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The Valhalla of cow-calf production — running cows year-round without feeding hay or supplement other than salt and mineral — is closer than you think.
In the “300 Days of Grazing Project,” University of Arkansas (UA) researchers carried 38 breeding-age cows on 130 acres of bermudagrass and tall fescue grass last year. They only had to feed hay 18 days and they lowered their breakeven cost of production to 67¢/lb., which was 12% lower than projected.
It's all about stockpiling a complementary mix of warm-season and cool-season forages, and having cows in a tight enough calving window to exploit rotational grazing. Along the way, both forage utilization and fertilizer efficiency increase.
Picture 38 fall-calving crossbred cows with access to 40 acres of common bermudagrass and 90 acres of fescue (10 pastures). That's the foundation of the UA study. The strategy involves dividing this forage into seasonal grazing blocks that match the nutritional requirements of their fall-calving herd.
These cows calved from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 of 2008. Calves were weaned and continued to graze until July 10, 2009, when they were marketed.
In the fall and winter, cattle strip-grazed bermuda and later in the winter stockpiled fescue. Strip-grazing here refers to grazing cattle 2-3 days, then extending an electric fence further back to allow another 2-3 days of grazing and so on.
Tom Troxel, UA Extension beef specialist, explains that, from mid-May until marketing, the cattle were grazed in a leader-follower grazing program, where the calves grazed the higher-quality bermudagrass first, followed by the cows. “Rather than sell them in May, the grazing flexibility allowed us to put another 105 lbs. on the calves before marketing,” Troxel says.
Though the strategy revolves around forage management, Troxel stresses, “the calving season has to be tight enough — no more than 90 days — to utilize methods like rotational grazing. There's no way this would work if you had calves coming six months of the year.”
UA researchers also employ management practices aimed at achieving a 90% calving rate and a 550-lb. weaning weight.
In the first year of the UA project, the calving rate fell short of the goal at 84%. Calves were lighter than the goal with adjusted weaning weights of 476 lbs. for the steers and 462 lbs. for the heifers. They had to replace six cows that were open or lost a calf. Costs ran higher than projected in several areas they had no control over. Yet, they were still able to decrease the breakeven cost of production. That's the power of taking a lion's bite out of cow feed costs.
In fact, Troxel says they're adding a dozen bred heifers to the project because the strategy allows the same resources to support more cattle.
“Grazing 300 days a year doesn't require a long list of forages. You can do it with a forage list as simple as fescue and bermuda by rotational grazing, managing fertilizer timing and stockpiling, but adding other forages over time can give you a winning hand more often,” explains John Jennings, UA Extension forage specialist (see “One approach to grazing year-round” on page 46).
The researchers say the concepts can work on any size operation. “Producers will find more opportunities as they use the strategy and adapt it to their unique operation,” Troxel says. “There is no one more innovative than a cattle producer.”
|Total||Animal Units||Total||Animal Units|
|Total lbs. of beef sold||23,275||613||36,156||951|
|Average price per lbs. received||$0.90||$0.84|
|Income over specified costb||$3,242||$85.34||$7,616||$200.41|
| aThe actual and budgeted amounts are for the July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, fiscal year. |
bGross income minus the specified expenses. The specified expenses included salt and mineral, supplemental feed, veterinarian costs, growth implants, fly control, sales commission, hauling, day labor, pregnancy testing, bull cost or AI, breeding soundness examinations, replacement heifer or cow purchase, grazing lease, fertilizer, lime, purchased hay, herbicide, and miscellaneous.
cSpecified cost divided by lbs. of beef sold
One approach to grazing year-round
According to John Jennings, University of Arkansas (UA) Extension forage specialist, the key to making 300-day grazing work begins with a plan, which starts with a list of the resources available.
“Think about your pastures and note whether you have forages that can be grazed in each season — spring, summer, fall and winter. This tells you the potential for grazing 300 days,” Jennings explains.
In northern Arkansas, for instance, Jennings says about two-thirds of the pasture needs to be cool-season, like fescue or ryegrass; the other third needs to be warm-season, such as bermudagrass. That ratio would be reversed in the southern part of the state.
Tom Troxel, UA Extension beef specialist, advises anyone considering the strategy to crawl before they walk. “Just take one field or pasture the first year, one that is mostly tall fescue for example. Clip it in the August-September timeframe to get new growth, and then stockpile it. Experiment with that field the first year and then expand from there,” he says.
Jennings offers the following roadmap as an example of the strategy. It's how UA has achieved close to year-round grazing.
Winter through spring
Strip-graze any remaining stockpiled pasture.
Allow winter annual forages to reach 8 in. before grazing.
Limit grazing to two days per week with hay to utilize the high pasture quality. Winter annuals can be grazed earlier if strip-grazing or using paddocks.
Transition from winter to spring
Early fertilization on a couple of pastures can jump-start spring grazing.
Overseed legumes in closely grazed pastures.
Graze off winter weeds in bermuda.
Set up spring paddocks for early grazing.
Spring through summer
Begin rotational grazing as early as possible. Keeping the gates on pastures closed will let more grass grow than letting cows chase new grass over the whole farm.
Don't fertilize more area than can be utilized. It's better to fertilize some pasture for early grazing and wait to fertilize for the next season rather than promote grass that can't be used.
To favor legumes, control the grass canopy by graze/rest/graze — basically good rotational grazing management.
Transition from spring to summer
In mixed cool- and warm-season forage pastures, graze closely in late spring to release summer forage. This means removing ryegrass or fescue growth to release the lespedeza, crabgrass or bermuda underneath.
Rotationally graze spring legumes to let the cattle spread the nitrogen across the pasture to boost forage growth in late spring and summer.
Summer through fall
Rotational grazing will maintain forage availability longer into dry periods.
Don't fertilize more acres than needed.
Don't graze lespedeza or crabgrass too early or too short. Grazing lespedeza before the plants are 8 in. tall causes the plants to grow prostrate, forming low-growing plants that cattle can't graze effectively.
Keep bermuda rotationally grazed to maintain it in a vegetative stage. When seed heads emerge, the plant stops growing.
Transition from summer to fall
In early August, some bermuda pastures short and fertilize for stockpiling for fall grazing. Stockpiled bermuda is grazed from October through December. Stockpiled forage can save $20/cow compared to feeding hay.
In early September, graze fescue short and fertilize for stockpiling. Stockpiled fescue can be grazed from December through February.
In September, graze other bermuda pastures short to prepare for interseeding winter annuals in late September or early October.
Graze crabgrass, johnsongrass and lespedeza before frost.
Fall through winter
Managing for stockpiled pasture is cheaper than feeding hay, but feeding hay for a short period in the fall may allow better stockpiled forage growth if other pasture runs short.
Use temporary electric fence to strip-graze stockpiled pastures. Strip-grazing stockpiled pasture doubles the number of grazing days per acre.
Use lower-quality forage for dry cows and high-quality pasture or hay for weaned calves or lactating cows.
Transition from fall to winter
Graze bermuda and fescue short where annuals or clover will be planted in fall, then go to stockpiled pasture.
Don't graze winter annuals too early. Wheat or ryegrass should be 8 in. tall before grazing.
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One of the most important aspects of a general marketing strategy is definitely determining best places to spend the the majority of time and price range. This strategy can decide the focus on the company’s messaging and will help the marketing group stay focused on achieving desired goals. This is the very first step in building a marketing prepare, and it will help keep the team preoccupied with the right path. Once the strategy is designed, the next step is to determine what to do up coming. Here are some tips to help you develop an overall market approach.
Once you’ve developed your entire marketing strategy, it is advisable to assess every single component. Your financial budget must indicate the amount of hard work needed to impact your target audience. This budget must reflect the allocation of your expenditures among the list of marketing-mix pieces, including marketing and advertising and promotional efforts. The spending budget should include various types of marketing and advertising and advertising techniques, as well as sales advertisements and trade promotions. In addition , you need to set aside money with respect to product development, the distribution, and personal selling.
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Infineon-led “SemI40” strengthens Europe with the “Learning Factory”
The research project SemI40 ("Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0") led by Infineon Austria was launched today. In this project 37 partners from five countries will carry out research into further developing autonomous factories. The common goal is the next stage in the development of Industry 4.0 applications. With a volume of 62 million euros, the research project is one of the largest Industry 4.0 projects in Europe.
“The European project will make a major contribution to keeping and strengthening production and jobs in Europe, thus contributing to a stronger business and technology location,†said Sabine Herlitschka, Chief Executive Officer of Infineon Austria. “From this cross-border cooperation all partners will profit and generate competitive advantages.†Infineon Technologies AG will contribute substantial know-how to the project thanks to its pioneering role in Industry 4.0 in Austria. The “Pilot Room Industry 4.0†in Villach offers ideal conditions for trying out new manufacturing processes in live operation.
SemI40 will focus on “smart production†and “cyber-physical production systems†in the next three years with secure data traffic playing a key role within and outside factories. In this regard the project’s aim is to develop processes that ensure secure communication between globally connected systems with different features – for example, in terms of age, operating system or interfaces. Potential impacts on production should be drastically reduced thanks to early identification of risks from malware.
Another major focus is the development of dynamic simulations. They enable production to be planned more exactly and efficiently, as well as quality, capacity utilization and cycle times to be improved.
Decisions in the production process are often routine ones and based on defined patterns. In future, the systems should increasingly make these decisions themselves – automatically and with a constant level of quality. In doing so, the people are relieved of exhausting routine giving them more time for more complex tasks.
Factories not only learn at all times, but must also be adaptable: To be able to respond faster to changes along the entire supply chain, production processes must adapt more flexibly to changes – in the configuration, flow of goods or customers’ order behavior, for example. The advantages are energy savings and more efficient use of resources overall.
SemI4.0 will also research the social impact on the jobs of the future: Industry 4.0 will change work functions and qualifications of employees in the long run. The requirements of future job profiles need to already be taken into account now. They increasingly entail system-oriented working and necessitate training and qualification measures that reflect the changes in production processes. As a result of these further developments, SemI40 will help secure more than 20,000 jobs at the companies involved. The project partners have a total of around 300,000 employees worldwide.
As befits the importance of SemI40, the kick-off event staged by Infineon Austria in Villach was attended by high-ranking project partners. The funders and policymakers were represented by Willy Van Puymbroeck, Bert De Colvenaer, Michael Wiesmüller and Gaby Schaunig: Van Puymbroeck is Head of Unit in the Directorate General CONNECT at the European Commission, Bert De Colvenaer is Executive Director of ECSEL Joint Undertaking, Michael Wiesmüller is Head of the Information and Industrial Technologies and Space Travel at the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT), and Gaby Schaunig is Deputy Governor of the State of Carinthia.
As a private-public partnership, SemI4.0 will increase the global competitiveness of the European electronics industry. It pools investments from industry, individual countries and ECSEL (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership) Joint Undertaking. Apart from investments from industry, SemI40 is co-funded by grants from Austria (BMVIT), Germany, France, Italy and Portugal and by ECSEL Joint Undertaking.
A further European innovation project headed by Infineon Technologies Dresden was launched yesterday: “ IoSense†(short for “Internet of Sensorsâ€). Its focus is on sensors and sensor systems for the Internet of Things. The companies conducting research are providers of Industry 4.0 solutions. Infineon is addressing the main aspects of Industry 4.0 with the user-oriented project SemI40 and the provider-oriented project IoSense. By initiating these innovation projects, Infineon underscores its commitment and leading role in semiconductor production in Europe.
SemI40 unites the strengths of 37 partners from five countries, Austria: Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft, AVL List GmbH, Fachhochschule Burgenland GmbH, Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Infineon Technologies Austria AG (project management), Infineon Technologies IT-Services GmbH, KAI Kompetenzzentrum Automobil- und Industrieelektronik GmbH, Know Center, Virtual Vehicle Research Center, Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH, Plansee SE, Vienna University of Technology, University of Klagenfurt;
Germany: ELMOS Semiconductor AG, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research, Infineon Technologies AG, Infineon Technologies Dresden GmbH, Institute for Automation and Communication in Magdeburg, Metralabs GmbH Neue Technologies und Systema, PLASMETREX GmbH, Roth & Rau – Ortner GmbH, Robert Bosch GmbH, Schiller Automatisierungstechnik GmbH, Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co.KG, Systementwicklung Dipl.-Inf. Manfred Austen GmbH, Dresden University of Technology, znt – Zentren für Neue Technologien GmbH;
France: Ion Beam Services; Italy: L.P.E. SPA, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi Pavia; Portugal: Critical Manufacturing SA, Instituto de Telecomunicações – Pólo de Aveiro, Nanium S.A., Universidade de Aveiro. | <urn:uuid:f0ad02bd-37e4-4033-bfbe-909a2fbb2687> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eepower.com/news/infineon-led-semi40-strengthens-europe-with-the-learning-factory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.863587 | 1,424 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Regional representative for Central and West Africa and island nations of Francophone Africa
Based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dominique is a founding member and Executive Director of Strong Roots Congo, a conservation and sustainable development NGO based in Democratic Republic of Congo (Strong Roots Congo is a Member of the ICCA Consortium). For twenty years, Dominique has worked to design and oversee conservation and sustainable development initiatives that aim to balance the needs of humans with those of forests and wildlife. A primary goal in his work is to integrate the knowledge of local communities and indigenous peoples into effectively conserved areas (whether officially protected or not). National and international organizations within and outside of the DRC have enlisted Dominique’s professional experience as an independent consultant. Dominique has written and co-authored articles, chapters, and teaching materials on topics related to the relationship between local communities and indigenous peoples and conserved areas, the preservation of great apes, and natural resources governance and management in general. | <urn:uuid:a1a67497-86fc-4855-a255-8c9bfa032a5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iccaconsortium.org/index.php/people/dominique-bikaba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952609 | 199 | 1.5 | 2 |
The maze in the park at Schönbrunn Palace actually consists of three parts: The maze, the labyrinth and the labyrinthicon playground. The maze was initially laid out around 1720 and then gradually abandoned until the last hedges were felled in 1892. In 1999, it was reconstructed based on historical models over an area of 1715m². The labyrinth is a relaxing place filled with games and fun for young and old like.
There is so much to discover in Schönbrunn. Make sure you have enough time to stroll through the entire estate. Click here for a map of the Schonbrunn Palace and estate.
- the labyrinth was planned by Günter Beltzig with the idea of a playground to experimentand discover for all generations
- An inventory of the palace gardens in 1900 counted 25,000 orchids of 1,500 different species which held the record as the largest collection in Europe at that time
- Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Franz Stephan of Lorraine had sixteen children! Eleven daughters and five sons…
Take part in the Grand Tour of Schönbrunn Palace to learn about the Viennese dynasty and get a glimpse into the old imperial world. Walk through the elaborate themed rooms from Sisi’s private chambers and beauty salon, to the Marie Antoinette room which was used to host family dinners. Marvel at the opulence of the Rococo décor that makes Schönbrunn Palace so unique – including the Room of Mirrors in which Mozart played his first performance as a child. Take in the plush carpets, huge paintings and silk wallpapers – there’s nothing underwhelming about this imperial summer residence!
Schönbrunn Palace is so vast that it is home to Vienna’s zoo, which also holds the title of the oldest zoo in the world. Built in 1752 by Emperor Franz I Stephan, Maria Theresa’s husband, it started off as a mere menagerie – now it attracts over 2million visitors a year to view the collection of rare animals. Recent record breaking events include the rare, natural conception of a baby panda Fu Long. With over 500 animal species, the Schönbrunn Zoo is considered one of the best and most modern zoo, with its historic charm ever present. Further information on Schönbrunn Zoo can be found here.
Marvel at the lavish carriages of the imperial family in the palace's Carriage Museum. The collection includes the elaborate carriage built for the coronation of Joseph II in 1764 - which weights 4000 kgs! - and was hand painted and carved by Franz Xaver Wagenschön. Further information on the Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna can be found here.
It was Joseph II who opened the palace gardens to the public in 1779. The design and garden architecture of the complex still bears the signature of his mother, Empress Maria Theresa. The park reflects the baroque concept of the palace, according to which architecture and nature had to interpenetrate. The park should also be a symbol of imperial power, which is expressed, for example, in the strictly symmetrical beds of the Great Parterre, which you shouldn't miss with the botanical garden.
The Palace gardens and park were open to the public in 1779 by Josepf II. It was Maria Theresias who helped design the intricate style and landscaping still visible today. The gardens reflect the same Baroque style and concepts – architecture and nature should be intertwined – that extend from the palace itself. The gardens were meant to be a symbol of imperial power, so don’t miss the ordered, symmetrical beds of the Great Parterre and the Botanical Garden.
1st July -31st August
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Bus Stop: Schloss Schönbrunn
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Join Kelly Falcone-Hall, President & CEO Western Reserve Historical Society and Dennis Barrie, PhD WRHS Director of Experience Design in this provoking virtual discussion. Museums have a responsibility to provide accurate experiences that benefit society. We use collections to share stories about the American experience. Increasingly, many museum collections as seen through the lens of the 21st century are controversial, representing a shared history that is troubling, tragic and unresolved. An honest, open discussion about mission and museums’ collective responsibility to the truth, when so much of the American experience, as seen through our eyes, is on the “wrong side of history”.
Free (suggested $5+ donation).
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Letters to the editor for Jan. 28
You’re on your own when it comes to protection
Regarding the column: “If not gun control now, when?” published Jan. 18 by Bonnie Erbe:
Why was it there was no “Wild West” as depicted by movies and television?
Most western towns were inhabited by Civil War veterans, well-trained in the use of arms.
Everyone was armed, as in 1855, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that citizens are on their own when it comes to safety.
Law enforcement is not obligated to protect anyone.
So no sane or even insane person would pull out a gun in the West as they would be very soon dead.
The same 1855 court ruling applies today; all citizens are on their own when it comes to being safe from crime, the police are not responsible for our safety.
Vermont and Alaska have far less restrictive laws than Arizona.
Federal gun laws are even less restrictive than most state gun-ban laws.
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Aug 24: BEST FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE
August 24, 2020
Pandemic is causing 8 million Canucks to rethink retirement
There’s no question that 2020 has been a year like no other. Its effects on the economy and our finances have been profound.
A new study by Edward Jones and research company Age Wave, reported on by Global News, shows what impacts the pandemic has had on retirement savings in particular.
The report says a whopping eight million Canadians “are rethinking their retirement timing” due to the pandemic. While one of every 10 Canucks still plans to retire early, “one third believe they will retire later,” citing financial concerns, the Global article notes.
“If many working adults were not adequately prepared for retirement, COVID-19 has thrown them even farther off course,” the article notes.
The study found that two million Canadians “have stopped making regular savings to their retirement savings.” Before the pandemic, the research shows, 54 per cent of adults were confident about retirement. Now, that confidence indicator is down to 39 per cent, Global reports.
“Those who think they’ll have to postpone retirement cited needing more income, shrunken savings, investment losses and increased uncertainty about how much they’ll need in retirement,” the article says. “The few who are considering anticipating retirement amid the pandemic, on the other hand, said they `realized that they were looking forward to retirement, or they want to spend time doing other things that are more important to them than work,’” the article states.
The article quotes financial author Alexandra Macqueen as noting that those with workplace pension plans, notably defined benefit plans, aren’t as impacted by the pandemic and can still choose to retire early.
(Save with SPP interviewed Alexandra Macqueen recently, here’s a link to the interview)
“What I’m … thinking more and more is that the difference between people with pensions and without is getting so much more stark,” she says in the Global article.
The article notes that older Canadians (boomers and the cohort that is older than them, the “Silent Generation”) are generally doing fairly well during the pandemic, while younger generations (millennials, Gen Z, and Gen X) are struggling.
The older are helping the younger financially, the article concludes, while the younger generations are making sure their elders are staying health, a “silver lining” of intergenerational cooperation amidst the pandemic.
The article underlies the disparity between those who have a workplace pension and those who don’t. When you’re in a plan at work, pension contributions are deducted from your pay – the savings is automatic, a “set it and forget it” way to pay yourself first.
The pandemic will eventually end, but if you lack a workplace pension plan, you still can set up an automatic retirement saving system of your own.
The Saskatchewan Pension Plan lets you automate your retirement savings through pre-authorized transfers from your bank account. You can start small – an affordable contribution – and ramp it up when you’re making more in the future. If there’s a trick to retirement saving, it’s to start doing it and then keep on with it. Starting and stopping won’t get you there. Pay your future self first. The money you set aside today may be missed in the short term, but in the long run you’ll have more security for the future, post-work years.
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This important subject is a Commentary on Sutras 29 and 30 of Book Two of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Yoga Sutras 2: 29. Self-restraints [yama], fixed observances [niyama], posture [asana], regulation of breath [pranayama], abstraction [pratyahara], concentration [dharana], contemplation [dhyana], trance [samadhi] are the eight parts (of the self-discipline of Yoga).
These eight “limbs” (angas) of yoga will now be considered in detail. I will be presenting sections from The Foundations of Yoga regarding them.
Yoga Sutras 2: 30. Vows of self-restraint [yama] comprise abstention from violence [ahimsa], falsehood [satya], theft [asteya], incontinence [brahmacharya] and acquisitiveness [aparigraha].
Non-injury: The first precept of Yama
Ahimsa: non-violence, non-injury, harmlessness
In his commentary on the Yoga Sutras, Vyasa begins his exposition of ahimsa: “Ahimsa means in no way and at no time to do injury to any living being.” “In no capacity and in no fashion to give injury to any being,” says Shankara. This would include injury by word or thought as well as the obvious injury perpetrated by deed, for Shankara comments: “Ahimsa is to be practiced in every capacity–body, speech, and mind.”
Even a simple understanding of the law of karma enables us to realize the terrible consequences of murder for the murderer. As Vyasa explains: “The killer deprives the victim of spirit, hurts him with a blow of a weapon, and then tears him away from life. Because he has deprived another of spirit, the supports of his own life, animate or inanimate, become weakened. Because he has caused pain, he experiences pain himself…. Because he has torn another from life, he goes to live in a life in which every moment he wishes to die, because the retribution as pain has to work itself right out, while he is panting for death.”
Ahimsa is not willfully causing any harm or pain whatsoever to any being whatsoever, in any degree whatsoever. Ahimsa includes strict abstinence from any form of injury in act, speech, or thought. Violence, verbal or physical, causing mental injury or pain, and angry or malicious damage or misuse of physical objects are all violations of ahimsa, unthinkable for the yogi.
Vyasa immediately points out that all the other abstinences and observances–yama and niyama–are really rooted in ahimsa, for they involve preventing harm to ourselves and to others through negative action or the neglect of positive action: “The other niyamas and yamas are rooted in this, and they are practiced only to bring this to its culmination, only for perfecting this. They are taught only as means to bring this out in its purity. For so it is said: ‘Whatever many vows the man of Brahman [God] would undertake, only in so far as he thereby refrains from doing harm impelled by delusion, does he bring out ahimsa in its purity.’” And Shankara explains that Vyasa is referring to delusion that is “rooted in violence and causing violence.”
In the highest sense ahimsa is a state of mind from which non-injury will naturally proceed.In his autobiography Paramhansa Yogananda relates that his guru, Swami Yukteswar Giri, said that ahimsa is absence of the desire to injure. In the highest sense ahimsa is a state of mind from which non-injury will naturally proceed. “Ahimsa really denotes an attitude and mode of behavior towards all living creatures based on the recognition of the underlying unity of life,” the modern commentator Taimni declares. Shankara remarks that when ahimsa and the others are observed “the cause of one’s doing harm becomes inoperative.” The ego itself becomes “harmless” by being put into a state of non-function. And meditation dissolves it utterly. But until that interior state is established, we must work backwards from outward to inner, and abstain from all forms of injury.
The aspiring yogi must clearly realize that the observance of ahimsa must include strict abstinence from the eating of animal flesh in any form or degree as well as the use of anything obtained by or derived from the slaughter of animals.
He must do nothing in thought, word, or deed that harms his body, mind, or spirit. On the other hand, he must do whatever benefits the body, mind, and spirit, for their omission is also a form of self-injury, as is the non-observance of any of the yama or niyamas.
Truthfulness: The second precept of Yama
Satya: truthfulness, honesty
“Satya is said to be speech and thought in conformity with what has been seen or inferred or heard on authority. The speech spoken to convey one’s own experience to others should be not deceitful, nor inaccurate, nor uninformative. It is that uttered for helping all beings. But that uttered to the harm of beings, even if it is what is called truth, when the ultimate aim is merely to injure beings, would not be truth. It would be a wrong.” So says Vyasa.
Untruthfulness in any form puts us out of harmony with the fundamental law of TruthShankara says that truthfulness means saying what we have truly come to know is the truth–mostly through our own experience or through contact with sources whose reliability we have experienced for ourselves. “Untruthfulness in any form puts us out of harmony with the fundamental law of Truth and creates a kind of mental and emotional strain which prevents us from harmonizing and tranquilizing our mind. Truthfulness has to be practiced by the sadhaka because it is absolutely necessary for the unfoldment of intuition. There is nothing which clouds the intuition and practically stops its functioning as much as untruthfulness in all its forms,” says Taimni regarding the most personal and practical aspect of satya.
Bending the truth, either in leaving out part of the truth or in “stacking the deck” to create a false impression, cannot be engaged in by the yogi. Regarding numbers it is said that “figures do not lie–but liars figure.” The same is true here. Equally heinous is the intentional mixing of lies and truth. (Some liars tell a lot of truth.) This is particularly true in the manipulative endeavors of advertising, politics, and religion.
Refusing to speak the truth, as well as avoiding speaking or facing the truth, is a form of untruth.
There are many non-verbal forms of lying as well, and some people’s entire life is a lie. Therefore we must make sure that our actions reflect the truth. How many people claim to believe in God and spiritual principles, but do not live accordingly? How many people continually swear and express loyalty and yet are betrayers? We must not only speak the truth, we must live it.
Honesty in all our speaking and dealings with others is an essential part of truthfulness. It is absolutely crucial that the yogi make his livelihood only by honest and truthful means. Selling useless or silly things, convincing people that they need them (or even selling them without convincing them), is a serious breach of truthfulness.
Trying to compromise the truth, even a little, making the excuse that “everybody does it” is not legitimate. For “everybody” is bound to the wheel of birth and death because they do it–and that is not what we wish for ourselves. We can lie to ourselves, to others, and even to God; but we cannot lie to the cosmos. Karma, the law of cause and effect, will react upon us to our own pain.
It is interesting that Vyasa considers that truthful speech is informative. By that he means that truthful speech is worthwhile, relevant, and practical. To babble mindlessly and grind out verbal trivia is also a form of untruth, even if not objectively false. Nor is foolish speech to anyone’s gain. Sometimes also people lie by “snowing” us with a barrage of words intended to deflect us from our inquiries. And nearly all of us who went to college remember the old game of padding out written assignments, giving lots of form but little content in hope of fooling the teachers into thinking the student knew the subject well and was saying something worthwhile–even profound. This is one of today’s most lucrative businesses, especially in the advertising world.
Speaking truth to the hurt of others is not really truth, since satya is an extension of ahimsa. For example, a person may be ugly, but to say, “You are ugly” is not a virtue. “What is based on injuring others, even though free from the three defects of speech (i.e., not deceitful, nor inaccurate, nor uninformative), does not amount to truth,” according to Shankara.
Our intention must never be to hurt in any way, but we must be aware that there are some people who hate the truth in any form and will accuse us of hurting them by our honesty. Such persons especially like to label any truth (or person) they dislike as “harsh,” “rigid,” “divisive,” “negative” “hateful,” and so on and on and on. We would have to become dishonest or liars to placate them. So “hurting” or offending them is a consequence of truthfulness that we will have to live with. The bottom line is that truth “is that uttered for helping all beings.” For non-injury is not a passive quality, but the positive character of restoration and healing.
Will Cuppy defined diplomacy as “the fine art of lying.”Silence can also be a form of untruth, particularly in dealing with the aforementioned truth-haters. For truth is only harmful when “the ultimate aim is merely to injure beings.” But if some people put themselves in the way of truth, then they must take responsibility for their reactions to it.
Will Cuppy defined diplomacy as “the fine art of lying.” Sadly, it often is. So we must be sure that we do not deceive under the guise of diplomacy or tactfulness.
Self-deception, a favorite with nearly all of us to some degree, must be ruthlessly eliminated if we would be genuinely truthful.
“Therefore let one take care that his speech is for the welfare of all,” concludes Shankara.
Non-stealing: The third precept of Yama
Asteya: non-stealing, honesty, non-misappropriation
Asteya is abstinence from stealing, which Vyasa defines as: “the improper appropriation to oneself of others’ things.” He then concludes: “Refusal to do it, in freedom from desire, is non-stealing.”
What constitutes ordinary stealing is well known to almost all, but human beings have thought up countless ways to steal and not seem to be stealing–all the way from putting slugs in pay telephones to getting people to give us things or money which we neither need nor deserve. Theft and untruth are certainly interrelated. So we must analyze Vyasa’s definition and apply it to our situation. But we can consider a few “fudges” that have become respectable and prevalent.
- Taking credit that really belongs to another.
- Plagiarism, especially in academic matters.
- Taking what is not ours, while pretending that we either own it or have it coming to us.
- Taking what is not legitimately coming to us, even if freely given. People do this continually in relation to welfare benefits and insurance claims.
- Demanding more than a just price or a just wage.
- No paying debts–including taxes.
- Forcing others to give us something we want from them, whether material or metaphysical.
- Not giving to others what we owe them or what we are legally or morally obligated to give. A lot of people (especially churches and religious groups) expect others to continually give them things or services which they are perfectly capable of paying for. (I am not speaking about unsolicited gifts or charity–that is virtuous.) Or they want big discounts given to them.
Once a natural health practitioner–whose financial situation was much worse than mine–told me that she was willing to charge only half her usual fee for my treatment, and would even treat me for free if I wanted. I explained to her that since I could afford the full amount it would be stealing from her for me to either accept a discount or free treatment. And I cited the Yoga Sutras in support of my contention. The law applies to all.
The prophet Malachi posed the question, “Will a man rob God?” (Malachi 3:8) That is extremely easy to do and extremely common. We all need to ponder that possibility seriously and see if in some way we are doing that very thing.
But all these forms of stealing are inner or outer acts, whereas Vyasa defines non-stealing as essentially a psychological state of “freedom from desire.” This, then, is the goal of abstinence from stealing. What must be attained is the state of mind in which there is absolutely no desire or impulse to steal. “Stealing cannot exist in those whose desire has been cut off,” says Shankara.
Continence: The fourth precept of Yama
“Brahmacharya is restraint of the sex organ and other senses,” says Vyasa. From this we see that brahmacharya has a twofold nature: control and continence.
Diffusion and dissipation of energy always weakens us.Spirit has two aspects: consciousness and energy. Consciousness is constant, whereas energy is cyclic. It is the movement of energy that produces (and is) our experience of relativity, and it is the development of energy that is the process of evolution. Therefore the conservation and application of energy is the main determinant of success or failure in spiritual endeavor. Diffusion and dissipation of energy always weakens us. Hence brahmacharya is a vital element of Yoga, without which we cannot successfully pursue the greater life of Higher Consciousness.
Basically, brahmacharya is conservation and mastery of all the energy systems and powers of our being. This is especially true in relation to negative emotions, for tremendous energy is expended through lust, anger, greed, envy, hatred, resentment, depression, fear, obsession, and the rest. Further, they are both the causes and the symptoms of losing self-control, a major aspect of brahmacharya.
Research has shown that persons in the grip of these emotions literally breathe out vital elements of the body. For example, the breath of angry people is found to be laden with copper. So negative emotion depletes us physically as well as energetically. Positive emotions on the other hand actually enhance and raise our energy and physical levels. The cultivation of (true) love, compassion, generosity, cheerfulness, friendliness, and suchlike make us stronger and calmer–essential aspects of brahmacharya. It is noteworthy that the word “virtue” is derived from the Latin word virtus–power–which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word virya, which means both power and strength.
“A place for everything and everything in its place,” is not just a maxim of orderliness. When applied to the individual’s energy systems it is the root of strength and health on all levels. Every atom of personal energy possessed by us has both a place and a purpose. To ensure correct placement, and expenditure, of energy is the essence of the yogic science. And brahmacharya is its foundation.
Sexuality is usually considered the main focus of brahmacharya because it has such a powerful grip and influence on the human being. It is considered that if sex is mastered, all the senses will be mastered as well. There is simply no way to convince those addicted to and enslaved by sex that continence is supreme wisdom. But a few facts can be meaningful to the sincere seeker.
Sexual indulgence is incalculably more destructive of consciousness than any other form of sense experience.The life of the senses stifles the life of the spirit by carrying away the discrimination of the intellect, as Krishna says: “The mind, which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away discrimination, as the wind a boat on the waters” (Bhagavad Gita 2:67). The basic life-force, the prana, is dissipated through any intense activity of the senses, thus weakening the inner being. But sexual indulgence is incalculably more destructive of consciousness than any other form of sense experience, for it expends the life-force to a degree far, far beyond that of other sense experiences. Both body and mind are depleted through sexual activity.
The Prashna Upanishad concludes: “It is in those who have tapas and brahmacharya that truth is established” (Prashna Upanishad 1:15). The Gita speaks of the worthy yogis as being “firm in their vow of brahmacharya” (Bhagavad Gita 6:14).
For practical information on brahmacharya the following books are extremely valuable: WARNING: Sex May Be Hazardous to Your Health by Dr. Edwin Flatto, Science Discovers The Physiological Value of Continence and Nutritional Sex Control and Rejuvenation by the great twentieth century Rosicrucian, Dr. Raymond Bernard, The Practice of Brahmacharya, by Swami Sivananda, and The Role of Celibacy in Spiritual Life by Swami Chidananda.
Non-greed: The fifth precept of Yama
Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, non-acquisitiveness
Aparigraha includes the ideas of non-possessiveness, non-greed, non-selfishness, and non-acquisitiveness. Vyasa’s definition is most practical: “Seeing the defects in objects involved in acquiring them, and defending them, and losing them, and being attached to them, and depriving others of them, one does not take them to himself, and that is aparigraha.” Here, as in the other foundations, the true virtue or observance is mostly internal, leading to the correct state of mind for successful yoga practice.
Basically, when a person sees all the effort expended on “things” as well as the unhappiness attendant on both keeping and losing them–what to speak of awareness of their inherent defects–he wisely backs away and frees himself from Thingolatry. Of course we all have to obtain and use many kinds of things, but we can do so objectively, not letting ourselves get stuck up in them like the tar baby of the Uncle Remus story. Being possessed by possessions is truly a great misery; and the belief that happiness comes from external things is truly a great folly.
People do literally lose themselves in “stuff,” for they adopt a completely false self-concept. To think that we are what we “have” is to forget who and why we are. Aparigraha clears the inner eye and lets us see our true “face.”
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14 CFR § 125.189 - Demonstration of emergency evacuation procedures.
(a) Each certificate holder must show, by actual demonstration conducted in accordance with paragraph (a) of appendix B of this part, that the emergency evacuation procedures for each type and model of airplane with a seating of more than 44 passengers, that is used in its passenger-carrying operations, allow the evacuation of the full seating capacity, including crewmembers, in 90 seconds or less, in each of the following circumstances:
(1) A demonstration must be conducted by the certificate holder upon the initial introduction of a type and model of airplane into passenger-carrying operations. However, the demonstration need not be repeated for any airplane type or model that has the same number and type of exits, the same cabin configuration, and the same emergency equipment as any other airplane used by the certificate holder in successfully demonstrating emergency evacuation in compliance with this paragraph.
(2) A demonstration must be conducted -
(i) Upon increasing by more than 5 percent the passenger seating capacity for which successful demonstration has been conducted; or
(ii) Upon a major change in the passenger cabin interior configuration that will affect the emergency evacuation of passengers.
(b) If a certificate holder has conducted a successful demonstration required by § 121.291(a) in the same type airplane as a part 121 or part 123 certificate holder, it need not conduct a demonstration under this paragraph in that type airplane to achieve certification under part 125.
(c) Each certificate holder operating or proposing to operate one or more landplanes in extended overwater operations, or otherwise required to have certain equipment under § 125.209, must show, by a simulated ditching conducted in accordance with paragraph (b) of appendix B of this part, that it has the ability to efficiently carry out its ditching procedures.
(d) If a certificate holder has conducted a successful demonstration required by § 121.291(b) in the same type airplane as a part 121 or part 123 certificate holder, it need not conduct a demonstration under this paragraph in that type airplane to achieve certification under part 125.
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Tips for reducing cold-weather wear
- Use a lighter weight of bar-chain oil, or dilute bar-chain oil 25% with clean kerosene or diesel oil (you’ll need to use twice as much of the diluted oil) and be certain your chain is receiving oil from the saw.
- Keep your chain correctly tensioned.
- Check and adjust often.
- Keep cutters sharp.
- Touch up every hour, more often if needed.
- Do not force dull chain to cut.
- It's recommended to check the bite of cutters is regulated by the height of the leading portion of each cutter, commonly known as the depth gauge.
- Check and adjust your cutter's depth gauges at every sharpening.
- Keep the bar groove clean and oil holes open.
- Turn symmetrical bars over to equalize rail wear.
- Replace the sprocket after every two chains, or sooner if wear is evident.
- Be sure to read the operator's manual supplied with your chainsaw in its entirety.
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State officials confirmed 62,526 new COVID-19 cases across New York on Sunday, the latest in a surge of cases after the holidays.
The latest numbers from Gov. Kathy Hochul's office show 8,773 people are in the hospital with the virus and more than 1,100 of those patients are in the ICU.
"New Yorkers returning to schools and workplaces on the first weekday of 2022 should take every possible precaution to stop the spread of COVID-19," Hochul said in a statement. "We all know the tools that keep us safe: vaccines, boosters, masks and tests. Let's all do our part and take these common-sense precautions, so New York can defeat the winter surge and come back stronger than before."
Sadly, another 83 people died from COVID across New York on Sunday.
The state's daily positivity rate average is 22.69%, while New York's seven-day positivity average is now 20.87%. Long Island continues to lead New York with a positivity rate of over 24%.
The state's vaccination status continues to go in the right direction, with just under 70% of all New Yorkers being fully vaccinated.
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Semantic SEO became a major part of ranking web pages when Google moved to entity search from phrase based matching to determine relevance. This means that relevance is now determined by the frequency and location of entities in the query corpus. A query corpus is all the results returned for a search. After the move to entity based search there seems to be some misunderstanding in the community about how relevance is determined.
How to Raise Semantic Relevance
To raise relevance you include the entities and the entity relationships found in the query corpus in your page using the same frequency and locations. Phrase based matching counted the matches and the context of the match. Some entity frequency is likely not as much about count as just being included, however, for the main entity frequency likely is more like phrase based matching in that the number of times it appears will raise document relevance.
Entity location is not just about where the entity appears in the web page it is also about its location in the context of other entities and its entity relationships. It’s important that the entity’s relationship to other entities and its own relationships are easily determined. This is done by placing the entity within the context of the relationships and other entities.
Why Semantic SEO Deserves a Separate Audit
The reasons for the many different types of SEO audits are:
- recommendations are implemented by a specific department or professional
- for organization of larger audits
- to analyze specific types of ranking problems
When I decided to look at what should be included in a Semantic SEO audit or if there were any benefits to adding a Semantic SEO audit I realized that presently a lot of the analysis for Semantic SEO is covered in the other types of audits including:
- Technical SEO Audit
- On-page SEO Audit
- Content Audit
- Link Audit
- Social Audit
- Local SEO Audit
Most of the above are easy to identify the Semantic SEO elements within them with the exceptions of Social and Local audits. Consider that schema is a huge part of optimizing Semantic SEO elements which Social profiles should be included in Organization or Local Business schema as SameAs items and the info in the GBP (Google Business Profile) is usually the reference for a business knowledge Panel.
Since, as mentioned earlier, Semantic SEO is how you optimize for entity search and that is a key to relevance and ranking it therefore deserves a separate audit. Also much of the optimization is implemented by more technical personnel who can write schema and do other analysis.
What Should be Included in a Semantic SEO Audit
Once I determined that there were benefits to doing a separate Semantic SEO audit I started thinking about what should be included in the audit and came up with the following:
- SERP features analysis
- Schema review
- Content & On-Page SEO analysis
I would recommend the people doing the related Semantic SEO audit do data collection and analysis at the same time as the other audits are being done but that the semantic elements within them be reported in the Semantic SEO portion of the audit.
SERP Features Analysis for a Semantic SEO Audit
I decided that SERP features should be included in this audit because rich results often require schema and for audit organization purposes there is a benefit to having all features clustered together. Audits that I have written or reviewed by others have these important SERP features in separate audit or areas. I think there is extra value in the audit if SERP features are clustered together.
The following are the SERP features that should be analyzed:
- Knowledge Panel
- Rich Results
- Featured Snippets
Knowledge Panel Analysis
Since this post is about auditing Semantic SEO implementation I will point you to this post on how to get Knowledge Panels for notable people, artists and businesses for information on how to implement any recommendations.
The first thing that should be done for knowledge panels is to determine if the knowledge panel needs to be claimed. All knowledge Panels that aren’t for a business should be claimed so you have the ability to edit the knowledge panel. Business knowledge panels are edited using your GBP (Google Business Profile).
Verify that all information in the Knowledge Panel is correct and that the Knowledge Panel appears when the business name is searched. It is important to determine the search(s) that panels appear for.
For instance I discovered that a well known architect in the UK did not get a knowledge panel because his firm name was his name so the business GBP appeared. I am sure that since he has a Wikipedia entry he could get 2 knowledge Panels with a small change to the business name in the GBP.
Rich Results Analysis
Rich Results analysis consists of reviewing the schema markup for errors and omissions which can be found in Google Search Console (GSC). Reviewing the GSC for errors and omissions is important because Google’s requirements for implementation of schema is sometimes different than schema.org.
Google Rich results test is the best way to check if schema implementation is correct and the if the page is ok for adding rich results. Not all pages are able to support rich results. For instance I discovered a page could not support rich results because a YouTube embed used robots.txt to block access to it.
Once the schema has been verified as error free the next step would be to determine if there are missed opportunities to add schema to older content or add content that includes rich snippets. Review the gallery of all Google structured data types for information about the different types of Google supported structured data and how to implement them.
Featured Snippets Analysis
The first task is to determine if there are currently any featured snippets which can usually be found in most popular rank reporting programs. Any first page rankings are candidates for featured snippets. See Featured Snippets 101: The Basics & SEO Strategies to Maximize Traffic for more information.
Schema Markup Review
Most of the information above on rich results and featured snippets verification and finding opportunities is applicable to the schema markup review. There are Google unsupported schema like services that an SEO may want to include for future proofing and other crawlers and search engines. For this markup you can use the Schema.org validator for validation.
Remember that schema is used to make the content in it machine readable. There are also item types in Google supported structured data that are not required but do make a page easier for Google to understand what the page is about.
I make sure that all blog posts have article schema and that the schema includes both About and Mentions item types. By their names you can see the value including these item types. They identify the entities the article is about and associated entities that are mentioned. This site isn’t currently adding article schema because I am developing a plugin.
Content & On-page Analysis for Semantic SEO
Although it is well understood in the industry that entities are important for raising relevance it isn’t fully understood that the entities and their relationships must be found in the query corpus in order to raise relevance.
The on-page portion for a Semantic SEO audit should do the same analysis as was done previously, however, instead of evaluating the use and context of keywords you would evaluate the use of entities and relationships.
The biggest difference is that you aren’t evaluating the use of keywords you are also evaluating the use of all entities and relationships in the query corpus. The easiest way to do this is to search Google using the query to get a list of the top results. I generally will use only 2 or 3. I like to take the first, fifth and tenth positions to see how they differ.
There are a number of entity extraction apps on the web, however, I use this free Google cloud app that shows the location and frequency of entities in a page using NLP (Natural Language Processing). By comparing your page to the results from the cloud app you can determine if location and frequency of entities and relationships is optimal.
There are three reports provided by the NLP cloud app. In addition to the entity info it scores the sentiment on sentences and paragraphs which may be important for determining intent. The third is a category classification and score which there was definite correlation between the category score and ranking of the page.
Semantic SEO Audit Conclusions
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Public vs. private: Which is right for your child?
When you were old enough to begin kindergarten, chances are you went to the public school around the corner, or perhaps to the religious school a short bus ride away. For your parents, the choice of schools was probably pretty simple.
Not any more. Today education is a complex and compelling topic in our national dialogue. Questions about school quality, accountability, curriculum, and teacher training arise each day, and we explore them in the newspapers, during political debates, and over kitchen tables all across the country.
What this means for you, as you try to decide on the best school for your child, is that you have to do your homework. Choosing a school for your child is one of the most important decisions you will make. To do a good job, you have to educate yourself so you can be a savvy consumer. That means researching, networking, and making sure that you understand all the choices available to you and your child.
Even the distinction between public and private schools is no longer as straightforward as it once was. It may well be that your local public school is a better educational match for your child than an exclusive private school with a national reputation and a price tag to match. And although some research shows that private schools tend to have superior academic programs, this isn't always the case — and the gap may be narrowing. Despite their sometimes negative press, public schools are actually getting better. "If you want a good, general, all-around education, a really strong public school might be your best bet," says Ellen Booth Church, a New York-based consultant in early childhood education.
At the same time, however, private school may be more affordable than you ever realized, and shouldn't be ruled out on financial grounds alone.
To help you make your decision, here are some of the advantages of public and private schools.
The benefits of public schools
Teachers have more qualifications. According to a major study from the National Center for Education Statistics, public school teachers tend to be more qualified than their independent school counterparts in terms of education and experience. For example, they're more likely to have a master's degree, and to have logged more hours pursuing in-service study — learning, for example, how to use computers in the classroom. The report also indicates that on average, public school teachers earn higher salaries than those in private schools do.
Students spend more time studying core subjects. The same study reports that public school students study core subjects — including English, math, social studies, and science — three more hours per week than private school students.
Public schools can sponsor more activities. When it comes to offering extra-curricular sports and clubs, academic support, and better supplies and learning tools, public schools have the edge. Why? Most public schools are simply bigger than private schools, and have enough students to pull off a science fair or power a chorus or computer club. What's more, federal and state laws require public schools to provide diagnostic and disability services. Public schools are more likely to offer gifted and talented and remedial programs, too.
The student population tends to be more diverse. A private education is usually out of reach for poorer students, which means that it's less likely to introduce your child to children of various races and socioeconomic backgrounds. If you want your child to know children from all walks of life, then a public school is for you.
The advantages of private schools
Schools and classes tend to be much smaller. According to the National Center for Education Statistics study, private schools tend to be half as large as public schools. Many experts feel that children are less likely to get lost in the shuffle if they attend a smaller school, which naturally nurtures a sense of community and belonging. In addition, the teacher-student ratios in private schools tend to be more favorable, says the National Association for Independent Schools. On average, private schools have a student-teacher ratio of 9:1 as opposed to about 17:1 in public schools.
There's often less bureaucracy. Because private schools don't have to abide by certain state regulations, they spend less time on mandated paperwork and more on instruction. They also are not compelled to focus on test scores. As a result, teachers tend to enjoy more autonomy in the classroom and have more creative control over their teaching methods.
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Mrs. McAvoy's Middle School Math Class
Thank you for visiting my website. You can email me through the contact Mrs. McAvoy link on the side of the page and ask questions, share comments, or receive information. Through the great websites link you can find the tutorial program from the textbook to receive extra help at home. Middle school is a wonderful time in life, full of achievements, goal setting and memories. I look forward to helping you explore math in middle school. Please let me know how I can help you to have your best year ever!
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The Calculator that we use in class is the TI-15. It is avaliable to order online for around $20 if you wish for your child to have one to use at home. I have not been able to find them in any local store so online ordering is necessary. If you do order one for your child, please have them leave it at home so that it is not mixed in with the school use calculators. This particular calculator will be used in grades 6-8. It is not the calculator used in high school and is not required for middle school since we have calculators in the classroom however, your child may find it helpful to have one at home.
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If your trolling motor’s pull rope has seen better days, it’s time to replace it. Luckily, this is a relatively easy process that anyone can do. All you’ll need is a new pull rope, a pair of pliers, and a screwdriver.
With these tools and a little bit of patience, you’ll have your trolling motor up and running in no time.
- Locate the pull rope end cap on the trolling motor
- Unscrew the end cap, and remove the old pull rope
- Cut a new piece of rope to the same length as the old rope, and thread it through the end cap
- Screw the end cap back on, and test the new pull rope
Replacing Your Trolling Motor Pull Cord Rope
How do you replace the pull cord on a Motorguide trolling motor?
If your Motorguide trolling motor is giving you trouble, it might be time to replace the pull cord. Luckily, this is a relatively easy fix that you can do yourself. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to replace the pull cord on a Motorguide trolling motor.
1. Disconnect the power. Before you do anything, make sure to disconnect the power to the trolling motor. This is for your safety and to prevent any damage to the motor.
2. Remove the cover. Once the power is disconnected, you can remove the cover of the trolling motor. This will give you access to the pull cord.
3. Cut the old cord. Use a pair of scissors or a knife to cut the old cord. Make sure to cut it as close to the housing as possible.
4. Thread the new cord. Take the new cord and thread it through the housing. Make sure that you leave enough slack so that you can easily grip the cord when you need to.
5. Tie a knot. Once the cord is threaded through, tie a knot at the end. This will prevent the cord from slipping out.
6. Replace the cover. Put the cover back on the trolling motor and screw it into place. 7. Reconnect the power. Once everything is back in place, you can reconnect the power and test out the new cord.
How do you fix a trolling motor handle?
If you’re having trouble with your trolling motor handle, there are a few things you can do to try and fix it. First, make sure that the handle is securely fastened to the trolling motor. Sometimes, the handle can become loose over time and simply needs to be tightened.
If the handle is still loose after tightening, you may need to replace the handle. Another thing you can try is to lubricate the handle. If the handle is sticking or hard to move, lubricating it may help.
Use a light oil or lubricant and apply it to the handle. Move the handle back and forth to work the lubricant into the mechanism. If neither of these solutions works, the problem may be with the trolling motor itself.
In this case, you’ll need to take the trolling motor to a qualified technician to have it repaired or replaced.
Diy trolling motor pull cord
If your trolling motor pull cord has seen better days, or if you just want to save some money by doing it yourself, then this tutorial is for you! It’s actually pretty easy to replace your own trolling motor pull cord, and you’ll only need a few tools and supplies.
First, you’ll need to gather up a new pull cord, some wire cutters, and some electrical tape.
You’ll also need a screwdriver to remove the old cord. Once you have everything you need, start by unscrewing the old cord from the trolling motor. Be careful not to lose any of the small parts!
Next, take your new cord and thread it through the trolling motor, just like the old one. Make sure to leave enough slack so that you can easily pull the cord when you’re out on the water. Finally, use the wire cutters to trim any excess cord, and then use the electrical tape to secure the end of the cord.
That’s it! You’ve successfully replaced your trolling motor pull cord.
Trolling motor pull rope
If you’ve ever been out on a boat, you’ve probably seen a trolling motor in action. But what exactly is a trolling motor? And how does it work?
A trolling motor is a small, electrically-powered motor that is used to propel a boat forward at slow speeds. Trolling motors are typically used on smaller boats, such as fishing boats, where the added maneuverability can be helpful in getting to those hard-to-reach fishing spots. So how does a trolling motor work?
It’s actually pretty simple. The trolling motor is mounted on the back of the boat, and a long rope is attached to it. The operator of the boat then uses the rope to pull the trolling motor back and forth, which propels the boat forward.
The trolling motor pull rope is an essential part of the trolling motor, and it’s important to choose the right one for your boat. There are a few things to consider when selecting a trolling motor pull rope, such as length, material, and breaking strength. length: The length of the trolling motor pull rope will determine how much of the motor is in the water, and how much is above the waterline.
A longer rope will keep more of the motor out of the water, which can be helpful in shallow waters. material: The material of the trolling motor pull rope is also important to consider. Nylon rope is a popular choice because it’s strong and durable.
Trolling motor rope knot
If you’re an avid fisherman, then you know that having a trolling motor is a necessity. But did you know that there’s a particular way to tie your trolling motor rope so that it doesn’t come undone? It’s called the trolling motor rope knot and it’s easy to learn.
Here’s how to do it: 1. Take the end of the rope and make a small loop. 2. Thread the end of the rope through the loop.
3. Pull the end of the rope tight. 4. Wrap the rope around the base of the trolling motor. 5. Thread the end of the rope through the loop again.
6. Pull the end of the rope tight. Now you know how to tie the trolling motor rope knot. Be sure to practice it a few times so that you can do it quickly and easily when you’re out on the water.
If your Motorguide trolling motor is in need of a new pull rope, don’t worry – it’s a quick and easy fix! Just follow these simple steps and you’ll have your trolling motor up and running in no time.
1. Begin by removing the old pull rope from the trolling motor.
You can do this by simply pulling it through the sheath. 2. Cut a new piece of rope to the desired length, making sure it is long enough to comfortably reach the ground when the trolling motor is in the water. 3. Thread the new rope through the sheath, being careful not to damage the sheath in the process.
4. Tie a knot in the end of the rope, making sure it is secure. 5. Test the new pull rope by pulling on it to make sure it is securely attached to the trolling motor. And that’s it!
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Beau Pres Road
Local government uses SierraScape® to repair a landslip and provide community with a working access road.
- Owner/Developer: Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Contractor: Ministry of Work & Transportation; UNISURE Limited
- Engineer: Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Programme for Upgrading Roads Efficiency (P.U.R.E.)
For years, the community along Beau Pres Road did not have an adequate access road due to a landslip that occurred after a heavy rain event. Many options were analyzed, and all exceeded the available repair budget.
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High time for Hemp
Hemp is one of the most eco-friendly fibers for our environment. The stem and stalk of the cannabis plant have various values. In fact, the entire hemp plant is useful to us. Hemp requires very little water compared to the other fabric plants. It needs no pesticides and chemical fertilizers which makes it the best option to choose to keep the point of sustainability in mind. Hemp had been in controversy because it is from the family of marijuana. However, the use of hemp has been read and brought to the mainstream in the current times. A lot of people are associated with its cultivation and production of hemp fibers and have been able to make their mark in the market! However, while marijuana contains 20 percent tetrahydrocannabinol content (THC) which causes the high when smoked, industrial hemp only contains 1 percent THC. This fiber has some incredible properties: it conducts heat, dyes well, resists mildew, blocks ultraviolet light, and has natural anti-bacterial properties. The best part about hemp is its attributes. Automobile companies like BMW use hemp fiber to reinforce their door panels for better safety standards. There’s even an urban legend that claims the first pair of Levis jeans were made from hemp!
Hemp is not only a plant but also but has magical properties. The fiber produced from it naturally is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, breathable, sustainable, and organic. However, the list is long but these are noteworthy. Hemp is gradually getting its place in the market in the areas like fashion, upholstery, home furnishing, and home décor. Hemp has a lot of resemblances with linen. The most noteworthy out of all is its dense and rigid texture which does get softer over time and wash. Hemp grows thrice as fast as cotton and only needs one-third of the water than cotton. Because of no use of fertilizers in the cultivation of hemp the soil doesn’t lose its nutrients and hence one plot can yield much more crops.
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California has ranked among the leading states that are helping public and private sector fleets transition to electric and zero emission vehicles.
Those efforts include regulations to ensure the vehicles are available and incorporated into fleets, incentives to make the move to cleaner technologies more feasible, and education/outreach activities to raise fleets’ awareness of the benefits of zero-emission vehicles and how to make the switch, said Hannah Goldsmith, the lead advisor in Zero Emission Vehicle Market Development at California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz).
So far, transit agencies in California have been at the forefront of the transition to zero-emission vehicles. SunLine Transit Agency in Thousand Palms, California, for example, began operating hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2000 and has since incorporated many hydrogen fuel-cell and battery-electric buses into its fleet. SunLine has also committed to transition its entire fleet to zero-emission technology by 2035, five years ahead of the requirement in the California Air Resource Board’s Innovative Clean Transit Regulation.
With its reputation of being on the forefront of clean and zero-emission vehicles, California’s state fleet and many private companies have been increasing their deployment of zero-emission vehicles as well.
Here is a brief overview and links of programs fleet managers in California can take advantage of:
- The Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP), which aims to accelerate the adoption of cleaner, more-efficient trucks and buses, and its companion program, the Clean Off-Road Equipment Incentive Project (CORE), which helps deploy zero-emission off-road freight equipment. Both programs are funded through the California Climate Investments, allocated by the California Air Resources Board and administered by CALSTART. Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed January budget seeks to allocate $315 million over the next year to clean truck, bus, and off-road equipment programs like these.
- The California Air Resources Board’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard incentivizes the use of cleaner fuels, like electricity and hydrogen, through a market mechanism. Fleets that charge their electric trucks or buses are eligible for EV fleet charging credits, which can then be sold to yield revenue for the fleet. Transit agencies enrolled in the LCFS program are estimated to see about $10,000 of credit revenue/year per battery-electric transit bus (see, e.g., CARB presentation, slide 12).
- The California Energy Commission’s Clean Transportation Program funds many medium- and heavy-duty ZEV and infrastructure projects. This includes a first-of-its-kind joint funding solicitation from the Commission and CARB for a large-scale deployment of zero-emission Class 8 trucks and the infrastructure to support these vehicles (with each agency contributing $20 million).
Fleet managers can visit the following websites to search the full landscape of grant, financing, and other types of programs related to ZEVs as well:
- ZEV Funding Opportunities | California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development: Includes programs for vehicles, infrastructure, and other opportunities.
- Funding Finder - CALSTART Rebate Finder (fundingfindertool.org): A new tool from CALSTART that includes state, utility, and other funding programs; focused on medium-, heavy-duty, and off-road technologies and fueling/charging infrastructure.
- Home - California Grants Portal: A resource to help Californians and businesses find grant and other funding programs related to ZEVs and beyond.
- Incentive Search | DriveClean (ca.gov): This one is primarily geared towards light-duty ZEVs and includes a variety of opportunities from the state and other entities.
Beyond incentives, the state is also working to provide better and more organized resources to fleets to aid in the transition to zero-emission vehicles and equipment. For example, GO-Biz has two guidebooks that fleets can leverage to better understand the installation and permitting process when putting in charging and hydrogen stations (found here, under ZEV Readiness). GO-Biz also provide one-on-one assistance to fleets and charging/hydrogen station installers to help them navigate issues that may arise in the installation and permitting process.
State Targets and Regulations
Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-79-20 from September 2020 sets in place the following targets applicable to California’s transportation sector:
100% of California sales of new passenger cars and trucks to be zero-emission by 2035. The order also set targets to transition all drayage trucks to zero-emission by 2035, all off-road equipment to zero-emission where feasible by 2035, and the remainder of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles to zero-emission where feasible by 2045. The California Air Resources Board, as directed by the executive order, is working to update and enact regulations to ensure these targets are achieved along with underlying air quality and climate change goals.
Some of the regulations that have already been enacted and which apply to fleets include: the Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, the Innovative Clean Transit regulation, and the Zero-Emission Airport Shuttle regulation.
“This suite of regulations will help the state achieve its zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty targets and additional regulations, incentives, partnerships, and other opportunities will help get us the rest of the way,” Goldsmith said. “Ultimately, fleets need to see the business case and value added of transitioning to zero-emission technologies and these programs and policies are intended to help get us there.”
The ZEV Market Development Strategy organizes the goals of state agencies and highlights the critical roles of private stakeholders in achieving the state’s ZEV vision.
CA Fleet Goals
With one of the largest state fleets in the U.S., California also has set ambitious goals for its vehicles, setting an example for private sector and other public sector fleets. The state itself has a decentralized fleet of about 50,000 vehicles used by dozens of agencies.
As of 2019, about 8.4% of the state’s overall fleet was made up of battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (counting only pure ZEVs, not including plug-in hybrids), though fleet purchases made in 2020 continued to accelerate the replacement of the state’s internal combustion engine vehicles with ZEVs.
Among the statutory targets:
- AB 739 (Chau, 2017) set in place certain requirements for incorporating increasing levels of zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles into the state fleet: starting with 15% at the end of 2025 and increasing to 30% by the end of 2030.
- SB 498 (Skinner, 2017) requires the Department of General Services, starting no later than the 2024–25 fiscal year, to ensure that at least 50% of the light-duty vehicles purchased for the state vehicle fleet each year are zero-emission.
In addition to the statutory targets for transitioning the state fleet to increasing levels of zero-emission vehicles, the Department of General Services has in place ZEV first purchasing mandates applicable to all state agencies that purchase vehicles for the state fleet. These mandates prioritize pure zero-emission vehicles, i.e., battery electric and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, though allow for plug-in hybrids and other vehicles to be purchased if the purchasing agency can demonstrate why a pure ZEV cannot meet their transportation requirements (DGS Zero Emission Vehicle and Hybrid Electric Alternative Fuel Vehicle First Purchasing Mandates).
The state fleet’s progress with incorporating ZEVs can be tracked through metrics displayed on California’s Green Fleet website and in more detailed fashion through California’s Open Data Portal (both of these websites are being updated with more recent state fleet data).
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Plug and Pump
We design bespoke, high-performance, electric propellant pump systems for microlaunchers and in-orbit aplications.
For the fast growing small launch vehicle industry, a common pain-point is developing the rocket engine’s turbopump. The electric-fed propellant pump (Motopump) provides a solution with less risk, cost and complications attached. The durability of the technology suits the growing trend of reusability, in addition to provide a solution for other NewSpace projects requiring long-lasting and easy-to-handle propellant pumps.
We design and manufacture high performance, high efficiency pump geometries tailored to space applications.
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COPENHAGEN SUBORBITALS: SPICA
Electric-fed pump system (LOX / Ethanol) for the BPM100 (100kN) rocket-engine designed to power the SPICA rocket.
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Vaccination guidelines: What CDC recommendation for Covid vaccinated people?
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More than 82 million vaccine doses have been given out in the US, and after a year of takeout and Zoom-only visits with mom, the vaccinated want direction. The Biden administration has been saying it's been working on these guidelines for weeks. They were widely expected to come out Thursday, but they're still in the works, according to an official involved in the drafting process.
Vaccines offer really good protection for the vaccinated, research shows, and there's good evidence they help prevent the spread of Covid-19, but the vaccines are not total "armor," Dr. William Schaffner said. People still need to make informed decisions about risk. The CDC needs to strike a tricky balance with these guidelines, the experts said. Guidelines need to encourage people to get vaccinated, help the vaccinated understand that they still need to be careful, and manage the expectations of the unvaccinated, according to CNN.
CDC recommendations for those who got vaccinated
The recommendations will mark the first time the federal government has signaled to Americans that they can start taking steps back to the old rhythms of work, school, and play,according to two senior administration officials involved in the drafting of the guidelines.
The CDC guidance, which could be released as early as Thursday, will include recommendations that Americans limit their social interactions to small gatherings in the home with other fully vaccinated individuals, wear masks in public and adhere to other public-health measures such as social distancing for the foreseeable future. But the agency’s advice is likely to disappoint many who hoped the increasing pace of inoculations would allow some common restrictions to be relaxed immediately for vaccinated people.
The document will include a series of scenarios for Americans to consider, including where they socialize, with whom they can socialize, and what to consider when making plans. It will also include a section on travel. The new CDC guidelines come two weeks after the agency released its recommendations for school reopenings. Since then, the agency has faced criticism from school unions that the guidelines did not go far enough in ensuring teachers receive vaccinations before reopening. Republicans, on the other hand, say the CDC recommendations put too many restrictions on schools and that they limit their ability to open quickly, according to Politico.
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It's not like going back to 2019
While the guidelines will not give the vaccinated permission to start living like it's 2019 again, according to a Biden administration official, the guidelines do offer some hope that the end of total social isolation is near. For instance, you will finally be able to show your vaccinated friends all your home DIY projects from the past year. "While we're still vaccinating everyone, our primary societal goal remains to protect the unvaccinated," Dr. Aaron Richterman, an infectious disease physician at the University of Pennsylvania said.
Unfortunately, vaccination is not a "free pass to travel," Dr. Anthony Fauci said at a CNN Global Town Hall in early February. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said "essential" travel is a yes, "but we don't want people to think because they got vaccinated, then other public health recommendations just don't apply."
The guidelines won't be totally prescriptive and tell you exactly what you can and cannot do once you are fully vaccinated. The guidelines won't tell you if you can or can't bowl with Auntie Mary, for example, nor will it tell you if you can or can't meet grandpa at the coffee shop for a game of Settlers of Catan with the new "sheep strategy" you learned while stuck at home. "It's impossible to get to that level of detail. We can't predict every situation that human beings will be in," the Biden official explained. "What we can do is give principles for people to think through. It will give people the means to think through it and then they can choose what level of risk they wish to take."
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Exploring Diversity in Public Sculpture
Klairi Angelou (Independent art historian, Sculpture Journal)
In recent years, scholarship and society have become increasingly sensitised to the issue of diversity and inclusivity. We believe that questions around the depiction and representation of diversity in public sculpture have become increasingly hard to ignore and should, therefore, be addressed and thoroughly discussed. There may have been an increase in public sculpture commemorating women’s achievements (for example, the statue of Millicent Fawcett in London) and memorials acknowledged by queer culture (for example, Kiss Wall in Brighton), and Marc Quinn’s Alison Lapper Pregnant in Trafalgar Square (2005) may have put disability, femininity and motherhood on the map, but there is still a long way to go. This session aims to promote the value of diversity in sculpture and challenge hegemonic narratives and approaches to it. It will address issues of marginalisation and explore in what ways diversity is understood and reflected in public sculptures.
The papers of this session come from all periods and geographic locations and advocate for interdisciplinary approaches, as well as fresh interpretation of existing knowledge and presentation of new material emerging from research, conservation and archival discoveries. Issues which will be discussed include, but will not be limited to:
Open and inclusive in scope, our session will host a range of speakers concerned with broadening the understanding of public sculpture and become the topos of an exciting and challenging discussion, drawing upon a range of diverse sculptural practices.
Speakers & Abstracts
Art Placed: Assessing the significance of site-specificity towards diversity in post-war public sculpture in London
Lim Shujuan (Curator, National Gallery Singapore. MSc (Conservation of Historic Buildings), University of Bath)
This paper examines the significance and contribution of site-specificity towards diversity in post-war listed public sculpture in London. Post-war public sculpture was commissioned, conceived and sited with a specific intention and function for the public. Located in places such as schools, parks and commercial buildings, these are visual representations of narratives, visions, aspirations and ideals of the locale and time. Post-war public sculpture is a result of specific processes involving varied parties from commissioners, architects, artists and the audience. To account for the exchange of ideas and values amongst various parties, and the consequent diversity of completed artworks, an inclusion of the notion of site-specificity is required. This paper presents the data of listed post-war public sculpture in London and categorised the artworks into typologies that reflect their respective intents. This paper also evaluates key artworks’ contribution towards diversity through assessing respective qualities of site-specificities. The paper’s focus on listed public sculpture in London will reflect values and voices that are currently absent in the hegemonic narrative of public art and provide a needed discussion on the action required for the future.
Cultural Value, Celebrity and Public Sculpture in the UK
David Wright (University of Warwick)
Since the unveiling of the statue to the late Eric Morecambe in 1999, the UK has experienced a boom in statues and memorials dedicated to deceased entertainers, comedians and musicians from the mid-to-late 20th century onwards. Further examples include the comedians Tommy Cooper (unveiled in Caerphilly in 2008) and Victoria Wood (unveiled in Bury in 2019) or the musicians David Bowie (Aylesbury, 2018), Amy Winehouse (Campden, 2014) or Bon Scott (Kirriemuir, 2016). This paper draws on research into the processes and practices that produce such statues to reflect on this phenomenon in the context of debates about popular culture and cultural value in British public sculpture and reflects on the place of such statue projects in the strategic priorities of local cultural policymakers. The paper sketches the characteristics of these statues and their subjects, explores their geography, identifies local and national controversies about the subjects and forms of the sculptures themselves and the claims to local identity and belonging that accompany them. Drawing on debates about cultural heritage, commemoration, popular culture and the democratisation of history (Samuel 2012; Lowenthal 1998; Brandellero and Janssen 2014) and in the context of recent international controversies about the politics of apparently permanent memorials to other kinds of historical figure (for example, Johnson 2014; Newsinger 2016) the paper concludes with some reflections on the aesthetic and political implications for public sculpture of the expansion of the category of the memorialis-able to include figures from popular commercial culture.
Conveying Ethnic Identity and Diversity via Public Sculpture in the Global City
Menno Hubregtse (University of Victoria)
This paper examines public sculptures that address ethnic identity in Vancouver, San Francisco, Singapore and Dubai. Each of these global cities has installations at airports, real estate developments, shopping malls and art galleries that point to their region’s cultural groups. I illustrate how public artworks selected by arts commissions and museums tend to offer more nuanced readings of diversity than sculptures commissioned by private developers. Moreover, public arts organisations are usually willing to address politically contentious issues regarding immigration and colonisation, whereas private enterprises tend to celebrate a region’s cultural identity for commercial gain. For instance, Vancouver’s airport authority has installed a number of Northwest Coast Indigenous sculptures to evoke a ‘sense of place’ and to stimulate passenger spending.
These artworks contrast with Ken Lum’s Four Boats Stranded: Red and Yellow, Black and White which is on the roof of Vancouver Art Gallery. While Lum’s piece refers to the region’s Indigenous peoples as well as settlers and immigrants of European, Chinese and Indian descent, it does not merely highlight diversity in Vancouver. Rather, it critically addresses how stereotypes are used to identify and deride these groups. I discuss how place-themed sculptures commissioned by private and public organisations in Vancouver, San Francisco, Singapore and Dubai address identity and why these pieces often highlight only some of the region’s cultural groups and elide others. I consider the subject matter of these sculptures in terms of where they are placed in the city as well as political, social and economic conditions pertaining to the region.
Why Have There Been No Great Greek Women Sculptors? Issues of National Identity and Gender in Modern Greek Public Sculpture
Klairi Angelou (Independent art historian, Sculpture Journal)
Paraphrasing Linda Nochlin’s famous question, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’, this paper aims to shed light to the marginalisation of Greek women sculptors not only in Greek art historiography, but more specifically in modern Greek public sculpture. How have women been portrayed in modern Greek public sculpture? What type of women’s achievements (if any) have been commemorated? How has the issue of Ellinikotita (Greekness) affected their presence and representation in public sculpture? What happens if we see them separately from the ancient Greek past to which they have been constantly compared?
In order to provide answers to the questions above, I will focus on the work of Ioanna Spiteri-Veropoulou (1920-2000) and Natalia Mela (1923-2019). Based on a wide variety of sources - ranging from unpublished documents and archival resources in Greece and abroad, as well as information derived from interviews - it will become clear the paramount role of the issues of national identity and gender in advancing new interpretations of modern Greek sculpture and most importantly open up a discussion on what steps need to be taken so that the existing limited representation of Greek women sculptors can be reversed and make them more visible in the public sphere.
Identity Politics and Cultural Hybridity in Zheng Bo’s Sing for Her
Timothy Tin Ping Yeung (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
This paper considers a socially engaged public installation by Zheng Bo titled Sing for Her. A colossal, rusted funnel-shaped structure that unapologetically cut into the cityscape, this spectacular artwork stood for half a year between 2015 and 2016 at the hectic intersection of Nathan Road and Art Square in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui district. It invited passers-by to sing along karaoke-style to the soundtracks of seven songs performed by seven ‘minority’ groups who are resident in Hong Kong. Zheng Bo’s aim was to give voice to those labelled minorities by asking participants, many of whom were not minorities, to sing for and with them.
This paper examines the political efficacy of Sing for Her. Did the element of entertainment, spectacularity, and, above all, interactivity of Sing for Her successfully ‘give voice to’ the so-called minority communities? Through Homi Bhabha’s framework of the ‘third space of enunciation’ – a space of discursive ambivalence that makes the emergence of agency possible, I will interrogate the identity politics of multiculturalist rhetoric in Hong Kong and consider the alternative space Zheng Bo activates. Putting the theories of Boris Groys, Grant Kester, Claire Bishop and Jacques Rancière in dialogue with each other and then connecting them to Bhabha’s idea of the ‘third space’, I will argue that Sing for Her bound participants in an aesthetic tension that dialectically negotiated between reality and imagination, static representations and fluid iterations, and, ultimately, identity and difference. | <urn:uuid:20774255-fa40-4f57-b7ad-1b4817d6511a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eu-admin.eventscloud.com/website/2065/exploring-diversity-in-public-sculpture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930019 | 1,954 | 1.945313 | 2 |
The 23rd martyrdom anniversary of Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed recipient of Nishan-e-Haider was observed on Tuesday at his mausoleum in his native town of Swabi in a solemn ceremony.
According to Inter Services Public Relations, Inspector General of Frontier Corps, Major General Adil Yameen laid a wreath at the shrine of the martyr and a smartly turned out contingent of the Pakistan Army presented a guard of honour on the occasion.
A heartfelt tribute was paid to Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed at the ceremony which was attended by people from all walks of life.
The civil and military officials and the martyr's family also attended the ceremony.
Captain Karnal Sher Khan Shaheed Nishan-e-Haider was born in district Sawabi of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1970.
During the Kargil conflict on the Line of Control in 1999, he emerged as the symbol of courage.
He was martyred on this day in 1999 gallantly defending the motherland and was decorated with country`s highest gallantry award, Nishan-e-Haider.
In their separate messages on the occasion, President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif paid glowing tributes to the bravery of Captain Karnal Sher Khan.
The President said the whole nation is indebted to the sacrifices of martyrs. He said his sacrifices will always be remembered.
The Prime Minister said the mountains of Kargil may not have seen such an act of valour when he led his troops to clear a vital position as the enemy bullets rained.
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Your Fave Products, Designed For Zero Waste — Say Hello to Target Zero
Updated: Mar 17
Target | March 9, 2022
Target has created Target Zero. It’s a curated collection of new and existing products from brands you love (like Burt’s Bees, PLUS, Pacifica and soon, guest faves such as Grove Co. and Everspring) designed to reduce waste and make it easier to shop sustainably. Now in stores across the country and on Target.com, the collection features hundreds of products with packaging designed to be refillable, reusable or compostable, or made from recycled content or materials like aluminum, steel or glass that reduce the use of plastic.
And Target's not stopping there: They already have plans to add even more of your favorite items in the future. It’s just one way they're driving progress toward their Target Forward goals, including their aim to be the market leader for creating and curating inclusive, sustainable brands and experiences by 2030 and to have 100% of their owned brand plastic packaging be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2025.
While navigating unique challenges (like sourcing enough post-consumer recycled content for packaging on products sold on shelves across the country), the team worked alongside partners to problem-solve and use their size, scale and resources to curate a one-of-a-kind assortment including new and existing products that drive progress on thier journey to reduce waste.
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When you do Content Marketing for a business, for the purposes of SEO, one of the first things you do is draw up a content calendar. You match up what dates are going to be coming up in the year that you can write a blog post about. Some might be more relevant than others. Some might be very tenuous indeed.
However, if you can link what you do to a calendar date – something that people are already going to be talking about; something that people will already be searching for online – then it’s beneficial for your website. More people already looking for the type of content you’re writing, ergo more visitors back to your website. It ain’t rocket science.
And so, this week, it’s my turn to write the GT blog post, and it happens to fall on International Women’s Day, Friday 8th March 2019.
Now you might be thinking, ‘what on earth has International Women’s Day got to do with SEO?’. And you’d be right to think that. Very little, if I’m honest.
I mean, I’d be able to eek out a blog post about it if required. I could write about the many exceptionally talented women around today, who are at the top of the SEO game (there are more of them than you’d think). Or I could talk to you about the women who worked hard in the 1990s to make SEO an actual thing (again, more of them than you’d imagine. History is – still – mainly written by the men.).
But those articles have been written, so I’m not going to repeat them. (Contrary to my usual content marketing technique! Little Copywriter joke for you there. Lolz.)
Instead, I’m going to explain to you today why International Women’s Day is important to the women – and man – of GrowTraffic itself. Because it happens to be one of the few days in the calendar that we genuinely acknowledge (in fact, I have to take an entire day off for it this year, because I’ve got so much to do on the actual day!).
Well, that and Pancake Day. Who doesn’t love Pancake Day?!
Anyway, back to the point.
What Is International Women’s Day?
International Women’s Day has been celebrated now since 1911. Initially set up by women in Germany, who were fighting for German Women to have the right to vote, the day was quickly picked up by women’s organisations around the world, and variously became a day for celebrating the contribution of women to society and fighting for women to have equal rights to men.
Now celebrated annually on 8th March, IWD has become a global symbol of gender inequality. And you might think that the rights we are fighting for now are much different from those women were fighting for 100 years ago – most women around the world have got the right to vote now, after all. We’ve just celebrated the centenary of that.
And yet it seems that the causes are generally much the same as they have been for over a century; an abolition of the gender pay gap, equal rights in the workplace, free and fair healthcare, affordable childcare, the right not to have photographs of our bum taken from up our skirts etc. etc.
It is rather galling that, after all these years, we are still fighting the same battles as our mothers, grandmothers and even great-grandmothers were fighting.
Regardless, you can pretty much guarantee that the day will be met on social media by a general outcry from affronted folk (admittedly, mainly white men) who, completely unaware of their privilege (they ain’t woke yet, man!), will dismiss IWD as unnecessary (“women are already equal to men”) and unfair (“there’s no International Men’s Day, is there?”).
And just on that last point, there is actually; it’s on Tuesday 19th November 2019, and in these times of a very narrow definition of masculinity, it is needed more than ever too. (And, whilst I’m here, can I just take a minute to congratulate Richard Herring on the work he does on IWD to promote IMD, and raise money for charity too! You are both funny and useful, Sir!).
Anyway, once again I digress. Back to IWD and GT.
Why Does International Women’s Day Matter To GrowTraffic?
First up, I’ll explain why it matters to us.
GrowTraffic currently has 5 employees, and 4 of them are women. (I know, it’s astounding isn’t it?! Bear with me.) We’re hoping to shortly have 6 employees, 5 of which will be female.
You might think ‘so what?’. In this day and age, that’s not ground-breaking.
No, it’s not. But what is ground-breaking is the way we run our business because of it. Someone asked me the other day what I was aiming to do with GrowTraffic, and my answer was “I want to build a business that works for women, because if I do that, it will also work better for men”. And I genuinely stand by that.
That doesn’t mean that I’m trying to build a business that only employs women or that thinks men are less valid – that is the complete opposite of my goal. What I do want to do is build a business where a working mother can work in it – can make a valid contribution – without feeling guilty for being a working mum. Where both men and women can work flexi-time, all the time, in order to fit their working life into their other commitments, be they children, elderly relatives or an addiction to sleeping.
I want to build a company where men can take their paternity leave and not be made to feel like they are shirking their responsibilities, or can go and pick up their child from school if they are ill without being asked “can’t your wife do it?”. (And yes, those are real life examples that my husband has experienced; the latter was even asked of him by a female boss!).
In short, I want GT to practice what we preach and build a company that has genuine gender equality. Equality of pay, equality of opportunity, equality of reward. And luckily, the people who are on this batshit journey with me believe in the same thing. (I think they do, you can see their responses in a minute.)
We can’t change the world on our own – we know that – but we can change our worlds. And if enough other businesses see that this is a viable way to run a profitable business AND STILL GROW, then hopefully more will follow. We know we are not the only ones; it is the way the world of work is going.
And so, IWD aligns strongly with the core values we hold here at GT, hence we mark it. Of course, thanks to the way we do business – thanks to the fact that we are women working in a male dominated sector – every day is IWD to us. We believe in this shit all year round, not just on 8th March.
We’ll still put the flag out though.
What Are GT Doing For International Women’s Day?
Well, you might well ask!
To celebrate this great day of womanhood, the GT team will be dressing up in pink with frilly collars, wearing fairies in our hair, baking cup cakes and drinking dainty cups of tea out of our bone china tea set. Not really. Really, we’ll be setting fire to our bras and marching through the city demanding all men are castrated.
Only joking. (Of course, if we did want to carry out such stereotyped activities, there would absolutely nothing wrong with that. That’s the beauty of equality and choice.)
In reality, I’m afraid our IWD activities will be much more mundane.
For starters, we’ve written this blog post, and we’ll also be posting out some super smashing articles about women and SEO throughout the day, via our Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. If you’re not already friends with us, you really should be; we post some awesome content about SEO and Content Marketing, and the extra feminist twist tomorrow will be a treat!
In addition to that, I will be going into the local primary school – Northern Primary School in Bacup – to speak to the children about IWD and do a presentation on Five Women Who Changed The World. I’ll be telling them all about five of my personal favourite women; Mary Wollstonecraft, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst,Marie Stopes (hopefully in an age appropriate way!) and Rosa Parks. The gist of it is that, thanks to the actions of those women, I am now able to speak to them as the female MD of a company, in my own right.
Outside of GT, I have also spent the week doing several activities for IWD in conjunction with the Rossendale Soroptimists, SI Rossendale, of which I am a member. On Tuesday night we held a dinner with another local Soroptimist group, SI Ramsbottom, at which I did a short presentation on Sophia Duleep Singh, a prominent Suffragette and women’s rights campaigner of the 20th century.
In between eating our own bodyweight in cheese and onion pie and drinking rather a lot of red wine, we also made sure we took photos of ourselves doing the official pose of #IWD2019, so that we can also post about it on social media today, and join in with the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, which is #BalanceForBetter.
Hopefully, I will also be bullying the rest of the GT team into doing the Balance For Better pose tomorrow too, so expect a couple of photos of us looking like idiots. For a change.
What Do The Rest Of GT Say About IWD?
Incidentally, speaking of the rest of the team, I asked them for their input for this blog; for them to give me their views on why IWD was so important to GT.
Simon Dalley, my husband, GrowTraffic’s founder and my fellow director, sent me the following email;
“GrowTraffic has been an SEO agency full of women, plus me, for a long time now. The gender split in the SEO industry generally is something like 70% male and 30% female, so it’s always been gratifying to know that an SEO agency could be built to buck this trend, especially when GrowTraffic is that SEO agency. And this isn’t just a trend that’s limited to SEO; whilst the best PPC consultants I’ve ever worked with are women, I think that part of the search marketing industry is even more male-dominated than SEO.
I’ve always said I wanted to create a business I’d want to work for. Rachel, GrowTraffic’s MD, regularly says she wants to build a business that women want to work for. I didn’t get it for a long time. Perhaps I never will fully understand the mental load associated with the role of working women and mothers, however, I can appreciate many of the benefits of the culture and ethos that have developed over the years at GrowTraffic.
Having spent much of my 16 years in the corporate marketing world, working in very male-orientated tech businesses and being out of the house for 12 or 13 hours most days, working in GrowTraffic is revelatory. Keeping up those kinds of working hours is almost Victorian but it’s very common when speaking with male friends. GrowTraffic’s ‘for women’ culture is built on flexibility, delivery and trust. It enables me to be present in my life in a way I could never be when dealing with the demands of a typical corporate role. For example, I have been able to take my son to and from school virtually every day, which is something I had never been able to do in the first few years of his school life. And whilst I doubt I’ll ever overcome the impact of my socialisation, just being around more means, in my personal life, I’m contributing more and starting to see and deal with things that weren’t even on my radar.
It occurs to me that the 70% male to 30% female split in the SEO industry is a huge injustice, because this is an industry that women should want to work in. SEO and many other digital marketing career paths should be able to offer their practitioners huge flexibility and I’d like to think that’s something that has been beneficial to the whole team at GrowTraffic.”
A very sensible answer, which shows that he does pay attention, sometimes.
Our Head of Content, Elicia McManus, wanted to use IWD to highlight something else that is important to her;
“I never take my female colleagues here at GT for granted but IWD really is a great opportunity to sit and reflect on how great they are. I’m lucky enough to work with women who are supportive and a source of inspiration to me.
I will also be using the day feel proud of myself; I work in a male oriented industry and have a disability that is more commonly associated with men and is very misunderstood in women. This IWD, I would like to draw attention to the gender bias in autism research that means thousands of women go undiagnosed.
Much of the research around Autistic Spectrum Disorders has focussed on males and therefore, diagnostic criteria aren’t suitable for women on the spectrum. It’s now common knowledge that the female experience can be completely different. Not receiving a diagnosis early on in life can be crushing for women who may struggle with employment and relationships. Earlier diagnosis means women can seek help, understand themselves more fully and have a better chance at gaining stable employment. Read more on supporting women and girls with autism here – https://www.autism.org.uk/professionals/training-consultancy/online/women-and-girls.aspx”
Massive round of applause, Elicia.
Which just goes to show that not everyone in the team is 100% sensible all of the time. OK, that’s a lie, none of us are 100% sensible any of the time. As Monty Python once famously said about GT, “‘Tis a silly place”. Ahem.
And I think that’s a good place to leave it.
If you’d like to find out more about why International Women’s Day matters to GrowTraffic and what we’ll be doing as a team to support it this year, then please do get in touch with us.
Alternatively, if you’d like to see a copy of the presentation I’ll be doing, or simply want to find out what it’s like to work with a company that puts women equal to men, then again, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
And don’t forget to follow us on social media too, to see more great IWD related stuff.
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From spring through summer, this gallery highlights the diversity of native flora found throughout different areas of the Preserve.
Trout lilies, Erythronium americanum, one of our earliest spring wildflowers, found in damp, seepy woods.
Sharp-lobed hepatica, or liver-leaf, Hepatica acutiloba, maybe our earliest bloomer, still hanging on to last year’s evergreen leaf
Wood anemone, Anemone quinquefolia, just up, with purple tinted leaves and bud; flower will blossom white.
Round-leaved violet, Viola rotundifolia, another very early spring bloomer
Marsh marigold, Caltha palustris
Canada mayflower, Maianthemum canadense
Marsh marigold, Caltha palustris, blossoms
Painted trillium, Trillium undulatum.
Smooth Solomon’s seal, Polygonatum biflorum, displays a graceful, arching form.
Anemone quinquefolia, wood anemone
Spring beauty, Claytonia caroliniana, a true spring ephemeral that will carpet the woods in early spring and vanish by summer.
Dwarf ginseng, Panax trifolius, is a diminutive relative of the well-known herb ginseng.
Merrybells, Uvularia sessilifolia
Red trillium, Trillium erectum, is visited here by a tiny pollinator (hanging off sepal to the right).
Toothwort, Dentaria diphylla, in bloom
This clump of trilliums, Trillium erectum, is growing right at the base of this tree.
Canada violet; Viola canadensis, backside of petals is purple.
Canada mayflowers, Maianthemum canadense, carpet the forest floor.
Wild columbine or rock bells, Aquilegia canadensis, growing at the base of this tree trunk.
Viola blanda, sweet white violet
Ozmorhyiza claytonii, sweet cicely
Our mascot, Trillium erectum.
Downy yellow violet, Viola pubescens
Blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium sp. and Potentilla sp.
This Jack-in-the Pulpit, Arisaemum triphyllum, is growing out of a rock.
Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia
A carpet of violets, mostly Canada with a few yellow violets
Maple-leaved waterleaf, Hydrophyllum canadense, forms large patches of attractively mottled leaves before blooming late spring – early summer.
Robin’s plantain, Erigeron pulchellus, can form a carpet of woolly basal leaves with pink daisies less than a foot tall in spring.
Starflower, Trientalis borealis
wild sarsaparilla, Aralia nudicaulis, ready to bloom
Robin’s plantain, Erigeron pulchellus
Golden groundsel, Packer aurea, grows in damp openings in the Hemlock Forest.
A white blue-eyed grass, Sisyrinchium sp.
Bunchberry, Cornus canadensis, grows at the western edge of the bog.
A patch of bunchberry in bloom
Indian cucumber, Medeola virginiana
Common shinleaf, Pyrola elliptica, grows in the Hemlock forest.
Wood sorrel, Oxalis montana, brightens the Hemlock Forest in early summer.
Fringed loosestrife, Lysimachia ciliata, lines a creek bank.
Foxglove beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis
Small sundrops, Oenothers perennis, grow only a few inches high in dry sandy soil.
Ground cherry, Physalis heterophylla
Ground cherry, Physalis heterophylla, close up, showing the delicate markings on the interior of the blossom.
Orange dwarf dandelion, Krigia biflora
Close-up of orange dandelion
A bicolored form of common milkweed, mostly white, with a pink center
A white form of common milkweed.
Common milkweed, Asclepias syriacus, host plant for monarchs.
Aralia hispida, bristly sarsaparilla
Round-leaved Pyrola, Pyrola rotundifolia
Narrow-leaved willow herb, Epilobium leptophyllum, a dainty addition to the meadows.
Spreading dogbane, Apocynum androsaemifolium, visited here by a tiny pollinator, also attracts butterflies.
Foxglove beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis, disappearing from our meadows.
Clasping-leaved dogbane, Apocynum sibiricum runs through a large section of the meadow.
Indian cucumber, Medeola virginiana, fall color
Pasture thistle, Cirsium pumilum, with yellow caterpillar.
Close up of jewelweed , Impatiens capensis, blossoms
Doll’s eyes, Actaea pachypoda, beware poisonous berries.
Wild lettuce, Prenanthes sp.? blooms in the Hemlock Woods.
One of the small white asters growing in the meadows, possibly heath aster, Aster ericoides.
Flat-topped white aster, Aster umbellatus, found throughout our meadows.
Tall white aster, Aster simplex, at home in the meadows, but harder to find.
Late blooming aster, possibly Aster cordifolia, heart-leaved aster
Strange blossoms of the hare figwort, Scrophularia lanceolata
Another small white aster, possibly calico aster? Someone needs to come and sort these confusing white asters out.
Small white aster, species??, another mysterious aster, growing with the downy goldenrod.
Bidens cernua, beggars tick.
Wild lettuce, Prenanthes sp?, rooted in stony soil along a rocky streambank.
Late purple aster, Aster patens, uncommon in our meadows
New England aster. Aster novae-angliae
Blue heart-leaved aster, Aster cordifolius, forms cloudlike patches of lavender blue in the meadows.
Aster puniceus, purple-stemmed aster
tall goldenrod, possibly Solidago canadensis
Grass-leaved goldenrod, Euthamia graminifolia, forms large clonal, sometimes circular, patches in the meadows.
Purple milkwort, Polygala sanguinea, blooms in late summer through early fall.
Mystery Goldenrod, Solidago, possibly ulmifolia? Lovely arching form grows in small patches in the meadows.
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Air-to-air dogfights have been lacking in recent years.
In one sense it is a good thing – it means the United States has been able to take control of the air very quickly. But American pilots still need to be able to practice – and not everyone can get to Red Flag or the Navy’s equivalents.
Recently the Air Force has been using Northrop T-38 Talons to help alleviate the problem. The T-38 Talon is a supersonic trainer that served as the basis for the F-5 “Freedom Fighter” and the F-5E/F Tiger. The F-5s were light, day-time fighters that were very maneuverable, and they have served as Navy and Marine Corps aggressors for the long time.
The Air Force has been using T-38s to supplement F-16s at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada and at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska.
Aggressor training, developed after the Ault Report showed shortcomings in naval aviation, has helped keep American airmen good, and emerged in the late stages of the Vietnam War. The famous “Top Gun” school, in particular, had a marked effect, sending kill ratios skyrocketing to over 13:1.
Many of the aggressor pilots are currently members of the military, but according to a report by Aviation Week and Space Technology, that is changing as the Air Force seeks to hire contractors. Part of the reason has been an ongoing pilot shortage.
The other reason is that some of the private companies can offer planes beyond the T-38 for these missions. A 2016 report from DefenseOne.com noted that one company has a mix of F-21 Kfirs, A-4 Skyhawks, Hawker Hunters, and L-39 Albatross jets. Among the companies getting into the mix is Textron, which makes the Textron AirLand Scorpion.
The final reason. though, maybe the most important.
That is because turning the aggressor training over to contractors could make them even tougher opponents for Air Force and Navy pilots. While many an Air Force pilot has non-flying billets at various points in their career, contractors will be able to just keep flying and dogfighting. This will make the military pilots they face off against sweat more, but it may prove the wisdom behind one old saying: The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in war. | <urn:uuid:ca7b9125-60e1-4bb6-ae39-43c82f631cac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/these-are-the-units-who-fly-like-russian-and-chinese-fighter-pilots-for-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968218 | 504 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Improve your smile, confidence and quality of life with the help of veneers.
It’s a brand new decade and you’ve decided that it’s time you felt better about your appearance and one of the best ways to do this is with cosmetic dentistry. Maybe you have a gap between your front teeth that makes you feel self-conscious or your teeth are a bit misshapen, which throws your smile’s symmetry out of whack. Whatever the case might be, dental veneers may be able to give you the new and improved smile you want. From the office of our Herrin, IL, dentist Dr. Christopher Hughes, here is what veneers can do for your smile.
Veneers are wafer-thin shells made from porcelain, which mimic the appearance of tooth enamel. These shells are bonded to the front surface of a single tooth and can be placed on all teeth that are visible when you smile to mask common imperfections and flaws. Veneers require minimal tooth preparation and are often placed within two visits. Of course, you may be wondering if the problems you are dealing with can be fixed with veneers.
Veneers may be a great option for you if you are dealing with,
- Chips and cracks
- Severe discolorations (both internal and external stains)
- Gaps between teeth and other misalignments
- Excessively worn teeth
- Malformed or misshapen teeth
- An asymmetrical or gummy smile
Veneers have the ability to completely change the shape, size, alignment and color of your smile. If you have slightly crooked teeth but don’t have any interest in getting braces, our Herrin, IL, cosmetic dentist may be able to help you get a straighter smile just by placing veneers.
While veneers can be a great option for patients dealing with common cosmetic flaws it is important to recognize that teeth dealing with significant damage that affects the tooth’s overall structure will often require more extensive restorative dentistry such as a dental crown. This is something that our dentist will be able to assess during your consultation.
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The second most valuable source of information, after the History of the Monks of Palestine of Cyril Scythopolis, regarding the history of monasticism in the Judaean desert is the collection of stories and anecdotes by John Moschus, a monk of the Judaean desert in the late sixth century. Moschus traveled frequently between the monastic centers of Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor. He collected his stories during his travels and compiled them in a Greek work known as Pratum Spirituale or Spiritual Meadow.
John Moschos entered monastic life near Bethlehem, and withdrew after his formation to a remote site in the Judaean desert. Seeking the holiness of the Desert Fathers, which he believed was fast being eroded by the slackness of the new generation of monks and ascetics, he and a companion, St. Sophronios (Patriarch of Jerusalem who reposed in 644 - Commemorated on March 11), journeyed to Egypt. After making the rounds of the communitiees of the Thebaid, they went on to Mount Sinai, where he stayed ten years. He returned to Palestine but civil discord and Persian raids caused him to wander again, this time up the coast through Phoenicia and Syria Maritima to Antioch, then to Alexandria, and finally to Rome, where he put the finishing touches to his "Spiritual Meadow" and, in 619 died.
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When the Account Register Window for an account is opened the list of transactions for that account is shown. This window has the name of the account on its tab. The menus contain several functions that alter the display of transactions. The Toolbar also contains several functions that are often used when entering or manipulating transactions. These are described in the Section 4.3.1, “Account Register & General Journal Window” section of this document.
The register window will look slightly different depending on the style options you have chosen. The following describes entering simple transactions in the basic ledger style. The cursor is placed in the date field by default when the register window is opened.
When working on transactions in
The Enter key moves to the first field of the next split, regardless of which field you are in. If there is no next split, proceeds to the next transaction. In any case, Enter finishes the transaction edit, and any imbalance is posted to Imbalance-CUR, where CUR is the currency of the transaction.
The Tab key moves to the next field in the current split. If it's the last field, moves to the next split, creating a new one if there isn't one. If the split is blank, the Tab key finishes the transaction and posts any imbalance to Imbalance-CUR, as above.
Selecting the small icon on the right of the date field drops down a date selection calendar. Use
the arrows to select the correct month and year for the transaction then select the
date. Selecting the icon once more will close the date selection calendar. It is also
possible to type in the date or part of the date and let
GnuCash fill the rest.
Press Tab to move to or select the Num field. Here you can enter a check or transaction number. Pressing + (plus) will automatically advance the number by one from the last transaction to have a number.
Press Tab to move or select the Description field. This field is used to enter either a payee or other description for the transaction. It will automatically attempt to fill the payee name as you type.
At this stage one of two things will happen if tab is pressed. If
GnuCash matches an existing transaction the cursor will
jump to one of the amount fields, automatically filling in the transfer account.
Selecting any field with the mouse instead of tabbing will not automatically fill the
transferring account field. If there is no matching (existing) transaction,
GnuCash will move the cursor to the
Transfer field with only one line of the transaction supplied.
Accounts may be selected either by typing them in or by pressing the small button on the right of the Transfer field, which will display a pick list of all non-placeholder accounts. Note that this pick list will still display hidden accounts. If you have hidden an account in your chart of accounts, you may want to set the account also to be a placeholder account so that it doesn't display here.
GnuCash will fill in available accounts as you type. For
example, if you have Equity and Expenses
top-level accounts, typing E will fill in
Equity because it sorts before
Expenses. Continuing to type x will
present Expenses the account separator
(: by default, see
Section 10.2.2, “Accounts”Account Preferences about changing it)
will accept the currently offered account so that you can start typing the name of a
The next field R is used for reconciliation. This is described in the section. Section 5.8, “Reconciling an Account to a Statement”
Press the Tab key to move to the first of the amount fields. The names of the next two columns are different according to what type of account is opened. For example, Bank accounts show Deposit and Withdrawal here, Credit Card accounts show Payment and Charge, and Stock accounts show Shares, Price, Buy and Sell.
Enter an amount for the transaction in the correct fields. When the transaction is "balanced" pressing the Enter key, selecting the icon or going to → will finish the transaction. Selecting the icon or going to → will erase the transaction.
Transactions with just one transfer account will show the name of that account in the Transfer field in completed transactions. (The Transfer field is the fourth (4) from the left in the register display.)
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Redundancies among senior British managers are at their highest level since 2001, with the number of managers being shown the door doubling in the past 12 months.
Yet the gloomy prognosis from the UK Chartered Management Institute has also turned up a surprising statistic – average earnings for Britain's executives have risen 6.7 per cent this year, up from 5.3 per cent in 2007.
The CMI's 2008 National Management Salary Survey, carried out in conjunction with research body CELRE, has uncovered a redundancy rate of three per cent across the UK's senior management teams.
The figure has more than doubled over the past 12 months (from 1.4 per cent) and is at its highest for seven years, when senior redundancies reached 3.7 per cent in 2001, said the CMI.
The survey is yet more evidence of how the credit crunch and uncertain economic picture is reaching right to the top.
Earlier this month a study of nearly 2,000 U.S high net worth individuals (or those with assets of more than $1m not including their primary residence) by life insurance firm Phoenix found growing levels of pessimism and even anxiety about their current and future financial health among even this elite.
And last month a poll of U.S job-seekers earning $100,000 or more by recruitment firm TheLadders.com found clear evidence that senior-level job-seekers were feeling the impact of recession as much as workers further down the career scale.
Three quarters of these executives looking for jobs were suddenly finding it much harder to land job interviews, it concluded.
The CMI study found, when it came to rising pay levels, that it was junior executives who were generally the biggest beneficiaries.
They received an average increase in basic pay of 5.4 per cent, compared with five per cent for directors and 4.8 per cent for managers.
In real terms, the findings revealed an average basic salary of £22,352 for junior executives across the UK.
Surprisingly, given the economic climate and increased earning power, the data also suggested that UK executives were willing to risk their job security.
Resignations were currently running at 6.5 per cent, representing the second highest figure over the past decade.
Asked why employees left, three-quarters blamed competition from other organisations or headhunting.
Almost half admitted they were failing to provide adequate career opportunities or development programmes.
And around a tenth said their employees left because of frustrations with the working environment or bureaucratic leadership styles.
Jo Causon, director of marketing and corporate affairs at the CMI, says: "Increased levels of pay are clearly not enough to retain employee loyalty despite the uncertain economic climate.
"Given the skills crisis, it is worrying to see so many executives voting with their feet and this must surely send a message to employers that, to retain the best talent, they need to address working environments and long-term career aspirations," she added.
Further analysis also showed that retention was not the only problem confronting organisations.
Eight out of 10 of those polled said they continued to face difficulties filling vacant roles, with the main reasons being a lack of candidates with specialist skills (70 per cent) and the salaries on offer (57 per cent).
This finding echoes a poll last month by the U.S-based Boston Consulting Group and the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations which argued that a combination of ageing workforces in the West and intense demand for skilled workers in developing nations has created a global talent crunch that could in time rival the financial credit crunch for its effect on the ability of firms to function and expand.
The CMI study also suggested that the nature of benefits packages available (12 per cent) was a factor affecting recruitment and retention. For example, there had been a decline in the proportion of organisations willing to pay "golden hellos" to new recruits (23 per cent, down from 33 per cent last year).
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Regardless of the investment philosophy or style of a fund’s portfolio manager, the only solid information we have about a fund is its portfolio and its past performance.
When you look at the performance record of a mutual fund, here are five ways to interpret what you see.
■ Performance over the years. Most tables of mutual fund performance give you annual compound rates of return over several periods—usually one, three, five and 10 years. Some show returns over one, three and six months as well. You may or may not be impressed with the numbers you see. But what should impress you? We always stress the long-term results as the most meaningful. You’ll also want to make some kind of comparison, even if it’s just with inflation or GIC rates.
■ Performance compared with other funds. If you take the trouble to compare a fund’s results with those of other funds, be sure to make the comparison with similar funds. In general, you’ll want to compare the funds within an investment category. Categories include Canadian equity funds, US equity funds and global equity funds. Comparing a Canadian equity fund with a US equity fund won’t offer much help. It may tell you which market was stronger in the past, but won’t offer much insight into the quality of either fund’s management.
■ Performance compared with an appropriate index. Comparing a fund’s performance with the rest of the market is easier if you use an index in place of other funds. The index, if properly chosen, will let you know how well the entire stock market has done. Use the S&P/TSX Composite for Canadian equity funds, and for diversified US equity funds, the S&P 500 Index. Many specialty funds have a corresponding sub-index. For example, the S&P/TSX includes the Global Gold Index. When it comes to international equity funds, you should use the Morgan Stanley Capital International European, Australasian and Far East Index (MS EAFE Index). With global equity funds, the benchmark is the MSCI World Index. Keep in mind that many stock-market indexes don’t include the effect of dividends, while the returns quoted by mutual funds do.
■ Performance and volatility. Sources of information on Canadian mutual funds calculate volatility over periods of three, five, 10, 15 and 20 years. But even a fund that’s highly volatile in three years will likely remain so over longer periods. If a fund has generated high long-term returns with high volatility, it may go through shorter periods of low returns, or even losses. In fact, you may have to hold such a fund for several years to get an average return, let alone the high returns of the long term. What’s more, you may need money just as the fund enters a period of poor performance.
■ Steady returns year after year. If a fund is able to return steady profits year after year, chances are it has a low volatility rating. But more to the point, steadiness means the fund’s manager is able to deal successfully with most market conditions.
This is an edited version of an article that was originally published for subscribers in the May 15, 2020, issue of Money Reporter. You can profit from the award-winning advice subscribers receive regularly in Money Reporter.
Money Reporter, MPL Communications Inc.
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Technology has made life and business simpler by its ease of use and accessibility. Banking, paying bills, business communications, and ability to quickly look up medical or legal facts are all made easier through technology. Many people see advertisements for online legal services and wonder if this could speed up or simplify their legal process. We live in the age of information and there is no shortage of websites online offering quick fixes for business forms and legal products. But do you know what you are getting? A good estate plan (Last Will and Testament, Power of Attorney, Healthcare Directive) is like insurance. Until the need arises, most people are unaware of exactly what their policy provides. Unfortunately, many will not know the quality of their “do it yourself” legal products, because the problems do not arise until after their death.
One might be tempted by the allure of a product that comes with promises of quick, easy, and cheap legal work. It is enticing to avoid hiring a lawyer. But, one basic truth resonates: you get what you pay for. For example, each state has specific laws, and every family has its own unique composition and issues that need consideration in an estate plan. An online form is unable to accommodate these needs.
In Minnesota, it is actually not difficult to execute a legally valid Will as there are three basic elements: (1) the Will must be typed, (2) the Will must be signed by the person making the Will, and (3) the Will must be notarized and signed by two witnesses present during the signing of the Will. Any adult with a sound mind may make a Will, if the above requirements are met. A handwritten note, however, stating who gets what (holographic Will) is not valid in Minnesota.
As an attorney, I have reviewed form processed Wills that have failed to meet even the aforementioned requirements. However, even if the Will is legally valid by meeting the minimum requirements, drafting your own Will is risky because it is likely not to provide what you want it to provide. Legalese is a different language than English. Even the finished product from an online form company will be formal and almost entirely legalese. You may be taking a significant risk by assuming you understand a certain word or phrase. In fact, Forbes recently reported that some have accidentally disinherited children by not understanding legal phrases and choosing the wrong language through online forms. Drafting a Will with a licensed attorney can give you the peace of mind that you did not misapply legal words and phrases. It is the job of an attorney to know those words and phrases and apply them appropriately.
As an example, in our office, clients fill in the blanks of an estate planning document to give us an idea of what the client wants. More often than not, clients unintentionally make mistakes in selecting language that would result in the opposite unintended result. It is the attorney’s responsibility to choose the proper language that meets the needs of the client.
If the mistakes are not discovered until the need arises, it is too late. Ineffective legal documents usually results in expensive litigation. If you have an inadequate estate plan, the problems are passed onto loved ones and the Court to decipher your wishes. Before you consider doing it yourself entirely on your own or through the latest online legal services, at a minimum, speak with a licensed attorney to ensure that your intentions are properly understood and carried out in your estate plan.
*** UPDATE ***
Ohio High Court questions whether use of forms by non lawyers should be considered unauthorized practice of law.
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The open source Calendar and Contacts Server project is a standards-compliant server implementing the CalDAV and CardDAV protocols. It provides a shared location on the network allowing multiple users to store and edit calendaring and contact information.
CalDAV is an Internet standard allowing a client to access scheduling information on a remote server. It extends the WebDAV (an HTTP-based protocol for data manipulation) specification and uses the iCalendar format for the data. The protocol is defined by RFC 4791. It allows multiple clients access to the same information thus allowing cooperative planning and information sharing. Many server and client applications support the protocol.
The sources are available under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
The following sub-projects are hosted with CalendarServer:
If you would like to download a version of Calendar and Contacts Server to run on a server, look at this list of release branches. Find the most recent branch in the list, and then download it by running in a shell:
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The Tech Museum Awards Laureautes Announced
Technology Benefiting Humanity and the Tech Museum Awards winners were announced earlier this month. These awards recognize and support solutions that benefit humanity and address some of the most critical issues facing our planet and its people.
The Laureates are announced each year and they can be individuals, for-profit, public or non-profit organizations and they must demonstrate that with the use of technology, they can improve the human condition in one of the five areas:
?- Evidence that a serious problem or challenge with broad significance is addressed by this use of technology
– A noteworthy contribution that surpasses previous or current solutions.
– A novel application that represents a breakthrough or a creative adaptation of an existing technology.
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A man who said he could not continue to live as an alcoholic was euthanized by the Netherlands in what politicians across the pond point to as the danger of legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
Mark Langedijk told jokes, drank beer and ate ham sandwiches with his family in the hours before a general practitioner arrived to administer the lethal injection on July 14, according to an account published by his brother in the magazine Linda.
The 41-year-old had been in and out of rehab 21 times to try to treat his battle with alcohol, which ended his marriage and forced him to move back in with his parents.
“I want to die. Enough is enough,” he eventually said.
His death was approved by a doctor from Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in the Netherlands, a medical body that oversees requests from those who wish to die with the help of the state. More than 5,500 people were killed by the Dutch euthanasia practice last year.
A mercy killing law was enacted 16 years ago for people in unbearable suffering, but has since been used to kill people whose problems include “social isolation and loneliness.” One of those killed was a woman in her 20s who had been a victim of sex abuse and suffered from depression and anorexia.
Langedijk’s death comes as physician-assisted suicide laws have gained traction in the United States.
Colorado became the sixth state where doctors are allowed to prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients, when voters approved of a ballot measure this year by a 65 percent to 35 percent margin.
“The Death With Dignity Act” is also well on its way to becoming law in Washington, D.C. It currently sits on the desk of Mayor Muriel Bowser for approval, but passed the D.C. Council by a veto-proof majority earlier this month and would require congressional intervention in order to derail.
British MPs said Langedijk’s death is evidence that such laws are a slippery slope.
“This news is deeply concerning and yet another reason why assisted suicide and euthanasia must never be introduced into the U.K.,” Tory MP Fiona Bruce, who co-chairs the All Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group, told the Daily Mail.
“What someone suffering from alcoholism needs is support and treatment to get better from their addiction — which can be provided — not to be euthanised,” Ms. Bruce continued.
“It is once again a troubling sign of how legalised euthanasia undermines in other countries the treatment and help the most vulnerable should receive,” she said.
Robert Flello, Labour MP, said Langedijk’s death demonstrates that Holland is a “dangerous place to have any physical or mental illness, to be struggling with any life challenges, or just to differ from what they might call normal.”
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Sister William Eyke
There are lots of Williams in the Eyke family. Sister William was born in 1923 in Muskegon, Mich., to William and Adelaide Eyke. Her older brother was William, and her nephew William and his wife Mary Lou are were with us June 25. I’m guessing, but I think her father was known as Bill Eyke, her brother was Bill Eyke, and I know her nephew here is Bill Eyke. And … our Sister William was fondly known to many of her students as Sister Bill, said Sister Jean Fuqua in her commentary for Sister William Eyke, who died June 19, 2014, at age 91. She had been a Sister of Providence for 56 years.
She was never Sister Bill to me. I knew her as Miss Eyke when she taught Chemistry at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in the early 1950s. Miss Dorothy Eyke transitioned to Sister William Eyke in 1958 when she joined the Sisters of Providence.
She never lost her ties to Michigan and so remained close to her Michigan family over the years. She traveled and visited every year with her older sister, Mary. She also visited her nephew Bill and Mary Lou every summer and always talked about their cookouts and boat trips. Sister William was fond of and spoke about her nephew, Jeff, and her niece, Gina, but they lived farther away.
Sister William missed dying on her 91st birthday by just seven days. When she returned from the hospital to Mother Theodore Hall on June 12, her birthday, I think she was expecting and wanted to die that day. When it was my turn to sit with her that Thursday evening, she was very sleepy, but awoke from time to time. She was very lucid. Her greeting to me was, “I was hoping to see Jeanne (Knoerle), but I guess not yet!”
I later found a short prayer which I believe would have been her thoughts that night. It is titled, “Bridegroom,” by Christopher Idle, from the book, “Fragments of your Ancient Name,” by Joyce Rupp. It goes like this:
You set your heart on my soul
And woo me into fuller relationship.
You stand at the altar of my life
In hope of a total commitment
To the faithful love you propose.
My heart see-saws in response.
Going toward. Returning back.
Hesitant to truly give you my all.
Thank you for patiently waiting
As I struggle with a complete “yes.”
That complete yes came seven days later when she slipped away (while none of us were watching) very early the morning of June 19.
Sister William’s professional life is a remarkable story. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1946, a master’s degree in 1948 and a doctorate in 1952, all at the University of Michigan.
Mixed with all that academia was her baptism and conversion to Catholicism in June 1950. We think she had actually completed her doctoral studies in 1951, since she began teaching at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in the fall of 1951.
She taught Chemistry here from 1951-57. When she expressed interest in joining the Sisters of Providence, she was told to take some time away in order to confirm her interest in religious life. So she taught at Marquette University for one year.
She was then accepted as an SP Postulant in July 1958 at the age of 35. At the end of her canonical year in January 1960, Sister Rosemary Schmalz recalls that they were in scullery, discussing the fact that Sister William was going to put on a black veil as a scholastic novice and return to teaching at the college! So she quickly moved back to her professional life back there.
During the 1960s, while serving as head of the Chemistry Department, she participated in several National Science Foundation Summer Research programs at Indiana University. A consultant to IU from DePaul University wrote to Mother Rose Angela about Sister William: “Sister is a very capable and interested chemist. I believe you should know of the way in which Sister is considered a ‘colleague,’ of those on staff working with her. They and I are most impressed.”
In July 1968, Sister Jeanne Knoerle became President of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and named Sister William Eyke the Academic Dean and then Vice President for Academic Affairs. Sister William served in this capacity for six-and-a-half years. It was during that time that she and Sister Jeanne went to Goddard College in Vermont to investigate their external degree program. I would say Sister William’s legacy to the college was getting the faculty in place and the WED program off the ground in its formative years.
Somehow, during those six-and-a-half years, Sister William managed to combine teaching with her administrative duties. I don’t remember how that worked, but Sister Jenny Howard, one of her budding chemistry students in the early 1970s, said of her: “She was compassionate, understanding and patient. She didn’t write us off when we were struggling. Indeed, she was a great scientist, researcher and the best teacher. Her legacy to her many chemistry students is alive in their hearts to this day.”
Sister William continued along this path of teaching and research from July 1975 until July 2005. This all adds up to 50-and-a-half years! Can you think of another Sister of Providence who devoted her entire life as a Sister of Providence to a single ministry?
Sister William was a true “five” on the personality testing device called the Enneagram. A five is described as “The Investigator, The Thinker – The Intense, Cerebral Type: Perceptive, Innovative and Analytical! They are also secretive!”
Yet, if asked, Sister William could give you information on just about anything. Not just chemistry or science – she knew a lot about lots of subjects. Having lived with her at Woodland Inn from 1969-2010 – that’s 41 years – I can recall when any question arose: How and what to cook, what herbs went with what foods, how to fix the plumbing and on and on. We would always say, “Ask William.”
In my early days of spinning and weaving alpaca fiber, if I needed help, I would always “Ask William.”
Sister William was a gourmet cook. She and Sister Ruth Eileen were the prize winning chefs for some of the best meals we prepared for the 20-some Sisters of Providence who lived at the Inn in the 1970s and 1980s. Lest you believe it was all academics behind those lab doors of the chemistry department, no, there was always space for Sister William’s current hobbies.
She made beautiful and colorful candles which we always had available for gifts. And it was a conjecture that hidden behind the doors of the chemistry and biology labs, she and Sister Alma Louise competed for who could make the best wine. We missed Sister William greatly when she broke her hip in 2010 and moved to health care.
So what was Sister William’s favorite prayer or scripture verse? I think it was her love of God’s creation and her ability to see something beautiful in all that she saw on her many outdoor walks during her recent years in health care. When I drove her to a doctor, she always had a new story about some bush, flower or tree she had observed on her walks.
My best guess is that this translation of Psalm 23 from Eugene H. Peterson’s “The Bible in Contemporary Language” would be at the top of her list:
God, my shepherd!
I don’t need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows, you find me quiet pools to drink from.
True to your word, You let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.
Even when the way goes through Death Valley,
I’m not afraid when you walk at my side.
Your trusty shepherd’s crook makes me feel secure.
You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.
Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life.
I’m back home in the house of God for the rest of my life.
Funeral services for Sister William were Wednesday and Thursday, June 25-26, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind.
Mass of Christian Burial was at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 26.
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A small school district in Wayne County is facing a now-common challenge: Not enough people to drive buses.
The Gananda Central School District has a fleet of buses that’s ready to go for the fall. However, some of those buses may not be used- as the district searches for qualified drivers.
“There has been a general shortage of bus drivers for at least two to three years now,” Superintendent Shawn Van Scoy told 13WHAM. “We had a shortage prior to the pandemic.”
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Right now the district is four short. They need 32 bus drivers to be fully-staffed- and have 28 now.
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The purpose of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the theory and applications in the areas of Agents and Artificial Intelligence. Two simultaneous related tracks will be held, covering both applications and current research work. One track focuses on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Software Platforms, Distributed Problem Solving and Distributed AI in general. The other track focuses mainly on Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Planning, Learning, Scheduling, Perception Reactive AI Systems, and Evolutionary Computing and other topics related to Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence.
A substantial amount of research work is ongoing in these knowledge areas, in an attempt to discover appropriate theories and paradigms to use in real-world applications. Much of this important work is therefore theoretical in nature. However there is nothing as practical as a good theory, as Boltzman said many years ago, and some theories have indeed made their way into practice. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Artificial Intelligence and Distributed AI, including Agents and Multi-Agent Systems; This conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, authors are invited to highlight the benefits of Information Technology (IT) in these areas. Ideas on how to solve problems using agents and artificial intelligence, both in R&D and industrial applications, are welcome. Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of ICAART with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
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This study examined the hypothesis a brief strengths-based home visiting strategy can promote positive engagement between caregiver and child and thereby reduce various forms TPCA-1 of early childhood neglect. rated various features of the home environment including the physical appropriateness of the home setting for children. Trained observers later coded the videotapes unaware of the family’s intervention condition. Specific caregiver-child conversation patterns were coded and macro ratings were made of the caregiver’s affection monitoring TPCA-1 and involvement with the child. An intention-to-treat design revealed that randomization to the FCU increased duration of positive engagement between caregivers and children by age 3 which was prognostic of much less disregard of the kid at age group 4 managing for family members adversity. It had been also discovered that family members adversity moderated the influence of the involvement in a way that the households with adverse circumstances had been highly attentive to the involvement. Households with the best degrees of adversity exhibited the strongest mediation between positive decrease and engagement of disregard. Findings are talked about regarding developmental theory and their potential implications for the public health method of preventing early-childhood maltreatment. Launch It is a significant public health problem to design providers that work for preventing kid maltreatment but may also be participating and palatable to caregivers. A formidable problem to avoidance and involvement efforts is certainly that some types of maltreatment such as for example physical assault and intimate exploitation are as critical because they are uncommon and are tough to identify early to avoid harm Rabbit polyclonal to ACPL2. to the kid. Severe types of mistreatment and maltreatment obviously reveal distorted caregiver cognitions (e.g. Bugental 1989 and frequently emerge from adults’ very own abusive childhoods and familial encounters (Knutson & Mehm 1988 Widom 1989 Hence it is beneficial to consider maltreatment from a developmental psychopathology perspective using a concentrate on the introduction of maltreatment in households and a particular focus on the user interface of normative and psychopathological advancement (Cicchetti 1990 Within this construction it is advisable to research subclinical types of maltreatment such as for example disregard that are both a precursor to and the building blocks of more severe types of maltreatment (Dubowitz 2013 One technique is to avoid the daily circumstances and interactions that provide rise to a neglecting caregiver environment that much more serious maltreatment occasions emerge. Significant developmental evidence works with this transactional perspective on kid maltreatment (Belsky 1993 Cicchetti & Lynch 1993 Fergusson Boden & Horwood 2008 Nevertheless this perspective is not completely translated to the look of palatable and reasonable prevention providers (Kellam & Truck Horn 1997 Sameroff & Fiese 1987 Our research examined if the Family members Check-Up (FCU; Dishion & Kavanagh 2003 Shaw Dishion Supplee Gardner & Arnds 2006 a short periodic involvement can successfully promote caregivers’ use of positive behavior support strategies with young children (ages 2-3 years) which in turn prevent core sizes of child neglect by age 4. The study included direct observations of caregiver-child transactions at ages 2-3 years and longitudinal assessment of macro-level steps of caregiver neglect at age 4 among an ethnically diverse group of high-risk families (= 731) engaged in Women Infants and Children Nutritional Supplement (WIC) services. In addition a family adversity index was considered as a potential moderator of intervention effects. When the children were age 2 the families were recruited assessed and randomly assigned to be the FCU (Dishion & Kavanagh 2003 TPCA-1 Shaw et TPCA-1 al. 2006 or to receive the usual WIC services. The vast majority of interventions that target child maltreatment address the consequences such as posttraumatic stress disorder (Cohen Mannarino Murray & Igelman 2006 Tremblay & Peterson 1999 The focus on the consequences of maltreatment is critical in that long-term mental health is seriously undermined (Cicchetti & Lynch 1993 and development of normative milestones is usually compromised (Pears & Fisher 2005 Problematic emotional and. | <urn:uuid:1f751bcf-3c6f-4279-a1a4-811c26ac6622> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://colinsbraincancer.com/2016/09/01/this-study-examined-the-hypothesis-a-brief-strengths-based-home-visiting-strategy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938536 | 837 | 2.875 | 3 |
Federal-Provincial Competing JurisdictionsThis topic is about the jurisdictional tension sometimes between the federal and the provincial superior s.96 constitutional courts - ie. when is a civil case properly before either.
. Windsor (City) v. Canadian Transit Co.
In Windsor (City) v. Canadian Transit Co. (SCC, 2016), an appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada considered whether the federal court system had jurisdiction where a federally-incorporated company, co-owner of an international bridge, sought relief in that court against Canadian municipal property standards orders:
In order to decide whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction over a claim, it is necessary to determine the essential nature or character of that claim (JP Morgan Asset Management (Canada) Inc. v. Canada (National Revenue)), 2013 FCA 250 (CanLII), 2 F.C.R. 557, at para. 50; Sifto Canada Corp. v. Minister of National Revenue, 2014 FCA 140 (CanLII), 461 N.R. 184, at para. 25). As discussed in further detail below, s. 23(c) of the Federal Courts Act only grants jurisdiction to the Federal Court when a claim for relief has been made, or a remedy has been sought, “under an Act of Parliament or otherwise”. The conferral of jurisdiction depends on the nature of the claim or remedy sought. Determining the claim’s essential nature allows the court to assess whether it falls within the scope of s. 23(c). Jurisdiction is not assessed in a piecemeal or issue-by-issue fashion.At paras 34-69 the court continues to extensively review the elements of the 'ITO' test for federal court jurisdiction, being drawn from the case of ITO-International Terminal Operators Ltd. v. Miida Electronics Inc. (SCC, 1986), which - roughly stated - requires that "(1) a statute grants jurisdiction to the court, (2) federal law nourishes the grant of jurisdiction and is essential to the disposition of the case, and (3) that federal law is constitutionally valid." [para 19].
The essential nature of the claim must be determined on “a realistic appreciation of the practical result sought by the claimant” (Domtar Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2009 FCA 218 (CanLII), 392 N.R. 200, at para. 28, per Sharlow J.A.). The “statement of claim is not to be blindly read at its face meaning” (Roitman v. Canada, 2006 FCA 266 (CanLII), 353 N.R. 75, at para. 16, per Décary J.A.). Rather, the court must “look beyond the words used, the facts alleged and the remedy sought and ensure . . . that the statement of claim is not a disguised attempt to reach before the Federal Court a result otherwise unreachable in that Court” (ibid.; see also Canadian Pacific Railway v. R., 2013 FC 161, 1 C.T.C. 223, at para. 36; Verdicchio v. R., 2010 FC 117 (CanLII), 3 C.T.C. 80, at para. 24).
On the other hand, genuine strategic choices should not be maligned as artful pleading. The question is whether the court has jurisdiction over the particular claim the claimant has chosen to bring, not a similar claim the respondent says the claimant really ought, for one reason or another, to have brought.
The role and jurisdiction of the Federal Court appear most clearly when seen through the lens of the judicature provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867. Section 96 recognized the superior courts of general jurisdiction which already existed in each province at the time of Confederation. Section 101 empowered Parliament to establish “additional Courts for the better Administration of the Laws of Canada” — i.e., to establish new courts to administer federal law (R. v. Thomas Fuller Construction Co. (1958) Ltd., 1979 CanLII 187 (SCC), 1 S.C.R. 695, at p. 707; Quebec North Shore Paper Co. v. Canadian Pacific Ltd., 1976 CanLII 10 (SCC), 2 S.C.R. 1054, at pp. 1065-66; Consolidated Distilleries, Ltd. v. The King, A.C. 508, at pp. 520-22 (P.C.)). Parliament exercised this power in 1875 when it enacted legislation creating the Exchequer Court of Canada, which ultimately became the Federal Court of Canada (see The Supreme and Exchequer Court Act, S.C. 1875, c. 11). The Federal Court plays an important role in the interpretation and development of federal law in matters over which it has been granted jurisdiction.
The provincial superior courts recognized by s. 96 “have always occupied a position of prime importance in the constitutional pattern of this country” (Attorney General of Canada v. Law Society of British Columbia, 1982 CanLII 29 (SCC), 2 S.C.R. 307, at p. 327, per Estey J.). Provincially administered (s. 92(14)) and federally appointed (ss. 96 and 100), they weave together provincial and federal concerns and act as a strong unifying force within our federation. As courts of general jurisdiction, the superior courts have jurisdiction in all cases except where jurisdiction has been removed by statute (Québec Téléphone v. Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, 1971 CanLII 160 (SCC), S.C.R. 182, at p. 190). The inherent jurisdiction of the superior courts can be constrained by legislation, but s. 96 of the Constitution Act, 1867 protects the essential nature and powers of the provincial superior courts from legislative incursion (Ontario v. Criminal Lawyers’ Association of Ontario, 2013 SCC 43 (CanLII), 3 S.C.R. 3, at para. 18; MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. v. Simpson, 1995 CanLII 57 (SCC), 4 S.C.R. 725, at para. 15).
The Federal Court, by contrast, has only the jurisdiction it has been conferred by statute. It is a statutory court, created under the constitutional authority of s. 101, without inherent jurisdiction. While the Federal Court plays a critical role in our judicial system, its jurisdiction is not constitutionally protected in the same way as that of a s. 96 court. It can act only within the constitutional boundaries of s. 101 and the confines of its statutory powers. As this Court noted in Roberts v. Canada, 1989 CanLII 122 (SCC), 1 S.C.R. 322, at p. 331, “[b]ecause the Federal Court is without any inherent jurisdiction such as that existing in provincial superior courts, the language of the [Federal Court Act] is completely determinative of the scope of the Court’s jurisdiction.” | <urn:uuid:50b82987-7c3b-4faa-b43c-cabdd1cbd12e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://isthatlegal.ca/index.php?name=federal-provincial-courts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.898428 | 1,537 | 2.109375 | 2 |
- 1 Can I teach myself gymnastics?
- 2 What should a beginner gymnast know?
- 3 Is 12 too old to start gymnastics?
- 4 What is the easiest gymnastic move to learn?
- 5 Can I learn gymnastics at 30?
- 6 What is the maximum age to learn gymnastics?
- 7 What age should you start gymnastics?
- 8 What skills do Level 4 gymnasts need?
- 9 What is the hardest skill in gymnastics?
- 10 What do level 1 gymnasts learn?
- 11 How can I practice gymnastics at home?
- 12 What skills do you need for Level 2 gymnastics?
Can I teach myself gymnastics?
Everyone learns gymnastics on their own time. It might take some people a long time to learn the basics, while others can pick up on them very quickly. It depends on how much you are willing to train and how dedicated you are to practicing and advancing. Stick with it and you’ll be able to learn.
What should a beginner gymnast know?
The following beginner gymnastics skills includes movements that appear throughout a gymnast’s development and across various apparatus.
- 1) Straddle Sit.
- 2) Balance on one foot.
- 3) Hop to safe landing.
- 4) Log roll.
- 5) Consecutive jumps.
- 6) Forward roll.
- 7) Jump half turn.
- 8) Tuck Jump.
Is 12 too old to start gymnastics?
You can begin gymnastics at almost any age you develop an interest, but you may want to stick with recreational gymnastics if you start older than 12. Starting later than 12 years old may not give you enough time to develop the skills you need to go up against people who have been at it since they were toddlers.
What is the easiest gymnastic move to learn?
6 Gymnastics Moves For Beginners
- Forward Roll. The starting body position is upright, hands reaching toward the ceiling.
- Cartwheel. This move starts in a tall stance, one foot in front of the other.
- Backward Roll. This move starts with a tall stance.
- Back Bend/Back Bend Kick Over.
Can I learn gymnastics at 30?
Anyone can start gymnastics at any age. Gymnastics has more to offer than most people realize. There are many other reasons to take gymnastics classes. Gymnastics is one of the only sports that works the entire body.
What is the maximum age to learn gymnastics?
There is no maximum age restriction, and some gymnasts compete well into their 20s. The oldest female gymnast competing in senior international events in 2021 is Uzbekistan’s Oksana Chusovitina, (b. 1975) who was 46 years, 1 month old at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
What age should you start gymnastics?
You can find gymnastics classes for children as young as 2 years of age, but many coaches say that it’s better to wait until your child is 5 or 6 before enrolling in a serious gymnastics program. For younger children, introductory classes should focus on developing body awareness and a love for the sport.
What skills do Level 4 gymnasts need?
Level 4 Gymnastics Requirements: Beam
- 180° turn in passé
- Split leap with 120° leg separation.
- Split jump with 120° leg separation.
- 180° squat turn.
- Cartwheel to side handstand, 1/4 turn dismount.
What is the hardest skill in gymnastics?
The Produnova It takes a daredevil to perform a Produnova, the hardest Vault in Women’s Gymnastics.
What do level 1 gymnasts learn?
In Level 1, a gymnast learns forward and backward tucked rolls, cartwheels and bridges. She must master the candlestick, which requires resting on the back of her shoulders, her legs together, feet pointed to the ceiling. Also required are leg swings, tuck jumps — bring the knees to the chest — and coupe walks.
How can I practice gymnastics at home?
PULL-UPS.: Another great exercise for improving your gymnastics skills at home is pull-ups. You can practice your pull-ups at home by installing a pull-up bar in one of your doorways. A pull-up bar (here is a great one from Amazon for less than $30) is a great piece of home gymnastics equipment.
What skills do you need for Level 2 gymnastics?
Level 2 gymnasts must perform a floor routine with the following skills:
- handstand (must be held for 1 second)
- backward roll to push-up position.
- bridge back kick-over.
- split leap with 60° leg separation.
- 180° heel snap turn in passé
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In the week leading up to New Year’s Eve, an estimated 3.7 million people were infected with Covid-19.
The number was announced by the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday (January 5th).
The number of 3.7 million for the week that ended Friday, December 31st, was up from 2.3 million for the week leading up to Thursday, December 23rd.
And it is the highest number since comparable numbers began in autumn 2020.
In the week of 31.
This has increased from one in 25 in the week to December 23rd.
One in 15 is roughly equivalent to 3.3 million people and is the highest number since the ONS began estimating the number of infections for England in May 2020.
In London, probably around one in ten people tested positive for Covid-19 in the week leading up to December 31, the highest proportion for any region in England.
South West England had the lowest percentage at around one in 30.
In Wales, it is estimated that around 1 in 20 people would get Covid-19 in the week ending December 31, up from 1 in 40 in the week ending December 23.
For Scotland, the latest estimate is also one in 20, versus one in 40.
In Northern Ireland, the estimate is one in 25 versus one in 40.
All information relates to people in private households.
In other developments today, coronavirus isolation in Scotland will be reduced from 10 to seven days from midnight if people have been negative on lateral flow tests in the past two days and have no fever, Nicola Sturgeon announced in the Scottish Parliament.
While people in England without coronavirus symptoms who have a positive lateral flow test will no longer need a confirmatory PCR test as of January 11, the British health authority said. | <urn:uuid:b973368d-0b4f-42b2-9f1f-fdc66e64bfd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thakoni.com/almost-four-million-people-in-uk-had-covid-between-christmas-and-new-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977143 | 375 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Bernie Sander's visit to Ventura this week got us wondering about other presidential candidates who have made stops in the county.
Turns out, more than a dozen have come here over the past several years, thanks in large part to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, which hosted Republican presidential debates in 2011 and 2015. They've included Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Jeb Bush and Michelle Bachmann. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee this year, was on stage during the debate at the library in September.
We've also had visits from a former president and at least two sitting presidents. Former President Bill Clinton came to Oxnard College in 2014 to support Democratic candidates for Congress. President George W. Bush was at the Reagan Library for the dedication of Air Force One in 2005 when he was in his second term. (He also dropped in during his campaign in 2000).
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In most countries across the world, obtaining work as a healthcare professional will entail a high degree of background checks, particularly for a criminal record. Therefore, if you have a record and you still want to get a job as a healthcare worker, you might need to get help from a pardon or expungement attorney to pass a background check.
As cases of internet grooming and other forms of abuse seem to become ever more common, anyone in a position of trust should expect their past behaviour and character to come under scrutiny. As providing care for individuals is by definition the position of most trust any adult can occupy, healthcare work comes with the greatest degree of personal checking.
When applying for healthcare positions, many people can be surprised by the type of questions they have to answer; these often seem irrelevant or intrusive. This is symptomatic of the current climate, and should therefore be accepted as normal.
Shortage in Supply of Health Professionals
As the world’s population continues to increase in size and age, the demand for qualified healthcare workers is also guaranteed to grow with it. Indeed, the World Health Organization has conducted research which shows that, by 2035, demand will outstrip supply by as much as 12.9 million workers. This environment is perfect for fraudulent or abusive individuals to exploit for their own ends, especially where countries are desperate to plug gaps in their own healthcare provision for historical and/or political reasons.
The WHO highlights ten countries where healthcare workers will be in particularly short supply. These include some of the world’s richest nations, which means that wages in those economies’ healthcare sectors are likely to rise as a result. This, in turn, is sure to attract large numbers of applicants, be they honest, dedicated healthcare workers or other types of individual altogether.
Police Checks for Healthcare Workers
Individual nations have their own standards regarding background checks for healthcare workers. To this extent, having a portable, internationally recognized criminal record accreditation only has a limited level of utility. However, all countries have basic standards which any applicant for a position in this sector should meet. As fraudsters and abusers find ever more ways to “fool” law enforcement agencies, any sensible employing state will look for globally or regionally recognized accreditation services to ensure as few people as possible are allowed to slip through the net.
A good example of the standards which will be expected in those countries offering the most attractive salaries is that used by Police Check in the UK used by the country’s National Health Service This sets out the type of criteria any NHS employer will expect, which are in turn based on the British system of Enhanced Disclosure.
The Enhanced Disclosure System
The British “enhanced” checking system requires any job applicant to disclose all previous convictions and warnings. This includes what in other circumstances would be called “spent” convictions; i.e. where penalties given for certain levels of offence do not have to be disclosed by an individual after a certain period of time. Under enhanced disclosure, all convictions and warnings have to be included in the application.
As employers will make clear to applicants, any such conviction or warning will not
necessarily disqualify a person from obtaining the job in question; depending on what the offence/s were, this could be completely irrelevant. Enhanced disclosure just gives employers confidence that they know everything about an applicant’s past. For those with a duty of care, such as healthcare providers, this level of disclosure is seen as crucial.
The Effects of Brexit on Healthcare Work
One of the most quoted reasons for the eventual execution of the Brexit referendum was the control of movement into the UK from the EU. As of 2021, that commitment remains in place. Against this background, obtaining work in the British health sector is theoretically easier for UK nationals than those from the EU. This being the case, the enhanced disclosure system operated by the country’s law enforcement organizations should ensure a high level of compliance with the standards required by UK health employers.
It is possible, however, that this situation will change in the near future. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) predicts that any future British government, regardless of political party, will find the need to recruit staff from the EU with some urgency. As the UK’s population ages, healthcare provision is certain to assume a top spot in any election manifesto. This being the case, police checks for any healthcare working moving between Britain and EU will need to be as streamlined as possible.
Covid, Healthcare Work and Police Checks
During the course of the 2020-21 Coronavirus pandemic, many countries have introduced fast tracking for healthcare professionals. These have included, of course, PCS tests for the virus itself, but have also extended to the advanced checking needed to successfully screen applicants for health worker jobs. In the UK, for instance, the entire enhanced disclosure system is carried out within a 24 hour period. For a process which in normal times took several weeks, this is an example of the importance which responsible governments give to their healthcare workers.
The course of the Covid 19 pandemic has proven to be extremely hard to predict. However, the WHO has made it clear that the virus will persist in every community across the world, much like the influenza and other viruses. This being the case, governments in developing countries especially are likely to keep in place systems which enable them to recruit healthcare professionals quickly and securely. As Covid in particular appears to have the ability to produce lethal mutations, any such government will be alert for any signs of a sudden surge.
ACRO Police Checks for Health Workers
For a profession as important as healthcare, competence and security are absolutely vital. As employment opportunities shift across national boundaries, the police checks healthcare workers have to provide are certain to change with every new challenge brought by disease and the inevitable human corruption which accompanies a crisis. ACRO police checks provided by trusted companies such as CRB Direct mean that any healthcare professional can have the confidence they have the best possible starting position when looking for work abroad. | <urn:uuid:ae7e8073-f935-4c5e-ab47-7c5e1719fbd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2021/06/21/criminal-record-checks-for-health-workers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963485 | 1,230 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Have you been trying to figure out how to retain your youth while staying the best possible version of yourself this year? Well, you’re in luck because this blog will show you how. There are so many aspects of our physical development, especially weight that we take for granted. Mentioned below are things that will get you your dream body in the best headspace possible.
Things that can Help You Look your Healthiest
- Create a customized diet: Your diet is perhaps one of the most vital aspects that control how your health shows up on the external or internal. If you’re a vegetarian, curate a diet that covers all the nutrients, including B12 and protein that is abundant in meat sources but not an option for you. There are several dietary replacements that provide a good nutritional value for you to pick from. If you’re a non-vegetarian, choose to have a lower red-meat diet since some of it is good but not a lot!
- Get a full-body scan: when was the last time you got tested for your complete health> Getting yearly health checkups plays a significant role in helping detect and control diseases that could wreak havoc on your body later. This also includes paying attention to the first signs that our body shows, which is weight irregularities. If you’re witnessing an uncharacteristic weight loss or sudden gain with no apparent change in lifestyle, please get yourself checked for thyroid, diabetes, and other ailments. With timely diagnosis and the right medication, it can all be controlled or reversed early on!
- Consider checking your testosterone levels: No matter what your gender is, we all have some amount of testosterone in our systems. The predominantly male hormone is responsible for much more than keeping our sexual vitality. In women, it helps balance the rest of the hormones, your motivation center, and physical strength. If your testosterone levels are off, you’ll lose weight suddenly or gain a lot without feeling strong. Thankfully, testosterone replacement therapy or TRT is an effective way to restore your levels back to normal so that you can feel healthy and driven from the inside out. Get your levels tested by a lab and then proceed with your physician as to which dose would be best for you.
- Exercise regularly: Moving your body not only makes you feel good but also serves many more purposes than that. Apart from giving you the best exercises to strengthen your muscles, working out also strengthens your bone and cartilage health. You need to challenge your body bit by bit to leave its comfort zone, where it can grow and refine the muscle structure by becoming stronger. Exercise in some form 4-5 days a week to get your dream body.
- Take regular health supplements: As we age, having vitamin and mineral deficiency is one of the first signs that say we need to take care of our health better. If you’re not feeling in your element and experience constant burnout, fatigue, or crankiness along with an unstable weight, get your vitamin B12, D3, and other such aspects checked. There are high chances that you may be deficient and need to start taking supplements. The difference in the weight control will be seen within a month or so of taking these supplements along with a more rejuvenated feeling all over.
- Get enough rest: Your body works even when you sleep by performing all of its restorative activities in the deep sleep cycle. If you have been working out regularly, eating right, and doing all the things that should make you feel healthy but don’t sleep, it won’t work! Not receiving the optimal results while getting erratic sleep and having an uncertain sleep schedule is the first red flag of weight irregularities. Also, you stand a greater chance of getting diabetes with an unhealthy sleep pattern, so make sure you’re disciplined.
- Take care of your mental health: Did you know that prolonged depression and anxiety can lower your metabolism efficiency and lead to weight fluctuations? It is entirely possible to suddenly lose many pounds together or keep gaining weight no matter how clean your diet is- if your mental health is compromised. This happens due to several reasons such as lack of appetite, emotional eating or even feeling nauseous while trying to eat. In both cases, eating disorders are a secondary characteristic of an underlying condition. if this experience sounds like yours, please make sure to get medical help immediately.
The Way Forward:
Now that you know what should ideally be done, you understand that it’s all love of labor right? Getting your health to perfection requires dedication and consistency, and we hope that this blog assists you to find the blind spots in your routine. Stay tuned for more information on health and wellbeing! | <urn:uuid:54132559-0aa3-4a6a-ba3a-df849144dec9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthleafs.com/health/how-to-retain-your-healthiest-weight-in-2022/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950396 | 959 | 1.796875 | 2 |
The National Park Service is waiving all park entrance fees on Sunday for it's 103rd birthday.
This is one of five entrance-fee free days this year.
The National Park System has more than 85 million acres of land and includes national parks, national historical parks, national monuments, national recreation areas, national battlefields, and national seashores. There is at least one national park site in every U.S. state.
$18.2 billion was spent on National Park visits last year.
The entrance fee-free day does not cover amenity or user fees for camping, boat launches, transportation, or special tours.
There are two more National Park free entrance days this year on Saturday, September 28 and Monday, November 11.
An annual pass is available for $80. It can be used to gain unlimited entrance to more than 2000 recreation areas across the United States.
The National Park Service was created on August 25, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Act.
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Information for Parents/Carers:
The following information is intended to provide clarity and our expectations for Remote Learning and how we will aim to meet your child’s learning needs during this lockdown if they are not in school.
All pupils have been issued with a remote login and password.
Please contact the school immediately if you have any issues using this and out IT leader – Mrs Staves will be able to help you with this.
Timetable: What is to be taught at home?
There is a timetable is in place for remote learning and this will be reviewed every 2 weeks by the SLT using information and feedback from staff delivering remote learning and also parents/carers comments. The timetable is available on the website, Facebook page and also as a paper copy from school.
Our aims are to:
- reach as many families as possible
- review the lessons being delivered daily
- build up the teaching time (if required)
- work with our feeder schools to ensure that our timetable is manageable for parents/carers to access when they are attempting to organise the day’s learning across three settings
- allow us to take necessary actions to prepare for a longer period of remote learning.
Your child will be able to:
- Login to remote learning and access live and pre-recorded lessons.
- In conjunction with this – complete a paper pack of ‘Home Learning’ which will be given out every 2 weeks. This is work based on what your child would have been learning in class. It adheres to our curriculum and also builds on the remote learning.
- For the first 5 weeks of remote learning the main focus will be on core subjects: maths, RWI and English.
- After this period other subjects will be included in live lessons with links given to other online learning.
How long do we expect your child to work each day?
Pupils will be expected to access 1.5 hours of live lessons each day.
Pre-recorded lessons each day – 1 hours
This includes: RWI, maths, English – nursery rhymes, poetry, story time, Topic (linked to Knowledge Organiser), Wake Up – Shake Up, Self-care skills practice, fine motor activities (Squiggle while you Wiggle), Go noodle, Cosmic Yoga, Jack Harmann movement sessions. Pupils are asked to complete a challenge after each pre-recorded lesson and to upload on Evidence Me.
Home Learning paper packs are differentiated to meet each pupils needs (independent work) and includes 1.0 hours work each day
In total there is 3.5 hours learning for your child each day.
‘Evidence Me’ is used for parents/carers to upload work, activities and staff to add next steps challenge activities.
We have also signposted you to other online learning and web sites to complete any additional work linked to Science and the class topic.
Bespoke learning is also planned in for individual pupils (RWI) and delivered by Miss Holling
Pupils will be expected to log on for 1.5 hours of live lessons each day for maths, RWI and English. There will also be 4 hours a day of pre-recorded learning (Science, History/Geography and the ‘Book of the Week’.
Home Learning paper packs (independent work) follow on from the pre-recorded lessons. This includes additional reading tasks to support the live lessons.
There is also 30 minutes of work each day from the ‘skills pack’.
In total there is approximately 5.5 hours of learning for your child each day. We have also signposted you to other online learning and web sites to complete any additional work linked to Science and the year group Topic.
Bespoke packages of Remote Learning are also available for identified pupils. This is in agreement with the parents/carers, SENDCo and the Headteacher.
The pupils receive a differentiated paper Home Learning pack matched to their ability level. The same levels of support as other pupils are given with the work delivered at a different time of the day and specifically planned to meet individual need.
Additional live RWI and maths sessions are led by a member of staff.
Accessing Remote Learning
- The Digital platform used: Microsoft Teams
- Online websites and links are given on the timetable and updated as required.
- Our IT leader (Mrs Staves) is available for any issues that parents/carers may have regarding access. Contact 01977 651918 to speak to her.
How will we support you if you have difficulty accessing remote education?
We recognise that some pupils may not have suitable online access at home or have difficulty accessing this due to the demand placed on usage at home with other siblings, internet access.
The survey we conducted during the week commencing 4.1.21 gave us information regarding access to remote learning and we have a very small number of families experiencing difficulty. Through weekly welfare checks, we can keep this information up to date and relevant and meet the needs of our pupils if circumstances change.
To support this:
- Orders have been placed for additional devices for families who require them. ∙ SIM cards/data cards have been issued and are available on request.
- Paper packs of work are available and these are updated as and when required on an individual basis within a 2-week window.
- Individual pencil/writing equipment has been issued to all pupils.
- Parents are invited to send their child into school for learning if they are experiencing difficulty accessing remote learning.
- Work completed at home can be submitted to school as and when required. ∙ Any printed materials required are prepared and distributed from school.
How will my child be taught remotely?
We use a combination of approaches as follows:
- Live teaching
- Pre-recorded lessons
- Storytime, reading and comprehension activities on Teams (verbal feedback in live lessons) ∙ Printed work packs produced by teachers for each year group
- Commercially available websites to support the teaching of specific subjects – topic and science
- Bespoke packages for individual pupils with reference to the above
- Additional paper, workbooks and equipment is available on request from school.
Engagement and feedback:
- We expect that your child will access remote learning as the weekly timetable.
- Class teachers will contact their class each week (telephone call) to discuss how the learning is progressing, engagement with home learning and also as a welfare call.
- Weekly phone calls are important to us so that we can encourage your child to access the learning, follow up any misconceptions from work returned to us and ensure that the mental health and well-being of everyone is positive.
- We can also follow up any concerns and signpost to other agencies if required. ∙ The Behaviour for Learning Manager will contact identified pupils every day for welfare checks and also to follow up and pupil’s not accessing remote learning and supporting where necessary.
- She will also contact parents/carers who ‘drop off’ from remote learning as ongoing to offer support and advice.
- The Headteacher will follow up any lack of engagement with home learning, deliver any home learning not collected from school and contact any parents/carers not communicating with school.
- The Headteacher and BfLM will contact any parent/carer who has difficulty engaging with school personally and look at a plan to either strengthen support at home or offer the child a place in school.
How will we assess your child’s work and progress?
Weekly discussion with your child’s class teacher will be important to helping us understand any issues with the work being set and any difficulties completing this.
∙ Pupils will have an opportunity during the live lessons to respond to previous learning and discuss with the teacher progress made.
∙ Pupils will be able to upload their work to the teacher and staff will respond to this individually using the digital platform, through the weekly discussion and by phone call if required.
∙ Feedback will be given to all pupils as and when required as ongoing through this process. ∙ Feedback will mainly be verbal.
∙ A weekly Celebration Assembly will reward good work and engagement with certificates and a medal.
Additional support for pupils with particular needs
We recognise that some of our pupils may have difficulty accessing remote education without support and we acknowledge that these difficulties then place additional pressure on families.
- The SENDCo (Miss Atkinson) will contact individual pupils weekly to discuss any issues and concerns and also to arrange bespoke learning if required.
- Individual SEND work packs and support are available for pupils with an EHC plan.
- In addition a member of staff will contact individual pupils to arrange a remote timetable that fits around home circumstances and the remote learning already in place.
- Nursery is open to our younger pupils as usual.
- Any pupils who do not attend will have access to remote learning as the weekly timetable and a Home Learning paper pack which is replaced and updated every 2 weeks.
- Staff will also make a weekly welfare call and learning check.
Remote Education for self-isolating pupils
- Any pupils self-isolating will still be able to access our Remote Learning as every child in school has a login and password and has been issued with paper packs of work.
- Additional work will be sent home (if requested by parents/carers) and a dedicated member of staff has responsibility for contacting pupils self-isolating for welfare checks and to also discuss progress being made with their work.
- This is also to support parents/carers who may need help signposting to other agencies if they have contracted the Coronavirus and need medical or other support.
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Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees
French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to document the most beautiful tree barks in a project that is part stunning art photography, part implicit manifesto for biodiversity.
By Maria Popova
Tree bark may not sound like the most exciting or relatable of subjects but, in fact, it is both. Not only do we come in contact with it constantly in our daily lives, from cinnamon to cork to chewing gum to rubber, but it’s also a hauntingly beautiful, textured piece of living matter that looks like the skin of some magnificent mythical dragon. French photographer Cedric Pollet travels the world to capture this beauty and has documented it in his gorgeous new book, Bark: An Intimate Look at the World’s Trees (public library).
To whet people’s enthusiasm, I thought it was important to find ways to surprise and move them, by treating bark in a completely new way, at once aesthetic and playful.” ~ Cedric Pollet
From the vibrant, ruffled bark of the manzanita tree, the color of the sunset in this small evergreen’s native California, to the lush green-and-brown colors of the rainbow eucalyptus, which resemble the thoughtful palette of a contemporary designer, the big, bold and beautiful 190-page tome captures the world’s most breathtaking barks, including those of trees indigenous to some of Earth’s most remote regions.
Bark is as much a stunning visual treat for color and photography lovers alike as it is a visceral manifesto for biodiversity and reforestation, two of today’s most pressing issues in preserving the amazing world we inherited.
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This is an attempt to make a coloring book image of an originally colored Parrot by Merlin. This is created in the woodcut style. If you are curious how to make this style, then just email a photo or bitmap file to firstname.lastname@example.org and it will be converted to a vector graphic. This is an experimental feature. This clipart is an example of what might be created with it. | <urn:uuid:dcff39dd-7411-445b-ab77-a03ecdc17c69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openclipart.org/detail/204088/parrot-outlines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948365 | 107 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Benefits of Individual Medical Insurance – A Guide to Why You Should Choose it
Across India, healthcare costs have been on the rise and thats make individual medical insurance more important for you. Although, medicine and healthcare is more affordable in India than in other countries, which is leading to a rise in medical tourism. In fact, for average Indians, costs have risen so high, that people are being forced into debt for treatments. To make healthcare more feasible for Indians, the best option is Individual Medical Insurance. You must want to know the benefits of Individual Medical Insurance, so here we are-
A comparative table examining the rise in health care costs between 2007-2012. (Image Credits: Medimanage)
With patients being charged for everything from healthcare facilities to medication, this unprecedented rise in medical expenses has made health insurance a necessity today. This is especially true for private hospitals, which leverage their brand equity and the skill of their doctors to charge higher for overheads.
The sorry state of the public hospitals sends large numbers of patients to private hospitals where costs are prohibitive. But at the end of day private healthcare is the only real option.
The Importance of Individual Medical Insurance
Today, if you want the best treatment possible, the only thing you can do is ensure you have adequate coverage. Given how common lifestyle ailments are these days, and how expensive healthcare is, insurance is really the only option to ensure you’re able to manage your health and finances effectively.
As with all necessities, we don’t become aware of the importance of medical or health insurance till we absolutely need it. It’s best to get a good plan as early as possible so that you don’t have to worry about finances during an emergency.
There are different kinds of individual medical insurance that are available today, so it’s important to go over what the plans entail so that you can choose one that suits you best. Among these types is individual medical insurance.
What is Individual Medical Insurance?
Individual medical or health insurance is purchased by a person for himself, and covers just that one individual. The entire amount of the insurance is then allotted to just that one person and is not transferable. This means that only the policyholder can claim the benefits of the insurance.
Usually these policies are bought for a single person, but you could also choose to buy each member of your family individual policies.
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Benefits of Individual Medical Insurance
Now insurance as a general rule provides you a significant measure of financial security, especially when you have medical emergencies or major accidents. It gives you a measure of control over the quality of your health care, ensuring that you won’t be left ailing in a public hospital’s waiting room.
Most insurance plans cover a majority of your in-patient costs, including tests, scans, ambulance, hospital rooms and so on. More often than not, hospitals manage to provide treatment that you won’t need to personally pay for by directly contacting your insurance company. This is what is called Cashless hospitalization.
Apart from all these, there are other benefits of individual medical insurance.
- Tax Deductions: Under section 80D of the Income Tax Act, purchasing health insurance allows you to avail tax deductions up to INR 55,000 per year, particularly if you have also purchased it for your parents, spouse and children.
- Full Amount for Individual: With an individual medical insurance policy, the entire amount that you are eligible to claim is available to you personally. This is unlike a floater policy, where if one beneficiary avails from the policy, then all the other beneficiaries will only have the remaining amount for their expenses.
- No Age Restrictions: Medical insurances need to be renewed yearly, and group policies usually have an upper age limit when it comes to renewals. However, with an individual insurance policy, this is not so. You can renew your policy no matter your age or personal health.
- Can Be Purchased for Anybody: This policy can be bought by you for your parents, in-laws and other extended family members unlike family policies where usually only your immediate family can be included.
For Whom Is Individual Medical Insurance Ideal?
The popularity of family floater plans may indicate that those are the best kind of medical insurance plans in the market, but the truth is that there is no ‘best’ plan. There is only the plan that is right for you and your family and suits your needs the best.
Individual insurance plans have a number of advantages, and depending on your financial and familial situation, may make more sense than a family floater plan.
For instance, there are a number of people for whom such a plan would be ideal.
- Singles: Being young and single does not mean that you do not require health insurance. Group insurance policies only work out cheaper if you’re buying insurance for multiple people anyway. Individual insurance policies are perfect for people who are single because it meets their medical expenses and does not need you to include other people to avail all the benefits.
- Older People: Family plans make sense for young families, below 35 years, with very small children who can be easily added to the policy. For older families with higher medical expenses, individual medical insurance is more suitable. This is because older families have more health issues, so even if all family members need to avail insurance at the same time, they will all be covered individually.
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Animals and Animal Husbandry
R.I. Gen. Laws § 4-13-16.1
§ 4-13-16.1. Injury to seeing-eye dogs or persons who are visually impaired— Damages.
If any dog kills, wounds, or worries, or assists in killing, wounding, or worrying, any seeing-eye dog certified for use as a guide-dog for a person who is blind or visually impaired, belonging to or in the possession of any person who is blind or visually impaired and under harness or engaged in the act of guiding its owner, or if any dog assaults, bites, or otherwise injures any person who is blind or visually impaired while traveling the highway or out of the enclosure of the owner or keeper of that dog, the owner or keeper of the dog shall be liable to the person who is blind or visually impaired aggrieved for double all damages sustained, to be recovered in a civil action, with costs of suit. If afterwards this damage is done by that dog, the owner or keeper of the dog shall pay to the party aggrieved treble damages, to be recovered in the same manner, and an order shall be made by the court before whom the second recovery is made, for killing the dog. The order shall be executed by the officer charged with the execution of the order and it shall not be necessary, in order to sustain this action, to prove that the owner or keeper of this dog knew that the dog was accustomed to causing these damages.
History of Section.
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Uncertainty builds in Washington over White House leaks
Uncertainty and confusion appear to reign in Washington after a steady flow of leaks over the past week ranging from reports that senior White House adviser Jared Kushner tried to set up backchannel communications with Russia to the unauthorized release of information about the U.K.’s investigation into the Manchester attack.
Members of President Trump’s administration and Congress on Sunday were guarded on talk shows when speaking about the recent White House leaks, uncertain whether to believe recent reports but well aware of their ramifications if true.
Many indicated they would withhold judgement until the reports were fully investigated and pressed for investigators to do so.
The White House, which has been struggling with leaks since the president assumed office, has sent mixed signals about how it plans to handle them.
However, Trump also last week called for an investigation into “deeply troubling” leaks of sensitive intelligence, including the information leaked about the Manchester bombing.
He vowed his administration “will get to the bottom of this” because they “pose a grave threat to our national security.”
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Sunday said he’s not sure where the “outrageous” leaks related to the attack in Manchester, England, came from, but said if they came from the U.S., it is “totally unacceptable.”
“I don’t know where the leak came from,” he said. “And, if it came from the United States, it’s totally unacceptable.”
Kelly also had some strong words for the leakers themselves.
“I don’t know why people do these kind of things, but it’s borderline, if not over the line, of treason,” he said during an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
“It jeopardizes not only investigations, but puts peoples’ lives in jeopardy. I don’t know why people do it but they do, and that’s the world we live in,” he continued during an appearance on on “Fox News Sunday.”
Kelly’s comments came after a string of intelligence disclosures that angered some key U.S. allies.
Police in Manchester said they would stop sharing information with their U.S. counterparts after photos appearing to show remnants from the bomb were published by The New York Times.
The name of the alleged bomber was also published in U.S. news outlets before it was officially announced by U.K. authorities.
He went on to dismiss concerns that the rumor, if true, was not “a good thing.”
“It doesn’t bother me,” he said. “You just have to assume, obviously, that what you’re getting is — may or may not be true.”
“There’s another question about his security clearance and whether he was forthcoming about his contacts on that,” Schiff told ABC’s “This Week.”
“If these allegations are true and he had discussions with the Russians about establishing a back channel and didn’t reveal that, that’s a real problem in terms of whether he should maintain that kind of security clearance.”
But he stopped short of agreeing with critics who say Kushner’s security clearance should be revoked, instead noting the need to “get to the bottom” of the reports.
“Well I think we need to get to the bottom of these allegations but I do think there ought to be a review of his security clearance to find out whether he was truthful, whether he was candid, if not, the there’s no way he can maintain that kind of a clearance,” Schiff said.
When asked, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said Kushner appears willing to talk about the reports and answer questions, but declined to make his own assumptions.
“I think Jared has said that he’s more than willing to answer any and all questions. They reached out to us yesterday to make sure that we knew that was the case,” Corker told NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
“And I’m sure he’s willing to do so.”
“And so I think I would just wait, sounds like he’s more than glad to talk about all of these things,” Corker said.
“And instead of getting wrapped up into a lot of hyperbole, as these things can sometimes do, I think talking with him directly and getting him to answer any and all questions as he said he would do would probably be the prudent course of action.”
Corker also said he has spent a lot of time with Kushner, and said he seems to be a “very open person.”
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Resistance to this particular implementation of magnet work holding regularly begins with a suitable concern for health and safety. These concerns can also be allayed at the time of assessing the technology, holding power and optimal operating growing conditions of magnetic occupation holding in terminologies of operational security.
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Magnetic Work Holding in a Risk free Technology
If your machine driver has owned or operated workpieces together with mechanical clamps for decades, the principle of depending on magnetism to manage workpieces, especially in wide milling operations, boils lower down to every issue off trust: Is certainly this highly safe? While understandable this type of opinion is in fact rooted inside of subjectivity certainly not objective simple fact. More as compared to what likely, the ones who always keep this point of take a look at may not ever fully gain knowledge of the facts of the way safe magnets work fragrance is.
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Magnetic Show results Holding although a Safe Holding Force
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(1) magnetic workholding is going to have a definite clamping energize up to finally 1000 serta and
(2) acquire upon the application, a powerful instantaneous clamping force together with 12 tons per square foot can be generated by attractive workholders. This level having to do with holding intensity is a great deal more than quite similar to mechanical clamps with one additional advantage: magnetic field holding impetus is uniform, constant and so infinite correct the network de-energizes that it.
Optimal In use Conditions
To put magnetic labor holding solutions may demand some training to understand the technology’s optimal managing conditions. As for example, magnetic work containing is major used among smooth-surfaced workpieces rather compared to rough ones because ones smoothness minimizes the air gap relating to the work surface and an magnet; nominal air research increase magnetic field attraction also the clutching bond. Some sort of materials are better conductors of magnetism than a few. For example, annealed dust are a great choice while hardened materials you should not absorb flux as clearly and definitely retain a handful magnetism. This guidance condition ought to be changed within mere seconds with demagnetization. Finally, the actual direction of a the attempting to keep force ‘s yet every other adjustment an operator may have to help make in which to safely apply magnetic work holding. Practically all magnets are blessed with 100 % clamping strength directly away from all the face because of the magnet, but outright about 22 percent clamping force versus the side causes. So, the particular geometry of a a nick must be considered here in the machining process if you want to reap most of the advantages of this classification of workholding. | <urn:uuid:bb8770f3-0c6f-4369-a895-1f6e0971aa4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sanchez.maddestmaximvs.com/category/uncategorized/page/19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937274 | 913 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Nilay Ozge Yalcin
Building from a background in Cognitive Science, Nilay’s PhD research focuses on the role of emotions and especially empathy in multi-modal human to machine communication. She uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines computer science methods with the theories of psychology, linguistics and sociology to understand and explore the mechanisms of human communication and dialog. Nilay is working to develop an Affective Intelligent Agent system which acts as an interactive assistant for language-based communication. She is investigating the social, emphatetic and affective behavior as well as the notion of personality in artificial agents and their effects on human-agent interaction. She also works on achieving computational abstraction techniques for anonymization without losing emotional content.
She is involved in two projects at iVizLab and is a teaching assistant for COGS100 course.
Our lab has extensive experience in using different sensing technology including eye tracking and facial emotion recognition (DiPaola et al 2013), as well as gesture tracking and heart rate and EDA bio sensing (Song & DiPaola, 2015) to affect generative computer graphics systems.
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team, we created a wholly new AI technique to anonymize interview subjects and scenes in regular and 360 videos to create a technique that would be much better at conveying emotional and knowledge information than current anonymization techniques.
Using Cognitive Science as a basis for our work, we attempt to model aspects of human creativity in AI. Specially we are using Neural Networks (and evolutionary systems) in the form of Deep Learning, CNNs, RNNs and other modern techniques to model aspects of human expression and creativity.
We will combine our AI work in Empathy based modeling for AI Character Agents with our Deep Learning-based Creativity system (see papers and work in PDF) that realizes a fine art portrait from sitters.
M-Path: A Conversational System for the Empathic Virtual Agent
Conference Proceedings: Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Meeting, August 15, 2019 2019
pp. 597-607. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-25719-4_78
Embodied Interactions with a Sufi Dhikr Ritual: Negotiating Privacy and Transmission of Intangible Cultural Heritage in “Virtual Sama”
Conference Proceedings: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, British Computer Society, July 2017
pp. 365-372, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.73
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Distance between 223 and Mg Road Metro Station is 6 kms or 3.7 miles or 3.2 nautical miles
|Origin||223, Udyog Vihar Phase 1 Gurgaon, Haryana, India|
|Destination||Mg Road Metro Station, National Highway 236, Maruti Housing Colony, Gurgaon, Haryana, India|
|Driving Distance||6 kms or 3.7 miles or 3.2 nautical miles|
|Driving Time||7 minutes|
It takes 7 minutes to travel from 223 to Mg Road Metro Station. Approximate driving distance between 223 and Mg Road Metro Station is 6 kms or 3.7 miles or 3.2 nautical miles . Travel time refers to the time taken if the distance is covered by a car.
On the table above you can see driving distance in various units namely kilo metres, miles and nautical miles.
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This new subanalysis of data from the Rotterdam Study investigated life expectancy among women and men who live a healthy lifestyle and do or do not have heart failure.
Following evaluation of 5 factors related to lifestyle and their impact on heart failure–related outcomes—smoking status, alcohol consumption, diet quality, physical activity, and weight status—the authors of a new study in European Journal of Epidemiology have determined that living a healthy lifestyle has a positive impact on both overall life expectancy and years free of heart failure.
Noting that previous studies have investigated the independent association each of the above factors has in relation to heart failure risk and mortality outcomes, the authors wrote, “these lifestyle factors are interrelated and their effect should therefore be considered in conjunction. Our main goal, therefore was to address the etiological question whether overall lifestyle influences the average number of years lived with and without heart failure.”
The lifestyle score created from the 5 factors mentioned above was stratified into 3 levels: unhealthy (reference; 0-3), moderate (4-6), and healthy (7-10).
Data for the factors were collected from 1995 through 2008 on 6113 individuals (mean [SD] age, 65.8 [9.7] years; women, n = 3598; men, n = 2515). Most were classified as overweight (41.6%, women; 54.5%, men), followed by normal weight (33.5% and 30.3%, respectively) or obese (25.0% and 15.2%). More women than men had no smoking history (44.2% vs 16.5%), and more men than women were current smokers (22.6% vs 17.2%).
Reduced risks for incident heart failure were seen among those who had healthy lifestyle vs unhealthy lifestyle scores. For men, their risk of heart failure was reduced by 53% and for women, 30%. In addition, every 1-point increase in lifestyle score correlated with overall 11% and 9% risk reductions, respectively. Mortality risks were lowered, too, but not by much: 11% in men, and 13% in women.
In the study participants without heart failure, living a healthy vs unhealthy lifestyle correlated with a 45% reduced risk of an early death among men and 39% among women. Transitioning from no heart failure to first event was most strongly influenced by weight vs the other lifestyle factors, and from heart failure to death, smoking status exerted the most influence.
Overall longer life expectancies were seen in both the women and men, as well as those free of heart failure, upon comparison of the healthy and moderate lifestyle categories with the unhealthy lifestyle category, respectively at the ages of 45, 65, and 85 years.
The following increases in total life expectancy were seen from having moderate and lifestyle category scores, respectively, vs unhealthy category scores:
Corresponding heart failure–free life-years gained are 2.1 and 4.8, 1.8 and 4.4, and 0.9 and 2.3 years among the men and 2.3 and 3.4, 2.0 and 3.1, and 1.1 and 1.7 among the women.
The final year of study follow-up was 2016, and the average follow-up was 11.3 years. Heart failure events totaled 699 (women, n = 379; men, n = 320), and 35% (women, n = 1149; men, n = 997) of the entire study cohort died. This study was a subanalysis of 3 subcohorts of the Rotterdam Study, from the Netherlands. Physical activity levels, smoking status, alcohol use, and diet quality were self-reported; weight status was determined by research center staff; and heart failure was diagnosed according to European Society of Cardiology criteria.
The authors did not find that one lifestyle factor exerted more influence over all 5 vs the others, and they attribute this to the fact that all of the lifestyle factors they evaluated are important influences. “Indeed several mechanisms have been proposed to contribute to the association between individual lifestyle factors and heart failure,” they wrote.
Several examples include that poor diet and little physical activity can lead to higher body mass index and inflammation, which itself can lead to hypertension and diabetes; heavy alcohol use can damage the heart muscle; and smoking can lead to hypertension and coronary artery diseases. All of these are major causes of heart failure, the authors noted, adding that their findings also echo previous studies.
“We add to the literature that an overall healthy lifestyle may not only improve total life expectancy but also life expectancy without heart failure, and that there is not one major driving factor,” they concluded. “Focusing on healthy lifestyle in the prevention and treatment of heart failure is of major importance and should also be addressed in the older population. Hereby the focus should be on overall lifestyle and not only on a single aspect.”
Limpens MAM, Asllanaj E, Dommershuijsen LJ, et al. Healthy lifestyle in older adults and life expectancy with and without heart failure. Eur J Epidemiol. Published online January 27, 2022. doi:10.1007/s10654-022-00841-0 | <urn:uuid:756b37c7-1163-41c0-9ae1-a7556477f07c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ajmc.com/view/overall-heart-healthy-lifestyle-needed-to-ward-off-heart-failure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961785 | 1,082 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Your guide to Australian slang
Here’s your guide to commonly used slang Down Under
Australians can be difficult to understand, because we’re fond of shortening or changing words – especially adding an “io”, “o” or “ah” sound to the end of a word.
Interestingly, Australia became the only country in the world to have popular fast food chain McDonalds rebrand their signs to say “Maccas” in some locations, because it’s what most Australians call it.
As it can be pretty confusing, here’s a definitive guide to Australian slang.
Slang when describing people, actions or emotions:
Arvo or S'arvo: means afternoon or this afternoon. “Meet you there this arvo!”
Bloody oath: means of course. “Bloody oath I want to come to your party.”
Crikey: is an expression of surprise. “Crikey, that car was driving fast!”
Dodgy: this refers to something or someone that is poor quality, unreliable or suspicious. For example, a dodgy sandwich may be spoiled, while a dodgy area means an area that is unsafe. “Let’s not eat here. That food looks dodgy.”
Full on: means intense. “That exam was full on.”
G'day: means hello. “G’day, how are you?”
How ya going/How’s it going: this refers to someone wanting to know how you are feeling. “Hi, how’s it going?”
No dramas/no worries/she’ll be right: these phrases mean that there is no concern. “If you can’t make it to the movies, no dramas.”
Stop mucking around: means to stop wasting time. “We're going to be late, stop mucking around!”
Thongs: means flip flops. “The sand might be hot so wear your thongs.”
Australian slang for emotions:
Aggro: means angry, aggressive or something that may cause aggravation. “I hope my housemate cleaned up their dirty dishes because I don’t want to get aggro.”
Devo: means devastated. “I’m so devo our holiday is over.”
Australian social and food slang:
Avo: is referring to avocado. “Would you like avo on your sandwich?”
Barbie: means barbeque. “Let’s buy some sausages for the barbie.”
Brekky: means breakfast. “Would you like to grab some brekky tomorrow?”
Crack a cold one/Crack a tinny: these both mean having a beer. “It’s Friday night. Let’s crack a cold one!”
Cuppa: means a cup of tea or coffee. “Would you like a cuppa?”
I’m stuffed: if this is following a meal, it means they are full, while if it is said after a long day, it may mean they are tired! “I can’t eat another bite, I’m stuffed!”
It’s my shout/I’ll get this round: the person who says this intends to pay for the drinks or meal. “Don’t get your wallet out, it’s my shout.”
Just remember, Australians are easy going and aware their language – especially their slang, is hard to understand, so if you’re ever confused, just ask what they mean.
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Source: Middle East Times
Fears of growing sectarianism in Egypt were again realized this week after clashes between Christians and Muslims saw at least eight people arrested in the Ain Shams neighborhood of Cairo. Coptic Pope Shenouda III called for calm after the violence on Sunday sparked concerns that sectarianism in Egypt is gaining steam.
The incident occurred Sunday after a group of Muslim demonstrators took to the street in front of an area converted by Christians into a prayer hall. According to reports, rock throwing and the burning of two cars ensued after Christians and the Muslim protesters began to fight.
Police entered the fray and ended the violence before it spiraled out of control. But, not before religious leaders and activists began to worry that this is the beginning of more religious-based conflicts in the country that has long boasted of its religious tolerance.
The pope banned Christians from praying in the state-owned building in Cairo after the incident and "has ordered a cessation to prayers in the building belonging to the Church of [the] Virgin Mary ... after confrontations between the worshippers and some of the neighborhood's residents in front of the building," Egypt's state-owned MENA news agency quoted a papal spokesman as saying.
The building in question was a former factory that had been abandoned. The church had bought the property for the prayer hall, which lies almost directly across the street from a mosque, which sparked anger among the Muslim residents.
"The cause behind the recurring attacks in the issue of building churches is the regime and I blame the government before extremists for not solving the problem," said Naguib Gobrail, a Coptic lawyer in Cairo.
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All NFL goal posts are sulfur yellow, and the color is applied by powder coat instead of paint, which tends to chip and fade. That change was made about 10 years ago. It was in 1966 that NFL owners mandated that all the league’s goal posts should be bright gold.
What is the yellow post in football called?
The goal post in football is a large yellow post located at the back of each end zone on the end line. Goal posts have a horizontal bar called the crossbar and two vertical bars called the uprights. In Division one and NFL football, the crossbar is eighteen-and-a-half feet wide and thirty feet tall.
What color are NCAA goal posts?
College Field Goal Posts can have a yellow or white finish. College (NCAA) Football Field Goal Posts have a top of crossbar height of 10′ (3.05 m) and inside width of 18.5′ (5.64 m). The overall height of a College field goal post is 30′ (9.14 m) with a typical depth of 6.5′ (1.98 m).
What color is a goal in soccer?
Dimensions and Color
The upright posts and horizontal crossbar must be no more than 5 inches wide. Goal lines must be drawn on the field at the same width as the goal posts and crossbar. Soccer goal posts should be white in color. Lines on the field should also be white.
What is the goal post called in football?
In both sports, the goal structure consists of a crossbar suspended 10 feet (3.0 m) off the ground and goal posts (colloquially known as “uprights”) placed 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m) apart and extending at least 35 feet (11 m) above the crossbar.
What are the orange things in football?
Pylons are small, orange markers placed at each of the four corners of the end zone. They are used to help the referees determine if the ball crosses the goal line during fast play.
What are the posts called in NFL?
A goal is centered on each end line, consisting of a horizontal crossbar 10 feet (3.0 m) above the ground and aligned with the inside edge of the end line, with vertical goal posts (colloquially “uprights”) at each end of the crossbar 18 feet 6 inches (5.64 m) apart and extending at least 35 feet (11 m) above the …
Are college and NFL goal posts the same?
The width, similarly, is the same for high school, college and NFL fields. … In both NCAA and NFL play, the goal posts are 18.5 feet apart, while high school goal posts are 23 feet, 4 inches apart. For over 40 years after those initial rule changes took effect, the goal posts were situated on the goal lines.
Why are hash marks different in college and pro football?
The hash marks are 60 feet from the nearest sideline, making the two rows of hash marks 40 feet apart. … And when the ball is marked on a hash mark in college, the offensive team has less in-bounds territory on one side. In the pros, the closer hash marks give a team more field to work with.
What are NFL goal posts made of?
A standard goalpost weighs about 500 pounds.
At Sportsfield Specialties, the gooseneck and crossbar are made of dense schedule 40 aluminum, while the uprights are made of a lighter 1/8-inch wall aluminum.
What is the length of goal post in football?
The goalposts and crossbar must be made of wood, metal or other approved material. They are square, rectangular, round or elliptical in shape and are not dangerous to players. The distance between the posts is 7.320m and the distance from the lower edge of the crossbar to the ground is 2.44m.
What size are goal posts?
Adults goal size is 24ft x 8ft. (7.32 x 2.44m). This size is used at levels of the game for 11 v 11 football.
How wide is goal post in football?
Goal posts in the NFL have sat at a width of 18 feet 6 inches since the 1920s, but the league continues to toy with making kicks more challenging.
What is a post in football?
A post is a moderate to deep passing route in American football in which a receiver runs 10–20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts, hence the name) at a 45-degree angle.
Why is the Post called woodwork?
That’s because goalposts were made of wood, originally. Wooden goalposts were used in British professional football for about a hundred years, until about 1980. It’s now just an old speech habit to refer to them as “the woodwork”. In a modern football stadium, the goalposts and crossbar are metal, of course.
Why football goal post is called woodwork?
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More than a year ago, Aurora was blazing trails in how to handle the battle between mobile home park owners and helpless renters.
Now, Aurora lawmakers, like so many across the state, are struggling again with whether and how to preserve the dwindling stock of affordable housing.
When Aurora City Council members approved a 10-month moratorium on redeveloping mobile home parks in the city along with a task force to study the housing stock, the effort was lauded as forward-thinking. Leaders, academics and residents were hopeful that it would prevent the depletion of the region’s most affordable, nonsubsidized housing option.
“This move on Aurora’s part is incredible. I haven’t seen this happen anywhere. So this is a huge move,” Esther Sullivan, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver who studies the role of mobile home parks, told the Sentinel after the passage. “They could be a model for the country here. Affordable housing advocates have to focus on preservation.”
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The imminent closure of the Denver Meadows Mobile Home Park, located on a swath of land north of East Colfax Avenue, motivated council members to approve the moratorium and task force in March 2018, though the body was quick to point out both approvals were more far-reaching than Denver Meadows.
A year-and-a-half later, the moratorium has ended, Denver Meadows residents have all been forced to find new homes, which they say come nowhere close to being as affordable as their mobile homes, and the city is still working through how to move forward on preserving other mobile home parks.
The recommendations included proposals for stronger protections of residents facing retaliation, mandatory mediation, encourage using model leases, creating funding for land trusts and local law for a collective purchase opportunity.
So far, the city has taken on the task of creating more educational material for park residents and park owners, according to Deputy City Manager Jason Batchelor. Postcards will direct people to a city webpage with a list of resources, which will now include new state law for mobile home parks.
20 years ago, there were 13,000 mobile homes
Between Adams and Arapahoe counties, which make up the bulk of Aurora, there are 92 mobile home parks, many of those are in unincorporated areas of the counties. In Aurora city limits, there are 11 total parks.
Sixty-six of the region’s mobile home parks are in Adams County, according to the most recent assessor records. There are approximately 11,300 mobile homes in Adams County, which is an increase from a decade ago when the county reported having 68 parks but 10,413 homes. Twenty years ago there were 71 parks and more than 13,000 mobile homes.
Brian Arnold, who sat on the mobile home task force, said he’s already seen the success of the task force despite no city ordinances have come from the recommendations. Arnold, who also sits on the state housing board, said the group has started talking more about the preservation of mobile homes since the creation of the task force. He isn’t sure those conversations would be had at the state level without Aurora’s efforts to initiate those discussions in the community.
“We of course want to keep getting in front of them (city council) and push for policy, I don’t know how easy that will be with the city council we have right now,” Arnold said. “That might be different after November.”
Some of the group’s recommendations were adopted into statewide legislation this year.
State House Rep. Edie Hooton, a Democrat from Boulder, sponsored the bill that made its way to the governor’s desk this year. After the passage of the bill, she told the Sentinel that the seven parks in her own district have been her anchor for the issue, and that constituents have made it clear to her they wanted to see more protections.
“In 1985, Colorado passed the Mobile Homes Park Act and in that statute it addresses the rights of homeowners and park owners, but there was not a corresponding enforcement mechanism,” she said. “Since then, almost 40 years now, there’s been a pretty significant imbalance between homeowners, who pay lot fees on property that they don’t own a home that they do own, to park owners, who are not regulated. And so there have been many years that legislation has been introduced to try to create some kind of parity between the two parties.”
Hooton says there are a lot of ways she wanted to address that “imbalance” she’s heard about from park residents. Her bill, House Bill 1309 was a big step in the right direction, she said. But there’s a lot more she wants to do, too.
Hooton said she’d eventually like to prevent situations like the residents of Denver Meadows endured. House Bill 1309 created a dispute resolution program within the Department of Local Affairs that is funded through new fees paid by park owners and residents. It also grants counties to enact laws related to mobile home parks — which Hooton said is important because many parks are in unincorporated areas — and extends the time a resident has to move or sell a mobile home after being evicted.
Aurora Mayor Bob LeGare, who led a negotiating effort with the owner of Denver Meadows to get money for displaced residents, said he thought the state legislation did a good job of addressing issues that have been facing Aurora mobile home parks. He specifically noted the dispute resolution program and allowing residents more than the previously required three days to move a mobile home.
Another policy discussion for mobile homes is expected to take place in the next month, according to LeGare. He said, as a long term goal, he’d like to see more conversations with park owners.
More than a year ago, LeGare reached out to each of the park owners of the city. He didn’t hear anything back from that group.
“I think when somebody from the government calls and says, ‘we’re here to help’ they don’t believe you,” he suspected of why nobody returned his calls.
Now, the task force, with a list of recommendations complete, may dissolve into another task force. But Aurora Councilwoman Crystal Murillo, who represents the northern region of the city hopes the group will remain specific to the challenges mobile home parks face.
According to the report, only 1.3% of the total housing stock in Aurora are mobile home units.
But many of those units have remained affordable. In 2016, the median value for mobile homes in Aurora was $28,300. That’s about the same price as pre-recession years. Lot rents, which are separate from the mobile home, drive up the total price, however.
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Rhinoplasty is the main plastic procedure that involves the reshaping of the nose’s structure. People can have several reasons for a rhinoplasty procedure. Most people want to undergo rhinoplasty procedures because they have disfigurement on their noses. Rhinoplasty is also called a ” nose job “. A good nose job can make a candidate have the perfect appearance after the procedure.
One can completely change and still has the ethnicity look on her / his face after a good rhinoplasty procedure. Rhinoplasty procedures can be performed according to people’s demands. Not all the people may have disfigurement on their noses, some just want to have the exact nose type of a person, probably a celebrity.
Rhinoplasty procedures are generally thought to be easy-peasy plastic procedures, however, they are not. The nose has a tough and complicated inner structure meaning that surgeons should really be careful when they perform it. Not all the people’s rhinoplasty requests can be accepted by surgeons because it needs certain eligibility requirements.
For example, some surgeons do not want to perform nose jobs on people whose nose structure is complicated in a bad way. Capillary vessels and the bone structure may not take it and candidates may suffer from smell sensation loss.
Rhinoplasty procedures are also called as medical treatments. Nose allows us to breath just like our mouth. However, the number of people who have breathing problems because of the disfigured structure of their noses is very high. A good nose job can fix the breathing problems of a patient.
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Fribourg had been added to the list in early September, but was removed on October 1st.
The western cantons of Geneva and Vaud remain on the list due to high infection rates.
Geneva and Vaud had been added to the list on September 10th in light of high infection rates in the two French-speaking cantons, reported Swiss news outlet 20 Minutes.
The result of the decision is that anyone who enters from either Geneva or Vaud must be tested on arrival in Germany.
This applies to returning German citizens as well as any other arrivals.
The tested person must then quarantine until the test result comes through, relying on health authorities for guidance.
Germany's threshold for placing a country on the high-risk list is 50 infections per 100,000 residents over the previous seven days.
While the infection rates in western Switzerland remain comparatively high, on the whole infection rates are falling.
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The series of the “Bibliotheca Historica” of the Congregation of the Redemptorists have been enriched by another recently published volume: Memorie su San Clemente Maria Hofbauer. The author of the study is Fr. Bartolomeo Pajalich, C.Ss.R., who edited it 38 years after the death of the then Servant of God, now a saint. The current publication was prepared for publishing by Fr. Vincenzo La Mendola, C.Ss.R.
Why is it worth to recall the figure of this Redemptorist saint? The answer gives Fr. Michael Brehl C.Ss.R., Superior General, in the presentation of the book:
We are protagonists of an age rich in stimuli and possibilities but also pervaded by great uncertainties and remarkable phenomena that risk endangering the nature and dignity of the human being. […]
In fact, we are challenged to embark on a journey that will lead us to a conversion of views, of mentality, of habits and lifestyles and pastoral approach. These sudden changes that take place before our eyes often leave us disoriented to the point of asking ourselves: where will this process of change, so articulated and so radical, take us?
This is the question that introduces us to the experience of Saint Clement Maria Hofbauer, a Redemptorist missionary on the frontier, a man open to the most unexpected changes and capable of adapting to the most diverse human, cultural and ecclesial contexts. He is a man attentive to the inspirations of the Spirit, ready to grasp “the signs of the times”, always in search of new ways to proclaim the Gospel.
This volume of the “Bibliotheca Historica” is one of the initiatives of the Historical Institute for the celebration of the Jubilee Year, announced on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of St. Clement Hofbauer.
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HOUSTON – Households are grappling with soaring prices on gas, groceries, rent and other essentials.
The latest inflation data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that consumer prices rose 9.1% during the 12-month period that ended in June — the biggest yearly increase since December 1981 and a new pandemic-era peak.
Here is how inflation is affecting the Houston area.
SOUND OFF: How is inflation affecting your spending?
The increase in gas prices has become one of the most noticeable ways people are feeling the effects of inflation.
As of this writing, the national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gas is $4.33, which is 17 cents less when compared to this day last week and $1.17 more than the price per gallon at the same time last year.
This month, the statewide gas price average slipped below $4 for the first time since May. Currently, the average price for a gallon of gas in Texas is $3.83, 15 cents less than it was a week ago and about $1 more than it was last year, according to the AAA.
In Harris County, the gas price average is $3.90, six cents less than on this day last week and over $1 more per gallon compared to this day last year.
MORE: This is what fuel is costing people in Houston area, across the US as summer travel season ramps up
Shoppers are also facing higher prices at the grocery store. Inflation has pushed up prices on fruits and vegetables, meat, dairy and baked goods. During the 12-month period that ended in June, the price of eggs rose 64.9%. Chicken breast is up 36.2%, flour nearly 40%, and milk 22.2%, according to the latest inflation data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
MORE: ‘I can’t remember what meat tastes like’: 18 Houston-area residents share how they’re coping with inflation
Housing and rent prices
In June, Houston home sales experienced their first significant decline of 2022, a result of diminished inventory, record high prices, rising interest rates and a climate of growing inflation. According to the Houston Association of Realtors’ June 2022 Market Update, single-family home sales fell 8.6% last month, with 9,728 units sold compared to 10,649 in June of 2021. On a year-to-date basis, however, the Houston housing market is 1.7% ahead of last year’s record-setting volume.
The average price of a single-family home rose 11% in June to $436,425, slightly lower than May’s record high, according to the HAR report. The median home price increased 13.2% to $355,000, the highest median of all time. The average price for a single-family home in Houston first broke the $400,000 earlier this year in March. The median price has been above $300,000 since May of 2021.
HAR said a continued lack of homes priced below $250,000 has left consumers no choice but to weigh more expensive property options, shift their focus to rental homes or postpone plans to buy or rent.
Rental prices across Houston have been rising for months, forcing some residents to reassess their living situations. Average rent prices in Houston rose 7.8% during the 12-month period that ended in May, and on average, renters are paying $1,600 a month, according to data released by RentHub.
MORE: Inflation rate having impact on the housing market, gas and groceries in Houston area
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I had wanted to go to Ladakh for a very long time. Ladakh is a land that promises spirituality, adventure and mystery. It is a beguiling land of high passes, remote Buddhist monasteries and the kind of stark nature that has to be seen to be believed. It is also only accessible by road for 6 months of the year, making flying in the only option during the long cold winters.
Finally, on 1st October 2016 Ollie and I boarded a plane in Delhi bound for Leh, the largest town in Ladakh. The main tourist season in Ladakh is from June-September; the access roads usually open sometime in the middle of May and close around the end of October. We were visiting at the very end of the season, just as wintry weather was starting to blow in.
There were advantages to this, such as the low number of other visitors and cheaper guesthouse rates. There were, however, also disadvantages – less likelihood that groups could be put together for tours and cold mornings and evenings.
Leh sits at 3500m above sea level, so acclimatisation is essential if Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is to be avoided. It is better to travel in by road from Manali or Srinagar so as to gain altitude gradually, but as it was already late in the season, we decided to fly in directly from Delhi.
Arriving in Leh
We left Delhi at 5am and were over Ladakh as the sun was rising. It was the most scenic flight we have ever been on; the pilot did a wide circle over Leh before we landed to allow passengers some fantastic photo opportunities.
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, a land unlike any other. Snow-capped mountains sat around the edge of a wide, rocky, brown desert valley, the great Indus River a vivid blue as it swirled its way across the valley floor. It was an incredible, mesmerising scene.
As soon as we left the warmth of the plane and our feet touched down onto the tarmac, the cold and the altitude hit us like a smack in the face. It was a few degrees above 0, a huge contrast to the heat of Delhi. In fact, having lived in Asia for over two years, it was the coldest temperature we had experienced in a very long time!
Leh airport is part commercial, part military so any photos within its confines are prohibited. Bordering China and Pakistan, Ladakh is a large military base and there are frequent check points and stations across the region.
Airport formalities done, we headed out into the arrivals area to find a taxi to take us to our guesthouse in town. We couldn’t believe how breathless we both were just walking the 100 metres or so to where our driver’s car was parked. The decrease in oxygen was going to hit us a lot harder than we had anticipated.
Where to Stay in Leh
We stayed at Mandarava Homestay, just a 10-15 minute walk from the main bazaar area. It’s located in a quiet residential street, has a garden out front and back where fresh organic vegetables are grown, and offers absolutely stunning views from the upper bedrooms and rooftop.
We must have had the best room in the house; it was not only spacious and very comfortable but also received the whole day’s sunlight. This meant that by the evening, when it was cold outside, our room was lovely and toasty and a real pleasure to come back to. The views out to the mountains were incredible and we both agreed that Ladakh had to be the most beautiful place we had ever been.
The owner of the homestay is a doctor, which we ended up being extremely grateful for. He checked us over a few hours after our arrival to see how our bodies were coping with the altitude. Our heart rates, blood pressure and oxygen levels were all good. He also advised us, to avoid AMS, to completely rest for our first 2 or 3 days in Leh, absolutely no physical exertion. Did we heed the doctor’s advice? Did we heck as like!
Day 1: Arrival Day
We spent our arrival day resting in the garden, enjoying the warm spring-like sunshine that October days in Leh provide. We’d also been told to drink plenty of water because, as Ladakh is a high altitude desert, dehydration can occur very quickly. With only 2% moisture in the air, this was one piece of advice that we did follow. We found ourselves constantly thirsty; that first afternoon, sitting in the garden, we literally went through bottle after bottle of water.
As the afternoon wore on, we started to feel extremely bored ‘resting.’ We were in beautiful Ladakh and just wanted to get out and explore! So much for 0 exertion. We wouldn’t go far, we told ourselves, just to where the main town started, to get our bearings.
What we in fact did was walk right up to the main bazaar area and a little beyond, where we caught our first glimpse of Leh Palace and the stunning rocky ridges that tower above Leh. We visited Soma Gompa in the main bazaar and spotted Jama Masjid. Really, we should not have walked as far as we did; the doctor had told us to rest and acclimatise for our first few days. But we are Ollie and Lynette and we don’t exactly do resting or following orders!
We had to move extremely slowly; the lack of oxygen was extremely debilitating for our unaccustomed bodies. We felt like very unfit people, not those who cover entire cities on foot in a single day. Even walking slowly made us both breathless. It’s hard to imagine unless you have experienced such altitude. We didn’t want to overdo it any more than we probably already had, so we turned back.
As we neared the edge of town, not far from Mandarava, we stopped at a small cosy Tibetan restaurant, where we enjoyed a tasty dinner of thukpa (Tibetan noodle soup) and momos (vegetable and cheese filled pasta dumplings). Thirsty and with very dry throats, we also ordered some Tibetan herbal tea, which supposedly has many health benefits.
One of the mild symptoms of AMS is difficulty sleeping and that first night, as with every night we were in Ladakh, we did not sleep well.
Day 2: Leh Palace – Leh Hospital
Our second day in Leh started well enough but it did not end so. After a hearty home cooked breakfast at the homestay, we made our way through town to the path and stairs up to Leh Palace. It was a tiring climb up in the warm sun; we had to frequently stop to catch our breaths. Finally, on the palace ridge, there were amazing views over Leh and to the brown mountain ridges beyond.
We were able to convince the lady at the ticket booth to let us in for Indian price, the same as that for people of SAARC countries, as we were able to show proof that we were living in Thailand. So we saved quite a few rupees there! We then set about exploring the palace, which is the crowning glory of Leh. Needless to say, the views from the terraces and rooftop are stunning.
We had all but seen everything and were making our way back towards the entrance when I suddenly came over very unwell. Despite feeling warm in my T shirt and jeans I was shivering all over, my teeth chattering. I felt nauseous and had a bit of a headache. Ollie found me a chair to sit on in the shade and urged me to drink water. But instead of feeling better, my condition deteriorated.
I will keep the following account of the ensuing 24 hours as brief as possible because I am quite sure that you are not reading a blog about Ladakh only to find yourself reading about my sickness!
We were approached by a wonderful Indian family, visiting Ladakh from their home in Pune, whom we had crossed paths with whilst exploring the palace. They asked if I was OK and then proceeded to help Ollie look after me. Between Ollie and the Indian gentleman I was carried to their taxi, which they had hired for the day and which was waiting a short distance away on the road. I will just say here that it is also possible to drive up to the palace as well as walk.
From there I was driven to Leh hospital. What followed was a horrendous 24 hours in and out of the hospital. Having seen the doctor and been prescribed some antibiotics, I was sent home. The Indian family were very kind and, having waited with us, they then dropped Ollie and I back at our homestay. However, I was a lot sicker than previously thought.
Sick in Leh
By the evening I was shaking uncontrollably, had dreadful D and V and was extremely weak. Ollie asked our doctor host to come and check me over. He checked all my vitals and told us that I needed to go back to the hospital for fluid therapy; I was too dehydrated and my blood pressure too low. He very kindly drove us back to the hospital, where I was taken through to the A and E unit.
Just as I was about to be shown through to a ward, Ollie collapsed! So we both ended up in opposite beds in a ward, hooked up to IV lines to re-hydrate us. What with worrying about me, Ollie had neglected to eat or drink since breakfast and in a high altitude desert, that is one of the biggest mistakes you can make!
It was a horrible night spent in the hospital; between injections and IV bag changes, I suffered two bouts of fever. Our doctor host was amazing; he stayed with us late into the evening, telling the other doctors what to do, and then returned to check on us the following morning. It wasn’t exactly how we’d pictured spending our second night in Leh!
At 11am the following morning we were discharged and one of the family members from Mandarava came to collect us. We were both still very weak and neither of us had much of an appetite, but were very relieved to leave the hospital. It would be a slow road to full health; I had no real appetite for the rest of our time in Ladakh and we both suffered with unsettled tummies for the next few days. What made us both so sick? It was a combination of AMS symptoms and food poisoning.
Despite our sickness we still managed to get out and see a lot of Ladakh!
The day after our discharge from hospital, Ollie and I went on a taxi tour to four of the most important Buddhist monasteries in the Leh area.
Our first stop was Hemis Gompa, a large vibrant complex in a dramatic rocky setting. We took time to explore and appreciate the stunning valley views from the upper most shrines. We then moved on to Stakna, followed by Thiksey Gompa and Shey Palace.
For as long as I had wanted to go to Ladakh, I had wanted to see Thiksey Gompa; it is, at least for me, a perfect symbol of this Buddhist land. It truly is a stunning sight to see. Thiksey is one of Ladakh’s biggest and most recognisable monasteries; its Tibetan-style buildings are vertically stacked over a large rocky outcrop.
Thiksey certainly set the standard; I wonder if I will ever see another Buddhist monastery at once so visually stunning and that contrasts so starkly with its surroundings.
Our last stop of the day was Shey Palace, crowning a rocky ridge and surrounded by fortress ruins. The views from the palace are simply stunning; the surrounds of Shey are greener than those of Leh.
There are many other monasteries in Leh district that you can visit on a day trip, such as Chemrey and Matho. Visiting three or four by taxi tour makes for a fantastic outing; our tour was certainly one of our Ladakh highlights.
The driver we had for our monastery tour was amazing; he was very patient and urged us to take as much time as we liked at each of the places. We also got along very well; he was a very kind and friendly man. We were, therefore, more than happy to go with him again when it came to doing a 2-day 1-night tour to Nubra Valley and Pangong Tso.
Trip to Nubra Valley and Pangong Tso
Unfortunately, as it was the end of the season, we were unable to find anybody else for the trip who we could split the taxi cost with. We were offered a generous discount but still had to pay the whole cost for the car ourselves. Still, the trip was worth it and there was absolutely no way we were going to pass up the opportunity to visit Nubra and Pangong!
The two-day-tour involved long hours of driving on some very poor roads. Being bounced around in the front passenger seat was bad enough but poor Ollie had all the extra bumps of the back seat!
The Khardung La
On day one we started from Leh at 9am and began the drive to Nubra Valley. As soon as we left Leh we started to go up, up and up and up on a zigzagging bare-rock mountain road full of hair pin twists and turns that our driver took at alarming speed.
The top is the Khardung La, which, at 5602m above sea level, is claimed to be the highest motorable road in the world. It was freezing cold up here and there was an almighty wind blowing. The incredible altitude also definitely hit us. We jumped out for the obligatory photo opportunity in front of the Khardung La sign before heading back to the warmth of the car with its heaters on full power!
Our driver took care of the passport and permit checks at both South and North Pallu army camps; permits and passports are checked at numerous check-points on this route.
From the Khardung La we descended again, towards the villages of Khardung and Khalsar. We stopped for coffee in Khardung village and again beside the stunning Shyok River to take in the amazing views.
At long last we reached Nubra Valley and its first village, Diskit. After stopping for a quick bite to eat, we continued up the series of hairpin bends to the 17th Century Diskit Gompa, a jumble of Tibetan-style buildings vertically stacked up a steep rocky peak that, in some ways, resembles Thiksey. Views from the monastery are spectacular; Nubra Valley, with its snaking river and arid mountain backdrop, was a sight we would not forget in a hurry.
Opposite the gompa on an intermediate hill lies the gigantic 32m-high full-colour Statue of Chamba. This, for us, is the symbol of Diskit and we couldn’t wait to glimpse it up close. So, having explored the monastery, we drove up to this Maitreya-Buddha statue for some long awaited photographs!
Our next and final stop for the day was the village of Hunder with its famous sand dunes. Our driver parked up on the edge of the dunes then Ollie and I walked over to where a large group of Bactrian camels and their masters were stationed. There were also a fair number of domestic visitors, eagerly waiting for their ride.
Whilst in Hunder we couldn’t pass up the opportunity, so decided on a 15-minute ride through the dunes. The camels were very unlike those we had ridden in Rajasthan two years ago; the Bactrian breed are a lot smaller and have chestnut-coloured woolly fur. They are also a lot more comfortable to ride too! We thoroughly enjoyed our little jaunt on the dunes; in fact it whetted our appetites to return to Rajasthan for another multi-day camel safari.
Ride over, we climbed back into the car to find somewhere in the village to stay for the night. Our driver already had somewhere in mind. That night we stayed at Himalayan Guest House, a simple garden guesthouse, negotiating a price that included the room and dinner.
The following morning we started early from Hunder, bound for Pangong Tso. It was going to be a long day of driving to reach Pangong and then get back to Leh in one day.
Pangong Tso is a high altitude lake that stretches for around 150km with its eastern third in China. It is known for being a surreal blue in colour amid a landscape that is brown, arid and stark. We broke the journey up with a brunch stop in a small roadside village, sitting at an outside table, shivering in the cold as we ate plates of steaming chowmein. After another army checkpoint or two, we finally approached the fabled shores of Pangong Tso.
It felt strange and yet exhilarating to finally be at our destination. We spent around half an hour at the lake, snapping photos from various angles and taking a short walk along the shore. Situated at an altitude of around 4300m, it was very cold and we were unable to walk far without being short of breath. It was also very windy, which only added to our feeling of cold.
Unfortunately, it was quite cloudy on the day we visited so the waters were not at their bluest; it was still a breathtaking location to be in though. The one ‘sight’ that attracts domestic visitors to Pangong is the sand spit nicknamed ‘shooting point’ that was used in the final scene of the 2009 Bollywood movie The Three Idiots. There is also an old motorcycle that was used in the movie that, for a fee, you can have your photo with.
It was soon time to make the return journey to Leh. As we bumped along over the rough terrain it was hard not to smile at the spectacular scenery all around us, from serrated mountain peaks to sand dunes and streams.
The Chang La
We still had more one high pass to cross, the 5360m-high Chang La, claimed to be the second highest motorable road in the world. Again, we scrambled out for a quick photo opportunity at the top; it was very cold!
In the area of the Chang La the first snow of winter had already fallen, sprinkling the mountains with a light dusting that was only the first of a lot more to come. It gave the place a magical, almost Christmassy feel and made for some especially captivating photos.
The journey back to Leh from Pangong took, in total, about 4 hours, our driver taking the blind bends with as much care as any Indian driver would! We stopped for chai in a village just outside Leh; even here at lower altitude it was very cold. It seemed that something had suddenly changed; winter was now firmly on its way. People told us that once the first snow arrives in the mountains, it becomes noticeably colder everywhere.
Our two-day trip to Nubra and Pangong was fantastic; these destinations are definitely a must for anyone visiting Ladakh. We hope to return in the future to further explore Nubra Valley and make it to Turtuk, the Muslim-Balti village only 7km from India’s frontline with Pakistan.
Sightseeing around Leh
We spent our final days in Ladakh exploring some of the sights in upper Leh and just outside town.
Sankar – Changspa
One day we did a beautiful circular walk, first to Sankar with its small gompa and then to the donkey sanctuary. From there we continued to Tisuru Stupa and then to the Shanti Stupa, which can be seen from almost anywhere in Leh. It sits atop a high rocky ridge and offers panoramic views over the whole area.
Numerous Stanti Stupas have been built around the world by Japanese monks to promote world peace; we had previously visited the ones in Lumbini and Pokhara in Nepal.
From the Shanti Stupa we dropped down to the area of Leh known as Changspa and visited the Gomang Stupa, which is flanked by numerous chortens. It was then an easy walk back into the centre of Leh, though we stopped on the way at a shady outdoor cafe for chai and a cheese sandwich!
Most of the cafes, restaurants and guesthouses in this upper area of Leh were already closed for the season; only one or two still had their doors open for any passing business. The area had a sad, empty feel about it; we can only imagine how bustling it must be in high summer tourist season.
Another day we visited Spituk Gompa on the outskirts of Leh, near the airport. It offers more amazing views over Leh and the Indus River.
Ladakh truly is the most beautiful place we have yet been. Its stark arid beauty left us spellbound and we know that one day we will return to explore further. It is a very tough place to live, considering the altitude and lack of moisture. Next time we visit we will endeavour to acclimatise properly; we will also plan to visit between June and September when temperatures are warmer and there are more people in which to share an excursion with!
A big thank you to the wonderful family at Mandarava Homestay, especially the doctor, and to Shreya Bharamgude and family, who showed such selflessness and kindness. We hope to meet you again in Pune some day!
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Supporting Montana Tech Student Clubs!
Montana Tech has a rich community of student clubs. These groups reflect academic interests, hobbies, philanthropic causes, athletics, music, drama, religion, cultural affiliations and career goals. Many of these organizations offer experiences that enhance students’ educational experience while at Montana Tech and provide professional experience and networking to ease their transition into their careers after graduation.
Below is a sampling of our Montana Tech clubs and a brief look at their mission. All of the clubs listed on this page are currently raising funds to support their clubs and thank you for investing in their student experience.
We will be adding additional clubs through 4 pm MST on 9/8/21. If you are interested in having your club featured please contact Shannon Panisko at firstname.lastname@example.org.
If you are interested in supporting one, some or all of our Montana Tech clubs please select Student Clubs from the right drop down when you make your gift and your chosen club or clubs from the left drop down option.
The Montana Technological University student chapter of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) provides civil engineering students not only the resources they need to excel academically, but also instills the characteristics and provides the opportunities that they will need to excel professionally. We aim to develop well rounded civil engineers to send off into the work force.
The main purposes of the Montana Tech Student Section of the American Society of Safety Engineers are to provide students with opportunities to explore the field of OSH/IH, learn about professional societies, and socialize. Another plus for student members is they are eligible for scholarships from the ASSE Foundation.
The Association of General Contractors of Montana Tech participates in a regional/national construction competition in February each year. The club represents MT Tech very well through excellent performance, job placement, and representing the integrity of our school. The club will have expenses this year for the competition (whether virtual or in person) and for club activities to continue education and exposure with the construction industry.
During DayOne all gifts to Association of General Contractors of Montana Tech will be matched 1:1 up to $500 thanks to Sonya and Scott Rosenthal.
The Montana Tech Business Guild Club (BGC) is a multi-disciplinary club where students collaborate to produce outcome driven solutions for various clients. The BGC works in a diverse and rich environment to create a valuable learning and experiential opportunities for its members and community. Members engage with a variety of stakeholders to help grow and enhance their professional networks.
The main purpose of Club MET is to provide exposure to metallurgical and materials processes, companies, and professional conferences. Donations will go towards blacksmithing, casting, and machining activities for the Montana Tech student population. Funds will also go towards funding for supplies for community educational outreach about metallurgy and materials.
Gifts made to Club MET during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $1000 thanks to an anonymous donor.
C.R.A.B.S. Rugby promotes leadership, community involvement, and athleticism through the continuation of rugby at Montana Tech. As our team continues to grow its membership base, we are becoming more competitive and successful. The C.R.A.B.S. are the current trophy holders for the Big Sky Collegiate Championship Cup. Funds raised for C.R.A.B.S. Rugby will be used to purchase safety and practice equipment, help with travel and tournament fees, and assist the team in its mission to spread rugby to the community through public rugby clinics and youth development sessions.
Engineers Without Borders is a volunteer organization that builds a better world through engineering projects designed to help communities meet their basic needs. Montana Tech's Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders has made an impact on campus, in Butte, and in El Salvador over the last 12+ years. With a major project completed, the Montana Tech's Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is ready to take on a new challenge, this time in Nicaragua, and involves a latrine system in a small remote village. Montana Tech's Student Chapter of Engineers Without Borders is raising funds to assist with design reviews, travel, and purchasing supplies to support this community project.
During DayOne all gifts to Engineers Without Borders will be matched 1:1 up to $500 thanks to Sonya and Scott Rosenthal.
The Montana Tech Chapter of International Society of Explosives Engineers, ISEE promote career development and encourage explosives engineering instruction in appropriate education curricula.To promote the professional development, competence, and qualifications of explosives engineers, practitioners and those entering the field. To promote standardization of terminology, methods and regulations in explosives engineering.
Gifts made to the Montana Tech Chapter of International Society of Explosives Engineers during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $1000 thanks to an anonymous donor along with Sonya and Scott Rosenthal.
Montana Tech Mining Team competes in the International Collegiate Mining competitions which began in 1978 to honor the memory of 91 miners who died on May 2, 1972, when fire broke out in the Sunshine Mine near Kellogg, Idaho, one of the world’s largest silver mines. Since then, the competitions have been dedicated to all miners who are lost on the job and your Montana Tech Mining Team has represented our state in all 39 annual events with the exception of 2020 and 2021 when the competition was cancelled due to COVID-19. All gifts to the Montana Tech Mining Team will be used to support multiple Montana Tech teams attending the competition now and for years to come.
Gifts made to the Montana Tech Mining Team during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $2,000 thanks to an anonymous donor.
Montana Tech Mine Rescue is a student run organization that aims to give members the skills and experience of being on a mine rescue team. The club focuses on preparing for collegiate and professional mine rescue competitions where teams get to respond to scenarios and hone their rescue skill set as well as network with members of the industry. Members are taught hands-on first aid skills in addition to the care and maintenance of specialized mine rescue equipment. The knowledge that team members gain is valuable for the rest of their careers, even outside of mine rescue.
Gifts made to Montana Tech Mine Rescue during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $2,000 thanks to an anonymous donor.
The Montana Tech NASA Robotic Mining Club (NRMC) is a multi-disciplinary club, where the students work together to design, and build a robot to compete at the NASA Robotic Mining competition at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The competition consists of a robot being either remotely operated, or autonomously to move, dig, and dump as much of the simulated Martian surface from one end of the arena to the other in the allotted time. Approximately 30 students participate in the Montana Tech NRMC and 10 students make the trip in May to Florida. Students include everyone from Freshman through graduate school.
The Montana Tech SAE Baja Club is raising funds for entry fees, materials, and transportation to compete in the SAE Baja Collegiate Design Competition. Montana Tech has been competing in the SAE Baja Collegiate Design Competition for the past 7 years with a dedication to improving each year.
The Montana Technological University student chapter of the Society of Women in Engineering (SWE) empowers all students to reach their full potential in careers as engineers, leaders, and other STEM fields. Our vision is to create a world with gender parity and equality in engineering and technology.
Anderson-Carlisle Technical Society at Montana Tech - Student Chapter SME members have the opportunity to meet Alumni, industry contacts, attend technical sessions, and often find internships and permanent jobs. While times are uncertain as far as travel, the students are committed to being prepared for this year and future years and are truly appreciative of your support. Below is a photo our of students at the 2020 SME convention in Phoenix.
Gifts made to The Anderson-Carlisle Technical Society at Montana Tech - Student Chapter SME during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $2,000 thanks to an anonymous donor.
Montana Tech Student Nurses Association promotes health and wellness in our community. Our mission is to mentor students preparing to convey the standards, ethics, and skills to be leaders of nursing.
After diligent hard work last year, Women in Mining (WIM) awarded MT Tech with the recognition of being a student chapter over the summer. This new student chapter encourages all folks that may be interested in mining or / and interested in a career in mining (mining engineers, other engineers, OSHA, environmental, metallurgists, geologists, business majors, etc.). Fundraising is used to further expose club members to mining through field trips, presentations by industry professionals, and participation in the annual conference.
Gifts made to Women in Mining during DayOne 2021 will be matched 1:1 up to $750 thanks to an anonymous donor and Sonya and Scott Rosenthal.
If you are interested in supporting one, some or all of our Montana Tech clubs please select Student Clubs from the right drop down when making your gift and then select your chosen club or clubs from the left drop down option.
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What Is Gynecomastia?
Gynecomastia is a condition wherein glandular tissue excessively develops in males. It can be distinguished by the presence of a rubbery and firm mass around the nipples. This physiologic condition can usually be seen in neonates (babies from one to four weeks of birth), adolescents, and the elderly. It can either occur bilaterally or unilaterally, where in only one breast is enlarged.
Testosterone is produced a hundred times more than estrogen, but its amount in circulation that can be seen in blood is about 300:1. In males, estrogen is produced by the conversion of androgens testosterone and androstenedione to estradiol and estrone, the active form of estrogen. The enzyme aromatase found in muscle, skin and adipose tissue is responsible for this interconversion.
Other Known Causes
Gynecomastia can result from medications, diseases, illegal drugs, alcohol, and aging.
It is caused by the following medications: cimetidine (an H2 antagonist), omeprazole (a benzoimidazole), spironolactone (an aldosterone antagonist), imatinib mesylate, finasteride (a nitrogenous steroid derivative used to treat symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia and to increase hair growth in male-pattern baldness) and anti-psychotic drugs. Finasteride acts by inhibiting the enzymatic conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone, which lowers the circulating serum/blood level of testosterone. Anti-androgens such and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which is used for treating prostate cancers also has the same effect.
Other medications act mainly on the breast tissue
causes enlargement, or to increased circulation of prolactin (a hormone
causes breast development) production from the pituitary gland. It may
caused by inhibiting dopamine, which is a natural prolactin-inhibiting
in males. Performance enhancing food supplements, such as
also lead to breast enlargement by increasing estrogen action.
All of these things can make men self conscious and want to get
rid of man boobs.
Gynecomastia may also be caused by defects in androgen receptors (inability of the cell to recognize androgens) as seen in Kennedy disease, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, HIV, and other chronic diseases. Tumors of the adrenal glands, testes, pituitary glands, as well as hyperthyroidism and hypogonadism also have the same effect.
The part of the pituitary gland affected will mostly involve the anterior portion because this is the part that controls prolactin, growth hormone, and TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone). Diseases of the hypothalamus can also lead to low testosterone levels. Adrenal tumors cause increased androstenedione levels. In obesity, there is there increase of estrogen levels.
In liver cirrhosis,
there is decreased estrogen clearance
or breakdown, thus estrogen tends to stay in the body, which may lead
gynecomastia. Decreased testosterone production may also occur in
disorders such as Kleinfelter syndrome. Abuse of illegal drugs such as
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The regulatory authorities around the globe who act these days as if every derivatives transaction ought to clear through a central counterparty (CCP) aren’t being entirely unreasonable. They have a plausible case, and a little history will make clear the origin of this idea.
Enron wasn’t an exchange, and it had no CCP for clearing. Enron was either the buyer or the seller in every trade executed through EnronOnline, and it tried to balance the buys against the sells day by day. The value of EnronOnline to both energy producers and energy buyers depended upon Enron’s own unquestioned credit worthiness. Once this came into question at all, collapse came quickly.
Indeed, one of the chapter titles in the Smith and Emshwiller book on the fall of Enron is, “I Must Have Heard the Term Death Spiral a Dozen Times Today,” a quote they attribute to a Goldman Sachs analyst, who spoke to them on October 24.
The death spiral, as it affected EnronOnline specifically, (not the whole of Enron, but a critical component), was simple: loss of confidence in the proprietors of such a bilateral quasi-exchange will breed loss of volume, which in turn will cause yet more potential counterparties to lose confidence, withdrawing their volume, and so forth, until there is only an empty room, where nominal traders can play touch football with one another because the phones don’t ring.
That experience made traditional exchanges, and common clearing, look good by contrast. Yes, most people (including regulators) understand that not all derivatives can be standardized to the extent necessary to trade through an exchange. But a CCH sounds like a less challenging part of a whole, and surely any derivative worth trading can be standardized enough to use one of those. Right?
The AIG Rerun
The crisis of 2008 not only confirmed the (apparent) lesson learned seven years before, but extended it from the world of physical commodities and their derivatives to the seemingly different world of credit and interest-rate related confections. In this new context, one in which collateralization had long been a matter of bilateral negotiation, AIG repeated the part of Enron, and its Financial Products subsidiary played that of EnronOnline.
AIG didn’t post daily variation margin, and when its ratings started to decline, it faced huge collateral demands from counter-parties. The federal government ended up assuming the role of the otherwise missing CCP.
So why not just say: ‘everybody has to have a CCP for everything!’? If we cannot for reasons of practicality do that all at once, why not do it more gradually?
There are lots of good answers to that. Perhaps the most obvious concern is collateral shock. If everyone needs to post the same assets as collateral with the same CCPs, then the market value of those assets will be arbitrarily inflated, and a range of unhappy consequences are certain.
Couldn’t we resolve that problem by a gradual phase-in of the new CCP-oriented rules?
Three important industry groups have addressed this very point in a recent (December 12, 2012) letter to the Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. This letter comes in reaction to the BCBS’ consultation document on margin requirements for non-centrally-cleared derivatives.
The groups, ISDA, the IIF, and AFME, make the sensible point in this context that the CCPs themselves will be human institutions, subject to frailty. If they are to play an expanded role, and that role is to assist the financial world in risk management, then they have to be designed with care, and they have to have a high “product eligibility bar.” Otherwise, they are the new 2B2F threats, and the regulators will have increased systemic risk in their efforts to reduce it.
ISDA, the IIF, and AFME also observe that there are a variety of non-controversial derivatives, indeed as they write derivatives of “enormous social value” such as the currency swaps that the end-users, operational corporations, employ to raise capital outside their home country, which cannot be standardized.
The bottom line, then, is that an overly draconian approach toward non-cleared transactions will have costs, in excess of its benefits, and that these costs won’t be reduced by simply phasing them in. That just means they will be faced on a protracted schedule of such an “implementation transition and calibration process,” not that they will be lessened.
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Operation K-9 Hero is a volunteer based, nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing comfort and companionship to Veterans and Public Safety Officials through canine therapy.
We’re here for them
At Operation K-9 Hero, our goal is to offer our Therapy Dog as an “ice-breaker” and help “start the conversation” that these individuals are not alone and that we are here for them.
We are passionate about the well-being of our professionals. Many of them are exposed to traumatic situations, which can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD and sometimes suicide.
Our heroes who serve and protect our communities and our country have made many sacrifices, and now we want to give back and help serve them.
Our mission is to give back to our Military Veterans, Law Enforcement, Firefighters and Paramedics in need by providing a K-9 human partnership and help bring them consolation, cheer and affection.
Our primary purpose is to help support the mental health of our heroes and offer emotional support as part of a k-9 therapeutic intervention.
Studies have shown that interacting with Therapy Dogs as part of an animal-assisted intervention approach yields both physical and psychological benefits to humans and the dog.
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday accused the Romanian and Lithuanian governments of hosting secret CIA detention facilities and committing rights abuses.
The court found that both countries allowed two “high-value detainees” to be “subjected to ill-treatment and arbitrary detention in a CIA ‘black site,'” and accused them of violating the European Convention of Human Rights’ prohibition on torture.
The rulings concerned Abu Zuvaydah and Al Nashiri, who were detained in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the United States and are currently interned at the U.S. military prison Guantanamo.
The court ruled that Lithuania allowed Zubaydah — who was thought to have been involved in the planning of the 9/11 attacks — to be transported onto its territory and subjected to ill-treatment at a secret CIA site the country hosted between February 2005 and March 2006.
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Lithuanian authorities also allowed Zubaydah to be transported to another detention site in Afghanistan, “exposing him to further ill-treatment,” the court said.
In a separate ruling, the court found that Romania had allowed Nashiri — who is suspected of being involved in a 2000 attack on a U.S. Navy ship in Yemen — to be transported to a CIA “black site” in the country and subjected to ill-treatment. The country hosted a secret detention center between September 2003 and November 2005, the court stated.
In both cases, the ECHR ruled that authorities had “known of the purpose of the CIA’s activities on [their] territory and had cooperated.”
The General Prosecutor’s Office in Romania has been leading an investigation on the existence of CIA detention centers in the country since 2012, according to local media reports. A number of Romanian officials — including former presidents Ion Iliescu and Traian Bǎsescu — denied the existence of such sites in Romania at the time of their interrogations.
Lithuania launched a similar investigation in 2010, which initially yielded insufficient evidence. The investigation was reopened in 2015 and is ongoing.
The court ordered both countries to pay €100,000 to the detainees and urged both countries to “conclude a full investigation” and punish “any officials responsible, if necessary.”
An additional recommendation issued to Romania reads that “the country should also seek assurances from the United States that Mr. Al Nashiri will not suffer the death penalty.”
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Cost Reduction Franchise: A Growing Business in the Service Franchise Industry
After the food and retail boom in the franchising industry in the last couple of years, another trend is seen to be developing and growing. Because the number of food and retail franchise-related business is profuse, the field has grown very competitive. This is why prospective businessmen who want to join the franchising game choose instead to go for franchisors that offer service-oriented business opportunities.
Service-oriented franchises offer a lot of diverse services, mostly because of the fact that there are a lot of services that can be sold. This industry spans jobs from pet hotels to housemaids. The reason for this is that everyone is qualified to sell a service because everyone has his own unique skill sets and qualifications that other people might consider paying for in the form of a service.
Selling services also appeal to a lot of people because it knows no boundaries: Anyone can do it. Anyone who wants or needs extra money, to work from home, or just wants to get into the franchising game can be a service seller. Likewise, owning a franchise means that, relatively speaking, you are your own boss. Moreover, you need not worry about starting a business from scratch.
Some services that offer by franchising businesses at the moment include consulting services for just about any industry. A teacher, for example, with a specific area of specialization, can be a franchisee of a franchisor that offers that kind of expertise as a service.
One of the biggest business service franchises would be the cost franchise dedicated to cost minimization. Companies that franchise this are those involved in helping other companies grow their bottom line by cutting costs and maximizing company efficiency. Becoming a franchisee of a company like this would effectively make you a consultant.
Owning an expense reduction franchise from a cost reduction company will entitle you to training and seminars that will give you the knowledge you need to do your job adequately. This job includes reviewing the books of clients to see in what areas expenses can be reduced and what sectors can be made efficient by applying several techniques. An expense reduction consultant also provides recommendations for clients to follow to keep improving.
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Midsea Books Ltd. is Malta’s leading publisher. Its was set up in 1969 by Pawlu Mizzi, a graduate in History and Librarianship. The publishing house he founded, pioneered and revolutionised the Maltese book trade. For his entrapreneurship, he was honoured by the Maltese government in 1993.
Today the group is made up of Klabb Kotba Maltin, Heritage Books, apart from Midsea Books itself. Each of these imprints has its own distinctive editorial content. The first outlet opened in Valletta in 1975 is still operative while the group’s administration offices and production studio are based in the central part of Malta.
Each year, some 50 new titles are produced.
Most of these publications fall under the history, art and language category.
Klabb Kotba Maltin (KKM – translated Maltese book club), was the first to be established in 1969 with the aim of giving Malta a professional set-up for book publishing. Some of the titles published in its book-a-month scheme became best sellers. To date, this series numbers over 200 titles. KKM publishes a vast range of books in Maltese, from children’s literature and text books, to novels, short stories, poetry, drama, history, language and reference work.
Midsea Books was set up in 1974 and publishes academic and scholarly works in English. Midsea Books was also responsible for the publication of an ethymological Maltese-Maltese Dictionary in ten volumes, Il-Miklem Malti by Erin Serracino-Inglott and The Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary in six volumes by Joseph Aquilina. The latter was awarded the ‘Publication of the Millennium Award’ by the Ministry of Education in 2000.
Heritage Books, set up in 1999, aims to produce reference books in English with a popular appeal. Moreover, Heritage Books works closely with most agencies, foundations, museums and trusts involve in conserving Malta’s heritage.
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Testing the Accuracy of ML-ANN for Harmonic Estimation in Balanced Industrial Distribution Power System
Abstract:In this paper, we analyze and test a scheme for the estimation of electrical fundamental frequency signals from the harmonic load current and voltage signals. The scheme was based on using two different Multi Layer Artificial Neural Networks (ML-ANN) one for the current and the other for the voltage. This study also analyzes and tests the effect of choosing the optimum artificial neural networks- sizes which determine the quality and accuracy of the estimation of electrical fundamental frequency signals. The simulink tool box of the Matlab program for the simulation of the test system and the test of the neural networks has been used.
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Djaffar Ould Abdeslam, Patrice Wira, Jean Mercklé, Damien Flieller, and Yves-André Chapuis "A Unified Artificial Neural Network Architecture for Active Power Filters" IEEE transactions on industrial electronics, vol. 54, no. 1, February 2007.
Ramadan El Shatshat, M.M. A. Salama, Fellow,and Mehrdad Kazerani, "Artificial Intelligent Controller for Current Source Converter-Based Modular Active Power Filters" IEEE transactions on power delivery, vol. 19, no. 3, July 2004
Z. Lu, T. Y. Ji, W. H. Tang and Q. H. Wu "Optimal Harmonic Estimation Using A Particle Swarm Optimizer" IEEE Transactions On Power Delivery, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2008
Simone Buso, Luigi Malesani, Paolo Mattavelli and Roberto Veronese "Design and Fully Digital Control of Parallel Active Filters for Thyristor Rectifiers to Comply with IEC-1000-3-2 Standards" IEEE Transactions On Industry Applications, Vol. 34, NO. 3, May/June 1998
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I crossed the border to Uganda 9 years ago with my family to escape from the civil war in my home country, Democratic Republic of Congo. My grandfather, who once was an excellent sewing worker, searched for a job to make a living while transitioning to our new home in Uganda. However, he was often rejected from job opportunities just because he was a refugee and a disabled person. What made him suffer the most wasn’t his physical limitation, but the prejudice against him that refugees with disabilities are not capable of doing anything.
There are 120,000 refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement. Among those, 2 out of 10 are physically disabled. Refugees with disabilities are suffering from economic and social difficulties, but as they are marginalized and underserved by the government. They often feel hopeless and desperate in their situations where it is even hard to find a dream of the future.
“Why does disability become an obstacle to their dreams?”
So I decided to work for the refugees with disabilities who are full of potential. While I was looking for things that they can do, I came up with the idea of making soaps out of goat milk, which are often just thrown away. I started soap making projects with them and since then, Gosoapy has made its debut.
Gosoapy holds workshops to train the refugees with disabilities about making soaps.Physical challenges do not matter in the process of mixing goat milk, lyre and other materials and making soaps. Those who completed the skills training are now working in our company and dreaming of a sustainable future.
Gosoapy is selling goat milk soaps made by the refugees with disabilities to Ugandans and tourists. And some of them are distributed to neglected women in the settlement. I was delighted to hear that our soaps are becoming essential items preventing COVID-19 in our local communities.
“I became more reliable for economic empowerment on my own, with soap making skills I learned through Gosoapy Workshops. I used to be a person who always needed help, but now I’m a person who can help others.”
-Participants of Gosoapy workshop, Rukundo Francoise-
There are still unsolved challenges and obstacles to overcome in Gosoapy. We are making soaps with buckets and kettles without any technical equipment. As our soaps are all hand-crafted, it is difficult to meet the increasing demand with our current production process. We are trying to come up with more efficient, less time consuming yet high quality products. Also we are renting a small space in which we might be asked to leave anytime.
However, we won’t just stop here. In the future, we will set up our own work space to reach an annual goal of producing 5,000 soaps in better quality, contributing to the pandemic situation at the same time. We are also going to work for refugees with disabilities to provide them with training as well as jobs. All these changes could begin only with your support. | <urn:uuid:7b332c6f-301a-42b8-9e23-bf7a614a09bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thebridgeint.com/project/view/299/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983921 | 617 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The 2015 legislative session presented Florida lawmakers with an important opportunity to pass […]
If you live in Florida, there’s a strong chance that you’re paying a lawsuit premium. Personal injury lawyers are hijacking accident settlements so they can run up more and bigger lawsuits.
This year, Florida has a chance to pass meaningful legal reform that would go a long way in stopping lawsuit abuse.
A bad legal climate puts businesses at greater risk of being sued, raises liability costs, and makes it harder to grow and create jobs.
Florida governor Rick Scott recently announced his plans to visit other states to lure businesses and jobs to Florida and boost the state’s economy.
A project of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, Sick of Lawsuits is an online network of people who are interested in restoring integrity to our justice system by addressing issues surrounding legal reform. We encourage citizens to be empowered as legal consumers, take action against abuses, and help restore common sense and fairness to our legal system.
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By Joyce Duriga
Catholic News Service
CHICAGO (CNS) — Dana Mentgen donned six layers of clothing and made the trek downtown to Chicago’s Federal Plaza Jan. 17 because he felt it was important to witness for life against the “culture of death.”
“I think the majority of people are pro-life. It’s just that we’ve been silent too long. We have to speak out,” said Mentgen, a parishioner at St. Raphael the Archangel Parish in Old Mill Creek.
Mentgen was one of thousands of “pro-life popsicles,” as organizers called them, who came from around the Midwest and braved below-zero wind chills to participate in the 11th annual Chicago March for Life. About 3,000 people from around the Midwest turned out for the event. Besides Illinois, pro-lifers came from Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio and Michigan.
Because of the extreme cold, organizers condensed the speaker portion of the event.
Those who turned out for the march carried signs with pro-life messages in English and Spanish and listened to speakers including Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich; the Rev. Corey Brooks, pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago; and abortion survivor Melissa Ohden.
“No child should be told that there is no room for them. The womb should not be the child’s tomb,” Archbishop Cupich told the crowd. “We just celebrated Christmas, the season that features the birth of a child, a season of new life and new beginning. A child, like no one else, creates and fosters hope in our world. We need to make room for the child just as we need the hope a child brings. What we do today is about making room for hope in our world.”
Rev. Brooks called on the crowd to carry the pro-life message to the African-American community, which he said is unfairly targeted by Planned Parenthood. The African-American community makes up 13 percent of the U.S. population yet has a third of all abortions, he said.
Ohden shared how she was aborted and left to soak in a burning saline solution for five days — a process intended to kill her. Her mother was forced to undergo the abortion against her will. Ohden called for support for women who feel forced to have abortions and said pro-lifers aren’t just “pro-baby” but “pro-women.”
Once again, youth from St. John Cantius’ Crusaders for Christ brought their trademark yellow “LIFE” balloons and drumline to the event. The noticeable group of young people wearing yellow sweatshirts with the word “life” printed on the back walked to Federal Plaza from St. Ignatius College Prep, where they participated in a morning rally and Mass for youth sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Respect Life Office. About 200 young people attended the event, a first for the pro-life office.
A new addition to the Crusaders this year was a yellow Chevrolet Super Sport Roadster owned by Markie and Steven Works from St. Peter Parish in Volo. The truck matched the yellow balloons with black magnets spelling out the world “life” on the trunk and doors.
After hearing the speakers, participants marched through the Loop past City Hall and the James R. Thompson Center, which houses state offices. Organizers said the route was intended to represent the three levels of government being urged to restrict abortion: federal, state and municipal.
It was the first Chicago March for Life for Jane Wytaniec, who attends Mass at Marytown in Libertyville. She participated in a pre-march Mass and brunch benefiting Aid for Women, a non-profit that offers counseling and housing for pregnant women. That event was one of several Masses and events held around the city that day, which was associated with the march.
“All my life I wanted to be involved in this but for some reason it hadn’t occurred until now,” Wytaniec told the Catholic New World, Chicago’s archdiocesan newspaper. “I am more than elated to be here. It is humbling. I praise God that he brought me here.”
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The first misconception is that the prosecutor would have dropped the charges once she saw that Jane was not guilty. Maybe a few prosecutors would, but not nearly enough. I have personally witnessed some appalling cases move forward when a defendant acts as their own lawyer (i.e. pro se defendants). For example, I once saw a pro se defendant plead guilty to a DUI when her BAC was .04 on the breathalyzer (well under the legal limit of .08).
The second misconception is that pro se defendants do not perform as badly as I indicated. I have personally witnessed much worse: they make irrelevant arguments and forget to make their best arguments; they throw around legal terms that they do not understand; they get flustered when a judge inevitably rules against them; and they antagonize the judge unnecessarily.
How would a lawyer have helped Jane Doe? First, a lawyer would have saved her time. Many Utah courts will forgo the arraignment if their attorney has notified the court that they are pleading “not guilty.” If if that is not possible, the attorney can let the court clerk know at the arraignment that they will be entering a “not guilty” plea, allowing to defendant to see the judge faster.
Second, an attorney would explain to Jane the purpose of each court date and the likely outcome. She would not arrive at court expecting the prosecutor to just drop the charges. Even when defendants have great arguments for dismissing charges, prosecutors want to investigate and make sure they are not missing crucial information. Once a prosecutor has had a chance to verify the claims, then they might dismiss the case. Even without a dismissal, prosecutors are more likely to offer a reasonable plea agreement when they know you have an attorney.
Finally, everything about the trial would have gone smoother. Although it is conventional wisdom to ask for a jury trial, this hypothetical may have called for a bench trial. There are specific facts a prosecutor must prove beyond a reasonable doubt for someone to be convicted of theft of services. Judges are better able to understand arguments such as Jane lacked the “requisite intent” to steal.
Defense attorneys have experience public speaking. It is common for attorneys to practice their opening statements. Assuming it is a jury trial, more than half of all jurors do not change the opinions they form during opening arguments. That is the time to tell the jury, as plainly as possible, why a defendant is not guilty. Defense attorneys generally do not lose their composure when prosecutors say something negative about their clients.
Cross-examination, done by a talented defense attorney, could have won Jane her case. The police officer could have been used to Jane’s advantage. The officer did not witness Jane at the restaurant, and he was only able to find Jane because she was the person to pay with a credit card. An attorney would have pointed out to the jury that the fact that the server did not see Jane pay also means the server was not watching closely. A lawyer would also point out that there were two other people eating with Jane.
Jane’s friends might have still invoked their rights and chosen not to incriminate themselves, but the lawyer would at least have been prepared for that possibility. The lawyer would have talked to them before the trial and known how likely they would be to testify.
Most importantly, a lawyer would have prepped Jane to testify. The jury would have heard all the important pieces of her side of the story. An occasional objection from the prosecutor would not have flustered Jane’s attorney. Also, the lawyer would know how to enter Jane’s credit card receipt into evidence. There are certain procedures one must follow to enter a document into evidence, and I have never seen a pro se defendant do it correctly.
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When the topic of macro photography is raised people often think of close ups of small objects. That’s quite true but macro photography strictly speaking refers to creating images where the subject is @ 1:1 on the film or sensor and this requires specialised equipment to achieve. To do this a macro lens is most commonly employed although extension tubes or diopters can also be used as well with regular lenses. And these days most lenses say “macro” on them somewhere but this refers to their ability to focus up close, not to produce a 1:1 image.
The macro lens is typically a fast prime and a highly technical apparatus to use successfully. For a start depth of field is very shallow making a properly focused image had to achieve. Good light is required since as you adjust the lens to increase depth of field shutter speed is diminished and for small insects a high shutter speed is required. Overcoming these limitations requires a tripod and flash. Maybe a macro rail for micro adjustment of the camera position to compensate for shallow depth of field. And lots of patience.
If you look at the images above you can see the dew drops on the basil flower and the bee has good detail. However when this image is reproduced @ 1:1 you can see clearly the detail of the bees eye. That’s a macro photo compared to a closeup.
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Nearly every golfer has faced a mud ball in their golfing career. And if your anything like most golfers you aren’t really sure how to deal with it. Luckily this review is on hand to help you get a better understanding of mud balls in golf.
What Is A Mudball In Golf?
A mudball in golf is a ball that upon coming into contact with the turf collects a good portion of mud or dirt onto the golf ball.
Some sites stating that you can clean the mud of the ball. But you are in fact not allowed to clean the mud off the ball unless you are on the green.
Can I Clean Mud Off The Ball In Golf?
As stated previously if your mud ball is not on the green you are not able to clean the golf ball. When you encounter a mud ball on in golf you must treat it like any other lie. And you must play it from the location you found it.
This is of course according to USGA golf rules. But if you are playing a round of golf with friends it is likely that they are okay with you just cleaning the ball and hitting it afterwards.
The only time you can clean mud off of your golf ball is when it is on the green. This is because picking up your ball once it is marked in order to clean it is already part of the game.
Cleaning the mud of your ball on the green is the same as cleaning your golf ball any time you are on the green.
How To Hit A Mud Ball In Golf
Hitting a mud ball can be a difficult task. It’s already hard enough to hit a golf ball properly when it’s clean. So hitting one covered in mud isn’t going to be any easier.
Luckily we have a few tips that may help you next time your are stuck with a mud ball.
If you find that there is mud on the top of your golf ball, it will greatly reduce the distance of your shot. But should not affect the direction in which it travels.
If you find that there is some mud on the left side of the golf ball then it is likely the ball will travel to the right.
A ball with mud on the right side of the ball will likely travel to the left.
Remember that this isn’t an exact science. This is because the amount of mud on the golf ball is going to greatly change the effect it has on the ball.
Conclusion Understanding Mud Balls In Golf
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Visitors Should Dress for Hallowed Ground
by Bob Greene
All Things Considered, June 22, 2007
As Heard On National Public Radio
You seldom see a necktie inside Arlington National Cemetery.
For that matter, you don't often see a dress.
I suppose that shouldn't seem so surprising. We live in a casual age; formality often seems not just endangered, but extinct.
And Arlington National Cemetery, especially in summer, can be very hot.
But somehow — as you spend time among the more than 300,000 souls who are buried in the cemetery near the Potomac River — you can't help feeling that we who visit can do a little better. If anyone has earned our decorum, it's those 300,000.
What do you see when you're there?
In Arlington National Cemetery you see women in cut-off blue jeans. You see young people walking past the headstones with their mouths moving to the songs being pumped into their ears by their iPods.
You see men in T-shirts with gag messages. One of the T-shirts I saw said: "The only reason I'm nodding is I hope you'll go away." Another — worn by a fellow in a cowboy hat — showed a picture of a handgun, accompanied by the words: "I don't call 9-1-1." A tough guy, apparently — amid the graves of some men who were truly tough.
There are cell phones everywhere. Next to the headstones of soldiers whose names you've never heard, next to the eternal flame of John F. Kennedy. People calling their offices, chatting with friends.
The odd thing is, they seem genuinely not to know they're being disrespectful. This is just another tourmobile stop — or so they seem to believe.
I mentioned that you seldom see neckties, seldom see dresses. There are times, though, when you do. They are worn by families who come to this place not as tourists — but to bury their own soldiers. Soldiers who have come home from our current war.
There are signs at the entrance. They say:
"Welcome to Arlington National Cemetery ... Our Nation's Most Sacred Shrine. Please Conduct Yourself with Dignity and Respect at All Times. Please Remember These Are Hallowed Grounds."
You wouldn't think we'd need reminding.
Commentator Bob Greene is the author of And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship. He lives in Chicago.
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Researchers help Park Service map sound of silence
Researchers at Colorado State University are helping the
study the impact of noise pollution on wildlife and park visitors.
Mahmood Azimi, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his team are developing novel software, firmware, and hardware solutions to enable long-term, continuous, and unattended monitoring of natural sounds in national parks, as well as man-made noises that aren't so peaceful such as the rumble of motorcycles or the whir of air traffic.
In the past, NPS scientists collected more than a million hours of sound using heavy, power-hungry recording devices that required extensive post-processing and data analysis to identify the sources of sounds. While findings from these devices allowed the NPS to create a preliminary map of the loudest and quietest areas in the country, it was just the first step in addressing the problem of noise pollution.
"The National Park Service wanted to broaden their reach to include the most remote places of our national parks and extend the duration time of their data collection, but they were limited by the existing systems," Azimi said. "In addition, NPS scientists were spending hours and hours trying to crunch the data and identify the source of each sound."
The new solutions developed by Azimi and his team create a network of sophisticated sensor nodes that are cheap, lightweight, and intelligent with onboard processing capabilities.
Outfitted with solar panels and batteries, the nodes can be deployed to far-off corners of the National Parks for months at a time to gain a comprehensive picture of the noise distribution. Featuring a variety of communication capabilities, the sensor nodes are programmed to work together, forming a network that monitors, collects, processes, and classifies the sounds with tremendous accuracy.
Summary results are then wirelessly transmitted in real-time to a park station, eliminating the need for in-depth post data analysis in the laboratory.
"This development is a huge step for us as we strive to expand the scope of our work and provide answers to the problems associated with unnatural sounds in our Parks," said Kurt Fistrup, senior scientist for the NPS. "I'm impressed with the innovation of the research team at CSU. Their work advances our mission while saving us time and money."
Because sound can be turned off, the wonderful thing about noise pollution is that it's susceptible to improvement. Fistrup added, "Our collaboration with CSU will ultimately provide tremendous benefits for the integrity of ecosystems and protection of wildlife in our national parks, and that's the most important duty for all of us."
The cutting-edge systems developed at CSU also can be equipped with multiple sensing capabilities for use in other applications such as early fire detection or locating poachers.
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2014—REVEALING YOUR CHARACTERApril 2, 2016
I don’t have a clear definition for “personal health strategy” (title and theme of this blog), but I do know it would encompass the following variables: exercise plan, meal plan, family plan, self-care plan, financial plan, career plan, etc. These are the pieces of the puzzle. These are the components that play an important role in your success. Ultimately, we don’t have 100% control over numerous things in our life, but I hope the following components help you establish some strategic framework to your personal vision and health strategy.
- Convictions— Why do you believe what you do? Why do you believe it is important to keep a gratitude journal? Why do you believe you need to practice yoga twice a week? Why do you believe you need to eat a healthy diet in order to succeed? “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” Muhammad Ali
- Mission—To what purpose have you been called upon? What do you DO? HOW do you do it? Whom do we do it for? Every business has a mission statement…what is yours?
- Vision—Who is your best self? Where are you being called to go? What do you see yourself accomplishing? Who is surrounding you? How are you living life? This is a powerful thing.
- Strategy—How are you being lead to get there? Motivation is necessary here. Without motivation then the HOW will either NOT happen OR it won’t happen very long. Example: Ms. Jones wants to lose 10 lbs., but she has no idea what is motivating her to stick to a lower calorie plan in order to reach that 10 lb. loss. If it is only the # on the scale then I guarantee this lower calorie plan won’t last in the long-term.
- Objectives— IF YOU AIM AT NOTHING YOU HIT IT EVERYTIME. YOU NEED GOALS. Your objectives are the goals. What 3-month goals are you making? Have you developed weekly behavioral goals to set yourself up for success? Example: “I am going to CrossFit from 6:00-7:00 am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings.” If this is my weekly goal then it will help me reach my bigger goal: “At the end of 3 months, I am improving my mile time by 30 seconds.” Check out more information with David’s post on Creating Goals Through a Vision.
Okay, so I’ve given you the strategic framework to develop your personal health strategy, but what next?
- Make a date with yourself. Figure out a time when you can sit down and go over these different components.
- Write it down and keep it somewhere visible. Keep a journal. Use the journal.
- Tell SOMEONE. If you’ve taken the time to think about this and write it down then tell someone you trust to help hold you accountable as well as being a great support.
- GET ACTIVE. ENGAGE YOUR GOAL. Take the forward steps.
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International Women’s Day
Every year March 8 is celebrated as the International Women’s Day. Since the early 1900’s, this day is dedicated to the womenfolk of this world. But of late, there has been an increased surge in the demand for rights for women. Many nonprofits run awareness campaigns and raise funds for this global day for women. Issues ranging from maternal and reproductive health, child marriage, education, entrepreneurship, etc. are focused on.
Global Theme for the Event
Each year a global theme is selected for the International Women’s Day. This year, given the strong global momentum striving for gender parity, #PressforProgress is selected as the global theme for the event. Though gender parity is something that can’t come overnight, the good news is that women across the world are making positive gains day by day.
What is the Theme for your Nonprofit?
After knowing about the global theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, it is important to align it to your nonprofit’s mission and goals. You need to decide on how it’s going to make a difference in the lives of the women and girls that your nonprofit works with. After brainstorming on it, you need to come up with your own theme, around your campaign.
Tell a Great Story
We can’t stress more on the fact that it is a great story that has the power to make people connect with your cause. Articulate some great stories involving women around your theme. Tell them how your campaign could help bring in a positive difference to the world. Let them know about all the past good work that you have done.
Social Media Marketing
Make use of the various social media platforms and the different communication channels that it has on offer. Social media has the power to take your campaign across the globe. You will be able to reach out to a much greater number of people distributed across a wide geographical area. Ask your volunteers and supporters to share all your messages on their individual social media accounts and help spread the word.
Adopt mobile giving and let your donors pay through their smartphones. The easier you make it for your donors to give, the more the amount of donations would come in. The donor retention rate for future campaigns would go up too.
Keep the Intensity on
Even after doing all the groundwork, you need to keep the intensity going throughout the campaign. You need to keep a track on all the donations, keep your donors updated on the progress of your campaign and respond to all the queries which come up in a real time basis. | <urn:uuid:d070b357-a880-4c15-8f48-dac8dd516394> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.givecentral.org/fundraising-tips-international-womens-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948878 | 538 | 1.90625 | 2 |
We decided to participate in January, when Greg Muttitt of Hands Off Iraqi Oil came to our social centre, Next To Nowhere, and gave a talk on conditions in Iraq. He told us about the proposed oil law which the US puppet government is trying to pass, which would guarantee massive profits to western oil companies, while leaving Iraqi workers in poverty. He also described some of the inspirational resistance which the law is facing from members of Iraqi oil unions. Our response was taken in solidarity with those workers in struggle, and to help raise awareness about the main reason British soldiers are still in Iraq.
Yesterday's action was very effective, getting information out to many people who were using the petrol station. Activists engaged in conversations with many drivers, and received a lot of support. People in cars then spent their time queueing on the forecourt reading our leaflets. Our banner also got loads of passing drivers beeping their horns and raising their fists (only a couple of times in anger at us!).
This is something we may try again, especially with the fifth anniversary of the invasion coming up in a few weeks.
Merseyside TUC and Merseyside Stop The War Coalition were also due to picket the BP garage in Scotland Road yesterday.
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The idea of therapeutic fasting is not new. Every religious text and many philosophers from ancient Greece fasted for certain periods of time.
” I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency” – Plato
In fact, I was introduced to the therapeutic benefits of fasting about twenty years ago when I read the books:
Rational Fasting by Arnold Ehret
The Miracle of Fasting by Paul Bragg
I then began practicing some level of fasting, either once a day, a full 24 hours, every week or three days every three months or some variation.
Since then fasting has gained plenty of attention in the scientific community for improving everything from cancer to longevity.
Here’s what I know about Intermittent fasting and why I am suggesting it to patients.
What is it Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting (IF) includes everything from not eating any food for 2 to 7 days or more to skipping a meal or two on certain days of the week.
The most popular time periods of not eating during a fast include 12 to 16 hours a day – most of this time is during sleep.
Is Intermittent Fasting different than calorie restriction?
IF is different than calorie restriction.
Calorie restriction involves eating very low calories, about 1500 or so a day without fasting.
IF involves no macronutrient consumption (protein, fat, sugar) within a period of time.
What are the benefits of Intermittent Fasting?
Studies have found that not eating for long periods of time is effective for improving weight loss, insulin sensitivity, and other health biomarkers.
Let’s talk a little about insulin sensitivity
Insulin does a lot of valuable things for us. It pulls glucose from the blood and delivers it away into our cells to be burned for energy (known as ATP in science) or stored as glycogen. It prevents toxicity from too much sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia) to nerve cell and other body tissues. It also improves muscle growth, especially following resistance training. So, we need insulin. A chronic disease where insulin is not made is type 1 diabetes; injections of synthetic insulin are required to assure healthy blood sugar levels.
Also, insulin stops your body’s ability to use fat for energy. Only after glucose is used (and stored in the form called glycogen) can fat be used for energy.
When this insulin/sugar metabolism work in concert, we are healthy or called in geeky terms, insulin sensitive, or we have insulin sensitivity.
The problem is that when we consume too much sugar, including simple carbohydrates your body produces much more insulin to metabolize sugar than it needs, sometimes two to three times the amount of sugar it needs. Too much insulin in the body causes insulin insensitivity or insulin resistance (both terms used equally depending on what you read) – a problem where insulin cannot properly drive sugar into the cell to make energy.
Insulin insensitivity leads to; obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
This is a long-winded explanation to help you understand one of the benefits of IF and why you should do it.
Why Practice Intermittent fasting?
The reason’s you may want to consider intermittent fasting is for; weight loss, longevity, cancer protection, more energy, clearer thinking, overcomes type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
What should you do?
My take on intermittent fasting at this point: eat sensibly most of the time, eat nothing for an extended period now and then, indulge only on occasion (perhaps once a week, say, on a designated “cheat day”).
A more specific suggestion is to restrict from food consumption for 12 – 16 hours – EVERY DAY. In other words, skip breakfast. I know, I know I too used to preach that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I am not sure about that anymore, at least for middle-aged people looking to live longer and stronger. A good breakfast for younger people and athletes is still important. But for the rest of us, not so much.
I know, you looking at me like I have three heads. Many do when I suggest this. Believe me, this is difficult at first, but worth it later.
The only drinks allowed are plain tea, plain coffee or water – no sugar or milk.
You can start doing it 16 hours a day, mostly at night while sleeping. Or start at 12 hours then work your way up to 16 hours a day one week at a time. In other words, start at 12 hours for two weeks, then 13 hours for two to three weeks, then fourteen hours the next, etc.
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Bentonite is a type of clay that is created from airborne volcanic ash. The clay must be combined with another type of clay due to its shrinkage being very high. It is characterized by very fine particles and is very plastic. If one adds 2-3% to clay it will raise the level of plasticity. Bentonite is combined with a glaze in order to maintain suspension and enhance the raw glaze adhesion. | <urn:uuid:c76d9134-efbd-4706-8eac-5ba206a47eb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.creativeglossary.com/ceramic-art/bentonite.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975153 | 92 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Bored of being stuck in long traffic jams in city centres. Well get ready to be relieved if you have the moolah. A study conducted by Porsche in 2018 and certain consulting forecasts have indicated that urban air mobility would start picking up from 2025 onwards. Porsche wants to be ready with its arsenal when the shooting begins in the urban air mobility battle space. And Porsche has a strong ally this time.
Porsche and Boeing have entered into an MoU to study and develop the concept of all electric vertical take and landing urban mobility solutions. The concept is being developed by Porsche, Boeing and Aurora Flights, a subsidiary of Boeing. Engineers from these companies as well as Porsche’s subsidiaries, Porsche Engineering Services GmbH and Studio F.A. Porsche, will implement and test a prototype.
Detlev von Platen, Member of the Executive Board for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG stated, “Porsche is looking to enhance its scope as a sports car manufacturer by becoming a leading brand for premium mobility. In the longer term, this could mean moving into the third dimension of travel. We are combining the strengths of two leading global companies to address a potential key market segment of the future.”
“This collaboration builds on our efforts to develop a safe and efficient new mobility ecosystem, and provides an opportunity to investigate the development of a premium urban air mobility vehicle with a leading automotive brand,” said Steve Nordlund, Vice President and General Manager Boeing NeXt, an organization that is laying the foundation for a next-generation mobility ecosystem in which autonomous and piloted vehicles can safely coexist. “Porsche and Boeing together bring precision engineering, style and innovation to accelerate urban air mobility worldwide.” | <urn:uuid:ac20da2d-1d63-48f7-951b-b84d2ee32475> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thetransportjournal.com/2019/10/17/porsche-and-boeing-to-take-urban-mobility-into-third-dimension/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942889 | 352 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Is there going to be a North American lithium “rush”?
General Motors has now announced that in partnership with Korea’s POSCO Chemicals they would construct a lithium-ion battery cathode active material (CAM) manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada, with a capacity to produce the cathode active material needed for 1,000,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) annually by 2025. This would mean that the factory’s output would be enough for cathodes for at least 90 gigawatt hours of lithium-ion battery storage. This capacity would be more than all of the North American capacity planned or built up until now combined. The GM dedicated POSCO Chemical plant is projected to cost $500 million. The cathode active material will be utilized in the new GM “Ultium” EV battery plants to be constructed by GM in the USA.
Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain, said, “GM and our supplier partners are creating a new, more secure and more sustainable ecosystem for EVs, built on a foundation of North American resources, technology and manufacturing expertise,”
A 100 kWh lithium ion battery requires 6-8 kg of lithium, measured as but so far not used in its metallic state, so that 1,000,000 BEVs will require 6,000 to 8,000 tpa of lithium, which will be initially delivered as lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide and then chemically transformed into cathode and electrolyte specific materials for use. Today, 8,000 tons of lithium metal would represent 10% of global production and 15% of all of the lithium used for battery construction.
Note also that GM produces, annually, in the USA today some 2.5 million cars and trucks, so that 1,000,000 represents 40% of GM North American production.
The key takeaway from Mr. Parks’ statement is the term, “North American resources.”
North America today does not produce anywhere near enough lithium for the new GM/POSCO facility’s planned capacity.
North American car and truck sales are today 7 times those of just GM’s domestic production. If GM is looking to differentiate itself and gain a competitive advantage from domestic sourcing of battery materials, lithium, in particular, then it will have to compete with its peers for the critical raw materials.
The biggest problem will be sourcing and processing lithium domestically.
The Biden administration’s announced policy is to have 50% of car and truck production be EVs by 2030. This means that at least eight times as much lithium will be required per annum by 2030 as GM will need in 2025, or 50,000 to 75,000 tons of lithium, measured as metal, per annum! This would be essentially equal to the total global production of new lithium in 2021, and this is just for North America!
North American lithium exploration, mining, processing and fine chemical production of battery grade chemicals need to expand dramatically right now for there to be any hope of meeting the EV production goals even at the lower end.
There needs to be a North American “Lithium Rush.”
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My passion is making Speech and Language Therapy fun and functional by tailoring the sessions to the needs and interests of the individual. I endeavour to enable the children I support to communicate to their full potential. I believe that all children have the right to be listened to and be heard.
I will typically spend 60 to 90 minutes assessing a child to ascertain their current strengths and needs. The assessment will include an observation, a discussion with a carer and or teacher as well as direct informal or formal assessment. A report can be provided on request.
Therapy targets will be discussed, agreed and monitored in liaison with the child's parents and or school. Each child's input will be planned on an individual basis and the amount of therapy required will vary depending on the level of need of the child.
Sessions usually last between 45-60 minutes and can take place at home or in an educational setting (if a suitable room is available). Part of each session will involve feeding back and making practical suggestions for activities to be carried out inbetween therapy sessions.
I am able to meet with other professionals and or teachers as part of a package of care. This would be agreed in advance.
Joint working and ongoing referrals
If needed I can advise on future referrals for other health and education professionals and am happy to carry out joint sessions if this will be beneficial to the child.
I am able to offer bespoke training in schools or nurseries. I am able to offer training such as:
Makaton foundation Course and taster sessions
Language development and bilingualism
An introduction to Alternative and Augmentative Communication Systems
Story bag making
Supporting students who stammer
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
10:00am – 12:30pm
133 Hands Creek Road
East Hampton, NY
Karyn Mannix will be teaching these wonderful art workshops at the LongHouse Reserve.
The art projects planned are influenced by our natural surroundings. If you have never been to LongHouse before, here is your opportunity to enjoy luscious gardens sprinkled with art.
The 1st hour we will concentrate on painting Buckminster Fuller’s Fly’s Eye Dome (1998),
The 2nd hour we work on a Beverly Pepper Asiatic Black Web (1977) sculpture.
*Parents can join their child on this art adventure. ($20 per head)
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Links to Other VTE Resources
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
“Preventing Hospital-Associated Venous Thromboembolism: A Guide for Effective Quality Improvement,” offers step-by-step guidance to clinicians on how to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE). Originally published in 2008, the updated guide includes new and improved metrics for tracking the adequacy of VTE prophylaxis, increased use of electronic health records, more examples of tools, and lessons learned while detailing how to start, implement, evaluate and sustain a VTE prevention strategy.
American Society of Hematology
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is the world’s largest professional society concerned with the causes and treatments of blood disorders. ASH provides hematologist-approved information on clotting disorders. To read more about deep vein thrombosis, please visit here: http://www.hematology.org/Patients/Blood-Disorders/Clots/3816.aspx
The Anticoagulation Forum provides information on VTE family-based research.
CDC Travelers’ Health Yellow Book and DVT/PE
Preventive measures for travelers can be found in CDC’s Travelers’ Health Yellow Book.
Clot Connect’s mission is to increase knowledge of blood clots and clotting disorders by providing education and support services for patients and health care professionals.
CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health is committed to healthy pregnancies and deliveries for every woman. The Hear Her campaign supports CDC’s efforts to prevent pregnancy-related deaths by sharing potentially life-saving messages about urgent warning signs.
International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
The International Society on Thrombosis and haemostasis (ISTH) is a global not-for-profit organization advancing the understanding, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of thrombotic and bleeding disorders.
National Blood Clot Alliance
The National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA) is a patient-led advocacy group dedicated to prevent, diagnose and treat thrombosis and thrombophilia through research, education, support and advocacy.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health. The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the section of NIH that provides information for professionals and the general public about blood disorders such as deep vein thrombosis.
Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
On September 15, 2008, Acting Surgeon General Steven K. Galson released The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism – 2008 at the Venous Disease Coalition’s Second Annual Meeting.
The North American Thrombosis Forum
The North American Thrombosis Forum (NATF) is a multidisciplinary organization founded with the objective of improving patient care through the advancement of thrombosis education.
Stop the Clot, Spread the Word® is a public health education campaign developed by the National Blood Clot Alliance and CDC. Visit to learn more about the increased risks of hospitalization and blood clots.
This Is Serious®
This Is Serious is the campaign developed by the Duke Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to drive awareness and action around the prevention of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or blood clots, in women.
World Thrombosis Day (WTD)
World Thrombosis Day (WTD) is one day – October 13 – dedicated to focusing attention on the often overlooked and misunderstood disease burden caused by thrombosis globally. It is an annual day that energizes a collective drive to increase awareness and action through educational activities for the public and health care professionals throughout the year, year to year. | <urn:uuid:584c63fb-f19b-4729-80d2-701e019cb209> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dvt/links.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.892518 | 860 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Betancor MB, Ortega A, de la Gandara F, Tocher DR & Mourente G (2019) Performance, feed utilization, and hepatic metabolic response of weaned juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.): effects of dietary lipid level and source. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 45 (2), pp. 697-718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10695-018-0587-9
Two trials were performed using extruded diets as on-growing feeds for weaned Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus; ABT) to establish adequate dietary levels of both lipid and omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA), and impacts on lipid metabolism via liver gene expression. In Trial A, ABT were fed with either a commercial feed (Magokoro®, MGK) as a reference diet, or two experimental feeds differing in lipid levels (15 or 20 %) using krill oil (KO) as the single lipid source in order to estimate suitable lipid content. Fish fed MGK displayed the highest growth, followed by 15KO, and therefore a dietary lipid content of 15 % was considered preferable to 20 % at this stage. In Trial B, fish were fed MGK, 15KO or a feed containing 15 % lipid with a blend of KO and rapeseed oil (RO) (1:1, v/v; 15KORO). Fish fed 15KO and 15KORO showed no difference in weight gain, specific growth rate and fork length. Increasing dietary lipid level or including vegetable oil, RO, in the feeds did not increase liver lipid content. Liver fatty acid compositions largely reflected dietary profiles confirming very limited endogenous LC-PUFA biosynthesis. Liver of ABT fed 15KO and 20KO displayed the highest contents of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). The hepatic expression of genes encoding enzymes and transcription factors involved in lipid and fatty acid metabolism, as well as genes encoding antioxidant enzymes, showed that many of these genes were regulated by dietary lipid and LC-PUFA content. Results suggested that ABT juveniles can be on-grown on inert dry feeds that support good fish growth and the accumulation of DHA.
Atlantic bluefin tuna; dietary lipid content; dietary lipid source; production 43 performance; hepatic lipid metabolism; gene expression
Fish Physiology and Biochemistry: Volume 45, Issue 2
|Funders||Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Gobierno de España|
|Publication date online||23/11/2018|
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ALL folks, who pretend to religion
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