the maintenance of an inventory, then some items may never be sold from it. These then need to be written off, and any write-down translates into a deduction when you file your year-end taxes. If you never write down the inventory that you have not been able to sell, then you will be overstating your inventory's current worth, and therefore paying more taxes for the same.
Most states in the USA, as well as the IRS, require business owners to pay their estimate income taxes before their due dates. By reviewing your yearly profit and loss statements, you can compute if you need to pay any income taxes, and if so, pay them off in a timely and efficient manner.
Since you are now already maintaining a receivables ledger, so you can easily track down the customer who still owe you money, and based on whether you think they will be able to pay or not, you can send the due bills to a collections agency or write them off as deductions.
Some states in the USA require some business owners to pay sales tax, and therefore you must make sure whether you fall within the rules for doing so, and if yes, then pay your sales tax on time. The US Small Business Administration (SBA) can help determine whether you need to pay sales tax or not, so if unsure, you know where to turn to.
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People all the use the “F word” differently around children. Since I’ve worked with probably over 200 young children now, I know directly the impact the “F word” has on them. I’m probably too over-protective of the word as I go so far that I switch out the words in children’s songs and stories that use it. However, every family is different and people can make the choice to include it in their daily vocabulary if they want to. It is just a word, right?
I had a moment tonight regarding the “F word” while working with two of the most special people in the world to me, a girl who turns 6 in three weeks and a boy who recently turned 3. I’ve been babysitting for this family since the little girl was just nine months old and one of the best parts of my life has been watching these children grow up.
It was bedtime and the kids were rambunctious and rolling around on the ground, begging to play their favorite bedtime game. We call it “abalone” and they curl up into balls and I pretend to pry off them off the rock before baking them in the oven (a big reclining rocking chair) and nibbling at their toes after they’re baked. Well, tonight I laid down for a change and the kids dog piled on top of me with my annoying low cut jeans and “normal length but too short for a tall girl” shirt both separating on me just like my abalone shell was being shucked apart. I immediately became so AWARE that my belly was hanging out that it became my top priority to get back up, pull my pants up and my shirt down and proceed with my mission of getting their teeth brushed. I remember thinking as it was happening, “THEY ARE SEEING MY FAT! NOOOO! WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?!” and having this frantic moment of body shame as the kids played on, their smiles brighter than the sparkle of any abalone in the world. These kids weren’t thinking about the fat on my stomach. They were in play mode, happily living their lives as WE ALL should, unaware of judgement placed on our bodies.
I didn’t have the realization of what that moment all meant to me until I was driving home soon after. I was so happy the way the moment went over. Sure, it sucked that I had a freak-out of body shame, but the fact that the kids SAW my stomach and didn’t say anything made me feel so much better. They didn’t use the “F word.” They didn’t call me fat.
I think I have a lot of body shame around children because, just out of a child’s simple curiosity, I’ve been asked about my weight many times before. The most common is a child asking if I have a baby in my tummy, likely because they’ve seen other women who DO have tummies similar to mine. When it first started happening at the beginning of my preschool career, at age 19, I didn’t know what to say to that. Now I’ll just say, “No, my tummy is just squishy.” Kids will ask, “April, why is your tummy so fat?” and I’ll make a joke about eating too much soft ice cream. It doesn’t effect me now nearly as much as it used to now that I’ve worked with kids long enough to know that sometimes, questions that hurt really are just questions of wonder.
But then at the some point soon after those innocent years of toddler time, their perspective on the word fat changes completely. The word fat transforms from a curiosity of different types bodies to a sharp dagger that can be used at any moment on themselves or other people. Unfortunately once a kid has a grip on using the word fat, it’s hard to drop that habit and the image of what fat is to a child may be something that carries on with them into adulthood.
In a place where fat is all around us, how can we even control the word from changing from simple adjective into the piercing dagger it is known as today?
Is there anything that you do to try to promote better body image to the children that may be around you? Do you think that as obesity becomes more common in the USA, the way we use the word fat will change?
Besides those DEEP THOUGHTS, today marks the one week of my weight-watchers week! I weighed in this morning with a loss of 3.8! Yeah!!!! This next week I’ll work on improving my habits even more, as this past week I still struggled with my desire for liquid sugar. My buddy Laura, the woman doing it with me, lost eleven pounds! I’ll share how we did it in a post early next week!
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Bonds Becoming the Graveyard for Dying Currencies
By Craig R. Smith, Chairman, Swiss America
What is happening today in Europe is a perfect example of what occurs when the ability of a debtor to service their debt comes into question.
Italian ten-year bonds have increased 33% in four days, and today the top blew off with an additional 10% increase. Bond rates have moved from under 3% to over 7%. These increases were mild compared to what happened in Greece.
Italy now finds itself with $2 trillion in debt, with the need to borrow more to stay alive, and now they must pay over 7% to get it!
The U.S. will have $15 trillion in debt any day now.
I want you to ask yourself, what would happen if in the United States, where we need to borrow $3.5 billion per day just to survive, interest rates which are now at 2% rose to 4-5% over a one-week period?
You would see a complete meltdown of the U.S. financial system, banks would be frozen in their tracks.
Every U.S. bank would find themselves forced to lend every penny they have to keep the government alive. This would starve the private debt market. The result: corporations would not be able to borrow to finance inventory, payroll, flooring, factoring receivables, etc.
Individuals would not be able to finance auto loans, real estate mortgages or use credit cards. It would bring our 'too-big-to-fail' U.S. economy down to it's knees.
And before you think it can't happen, take a look at major countries like Russia, England, Germany (to name a few) where this has already happened.
Italy is in total chaos today. This scenario is now infolding there right now.
If you look at gold prices in terms of Euro or other foreign currencies, they are up huge today. Only in terms of dollar is gold soft. But this anomaly will be short-lived because the dollar is still viewed as a "safe haven".
The Eurozone is panicked. The world sovereign debt crisis is HERE! It is unfolding right before our eyes.
Over the long-term, gold will be the best place to hide from the devaluation of currencies and equities currently under way.
It had to happen. The central banks have been putting a band aid on a wound that needs major surgery. That surgery will need to be done, sooner or later. Better the former, where there is still a chance. If they wait until later, the scenarios of hyper-inflation will be worldwide, not just country-specific.
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CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK
H.Res. 860 is expected to be considered on the floor of the House on Wednesday, January 13, 2010, under a motion to suspend the rules, requiring a two-thirds vote for passage. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) on October 22, 2009.
H.Res. 860 would resolve that the House of Representatives:
• "Supports the initiatives of the ‘Leave No Child Inside' initiative;
• "Encourages the President to issue a proclamation in support of the goals and ideals of the Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights;
• "Encourages other States and territories of the United States to support the goals and ideals of the "Leave No Child Inside" initiative;
• "Encourages media and press organizations to participate in the ‘No Child Left Inside Month'; and
• "Recognizes and encourages the Children's Outdoor Bill of Rights commitment to fight obesity, physical disorders, and unawareness of natural amenities by promoting quality outdoor activities for children and adults."
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"Bedlam at Botany Bay offers readers a strikingly original re-reading of early colonial Australia. Beautifully crafted and deeply empathetic, this is a book with genuine literary and scholarly merit. It makes a significant and invigorating impact on the field of Australian history, and deserves to be read and discussed for many years to come." – Judge's Comments, New South Wales Premier's Awards 2020
"A brilliant and compassionate study. Vivid true stories spill out of these pages, illuminating colonial society with the myriad flares of private suffering." – Tom Griffiths AO
"by insisting that we should examine trauma and madness in their wider social contexts, by voyaging into emotional history and the predicaments of both the insane and the people who cared for them, James Dunk has opened promising new ways to understand the histories of empires and colonies." – Grace Karskens
Historians on Planetary Futures
In February I'll be presenting my work to the Historians on Planetary Futures seminar series run out of New Earth Histories and the Laureate Centre for History & Population at the University of New South Wales.
Keynote Panel: Innovation in Health and Medicine
Delighted to be invited to speak about planetary health on a keynote panel with Charlotte Greenhalgh, Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen and Tatjana Buklijas at the ANZSHM Biennial Conference, 'Innovation in Health and Medicine,' at the University of Newcastle, 1-4 December 2021.
Australian Academy of Humanities Annual Symposium
The Australian Academy of Humanities Annual Symposium is an important annual meeting of Australian humanities scholars. This year’s theme is Culture, Nature, Climate: Humanities and the Environmental Crisis, and I'll be talking about my research on mental health and ecological distress.
Emotion, Anxiety, Environmental History
Together with wonderful colleagues in environmental history Margaret Cook, Nancy Cushing, and Rebecca Jones, I'll be talking about histories of ecological anxiety at the panel Anxiety and Emotion in Environmental History. Moderated by Andrea Gaynor and sponsored by the Sydney Environment Institute and Australian and Aotearoa Environmental History Network. Register here.
The City of Sydney
I'll be giving a talk for the City of Sydney about my book, Bedlam at Botany Bay. Register here.
The Incoherent and Accidental: Blackheath History Forum
I'll be speaking to the wonderful community of historians at the BlackHeath History Forum, on 'The Incoherent and Accidental: Writing the History of Madness.' Watch me here.
Words and Poetry: Stories of the City
I'm delighted to be curating an evening of talks by students of Sin City, the urban history course I've been teaching at the University of Sydney, for History Week 2021. Poetry reading by Toby Fitch from his new book Sydney Spleen. You can watch along here.
Byron Writers Festival (cancelled due to covid-19)
I'll (now not) be at two panels in Byron this winter: Traumatic States of Mind: Colonial History (with Judy Atkinson and Mark McKenna) and Drugs, Magness and the Damage Done (with Benjamin Gilmour and Antony Loewenstein).
Mayhem and Margins
I'll be speaking at a special session of the Sydney Writer’s Festival together with the other winners of the NSW Premier's History Awards: Histories of Mayhem and Margins.
Write Around the Murray Festival
I'll be speaking at two events during this online festival – an author talk at 2.30pm and a presentation in the panel Past Tense: History: What is it good for? Also presenting are Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar, Chris Flynn, and the panel will be chaired by Clare Wright. Both events are free, but registration is essential.
Six historians will be giving flash talks at this online event for this year's History Week, hosted by History Council of New South Wales. Each talk will be tied to an image.
NSW Premier's History Awards
I was thrilled to receive the Australian History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards – awarded for a major work of non-fiction on Australian history.
Psychiatry and its Discontents
My review of Andrew Scull's latest book, Psychiatry and its Discontents, appears in the May edition of Australian Book Review (paywall).
Ernest Scott Prize
Bedlam at Botany Bay shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize, for the most distinguished contribution to Australian or New Zealand History, or the colonisation of those places.
One Health Aotearoa Symposium, Wellington
Planetary health researchers are exploring links between human health and the health of the planet's natural systems; this paper asks whether the mental health link might be more challenging, but also more productive.
Charles Perkins Centre Exceptional Contribution Award 2019
I was awarded a prize by the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney for interdisciplinary research, including two articles in the New England Journal of Medicine. The CPC is a superb meeting place of the biomedical sciences, humanities, and social sciences – exactly the sort of exchange we urgently need.
New Earth Histories
In December a brilliant group of scholars will be hosted by Alison Bashford's New Earth Histories Research Program at the University of New South Wales, comparing origin stories, histories of planetary science, and cosmologies. I'll be speaking about calls for a new Western cosmology amongst psychologists concerned at the parlous relations between humans and other species.
Writing the history of the interior
I'll be speaking on this theme as part of a keynote panel at the University of Sydney history postgraduate conference, Writing History.
Old Savoy Theatre
Author talk, Newcastle & Hunter District Historical Society, Old Savoy Theatre, New Lambton.
Memories of the Future
As part of History Week 2019, Memory and Landscape, I'll be curating an evening of short talks and soundscape music, laying down memories for the future of places which are slipping away. Hosted by my good friends at Cafe Shenkin, with music by Asher Graieg-Morrison and words by JAMES FINDLAY, JARROD HORE, EMMA KLUGE, CATHY PERKINS, HOLLIE PICH, MARAMA WHYTE and JAMES DUNK.
Psychology as if the whole earth mattered
As evidence of planetary-scale ecological disruptions began to mount in the late twentieth century, some argued that these were symptoms of a deep psychological problem.
Image: Wikimedia Commons: Atomic_cloud_over_Hiroshima_(from Matsuyama) 509th Operations Group
Mapping the conceptual history of planetary health
A collaborative project between the University of Sydney, Monash University, Harvard University, and KTH Stockholm
Psychology as if the whole earth mattered: towards a planetary mental health
IN THE FACE OF DEVELOPING ECOLOGICAL CRISES, argued Anthony McMichael in 1990, the real driver of action would be human health, and those who wished to protect it would need to learn to ‘anticipate the future’. That perspective has given way to planetary health, a complex, globally framed epidemiology – or a human ecology pressed by crisis conditions into urgent focus on health outcomes. The new field looks to build a sufficient evidence basis for the radical reconfiguration of agriculture, energy, transportation, housing, and other systems in a deteriorating planetary environment – to protect human health by preserving the health of natural planetary systems. While advocates emphasise the significance of mental health within their framework, early projects and outcomes under its rubric have concentrated on physical health. One reason for this may be that the systems thinking which underpins the field has led to profound challenges when applied to psychological problems.
This historical project traces the emergence of ‘planetary mental health’ formulations from the 1980s, when psychiatrists and psychologists active in the medical antinuclear advocacy movement formed their own organisations. They studied not only the potential psychological effects of nuclear war (as their peers did with bodily effects), but the psychology of living under its threat, especially as it presented in children. Some, inspired by developments in systems thinking, went further, investigating the psychological factors which had produced and continued to sustain weapons of such unruly power, diagnosing forms of psychopathology, or ‘nuclear madness’. As the Cold War drew to a close, these researchers applied the frameworks they had developed to the ecological crisis revealed by the landmark UN World Commission on Environment and Development, and begun to map the health effects of deteriorating planetary systems. Drawing on the interdisciplinary insights of human ecology, psychological researchers presented a challenging hypothesis under the banner of ‘ecopsychology’ which prefigured later discussions of the ‘anthropocene’. Humans, they argued, by imagining themselves separate from other species, had developed a fundamental psychopathology, of which the destruction of their ‘life-support systems’ was a deadly symptom and testament. So too the anxiety, despair and ‘solastalgia’ which appear increasingly endemic in the anthropocene are symptoms not only of environmental deterioration but of that fundamental dislocation.
This project will compare the planetary health and global mental health frameworks with these insights from human ecology and ecopsychology to explore the vectors and boundaries of the systems thinking which has become increasingly dominant in biomedical thinking since the mid-twentieth century, and the disciplinary resistance to overarching questions – about human selves and the species – which have emerged both from the study of deep evolutionary time and from the modelling of deteriorating futures.
Memories of the Future
a planet burning hot, breathing ragged
To heal our planet we must know it more deeply.
Seven Sydney historians, and local musician Asher Graieg-Morrison, shared stories of places that have formed us, to re-enchant the world and lay down memories for the future.
A curious combination of leisure and work
A history of beach mission in Australia, 1888-1988
In my honours thesis, I explore the ways in which summertime Christian missions to holidaying families took the form of leisure but also undermined it
Bedlam at Botany Bay (NewSouth, 2019).
Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy, with Barbara Brookes (Routledge, 2020).
Articles and book chapters
‘Assembling Planetary Health: Histories of the Future,’ with Warwick Anderson, in Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves, edited by Samuel S. Myers and Howard Frumkin (Island Press, April 2020): 17-35.
‘Sounding the Alarm on Climate Change, 1989 and 2019’, with David S. Jones, New England Journal of Medicine (11 December 2019). doi:10.1056/NEJMp1913916.
‘Human Health on an Ailing Planet — Historical Perspectives on Our Future’, with David S. Jones, Anthony G. Capon, and Warwick H. Anderson, New England Journal of Medicine 381:778-82 (22 August 2019): 778-82. doi:10.1056/NEJMms1907455.
‘Work, Paperwork, and the Imaginary Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, 1846’, Rethinking History 22, no. 3 (2018): 326-55. doi:10.1080/13642529.2018.1486956.
‘The Liability of Madness and the Commission of Lunacy in New South Wales, 1805-12’, History Australia 15, no. 1 (2018): 130-50. doi:10.1080/14490854.2017.1413942.
‘Authority and the Treatment of the Insane at Castle Hill Asylum, 1811-1825’, Health and History 19, no. 2 (2017): 17-40. doi:10.5401/healthhist.19.2.0017.
Co-edited Special Issues
‘Bureaucracy, Archive Files and the Making of Knowledge’ [with Barbara Brookes], Rethinking History 22, no. 3 (2018): 281-88. doi:10.1080/13642529.2018.1489578.
‘Incarceration, Migration, Dispossession and Discovery: Medicine in Colonial Australia’ [with Angeline Brasier], Health and History 19, no. 2 (2017): 1-16. doi:10.5401/healthhist.19.2.0001
Book and Exhibition Reviews
‘A Science of Our Own: Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science by Peter H. Hoffenberg (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019)’ [Book Review], Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 112, no. 1 (March 2021): 193-94.
‘The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability by Carolyn Merchant (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)’ [Book Review], Social History of Medicine (27 January 2021).
‘Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji by Jacqueline Leckie (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020)’ [Book Review], Journal of Pacific History (2 February 2021).
‘The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health’, edited by Greg Eghigian (Routledge, 2017) [Book Review], Health and History 21, no. 1 (2019): 90-94. doi:10.5401/healthhist.21.1.0090.
‘Louella McCarthy and Kathryn Weston, curators, “Caring for the Incarcerated”, University of Wollongong Library, Wollongong [Exhibition Review]’, History Australia 14, no. 4 (2017): 662-65. doi:10.1080/14490854.2017.1389255.
'Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910', by Catharine Coleborne (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), in Social History of Medicine (23 June 2016), doi 10.1093/shm/hkw069.
'Illness in Colonial Australia', by F. B. Smith (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011), in Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol. 15 (2013), pp. 226-27.
Literary essays and reviews
'Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization by Harry Yi-Jui Wu (MIT Press, 2021),’ Australian Book Review, no. 434 (September 2021).
‘Psychiatry and its Discontents’ by Andrew Scull (University of California Press, 2019), Australian Book Review, no. 421 (May 2020).
‘Wind Turbine Syndrome: A Communicated Disease’ by Simon Chapman and Fiona Crichton (Sydney University Press, 2017), Australian Book Review, no. 415 (October 2019): 27-28.
‘The Environment: A History of the Idea’ by Paul Warde, Libby Robin and Sverker Sörlin (Johns Hopkins, 2018), Australian Book Review, no. 408 (January 2019).
‘The Memorandoms of James Martin: An Astonishing Escape From Early New South Wales’ ed. Tim Causer (UCL Press, 2017), Australian Book Review, no. 397 (2017).
‘Dr. James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time’ by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield (Oneworld Publications, 2016), Australian Book Review, no. 388 (2017): 49.
“A vision of past savagery that lies maddeningly between truth and fiction”: James Dunk reviews Sarah Drummond’s 'The Sound', Rochford Street Review, no. 19 (September 2016).
'Finding Sanity: John Cade, Lithium and the Taming of Bipolar Disorder', by Greg de Moore and Ann Westmore, in Australian Book Review, no. 386 (2016): 66.
'The Profilist' by Adrian Mitchell, in Australian Book Review, no. 378 (January-February 2016), p. 47.
'Seasons of War' by Christopher Lee, in Australian Book Review, no. 370 (March 2015), p. 60.
'The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon' by Laure Murat, translated by Deke Dusinberre (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), in Australian Book Review, no. 369 (March 2015), p. 58.
Essays and other writing
'Unease and Disease: Redrawing the Boundaries of Colonial Madness,' Griffith Review 72: States of Mind (May 2021): 122-31.
‘How Doctors Convinced the World the Planet Was Worth Fighting For,' The Conversation (26 August 2019).
‘The Cabin in the Woods,' SL Magazine (May 2019): 28-31.
‘Writing Bedlam,' newsouthpublishing, 27 May 2019.
Hans Pols, Tending to the Nation: Medicine, Nationalism and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia, manuscript submitted to Cambridge University Press [Editor]
Warwick Anderson, Barbara Brookes and Miranda Johnson, eds. Pacific Futures: Past and Present, in preparation for University of Hawai’i Press [Copy-editor]
Warwick Anderson and Ricardo Roque, eds., special issue of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies [Copy-editor]
Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay, Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Durham: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) [Proofreading and Index]
BA PhD (Sydney)
2018– Research Fellow, University of Sydney
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, working on histories of planetary health, depth psychology, and human ecology.
2018– Conjoint fellow, University of Newcastle
2013-17 Research Associate, University of Sydney
I managed the the laureate research program Race and Ethnicity in the Global South, led by Professor Warwick Anderson.
Awards and Grants
Australian History Prize, NSW Premier's History Awards 2020 (Bedlam at Botany Bay) [$15,000].
Charles Perkins Centre Exceptional Contribution Award, 2019 [$2000].
Harvard Mobility Scheme Grant, Office of Global Engagement, University of Sydney, 2019 [$8,108].
AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorship Scheme (with Catharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle), 2018 [$1,500].
Jill Roe Prize, Australian Historical Association, 2016.
EU Erasmus+ Mobility Grant, 2016 [EUR 2,780].
Australian Postgraduate Award, 2011–14 [$84,307].
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