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Forget What You Think You Know About LASIK
- Posted on: Nov 20 2018
If you clicked on this post, odds are you have interest in LASIK! This is great news! However, the concept of LASIK tends to come with a lot of preconceived notions.
Want to separate the fact from fiction, once and for all? Keep reading for a full rundown on what you should know about LASIK! When you’re ready, schedule your LASIK consultation with Associates in Ophthalmology!
What Happens During LASIK?
LASIK only takes a few seconds per eye and is over in less than an hour. After the procedure is completed, you’ll need to rest your eyes. LASIK starts by numbing your eyes.
There’s no pain, and you won’t be able to feel anything during the procedure! You may feel some tugging or pressure during the procedure, but nothing more.
LASIK corrects refractive errors by altering the shape of the cornea. A misshapen cornea is a primary reason people experience nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.
The surgeon accomplishes this by creating a flap in the top layer of the cornea. Minuscule amounts of tissue are removed from precise locations under the cornea. The flap is then closed and recovery can begin.
What Is Recovery Like?
After having LASIK, you will need to be careful with your eyes. Recovering from LASIK is short, as long as you follow all instructions from your eye doctor. This means avoiding things like contact sports and vigorous exercise for a month.
Contact sports that could result in injury to your head or eye can damage the newly created flap. While recovering, you should also avoid getting water in your eyes or rubbing them. Your eyes are much more sensitive after LASIK.
Your eyes will not only be vulnerable to injury but also to infection. Full recovery time varies from person to person, but on average it takes a few months to recover from LASIK. During this time you will attend several check-up visits with your eye surgeon.
It is incredibly important to go to these. If any problems or complications arise from LASIK, it’s much easier to treat them early on!
What Do Other People Think of LASIK?
LASIK is the most popular form of vision correction. Millions of people have received the lifestyle benefits that LASIK offers. In fact, the success rate of LASIK is astonishing. LASIK has an incredible 96% success rate with patients! Many patients end up with 20/20 vision, or better.
LASIK may be a great procedure, but like all surgeries, it is not right for everyone. People you know might not know much about the procedure, or how it works. It’s important to take what others say about LASIK with a grain of salt, especially on the internet!
Ready to find out if you could be a candidate for LASIK? Set up your LASIK consultation with Associates in Ophthalmology in Livingston, NJ! You don’t have to live a life that dooms you to glasses or contacts. Schedule your consultation and find out once and for all if LASIK is right for your eyes!
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Today is the birthday of Lucio and Simplicio Godino (1908-1936). This pair of Filipino conjoined twin brothers were first exhibited in Coney Island as boys until thwarted by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. As they had no legal guardian, they were adopted by the Philipine ambassador to the U.S., who gave them an education, and they actually learned to play several sports and several musical instruments. In 1929 they married an (unconjoined) pair of Filipino identical twins and formed a vaudeville act that consisted of patter, music and dancing. In 1936 Lucio died of pneumonia. The pair were successfully seperated (the first time this had ever been done), but unfortunately Simplicio died as well a few days later (of cerebro-spinal meningtitis). | <urn:uuid:dc2a3857-11d7-46c2-8bef-eb5328d51053> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://travsd.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/lucio-and-simplicio-godino/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988846 | 173 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Legal proceedings brought against Japanese American land owners by western states seeking to take possession of their land under the auspices of so-called alien land laws . While the laws were loosely enforced prior to World War II, the State of California dramatically increased escheat proceedings against Japanese Americans after they had been forcibly removed to concentration camps, a process that further expanded as they returned to the West Coast beginning in 1945. As the state took away property through escheat proceedings—or reached "settlements" in which Japanese Americans had to pay substantial sums to retain land they already owned—the community organized a series of legal test cases. The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Oyama v. California in 1948 effectively ended further escheat cases.
In 1913, the state of California passed the first alien land law, a measure that prohibited immigrants from Japan and other parts of Asia from purchasing agricultural land. The law did not specially mention Japanese or other Asians, using the term "aliens ineligible to citizenship" as a proxy. In 1920, following a voter initiative, the state passed a more stringent measure to close loopholes in the law. Not wanting Japanese Americans from California to move to their states, nearly all western states and various others passed similar laws in the 1920s. Japanese Americans pursued a series of test cases challenging various aspects of the law in the early 1920s, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most aspects of the laws in Terrace v. Thompson .
The California land law dictated that any property acquired or transferred "with intent to prevent, evade, or avoid" the law would "escheat" to the state. In practice, the law went largely unenforced over the next two decades. Only 14 escheat actions were instituted by the state up to December 1941, not all against Japanese Americans. Though Japanese Americans were often able to get around the law by registering land in the name of their American citizen children—a practice upheld by the California Supreme Court in the Estate and Guardianship of Tetsubumi Yano case—or of trusted white friends, the laws certainly depressed the extent of Issei farmland and influenced the types of crops they chose to grow.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, dormant anti-Japanese sentiment sprang to life in California and other western states, culminating in calls for the mass removal of all Japanese Americans from the coast. Even after the federal government heeded those calls and made plans to evict Japanese Americans, local officials pondered other anti-Japanese measures. California Attorney General Earl Warren gathered maps showing property owned by Japanese Americans, famously brandishing them to show purported concentrations around utilities, airports, and other important installations, and arguing that ominous plans of sabotage were being hatched. Warren and county officials such as Los Angeles County Assistant District Attorney Clyde C. Shoemaker sought to use the escheat provision of the alien land law to remove Japanese Americans from these areas.
Though all Japanese Americans save those in institutions were removed from the West Coast states by the fall of 1942, anti-Japanese sentiment continued to rise. Among several pieces of anti-Japanese legislation passed in California was a bill authored by California State Senator Clair Engle and signed into law by now Governor Earl Warren in June 1943 that sought to ban the practice of Issei purchasing land in the name of Nisei children and that also increased penalties for violating the land law and gave state and local authorities more power to investigate guardianship. As a result, new California Attorney General Robert Kenny created an alien land unit in his office in August of 1943 to investigate land law violations. By mid 1944 county and state attorneys were filing a succession of land law cases against Japanese American families who, being locked away in concentration camps or otherwise unable to return to the coast and with limited access to funds, would be hard pressed to defend themselves. In their zeal to prosecute cases, the state went so far as to search out Issei parents who inherited land from Nisei servicemen sons killed in the war. Interestingly, the other West Coast states mostly did not follow suit, instituting only a few escheat proceedings.
In April of 1945, the California State legislature approved a $200,000 grant to the attorney general's office to investigate and prosecute land law cases. Three months later, Governor Warren signed into law legislation that, among other things, created a fund from the proceeds of escheated property that would be evenly split between state and county treasuries, the state portion going to the state school fund. This provided greater incentive for action at both the state and county level, and led to yet more escheat suits as Japanese Americans began to return to the West Coast. Unlike before the war, the state prosecuted Nisei landowners on the charge that land gifted them by their parents and held in their name had been acquired with intent to evade the provisions of the alien land act.
In many cases, Japanese Americans who were able to mount a defense were able to to prevail. However, many families were unwilling or unable to contest the cases and lost their land. Kenny also began to seek "compromise settlements" on cases, in which Japanese Americans families could pay the state up to half their land's value to quiet title on property they had already paid for in the past. This "legalized blackmail" resulted in a small windfall for the state: by April 1947, Japanese Americans had lost land or paid settlements worth over $437,000 on eleven settlements and five seizures of land. By that time, some seventy more cases were pending and many more were being prepared. As a by product of the menace of escheat suits, the value of landholdings went down, as title insurance became increasingly expensive to acquire and the land could not easily be pledged as collateral for improvements.
Challenges and Demise
Japanese Americans in and out of the concentration camps recognized the significance of these cases and organized to defend themselves. A landmark case was instituted on May 19, 1944, when Monterey County District Attorney Anthony Brazil filed an escheat complaint against Issei Yeizo and Satsuko Ikeda and Nisei Toshi Hanazono, claiming that 72 acres of land worth approximately $40,000 purchased in the name of the latter was used for a farm operated by the former. The case set off alarms at Poston , where the Ikeda family was incarcerated. Recognizing that the family didn't have funds with which to defend themselves and would default without assistance—and recognizing that they had a good chance of winning if they did fight the case—inmate leaders worked to put together "some kind of protection association" before the hearing for the case, set for August 15. A series of meetings ensued, and groups of inmates formed plans to raise $10,000 from individuals at the nine remaining concentration camps to fight the escheat case. By October, over $4,000 had been collected at Poston alone.
Organizing continued after Japanese Americans were allowed to return to the West Coast in 1945. In December 1945, the Civil Rights Defense Union was formed at a meeting in Stockton, with the goal of fighting escheat proceedings. Organizers set a $100,000 fund raising goal. The CRDU hired the law firm of Purcell and Ferriter as general counsel for all escheat cases in Northern California. A southern California branch of the CRDU also formed in 1946, with a similar fund raising goal. The Japanese American Citizens League—which eventually absorbed the Southern California CRDU—likewise supported the fight.
These and other organizations threw their support behind the Oyama test case as the most winnable. When the alien land act was upheld by the California Supreme Court against the Oyamas in 1946, the JACL then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed in mid-1947 to hear the case.
In November of 1946, California voters defeated Proposition 15, which would have added the alien land act and its amendments to the state constitution. This marked the first time western state voters had ever turned down an anti-Japanese measure. Despite this rebuke, newly elected Attorney General Fred Howser ramped up land law prosecutions, perhaps in an effort to get as many cases decided before the forthcoming Supreme Court ruling on Oyama .
Though the Supreme Court did not directly overturn the alien land laws, its January 1948 decision in the Oyama case effectively made them unenforcible. In a letter to A. L. Wirin, Howser wrote, "there is little if anything left of our Alien Land Law of California." His announcement that he would dismiss or abandon all remaining escheat cases effectively brought the alien land law era to a close, though purchases by Issei remained formally illegal. Subsequent decisions on the Fujii and Masaoka cases directly invalidated the laws and the Immigration Act of 1952 effectively rendered them moot by eliminating the category "alien ineligible to citizenship."
In the final act of the story, the California Legislature passed and Governor Warren signed legislation in 1951 that would repay with interest those who had reached "compromise settlements" in escheat proceedings in order to retain their land. But when eighteen parties filed claims with the State Board on Control in 1952, the legislature refused to authorize payment, arguing that the claimants had not exhausted all their legal recourses. The claimants took the issue to court, and in September 1952, the Sacramento County Superior Court ordered that the state pay the eighteen a total of $548,802.
For More Information
Chuman, Frank F. The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese-Americans . Del Mar, Calif.: Publisher's Inc., 1976.
Ferguson, Edwin E. "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment." California Law Review 35.1 (Mar. 1947): 61-90.
Girdner, Audrie, and Anne Loftis. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II . London: Macmillan, 1969.
McGovney, Dudley O. "The Anti-Japanese Land Laws of California and Ten Other States." California Law Review 35 (1947): 7-54.
Robinson, Greg. After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
Smith, Bradford. "Legalized Blackmail." Common Ground 9.6 (Winter 1948): 34–36. http://www.unz.org/Pub/CommonGround-1948q4-00034 .
- Oyama v. California, 332 U.S. 633 (1948) at 661; Greg Robinson, After Camp: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 198; Greg Robinson, A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 259; Frank F. Chuman, The Bamboo People: The Law and Japanese-Americans (Del Mar, Calif.: Publisher's Inc., 1976), 80–81; Yuji Ichioka, "Japanese Immigrant Response to the 1920 California Alien Land Law," Agricultural History 58.2 (Apr. 1984): 157-78.
- On Warren, see Mortzon Grodzins, Americans Betrayed (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949), 92–100, 283–85; Phillip Neff, notes on interviews with Clyde C. Shoemaker, May 13, 1942 and with J. Marion Wright, May 19, 1942, Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, call number BANC MSS 67/14 c, folder A18.07 (2/5), accessed on October 20, 2014 at http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/jarda/ucb/text/cubanc6714_b016a18_0007_2.pdf .
- Fresno Bee , June 8, 1943 and August 12, 1943; Pacific Citizen , Aug. 21, 1943, 1 and Jan. 8, 1944, 7, both accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-15-32/ and http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-16-2/ ; Roger Daniels, The Japanese American Cases: The Rule of Law in Time of War (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2013), 116. Examination of the Pacific Citizen reveals dozens of escheat cases beginning in mid 1944. Only one article mentioned cases outside of California: a May 1944 filing of suits by the attorney general of the state of Washington, who filed suits in several counties targeting properties worth over $1 million. See Pacific Citizen , May 20, 1944, 3, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-16-21/ .
- Larry Tajiri, "The Alien Land Cases: State of California Pushes Program to Grab Nisei Lands," Pacific Citizen , Feb. 2, 1946, 1–2, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-18-5/
- Pacific Citizen , May 3, 1947, 1, 4, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-19-18/ ; Bradford Smith, "Legalized Blackmail," Common Ground 9.6 (Winter 1948): 34–36, accessed on Oct. 20, 2014 at http://www.unz.org/Pub/CommonGround-1948q4-00034 ; Robinson, Tragedy of Democracy , 259.
- Watsonville Register-Pajaronian , May 20, 1944, 1; Pacific Citizen , May 27, 1944, 3, accessed on Oct. 20, 2014 and Jan. 11, 2018 at http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/newspapers/141/ and http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-16-22/ ; Richard S. Nishimoto Diary, June 29, 1944, Sept. 26, 1944, and Oct. 9, 1944, Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, call numbers BANC MSS 67/14 c, folder J6.13 (11/15) and BANC MSS 67/14 c, folder J6.15 (32/43), accessed on Oct. 20, 2014 at http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/jarda/ucb/text/cubanc6714_b133j06_0013_11.pdf and http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/jarda/ucb/text/cubanc6714_b135j06_0015_32.pdf ; Brian Masaru Hayashi, Democratizing the Enemy: The Japanese American Internment (Princeton University Press, 2004), 194.
- Pacific Citizen , Dec. 15, 1945, 3 and Feb. 16, 1946, 1, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-17-50/ and http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-18-7/ ; Tom Sasaki, Report #2, "Civil Rights Defense Union of Southern California," July 24, 1946, The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive, Bancroft Library, University of California, call number BANC MSS 67/14 c, folder W 2.11:1, accessed on Oct. 20, 2014 at http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/jarda/ucb/text/cubanc6714_b315w02_0011_1.pdf ; Pacific Citizen , Oct. 26, 1946, 2, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-18-43/ .
- Pacific Citizen , Jan. 31, 1948, 1, accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-20-5/ .
- Pacific Citizen , July 28, 1951, 1; Sept. 6, 1952, 8; and Sept. 13, 1952, 8, all accessed on Jan. 11, 2018 at http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-23-30/ , http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-36/ , and http://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-24-37/ .
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WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau: It's Long Overdue
Legislation drafted by former State Representative Ted Graziani formalizes March 30 as the day to say 'welcome home' and 'thank you' to these veterans.
Graziani, who enlisted in the Army when he was 18, served in Vietnam for 14 months.
When he returned,he says there were no "thank yous" or parades. "When we got back to the states, we found out real fast that you needed to put your fatigues away, to make mention that you never served our country, because there was such bitterness," Graziani said.
When he became a state lawmaker, he fought for the law.
"I would love to have my mother or my father hear the words from a neighbor or from a friend saying, 'You must be proud of your son for serving his country.' You never heard those words back then."
Connecticut joins California and a few other states in this recognition. Graziani says he'd like to see every single state adopt this law.
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This service development is aligned to NICE PH43 and more specifically Recommendation 2 'Awareness-raising for people at increased risk of hepatitis B or C infection'.
In 2009 Sheffield Teaching Hospitals offered viral hepatitis information and testing in community settings, including the Kinhon Chinese Health Project. An information leaflet was developed in English and Chinese that provided information about hepatitis B and advice about transmission, prevention, vaccination, alcohol and treatment. Dry blood spot testing was used for those who chose to be tested. A similar approach was offered to other affected populations including Pakistani, Slovak, Somali and Yemeni at local community events as part of the Healthy Communities Programme led by the Primary Care Trust (PCT).
In 2011 a complementary online educational package about hepatitis B and C was designed and tried in the groups above and in one GP surgery.
Aims and objectives
The objectives were to:
1) Raise awareness among the populations affected.
2) Provide an easy to understand information tool that can be shown also to people with illiteracy.
3) To offer testing in convenient places where translators are regularly or intentionally available.
4) To provide a source of information for professionals that will help risk assessment, interpretation of results and easy access to basic epidemiology
Reasons for implementing your project
Slovak-Roma: 3,000 (rapidly increasing with an estimated prevalence of hepatitis B of 9.4%, data presented at British Association for Study of the Liver 2013, Page Hall Surgery and STH)
The diagnosis and referrals to the hospital department of people with hepatitis B and C in these at high risk groups did not correspond to the existing numbers (prevalence is expected to be similar to that of the country of origin).
There has been a disparity from diverse populations known in the UK since the mid 1980s and systems have been put in place to address this, however these are not fully effective and a significant number of individuals are diagnosed late with liver cancer or decompensated liver cirrhosis prompting recurrent admissions to hospital.
Testing of hepatitis B in Sheffield is routinely offered in antenatal clinics and hepatitis C testing is offered if the patient has a history of injecting drug use. Testing for both hepatitis B and C is offered routinely in substance misuse services, the blood transfusion service as well as genitourinary medicine departments and surgeries specialising in asylum health to those at increased risk of infection.
How did you implement the project
- Contacts with the PCT office provided the links for communities targeted by the Healthy Communities Programme established by the Department of Health.
- The website, Hepatitis Information and Testing - www.hitsheffield.org , provides basic pictorial and animated clips addressing essential issues surrounding hepatitis B and C.
- The costs originated by both pilots were funded by the Gilead UK and Ireland Fellowship Programmes. These were in 2009 when a feasibility study of community testing by dry blood spot was carried out and then in 2011 when a further pilot was undertaken for the development, roll-out and evaluation of the educational pack described above (additionally dry blood spot testing was also offered).
- The educational pack included world maps, transmission awareness, prevention (including neonatal and contact's vaccination; and alcohol advice) and availability of treatment. A forum and a professionals' page provides a resource for health professionals.
The information website and videos were evaluated by assessing acceptance and relevance of the information and it was found from 75 people interviewed from different groups that they felt the clips were easy to understand, gave important information, were useful for the community and were culturally respectful. When offered testing, this was accepted by the majority of people.
The next step for the project is to evaluate whether increased awareness addresses barriers and has a significant impact in the uptake of testing. This work will start in September 2013 as we have received funding from the Policy Research Programme 2012 for a 2 year study to evaluate barriers of access to health care and write recommendations for practice.
Key learning points
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- Phase Angle Meter
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The PAM420 is specifically designed for measurements on electrical power systems. It is capable of displaying phase angle, voltage, current, frequency and timing. The phase angle is calculated from the relationship between two power signals, which can be two currents, two voltages or any combination.
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Strawberry Flowers is one of the most popular features of any home. They can brighten a room, add fragrance, and create a beautiful centerpiece. However, arranging flowers in your home can be a daunting task. Here are five tips for arranging flowers in your home:
1. Start with the most important areas first. For example, arrange flowers near the front door, in the living room, or at the center of the table.
2. Have a plan. Decide on the placement of each flower and follow the same pattern throughout the room. That will make your flowers cohesive and keep them from looking messy or scattered.
3. Use different colors, heights, and textures to add visual interest.
How to Arrange Flowers
There are many good ways to arrange flowers. One popular method is to make a strawberry begonia flower for your garden. This is done by taking a green stalk with leaves and folding it in half. You will then take a small piece of white paper and cut out a shape that resembles a strawberry. Next, glue the foam to the top of the folded stalk, and then add three red circles for the strawberries’ seeds. Finally, cut six small green leaves and glue them around the white paper.
The strawberry begonia flower for garden is one of the most beautiful flowers for the garden. It has a bright red color that is very eye-catching, and it produces a lot of blooms. The flowers are also fragrant, attracting bees and other pollinators.
It is a relatively easy plant to grow and can be grown in almost any type of soil. In addition, it is a slow-growing plant, so it does not need to be repotted very often.
Simple Assorted Bouquet
A simple, assorted bouquet is perfect for any garden. With a mix of colorful blooms, creating a beautiful display that will brighten up any space is easy. Popular choices for a mixed bouquet include carnations, roses, lilies, and daisies. These flowers are available in many colors to choose the perfect scheme for your garden. Plus, they’re all relatively easy to care for, making them a great choice for busy homeowners.
You don’t have to go to a farmers market or specialty store to find interesting flowers for your garden. Many farm stands sell annuals and perennials you can take home.
Another great place to find plants is at plant sales sponsored by local garden clubs or botanical gardens. You can also ask friends and neighbors if they have any plants they would like to share.
My favorite flower to grow is the strawberry begonia (Saxifraga stolonifera). It is an evergreen that grows in clumps and produces pink, white flowers throughout late spring or early summer. Another favorite is the hardy hibiscus (Hibiscus moscheutos).
strawberry begonia Flower for garden
In conclusion, adding fresh flowers to your home is a great way to brighten up the space and add some life to the room. Not only are they to look at, but they also have a pleasant scent that can improve your mood. There are many different ways to arrange flowers in your home, so experiment until you find a style you love. And if you don’t have time to do it yourself, you can always hire a professional florist to take care of it.
The strawberry begonia flower is a great addition to any garden. It is easy to grow and produces beautiful blooms that will brighten up any space. This flower is perfect for gardeners who are looking for something that is both colorful and easy to care for.
A vegetable tablescape is a great way to show off your gardening skills and provide a beautiful addition to your dining room table. One of the easiest vegetables to grow is the strawberry begonia, which produces delicate white flowers. These plants can be grown in a garden or containers on a patio or deck.
In conclusion, adding fresh flowers to your home is a great way to brighten up the space and add some life to the room. Not only are they nice to look at, but they also have a pleasant scent that can improve your mood. There are many different ways to arrange flowers in your home, so experiment until you find a style you love. And if you don’t have time to do it yourself, you can always hire a professional florist to take care of it. | <urn:uuid:a7642c22-b356-4d9f-8789-333c9328129d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.toduhs.com/how-to-arrange-flowers-in-your-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932611 | 933 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Opportunity beliefs lead entrepreneurs to explore or walk away from opportunities. The dominant process for explaining opportunity beliefs is structural alignment theory’s analogical problem solving of information. Information can be conceptualized according to its structure with some information presented as separate pieces of information (local) and others as aggregated information (global). We conducted an experiment with 116 upper-level managers and engineers, and found that structural and procedural similarities between technologies and socioeconomic conditions of markets drive opportunity beliefs. We found that the constraining effects of technological and socioeconomic differences on opportunity beliefs are contingent on individuals’ global versus local processing. | <urn:uuid:fe308296-da1f-4513-9441-47bf6598ea79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://business.louisville.edu/faculty-research/research-publications/is-that-an-opportunity-global-versus-local-processing-of-technological-and-socioeconomic-constraints/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.91588 | 124 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Quoting the SACBC Vision Statement “Evangelising Community, Serving God, Humanity and all Creation,” Fr Jerry Browne, the Director of The Pontifical Mission Societies, said there is a great opportunity for interplay between the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) and the SACBC in terms of their Vision Statement. He gave a short history of how the Pontifical Mission Societies started and highlighting the importance of supporting the work of the Pontifical Mission Societies. He said it is important to understand that the Pontifical Mission Societies are not about funding only. He noted that most people have a misconception about the Pontifical Mission Societies as they interact with them probably only when there is a collection for Pontifical Mission Societies.
He said the Pontifical Mission Societies are not funding agencies but a world-wide network present in every local church; a network of prayer, formation and charity. And that is the emphasis that need to be kept in mind. The charity comes in giving, which comes in terms of collections and that money is used for the evangelisation mission of the church. Fr. Browne said it is important that the other two aspects are kept in mind when these societies are promoted. Noting that there is a lot that needs to be done about promoting the spiritual nature of the societies to help people come into deeper understanding of the spirit of evangelisation that underlies all of these societies.
He said since every baptised person is called to be a protagonist of mission, because all are missionary disciples, the paradigm that need to be developed is for people in parishes, communities and dioceses to see themselves more as a missionary church rather than a maintenance church. The Director of Pontifical Mission Societies added that there’s a need to focus on our baptismal call to be proclaimers of the word and give witness to our faith in our daily living rather than simply attending church and fulfilling our daily obligation. Going back to the SACBC Pastoral plan he said, “Evangelising Community, Serving God, Humanity and all Creation” is a missionary document. Therefore, “we have a duty to somehow give witness to our faith in our daily living.”
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Frigidaire Dryer E64 Error Code is one of the most common error codes associated with a Frigidaire dryer and is known to be one of the most common errors in regard to maintenance and repairs within this piece of equipment.
This error is caused by many different hardware issues with the dryer and can arise for various reasons, including overheating, sensor issues, and even mechanical failure.
If you are like most people, then you know how frustrating it is when your dryer isn’t working. Whether the dryer just isn’t heating up or you keep getting error codes, it is really annoying to have to go through this every time you do laundry.
Additionally, if your dryer stops working altogether, then you will have to make a trip to the repair shop and that can be quite expensive.
Frigidaire dryer E64 error code means that your dryer has burnt or faulty heating element. Sometimes this error can also be caused due to blown thermal fuse, defective cycling thermostat or faulty control board.
This Frigidaire dryer E64 error code can be easily solved with the help of a qualified appliance repair professional. If you are not skilled enough to fix this problem, then it is advised to call the authorized servicing agent for help.
Frigidaire Dryer E64 Error Code – Troubleshoot And Diagnosis
There are several reasons why your Frigidaire dryer might produce an E64 error code. When you run into an issue with your Frigidaire dryer, it may be difficult to troubleshoot the problem. Let’s have a look at the possible causes and solution.
1. Burnt Heating Element
In most instances, the error code E64 on a Frigidaire dryer means the heater assembly is broken — specifically a heating element that has either burnt up or been shorted to the rest of the unit.
A heating element in a dryer is responsible for providing the heat that is used to dry clothes.
The element is usually located near the bottom of the dryer, and it works by using electrical resistance to generate heat. The heat generated by the element is then used to warm the air inside the dryer, which in turn helps to evaporate any moisture that is present on the clothes.
A dryer’s heating element can fail for a number of reasons. The most common reason is a build-up of lint in the element’s housing. When lint accumulates, it insulates the element, which prevents it from getting hot enough to dry clothes. The element can also fail if it overheats due to a malfunction in the dryer’s thermostat or thermal cut-off switch. In some cases, the element simply wears out over time and needs to be replaced.
If your dryer isn’t heating, the first thing to do is test the heating element to see if it’s broken. To do this, disconnect the dryer from the power source and remove the back panel. Locate the heating element and use a multimeter to test it for continuity. If the element doesn’t have continuity, it needs to be replaced.
Here are the steps:
- Unplug the dryer from the wall outlet.
- Remove the back panel of the dryer to access the heating element.
- Use a multimeter to test the heating element for continuity. If the element is not working, it will need to be replaced.
- Remove the old heating element and replace it with the new one.
- Reattach the back panel of the dryer and plug it back into the wall outlet.
Test your dryer again and see if the error is now cleared or not.
2. Blown Thermal Fuse
A thermal fuse is a safety device that has been mandatory in all dryers since the 1980s. This fuse burns itself out before overheating or fire starts, which makes it an excellent way to extend the life of your clothes dryer.
A dryer’s thermal fuse is a safety device that is mounted on the dryer’s heating element.
If the dryer overheats, the thermal fuse blows and cuts off power to the dryer. The dryer will not start if the thermal fuse is blown. When this happens, you will see the E64 code on the Frigidaire dryer.
The dryer thermal fuse will be used one time, and then it’s done.
When the thermal fuse on a dryer blows, it is primarily for safety reasons; however, this can lead to a number of issues: the machine will not turn on, you may see an error code or the drum could continue to rotate without heat from the heating element.
To find and fix a fuse we suggest following these steps:
Disconnect power when testing the fuse
Find the wires to the fuse
Use a multimeter to test if those wires are conducting. (You can use your phone’s multimeter app or buy a digital multimeter)
To find out whether or not your fuse is bad, hold one probe of your multimeter against each wire, with them touching the middle terminal of the fuse itself.
This should be a “test” terminal that has an indented corner to ensure you’re placing it in the correct spot.
Ready for results? Any other reading means that your fuse is bad and needs to be replaced.
So why is it that dryer fuses blow? There are a number of possible causes, ranging from inadequate wiring to faulty appliance parts to worn-out dryer ducts.
You can fix the broken dryer within minutes by simply changing the fuse, but it’s ideal to understand the reasons behind its failure.
Before using your dryer, check the venting system for any obstructions that cause inadequate airflow, check the blades on the heater and fan for signs of damage, and make sure to check the cycling thermostat — anything can lead to a blown fuse.
3. Defective Cycling Thermostat
If a cycling thermostat fails in your Frigidaire Affinity dryer, it can also cause E64 error code to be thrown.
The cycling thermostat is a key part of dryer operation. It monitors the internal temperature of the machine and turns off the heat when it reaches a certain level — preventing the dryer from overheating.
The cycling thermostat is an electrical device used to monitor the air temperature inside a clothes dryer. It acts as a safety measure, turning the dryer on and off as needed to maintain a constant temperature.
A defective cycling thermostat is often the culprit when you have a dryer with no heat.
Here are some tips on how to change a cycling thermostat on a dryer:
- Disconnect the power to your machine
- Pull the dryer away from the wall
- Remove the screws that hold the rear access panel in place
- Remove all wires connected to the thermostat and remember where they go.
- Note: All parts of the old thermostat should be removed from the new one.
- Remove the wires and remove the old thermostat
- Reconnect the wires to the new thermostat
- Replace the access panel and screws.
- Reconnect power to the machine and test.
In order to test whether or not your cycling thermostat is still working properly, follow these steps:
1. Remove the wires from one of the connectors
2. Attach a probe to each connector
3. Set your digital multimeter to the “R X 1” or “Continuity” function
4. A thermostat that’s still good should give you a reading of infinity.
Frigidaire Affinity Dryer E64 Code
When it comes time to troubleshoot the Frigidaire Affinity dryer’s control panel, there are three parts warranting further investigation. The first is the heating element, which generally wears down over time and will require replacement.
Next, is the thermal fuse, which can melt due to slight spikes in temperature that may occur if your dryer isn’t properly vented and ventilated.
If you are getting Frigidaire Dryer E68 code, then you can find solution here as well.
Finally, there is a thermostat, which can also be damaged due to improper ventilation.
The heating element can be replaced in about an hour without the need for professional assistance. While the dryer is operating and the heating element reaches a temperature of 230-degrees Fahrenheit, unplug the machine and remove the two screws holding the element in place. Remove the old heating element and make sure the new element lines up properly with the holes in the dryer and then reassemble.
When your Frigidaire Affinity dryer begins to display an error code of E64, check the heating system as a potential culprit. This system consists of the heating element, thermal fuse, and the cycling thermostat.
If your machine is displaying either error code, examine each part with a multimeter to quickly identify which part is the problem.
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Nano-researcher, but well-earthed
Gregor Fuhrmann wants to use tiny membrane vesicles to transport active substances to where they are needed in the body. He started a junior research group at the HIPS to pursue this project.
Gregor Fuhrmann basically inherited his interest in science from his parents, who are both graduate chemists. The native of Berlin decided to take up a course of study in pharmacy in Germany‘s capital. For his internship year, he visited the laboratory of Jean-Christophe Leroux in Montréal. “Since the chemistry between us was so good, we kept contact after my visit,“ Fuhrmann explains. After he received his license as a pharmacist, he commenced his doctoral work at the ETH Zürich in 2008 – again with Leroux, who had just transferred to Zürich.
Vesicles as messenger material
Months before receiving his doctoral degree, which he completed with honours, Fuhrmann secured a position as a postdoctoral fellow with Molly Stevens, a materials researcher in London. There he studied extracellular vesicles, i.e. vesicles released by body cells for purposes of communication with other cells or for defence against pathogens. It was obvious to Fuhrmann that vesicles can be used as targeted transporters to navigate active substances through the body to the site of disease: “As a messenger material the body is familiar with, vesicles are perfectly suited for this purpose,“ he says. He received no less than two stipends to pursue his idea.
His next goal was to set up his own research group to work on the control of infections. Especially the fate of cystic fibrosis patients, who suffer from persistent lung infections, drew his attention. And he went to look for help for his undertaking. In Germany, one person stood out in particular: Claus-Michael Lehr, who develops in vitro lung models at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). Ultimately, Fuhrmann approached Lehr at a conference in 2014.
“It was also helpful that both Molly and Jean-Christophe were present at the conference to put in a word for me,“ he explains. Since December 2016, Fuhrmann and his Biogenic Nanotherapeutics junior research group at the HIPS have been isolating and characterising vesicles from mammalian cells and bacteria, testing them on bacterial cultures either without modification or laden with active substances.
Within the next five years, we want to establish a method for the preparation and loading of vesicles with active substances that has the potential to be developed further for the market.
What differs London from Saarbrücken
In his career, from studies in Berlin to the junior research group in Saarbrücken, the 35 year-old has seen much of the world, while his focus always was on research. And this is no different in Saarbrücken: “The city is really nice and down-to-earth, not as aloof as London,“ he says. “But the good research conditions are the crucial difference.“ The HIPS is fascinating because of its modern looks and the local research groups are very experienced and very well networked.
Smalltalk not being his thing, Gregor Fuhrmann may sometimes seem a little standoffish because of his reticence. But he has managed to establish friendships from Jena to Québec and from Stockholm to Verona. The father of two children is also an enthusiastic amateur bio-gardener and fan of the Hertha BSC football club – two passions that are successful rarely enough but keep the professional high-flyer well-earthed.
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Alzheimer's disease has been in the news recently for good reason – doctors think they are getting closer to finding a cure for the condition, which causes confusion and dementia.
Around 820,000 people in Britain have dementia, mostly caused by Alzheimer's.
Recent news that scientists at the Medical Research Council have found a chemical that prevents the death of brain cells in mice has been heralded as a breakthrough in the treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
In another landmark study, researchers at Cardiff say they have isolated eleven new genes linked to the deadly brain disease.
Professor Julie Williams, head of neurodegeneration at Cardiff University's neuropsychiatric genetics and genomics centre, led one of four global research teams.
She said: 'We know a lot more about what is causing the disease, but we need to know more about the how.
'How are these genes actually contributing to the disease's progress?
'When we find the answer to this, we'll be able to target genetic errors with drugs or other interventions.'
It all looks very promising, but is a cure still a long way off?
Professor Roger Morris from Kings College, London believes that the Medical Research Council findings are a 'turning point' in the search to control and prevent Alzheimer's, because it is the first time scientists have been able to delay brain cell death in living animals.
However, he cautions: 'Although these early results look promising, there is no guarantee that what works on mice will also work on humans.
'We have been learning more about the genes that cause this terrible illness, which seems to be triggered by a complex mixture of environmental and lifestyle factors.
'There isn't a single magic bullet to cure Alzheimer's and we need to look at this from a number of angles.'
'Doctors don't have drugs that stop underlying causes of Alzheimer's – but we can help symptoms,' says Dr Ridley.
A pill called Solanezumab is undergoing trials at the moment and may help to stop Alzheimer's in its tracks.
Solanezumab works by blocking certain proteins that form plaques in the brain, causing tissue to die.
'We remain uncertain of the role of amyloid proteins, often found depressed in the spinal fluid of Alzheimer's sufferers,' says Dr Ridley.
Earlier trials of patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's showed that the drug slowed cognitive decline by 34 per cent in patients with mild symptoms, but didn't affect their ability to perform everyday tasks.
What about lifestyle changes?
Dr Thomas Stuttaford says: 'Research shows that chronic stress caused by job pressures, family tensions and always-on-technology can lead to depression, cognitive decline and Alzheimer's symptoms.'
Under constant stress the body is unable to recover from high adrenaline and cortisol levels, which can affect brain cell regeneration.
'Relaxing through meditation, yoga and walking all help to counteract harmful stress.'
Dr Simon Ridley advises people to adopt healthier lifestyles if they want to reduce their risk.
'There is a growing list of lifestyle, environmental factors involved in Alzheimer's.
'Exercising, being social and eating well can all help.'
Research suggests that vitamin D, which is derived from sunshine, fish, meat and dairy products helps protect your brain.
Several trials are currently underway to prove the link between low levels of vitamin D, commonly found in elderly people and developing cognitive decline.
Alzheimer's may be associated with a gene mutation, which reduces vitamin D effectiveness.
Pick up a puzzle
'A lot of data suggests that being mentally active can help ward off Alzheimer's,' says Dr Ridley. 'Your brain is a muscle, so like other muscles, needs a daily workout.'
Doing the logic puzzle, sudoku, playing chess, doing crosswords or playing cards exercises your brain, as well as being fun.
Research by Dr Raza Naqvi, from the University of Toronto, Canada, looked at 32 trials involving 25,000 healthy patients aged 65 or older. It found that those who regularly completed sudoku puzzles had significantly improved memory skills in the five years afterward compared with those who didn't regularly complete sudokus.
Other ways of keeping your brain sharp include learning a new language, listening to current affairs programmes on the radio and TV and reading a daily newspaper.
'I recommend that my patients remain mentally and cognitively active for as long as possible,' said Dr Naqvi.
'A regular mental work-out makes a huge difference to your memory in later life.'
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Due to their destructiveness and local nature, these events also highlighted some of the critical benefits of our Visual Intelligence service: namely, the ability to manoeuvre in difficult conditions.
In this case, we provided critical proof-of-concept for our in-house drone programme, in which we deploy chartered drones to provide detailed insights into flooding and damage. We consider the data we collect using drones to be immensely useful: it allows identification and measurement of objects less than 1 centimetre in size, producing highly sensitive evidence for the insurance claims process.
This accuracy and flexibility is even more powerful in a city like York, which is defined in part by its Medieval architecture. Challenging features include miles of narrow alleyways and the incidence of “jettied” buildings, which jut out above roads and partially obscure ground level areas.
"We took the opportunity to provide proof-of-concept for our drone programme. We were not disappointed."
Dave Fox, CEO
We took the opportunity to show how powerful our drone programme can be in these circumstnaces. As part of our rapid response, we scheduled drone overflights for the day of peak flooding in York, 27th December, ran analyses overnight and conducted ground checks the next day as verification for our clients.
Our programme did not disappoint. Even with the need to alter flight paths to accommodate emergency services and the rapid deployment of social media scraping to supplement our visual data, our analytics produced assessments that were spot-on for accuracy and visual clarity.
It was a horribly destructive event, but one which demonstrated the operational capability, analytical sophistication, and rapid response capabilities of the Geospatial Insight Visual Intelligence service.
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- November 29, 2019
- Posted by: Planet Goa Team
- Category: V6-Heritage
The richness of Goa’s historic past can be witnessed in its churches, forts, and Portuguese architecture but there are a lot more pieces to the historic puzzle that Goa corners within its antiquity. These pieces can best be discovered at Goa’s eccentric array of museums.
Goa, in its present form, is undoubtedly serene but the serenity it is endowed with is much reliant on the marvels of its past. Here’s a quick peek into 5 of Goa’s most astonishing museums which will take you through some undiscovered aspects of the Konkani days of yore.
The Goa State Museum is located in the capital city of Panaji. It roofs a number of antiques along with objects of art and cultural importance that are exhibited thematically so as to depict different aspects of Goan history and culture. The artefacts are arranged in a wide spectrum of galleries including Sculpture Gallery, Christian art Gallery, History of printing in Goa Gallery, Banerji art Gallery, Religious Expression Gallery, Cultural anthropology, Contemporary art Gallery, Numismatics Gallery, Goa’s Freedom Struggle Gallery, Menenzes Braganza Gallery, Furniture Gallery, Natural Heritage of Goa Gallery, Environment and Development Gallery, and Geology Gallery. Besides stone and bronze sculptures of deities, Hero and Sati stones are also displayed. a copper plate inscription of Viravarma, Kadamba King, is an inspiring item of significance which dates back to 1049 a. D. The Numismatic Gallery displays coins of Satavahanas, Shilaharas, and Kadambas besides Portuguese coinage and currency notes. Two unique Lottery Draw machines of the Portuguese era having shaped many a fortune have now run out of luck!
The Museum of Christian Art boasts of being asia’s first museum of Christian art and is housed at the 1627 heritage Convent of Santa Monica in old Goa. The selection of objects brings to the fore the Indian (predominantly Hindu) contribution to Christian art. Thus, this museum represents the symbiosis of East-West art and culture, which makes for some interesting material for researches and visitors. Besides the sacred items used in the church, there is an eighteenth century pair of the ‘Naga’ and ‘Nagina’ – sacred symbols used in Hinduism – carved in gilt wood as altar ornaments. The face of the naga and nagina resemble that of Indo-Portuguese angles. The pair was obviously carved by local Hindu craftsmen after the authorities recruited them as the demands could not be met by Portugal.
The Naval Aviation Museum is located on Bogmalo road, adjoining INS Hansa and is claimed to be the only such dedicated museum in India. It houses a collection of memorabilia from Indian aviation history. Static aircrafts are displayed outdoors in the backdrop of the distant blue sea. Visitors can board the ‘Super Constellation aircraft’ and can even check out the cockpit. other vintage aircrafts like the Sealand, the Dove, the alize, the Seahawk, the Vampire, and the Huges Helicopter can be viewed from close proximity allowing you to discern the old aviation birds. The indoor section displays some items of armament and other equipment. Not only that, children can get their hands on the joy of flying a Sea Harrier in an advanced simulator.
The Museum ‘Houses of Goa’ is designed as a rather unusual traffic island amidst a green valley at Torda, Porvorim. Built out of exposed lateritic stone masonry, it looks like a ship from one angle and a fish from another. Well, that’s the ‘Museum Houses of Goa’. The museum showcases houses which are the prime expressions of Goan identity. It is also a resource cum research centre for traditional architecture of Goa. The museum comprises of three different levels. at the first level, there is the ‘history of Goa’ which showcases seven houses, Hindu and Catholic, with their Portuguese influence. The next level divulges into the details of the house, displaying doors, windows, railings, furniture, and altars. and lastly, on the top is the final Goan house.
‘Goa Chitra’ museum opened its doors on all Souls’ Day, the 2nd of November 2009, as a mark of respect to the departed whose implements are showcased there. Housed in the beautiful village of Benaulim, the museum invites visitors to witness Goa’s past in its full glory. The museum is a collection of artefacts that the curator has collected during his forays into the Goan hinterlands over the past twenty years. The ancient sugarcane grinder, fully made up of wood is one of the priceless pieces on display. The coconut oil extractor also made up of wood figures on the museum logo. a seed dispensing contraption which sows seeds in the field in five different furrows simultaneously throws light on the genius of Goa’s ancient creativity. all this old ‘firewood’ as he calls it now occupies a place of pride in his aesthetically designed museum built out of tones of rejected cornerstones. More recently, another annexure is added to the museum entitled ‘Goa Chakra’, which displays carts and carriages from different eras from across India. | <urn:uuid:eda91f26-f4b0-477d-b9f8-ea03b294b387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planetgoaonline.com/5-marvelous-museums-of-goa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942878 | 1,148 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Spray season used to fit into a window of time. These days it's a full-time job -- from herbicide passes, to fungicide applications, to dribbling in-season fertilizer to cover crop interseeding to late-season desiccant sprays to fall weed control.
The sprayer is increasingly important and likely one of the first tools you take to the field and the last you put to bed at the end of the season.
Few are better equipped to address the topic of how to give a sprayer the tender loving care it needs during this short winter break than Tom Wolf. In 2015, Wolf and Jason Deveau launched a non-profit website devoted to field sprayer resources called Sprayers 101 www.sprayers101.com. It is the place I always start when researching sprayers, nozzles and topics that concern the field of agricultural spraying.
In a recent blog, Wolf presents a list of things to consider in the process of winterizing a sprayer.
Read it here: https://sprayers101.com/…
You'll learn why RV antifreeze is the best product for winterizing the sprayer and how to go about adding it to the product tank and pushing it through the system. Wolf informs the reader how to get antifreeze into the booms and nozzles and even how to save leftovers for next year. There's a reminder to not forget to tend the spray tender and transfer pumps.
Beyond winterizing, Wolf encourages farmers to inspect -- looking for wear and items that need replacement. He also presents a list of questions to ask about your spray season with an eye on improvements for next year. For example, he gives a rule of thumb, replacing sprayer nozzles of about 30,000 acres for average sprayer speed and boom width.
"But before you buy (replacement nozzles), make sure you know what you need. Were you happy with the spray performance? Did you have more drift than you wanted, or poor coverage? As our cropping systems change, we may need different nozzles to suit the purpose. Now is the time to think about that very coarse low-drift nozzle that would have allowed you to get the spray on before the rain that delayed you for three days. Or the higher volume spray that would have done a better job with desiccating the tall canola crop, speeding up harvest. Or the finer spray that works better with the contact products you need to manage resistance," he writes.
Wolf encourages sprayer owners to reflect on sprayer use and offers up some suggestions on improvements. Have you considered replacing plastic boom lines with stainless? Did you know pulse width modulation can be retrofitted to any sprayer? He even covers a bit on adding spot sprayer systems to existing machines.
If you own a sprayer or are considering purchasing one, Wolf's blog post is worth a read. Oh yeah ... and don't forget to mouse and bird proof that machine before you tuck it into the shed.
For another look at doing a pre-season check up on sprayers go to: https://www.dtnpf.com/…
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Fact sheet – The Canadian Dairy Commission: a crucial role from coast to coast
Practical implications for Canadian milk producers and consumers
|Stable production revenues |
and better share of the retail price
|High quality groceries at a reasonable price||Greater financial independence of the industry from government|
|Efficient and respectful agriculture on a human scale||Quality Canadian milk without preservatives, antibiotics, or artificial growth hormones||Sustainable growth of the industry from an environmental standpoint|
|Compliance with dairy safety standards, animal welfare standards, and milk composition standards among the highest in the world|
“Producing milk that is as perfect as can be is what drives us to raise healthy cows, protect our land and resources, and ensure every glass of milk is safe and free of antibiotic residue.
Every day, we work hard to ensure Canadian dairy provides an enduring and valuable legacy for all Canadians.”
~ Dairy Farmers of Canada
“Canada’s dairy processors create jobs for more than 24,000 Canadians in over 470 facilities across the country. Dairy processing is the second-largest food manufacturing industry in Canada. We purchase more than 9.2 billion litres of milk from Canada’s 10,000 dairy farms and contribute more than $16 billion to Canada’s GDP each year.”
~ Dairy Processors Association of Canada
“Being governed by supply management, dairy products […] have gradually increased in price, but generally at a slower rate than wages. They are therefore more affordable today.”
~ Free translation. From the article “Panier d’épicerie : Les aliments vous coûtent-ils vraiment plus cher qu’avant?”, ICI Radio-Canada, 2022.
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School children to discover about past life on the South Downs
The Friends of the South Downs is running an exciting project to help school children talk to older people and record their reminiscences about life on the South Downs.
The project, which is largely financed by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, involves children at four primary schools in Bury, Shipley, Findon and Chesswood in Worthing.
Some of the schools have log books recording daily events going back to Victorian times. These books will be a rich source of information about those times.
In addition we will use existing oral history records at County Record offices to get more information about life in times gone by.
What we find will be brought together and published on a website so that it’s available for everyone. We also intend to organise walks and other events that will illustrate the history that we uncover.
We’re sure that many readers will have interesting memories of the Downs and stories from the sixties and seventies will fascinate children of today.
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The experts have proposed a few approaches that could cripple the processes AI manages, but mitigation approaches seem relatively clear. The experts argue that misleading inputs, such as fake trading data, would trip up the AI. But if fake data can be easily injected without notice, it would likely also fool a human. More importantly, assuming the model was trained in a controlled environment and the model tested before deployment, then it can be tested for how it would behave if it is fed fake data. Better yet, a model could be trained to detect fake data and shut the system down.
A specific example given is that the lending model might be flooded with phony loan applications that would alter the model in a negative way. In the 2017 Report Bringing AI Into the Enterprise: A Machine Learning Primer, Mercator identified the importance of thoroughly vetting training data. A machine learning professional should never train a model on data that hasn’t been carefully evaluated to assure it matches reality and is also not including biased data. Even after validating the training data the model needs to be tested. Perhaps testing should include ingestion of malicious data, but that shouldn’t be difficult to implement.
To inflict systemic damage to the bank or the entire financial system would require the system be operating without human observation and executing either extremely high value transactions or many relatively low value transactions extremely quickly. Consider for example card authorizations. Large banks process millions of transactions every day, but the input data is highly secure and is forced to adhere to a strict ISO format. Altering the input on a large scale isn’t likely. Perhaps more likely is that an AI-based fraud detection company is infiltrated and a trojan model distributed to the endpoints. This could be catastrophic but it isn’t an AI-based attack, it’s a traditional cyber-attack that in my opinion is far more likely to be pursued because it uses existing capabilities and create maximum damage downstream:
Machine-learning models vary in their levels of sophistication, from those that use relatively simple algorithms to complex black-box AI systems, so named because, like human brains, they can’t be simply opened up to see exactly how decisions are being made. And like human brains, AI platforms can be susceptible to being fed faulty information, including by attackers seeking to manipulate them.
Russian expertise in using the Internet and social media to disseminate disinformation could easily be turned against machine-learning models that, like other investors, turn to the Internet to try to gauge market sentiment.
‘Misinformation about a takeover being imminent, or a public-relations debacle unfolding, could easily fool a financial institution’s trading systems, Mr. Gupta said’”
I expect this would also fool human traders?
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I'll start with answering a few basic questions, some of which you didn't even ask!
What are segment registers doing in modern code?
It's been a while since we've needed extra registers to address a memory region. 32, and especially 64, bits are more than enough. OS developers took advantage of those unused registers and nowadays most modern OSes use at least some of the registers to hold OS related data. As mentioned in the comments, on amd64 processors segment registers cannot be used for segmentation but OSes have been doing it on 32 bit processors as well.
You can read more about it here regarding linux, here and here regarding windows, etcetera.
Why can't I restore data from a previous execution of a program
Although you may control some variables of a program's execution (parameters, stack addresses, process loading addresses and heap location) you're still not controlling all variables (locations of specifica allocations, values returned from "external" sources such as the kernel and as we'll see soon, anti-exploitation mitigations might interfere with that sort of thing too).
Generally, you should never expect such a thing to work without taking the necessary adjustments. Let alone in something as low-level and nuanced as setjmp/longjmp.
Why isn't the setjmp/longjmp implementation documented?
Firstly, we're in a reverse engineering community, avoiding documentation does not guarantee confidentiality. Secondly, documentation is in the code :)
I would imagine documentation is rather difficult for such low-level details that may change frequently and are very architecture specific. Which leads us to your next question -
Why is setump/longjmp architecture-dependent?
Obviously, this goes without saying, but for completeness I thought it'd be better to be explicit here. Here are some reason this has to be done on an per-architecture level:
- As these functions touch the some of a CPU's ABI (specifically the calling convention), the code has to follow a different conventions.
- Accessing registers by name, for their specific purpose is abstracted in C.
- C is a procedural language, therefore setjmp/longjmp in their core are direct contradiction to the nature of C since it breaks the boundaries of procedures (functions).
- Additional architecture-specific features (that are implemented differently, shadow stack and pointer guard are such examples) might change how setjmp/longjmp need to handle specific cases.
I'll discuss amd64 from now on.
How is setjump implemented
Now, although this isn't C (and isn't the most readable assembly either), the code for setjmp on amd64 can be found in setjmp.S, longjmp is __longjmp.S. It's even quite commented and the code is pretty straight forward!
You can clearly see the registers as they're saved onto the structure (For example,
movq %r12, (JB_R12*8)(%rdi)). You can see
PTR_MANGLE is called if the aformentinoed pointer guard feature is enabled.
Because your question mostly revolved around finding the code and not reading the code and since the code is quite straight-forward, I'll leave reading the functions as an exercise for the reader for now. I'll come back and add more details later on, so feel free to ask follow-up questions.
How is the
jmp_buf structure defined
Since we're dealing with assembly we don't have structures. Instead, there are several
#define preprocessor directives to define the
jmp_buf structure. Those are located in a dedicated header: jmpbuf-offsets.h
Where are those files located? Where can I find different architecture implementations?
These files are located in the
sysdep module, which holds subdirectories for each supported architecture-specific components.
aarch64 stands for arm 64-bit,
x86 for 32-bit intel 8086 compatible processors,
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This lovely formal garden with its French-style parterre was created to commemorate the new millennium and features the intertwining initials of the 10th Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe
The roman numerals MM in box hedging signify the year 2000 and flank the ducal coronet. On the upper terrace are varieties of heritage apple trees trained up circular frames.
This lovely formal garden features the intertwining initials of the 10th Duke and Duchess: G (Guy), V (Virginia) and R (Roxburghe). This was taken from a similar design on the Floors Castle linen made in 1900.
On the central bed, the ducal coronet is laid out with varieties of euonymus. This is flanked by two sloping beds with the Latin numerals MM (for the year 2000), using traditional box.
Also situated within the Millennium Parterre is a charming building known as the Queen’s House. The Queen’s House was built in 1867 especially for Queen Victoria to take afternoon tea in during her visit to Floors. Originally it was attached to magnificent glass houses filled with delicious fruits and vegetables. The building itself had beautiful hand-painted tiles lining the walls, wonderful stonework and huge windows to allow in as much natural light as possible. The glasshouses were removed shortly before WWII but this enchanting building and its interesting history live on. | <urn:uuid:27ca25e4-af53-4fb4-88a6-ddd16fe82dbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.floorscastle.com/visit/gardens-grounds/millennium-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961646 | 288 | 1.820313 | 2 |
It is 100 years since the law giving the North its own parliament came into effect. Peter Hession retraces the steps that led to the division of the island and how a plan drafted in Dún Laoghaire harbour would shape our politics for the next century
On May 20, 1919, the HMS Enchantress moored at Kingstown harbour with first lord of the admiralty Walter Long on board. While the trip was reportedly “for the benefit of his health”, the following day the Irish Independent reported considerable speculation about his visit, given his reputation as “the minister who really controls government policy in this country”.
Long, a stalwart unionist, had decamped to the town (soon to be renamed Dún Laoghaire) with his parliamentary secretary James Craig to draft the law that would create the entity now known as Northern Ireland.
The Government of Ireland Act 1920 would mark a turning point. Up to this point, unionists in the north had been pushing to be ‘excluded’ from any Home Rule administration based in Dublin. The legislation drafted on the Enchantress went beyond this to propose a separate government for the north.
This was initially planned to cover all nine counties of Ulster, balanced against a southern nationalist administration with the potential of unification via a ‘Council of Ireland’. Craig, the future Viscount Craigavon, would exert his considerable influence to reduce this to six counties with a solid unionist majority. He would go on to be the first prime minister in this “Protestant parliament”.
In legislative terms, the drama of partition played out in three acts. The Government of Ireland Act, which came into force 100 years ago on Monday, was the linchpin of these. But even at this point, the enduring reality of partition remained far from certain. To many unionists, the notion of a partitioned Ulster containing six of the province’s counties represented an artificial construct, one rooted in pragmatism over principle.
Partition represented a paradox. Unionists, who had fought so bitterly against Irish Home Rule for almost half a century, ended up becoming its first and only pioneers.
The ‘Ulsterisation’ of unionism was partly dictated by the dawning age of mass politics. In 1905, the founding of the Ulster Unionist Council (UCC) — a modern political organisation — marked unionism’s shift in style and focus towards mass organisation and away from aristocratic leadership. This break was intensified when the Liberal government, supported by Irish nationalists, abolished the House of Lords’ veto over legislation in 1911.
Many unionists feared Westminster now had greater power to ‘betray’ their cause, and this produced a dramatic confrontation with the state between 1912 and 1914.
The Ulster crisis
The historian ATQ Stewart described the Ulster crisis leading up to World War I as the “most bitter” to affect British politics since the 17th century. Partition emerged as a response to both the threat of unionist political violence and the British state’s unwillingness to confront it.
This began with the formation of the Ulster Volunteers in April 1912. This was a militia dedicated to defeating what Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant — a tract signed by just under half a million unionists at the end of September — called the “conspiracy” of Home Rule. Yet even before a Liberal backbencher first publicly urged an amendment to the third Home Rule Bill to allow counties to ‘contract out’ of an all-Ireland settlement in June 1912, influential cabinet members including David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill (then a Liberal) privately voiced fears of civil war if the issue was forced.
Liberals also feared their opponents would “play the Orange card” as Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father, had urged his Conservative Party to do during the first Home Rule crisis of 1886. Following his example, the Tory opposition leader Andrew Bonar Law chose to stoke the fires of unionist militancy by telling a rally of supporters in July 1912: “There are things stronger than parliamentary majorities… I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them.”
Within a year, demands for ‘exclusion’ were morphing into assertions of self-rule, marking a fundamental shift in what partition would come to mean. Writing to Bonar Law in September 1913, the Dublin-born unionist leader Edward Carson declared he was determined to “settle on the terms of leaving Ulster out… if Home Rule is inevitable”.
Just four days later, the UUC issued the Ulster Proclamation of a Provisional Government, which asserted its right to govern “the Province” of Ulster “in Trust for the British Nation”.
In March 1914, the Liberal prime minister Herbert Asquith finally made public his support for certain Ulster counties to be allowed temporary ‘exclusion’ from Home Rule — for three years, later revised to six. The Ulster crisis was reaching it height.
In the ‘Curragh mutiny’ the same month, more than 60 army officers in Ireland under the leadership of Brigadier General Hubert Gough threatened to resign rather than confront Ulster militants who were seeking to import arms. Gough went as far as to pledge that he would “fight for Ulster rather than against her”. Echoing Stewart’s assessment, Lloyd George declared in parliament that the debacle represented “the greatest issue raised in this country since the days of the Stuarts”.
Shortly afterwards, the UUC landed 25,000 rifles and three million rounds of ammunition sourced from Germany at Larne, Donaghadee and Bangor on April 24, a feat backed by senior Conservatives and facilitated by the collusion of state authorities. This contrasted sharply with the interception of the nationalist Irish Volunteers’ haul of 1,500 rifles at Howth in July, and the subsequent killing of four unarmed civilians.
As Ulster unionism emerged from the spring of 1914 as an armed force with the backing of key sections of the British military and political establishment, Carson damned the Home Rule Act, passed on May 25, 1914, as merely “a sentence of death with a stay of execution”.
Having agreed to a temporary ‘exclusion’, nationalists meanwhile sought to limit its extent at a conference held at Buckingham Palace in July. As Asquith ruefully noted, the Irish Party leader John Redmond and Carson remained locked in a stalemate, as each told the other: “I must have the whole of Tyrone, or die.” Only the outbreak of World War I a fortnight later, and the suspension of the Home Rule Act, appeared to halt a civil war.
The stalemate over the extent and timeframe of Ulster’s ‘exclusion’ was obliterated by the Easter Rising, after which the government — since 1915 including Ulster unionists — moved to institute Home Rule “at the earliest practicable moment”.
In June 1916, both unionists and nationalists sought the approval of their grassroots but on the basis of diametrically opposed promises from London: the UUC on the assurance of permanent exclusion; and the Irish Party on the prospect of a strictly temporary exclusion, helping to convince Ulster nationalists led by Joseph Devlin. Once Westminster’s duplicity became public, the humiliated Irish Party retracted its endorsement. Its public support, in the words of John Dillon, plummeted “downhill at an ever-accelerated pace”.
This episode — confirmed by the failure of the moderate Irish Convention in 1917 — underlined the collapse of both the Irish Party and southern unionism alike, as Sinn Féin and the Ulster Unionists headed into the earthquake 1918 general election.
The post-war Paris Peace Conference, which led to the creation of new states out of former empires, combined with the formation of the first Dáil and outbreak of the War of Independence, informed the next major leap towards partition: the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
Devlin, speaking for Ulster nationalists, immediately apprehended “permanent partition” while Carson embraced the notion of six-county ‘Home Rule’ on the basis that “once it is granted… you cannot knock parliaments up and down… you cannot get rid of them”. This precipitated a final break with southern unionism.
As northern nationalists triumphed in local elections run on proportional representation in the first half of 1920, assuming control of Derry City, Fermanagh and Tyrone, sectarian riots and the ongoing insurgency led the province into civil war. While Carson declared an “invasion of Ulster” to be under way, in July 1920 there were mass expulsions of 11,000 — or one in 10 — Catholic residents from their places of work in Belfast, costing 550 lives and unleashing successive waves of sectarian ‘pogroms’.
Even before Northern Ireland formally came into existence following the elections of May 1921, Craig had secured from Westminster the right to begin building a state apparatus. Despite warnings from the British army that “the arming of the Protestant population of Ulster will mean the outbreak of civil war”, the British government facilitated the creation of the Ulster Special Constabulary — consisting of full-time (“A”), part-time (“B”) and reserve (“C”) units — as an alternative to direct integration of the Ulster Volunteer Force.
Skirmishes between ‘Specials’ and the IRA continued up to eve of the truce in July 1921, when 14 people were killed and 150 expelled from their homes in what became known as Belfast’s Bloody Sunday.
The Dáil’s response to such atrocities was a boycott on all goods and funds from Belfast, which began in August 1920 and lasted up to the Craig-Collins Pact of January 1922. During this period, while the 1920 Act had established a state in Northern Ireland, the corollary ‘Home Rule’ parliament intended for the south was stillborn and the second Dáil was instead elected.
It was not until that Dáil voted to ratify the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, with its creation of a 26-county Free State with dominion status and the promise of a boundary commission, that partition was formalised.
The wider fallout from the treaty helped to cement partition. The outbreak of the Civil War, partial continuation of the boycott and the failure of the IRA’s ‘Northern Offensive’ in the summer of 1922 critically weakened northern republicanism while a new state gathered strength north of the Border.
When a delegation of Ulster nationalists sought assistance from the Free State in October 1922, they were curtly informed “we have no other policy for the North East than… the Treaty policy”. This marked, in the words of historian Diarmaid Ferriter, a “washing of southern hands” that cemented the Border long before the final Boundary Agreement of 1925.
Dr Peter Hession is the Newman fellow in Irish history at University College Dublin
From the Irish Independent, May 7, 1921
Sir James Craig stated in Belfast yesterday that Ulster having, by her acceptance of the Government of Ireland Act, reached the limit of concession, no further discussion [about its constitutional status] would be entered into.
Éamon de Valera and Sinn Féin, he declared, were fully aware that Ulster would not consent to any Republic. He defied any authority — whether it was the British government or Mr de Valera — to take their parliament from them once it was rooted in their soil.
Sir James presided at a party meeting in Belfast yesterday and reported to his colleagues on the informal conference he had had with Mr de Valera.
The official report stated that he had made the following statement: “When the parliaments have been established and the Council of Ireland has been constituted, there will be the necessary constitutional link between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.”
He added: “Mr de Valera and Sinn Féin are fully aware that Ulster stands where she did and that neither you nor I — nor, indeed, any loyalist in Ulster — would for a moment consent to a Republic or any weakening of ties between Ulster and Great Britain and this empire.”
No change had taken place, he said, and no single atom had been given up.
He said there were parts of Ireland where life was cheap, where the assassin stalked and where horror after horror was perpetrated in the name of a Republic, and even at their own doors the most desperate and foul outrages had been committed.
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Carbon-fiber composite wheelchair casters function like airplane landing gear
Aug 15, 2017
Great ideas come to people in unsuspecting ways. In 1997, Mark Chelgren had a chance encounter with a quadriplegic rugby team. A late night discussion about their wheelchairs led him to develop an alternative to the traditional rigid casters used for the front wheels, and Frog Legs Inc. was born.
The Ottumwa, Iowa–based company specializes in precision built, impact-absorbing products for wheelchair suspensions. Recently, Chelgren decided he wanted to switch from machined aluminum to a carbon-fiber composite for the new generation of wheelchair caster wheels. PlastiComp Inc. of Winona, MN, was just the right partner, not only for the carbon-fiber-composite materials but also for assistance in ensuring the material change would be successful. PlastiComp specializes in long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic materials and technologies.
Instead of fixed forks that require the wheel to move up and over obstructions, bouncing the rider in the process, Chelgren designed forks with a patented pivot point and wedge-shaped shock absorber that allow the wheels to move over impediments in an arc path, functioning much like airplane landing gear.
“An arc is a much more efficient movement,” said Chelgren. “But its compression zones are not linear, so instead of a traditional cylinder-shaped shock absorber, Frog Legs uses a wedge shape to better handle the differential loadings from front to rear.”
People with physical disabilities who require wheelchairs for mobility literally feel every bump in the road as they navigate obstacles as seemingly insignificant as cracks and uneven surfaces. A day filled with constant vibration and jolts causes fatigue and can produce spasms in riders, who may require treatment with medication.
Testing performed by the Center for Industrial Research and Service at Iowa State University showed that 80% of the vibrations experienced by wheelchair riders came from the front caster wheels. Chelgren’s design improvements reduced those vibrations in the wheelchair frame by 76%.
Knowing that Frog Legs was searching for an alternative to aluminum, one of the researchers at ISU attended a webinar presented by PlastiComp to learn more about long-carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics and the injection molding process, explained PlastiComp Media Marketing Manager Kirk Fratzke to PlasticsToday.
“One of the services we offer is helping companies throughout the design and product development cycle, including computer modeling, to achieve solutions to their requirements,” said Fratzke.
Chelgren knew he and Frog Legs could do better than the current method of machining aluminum. “We are always being pushed to lighten our product. People with disabilities are greatly affected by any additional weight,” he said. “Injection molding allowed us to have a much more complex shape, and carbon-fiber composites really gave us advantages in [terms of] our design parameters.”
Fratzke noted that long-fiber materials, whether glass- or carbon-fiber reinforced, have long been best suited for metal replacement because of their performance characteristics. “If someone is currently using metal and wants to move to thermoplastics, long fiber is a good place to start,” he said. “It’s as close as you can get to the mechanical properties in metals.”
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The software has been developed at a time when a number of countries, Australia included, are launching vaccination campaigns against COVID-19.
The company said in a statement the waiting room was a key feature to ensure that visitors would remain on the site.
"When a visitor navigates to the website, Vaccine Edge will determine if they need to go to the virtual waiting room based on your configurations," the company said, describing the front-end of the site.
"When their turn comes up, they’ll automatically be redirected to the right place."
The back-end has controls to avoid the site being overloaded by traffic.
Vaccine Edge has a Web application firewall that automates and updates protections and protects against DDoS attacks.
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Herbert Hake teaches the history of Spillville, Iowa, including the Bily Clocks Museum and the story of Antonín Dvorak's time in Iowa.
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Landmarks in Iowa History: Spillville, in the "Landmarks in Iowa History" collection, #14/10/06, University Archives, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa.
"Landmarks in Iowa History" by Herbert Hake
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A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic children.
Previous studies have reported differences in brain structure of autistic individuals. However, until now, scientists have not known which genes are linked to these differences.
The Cambridge team analysed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans from more than 150 autistic children and compared them with MRI scans from similarly aged children but who did not have autism. They looked at variation in the thickness of the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, and linked this to gene activity in the brain.
They discovered a set of genes linked to differences in the thickness of the cortex between autistic kids and non-autistic children. Many of these genes are involved in how brain cells (or neurons) communicate with each other. Interestingly, many of the genes identified in this study have been shown to have lower gene activity at the molecular level in autistic post mortem brain tissue samples.
The study was led by two postdoctoral scientists, Dr Rafael Romero-Garcia and Dr Richard Bethlehem, and Varun Warrier, a PhD student. The study is published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry and provides the first evidence linking differences in the autistic brain to genes with atypical gene activity in autistic brains.
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Dr Richard Bethlehem said: “This takes us one step closer to understanding why the brains of people with and without autism may differ from one another. We have long known that autism itself is genetic, but by combining these different data sets (brain imaging and genetics) we can now identify more precisely which genes are linked to how the autistic brain may differ. In essence, we are beginning to link molecular and macroscopic levels of analysis to better understand the diversity and complexity of autism.”
Varun Warrier added: “We now need to confirm these results using new genetic and brain scan data so as to understand how exactly gene activity and thickness of the cortex are linked in autism.”
“The identification of genes linked to brain changes in autism is just the first step,” said Dr Rafael Romero-Garcia. “These promising findings reveal how important multidisciplinary approaches are if we want to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying autism. The complexity of this condition requires a joint effort from a wide scientific community.”
University of Cambridge
Rafael Romero-Garcia et al, Synaptic and transcriptionally downregulated genes are associated with cortical thickness differences in autism, Molecular Psychiatry (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41380-018-0023-7
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Sports Equipment Project
The research was a collaboration involving Central St. Martins (CSM) College of Art and Design (London), the University for Development Studies (UDS) and the University of Ghana (UG), under the auspices of UK Sports. The Research aim is to design innovative frameworks for the development of sports equipment in Ghana that can be sourced, created and made in-country in a sustainable way, to enable the Beckwith International Leadership Development (BILD), Ghana, to deliver its programmes effectively. To this end, Ghanaian students worked closely with UK Students to identify needs at the local level. A wing to this research is an evaluation component that examined the effectiveness of the collaboration between CSM College of Art and Design (London), UDS and UG.
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Arts-Infused Daycare in the Heart of South Minneapolis
Pillsbury Early Education provides kindergarten preparation and quality care within a creative, diverse environment.
Visit us at the intersection of four vibrant neighborhoods:
Pillsbury Early Education Center is an accredited learning center with a history of ensuring children are prepared for kindergarten. The arts-integrated learning program offers a wide range of activities designed to spark curiosity and creativity, and build learning confidence. Our approach is culturally diverse and attentive to the individual and distinct needs of each child. Our caring, licensed staff has advanced training in early education, and decades of experience in the field.
The center is located within Pillsbury House + Theatre, which provides families with a unique opportunity to access a variety of services, activities and events in the same location as their childcare center.
"My child loves going to PEEC, and he is definitely ready for kindergarten—both intellectually and socially. Thank you for providing both my kids with a wonderful learning experience in our neighborhood.” | <urn:uuid:d0cac571-9c65-40e9-af71-3c270e832749> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pillsburyearlyeducation.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957885 | 208 | 1.6875 | 2 |
SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSIS (LUPUS / SLE)
Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (“SLE” or “Lupus”) is a chronic rheumatological disorder that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks its own tissue and organs leading to inflammation in many bodily systems such as joints, skin, kidneys, blood cells, brain, heart and lungs.
The cause of SLE is unknown, however, it appears that in certain populations, a combination of genetic susceptibility factors and environmental factors act as triggers to the onset of disease. Postulated triggers include infections, drugs and medications.
SLE can be hard to diagnosis because it mimics symptoms associated with other diseases and its presentation can vary widely in diagnosed cases (heterogenous). Onset of symptoms can be rapid or indolent with varying degrees of severity at presentation. Initial presenting signs and symptoms will depend upon the organ or system(s) affected. Commonly reported symptoms include fever, joint stiffness, swelling and pain, fatigue, dry eyes and headaches. Shortness of breath, chest pain, confusion and memory loss have been observed with progressive disease. Common signs include a butterfly shaped rash that covers the cheek and bridge of the nose, skin lesions that appear or worsen with sun exposure (photosensitivity), and fingers and toes that turn white or blue when exposed to cold or stress (Raynaud’s phenonmenon).
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297/2016 Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills
This paper provides a time-series analysis of recent annual estimates of real GDP and industrial output covering 1270 to 1913. We show that growth can be regarded as a segmented trend stationary process. On this basis, we find that trend growth of real GDP per person was zero prior to the 1660s but then experienced two significant accelerations, pre- and post-industrial revolution. We also find that the hallmark of the industrial revolution is a substantial increase in the trend rate of growth of industrial output rather than being an episode of difference stationary growth.
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Our fresh Aussie Plums
ALDI plums are Aussie plums.
Nothing beats the taste of fresh, homegrown fruit. That’s why 100% of ALDI’s plums are from local farms. We have an Aussie-first supplier policy, keeping us committed to sourcing our produce from local growers whenever possible. Enjoy them while you can though, plums are only grown in Australia from December to May.
Where do our plums come from?
Don’t be fooled by our low prices. Our plums come from the same farms as other supermarkets. Like the Goulburn Valley in VIC plus Dwellingup, Donnybrook, Manjimup and the Perth Hills in WA.
Sweet, tart and juicy. Yum!
What to look for in a plum?
Plums can be deep purple, red, orange or black depending on the variety.
Get the most out of your plums.
Eat fresh, make a delicious homemade jam, use in dessert or add to your brekkie porridge.
How to store plums?
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Using QR Code Opening
The terminals have the ability to open the door based on a generated QR code. The user can generate a QR code from a 3rd-party app and scan it on the terminal in place of physical cards.
In order to set it up for QR code opening:
- In the Face Library, input a card number for a person
- On a QR code generator, input the same card number for the person
- You must put “a1p” before the number when generating the code (if only inputting the number to generate, the terminal will not be able to recognize the code)
- Must enable the QR code option in the web page
- Setup → Common → Personalization → Custom Button → Display QR Code.
- The terminal reader can only detect the QR code from 60-70 cm away
You can download QR code generator apps on your phone or use ones online. | <urn:uuid:e7b98b82-e6e0-4b10-963a-1e4e45eb52d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.2mtechnology.net/knowledge-base/using-qr-code-opening/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.789478 | 190 | 1.789063 | 2 |
One more incident we didn’t need
And so once again we have seen another story of how an escaped convict has ruined the Samoa experience for a visitor to this country.
This time, the victim is a Norwegian woman who had been working in Samoa and loving every moment of it until that forgettable day up at the scenic Mt. Vaea trail when she ran into a prisoner, Daniel Vailopa, who had escaped and found his way up there.
The details of the incident are chilling enough just thinking about it. From what the Court was told, the defendant and three fellow prisoners had escaped from prison and stayed at an abandoned house at Mt. Vaea the night before.
When the woman, whose name and identity is being suppressed, went for her routine hike, she was confronted Vailopa on her way back down.
The prisoner had chased after her and attempted to kiss the woman, who resisted him. During the struggle, the woman’s phone somehow slipped out.
It diverted Vailopa’s attention and it made him let go of her hand as he became interested in the phone. This allowed the woman to run from the prisoner, screaming for help.
At this point, we are grateful she is alive and that she managed to free herself.
Imagine if she wasn’t able to do that? Imagine if he had somehow managed to push her down that steep hill? She could have been killed.
Anyone who has been up the trail will tell you that it’s a beautiful place but it has got to be one of the most dangerous places to fall.
And yet that’s precisely what could have happened to this innocent woman who did not deserve what happened to her.
The Mt. Vaea trail is one of the most iconic trails in Samoa and a must do for tourists. But this prisoner’s behaviour will no doubt make many woman think twice about going up there. Which is sad but unfortunately in Samoa today, that is the reality.
Keep in mind that this is not the only incident up on those beautiful walking trails. At the beginning of this year, women and young females were urged to ensure they always have someone to accompany them when they hike up Palisi or the Robert Louis Stevenson trail.
The warning came after another frightening incident where a middle-aged female was attacked while hiking up Palisi.
A source told the Weekend Observer the woman, who is a prominent member of the business community, was lucky to have been heard by other hikers when she was attacked. The source said the attacker came out of nowhere and tried to rape the woman. When he realised that he couldn’t, he punched the woman and fled into the bush.
Following news, a regular hiker up both mountains who wanted to be identified only as Peter said the attack should provide another warning for women and females not to trek up by themselves.
“It’s genuinely safe but I wouldn’t allow my daughter to go up there by herself,” Peter said.
“There have been a few incidents up there now involving women who were either attacked or harassed and I think this should ring the alarm bells for everyone.
“It’s such a pity because it is one of the best hikes on the island. But we live in a world where there are many nasty things happening and more and more we are seeing girls attacked up there.
“So I would recommend for girls and women to always ensure they have company.”
We couldn’t agree more with Peter. Girls and women should not be left on their own on the trail. We encourage women and girls to always ensure they hike up in groups.
Now last week, prisoner Daniel Vailopa was handed three more years at Tafa’igata by Justice Tafaoimalo Leilani Tuala-Warren. During sentencing, Justice Tafaoimalo said the ordeal was violent and terrifying in nature for the victim.
One of the worst aspects for Samoa is the damage Vailopa has done to all the hard work by the government and everyone involved in the tourism industry to promote Samoa as a safe destination for all.
This is yet another sad case for Samoa.
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The neuropeptide CGRP plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of migraine. behavior. Significantly, this behavior could be obstructed by rizatriptan, which both validates the model and an understanding into triptan activities on light awareness. Materials and Strategies Pets C57BL/6J mice (Jackson Labs, Club Harbor, Me personally) had been delivered at 9 weeks old and acclimated inside our pet facilities for at the least 7 Arry-380 days ahead of examining. Male and feminine mice had been examined between 10 and 14 weeks old. All pets had been housed in sets of 2C5 per cage in regular conditions, on the 12-h light routine (on at 0500 CST, off at 1700 CST), with usage of food and water ad libitum. Pet care procedures had been accepted by the School of Iowa Pet Care and Arry-380 Make use of Committee and performed relative to the standards established by the Country wide Institutes of Wellness. Drug preparation The next quantities of medications had been implemented: 0.5 nmol rat -CGRP (Sigma) and/or 25.5 pmol rizatriptan benzoate (MK 0482) (Merck). All medications had been diluted in a complete level of 2.0 L with Dulbecco phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) as the automobile. Medication administration As previously defined (Recober et al., 2009; Recober et al., 2010), medications had been implemented via intracerebroventricular (icv) shot in the proper lateral ventricle through the head directly using a needle without preceding keeping a cannula. The shot site was 1 mm posterior to bregma and 1 mm from the midline. All shots had been performed with the same person (A.K.) over time of schooling yielding successful price of 90% as showed by shots of dye in to the ventricles. Pets had been anesthetized with inhaled 3.5% isoflurane initially within an induction chamber and using a nose cone to keep anesthesia through the injection. After administration, pets had been permitted to recover for 60 min within their house cage. A 60 min recovery period was chosen due to residual ramifications of anesthesia in pilot research at 30 min (data not really proven). At 30 min pursuing exposure to just anesthesia (without shot), mice spent much less amount of time in the light in comparison to their prior publicity without anesthesia. An identical decrease was also noticed 30 min after the mock shot or vehicle shot (both under anesthesia). Such a decrease was not noticed at 60 min pursuing vehicle shot (see Outcomes). Injectors had been hand-made by inserting a stripped 30 measure 0.5 in needle into non-radiopaque polyethylene tubing (inner size: 0.38 mm; external size: 1.09 mm). A stopper (~1 cm of tubes) was positioned within the Arry-380 needle, departing around 2.5 mm from the needle bevel uncovered to regulate the depth from the injection. Injectors had Arry-380 been linked to a 10 L Hamilton syringe. Light aversion assay The examining chambers had been a plexiglass open up field (27 cm wide 27 cm deep 20.3 cm high) containing three pieces Des of 16 beam infrared arrays (two pieces of perpendicular beams mix at a elevation of just one 1.0 cm to detect mouse location and locomotion, and the 3rd beam crosses the width from the chamber at a elevation of 7.3 cm to detect vertical activity) (Med Associates Inc., St. Albans, VT). The field was divided in two identical sized zones with a dark insert (Med Affiliates Inc.), which really is a five-sided, black-colored plexiglass container with a high, but no flooring. The usage of infrared light beams allowed monitoring in both areas. An starting (5.2 cm 6.8 cm) at night insert allowed free of charge movement between areas. As the dark put obstructed immediate light, some light could still enter through the starting. At 2.7 104 lx, light intensities at night area were about 540 lx immediately in the starting, 60 lx at the trunk wall across through the starting, and 15 lx at all corners. Each tests chamber was located in the sound-attenuating cubicle (56 cm wide 38 cm. | <urn:uuid:17fbd538-fcab-4903-9747-5aa317aae320> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fgfr-inhibitors.com/the-neuropeptide-cgrp-plays-a-crucial-role-in-the-pathophysiology-of/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954263 | 911 | 1.90625 | 2 |
posted on September 21, 2020 10:47
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Milton Friedman’s seminal article in the New York Times, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” Therefore, I thought this week would be a good time to share the work that I have been working on with teams of students from my graduate-level business analytics class at The George Washington University.
Through our analysis of social impact and portfolio returns, we have found the premise of Friedman’s thesis is negated in that:
- Social impact can be measured through the utilization of big data analytics
- There need not be a tradeoff between investment returns and greater social impact
- Specifically, in the Healthcare Sector, higher social impact often leads to higher financial returns
Over the course of the past year, we have been applying the current evidence-based ESG concepts to the development of a new methodology that utilizes the combined power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to:
- Value firms by applying advanced ML techniques to fundamental financial analysis
- Quantify firms’ current and potential social impact.
We call this methodology “Impact Alpha”.
The Impact Alpha methodology was designed to empower investors and consumers to outline a series of social impact objectives and tailor their investment portfolio or corporate support accordingly. Given the general alignment of social impact and the healthcare sector, we decided to focus on developing an AI-based portfolio selection model to evaluate publicly traded healthcare firms selecting an analytically optimal portfolio of investments with both the highest estimated returns and social impact.
Although we decided to focus on the healthcare sector prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, as the pandemic spread and the performance of the global economy declined, it became increasingly obvious that this methodology could not only be utilized to select an investment portfolio but to surveil global big data to evaluate products and firms that will ultimately support “flattening the curve”.
Impact Alpha applies a score between -1 and 1 to every publicly-traded healthcare firm where the absolute value measures the level of the impact and a positive score implies a relative net benefit to society and a negative score implies relative harm to the society. Furthermore, each firm has an Impact Alpha score in each of the six categories:
- Saving Lives
- Curing & Treating Life Threatening Disease
- Improving the Lives of the Elderly
- Lowering Costs
- Enabling Improved Coordination
- Embracing Value-Based Care
These broad categories were borrowed from research compiled by EntryPoint Capital. More detail on these categories can be found in their white paper.
In backtests, our model calculated the Impact Alpha for each month between 2010 and 2020 with publicly available unstructured data available prior to each period, such as news stories and journal articles. At a high-level, the steps of the model include:
- News Scraping: Evaluating millions or articles and disambiguating and extracting firm name and selecting articles about US-based healthcare firms.
- News Classification: Classifying topics within the articles into one or more of the six social impact categories.
- Sentiment Score: Calculating the sentiment score for each topic identified within each article.
- Calculate Final Score: Users of the methodology can weight each of the six Impact Alpha categories for their personal objectives.
In comparing the Pre-COVID era with where we are now, the Impact Alpha model has largely reallocated the entire “portfolio” to the prevention, care, and treatment of COVID-19-related firms. For example:
- Doubled its allocation in drug companies, with a focus on the firms that have been in the news regarding vaccine developments
- Doubled both its COVID-related bio-medical and medical services allocations
- Removed its dental supplier and nursing home allocations
The purpose of this discussion is not to recommend specific stocks or sub-sectors but to discuss the concept of an innate alignment of social responsibility, corporate earnings, and financial returns. We are continuing to surveil and report on the data and refine the methodology. Please reach out if you are interested in discussing the results and/or contributing to the ideation. | <urn:uuid:2802ca91-b29d-4b58-8bfe-55a1662f9d6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://brianmurrow.com.tempdomain.com/Blog/tabid/123/ID/2467784/Impact-Alpha-There-need-not-be-a-tradeoff-between-profits-and-social-impact.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930264 | 879 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Visio 2010’s flowchart shapes have gotten smarter.
See how they save you work when you add lots of text to them!
Flowcharts are supposed to be concise explanations of complicated processes. Each step should contain a very brief message that explains what the process step is about.
But some folks are verbose. Companies have their own jargon. And technical words can be long. Sometimes being precise requires that you use a few extra words.
Well Visio 2010 flowchart shapes accommodate wordiness by automatically expanding to fit the text!
If I create a simple, text-free flowchart, it might look like this:
If I add text to the shapes, Visio 2010 automatically expands the shapes for me. Below I’ve only added text. I didn’t resize the shapes at all!
This is really cool! It will save you the extra step of having to tweak your shapes so that they are big enough to hold all of the text.
Now some Visio shapes have had similar features for years, but the technology was never applied whole-sale across a family of shapes that could really use it!
Technology Behind the Feature
ShapeSheet junkies and Power Users might be interested in the intricacies of how this has been implemented.
First off, the shapes are not protected in any way. You can freely resize them yourselves by pulling on the resize handles. Be advised that as soon as you manually resize a flowchart shape, though, you kill the auto-resizing smarts.
Copying the shapes also seems to have the effect of wiping out the resize-with-text behavior too.
Never fear, there’s a back door to restore brains to your flowchart shapes. Just right-click one and you might see two custom actions: Set to Default Size and Resize with Text:
I say might, because the options aren’t always available, depending on the state of the shape.
When you drop a shape from the flowchart stencil, you’ll see none of these actions because the shape is at it’s default size, and it resizes with text, so you don’t need to “reset” anything.
Set to Default Size just blasts numbers into the Width and Height cells of the shape. This is great if you’ve messed with the shape, but have now reduced the text and would like to restore a consistent look to your diagram.
Resize with Text simply reinstates the auto-grow feature so that your shape will accommodate the text effortlessly.
Inside the ShapeSheet, you’ll see a number of interesting formulas. The size of the shape is controlled by the Width and Height cells:
Width = User.DefaultWidth
Height = User.ResizeTxtHeight
Notice that they are not GUARDED. So resizing the shape manually will blast these formulas and replace them with numbers.
The User cells to which Width and Height refer look like this:
User.DefaultWidth = 1 in*DropOnPageScale
User.DefaultHeight = 0.75 in*DropOnPageScale
The TEXTHEIGHT function helps to figure out if the text is in fact taller than the shape, and the CEILING function causes the shape to grow in increments of 0.25 inch.
The DropOnPageScale cell-reference is used in case flowchart shapes are dropped into scaled drawings. Since flowchart boxes aren’t physical objects, there’s no sense in them maintaining a scaled value, so Visio will scale them up so that they are still visible and readable. (Imagine a 1-inch flowchart shape on a floorplan that is 50 feet wide!)
Right-clicking the custom actions simply stuffs Width and Height with references to these user-cells, or with values from these user-cells.
Actions.SetDefaultSize = SETF(GetRef(Width),User.DefaultWidth)+SETF(GetRef(Height),User.DefaultHeight)
Actions.ResizeWithText = SETF(GetRef(Height),”User.ResizeTxtHeight”)
On quick inspection, it looks like all the shapes on Visio 2010’s Basic Flowchart Shapes stencil have this behavior. But I don’t have an exhaustive list of all shapes and stencils that incorporate this behavior. If you find more auto-grow-with-text shapes, let us know where in the comments below! | <urn:uuid:eb24b81f-4026-466a-8f18-2aa79b622fee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.visguy.com/2010/07/01/visio-2010-flowchart-shapes-get-smarter/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.891032 | 974 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Job-seekers return at fastest pace since before recession
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are flooding back into the job market at the fastest pace since before the Great Recession, encouraged by steady hiring and some signs of higher pay.
The flow has halted, at least temporarily, one of the economy's more discouraging trends: the sharp decline in the percentage of people either working or looking for work. That figure fell last year to a four-decade low.
The pickup since then suggests that nearly seven years after the recession ended, Americans are finally more confident that they can find jobs.
$15 minimum-wage movement sets sights on more states
NEW YORK (AP) — California and New York — where almost 1 in 5 Americans live — are on their way to raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the activists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly liberal, Democratic-led states.
Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington are among the states with active "Fight for $15" efforts, and even economic experts who oppose the increased rate see it gaining momentum.
The idea faces headwinds in more conservative and rural areas activists believe the movement is picking up steam.
Automakers report best US March sales in 16 years
DETROIT (AP) — Most major automakers reported U.S. sales gains last month as stronger employment figures and consumer confidence drove the auto industry to its best March in 16 years.
But the sales growth rate appeared to be slowing as brisk SUV and truck sales barely offset falling car sales. Some automakers had to raise discounts on cars or peddle more of them to rental companies. That could mean better deals for car buyers down the road.
Apple still strong at 40, but are best years behind it?
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it's a very different company from the audacious startup launched in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976.
Today, the maker of iPhones and Mac computers is the world's most valuable public corporation, with 100,000 employees and a new, multi-billion dollar headquarters in Cupertino, California, set to open next year. Despite its astounding financials — Apple reported $53 billion in profit on $233 billion in sales last year — some critics have suggested Apple's best years are behind it, as it has struggled to come up with new products and match the phenomenal success of recent years.
US stocks jump after solid March jobs report
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks climbed Friday after the government said job growth continued at a strong clip in March. Makers of consumer goods and household products rose, and health care companies rebounded. The solid employment report helped U.S. stocks stay out of a steep global decline.
Early in the day stocks tumbled along with the prices of oil and precious metals, but they recovered in the afternoon and finished at their highest levels of the day. The Labor Department's monthly jobs report showed that employers added 215,000 jobs last month, a sign the economy isn't slowing down. Energy companies took big losses. Hotel companies and airlines both tumbled.
US consumer sentiment slips in March to five-month low
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer sentiment slipped last month to lowest level since October with Americans worried about the country's economic outlook, the University of Michigan said Friday.
The university's index of consumer sentiment dipped to 91 in March, from 91.7 in February. Richard Curtin, chief economist of the Michigan surveys, said consumers' dim view of the economy offset improvement in their own finances. Last month's reading was the lowest since the index registered 90 in October. A year earlier, it stood at 93.
Signs of economic weakness and rising gasoline prices have taken a toll on spirits.
US manufacturing grows in March, ending 5 months of declines
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturers expanded in March, ending a five-month streak of declining factory activity.
The Institute for Supply Management said Friday that its manufacturing index rose to 51.8 last month from 49.5 in February. Any reading above 50 signals growth.
The increase suggests that U.S. factories are adapting to the turmoil abroad, where a stronger dollar and weakening economies in China, Japan and elsewhere have hurt sales. But the details of the survey-based report were somewhat uneven. New orders and production improved, but the measure of employment at manufacturers contracted in a sign that factories are letting workers go.
Orders for lower-priced Tesla hit 198,000
HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Demand for Tesla Motors' new lower-priced electric car surprised even the company's CEO Friday as 198,000 people plunked down $1,000 deposits to reserve their vehicles.
"Definitely going to need to rethink production planning," a surprised CEO Elon Musk said on his Twitter feed.
Musk unveiled the car Thursday night at a design studio near Los Angeles. It starts at $35,000 and has a range of 215 miles per charge, which is far more than most people drive each day.
The orders came from across the globe even though the car isn't scheduled for sale until late in 2017.
Companies reconsidering North Carolina over LGBT rights
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory met with gay-rights advocates bearing a letter signed by more than 100 corporate executives urging him to repeal the nation's first state law limiting the bathroom options for transgender people.
The law also excludes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from anti-discrimination protections, and blocks municipalities from adopting their own anti-discrimination and living wage rules.
The governor "appreciated the opportunity to sit down and deal with these complex issues through conversation and dialogue as opposed to political threats and economic retaliation," his spokesman, Josh Ellis, said in a statement Thursday.
Google April Fool's prank boomerangs
NEW YORK (AP) — Google is acknowledging that it pranked itself after an April Fool's Day Gmail tweak angered some people who use Google's email for work.
The company added a button to its email service that allowed users to fire out a minion GIF, a character from the animated film "Despicable Me," which would drop a microphone and then mute responses to whatever email the user had sent.
The Gmail Help Forum on Thursday was soon populated by angry users who say they unintentionally attached a minion dropping a mic during important business communications.
Google Inc. apologized and turned off the feature, saying that due to a bug, the mic drop "inadvertently caused more headaches than laughs."
AP Exclusive: 'This Old House' brand gets new owner
"This Old House" is getting new ownership.
The venerable home-improvement brand — whose flagship TV series has been on the air since 1979 — has been acquired from Time Inc. by former Time Inc. exec Eric Thorkilsen in partnership with private equity firm TZP Group, the new company announced Friday.
This Old House Ventures LLC will be anchored by "This Old House" and its TV sibling, "Ask This Old House," as well as This Old House magazine, online content, a line of books and other branded products.
The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 107.66 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,792.75. The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 13.04 points, or 0.6 percent, to 2,072.78. The Nasdaq composite index rose 44.69 points, or 0.9 percent, to 4,914.54.
U.S. crude fell $1.55, or 4 percent, to $36.79 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, the benchmark for pricing international oils, gave up $1.66, or 4.1 percent, to $38.67 a barrel in London. In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline fell 5 cents, or 3 percent, to $1.40 a gallon. Heating oil slid 5 cents, or 4.5 percent, to $1.13 a gallon. Natural gas was little changed at $1.96 per 1,000 cubic feet. | <urn:uuid:f839a45e-9f1c-4f2e-b71b-21780eabade7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.columbusceo.com/story/business/2016/04/01/business-highlights/22910105007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954419 | 1,731 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Since 1993, Conscious Teaching’s books, workshops and online courses have been providing new and veteran K-12 teachers with “stuff they can use” to engage their students and structure safe, respectful learning environments. Take a look around to find out more about who we are, what we offer, and how we can help teachers and school leaders improve their craft and meet the ever-changing needs of their students.
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Over the past twenty years, Rick Smith has shared practical strategies to over a hundred thousand teachers and teacher trainers in fifteen countries on five continents. He is the author of the book, “Conscious Classroom Management,” which is now in the hands of over half a million educators. Rick was a classroom teacher for over fourteen years, focusing primarily on students-at-risk. He’s been a mentor and mentor coordinator for many years, and has taught in both elementary and secondary credential programs in Northern California.
Rick loves to dance and to play ultimate frisbee (not usually at the same time). He also teaches workshops internationally on personal growth and development.
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Grace Dearborn is an author, instructional coach, award winning teacher, and international presenter on classroom management, student engagement, and trauma-informed teaching. She has been in education for 20+ years and for most of it she taught disadvantaged students in elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to being a veteran classroom teacher, Grace has worked as a school-site mentor teacher, literacy coach, curriculum developer, and professional development coordinator. Currently, Grace is the Executive Director of Conscious Teaching, where she runs herself ragged facilitating workshops for teachers across the United States and internationally… but she loves every minute of it!
In her free time Grace volunteers at local schools, reads voraciously, bakes emotionally, plays tennis and poker competently (or so she likes to believe), and spends as much time as possible with her family, where her skills at motivating and managing youth are daily put to their truest test by her two sons.
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As an educational consultant with Conscious Teaching, Katie brings her passion and enthusiasm for education and educators to schools and districts across the country. She specializes in providing teachers with research-based, easy-to-implement strategies that they can use to reach all students and improve the effectiveness of their teaching.
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Dr. Scott Sturgeon is an Associate Professor of Practice in Educational Administration at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Prior to his recent move to higher education, Scott spent more than 20 years in public education working in an urban, high poverty K-12 school district in the Midwest. During these two decades Scott held many positions including, but not limited to, paraprofessional, classroom teacher, school-site principal, and district administrator. In his district role as a Principal’s Supervisor, Scott directly supported a wide variety of elementary and secondary school settings, providing guidance to new and veteran principals and their leadership teams on all aspects of running their schools.
As a consultant for Conscious Teaching, Scott leads workshops with administrators at schools across the country on leadership and school-wide change. He also does 1-on-1 and small group mentoring with school-site administrators and advises district administrators on implementing new discipline systems and making policy changes that lead to sustainable long-term change.
In his free moments, Scott enjoys time with his two sons, his wife, his wife’s dogs, and every soccer game and practice that can be fit into a busy family’s life. | <urn:uuid:cc101470-87a7-4baa-809c-71944504c798> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.consciousteaching.com/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967698 | 899 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The Goodness Paradox by Richard Wrangham was published this year. In it, the author explores the evolutionary origins of violence, cooperation and altruism in humans. Wrangham is a renowned primatologist and has written several books on human and animal behavior. As someone who is interested in big picture questions about humanity, I found this book to be enlightening and fascinating.
Wrangham identifies two types of aggression that manifest themselves in both humans and other animals. Aggression and violence can be classified as proactive or reactive. Reactive aggression is unplanned. Proactive aggression is planned. The author goes on to explain that there is considerable evidence that these two different types are triggered by different processes and parts of the brain. Humans and other animals practice both types of behavior.
In people, reactive violence leads to the majority of individual murders and assaults. In some primate species, such as chimpanzees, it leads to near constant violence where alpha males prey upon other members of their groups and females are exposed to beatings on a near constant basis. What humans would call rape also occurs among chimpanzees and some other species due to reactive violence.
In humans, proactive violence manifests itself in everything from state-controlled police activities to preplanned wars. Proactive violence and the threat of it are not always a bad thing. When manifested by moderate and just systems, it prevents society from descending into chaos and even worse violence. In primates, wolves and other animals, it manifests itself in conflicts between groups and packs. Chimpanzees actually engage in small scale warfare between groups.
However, it turns out that compared to primates and other types of animals that hunt in groups, humans show a lot less reactive aggression and a lot more proactive aggression. The author writes,
overall tendencies are clear: compared with other primates , we practice exceptionally low levels of violence in our day-to-day lives , yet we achieve exceptionally high rates of death from violence in our wars . That discrepancy is the goodness paradox.
Wrangham spends a lot of time looking at the behavior of humans, various ape species, wolves and other animals to illustrate the differences in behavior. He even looks at Neanderthals ad other extinct species and examines available evidence. The book also covers the behavior of domesticated species, such as cats and dogs, to show how humans have bred reactive aggression out of them in a process that is called domestication.
Of particular interest are bonobos. These primates look similar to chimpanzees, but they are a lot less violent. In fact, they are some of the least violent primates. Observation of them shows that coalitions of female bonobos police their social groups and quell the violence of very aggressive males. Furthermore, violent, antisocial males are ostracized to some extent, making it difficult for them to mate and pass on their genes and violent behavioral tendencies.
In regard to humans, the book looks at hunter-gatherer societies and agricultural societies as well as modern society. In all of these societies, Wrangham finds similar patterns regarding the two types of violence. Humans are relatively low, as compared with other social animals, on the scale of reactive aggression and very high on the scale of proactive aggression. The difference has had an enormous effect on human history and culture.
The author then looks at the various theories as to why humans are not so reactively aggressive and very proactively aggressive. The mechanism that occurs with bonobos does not seem to apply to human societies. He explains the theories in very understandable ways. Some theorists believe that human behavior is simply attributable to higher intelligence. The author believes that something else has happened, however.
Wrangham is an advocate of something called the execution hypothesis. That is, the extremely dominant and violent alpha-male type rarely becomes the leader of human communities, regardless of whether the community consists of hunters and gatherers, agrarian farmers or more modern societies. It turns out that, in the remote, perhaps pre-human past, this type of super-bully would try to dominate the community, as they successfully do among chimpanzees. In human society, a coalition of other males would often end up killing the super aggressive males when they began to become too powerful. Furthermore, this tendency to eliminate such violent narcissists has led the human species to be less reactively aggressive, more altruistic and eventually enabled us to develop a system of ethics. Wrangham calls this self-domestication.
On the flip side, this tendency to execute these super bullies has led humans to evolve to be more proactively aggressive. In order to eliminate the alpha males, the tendency to plan aggression and work together is enhanced.
The author writes,
A coalition of militant egalitarians was in a position to cut them [the super violent individuals]down. Selection would accordingly have favored those whose spontaneous generosity and noncombativeness protected them from such a risk by minimizing their selfish urges and increasing their tendency to help others
There is a downside to all of this. What Wrangham calls coalitionary proactive aggression led to the rule of groups of men who were egalitarian but tended towards proactive aggression. While they imposed certain benefits on society, they also imposed their own tyranny upon women, anti-conformists, etc. If accurate, the impact of all of this reverberates through present times.
Near the book’s conclusion, Wrangham tries to look to the future. He argues that despite our genes, humanity has been getting less violent over time as culture changes and is optimistic that this will continue. He discusses both the promise and pitfalls that the future holds. I should also note that the author makes it a point that he is against the death penalty, even though he believes that it played a key part in human evolution.
Wrangham has convinced me that there are indeed big biological differences between reactive and proactive aggression. Furthermore, most primates show a lot more reactive aggression than humans. Proactive aggression is much more common in humans than in any other species. In addition, I agree that violence, as well as altruistic and cooperative tendencies, are to a great extent the products of evolution. I am not so sure about the execution hypothesis. The killing of super aggressive individuals in the past may have had an impact upon human evolution, but I suspect that many other factors played a part in formulating human nature. Perhaps the super aggressive males were also shunned and had a harder time surviving and reproducing. The idea that coalitions of individuals helped to tamp down the super aggressive bullies may very well be true. I am not sure that execution was the primary driver of this, however.
Either way, this is a fascinating book. Even if one does not agree with Wrangham’s theories, the observations of animal behavior contained within these pages are interesting and valuable. I think that even if one does not follow all of Wrangham’s conclusions to their endpoint, the book is still full of important observations about aggression and violence. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in evolutionary science, human nature, culture and history. | <urn:uuid:dbfed89a-94e0-493b-b095-dd8a1ac4b062> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://briansbabblingbooks.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-goodness-paradox-by-richard-wrangham.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967272 | 1,453 | 2.984375 | 3 |
How To Format Sd Card On Macbook Pro. Click the [erase] tab in the middle of the window. If the sd card hasn’t been formatted before, it might have a name like “no name” or “untitled”.
Choose the filesystem format 7. Look for your sd card and click it. You can enter the sd card name if you want.
Optionally Adjust The Security Options.
Download mac sd card formatter and install it. Slot in the sd card into your mac and go to your mac's applications. 2. Navigate to finder > applications > utilities.
Now All The Available Storage Will Be Presented To You In The Form Of A List.
Type “disk utility” in the search box that opens, then click on the disk utility application that comes up. Insert the sd card into the slot on your mac. Insert the sd card and back up the data.
Look For Your Sd Card And Click It.
Now to format the sd card to fat32 on mac you need to type the command sudo diskutil erasedisk fat 32 sdcard mbrformat /dev/disk2. If you want to wipe the old data and. Be sure to back up any of the files that are already on your sd card before formatting.
Identify Your Sd Card 4.
At the top of disk utility, press erase. How to format a memory card in macos. First, there are two main methods of reading an sd card with a mac.
Adjust The Lock Slider Tab On The Card To Unlock The Card, Then Reinsert The Card Into The Slot.
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Chinese – Vietnam Relations Sour over Territory Disputes
Recent antagonism between China and its southern neighbor Vietnam has severely hampered relations between the nations, inciting riots against in Vietnam and a plethora of rhetoric from Beijing. Earlier in May, an encounter between Vietnamese vessels and Chinese ships near an oil rig in disputed waters of the South China Sea ended with the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat. Denying claims of responsibility, a senior official in Beijing fired back in saying “Vietnam’s disruptions of the Chinese company’s normal activities have seriously violated China’s sovereignty, sovereignty rights and jurisdiction, gravely affected the normal order of production and operation and the safety of China’s rig, and caused unnecessary troubles for China-Vietnam relations.” The rig, owned by state-run China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) Group is roughly 150 miles (240 km) off the Vietnamese coast and 206 miles (330 km) from China’s southern Hainan Island.
China is Vietnam’s largest trading partner and it would seem the Vietnamese dependence on Chinese exports cannot be ignored. According to government data, bilateral trade between the two countries rose 84% to $50.2 billion last year from $27.3 billion in 2010. Chinese raw materials are essential to Vietnam’s manufacturing sector, and as of now it seems that only the tourism sector has suffered due to this incident.
Talks regarding a settlement over this dispute have yielded limited results, however analysts believe that a strongly shared mutual desire for regional economic prosperity will quash this feud soon. The Economist recently pointed that despite rioting and looting by the Vietnamese, the government is focused on maintaining the country’s image as a reliable, low-risk investment destination. | <urn:uuid:e800ae9c-f718-474d-92e7-f57b199bb48e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://et2c.com/chinese-vietnam-relations-sour-over-territory-disputes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948823 | 362 | 2.15625 | 2 |
What are implant-supported dentures?
Have you lost all your teeth? Are you confused about their replacement? If your answer is a yes, then you should consider implant-supported dentures. Implant-supported dentures are exactly what they sound like. These are specialized dentures that are supported by implants.
An implant is a surgical screw-shaped fixture that is placed into the jawbone via an incision on the gums. Implants over the course of 3 months integrate with the jawbone and form a solid foundation. A minimum of 4 implants are placed in each arch (upper and lower jaw) over which a denture is fitted. These dentures have specialized mechanisms that allow them to sit on the implant firmly.
Implant-supported dentures are a little more expensive than traditional removable dentures due to their intricacies. However, they have towering benefits over traditional dentures and are much superior in efficacy and comfort.
Unlike traditional dentures, implant-supported dentures are firmly locked in place and will not move when you speak or talk. Implants can sustain bite forces similar to natural teeth, and because of this ability, it restores complete chewing capability. Since it restores proper chewing, it also improves nutrition, and with that, it improves overall health. Moreover, because of its sleekness, it will not alter your taste like traditional dentures. You won’t have to skip out on your favorite meals with implant-supported dentures. You don’t have to worry about the dentures falling or getting loose.
Implant-supported dentures are much more comfortable to wear and offer a long-term solution. Implants continue to stimulate the jawbone and stop the process of bone resorption. This ensures that your facial proportions are maintained. Implant-supported dentures made from zirconia can stimulate a natural appearance and has high aesthetic value. These dentures give a beautiful and youthful appearance.
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NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search
HHE determination report no. HHE-73-161-201, Schulmerich Carillons, Inc., Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
Lucas JB; Ramos H
Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HHE 73-161-201, 1975 Jun; :1-17
Biologic sampling of employee's hair, blood, and urine, and air measurements of copper (7440508), tin (7439921), and lead (7440315) dusts in a plant manufacturing musical bells indicate that exposure to bronze dust is nontoxic. Discoloration of one employee's hair is due to interaction of lipids on the scalp and hair with the bronze dust and is only of cosmetic significance.
NIOSH-Publication; NIOSH-Author; HHE-73-161-201; Region-3; Hazards-Unconfirmed; Air-sampling; Dust-control; Environmental-contaminants; Author Keywords: bronze dust; total copper; tin; lead; cutaneous examinations; biologic sampling; hair; blood; urine
7440-50-8; 7439-92-1; 7440-31-5
Field Studies; Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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You search the Scriptures,
because you think you have eternal life through them;
even they testify on my behalf.
But you do not want to come to me to have life. – John 5: 39 – 40
Today’s readings from Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent, talks a lot about the rebellion of God’s people.
In the first reading, Moses is on Mount Sinai speaking with the Lord, and has received the two tablets of stone with the commandments written by God’s own finger, when the Lord instructs him to go down for the people of Israel have rebelled against Him, by worshiping a golden calf.
In this scene, the Lord tells Moses, that he would wipe out the sinners and make of Moses a great generation instead.
Moses pleads on behalf of the people and asks God for mercy, and the Lord relents in his anger.
In the gospel, we see the Lord Jesus confronted by Pharisees who are deeply offended by his actions healing a man on the Sabbath day.
Their annoyance at the Lord Jesus, increases even more when Jesus calls God His Father.
They plan to kill Him and refuse to listen to what He has to say.
The Lord is deeply grieved by their rebellion against Him, and informs them that their knowledge of Scriptures would be of no benefit to them, if they fail to believe in Him.
In other words, the Lord was clearly telling them, that He is the fulfillment of all Scriptures.
Anyone who wants to be saved, has to come to Him to find life.
Christ’s warning to the Pharisees is a stark warning to us that self-reliance on our knowledge of Scriptures is a fast road to nowhere….or perhaps somewhere else rather than heaven!
This means that for us as Christians, what matters is not just knowledge of Scriptures, but knowledge of Scriptures firmly rooted in Christ Jesus, which is completely demonstrated in our obedience to Christ’s commands.
Our knowledge of Scriptures should lead us to Christ, to want to draw more and more each day, from the Living Waters that flow from His side.
Today, let us ask the Lord for mercy for occasions of pride and boastfulness.
Those times, we have been so confident in our own knowledge and failed to demonstrate the humility of Christ and our total dependence on His Grace.
Also let us ask the Lord, that our thirst for His Word, would increase daily in our hearts, that our hearts would burn again with His Word, and that through the power of His Word, we might be changed, transformed in heart and mind so that we do not seek human praise, but the praise that comes from the only God.
Almighty Father, today we come before You in total surrender to Your Son Jesus.
We confess that Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
We repent of every rebellion in our lives, sins of idolatory in all its forms…
Father in the Name of Jesus, please forgive us
Father by the Blood of Jesus, please cleanse us
We thank You Father for Your mercy
And as we stand before You this day, made whole again by the redeeming Blood of the Lamb
We pray that our hearts and minds may be raised to You alone
In our thoughts, words and actions, may You be glorified
Give us grace to ponder the scriptures, by day and night
So that as we ponder Your Word of Truth, Your Son Jesus may have His Way in our lives
Forever and ever.
Lord I come to You, let my heart be changed, renewed
Flowing from the grace that I’ve found in You
Lord I’ve come to know, the weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped away by the power of Your Love
– Copyright “Power of Your Love” by Hillsong.
Always & Forever,
To The Lamb.
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In Ayurveda there is a tradition of smoking herbs for health, this is called "Dhum Pan" which means inhaling smoke from burning the therapeutic herbs. This makes sense when we consider that the lungs are a quick pathway to the body and the bloodstream that skips digestion.
Our patent pending Herbal Vapors use the pure CO2 extracts and or essential oils from traditional therapeutic herbs to allow the consumer to have the smoking experience without actual smoke.
Our extraction method uses CO2 to extract the oils from herbs that we grow on our certified organic farms in India. These oils will vaporize at a temperature of 250° F to 300° F which is well below the temperature that would combust them. Today's vapor pens are devices that heat the liquid to a temperature that matches our needs and vaporizes the oils extracted from the herbs traditionally used in Dhum Pan.
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Investigation of Panama Canal Matters: Hearings Before the Committee on Interoceanic Canals of the United States Senate in the Matter of the Senate Resolution Adopted January 9, 1906, Providing for an Investigation of Matters Relating to the Panama Canal, Etc. [Jan. 11, 1906-Feb. 12, 1907], Volumul 1
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Pagina 354 - Canal and auxiliary works, and all provisions, medicines, clothing, supplies and other things necessary and convenient for the officers, employees, workmen and laborers in the service and employ of the United States and for their families.
Pagina 912 - That until the expiration of the present session of Congress, unless provision for the temporary government of the said territories be sooner made by Congress, all the military, civil, and judicial powers exercised by the officers of the existing government of the same...
Pagina 912 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Pagina 354 - The United States may import at any time into the said zone and auxiliary lands, free of custom duties, imposts, taxes, or other charges, and without any restrictions, any and all vessels, dredges, engines, cars, machinery, tools, explosives, materials, supplies, and other articles necessary and convenient in the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the Canal...
Pagina 403 - ... have covenanted and agreed, and by these presents do covenant and agree, to and with each other as follows: First. The...
Pagina 724 - ... concerns the United States, entire freedom of voting at elections held in the Republic of Panama and its provinces or municipalities at such places outside of the Canal Zone as may be fixed by the Republic and under such conditions as the Republic may determine; but nothing herein is to be construed as intending to limit the power of the Republic to exclude or restrict the right of such citizens to vote as it may be deemed judicious.
Pagina 546 - June 1, 190-1,1 filled the various offices of assistant second vice-president, assistant general manager, and general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. They were two corporations that were owned by the same parties.
Pagina 205 - Nothing contained in this article shall affect the principle that the offences to which it refers shall be defined, prosecuted and punished in conformity with the domestic law of a Party.
Pagina 884 - DEAR SIR : I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of January 3, requesting certain information in the matter of an oil pipe line across the Isthmus of Panama. In reply you are respectfully informed that this is a matter now in the hands of the Secretary of War, and I therefore have referred your inquiry to him. Very respectfully, TP SHONTS, Chairman.
Pagina 477 - ... they are. If it is not extended, more offshore oil revenues will be used. The National Park Service and other agencies could set up their own system of fees and they say they think they can get as much money that way as would arise by extending the golden eagle. So feewise, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. Mr. DAVIS. Thank you, sir. If the Interior Department is allowed to publish information about the golden eagle pass as provided in S. 2315 so that the public at large as well... | <urn:uuid:0c6250be-9a5e-4aaa-8024-2730df99afd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.ro/books?id=EkoRAAAAYAAJ&dq=editions:ISBN0374194149&hl=ro&output=html&source=gbs_book_other_versions_r&cad=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93487 | 985 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Migration in any form is associated with manydifficulties, including exposure to a foreign lifestyle and cultural shock. Moreover, simultaneous exposure to a couple of cultures at once has the potential to result in distorted cultural identity, cultural adjustment difficulties. Being not prepared mentally to a new culture before hand can result in difficult consequences.
In the beginning of Syrian war asylum seekers were regarded as temporary hosts but as the time passed the issue become a permanent settlement. Out of aproximately 3 million refugees, the syrians living outside of the camps face different problems.
A refugee is described as a person who ‘owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country as mentioned in international law’ This definition implies that several qualifying conditions apply to be considered a refugee: presence outside home country, well-founded fear of persecution; incapacity to enjoy the protection of one’s own state from the persecution feared. The definition of refugees was actually intended to exclude internally displaced persons, economic migrants, victims of natural disasters, and persons fleeing violent conflict.
The 1951 Refugee Convention is the legal document of the process that forms the basis. Ratified? by 145 State parties, it defines the term ‘refugee’ and outlines the rights of the displaced, as well as the legal obligations of States to protect them. The core principle is non-refoulement, which says that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom. This is now considered a rule of common international law. More over it includes considerable emphasis on the integration of the refugees.
In recent years there is an influx of refugees fleeing from conflict affected regions to escape deadly violance. In the duration of dangerous journeys asylum seekers face many problems such as social, economical obstacles.In terms of immigration flows to western countries the phenomenon of the immigration is in fact anything but new. There is a two-way process between migrants and the receiving society to acknowledge the potential role that countries of origin may play a vital role in support of the integration process.
When we look at the recent analyzes on integration; it takes a step back to consider three broad and interconnected issues: (i) the way integration is conceptualized and studied; (ii) the way integration policies are studied and how the concept of integration is used in policy formulation and practice; and (iii) the way new perspectives and actors(those in countries of origin) are incorporated in analyses of integration processes and policies.
The term harmonization is a complex and gradual process in which the outcome of the actions taken by the states or the legal rules put into force are not abling to be expected at once. The authorities are applyingand viewing various aspects to minimalize the challenges that both immigrants and host communities face. There has been taken serious steps on the regulations which aim to create a cohesive society. Furthermore, social integration policies are being implemented of more stable and long term policies and practices.
Several questions are raised for a relevant solution to respond such problems.Concerning the receiving societiesincluding the civil society organizations and the state does matter in immigrants’ integration. The local community and the immigrants work together to build a well society. In the current research of integration there are 9 gaps in which the refegee needs help for interaction. According to the Interact Research Report (2014), in various types of engagement the dimensions are mentioned as education, labour market outcomes, language, social interaction, civic participation, religion, political participation and access to nationality. Interaction of relief, rehabilitation and development requires an analysis of the broader political, social and economic context. Beyond these it takes a step back to consider the legal process.
Until recently Turkey used to be known as a transit country but today it has become a target country. There are different mechanisms which faciliate the cohesion of syrians. Regarding this the war has had an impact on both sides of the borders. Being aware of this fact the government has been assigned with the duty of Harmonization as required by article 96 of law on foreigners and International Protection. Relying upon the legal situation foreigner applicant or beneficiary can take advantage of the contributions of public institutions, organizations, local administrations, non-governmental organizations, universities and international organizations. Hemight attend introductory courses in which the political structure, language, legal system, culture and history of the country as well as their rights and obligations are mentioned. The government may conduct information courses such as benefiting from public and private services, access to education and economic activities, social and cultural interaction and receiving primary healthcare services.
Harmonization stipulated by law and in the duties of our Directorate General is neither an assimilation nor an integration. It is rather a voluntary harmonization resulting from mutual understanding of each other between the migrants and the society.
Two-way active interaction and voluntary actions are aimed within the scope of harmonization arrangements and efforts, and a migrant-oriented approach will be embraced. Harmonization and Communication Department under the organisation of our Directorate General is charged with executing the duties and procedures regarding mutual harmonization of the foreigners with the society.
Especially, Turkey has confronted a huge wave of migration. It has experienced various migrations and has tried to meet the needs of refugees in corporation with the NGO’s in different fields such as education, labour market, language and ext.
3.587.930 of refugees are under the temporary protection served by Turkish Inter?or Ministryas of 18.10.2018. A total of 4.3 million people immigrated to one of the EU-28 Member States during 2016, while at least 3.0 million emigrants were reported to have left an EU Member State. These total figures do not however represent the migration flows to/from the EU as a whole, since they also include flows between different EU Member States. Among these 4.3 million immigrants during 2016, there were an estimated 2.0 million citizens of non-EU countries, 1.3 million people with citizenship of a different EU Member State from the one to which they immigrated, around 929 thousand people who migrated to an EU Member State of which they had the citizenship (for example, returning nationals or nationals born abroad), and some 16 thousand stateless people.
On settling down in a new culture refugees may feel more alienated if not accessed to social support. Education plays a vital role in integration process. An individual can more likely to adopt through participation in education.education is of great importance for the development of the character of person. Taken together, lack of cultural and linguistic knowledge causes disengagement and adaptation problems into the community.. According to the statements of Interior Directorate General of Migration Management the number of people of young age between 19-24 is 450.378 as of the year 2017.
In this context, Ministry of Education took steps for the action plans in 2013. Government focused on implementing the legal regulations and the article 6458 foreigners and international protection law is put into force in april 2014. By the help of the temporary protection Surian refugees had a chance to achieve the rights to health, education and public assistance. Additionally, Turkish Ministry of Education signed an agreement which was the financial source for 300 million Euro to faciliate the integration to the turkish education system for Syrian refugees in cooperation with the European Union Delegee of Turkey. As Betts mentions that it is inevitable that refugees cost financially but they are the people to whom we can trust on their abilities if let them use their own capacity on their abilities.Beyond this the term ‘integration’ is a complex and gradual process. We can not expect a sudden outcome of the action we make or the legal rules put into force.
As for the syrian refugees Turkey spent approximately 8 billion dollars as of the year 2015 besides the sum of the support money by the international NGO’s is 300 million dollars. These numbers show that the action madefor the step for the integration of syrians is not less.(Theirworld ve a World at school,2015)
The government bodies represent the displaced individuals possible choice for the residence. There is a system in which the refugees get chance to apply for residence. For instance 3.587,930 of refugees got a chance to have the temporary protection from the ministry of interior in Turkey. Abling environments for development of economical, social circumtances keep the refugees from being stuck in obscure situation.
In order to faciliate the mutual harmonization between the local society and the refugees Government seek suggestions and contributions of public institutions and agencies, non-govenrmental organizations, universities and international organizations.
Besides the Government’s assistance NGO’s are also conducting operations and projects in the field. Taking care of the safety of vulnerable persons has been a principle core for Red Crescent family since 1868. As Syrian Arab Republic has been experiencing the internal disturbance since 15 march 2011 on these events Turkish Red Crescent has been providing facilition for the logistics, public demand and social needs for the vulnerable people fleeing from Syria. There are going to be held assistance projects and implementations from different paths of NGO’s. As an example K?z?laykart is a cash based assistance tool provided to foreigners in Turkey International or Temporary Protection and Humanitarian Residence. The number of beneficiaries of emergency social safety net programme has reached to 1.387.214 tall of people. The total number of beneficiaries of Extension of conditional cash transfer for education is 368.090 persons.
Today, what we need for unity and social cohesion is as urgent as ever. Families struggling to get used to a new society and environment in a foreign culture still have feelings between hope and desperation. They are trying to cope with the environment in which they are assumed as strangers. Besides Government’s responses NGO’s are shared this duty on global response, too. To gain more complete picture we need time, strategy planning and development of economical and social circumtances. Finally, we are sure that Turkey won’t let the case of syrians to be lost in the shuffle somewhere in a corridor.
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IT has long been a fast-growing industry sector. In fact, this year, in 2020, the global information technology industry is predicted to grow at a rate of 3.7%.
We’re the generation that relies on advanced technology for day-to-day living. So, if you’re interested in innovation, it only makes sense to look towards a career in this field.
A job in IT presents an opportunity to work in an environment full of constant changes and developments. There are tons of versatile employment in this sector, all of which benefit from ongoing professional growth and training.
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Piano sheets artist Les Miserables
Les Misérables (play /leɪ ˈmɪzərɑːb/ or /leɪ ˌmɪzəˈrɑːb/; French pronunciation: [le mizeˈʁablə]), colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz /leɪ ˈmɪz/, is a sung-through musical play based on the novel of the same name by French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, original French lyrics by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer. Set in early 19th-century France, it is the story of Jean Valjean, a burly French peasant of abnormal strength and potentially violent nature, and his never ending quest for redemption after serving 20 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for starving relatives. Valjean decides to break his parole and start his life anew after a kindly Bishop inspires him to, but he is relentlessly tracked down by a police inspector named Javert. Along the way, Valjean and a slew of characters he becomes entangled with get swept into a revolutionary period in France, where a group of young idealists make their last stand at a street barricade.
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Teach Children How To Learn To Play Piano Children can easily learn faster than adults, although their attention span is shorter. This means that your children could learn many artworks and instruments quick and easy. Maybe your child will be the next piano celebrity in the world of music industry. If you observe that your child shows interest in piano playing, support his talent. Maybe you could teach him yourself to play the piano or have someone close that can spend quality time with your child sharing with him knowledge in playing the piano. Or you could enroll him to some professional piano lessons or music school. Make sure your kid is enjoying himself while learning the piano. They get easily frustrated and bored if you try to impose boring lessons. If you want to get his full i...Continue reading Teach Children How To Learn To Play Piano | <urn:uuid:21f3dde6-ec58-435d-8589-9fa70f6e0985> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.pianohelp.net/piano-sheets-artist-Les-Miserables-69/page/2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.910517 | 683 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Ensures that RDS instances are created to be cross-AZ for high availability.
Creating RDS instances in a single AZ creates a single point of failure for all systems relying on that database. All RDS instances should be created in multiple AZs to ensure proper failover.
Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.
Log into the AWS Management Console.
Select the “Services” option and search for RDS.
Scroll down the left navigation panel and choose “Databases”.
Select the “Database” that needs to be verified and click on the selected “Databse” from the “DB identifier” column to access the database.
Click on the “Configuration” under the selected database configuration page.
Scroll down the “Configuration” tab and check the “Availability” section.Check the “Multi AZ” and if it’s “No " then selected database cannot scale across multiple availability zones .
Repeat steps number 2 - 6 to check other RDS instances.
Select the “Database” on which automated backup needs to be enabled. Click the “Modify” button at the top to make the necessary changes.
Scroll down the “Modify DB Instance” page and check for “Multi-AZ deployment” under “Instance specifications”.
On the “Multi-AZ deployment” section under “Instance specifications” click on the “Yes” button.
Scroll down the “Modify DB Instance” page and click on “Continue” button.
On the “Scheduling of modifications” choose “Apply immediately” so that it will made the above changes applied as soon as possible and click on the “Modify DB Instance” button.
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In the wake of the New Zealand massacre and other serious incidents, some are calling for more policing of the internet. Philip Giraldi argues that US media is already over-regulated, and the bodies that oversee the regulating (for example Congress and ADL) can not be trusted to have our interests at heart.
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Pro-Israel and Jewish response to Michelle Alexander’s recent NYT piece, “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine,” was predictably hysterical and demonstrated that “hardline Israeli propagandists are losing their ability to shape political discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” James Zogby examines what this means…
House passes bill to force Trump to nominate “anti-semitism” head who would monitor criticism of Israel
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 411-1 for a bill that would force President Trump to nominate an anti-Semitism envoy, a position that has been vacant since he took office. The definition of anti-Semitism the position uses includes certain criticisms of Israel.
Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment
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Like so many areas of Los Angeles, few things threaten the integrity of the South L.A. community more so than displacement. My family has lived in the community historically known as South Central Los Angeles for over 100 years. We've had much to celebrate. And we endured the difficult times by relying on each other and our institutions.
But today, rising housing prices are pushing our neighbors out, destabilizing our fragile institutions, and ripping apart our communities. While we may see the new young people walking dogs, the real threat is not the individuals who are moving here because they can’t afford to live in the parts of the region in which they were born. It is actually the uber-rich who are parking their money in the speculative luxury real estate market, which has led to the increasing housing prices everywhere.
In Los Angeles, the industry has been demolishing affordable apartments to construct a glut of luxury housing. They are being aided by their bought-and-paid-for puppets in City government, who are advancing the greatest housing affordability crisis in the country by rubber-stamping traffic-inducing Trump Towers in every community of the city.
With the 30-story Cumulus skyscraper at La Cienega/Jefferson, featuring 1,200 luxury apartments, the threat has been no more acute than now. That project, and The Reef in Historic South Central, which has over 1,300 luxury apartments, are a clear indication that the South L.A. community is in the crosshairs. We can no longer afford to be passive in this struggle.
The Crenshaw Subway Coalition and Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment have long been advocates for using land use and zoning to bring about improved neighborhoods. We believe that we deserve better neighborhood amenities.
But as community elder Opal Young said in her ad for Measure S, “What’s the point of having new development if we can’t afford to stay in the city to enjoy it?”
We can do something about displacement by voting YES on Measure S on March 7.
Measure S is actually simple:
- It preserves housing that we can afford by taking away from City Council the ability to grant General Plan Amendments, which are often used to demolish buildings with affordable apartments to build Trump Towers.
- It forces developers to follow the zoning rules. So that they can’t build Trump Towers in places that they don't belong like the proposed 30-story skyscraper at La Cienega/Jefferson.
- It ends this ridiculous policy of allowing developers to write the environmental studies for their own buildings. So that they can’t misrepresent the actual impact of their projects on the community.
- It puts the power of determining the community’s future in the hands of the people by requiring important hearings on community plans and projects to be held on nights and weekends IN THE COMMUNITY, not downtown in the middle of the work day.
We’ll be talking a lot more about this important battle for our communities and how passing Measure S on March 7 is a critical part of the fight.
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Suspected Kaseya ransomware attacker arrives in Texas for trial – Naked Security
In cybersecurity history, USA Independence Day weekend in 2021 is not known for the restful, relaxing summer celebrations you typically associate with the 4th of July.
Instead, it’s remembered as the weekend of the infamous Kaseya ransomware attack.
It was ransomware with a difference, and the difference was the ultimate scale of the attack and the size of the side effects.
In a typical attack on Company X, vital files and data on X’s network are scrambled by cybercriminals, disrupting X’s computer systems – often including laptops, servers and network services – and abruptly halting business operations.
Next comes a blackmail demand for Y dollars in Bitcoin, where Y is often in the hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions: “Give us the money and we’ll get your data back for you.”
Paying gets you nothing more than a promise
Of course, the criminals don’t actually do the tedious work of recovering the files they just encrypted (and even if they offered to put things for you, you certainly wouldn’t want them back on your network of anyway ).
The huge sum you pay doesn’t actually get your data back – it just offers you the promise to get it back, providing the passwords needed to decrypt your ruined files.
That’s why the Sophos 2020 State of Ransomware Survey told us that the median cost of recovering from a ransomware attack among organizations that had their own backups and didn’t need to spend money on it. extortion to crooks, was nearly $750,000…
…while the median cost for those who had no choice but to pay (or perhaps who thought paying the scammers would somehow bypass the traditional complexity of recovery after sinister) was almost exactly double, at just under $1,500,000.
You pay the ransom simply for the to hope to recover data that you would otherwise lose forever, not to complete the recovery process.
Another vital, and even more depressing, statistic to remember comes from the Sophos 2021 Ransomware report, where our survey found that around 1/3 of respondents were affected, and around 1/3 ended up having to pay money. to crooks.
(Thanks to the 2020 data, of course, victims would know in advance that paying would almost certainly be more expensive, so we assume they simply had no choice, faced with the dilemma: “Dealing with the devil, or watch the whole company implode and cost everyone their jobs”.)
Here we found that of those who paid for decryption passwords, half of them lost at least a third of their data anyway.
More dramatically, a third of them lost at least half of their data, and 4% of doubly damaged respondents paid and got nothing back at all – zero, zero, nothing, not a single sausage:
Unfortunately, the Kaseya incident did not follow the usual pattern we described above, where Company X is attacked, Company X’s files are scrambled, and Company X is blackmailed.
Kaseya manufactures and sells IT management tools that can, among other things, distribute software updates.
In this case, the cybercriminals used Kaseya’s software in what is called a supply chain attack.
In other words, the crooks used Kaseya’s infrastructure to spread and detonate ransomware infections on Kaseya’s customer computers, combining two security vulnerabilities to spread their malware much wider than if they had attacked Kaseya alone.
The first security flaw was CVE-2021-30116, a previously unknown bug that allowed an attacker without a password to access Kaseya’s system administration tools and inject unauthorized programs into the next set updates sent to customers. The second security flaw was that the criminals deliberately installed their malicious “update” in a special directory on clients deliberately designated by Kaseya as exempt from local malware scanning. As a result, victims unknowingly downloaded corrupt Kaseya “updates” and then unknowingly installed malware on their own computers in a location where their existing security software had been instructed not to look. .
In the end, it seems the criminals were too successful, with so many victims affected that the attackers apparently decided it wasn’t worth trying to blackmail them one by one.
As we said at the time:
In the end, it was almost as if the gang behind Kaseya’s infiltration had done too well, attracting concerted attention in the wake of the attack.
Indeed, the scammers have decided to go all-in by offering a “one size fits all” decryptor – a sort of global site license, if you will; an all-you-can-eat file unraveling buffet – for a single collective payment.
The plan might even have worked, if the criminals hadn’t set the fee at $70,000,000, but if they were serious about getting paid in full or just wanting to rub the nose of the world in a mess, we don’t we may never know. .
The alleged perpetrators identified
In this case, the wheels of justice began to turn both quickly and efficiently.
In November 2021, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had seized more than $6 million in assets from a still-at-large Russian suspect named Yevgeniy Polyanin, and that Polish authorities had arrested a suspect. Ukrainian called Yaroslav Vasinskyi when he crossed the Polish border:
Poland has an extradition treaty with the United States, and Vasinskyi has now been sent to Texas, where he made his first appearance in a US court, accused of being responsible for the Kaseya attack:
During the alleged attack on Kaseya, Vasinskyi caused the Sodinokibi/REvil malicious code to be deployed throughout the [sic] a Kaseya product that caused Kaseya production functionality to deploy REvil ransomware to “endpoints” on Kaseya customer networks. Once remote access to Kaseya endpoints was established, ransomware was executed on those computers, resulting in data encryption on computers in organizations around the world that used Kaseya software.
Thanks to the deployment of the Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware, the accused would have left electronic notes in the form of a text file on the computers of the victims. The notes included a web address leading to an open-source privacy network known as Tor, as well as a link to a publicly accessible website address that victims could visit to retrieve their files. Upon visiting either website, victims received a ransom note and provided a virtual currency address to be used to pay the ransom. If a victim pays the ransom, the accused provides the decryption key and the victim can then access their files. If a victim did not pay the ransom, the defendant usually released the victim’s stolen data or claimed to have sold the stolen data to third parties, and the victims remained unable to access their files.
Vasinskyi is charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and related activities in connection with computers, damage to protected computers and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
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Poland's defence ministry reported via Twitter that migrants tried to break through the border the previous night near the village of Białowieża, in the middle of a primeval forest.
The ministry said the "attempt to cross the border illegally was thwarted yesterday by Polish soldiers, police and border guards."
It added that "the attack by aggressive migrants" was being aided by Belarusian forces.
Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak tweeted that "Polish soldiers and officials stopped Lukashenko's hybrid attack, as they defend Poland and the whole of Europe."
Poland's Border Guard agency reported that the group of migrants near Białowieża had numbered some 50 people.
Meanwhile, Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on Tuesday said that Warsaw was "slowly but surely" reaching the international community with its view of the migration crisis.
In an interview with public broadcaster Polish Radio, Rau noted that the European Union had widened its sanctions against Belarus, while an upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers in the Latvian capital Riga would focus on the situation on the alliance's eastern flank.
Poland's top diplomat said that his country must make its voice prominently heard, noting that Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was on Tuesday set to meet fellow V4 leaders in Hungary.
Rau himself was later on Tuesday due to speak to Romanian officials about the border crisis, Polish Radio's IAR news agency reported.
Zbigniew Rau. Photo: PAP/Paweł Supernak
The long haul
Also on Tuesday, Stanisław Żaryn, the spokesman for Poland's security services, told reporters that the border crisis was "turning into a long-term conflict" and "could mean a cynical game designed to wear down our soldiers and border personnel."
Żaryn added that migrants were "growing increasingly aggressive" as they "mounted repeated attacks on the border with the support of Belarusian officials."
Moreover, a new wave of migrants could arrive in the spring from Afghanistan as people flee the Taliban, Żaryn said.
He voiced concern over "the increasing aggressiveness of Belarusian and Russian state propaganda," which he said was not only "blaming Poland for the migration crisis," but also "starting to portray Warsaw as a disruptive influence in the EU and NATO."
Stanisław Żaryn. Photo: Ewa Plisiecka/Polish Radio
Poland's Border Guard said on Tuesday it had recorded 174 illegal attempts to cross from Belarus over the past 24 hours.
Since the start of the year, over 36,000 such attempts have been recorded, including close to 7,000 this month alone, the agency's data showed.
Since September 2, Poland has kept the border zone under a state of emergency amid continuing migrant pressure. It is also set to build a 5.5-metre-high, 180-kilometre-long protective wall along the frontier.
The months-long migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border has escalated in recent weeks, with Poland, the European Union and its member states, as well as NATO and the United States accusing Belarus strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko of orchestrating the standoff in retaliation for Western sanctions against his regime.
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Recently, there was a discussion in the IEEE e-mail safety forum about the relationship between the hi-pot test current, leakage current, and insulation resistance.
In particular, the question was whether the hi-pot test and the insulation resistance test could be combined into a single measurement. Let’s discuss each of these parameters as circuit parameters and as safety parameters.
Insulation resistance is the resistance of an insulation. Insulations do not have an infinite resistance. They appear infinite because ordinary ohmmeters do not have sufficient range to measure values in the gigaohm and teraohm regions, which are typical resistance ranges for insulation.
An ohmmeter is simply a dc voltage source, a precision resistor, and a current meter. Ohmmeters operate by measuring the current through the series circuit of the precision resistor and the resistor under test. They use a small dc voltage, about 1 volt, to provide the current.
Here’s an experiment: Connect the terminals of an ohmmeter and a dc voltmeter together. The ohmmeter will measure the voltmeter input resistance, and the voltmeter will measure the ohmmeter voltage. The voltmeter input resistance will be about 10 megohms, and the ohmmeter voltage will be about 1 volt dc.
To measure insulation resistance, the ohmmeter voltage must be much higher than 1 volt in order to get enough current for an indication. Typical voltage is 500. Some insulation resistance meters have an operator-selectable voltage, from 100 volts to several thousand volts.
Some safety standards require a measurement of insulation resistance. This is usually a type test, not a production-line test. Nevertheless, some manufacturers have an interest in measuring insulation resistance on the production line.
Note that a dc hi-pot tester uses high voltage and may be provided with a dc current meter. If the dc voltage is stable, then the current meter can be calibrated in ohms to read insulation resistance. Easy. Some commercial hi-pot testers include an insulation resistance function.
Leakage current is the sum of all ac currents from mains conductors to ground through these resistances and impedances: the insulation resistance, the capacitive reactance across the insulation resistance, the capacitive reactance (impedance) of the Y capacitors.
Insulation resistance exists in ALL components between the mains circuits and the protective ground circuit. These insulations include the wire insulation of the mains cord, the solid insulations of appliance
couplers, fuseholders, switches, circuit boards, and transformers. Also included is the insulation resistance of the Y capacitors.
For the purposes of this discussion, assume the the power input is 250 volts, 60 Hertz. If we assume the resistance across the insulation in the mains circuit is 1 gigaohm, then the leakage current due to insulation resistance is about 0.25 microamperes.
If we assume the capacitance across the insulation within a mains circuit is 100 pF, then the leakage current due to capacitive reactance across the insulation is about 10 microamperes.
If we assume the Y capacitor is 0.05 microfarads, then the leakage current due to capacitive reactance across the Y capacitor is about 5000 microamperes.
Insulation resistance: 0.25 microamperes
Capacitive reactance: 10.0 microamperes
Y capacitors: 5,000.0 microamperes
This demonstrates that the leakage current due to the insulation resistance is negligible compared to the other sources of leakage current. The insulation resistance cannot be determined from a measurement of leakage current.
Hi-Pot (Dielectric Strength) Test
The dielectric strength (hi-pot) test is a test of the electric strength of one or more insulations. The electric strength of an insulation is proportional to the distance through the insulating medium (whether solid insulation or gaseous insulation, i.e., air).
Electric strength can be tested with either ac or dc. If the test is ac, then the current during the test is a function of the capacitive reactance of the Y capacitors, the capacitive reactance of the stray insulation, and the insulation resistance. (Indeed, some people use this current to determine that a product is indeed connected to the hi-pot tester; other people use this current to additionally determine that the capacitors are of the approximately correct value.) Because the insulation resistance and reactance of the stray capacitance is so high, the ac test current can be simplified to the leakage current at 250 V times the ratio of hi-pot test voltage to 250 V. If the test voltage is 3000, then the test current would be 3000/250 x 0.5 or 6 mA.
If the test is dc, then the current during the test is a function of the insulation resistance of the system, including the insulation resistance of the stray capacitance and the Y capacitors. The dc current is typically in the tens of microamps.
AC cannot be used for an insulation resistance test. Even if the product has no Y capacitors, there is still a lot of capacitance that exists across every insulation. The total capacitive reactance will be very much less than the insulation resistance. Consequently, ac cannot be used for measuring insulation resistance.
The only way to combine the two tests, insulation resistance and dielectric strength, into one test is to test with dc. One of my colleagues insists that hi-pot tests should be dc. One of the problems with dc is that if the unit under test is not connected to the hi-pot tester, the tester will nevertheless indicate a pass. My colleague uses a programmable ac/dc hi-pot tester to (1) determine that a unit under test is truly connected to the hi-pot tester and (2) conduct a dc hi-pot test. He programs the first step of the hi-pot tester sequence for 250 V, 60 Hz. The tester measures the “leakage” current. If the current is between two pre-selected values, then the tester moves to the next step which is to apply the prescribed dc hi-pot voltage. (The dc current is proportional to the insulation resistance.) In this way, he is assured that the unit under test is truly connected to the hi-pot tester. | <urn:uuid:ab2a1c4f-5322-4358-93d1-ce1789e37403> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://incompliancemag.com/article/hi-pot-test-current-leakage-current-and-insulation-resistance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.884709 | 1,332 | 3.171875 | 3 |
If you’ve seen some of the previous articles in this nutrition series, you’ve already noticed that there’s an intricate connection between what we eat and our overall health. From a number of different perspectives, food can either strengthen or hamper our immune system. For instance, consistently choosing foods that contribute to chronic inflammation pushes your immune system into an overdrive.
Overworked and getting no results, the immune system becomes weakened when an external threat in the form of a pathogen arrives. Simply put, if your organism is constantly inflamed, your body is much less likely to efficiently fend for itself in the presence of an actual threat.
Research is showing that this type of chronic inflammation plays a role in most major diseases, from diabetes, cardiovascular issues, all the way to dementia. In the same manner, it’s possible to use nutrition as a way to protect your body and reduce the risk of illness.
Know your enemies
Marketers and label-makers are sneaky. They are obligated to tell you about the content of each product, but reading the ingredients list often feels like a chemistry test. So, it’s wise to learn about the foods and food products that can increase inflammation and impede your immune system.
- Foods packed with trans fats, also known as “partially hydrogenated oils”, often found in margarine, lard, shortening, coffee creamer, baked goods, fried foods, etc.
- Sugary drinks such as sodas and even fruit juice overloaded with added sugar for more “flavor”.
- Refined carbs, such as pizza dough, white bread, pastries, store-bought desserts, many packaged cereals, etc. The term “refined” means the grains used in the making of these products are so overly processed that you’re left with virtually no fiber or nutrients, just empty calories.
- Processed meat, such as fermented, smoked, cured, salted meats like salami, hotdogs, or bacon.
Diversify your plant intake
You’ve certainly noticed a pattern in the previous list. On the other end of the inflammatory spectrum, you can find whole foods, especially plants, brimming with nutrients, excellent for your gut health, and perfect for boosting your resilience.
- Antioxidant-rich berries (blueberries, strawberries, you name it) help battle free radical damage linked to inflammation.
- Green veggies such as kale, broccoli, cabbage, and spinach are all excellent sources of fiber, vitamins and minerals that feed your immune system and reduce inflammation.
- Whole grains such as brown rice, quinoa, whole oats, corn, whole wheat, barley, spelt, etc.
- Herbs and spices – not only do they enhance your meals’ flavor, but they carry many anti-inflammatory properties, too.
- Nuts and seeds are satiating and rich in micronutrients.
- Beans and peas are an excellent source of plant protein and have anti-inflammatory potential.
- Choose local and seasonal foods, preferably organic, that haven’t been overly treated with pesticides and other chemicals that can disrupt your hormones and overall health.
Enrich your diet with vitamins and minerals
If your diet falls short, your immune system doesn’t have the resources to fend off infections. In times of the pandemic, it’s crucial to give your body the extra nutrients to ward off illness, but also to minimize symptoms in case you do catch a cold or a viral, bacterial infection.
- Vitamins D, E, and A all support your immune system and prevent chronic inflammation when consumed in appropriate amounts.
- Vitamin C and the mineral zinc are essential for shortening the duration of any infection, as well as its severity. The Immune Active vitamin C and zinc combo gives you that extra boost to stifle inflammation and aid your healthy immune response.
- Selenium is another mineral that is the perfect ally for your immune system, and most of us don’t consume enough – Brazil nuts are rich in selenium, so two or three tops per day is enough. Any more, and you risk selenium toxicity!
- Folate contributes to battling inflammation and strengthening your immune system, so load up on beans and lentils, as well as avocado.
Remember – your gut is part of your immunity
A large portion of your entire immune system resides in your gut. This is where the magic happens! A healthy intestinal microbiome allows your body to metabolize and make use of all the good nutrients you consume. If inflamed by poor food choices, your gut flora will likely be too damaged to help protect your health.
That’s why you should also focus on foods that are designed to feed your good bacteria, and that means prebiotics found in fiber-rich fruits and veggies, as well as probiotics in fermented foods. Keeping your gut healthy by eating the rainbow means you’re helping your immune system thrive.
Creating your own anti-inflammatory diet might be a preventative measure, or one that your body desperately needs depending on your current health. With so many confusing labels around and buzzwords to decipher, we can help you keep your diet clean and simple, and use it to fight inflammation. Call us for a consultation and we can get started on your own anti-inflammatory plan today. | <urn:uuid:81af1bc0-8d75-4800-8470-aab2d181169b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.calmglow.com/food-and-the-immune-system-how-nutrition-affects-your-resilience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.932577 | 1,113 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The EU Regulation: A Liberian CSO perspective
On March 11 this year, Liberian civil society organisations working on land and forest governance took part in a one day forum organised by Sustainable Development Institutre (SDI) Liberia and Foundation for Community Initiatives...
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Fern’s Congo Basin partners support the aims of the Regulation on deforestation-free products, but have serious reservations about its approach.
EU Deforestation Regulation must follow international land and tenure rights standards
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Commission’s trade sanctions proposal falls short
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Nature Restoration Law offers hope for EU’s stricken forests
The European Commission's proposal for a new Nature Restoration Law sets ground-breaking, legally binding targets to end the spiral of destruction afflicting the EU's ecosystems, including its forests. For the first time, the...
LULUCF: Inching toward genuine progress
Plenary LULUCF vote in Parliament moves important issues in the right direction.
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LULUCF: A Clear Steer for Increased Ambition, but far from original hopes
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Historic vote on no longer burning trees for energy needs to be defended
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Some people value their privacy above all things, and would rather facebook’s auto-tag function dissapeared completely. Well, here’s a little something to help throw it off.
This is the first case we’ve seen of clothes engineered to throw off algorithms of social media auto-tagging! Simone C. Niquille is the mastermind behind the Realface Glamoflage shirts, a collection of t-shirts featuring distorted images of celebrity faces such as Michael Jackson and Britney Spears. This is Simone’s version of fashion designed to deter automated recognition.
The shirts will be sold at Niquille’s Web site here for $65 USD a piece, and might be a particularly viable option if you wanna keep your identity under wraps. Although, wouldn’t be easier (and more fashionable, too!) to just delete your facebook?
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John 15:20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’ 26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
Jesus now elaborates on the reality of being hated by the world. The hatred of the world is directed at Jesus first, but it must inevitably also fall on his disciples. In saying this, Jesus’ underlying assumptions about the nature of discipleship become apparent. To be his disciple (akin to a servant-master relationship) means that the identity and experience of the disciple is entirely defined by the master. To be Jesus’ disciple means that we die to our own life. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for Jesus and for the gospel will save it (Mark 8:34-36). So joining oneself to Jesus as his disciple means both salvation and persecution. If they persecuted the Master, they will certainly persecute his servants.
Hatred for Jesus goes further than his disciples. It also means hatred for his Father. The union of the Father with the Son means that rejecting one means rejecting both; just as receiving one is receiving both. Although John’s gospel never uses the doctrinaire word, “Trinity”, Jesus’ teaching here assumes it entirely. He and his Father are one; just as also they send the Advocate/Spirit to continue their work. Any view of God that is less than trinitarian is sub-Christian.
So the hatred of the world for Jesus encompasses all of the Godhead. By why does the world hate Jesus? As the Psalms foretold, ‘they hated him without reason.’ Several of the Psalms describe David’s plight of being betrayed and hated without cause (eg Ps 35:19; 69:4; 109:3), setting up a Messianic template. When David’s promised greater son arrives, it is logical that he would fill out this experience of injustice. And so Jesus does, all the way to the cross.
Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for your mercy and kindness towards me. Although I am completely undeserving, and though I have betrayed you time again– hating you without reason, you have graciously extended forgiveness to me. Please grant that I will be your faithful disciple to the very end, regardless of how the world treats me. Amen. | <urn:uuid:4dbc3720-7140-4424-aeb3-ddee76723b5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://growingdisciples.net.au/2018/06/05/john-1520-27/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976959 | 685 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Medline’s solar portfolio to triple in size by Q1 of 2022
Investments to reduce electricity usage pay off
By Medline Newsroom Staff | June 14, 2021
The medical industry puts a tremendous toll on the environment by utilizing significant natural resources such as energy and water, as well as generating tons of landfill waste, so efforts to offset emissions and reduce waste are critical.
“We understand that we need to build a future where healthcare operates more sustainably,” said Hannah Anderson sustainability specialist at Medline. “This is why we plan to triple the size of our solar portfolio by the first quarter of 2022.”
The Medline Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program launched in 2016. It includes sustainable strategic investments, such as recycling and reprocessing programs, and a line of green products to lower the company’s carbon footprint and help partners do the same.
Solar and geothermal
With the addition of two planned installations of solar panels at its Montgomery, N.Y. and Uxbridge, Mass. facilities, the company will boast nine systems, at locations around the world, spanning more than 4 million square feet of rooftop. Medline’s total investment in solar power will go from $12.6 million to $33.3 million in 2021. The Montgomery and Uxbridge locations are expected to be the largest rooftop solar panel systems in their states.
The investment in solar as well as geothermal energy projects is paying off. For instance, the Tracy, Calif. location has offset 74 percent of electricity usage annually with its solar panels and the Auburndale, Fla. location has offset 94 percent. This has saved the company approximately $1.6 million in electricity at its U.S. solar facilities between 2018 and 2020 as a part of its Healthcare Resilience Initiative (HRI).
Real-world eco-friendly solutions
The HRI is the result of a three-year national capital expenditure campaign to support the long-term needs of healthcare providers, and includes $1.5 billion in new distribution centers, manufacturing capabilities, IT upgrades and sustainability investments. Medline’s sustainability programs, initiated to help healthcare partners make a positive impact on the environment and reduce costs, include:
– Sustainable Packaging Lab — In 2020, Medline launched a Sustainable Packaging Lab to help reduce supply chain waste. The lab is a cross-functional team of R&D, Sustainability, Operations and design experts and engineers who work to reimagine the way products are packaged—from the waste it generates to the space and time it takes up.
– ReNewal Medical Device Reprocessing – In 2020 alone, reprocessing medical devices diverted over 1 million pounds of waste from landfills.
– OR Towel Take-Back – Instead of throwing away used operating room towels, Medline facilitates free pick-up of these towels and repurposes them for use outside of healthcare.
– Tote Exchange – Medline delivers products in reusable totes instead of cardboard containers to customers who order in bulk.
– Waste-to-Energy Gloves Program – Since 2018, 2,156 pounds of used exam gloves have been repurposed into clean, renewable energy.
– Disposable Cubicle Curtain Recycling Program – Medline provides bins for customers to place used cubicle curtains. Medline then picks up the curtains and recycles them.
Products that are manufactured responsibly, use recycled materials and incorporate less packaging are the goal of Medline’s Green Product Portfolio. The green products meet globally-recognized environmental certifications and environmentally-preferred purchasing guidelines from leading organizations.
“The combination of solar and geothermal solutions with our sustainability programs and green products create a trifecta designed to help reduce waste, conserve energy and protect the health and well-being of people and the planet,” concluded Anderson.
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Phasing out nuclear power in Taiwan18 August 2021
With the recent closure of Kuosheng 1, Jeremy Wilcox examines the broader effect of Taiwan’s planned nuclear phaseout on the energy landscape in that country.
Above: In July, Taipower submitted an application to shut down the two-unit Maanshan nuclear power plant (Photo credit: Uwe Aranas / Shutterstock.com)
THE EARLY CLOSURE OF TAIWAN’S Kuosheng 1 reactor, which provided 3% of the country’s total power supply, has already led to two blackouts amid increasing summer air-cooling demand that has been exacerbated by a coronavirus lockdown and capacity constraints, and while the government is adamant the closure will not impact power supply margins the removal of nuclear capacity from a generation mix that is otherwise dependent on imports is likely to impact margins in the short to medium-term, particularly if industrial demand growth, which increased by an annual average of 0.34% between 2015-20, is maintained.
In January 2017 the government passed legislation to phase out nuclear by 2025 and increase the share of renewable energy to 20% as part of a climate policy to halve carbon emissions by 2050. The problem with this policy is that by effectively replacing baseload nuclear capacity with intermittent renewables will have little impact on emissions in the medium-term as coal (36.4% of installed capacity in 2020) and LNG (32.4%) provide over two-thirds of Taiwan’s supply.
Exiting nuclear may be politically popular in the post- Fukushima age, but it potentially increases exposure to market risks caused by the heavy dependence on fossil fuel energy imports. Coal and LNG prices have surged this summer, driven up by above normal temperatures in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul ramping up air-cooling demand, while oil, which provided 3.6% of installed capacity in 2020, has also surged on post-COVID demand growth optimism.
Like many economies, Taiwan is seeking to move from an energy policy underpinned by affordability and supply security to a policy driven predominantly by sustainability. Central to this approach is the progressive investment in renewable capacity and the partial displacement of coal fired capacity by gas to achieve a 20-30-50 generation mix by 2025 with gas providing 50% and 30% from coal. Between 2021-25 Taiwan plans to add 5.7GW of already allocated offshore wind to the grid with an additional 10GW of offshore wind to be added between 2026-35. Additionally, Taiwan plans to add 14.2GW of solar by 2025.
Assuming this renewable capacity is added in full and on schedule, and there are no grid constraints, the increased renewable capacity will lower generation emissions by 2025, but if Taiwan’s government is sincere in its long-term decarbonisation plans it needs to fully phase out coal.
This would be easier if it had maintained, or expanded, its nuclear capacity.
Not only does maintaining reliance on imported coal limit decarbonisation progress it also potentially impacts affordability and increases market risk. Asia is expected to account for 75% of global coal demand by 2025 and, unlike the EU and US, coal demand is expected to grow in the medium-term with prices potentially following. And with LNG demand growth of 3% forecast in 2022 and continued annual growth expected though this decade LNG prices will also increase, augmenting the market risk.
To reduce the market risk of its import-dependent LNG market and augment the sustainability of its predominantly intermittent renewable generation Taiwan needs to be more flexible on LNG pricing and invest in battery storage technology. Moving away from long-term oil-indexed LNG contracts and balancing with spot and shot-term LNG cargoes could reduce LNG market risks, and particularly the risk of opportunity losses, while battery storage would limit the need for quick response gas capacity to balance intermittent renewable load.
By phasing out nuclear before coal, Taiwan’s decarbonisation pathway potentially presents with increased market risks that could pare the medium-term sustainability benefits.
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This public-private partnership seeks to develop new ways of identifying and validating promising biological targets for diagnostics and drug development.
What is systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus)? Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) is a chronic (long-lasting) autoimmune disease that can affect many parts of the body, including the: Skin. Joints. Heart. Lungs. Kidneys. Brain. Lupus happens when the immune system, which normally helps protect the body from infection and disease, attacks its own tissues. This attack causes inflammation and, in some cases, permanent tissue damage. If you have lupus, you may have times of illness (flares) and times of wellness (remission). Lupus flares can be mild to serious, and they do not follow a pattern. However, with treatment, many people with lupus
What is vitiligo? Vitiligo is a chronic (long-lasting) disorder that causes areas of skin to lose color. When skin cells that make color are attacked and destroyed, the skin turns a milky-white color. No one knows what causes vitiligo, but it may be an autoimmune disease. In people with autoimmune diseases, the immune cells attack the body’s own healthy tissues by mistake, instead of viruses or bacteria. A person with vitiligo sometimes may have family members who also have the disease. There is no cure for vitiligo, but treatment may help skin tone appear more even.
What is scleroderma? Scleroderma is an autoimmune connective tissue and rheumatic disease that causes inflammation in the skin and other areas of the body. This inflammation leads to patches of tight, hard skin. Scleroderma involves many systems in your body. A connective tissue disease is one that affects tissues such as skin, tendons, and cartilage. There are two major types of scleroderma: Localized scleroderma only affects the skin and the structures directly under the skin. Systemic scleroderma, also called systemic sclerosis, affects many systems in the body. This is the more serious type of scleroderma and can damage your blood
What is pachyonychia congenita? Pachyonychia congenita (PC) is a very rare genetic disorder that affects the skin and nails. Most people have thickened nails and calluses on the bottom of the feet. Painful calluses on the soles can make walking difficult. Because of the pain, some people rely on a cane, crutches, or a wheelchair to help with walking.
Scientists can distinguish between highly similar cell types using cutting-edge laboratory procedures. Using such techniques, IRP researchers have identified a particular variety of cell in a specific stage of its life cycle as a primary culprit behind the autoimmune disease known as lupus.
Researchers have identified a potential treatment to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic autoimmune disease.
Known as the “disease with a thousand faces,” systemic lupus erythematosus is a lifelong autoimmune disease with a wide range of symptoms and signs—fatigue, fever, joint pain, facial rash and skin lesions, shortness of breath, and more. It may develop suddenly or slowly and be mild or severe, with people affected going through periods of flare up and remission of their symptoms.
Video of a Facebook Live discussion on lupus research, treatment, and care, moderated by Rev. Cheryl Ward and featuring experts in the field.
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Florida State University was recently named to a list of 25 schools on the ESPN Honor Roll, a part of ESPN’s Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools National Recognition Program. FSU is the only university in Florida to receive this recognition in 2021.
Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools is a program for schools that intentionally promote meaningful social inclusion by bringing together students with and without intellectual disabilities to create accepting school environments. The core of this program is Special Olympics Unified Sports® and activities where students of all abilities play on the same court and field.
Unified Sports began locally in 2019 as a partnership with FSU Campus Recreation, the FSU College of Education and Special Olympics Leon County. With sports as the foundation, the three-component model of Unified Champion Schools offers a unique combination of effective activities that equip young people with tools and training to create sports, classrooms and campus climates of acceptance.
“Unified Sports and its partnership with Special Olympics and FSU Campus Rec have provided an experience for everyone involved that they might not get anywhere else,” said Brittany Mueller, FSU Campus Recreation Intramural Sports coordinator. “It brings people together with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team through sport.”
FSU Intramural Sports began a Unified Sports League in 2019 after a Leon County Unified Basketball team traveled to Wichita, Kansas, and won the 2019 NIRSA (Leaders in Collegiate Recreation) National Basketball Tournament. Next, a Unified Sports team competed with some traditional teams comprised of FSU students in sports such as flag football, kickball and sand volleyball in Fall 2019. Since then, several one-day events and tournaments have been played to expose the FSU population to Unified Sports.
FSU Intramural Sports are in the middle of the first flag football Unified season and will offer Unified basketball in the spring semester.
“Lifelong bonds and experiences keep people coming back and the energy is unmatched to anything like it,” Mueller said.
The ESPN recognition comes on the heels of another significant Special Olympics accolade for the university. In August, FSU was selected as a National Banner School by Special Olympics. FSU is the first university to receive this banner recognition and was selected due to the university’s commitment to inclusion demonstrated by meeting 10 standards of excellence developed by a national panel of leaders from Special Olympics and the education community.
Special Olympics at FSU promotes inclusion both at Florida State and in the community through sports training, competitions and campaigns for people with and without intellectual disabilities. The College of Education’s Department of Sport Management and Special Education Program are leading the way in this space, thanks to efforts from Special Olympics at FSU.
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The design of metallic hybrid systems for spintronics has been widely studied during the past decade, motivated by the promising technological applications of these materials. Nevertheless, the importance of preserving the native structure and properties of the interfaces is often ignored. Here, we present the fabrication of nanocrystalline Au (0 0 1) onto a single oriented Fe3O4 (0 0 1) thin film as a promising hybrid system to develop spintronic devices by growing Au over the Fe3O4 by using a simple one-pot Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD) approach. The structural coupling between Au nanocrystals and Fe3O4 layer results in the development of an incommensurate structure based on a coincidence lattice of order 35, which preserves the intrinsic properties of the Au nanocrystals, the Fe3O4 matrix and the interface between them. The general strategy described in the present work preserves the structure and main intrinsic properties of the constituting materials, being a fundamental issue for the future development of spintronic devices. | <urn:uuid:5de69d88-2391-488b-88a2-a8bd6ed04b33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchportal.uc3m.es/display/act530495 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.902294 | 233 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Employees in most companies want basically two things from their IT infrastructure: They want it to work, and they want it to interfere as little as possible with the way they do their jobs.
These twin desires have driven software makers all-out effort to make their applications simple to use and efficient. But the focus on ease of use has come at the expense of security in many cases, and in an environment such as Torontos bustling Mount Sinai Hospital, that is a trade-off that just cant happen.
Tight regulations dictating precisely how patient information must be handled are the main considerations when it comes to choosing new applications at the hospital. So when the hospital began searching for an authentication solution, the security of employees credentials and the integrity of patient data were at the top of the list of requirements.
The hospital already was using RSA Security Inc.s SecurID tokens, but Steve Noyes, director of information and communication technology at Mount Sinai, needed a solution that would let doctors and nurses float among a variety of shared workstations and mobile devices without having to restart their sessions each time they used a new machine.
Working with CryptoCard Corp., a smart-card vendor based in Ottawa, Noyes said he was looking for a solution that would provide rock-solid security while letting employees move freely among devices. The solution also had to integrate seamlessly with Mount Sinais existing infrastructure, which includes a Citrix Systems Inc. environment and multiple directories.
The result of this collaboration was Crypto-Server 6.1, an all-new version of the companys flagship token authentication offering. The system, as installed at the hospital, works like most token authentication systems. To log in to a workstation or mobile device, a user inserts his or her smart card into the device and then enters a PIN. The system generates a random, unpredictable one-time-use password, which the user then enters to gain access to his or her protected applications and files.
But through the use of a plug-in for Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite, Crypto-Server 6.1 also has a feature known as “follow-me computing,” which enables a doctor or other highly mobile employee to start a secure session on one machine, log off and resume the session on another machine exactly where he or she left off. That functionality was the clincher for the hospitals IT staff, given that doctors and medical personnel often are called away from their PCs and cant walk away and leave patient records exposed, Noyes said.
Noyes rolled out Crypto-Server 6.1 in a pilot test with 25 users in March and April and, after having success with this initial phase, decided to expand the program. About 400 users will use the system by the end of next month, and as many as 1,000 will be on it by the time it is fully deployed next summer.
In addition, if the security system had been too intrusive or time-consuming, doctors and nurses would have pushed back and rejected it. “That was it for us—that was the icebreaker,” Noyes said. ´
Mount Sinais CryptoCard deployment includes:
- Two-factor authentication via token and one-time password
- Flexibility of follow-me computing
- Lower price point
- Integration with Citrix environment and multiple directories
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Sod provided an insulating layer to rooftops and walls in these northerly places, representing the most efficient and sustainable approach to building in the environmental context; a naturally abundant resource and relatively easy to install and maintain. Typically built with the help of the entire community, a sod home could be constructed from start to finish within the short warm season when the ground thawed enough to allow chunks of soil, grass, herbs and wildflowers to be excavated from the surrounding fields.
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You may wonder how in the world these homes were made weather-proof with a roof made of sod? These days we use synthetic rubber liners to prevent moisture from damaging the roof structure in green roof systems, which typically have a lifespan of about 30 to 40 years. Incredibly, the sod roofs of the Old World had a similar lifespan, though they used only the bark of native birch trees for weatherproofing. This was collected in spring when the upward flow of sap made the bark easy to peel from the trees. Birches are among the most common trees in these regions and have the ability to give their bark without suffering permanent damage.
First, the frame of the home was built with a combination of stone and logs (from birch or other species that were available), including rough wooden planks that served as roof boards to support the sod. Starting at the eaves of the roof, Nordic homebuilders would lay overlapping sheets of birch bark like large shingles, so water flowing down the roof would run over one sheet and then another, draining off at the bottom.
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A layer of sod about 3 inches thick, soil and all, was placed upside down on the bark as it was laid to hold it in place. Having the grassy side against bark helped the water to drain freely down the roof and also prevented the bark from decaying as fast as it would if it were in contact with soil. A second layer was then placed grassy-side up on top of the first, for a total of six inches of insulation. Finally, a log would have been attached horizontally to the base of the roof along each of the eaves to prevent the sod from sliding down. The rough-hewn logs that were typically used as a wall structure in conjunction with sod roofs were compressed by the tremendous weight of the sod, closing up all the drafty little cracks and helping to make sod homes as comfortable as possible in the long winters.
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October 30, 2020 – Tech platform companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter said they not in favor of redefining the phrase, “otherwise objectionable,” that has become a key source of controversy in the political firestorm surrounding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
The CEOs of the three companies, called to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday, were responding to a question from Sen. Shelley Capito, R-West Virginia.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was concerned that removing this phrase would make it more difficult to remove content from Facebook that bullies and harasses.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai agreed, and said saying that they would not have been able to address the dangerous situation surrounding children ingesting Tide pods, or content surrounding the Christchurch mosque massacre of 2019, without this clause in place.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is trying to help people feel free enough and safe enough to express themselves on the platform.
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, questioned the Silicon Valley executives how much they spent on content moderation and lawsuits. None of the companies had an exact number, but they all estimated more than a billion dollars a year.
Moran said that these efforts wouldn’t be any less in cost for startups and small businesses and that this cost should be carefully considered so new entrants could operate in this sphere.
Facebook supports changes to Section 230, while Google defends the section
In his opening statements, Dorsey also spoke of the importance of optimizing regulations for small businesses. He suggested that platform companies make commitments to new regulation best practices. He also said that new legislative frameworks be made such that tech companies could work collaboratively with government and the people to improve user privacy and experience.
Moran said his legislation would provide the Federal Trade Commission with first time civil penalty authority. When asked if he thought that arrangement would help prevent unfair and deceptive practices more than current frameworks, Zuckerberg said he would need more information but that the current settlement they have with the FTC should be “quite effective” in ensuring people are protected.
In asking whether changes should be made to Section 230 and why tech companies shouldn’t be regulated more, Nebraska Republican Sen. Deb Fischer elicited vague references to transparency in responses from both Zuckerberg and Dorsey.
In his opening statements, Zuckerberg called for a more accountable set of standards that would allow companies to be confident in their regulation processes. He said private companies should not be making so many of these decisions on their own, and that Congress should update the law to create more transparency and separate good from bad actors.
Google’s Pichai stressed that while the low barriers to entry make the internet vulnerable to bad actors, the company’s ability to provide access to so much information is only possible because of Section 230.
Dorsey claimed that the concept of “good faith” was what the hearing was challenging.
Hearing becomes a battleground between Republican and Democratic senators
Many GOP senators, including Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ted Cruz of Texas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, John Thune of South Dakota and Cory Gardner of Colorado charged big tech with censoring conservative voices.
Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell of Washington, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Gary Peters of Michigan, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, and Brian Schatz of Hawaii called the hearing a last-ditch scheme by Republicans to improve their changes in Tuesday’s general election.
Schatz calling the hearing “a sham.” Markey and Peters, contra their GOP counterparts, felt that the tech platform companies hadn’t done enough to censor harmful content.
Cantwell, in response to Wicker’s sentiments about mail-in ballots not being safe, said they were safe.
Thune, in response to Blumenthal claiming the Republicans were trying to “bully and browbeat” the referees in their favor, asked all the big tech companies if they believed they were “refs.” They all said they no.
Narrow Majority of Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Regulating Social Media Platforms
The decision resulted in an unusual court split. Justice Kagan sided with Justice Alito but refused to sign his dissent.
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2022 – On a narrow 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that Republicans had argued would address the “censorship” of conservative voices on social media platforms.
Texas H.B. 20 was written by Texas Republicans to combat perceived bias against conservative viewpoints voiced on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms with at least 50 million active monthly users.
The bill was drafted at least in part as a reaction to President Donald Trump’s ban from social media. Immediately following the January 6 riots at the United States Capitol, Trump was simultaneously banned on several platforms and online retailers, including Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and myriad other websites.
See also Explainer: With Florida Social Media Law, Section 230 Now Positioned In Legal Spotlight, Broadband Breakfast, May 25, 2021
Close decision on First Amendment principles
A brief six-page dissent on the matter was released on Tuesday. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Clarence Thomas dissented, arguing that the law should have been allowed to stand. Justice Elena Kagan also agreed that the law should be allowed to stand, though she did not join Alito’s penned dissent and did not elaborate further.
The decision was on an emergency action to vacate a one-sentence decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals court had reversed a prior stay by a federal district court. In other words, the, the law passed by the Texas legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott is precluded from going into effect.
Tech lobbying group NetChoice – in addition to many entities in Silicon Valley – argued that the law would prevent social media platforms from moderating and addressing hateful and potentially inflammatory content.
In a statement, Computer & Communications Industry Association President Matt Schruers said, “We are encouraged that this attack on First Amendment rights has been halted until a court can fully evaluate the repercussions of Texas’s ill-conceived statute.”
“This ruling means that private American companies will have an opportunity to be heard in court before they are forced to disseminate vile, abusive or extremist content under this Texas law. We appreciate the Supreme Court ensuring First Amendment protections, including the right not to be compelled to speak, will be upheld during the legal challenge to Texas’s social media law.”
In a statement, Public Knowledge Legal Director John Bergmayer said, “It is good that the Supreme Court blocked HB 20, the Texas online speech regulation law. But it should have been unanimous. It is alarming that so many policymakers, and even Supreme Court justices, are willing to throw out basic principles of free speech to try to control the power of Big Tech for their own purposes, instead of trying to limit that power through antitrust and other competition policies. Reining in the power of tech giants does not require abandoning the First Amendment.”
In his dissent, Alito pointed out that the plaintiffs argued “HB 20 interferes with their exercise of ‘editorial discretion,’ and they maintain that this interference violates their right ‘not to disseminate speech generated by others.’”
“Under some circumstances, we have recognized the right of organizations to refuse to host the speech of others,” he said, referencing Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc.
“But we have rejected such claims in other circumstances,” he continued, pointing to PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins.
Will Section 230 be revamped on a full hearing by the Supreme Court?
“It is not at all obvious how our existing precedents, which predate the age of the internet, should apply to large social media companies, but Texas argues that its law is permissible under our case law,” Alito said.
Alito argued that there is a distinction between compelling a platform to host a message and refraining from discriminating against a user’s speech “on the basis of viewpoint.” He said that H.B. 20 adopted the latter approach.
Alito went on, arguing that the bill only applied to “platforms that hold themselves out as ‘open to the public,’” and “neutral forums for the speech of others,” and thus, the targeting platforms are not spreading messages they endorse.
Alito added that because the bill only targets platforms with more than 50 million users, it only targets entities with “some measure of common carrier-like market power and that this power gives them an ‘opportunity to shut out [disfavored] speakers.’”
Justices John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, Sonya Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett all voted affirmatively – siding with NetChoice LLC’s emergency application – to block H.B. 20 from being enforced.
Parler Policy Exec Hopes ‘Sustainable’ Free Speech Change on Twitter if Musk Buys Platform
Parler’s Amy Peikoff said she wishes Twitter can follow in her social media company’s footsteps.
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2022 – A representative from a growing conservative social media platform said last week that she hopes Twitter, under new leadership, will emerge as a “sustainable” platform for free speech.
Amy Peikoff, chief policy officer of social media platform Parler, said as much during a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday, in which she wondered about the implications of platforms banning accounts for views deemed controversial.
The social media world has been captivated by the lingering possibility that SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk could buy Twitter, which the billionaire has criticized for making decisions he said infringe on free speech.
Before Musk’s decision to go in on the company, Parler saw a surge in member sign-ups after former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter for comments he made that the platform saw as encouraging the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, a move Peikoff criticized. (Trump also criticized the move.)
Peikoff said she believes Twitter should be a free speech platform just like Parler and hopes for “sustainable” change with Musk’s promise.
“At Parler, we expect you to think for yourself and curate your own feed,” Peikoff told Broadband Breakfast Editor and Publisher Drew Clark. “The difference between Twitter and Parler is that on Parler the content is controlled by individuals; Twitter takes it upon itself to moderate by itself.”
She recommended “tools in the hands of the individual users to reward productive discourse and exercise freedom of association.”
Peikoff criticized Twitter for permanently banning Donald Trump following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and recounted the struggle Parler had in obtaining access to hosting services on AWS, Amazon’s web services platform.
While she defended the role of Section 230 of the Telecom Act for Parler and others, Peikoff criticized what she described as Twitter’s collusion with the government. Section 230 provides immunity from civil suits for comments posted by others on a social media network.
For example, Peikoff cited a July 2021 statement by former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki raising concerns with “misinformation” on social media. When Twitter takes action to stifle anti-vaccination speech at the behest of the White House, that crosses the line into a form of censorship by social media giants that is, in effect, a form of “state action.”
Conservatives censored by Twitter or other social media networks that are undertaking such “state action” are wrongfully being deprived of their First Amendment rights, she said.
“I would not like to see more of this entanglement of government and platforms going forward,” she said Peikoff and instead to “leave human beings free to information and speech.”
The acquisition of social media powerhouse Twitter by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, raises a host of issues about social media, free speech, and the power of persuasion in our digital age. Twitter already serves as the world’s de facto public square. But it hasn’t been without controversy, including the platform’s decision to ban former President Donald Trump in the wake of his tweets during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Under new management, will Twitter become more hospitable to Trump and his allies? Does Twitter have a free speech problem? How will Mr. Musk’s acquisition change the debate about social media and Section 230 of the Telecommunications Act?
Guests for this Broadband Breakfast for Lunch session:
- Amy Peikoff, Chief Policy Officer, Parler
- Drew Clark (host), Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast
Amy Peikoff is the Chief Policy Officer of Parler. After completing her Ph.D., she taught at universities (University of Texas, Austin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States Air Force Academy) and law schools (Chapman, Southwestern), publishing frequently cited academic articles on privacy law, as well as op-eds in leading newspapers across the country on a range of issues. Just prior to joining Parler, she founded and was President of the Center for the Legalization of Privacy, which submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Facebook in 2019.
Drew Clark is the Editor and Publisher of BroadbandBreakfast.com and a nationally-respected telecommunications attorney. Drew brings experts and practitioners together to advance the benefits provided by broadband. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, he served as head of a State Broadband Initiative, the Partnership for a Connected Illinois. He is also the President of the Rural Telecommunications Congress.
As with all Broadband Breakfast Live Online events, the FREE webcasts will take place at 12 Noon ET on Wednesday.
Leave Section 230 Alone, Panelists Urge Government
The debate on what government should — or shouldn’t — do with respect to liability protections for platforms continues.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2022 – A panelist at a Heritage Foundation event on Thursday said that the government should not make changes to Section 230, which protects online platforms from being liable for the content their users post.
However, the other panelist, Newsweek Opinion Editor Josh Hammer, said technology companies have been colluding with the government to stifle speech. Hammer said that Section 230 should be interpreted and applied more vigorously against tech platforms.
Countering this view was Niam Yaraghi, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Technology Innovation.
“While I do agree with the notion that what these platforms are doing is not right, I am much more optimistic” than Hammer, Yaraghi said. “I do not really like the government to come in and do anything about it, because I believe that a capitalist market, an open market, would solve the issue in the long run.”
Addressing a question from the moderator about whether antitrust legislation or stricter interpretation of Section 230 should be the tool to require more free speech on big tech platforms, Hammer said that “Section 230 is the better way to go here.”
Yaraghi, by contrast, said that it was incumbent on big technology platforms to address content moderation, not the government.
In March, Vint Cerf, a vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google, and the president of tech lobbyist TechFreedom warned against government moderation of content on the internet as Washington focuses on addressing the power of big tech platforms.
While some say Section 230 only protects “neutral platforms”, others claim it allows powerful companies to ignore user harm. Legislation from the likes of Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would exempt 230 protections for platforms that fail to address Covid mis- and disinformation.
Correction: A previous version of this story said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., agreed that Section 230 only protected “neutral platforms,” or that it allowed tech companies to ignore user harm. Wyden, one of the authors of the provision in the 1996 Telecom Act, instead believes that the law is a “sword and shield” to protect against small companies, organizations and movements against legal liability for what users post on their websites.
Additional correction: A previous version of this story misattributed a statement by Niam Yaraghi to Josh Hammer. The story has been corrected, and additional context added.
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Near Battle Site Road (E0367 Road), 0.7 miles east of County Road 4200, on the left when traveling east.
To honor The Confederate Soldiers of the Battle of Cabin Creek Sept. 19, 1864 Erected by Okla. Division Daughters of the Confederacy June 1961
Reverse: Battle of Cabin Creek Sept. 19, 1864 Confederate Forces --
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On U.S. 69 at North 4440 Road, on the right when traveling west on U.S. 69.
14 miles S-E, is Langley the site of the Grand River Dam Lake, covering 45,000 acres, with a shore line of 1100 miles, costing more than $20,000,000.00. The largest multiple type arch dam on earth. It was constructed as an electric and flood control . . . — — Map (db m55647) HM
On East Illinois Avenue (U.S. 60) at South 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on East Illinois Avenue.
On June 13th, 1936, President Roosevelt stopped his re-election special train in Vinita to honor citizens' request to help fund construction of the Grand River Dam. A large, rowdy crowd estimated at 5,000 greeted him.
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On Dwain Willis Avenue (U.S. 60/69), on the right when traveling west.
Will Rogers formed lifelong ties to Vinita by attending school here, the Worcester Academy, 1889 and the Willie-Hasell College, 1894 and 1895 terms.
In 1934, Will returned for a WHC reunion and spoke at Old Settlers Day. He urged friends, . . . — — Map (db m67804) HM
On Canadian Avenue at Smith Street, on the right when traveling east on Canadian Avenue.
"Not In Vain"
may be the pride of
those who survived
and the epitaph of
those who fell
Dedicated on the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and . . . — — Map (db m67801) WM
On West Canadian Avenue at South Smith Street, on the right when traveling west on West Canadian Avenue.
Established at Vinita
Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
by the Rev. J. W. Scroggs, D.D.
Dedicated Jan. 14, 1883
Named in honor of the
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Valuation of land grant university education under COVID-19: students’ willingness-to-pay for alternative study options
April 26, 2022
Yizhou Hua, Ph.D. Candidate; Holly Wang, Professor of Agricultural Economics; and Christine Wilson, Professor & Associate Dean at College of Agriculture
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, once causing confrontation between students and universities over tuition charged, has prompted us to well consider differential pricing on alternative study options. Universities may accommodate students’ needs in tuition-setting process to maintain competitiveness and attractiveness. In our study, we aim to elicit students’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for alternative study options. Meanwhile, we examine factors that account for why WTPs vary among students.
We have conducted a survey at Purdue in 2021, with undergraduate students being recruited from three representative colleges, respectively College of Agriculture, College of Liberal Arts, and College of Sciences. 606 complete responses were received. Overall, our sample aligns well with Purdue university’s undergraduate population (Table 1).
To elicit students’ WTPs, we employed a discrete choice experiment in our survey. Five key college education attributes relevant to COVID-19 were identified after working with a focus group of students. They include course study options (in-person, hybrid, fully online), test format (monitored or unmonitored), and campus facility opening policy (fully open, restrictedly open); tuition ($4000, $4500, $5000, and $5500 per semester) and the types of extracurricular activities available for students to participate in (0, 2, 4). Students would state their preferences by making a choice among three alternatives in multiple choice sets (Figure 1).
Analysis & Results
Table 2 displays the Random Parameter Logit (RPL) regression results and derived mean WTP. From Column (2), we could see that compared with online instruction, in-person delivery is most preferred ($1545) and then follows hybrid ($1161). In other words, if setting the basic in-person tuition rate $5000 per semester, students may demand $1545(31%) and $384 (7.6%) tuition discount for fully online and hybrid options respectively. They prefer their tests unmonitored ($794) and campus fully open ($283); they are willing to pay more for engaging an extra type of extra-curriculum activities ($266).
***, **, * Indicates significance at the p<1%, p<5% and p<10% level respectively
Table 3 shows how factors account for the heterogeneity of individual WTPs among students for in-person and hybrid study options (relative to the online option). Coefficients in Column (2) for the hybrid follow the similar pattern in Column (1) for in-person but with less magnitude. For convenience of analysis, we focus on Column (1) by examining how factors contribute to individual WTPs for the in-person study option. It could be interpreted as follows:
First, students with demographic characteristics like white, male, freshman have higher WTP for in-person instruction (relative to fully online instruction) than their counterparts, respectively amounting to $187, $114, and $252. On-campus education could enable students to get access to facilities, organization and social events on campus while facilitating their social networking, especially for the freshman who desired for brand-new college experience.
Second, learning environment and learning outcome play pivotal roles in WTPs difference among options. While living far-off campus may reduce students’ WTP for in-person instruction by $894, technical issue occasionally encountered online will offset against the reduction by $496. Student’s valuation for in-person education by GPA scores (0-4 points) “before Fall 2020” (GPA for all attempted courses before Fall 2020) and “during Fall 2020” (GPA for courses chosen in Fall 2020) were also analyzed. Interestingly, one-unit increase in overall cumulative GPA till Fall 2020 and term GPA in Fall 2020 has contrasting effects ($888 and $-605 respectively) on WTPs for the in-person option (relative to the online). This means that up to Fall 2020, students were willing to pay 888$/semester more for in-person education for one-unit increase in cumulative GPA. Yet during Fall 2020 for one-unit increase in term GPA, students were willing to pay $605/semester more for the online study option. This may be related with less rigorous assessment in fall 2020 education during COVID-19. In other words, students may find it more attractive to have online education, due to less rigorous exams under context of COVID-19, to increase term GPA in Fall 2020. Hence, they would prefer online over in-person instruction. However, the cumulative GPA till Fall 2020 reflects the fact that if following previously rigorous assessment criteria, to increase scores students may be more accustomed to in-person instruction and would prefer it.
Third, economic factors and majors where students are in also affect students’ WTP for in-person option. Students employed for part-time job have higher WTP ($297) for in-person option compared with fully online option. That is explained by the fact that most of part-time jobs available for students are on or near campus, such as teaching, research, general assistant. Yet an hour spent on working will decrease WTPs for in-person option by $ 22, in comparison with that spent on extra-curricular activities which increase WTP by $13.
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Grass is a common resource in Minecraft. Except for oceans, deserts, mesas, and iceberg biomes, it grows in every biome. This increases the amount of grass available for players to utilize and grow.
In Minecraft, there are three different grass types. Tall grass blocks may grow up to two blocks tall and can be found in all biomes. Plains and forest biomes are common places to find these tall grass blocks.
There are grass blocks that only reach a height of one block. These are fairly numerous, and when mined, they frequently drop wheat seeds. These grass blocks will drop a grass block that players may put anywhere when sheered.
The grass on top of dirt blocks is the last grass variety. This grass can be found almost anywhere in Minecraft. The process of growing grass is discussed in this article.
How can you make grass blocks in Minecraft?
In Minecraft, there are two ways to obtain grass bricks. To begin, use a tool with the Silk Touch enchantment to create a grass block. You’ll only get a dirt block if you don’t have this enchantment. Second, killing an enderman holding a grass block will give you a grass block. Without utilizing Silk Touch, this is the only method to achieve a grass block.
If the conditions are satisfied, grass can grow to dirt blocks and form a grass block. Here’s how to get grass to spread to a dirt block and turn it into a glass block.
- The source grass must be within the 3x3x5 range of the dirt block.
- On top of the source grass block, direct light of level 9 or brighter is required.
- The soil needs some light, and the amount of light does not matter. As a result, even if there is a semi-transparent layer on top of the soil block, grass can still grow on it as long as the upper surface is exposed to light.
- Water, lava, or a waterlogged variation block cannot be right above the soil block. Grass will not be stopped by ice or slime blocks.
What are the common behaviors of Grass blocks?
If a non-transparent block is placed on top of a grass block, the grass will die after a certain amount of time and the block will transform into soil. A translucent block can achieve the same thing if it can lower the grass block’s light level below level 4 and the surrounding region is too dark. With a hoe, you can change a grass block into a farming block.
Animals can spawn on grass blocks with a level 9 or higher direct light in Minecraft Java Edition. However, this is quite unusual, and it necessitates the presence of several other creatures. The majority of animals are born into the world.
Animals appear on a regular basis in Minecraft Bedrock Edition’s Overworld on grass blocks with a level 7 or higher light. It’s worth noting that in order for animals to spawn, there must be no blocks above the grass block.
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This train-the-trainer event was an interactive workshop held on two separate days for hospitals and CHCs and provided them with a range of skills and knowledge to lead the Measuring Health Equity in Toronto Central LHIN project within their organizations.
As part of embedding the collection and use of demographic data in the Toronto Central LHIN, Sinai Health System hosted two separate interactive train-the-trainer workshops for hospitals and CHCs. The goals of the session were to:
- Enable attendants to train and educate colleagues on Measuring Health Equity mandate
- Provide an in-depth review of the purpose of the 8 demographic questions
- Share best practices in data collection based on Toronto Central experiences and facilitate knowledge exchange
- Build skills on how to answer questions from patients/clients, staff, community partners, etc.
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Business mentoring scheme at secondary school to be expanded
STAFF and pupils have hailed the success of a scheme which sees top businesses mentoring pupils to help make them more employable and raise standards.
The Make the Grade initiative brings together Leeds schools with employers in the city.
It has been operating in schools for the past three years and is now set to be expanded across the wider Leeds City region.
The project has been so successful at one Leeds school that pupils have asked for it to be extended so that they can remain involved when they move up a year after September.
Make the Grade is run by the Ahead Partnership, a social enterprise which was started by former lawyer Stephanie Burras.
Year 10 girls and year nine boys at Swallow Hill Community College, in Leeds, have asked for it to be extended so they can remain a part of it. Over the last three years, pupils have been mentored by business advisory firm Grant Thornton, together with partners Logistik and Premier Farnell.
Bryan Pearce, business links co-ordinator at Swallow Hill Community College, said: “Any scheme which strengthens contact between students and businesses is invaluable.
“The Make the Grade initiative has been fantastic in terms of enabling young people to talk directly to real businesses.”
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Dentistry, one of the medical disciplines, is generally merged into the dentistry department in large hospitals. Dentistry mainly treats teeth and periodontal-related diseases.
2. Pulp disease
3. Periapical disease (acute periapical inflammation, chronic periapical inflammation)
4. Non-caries dental hard tissue disease
Clinical manifestations of marginal gingivitis: conscious symptoms are not obvious, occasionally gingivitis, itching, or bad breath. Bleeding gums can occur when there is local irritation such as brushing teeth, biting hard food and sucking. Patients often see a doctor for this reason. On examination, there is tartar attached to the neck of the tooth. The color of the gums changed from light red to dark red. The gums are soft and may have slight swelling so that the edges of the gums become thicker and the papillae become rounded and blunt. Easily bleeding gums during probing
Marginal gingivitis treatment: mainly to remove local irritating factors, such as the use of specialist supragingival surgery to remove plaque and calculus. Eliminate food impaction, remove bad repairs, etc.; when inflammation is severe, local medication can be used, such as flushing the gingival sulcus with 1 to 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, and then apply 10% iodine mixture or 2% iodine glycerin after drying. , Gargle with 0.05-0.2% chlorhexidine solution or compound borax mouthwash, 0.3% zinc chloride solution, etc.
Pay attention to the maintenance of oral hygiene after treatment. Teach patients the correct method of brushing their teeth, insist on brushing their teeth in the morning and evening, gargle after meals, and keep the oral cavity clean to consolidate the effect.
Definition: It is the chronic inflammation caused by long-term local stimulation of the gum tissue, which is characterized by obvious inflammatory swelling and hyperplasia of the gums.
Lesions can involve attached gums. It is more common in puberty, and the gums on the labial side of the upper and lower anterior teeth are the most common site
Definition: Refers to the chronic inflammation of the periodontal support tissue mainly caused by local factors. The age of onset is more common after 35 years old, so it is also called adult periodontitis. It often develops further from gingivitis. If gingivitis is not treated in time, the inflammation can spread from the gums to the periodontal ligament, alveolar bone, and cementum to become periodontitis. Since there are usually no obvious conscious symptoms in the early stage, it is easy to be ignored.
Can't keep teeth. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen publicity and education to enable patients to see a doctor early and receive timely treatment.
Definition: Juvenile periodontitis refers to a special type of periodontitis that occurs in adolescence and develops rapidly.
Teeth and alveolar process injuries
Chronic dental injury
Definition: Chronic wear of tooth hard tissues caused by pure mechanical friction is called wear. As physiological wear is also called chewing wear.
Other tooth wear that is not caused by the normal chewing process is a pathological phenomenon, collectively referred to as non-chewing wear
Alveolar process fracture
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Table of Contents
- Get a clear idea of who your target audience is
- How well do you know your publishers?
- Format your book according to the guidelines
- Create a tasteful book cover
- Remember that there are acquisitions
- Use your waiting period wisely
- Be professional in the interactions with your publishers
- Key takeaways
A stereotype that associates with the publishing industry is that very few first-time writers have any idea of what is going on behind the scenes at their publishers. Developing a basic understanding of the publishing process can help you align your expectations and efforts accordingly. Learning about the publishing process and the right steps to take can also impact the sale of your work.
Keep reading to learn more about the process of publishing your book!
There are two fundamental parts of every content writing career. The first part deals with the writing and completion of your manuscript. During this stage, the manuscript preparation takes place for acquisition and publication.
The second part of your writing career is concerned with the production, marketing, and sales of your book.
Follow the steps below to successfully publish your work-
Get a clear idea of who your target audience is
Before getting into the details of the publishing process, it is important to have a strong foundation in the basics. One of the most fundamental questions you should ask yourself is who your target audience is.
Consider making a habit of visiting your local bookstore regularly for marketplace research. Go through the different titles in the aisles, make a note of the trends you see in the published books, and read books in a genre similar to yours.
Now is also a good time to take note of the new authors in your genre. Keep an eye out for the pricing & packaging.
Pay attention to-
- The quality of the cover design
- The jacket copy
- The different sources of the endorsement blurbs
- The quality of the synopsis
How well do you know your publishers?
Do your research thoroughly when making a list of potential publishing houses. It is crucial to understand the kind of genre and style a publishing house prefers.
Consider finding out if the publishing house accepts unsolicited manuscripts as well. All of these factors can significantly determine whether you are suitable for a publisher or not.
In cases where you are not, you can move on to other publishers on your list. This will save you a large amount of time.
Format your book according to the guidelines
Go through your manuscript thoroughly before formatting your book. Formatting includes ensuring that the chapter headings, aligned text, and all page numbers are in order.
You can create an excellent impression with your publisher if you present a professionally-formatted book.
If you are publishing solo, you will have to ensure that your work is 100% ready to be uploaded on your self-publishing platform. Several writers seek to employ the services of artists for design since designing is a very different skill set from writing.
Create a tasteful book cover
One of the most important criteria for attracting readers is an excellent cover. While designs are often finalized by the publishing house, you can also provide inputs that elevate the theme and storyline of your book.
Choose from a wide range of covers, including typography-based, illustration-based, and photo-based options. Remember that the cover needs to be interesting enough to catch the reader’s attention. However, it should not be overwhelming or cramped.
Remember that there are acquisitions
Publishing is a competitive business. Different companies often compete with each other to sign the best quality manuscripts. Some of the major houses, as a rule, do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
Every publishing house has an acquisition committee of sales & marketing representatives, publishers, and editors. These professionals are dedicated to finding manuscripts that are the most financially sound.
Some of the criteria that are considered by the acquisition committee include-
- The information and quality of writing
- Whether the manuscript can secure a large audience
- Whether the author has a platform
- If the author is promotable
Use your waiting period wisely
Waiting can be an excruciating task. Once you have handed over your manuscript for evaluation, you will have to wait a specific period. During this time, the acquisitions committee will thoroughly evaluate your manuscript.
Waiting for the evaluation can be tense. Use this time wisely and channel your efforts into doing plenty of reading & writing. This can help keep your skills sharp and refine them. Choose from a wide range of genres and work on refining your communication skills with the right books.
The waiting period is a wonderful opportunity to explore new ideas that you may have and improve your overall craft.
Focusing on reading and writing is also a remarkable & healthy distraction from waiting for a response.
Be professional in the interactions with your publishers
When you do receive a message from the publishing house, be sure to remain open to constructive criticism. Being professional can be an excellent way to get your message across as politely as possible.
If you have been selected by the publishing house, the next step is signing a contract! The contract is often signed after negotiations with legal professionals. Once this is done, you can plan a trip to your publisher and set up meaning with all the appropriate parties involved with the book.
On the other hand, if you have not gotten through the final round before publishing, don’t fret! Take constructive criticism from the publishing house, find a way to incorporate the same into your manuscript, and try again!
- Publishing is a competitive industry and being aware of the different steps of the process can help you enter the marketplace faster.
- The publishing industry often requires manuscripts that require little to no changes. One of the best ways you can achieve this is by thoroughly editing your book and ensuring that is it professionally formatted.
- Follow the above steps to go through every step of publishing your book correctly.
- Take the constructive criticism you receive and channel the same into ensuring your manuscript is up to industry standards.
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Q1. Can I self-publish my book?
Answer – The process of self-publishing is slightly different from going the conventional way. For instance, you will have to ensure that your book is free of errors and formatted perfectly before it is published online. You will also have to be responsible for your marketing and promotions.
Q2. How important is it to follow up on submissions?
Answer – Publishing houses often have to go through large volumes of material to determine which manuscript is the best fit for their next project. Most publishers will get in touch with you to know whether your work is accepted or not. Do your research on the varying return times of different houses before submitting your work.
Q3. How long does it take to publish a book once it has been approved by a publishing house?
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It’s true, everyone’s a writer. Everyone with a computer is a writer. Everyone is a writer because it is so easy to be a writer — all you need is a word processor. You have that, right? So even you are a writer. And once your building watchman has finished watching all videos on the Internet thanks to his carrier’s unlimited data plans, he’ll become a writer too.
But that’s not a bad thing. I love that everyone’s a writer because it shows them how difficult it is to be a good writer. Let’s not even talk about being a great writer; you’ll get there once you start being at least a good writer. So, what makes a good writer? Let’s see.
Ideate and then ideate some more
Ideas are more significant than words. Words are easy to find, but ideas are challenging to come by. It is even more difficult to separate the good ideas from the bad ones. So train your brain to ideate non-stop. Everything around you can be a source of ideas. The people you talk to, the things you see, the stuff you read, even the dreams you have. Learn to actively look for ideas in everything and jot them down before you forget.
I’ve written about this earlier. A writer has to be selfish. You should feel proud of every piece of work you produce. It should be something you’d want to show off to the entire world. Show off your creativity, show off your thoughts and ideas and how well you can put them together. When you write to satisfy your own ego, you’ll not allow yourself to be copacetic, and you’ll work harder to improve your writing.
No grammatical errors, please
This one’s a no-brainer, and yet! There are so many writers I have worked with who commit basic grammatical mistakes. There is so much that I read, especially online, that lacks proper grammar. And the weird thing is that grammar isn’t even difficult to learn. You have to make a little effort to gain so much by learning how to use grammar. It’s the very basic of writing, and no writer is ever going to be a decent writer, let alone a good one, without focusing on grammar.
Read, write, repeat
Another no-brainer. This point doesn’t even need to be elaborated. Turn the TV off, shut down the laptop, leave your phone in another room and pick up a book or a Kindle. If you want to be a good writer, you have to read, read, and read. And then you have to write, write, and write. There’s literally no way around this.
Focus on the context
Context is as important as anything else, especially when you are writing non-fiction. Any particular topic can be approached from many different angles. But the wrong angle is of no use to your readers. So make sure you have the right context, and you understand who and what you are writing a particular piece for. This is why briefs are so essential. Ask for a brief and get context before you begin writing.
Write about what you know
These days, it is relatively easy for writers to get freelance work. Literally, every company depends on content to capture users, and they hire freelancers to write for them. If you take up such assignments, they should be about things that you have first-hand knowledge of. A good writer understands the subject he or she is writing about. On the other hand, a mediocre writer Googles the topic and produces an article that is a mishmash of what he or she read on 5 different websites. Don’t be a poor writer and if you’re a hirer, don’t employ a poor writer.
Don’t sell your craft for cheap
I don’t hate anyone, but I do have a strong dislike for writers who charge on a per-word basis. Some people write for ₹1 a word, and I won’t even call them writers. In my personal experience, such writers can never be good writers. I say this simply because writing is not merely about words. Writing is also about creativity, coherent thoughts, and adequate research. If you are focusing only on the words, you will not spend the required amount of time on these other things. Factor in the time and effort spent on the non-writing aspects of writing and charge a fixed amount, irrespective of the number of words you write. I have also experienced that per-word-writers write unnecessary words to hike up the word count and compromise an integral quality of good writing — brevity.
Use the words that you actually know
Here’s another thing that poor writers do — they use the thesaurus a lot. Poor writers will try to impress the reader by using big, fancy words. But they are fooling no one. In fact, you will turn a reader off by using big words that they don’t understand. Your reader is not going to bother about looking words up in a thesaurus. So, be a good writer and use the words that first come to your mind. A few fancy words here and there are fine, but your piece shouldn’t be ornamented heavily with them.
Support arguments with data
Nothing adds credibility to your arguments like data. There’s no arguing data. Sure, data can be manipulated (which is not something you should do), but even then, numbers are numbers. When you use data to support a point that you are making in an article, it makes the point more believable. Of course, data won’t be available for all types of pieces, but it should be used wherever you can and as much as you can.
Forget about the world
Writing is private work. Distractions are a good writer’s worst enemies. But, of course, not all of us can afford a cabin in the woods. Most of us are given a desk in an open office where we have to sit with our colleagues and write. This makes it even more critical for us to eliminate distractions when we are writing. What I do is put on a pair of earphones and listen to jazz music. Often, I turn the WiFi off on my laptop so that I am not disturbed by notifications. Whatever works!
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There seems to be a significant increase in the number of countries around the world taking a more definite stance on cryptocurrency regulations.
China was one of the first countries to ban ICOs and that move sent shockwaves throughout the entire market. 2017 was an eventful year for cryptocurrencies. The price of Bitcoin almost reached the $20,000 mark despite beginning the year at a trading price of less than $1,000. ICOs dominated the crowdfunding landscape with a number of record-breaking ICO campaigns. However, sandwiched between the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and ICO crowdfunding was the decision by the Chinese government to ban ICOs. Not only were ICOs banned, cryptocurrency exchange platforms were also prohibited.
In the aftermath of the decision, the market was plunged into a brief period of uncertainty. The price of Bitcoin and other Altcoins fell considerably as speculation levels dropped. Perhaps the most profound aspect of the regulation was the prohibition of exchange platforms. Cryptocurrency exchanges are the backbone of the cryptocurrency trading market. That is where the bulk of the speculation and other market activities that influence the price and value of cryptocoins take place. With the ban by the Chinese government, a large population of traders were unable to participate in the market. This affected the price of many cryptocurrencies greatly as trading volumes decreased significantly.
Reasons Behind the Ban
A large part of the world woke up on September 4, 2017 to the news that China has banned ICOs. The main gist of the statement released by Chinese authorities pointed to the fact that the government saw ICOs as illegal fundraising activities. The government likened ICOs to financial fraud, illegal securities issuance, and pyramid schemes. The decision to ban ICOs was one that was taken jointly by a number of Chinese government agencies. The agencies involved in the decision were:
1. The People’s Bank of China (China’s Central Bank)
2. The China Banking Regulatory Commission
3. Central Network Office
4. The State Administration for Industry and Commerce
5. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
While there were no concrete reasons given for the ban, a closer examination of some parts of the statement as well as the full weight of history of Chinese government policies, a few assumptions can be made. These assumed reasons are as follows.
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Common Sense Note
Parents need to know that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a classic musical comedy full of dated stereotypes. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a popular song from the movie but also the main theme, with the importance of finding a rich husband strongly emphasized. Women are mostly portrayed as dumb vixens, men are taken in by a pretty face, and everyone smokes and drinks. But, although sexual innuendo is thrown around a lot, no more than a few sensual kisses are shown. Most tweens and teens won't have much interest unless they're die-hard musical fans.
Although no actual sex is shown, characters are shown kissing and embracing. The entire premise is about using your sexuality to entice a man into marriage or an affair. Mr. Malone is shown in his boxers.
While Lorelei sings "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," she playfully hits the male dancers in the face with her fan. They all then pretend to shoot themselves in the head with fake guns and sing the lyrics, "The French are glad to die for love / they delight in fighting duels."
Although Dorothy does provide a voice of reason, repeatedly warning Lorelei that going after a man for his money is a bad idea, the movie doesn't follow her advice. In the end, getting a rich husband is still glamorized, even if it's acknowledged that love should play a role. The movie offers lots of dated stereotypes.
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" references the brands Tiffany and Cartier. When the girls go shopping in Paris, there's a montage of designer shops with a focus on the brand names.
Drugs / Tobacco /
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A time-out in Russo-Belarusian negotiations
Alexander Lukashenka held a meeting with the government to outline strategic approaches in talks with Russia, which to a large extent remained unchanged: retaining full sovereignty amid attempts to obtain maximum benefits and compensation for the deteriorated cooperation on oil and gas.
On January 10th, President Lukashenka held a government meeting to outline approaches in negotiations with Russia on the terms of cooperation and discuss the revision of the Union project. Having this in mind, in late 2018 a joint working group with Russia was created and its composition was finally determined in early 2019.
Belarus (and, according to Lukashenka, Russia) does not consider the current integration process as unifying. According to the Union State Treaty, supranational bodies are created based on the parity of the parties, meaning that Belarus and Russia should be equally represented. In his previous attempts to revise the treaty, Putin attempted to change this principle as inconsistent with Russia’s interests. That said, the working group will conduct an audit of the Union Treaty in order to identify areas where progress is feasible.
Regardless of the results of the working group, Belarus intends to seek compensation for the deteriorated cooperation on oil and gas, believing that it is unrelated to the depth of integration (as the Kremlin believes). Lukashenka instructed the government to find an alternative to the Russian oil – this time, supplies should be organized through the Baltic ports, rather than the Black Sea ports as before. Having said that, in the past, even insignificant oil supplies from Venezuela Azerbaijan made Russia more compliant and cooperative.
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Ever wonder what a Tom Wolf vs. Scott Wagner contest for Governor would look like if only York County residents could vote? Well, have no fear because Harper Polling has you covered.
Wagner wins the contest between the York natives 53% to 40%. For comparison, though, Corbett defeated Wolf by a similar 57% to 43% margin.
There was a gigantic gender gap on this question. Males favored Wagner 60% to 35% while female respondents split evenly 45% to 45%.
27% of Wolf’s York County neighbors view him very favorably while 16% see him somewhat favorably. Conversely, 37% have a very unfavorable view of the Governor and 16% somewhat unfavorable.
On the other hand, 26% have a very favorable view of State Sen. Scott Wagner. Another 24% view him somewhat favorably. Meanwhile, 18% have a very unfavorable impression of Wagner and 14% a somewhat unfavorable impression.
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Fast food workers stage walk-out, demanding raises
The UC Satellite is one of the most frequented places on campus due to its friendly atmosphere, comfortable seating and its variety of fast food restaurants to choose from.
Fast food is an integral part of our community, be it in school or outside of it. It’s much easier to grab a burger from McDonald’s than wait for a proper dinner, and even further from the mind than waiting on dinner is the life or struggle of the fast food employee who is handing out the double cheeseburger.
According to Think Progress, in New York City during Thanksgiving 2012 a campaign was started to demand a $15 hourly wage for all fast food workers. Since then, workers have been periodically walking out of their jobs in support of this campaign.
On Sept. 4, hundreds of workers from around 159 cities walked out of their jobs on the 10th day of strikes since this campaign began. These workers were arrested while demanding a right to unionize and for demanding higher wages. Think Progress reported that the arrests were scattered around the United States, including 50 arrests in Chicago, 52 arrests in Kansas City and 11 arrests in Little Rock.
This is not the first time fast food workers have protested against their treatment. There was a strike of 60 cities in August 2013 and a strike of 100 cities in December 2013. Since the Thanksgiving 2012 campaign, the recent strike on Sept. 4 was the first which utilized a system that used nonviolent protest to explain and support their cause.
The campaign, which has been entitled the “Fight for $15” campaign, has gained national attention and even resulted in a statement being made by President Barack Obama when he appeared in Milwaukee on Labor Day recently, said WXYZ Detroit.
“There’s a national movement going on made up of fast food workers organizing to lift wages so they can provide for their families with pride and dignity,” Obama said. “If I were busting my butt in the service industry and wanted an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work, I’d join a union.”
This makes one wonder why these workers haven’t already been allowed higher wages.
In society today, individuals who work at fast food restaurants are given a negative connotation. Being a fast food worker is not normally a job one is proud about, but the majority of these fast food workers are students looking to make some money, or individuals simply trying to make ends meet.
Increasing the wage for these individuals would be extremely beneficial to them, because the money they are earning might just be the only form of income.
According to Think Progress, the workers had protested in a peaceful way, and yet they were still arrested. One of the protestors, Reverend W.J. Rideout, tried to explain the cause in a statement to WXYZ Detroit.
“We had over 100 people arrested … however, they respected every police officer,” Rideout said. “And we also chanted ‘Police need a raise also.’ EMS need a raise, firefighters need a raise. So we’re not against anyone here; we’re against the corporations, we’re against McDonalds.”
Think Progress reported that McDonald’s has been committing wage theft against its workers by falsifying time sheets and having individuals work off the clock. For the average person, this treatment would be considered atrocious and better treatment of the workers would be demanded, but this does not seem to be the case.
Readers should also take into consideration that even Obama believes that fast food workers deserve a higher salary. This should be the call: if the President agrees with these workers, then the proper steps need to be taken to ensure that this happens as soon as possible.
From a college perspective, fast food restaurants are the most visited on campus. Between the UC and the UC Satellite, fast food employees at UH have to constantly be ready for a long and busy day due to the high demand these restaurants are in. Psychology junior Emma Coronado said that she has seen how busy campus food establishments are.
“Any time I choose to purchase lunch on campus, I am stuck waiting in a ridiculously long line,” Coronado said. “Once I do get to the counter, I am met with a frantic worker who can barely comprehend what I am saying because of how clearly stressed they are.”
Long lines are constantly seen at McDonalds, Taco Bell and the other restaurants at all hours of the day. These employees deserve the increased wages to make their time and energy worthwhile.
“A higher wage would decrease the high turn the campus restaurants have, and make everyone’s experience a little more pleasant around lunch time,” Coronado said.
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March 29, 1964 Ottawa Herald “A Little of ‘The Music Man’ In Ottawa’s Past” by Don Lambert
Leaning back in his vinyl chair, it was difficult at first for 87-year-old Roy Lewis to remember back half a century. But his memory came back to him, most of it, anyway. Those golden days were when he played the clarinet in one of Ottawa’s early bands which was probably Ottawa’s only band exclusively for black men.
Roy, who was born six miles east of here and has lived here ever since, recalled when a man named Professor Payne from Kansas City came here in 1913 with the hope of starting a band.
“None of us had ever blown a note before,” he said. “So, we each tried blowing on different instruments. Whoever could blow a note on an instrument learned to play that one.”
He explained that Payne would arrive here by train and give each of the men a music lesson. Then he would get back on the train and conduct similar bands in Iola, Chanute, Parsons and Kansas City, where he had three bands including two of women.
“No one could make a living around here directing one band so he had several,” Roy explained.
After two years of practicing in the depot, blacksmith shop and assorted other places, Payne’s band was ready to perform. The band members had bought wool uniforms and learned to march.
They played ragtime and marching music at many fairs including ones at Pomona,
Waverly and Quenemo. Roy explained that those were the days when everyone went to the small town fairs and the band members often stayed there several days.
On one trip to Kansas City, they played in front of the Kansas City Star building. They also played at political rallies when politicians spoke from the steps of the Franklin county courthouse.
Roy told of one performance that was especially interesting. Gormley’s Band, made up of white men, was to play on the same program. It got to be like a contest. Payne took up his baritone horn for a solo and as Roy said, “made it sing.”
“The only difference being Gormley’s played music and we kicked up a fog.”
In addition to playing, some of the members were singers, some told jokes.
“We had a really snappy minstrel show, kind of like vaudeville,” Roy said.
But the salary wasn’t too good. The band was lucky if it received $15 for playing.
“The money we made certainly wouldn’t make you hump-back trying to carry it,” Roy joked.
Roy’s wife, Evelyn added, “Even if they didn’t make much money, the sure played some good music.”
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2020 HKSI Sport Psychology Conference* (English version only)
29 January 2020 : Postponement of the 2020 HKSI Sport Psychology Conference
To tie in with the Government’s response level under the "Preparedness and Response Plan for Novel Infectious Disease of Public Health Significance" being raised to Emergency Response Level and avoid people from gathering, the 2020 HKSI Sport Psychology Conference has been postponed.
New schedule of the conference and refund arrangement will be announced in due course.
We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused.
30 December 2019: Registration open
16 December 2019: Conference announcement
The conference, jointly organised by the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) and Hong Kong Society of Sport & Exercise Psychology (HKSSEP) will be held on 21-22 February 2020 at the HKSI, Hong Kong, China.
Psychological training plays a vital role in helping Hong Kong athletes excel in various sports at a number of major international sporting events. The purpose of this Applied Sport Psychology Conference is to support Hong Kong coaches and athletes to better prepare for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. In this conference, the sport psychology practitioners will discuss the most happened "psychological issues" in major competitions from the perspective of sport psychology intervention, and use the opportunity to foster closer collaboration with coaches and athletes.
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Sunday, 30 March 2014
Vikinglog: Evil Orkneys Clan and Invasion against King Alfred
Thora dreamed a skull biting a crown. A bit worried. But significance related to Jarl of Orkneys.
Kings of Denmark and Norway calling for mass invasion of Britons and surrounding Islands.
Party gather travel to capitol of Norway and bring older wives for advice. Huge feast with over a thousand men gave homage to Odin and feasted. Breidr sold lots of livestock and made a killing with ship and feast food supplies of clan farm. Tried to get King to notice them at later smaller feast but failed. Met Siguard Jarl of Orkneys and agreed to accompany him. All got horses. Set sail for Orkneys with new shipmate, another Leif Stonedale a fisherman. Was loaned a horse and got some practice in. He befriended the three strange fishermen turned vikings on board Wavebiter. They told him how they worshiped the Midguard Serpent and taught him to call help from the sea (wtf?).
On Orkneys, Siguard the Jarl sent on secret mission to kill a degenerate clan while men with invasion force and were to be sent to deaths. Jarl offered to buy women and children as thralls still party wary but all old men and those able to fight must die. Locals acuse them of kidnapping youths. All concerned sounded like dishonorable work of Loki to murder ordinary families. Party split and Thora dead against till she contacted a Raven spirit and sent it to spy on Island. It brought to her vision of cannibalistic blood rites in prehistoric barrow mound. She came from her trance obsessed with killing all so party went on mission.
Best swimmers came by shore to hold fishing boats while rest barged into house and attacked. A woman tried to throw a wax tablet in the sea chanting but was killed and tablet taken. A woman had a strange stone knife. All killed but a boy with a broken leg. Three more inside killed.
Followed trail to barrow and hear chanting. Burst in to see bloody sacrificial orgy and began slaughter. A stone disc was being worshiped opened and weird light poured through. Johan lept at it and struck it as ray seemed to wither skin into leather. He saw the god Ganetathoa and went mad. Alrek smashed the disc covering his eyes then fought crazed Johan. Everybody dog-piled Johan and tied him while he babbled from loss of 48 sanity points. He did save everyone from view of the god.
Most dead and crippled, Briedr and Alrek tried to stop Hrafn from killing the wounded and only stopped when Briedr promised to sacrifice all to Odin. Returned to Orkneys glad to have stopped cult.
On to Pictland where Siguard led 80 horsemen against 40 picts, a complete betrayal of supposed fair fight deal he promised. Some of the Wavebiter crew got in a few hits but mostly at back. Siguard encouraged men to cut off heads and ride around with heads on belts but his skull's teeth scratched him on leg. A few days later died of septic wound (true event and good to get more history in game). Chaos ensued as force split. Many went to join Danes in King Alfred's fat lands and others went to York.
Alfreds new forts and Saxon unity was a problem for Danes. Slowed advance of the 300 ships. Wavebiter crew found a fortified monastery with St Bartholomew sign like previous ones. Thora called spirits to spy and knew monks researching sea and stars of the north. Party Found a big warship to aid them. Cut a deal and did good job of befriending Bjorn Bjornson to help. Killed some monks and took some robes. Also got a relic from monks wagon and avoided 20 horse warrior men of Wessex. Hrafns slave reluctantly betrayed his own order, was convinced less would die if he did help vikings but he cried a few times. A bit bloody but pretending to be wounded handy. While party seized gate from wessex men other vikings scaled walls and set alight stables. While most in walls went to fight fire, the gate fell and 70 more vikings stormed the front. Knights hid in the central walls while monastery burned. Alrek and Johan caught monks trying to flee with relics and stopped them joining the soldiers by hacking them to pieces. Others in library and party seized their books and charts. Aparently the order were searching the north sea for the place where the castle of the leviathan would arise soon.
Got lots of monks and many peasants hiding in walls from raiders. Got most of loot so barricaded soldiers in inner walls and returned to ships. Got a good share of loot but thralls and horses worth more than gold. Most lead heroes have a christian slave acountant ex monk. Realize weak unarmored people cannot really bother them and fighting more recklessly. Had to divide out potential concubines but they were not too fussy, but some vikings abstained.
Ship packed and set off home. Said farewell to Bjorn and he told them to come to York next year. Returned home to sell goods, recover from shock of seeing god Ganatathoa, trained up some of weakest vikings, learned some petty spells and spent time with family. Brothers agreed to split clan to Iceland hold and Norway lands which everyone thought very wise of them. More children born and Johan married a pretty girl thanks to cousin Thoras meddling in name of Freya. Alrek has seven children now including adopted. A distant kinsman died in swamp after bog iron and the fur hunt from Iceland bought in lots of money.
Apparently monk order party have been persecuting are hoping to avert the castle of the leviathan appearing so are searching sea from Iceland to Greenland to Vinland. Some texts in Hyperborean. The Stonedale clan dont really care but let monks pursue research while serving as their record keepers and loom operators. Poorest slaves given to Odin for sacrifice.
Briedr has had runes tatooed all over to make him more battle wary as reward for Odins Favour and all the sacrifices he won for Odin. Hrafn has superior armour of a nobleman, a chain shirt and mighty helmet he wears with a white wolf pelt. Thora had birth complications so getting concubine thralls for her husband as she bore two girls. Has been studying prophetic arts of a priestess. Her sister at home busy using her former monk thralls as concubines and has children to them but unmarried. Learning Rune enchanting. Poor Alrek beginning to regret having to prepare dowries for his daughters. Poor Johan recovered well as could from seeing a gods eye, his skin hardened and his mobility reduced. His marriage has brought peace to old rival clan which pleased the gods. Thorhaddr studying secret songs of the scalds of Iceland, spending time with young wife.
Hrafn ready to duel with dead wives ex husband and father of his adopted children. Accused him of killing wife he mourns for and sworn to Freya will not lie with a woman till man who took off with a concubine and shut her out in cold.
Rolling children survival and wife surviving childbirth rolls has been good, stolen from Pendragon. Land and family tables good too. Players get nice and exited. I like Vikings Indifference to the Mythos. When at Rune hero level will sack the castle of the Leviathan. Meantime York and some more exploration await.
The allegiance system in BRP Iceland is going to take a while to kick in. Odin favourin bloodletting, Thor fighting monsters and Njord favoring sailing the best. Thora matchmaking has got her Freya points but up to 8 score most need 41+ to count. RQ3 magic im using too, most have 1-3 points of spirit magic and a few have other magic skills. Throa's spirit battles are dangerous and unreliable. A few have Cthulhu mythos spells, three have Mythos scores but 6% best. Slave monks to read for you helps keep vikings lean mean sane killing machines. | <urn:uuid:58a3d799-fb76-4163-99f1-5d123f130d5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/03/vikinglog-evil-orkneys-clan-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96883 | 1,716 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honour.
Humility is another little known but powerful seed, beloved. It can be defined as the quality of not thinking that you’re better than others. It’s about being down-to-earth or unpretentious. It’s about having a sober and healthy self-esteem. The likes of Joseph, Ruth and Daniel exemplified this awesome seed very well and lived to enjoy the resultant fruits–divine promotion, uncommon honour and uncontested recognition. Let’s do likewise at home and at work, in private and in public, in church and community. The harvest is worth your while! (See also Psalm 147:6; Rom 12:3; Phi 2:3,5; Jam 4:10; 1 Pet 5:5). | <urn:uuid:64ce2f2a-8205-4273-8d4a-2577f3dd008d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.afmkwc.org.uk/2016/04/06/parousia-nuggets-0604-the-seed-of-humility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950324 | 184 | 2.03125 | 2 |
One of the great stories of reaching remote people
Bringing the word to the Lisu delivers literacy and life skills
Si Zhonghua is a young man from the West Lisu minority people group living in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province. This area of lofty mountains and roaring rivers in southwest China is bordered by Tibet in the north and Myanmar in the west.
It is estimated that nearly one third of the 650,000 Lisu people in China are Christians. Zhonghua joined their number when he came to Christ two years ago.
“There are some non-believers who are keen to learn too.” – Bo Yuanmei
“I was asking myself what the purpose of my life on earth was. Then one day, a preacher came to my village and told us about Jesus giving us eternal life and that the word of God is more precious than money,” he says.
Now, instead of loitering aimlessly on the streets like some of his peers, Zhonghua is devoting his time to learning to read the Bible in West Lisu script at a Scripture literacy class. He is eager to share his faith with others.
“I want to learn the West Lisu script so that I can read the Lisu Bible, gain more Bible knowledge and be able to share the word of God with others,” he says.
The conversion of the Lisu is one of the great stories of mission history. Six years after arriving in China, pioneering British missionary James Fraser, witnessed a breakthrough. Over a four-month period, 600 Lisu representing 129 families became Christians and followed Jesus, sparking an indigenous church-planting movement. Lisu believers led scores of other Lisu villages and families to Christ and today, there are an estimated 201,500 Lisu Christians in China.
When Fraser arrived in the early 1900s, there was no Lisu written script, so Fraser created an alphabet and later he and his team started translating the Lisu Bible. Today, the West Lisu script is usually taught at home and in churches, but there are still many who are unable to read in Lisu.
“In order to continue the work of spreading the gospel, building and strengthening the spiritual life of believers and passing down the Lisu language and cultural heritage, Scripture literacy is important,” comments Yu Yong Guang, a member of the West Lisu Annotated Bible translation team.
Another member of the Scripture literacy class, Bo Yuanmei, 19, says, “More than half of the believers in my church are elderly believers who do not know how to read the Lisu Bible. Increasingly, there are some Lisu parents who want their children to learn the Chinese language due to economic and practical reasons. After this class, I hope to be able to help other believers learn to read the Lisu Bible so that they can draw near to God through reading his word. There are some non-believers who are keen to learn too.”
In fact, non-believers who work in the Lisu language news media have been using the West Lisu Bible as their dictionary as it is the only written script offering a wide range of vocabulary. “Since seven or eight years ago, Lisu language news reporters and radio broadcasters have sought the help of Christians and consulted the Lisu Bible in their writing and reporting,” shared Rev. Li Moxi. “We are grateful to Fraser for creating the script and we are very glad that the script could help in the development of our society today.”
Approval has been given to the church in China to print 3.34 million Bibles
The majority of Christians in China live in rural areas and a high percentage of them are illiterate or semi-literate. For 2020, the Provincial Christian Councils aim to reach a total of 41,000 people in several provinces, including Yunnan and Shandong and Jianggsu, through literacy classes. As well as classes for Han speakers – mainly elderly people and women – classes will also continue for West Lisu, East Lisu, Miao, Wa, Jingpo and Hei Yi minority groups.
Support for the literacy programme is one prong of Bible Society Australia’s China appeal this winter. Another aspect is the purchase of Bible paper to help meet the huge shortage of Bibles in China. The church in China is growing faster than we can possibly imagine. Up to a million people are estimated to come to faith every year. And these new believers long to have a Bible.
Approval has been given to the church in China to print 3.34 million Bibles at Amity Printing Press in Nanjing. All that’s missing is funding for the paper.
You can also help train pastors from poor backgrounds, so they can attend Bible college and lead rural churches. Nationally, on average, there’s just one ordained Protestant pastor for every 6700 Christians – and many churches only get a visit from their pastor a few times a year. | <urn:uuid:07410d36-eac0-4336-a0bc-0ccd52822e49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev.eternitynews.com.au/world/one-of-the-great-stories-of-reaching-remote-people/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963768 | 1,047 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Anirudh RegidiJun 26, 2018 13:24:50 IST
Researchers have discovered a new security flaw in modern processors that can be exploited to extract sensitive information (cryptographic keys, in this case) from your CPU. The manner in which it does this is quite similar to Spectre and Meltdown.
The flaw, dubbed TLBleed, specifically affects a process known as simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which Intel calls HyperThreading (HT). SMT is a technique for increasing the efficiency of a CPU by using spare resources to execute multiple threads simultaneously on the same core.
If we already lost you there, here’s a brief breakdown of how a CPU works.
A modern CPU consists of several cores. Each core can perform operations on data and has its own memory store (called cache) for storing and accessing the data and information it needs frequently. All of this together can be called the core’s infrastructure.
Normally, a processor works on one “thread” at a time. A thread is the smallest sequence of instructions that can be executed independently by a core. If you tell the CPU to add 2 numbers, the series of instructions for doing that are executed as a thread by a CPU core.
A core’s function, essentially, is to process threads as rapidly and efficiently as possible.
Work is broken down into threads and each thread is processed by a CPU core.
To improve the performance and efficiency of a CPU, you can increase the number of cores and the speed at which it operates. More cores mean more threads can be processed simultaneously, and a higher speed means that threads are processed faster.
To further improve upon this, SMT is used. With SMT, two independent threads can use the same CPU infrastructure, with a secondary thread utilising the resources that a primary thread has left unused.
A module called the Scheduler is what determines how and when threads are distributed to cores.
SMT and carpools
SMT can be compared to carpooling, after a fashion. If 20 employees must head to 20 places to meet 20 clients, say, rather than send them in 20 different cars, which would be ideal, a company could bunch up the employees who need to head in a similar direction in one car. The person responsible for this is analogous to the scheduler in a CPU. The employees represent threads (work that needs to be done) and the car represents a CPU core.
When grouped together, the car will be slower than if there was only one employee, and the frequent stops and slight detours will also slow it down. However, in the larger scheme of things, this system would end up doing more work and consuming less energy. It saves time as well as resources.
A side-channel attack isn’t a “hack” in the traditional sense. It does not utilise weaknesses in code or the design of security algorithms. Rather, it’s an attack that takes advantage of the way a system is implemented. These could be physical cues, like a difference in heat or power consumption.
Getting back to the carpool analogy. Say you want to access your co-worker’s Facebook account. Rather than attempt to hack Facebook or use a keylogger, or some other such more direct and nefarious method, you could simply carpool with them every day and observe them very closely, ask leading questions, etc.
You might, for example, figure out that the co-worker uses names of family members as their password. Then it’s just a matter of figuring out the names of said co-worker’s family members and using those names to access the account.
Preventing such attacks is almost impossible. Your co-worker would have to be an inherently cagey person, but then that caginess could mean a decline in their social lives. The company could ban car-pooling, but then that would mean expensive delays and a significant drop in efficiency.
This technique is what led to the discovery of TLBleed.
What is TLBleed?
A CPU core usually contains something called a TLB (translation lookaside buffer). In the simplest terms, it’s cache that stores information on the memory locations used by threads to store data.
When a thread needs access to data, it first checks the TLB to find out where the data is. If that information is not in the TLB, it checks other locations. Each time this check happens, resources are consumed and time is lost. Generally, the TLB is designed to store the addresses of the most recently accessed memory locations within it.
The difference in performance when a thread tries to access a memory location is measurable. When there is such a delay, the TLB is updated with the new address. A malicious program could, in theory, note when the change would happen and thus, infer the memory locations used by the target program (the one they’re trying to steal data from).
Once the malicious program has the memory addresses, it could steal the data stored in those addresses. This could, for example, be authentication keys for bank transactions, login information, etc.
As reported by ArsTechnica, researchers at Vrije University in Amsterdam did just that. They developed a technique where they would use SMT to get a malicious program running alongside a targeted program on a single core.
The malicious code would then use machine learning to keep an eye on the TLB and infer the memory locations used by the target program. It would then steal the data stored in those memory locations.
With this technique, researchers could apparently steal cryptographic keys (essential for encryption) with up to 99.8 percent accuracy on Intel’s latest CPUs.
Who is affected?
The attack has been successfully demonstrated on Intel CPUs that employ hyper-threading (or SMT). This means that almost all Intel CPUs released since 2002 are vulnerable.
While it wasn’t demonstrated on an AMD CPU, AMD does employ SMT and depending on its implementation of TLB, could be equally vulnerable.
In fact, any processor that implements SMT could be vulnerable.
Should I worry?
Intel has been dismissive about TLBleed. The Register reports that Intel seems to be of the opinion that code can be written to be TLBleed resistant and that TLBleed is not worth even acknowledging as a serious vulnerability. In a statement to The Register, Intel claimed that its CPUs already have features that should make them immune to TLBleed.
#tlbleed: The #OpenBSD HT disable has generated interest in #tlbleed. #tlbleed is a new sidechannel in that it shows that (a) cache sidechannel protection isn't enough: TLB still leaks information; (b) side channel safe code that is constant only in the control flow and 1/2
— Ben Gras (@bjg) June 22, 2018
The researchers who reported the vulnerability, while they admit that Intel is mostly right, are concerned that older programs would not be resistant and that simple techniques could be developed to steal critical data from them. They also note that the vulnerability is specific to each processor architecture. A security-minded developer may not be able to protect their software from all forms of TLBleed attacks.
As TechRepublic notes, a regular computer user need not be overly concerned by TLBleed. The attack is sophisticated and usually requires direct access to your system. If a malicious user has that much access, you have many more things to worry about.
Various mitigations have been suggested and will likely be implemented as needed. Cloud computing is an area that could be significantly impacted, but solutions are being discussed.
One could go for the nuclear option, as OpenBSD did, and simply disable SMT altogether. This will come at a colossal performance penalty, though.
Ben Grass, one of the researchers who worked on TLBleed, will be presenting a paper on the attack at a later date.
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DHL Supply Chain Ireland, a wing of the world-renowned and trusted DHL brand, operates 150+ heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in Ireland.
The global group of companies is committed to a zero emissions target by 2050 and is a proud signatory of the Business in the Community Ireland (BITCI) Low Carbon Pledge.
VisionGreen works with DHL to help them optimise costs and emissions; and provide circular economy solutions to fulfil their commitments as a socially-responsible business.
After partnering to pilot gas-powered vehicles in DHL Ireland’s fleet, VisionGreen is now supporting DHL’s wider strategy toward a transition to alternative fuels.
The greatest source of emissions for a haulage and supply chain company is primarily transport, especially for a large global operator like DHL.
Limited infrastructure for alternative fuel in Ireland coupled with slow progress in technology for HGVs, makes haulage one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise.
The VisionGreen Solution
In 2020, DHL Supply Chain Ireland and VisionGreen partnered to pilot gas-powered vehicles in the DHL fleet.
After successful implementation of HGVs running on compressed natural gas (CNG), we are now supporting DHL with a wider strategic move to alternative fuels for their transport network in Ireland. | <urn:uuid:cbf89464-fefb-4a2f-a5ab-846e4f130340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staging.visiongreenconsultancy.ie/project/how-visiongreen-is-supporting-to-reduce-dhls-emissions-transition-to-renewable-energy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912461 | 273 | 1.875 | 2 |
The Syrian civil war is now in its fifth year, but Stephen O’Brien, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, believes that the current fighting in Aleppo, Syria represents “the apex of horror at its most horrific extent of the suffering of people.” No group is more vulnerable to this horror than the children of Aleppo, who do not have access to fresh food, clean water, shelter, or medical care. Needless to say, education in Aleppo is also not the highest priority.
The fighting in Aleppo has not slowed, even after the recent photo of Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old boy who was pulled from the rubble of his former home, went viral. Following the image’s release, Russia, the main ally of al-Assad’s regime, swore that it would enact a 48-hour ceasefire, but the combat has continued.
Control in Aleppo is split between rebels in the east and the Syrian government in the west. The 275,000 civilians in eastern Aleppo have not been able to receive any aid, while scarce amounts of goods have reached the 1.5 million in western Aleppo. According to an article published by TIME, there is “an estimated 75,000 children fighting to survive in eastern Aleppo”.
Education in Aleppo has suffered because of the danger that children are put in when they try to attend school. Save the Children reported that in the month of August 16 schools that they support have been hit or affected by bombings.
While UNICEF is fighting on many fronts in Aleppo, their most prominent initiative is providing children from the war-torn city with a proper education. In a recent article, UNICEF shared that it has built 130 prefabricated classrooms throughout Aleppo.
Unfortunately, one of UNICEF’s crowning achievements in their education campaign has recently become another victim to the fighting in Aleppo. UNICEF’s intermediary school in the 1070 neighborhood was severely damaged by bombings that began on July 31. The all girls’ school had 32 prefabricated classrooms with 2,500 students enrolled.
The 1,070 school offered hope to many children in the western Aleppo neighborhood, which is made up of thousands of displaced families. Though this tragedy is horrific, it does not signal the end of UNICEF’s campaign. The organization plans to rebuild these classrooms and is collaborating with Syrian officials on self-learning programs that will restore education in Aleppo.
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A survey conducted by the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has revealed that the citizenry are in support of strict enforcement of the Political Parties Act, 2000 (Act 574) to aid in the fight against corruption.
The Act states that political parties must disclose their sources of funding in their political activities.
GACC in its report dubbed: ‘Anti-Corruption Manifesto’ said political parties must consider the implementation of the Act in their manifestos to augment the fight against corruption.
Jacob Ahuno, Programmes Officer of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), who highlighted some aspects of the report during a press briefing in Accra, noted that the citizenry proposed that they wanted the next government to ensure that the enforcement of the Political Parties Act which stipulated under Section 21 that political parties should disclose their funding sources.
“If you check with the Electoral Commission, for the past 15 years not even one political party has submitted its financial report in full, when we say in full, we mean, for every year tells you that the law is not fully enforced.
“Citizens are also asking for Act 574 which is again a Political Parties Act, to be amended to include disclosure of funding sources for candidates contesting presidential, parliamentary and local level elections, so we need to know who is funding the political parties.
“As of now, it is not included in the law and the citizenry are calling for its inclusion since part of the Anti-Corruption Manifesto also indicated that Ghanaians demand continuity in projects, programmes and social interventions by successive governments,” Mr Ahuno intimated.
He pointed out that Ghanaians hold the view that the disinterest to continue projects of the former administration stemmed from a desire to re-award contracts to service providers that the ruling government favoured.
Mr Ahuno stressed that the citizenry are now proposing that the Presidential Transition Act 845 should be amended to include ongoing infrastructure, the law should give time limits for the new government to review and publish their plans for continuing the project.
He intimated that should the government decide to change service provider or make any other significant changes, it must be done within time limit with explanations, must be published, so people can know why they have decided to change service provider and query them if need be. -citinewsroom.com | <urn:uuid:f5276ffc-3f10-4b87-a273-5d6e25418259> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh/political-parties-act-must-be-enforced-in-corruption-fight-gacc-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964677 | 484 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Are you one of those people who are in trouble finding the right place to keep their tools of gardening, but the love of gardening in the first place? If the answer is yes, there is also the answer to your all problems and it goes by the name warehouse storage.
It is also known as garden storage sheds and outdoor storage shed. You can ‘find out more’ (which is also known as ‘få reda på mer’ in the Swedish language) information about carport with storage room from various online sources.
Name just describes what was done and it was not much! This is the perfect storage for gardening equipment or specially designed room to keep yourself a tool that does not need to be out of sight when you do not use them.
What to look for when you are trying to choose the right storage space? Because it is placed outside the apartment, you should choose the one that can endure outdoor weather. If you live in a place where there are four seasons, you must use a storage shed that can handle all types of weather.
Remember that what you put in the shed is important things that you have decided to not put in the trash so that it is better to protect them with an arsenal of long-lasting. Different materials use manufacturers to make this warehouse. This can be either made of wood, metal or even plastic.
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Tunisians are free to express their views on a new political system for the country, President Kais Saied said in a televised address on Monday, before a referendum on constitutional changes scheduled for July.
He spoke after about 2,000 people protested in the capital Tunis on Sunday, calling for greater political rights and the return of a multiparty government.
"Work will continue to go to a referendum on July 25, after which everyone will be involved in expressing their opinions and suggestions for the new political system," Mr Saied said.
His comments also came at the expiry of a deadline for an online consultation that started two months ago, which officials said was designed to determine the views of Tunisians on political and economic issues.
Only about 500,000 people participated in the process, in a country of 12 million.
Public opinion will feed into a panel reviewing constitutional amendments, Mr Saied has said.
The president has been accused of returning the country to authoritarian rule that had ended with a national uprising in 2011.
Last year, he froze executive authorities and suspended parliament, giving himself power to rule by decree.
Sunday's speech may imply that Mr Saied could accept talks with political opponents, although he has previously said he rejects "sterile dialogue" with those he calls corrupt and traitors.
Mr Saied approved three decrees late on Sunday, including reconciliation with businessmen accused of involvement in corruption cases in exchange for development projects in interior regions, state TV reported.
Before Mr Saied’s takeover, Tunisia’s political scene was highly factionalised, dogged by corruption and wrangling between rival parties. Economic growth was sluggish with high unemployment, which grew to nearly 20 per cent in 2021, according to government data.
But critics of Mr Saied doubt he has a workable plan to address the country’s continuing economic crisis, which includes soaring public debt and a bloated public sector.
Structural economic problems have been compounded not only by Covid-19 and the subsequent collapse in tourism revenues but also, the sharp rise in commodity prices this year, which have caused a spike in the cost of living.
The president has also been focused on far-reaching political devolution, rather than the deep economic reform analysts say is necessary to create growth.
Mr Saied did not say how people could express their views in the new system, although key players, such as the powerful labour union UGTT, feel the only way forward is through national dialogue on political and economic reforms.
Sunday's protesters in the capital called for the return of the democratic system.
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Executive Order 12641--Designating certain facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the State of Mississippi as the John C. Stennis Space Center
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12641 of May 20, 1988, appear at 53 FR 18816, 3 CFR, 1988 Comp., p. 574, unless otherwise noted.
Senator John C. Stennis has served his country as a United States Senator over 40 years and has steadfastly supported the Nation's space program since its inception. He has demonstrated visionary leadership and has consistently worked to assure United States world leadership and preeminence in space.
The installation now to be renamed has played and will continue to play a major role in the United States space program and has been the recipient of the Senator's unwavering support from the moment the decision was made to establish that installation.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby direct the Administrator of General Services to designate the facilities of the National Space Technology Laboratories of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the State of Mississippi as the John C. Stennis Space Center; and such facilities shall be thereafter known and referred to by that name. | <urn:uuid:c2ef4b00-0f08-43bb-a2f7-fec7f7c37d79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12641.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960004 | 274 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Pushing Through Recovery When You Want to Give Up
Life is full of ups and downs, and we face obstacles every day. It’s normal for us to have periods of time when we feel like giving up, especially those of us in recovery from addiction. The road to recovery from a life of substance abuse is difficult. Recovery is difficult.
Maybe you are dealing with health issues or have a close family member that’s sick. You may be caring for an elderly parent, recently experienced the loss of someone close to you, or maybe you are just having a day where nothing seems to be going right. This could be causing you to experience intense cravings.
Pushing Through Drug Addiction Cravings
Cravings are a normal part of recovery from addiction. It doesn’t matter if you are new to recovery or have been in recovery for years, we all experience them. Having urges can be relentless. They come at your weakest point and try to convince you that it will help with what you are going through and feeling, but we all know it just makes things worse.
Just remember that cravings and urges are temporary. “I can get through this”, “I can do this”, or “This too shall pass” are all good positive affirmations to use during tough times.
Techniques to Overcome Cravings & Obstacles in Recovery
Overcoming cravings and obstacles in recovery can be hard. Fortunately, we have tools we can use to help us when life gets overwhelming and things seem to be going wrong in every aspect. When you feel overwhelmed, anxious, agitated, or have a craving coming on, try these techniques to keep from acting on an urge.
- Focus on controlling you – Reciting the “Serenity Prayer” is a great tool for preventing relapse. There are a lot of things we can’t control that we spend time worrying about. “God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.” Also, remember that we can’t control what other people around us do or say. We can control how we react, however. Try to stay calm instead of getting upset and yelling.
- Self-talk – Use logic and reason to talk yourself out of a craving. Make a list of the reasons you chose to commit to recovery and use that list when things get difficult and you want to use it.
- Stay in the present and practice mindfulness – Do not focus on the past or future. It can create too much unnecessary anxiety. We cannot change the past, and we don’t know what the future holds. We aren’t guaranteed another day on this earth! Stay in the present and try mindfulness techniques.
- Act with your wise mind – We have an emotional mind and a rational mind. Your emotional mind might be telling you to give up, you can’t do this anymore. Pull yourself together and act with your rational mind. Tell yourself you know where using leads you and you don’t want to go back there.
- Lean on your support system – Your support system is extremely important in recovery. Surrounding yourself with good, positive, supportive, and loving people can help us get through some of the most difficult times. Ask for help if you need it.
- Try a physical activity or get a hobby – If you need an instant distraction, exercise is good. Go out for a walk or jog. You can also get a hobby. Hobbies build character and encourage joy. A lot of times cravings come out of being bored, so having something you enjoy doing is a great distraction as well.
Other ways to get through difficult times are to make sure you are practicing good self-care and know your triggers. We have to take good care of ourselves in recovery. Keeping regularly scheduled doctor’s appointments, eating healthy, getting exercise, and taking care of our emotional needs.
Knowing what triggers you is also important so you can stay away from them. If you are in early recovery you may still be learning things that trigger you. Make a list of your triggers so you are prepared and can avoid them.
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Social networking has become a lucrative way as it helps in enhancing the net traffic via cultural teams that connect big amount of people. These internet sites support web viewers in getting referrals from community customers without any hesitation. They positively take part in the network programs and post their views and reviews that enhance organization links in a great way. For availing the main benefit of social networking optimization, be sure you follow these points: Increase linkability: To ensure an enhanced social networking site, one should work with the linkability of the content. Introducing a blog could be of good help. Material Vacation: Finding lightweight material and publishing it numerous sites assists in improving the general rank and bringing back quality hyperlinks to your websites.
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Companies following ever increasing the rate of utilization of internet and social networks by persons decided to make use of social support systems to are more and more popular with regards to their banding strategies, placing, advertising actions, consumers companies and feedbacks, implementation of e-CRM and alike. People use social support systems to be able to talk, reveal their ideas, and utilize the flow of information and other way of publishing information regarding themselves.
Even though because 1990s, utilization of web, several social networks and net tools had appeared, it wasn’t popular. Recently, through the progress of cultural system in friendly environment and with less complexity when it comes to working for individuals, that service (social network service) is now element of people’s lives.
When it comes to clarification of examination on customer satisfaction, customer preservation, and customer relationship administration and customer feedbacks, social networks enjoy a essential role. As a result companies have attempted to work with Cultural system solutions in order to greater function clients and obtain other different objectives. Most companies recognized that social network internet sites (SNSs) like Napster, Facebook, and Facebook and etc are the best places in their mind to be able to highlight their brand image whereby they are able to raise their market share, and sustainability.
It is known as as a platform through which cultural relations is going to be built among persons and data discussing will soon be facilitated. Through social support systems web sites personal information and relationships could be shared and people can stay static in touch. Most of SNSs provide a personal site for publishing, ability to look for friends and other issues like updating page and personal data and have the ability to prohibit and/or disguise the stated data by page operator from the eyes of community or certain people.
These On the web facilities (SNSs) have improved the actions of an individual on on line projects, especially in the mentioned social support systems for the goal of maintaining romances regardless of range (geographical limitation). Not only this but plus it permits people to get better careers and partners. Regarding the approval of those web sites by people, companies are becoming involved to try this process by which they could provide their services and products and companies and better offer client’s needs and needs and through examination of consumer getting styles and their feedbacks they could great song their choice creating process as well as their strategies. | <urn:uuid:e5664269-4b25-4590-ab1f-5507b4e86686> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hooligans-thegame.com/social-networking-strategies-how-to-use-google-social-search/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952796 | 814 | 1.71875 | 2 |
“Check your feet.”
How many times have we heard it? Many times, however, that’s all we’re told: Check your feet.
What am I looking for? What do I do if I find it?!
And, come to think of it, why am I checking my feet?
Furthermore, they tell us, put lotion on our feet, but not between our toes.
Huh? Why not?
It’s a puzzlement. So I asked my podiatrist, Ken Krueger, DPM, to ‘splain some of this stuff.
What we’re looking for are things such as:
• A red spot
• A crack or opening in the skin
• A blister
• Any drainage (or odor)
• Any change in skin color
“All of these are signs of an injury that can easily lead to a much more significant situation,” Krueger says.
Reduced blood flow, decreased nutrients in the blood and/or decreased feeling (nerve damage, or neuropathy) results in an inability to physically feel that something is wrong. Therefore, a visual inspection is necessary to see if there is a problem with a foot or your feet. And get into the habit of checking your feet every day.
“I cannot tell you how many times I have patients come in and, when I look at the bottom of the foot, there is something like a child’s toy imbedded into the tissue and it had been there for months,” Krueger says.
Don’t go in with a Lego or Polly Pocket imbedded in your foot. Check ’em. If you can’t see the bottoms of your feet, have somebody else look at them or use an unbreakable mirror. Check with a medical supply store for a mirror on a stick especially made to check the bottoms of your feet.
If you do notice any changes, make an appointment with your health-care provider or podiatrist. “NEVER think any change is not a problem,” Krueger says. “Any podiatrist would rather tell somebody with diabetes there is nothing wrong or nothing to worry about than treat a wound.”
Which reminds me…your health-care provider should be checking your feet, too. “And if he doesn’t,” a CDE once told me, “take off your shoes and socks and put your blood-glucose diary between your toes.”
Say you’re looking at your feet and you see something that looks a little “off.” Is it time to go into panic mode and present yourself at your healthcare provider’s office demanding to be seen “right now” – or can you safely ignore it?
“That depends on ‘it,'” Krueger says, explaining that it depends on the significance of the problem and the person’s general health. If it’s a minor problem, some extra attention by the person can get it to heal.
On the other hand, “the reality is that I cannot tell you how many amputations I have performed that, had I seen the problem earlier, it could easily have been treated.”
Now, your feet have been washed in warm water that’s had the temperature checked with a thermometer or your elbow, patted dry with a fluffy towel, including between your toes, thoroughly inspected and ready for some lotion or salve.
Stop and ask yourself, “is this something I can put between my toes or not?” All I know is that my former CDE, Sonja, told me I could put Bag Balm between my toes. Anything else, I’d ask Krueger about.
But why in the Sam Hill can’t I put lotion between my toes?
“When moisture accumulates between toes and it lingers, the tissue can become macerated,” Krueger says. That occurs when the skin is consistently wet – it’s kind of like soaking raisins in water. It results in skin that’s softened, turns white, and is easily infected.
The possibility of maceration “is why we urge people to dry between their toes after a bath, Krueger says. “In the case of salves, it depends on how the salve or cream is absorbed into the tissue so it doesn’t remain on the skin.”
The bottom line? Don’t put anything between your toes unless your doctor tells you to, or says it’s okay. It might defeat the purpose of all that checking.
Source URL: https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/getting-a-foot-up-on-diabetes-care/
Jan Chait: Jan Chait was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in January 1986. Since then, she has run the gamut of treatments, beginning with diet and exercise. She now uses an insulin pump to help treat her diabetes. (Jan Chait is not a medical professional.)
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Document / search engine: Database of stakeholders active in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy and the bioeconomy
Framework project: Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region
Short name of the project:
Website link: https://danube-inco.net/cooperation_and_networking/organisations?_search_field=title&_search_word=&_individual_filter_country=0&_individual_filter_type=0&_individual_filter_scifi=0&_individual_filter_geofocus=0&_individual_filter_affiliation=8&_order=create_date&_order_desc=1
CORDIS link if relevant:
What is the database about?
Pre-screened Regional development agencies, energy agencies, associations, companies, NGOs, clusters and networks, universities, research institutes, chambers of commerce and industry, public bodies, government entities, international organisations already active or willing to cooperate in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy and the bioeconomy in the Danube Region.
Countries/regions described/represented: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Moldovia, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey, UK | <urn:uuid:b69c00ac-318e-4164-99ee-1062ac00cd62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bioeast.eu/bioeconomy-list/database-of-stakeholders-active-in-the-field-of-energy-efficiency-renewable-energy-and-the-bioeconomy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.799267 | 302 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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