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Chinese human rights activists say that in three plants of one of the largest partners of Apple Pegatron Group in China violated the rights of workers. According to statements by New York-based China Labor Watch , The company has flagrantly violated a number of international and national laws and standards.
New charges of the NCB are the same as before – the use of underage workers, as well as overtime which is not paid. Apple and Pegatron said they are familiar with the report of China Labor Watch and immediately started to check this information.
Recall that before the Chinese human rights activists literally attacked Foxconn – the largest partner of Apple, after workers at the company have made a series of suicides. Then the non-profit organizations have said that Foxconn hires students from rural areas underpaid them, the practice of using overtime and other violations of the permit.
Today the site China Labor Watch published a statement Lee Kang, director general of the organization, who said that the facilities of Pegatron violations “even worse than Foxconn». According to him, at the company employs workers under 16 years old, and the average time per week is 69 hours. In addition, Lee said that the factories Pegatron conditions are such that about 30 out of every 110 workers do not stand on the job for more than two months and are fired, so in the company of a giant staff turnover.
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Shakespeare, Memory and Performance
Peter Holland, Director Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies Peter Holland
Cambridge University Press, 2. 11. 2006 - 357 strán (strany)
"Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat." In this distracted globe. Hamlet's lines pun on the globe as both his skull and the Globe Theatre. But what does memory have to do with Shakespeare and performances past and present? This is the first collection of essays to provide a meeting between the flourishing fields of memory studies and Shakespeare performance studies. The chapters explore a wide range of topics, from the means by which editors of Shakespeare plays try to help their readers remember performance to the ways actors sometimes forget Shakespeare?s lines, from the evocative memories instilled in the archives of costumes to the photographing of props that act as memories of performances past. The fifteen contributors are leaders in the field of Shakespeare performance studies and their considerations of the possibilities of the subject open up a rich new vein in Shakespeare studies.
Čo hovoria ostatní - Napísať recenziu
Na obvyklých miestach sme nenašli žiadne recenzie.
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As You Like
Memory performance and the idea of the museum
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One in ten Australians – 2.65 million people in 2018 – are carers. If these carers were replaced by paid workers, the care they provide would cost $77.9 billion annually, or almost 1% of Australia’s GDP. Almost one million of these are ‘primary carers’ who have caring duties that make up a significant part of their day-to-day life – for many, being much more than a full time job.
Carers are responsible for taking care of the welfare of large numbers of vulnerable Australians, providing often challenging and complex caring duties. Past studies have found carers often have lower wellbeing than the average Australian. We need to know more about how to support the wellbeing of carers, ensuring they have a high quality of life while providing quality of life to the people they care for.
The national Carer Wellbeing Survey is addressing this gap. Through an annual survey of Australia’s carers, it will build a comprehensive picture of the wellbeing of carers, and how it can best be supported. This report gives findings from the first Carer Wellbeing Survey, which surveyed 5,800 carers across Australia during April and May 2021. | <urn:uuid:fdd046d5-3e49-4f85-ae4b-6b3f88be0614> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.compass.info/resources/resource/caring-for-others-and-yourself-the-2021-carer-wellbeing-survey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970567 | 245 | 2.515625 | 3 |
It’s time to rethink how we regulate the law enforcement, Professor Rachel Harmon claims on the hottest episode of “Common Law,” a podcast sponsored by the University of Virginia University of Legislation.
Police reforms ought to be additional expansive than unique prosecutions of lousy actors and a focus on constitutional legal rights, says Harmon on the season’s sixth episode. Communities should really moreover consider whether policing is the answer to a given issue.
Harmon addresses subjects like these in her new casebook, “The Legislation of the Police,” the very first to seem at the legal guidelines that govern police perform in the United States. The professor formerly served at the Justice Section, prosecuting circumstances versus police officers and other officials who dedicated civil legal rights violations, like dislike crimes and circumstances of excessive force and sexual violence.
“One of the challenges with unique prosecutions is that it can make it search like the origins of police violence are mostly in particular person decision-creating,” Harmon claims on the exhibit. “But when we glimpse at law enforcement choice-building, so much of it is controlled by departments that legal prosecution sometimes can distract notice from the origins of the problem or the option.”
Harmon suggests rethinking irrespective of whether sure violations of law, or suspected violations, are well worth the harms triggered by policing them. She pointed to Breonna Taylor’s “marginal” connection to a drug suspect. Police officers shot Taylor past calendar year when they raided her home seeking for her ex-boyfriend.
“And the query is, do we actually, as a culture, consider that [marginal relationship] usually means we need to go in in the middle of the evening into her household, and impact a search even following it is obvious that the folks within are armed and really don’t know that they’re staying policed?” Harmon asks.
All through the clearly show, Harmon discusses possibilities for the police to make improvements to community associations and lower harms triggered by about- or below-policing.
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Personally, I think the duck hunting is cruel to ducks, and I don’t like it when refuges are closed so duck hunters can hunt. I understand that it makes funds for conservation groups, but still…
You can start a holy war here.) Fall hunts in fact don’t do much damage on population (unlike spring hunts), if hunters are responsible and now what they shoot hunting is a good thing and yes, in USA unlike most of countries hunters fund a lot of money for species’ conservation. If all of them could target Mallards only it’d be even better. Also it should be clear hunters and poachers are 2 different groups of people.
Personally I wouldn’t kill anything, I can and did, but hunting wild animals is against my hature as long as we have millions of chickens raised just to be eaten. But it’s not more cruel than any other killing, as long as shots are clear it’s an instant death and people pick up, m, don’t know an English word, but everything they shot but not killed at first try, those shouldn’t be just left there slowly dying in pain.
For me, when I think of the benefits of duck hunting, I think of these two figures from the big 3 billion birds paper for North America. See paper here and website here: https://www.3billionbirds.org/findings
Since 1970, some of the only bird groups that increased in population were wetland birds and ducks and geese, in particular. In the US, duck hunting has meant resources allocated by federal and state governments for wetland and waterfowl conservation, in a way that hasn’t been true for grassland and forest conservation and we see it in which bird groups have done ok in the past 50 years, and which bird groups have really not.
As long as the hunting is ethical, legal, and takes care in watching population numbers and habitat, than I think its alright.
My major issue with hunting as a whole, is the use of lead shot and the amount of waste that hunting can leave behind.
Every fall/winter during the hunting season plastic shotgun wads and plastic canisters get left behind and littered, usually to wash up on public beaches and waterways here in the Washington lowlands. I really wish more people would bring light to this issue and outlaw the use of plastic single use shotgun waste.
The issue of lead shot is also another major issue, in many states (including WA) lead shot is outlawed for hunting certain species, but in my opinion I feel it should be discontinued entirely. In the northwest, every year we have had tragic mass lead poisoning events with our trumpeter swan populations. My heart breaks for the swans, I really wish there was more we could do statewide to protect them from such incidents.
Am vegan, so … if you need to hunt to eat healthily and fully, do it; if you don’t, don’t. I don’t appreciate killing things for fun, but if the choice is hunting in a sustainable manner that raises funds for conservation, or buying it from a factory farm, I’d prefer the former.
I suppose killing anything could be considered cruel to them, whether it be animals, plants, or otherwise I understand your concerns, the way that I look at it is that everyone needs to compromise a little so that everyone can enjoy the outdoors in their preferred manner.
Hunting is responsible for tons of conservation dollars, land, and management in the US, so ultimately as long as people are hunting legally and bag limits are set appropriately it winds up being a really good thing for the flora and fauna. There are many places that I know and love that I feel like I get the privilege of visiting that were purchased with hunter dollars.
It’s nice to see how open and welcoming people are to hunters here. I don’t hunt because frankly I don’t have it in me to kill something, but I have a few friends that do and are great naturalists who have a deep love and appreciation for the outdoors
The benefits of duck hunting for conservation are quite large in my region–it incentivizes preserving wetlands and grasslands in a big way. I went to college in an area where virtually all land was devoted to agriculture except for waterfowl production areas, small parcels of prairie and marsh maintained by the Fish and Wildlife Service to allow ducks to breed. Obviously I would prefer it if the tallgrass prairie had been conserved on a bigger scale and with diversity more in mind, but that “bird” flew away many decades ago. So I really appreciate duck hunting and the government agencies it funds.
Thank you for saying this! You have echoed my thoughts exactly. Lead pollution is a big enough issue as it is, but the plastic wadding is another massive problem that needs addressing, and one that not many are aware of. It is not just an issue in wetlands either, but in uplands as well. Then there are some “hunters” who leave the whole casing where it falls; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked home from wild areas with my pockets stuffed full of shotgun shells and wadding. I do occasionally hunt with a shotgun, but it really bothers me when I’m unable to find the wadding. My thinking is that the small amount of plastic getting into the ecosystem from wadding is probably less than from an intensive (animal or plant) agricultural operation, and hunting doesn’t require the destruction and replacement of functioning ecological communities, but that isn’t to say this pollution doesn’t bother me.
I grew up duck hunting with my father, whose father was a commercial hunter back in the early 1900s when the game was sold in city markets. The practice devestated the waterfowl populations. The elimination of market hunting, the rise of conservation agencies, and wetlands reclamation practices have begun to restore waterfowl populations in remarkable numbers just within my lifetime.
I no longer hunt owing to a change in my person ethos. I continue to buy a Duck Stamp to help fund conservation efforts and hold no animosity toward those who choose to hunt, even though it does tug at my heart strings. The good modern practices have wrought outweighs the relatively small number of birds harvested in the grand scheme of things.
If I had the means I think I would prefer to eat hunted ducks and overpopulated deer than factory farmed chicken and beef.
I have no problem with hunting as long as it is done sustainably. Hunting also has great benefits to conservation - groups like Ducks Unlimited are some of the most important conservation organisations out there, and many of our most important wetlands wouldn’t be around today if it weren’t for hunting.
Well, it’s relative, if bird doesn’t escape it dies pretty quickly aniway, wrongly shot deer can just run away quickly with very severe injuries and hunters often don’t or can’t follow it, so it can leave with broken jaws for weeks, slowly dying, I think dying from falling is nothing compared to this. Anyway, my concern in hunting will always be conservation (happens so world is not like NA in terms of it), not animal pain, it’s impossible to just feel for every dying bird, as long as it wasn’t premeditated by shooter it’s understandable.
In most cases it’s still a faster death than being eaten alive by another animal.
People often talk about the cruelty of hunting, but forget to think about how other animals kill their prey.
There are, of course, bad hunters out there, but most of them try to be responsible and get as clean a kill as possible. Not only is that better over-all, it’s easier for the hunter, and it leads to better tasting meat as well.
From a conservation perspective there has been a long-standing problem with treating hunters like “the enemy” instead of potential allies. There is a huge overlap in goals, desires, and appreciation for nature and wildlife between conservationists and hunters and when you can get hunters on the side of conservation, and conservationists understanding the knowledge and potential benefits hunters can bring to the table, you can have far more effective conservation and far greater outreach into communities that conservationists otherwise can’t reach.
Are there changes that should take place to how hunting is done? Absolutely. Are there hunting techniques and animals that should not be used or hunted? Absolutely. Does the way we determine what the acceptable bag count is need to be rethought? Probably.
The only way to get those changes to happen is to engage with the hunting community and get them to understand and appreciate the concerns, environmental impact, and how a change can benefit them too. You can’t do that if the conservation community is viewing hunters as “the bad guys”.
That’s a really interesting family history! When I lived in DC, there were some pretty neat local museums on the Eastern Shore that had some interesting exhibits and artifacts about what this market hunting was like around the Chesapeake. A huge market for the big east coast cities.
For anyone that’s interested in modern market hunting and wild meat consumption globally, I would recommend wildmeat.org
How interesting to see that waterfowl have thrived but waterbirds have not. And that introduced species such as new world sparrows and starlings have declined as well! Do you know if similar research has been conducted in the rest of the world, particulary South America? Here it would seem that introduced birds are ever expanding their range, due to more and more land being destined to agriculture, but that is my personal perception. Regardless, thanks for the useful information!
A group of schoolkids undertaking beach surveys for plastic waste, literally found the waste, identified it, traced it back to source, and worked with the shooters to come up with a solution.
I get where you’re coming from with this, but be careful with over-trusting the sources of those messages. Not all commercial sources of food are bad for you, but it does pay to think hard about the choices we make. You can make healthy choices entirely within the commercially available options and (as you are obviously aware) you can make some devastatingly bad choices, but you do need to filter out a lot of the noise that is coming both from the sellers/advertisers and the “grow/kill your own” brigade. Each side is biased towards their own desired outcome… and so the side you should be siding with is… YOU!
A problem of levels of organization. Effects on the population and the individual are different.
There are some population-level problems (lead shot, plastic wadding) but overall, regulated hunting doesn’t harm waterfowl populations and actually results in helping them, though habitat conservation. Waterfowl have large clutches and can sustain moderate levels of hunting.
At the individual level, hunting kills, maims (and thus kills more slowly), causes pain.
I think the population level benefits (habitat) and lack of harm (population size) are worthwhile. If I were looking only at the individual level effects, I wouldn’t. Because of the basic issue of which level of organization we’re thinking about, we’re doomed to talk past each other, if we disagree.
In case it matters, I’ve never hunted, except trap lines for mice.
This note is for @jameson_nagle who said: " any food you can buy with money nowadays is toxic, poison and garbage and I would like to eat healthy."
If you buy a huge bag of organic dried beans, and a huge bag of organic brown rice, and then buy some organic onions and some organic greens, maybe some organic carrots, as well as some organic olive oil, you will be able to eat for a month or two – healthy food and cheap too.
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As more of Australia’s states take strides towards a container deposit scheme, early founder of “Cash for Cans” Rick Ralph highlights some of the issues and opportunities in such programs.
Trends can be cyclical in waste, recycling and litter prevention, but container deposit legislation (CDL) has come back into fashion in Australia with a bang.
The Western Australia (WA) Government unveiled its plans to introduce a container deposit scheme (CDS) by mid-2018 on 17 August. This follows the Queensland (QLD) Government’s announcement in July confirming its intention to bring in a CDS in 2018, after a 2015 poll revealed 86 per cent of Queenslanders would support such a program.
These commitments were declared as the New South Wales (NSW) Government was holding a public consultation on aspects of its CDS as it works towards the launch of its scheme in July 2017.
Although South Australia (SA) has successfully delivered a CDS since 1977, Northern Territory (NT), Victoria and Tasmania have all experienced challenges with, stopped or failed to get off the start line with schemes.
Rick Ralph, CEO of both WRIQ and WRINT, is ideally placed to comment on such programs and legislation. He was one of the architects of Australia’s world-first, community-based recycling program, Comalco Aluminium’s ‘Cash for Cans’ initiative. Launched in 1979, the commercial initiative was based on environmental responsibility for the package.
With his up-to-date knowledge of issues around waste management, recycling and secondary resource activities in the country, his expertise, experience and longevity in the industry, Rick has a fundamental understanding of the issues at play in the current landscape.
“CDL is principally a vehicle partly to tackle litter and partly to improve recycling. But if we’re truly trying
to achieve these goals, we should be putting these same efforts and policy redesign into the bigger picture rather than focusing on materials that already have a very effective system in place to recover them.
It’s an observation, but if litter in our waterways and general environment is such a big problem that we need to introduce new measures to recover bottles and cans, why is the focus on just two items? The ‘elephant in the room’ in this debate is what to do about coffee cups and takeaway food packaging, which you see discarded more often. That must be addressed if litter is the reason for introducing CDL.
However, that said, what the existing system doesn’t do well enough is cater for the whole of Australia on a social equity basis, such as providing practical solutions for recycling and reducing waste in rural communities.”
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More amazing books to be read during Black History Month (but, really, any time of the year!) can be found on the Mighty Girl website (for boys, too! 🙂).
And here are some recommendations from the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE): Raising and Teaching Anti-Racist Kids (divided by age)
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A single stone weighing 223 g was purchased by G. Fujihara from a Moroccan dealer. A sample was submitted for analysis and classification to the University of Washington at Seattle (A. Irving). While NWA 6928 was initially considered to be an unusual basaltic eucrite, chemical analyses revealed that it was a rare noritic diogenite consisting of 80 vol% orthopyroxene (Fs33.434.1) and 19 vol% interstitial anorthitic plagioclase, along with accessory (<5 vol%) TiAl-bearing chromite, troilite, and merrillite (Irving et al., 2014). New terminology has been proposed in a revision to the diogenite classification scheme utilizing an IUGS-based system (Beck and McSween, 2010; Wittke et al., 2011).
Northwest Africa 6928 has a coarse-grained, cumulus texture and is considered to have crystallized from an ancient, relatively ferroan magma source, possibly a global magma ocean. It exhibits localized shock features including undulose extinction and cataclasis. A number of noritic and feldspathic diogenites have been recognized and described among the more recent meteorite recoveries from the dense concentration area of Northwest Africa, including NWA 8000, 8367, 8744, 10268, and 10388 (Irving et al., 2014, 2016).
The close compositional similarities that exist between the noritic diogenites and mesosiderites suggests that a genetic link might exist (Irving et al., 2016). If that is true, these diogenites probably derive from a parent asteroid distinct from 4 Vesta. The photo of NWA 6928 shown above is a 3.03 g slice expertly prepared by Montana Meteorite Laboratory. The top photo below is the reverse side of the 3.03 g slice, and the bottom photo shows the main mass before cutting. | <urn:uuid:e6759e6d-01cc-4cda-b235-3073813d8006> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://meteoritestudies.com/protected_NWA6928.HTM | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.911862 | 398 | 2.4375 | 2 |
As Chris says the verb will agree with the preceeding noun. e.g.
C'est vous qui êtes sur la liste des candidats?
C'est nous qui parlons ...
C'est moi qui suis malade...
Hope this helps!
yes, the relative pronoun always replaces the noun it relates to. Hence, if "qui" refers to a plural noun, the verb in the subordinate clause needs to be in plural as well.
-- Chris (not a native speaker).
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How should a Jew conduct his or her life? We have always been told to daven to Hashem for everything we need, but also to make the necessary effort to “make it happen.” So, what comes first? Do we first pour out our hearts to Hashem, or do we take action and then daven?
This question has always been on my mind, since I strongly believe that one must do both. Hashem is our guiding light. He directs our every move and decides what happens – this is why we pray to Him. Yet, prayer is not the only thing we do. We are a nation of action. Mordechai and Esther didn’t just pray; they devised a very serious plan and saw it through, step-by-step. Yet, they also fasted and davened. The same technique of prayer/action was used by the Maccabees.
The source for this is the Torah itself. When am Yisrael went to war against Amaleik (shortly after crossing the sea), Yehoshua bin Nun led the nation in battle while Moshe raised his hands. The Biblical commentator, Yonasan ben Uziel, states that Moshe was praying and inspiring am Yisrael to do the same… a clear example of praying and also acting.
Later in the Torah – in BaMidbar – the Midrash tells us (BaMidbar Rabbah 22:3) that when the Tribes each sent 1,000 men to battle, they had to simultaneously send 1,000 men to daven, as well! Imagine that: not 2,000 soldiers to fight – rather, 1,000 to fight and 1,000 to daven! While it is clear that both must be done, my question remains: What comes first? To daven or to act?
I found the answer in the fantastic biography of Rav Noach Weinberg zt”l, written by Yonoson Rosenblum. (Note: If you haven’t read this book, run to the bookstore ASAP and get a copy! It will inspire you, motivate you, and shake you to your core.) Rav Noach taught a very special lesson regarding the famous episode of when Yaakov prepared to meet Eisav (pages 190-191):
“As Yaakov awaited his dreaded meeting with his brother Eisav, explains Rashi, he prepared himself in three ways: for war, by sending presents, and with prayer. Shouldn’t Yaakov’s first response have been to pray? Rav Noach asked. Isn’t that what religious people do first – seek Hashem’s assistance and express their dependence upon Him? From here, Rav Noach extracted a startling principle. When a person is in a difficult situation, he has to understand that the situation itself contains a message from Hashem that he needs to change in some way. Before prayer can be effective, one must first show Hashem that one hears the message and is prepared to make the necessary changes. Yaakov prepared for war in order to show that he had heard the message.”
Please allow me to stress those words – with some commentary added: “Before prayer can be effective” – which means that if you want your davening to work, there’s something you need to do first… “One must first show Hashem that one hears the message…” – Okay, Hashem, I have assessed the situation and I know what’s going on… “…and is prepared to make the necessary changes” – I will first act, to show you, Hashem, that I not only realize what’s happening but that I am ready to take the proper action. This is why Yaakov first prepared for war and gifts, and only then prepared with prayer.
What does this mean to us? Here’s one example: Each week – during Sh’moneh Esrei of Musaf on Shabbos – we daven the following words to Hashem: “May it be Your will, Hashem, our G-d and the G-d of our forefathers, that You bring us up in gladness to our Land and plant us within our boundaries” (ArtScroll translation). In very simple words, that’s a prayer for Hashem to bring us to Eretz Yisrael. Every Jew says those words… but, as we just learned, in order for our davening to be effective, we first need to act. Therefore, start the ball rolling and be like Mordechai and Esther – make a plan. It doesn’t have to be a “get-rich-quick scheme” or a “lose-50-pounds-in-20-days diet.” It can take time – and with proper planning it should take time – but take the actions necessary to start building your future in Eretz Yisrael.
Yes, Jews are people who daven. We cry and pour out our hearts to our Father in Heaven – but first we need to act. Not by “putting on an act” and certainly not by “acting out our prayers” – real actions with a real timeline and a real plan. May Hashem see our actions and then answer our prayers.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Shmuel Sackett is a 100% product of Queens. He was born in Middle Village and moved to KGH shortly before his bar-mitzvah. He graduated from YCQ (1975) and YHSQ (1979). He was Havurat Yisrael’s first Youth Director (4 years) and started the first 2 NCSY chapters in Queens. Shmuel made aliyah in 1990 and co-founded Manhigut Yehudit, together with Moshe Feiglin. His website is www.JewishIsrael.org Sackett is married with 6 children and 4 grandchildren. He lives in Herziliya Pituach. | <urn:uuid:7273d51f-4238-408c-9d86-9694fd1fc2ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/politics/40-israeli-politics/blue-and-white-shmuel-sackett/3955-pray-then-act-or-act-then-pray?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961302 | 1,265 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The motion aftereffect causes a visual stimulus to undergo apparent motion. An adapting stimulus, which moves in a specific direction, adapts motion-responsive neurons in the middle temporal area (V5) to that direction of motion. Viewing a second stimulus, a test stimulus, produces apparent motion in the direction opposite that of the initial stimulus. Neural networks involved in attention and working memory are also implicated in the motion aftereffect. There is still little known regarding the mechanisms of the motion aftereffect, despite extensive documentation in the literature. This review discusses established knowledge of the motion aftereffect, focusing primarily on the middle temporal area. Variants of the motion aftereffect that are in line with the established mechanism with be discussed, namely the phantom motion aftereffect and sensory-contingent motion aftereffects, which incorporate color and visual surroundings into the production of the motion aftereffect. This optical illusion provides insight into motion processing as well as memory.
Hassoun, Erica E.
"The Motion Aftereffect: Mechanisms and Variants,"
The Cardinal Edge: Vol. 1, Article 17.
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Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) are international treaties that aim to reduce barriers to trade and investment.
The main aims of a FTA are to:
- improve Solomon Islands’ access to key markets
- increase investment into Solomon Islands to boost our economy
- reduce the cost of importing goods to reduce prices for consumers, and
- enhance the competitiveness of Solomon Island exports.
One of the main functions of the Department is to manage the various trade negotiations currently under discussion, and those which have been agreed, at the regional and multilateral levels.
Follow the links below for more information on each of the agreements Solomon Islands is a party to.
- Melanesian Spearhead Group Trade Agreement
- Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement
- South Pacific Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations Plus
- Economic Partnership Agreement
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Michael J. Prather
The 2020 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to Michael J. Prather for groundbreaking developments in chemistry-transport modelling, establishing a theoretical framework to elucidate the role of reactive species in climate forcing, and improving environmental policy.
Michael Prather holds the position of UCI Distinguished Professor in the Earth System Science Department, University of California, Irvine. He is an exceptional scientist who applies fundamental concepts in atmospheric science to questions of societal importance.
Prather’s work centres on understanding the time scales and magnitudes of the environmental impacts of changes in atmospheric composition. His primary tools are numerical atmospheric models, with an approach based on mathematical abstraction of the complex problem of modelling the highly heterogeneous but tightly coupled system of atmospheric constituents. Prather’s fundamental scientific contributions have been to develop accurate numerical algorithms to describe atmospheric transport in the models; improve the representation of photochemistry and atmospheric radiation; and then to couple these into global models that describe ozone and other reactive and greenhouse gases.
Prather pioneered many of the algorithms and tools that are used today in international ozone and climate assessments to evaluate policy options for limiting ozone depletion and climate change. For example, he started the use of atmospheric chlorine loading (timeline of future levels of the ozone-depleting chlorocarbons) to evaluate policy options for stratospheric ozone recovery. This new approach dramatically shifted international policy under the Montreal Protocol: previously the Protocol was based on a single static measure of the ozone-depleting potential of a particular species, but following Prather’s work, this changed to an interactive timeline examining various phase-out options to limit the overall chlorine loading (and ozone depletion).
In some of the earliest model realisations used for assessments, Prather developed a simple method for the accurate determination of the atmospheric lifetimes of many ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases that remain in use today. In the climate-change arena, he pioneered the use of a mathematical formalism to deconstruct chemical interactions in the atmosphere. This work identified the methane chemical feedbacks that effectively lengthen the estimated lifetime for this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, thereby increasing its estimated climate impact by 40%.
Prather has led or co-authored a large number of congressional reports in the US and served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in Washington, DC. He has also contributed to international assessments on questions related to stratospheric ozone depletion (World Meteorological Organisation Ozone/United Nations Environment Programme), the impacts of human activity on air pollution, and the role of reactive species as short-lived forcers in the climate system (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). | <urn:uuid:3325c138-7231-4248-abfa-4b0a6da0815f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/vilhelm-bjerknes/2020/michael-j-prather/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.893809 | 539 | 2.359375 | 2 |
July 24. On Saturday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, immediately stirring memories of early 2020 when the coronavirus began to engulf the world and became a global pandemic.
Among the many fears and questions now is, will the severity of monkeypox impede travel as it did two-and-a-half years ago when COVIV-19 brought the entire industry to its knees?
Travel is only now beginning to recover from COVID and is still not all the way back to 2019 levels. In fact, in many ways, the pandemic is still affection travel.
At this time, it’s a difficult question to answer. The impact probably lies somewhere between the public’s perception of dealing with yet another virus. Are they tired of being cooped up and living by protocols and restrictions, which the pent-up demand for travel right now seems to suggest is the biggest answer? Or do they respect the opinions of a group of worldwide doctors and immunologists?
Monkeypox is considered contagious, meaning that anyone with the virus should avoid travel and the potential to spread it to others.
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Even when it’s not sunny we are still being exposed to UVA which is nicknamed “the aging ray”. Exposure to UVA leadsto lines, wrinkles and pigmentation.
By protecting our skin with a daily SPF we can prevent new wrinkles developing and stop the existing lines getting deeper. We can also ensure we keep an even skin colour and a smooth skin texture.
A good quality SPF like the Obagi SPF 50, Environ RAD SPF 15 or the mineral make up bases from Jane Iredale is the secret to keeping your skin healthy and youthful.
Mrs CC Kat is a leading Midlands Consultant Plastic Surgeon specializing in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. She is a full member of both British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) and British Association of Aesthetic , Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS) as well as several international aesthetic surgery associations. She worked as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust but now runs her private practice, CC Kat Aesthetics – Birmingham Laser, Skin and Cosmetic Surgery Clinic, full time. For more information, visit www.cckat.com or call 0121 456 7930 | <urn:uuid:b4e62361-73a1-41f1-a17c-f3d86a863759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cckat.com/don-t-forget-your-spf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92948 | 253 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The River Severn is the longest river in Great Britain, at about , but the second longest on the British Isles, behind the River Shannon. It rises at an altitude of on Plynlimon, Ceredigion near Llanidloes, Powys, in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales...
, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge
The Ironbridge Gorge is a deep gorge formed by the River Severn in Shropshire, England.Originally called the Severn Gorge, the gorge now takes its name from its famous Iron Bridge, the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, and a monument to the industry that began there...
, in Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It lies in the civil parish of The Gorge, in the borough of Telford and Wrekin
Telford and Wrekin
Telford and Wrekin is a unitary district with borough status in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. The district was created in 1974 as The...
. Ironbridge developed beside, and takes its name from, the famous Iron Bridge
The Iron Bridge
The Iron Bridge crosses the River Severn at the Ironbridge Gorge, by the village of Ironbridge, in Shropshire, England. It was the first arch bridge in the world to be made out of cast iron, a material which was previously far too expensive to use for large structures...
, a 30 metre (100 ft) cast iron
Cast iron is derived from pig iron, and while it usually refers to gray iron, it also identifies a large group of ferrous alloys which solidify with a eutectic. The color of a fractured surface can be used to identify an alloy. White cast iron is named after its white surface when fractured, due...
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
that was built across the river there in 1779.
The area around Ironbridge is described by those promoting it as a tourist destination as the "Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
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Link to cap
It is a simple reproduced cap I threw together that deals with a while loop with an embedded while loop. There are two arrays. The first array gets a 100 character string put in at 0,0.
The second array becomes a 10,10 array with each letter from the first array's 100 character string.
when pressing go the results:
first box fills only with 10 characters followed by 90 zeroes.
to see if I did my while loops wrong I also have it in the same loop print to the second text box each individual character from the first array's 100 character string, and it prints all of them.
What am I doing wrong lol =/
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Are You Prepared For a Mental Health First Aid” Emergency?”
Brian England, Tue, Mar 27, 2018
This is the first article in a series we are producing entitled “Looking Out For You and Your Car.”
To provide BA Auto Care customers with the most efficient and affordable service, we spend a great deal of money on equipment and software. We know that having the right technical resources is critical to efficiently delivering high-quality service, but we also know that without great employees, all that equipment and software wouldn’t translate to much. That’s why we also invest in our most important resource, our employees. We know that a safe, healthy work environment, good wages and benefits are critical to employee job satisfaction. These factors play a huge role in employee happiness and performance.
Like many other businesses, on the safety front, we have processes in place to promote workplace safety, and have a first aid kit around to ensure that if there is an accident or mishap on the job, we can take quick action. But what if the problem isn’t related to physical health or trauma? What if it’s mental health?
A recent initiative at our auto shop really shined a light on the importance of mental health. We had hired a company to help us fine tune our communications to ensure that our office, reception, workshop, and management processes work as efficiently as possible. Our entire staff met with the consultant, and after the meeting, we received feedback from several employees on how there was an unexpected benefit to the meeting. The information provided had helped them with communications within their own families. One employee shared with us that it helped him to get help in dealing with a personal issue that was worrying him.
Not long after that, I attended a meeting with the Howard County Local Health Improvement Coalition (HCLHIC), and the subject was “Mental Health First Aid.” I was all ears! The presentation reminded me of the benefits our staff had gotten from our experience with the communications consultant.
The HCLHIC presentation was by a teacher of “Mental Health First Aid” classes. She gave us several examples of how mental health first aid techniques helped her and her students. The instructor shared how, equipped with knowledge gained from the mental health first aid course, a course attendee was able to recognize symptoms in a friend and get help for her. She also used the skills to talk with her own daughter, thereby preventing a serious problem. Then, John Way, U.S. Army Veteran and Owner of Jiffy Lube #722, shared how the class had helped him have more empathy for his employees, most of whom were veterans. These classes can help all of us! Plus, with the recent national attention on issues related to mental health, the focus on “Mental Health First Aid” comes at the right time.
If you are interested in learning more about “Mental Health First Aid”, there is a course coming up right here in Howard County on Thursday, April 5, 2018. This eight-hour course is free for Howard County residents, and is offered by Grassroots Crisis Intervention. . You can sign up and learn more here. If you can’t make the April 5th course, Howard County General Hospital is offering a course on Friday, April 13th. You can sign up for the April 13th course here.
Both of the courses are offered by members of the Howard County Local Health Improvement Coalition (HCLHIC). Their mission is to identify and reduce health disparities and achieve health equity among Howard County residents. Using local health data and input from stakeholders from throughout the County, the coalition developed a 2018-2020 Strategic Action Plan, setting aims, goals and process objectives for four key priority areas – Access to Care, Behavioral Health, Healthy Aging and Healthy Weight. You can learn more on their website at www.hclhic.org or follow them on Twitter and Facebook @hclhic | <urn:uuid:415ba280-d3b7-4ef9-8d38-2aa7a9af77a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://baautocare.com/2018/03/27/car-repair-education-and-info-mental-health-first-aid-emergency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965631 | 826 | 1.71875 | 2 |
A case study about deaths of Venezuelan women in Colombia highlights fairly worrying information about the forms of violence they endure, the characteristics of the victims and the places where the incidents happened within the nation. With the support of the mapping project of the Francisco de Vitoria Institute of International and European Studies, we analyze data on instances of deaths of Venezuelans in Colombian territory from January 2018 until December 2019. Despite having the world’s largest oil reserves, Venezuela is mired in financial disaster.
Their Latin American dishes mixed with Spanish cuisine traditions are very delicious. This article is printed beneath a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial four.0 International licence. It is value noting that the departments of Norte de Santander and Santander are in third and fourth place for areas in which the apply of social extermination most occurs, based on the report from the Centre for Historical Memory. This signifies that there’s a high presence of armed teams in those areas that could assist explain their high numbers of violent deaths of Venezuelan women.
- Many complaints of gender-based violence go unreported, and of those which would possibly be reported, many don’t go to trial.
- However, it remains certainly one of few organizations that has appropriately identified and responded to the distinct challenges between female and male refugees.
- In this sense, “many female relations received threats from regulation enforcement and justice operators, impeding their ability to successfully entry justice or reparations, even for the killings of relations.
- Those leaving are increasingly susceptible and with only a few assets.
- But the psychologist further explained the girl’s contradiction was the product of cognitive limitations and didn’t mean that the defendants have been innocent.
- A girl emerged from the automobile naked and told the officers she was being raped by the motive force, who was found with his pants down.
The female victim declared to the competent authorities that she worked as a motorcycle taxi driver in La Fria, Táchira State. On the morning of September 9, 2014, she transported a male passenger. During the journey, the passenger threatened and sexually assaulted her with an object. On November 18, 2014, the decrease court docket convicted the defendant of the crime of sexual violence even though psychological or physical violence weren’t proven at the trial, which was one of many parts for such crime. The defendant requested a evaluate of the court’s determination to the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (the “TSJ”) on the idea that neither physical nor psychological violence were confirmed by the decrease court.
The Do’s and Do nots Of Venezuelan Girls
In the defendant’s case, he was accused of seducing and luring the female sufferer into the island of Margarita, the place she was subjected, tortured, drugged, and raped. The defendant appealed the decision, alleging that it violated his right to be judged in freedom. The Court of Appeal for Violence Against Women on January 8, 2016 dismissed the enchantment motion and ratified the choice of the decrease court and determined that the apprehension of the accused before his conviction didn’t symbolize a violation of the legislation.
Many complaints of gender-based violence go unreported, and of these which are reported, many don’t go to trial. Official statistics in 2014 show that only 0.7 % complaints of violence towards girls went to trial, and it’s likely that the impunity fee has worsened because the disaster has escalated. From higher levels of unemployment than males to poor entry https://planetofwomen.org/venezuelan-women/ to education and health services, women typically find themselves in disadvantaged positions in Venezuela. Historically, most Venezuelan ladies have labored inside the house. Several reviews provide clues as to which people are leaving Venezuela and the place they’re going.
A male dance instructor was charged with sexually abusing a three-year-old woman at a dance college, by inducing her to perform oral sex and rubbing his penis against her behind. Trial witnesses included the kid, a security guard, and the mother or father of another scholar. The trial court convicted the person and sentenced him to over 15 years of imprisonment. On enchantment, he argued that the conviction was illogical and groundless as a result of the testimony of the guard and mother or father disproved that he was alone with the child at the school on the time of the alleged crime. He also asserted that the prosecution turned down his presents to test his DNA against any found on the child’s undergarment. The courtroom of appeals affirmed the conviction, noting that factual and credibility determinations have been for the trial court docket to make.
Unknown Factual Statements About Venezuelan Girl Unmasked By The Authorities
They will provide you with a brand new experience in a new country and new love. On the opposite, the fourth metropolis in Venezuela, Barquisimeto is a very enticing tourist middle with loads of monuments and cultural sites to go to and watch. You will surely meet right here the most enticing Venezuelan women in certainly one of its vibrant night time golf equipment or leisure institutions, like Contertulio, Atletico America, Caffe ninety. Your Venezuelan woman will gladly present you whereabouts with historical and cultural places of interest, just like the Museum of Contemporary Art. Nightlife could be very lively here as properly, Discoteca Marbella, Le Club, Maute Grill San Pietro are on the record of the preferred entertaining establishments with good cuisine and music.
In the Venezuelan case, these women looking for justice have turn out to be the target of recent policies of persecution. The FFM famous that “emale relations were generally the ones to file complaints concerning the homicide of their relations, or to seek information about their whereabouts. As an instance, the Mission describes a case in which CICPC officers told one female relative after she filed a grievance that she ought to ‘leave it at that, as a result of the family was very big and he or she ought to think about those who had been left’”. According to the FFM “nother woman received a textual content message a couple of hours after filing a grievance that said, ‘I’m watching you from the nook. You’re going to wake up with flies in your moth’, whereas other “reported they felt intimidated by the police presence outdoors their properties, or subsequent residence raids”. The assaults have also materialised during security operatives, in which female family members taken by authorities to secure homes had been sexually assaulted and or tortured with asphyxiation, beating, and electrical shocks.
One thing to recollect, however, is that nearly all of on-line courting websites are not free. There are lots of advantages to on-line courting and using numerous on-line platforms and dating apps. Venezuela is an attractive nation with picturesque views and rich culture. However, it’s additionally not a country you wish to go to right now as a vacationer. That’s why we don’t recommend visiting Venezuela to meet Venezuelan women. To start with, we ought to always say that Venezuela is a big country that has a very various population. It contains native peoples but in addition a massive number of ethnicities that over time have settled in the country (Africans, Chinese, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, and so forth.).
Receiving suggestions from a customer and four additional victims who had escaped the brothel. IJM attorneys had been on hand in the course of the rescue on June 22 to provide legal advice, and our social staff came to help the ladies of their first moments of freedom. Commentary is produced by the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a non-public, tax-exempt establishment focusing on worldwide public coverage points. Accordingly, all views, positions, and conclusions expressed in this publication must be understood to be solely those of the author. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is the leading United Nations entity in the subject of human rights, with a unique mandate to advertise and protect all human rights for all folks. There is nothing extra essential in a Venezuelan girl’s life than household. She will adore her husband and kids and will do every thing she shall be ready to to make them pleased and comfortable. | <urn:uuid:d3436e80-b778-4f8f-ba6f-cc0e387008de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qualiteceng.co.za/lies-you-have-been-told-about-venezuela-women/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965233 | 1,714 | 1.898438 | 2 |
7 May 2013 —The UN Global Cities Programme and the Global Cities Research Institute at RMIT University will host People and the Planet 2013 on 2-4 July.
The sustainability event will feature 130 presentations from speakers across nine inter-connecting research themes.
Global Cities Research Institute director Paul James said instead of treating sustainability as a narrow ecological question framed by business as usual, People and the Planet addressed the human condition across the integrated domains of economics, ecology, politics and culture.
The conference will cover themes including urban, community, cultural and corporate sustainability, climate change adaptation, human security and disaster, globalisation and culture, and sustainable urban regional futures.
Keynote speakers include Joyati Das – World Vision, Peter Mandaville – former advisor to Hillary Clinton, Jerry Harris – Global Studies Association of North America, Eric Herring – University of Bristol, Robert Manne – La Trobe University and Don Watson – speechwriter and author.
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You Can Find Out if Your Home Is Fiber-Ready (We’ll Show You How)
Are you one of the lucky ones ? If your home is ready for fiber, you sure are. While fiber internet handiness is increasing every day, many people don ’ triiodothyronine realize their home or vicinity has actually been outfitted with fiber eye cable either from a previous or stream supplier. not certain if that ’ mho you—or what fiber internet will do for you ? here ’ s a breakdown of why the future is fiber, and how to find out if you ’ re closer to that future than you ever realized .
How to know if your home has fiber internet
Take these steps to find out if you ’ re already wired for fiber : 1. See if you have an Optical Network Terminal. Fiber networks require an ocular net terminal, or ONT. It ’ s a box where the roughage connection enters your home, powering your Wi-Fi network. It ’ s installed either inside or outside your home. Check outside walls, garage, basement and closets. If you locate an ONT, it may be outdated, and you ’ ll still need a technician to install and bring the Ethernet cable and proper router to your home.
2. If you don’t see an ONT, and believe you may have fiber, check with your current provider. A technician from your internet service provider ( ISP ) can come to your family to help. If you don ’ t have fiber military service, the ISP may be able to give you more information about why not or tell you about their plans to build out fiber. 3. Find the provider with a fiber plan. If your current ISP international relations and security network ’ metric ton offering roughage right now, it ’ s potential that another supplier in your sphere is. You can find all the providers available in your sphere by entering your address in a service like WhistleOut. On ISP websites, you can check to see if it ’ s available near you.
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"A state of the art, comprehensive treatment of the diversity of bolete fungi found in eastern North America, admirable in its degree of coverage, and reflecting an authoritative knowledge of the subject."—Todd Osmundson, assistant professor, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
"This book fills an important need, enabling the many interested amateur and professional mycologists to identify the boletes that occur in the eastern US and Canada; a ‘must have’ book for people seriously interested in mushrooms."—Gregory M. Mueller, chief scientist and Negaunee Foundation Vice President of Science, Chicago Botanic Garden
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Of all the groups of wild mushrooms, none have engendered more enthusiasm and affection than the boletes. Their inherent beauty, abundance, and, for many, culinary appeal have firmly established boletes in the hearts of mushroom hunters around the world. The habitats, geographic distribution, and ecology of boletes—including the intriguing relationships they have with trees and shrubs—only add to their interest.
Boletes of Eastern North America offers readers a comprehensive field guide, including extensive descriptions and more than 350 rich color photographs. Each species listing includes the most recent scientific name with existing synonyms; common names when applicable; and an overview that includes field impressions, similar species, and detailed information about habitat, fruiting frequency, and geographic distribution. Because boletes are one of the most sought-after wild mushrooms, the authors have also included a section with information on collecting, cooking, and preserving them. Advanced students and professional mycologists, as well as amateur mushroom hunters, will find this field guide an indispensable resource.
Alan E. Bessette is a mycologist and professor emeritus of biology at Utica College of Syracuse University. He has published numerous papers in the field of mycology and has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including Mushrooms of Northeastern North America and Milk Mushrooms of North America.
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When Russia’s Vladimir Putin began a military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, it was widely assumed that Ukraine would surrender quickly. Instead, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky—an actor-turned-politician famous for playing an actor-turned-politician in Servant of the People —refused to budge, withstood multiple assassination attempts and rallied his people to fight. He pleaded with the international community to implement sanctions on the Russians and to provide weapons and ammunition for the Ukrainians. How did Zelensky accomplish this transformation? Where did he first take Putin’s measure? Read about it in this exclusive advance look from Ukrainian journalist and political commentator Serheii Rudenko’s upcoming Zelensky: A Biography (Polity Books, July 18), in which he explores Zelensky’s life and governing style, from his childhood through the beginnings of the war.
In the beginning was the word. Or rather, several words. And, more precisely, the name of the TV series: Servant of the People.
For most of its supporters, the Servant of the People Party was political entertainment: a convention with Coca-Cola, pizza, and shawarma (a gyro sandwich), a selfie with a popular actor, memes such as “Let It Be the Stadium Then” and “Let’s Beat Them All Together,” Volodymyr Zelensky ‘s phenomenal victory, a cinematic inauguration. A young, handsome and quick-witted leader. However, the phenomenon of the Servant of the People Party was precisely the fact that it was perceived as a project of the protagonist of the film version, Vasyl Holoborodko, rather than that of the real president, Zelensky.
‘I Will Never Let You All Down’
On April 21, 2019, at 8 p.m, Zelensky and members of his team appeared before journalists to the sounds of the song “I Love My Country” from the soundtrack to the film (and TV series) Servant of the People. At that moment, it seemed that this simple song was being sung not only by the victorious candidate himself, but also by the 73 percent of the electorate who had voted for him.
Zelensky was still in the character of Vasyl—the high-school teacher, who, in the TV series, became head of state—and tried to joke, to toss barbs at the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine), which, according to him, kept him on his toes at all times, and to show optimism.
In 2019, Ukraine’s sixth president announced: “I promise I will never let you all down.” Since then, we have seen Zelensky in various situations. He and his team have been criticized for being unprofessional. They have been accused of corruption, arrogance and even treason.
However, starting from February 24, 2022, the beginning of Russia’s large-scale aggression against the Ukrainian state, we have discovered a completely different Zelensky. A man who was not afraid to accept Vladimir Putin ‘s challenge and become the leader of popular resistance to Russian aggression. A president who managed to unite in this fight his supporters and opponents, corrupt officials and fighters against corruption, adults and children, people of different nationalities and faiths. A head of state who is greeted with applause in European parliaments and the U.S. Congress .
It has to be said that Ukrainians are accustomed to believing in myths: in the gold of Hetman Polubotko, which is allegedly kept somewhere in Britain (supposedly deposited in the Bank of England in the 1700s by a Ukrainian national, to be repaid with a high interest rate upon Ukraine’s independence), in the messianism of former president Viktor Yushchenko, in the fact that all their problems would be solved by Zelensky and his party. Just like in the movies.
But people have completely forgotten that the Servant of the People Party is not a TV series about Holoborodko and his bicycle. It represents themselves and the future of their children. They trusted Zelensky and his team. Whether or not this decision was correct will become clear in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian war, because it has been up to Zelensky and the Servant of the People not only to fulfill their election promises, but literally to fight for Ukrainian independence.
To Look Into the Eyes of Putin
During the first few months of his presidency, Zelensky sought a meeting with Putin. The new leader of Ukraine was anxious to fulfill his campaign promise—to end the war in the Donbas. He understood that his campaign rhetoric, which had been reduced to the formula “just stop shooting,” had proved unviable. It was necessary to sit down at the negotiating table with Putin.
Zelensky said he wanted to look the master of the Kremlin in the eye and understand him as a person. For this reason, he was ready for anything—for another truce in the Donbas, even if it did not bring peace; for the dispersal of forces on the front line; for another settlement with Moscow. Zelensky sincerely believed that, if he looked into the eyes of the Russian president, he would at least see some sign of sadness about the 14,000 dead in the Donbas.
The Ukrainian president seemed convinced that his actor’s charisma and unique charm would work wonders in Paris, where the Normandy Four summit was scheduled for December 9, 2019, and he would return home with guarantees of an end to the war in eastern Ukraine. At the same time, Zelensky completely forgot that Putin was no worse an actor than he was. Seriously, Putin had played the role of peacemaking president for 20 years, pretending that “they’re not there.” In Georgia, the Transnistria region and Syria. The same in Ukraine.
The guard of honor lined up in the courtyard of the Élysée Palace. French President Emmanuel Macron greeted guests on the porch, with journalists standing in front of the guard of honor. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was the first to arrive. A Mercedes-Benz drove Ms. Merkel almost up to the doorstep of the palace, where, dressed in a blue jacket, she was met and kissed by an elegant and smiling Macron. A Renault Espace, with Zelensky, was the second car to drive into the courtyard and stop at the gate. The president of Ukraine walked briskly toward the president of France and cheerfully greeted Macron. Against this background, one of the Russian journalists shouted: “Mr. Zelensky, what would be a success for you? Mr. Zelensky! Mr. Zelensky, please answer the question! Mr. Zelensky!” However, Macron and Zelensky ignored the man shouting from the crowd and, like two good friends, marched to the entrance of the palace.
Putin was the last to arrive. He tried not to show any emotion. The master of the Kremlin emerged slowly from the Aurus-41231SB Senat L700 car and just as ponderously plodded around the courtyard, approached Macron, shook his hand, and disappeared inside. This episode was very expressive. The state leader, who was trying to instill fear in Europe and the world, looked old, lame, and was no match for Macron and Zelensky. It was a different era, a different age, a different mentality, a different thirst for life.
There were nine hours of talks ahead as well as Zelensky’s debut press conference as a member of the Normandy Four. The very fact that the leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia were meeting after a three-year break was already a victory. Behind closed doors, Zelensky met one-on-one with Putin, then with Macron, and later with Merkel. He did not say publicly what he had seen in his Russian counterpart’s eyes. Apparently, Putin used his traditional negotiation techniques—blackmail, intimidation and the carrot-and-stick method. During the protocol photoshoot before the talks, Zelensky was noticeably nervous. At first, he wanted to take Putin’s place, then he turned to talk to journalists and inadvertently showed them some papers. These were topics for negotiations.
“Once everyone has left,” the Russian president told Zelensky, pointing to the person in charge of the photoshoot, “we will start negotiations.” The Ukrainian president took a sip of water. His anxiety was obvious.
Then there were negotiations. Zelensky did not seem impressed by his tête-à-tête with Putin. By the end of the summit, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine had not arrived at a common position on the future of the Donbas.
Putin was relentless—this was only to be as prescribed in the Minsk agreements, i.e., on the day after the elections in the ORDLO (the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine). Zelensky was against this and complained about the Minsk agreements, which had been approved by his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. However, in the press release all parties expressed their intention to agree on the legal aspects of the special status of local self-government in the ORDLO and to elaborate on the Steinmeier formula (which called for local elections under the auspices of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] in the separatist-controlled region in the east, followed by a special self-governing status). Only a few people know for sure what was really going on behind the scenes at the Paris summit. Interior minister Arsen Avakov praised the Ukrainian president and told reporters that the latter had allegedly asked (Russian diplomat) Sergei Lavrov not to nod his head. “Volodymyr Zelensky, in conversation, mostly in Russian, finally exploded and said: ‘Mr. Lavrov, stop nodding, there is no need to nod! Yes, I know your last name, because, unlike you, I walked around all these places along the border on my own legs.”
The next meeting of the Normandy Four, scheduled for March 2020, did not take place, as by then the world was engulfed by the COVID-19 pandemic. All Zelensky’s attempts to negotiate with Putin over the course of two years had failed.
In spring 2021, when the Ukrainian president suggested that the master of the Kremlin meet him in the Donbas. Putin replied: “We are interested in the Russian language, the church, the citizens of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. The Donbas is an internal issue of the Ukrainian state.” Five months later, Russian deputy security secretary Dmitry Medvedev wrote in the Russian Kommersant business newspaper that any contact with Ukraine’s current leadership was meaningless and Moscow would wait for a change of government in Kyiv. And four months after that, on February 24, 2022, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite all this, Zelensky is still ready to meet with the Russian president. However, this would no longer be in order to look him in the eye, but to stop Russian aggression in Ukraine.
The President of War
Zelensky sought to become the president of peace in 2019. He promised to end the war in the Donbas and to put an end to the thorny relations with the Russian Federation. For this, as he said, he was ready even to negotiate with the devil. However, the devil in the Kremlin was prepared to negotiate with Zelensky on just one thing—the capitulation of Ukraine to Russia. That is something to which Zelensky could not agree.
Thus, Putin left Zelensky no choice. He was forced to become the president of war rather than the president of peace. He had a complicated mission—to lead his country into battle against the Russian occupiers. This is a difficult ordeal for someone who has never served in the army and who had no experience in politics until 2019.
Prior to the war, almost every one of Zelensky’s public addresses was reminiscent of his acting past. Pauses, facial expressions, tone of voice, and gestures. There was too much theatricality and artificiality in all this.
Beginning on February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia’s war against Ukraine, all this would disappear from Zelensky’s arsenal. We would see a completely different person. With a weary and unshaven face. In khaki green clothing, without a tie, no makeup, or TV spotlights. A president who speaks painfully about Ukrainians in all walks of life who had fallen into the vortex of the Russian–Ukrainian war. A person with real emotions. A leader of the Ukrainian nation who will call out to the world about the war in his land.
The sixth president of Ukraine has come a long way— from an actor to the leader of the Ukrainian nation. From a man who was met with interest and irony by leaders of the world’s nations, to a politician who is now met with applause in the West, and by world leaders who consider it an honor to call him their friend.
Excerpt adapted from Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko. Copyright © 2022 Polity Press.
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the concentration-dependent effects of biguanides (polyhexamethylene biguanide [PHMB], chlorhexidine [CH]); diamidines (hexamidine-diisethionate [HD], propamidine-isethionate [PD], dibromopropamidine-diisethionate [DD]); natamycin (NM); miltefosine (MF); povidone iodine (PVPI), and chlorin e6 PDT on Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts, in vitro.
Strain 1BU was cultured in peptone-yeast extract-glucose medium. Trophozoites or cysts were cultured in PYG medium containing each agent at 100%, 50%, and 25% of maximum concentration for 2 hours. The percentage of dead trophozoites was determined using a non-radioactive cytotoxicity assay and trypan blue staining. Treated cysts were also maintained on non-nutrient agar Escherichia coli (E. coli) plates and observed for 3 weeks.
All tested drugs displayed significant cytotoxic effects on 1BU cells based on the biochemical and staining-based viability assays tested. On non-nutrient agar E. coli plates, neither trophozoites nor freshly formed cysts were observed after PHMB, PD, NM, and PVPI treatment, respectively, within 3 weeks. However, CH-, HD-, DD-, and MF-treated cysts could excyst, multiply, and encyst again.
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THE FUTURE OF PASSENGER AIR TRANSPORT – VERY LARGE AIRCRAFT AND OUT KEY HUMAN FACTORS AFFECTING THE OPERATION AND SAFETY OF PASSENGER AIR TRANSPORT
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Major League Soccer suspends season for 30 days due to coronavirus
Major League Soccer is following in the footsteps of the NBA and is suspending its season for 30 days due to the coronavirus COVID-19, the league announced Thursday.
Sports Illustrated was the first two report MLS's decision.
"At the appropriate time, the league and clubs will communicate plans for the continuation of the 2020 season and update the status of league events," the MLS said in a statement released on Twitter.
“Our clubs were united today in the decision to temporarily suspend our season — based on the advice and guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and other public health authorities, and in the best interest of our fans, players, officials and employees,” said MLS Commissioner Don Garber. “We’d like to thank our fans for their continued support during this challenging time.”
The MLS becomes the second major sport in the U.S. to suspend its season.
The NBA suspended its season on Wednesday after Utah Jazz's Robert Gobert tested positive for coronavirus.
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Poulenc Sonata for Flute and Piano
The first challenge of this sonata is the entry on a high E, with some editions marking the entry as piano, however the latest edition is marked mf. Whatever the dynamic, it is good practice to start with a “soft attack”, i.e. a gentle start to the note. This can be achieved with or without the tongue.
A good exercise to practice soft high notes and soft attack is “reverse harmonics”, an exercise that Geoffrey Gilbert and others taught and one that I teach my own students. They work by fingering a high note (e.g. E) and then splitting the note down to its lower partials (“ghost tones”). Once you get to the lowest ghost tone, slowly increase the air speed and lift the airstream by bringing the jaw forwards, but don’t let the dynamic increase. Slow practice with careful attention to not over-using or tightening muscles is important. When you get back to the top note, re-articulate it to practice placing it with the correct air speed and direction. This will give you a greater chance of success! Those of you with a “split E” mechanism on your flutes will have a slightly easier time!
After practicing some soft top Es, have a look at the skeleton of the opening. Notice how the melancholic melody of the first four bars is very chromatic. We want to hear this downward melodic shape when all the notes are added back.
Skeleton of the opening of the Poulenc sonata
Find where the harmony is stressed and where it releases and show this with your phrasing. For example, the A sharp resolves onto B in bars 7-8. Therefore, phrase towards the A sharp:
There are three repetitions of the main E minor theme, so ideally these should not sound the same. This is perhaps the reasoning for the dynamic markings of p – mf – f in the edition I play from, where each repetition of the theme reinforces the last, like saying something three times: “Tidy your room; tidy your room; TIDY YOUR ROOM!”
With the upward scales, try practising the 7s in different groupings (4+3 and 3+4). It is important to make sure all notes lead to the top note, but equally important that they are together with the piano, which also has a scale. They should provide a moment of excitement after the melancholic melody. They look fast, but you have more time than you might think, so be careful not to rush these.
The next challenge is the rapid alternation of E to C, found in bars 26 to 32. Pay attention to the Es and the Cs should take care of themselves. You can practice pitching both E and C by playing them as harmonics of low C, low C and E, and F and A. You’ll find the airspeed and direction of air that you need. Think “ooh” on the E and “aah” on C, encouraging the jaw to swing forwards for the higher note. When you come back to fingering the notes normally, you’ll find it much easier and all the notes will sound with a good tone.
Whenever students start learning this piece, the double tonguing section (5th bar after Figure 5) often becomes a focus point or stumbling block. It is important to remember that this is an accompaniment to the piano melody, so it needs to be light, following the phrasing of the piano melody. To get a good soft tone on all notes, practice slowly and slurred first, then practice on a “peh” (without the tongue), then each of the tongue strokes “Tu” and “Ku” (or “Du” and “Gu”). Try to keep the vowel that follows the initial consonant the same, i.e. du-gu du-gu du-gu, not de-gu du-ga da-ge, as this will help keep the sound consistent. Practice it a bit louder at first to get comfortable with it, then try it softer.
Then play it as written, paying attention to quality of sound and evenness of tonguing. You can also practice this singing and playing at the same time. If you follow this approach regularly with scales, you’ll find your double tonguing will improve and this section won’t cause you any stress!
At figure 8, we have the “Happy Sarabande” section, where beats 1 and 2 are important. The stress pattern is quite often Stress-Stress-release, much like a Sarabande. The demisemiquavers (32nd notes) need to be cared for and used to help shape the phrases, not thrown away. Make sure all the dynamics come through as these represent the different characters of the same melody.
The last challenge is the final few bars:
Firstly, to be together with the piano requires good rehearsing with your pianist and a clear sense of the rhythm. Subdivide into quavers, so you count the rests carefully. The céder marking can throw some people off. Try not to let this affect your rhythm, but just see it as a moment of coming to rest in terms of dynamic and tempo.
Secondly, the final B, as a perfect 5th above the E and minor 3rd above the G sharp in the piano, can sound flat, so make sure it is pitched high enough for a pleasing chord. Notice how the movement comes to rest on an E major chord, after so much minor tonality. The colour you choose for the final B should reflect this.
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Fish Tales: Dispelling Myths & Overcoming Barriers to Seafood Consumption
Date: October 3
More than eight in 10 Americans fall short of the Dietary Guidelines recommendation to eat 8 ounces of seafood each week, consuming an average of just 2.7 ounces. Lack of knowledge and skills about seafood preparation, along with concerns about safety and sustainability are common reasons consumers avoid this nutrient-rich protein and miss out on seafood’s health benefits.
In this webinar, Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDE, CHWC, FAND, and Egil Sundheim from the Norwegian Seafood Council will help you better understand current hot topics, including safety concerns about PCBs, dioxins and mercury, address questions surrounding sustainability and the environmental impact of aquaculture and equip dietitians with information and strategies to help consumers confidently prepare delicious seafood at home.
CPE Level: 2
Learning Need Codes: 8060, 4040, 8018
Performance Indicators: 8.1.2, 8.2.2, 8.4.1
- Discuss the benefits of seafood consumption across the lifespan.
- List recommendations for seafood consumption by life stage.
- Identify three myths or barriers that may prevent consumers from eating the recommended amounts of seafood.
- Provide clients with guidance to overcome common barriers to seafood consumption.
Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDE, CHWC, FAND
Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, CDE, CHWC, FAND is an internationally recognized nutrition and diabetes expert with more than two decades experience. She is your resource for nearly all things nutrition, diabetes and prediabetes. Patients and clients love her for her practical approach and caring manner. Attendees of her presentations call to “bring her back next year” for her engaging style and artfully presented content.
Jill is the author of four books: the best-selling Diabetes Weight Loss-Week by Week, the new Prediabetes: A Complete Guide, as well as The Overworked Person’s Guide to Better Nutrition and 21 Things You Need to Know about Diabetes and Your Heart.
Through writing, speaking and one-on-one coaching, Jill empowers people to grab control of their health, one habit at a time. She has worked as both a nutrition counselor and a diabetes educator in the hospital and research settings, and now in private practice in Newport News, VA.
Jill is a consultant and spokesperson to the food industry, a frequent guest on radio and television and regularly writes for a variety of magazines and websites, including Diabetic Living, Food & Nutrition magazine, Today’s Dietitian, and Kids Eat Right. She serves on the panel of experts to review and rank diets for US News & World Report. Jill is a two-time graduate of the University of Florida with an undergraduate degree in communications and a graduate degree in food science and human nutrition.
If Jill’s not counseling, coaching, consulting to her favorite brands, writing or speaking, you might find her in the kitchen cooking up something nutritious and delicious because she knows that great taste is one of life’s beautiful gifts. Other times she’s out jogging, keeping up with her daughters, hanging with her dog, or simply enjoying some quiet time with her husband, which often includes the dog, daughters, or dark chocolate.
Egil Ove Sundheim
Egil Ove Sundheim has dedicated more than 20 years of his life to helping the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) thrive and evolve within the ever-changing seafood landscape. Egil serves as the Norwegian Seafood Council’s U.S. director and has held numerous leadership titles during his tenure with the NSC, including marketing manager, senior analyst and director of market information.
In his current role, he oversees the U.S. market while working with Norwegian fisheries to ensure the preservation of a sustainable ecosystem for Norway’s fish population. He maintains close relationships with chefs and retailers to ensure they understand what makes Norwegian seafood a superior option for consumers and business growth. Egil also coordinates with marketing leaders to help expand the global footprint of the NSC and raise awareness for the nutritional benefits and value of its seafood.
Prior to moving to Boston for NSC, Egil lived in Tromsø, home of the NSC and the first stop on your visit to Norway. He attended Nord University, located in Bodø, where he graduated with a degree in business administration. Egil then went on to receive his bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Colorado Boulder, followed by his MBA in finance from the University of Minnesota.
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MSG: Demystifying the Controversy & Discovering the Possibilities
Date: September 26
MSG is one of the must beloved and demonized ingredients in American history. It’s a staple for home cooks and world renowned chefs, yet it’s a subject of skepticism as brands and restaurants promote “MSG-free.” Join us to take a look at the most recent research regarding safety and to address common concerns related to this ingredient, such as headaches. This webinar will also discuss the flavor enhancing and sodium reduction benefits of MSG.
CPE Level: 2
Learning Need Codes: 8060, 8015, 2030, 8130
Performance Indicators: 1.3.9, 11.2.1, 8.3.6
- Discuss the history behind the demonization of MSG as well as the scientific evidence and current organizational/government stances on MSG.
- Explain how the structural makeup of MSG (sodium and glutamate) enhances the flavor of foods by adding umami.
- Describe how to integrate the sodium reduction benefits of MSG into practice.
Keith-Thomas Ayoob, EdD, RDN, FAND
Keith-Thomas Ayoob is Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City where he maintained a clinical practice for over 30 years, specializing in obesity, child nutrition, and family dynamics. Much of his work also focused on motivational counseling.
Dr. Ayoob has focused his efforts in the private sector on advocating for positive strategic change. He helped formulate a highly regarded global nutrition policy for the Walt Disney Corporation in 2006 and updated those landmark guidelines in 2012. These guidelines were widely acclaimed and were endorsed by the White House and First Lady Michelle Obama.
Dr. Ayoob sits on a number of advisory boards, including the McCormick Science Institute, the Pure Circle Stevia Institute, The Beef Expert Bureau, and the Chobani Nutrition Academic Advisory Board of the Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the National Advertising Review Council.
Dr. Ayoob currently writes for The Doctor’s Tablet, an online site of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, reaching tens of thousands of physicians and health professionals. His own website is: www.cuttothechasenutrition.com where he writes his EdibleRx column.
Dr. Ayoob is a strong advocate against fad dieting and has testified before Congress against the marketing of diet pills to children. He co-authored the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ position paper on food and nutrition myths and misinformation.
Dr. Ayoob received his doctorate degree from Columbia University’s Teachers College, his Master’s from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he did his undergraduate work at the University of California at Davis. He divides his time between New York City and San Francisco.
Christopher Koetke, CEC, CCE, HAAC
Christopher Koetke has worked in culinary arts for well over 3 decades and is now CEO of Complete Culinary LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to the 360° comprehensive view of food and beverage. In the last 20 years, he has devoted his professional life to culinary education at Kendall College and at 48 campuses in 12 countries. He is currently the chairman of the Feed the Planet Committee of Worldchefs. Before culinary education, he worked as a chef in gastronomic restaurants. Prior to that he worked in some of the finest restaurants and patisseries in the USA, France, and Switzerland.
Koetke has a MBA from Dominican University and a BA in French literature from Valparaiso University. He has been honored with the Outstanding Alum from the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University, alumni achievement award from Valparaiso University, and Worldchefs Educator award. He hosted his own national TV cooking show in the USA for almost 5 years and authored a well-known culinary textbook. He is an expert on culinary sustainability and on the culinary application of umami.
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On The Menu: RDNs Dish on Nutrition Careers in the Restaurant Industry
Date: July 30
Did you know there are a growing number of RDNs that work for restaurant chains? Are you curious about their roles and what exactly they do all day long? Spoiler Alert: it is much more than number crunching. Three restaurant dietitians, each in a different stages of their restaurant careers will discuss their unique roles. Learn how they used a combination of the traditional dietetics training and other non-dietetics skills to obtain, sustain and grow their careers in the food industry. Hear how mounting regulations, consumer demand for information along with sustainability initiatives will likely continue to generate more opportunities for dietetics professionals in the restaurant industry.
CPE Level: 2
Learning Need Codes: 1010, 8070, 8120
Performance Indicators: 11.3.7, 8.3.4, 8.4.1
- Explain the role(s) or function of the RDN in the restaurant industry.
- Describe essential skills and resources used by restaurant RDs.
- Identify pathways that can lead to a nutrition related job in the restaurant industry.
Sarah Hendren, MS, RDN, LDN, CD
Sarah Hendren, MS, RDN, LD, CD, is a dietitian with a breadth of experience in food and nutrition communications, sustainability and leadership coaching. She is the Principal Owner of Hendren Group LLC where she supports clients with food and nutrition communications, providing strategic guidance on messaging, claims and food policy.
Sarah has been working in the food industry since 2013, beginning her career at the restaurant chain Culver’s, the franchisor for over 760 restaurants in 26 states. She joined Culver’s in 2013 as the organization’s first registered dietitian and was promoted to Nutrition & Quality Assurance Manager in 2016. She led the implementation of the uniform national menu labeling regulation and continued to be the driving force behind the brand’s commitment to simplify ingredients, reduce sodium across the menu, and remove partially hydrogenated oil, MSG and other ingredients from the menu. Sarah currently works as a Regulatory Affairs consultant for PepsiCo Frito Lay North America where she provides regulatory affairs guidance on core product ingredient specifications, ensuring products on retail shelves meet US and global regulations.
Sarah currently holds a position on the Academy’s Committee for Lifelong Learning, helping develop the educational tracks for FNCE®. She has held numerous executive committee positions with the Dietitians in Business & Communications Practice Group, including Treasurer, Marketing Chair and Newsletter Editor. She served as the Northeast Region Director for Texas, representing over 1,400 nutrition professionals. She is currently serving her second year on the Nominating Committee, helping identify a qualified, diverse and representative group of nominees for the upcoming election.
Sarah received the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award in 2019 and Outstanding Dietetics Student of the Year Award in 2013. She was the recipient of the Founder’s Award in 2020 and Circle Award in 2019 from the Dietitians in Business & Communications Practice Group, recognizing her strategic influence, leadership and service to the practice group. Most recently, Sarah has been nominated for the Outstanding Preceptor Award in the state of Texas, recognizing her exceptional skills to teach and mentor students in a nontraditional rotation, focusing on business and leadership development.
Sarah received her clinical dietetic training at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital. She earned her Master of Science degree in nutrition from Central Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Outside of work, Sarah loves golfing, hiking, cooking and traveling with her husband, daughter Emma and yellow lab, Sasha.
Lanette Kovachi, MS, RDN
Lanette Kovachi, MS, RDN is the Head of Global Nutrition for the Subway® restaurant chain. In this role she makes sure customers around the world have access to accurate and transparent nutrition and ingredient information so they can make informed menu decisions. She has guided the Subway® team on important wellness strategies and menu initiatives, including: voluntary menu labeling, healthy kids’ meals, sodium reduction, removal of artificial trans fat and increasing the whole grain content of the bread.
Lanette has advised on or participated in several public health initiatives including: the Connecticut Department of Health’s Obesity Prevention Project, the FDA Keystone Forum on Away-From-Home Food, the CDC National Fruit and Vegetable Program Steering Committee, and the National Sodium Reduction Initiative. She is also a current member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Healthy Menu Collaborative.
Lanette is former president of the Connecticut Dietetic Association and was a recipient of the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). She is currently an executive board member for the AND Food & Culinary Practice group.
Sarah Martin, MPP, RDN, LRD
Sarah Martin, MPP, RDN, LDN, is the Nutritionist for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. She oversees recipe writing, menu analysis, food cost systems management, and provides guidance on nutrition and menu labeling. A Tennessee native and farmer’s daughter, Sarah’s passion for agriculture and food lead her into a career in the restaurant industry. Sarah is past president of the Nashville Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and she proudly serves as the Council on Professional Issues-Chair Elect for the Tennessee Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
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Farm to Spork - Ensuring Food Safety and Protecting Consumers
Date: July 17
Lettuce is one of the most common produce items in our meals in the U.S., yet few people know the different steps involved in getting it from “farm to spork.” In this webinar, Felice Arboisiere, Corporate Microbiologist / Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager at Taco Bell, will provide an overview of the food production process for large scale operations and the role of quality assurance and food safety. She will take a deep dive into lettuce production, identifying growing regions and food safety practices on the farms, in processing facilities, and every step of the way to restaurants in your neighborhood. Felice will provide insights into government regulations around produce and what it takes to deliver fresh produce from the farm to your plate without compromising food quality or safety.
Sponsored by: Taco Bell
CPE Level: 2
Learning Need Codes: 8018, 8050, 8070, 8040
Performance Indicators: 11.1.4, 7.1.3, 8.4.3
- Identify, analyze and manage risk, adverse events and safety to self, staff, customer and public.
- Apply principles, standards, regulations and organization policies to reduce the risk of foodborne and waterborne illness outbreaks.
- Integrate policies and adhere to infection prevention and control measures.
Felice Arboisiere, Microbiologist
Felice Arboisiere is the Corporate Microbiologist / Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager for Taco Bell. Ms. Arboisiere joined Taco Bell in 2014 and is responsible for managing produce quality and food safety for the brand as well as microbiological work on all commodities. Prior to working at Taco Bell, Ms. Arboisiere worked as the senior microbiologist for Estee Lauder, where she managed the microbiology department on all new products and did product development work on fermentative bacteria for cosmetic products. Prior to her cosmetic work she managed food microbiology labs on the west coast. Ms. Arboisiere holds a triple B.S. in Food Microbiology, Chemistry and Spanish all from Arizona State University.
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Moore, G. C. (2005). A Biographical Sketch of William Edward Hearn (1826-1888): A Slightly ‘Irish’ Perspective. 34th Annual Conference of Economists. http://doi.org/10.1080/09672560903114883
William Edward Hearn was the first Australian economist of international note. His major publication in the discipline of economics, Plutology (1863), was praised by the leading economists of the late-nineteenth century, including W. S. Jevons, A. Marshall and F. Y. Edgeworth. In this paper I trace the way in which Hearn's early experiences in Ireland shaped his economic views. I argue that he was just as much an Irish economist as an Australian economist.
This Conference Paper has since been published as:
Gregory C G Moore, 'The Anglo-Irish context for William Edward Hearn's economic beliefs and the ultimate failure of his Plutology, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, iFirst, 2009.
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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) honors the life and work of Beatrix Hamburg, a pioneering child and adolescent psychiatrist and NAM member who passed away on April 16, 2018, at the age of 94. Dr. Hamburg is survived by her husband, David A. Hamburg, who was president of the Institute of Medicine from 1975 to 1980; her daughter, Margaret Hamburg, who currently serves as NAM Foreign Secretary; her son, Eric Hamburg, a writer and filmmaker; and three grandchildren.
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There are probably thousands of different types of hot sauces out there, but did you know that a lot of them are made from yeast?
Anyway, why ferment hot sauce in the first place?
Fermentation adds the flavor and texture to a hot sauce that no other process can deliver.
During fermentation, bacteria consume sugars and produce acids, producing a unique blend of flavor, heat, and preservation.
There are many reasons why fermented hot sauce is popular, including the complexity in flavor it brings, positive effects on the digestive system, and long shelf life.
Continue reading if you want to learn more.
Fermented vs Unfermented Hot Sauce
There is a big difference between the two hot sauces, even though the main ingredients are the same.
If food is fermentable, it means that it has undergone a natural process in which the sugars in the food are converted into alcohol and/or acid in an environment with no oxygen.
Fermented hot sauce can be made by putting peppers and fruit in a salt brine solution and storing it in a mason jar.
The peppers are allowed to ferment in the salt brine for about a week or longer if the time is right.
Maintaining the correct pH is important here for keeping out bad bacteria and preserving the hot sauce.
You probably already know that some popular hot sauces are made from oak barrels.
There is a simpler way to make regular hot sauce, where the peppers are combined with the alcohol.
As soon as you blend the ingredients, it is ready to be consumed. The fermented hot sauce requires a lot of time to process.
Why Is Hot Sauce Fermented?
Refrigerators began to be used as a way of preserving and prolonging the shelf-life of food.
People could store and enjoy food knowing that it would last a long time.
The main reason people ferment hot sauce is that it gives them new and complex flavors, including a pleasantly surprising Tanginess, compared to non-fermented hot sauce.
Regular hot sauce will give you a flavor that hits you all at once, whereas fermented hot sauce is more subtle and layers.
Is Fermented Hot Sauce Good?
There is an argument to be made that fermented hot sauce is not as spicy as regular, non-fermented hot sauce.
The other flavors of hot sauce taste similar to the non-fermented hot sauce, which has more heat.
In comparison, heat is lost in the fermentation process, and the hot sauce is usually milder.
If you use some of the spiciest hot peppers out there like Carolina pepper or ghost peppers, you should still be able to get a good amount of heat in your hot sauce.
While still having a hot sauce that is packed with heat, you can get the complexity of flavor with the fermented hot sauce.
There are several benefits, including the complex flavor of the hot sauce.
- It is easier to digest food that has already been partially broken down.
- Also referred to as the “good” bacteria, which helps in digestion, is included.
- It has a shelf-life that lasts for a long time.
- If you have a lot of frozen peppers in your fridge, you can ferment them and bring back a lot of the flavor.
How Long Should Hot Sauce Take Time to Ferment?
It takes about seven days for hot sauce to ferment. In the first couple of weeks, the most active fermentation will occur, then it will die down.
You will get a more complex flavor the longer you ferment it, but a week is enough time to get a pretty good ferment on your hot sauce.
Changes in flavor and color can be caused by fermented hot sauce, which continues to ferment after you bottle or jar it.
I think it’s a better question to ask, why not ferment hot sauce?
If you want to change things up with more depth and flavor, Fermented hot sauce can be used just as frequently as regular, non-fermented hot sauce.
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Fatima, the First Hundred Years
Publisher: Angelico Press
Publication Date: May 4, 2017
The Complete Story from Visionaries to Saints
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Teaching And Learning Specialist Salary Coursera
You can learn many different skills by taking a Coursera course. You can choose to enroll in one of the multi-week courses or a specialization to learn specific skills. Courses can last anywhere from six weeks to three months. You can earn a certificate for successfully completing the series if you are able to get accreditation in your specialization. Coursera allows you to earn a certificate or degree in addition to the courses. The website offers more than 4100 courses.
Coursera certificates are just as valuable and valuable as college degrees. These certificates are usually recognized by employers and can be included on your resume. Employers will be able to see that you have increased your knowledge and are a specialist. A Coursera certificate can help you make a career shift or advance in your current job. You can earn a certificate from a top university if you want to be considered for a higher-level position.
After you have registered with Coursera you will receive a verification email. To verify your account, click the link in the e-mail. You can then browse the site by entering keywords related to your course. Browse course pages, read the syllabus, and learn about the instructor. Then, click the green enroll button. You’ll be prompted to answer a few questions about the course.
You can also download courses from Coursera for offline viewing on 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. With more than three thousand courses to choose from, you’ll have an abundance of learning options.
Coursera is safer than other learning platforms. Its reputation is well-polished and well-known. It doesn’t steal your information or payment details and has protected the data of thousands of users for many years. It also has a history of providing 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. This will allow you to transfer your certificate to other institutions without difficulty, which can add several thousand dollars to your budget. This is good news for students with tight budgets. 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. The company has nearly doubled its student enrollments in just two years and now has 68 millions students around the globe. It is not only a great educational platform but also a top choice for employers when it comes to workforce training. It offers online courses in nearly every subject, from arts and music to mathematics and software development to personal development. The variety of courses is impressive and includes short courses as well as specialized specializations.
Coursera offers many courses. You can earn a certificate for skills you need to find a job or start a business. You can also complete a certificate or earn a degree. Stanford professors and other prestigious universities support Coursera. Coursera has also partnered with over 200 universities and companies. This means that Coursera courses are industry-relevant and are highly affordable.
Although the cost of tuition is higher, the quality and instruction are also excellent. The instructors are masters of their field, which helps students avoid costly expenses and gain flexibility. A Coursera certificate can also be used to enhance your resume. The programs are geared towards professionals so it makes sense that you take advantage of them. So, if you’re considering enrolling in a Coursera course, don’t wait any longer. Get started today! | <urn:uuid:896befa1-814d-42f8-9866-dfad4a1fc803> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldengatepubkiev.com/teaching-and-learning-specialist-salary-coursera/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959122 | 843 | 1.625 | 2 |
In the event that you've been searching for a vocation change in the IT field yet not certain which profession to seek after, you've arrived at the perfect locations! Welcome to Top 3 Trending Technologies to Master in 2022. Over the most recent 60 years, innovation has progressed a long ways. From a one ton machine which could store 3.5 MB data(IBM 350) to a SD card which can store 2 Terabytes of information and weighs just 2 grams, we have made considerable progress. One thing which has stayed consistent over the course of this time is change. Advancements change each 2-3 years and it is significant for an in the expert innovation space to keep themselves refreshed to scale the vocation stepping stool quickly! Today, we will discuss the moving advances in 2022, so we should get everything rolling. Top 3 Trending Technologies in 2022 • HyperAutomation • Cybersecurity • Full Stack Development If you are a visual learner, you could refer to our video presentation of the Top 3 Trending Technologies in 2022, too!
Could you trust me in the event that I let you know in a couple of years AI could be given rise to freedoms as people? It’s now working out, have you found out about Sophia? She’s a humanoid robot which is fuelled by AI. She has her own contemplations, feelings, can see and talk like people, in 2017 she was conceded legitimate citizenship in Saudi Arabia.
HyperAutomation includes the utilization of different advances like Artificial knowledge (AI), Machine Learning and Automation innovations like Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to computerize however many business processes as could reasonably be expected.
According to business wire, 70% of RPA specialists say their affiliation will utilize more fashioners in the next year. According to Forbes, the usage of AI in various areas of business has created by 270% all through late years.
As of late, Cybercrimes have expanded immensely. In 2021, twitter was hacked and was utilized to get Bitcoins. Do you see anything amiss with this?
This is the record of the US president on twitter. It was hacked, and this message was posted from it.
Digital dangers brought about harms worth an astounding $6 trillion out of 2021 alone, making it the single biggest monetary catastrophe ever.
As per a report in the wellbeing area alone, network protection is supposed to blast to $125 billion by 2025.
Would you like to be a network protection expert in the following a half year, well you ought to begin planning now! Next in this Top 3 Trending Technologies blog, we have Full Stack Development.
Full Stack Development
As per Forbes, web use has expanded by 70% in the beyond 2 years. This obviously clears way for more web-based business to approach future. Indeed, even the US government is selecting for one, however in a fascinating way! In the event that you visit www.whitehouse.gov, and check their site code, it has an employment form concealed in it!
In the event that Whitehouse isn’t your fantasy organization, hands on entryway Indeed, there are 28000+ positions for Full Stack Development. The typical compensation of a Full Stack designer in India is 8 lakhs for each annum and in the United States is 110,000$ each year.
Turn into a specialist in Full Stack Development course. That was about the Top 3 Trending Technologies in 2022. Trust this article demonstrated valuable to you. Do remain tuned for the impending articles in the series! | <urn:uuid:a074576e-4b06-4931-b06b-f39c81e7aaa1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nexibook.com/top-3-trending-technologies-in-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952471 | 731 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Bank of Actions
Are you seeking examples or inspiration for water protection? There are plenty of potential actions to choose from! The Bank of Actions will provide your organisation with concrete ideas and examples of water protection activities implemented by organisations in the Baltic Sea Challenge network. You can browse these according to the theme, type of actor, country, year or keyword.
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Strategies and programs
Lifelong learning programme for WWT operators in Estonia
Actor: the Estonian Waterworks Association EVEL ● Year: 2017 ● Address:
To increase the level of knowledge in wastewater treatment plant operating, a special two-year study program for operators was launched in Järvamaa Vocational Training Centre (JKHK) in September 2017. The study program was prepared jointly by the Estonian Water Works Association (EVEL) and JKHK.
“It’s not that once we built it – that’s it. What about the future? We should be also able to keep it running. What is to be done then? The operator should be the first to understand that something is wrong. So, he will have a look at it, examine, and then tell the engineer there is probably something wrong,” says Jaak Jaaku, professor in microbiology. Such approach emphasizes the importance of the operator’s profession in the water sector work.
Ivar Kohjus, the leading teacher in JKHK and one of the authors of the program, underlines that only 20% of the learning process takes place in the classroom, while the rest is made as a practice period in a company. Over a two-year period, the students will have over ten different lecturers. The studies will culminate in a vocational examination, and a prize for successful passing of courses will be a professional certificate meeting European professional standards.
Even though the whole program at the moment is taught in Estonian, the first student group of 24 was varied – one of the students comes from Nigeria speaking well Estonian language.
“We have a vision – we want to create an international centre of excellence for water treatment operating in Järvamaa Vocational Training Centre. The basic training courses taken within the framework of the vocational training must be followed by a systematic further training. We want to gather everything in one centre, because this way we can be more effective,” says Vahur Tarkmees, Managing Director of EVEL.
Next group of students started their water operator studies in autumn 2018.
Since Estonia’s accession to the European Union ca 1 billion euros have been allocated to the local water management sector. The size of investments indicates the overall level of innovativeness and automation reached in this sector.
The degree of automation is high today: some of the water and wastewater treatment plants can be even operated via smartphone. This simultaneously poses a challenge for the development of operators’ expertise that concerns everyone. Despite the significant advancement of the sector, people working in it are the same, with the same level of knowledge, whereas young enthusiastic people do not find attractive joining the sector.
A study commissioned by the Ministry of Environment on the wastewater treatment plants built with the EU support revealed that despite having excellent equipment and automation installed, the performance of plants remains inadequate without a proper operator.
The lifelong learning programme of Estonian WWT operators was developed within Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2014-2020 financed project IWAMA. Baltic Sea Challenge had close co-operation with IWAMA. The project activities concentrated on developing the capacity of water sector operators and pilot investments to increase energy efficiency and advance sludge handling. All project activities were targeted at better environmental state of the Baltic Sea through reducing nutrient input, optimizing energy consumption of the wastewater treatment plants, training water sector’s employees and ensuring the transfer of knowledge. The partners of the IWAMA project joined the Baltic Sea Challenge network.
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Arooj Haq was inducted into the Youth category in 2012.
San Leandro High School student Arooj Haq is passionate about public health and advocating for human rights. Arooj, 17, is active in the Advocating Change Together Project through Girls Inc., which goes to elementary schools to help children make healthy lifestyle choices. She also promotes nutrition, smart choices and healthy relationships to her high school peers, and helps run her school's annual blood drive. The daughter of two Pakistani immigrants, Arooj has long aspired to be a nurse. A recent trip to the Middle East caused her to expand her aspirations, however. Her goal now is to one day open a charity helping women in her parents' native country. As a young Muslim woman, Arooj has had some negative experiences due to others' ignorance and stereotyping. The experiences only bolster her determination to be a positive role model and to redefine cultural assumptions. | <urn:uuid:24133406-0693-4980-bc4c-02920492042b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acgov.org/whof/inductees/2012/haq.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969773 | 192 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Quiz: Civil Engineering
Topic: Environmental Engineering
Each question carries 1 mark
Negative marking: 1/4 mark
Time: 10 Minutes
Q1. Water is considered ‘hard’, if its hardness is of the order of
(a) 50 ppm
(b) 100 ppm
(c) 150 ppm
(d) 300 ppm
Q2. Phenolphthalein indicator is used to determine the alkalinity above pH
Q3. Total Kjeldahl nitrogen is a measure of
(a) total organic nitrogen
(b) total organic and ammonia nitrogen
(c) total ammonia nitrogen
(d) total inorganic and ammonia nitrogen
Q4. Which one of the following sequences is the most suitable for treating raw surface water to make it suitable for drinking purpose?
(a) Screeing→ filtration→ sedimentation→ disinfection
(b) Screening → disinfection → sedimentation → filtration
(c) Screening → sedimentation→ disinfection→ filtration
(d) Screening → sedimentation → filtration → disinfection
Q5. ‘Air binding’ may occur in
(b) Artesian well
Q6. A heterotroph is an organism that obtains
(a) its cell carbon from an inorganic source
(b) its energy from the oxidation of simple inorganic compounds
(c) its cell carbon as well as its energy from organic matter
(d) its energy from a natural ecosystem
Q7. Shallow ponds in which dissolved oxygen is present at all depths are called
(a) aerobic lagoons
(b) aerobic ponds
(c) facultative lagoons
(d) facultative ponds
Q8. In the facultative pond systems, the aerobic zone may get extended downwards due to
(a) calm waters along with weak sunlight
(b) mixing by wind action along with weak sunlight
(c) mixing by wind action along with penetration by sunlight
(d) calm waters along with penetration by sunlight
Q9. Presence of Nitrogen in the waste water sample is due to the decomposition of :
Q10. The ultimate BOD value of a waste :
(a) Increase with temperature
(b) Decrease with temperature
(c) Remains the same at all temperatures
(d) Double with every 10°C rise
|Soft water||0 – 60|
|Moderate hard water||61- 120|
|Hard water||121 – 180|
|Very hard water||≥ 181|
Sol. phenolphthalein indicator turns water into pink colour, if the pH is more than 8.3 then phenolphthalein is a basic indicator.
Sol. ▭(free Ammonia+organic Ammonia =Kheldahl Ammonia)
Sol. the most suitable sequence for treating raw surface water to make it suitable for drinking purpose is
Screening → filtration → sedimentation → dis-infection
Sol. Operational problem in rapid sand filter are –
– Air binding
– Mud ball formation
– Cracking of filter
Sol. Autotrophs → Derive both material (cell carbon) and energy from inorganic substances.
Heterotrophs → Derive both material (cell carbon) and energy from organic substances.
Sol. Shallow ponds in which dissolved oxygen is present at all depth are called Aerobic ponds. The bulk of the oxygen in ponds is provided by photosynthesis and some oxygen is provided by diffusion from the air.
Sol. Aerobic conditions are maintained in the upper portions of the facultative pond by oxygen generated by algae and to lesser extent by penetration of atmospheric oxygen. Mixing by wind action and penetration by sunlight may extend the aerobic area downward.
Sol. Presence of nitrogen in the waste water sample is due to the decomposition of proteins. Nitrogen is produced from metabolism in form of urea, uric acid and ammonia.
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Almost surely, 21010211232 is an apocalyptic number.
It is an amenable number.
It is a practical number, because each smaller number is the sum of distinct divisors of 1010211232, and also a Zumkeller number, because its divisors can be partitioned in two sets with the same sum (1027131840).
It is a pseudoperfect number, because it is the sum of a subset of its proper divisors.
1010211232 is an equidigital number, since it uses as much as digits as its factorization.
1010211232 is an evil number, because the sum of its binary digits is even.
The square root of 1010211232 is about 31783.8202864288. The cubic root of 1010211232 is about 1003.3922238060.
Adding to 1010211232 its reverse (2321120101), we get a palindrome (3331331333).
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The Instruction Specialist works in the smart manufacturing labs associated with the School of Engineering Technology. Provides both instructional and operational support services for course delivery and assists students with projects. Uses Industry 4.0, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, and IT skills to provide direct support to faculty, staff, and students in the school’s formal instructional labs for the Learning Factory undergraduate courses in Smart Manufacturing Industrial Informatics.
- Bachelor’s degree
- 2 years of prior experience related to smart manufacturing systems, processes, hardware, and software, or an equivalent combination of work and education.
- Strong initiative with an ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Familiar with Industry 4.0 principles, programming, and IT skills related to smart manufacturing.
- Industry 4.0, and information Technology skills
- All new hires will be expected to follow Protect Purdue guidelines. To learn more, visit https://bit.ly/3DH3z6f
- To learn more about Purdue’s benefits summary https://bit.ly/3t7vcRd
- Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position https://bit.ly/3t7vcRd
- A background check will be required for employment in this position
- FLSA: Exempt (Not Eligible For Overtime)
- Retirement Eligibility: Defined Contribution Waiting Period
- Purdue University is an EOE/AA employer. All individuals, including minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply
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De Monchaux, C. (1954) Child Training and Personality: By John M. Whiting and Irvin L. Child. (New Haven: Yale University Press. $5.00. London: Cumberlege, 1953. Pp. vi + 353. 32 s. 6 d.). International Journal of Psychoanalysis 35:365-367
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Tesla: Inventor of the Modern by Richard Munson
Read by Charles Constant, with the recording produced by Highbridge Audio.
Reviewed by Ryan Paul Winn
Nikola Tesla was a prophet and a pariah—equally prone to dazzling peers and rankling investors. Relying heavily on primary sources, Richard Munson recounts the life of this idiosyncratic genius, a germaphobe and obsessive-compulsive whose pioneering work with electricity, radio, remote control, and robotics transformed the twentieth century. Charles Constant’s infectious delivery grounds the enigmatic Tesla, highlighting how personal quirks short-circuited his legacy.
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The Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (cacatua leadbeatri) is sometimes refered to as the leadbeater's cockatoo in America. This parrot is native only to Australia and is endangered in some Australian states. The birds are breath takingly beautiful with white wings and a bright pink body. They are popular as pets when they are young however, as they reach maturity they do not make good pets. The Major Mitchell is quite rare and expensive in the United States. They are very prolific breeders, infact, this chick was hatched in 1998 to a pair that is over 60 years old! In nature, they will lay up to 4 eggs but rarley raise more than two chicks. The incubation period is about 30 days. Although captive breeding has been successful, there is a common problem with males savagely attacking and sometimes killing the hens. This species reaches maturity at about 2-3 years. At Oakhill Center, we have 3 pair of these birds and work with zoos & private aviculturists in an effort to maintain as genetically diverse a population as possible.
Photo by Juhanna Honkavaara
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Do you know why it’s important to have the right domain? It’s something almost everybody fusses over – and for good reason.
The domain is your home on the internet. It’s the identity of a business and represents them and their “team” – and is something they use in “daily correspondence” – but it the email address itself or part of the letterhead. It’s always front and center for a business on the internet.
The evolution of domain extensions
Initially, people could only register a domain with a .com, .net, or a .org extension which made the market pretty competitive. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that is responsible for these domain extensions, called these the gTLDs or general top level domains.
ICANN also created the .mil, .gov, and .edu extensions, but reserved them for credible military, government, and educational institutions.
Soon, with the “expansion” of the internet and the evolution of its users, the ICANN also evolved.
It created the ccTLDs or the country code top level domains, which were simply domain extensions that represented the country that a website (supposedly) belonged to. Prominent examples include .us, .uk, and .eu – however, each of these two-letter extensions were created over time, as and when the need arose.
For users, this meant that a domain of choice became increasingly accessible. For example, if www.mybrand.com is taken, you can go and buy www.mybrand.eu if you expect to operate in or serve customers in the European Union.
However, it seemed as though the original TLDs, the .com, .net, and .org held on to their top-spots in the minds of users and forced upcoming brands to amend their “name” if a .com wasn’t available instead of picking another domain extension.
The ICANN had a great vision into the growth of the internet and how different organizations would use the cyberspace. Therefore, it created something known as sTLDs or sponsored top level domains as well. These are extensions that were “intended” for use by members of certain organizations only.
What sTLDs proposed to do was in spirit if nothing else, try to build the trust (and comfort) that people had with .mil, .gov, and .edu extensions. So, for example, when the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques sponsored the .aero TLD, it limited registrations to members of the air-transport industry. So, anyone visiting say a .aero site would immediately know they could trust the site a little more than they could trust any of the other “freely available” domain extensions.
However, some experts feel that the vision for sTLDs haven’t been fully realized. Some sTLDs, such as .asia and .mobi are available on the internet without any limitation or restriction whatsoever, which makes people surfing the internet question other extensions in this category as well.
Now, we come to two of the most interesting domain extension categories. The nTLDs and the .brand extensions.
ICANN announced plans for nTLDs, or new top level domains in June 2012. As of last year, there were 500 nTLDs created, including .ai, .co, .ninja, and .club. It opens up a vast number of possibilities for brands going forward. However, it also makes life a little bit more complicated for the user because remembering a new domain with its correct extension isn’t easy – especially if you’re not going to use it on a daily basis.
Fortunately, for (big) brands, ICANN also made .brand extensions available – which means, .apple, .ibm, and .google are now real. Although reserved for those who can afford the US$200,000 application fee, these extensions are the gold-standard of credibility on the internet – at least for brands we’re familiar with. The credibility of something like .bitcoin might still be a bit debatable.
Why your domain extension matters
Your domain extension is a critical part of your website and a part of your brand identity.
If you look at the website addresses of a lot of modern startups, you’ll see something like .co, .ai, and .io extensions being used. Most of them carry those extensions with pride as they feel it’s a part of who they are.
However, talk to any domain registrar and they’ll tell you that the .com domain extension is still one of the most prized possessions for a business entity today.
In fact, there are professionals out there that register .com (among other) domain names and hold on to them hoping that someone will pay a premium to buy them at a later date. A standard domain costs about US$10 but head over to GoDaddy’s auction site for example and you’ll see domains being sold for US$2000 and more.
At Tech HQ, we’re always curious to find out more about how the world around us works. So, we polled people across different age groups to find out if they really think a traditional .com, .net, or .org extension is more credible than a .ai or .co extension. Here’s what we found:
On an average, 73 percent of people feel that a .com, .net, or .org is more credible than a .ai or a .co extension.
No matter how we slice the data, old or young, people seem to feel strongly about this. It explains why companies still make the effort with the .com extension.
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How To Play Cats Cradle by Cynthia von Buhler Cat's Cradle is a game in which you use string to weave patterns representing familiar objects. Cats Cradle is an ancient form of amusement originating from Asia. It is still played all over the world today. The names and figures vary from culture to culture. These instructions are for Real Cats Cradle, a popular English version. Other versions of the game have been found in indigenous cultures all over the world - from the Arctic to the Equatorial zones.
Youll need a partner to play this game.
Steps Cut a length of string (about 58 inches works well, but it can vary). Tie the ends of the string together using a square knot and clip off the ends.
1. Slip the loop over your hands (see Fig. 1).
2. Wind the string around your palms, not including the thumbs. Hold your hand with your palm facing towards you. Take the far string and loop it around the palm once, moving it towards you. Do this on both hands. (See Fig. 2).
3. Move your right middle finger left, and pick up the left palm string. Move the right middle finger back to its original position.
4. Move your left middle finger right, and pick up the right palm string, and pull the left middle finger back to its original position. This is known as the Cradle. (See Fig. 3).
5. Have a partner pinch the two X's, one in each hand. (See Fig. 4).
6. Have your partner push the X's down outside the side strings, and then up into the open center. (See Fig. 5).
7. You drop the strings, while your partner pulls their hands apart to make the Soldier's Bed. (See Fig. 6).
8. Perform the same process again. You pinch the two X's, one in each hand. Push the X's down outside the side strings then up into the open center. (See Fig. 7)
9. Have your partner drop the strings while you pull your hands apart to make Candles. (See Fig. 8).
10. Have your partner use their right pinky to hook the inside left string and pull it past the right outside strings. They should do the same thing with their left pinky and the inside right string. (See Fig. 9).
11. Your partner continues to hold the pinky strings. Then they pinch their thumb and forefinger of each hand together, and push them into the triangles, under the outside strings, and up into the center. (See Fig. 10).
12. You drop the strings as your partner spreads their hands apart to make the Manger. (See Fig. 11).
13. You find the two X's again, and pinch them from the outside this time. Your partner should pull them out and up. You turn your hands over and push your fingers down into the open center. (See Fig. 12).
14. Your partner drops the strings as you spread your hands apart, and you make Diamonds. (See Fig. 13).
15. Your partner pinches the two X's from the inside, lifts them out and over, under the outside strings, and up into the center. You drop the strings and your partner spreads their hands apart to make the Cat's Eye. (See Fig. 14 and Fig. 15).
16. You move down from above and grab the crossed strings and then pick up the diagonal strings (using their thumbs and forefingers). (See Fig. 16).
17. You remove the strings from your partners hands, and extend your thumbs and forefingers apart to make the Fish in a Dish. (See Fig. 17).
18. Your partner grabs the crossed strings and pulls them out to separate the two center straight strings so they do not cross. With their pinky fingers, they grab the separated center straight strings. They pull them out over the crossed strings away from the center of the figure. (See Fig. 18).
19. They continue holding the string in their little fingers and grab from above the crossed strings. Then they pick up the diagonal strings with their thumbs and forefingers by rotating them up through the center of the figure. (See Fig. 19).
20. They extend their thumb and forefingers up, removing the strings
from your hands to make the Clock. Held vertically, this figure represents a tall grandfather type clock. The end! (See Fig. 20).
Tips Practice makes perfect! Chances are, you wont get it right the first time, but keep trying.
There are many variations of Cat's Cradle. Try doing something different, you may come up with a new figure that terminates the game, or you may be surprised to find you have jumped to one of the other figures from which you can continue the game. For example, you can go from Soldier's Bed to an inverted Cat's Eye by picking up the crossed strings from below, instead of above, and then picking up the straight strings from above.
If you get frustrated and cant figure out how to play the game, you can use the string to play with your cats. Theyll love it!
Warnings . Be careful not to get your fingers tangled in the string too tightly.
0. Please supervise younger children who are playing this game - a loop of string can be hazardous.
Notes: How To Play Cats Cradle by Cynthia von Buhler for the website www.butwhowillbellthecats.com. References and pictures are from the following public domain source: String Figures by Caroline Furness Jayne. 1906. Charles Scribners Sons. Drawings by Mrs. Morris Cotgrave Betts (Fig. 1 and 2 have been updated by Cynthia von Buhler); Wikipedia; Wiki How. | <urn:uuid:fc10ca3e-87bb-4dd5-a013-b433fa6a4b59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cupdf.com/document/how-to-play-cats-cradle-by-cynthia-von-to-play-cats-cradle-by-cynthia-von.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.905368 | 1,227 | 3.234375 | 3 |
Battling alopecia isn’t a joke. Especially in a country where there are unwarranted stares, comments, advices, suggestions and more that make one feel less loved.
Ketaki Jani is a mom, a fighter, beauty pageant contestant and vocal about accepting alopecia, a medical condition where individuals lose hair on their body. Talking about her life journey, Ketaki shares with Mums and Stories, “Let me confess very bluntly that I was a unique child, unwanted & unloved. My birth was disliked as the arrival of a stone as a girl child is considered a burden. Traditionally, it was a very bad and sad childhood which no one should have. But there were silver lines on these dark black clouds too. I have some great and sweet memories with my grandparents and maternal uncle, as I spent my childhood with mom’s family. I consider that period as my golden time and perhaps I am also alive thanks to that upbringing and all above mentioned great souls.”
Ketaki started losing her hair in her early 40’s. From someone being a woman next-door managing her world, she had to work the way around to manage unwarranted stares that would reflect sympathy or rude comments. Suddenly she found herself losing hair in patches. She shares, “That day was Friday, 7th May 2010. It was a dreadful way. I was sitting in the office. Suddenly my hand went behind my head, perhaps to find something as there was little itching. As my hand was moving in my hair, behind my ear I felt a touch of skin. One colleague told me that there was a small hairless patch and it was shining in hairs. But I never knew that damn small shining patch was a poisonous cobra out to swallow my peace, smile and emotional, mental, social and health balance. I had to fight this first attack of alopecia. In the process I fell, got hurt, prayed, and cried. Still somehow I lived. And yes, I lived to win.
Initially I was shocked and shattered. I was desperately trying to save my vanishing hair. I tried all types of medicines. I was ashamed, afraid to be seen. People used to stare at me with insults; their eyes were full of questions. Without declaring they started hating me and even began to keep a distance from me. To run away from prying eyes, I used to go to the office earlier and sit there till night. Alopecia flung me into a deep sea of depression. I thought of committing suicide too as the changes in my looks were quite sudden and I really didn’t have answers to all the questions.
Ketaki had also visited many doctors only to be informed that this was non- treatable. With time she subjected herself to medications, consultations, her methods of hiding her baldness with scarves and even steroids. Slowly she found herself inching towards depression. It was only when she decided to accept alopecia that she found peace. Today she sports with aplomb her bald look that is tattooed and brings out the confidence to accept herself.
Talking about her kids who have been her biggest supporters , Ketaki shares, “ My daughter Punyaja and son Kunj, both who are Physiotherapists are God’s blessings. They are not only my strengths; they are my reason to live. They loved their hairless mother unconditionally like before. Looking at my hesitation and fear, Punyaja offered to go bald, just for my sake. I am proud of both of them. I am thankful to my two pets Puku and Niki for their unconditional love, affection and emotions. I am really blessed to have all these four in my life.”
Talking about being vocal on alopecia at several awareness programs, Ketaki shares, “Yes, I am vocal on alopecia and bring about awareness. This autoimmune disorder is centuries old but our society hides it. They torment and torture Alopecian for none of their fault. It leads to suicide, divorce, self-isolation and depression. According to me, there is no clear cut reason which leads to alopecia and simultaneously there is no sure shot treatment. First of all we must accept alopecia. They deserve Love, respect and acceptance. For this purpose I am having a Facebook page ‘Accept and support Alopecia’. For this reason, so many people contact me through messenger. Few were inspired to live normal life again because of our interactions.
One thing on alopecia is that one must understand, in most of the cases, it is not hereditary. There are few cases which may be genetic. Also having this condition is neither sin nor crime. It is not contagious too. I explain to Alopecian that in spite of running to regain hairs and crying-dying for them, let’s live without them. If a person can live without a hand, leg or even eye, what is wrong in being bald? I appeal to all with folded hands that accept and respect bald youngsters like your normal friends. They need you badly. Instead of pushing them into the dark ally of depression or death, be their reason to live and smile.”
Talking about winning a beauty pageant Ketaki Jani shares with Mums and Stories, “Just for fun, I applied for a pageant in Mumbai. I wanted to drive home the point that BALD CAN BE BEAUTIFUL. I knew it was not easy. I was mentally ready to be rejected in the selection round itself. But there were sensible and sensitive people on the jury. They liked my confidence, determination and motto too. I was selected and the rest is history. Then it started pouring awards, trophies and titles. I became India’s first bald beauty pageant. In the Philippines, I won my first international title too. I started getting invitations for ramp walks, motivational speaker and being a judge in beauty contests too. This journey is going on. I am doing all these for my mission of alopecia awareness. Destiny snatched away hair but gifted me so much.” | <urn:uuid:348619ae-41c0-4bbd-9304-f5569c3f1e78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mumsandstories.com/2022/02/24/bold-and-bald-ketaki-jani-shows-in-style-how-to-battle-alopecia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982131 | 1,278 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Have you ever been worried about running out of mobile data on your iPhone when travelling? Maybe you don’t have an unlimited internet plan at home or on your mobile device, and want to limit the data usage. Luckily, iOS features a Low Data mode that will do just that. It’ll help limit your internet usage on cellular, and Wi-Fi. You can also use the feature to make sure that you don’t blow through your data plan if you’re sharing data over a personal hotspot.In this post, you will learn how to set a data limit on your iPhone or iPad by using the Low Data mode.
What is Low Data Mode?
The feature is similar to the Low Power Mode that’s available on iOS 9 and later. With Low Power Mode, you can save some extra battery on your iOS device. Similarly, the Low Data Mode lets you save your precious internet data, specially if you’re on a limited plan. The mode limits your iPhone or iPad from using too much data when browsing, streaming content, etc.
Low Data Mode works differently on different apps. For example, the feature will lower the bit rate when making video calls through FaceTime, hence reducing data usage. It can also turn off background refresh on some apps, lower the quality while streaming video or audio, and can disable iCloud backups or pause iCloud Photo sync. As you can see, the Low Data Mode can really help save some data.
How to enable Low Data Mode
Enabling Low Data Mode on your iPhone or iPad is pretty simple. You can use this mode to limit data usage on your home Wi-Fi connection, mobile data, or while you’re connected to a Personal hotspot.
To enable the Low Data Mode on your home Wi-Fi, a public Wi-Fi connection, or your friends’ network, follow the steps below.
1) Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad.
2) Select the Wi-Fi option and look for the network you’re connected to.
3) Now tap on the ‘i‘ button next to the network name.
4) Scroll down to find the Low Data mode toggle and enable it.
The feature is now enabled on the connected Wi-Fi network, and will be turned on until you toggle it off. You may also turn on the mode on certain Wi-Fi networks, and leave it disabled on others. iOS will also remember this setting and sync it across all your devices.
On Mobile Data
If you’re afraid of running out of mobile data, then it’s better to enable Low Data Mode. Here’s how to do it.
- Open the Settings app and select Cellular or Mobile Data.
- Tap on Cellular Data Options or Mobile Data Options.
- Select Data Mode and find Low Data Mode toggle and turn it on.
Once enabled, your iPhone or iPad will use limited mobile data and warn you if you’re using too much.
While using Personal Hotspot
Suppose you or your friend is using your iOS device as a personal hotspot, and you’re worried about all the data being consumed. Enabling the Low Data Mode will help ensure that doesn’t happen. You’ll have to use the device that’s connected to the Personal Hotspot to enable Low Data Mode. Here’s how you do it.
- On the guest or connected iOS device, launch Settings.
- Open Wi-Fi and find the Personal Hotspot.
- Tap on the ‘i‘ option next to the Personal Hotspot connection.
- You should find the Low Data Mode toggle and switch it on.
That’s about it. You can now use the Personal Hotspot without worrying about running out of mobile data.
Low Data Mode is a useful feature on iOS especially for those who are using a limited internet plan. It can help save precious data on your Wi-Fi network, and mobile data. We hope you’ve learnt how to enable the feature on your iPhone or iPad. With the feature enabled, you can stop worrying about using up all your data. | <urn:uuid:9353f311-9ce8-409b-8adc-9f63b1796a58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/05/05/how-to-use-low-data-mode-iphone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.832566 | 877 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Blueprints of stairs, introduced on the Internet, make it easy to select the ideal option. But each house has its own layout features. Thus, ready-made alternatives may not work. Yes, also made by his own hands drawing, which will later be installed stairs, will be a unique source of pride of their owner before relatives, neighbors, friends.
To begin with, decide the positioning of the future design and make the following dimensions:
- The elevation of the opening. Since the basis is taken the finishing floor, the first and second floors. The distance from one to the other is the necessary parameter.
- The diameter of this opening. It needs to be mentioned that it may have another configuration: from the most widely used – rectangular to formed (ring, oval or other non invasive performance). This parameter considerably impacts the selection of design.
- Height from the ceiling to the floor of the floor. Ultimately will allow you to figure the height of the passage and the appropriate layout and building of the staircase in the house.
Diagram and drawing of the stairs with measurements in width and height. Draws a scale plan of the first floor in a private house. A place is defined for the beginning of the stairs, the amount of the flight of stairs is marked on the floor. If the design of this first floor in the location of the construction has projections, door and window openings, markets, communications, and then they are drawn in the scheme using a reference to the supporting structures. These stop them from overlapping even in the design phase. The more details and dimensions in the plan, the fewer problems during installation.
Before Creating a drawing, you should carefully examine the building standards for stairs:
- The thickness, width, height of these measures along the entire length of this structure shouldn’t change. This ensures the convenience and security of motion;
- The diameter of this stairwell for straight flights of stairs must be from 900 mmfor spiral arrangements from 800 mm;
- The height of this fencing 900-1200 mm.
For penalizing layouts on the narrowest portion of 100 mm, on the wide to 400 mm, at the center of 200-250 mm. Overhang of treads around 50 mm is allowed;
- The height of these steps should be in the scope of 100-180 mm;
- The angle of incline around 45˚;
- When the stairs go straight to the doorway, is equipped with another platform breadth of at least a meter;
- The recommended amount of steps for you flight – 18 pcs.
- Proper drawings of the staircase to the second floor could be made just on the grounds of the parameters and additional calculations. Each type of structure has its own attributes.
Drawing of the stairs to the second floor
There are several ways to compile design documentation:
- Independently. Create a calculation and execute staircase drawing for simple designs (directly, rotary with a platform) under force for most. More Complicated choices are much better left to professionals; They allow you to earn a detailed layout, to get a visualization of the arrangement before setup and to make alterations. Utilizing 3D pictures you are able to see how the stairs will fit into the surrounding inside. In this situation it may take a few days to learn the applications;
- Ready-made solutions. Drawings of stairs presented online can be provided with detailed detailing and without it. Such projects must be checked for compliance with calculations and building regulations. For advice, it is possible to turn to professionals. | <urn:uuid:04f25a45-734d-4c46-848d-5fda9147c9b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oriental-beach.jp/how-to-earn-a-wooden-staircase-to-the-next-floor-14/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936855 | 726 | 2.390625 | 2 |
IT Complexity is becoming an issue talked about more due to the multitude of new technologies being introduced into business infrastructure. However, when implementing these new technologies, IT teams must consider if performance to the network can become adversely affected. This is why solutions like an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) can help drastically improve a businesses IT Infrastructure. With its mix of both security and performance features, it is built to reduce the IT complexity of businesses.
ADC solutions isn’t new, it’s been out in the market for a while but has been constantly improved over time. Recently however, vendors talk more on its security features rather than its network performance capabilities. This is due to the recent trend of pushing more security centric products to the market due to increased cyber security risks. However, the networking capabilities of ADC solutions such as Citrix ADC can help businesses improve even if you factor the security out.
Citrix ADC Networking Capabilities
There are many ways in which an ADC can help improve your network, below are a few in which Citrix ADC specializes in to create a better user experience for your business:
Citrix ADC can boost the performance of web applications through multiple methods. One way is by using caching and compression. By creating a cache of high traffic data in your network, it lessens the number of requests that your servers have to handle at any given time. This also follows with large media connected to certain https, it may cause a delay once requested to download. This is due to the servers needing to compress the traffic for an easier transfer and also to encrypt the file. This is where the ADC as well can help simplify the process as it takes the task rather than the server needing to use resources.
It is important for businesses to experience as little to no downtime as possible. This is to ensure that the business operations and efficiency is not compromised. Citrix ADC’s high availability feature helps companies experience as little downtime or disruptions by through features such Load Balancing or Surge Protection. By allocating requests to healthier servers, it can ensure that your users experience as little disruption to their work as possible. Surge protection protects the servers from being overwhelmed by an increased amount of requests by allocating the requests by only what the server can handle at a steady rate to prevent slow downs to the server.
Performance and Offloading
Another feature of the ADC solution is that it can help offload requests from your servers to the ADC solution. Offloading SSL requests can help improve the bandwidth usage of your business. Citrix ADC also handles multiple requests through a single connection to lessen the number of requests a server has to respond to. Combine this with its feature as well to compress the webpages to simplify and compress the requested data, performance improves significantly.
To learn more about Citrix ADC or other Citrix Solutions, please contact us at email@example.com and we would be happy to set a more in-depth meeting with you and your business!
On May 23, 2017, about 10 years since the first shipped Meraki product, the Meraki network community reached a milestone of 1 million networks!
This comes as no surprise as more and more industries demand that their IT is able do more with less which may include tasks such as:
Supporting corporate devices and any preferred user devices
Transitioning to wireless offices and the ability to support remote working
Enabling massive device expansion and constant digital collaboration
Ensuring zero downtime and constant change
And most importantly, Mission Focused Technology, technology which drives the main function of industries such as education in schools and patient care in healthcare.
With so many tasks to deliver, IT teams will need to have simple infrastructures which will allow them to be nimble while being able to adapt with the business. It was at this time Cisco started shipping simpler IT, managed via the cloud, through the Meraki Mini which was well received within the IT community. IT teams were grossly overloaded and spread thin worldwide under the load of legacy systems with clunky interfaces so the then emerging cloud option given was a helpful option to help solve these issues. A far cry from today, cloud services have become an integral part of our daily and corporate lives, even more so as the confidence is growing in the dependability and security of the cloud.
Meraki Mini (2006) Meraki MV (2017)
We are happy to say that we partnered with one of the pioneers of cloud-native IT and will continue to support them the best way we can so that our customers will be able to enjoy all the benefits! To learn more about their products, please see our Cisco product pageHERE
The SD-WAN market is growing at a very fast pace. It is estimated to exceed $6 billion in revenue worldwide by 2020 while still compounding an annual growth rate of more than 90% over a forecast period between 2015 to 2020. By 2018, it is also expected that about 82% of North American enterprises will be using SD-WAN which is remarkable considering the technology is still in its early days.
With the option to choose what kind of link is best in a given situation (MPLS, broadband, LTE, or any combination of these), besides optimizing your WAN link, you will also be able to provide additional capacity to avoid blackouts and brownouts.
With such features, VeloCloud makes sure to take the necessary steps to ensure that your data will be secure when using its comprehensive SD-WAN solution. Recently, VeloCloud has taken a big step towards a more comprehensive security ecosystem which it calls the “SD- WAN Security Technology Partner Program”. A multifaceted effort of collaboration between a wide range of technology companies to help protect users’ branch, data center and cloud networks which results in a top notch end-to-end security option for SD-WAN which seamlessly includes both on premise and cloud networks.
Partners are given access to VeloCloud’s APIs through a formal software development kit which helps simplify the process for partners who are interested in developing security solutions for VeloCloud’s SD-WAN architecture. VeloCloud has also opened up a virtual network function (VNF) framework to its partners in the security ecosystem to help develop their own security VNFs within its framework. VeloCloud also allows for cloud security by allowing third party security vendors to bring their own services into marketplaces operated by service providers such as Azure and Amazon.
Besides the security ecosystem, VeloCloud also has its own security capabilities which are integral parts of its SD-WAN architecture. One example would be its zero-touch deployment model in which you can be shipped a non-configured VeloCloud edge to any of your branches or remote locations and once connected to your link it will securely authenticate and encrypt across your network. With its unique way of key management for vCPEs on your network, it will be able to help check your tunnel integrity while helping with scalability and your dynamic multipath VPN.
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Novel facultative mutualisms that develop between native and non-native ecosystem engineers can lead to the retention of the non-native partner. In some cases, behavior plays an additional, but less understood, role in the development and persistence of mutualisms. In soft-sediment marine habitats along the western Atlantic, the native decorator worm Diopatra cuprea anchors the non-native red alga Gracilaria vermiculophylla to its tube cap in a mutualism. To understand whether the worm’s usage of G. vermiculophylla could represent a preference, we first surveyed the species composition of macrophytes affixed to worm tube caps at three sites in coastal Virginia, USA using transect and quadrat sampling. These unmanipulated field surveys supported previous work revealing variable, but often high frequencies (31–98%) of D. cuprea decoration with G. vermiculophylla. We next used field manipulations and controlled laboratory experiments to test the consistency of individual D. cuprea decoration with G. vermiculophylla versus three common macrophytes (Ulva sp., Agardhiella sp., and Spartina alterniflora) found in our field surveys. Twenty-four hours after removing the worm’s tube cap in the field, D. cuprea decoration was dominated by both G. vermiculophylla (39.6%) and S. alterniflora (25.9%). When provided a choice of macrophytes in the laboratory, individual D. cuprea consistently decorated with G. vermiculophylla (58.7%) over the other macrophytes, showing a preference for the non-native macrophyte. Our study suggests that preference can drive strong and steadfast interactions between native and non-native organisms, facilitating the latter’s persistence and spread, change available habitat, and alter community interactions. | <urn:uuid:9a77d610-533f-4b10-b63b-1afbdd1bb128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dgivan.dental.uab.edu/display/pub2503978 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.873252 | 390 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Ascension Islands facts for kids
One of the Southampton Island offshore island groups, the Ascension Islands are uninhabited islands located in Foxe Basin's Foxe Channel, northwest of Caribou Island. They are part of the Kivalliq Region, in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.
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Leeds is a city located in Jefferson County Alabama. Leeds has a 2020 population of 12,434. Leeds is currently growing at a rate of 0.44% annually and its population has increased by 0.89% since the most recent census, which recorded a population of 12,324 in 2010.
The average household income in Leeds is $81,746 with a poverty rate of 8.56%. The median rental costs in recent years comes to $887 per month, and the median house value is $165,300. The median age in Leeds is 36.9 years, 35.1 years for males, and 40.5 years for females.
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Leedswas:
The highest rate of high school graduation is among native american people with a rate of 100.00%.
The highest rate of bachelors degrees is among islander people with a rate of 100.00%.
95.23% of Leeds residents speak only English, while 4.77% speak other languages. The non-English language spoken by the largest group is Spanish, which is spoken by 4.12% of the population.
Overall Poverty Rate
Male Poverty Rate
Female Poverty Rate
The race most likely to be in poverty in Leeds is Native, with 100.00% below the poverty level.
The race least likely to be in poverty in Leeds is Multiple, with 1.50% below the poverty level.
The poverty rate among those that worked full-time for the past 12 months was 3.73%. Among those working part-time, it was 9.11%, and for those that did not work, the poverty rate was 10.15%.
Veteran Poverty Rate
Veteran Disability Rate
Labor Force Participation
Non citizens include legal permanent residents (green card holders), international students, temporary workers, humanitarian migrants, and illegal immigrants.
Born in Leeds
96.48% of Leeds residents were born in the United States, with 70.71% having been born in Alabama. 3.40% of residents are not US citizens. Of those not born in the United States, the largest percentage are from Latin America.
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In a supreme test of signal latency, a Hamilton, Ont.-based physician recently performed remote tele-robotic assisted surgery on a patient simulator located in Aquarius Habitat off the shores of Key Largo, Fla. The operation relied on bleeding-edge network technology that everyone involved with hopes will lead to widespread applications back on dry land.
The initial project began about three years ago as an international partnership between the Canadian Space Agency, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and networking firms including Bell Canada and Cisco Systems. The goal was to develop an effective system which would enable doctors to remotely operate on patients in an extreme environment, says Dr. Mehran Anvari of McMaster’s Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) in Hamilton.
The NEEMO 9 mission (NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations) uses end-to-end network technology to test the efficacy of remote surgery, says Anvari, where doctor and patient are located in different countries. Such technology could reduce the risk of deep-space travel, where astronauts may need access to medical care. The project builds on the previous success of the NEEMO 7 mission conducted in October 2004. During the surgery, scientists involved also tested the effect of signal latency — up to three seconds — and whether this hinders the ability to perform tele–robotic surgery in remote settings on earth and for future space missions. Miniature robotic surgical cameras in the patient simulator were used to enhance the surgeon’s field of view.
The actual surgery was completed last month, says Anvari, and focused on demonstration and evaluation of innovative remote surgical technologies and techniques in an underwater environment, where extreme conditions are similar to those found in space. Using a surgical robot, Anvari was able to perform remote suturing on a patient simulator located 19 metres underwater in the Aquarius Habitat, operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The state of Washington will vote tomorrow on Initiative 1631. This initiative has attracted national attention because it could make Washington the first US state to impose a carbon tax, and some argue it could serve as a blueprint for carbon taxes elsewhere.
But I-1631 isn’t a carbon tax initiative. That might sound surprising, because the initiative imposes a tax on carbon dioxide emissions—$15/ton of CO2 emissions starting in 2020 and rising by $2/ton per year thereafter—but it’s true, in two ways. It’s true in a narrow semantic sense, because the revenue raised will be used for green spending (funding projects with environmental goals) and thus the charge can be termed a “fee”, not a tax.
But there’s also a deeper sense in which it’s true: from an economic perspective, the green spending piece matters much more than the carbon tax. In short, it’s less a carbon tax than a green-spending initiative.
Consider a cost-benefit analysis of I-1631. Let’s look at the cost side first. A back-of-the-envelope estimate suggests that the green spending accounts for more than 90 percent of the economic cost of I-1631. Why is that? Carbon emissions are relatively price-inelastic (i.e., it takes a big price increase to get a substantial emissions response). That’s especially so in Washington, where the electricity sector is already relatively clean (in many other places, shifting electricity generation away from coal is a relatively easy way to reduce carbon emissions) and a high share of carbon emissions comes from transportation (where carbon emissions reductions are more difficult).
That inelasticity means that a carbon tax raises a lot of revenue relative to the cost of the tax. The cost of the green spending is simply the amount that will be spent—and because I-1631 spends all the tax revenue, having a lot of revenue means that cost is large. Consequently, the green spending dominates the cost side of the cost-benefit analysis.
Now think about the benefit side. That inelasticity also means the CO2 reductions from the carbon-tax component (and thus the benefits from it) are relatively small compared to the revenue. Proponents of the green-spending approach argue that the potential emissions reductions from green spending are much greater than the emissions reductions generated directly by the carbon tax. If so, then the green spending will dominate the benefit side of the cost-benefit analysis, too.
So if you want to know whether the benefits of I-1631 exceed the costs, the green spending piece dominates the analysis, and the answer will come down to how big the benefits of that green spending are. Those benefits are hard to evaluate, both because the initiative doesn’t specify exactly what the spending will be (it provides general guidelines, but a 15-member board would make the actual spending decisions) and because opinions vary widely about how effective green spending is at reducing emissions.
One’s view, therefore, of the economics of I-1631 should depend much more on one’s opinion of green spending than on one’s opinion of carbon taxes. Someone who thinks a carbon tax is the best way to address climate change but that green spending is a waste of money could easily oppose I-1631. And conversely, someone who thinks carbon taxes do nothing to reduce emissions but that green spending would really move the needle could easily support I-1631.
This also means observers should be cautious about reading too much into the outcome of the vote on I-1631. If it passes, that may be less of a victory for carbon taxes than for green spending. And if it fails, that may be less of a defeat for carbon taxes, and more a defeat for the green spending approach. | <urn:uuid:5f4158df-f1a8-41f1-b860-414bc30ac231> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.resources.org/common-resources/washington-states-i-1631-isnt-primarily-a-carbon-tax-initiative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934202 | 799 | 2.78125 | 3 |
From the archives: First published in Taking Children Seriously 17, 1995
I am a fan of Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society and several other of his works. Currently I have 10 students from a philosophy of education class online to experience what Illich wrote about in his 1971 book on deschooling, the concept of learning webs. One of the intriguing things about that book was his enthusiasm for tying people together who wanted to learn, and Illich’s prophetic notion that some day this might even be done by computer.
Thus it was a startling thing for me to discover that Illich now opposes the Internet and even denounces it, as he once denounced schools and the medical establishment.
The 1971 book, Deschooling Society attacks what Illich believes is a confusion between ‘credentialing’ and learning. He further charges that when we once institutionalised this distinction, we introduced a socially devastating notion into our culture – that process rather than product was the way to solve problems. Not learning and knowledge, for example, but attendance at a curriculum of study in a school.
To combat this institutional tendency Illich wants to ‘deschool’ us all. How will he do this?
He has several different solutions, but one is his concept of learning webs. These would be places where several things could go on. But mainly people were linked up for learning. Some of these things are quite familiar to us on the net:
- In peer matching we would find ways to link up people who had similar interest, like reading and talking about some book.
- He would find ways to link up learners and teachers, whether the teachers were teaching as volunteers or for pay.
And in all these learning webs, Illich saw a time when computers might help in the process. Though the main thrust of the learning webs as he described them in his book, were face to face meetings of people living in the relatively same geographic area.
However, in Illich’s view people would be tied together not on the basis of age or degrees, but on the basis of interest and levels of sophistication.
Thus is was a great disappointment to me and surprise to read the article: “An Invitation To Ivan Illich”, by Marilyn Snell.
It is subtitled “An enemy of conventional wisdom and a sage against the machine.”
This article is in the Utne Reader, January/February, 1995 pages 93-96.
In a recent book of his, In The Vineyard Of The Text (University of Chicago Press, 1993) Illich presents one of his heroes, Hugh of St. Victor. In his praise of Hugh, Illich says: (in the Snell article) “He cautioned that a certain type of reading skill was disappearing – in effect, a physical intercourse between the reader, printed text, and the world beyond. Hugh delighted in the written page, savouring words from line to line like grapes picked from the monastery vineyard…Reading for Hugh was a physical activity as well as a search for wisdom. It was a way of life.”
Snell continues: “In contrast, said Illich, reading today is veering off ‘in the direction of masturbation in hyperspace.’ According to Illich, when the sensual, textual, actual book-as-body goes, so goes a vital, human form of interaction. What’s wrong with a little fooling around in hyperspace? Illich didn’t say, but by the time he had finished his story about Hugh’s feast of words, hyperspace seemed like a virtual wasteland.”
What possibly could lead Illich to such a strange view of the Internet? It is his concept of the place of face-to-face friendship in the world. (The March/April edition of Utne is devoted to the question of ‘community’ in cyberspace.)
Unfortunately Snell does not provide any decent account of Illich’s argument for his position, except to recount examples of how Illich keeps coming back to the centrality of face-to-faceness as a criterion of friendship, and how moving communications to an electronic forum destroys the concept of friendship.
I remain an ‘old school’ Illichian, and the Internet is like the radical dream come true. Here I commune with people whose age, educational background, colour, religion, looks, smells, living habits and whatnot do not sway me one way or the other. I read people’s words, and I make my decisions. I decide on the basis of the first few words they write, whether or not to continue, then whether or not to respond. It is a mode of communication that breaks down so many barriers.
I deeply regret to see my hero’s current stance, but nonetheless I am deeply indebted to Illich for his 1971 insights, they have been profoundly influential in the direction of my life since that time.
I do not think Illich is technophobic. In Deschooling Society he celebrates technology and indicates that one of his disagreements with other radicals critical of education is that they are often Luddites looking back to the ‘good old days.’ Illich wasn’t like that at all. But, has he given the medium a fair chance? I just don’t know, but I’d have to doubt it, since it is virtually inconceivable that anyone loving knowledge and people wouldn’t have a ball on this medium.
My Philosophy of Education class is just at the end of a three week ‘trip’ to the net (using my computer and my account – I will be a bit relieved when it is all over) and that group of ten people have just taken to it like ducks to water, and are extremely excited to get their own accounts (some of them will have to get computers first!). But, the ‘taste’ was all it took. As I see it that has to be most people’s reaction.
I do find more hope and more ‘unschooled’ inquiry and learning opportunities on the Internet than I’ve ever seen before, especially when one takes into account not merely the resources, but it is the psychological mind-set, the relatively anarchistic freedom to follow your own star. A theme I keep coming back to is the lack of limits placed by age, sex, religion, learning history, even looks, smells and social habits. On the Internet you are your words and ideas and there is a great freedom and motivation in that openness.
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BY Dr Kukreja A Kalani MD (Homeopathy)
Homeopathy Treatment for Allergy
What is allergy ?
Allergies are problems of the immune system. Most allergic reactions happen when the immune system reacts to a “false alarm.” Normally, the human body defends itself against harmful things such as viruses or bacteria. But sometimes the defences violently attack mostly mild things, such as dust, mold, or pollen. Normally, allergens are harmless. But when a person has allergies, the body thinks these allergens are harmful. The body then attacks allergens with antibodies. This makes the cells release histamine and other chemicals causing an allergic reaction. When the chemicals irritate nearby nasal tissue, this causes nasal allergy symptoms.
When this happens in the lungs’ breathing tubes, it can cause asthma symptoms such as cough and wheeze. When the reaction involves the whole body, this can be a severe allergic reaction. An allergic reaction can happen anywhere in the body. This includes the skin, eyes, lining of the stomach, nose, sinuses, throat, and lungs. These are the places where immune system cells are found to fight off germs that are breathed in, swallowed, or come in contact with the skin. Allergic reactions can cause:
- Stuffy nose, sneezing, itching, or runny nose, and itching in ears or roof of mouth
- Red, itchy, watery eyes
- Red, itchy, dry skin
- Hives or itchy welts
- Itchy rash
- Asthma symptoms, such as shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing
- A severe, life-threatening allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). This can cause trouble breathing, vomiting, diarrhea, low blood pressure, fainting, or death.
Why Allergies in children should be treated with homeopathy?
- We come across so many children and infants who suffer from several Allergies, so what is the reason for allergy at such a young age, when you are not exposed to trigger factors. Allergies surface because of hereditary influences and low immune/defence activity.
- It is an individual’s way of developing immunity so as to wear out the hereditary effect on their systems.
- So, what should be the approach towards treating such ailments?
- It basically requires a holistic / constitutional medicine which will help support and fight the invasion by improving the defence mechanism.
What is constitutional prescription?
- This refers to the selection and administration of homeopathic medicine which aims to correct the inherent predisposition to a disease.
- The constitutional remedy covers the genetic makeup, physical and mind symptoms, thermal state, desires and aversions of mind and body. The main query remains, how does the constitutional prescription help – these are a few points which will answer this question
- Medicines act as an immunoregulator and moulds the immune response to fight off the repeated attacks by microbes. Homeopathy believes that microbes are the triggers not the causative factors, the real problem lies with low immunity which invites repeated infection. One very important role of constitutional treatment is that it helps in absorption and assimilation of essential nutrients, this itself helps in maintaining healthy state of body.
- Homeopathic treatment also helps in neutralizing the free radicals. Thus, acts as an autioxidative agent to stop the disease process. So, what do we achieve, or aim towards post treatment with constitutional medicines.
- The intensity and flare ups of acute attacks reduces. Children do get cold, fever, but the intensity of the illness reduces and also the repetition of attacks is less. Most important thing is it helps minimize the tendencies towards illness, and help them wear out the genetic influences.
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Urban Traffic Analysis From A Large Scale Floating Car Data System
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F. A. Pugliese, G. Montesano & G. Valenti
The actual knowledge of traffic performances and travel patterns existing in an urban area is crucial to quantify the effects of transportation improvements and of actions that have to be pursued to improve mobility, as well as even an essential input to calibrate land use and traffic simulation models. In this view the use of Floating-Car Data (FCD) is emerging as a reliable and cost-effective way to gather accurate traffic data for a wide-area road network and to improve the analysis of travel conditions. The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into the potential application of wide scale FCD for improving the traffic analysis process. The reliability of traffic estimates from FCD largely depends not only on the accuracy but also on the size of the input data: until now FCD experiments have been carried out with few equipped vehicles, maximum some dozen; moreover, mostly of them were special vehicles like taxi or bus, with preferential routes, so their behaviour cannot be taken as general reference. The originality of this study lies in the large number of private-owned cars involved corresponding to a penetration rate of about 1.3 percent. A full day of FCD related to the city of Florence is examined in this paper to estimate some travel related measures that cannot be readily replicated on a dayby- day basis using other data sources such as user surveys. Keywords: floating car data, traffic analysis, traffic management.
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- Saffron party is known for springing a surprise for India's top post
- Vajpayee-led govt chose non-political person, Abdul Kalam, as its candidate for top post in 2002
- Droupadi Murmu will be first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post, if she is elected
President election: Battle lines have been drawn for the July 18 presidential election in India. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA has named Droupadi Murmu, a tribal leader from Odisha, as its candidate while former Union minister Yashwant Sinha was declared as a joint nominee by major opposition parties, including the Congress, the NCP and the TMC.
BJP president J P Nadda announced the candidature of 64-year-old Murmu, former Jharkhand governor, following a meeting of the party's parliamentary board, hours after opposition parties in a joint statement named Sinha, who was earlier with the BJP but fell out with the Modi-Shah leadership and joined the Trinamool Congress in March 2021.
Murmu's nomination was a surprise move by the ruling government. No one had a clue about her nomination, in fact, her name was doing the rounds for the BJP's likely choice for the top constitutional post in 2017 as well. BJP sent out a significant political message after elevating a Dalit, Ram Nath Kovind, to the top post five years back.
Political analysts and experts knew BJP’s nominee will be a surprise for everyone. Until the announcement, no one knew who might that be? The saffron party is known for springing a surprise for India's top post. Here's how
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Although, BJP first formed the government in 1996, but the party got the chance to nominate the President of India in the year 2002 and it did wonders. Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government chose a non-political person as its candidate for the post of President, which no one had imagined. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) which was in power at the time, expressed that they would nominate Kalam and both the Samajwadi Party and the Nationalist Congress Party backed his candidacy. After the Samajwadi Party announced its support for Kalam, Narayanan chose not to seek a second term in office, leaving the field clear. Kalam served as the 11th president of India, succeeding K. R. Narayanan. He won the 2002 presidential election with an electoral vote of 922,884, surpassing the 107,366 votes won by Lakshmi Sahgal. His term lasted from 25 July 2002, to 25 July 2007.
Ram Nath Kovind
Like 2002, this time also a surprising name came out from the BJP side. Ram Nath Kovind, the NDA's candidate, was elected as India's 14th President with an overwhelming majority of votes from the country's lawmakers. Kovind defeated the joint opposition candidate Meira Kumar, a former Lok Sabha speaker, garnering 65.65 per cent of the votes in the Electoral College. Kovind, a former Bihar governor was the second Dalit and the first BJP member to be elected president.
Murmu (64), a former Jharkhand governor, will be the first tribal woman to occupy the top constitutional post if she is elected, a strong possibility as numbers are stacked in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Considered soft-spoken and affable, the leader, who comes from Mayurbhanj, one of the most backward regions of Odisha, has held various positions in the party, rising through the ranks, and was a minister in the state when the BJP was in alliance with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
Why Murmu's chances are bright?
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The QNX realtime platform is highly compatible with Linux, and uses many of the same industry-standard APIs and tools. In fact, any Linux developer can become productive almost immediately on QNX. So why should developers and OEMs choose QNX over Linux when creating embedded products? This article outlines several reasons.
QNX better understands the needs of embedded OEMs
QNX Software Systems has been serving the embedded market for over 20 years. Since most commercial Linux vendors are basically retail operations; they do not have the deep experience needed to address the fundamental, and often complex, requirements of embedded OEMs. QNX Software knows the needs of OEMs intimately, and has a proven track of helping them build everything from Internet appliances to life-critical medical instruments.
QNX's smaller size can save OEMs millions
Thanks to unique technologies like the Photon microGUI, QNX uses a small fraction of the memory required by Linux. That's key, since even a $2 reduction in memory costs per unit can save millions of dollars in a high-volume embedded device, such as an Internet appliance or an in-car computing system.
OEMs can keep their IP
By mixing their code with the GPL and LGPL code that comes with Linux, embedded OEMs risk losing or compromising their hard-earned intellectual property (IP). In fact, many OEMs refuse to use Linux for that reason. In comparison, OEMs can freely use QNX source code and applications, while maintaining the rights to their IP.
Embedded OEMs have a faster head-start with QNX
While Linux OS code is freely distributed, it is rarely usable for specific projects in its existing state. Engineering expertise is required to take the raw Linux source and turn it into a core of a useful embedded product. QNX, on the other hand, provides OEMs with a large suite of applications and OS components that are thoroughly tested and highly optimised for embedded use. No re-engineering required. This gives developers a head-start: instead of losing time on low-level kernel issues (and spending money on OS maintenance teams), OEMs using QNX can focus right away on creating unique features and applications for their embedded device.
Easier to customise and extend
In Linux, all system-level software - drivers, protocol stacks, and so on - runs in the same address space as the OS kernel. As a result, developing these components requires kernel tools (hard to use), kernel rebuilds (time-consuming), and kernel programmers (expensive). With QNX, however, all these system-level components run as optional, memory-protected processes outside the kernel. As a result, developing drivers and OS extensions do not require specialised debuggers or specialised developers. The OS is inherently more open to customisation.
QNX can target a greater variety of embedded systems
This is true for several reasons. For example, QNX is designed from the ground up for realtime performance, which is essential for a large number of embedded products - Internet routers, medical instruments, multimedia appliances, automotive safety systems, factory robots, to name a few. QNX can also target a greater variety of embedded systems because of its much smaller memory footprint; see next point.
It is better suited to 7/24 embedded systems
While Linux has a reputation for reliability, it cannot match QNX's inherent ability to enable the 99,999% availability (ie less than five minutes downtime a year) required by embedded products like Internet routers and medical instruments. For example, because Linux drivers and protocol stacks are all bound to the OS kernel, a single programming error in any driver can cause a kernel fault and crash the system. In QNX, these components are all memory-protected; they cannot corrupt the kernel. Better yet, they can all be upgraded 'on the fly' without a reboot - critical for any system that must stay running 24 hours, 365 days a year.
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In this peevish sworn statement, dated 29 January 1866, Jane C. Barnes airs grievances held over from slavery. A man named Redmond and his family have left her employ, carrying with them items she had “let him have,” presumably at the start of 1865, when slaveholders typically dispensed clothing. She also complained that Redmond had depleted stocks of food and drink she had “put in his charge.” (When and why? Had Jane Barnes and family fled the area during the Civil War?) Tellingly, Barnes griped that Redmond’s “family was an entire expense instead of being a profit” what with his sick children and a wife who had never given her all to the labors imposed upon her.
Jane Barnes’ outrage is not surprising. Her husband William had been one of Wilson County’s largest slaveholders, claiming 79 men, women and children just before the war. He estimated their value in the 1860 census as $89,000 — roughly $2.8 million in 2019 dollars. The Barneses’ sturdy plantation house still stands today.
I have not found evidence of the outcome of Jane C. Barnes’ complaint.
To be sworn to that it has been given after May 1, 1866
I certify that Redmon had clothing last year to the amount of shirts and of winter pants before he left. I also let him have three gallons of molasses, twenty-five pounds of flour and some lard, also quinine and other medicines for his children. I also let him have one hundred dollars at one time to buy leather, and put in his charge twenty-six gallons of wine and returned only six gallons to me, about the same time I put in his charge fifty-three peices of bacon and when it was returned six peices were missing. His family was an entire expense instead of being a profit, for his three children had the hooping-cough from April up to the time they left, and his wife had to be in the house nearly all the time with them; I further say that his wife never done me a week’s washing in her life by herself. He has had many other things too tedious to mention.
January 29th 1866 Jane C. Barnes
Dear Captain, Above you will find a statement of Mr Wm S Barnes’ wife — I know the lady to be one of very high character & quite an estimable lady. Yours very truly, J.J. Lutts
In the 1860 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: farmer William Barnes, 48; wife Jane, 44; and others. [William Barnes was a brother of Joshua Barnes and Elias Barnes.]
In the 1860 slave schedule of Saratoga township, Wilson County, William Barnes claimed 79 enslaved people living in 12 dwellings on his property. He held an additional 26 in trust for minor heirs.
Reddin Barnes and Martha Barnes registered their seven-year cohabitation on 6 July 1866 in Wilson County.
In the 1870 census of Stantonsburg township, Wilson County: farm laborer Redmond Barnes, 34; wife Martha, 29; children Adeline, 9, Mary, 3, and Laura, 1; and farm laborer Alfred Simms, 23. Next door: Toby Barnes, 56, and wife Hannah, 84, who registered their 15-year cohabitation in 1866 as well.
In the 1880 census of Stantonsburg township, Wilson County: farmer Redmond Barnes, 45; wife Martha, 38; and children Adline, 19, Mary, 13, Laura, 11, Harriet, 9, James, 7, Margaret, 5, Joan, 4, Martha Ann, 2, and Ed, 1.
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Microsoft recently announced that end-to-end encryption will be possible in person-to-person scenarios for Microsoft Teams Calls.
Calls made in Teams are already encrypted by Microsoft 365 encryption technologies. However, end-to-end encryption goes a step further and prevents man-in-the-middle interception scenarios.
Here’s Microsoft’s definition of end-to-end encryption for Teams:
“End-to-end encryption, or E2EE, is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes or parties to decrypt.”
Microsoft clarified that with this preview release, “only the real-time media flow, that is, video and voice data, for one-to-one Teams calls, are end-to-end encrypted.”
The Teams chat function uses Microsoft 365 encryption rather than end-to-end encryption. All in all, Microsoft 365 services use encryption for chat, file sharing, presence, and other content in the call.
Teams users can see that end-to-end encryption is enabled by the lock plus shield icon which appears near the top left of their screen. Participants of end-to-end encrypted calls also get a 20-digit number displayed, and any mismatch on both ends means someone tried to intercept the call.
End-to-end encryption is available for organisations when they use the Teams, desktop client for Windows or the Teams app on their mobile device which has the latest software.
End-to-end encryption for Teams isn’t enabled by default. It’s left up to organisations to turn this feature on, but the end-user must enable it too if they want encryption.
IT experts have a few options for enabling Teams end-to-end encryption, such as:
The IT Admin modern portal provides organisations with the flexibility to create custom policies for all or select users.
- Group policy, where the policy can be applied to a group of users.
- Microsoft PowerShell allows policies to be set for tenants, users, and groups.
- The Teams Admin Center, where you can turn on and apply the policy to either users, groups, or your entire tenant.
End-to-end encryption is by default turned off after enabling it for the tenant. The users also have to turn it on manually in their Teams settings.
Certain Teams features aren’t available when end-to-end encryption is enabled. Here’s what won’t work:
- Live caption and transcription
- Call transfer (blind, safe, and consult)
- Call Park
- Call Merge
- Call Companion and transfer to another device
- Add participant to make the one-to-one call a group call
However, if you need those features, you can disable end-to-end encryption through Teams settings.
End-to-end encryption is now available for preview and will only work for person-to-person calls. It won’t work on group audio calls, but Microsoft is currently working on support for these features.
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For the past 18 years, I’ve made an annual visit in the dead of winter when the snow covered ground prevents the birds from finding enough sustenance. Black oil sunflower seeds are their favorite cuisine.
The perfect time to go is on a sunny cold morning after a snowstorm. Trudge in on snowshoes and carry lots of seeds in your pockets. They are ravenous, and you become a human bird feeder as a steady procession of birds land on your hand. It’s like Logan during the commuter rush on a Friday afternoon. My nephew Mark lives nearby and visits often. He once fed 105 birds in two hours.
Despite the cold, I always take off my gloves so I can feel their little feet on my hands. The nuthatches and titmice feel heavy after a slew of chickadees. Birds, like people, have their own personalities. Some are bolder than others and will sift through the seeds in my hand to find the perfect one. Others have to make several flights near me before daring to quickly land, grab a seed, and dart off. I have been taking my grandchildren hereto feed the birds since they were toddlers. Even as tweens, they still love the experience. When the cold seeps in and icicles start to form on our noses, I suggest it’s time to go and get some hot chocolate. I love it when they plead “Just one more bird.”
I’m sure there are other places where people can feed wild birds by hand but the only one I know of is in Topsfield, Massachusetts, at the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. It is about a 2-hour drive from Grantham so requires some time and commitment. The sanctuary itself is beautiful and offers twelve miles of trails. The land was molded by glaciers and includes a drumlin and an enormous esker that is fun to hike. A huge rockery sits near the beaver pond. The rockery was built in 1950 and has narrow passages and a cave. Very cool.
To find info on sanctuary, go to
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BC school boards have succeeded in recapturing funds previously levied on them and distributed to the private sector.
Carbon offset fees charged to boards by the Pacific Carbon Trust will now be deposited with the Ministry of Education’s Energy Efficient Capital Account for the exclusive use by boards for energy-efficiency projects. This should amount to about $5 million for 2012/13.
In addition, schools and other public sector organizations will no longer be charged fees for access to the SMARTTool software used for carbon emissions inventory and reporting, saving public sector organizations about $850,000.
These reforms parallel a number of policy solutions suggested in the 2011 Centre for Civic Governance report “Catch $25,” which can be downloaded here. While the carbon offset reforms are an improvement, structural underfunding of school districts remains a barrier to maximizing energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions from BC schools.
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Community-oriented health services in low resource settings
chapterposted on 06.12.2017, 00:00 authored by Susan WilliamsSusan Williams, Kevin RonanKevin Ronan
The global gap between the ‘haves and the have-nots’ and the contrasting issues of under-nutrition among the poor, and over-nutrition among the wealthy, have been recognised for more than a decade (WHO, 2002). Health and health needs differ markedly between high and low-resource settings and whilst most health risks cluster around the poor or most disadvantaged, no risk occurs in isolation and each may have one or more causes. Health care systems have the potential to reduce health risks and achieve ‘good’ outcomes and efficiency when their four core functions (financing, resource generation, service delivery and stewardship) are organised and carried out in a systematic manner. Although healthcare spending (as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), varies widely across the world, merely allocating more funds/resources to health care by a country does not mean the health care system will be more effective or efficient. As an example total expenditure on health (as a percentage of GDP) in the United States is 17.7% and in Japan 9.6%, however health status (reflected by chronic disease rates and life expectancy) is better for those living in Japan than those in the United States (OECD, 2013). | <urn:uuid:c87a6890-b319-42b8-90a6-b92a1e379979> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acquire.cqu.edu.au/articles/chapter/Community-oriented_health_services_in_low_resource_settings/13433468/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941702 | 293 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Lots of books on PR dole out advice on how to generate publicity, but few encourage the reader to take the next step needed to reach a particular goal.
Power Up with PR—A publicity guide for artists by Jackie Abramian does just that. The 105-page softcover book (ArtNetworkPress, $14.95) is packed with information on how artists can claim their share of publicity in traditional media.
Except for a short section on blogging, you won’t find anything on how to promote yourself in social media. If you’re after publicity in newspapers, magazines, and on TV and radio, however, this book shows you how to get it.
On Pages 92 and 93, the author gives examples of four main PR goals, and the four steps necessary to reach each one of them.
Goal #1: Exhibit in local galleries
1: Research local galleries, including studying their websites and visiting their galleries.
2: Include local galleries on your mailing list.
3: Contact local galleries to enquire about an exhibit.
4: Hold an Open Studio to introduce galleries to your work.
Goal #2: Get a media review of your exhibit.
1. Write a catchy press release.
2. Decide on a great visual.
3. Send to media and follow up.
4. Ask an art editor to review your exhibit.
Goal #3: Publish one of your artworks in a local newspaper or magazine, with a caption that includes title, medium and price.
1. Find local publications with art features.
2. Submit your best visuals with captions.
3. Follow up with the editor to pitch your art.
4. Ask if they would use your artwork for the cover. (This is gutsy, but it might work! You never know when plans for another cover photo have fallen apart.)
Goal #4: Reach national media
1. Research appropriate out-of-state galleries to contact.
2. Submit artwork for review to 10 such galleries.
3. Let local and distant media know about your shows.
4. Use the one show you receive to get more shows.
The author then gives artists a “fill in the blanks” page where they can list their annual PR goals and steps needed to meet them.
The book also features stories about other artists’ media successes, charts to help track of media contacts, examples of press releases that will help you write your own, information on how to compile a targeted media list, and more than 300 national media contacts.
Jackie and her husband own Haley Farm Art Gallery in Kittery, Me. As a PR and marketing consultant, she conducts seminars for artists and entrepreneurs. She has created successful media strategies for national and global organizations, as well as for individual artists.
In the resources section, Abramian mentioned my free email course on how to write press releases, as well as my free publicity newsletter, “Craigslist: A Valuable Publicity Tool.” (Also see How Artists Can Sell More Artwork through Online and Offline Publicity.) | <urn:uuid:511c0057-779d-4826-8869-ed254375ea1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publicityhound.com/blog/artists-new-book-shows-how-to-meet-your-pr-goals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93383 | 643 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Erick Bouraï, head of aviation security policy at Aéroports de Paris, will return to Passenger Terminal Conference this year to discuss the pros and cons of technology in improving airport security.
In his presentation Aviation security – can technology alone be the solution? at 2:25pm on Tuesday, March 15, Bouraï will look at how passenger screening checkpoint design can be influenced by technology and the role humans will play in the future of airport security.
“In today’s airports, the basic design and rationale of the passenger screening checkpoint is by and large influenced by concepts going back to the 1960s and 1970s,” said Bouraï.
“However, there has been a dramatic shift in passengers’ and airlines’ needs since then. Airports have been unstinting in their efforts to maintain security operations at the highest level while at the same time striving to address their clients’ needs, as well as adapting their resources and know-how to an evolving threat environment.
“It is time for us to re-think the process, but what should be its main component? Technology is useful but humans must be the core element.”
As part of the same Aviation & Border Security, Control & Facilitation session, Bouraï, who is chairman of the ACI Europe Aviation Security Committee, will be joined by a host of security experts from aviation authorities, airports and global carriers, as well as leading security consultants.
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Roulotte Retreat is situated in a three acre meadow nestled below the Eildon Hills in the north and just below an ancient Roman site, Campknowe. The wildflower meadow is full of colour, exquisite birdsong and wildlife providing the rare experience of a completely natural backdrop. Originally a field for our ponies, geese and ducks, since 2008 we have rewilded the entire meadow with native trees, shrubs and wildflowers around a series of wildlife ponds. Fun Fact: The meadow featured in a music video for artist Tasha Blackmore.
Pondlife on the lochan includes families of wild ducks and moorhens raising their young, frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies and damselflies. Great crested newts swim beneath the surface alongside a myriad of pondlife.
We have planted native species which will attract a variety of birds, butterflies and bees. This includes Spring flowers and blossom for insects and especially bees with Autumn berries and fruits for wild birds. All the planting also provides cover and shelter for nesting birds and overwintering insects.
Wildlife abounds in and around the meadow - hear the hooting of the nightly owls, watch the early morning deer. A family of badgers are known to come out and play at the end of the drive when they think no one is looking. Sightings of the elusive and rare water-voles have been witnessed by guests as well as voles, shrews, fieldmice, foxes, hares, rabbits, and weasels.
Birdwatching is abundant with robins, nuthatches, yellowhammers, goldfinches, goldcrests, tree-creepers, long-tailed tits, sedge warblers, bull finches, sparrows, wrens, carrion crows, jackdaws, kingfishers, siskins, chiffchaff, wood warblers, willow warblers, dunnocks, chaffinch, blackbirds, song thrushes, spotted flychatchers, woodpeckers, blue tits, great tits, green finches, black caps, sparrowhawks, swallows, kestrels, ospreys, buzzards, kites, amongst others.
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In today’s post, I will give you Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Hosting, Web Hosting & Shared Server If you want to get full information about it, then keep reading this post.
Shared Hosting is one of the most used web hosting types in India. It is good to choose the web hosting according to your need, but before selecting the web hosting of any company, you should see all the positive and negative aspects of that web server.
Without a doubt, shared hosting is popular as well as a good option for new bloggers. Let me tell you when the benefits of shared hosting are as much as the disadvantages and today I am going to discuss with you the advantages and disadvantages of shared hosting.
Whenever you buy a shared hosting for a blog or website, these things will definitely remain in your mind, so you will read these things carefully.
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Shared Hosting (Infographic)
So let’s quickly get the complete information about Advantages and Disadvantages of Shared Hosting without wasting time.
1. Easy & Fast Setup!
Shared web hosting is very easy to setup, while in contrast dedicated hosting takes time to setup. At the same time, technical knowledge is also needed. It can be fully functional within minutes of purchasing shared hosting.
2. Good Option For Beginners!
As the name suggests, shared website hosting is shared with many other blogs or websites, so shared hosting is much cheaper than other hosting options.
Apart from the price, you do not have to pay anything separately for its maintenance, everything is included in the purchase price itself. So you do not have to take tension for maintenance and for this you do not have to pay anything separately.
3. Best Option For Small Website!
Your webhosting is shared with other websites as well as the resources of your server are also shared. Shared hosting is a good option, because small resources are not required to run small websites.
4. Not Good For Big Websites & Blogs!
Shared web hosting provides limited resources, therefore websites or blogs that require a lot of resources, it is not a good option for them and it can cause a lot of problems.
if the website of that server also crashes, then other websites also have to face the consequences. If your website is big, which needs more resources, then you should buy VPS or dedicated web hosting.
5. The IP address is Dynamic!
Normally all web hosting companies do not provide you a static IP address, so the problem may occur. When you need a static IP. This often happens with eCommerce sites. You can get static IP from web hosting company but for this companies charge extra money from you.
Security is another factor, which can be added to the disadvantages of shared hosting, as there are many websites on the same server in shared hosting, the chances of the server getting hacked are equally increased. So, maintenance and security of thousands of websites is at risk.
I hope that by reading this article, you will be able to decide whether shared hosting is the right choice for your website.
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If you use Shared Web Hosting, a static website like Portfolios etc. are created, so there is no problem in this. But if you create a dynamic website. Like Blog etc., it is not right for you. Because here when you create 100+ posts and pages. So your website starts being Slow.
Now even if you have made your website fast. How many plugins have been used. It takes longer to load your website.
There is a limit here. That if your website gets more traffic than that. So your website becomes very slow. Let me tell you, I once worked on a TV show using the share hosting of Godaddy. So when that TV show launched, our website did not control even 5000 traffic of the day. Because he was on share hosting. The reason we set it up on our VPS hosting.
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Author Q&A: Nell Knox, Ellen Rodgers Johnson
Jackson friends Nell Knox and Ellen Rodgers Johnson tell the story of nearly two dozen of their city's brightest stars of the local arts scene in their joint project, "Studio Jackson: Creative Culture in the Mississippi Capital," published by The History Press.
The first book for each of them, the volume is filled with more than 100 brilliant photographs and includes narratives of 23 "creatives" who reside and thrive in the heart and soul of Jackson, giving rise to a strong, emerging arts presence in the city today.
A native of Jackson, Knox studied English and classical studies at Millsaps College and earned her master's degree in Southern studies from the University of Mississippi. She is a contributing writer for Portico Magazine, the Southern Foodways Alliance, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and others. She is married to William Goodman, one of the artists mentioned in the book.
Ellen Rodgers Johnson, who grew up in Rolling Fork and now calls Jackson home, majored in fine arts with a concentration in photography at Belhaven University. She does commercial and portraiture photography, and shows her fine art photography at Fischer Gallery in Jackson and M2 Gallery in Little Rock, Arkansas. She and friend Tom Beck have also started a joint project, Beck+Red.
What inspired you to craft this story, written through the perspectives of the artists themselves?
Who better to tell the story of artwork in Jackson than the artists behind it? To understand any creative culture requires immersion; you have to really see and understand someone else's perspective to tell their story. I spent months researching these stories before really settling down to write these profiles because I truly wanted to understand the creative mentality behind the artists who have chosen to settle and create in this city.
How did you choose the artists, craftsmen, etc., included in this book?
All of these artists live and work in Jackson. I wanted to focus on artists with studios in iconic parts of Jackson, including Fondren, Belhaven, midtown and downtown. We also tried to present a variety of craftsmanship. I also think this book shows how some of Jackson's oldest studios are linked to newer ones — there is a wonderful art community in Jackson, and in these stories it is clear how different artists have collaborated and trained each other throughout the history of these studios.
What were some common, unifying threads that you found among these artists?
They were all passionate about Jackson. They all had opportunities to leave Jackson and instead chose to remain here and invest in this city. Even in the digital age, where you can work from the middle of nowhere and get exposure online, you want to work in a community that is supportive. These artists and craftsmen support each other, and I believe that is what makes the Jackson art world so vibrant and strong.
For the past decade, Jackson's arts scene has been experiencing a recharged momentum in the Fondren, Belhaven and Midtown areas. That seemed to take off with the renovation of the Fondren Corner Building by Peters Real Estate in 2003. What was it about this development that helped launch an "arts renewal" in Jackson?
There was certainly development in Fondren before the renovation of the Fondren Corner Building, but I think that particular renovation was important because the building featured small, affordable studio spaces that young artists could utilize. As the neighborhood began to gentrify, it attracted a younger energy and youthful crowd. Also, by 2003 some older studios, such as Pearl River Glass and Wolfe Studio, were well established and began hiring young artists and giving fledgling artists exposure to the business end of the art world.
How does the synergy among the city's "creatives" translate into an effect on its "creative economy?"
That's a great question and one that I tried to probe with this book. For a creative economy to work in a city the size of Jackson, there has to be a commitment among artists to supporting each other's work. The support network between these artists is wonderful. Practically every artist mentioned in the book has collaborated with another in the book. Artists are helping each other get business, and as a result the creative economy can blossom.
As recognized by many of the creatives in these stories, Jackson is reversing a trend of artists and craftsmen of leaving the city to survive economically. How does a supportive environment for the arts encourage not only business success, but safer residential areas, as one artisan (Elizabeth Robinson) mentioned?
Elizabeth Robinson made a wonderful point that really gets to the heart of this issue. The artists are the trailblazers.
They are the ones who are willing to go into a neighborhood that isn't gentrified — maybe one that is run down — and say, "I see potential. I will settle here."
Ellen Rodgers Johnson
How many images are in "Studio Jackson," and how long did it take you to capture them?
I believe there are 113. It took about nine months.
What were you trying to represent in each of the 23 narratives in the book?
We just tackled it one studio at a time. The idea was to get a formal portrait and then at least one (shot) of the studio. Sometimes we made the decision to use the portrait to also depict the studio.
We also wanted to show an example of the artists' work where possible.
What type of camera/equipment did you use to capture these images?
I used my Canon 5D Mark III and then a number of different lenses. For the majority of the shots, I used strobes in order to light them the way that I wanted. Other times I used those wonderful things called windows for light.
How did you and Nell get together to do this project?
Nell and I met in about 2008 when we were both working at Lemuria Books, and we've been friends ever since. I believe it was a natural progression of events.
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Ten years ago, Steve Jobs revealed the iPhone, which was unlike any other smartphone available at the time.
Rather than following the competition and creating a plastic phone with a small physical keyboard and clunky software, Apple went for a single, large multitouch screen, paired with simple and easy to understand operating system. Almost every smartphone released since follows this same trend, and a market that was once dominated by Blackberry, is now dominated by Apple, Samsung and Google.
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Climate Campaigners to deliver a Giant ‘Climate Fudge’ Cake to County Hall
County Council accused of declaring climate crisis as an emergency but failing to act on it after two years.
Tuesday 12th October, 9.30am, County Hall: Campaigners from across East Sussex, Brighton and Hove will deliver a giant ‘climate fudge’ anniversary cake to County Hall tomorrow, as part of a mass protest demanding that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) start treating the climate emergency as an emergency. The metre-tall cake with two giant candles, carried by two people in chef’s outfits, will be decorated with the words: ‘Two years of climate fudge’ and ‘ESCC: It’s time for climate action!’ The cake will be processed through the streets of Lewes to County Hall, leaving Lewes station at 9am. Council Leader Keith Glazier has been invited to personally accept delivery.
Greta Thunberg, County Hall, Lewes 2020
Campaigners point to the facts that two years after declaring a ‘climate emergency’, ESCC is still refusing to divest the East Sussex Pension Fund (which covers Brighton and Hove, as well as East Sussex) from fossil fuels, still hasn’t endorsed the Climate & Ecological Emergency Bill (which would ensure that the UK plays its fair and proper role in limiting global warming to 1.5°C) and appears to have done very little to make its ‘target’ of reducing the County’s carbon emissions by 13% per year a reality.
The Council’s 12th October meeting will be its last meeting before this year’s historic climate summit in Glasgow.
Tomorrow’s protest is being organised by Divest East Sussex, XR Lewes and Lewes Climate Hub, with support from a wide range of organisations, including Lewes District Green Party, Lewes Labour Party, Brighton Energy Coop, Brighton & Hove Friends of the Earth, Energise Sussex Coast, Frack Free Sussex, Hanover Action, Lewes Liberal Democrats, Plastic Free Seaford, Seaford Environmental Alliance, South East Climate Alliance, Transition Town Hastings, Transition Town Lewes, XR Brighton, and XR Hastings & St Leonards.
Arnold Simanowitz (Divest East Sussex) says: “The UN Secretary-General described the latest UN climate report as a ‘code red for humanity’, saying that it ‘must sound a death knell for fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.’ Yet two years after declaring a climate emergency, East Sussex County Council won’t even agree to stop investing in the giant fossil fuel companies, like Shell and BP, that are driving the climate crisis. It’s time for East Sussex County Council to finally start treating the climate emergency as an emergency.”
Kate Chappell (Lewes Labour) says: “With COP26 coming up in 20 days’ time, the UK’s claim to lead on climate change action is completely undermined by the actions of public bodies, such as the East Sussex Pension Fund, that are STILL investing in fossil fuels. It beggars belief.”
Jane Carpenter (Lewes Climate Hub) says: “Members of Lewes Climate Hub recognise the climate and ecological emergency, and our groups are working together on many initiatives to address the threats to our area. Our elected county councillors need to lead on this and take action now.“
Mark Engineer (XR Lewes) says: “ESCC must do its part in reducing its emissions to net zero, starting now. Targets without active plans risk all our futures.”
Wendy Maples (Lewes Green Party) says: “We’ve seen greenwash claims and pre-election promises. But action hasn’t followed, or it’s been half-hearted. ESCC have acknowledged there’s a climate crisis, but fossil fuels are still part of the pension portfolio. ESCC say we have to address the ecological emergency, but plans to create a dual A27 are keenly pursued. Green Party councillors say: Divest. I’ve seconded the motion to support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill since we need to act like our house is on fire: because it is.”
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CALCULATE YOUR OWN RING SIZE
Cut a strip of paper or a piece of string. The paper should be no wider than 1.9cm (3/4″) and at least 10cm (4″) long.
Wrap the paper or string around the base of the finger to be sized.
Mark the string or paper where it completes the circle. It should neither be too tight, nor slip off easily.
Measure the length of the paper or string. Measure from the beginning to the mark with a ruler or tape measure.
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Mariko Tamaki, Not So Much
by BK Munn
The winners of the 2014 Governor General’s Awards Literary Awards were announced earlier today and cartoonist Jillian Tamaki has won in the Children’s Literature -Illustration category, for her contribution to the graphic novel This One Summer (Groundwood Books), taking home $25,000 in prize money. Tamaki co-created the book with her cousin, the writer Mariko Tamaki, who herself was nominated but did not win in the Children’s Literature -Text category for the same book.
Mariko Tamaki was nominated in 2008 for Skim, the previous book the cousins had worked on together. At the time, the nomination spawned a controversy since the artist was excluded from the nomination, even though both creators insisted it was a totally equal collaboration. Prominent cartoonists from both the U.S. and Canada intervened in the form of an open letter, to which the GG administrators replied, in short, “we’ll take it under consideration going forward.” It looks like the nomination in dual categories this year was an attempt to deal with the apparently thorny problem, but with little success, judging by the response from the winning cousin. Shortly after the announcement was made today, Tamaki commented on Twitter, “You can’t separate words from pictures in comics. So I’m sharing this with @marikotamaki, who is an amazing collaborator and friend.”
To date, the GGs have not nominated a graphic novel in any non-Childrens Literature category.
In a slightly different situation, cartoonist and writer Marianne Dubuc won today in the French-language illustration category for Le lion et l’oiseau (Les Éditions de la Pastèque), a picture book she wrote herself, suggesting that the GGs have less of a problem with single-creator kid lit and YA books.
Of the Calgary-raised, Brooklyn-based Jillian Tamaki’s work, the GG jury made the following statement:
“The tender and touching story of This One Summer comes to life with Jillian Tamaki’s cinematic and evocative illustrations. Fondness for detail, insightful character development and realistic body language convey complex emotions from the first through to the last page. A tour de force of powerful visual storytelling.”
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This is an open letter to William D. Ruckelshaus, Lee M. Thomas, William K. Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman. You, the former directors of the EPA who were appointed by Republican presidents, recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled, A Republican Case for Climate Action. In this opinion piece, the four of you write of your conviction that action can no longer be delayed on the climate, and that the only reason we don’t have a chance to pass a carbon tax is because of partisan gridlock. With all due respect to your years of service to our nation, I wish to remind you all of one inconvenient truth: you are political appointees. You are experts in neither science nor economics – your only expertise is in the political arena.
Your opinions, therefore, are formed neither in a scientific nor an economic framework. Let me be blunt: not one of you has ever actually pursued any rigorous scientific or economic course of academic study. Your educational backgrounds are wholly unrelated to the relevant fields when discussing climate science and carbon taxing schemes.
In your NYT op-ed, you write,
There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.
The costs of inaction are undeniable. The lines of scientific evidence grow only stronger and more numerous. And the window of time remaining to act is growing smaller: delay could mean that warming becomes “locked in.”
A market-based approach, like a carbon tax, would be the best path to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, but that is unachievable in the current political gridlock in Washington. Dealing with this political reality, President Obama’s June climate action plan lays out achievable actions that would deliver real progress. He will use his executive powers to require reductions in the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the nation’s power plants and spur increased investment in clean energy technology, which is inarguably the path we must follow to ensure a strong economy along with a livable climate.
Given your lack of background in the rigors of scientific study, it is inconceivable that the four of you can claim any knowledge of what debate exists in the scientific community. There is strong evidence that the warming trend to which you refer either has stopped or was, at least in part, manufactured by prominent scientists who earn enormous federal grants to come up with data supporting the theory of anthropogenic global warming.
Your claims that sea levels are rising and Arctic sea ice is “melting years faster than projected” are so full of holes that it causes one to wonder if you’ve ever read a peer-reviewed scientific study. And calling a new tax on energy a “market-based approach” ignores the enormous effects on our economy such a scheme would cause.
Conservatives do not oppose carbon taxes because they are anti-science or do not care about the environment. Quite the contrary, in fact. Conservatives oppose carbon taxes for two very strong reasons that you would do well not to dismiss so blithely:
1. Any carbon tax would have a far-reaching and compounding negative impact on our economy, and is regressive in nature – carbon taxes disproportionately hurt the poor in a wide variety of ways; and
2. The science, despite what Al Gore may have told you, is far from conclusive. Consensus is irrelevant to the scientific process. The scientific process, when properly utilized, fits a theory to the facts as observed – NOT the other way around.
In closing, you all would do well to listen to all the voices in your party, as well as all the voices in the fields of science and economics, before casting judgment on Conservatives who oppose such an economically inhumane policy.
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Miscommunication is a form of communication breakdown, and one way to address it is to use repair strategies—ways that speakers can address problems with listening, speaking, and ultimately understanding.
In my Tagalog class for advanced-level learners, one useful repair strategy is code-switching. It may not be as common as other strategies to avoid communication failure, but it’s definitely useful for world language learners. Code-switching also provides evidence of the ever-changing nature of language.
Three Code-Switching Strategies
1. Introduce the concept of code-switching. In discussing code-switching as a repair strategy, emphasize that it describes what occurs when speakers alternately use two or more languages during a conversation.
For instance, in my Tagalog class, I introduced the code-switching concept by discussing the existence of Taglish (a combination of Tagalog and English) in the Philippines. I also asked learners to watch a 5-minute video about the basic characteristics of Taglish, so that they’d have a better understanding of what it really means. I explained as much as I could so that everything would be clear about code-switching.
2. Provide concrete examples of how to use code-switching. As a repair strategy, code-switching is a bit unique, and learners need to understand this. The goal is to repair miscommunication caused by vocabulary limitations during the speaking process in the target language. To make it more concrete, here are two simple code-switching exercises that world language teachers can do with their learners.
Learners replace words from the target language with words from the source language. In my Tagalog class, I asked learners to list the usual stuff they have in their fridge. One of them started naming three items in Tagalog, then shifted to English when she didn’t know what to call the other items in the target language. Notice in the example below that the learner made this choice to easily complete the sentence. Moreover, learners need to consider the categories of the words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) they’re replacing—making sure that the words from the source language relate to the sentence’s context:
“Mayroon akong mga itlog, tubig, manok, fish, cupcakes, at chocolates.” (“I have eggs, water, chicken, fish, cupcakes, and chocolates.”)
Another example is to code-switch using a full sentence. During one of our activities, I asked learners the Tagalog question, “Bakit ka masaya?” (“Why are you happy?”). For their answers, they used code-switching in two different ways. One of the learners shifted to English (from Tagalog) when he stated the reason why he was happy. The second one began his sentence in English, then shifted to Tagalog:
Learner 1: “Masaya ako kasi I saw my friend.” (“I am happy because I saw my friend.”)
Learner 2: “I am happy because busog ako.” (“I am happy because I am full.”)
A good practice for world language teachers is to scaffold learning using templated sentences, such as those with blanks. Learners can just fill in the blanks with appropriate phrases from either the source or the target language.
3. Create learning opportunities that will better expose learners to code-switching. Exposure is the key for learners to become familiar with code-switching. Ask them to watch videos of native speakers who code-switch to sustain conversations and make the meaning easy to understand.
I let learners watch a YouTube video of a conversation between a Filipino broadcaster and a Filipina online gamer, highlighting the parts where Taglish was more prominent. I purposely chose this video because the speakers used code-switching to keep the conversation going and to express ideas more clearly. One good tip is to choose videos that are age-appropriate and really capture the learners’ attention. To engage the learners, I always choose video materials that feature people’s unique experiences.
Another activity is to have learners talk with native speakers, either offline or online. Considering the speaking proficiency of advanced-level learners, there are sure to be instances where they’ll use code-switching (consciously or unconsciously) to avoid communication breakdowns. A simple online conversation with learners who speak the target language can also provide opportunities for code-switching practice. The simplest and most realistic activity, though, is to practice in class.
Careful facilitation and guidance are crucial for using code-switching as a handy repair strategy for world language learners. Teachers need to remember, however, that introducing and teaching code-switching are linked to the learners’ reception, including their speaking proficiency levels. Above all, it’s time to look at code-switching as a useful language skill and a beneficial resource for world language learners—not as a weakness or a deficiency. | <urn:uuid:95356717-f1ce-41b5-a33a-80010015edd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edutopia.org/article/communication-repair-strategy-world-language-classes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9419 | 1,063 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Forrest Guitar Ensembles offers a range
of music composed and transcribed
for guitars and other instruments
It encompasses a range of styles and levels including guitar ensembles
for schools, amateur groups and for more advanced performers.
Some of these are just the products of the Dorico/Sibelius notation software (used with very little skill!). There are links to York Guitar Quartet playing some of the pieces and to some done rather amateurishly by myself - but at least it should give some idea of what the pieces sound like.
I have put up links to the performances of other world-wide ensembles and if you have a link to a performance that you would like me to add, I should be happy to do so.
The pieces are for standard (tenor) guitars, requintos in F (1st string A), altos in G (1st string B), baritone guitars and bass guitars (a standard guitar bass - known as the contrabass in the Niibori system) in a variety of combinations.
If performed publicly, please also let the venue know the name of the piece, composer and arranger.
Within the description of each piece of music an optional instrument is indicated in enclosed brackets. For example, (rqt/gtr1) signifies that the same part is available for requinto or guitar. You may make as many prints as you like but not change anything without permission.
A grading system has been used which follows that of the internationally recognised Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and Trinity Guildhall. The system is graded from 1 to 8. Grade 9 is allocated to virtuosic pieces. So, within each individual piece of music you will find numbers indicating the degree of competence required to play each part.
The page format of these files is A4 which is that used most commonly worldwide.
The U.S.A. and wilder parts of Canada use U.S. letter which is a little wider and not so tall.
My apologies that this format produces a less than ideal printout, especially for the fuller pages.
If you would prefer parts with no fingering, please ask. Now that i am using Dorico, it is easier to do.
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New Delhi, Delhi, India
Network for Certification & Conservation of Forests (NCCF) in association with Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Ministry of Textiles; leading industry bodies and companies has launched India’s internationally benchmarked Forest Management Certification Standard and National Certification Scheme for Sustainable Forest Management.
Network for Certification & Conservation of Forests (NCCF) in association with the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change; Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH); state forest departments; international organizations; forest-based industry; civil society organizations; farmers groups; tribal groups and workers associations; and many more forest based stakeholders has developed and released India’s country-specific and internationally benchmarked Forest Management Certification Standard. The occasion also marked the launch of the National Certification Scheme for Sustainable Forest Management. The scheme announced at the National Conference on Forest Certification organized by NCCF will bring a paradigm shift towards ensuring responsible utilisation of natural resources and trade of forest products.
Shri C.K. Mishra, Secretary, (MoEF&CC); Shri Siddhanta Das, DG, Forests & Special Secretary, MoEF&CC; Mr. Vijai Sharma, IAS (Retd.), Chairman, NCCF; Dr. Alka Bhargava, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; and Shri Rakesh, Kumar, ED, EPCH, Ministry of Textiles addressed the gathering at the launch. Earlier, a welcome address was presented by Mr. A.K. Srivastava, Honorary Executive Director, NCCF.
Lauding the efforts of NCCF Shri C.K. Mishra, Secretary, MoEF&CC said that India has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) to the UNFCCC, wherein it is committed to create an additional carbon sink of 2.5-3 Gt CO2 equivalent through enhancement of forest and tree cover by 2030 to achieve a target of 33% cover. A policy framework that encourages tree cover growth and improves density of forests is necessary to actualize carbon sequestration benefits to meet INDC. Forest Certification is an emerging market based non-regulatory conservation tool that promotes sustainable forest management and addresses to the concerns for environmental protection as well as social and economic welfare. Mr Mishra desired that NCCF should partner with the Ministry in arriving at a well thought out policy and action plan to achieve the target of 33% forest and tree cover.”
Shri Siddhanta Das, DG, Forests & Special Secretary, MoEF&CC, highlighted that India has practiced scientific management of forests since 1864, built upon the principles of sustainability. Initially, the forest management had primacy for timber extraction, but now there is paradigm shift to achieve sustainable ecosystems and sustained availability of ecosystem services and livelihoods of tribals and other forest dependent communities.
Mr. Vijai Sharma, IAS (Retd.), Chairman, NCCF, informed that “NCCF is well placed to take stock of our present knowledge and identify future work for sustaining our forests, preserving biodiversity and preventing desertification. Trees outside Forests including buy ativan online safe Agroforestry and Urban Forestry offer good potential to achieve the target of 33% forest and tree cover. All such efforts need to be built around strengthening partnerships amongst the forest-based stakeholders and income growth of the most vulnerable, fulfilment of basic minimum needs and environmental protection. He also suggested that CAMPA funds may be extended to agroforestry projects also.
Mr. Sachin Raj Jain, Convener & Treasurer, NCCF, added, “NCCF is simultaneously developing the certification standards for the Trees outside Forests (ToF), Protected Areas and Wetlands (PAWs) and Non-Wood Forest Products (NWFPs). We are also planning to initiate the process for development of other sustainable standards for sustainable ecotourism and sustainable mining.”
According to Mr. Suneel Pandey, Secretary, NCCF, “State Forest Development Corporations and State Forest Departments have an immense scope of entering the certified products market and get a premium value for their produce.
The need for it: Forest resource has been under strain primarily because of two reasons – commercial use of wood and deforestation due to changes in land use. Till now, two approaches were adopted – ‘top-down’ approach wherein government formulates and implements policies; and the ‘bottom-up’ approach which is more of a participatory approach to protect forests. However, ineffectiveness of both have led to a third approach – forest certification. It introduces policy changes through commercial power, rather than central or local power, and uses market acceptance rather than regulatory compliance as an enforcement mechanism. Besides this, regulations from developed countries have put a ban on commerce of illegally sourced plants and their products including timber and paper. Majorly, this has fuelled the need for legalising of sourcing through forest certification. The components of forest certification essentially complement various elements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). The Paris Agreement on Climate Change, to which India is a party, re-emphasised the significance of sustainable forest management through the REDD+.
Ministries, industry bodies & companies who participated in developing the standard: A multi-stakeholder Standard Development Group (SDG) was formed as per UN Agenda 21, under chairmanship of Mr. Avani Kumar Verma, an eminent professional forester, having representation from ministries; State Forest Departments and State Forest Development Corporations; distinguished professional foresters; Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education (ICFRE); Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM); Quality Council of India; Green Initiatives Certification & Inspection Agency (GICIA); International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN); World Wildlife Fund (WWF); Confederation of Indian Industries (CII); CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development; Indian Paper Manufacturers’ Association (IPMA); Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH); Chemical and Allied Export Promotion Council of India (CAPEXIL); Centre for Indian Bamboo Research & Technology (CIBART); International Network for Bamboo & Rattan (INBAR); The Energy & Resource Institute (TERI);) and many more.
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Queer contemporary history in German-speaking Europe
The DFG-funded research network "queer contemporary history in German-speaking Europe" introduces a general audience to the history of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans and intersexual persons (LGBTI) in the Federal Republic, the GDR, Austria and Switzerland. How have discourses, practices and subjectivities changed since 1945? How have non-normative sexualities and genders shaped the production of societal norms? In addressing these questions the project pays particular attention to the politics of memory, to critical re-evaluations of identity categories and to intersectional entanglements between hetero-sexist, classist, racist and other forms of discrimination. While examining liberalisation, emancipation and normalisiation from a queer angle, the project also devises fresh approaches to contemporary history more broadly. In an accessible format, three volumes on spaces, identifications and political strategies respectively will discuss inspiring research on recent queer history.
The DFG network is administratively located within the working group for History Education at Freie Universität Berlin.
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The terms pet steps and pet ramps are very common these days among pet lovers. This is an instant and multi use step that helps your pet dog get in as well out of the vehicles easily. Pet steps can be attached to the hitch receiver part of your truck or SUV.
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There are many groups that supply the truck steps and they will provide you the one as per your requirements. Repeated jumping out and into a vehicle can cause severe conditions like back sprains, leg injuries and even spinal damages.
Good for dogs of all stages, truck step helps your pets to get in and out of the vehicle by avoiding stress. It can be helpful also for dogs that are old and suffering from arthritis and can’t enter a vehicle on its own. Preferably a plastic cat pet ramp can be lighter and easy to carry and better than other options.
Pet ramps are beneficial for both the owners and the pets. Carrying a pet that is heavy and old enough to the car or truck is easy and hence this can be really of great use. Small pets like baby dogs or cats won’t be able to jump and get inside the truck or car and with pet step they can climb at ease.
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Unique visions of Gowanus on canvas from Derek Buckner, Brooklyn native son
Gowanus is one of Brooklyn’s most historically significant areas, where much of the Battle of Brooklyn took place. It also evokes an iconic industrial history. And today, amid ‘mixed-bag’ gentrification around one of the world’s most noxious canals, it evolves as part of Brooklyn identity.
Derek Buckner, a noted painter and Brooklyn native, has spent a quarter of a century documenting Gowanus in vivid, unforgettable paintings. This week, through Saturday, some of his latest works are on exhibit at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea.
In a recent interview, Buckner cited his devotion to Brooklyn as the place to which he would always come home. He has exhibited in major U.S. cities, as well as Mexico, Italy and South Korea.
Eagle: Tell us about your Brooklyn roots.
The year before I was born, my parents moved to Clinton Street right on the edge of Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill (which, in the early 1970s, was remarkably considered pioneering). Once I learned how to ride a bike, my friends and I explored areas of the Brooklyn waterfront below the BQE, which was then just an industrial stretch, as well as the Red Hook piers and under the 9th Street elevated tracks.
These areas always seemed exotic and dangerous to me and I suppose those early impressions made a strong impact. The Gowanus canal is not the most sanitary of muses, but to me it provides endless opportunities as a painter. One intriguing aspect is the stillness of the water. It reflects everything: the buildings, the sky, the factories billowing smoke. It all lends itself to ever-changing compositions.
Eagle: Your father is a noted painter, of course, and we wonder when you suspected you would choose that path.
My father has had a strong influence on my painting in different ways. He is a fantastic artist. Growing up watching him work gave me a firsthand perspective of daily life of being a painter, with its ups and downs. In many ways this prepared me for life after art school and how to maintain a disciplined practice. I have great memories of waking up early and setting up our easels, working plein air side-by-side from our Brooklyn rooftop.
Eagle: Did you grow up in Brooklyn Heights environs and proceed through the famous Heights Casino juniors program?
Like many Brooklyn Heights kids I took tennis lessons at the Heights Casino during grade school and middle school, though I unfortunately wasn’t particularly good and stopped going once I hit high school. Now I really regret it because all these years later my wife and I took up tennis and are fairly obsessed — though I’m still not very good!
Eagle: Had you painted other environments in the past?
After studying painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago I spent two years living in Baja, Mexico where I focused on primarily landscape and figurative painting. The light in Baja is extraordinary and this period was very helpful for my understanding of painting and seeing light and atmosphere. I then returned to Brooklyn in 1998 after meeting my wife, Joanna Hershon, a wonderful novelist. It was then that I became drawn to the industrial cityscapes again. After living in Carroll Gardens for 17 years we moved to Park Slope near Flatbush and 5th aves.
My work space has changed many times over the years. I’ve had studios in Dumbo, Red Hook and Gowanus. Unfortunately, I recently had to move out of my Gowanus studio. When the Gowanus area became hot real estate, many artists were either priced out or forced out of their spaces.
I now have a studio in Sunset Park. In many ways I’m sad to no longer be working near the canal, which has been a favorite subject of mine, but at the same time, I’m excited to have discovered Sunset Park with an equally inspiring industrial landscape. Both my previous and current studios have expansive views. It’s important to me to be able to look out my window and see what the sky is doing at any given moment.
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One of the most internationally famous German dishes are roasted pork shanks. They’re meaty, flavorful, with an amazing crispy skin – everything that makes a pork dish so delicious.
Here’s a recipe that will show you how to make the most of this tasty cut of meat.
“Schweinshaxe” or “Haxe”, how the Bavarian call it is since the end of the 19th century a typical regional dish in the Bavarian and Austrian cuisine.
The term “Haxe” probably comes from the Old High German word “hahsina”, which means “Achilles tendon” or some think it could also derive from Latin: “coxa” which means hip.
How is this dish called in German?
This popular German main dish is called “Schweinshaxe” or “Schweinehaxe” or short just “Haxe” also spelled “Hackse”.
How to pronounce “Schweinshaxe”?
Listen to this audio file to hear how to say “Schweinshaxe”.
“Schweinshaxe” is a quintessential dish for every Oktoberfest celebration and a tasty classic of Bavarian food choices. You are sure to find it at all the beer tents at the famous Oktoberfest in Munich.
With my recipe you can make a tender and juicy pork shank wrapped in a crispy skin just like the ones you will get served in Germany. It makes the perfect pairing with a big stein of your favorite beer.
What Kind of Meat? Difference Between Pork Hock, Pork Shank and Pork Knuckle
There is no difference between a pork hock or pork knuckle. These are just various names for the joint at the bottom of the pig´s shank where the foot is attached. It all refers to the meaty part just above the ankle of the pig´s leg. The knuckle is located between the “knee” and foot of the hind legs of the pig. The meat is heavily marbled and surrounded by a strong layer of fat. One Pork knuckle usually serves one or two people.
Often the term shank and hock/knuckle is used interchangeably. However, there is a difference. Pork shanks are cut a little higher above the hocks and are therefore wider. The cut comes from the part above the foot and below the ham. Shanks have more meat and can serve, depending on the cut, up to four people. Be aware that this will also extend the cooking time. The bone marrow of the pork shank is considered a delicacy; However, it is very small.
You can also find so called ham hocks in supermarkets and at the butcher. But even these are the same part of the pig like a hock, they can not be used for this dish as they are usually already smoked and cured.
How to Cook Pork Shanks – Tips & Tricks
I recommended to precook the pork knuckle in water or broth first. On the one hand, to get it cooked without burning, but also that the skin becomes soft. This allows you to easily score the skin before roasting and broiling which results in a nice crispy, crust during.
To cut the fat layer use a sharp knife. An unused, clean box cutter is the easiest way to work the thick pork skin. The skin is cut from top to bottom in a diamond shape. This allows the fat to fry in springy crisps and the spices to soak in more easily.
I use dark beer or broth to baste the meat during the roasting process. This gives the meat a hearty, aromatic flavor. During roasting, the pork shank is repeatedly doused with the beer and/or broth. You can make an easy sauce, if you pour the remaining liquid through a sieve right into a sauce pan. Allow to simmer until it is natural thickened.
Braised vs. Roasted
This pork shank recipe shows you how to roast a pork shank in your oven. It is one of the easiest methods to achieve tender meat and the perfect crispy skin.
If you prefer soft, uncrispy skin braised in gravy you probably want to choose a recipe for a braised pork shank like the ones from Guy Grocery Games or Food Network Kitchen´s. This will result more in an Osso Buco style pork dish. I personally prefer the crispy skin recipe for pork shanks but love braised lamb shanks.
More German Pork Recipes
Step-by-Step Video Tutorial
This traditional recipe for Oktoberfest style pork knuckles is known far beyond the borders of Germany. This is how the crispy pork shank succeeds for sure.
What to Serve With?
Traditionally German style pork shanks are served with potato dumplings, bread dumplings, red cabbage, sauerkraut or Bavarian cabbage salad.
If you want to serve a gravy with your crispy pork shank, add onions, carrots and a small piece of celery. Cut all vegetables into large cubes and spread them around the shank in the roaster. Pour enough water so that it is about 2 centimeters high in the roaster. Add the liquid and vegetables to a mixer and finely puree everything to a smooth consistency. Salt and pepper to taste and you will have a simple but very flavorful gravy that you can make in just a few minutes without any thickeners.
What to drink with roasted pork shanks? This delicious dish naturally calls for a great German beer like Weihenstephaner or Erdinger beer. You can find German beer at big liquor stores locally, online and your German delis. A good glass of heavy red wine also accompanies this dish very well.
What to Do With Leftovers?
In case you have some leftovers, you can use the meat to make an awesome sandwich or cut the meat into small cubes and make a “Gröschtl”. This mazing Bavarian/Austrian dish is made with bread dumplings and meat leftovers.
Oktoberfest Pork Shank
Crispy skin and tender, juicy meat make this pork shank recipe a staple not only for every Oktoberfest celebration.
- 1 3- pound pork shank pork knuckle or pork hock
- 3-4 quarts water
- 1 medium sized onion
- 6 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp. caraway seeds
- 1 tsp. juniper berries
- ½ tsp. ground all spice
- 1 tbsp. coarse salt
- 1 tsp. coarse pepper
Coarsely chop the onion and the garlic cloves.
In a large pot bring water, onions, garlic and spices to a boil.
Add pork hock and simmer covered on medium heat for about 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 350 F.
Remove pork hock from the pot and place it on the rack of a roasting pan.
Pour half a bottle of beer and about a cup of the cooking water into the bottom of the pan.
Cut the rind of the pork hock in a diagonal pattern.
Roast pork hock for about 45-60 minutes until golden brown and crispy. Baste with the remaining beer while roasting for a couple of times.
Serving: 1gramsCalories: 815kcalCarbohydrates: 6gProtein: 89gFat: 46gSaturated Fat: 16gPolyunsaturated Fat: 28gCholesterol: 310mgSodium: 2060mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1g
Everything Else You Need to Know
It can be difficult to find pork shanks in your local supermarket. Your best chance is your local butcher, ranch stores or Asian grocery stores. You can find pork shanks easily online and sometimes at German delis.
The meat is heavily marbled and surrounded by a strong layer of fat. The right cooking method makes sure that the meat will be tender and juicy with a delicious crispy skin.
More Oktoberfest Recipes
Simple Roasted Oktoberfest Chicken
Wheat Beer Tiramisu
Oktoberfest Gingerbread Hearts
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“The Tower on the Rock near the Bosphorus” is one of Aivazovsky’s paintings, painted in his usual style, so that the sea on it is the main character, occupies the most space and requires the most attention.
His eyes literally attract him - green waves foam, roll onto a high rocky shore, and a ship beats in the waves - like a wounded bird, trying to swim away from the shore, avoiding death on the rocks, but cannot. The element is stronger - pulls, vomits, sails fall and crumple together with ragged rags. Sailors are rescued in the boat - everyone is looking at the ship, it was both his house and friend, but he is already dying and they can no longer save him.
A lonely man stands on stones at the edge of the surf - maybe a sailor who earlier threw himself into the waves and surfaced, maybe someone else, an extra, who heard the groans of a tree beating against the rocks. The old tower looks lazily at the drama unfolding at its foot. On a hill in the distance a city shines with pure, shining whiteness - tall towers, spiers, nice houses. And the whole picture is flooded with golden rays of the dawn sun.
It is huge. It emerges from the horizon, painting the sky in gold, the city in white, and the sea in emerald luster. The waves are full of gold, mixed with blue, it becomes an emerald.
At the same time a very dynamic and dramatic, and very bright picture - this combination seems almost cynical, but the world is just that. Not everyone drowns on rainy nights, the weather is not always suitable for current events, and the sea doesn’t care when throwing a fragile shell on the rocks, the creation of human hands - on an early summer morning or fall day.
The sea is indifferent, because such is its nature. Infinitely distant, wise and changeable, it sharpens the shore, because "A drop is sharpening a stone." Someday, on the cliffs near the Bosphorus, the endless sea will splash - just as it was at the beginning of time.
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When talking about minorities, the world tells me that I, unfortunately, fit into two categories. Not only am I a woman, but I am also biracial. However, the world doesn’t label me as biracial (a cool mixture of white and black), but they label me as black. So I am a black woman in the world’s eyes, not a mixture of cultures as I personally identify myself. Malcolm X once said, “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” So is this true? Have I been dealt the cards that make me the most unprotected, neglected person in America? I would say that I slightly agree. Racism and sexism are still two very real things in this word today, even if people pretend it’s not.
However, there is something slightly empowering about being put in a corner, almost an underdog effect.
I guess I need to begin by proving my first assertions that racism and sexism still exist, and that people choose to ignore the very blatant realities. Personally, growing up in Indiana I have many personal anecdotes of experiencing racism first hand. In fact, during my very first days here at Greencastle, I was walking to Starbucks when a truck full of teenage boys drove by, and instead of honking or saying hi, they greeted me by screaming the N word.
I just wanted coffee. Instead, I got a moment of humiliation.
Another time, I was in Ohio, and people were driving outside the Bob Evan’s I was dining in with their confederate flags flying high. When I walked into the restaurant, I felt like an alien from outer space. People stared, without trying to hide it, as if I walked in with antlers on my head. Now, obviously, I know not everyone is black and not everyone will like me simply because of the color of my skin, but imagine for a second feeling that ostracized because of a feature you have that you can’t change. I cannot control my color, and people hate me even though I'm 50 percent white, because I’m also 50 percent black, and that is something I will never be able to understand or wrap my mind around. Beyond my personal experiences, if a company creates an ad with interracial couples, the number of racist comments in response is actually terrifying and people go as far as to say they will no longer provide them with their business for promoting something so “disgusting.”
Then there are also parts of the United States — such as Alabama — that voted to not remove racist language and laws in their state constitution. These are just a few glimpses of racism in the world today, it would take more than a novel to tell every instance of racism experienced by people in Indiana alone. So racism is clearly a problem, one that should be rightfully addressed.
In terms of my gender, I still feel like it is unacceptable in society to be confident and proud of who you are. Girls are either “too skinny” or “ too fat”, constantly being shamed based off of their bodies and outward appearance. An example is Khloe Kardashian, she was first criticized in the paper for being the fat sister, and now that she is fit and in shape and proud of her body, she is being called too skinny. Society still believes in the ideal that girls are simply nothing but pretty objects. I see it in TV shows and movies, that is just another avenue to display society’s idea of a woman’s place in society. In fact, the other day while watching the television show "House," Dr. House fired a woman he actually hired because he realized he only hired her for her looks. In addition, after firing her, he asked her to dinner, as if that was some sort of trade off. That is only one example of women being treated poorly based off of their physical appearance. You’re either too ugly or too good looking that you can’t possibly have something of substance. A woman is more than her looks, but sadly that is not the general opinion. Even in my personal life, I often find people shocked by the amount I have accomplished. I can’t even count on two hands the number of guys who have said to me, “Oh, I didn’t realize you were that smart,” as if I was supposed to be stupid. Not to mention the guys who tell me I’m “intimidating” because they feel inferior. Guys still feel the need to be superior, and use slut- and appearance-shaming to make themselves feel that way. A girl shuts them down, she is now a “bitch” or “stuck up,” and this thought is encouraged amongst the male community. That, to me, is modern sexism and is another problem that people often choose to ignore.
So, I think I have made it quiet obvious that racism and sexism are still very prominent and troubling part of today’s society. But here is the hard part: I do not foresee any of this behavior changing, nor do I think it can. We have been dealing with these two issues for decades, and each generation has their own modern adaptation of racism and sexism. Yes, we have made strides towards improvement with things like the Civil Rights Movement and the first black president, even the more recent Women’s March that was performed all across the country. While I do think it is important to celebrate these things, I do believe it is also important to look at the backlash that comes along with it. People made jokes about lynching Obama, and the Women’s March was mocked by Trump Supporters and males everywhere on social media. Some people have a progressive mindset, but, unfortunately, every generation will have those who don’t which in turn stunts true growth for everyone.
Black people and women will never be seen the same as a white males, because I believe the stereotypes are too deep rooted to disappear completely. So, am I the most neglected and unprotected person in America as Malcolm X said? Maybe, but I have found empowerment in using that to my advantage in everything I do. I am the underdog, the one no one sees coming. I am attending one of the top private institutions practically for free, I am involved in everything the campus has to offer. This may seem a little like bragging, but I am making a point that I did all that as a black (biracial) woman. Call it revenge maybe, but there is nothing more satisfying than making sexists and racists mad because I make them feel inferior with my accomplishments every day.
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They speak two Norwegian languages, wash their lines before fishing, and grow lawns on the rooftops. However, there is a logical explanation for these quirks
Often the roofs of houses are covered not with tiles, but with turf with grass. Such a green roof provides heat and waterproofing: the house is cool in summer and warm in winter.
Norwegians love long words formed from several nouns:
menneskerettighetsorganisasjoner -“human rights organizations”
They teach two Norwegian languages at school ;— bokmål(based on southeastern dialects and Danish) and nynoshk(based on predominantly western Norwegian dialects).
They wear “lousy sweatshirts” – lusekofte. This is the name of traditional sweaters with an ornament of small dots. Once a year, there is a “conference of lousy sweaters” – members of the Cabinet of Ministers come to the meeting to approve the budget in traditional sweaters.
They serve hot meals in kindergartens only once a week, on Friday. On other days only sandwiches.
They love “fragrant” fish. A traditional festive dish: lutefisk is dried salted cod soaked in an alkaline solution until soft and then baked.
Before fishing in the lake, fishing rods are washed in special apparatus if they have fished before at sea.
Matches are given to friends on New Year's Eve – a symbol of warmth and happiness.
Vacation pay is paid in June, regardless of when a person goes on vacation.
Graduation is celebrated in schools not just one day, but more than two weeks.Instead of dresses and suits, the graduates wear bright jumpsuits and caps decorated with “awards” for all sorts of tricks (for example, a garter – for sitting all day in underwear in class; a black ribbon – for not sleeping for 72 hours).
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Why Winter May Impact Your Mental Health
For some people, depression gets worse at certain times of the year. This may seem unusual, especially if you’ve never noticed how your surroundings and environment affect your mood before. But worsening depression, especially when it sets in during winter, is more common than a lot of people realize. Someone reached out to us recently about this:
“My depression is a lot worse in wintertime, and I can’t figure out why. My routine is the same year-round, so I’m not sure what to do differently. Do you have any idea why I’m feeling depressed more often when it’s cold outside?”
This is a good question. On the surface, it may be hard to see why depression gets worse in one season than in another. But when we do a little digging, some possibilities emerge. If you have seasonal depression triggers, recognizing them can help you feel more prepared and find more ways to cope.
There are a few reasons why you might feel more depressed during the winter months. But there is always something you can do, there is always hope, and support is always available. And you’re definitely not alone in what you’re feeling or experiencing right now. I hope this gives you some suggestions for how to manage winter depression and helps you feel more hopeful and optimistic for the days ahead.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder has many symptoms in common with depression: things like low mood, difficulty sleeping, weight and appetite control issues, or fatigue are common.
What makes SAD unique, though, is being a type of depression that is weather-dependent. It affects people during winter months or during cold weather, which may not always occur in winter, depending on where in the world you live.
Doctors and scientists are still studying the causes, impact, and treatment of SAD, so no one is 100% sure why people experience it. But if you notice you’re feeling depressed more often or more severely when it’s cold and grey outside, it may be something you want to talk to your doctor or therapist about.
Lack of Sunlight
It’s often greyer during the day during winter, and it gets dark earlier in the day. This lack of natural light has been linked to feeling more deeply depressed, or feeling depression more frequently, for many people.
Unfortunately, there’s nothing we can do to change the seasonal rhythms of light and dark. But it might be helpful to:
- Get an indoor lamp that mimics natural lighting.
- Keep the curtains open as often as you can to bring as much natural light into your space as possible.
- Try finding the beauty in winter. Winter weather can create beautiful landscapes for us to enjoy, and there are many fascinating things that happen in nature during the winter. Taking some time to admire winter scenery, or to learn about how plants and animals behave during winter, may help you to think of winter as something more natural, than as something sad or negative.
Cold can make our bodies feel tense. If you live in a bitterly cold area, cold wind might hurt or chap your face and hands. Your body may start to ache if you have to be in the cold for a while on a given day. And it’s natural for this discomfort in your body to affect your mood, too.
Here are some things you can try if cold weather is getting you down:
- Gentle stretching or movement throughout the day can boost your mood, and the increased blood flow that comes with physical activity will help you feel warmer.
- Warm blankets are cozy and comforting. If you’re feeling especially down on a cold day, try snuggling up in a warm blanket to watch your favorite show, listen to some of your favorite music, or read a book you enjoy.
These simple things may help lift your spirits and may make it easier to find the good in your life when it’s cold and dreary outside.
Many of the activities you like to do might not be possible for stretches of time during winter. School might be out for break or closed due to the weather. Sports or outdoor exercise gets more difficult to do frequently. And snow, sleet, or ice storms may prevent you from being able to leave the house to be with friends and family or to spend time at places you enjoy. This might explain why winter might make you feel isolated or experience loneliness more often than usual, which could worsen your experience of depression.
It’s natural to feel this way. It’s just your mind’s way of reminding you how much you enjoy life.
Sense of Ending or Loss
Winter starts at the end of a year. The sense of things coming to an end or winding down may make you feel a greater sense of depression. You could be saddened by the leaves falling from the trees. Winter could be reminding you of what you lost or missed out on throughout the year, and it can be difficult to come to terms with the fact that we can’t get our time back once it passes.
When you feel this way, it may be helpful to shift your mindset a bit. Along with being sad about the year coming to an end, can you think of what you are grateful for about this past year? Did you accomplish something new? Did you make new friends?
Focusing on gratitude, even just a little bit each day, can help make coping with seasonal depression easier.
It may also help to look forward. When you think about the future, try thinking of it as being full of possibilities to try new things and to grow as a person.
You were created with a purpose, and that doesn’t end with the ending of a year or change with the weather. God’s love for you is unconditional, and He has plans to give you hope and a future (Jer 29:11). Remembering that God’s love and your purpose don’t change with the seasons can help you get through some of winter’s tougher days.
Getting Help for Winter Depression
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Important Days in January 2022: January is the first month of the year Gregorian calendars (followed by most of the World) and the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. It is also known as New Year’s Day. January is named after the “god of beginnings and transitions”, “Janus” according to Roman Mythology. January is the winter month that brings the new year with new opportunities, new things, new abilities, new resolutions, and much more. Let us go through the important national and international days that fall in the month of January 2022.
Important Days in January 2022: List of National & International Days
Candidates must check the list of the national and international important days in January 2022. The following details can help candidates for the various competitive exams conducted by Government for recruitment.
|January 01, 2022||New Year’s Eve|
|January 01, 2022||Global Family Day|
|January 04, 2022||World Braille Day|
|January 06, 2022||World Day of War Orphans|
|January 08, 2022||African National Congress Foundation Day|
|January 09, 2022||NRI (Non-Resident Indian) Day or Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas|
|January 10.2022||World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day|
|January 11, 2022||Lal Bahadur Shastri’s Death Anniversary|
|January 12, 2022||National Youth Day|
|January 14, 2022||Makar Sankranti and Pongal|
|January 15, 2022||Indian Army Day|
|January 23, 2022||Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Jayanti|
|January 24, 2022||National Girl Child Day|
|January 25, 2022||National Voters Day|
|January 25, 2022||National Tourism Day|
|January 26, 2022||Republic Day|
|January 26, 2022||International Customs Day|
|January 28, 2022||Lala Lajpat Rai Birth Anniversary|
|January 30, 2022||Martyrs Day or Shaheed Diwas
|January 30, 2022||World Leprosy Eradication Day (Last Sunday of January)|
1st January: Global Family Day
It is celebrated as a day of peace and sharing. Its aim is to unite and spread a message of peace by considering and promoting the idea that Earth is one Global Family so as to make the world a better place to live for everyone.
4th January: World Braille Day
It is observed on January 4th to honor the birth of Louis Braille. It is observed to raise awareness about how Braille plays a significant role in the complete realization of human rights in the lives of blind and partially sighted people.
6th January: World War Orphans Day
On 6th January every year, World Day of War Orphans is celebrated to create awareness about the plight of the war orphans and to address the traumatic conditions faced by them.
8th January: African National Congress Foundation Day
South African Native National Congress (SANNC) was founded on 8 January 1912 by John Langalibalele Dube in Bloemfontein. Behind this, the primary motive was to give voting rights to black and mixed-race Africans or to unite African people and spearhead the struggle for fundamental political, social, and economic change.
9th January: NRI (Non-Resident Indian) Day or Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
NRI or Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is observed every year on 9 January to mark the contribution of the overseas Indian community towards the development of India. This day also commemorates the return of Mahatma Gandhi from South Africa to Mumbai on 9 January 1915.
10th January: World Laughter Day, World Hindi Day
This day is celebrated every year on 10th January. The main objective is to create a suitable environment for the promotion of Hindi worldwide and to present Hindi as the prevalent language of the world.
World Laughter Day was established in 1998 and the first celebration was on 10 May 1998, in Mumbai, India, arranged by Dr. Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement
11th January: Death anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
He was the second Prime Minister of Independent India. He promoted the slogan ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ He actively participated in India’s freedom struggle. Due to cardiac arrest, he died on 11 January 1966.
12th January: National Youth Day
The birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda also called Swami Vivekananda Jayanti is celebrated every year on 12 January. He was born on 12th January 1863. The government had decided to observe it as National Youth Day because the philosophy of Swamiji and the ideals for which he lived and worked could be a great source of inspiration for the Indian Youth. He had given a speech at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago and glorified India’s name.
14th January: Makarsankrati and Pongal
Makar Sankranti or Uttarayan or Maghi or simply Sankranti, also known in Bangladesh as Poush Sankranti, is a harvest festival day in the Hindu calendar, dedicated to the deity Surya (sun). It is observed each year the day Sun enters the Capricorn zodiac which corresponds with the month of January as per the Gregorian calendar. It marks the first day of the sun’s transit into Makara Rashi.
15th January: Indian Army Day
Every year 15th January is observed as Indian Army Day because on this day in 1949 field Marshal Kodandera M Cariappa took over as the first Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army from General Sir Francis Butcher, the last British Commander-in-Chief.
23rd January: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was born on 23rd January 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa. He was one of the most prominent Indian freedom fighters. His army was known as Indian National Army (INA) or Azad Hind Fauj. He also led an Indian national force from abroad against the Western powers during World War II.
24th January: National Girl Child Day
On 24th January every year, National Girl Child Day is celebrated to highlight the inequalities faced by a majority of the girls in India, the importance of education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care and safety of girl children, etc.
25th January: National Voters Day
Every year on 25th January National Voter’s Day or Rashtriya Matdata Diwas is celebrated to encourage young voters to take part in the political process. In 2011 the first time this day was celebrated to mark Election Commission’s Foundation Day.
25th January: National Tourism Day
Every year on 25th January National Tourism Day is celebrated in India to raise awareness and educate people about the importance of tourism and the role it plays in the Indian economy.
26th January: Republic Day
On 26th November 1949, the Indian Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution the supreme law of the land, and replaced the Government of India Act 1935. It came into effect on 26th January 1950 with a democratic government system. This day marks the largest parade that took place at Rajpath, Delhi every year.
26th January: International Customs Day
International Customs Day (ICD) is celebrated every year on 26 January by Custom Organisation to recognize the role of custom officials and agencies in maintaining border security.
28th January: Birth Anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai
Lala Lajpat Rai was born on 28th January 1865 in Punjab. He was a prominent nationalist leader who played an important role in India’s struggle for freedom. He also earned the title of ‘Punjab Kesari’ or ‘the Lion of the Punjab’. He initiated the foundation of the Punjab National Bank. He died on 17th November 1928, due to serious injuries. The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences in Hisar, Haryana is named after Lala Lajpat Rai.
30th January: Martyrs Day or Shaheed Diwas
30th January is celebrated as Martyr’s Day or Shaheed Diwas every year in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi and the sacrifice of three revolutionaries of India. As, of 30th January 1948, the ‘Father of Nation’ was assassinated. And on 23rd March 3 heroes namely Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar of the nation were hanged to death by the British.
30th January: World Leprosy Eradication Day
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When I started playing Minecraft, the game was in its infancy. The first time I dropped into a new world and stepped past the bedrock boundary, I was awestruck. That feeling soon turned to fear as my character started getting attacked by weird creatures known as Creepers.
Since that time, Minecraft has grown exponentially. There are billions of worlds and millions of mobs, but there are some monsters that stand out above the rest for being particularly scary or devious:
Skeletons – These wily characters can be found in every overworld biome except mushroom island biomes (which only come in two variants: one without mushrooms and one with mushrooms). They’re also common around water sources such as lakes or rivers where they spawn naturally at night or during thunderstorms when lightning strikes within eight blocks of them spawning on solid ground with enough air above it so they can stand up straight comfortably without hitting their heads against anything above them).
Enderman – These creepy creatures have been around since beta 1.8 but were added in full force for version 1.2 back when Mojang was still developing their own codebase instead of using Forge API like most other popular modding tools do now (The only exception being FTB Utilities which works best if you plan on using any mods from Feed The Beast’s launcher).
Zombies – Zombies have been a staple of Minecraft’s hostile mob roster since day one; however they’ve evolved quite a bit over time with newer versions giving them abilities such as detecting nearby players through walls even though they don’t need light source themselves so it seems unlikely that would actually work… right? Well apparently not because we found out recently after testing our theory with various types of materials including stone brick slab which had no effect on this ability at all!
The Enderman is a hostile mob that spawns in the Overworld, and can be found in strongholds, mineshafts, villages, and woodland mansions. They are tall, black creatures with white eyes, with long arms that end in purple hands. They have the ability to teleport by turning their body into blocks of ender pearls (which are not obtainable from killing an enderman). You can tell you have entered an area where these monsters spawn when it starts raining red particles (the same ones used for fire) all over the place.
Silverfish are small, silver-colored insects that are found in caves and dark places. They are hostile and will attack the player if provoked. They do not drop anything when killed, but they can cause damage if they hit you with their tail or body while they’re moving around erratically.
Silverfish come in two variations: regular mobs that spawn on stone and metal blocks; and baby silverfish that spawn from regular mobs after being killed by one of them (or any other mob). Baby silverfish will grow up into adults if left alone for a long enough time, so it’s best to kill them quickly before this happens!
Skeletons, a type of undead mob, spawn in dark areas, such as dungeons. They are armed with bows and arrows and are a dangerous foe. Skeletons come in all shapes and sizes (or should I say, “types”) but they all look pretty similar to you when they’re coming at you with an arrow pointed straight at your face. They can be very fast and if they get close enough to shoot an arrow at you before disappearing again into the shadows, it will do some serious damage to your health bar!
The creeper is the most iconic enemy in Minecraft. It’s a green, humanoid creature that stalks around your world and explodes when you get too close. The explosion can kill you, but it will also destroy blocks if you’re close enough. Creepers have large eyes and seem to have mouths full of sharp teeth. They spawn in swamps or underground caves at night (when they’re dark), so if you see one wandering around during the day, it might be a pigman or zombie villager instead!
The best way to deal with creepers is by not dealing with them at all: run away from them as fast as possible. If that doesn’t work out for some reason, try throwing an egg at them; this will neutralize the explosion until your character gets near again—but be careful! The egg may explode when thrown too far from its target and damage nearby blocks as well! If these methods don’t work out for whatever reason then there are still other ways such as using a bow or snowballs/eggs but these methods aren’t recommended because they take more time compared to running away like mentioned earlier…
Spiders are the deadliest of all Minecraft mobs. They can be found in caves, dungeons and other dark areas. They can also spawn from monster spawners in the Nether.
They are fast and have a lot of health points (HP). When they attack you, they will poison you with their bite. If you want to kill them quickly, use swords or bows because they’re hard to fight with bare hands as they jump high and climb walls as well! If you’re not strong enough then it’s best not to bother fighting them at all because spiders are dangerous creatures that drop string when killed by players…
Witches are a great source of potions, and they can be found in swamp biomes. These mobs will drop 1-3 potions when killed, which is a nice bonus if you’re looking to stock up on some health and hunger juice.
When they die, these ladies leave behind a cauldron that can be collected to gain various effects like night vision or regeneration.
Phantoms are a tall and slim humanoid with a white body, black arms, and a black head with a red, glowing eye. These monsters can fly and teleport, making them very tricky to fight.
They can be found in the Nether and will spawn from Nether Portals if you use them as an escape route. They also spawn naturally within Nether Fortresses (where they are usually accompanied by Zombie Pigmen).
Make sure you’re prepared before entering one of these areas or else you might get caught unawares by these flying creatures!
Vindicators are the third-most powerful hostile mob in Minecraft, behind the Elder Guardian and the Guardian. They can be spawned by a player using a spawn egg.
- Spawning conditions:
> When killed, they drop the iron sword. This will happen even if there is an iron sword in your inventory.
> They spawn naturally in strongholds, nether fortresses and end cities.
- Behaviour: Vindicators will attack players on sight (or if provoked). If you kill one with an iron sword it drops 0-3 emeralds when killed but if you use another type of weapon it will drop nothing upon death!
2. Guardians/Elder Guardians
Guardians/Elder Guardians are one of the most powerful mobs in Minecraft. They can fly, shoot projectiles, and summon other Guardians to help them fight you!
They’re found in ocean monuments; each monument has a Guardian protecting it. You can spawn a Guardian with a splash potion of weakness, but they’re very rare to find this way since they only have 1% chance of spawning.
Zombies are the most common mob in Minecraft, and can be found in almost every biome. As a result of their high durability, they are also one of the longest-lasting mobs, with normal Zombies lasting an average of 15 minutes and Husk Zombies lasting over 25 minutes.
Zombies move slowly through blocks like water and cobweb as opposed to walking on them like most other mobs do. This makes them harder to get rid off than other mobs since they can easily hide from you. However there is one thing that all zombies have in common; they all have 1 HP (health point).
The above list is based on a combination of durability and creepiness factor, but could easily be updated in the future as new mobs are added to the game!
The above list is based on a combination of durability and creepiness factor, but could easily be updated in the future as new mobs are added to the game! The list is also not in any particular order.
The creepiness of these mobs has nothing to do with their abilities as fighters, but rather the atmosphere they create when spawning around you. Some mobs are weaker than others (e.g., silverfish), but all of them have a way of sneaking up on players that can lead to some heart-stopping moments. The best part about Minecraft is how many ways there are to play it, and this article was meant primarily for survival mode players who want some advice on where they might encounter these monsters without having built defenses yet themselves – or even just people who like thinking about scary things in general! | <urn:uuid:695ed179-3561-4887-8a54-de61c6a3a61f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vividgamer.com/blog/10-scariest-monsters-in-minecraft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960558 | 1,887 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Sec. Psychological Therapy and Psychosomatics
Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience
- 1Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, United States
- 2atai Life Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States
- 3Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
One of the most recent and potentially promising advancements in the health sciences has involved the attempted use of psychedelics for treating mental and behavioral health problems, such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and addiction. Despite surging scientific and public interest in this work, however, we presently have no standard of care or consensus regarding how best to combine psychotherapy and psychedelics or to assess effectiveness. We discuss these timely issues here through the lens of behavioral psychedelics, which we define as the study of psychedelics to foster intentional changes in habits and behaviors to improve health and resilience. Psychedelics may have the potential to reduce chronic disease risk caused by mental and behavioral rigidity. To fully realize this potential, though, we believe the field must establish best practices and guidelines that include how to induce lasting changes in behavior.
Most people living today will die not from communicable diseases but from chronic disease conditions that include heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and addiction. These conditions reduce quality of life and lead to functional impairment, suicide, and premature death. Indeed, chronic diseases are the leading cause of disability worldwide and yield $3.8 trillion in annual healthcare costs in the United States (1), making them one of our most pressing problems.
To address this public health problem, large sums of money have been poured into genetic studies aimed at elucidating the biological basis of chronic disease risk. Although important, risk for most chronic diseases is determined not primarily by genetics but by behavioral factors such as diet, sleep, exercise, alcohol use, smoking, and acting in ways that engender chronic stress (i.e., stress generation). In a recent analysis of 1.53 million deaths, for example, only 16.4% were attributable to genetics plus shared exposures (2). Therefore, improving public mental and physical health must involve transforming how people behave.
Changing human behavior may sound simple but is exceedingly difficult, especially for behaviors that arise from years of thinking and acting in relatively rigid, routinized ways. One emerging strategy for accomplishing behavior change involves using psychedelic compounds to make the mind more malleable and open (3). A recent demonstration of this potential was the first major randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study that investigated the efficacy and safety of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-assisted therapy for helping patients work through severe PTSD (4). The treatment improved psychosocial functioning and demonstrated efficacy for reducing PTSD and depressive symptoms. Additionally, a recent Phase 2 clinical trial of the psychedelic compound psilocybin reduced depression when combined with psychotherapy (5).
These data suggest that psychedelics-assisted psychotherapy may be beneficial. Additionally, a recent cost-effectiveness analysis found that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy (vs. standard care) per 1,000 patients may save $103.2 million over 30 years, with costs breaking even after only 3.1 years (6). Despite this good news, however, there is presently no consensus regarding how to best combine psychotherapy and psychedelics. The general psychotherapeutic approach currently employed in trials is non-directive and involves several phases: assessment, preparation, psychedelic experience, and post-dosing integration (3). Looking forward, we believe that further refinement is needed to operationalize and test these components to establish a best-practice standard of care for treating psychiatric, addiction, somatic, and behavioral health problems.
These issues can be addressed by what we herein call behavioral psychedelics, or the study of psychedelics to foster intentional changes in habits and behaviors to improve health and resilience. Behavioral psychedelics can realize this potential by developing targeted approaches for therapeutic change that help people achieve enduring functional improvements in self-care, social connection, and family, school, and community responsibilities to help them live the life they desire.
One priority problem for behavioral psychedelics to tackle concerns reducing psychological rigidity and dysfunctional behaviors in chronic illness. Many such illnesses involve pervasive, maladaptive behavioral patterns that give rise to feeling hopeless, ineffective, and disconnected from oneself and others. Psychedelic compounds can help break this rigidity by inducing time-limited neuroplasticity that enhances psychological flexibility, expands insight, and makes individuals open to life changes (7). This change of mind, however, does not necessarily mean that patients know how to change their entrenched patterns. Behavioral psychedelics can address this by providing a structured, supportive framework to help patients learn how to live differently by replacing dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors with new skills that support healthier living.
To achieve this, the behavioral psychedelics model includes the self-reinforcing elements of planning, action, and motivation that work synergistically with the psycho-neuro flexibility induced by psychedelics to create positive change. These changes will ideally soon become self-sustaining as individuals learn and use their new skills and experience success, leading to improved mood and greater self-efficacy (8). On the path to establishing a standard of care, we believe providers should work collaboratively with patients during the preparation phase to critically analyze their behavioral patterns and develop a treatment plan and goals that set priorities for a new life course. The post-dosing phase, in turn, is the opportune period of neuroplasticity and newfound psychological flexibility from the psychedelic experience that can enable people to begin shifting their life perspective and enact new behaviors. A structured approach guides behavior and habit changes and provides concrete ways for an individual to monitor progress and adjust goals, on their terms, to improve health, resilience, and connection—all in stark contrast to living with chronic disease (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Path of Behavioral Psychedelics to foster intentional changes in behaviors and habits to improve health and resilience.
Psychedelics show promise for enhancing efficacy over conventional standards of care. Yet, with few data presently available from high-quality RCTs, a main challenge is to empirically validate combination treatments for addressing treatment-resistant disorders. Several related issues also require attention. What are the criteria for optimizing the match of psychedelic compounds for different diagnoses? What approaches (e.g., non-directive vs. directive, individual and group therapies, digital platforms) are most useful for helping people realize their goals, in their unique life context? What role do placebo effects play? And, what psychosocial, biological, and behavioral outcomes should be measured to establish the efficacy of—and mechanisms of change underlying—psychedelic-related improvements in health and behavior?
More broadly, with the rapid changes induced by psychedelics, how do we help individuals adjust to their new, healthier selves as they return to social environments that have not changed (at best) or are dysfunctional or harmful (at worst)? How do we help individuals stay engaged in treatment when there is a tendency to leave? Finally, how can we maximize the accessibility and scalability of these approaches to address the magnitude of the chronic disease crisis?
Psychedelic compounds have the potential to turbocharge the process of transforming the mind, and the race to realize their benefits is in full swing. To maximize these benefits, we believe this work should include behavior as a treatment target with measurable treatment metrics to establish best practices and guidelines. Focusing on behavior will lead to more rigorous research on psychedelics but, most importantly, it will also help change what is most responsible for maintaining chronic disease.
Data Availability Statement
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All authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved it for publication.
EN is an employee of atai Life Sciences. GS was supported by grant #OPR21101 from the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine and by contract #21-10317 from the Office of the California Surgeon General and California Department of Health Services, which supports the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network. These organizations had no role in the planning, writing, editing, or reviewing of this article or in the decision to submit this article for publication.
Conflict of Interest
EN is Senior Director of Psychology for atai Life Sciences, which produces psychedelic compounds. GS has consulted for atai Life Sciences.
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Keywords: psychedelics, psychotherapy, intervention, treatment, guidelines, chronic disease, resilience, behavioral health
Citation: Neuhaus EC and Slavich GM (2022) Behavioral Psychedelics: Integrating Mind and Behavior to Improve Health and Resilience. Front. Psychiatry 13:821208. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.821208
Received: 24 November 2021; Accepted: 03 February 2022;
Published: 14 March 2022.
Edited by:Stephan Zipfel, University of Tübingen, Germany
Reviewed by:Ruben David Baler, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States
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Dwine Project: The Diversity of Tannins in Italian Red Wines
University of Bologna, Italy
*Corresponding author: Andrea Versari, University of Bologna, Italy. E-mail: email@example.com
Citation: Versari A (2018) Dwine Project: The diversity of Tannins in Italian Red Wines. Recent Adv Food Sci Nutr Res 2018. doi:https://doi.org/10.29199/2638-9770/FSNR-102017
Received Date: 19 June, 2018; Accepted Date: 22 October, 2018; Published Date: 20 December, 2018
Dwine project is a network of excellent Italian Universities based on interdisciplinary work team with the aim to expand the current knowledge of research on wine chemistry and sensory, including the ongoing 3-years project on “The diversity of tannins in Italian red wines”.
Grape-derived tannins play a key role on red wine chemistry and sensory, contributing to its color, mouthfeel and aroma longevity. Grape contains condensed tannins (also known as proanthocyanidins) that are polymers made of subunits of catechin or epicatechin with a variable degree of galloylation located in berry skins and seeds. During the winemaking process, tannins are extracted into the wine where, through reactions with other metabolites, they undergo complex transformations affecting their chemical and sensory characteristics, including astringency perception in mouth because of the ingestion of wine, arising from precipitation of salivary proteins by wine tannins . However, the intensity and quality of the perceived astringent sensation can vary. Moreover, tannins are also responsible in the perception of undesirable bitterness. Unfortunately, the actual ability of tannins to protect red wine aromas and the related mechanisms and modulating factors, including reactions with anthocyanins, proteins, polysaccharides, remains to be clarified.
With over 300 grape varieties, Italy owns one of the richest ampelographic heritages worldwide. Among these grapes, several examples of varieties extremely rich in tannins are present [3,4] From the marketing point of view, the ability to associate each wine to specific sensory attributes is often a tool for the commercial success. Therefore, a more comprehensive characterization of the tannin characteristics of Italian red wines and an improved ability to manage their extraction and reactions during winemaking would provide a great opportunity to support and consolidate the image of Italian red wines internationally.
In this view, the project aims to provide - by means of transcriptional, chemical (targeted and untargeted) and sensory approaches - a full description of the diversity existing among Italian grapes and wines with regard to the biosynthesis, chemical composition and reactivity as well as sensory properties of their tannins figure 1.
Figure 1: A schematic diagram of the main project areas and the related involvement of the different units.
The ultimate goal is to generate, for different Italian red grapes and wines, a database of (i) Compositional information regarding grape/wine tannin and related macromolecules (eg. anthocyanins, SO2, polysaccharides and proteins); (ii) Astringency characteristics of individual grape and wine types, including a specific sensory vocabulary for Italian grapes and wines; (iii) Chemical pathways related to wine aging and involving tannins, in particular with regard to tannin antioxidant protection towards aroma compounds in the specific environment of each wine; (iv) Transcriptomic data concerning tannin biosynthesis in the grape.
Statistical analysis of the datasets obtained (sensory and chemical) will be used to elucidate relationships between tannin composition of each grape/wine and the related sensory and chemical properties.
The project will involve five research units (RU), one of which will also include a sub-unit (SU). The research units will be as follows: UniVR (University of Verona); FEM (Fondazione Edmund Mach); UniBO (University of Bologna); UniTO (University of Torino); UniNA (University of Napoli); UniPD (University of Padova).
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The Family Court has ruled that transgender youth no longer require court authorisation to undergo hormone treatment for gender dysphoria.
The Full Court of the Family Court of Australia handed down its judgment in Re Kelvin yesterday.
A transgender 17-year-old known as Kelvin appealed in September against the requirement for minors to obtain court approval to undergo stage two treatment for gender dysphoria, which involves the administration of either testosterone or oestrogen.
Stage one treatment delays puberty, and does not require court approval because it has no irreversible effects. Stage three is surgical intervention, and still requires court approval for people under 18.
Until yesterday, Australia was the only country in the world where court approval was required for stage two treatment. A multidisciplinary medical team is still required to recommend that the treatment is in the young person’s best interests.
The Inner City Legal Centre (ICLC) represented Kelvin in the proceedings. ICLC principal solicitor Hilary Kincaid told Lawyers Weekly the decision would empower transgender youth to choose their gender identity.
“What this is going to mean for transgender young people is that they will no longer have an unnecessary external barrier to medical treatment,” Ms Kincaid said.
“They will be able to make this decision with their families and their medical teams.”
The ICLC and other groups have long criticised the requirement for court approval, saying that it causes unnecessary emotional hardship and creates long delays that can make the treatment more difficult.
“It’s a really stressful process for kids to go through because they feel like they’re being examined and tested,” Ms Kincaid said.
“These kids have usually spent quite a long time talking to psychologists and psychiatrists and endocrinologists and doctors, so they already feel like they’ve been pretty poked and prodded, and then they get poked and prodded by some other people.”
She added that the court application can be a significant additional expense for families.
“It’s also a triple extra expense,” she said.
“Although, for instance, my service is a free service, we can’t represent everyone around the country, so some people have needed to go to private solicitors.
“And there’s also the cost of obtaining expert medical reports, which probably runs to between $1,500 and $2,000 dollars on average, [plus the cost of the treatment itself].
“These families have often had to take time off work to take kids to appointments, they’ve had to pay a certain amount of out-of-pocket expenses and then there’s just this additional expense and delay.
“What this decision means is that young people can commence treatment at a time that is right for them, not at a time determined by the court.”
The number of successful court applications for stage two treatment has risen from five to 60 since 2013, according to the ICLC.
But while the Family Court has set a precedent that this approval is no longer required, people under 18 still require court approval for surgical intervention, which constitutes stage three treatment.
“This case was to do with stage two treatment, which is oestrogen or testosterone, so it doesn’t address surgical intervention. That is likely to be a further case,” Ms Kincaid said.
“The only court applications that there have been in relation to a child under the age of 18 [for stage three treatment] have been for ‘top surgery’, which is a bilateral mastectomy [or] male chest reconstruction.
“There have been no applications about a child under the age of 18 for ‘bottom surgery’, and generally the clinical guidelines encourage people to wait until they’re 18 before having that kind of surgery anyway.”
Ms Kincaid said she was happy with the decision, which was a “great example of what a community legal centre can achieve”.
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