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Engineers at the University of New South Wales are using ultrasensitive CRISPR technology can identify the presence of Cryptosporidium parvum in water samples cheaper, faster and more easily than traditional methods.
Professor Ewa Goldys from the School of Biomedical Engineering said the research team had found a simple way to identify the potentially fatal microorganisms in water.
“In our research we basically amplified the assay signal,” she said. “This is really relevant, because if you want to detect a very small number of your targets — like a single pathogen in a cup of water — and that pathogen is four microns across, it is a needle in a haystack problem.”
Most people tend to associate CRISPR with gene editing and future therapeutics, but Goldys said that enzyme sensing using the same approach was also developed a few years ago.
“CRISPR sensing was first invented for the detection of nucleic acids, which is what you need for microbial and viral pathogens” she said. “However, we extended it to detect specific proteins on the surface of the Cryptosporidium microbe.”
The researchers could then bind a CRISPR-responsive agent onto the microbe, known as an oocyst, leading to the release of a distinctive fluorescent glow.
Goldys added that the enzymes used in CRISPR are far better than any other enzymes that have been used in sensing.
“On a technical level, the increase in this technology gives us a transformative level of signal amplification,” she said.
“Other kinds of technologies also amplify signals, but not as well. Sometimes inhibition may start to kick in because the products are inhibiting further reaction.”
A strain on resources
Cryptosporidium is a microscopic parasite that can cause serious gastrointestinal disorders, and is especially widespread in locations where water sources may be contaminated by wild and domestic animals. Long periods of drought followed by heavy rain, which are becoming more common in Australia, often lead to increased contamination of waterways.
Detecting Cryptosporidium in huge volumes of water has long been a problem for the water sector, and this pathogen is one which water authorities have to detect manually.
In contrast, by adding a fluorescent agent to the reaction mixture, which is then combined with water samples, Goldys and her colleagues designed a clear signal that can be detected by a standard plate reader.
“When we were developing our technology, we had to test it in genuine environmental samples, which was a challenge. But I think the miracle of CRISPR enzymes solved all the problems,” she said.
Saving time and money
Further research needs to be undertaken to adapt the technology to the needs of the water sector, Goldys said, but she is optimistic about its potential.
“The cost savings will be completely amazing. The current technology for looking at samples involves somebody sitting at a microscope looking at water samples over and over again for one four-micron bug, which takes forever,” she said.
“We hope to replace it with our new technology that is able to scan multiple samples at the same time.”
Goldys also believes that this technology could be applied to the detection of COVID-19, which currently takes up to 11 hours to get results from wastewater samples. Much of this time is taken up with transporting the sample to the lab where the specialised equipment is located.
“Our system gives results for Cryptosporidium in just two-and-a-half hours. We hope this is a new technology that can be easily applied at the site where water samples are being taken,” she added.
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The world is full of “smart” products, from your phone and your watch to your refrigerator and your television. Now smart homes are joining the list of new tech that modern families can’t live without. A smart home is one in which the lighting, heating, and other electronic devices within the home can communicate with each other and be controlled remotely, either within the home or from a distance.
Smart homes are appreciated for convenience reasons but also for the added security that smart homeowners feel whether they’re home at night or away on vacation. Here are just 3 ways that smart homes are changing the home security industry for the better, adding to the many reasons people are beginning to wonder how they will ever do without a smart home of their own:
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How many times have you left the house only to panic 20 minutes later wondering if you remembered to lock the doors? Have you ever left a spare set of keys under the mat or in a fake rock “hidden” in the garden to allow yourself or a friend or family member inside in an emergency? What about the frustration you feel when you lose your house keys and have to wait for a locksmith to arrive to let you in your own home after forking over hundreds of dollars to get back inside?
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Since all smartphones have a GPS built into them, an app can be programmed to alert your locks to unlock themselves when you arrive without any effort on your part. This is huge for those who often forget to lock the doors when they leave or those who have periods of time where kids or teens are home by themselves each day before a parent arrives home from work.
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For large homes with lots of lighting both indoors and out, the ability to choose which lights to turn on and which to leave off without walking all over the house, back and forth, many times a day, is a nice convenience as well.
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Not only can you beef up your home’s security while you’re away by controlling the locks and the lights, you can also use a smart home app to trigger a siren or alarm if there is any unwelcome entry attempts or motion surrounding your home in your absence. If a door or window opens unexpectedly, you can be alerted via your smartphone and then decide your course of action whether it’s the immediate contact of law enforcement or the ringing of an alarm warning to scare off any intruder. The ability to sense intrusion day or night, whether you are at home or far from it, is a big deal for homeowners who want to feel completely at ease in knowing that their homes, their belongings, and their loved ones are as safe as possible.
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2010, Volume 6, Issue 4
The structure of the roundhouse kick on the example of a European Champion of taekwon-do
1Institute of Physical Education, Jan Długosz University of Częstochowa, Częstochowa, Częstochowa, Poland
Author for correspondence: Jacek Wąsik; Institute of Physical Education, Jan Długosz University of Częstochowa, Częstochowa, Częstochowa, Poland; email: jwasik[at]konto.pl
Background and Study Aim: The roundhouse kick is a kick most often used in a fight. The tactics of a fight in taekwon-do is to hit a chosen point of the opponent’s body as fast as possible. The efficiency of the impact sometimes depends on the speed of the foot, which is itself influenced by the speed and strength of the attacker and the technique applied to perform the attack.
Material and Methods: A 17-year-old competitor weighing 75 kilograms and measuring 179 cm with the International Master Class was analyzed. For the purpose of this case study he performed a roundhouse kick. A system of complex analysis of movement called Smart-D, made by the Italian company BTS Spa was used for this research.
Results: At the first stage of the movement, the competitor rotates his torso, which is going to give the energy to his leg. At the second stage the leg is straightened in the knee joint until reaching the target.
Conclusions: The dynamics of the kick depends on the speed of takeoff of the foot and the speed of the rotation movement of the arms. Duration of the kick comprises the time of foot takeoff, which is influenced by the speed and acceleration of the jump, and the time of raising resulting from the power of raising muscles and the technique of the movement.
Key words: analysis of movement, biomechanics of martial arts, kinetics of kick, power test, taekwon-do
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As part of its review jurisdiction, NTCAT also considers applications to review government administrative decisions. For instance, NTCAT reviews planning decisions, licensing decisions, and decisions about compensation payouts to victims of crime. The Tribunal considers the merits of a government decision to assess whether there should be a reconsideration of the matter. This may involve a consideration of facts that the original decision maker did not consider. NTCAT’s review jurisdiction also reviews its own decisions made in its original jurisdiction. An applicant should obtain legal advice if they are unsure if NTCAT can deal with their matter.
Applying to NTCAT
It is important for anyone intending to apply to NTCAT to understand the processes and procedures. Before making an application, a person should consider whether this is the best approach to take. It may be preferable to resolve the dispute through communication with the other party, or with the assistance of a legal representative. If an applicant does believe that NTCAT is the best option, they need to confirm that it has jurisdiction over the matter.
If the applicant wishes to proceed, they will need to lodge an “Initiating Application”. The application process is designed to be streamlined, so there is one form to commence most proceedings. There is an application fee to file an Initiating Application, although the applicant may be eligible to have their fees waived on the basis of financial hardship. An Initiating Application must identify the respondent and include enough information for NTCAT and the respondent to fully understand the matter. The Registrar can also ask for further information before the matter can proceed.
NTCAT will send both the Applicant and Respondent standard orders on how to proceed. All parties must comply with the standard orders or notify the Tribunal immediately if they cannot follow the instructions. Service of documents is a vital part of an NTCAT proceeding. The Tribunal will not hold a hearing until an Initiating Application is served on the respondent. The parties should gather any documents or information they need to support their case and provide these to the other party and NTCAT. The material should be identified in a logical manner, such as with a date and a short description. The Tribunal may not allow a party to rely on evidence if it is not presented before the hearing.
The respondent prepares a “Response”, setting out their rebuttal of the Initiating Application. This Response identifies the scope of the dispute and highlights the factors under contention. If a respondent fails to file a Response when ordered, then the matter may proceed to an uncontested hearing, and NTCAT can make orders in the respondent’s absence. A respondent may be able to make a counterclaim in their Response if the issue is sufficiently connected to the matter raised in the Initiating Application. If the issue is not sufficiently connected, NTCAT can direct the respondent to commence a separate proceeding through their own Initiating Application.
Time limits apply to some types of dispute before the NTCAT, so it is best to seek legal advice as soon as possible after a dispute arises. The Registrar may refuse to accept an application made out of time, or that does not comply with relevant legislation, or if it is made by someone who is not entitled to apply.
If there are urgent circumstances when applying to NTCAT, the applicant can indicate that they need an emergency hearing. Emergency hearings are typically listed within a few days. The application needs to explain why an emergency hearing is necessary. NTCAT will consider whether they should hold an emergency hearing based on the following considerations:
- health and safety issues;
- threat of injury to person or damage to property;
- prospect of severe personal or financial hardship if the matter is not heard urgently; and
- prospect that an emergency hearing will prejudice or disadvantage either party.
An applicant may choose to withdraw an NTCAT application because they do not want to proceed, or they settle prior to the final decision. An applicant can seek leave to withdraw a proceeding at any time but must obtain permission from NTCAT. NTAC then makes a consent order to grant leave to withdraw. If the respondent disagrees over withdrawing, the matter will be referred to a Tribunal Member for decision.
Go To Court Lawyers can help if you need advice over a legal dispute, or need assistance in applying to NTCAT. Please contact our team on 1300 636 846 today for legal assistance or representation.
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Where are we headed? The future smart cities and sustainable habitats
Hosted by Expo 2020 and delivered in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) and Siemens, Expo’s Premier Infrastructure Digitalisation Partner, the Pre-Expo Urban and Rural Development Week is examining how the world’s population will live and grow in harmony with our planet.
DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS
Key Note Speeches: Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, Director General of Expo 2020 Dubai Bureau and UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation, Helmut von Struve, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Middle East, and Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat welcomed audiences with inspiring and thought-provoking addresses:
Her Excellency Reem Al Hashimy, Director General of Expo 2020 Dubai Bureau and UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation, said: “We are rethinking the way that habitats – urban or rural, formal or informal – are designed and managed. Our challenge is to draft a blueprint to ensure that access to safe and affordable living conditions is a fundamental right, and to envision resilient and sustainable habitats that bear no cost to the environment of which we are a part. This is something that the Founding Father of the United Arab Emirates, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, always stressed: the need to balance the building of the nation’s infrastructure with the need to preserve and respect the land upon which we are blessed to walk.”
Helmut von Struve Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Middle East, said: "Technology allows us to design new solutions for existing problems. But we can no longer pride ourselves with focusing on immediate satisfaction. We need to future-proof. Whether it’s energy systems that form the backbone of our modern life, supply chains that provide drinking water to the most remote places, mobility and other infrastructure that improve our lives, buildings that keep us safe, or ingenious innovations that allow us to transform the everyday, resilience is key. At Expo 2020 Dubai, we are making this vision of resilience a global reality. By connecting 137 buildings via a cloud-based energy-analytics platform and other systems, we are effectively creating a blueprint that will inform future smart cities around the world."
Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director, UN-Habitat, said: "Urban and rural spaces are inextricably linked – economically, socially and environmentally – and cannot be adequately looked at in isolation from each other. UN-Habitat is pleased to be working in partnership with Expo 2020 Dubai on urban- and rural-related events, with a focus on reaching the last mile in slums and informal settlements. We look forward to working on action-focused solutions, leaving no one and no space behind."
Digitalisation, Collaboration and Storytelling: The Building Blocks for future Smart Cities: With our cities growing at an unprecedented rate, it is more important than ever to find new solutions for managing environmental impact, urban resilience and quality of life in our increasingly urban world. So how can we improve city life? The quick answer is: Make cities smarter! Across all areas of city life, technology and data can contribute to the effective management of urban areas, improving connectivity, sustainability, and liveability. This session explored the roles that digitalisation, collaboration and storytelling play in the development of human-centric, resilient smart cities.
Oliver Kraft, Executive Vice President – Expo 2020, Siemens, said: "Together with Expo 2020 Dubai and District 2020, we are co-creating a blueprint for future smart cities. With a focus on safety, security, quality of life and sustainability – which are key requirements in any future urban environment – we will transform data into value, using our MindSphere IoT. By building a digital twin of the Expo site, we will be able to aggregate, analyse and visualise data that allows smart decision making. This will enable us to connect more than 130 buildings to drive energy efficiency, optimisation and provide a centralised building-management system that will benefit visitors and operators alike. Plus, we will pilot the first green hydrogen storage solution in the region."
Nadimeh Mehra, Vice President, District 2020 – Transition Unit, said: “Smart cities will be sites that innovators use to take a human-centric approach to problem solving. District 2020 aspires to become a test bed for new technologies and innovations that will be enabled by the collaboration between the various entities that it will host. Through activating programmes such as Scale2Dubai and the Urban Lab, and through the curation of minds to unlock potential, we think that collaboration and the desire to collaborate towards a common goal will ensure a more secure, sustainable and community-first future. This is what our innovation ecosystem is designed to achieve.”
Emily Feavel, Head of Program Management – Expo 2020 for Siemens, said: “Today’s cities, faced with rapid urbanisation, climate change and evolving demographics, are handling some really complex challenges to meet the needs and increasing expectations of their citizens. Especially now, as we together navigate through a global pandemic, it is of upmost importance that we find new solutions. What we have found as these challenges have arisen is there has also been a rapid development of technology and digitalisation. This has afforded us new avenues for solutions and also given us this incredibly valuable raw resource – data – that we can then capture and use to optimise the systems that support our city lives.”
Expo Family Updates: Expo International Participants and Official Partners presented a series of inspiring and informative talks that looked at solutions to tackle problems faced in cities around the world. This included an overview of UPS’ innovative delivery solutions that aim to tackle congestion and pollution problems in the world’s largest cities; a regeneration project in the Bahamian capital of Nassau that focuses on the needs of residents first; and case studies from Italy that examine how we can promote urban development that is healthy, green, economically sustainable, resilient and inclusive.
Peter Harris, International Sustainability Director, UPS, said: “UPS is moving the world forward with leading logistics solutions. We are committed to creating a more sustainable company – and world – by being customer-first, people-led and innovation-driven. We believe partnership and cooperation are crucial for growth and progress, and that is why we are excited to be participating in Urban and Rural Development Week. As one of the top 25 most sustainable fleets globally, we look forward to sharing our insights and expertise on some of the biggest issues being faced by our environment and cities today.”
Ed Fields, Managing Director Down Town Nassau Partnership, said: “It has become increasingly appropriate to recognise that a city’s focus on tourism and the visitor experience should be secondary to the needs of the resident. That includes history, art, culture, entertainment and, most importantly, the reintroduction of a residential component. When this is achieved, the result is an authentic experience and this is what a discerning traveller seeks.”
Hon Virginia Raggi, Mayor of Rome, said: “The challenge of our time is resilience. It is necessary to reinvest, regenerate and restart to make cities increasingly liveable, inclusive, sustainable and innovative. The pandemic has strongly affected lives in cities, leaving us to face an even bigger challenge. This prompted us to speed up processes that were already underway, such as urban regeneration. In a city, it is essential to redevelop the abandoned spaces and the places that are no longer adequate to the needs of the territory. We are doing this by regenerating and giving new life to our existing heritage.”
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Today, September 27, 2020 is Yom Kippur. Normally Hank would proudly share information about this high holy day. Sadly and regrettably, he is not here so I will attempt to fill his giant shoes.
This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord” (Leviticus 16: 29-30). - Townhall
The linked article appeared in my daily newsfeed and comes from a conservative newsletter. Some may find it odd that a "political" source has religious information but readers may be surprised to find all kinds of topics.
Below is a partial summary of the article followed by an invitation to read more if you so choose. The author is Myra Kahn Adams, born and raised Jewish in the "Bagel Belt" (her words, not mine). She continues . . .
Decades later, I learned the reason why our neighborhood in the Boston suburb of Needham was overwhelmingly Jewish when Jews were a small minority in the town. My mother said that in the 1950s post-war exodus from the city, Jews looking to reside in Needham were only allowed to buy homes in newly built neighborhoods.
I grew up in the 50's and attended school with two Jewish children who were my age. There may have been more but they were the only two I knew. I have no idea where the temple was but there must have been at least one in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Myra Kahn Adams, born a Jew who later converted to Christianity. Her story about Yom Kippur and the Messianic "connection" continues.
“Yom Kippur is simply known as Yoma, ‘the day’ in rabbinic literature. On that sacred day, two goats were central to Israel’s atonement system. The first was put to death for the sins of the nation while the second was sent into the wilderness, carrying away Israel’s sins. Yeshua [Jesus] fulfills these two roles, dying for our sins and carrying them away. In Him, we are forgiven and free.”
You may want to read the complete article or not. If so the link is here.
#HenryStern #YomKippur #MyraKahnAdams
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General idea: Now Christ presides as our High Priest. He comes before the Father as our Advocate to mediate on our behalf. He does not enter; He is The Great Sanctuary, by His own blood, for our salvation and rest. He becomes the perfect temple of God, not of man, securing our eternal deliverance. He purifies forever; where animals only made temporary coverings, He is the eternal, atoning cover. Animals once stood in for our Lord as a sacrifice; now the true Sacrifice has come. He is real and here for us now, and we are cleansed by His deed and love. God demanded blood for payment of sins in order to give us forgiveness, and it was His blood that paid the price that God demanded, that we could not pay, and confirms His new covenant with us in the age of grace. He purifies our dead works so we can become servants of the Living God. He wills Himself to us as His death makes us alive. Christ's blood was shed to please God's price so we could be forgiven. The Tent and then the Temple were just copies and shadows of He who was to come-He who now has come; Christ is here with us now and forevermore. His work was once and for all; there is no longer a need for the repeated priestly acts. His one-time offering was good enough for all who eagerly waited for Him. Are you eagerly waiting and in Him?
Contexts and Background:
This passage is about how Christ's blood was shed to please God's price so we could be forgiven. Then the externals versus the internals; the previous covenant system can only take care of our outside, whereas Jesus deals with our inside so it affects our outside. Just dealing with the outside rarely affects the inside-as the Pharisees demonstrated in Jesus' day. To truly love and serve God and not repeat the betrayals of our past or our ancestors, God had to do a radical change from drawing us to Him to conform to Him. Now He goes inside of us so we conform; our gratitude and desire is to know Him, for He first loved and saved us.
The entirety of the Tent and Temple, all of its sacred furnishings and all its rituals were meant to expiate (make amends) to God's just wrath by appeasing Him with the substitution of bloodshed by animal sacrifices. This, in its entirety, also pointed to Christ and showed us His work; He is the better Sanctuary and sacrifice for our service. His blood is what purchased our redemption and gave us our salvation. Previously, the work of sacrifice was never finished; with Christ, it is finished! God's holiness, justness, and pureness cannot be contaminated by our sin. Yet, He allowed mankind the provision to know Him and be temporarily cleansed, as He pointed to the One who would permanently cleanse-Christ. These earthly representations were mere copies of the Heavenly one where God resides (1 Kings 6:22).
Commentary; Word and Phrase Meanings:
- The good things. Meaning the Old Covenant was a demonstration to all of who God is; now through the New Covenant, we can share in Him. Referring that under the old covenant, one's conscience was not cleared nor was one drawn closer to God. Now He draws us to Him; our salvation is through Him and Him alone (Heb. 6:5; 10:1-2; 12:22-24).
- Not a part of this creation. Referring that the earthly tabernacle was flawed, but the heavenly sanctuary is in the presence God and is perfect. Heaven, in most ancient traditions, pointed to perfection (Acts 7:40-50).
- Once for all. Christ is the greater Tent and Sanctuary; there is no more need for the repetition of sacrificing animals or empty rituals that do not cleanse one's heart. Christ is the greater reality and permanent offering by His blood.
- Eternal redemption. Now we have everlasting deliverance by one sacrifice: Christ's. He purchased our salvation, paid our ransom, and gave us abundant life for real living. The Qumran community believed that eternal redemption would be offered in the last days (Lev. 16:11-16; Dan. 9:24; Heb. 10:2-14).
- Blood of goats and bulls. Referring to the daily sacrifices the priests made in behalf of the people, personally and collectively, on the Day of Atonement. The point is since this sacrifice was only external, it could neither cleanse a person externally nor internally of sin (Lev. 16:6-16; Num. 19; Isa. 52:15; 53:4-12).
- Ashes of a heifer. This was the leftover residue from the sacrifices done outside of the Tent/Temple, then added to holy water and used for purification rituals (Nub. 19:9-18).
- Unblemished to God/without blemish. Under the Law, an animal must have been without any defect; to present a spotted or lame animal was an extreme insult to God. Christ is the unblemished Lamb-without sin-and the perfect sacrifice (Num. 6:14; 1 Pet. 1:19).
- Acts that lead to death/dead works. When one's heart is not right toward God, no ritual can save him from the need for real salvation in Christ. Our wicked deeds are rightly cursed and condemned by God. This shows our need for forgiveness so we can become God-centered in our outlook rather than self-willed or selfish. In this way, we can love Christ and serve Him righteously, faithfully, and truly and thus be entitled to know and worship Him (1 Sam. 24:5; Gal. 3:1-4; Heb. 6:1; 12:28; 13:15-21).
- Serve the living God. Meaning to have a God-centered life versus a self-centered life. God forgives us because of His love and desire that we grow, not just be saved and do nothing. We are to rather be worshippers and doers in His Kingdom (Heb. 12:28; 13:15-21).
- Died as a ransom. Jesus came to earth to pay our debt of sin, become a substitute for our death, and fulfill His role as our High Priest, which means He paid our payment that we could not do for ourselves. This inaugurated the New Covenant (Mark 10:45; 1 Cor. 1:23-25; 1 Tim. 2:5-6; Heb. 9:15). This sacrifice of Christ does not manipulate and/or force God to love and accept us; but God is the one who initiated it, and we are given it freely by grace, which we receive by faith and respond to by our gratitude and growth in our faith (John 3:16). This is the full expression of love in God's heart. We are reconciled to God, whose righteousness paid the price for the justification for our sins through the sacrifice of His Son, who removed the defilement of our sin from the very core of our being (Rom. 3:21-26).
- Set them free/redeems. A payment to purchase a slave from captivity or a hostage or release someone's debt. When we violated God's law, we became debtors to Him for a payment we could never afford. Christ offers Himself as a "substitute" for our sin so He can pay our debt for us.
- Case of a will/will involved/testament. "Will," in the Greek, is the same for covenant, meaning "agreement or a testament to an agreement." The point here is that the Jews inherited a land; now we have so much more because we inherited a salvation by faith-without merit or works. In any will, a death is required to fulfill it; Christ's death made this new covenant possible-as in ratified. This is also a "pun" (a play on words) to make a point that blood is required, and has been eternally and continually given to us by Christ (Gal. 3:15).
- Blood. This is what ratified the covenant-what Christ did on the cross, as Moses pointed to in the ceremonies and Law. Christ's blood was our substitute for the payment of our sins (Gen. 15:9-18; Ex. 24:4-8; Jer. 34:18-20
- Ceremonies. The buildings and furnishings of worship were the meeting places and tools for the rituals to show the people their sin compared to the Holiness of God; the sacrifice of blood was the only way to receive forgiveness, and Christ fulfilled this (Ex. 24:4-8; 29:37; Lev. 5:11-13; 8:5-30; 14:6; 16:16-20; 17:7; Num. 18:9; 19:6).
- Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. God demands a payment for sin; its cost is something we do not fully understand because we are sinful and he is Holy. But, its cost is so enormous that we could never ever pay it, so Christ paid it for us as our suffering servant (Isa. 53:12).
- Forgiveness/remission. Meaning God lets us go, lets us off the hook of our debt from our sin and His just wrath. God cancels our debt, and thus we receive pardon because of Christ and are released from our captivity of sin and guilt.
- Better sacrifices. God's sanctuary in heaven does not need to be purified; it is perfect-as He is. It does not rest on human frailty or sin, or slither to bribes or apathy. It still was not effective to remove guilt or give man gratitude for who God is and has done. While the earthly Temple had to be constantly purified and still was dependent upon the humanity of its priests, now in contrast, Christ, who appears in our behalf before God, is perfect (Lev. 16:32-33; 2 Tim. 4:8; Tit. 2:13; Heb. 7:25; 1 John 2:1).
- End of the ages/consummation of the ages. Meaning the entire goal of history, time, and the climax and point of God's plan, which are the person and Work of Christ. Here, it refers that Christ had to offer Himself only once, since He is perfect. This is the same term as last days or the period of Christ Kingdom and/or the age of grace, until He comes back, returns everything to perfection, and declares judgment on the wicked (Heb. 1:1-2; 1 Pet. 1:20).
- Destined/appointed to die once. This image pointed to the priest coming out of the Temple into the outer courts on the Day of Atonement that assured the people the sacrifice was done and accepted, since the priest was still walking. The point is that there are no "do overs" or reincarnation as Plato taught. We have but one life to live; then we die and there are no more opportunities to repent or be reconciled to God for those who were estranged by sin. Then, we go to heaven or hell, to our reward or judgment, depending on whether or not we accepted Christ's work (Psalm 49:7-15; Isa. 53:12; Ezek. 18:21-32; Rom. 5:12; 8:29-30; Phil. 1:23; 3:20-21; 1 Tim. 3:16; 2 Tim. 4:8; 1 Thess. 1:10; 1 John 3:2-3).
Devotional Thoughts and Applications:
The priestly role only dealt with one's appearances and presentations. Jesus gets into our hearts and minds so we are transformed and renewed in Him. He purifies us so we can know Him more deeply, and in so doing, become our best for His glory. This is quintessential in our spiritual growth. We have to be formed in Christ, and He has to have a deep impact on us so our life is changed. We no longer rely on our feelings and experiences; rather, we seek Him and His Word for all of our life and decisions so we are people of maturity not tossed by the winds of society and pride or seeking to create a façade rather than a real person whose heart is growing in Him. This comes from trusting in His redeeming power, in His blood that saved. He is the Spotless Lamb who saves; we respond by our trust in Him. Christ's blood was shed in our place to please God's price and wrath so we could be forgiven and have eternal life.
The Essential Inductive Questions (for more Inductive questions see Inductive Bible Study):
1. What does this passage say?
2. What does this passage mean?
3. What is God telling me?
4. How am I encouraged and strengthened?
5. Is there sin in my life for which confession and repentance is needed?
6. How can I be changed, so I can learn and grow?
7. What is in the way of these precepts affecting me? What is in the way of my listening to God?
8. How does this apply to me? What will I do about it?
9. What can I model and teach?
10. What does God want me to share with someone?
- How do you feel that Christ's blood paid for your sins? How would you have paid it if you could?
- What does it mean that God is pure and cannot be contaminated by our sin? How does this motivate you to have a heart that is after His because of what He did for you?
- How are you an indication of His work? How do your devotion and obedience please Christ? How do they not? How can they do so more?
- How can you better seek His truth? What does it mean to you to consider His precepts and walk in His ways by trust?
- What does it take to remain faithful and true to God in Christ by the Way of the Spirit? How can you do this better? So how do you live now? How can your eyes be upon Christ?
- How does this passage show you that the previous covenant system only took care of the outside of a person? How have you seen people go to empty rituals and not experience any effectual changes in attitude or behaviors?
- If you just dealt with your outside, would it affect your inside? How did the Pharisees demonstrate this in Jesus day? (See Matthew 23)
- How does Christ show you that He deals with your inside? How does this affect your outside? What do you need to do to make sure your heart is lined up to His?
- Why does God demand blood for the payment of sins? Could there be any other economy to appease Him?
- How can you truly love and serve God and keep from repeating your past mistakes or sins? How would a radical change from Christ help you express conformity to His precepts, gratitude, and/or desire to know Him more? Keep in mind: He first loved and saved you!
- How can you come to Christ daily and seek to know, grow, and serve Him? What would this do for your daily life in the world as well as the church?
12. What does it mean to you to be a servant of the Living God? How can you be more so? What would your life look like if you were more "servant minded?"
© 2008 R. J. Krejcir Ph.D. Into Thy Word Ministries www.intothyword.org/
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Bi-Weekly Talk: Railway Network Capacity Analysis for Strategic Planning
Mittwoch, 23.01.2019, 10.30 Uhr
Ort: RWTH Aachen University, Informatikzentrum - Ahornstr. 55, Erweiterungsgebäude E3, Raum 9u10
Vortragende: Rebecca Haehn
Railway Network Capacity Analysis for Strategic Planning
Increasing demand for rail freight transportation requires to make the best possible use of the existing infrastructure. This includes not only optimizing the allocation of the existing infrastructure but also to plan construction projects based on their impact on the overall network capacity. In this talk, a model for the railway network is presented that can be used to determine such an overall capacity. This requires the capacity of each individual infrastructure element in the railway network. Also, an approach to define and compute the overall capacity is introduced.
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American Sign Language Alphabet
Use this video to learn to spell words using only letters. Commonly used for asking what a sign is, or to spell a proper noun.
The basic questions: who, what, where, when, why and how are usually the starting point for conversations.
These phrases will help when meeting a new person who uses ASL. You'll introduce yourself and ask about the interests and backgrounds.
Use this lesson to learn how to sign vocabulary related to learning, students, and people.
This lesson covers several clothing items, describing their color and size.
Use this video lesson to learn how to sign colors and how to use color as an adjective to describe the world around you.
Use this video to learn how to sign about daily tasks and chores.
Days of the Week
This lesson goes over the days of the week.
Family and Relationships
This lesson shows you the signs for family members, friends, and other relations.
Use this lesson to learn how to talk about and ask questions about fruits.
This lesson reviews phrase for discussing meat options for food.
This lesson will teach you phrases about various food items.
Use this lesson to learn signs for vegetables and your like or dislike for them.
This lesson introduces phrases related to different rooms in a house and the attributes of the rooms such as size and color.
Meeting at a Coffee Shop
This video lesson features a real world coffee shop. Two friends are meeting for at a coffee shop and ordering a coffee. They are impressed with the barista's knowledge of ASL.
Use this video lesson to learn how to sign the numbers 1 to 20.
Learn ASL signs for outdoor activities such as sports.
Phone service companies
Use this lesson to learn how to sign about different cell phone providers.
Use this lesson to learn sign phrases that will bring about positive interactions such as a laugh or confidence.
Referring to other People
When referring to his/her or they or our, different signs are used.
Learn general ASL phrases related to watching and playing sports.
Use this lesson to learn how to sign the states in the Midwest of the USA.
States: North East
Use this video to learn how to sign the states in the Northeast of the USA.
Use this video to learn how to sign the states in the southern part of the USA.
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The global political sphere has been spinning in all directions over the past decade, with many suggesting that the influence of globalisation has waned. Yet, this has given rise to a new digital phase of globalisation, enabling smaller businesses to disrupt the markets of larger enterprises. With 86% of small tech start-ups engaging in cross-border activity, even the smallest of firms can make a big impact.
The wane of globalisation: What happened?
For years, globalisation has allowed products, technology, information and employment opportunities to spread across borders – uniting and integrating nations through the free market, making our world a much smaller place. However, increasing numbers of Western countries are turning their backs on the benefits of international cooperation and instead, now appear more focused on their national economies. But when did this start to happen? The 2008 recession, Brexit, President Trump…the list goes on.
Here are two big reasons why globalisation has been challenged:
1.Financial crash and austerity
Developments in technology and the growth of the Internet allowed years of successful growth on services and goods across the globe. However, deregulation in the finance industry caused banks to lend more money to people than they could ever pay back – contributing to the 2008 financial crash.
Financial globalisation was called into question as this was thought to have increased economic imbalance across the world’s leading powers, causing high levels of poverty and increasing financial uncertainty for many global citizens.
This saw many countries dive into recession and, in turn many governments tried to repair its damage. For instance, the UK tightened its purse strings by releasing a series of policies designed to reduce the deficit through spending cuts and tax increases. Periods of austerity also took place in other countries such as France, Greece and Italy.
2. Poverty and political disruption
The benefits of globalisation haven’t been felt by everyone, everywhere equally. This has contributed to a rise in populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Luigi Di Mao, as many citizens have previously felt ignored or unheard by their countries’ political systems – putting their faith into the promises of national investment.
The appointment of these populist politicians has been linked to an increase in poverty within developed nations. For example, in Italy, five million people are living in poverty – a record high. In 2018, the electorate voted for a populist government with many hoping a new leader would help bring this blight to an end. And, just take a look at the US, where post-recession impoverished Americans made up 12.3% of the population and Trump was controversially elected.
New globalisation: embracing the digital
While global capital flows continue to fall due to the tariffs and sanctions imposed by G20, the movement of data is increasing rapidly. This has enabled globalisation to shift into its new, digitalised phase.
Digital goods such as music and video have upended the traditional models of trading as they are not subject to the same tariffs and regulations as physical goods, presenting opportunities for smaller businesses to take a share of the markets of much larger organisations. Online e-commerce marketplaces including Amazon, eBay and Flipkart have created a world without bricks and mortar, enabling tens of millions of SMEs to take part in global trade.
So, how can your business take advantage of new globalisation?
1. Emerging technologies – Keeping up to date with the latest technologies will ensure your business is efficient and effective when collaborating across borders. This could help you understand any changing dynamics across your target markets, establish peer to peer trust when carrying out transactions and provide you with automated decision-making processes.
2. Understand and use digital platforms – People are using global digital platforms to show off their talent, seek employment and build their networks – and this can also be taken advantage of by businesses. For example, approximately 50 million small and medium sized enterprises use Facebook for marketing and nearly 40% of their fans are international. Aside from social media, there are many other tools out there that can be utilised to make sure your business operates smoothly and efficiently.
3. Educate your employees – It goes without saying that to increase your business’ productivity, it’s imperative that your employees are fully aware of the benefits the digital era can bring. This could be done by making sure your staff are competent at using new technologies, training them on any new software, and making them aware of any relevant strategies and policies.
Digitalised globalisation is set to cause a change in trade by focusing less on the physical goods that are traded between borders and more on digital transactions and exchange of information and data. In this new phase, there is plenty of opportunity for businesses to be successful on an international level, no matter their size.
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If you need some background, have a look at my earlier post about Ball State University (BSU) in Indiana.
At that University resides one Eric Hedin, an assistant professor at BSU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Hedin teaches two courses (actually, probably one course with three different names, “Inquiries in the Physical Sciences,” “The Boundaries of Science,” and “The Universe and You”), one of which meets the science requirement for Honors Students at BSU. My post reproduced the syllabus of the “science” course, “Astronomy 151, The Boundaries of Science,” which showed that the course was nothing more than a vehicle for purveying intelligent design and Christianity to the students.
Further, three Ball State students at the Rate My Professors site criticized Hedin for proselytizing a Christian viewpoint in his classes; these complaints go back to 2006. It’s pretty clear that Hedin is simply a stealth Christian, who takes the opportunity in his classes to push his religious views on the students—to the neglect of real science.
When I wrote about this situation, which clearly violates the First Amendment separating religious endorsement from U.S. governmental operations (these include public schools, of which BSU is one), several readers, as well as both P. Z. Myers and Larry Moran, argued that this was not a First Amendment violation for three reasons. First, the class was elective, so students didn’t have to take it. Second, this occurred at a university, not a public elementary or high school, and, presumably, you can violate the First Amendment in university classes. Third, at universities, “academic freedom” trumps the First Amendment; that is, professors can push whatever religious views they want on their students, even in science classes, for that’s simply the exercise of their “academic freedom.” (I note that all of us agree that Hedin’s classes were insupportable and that he should be told to cease teaching them, though people like P. Z. and Larry seem to feel that the professors cannot be forced to stop teaching what they want.)
I disagree with these arguments. “Academic freedom” is not a license to teach whatever you please in a classroom, particularly religion. Imagine how a Jewish student, for instance, must feel when reading Christian apologetics. (One of Hedin’s classes requires reading C. S. Lewis, for crying out loud), and Hedin presents no balance with thinkers who are nonbelievers or of other faiths.) And wouldn’t students feel intimidated to give answers on tests if those answers contravene Hedin’s religious views? If you think professors have the “academic freedom” to teach what they want in classes, imagine a geology teacher teaching Biblical Flood Geology as science, or a professor in medical school teaching homeopathic medicine.
All schools, not just public ones, have the duty to make sure that their students are being taught a balanced curriculum, particularly in science classes where the “truth” is not simply a matter of opinion. And public schools have the additional duty to ensure that their professors—who, after all, are government employees—do not prosyletize their religious beliefs.
My view is that Hedin should not be fired, but that he should be stopped from teaching any classes that advance his religious viewpoints. If he doesn’t stop, then he should be dismissed.
That opinion is shared by the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), whose lawyers, when they became aware of Hedin’s activities, wrote the letter below to the President of BSU, the chair of Hedin’s department, and other BSU officials. It’s a “cease and desist” letter asking for relief from Hedin’s unconscionable proselytzing. And it may well be the first step in a lawsuit against BSU.
If you don’t have time to read it (though you should, for it shows how organizations like the FFRF make their case), here is the case law that nullifies the argument that academic freedom trumps freedom from religious indoctrination (this is taken from the letter; note the mention of “optional classes”). Emphasis is mine:
Another legal issue with this class is Hedin’s active promotion of his personal religious views. In Bishop v. Aronov, the University of Alabama ordered a teacher, Dr. Bishop, to stop injecting religion into his classroom. Bishop lost a free speech lawsuit challenging the university’s order. Bishop said things like:
The order telling Bishop to stop such remarks is constitutional. It said:
The court specifically held that the university classroom “is not an open forum,” and upheld the university’s order that the professor “separate his personal beliefs and that he not impart the former to hius students during ‘instructional time’ or under the guise of courses he teaches in so-called optional classes. Id. at 1071. The court was “not persuaded that, even in the remotest sense, Dr. Bishop’s rights of free exercise or worship as those concepts are conprehended in constitutional parlance are implicated.” Id. at 1077.
Here’s the FFRF’s full letter, which I reproduce with permission (click to enlarge):
If anybody from Ball State is reading this: Hedin’s classes are not only unconstitutional, but an embarrassment to your university. Even if you disagree with the freedom-from-religion argument, Hedin’s courses are a discredit to BSU and he should be removed from them or forced to eliminate the religious indoctrination.
Note to others: it appears to be settled law that “academic freedom” cannot, in a public university, be an excuse to teach any damn thing you want.
As I mentioned earlier, I wrote to the chairman of Hedin’s department expressing some of the sentiments above, but he blew me off, arguing that his courses had been deemed satisfactory by University officials. We’ll see if they start singing a different tune now!
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TREATMENT OF GUM DISEASE
Gum disease is one of the most common dental problems. It affects 3 out of 4 people over the age of 35 and is the most common cause of tooth loss. Gum disease often develops slowly, without causing any pain in the very beginning. Sometimes you may not notice any sign of gum disease until it is serious and bone loss has begun to occur. However, the good news is that gum disease can be prevented and treated, and even reversed in its early stages. This is done through gum disease treatment.
Periodontal (gum) disease is an infection in the gums caused by the buildup of plaque and tartar both above the gum line and below the gum line. The presence of the plaque and tartar around the tooth causes the gum around the tooth to become inflamed and swollen. The inflammation of the gums can be slight, moderate, or severe and can often lead to the damage of the periodontal fibers that hold the gum tightly against the teeth.
Gum disease treatment helps fight this damage. The damage of the periodontal fibers causes periodontal pockets to develop. As the periodontal pockets develop, the risk of permanent bone loss around the tooth increases, eventually leading to tooth loss, if left untreated.
Other factors can also cause periodontal disease. These include local irritants such as smoking, chewing tobacco, or habitually clenching the teeth. Nutrition, certain medications, and high levels of stress can also be contributing factors. At home, some of the warning signs of periodontal disease / gum disease that need gum disease treatment are:
- Red swollen or tender gums.
- Gums that bleed when you brush your teeth.
- Pus between the teeth and gums.
- Loose permanent teeth.
- Bad breath.
The only way to confirm a diagnosis of periodontal disease is to have your mouth examined by a dental hygienist or dentist. During an examination, your gums are evaluated for bleeding, swelling, and firmness. Your teeth are also checked for movement and sensitivity and periodontal probing is done. Periodontal probing involves measuring and recording the depth of the pockets around each tooth. Probing is the most accurate technique used to determine how serious the gum disease is and if there has been any bone loss. After assessing the gums and teeth, the information gathered is then used to plan individualized gum disease treatment to help restore the gums and teeth back to optimum health.
Contact Pina Mazza at Maple Dental Hygiene Care for a consultation on gum disease treatment in Vaughan.
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Ben Boychuk/Joel Mathis: Why hasn’t Obama helped ease racial tension?
The flaring up of racial tensions in recent weeks — five police officers killed in Dallas, videotaped fatal police shootings of civilians in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, La. — has created alarm, rage and grief across the country. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll found 69 percent of Americans say race relations are bad — almost on par with the discontent during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Some critics wonder why President Barack Obama, America's first black president, hasn't been able to bring about peace, and some accuse him of exacerbating racial tensions. What should Obama do?
Joel Mathis. When it comes to race in America, there's still work to do.
That seems obvious to most African-Americans, certainly, as well as anybody sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement. For example: A new study from Harvard this week shows that when both blacks and whites are stopped by cops around the country, blacks are more likely to be pushed around, or have weapons drawn on them, or be subject to the use of pepper spray — and overall were more likely to be subject to use of force, even when compliant with an officer's instructions.
That's how things still work in the country Obama leads. One form of justice for African-Americans, another for whites. Other examples abound.
Obama's critics seem to believe in another story. That yes, there was a time when racism was a big, malignant force in the country, but then the civil rights movement happened, the Voting Rights Act was passed, and everybody lived happily ever after. There might be pockets of racism here or there, but that most complaints about racism amount to 'race hustling' — a power grab — and that any real remaining racism is practiced by blacks and directed at whites. It is, at best, a cynical point of view, one that denies the truth of lives lived and stories told by African-Americans.
So when Obama acknowledges how the world looks from an African-American point of view, then, his critics believe he is being divisive, that he is pandering and that he is, yes, 'race hustling.' They are wrong.
In fact, the president has often acknowledged racial progress in America. 'Race relations are better since I graduated. That's the truth,' he told Howard University graduates in May, but he added: 'I am not saying gaps do not persist. Obviously, they do. Racism persists. Inequality persists.'
I lament the deaths in Dallas, Minnesota and Baton Rouge. But Obama did not create racial strife in this country. He simply acknowledged a problem that was there all along. Pretending the problem doesn't exist won't make it go away.
Ben Boychuk. Who is pretending the problem doesn't exist? Nobody. Conservatives know it's bad out there. They also know that cops who abuse their authority are a problem.
Look, when six in 10 Americans say race relations are bad and have only gotten worse — only 38 percent said the same a year ago — that's a problem. Obama surely did not create racial strife, but he hasn't helped alleviate it, either.
The president is divisive. He has been from the moment he took the oath of office. He set the tone of his administration during his first Oval Office meeting with Republican congressional leaders: 'I won.'
Yes, he did. Yet Obama has never understood that governing demands more than a mere assertion of his will. At its best, the president's rhetoric can reach great heights. But that's all it is — rhetoric.
The president proved it again Tuesday, when spoke at the memorial for one of the murdered police officers in Dallas. He delivered a generally uplifting and unifying speech — until he decided to utter one of the most manifestly ridiculous lines to tumble forth from the lips of a U.S. president not named Jimmy Carter: 'It's easier for a teenager to get his hands on a Glock than a computer … or even a book.'
No, it isn't. Not at all. That is a laughable lie.
But the president said it, and at a funeral no less.
When we talk about healing racial divisions, the difference between liberals and conservatives is really a difference between culture and politics. Liberals have long looked to government to ensure not only equality of opportunity but also equality of outcome. Conservatives believe that equality of outcome is incompatible with freedom.
Obviously not everyone 'lived happily ever after' after Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation more than half a century ago. But it isn't 1965 anymore. There's always going to be work to do.
'I've seen how inadequate words can be in bringing about lasting change,' Obama said in Dallas this week. 'I've seen how inadequate my own words have been.'
Then maybe it's time to give the divisive language a rest and meet the people where they are.
Ben Boychuk is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal. Joel Mathis is associate editor for Philadelphia Magazine. Email them at firstname.lastname@example.org and email@example.com.
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Home Page | Cemeteries | Battles | Descendants | Find A Soldier | Towns | Units | Site Map
Age: 21, credited to Dorset, VT
Unit(s): 14th VT INF
Service: enl 9/24/62, m/i 10/21/62, Pvt, Co. K, 14th VT INF, wdd, Gettysburg, 7/3/63, m/o 7/30/63, br of Moses, 7/G
See Legend for expansion of abbreviationsVITALS
Birth: 07/14/1841, Dorset, VT
Burial: Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Tom Boudreau
Findagrave Memorial #: 14991672
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Not Found
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Great Grandfather of Mamie Ford Smail, Albany, NY
(Are you a descendant, but not listed? Register today)
Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, VT
Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.
James Tifft, a Civil War veteran, died on Saturday at the home of Jed Matson, with whom he made his home. The funeral was held on Monday with interment in the village cemetery, the Rev. W. L. Haven officiating. The deceased is survived by three sons, Ira, William and John and a daughter, Mrs. Silas Lanfear.
Source: Manchester Journal, October 16, 1924.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.
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It is in the wild and magnificent Thar desert in the north-western Indian province of Rajasthan – the land which inspired the maharajas to build their sumptuous palaces reminiscent of a “thousand and one nights” – that the Anwar Khan’s Group ancestry is rooted. In this original land of Gypsies, numerous troubadours and wandering musicians went from town to town entertaining princes and their courtiers.
It is a land of ancient music and spiritual tradition, the birthplace of a wealth of cultural traditions and know-how which have been passed down through the ages, from generation to generation by poets and musicians.
Anwar Khan was born in small village Kerap in Rajasthan. He was barely 10 years old when he started playing as a professional musician, touring in India where he was soon known for his great voice and his mastery of the harmonium and tabla.
Since 2005, "Anwar Khan’s Group" has established an international reputation and captivated all types of audiences in France, other countries of Europe, Marroco etc.
These talented Rajasthani musicians and their amazing art can transport you to these Rajasthani mystical lands where an authentic and magical experience awaits you.
The desert sounds – an extravaganza of hypnotizing melodies and beats – will captivate you and you’ll be carried away by a whirlwind of glittering, shimmering colours... It is indeed fascinating to listen to these musicians.
All songs composed and written by Anwar Khan Group
Anwar Khan - vocal, harmonium, tabla, leader
Sadik Khan Langa - vocal
Sikandar Langa - vocal
Yasin Khan Langa - sarenghi
Sardar Khan Langa - vocal
Savan Khan Manganiyar - spiew
Kohinour and Bhanvaru Khan Laga - kartals
Sugni and Jashu Devi - vocal
Lomnath - double flute
Husain Khan Langa - dholak
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INDIANAPOLIS (June 25, 2019) – The number of unemployment claims filed by Hoosiers in May fell sharply from the previous month and is at its lowest level so far in 2019, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD).
Unemployment claims last month dropped to 14,296 from 17,914 in April, representing a 20% decline. Since unemployment filings hit a high this year in February (23,992), the amount has fallen 40%.
“Unemployment claims typically fall as seasonal hiring increases during the spring and summer months, but the smaller amount of claims in May is especially positive, as overall unemployment in Indiana continues to remain low,” said Fran Valentine, DWD’s Senior Director of Research, Analysis & Engagement.
DWD recently reported that the state’s unemployment rate in May remained unchanged from the previous month, at 3.6%, and stands even with the national rate. Year-over-year, Indiana’s unemployment rate has essentially remained flat, increasing by just 0.1 percentage point.
Indiana’s jobless rate has decreased 7 percentage points since July 2009—the high point of unemployment in Indiana.
Total private employment stands at 2,742,100, which is 10,000 above the December 2018 peak. Indiana’s 65% labor force participation rate remains above the national rate of 62.8%. The state’s total labor force, which includes both Hoosiers employed and those seeking employment, stands at 3.4 million.
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As supply chains increasingly integrate suppliers, it’s time to extend business continuity in the same way. In simple situations involving individual consumers and providers, this is already happening. Customers who buy new cars today often rely on the dealer to also provide their “car continuity” because the systems in the car require specialist equipment for maintenance. Intelligence embedded in systems is also driving the move towards “Collaborative Asset Lifecycle Management” (CALM) for enterprises and their suppliers. There’s often a difference in attitude however between individuals and enterprises.
Consumers may passively accept that they need to go back to company that sold them the car, in order to ensure that it will keep on working. Business logic is different: enterprises can see the value in actively seeking out a supplier partner that can enhance the business continuity of the enterprise at a cost that compares favourably to doing the same thing in-house. CALM is the model that encourages suppliers and customers to exchange information and integrate applications so that different phases of the lifecycle of a capital asset can be optimized. This covers initial supply, commissioning, operation, maintenance and final decommissioning.
CALM also promotes business continuity in that it tends towards asset management that is proactive. All the component technologies exist today for supplier and customer collaboration to give real time results and improvements. Devices can be monitored remotely via standard networking protocols. If they move around, they can be tracked using GPS and RFID. Reading and interpreting the information gleaned in these ways allows for automated supply and delivery of consumables and spare parts, as well as the notification of technicians for the resolution of problems.
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Ukrainian contemporary dance during the war
The human body is a certain “archive” that impressions of each of the events that happen to a human being during its lifetime are stored in. Having this scientifically proven idea as a base, we decided to create a video archive of the works, movement practices, and discussions of Ukrainian choreographers and dancers during the war
Anton Ovchinnikov, the author of the idea of the project “Let the body speak”
The project aims to:
- offer the Ukrainian choreographers and dancers, who continue working, an online platform for showing and saving their works
- distribute the collected materials and knowledge about the Ukrainian dance community among the national and international audiences
- foreground a set of issues and public discussion around the topic "Contemporary dance art during the war"
- motivate artists to find new tools of expression through physicality
a digital hub of Ukrainian video dance, posted on the YouTube channel
it is opened on August 1st, 2022 and will work until the Victory of Ukraine
online workshops, lectures, discussions
free for Ukrainian dancers and choreographers, from September 1st to November 30th, 2022 (the number of participants is limited)
a presentation of works created during the educational program
in January 2023
we accept video works: ● from Ukrainian dancers, no matter which country you are currently in● lasting up to 5 minutes ● any format, professional filming is not necessarily required● created after February 24th, 2022
After having filled in the form, we will contact you for coordinating the technical issues of participation in the project.
Videos are accepted until September 1th, 2022
We provide promotional support for your videos on the YouTube channel in Ukrainian, English, French, German and Polish.
Film, watch and spread Ukrainian dance with us
You can support the development of the project or the creativity of one of the many artists whose works are posted on our YouTube channel.
To do this, follow the link
If you want your help to reach the addressee, please indicate in the comment
“I want to support the project” or “I want to support Name/Surname”
All-Ukrainian association "Contemporary Dance Platform" was created in 2015 by the professional dance community during the festival of contemporary dance theater "Zelyonka FEST". Creation of the Platform was a result of shared understanding that there was a need for an organization which would:
- develop networking in the contemporary dance community;
- assist in creating international projects and establishing contacts with international organizations in the sphere of contemporary dance;
- promote contemporary dance as a genre of experimental stage art and increase its audience numbers;
- seek opportunities for financing projects;
- establish contacts with art institutions in other spheres to create interdisciplinary projects.
One of Europe’s most exciting, innovative dance spaces, where artists from all over the world come to push creative boundaries, to experiment and to perform outstanding new work for audiences who expect to be surprised, inspired and delighted. The Place is home to London Contemporary Dance School, a 288 seat theatre, an extensive range of classes, courses and participatory opportunities for adults and young people, and professional development programmes for artists.
The UK/Ukraine Season of Culture is giving a voice to Ukrainian creatives and focusing on the changing needs and priorities of the Ukrainian cultural sector.
The British Council is an international organization for cultural links and educational opportunities.
The Ukrainian Institute is a state institution under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
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This article was taken from the June 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
The Conversation is an abstract art installation built from elastic bands and a circle of 99 solenoids -- coils of wire that create magnetic fields when electrified. Switch it on and each coil contracts and relaxes, pulling at cables that, in turn, stretch elastic bands suspended at the centre of the machine into shifting patterns. According to its creator, Bremen-based German artist Ralf Baecker, this constant adjustment blurs the lines between cause and effect, creating a back and forth "conversation". To Baecker,
The Conversation is a machine without purpose, as it never quite achieves the "inner equilibrium" it seems to yearn. The only way to make it still is to pull its plug. We know how it feels.
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Juliet said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare was arguing (through Juliet’s dialog) that the names of things don’t matter. What matters is what a thing “is”. And what if someone points to a daisy and calls it a rose? That doesn’t make a daisy smell any sweeter. Your “rose” will not impress your date.
And if you call something an iteration that isn’t an iteration, you’ll be less successful in delivering your software than you thought you’d be. If you use iterations, you want to make sure you enact real iterations in your project. Said another way, iterations should have behavior associated with them, not just timeframes.
It’s been my experience that iterations in RTC are often not used like iterations as commonly defined by the vocabulary of a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). So what we call iterations in RTC may or may not enact true iterative development. This leads to some mischief when people customize their processes.
One reason why this is a problem is because RTC allows you to define an “iteration” any way you want, as long as it has start and end dates. But an iteration is more than just dates.
An RTC iteration can represent a Waterfall phase, a Scrum iteration, a chunk of time with some behavior associated with it, or just a start/end date pair. So we don’t want to think that we’re getting “iterative development” for free just by dropping an RTC iteration into a timeline.
An iteration in RTC is often used for its most obvious function: as a date range within a timeline that you can assign work items to. This is useful to be sure, and you can create “iteration types” in RTC that let you identify what you should be doing during that time period. By default, that’s only a description of the iteration (with some defaults for role permissions). But you CAN define true iteration behavior in RTC by adding operation behavior and customizing role permissions for the iteration.
Why worry about the difference between a chunk of time and a real iteration?
Sometimes a Project Manager tells me that they’ve built a hybrid process in RTC. That makes me worry worry. Then they say “I have a waterfall project with iterations.”
No, you don’t. That’s impossible. A Waterfall (or Formal) process delivers its value at the end of the process, by definition. An iteration delivers value at the end of the iteration. By definition. The Waterfall model is designed to do all requirements up front, for instance¹. Iterative development details a subset of requirements each iteration. The measurement of value is different. Iterations measure functionality delivered and Waterfall generally uses Earned Value. So Waterfall and true iterations are functionally incompatible.
There are some things you can do in one of those approaches that you can’t do in the other. Trying to mix-and-match iterations and Waterfall phases is like saying “I like steak and I like key lime pie. If I throw both of them in a blender I’ll get something delicious!”²
What the PM usually means is that they’ve defined Waterfall phases, and they’ve defined sub-sections of those phases (using RTC iterations). But they are not using true iterative development in the context of a Waterfall process because, as we saw above, the two are incompatible.
The mischief happens when a PM thinks they’re getting the benefits of iterations, but they’re only defining timeframes within their timeline. The PM may not really understand the practices he or she is using, so just calling something an iteration seems good enough. In fact, you need to enact and enforce iterative behavior to get the benefits of iterative development.
What does iteration behavior look like in RTC?
Take a look at a project created from the Formal Project template. Open the process definition in RTC and go to Process Configuration > Team Configuration > Iteration Types. Here are all the iteration types defined within the project. If you open an iteration type and select Permissions, you’ll see all the permissions for all roles for that iteration type.
For the Requirements phase in a Waterfall (formal) development cycle, the Developer is only allowed to create defects. Developers don’t define risks or business needs when we’re doing requirements, so we restrict their behavior to creating bugs.³
Similarly, we can define operation behavior for specific roles in each iteration. In the screenshot below, we’re saying that anything delivered during the Requirements phase must have a clean workspace and change sets with descriptions associated with them.
Note that iteration behavior overrides the operation behavior defined at the Team or Project level.
You might be wondering why I didn’t show Scrum iterations for my examples. If you look at the RTC Scrum template you’ll see that there are no iteration types defined. That means that the RTC Scrum template does not enforce iteration-specific behavior!
Actually, this behavior is enforced at Project and Team levels (under Operation Behavior). So all iterations in the Scrum template require identical behavior, all of which is defined at the Project/Team levels.
But it would be better, I think, to reflect that not all true iterations are created equal. Early iterations don’t need so much formality. For example, developers might be creating Epics, you might be experimenting with architectures that you will throw away, etc. Keep things loose and don’t make people do a lot of administrative stuff.
In later iterations you don’t want just anyone creating an Epic, so you might prevent developers from doing so. You want to make sure copyright notices are included in the code. And you want your developers to remove warnings and unused imports from the code as you approach final release. So add those mechanisms into the later iterations.
There’s no reason you can’t have iterations named Early Project, Mid Project and Final Release. They can be mostly the same, but allow for different levels of permission and formality.
You can’t expect to reap the benefit of iterations unless you discipline your team to deliver functionality in the way iterative development is defined. Calling a Waterfall phase an iteration doesn’t make it so, though you can use RTC to customize the phase so it focuses on what your Waterfall approach should focus on.
Similarly, you can define iteration-like functionality at the project and team levels of your Scrum project as RTC currently does. But the focus of iterations change over the course of a project. And not all projects are created equal. For example you may want different iteration types for a 3-member Scrum team versus a 7-member team.
Add iteration behavior to your RTC iterations to support whatever process model you need. But remember that just calling something an iteration doesn’t encourage your team do true iterative development unless you enact it in your process.
1. The observation from Winston Royce is that you find design flaws when you test, so you go back and re-design the product. Kind of a great big second iteration. He’s not the only SDLC guru that recommends throwing away the first attempt. I’d argue that most modern SDLCs actually endorses the practice “throw the first one away.” But that’s for another article.
2. Yuk. Some will argue that modern Waterfall methods incorporate some Agile techniques which allows you to introduce iterations into a Waterfall environment. And I believe that you can be both Agile and Waterfall, since Agile is a perspective and Waterfall is a discipline. But you still can’t jump to the left while you’re jumping to the right. You can’t do everything in your process just once (Waterfall) while at the same time repeating everything in your process (iterations).
3. When I first saw this I wondered why a Developer is allowed to do anything at all during the Requirements phase. To do Waterfall formally, you’d toss the requirements over the wall to the developers and they wouldn’t have any code to write or bugs to report until that time. Yeah, I know this is old school. But it’s still a valid (or at least required) approach for certain types of projects and industries.
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II. Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And Hermits are contented with their cells; And Students with their pensive citadels: Maids at the wheel, the Weaver at his loom, Sit blithe and happy; Bees that soar for bloom, High as the highest Peak of Furness Fells, Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth, the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is: and hence to me, In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground: Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH.
Calm is all nature as a resting wheel.
The Kine are couched upon the dewy grass ;
The Horse alone, seen dimly as I pass,
Is cropping audibly his later meal :
Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal
O’er vale, and mountain, and the starless sky.
Now, in this blank of things, a harmony,
Homefelt, and home-created, seems to heal
That grief for which the senses still supply
Fresh food; for only then, when memory
Is hushed, am I at rest. My Friends! restrain
Those busy cares that would allay my pain;
Oh! leave me to myself, nor let me feel
The officious touch that makes me droop again,
IV.-ADMONITION. Intended more particularly for the Perusal of those who may have happened to be enamoured of some beautiful Place of Retreat, in the Country of the Lakes. Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye! - The lovely Cottage in the guardian nook Hath stirred thee deeply; with its own dear brook, Its own small pasture, almost its own sky! But covet not the Abode; — forbear to sigh, As many do, repining while they look; Intruders who would tear from Nature's book This precious leaf, with harsh impiety. Think what the Home must be if it were thine, Even thine, though few thy wants !-- Roof, window,door, The very flowers are sacred to the Poor, The roses to the Porch which they entwine: Yea, all, that now enchants thee, from the day On which it should be touched, would melt, and melt away.
“ BELOVED Vale!” I said, “ when I shall con
Those many records of my childish years,
Remembrance of myself and of my peers
Will press me down: to think of what is gone
Will be an awful thought, if life have one."
But, when into the Vale I came, no fears
Distressed me; from mine eyes escaped no tears;
Deep thought, or awful vision, had I none.
By doubts and thousand petty fancies crost,
I stood of simple shame the blushing Thrall;
So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small.
A Juggler's balls old Time about him tossed;
I looked, I stared, I smiled, I laughed ; and all
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.
PELION and Ossa flourish side by side,
Together in immortal books enrolled :
His ancient dower Olympus hath not sold;
And that inspiring Hill, which “ did divide
Into two ample horns his forehead wide,"
Shines with poetic radiance as of old;
While not an English Mountain we behold
By the celestial Muses glorified.
Yet round our sea-girt shore they rise in crowds:
What was the great Parnassus' self to Thee,
Mount Skiddaw? In his natural sovereignty
Our British Hill is fairer far; he shrouds
His double front among Atlantic clouds,
And pours forth streams more sweet than Castaly.
THERE is a little unpretending Rill
Of limpid water, humbler far than aught
That ever among Men or Naiads sought
Notice or name! - It quivers down the hill,
Furrowing its shallow way with dubious will;
Yet to my mind this scanty Stream is brought
Oftener than Ganges or the Nile; a thought
Of private recollection sweet and still!
Months perish with their moons; year treads on year;
But, faithful Emma, thou with me canst say
That, while ten thousand pleasures disappear,
And flies their memory fast almost as they,
The immortal Spirit of one happy day
Lingers beside that Rill, in vision clear,
Her only Pilot the soft breeze, the Boat
Lingers, but Fancy is well satisfied;
With keen-eyed Hope, with Memory, at her side,
And the glad Muse at liberty to note
All that to each is precious, as we float
Gently along; regardless who shall chide
If the Heavens smile, and leave us free to glide,
Happy Associates breathing air remote
From trivial cares. But, Fancy and the Muse,
Why have I crowded, this small Bark with you
And others of your kind, Ideal Crew!
While here sits One whose brightness owes its hues
To flesh and blood; no Goddess from above,
No fleeting Spirit, but my own true Love ?
The fairest, brightest hues of ether fade;
The sweetest notes must terminate and die;
O Friend! thy flute has breathed a harmony
Softly resounded through this rocky glade;
Such strains of rapture as
* the Genius played
In his still haunt on Bagdad's summit high;
He who stood visible to Mirzah's eye,
Never before to human sight betrayed.
Lo, in the vale, the mists of evening spread!
The visionary Arches are not there,
Nor the green Islands, nor the shining Seas;
Yet sacred is to me this Mountain's head,
From which I have been lifted on the breeze
Of harmony, above all earthly care.
See the Vision of Mirza in the Spectator.
X. -- UPON THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE,
PAINTED BY SIR G. H. BEAUMONT, BART.
PRAISED be the Art whose subtle power could stay
Yon Cloud, and fix it in that glorious shape;
Nor would permit the thin smoke to escape,
Nor those bright sunbeams to forsake the day;
Which stopped that Band of Travellers on their way,
Ere they were lost within the shady wood;
And showed the Bark upon the glassy flood
For ever anchored in her sheltering Bay.
Soul-soothing Art! which Morning, Noon-tide, Even,
Do serve with all their changeful pageantry;
Thou, with ambition modest yet sublime,
Here, for the sight of mortal man, hast given
To one brief moment caught from fleeting time
The appropriate calm of blest eternity.
“Wuy, Minstrel, these untuneful murmurings
Dull, flagging notes that with each other jar?”
“ Think, gentle Lady, of a Harp so far
From its own Country, and forgive the strings."
A simple Answer! but even so forth springs,
From the Castalian fountain of the heart,
The Poetry of Life, and all that Art
Divine of words quickening insensate Things.
From the submissive necks of guiltless Men
Stretched on the block, the glittering axe recoils;
Sun, Moon, and Stars, all struggle in the toils
Of mortal sympathy; what wonder then
If the poor Harp distempered music yields
To its sad Lord, far from his native Fields ?
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Fallone di Gravina
Place of Origin
Fallone of Gravina cheese takes its name from the word "fallone" which means empty, and refers to the fact that can not be stored and therefore must be consumed immediately.
The Fallone di Gravina is a fresh cheese, with no rind, delicate, soft, white, compact and with a distinctive flavour. It must be consumed in one day because it uses raw milk instead of pasteurized milk.
The preparation of the Fallone di Gravina consists in adding to the sheep's milk, used for its preparation, 15% of goat milk. This is done to give the cheese a spicier flavour.
Once produced, the cheese is inserted in container that are then immersed in brine for 15 minutes.
It is a table cheese but it can also be used as a seasoning for various recipes.
Fallone di Gravina pairs well with Martina Bianco DOP or Ostuni Bianco DOP.
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|Bayberry dying on Long Beach TWP NJ any kind of spray to help they may be 20 years old|
|The Northern Bayberry (Pensylvanica) is generally described as a perennial tree or shrub. It is native to the U.S. (United States) has its most active growth period in the spring. The greatest bloom is usually observed in the late spring, with fruit and seed production starting in the summer and continuing until fall. Leaves are not retained year to year. The Northern Bayberry (Pensylvanica) has a long life span relative to most other plant species and a slow growth rate. At maturity, the typical Northern Bayberry (Pensylvanica) will reach a maximum height of 9 feet at 20 years of age. At twenty years of age the plant begins to die out because it has reached the end of its lifecycle. I'm afraid your bayberry falls into that category and I don't know that there's anything you can do to revive your plant. Wish I had better news for you.
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Several years ago I played with an orchestra that accompanied an 8-year-old cellist’s performance of Popper’s “Hungarian Rhapsody.” I watched in amazement as her little fingers flew up and down the fingerboard with perfect precision. As she poured herself into the performance I could feel her love and passion for the music. This experience inspired me to raise the standards for my students. If she could perform that piece with such accuracy and passion, surely my students could do the same. My love for teaching has intensified as I’ve watched my students begin to discover what they are capable of accomplishing and soar to new heights. To help your students discover their potential and find their “wings,” I encourage you to see greatness in your students, test their limits, and help them to create ownership.
1. See Greatness in Every Student
All students have one thing in common: they want to succeed. Success feels good and inspires continued work and effort. When students feel failure, they become discouraged, unhappy, and do less work.
This year a student came to my program who had really struggled in his orchestra class at another school. The teacher at that school warned that this student was obnoxious, disrespectful, and was unwilling to practice. I watched him carefully as the school year began. As soon as he did something well, I praised him and he thrived on the positive attention. Praise and approbation continued as he began to progress. Within weeks he became one of my strongest players.
I gave an assignment to my students after term one asking them to explain whether or not they had improved over the last few weeks. This student wrote on his assignment, “Yes I improved! I went from the kid who couldn’t play anything to learning all of the advanced parts!”
We must believe that all students in our classrooms are capable of greatness. When we begin to see their capabilities we can help students discover their wings.
I have another student who frequently sends me emails about how much he loves orchestra. A few weeks ago he sent me a note that said: “How do I drop orchestra?” I was stunned. I thought he was enjoying my class. He told me that he was struggling to read the notes and was feeling behind in class. I told him that I could help him and spent a few minutes the next day with flashcards and the “Note-Reading Matching Game,” available at orchestraclassroom.com. That night I received another email from this student. He wrote, “You are the best orchestra teacher in the world. I love reading notes now. Thank you so much!!!!”
Every student really can be great.
2. Don’t Set Limits. Test Limits.
When I was in 7th grade my orchestra class was too easy for me. The music was not challenging, so I never once practiced my orchestra music. I lacked motivation because I was not given the opportunity to improve and strengthen my playing. Students cannot discover their true potential unless they are pushed to accomplish more than they think possible.
When choosing music it is important to meet the needs of your students by finding music that is challenging yet attainable. Since there are normally many different ability levels in one class, I recommend using music with multiple parts which vary in difficulty. Here’s an example.
With this type of repertoire, slower learners are able to feel success while learning the simple parts. More advanced players can be challenged to learn the more difficult parts. This teaching model is used in my book, “The True Beginning: Before the Method Book.” Students learn simple parts to the tunes while progressively working to play more advanced parts.
Using this approach, every student is able to thrive. Slower learners provide backup parts while developing the desire to learn the melody. With a little persuasion, more and more students discover they can also work to learn the advanced parts. This helps a class progress more quickly.
3. Create Student Ownership
As much as I want my students to be successful, they must decide themselves to do the work and make themselves great. To encourage students to make the decision to be great, we must first demonstrate that greatness is attainable. I suggest having them frequently reflect on their performances so they can notice progress and identify goals for improvement.
One way I help students become accountable for their own learning is to have them fill out a simple goal sheet after each playing test as well as at the start of each term. Check out this example.
Such a form encourages students to reflect upon their grade, their preparation, and decide how they will improve. They are able to reflect and assess their playing and develop a plan to achieve their desires for success. Once a student is self-motivated they can progress quickly and have a much more fulfilling orchestra experience.
My job has become much more rewarding as I have worked to focus on inspiring students to discover their own potential. It is marvelous to see students soar with confidence as they continuously progress to new levels of greatness.
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Obesity has always been connected with a lot of persistent diseases, consisting of heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, apnoea, osteo arthritis, anxiety and also even some cancers cells. At the same time, there are currently a great deal of misleading insurance claims regarding weight reduction in the media, encouraging us that everything from asai berries to expensive food supplements is the secret ways to attain slimness.
However as a matter of fact, there is no fast way to reduce weight. Weight loss needs a well-informed effort to transform your behaviors and way of life.
The word “diet” is merely misleading; diet plans do not actually work. They can help to drop weight for some time, yet after they are ended up, individuals gain weight and commonly much more than previously.
Naturally, a preferred diet regimen of trembles or prescription weight-loss medication can aid you slim down rapidly, yet what takes place after the diet regimen mores than? Is it possible to remain on a shake diet regimen for the rest of your life?
Suggestions based on practical experience to help you reduce weight:
1.) Get rid of the factors for any illness
You need to see a physician before you begin a fat burning program. You will require to review your weight reduction strategies, get approval for routine workout and also check for some health and wellness problems.
A straightforward blood examination is usually utilized to check for diabetic issues and thyroid troubles, as well as you may likewise require a couple of even more tests to ensure that you are healthy sufficient to begin a weight loss programme which you have no health issue that add to your weight gain.
2.) Determine just how much weight you are overweight
Before you begin to drop weight, it is really essential to identify whether and also just how much you truly are overweight. Nearly all doctors make use of Body Mass Index (BMI) as one of their tools for determining normal weight.
BMI = weight in kilos separated by elevation in meters
BMI between 25 and 29 is ranked as “obese”, in between 30 and above is ranked as “obese”, as well as 40 and also above is rated as “dark weight problems”. Please keep in mind that this formula does not take into account muscular tissue mass.
3.) Establish short- and also long-term goals
How much weight do you need to lose? Ask your medical professional what your ideal weight ought to be, however likewise set a preliminary weight-loss target and also other intermediate targets. Establish realistic short-term objectives, since if you expect to lose too much weight too quickly, it can cause unneeded disappointment.
4.) Take little steps
Begin with small changes when you start a long-lasting weight reduction strategy. If you establish reasonable objectives as well as progressively attain them, you are more probable to be successful in the long-term.
If you attempt to do too much promptly, it raises the chance that you will certainly quit your strategy in all. Make a checklist of all the little actions and also adjustments that you need to make. Then do them individually. The race is won by a person who is stable, but slow-moving.
5.) Minimize your section
Even if the diet regimen consists only of fruits and vegetables, it can still lead to weight gain if you consume excessive. Therefore, it is extremely essential to maintain the right portion size. Fifty percent of the web content of your plate ought to contain vegetables, a quarter needs to contain a resource of pure healthy protein (chicken without skin, turkey, fish), as well as grains or starch-containing items ought to not exceed a quarter.
6.) Restriction the amount of carbs
The sight was shared that the weight problems epidemic in the United States was caused partially by an increase in carbs in our diet rather than by a boost in fat content, as had been believed in previous decades. By restricting fat consumption, Americans have actually simultaneously boosted their carb consumption, bring about an increase in diabetes instances.
7.) Select resources of healthy and balanced fats and healthy proteins
Choose resources of fats and proteins that benefit your heart – such as peanuts, nuts and seeds, avocado and soybeans. When cooking, make use of olive oil or cooking spray instead of the much more fatty veggie oils or butter. Prevent frying. Switch to 1% fatty milk or even skimmed milk. Limitation the usage of red meat, eat skinless chicken, turkey or fish rather.
8. Use fiber
Cellular tissue offers volume and provides a feeling of fullness for a very long time. According to researches, people who utilize a great deal of fiber go to lower risk of weight problems throughout life, along with much less danger of diabetic issues.
9.) Boost your physical activity
You recognized it would come to this beforehand. Math tells us that to fix weight you need to make use of much less energy than to waste – there is nothing else method. One of the most effective weight reduction programs consist of not only modifications in diet, but also physical activity. Although diet regimen alone is a lot more efficient at reducing weight than exercise alone, it is best to utilize both.
10. Compensate on your own
Occasionally benefit yourself for your superb efforts and also achievements with the food you like, but no greater than as soon as a week and controlling the dimension of the portion. If you try to entirely surrender your preferred food, you are more probable to give up your weight monitoring strategies.
Allow yourself to consume periodically, due to the fact that after all the effort as well as effort you unquestionably deserve it.
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We are heartbroken and disturbed by the tragic and fatal stabbing that occurred on the morning of Wednesday, September 27 at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in the Bronx. We mourn the death of Matthew McCree and hope for the recovery of Ariane LaBoy. Our hearts go out to Abel Cedeno, the families of all three of the youth involved, and the entire school and neighboring community in which the lives of so many have been irrevocably altered by this tragedy.
We call on the mayor and school officials to respond swiftly to this tragedy: not only to the fatal stabbing, but to address the bullying that appears was an integral part of this fatal incident, and work to create a safer and healing environment for the future. According to recent news reports, Cedeno’s family and friends have said he was the victim of anti-gay bullying since the start of the school year, and in fact had been bullied since middle school. We know all too well that bullying, harassment and other anti-LGBT violence in schools causes serious harm to the students targeted. According to GLSEN, 57.6% of LGBTQ students feel unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, and 43.3% because of their gender expression, resulting in 42.5% of LGBTQ students who reported that they did not plan to finish high school, or were not sure if they would finish, or indicated that they were considering dropping out because of the harassment they faced at school.
We do not believe that the addition of metal detectors is the real solution to this tragedy, and caution against responding to this incident of violence by increasing the policing and potential criminalization of our youth, especially youth of color. We strongly believe that all three youth involved are victims who needed the support and action of the adults around them to intervene, and we hope we can move forward without further demonizing them in this moment.
This stabbing has come on the heels of the news of the horrific murder of 17-year-old Ally Lee Steinfeld, in Missouri, which occurred in early September as a result of transphobia and dating violence. And we just learned of the vicious attack on Kylie Perez, a young transgender student at East Side High in Newark, which also occurred on school grounds. This news comes at a time when we are seeing a significant increase in hate violence towards LGBTQ people and others both locally and nationally. Last month we released a report, Crisis of Hate, to bring attention to the fact that at this point in the year, we have already recorded the highest number of hate violence-related homicides of LGBTQ people in our 20-year history of tracking this information.
It’s clear that as a country, and in community, we must work to better support our youth during some of the most vulnerable and important times of their lives, and to address the climate of hate against LGBTQ people, people of color, immigrants and others that is growing at an alarming rate. We need to work to ensure that our schools—as well as other public spaces—are affirming and safe environments for young people of all identities, and that school officials and teachers are well equipped to address and prevent bullying and other forms of anti-LGBTQ violence. We call upon our communities to address not only the symptoms of violence as it plays out in our homes, schools, and workplaces, but to address the underlying root causes that fuel this violence, like racism, transphobia, homophobia, and more. And we call upon our communities to seek restorative and healing responses to violence that offer support, not punitive measures, to all in need.
AVP offers our support to students, family members and school officials in addressing and healing from this tragedy. Our hotline and counseling services are available any time to LGBTQ youth who may be experiencing anti-LGBTQ violence, and to those who are trying to support those youth.
Until we are all safe and free,
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Engaging Storyboard Sequencing Comic Videos!
In the last two months Ginger Tiger has been working vigorously, on a series of new storyboard comic videos, targeting sequencing practice.
They are happy to announce they have uploaded 5 fun new storyboards, that will give you hours of fun and laughter.
Please try these demo videos:
At the Beach
The main storyboard videos features:
1 – The videos are segmented and should be watched with breaks/stops.
Every click will resume the video in a logical sequence. At every break/stop a discussion may be encouraged about one’s understanding of the sequence of events, reasoning and the predictions of events.
This may raise questions like:
What happened before
What is happening now?
What do you think will happen next?
Do you have other thoughts on what may happen and why?
2 – The video does not have spoken text, but rather vocal effects and intonations, in order to allow the user to tell the story in their own words.
This should encourage questions such as:
what do you think she is saying to her?
What would you say?
Once the pictures have been organized in the correct sequence the full video will be screened continuously – from beginning to end.
Most of the videos are humoristic.
We try to practice and develop a sense of humour in the storyboards.
We hope you enjoy and smile like us when playing the game.
The games support all access devices including touch screen, Eyegaze Eye-Tracking Device, mouse, one switch or two switches, and of course iPad, Android and other tablets.
Coupon Code: thebrainary
Originally published by Ginger Tiger Special online learning environment
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A crisis in the making… or not
In the electrical industry’s very own ‘fake news’ moment, James Tinslay looks at the so-called apprenticeship training crisis.
The popular press is as enamoured with the word ‘crisis’ as it is with the term ‘fake news’. Whether it is the health crisis, climate change crisis, schooling crisis or the housing crisis, we clearly have a lot on our plates.
If this sounds cynical, you would be right.
Invariably the claim will be by industry, unions, community groups and the like that should the government stump up enough cash said crisis will be averted. And governments often do stump up a significant amount of money only to find a couple of years down the track that the program design was wrong and that systematic rorts have become the norm. A wonderful example of this is the discredited VET Fee Help scheme where one private college received over $200 million in one year. It was subsequently found to have claimed the funds in an unscrupulous manner and then forced to refund the majority of the money.
One popular crisis left out of the above list is the training or apprenticeship crisis. I’m not going to deny that there are significant challenges across all industries, brought about by the ebbs and flows of disruption, social trends related to work and just plain old technological change. Having been involved with apprenticeships and particularly electrical apprenticeships for some three decades, the electrical contracting and related industries have seen their fair share of ebbs and flows brought about by trends but mainly by the boom and bust nature of the construction and infrastructure sectors.
Despite claims to the contrary, I do not believe that there is a crisis with electrical apprenticeships. What we have are a group of challenges; many of these have been unchanged for decades and some are new. When an employer, whether it be a sole trader, electrical contractor, major employer or a group training scheme, advertise apprenticeship position vacancies there is never any shortage of those who wish to apply. The major problem is suitability and how best to establish the height of the bar.
Getting it wrong upfront is a major source of the relatively high rate of non-completion of electrical apprenticeships. When you do get it right it is still not the magic bullet to completion but it is an essential start. And staying with the suitability aspect, there is a reason why good apprentice group training schemes such as those run by NECA and other industry bodies have success rates around the low 90% range. It is a simple (but not easy) suitability assessment backed up by continuous mentoring.
Well-meaning parents can push their children into the electrical trade because it is well-paid, even though the young adult has no mathematical skills and is not mechanically minded. That is where pre-apprenticeships have become a useful tool in conjunction with a readiness assessment tool that identifies literacy and numeracy needs. Any employer not using these available tools are opening themselves up to a potential world of pain which ends up wasting the employer’s time and money and the young person’s time having to find an alternative career path.
If you are an employer, do yourself a favour and speak to NECA, an electrical group training scheme or your local technical college for advice before selecting an apprentice. Above all, don’t employ your mate’s offspring.
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Celery is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages, while providing the tools required to maintain operations. In fact, Celery has become the defacto standard for such a task in the Python ecosystem.
Many large companies, like Instagram, Mozilla and Udemy, rely on it for different tasks, from sending emails to processing large files or generating image thumbnails of different sizes in the background. You can find out more here.
What this means is that it’s a reliable and battle-tested technology. Awesome, right? But here comes the problem. Celery is very different when you run it in a development mode rather than in production mode; things go wrong, you discover you misconfigured it, there are scalability issues, duplicated task executions and much more – and none of these issues are addressed in the beginners tutorials. Things can get really tough.
I don’t want to sound so pessimistic. In fact, I find it a satisfying challenge and a useful learning process. And yes, you will learn how to cope by experimenting with production issues and fixing them, but things really get problematic if you don’t have a good control panel and the right tools to help you. You need to be alerted to an issue, have the right tools to identify the issue, and finally be able to fix it, making sure it doesn’t happen again.
So what is this post about?
I’m going to prepare you for when issues arise in your production environment and explain the correct celery setup that will help you solve such incidents. Although the things mentioned might seem a little basic for some, especially more experienced technologists, this tutorial can be considered as a best practice checklist to help create a healthy Celery production setup.
Choose your message broker wisely
Celery supports several message brokers, including RabbitMQ which is the default, but you might want to use Redis or Amazon SQS. Do your research and find out more about the broker, to ensure you choose wisely before starting your development. They may all do the same job, but they have some differences regarding their configurations – so make sure you choose one that will benefit your project. I learned this the hard way, joining a project that was using Redis. We had to complete a critical task- a payment- that was expected to run once, but we found out that it was programmed to run more than 20 times! Thousands of dollars could have been lost due to a misconfiguration of the Redis Visibility Timeout!
Research Celery supported brokers here and once you decide on the one to go with, read through its configurations carefully.
The ability to track and monitor your task queues and workers in real-time is essential. Celery provides a few options that you should familiarize yourself with, because they will be your swiss army knife to fix any difficult situation.
Here are the fundamental ones:
- Flower: this is essential. It’s a real-time web dashboard where you can monitor task progress and history, see graphs and statistics and remotely control everything including tasks lifecycle, queues, and workers etc.
- Broker client: depending on the broker, you can use its own client, for example, redis-cli or rabbitmqctl. They can be helpful sometimes for inspecting the queues and seeing what’s inside them.
- Management command-line utilities: they are celery commands for inspecting and controlling the workers. For example, you can see a list of the currently live executed tasks using the command `celery -A proj inspect active`
You can check everything about Celery monitoring here.
Most of the time your logs will be the source of truth to refer to when something unexpected happens. That’s why it’s a key feature in modern software applications, so make sure you properly set up your Celery log configurations. Also, ensure you have enough information logged when something changes in your code. Log the item details such as the `ID` to make easier for debugging and troubleshooting.
Application errors real-time monitoring
“Software errors are inevitable. Chaos is not.” sentry.io
Errors in production will always happen, but you can discover them early and quickly resolve them before they become invasive. As a result, you need a system that monitors your application, and instantly alerts your team via different channels, such as email or Slack. Not only that, you require a system that can assign who is responsible for this issue, tell you what its priority is, and give you full context about the issue.
Nowadays, Sentry, is the defacto standard for application errors realtime monitoring, with companies such as Uber, Microsoft, Paypal and leveraging it.
Enjoy getting to know Celery!
If you found Mohamed’s blog useful, check out our other blog posts for more essential insights!
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Ben Stephenson, chief executive and founder of Impala, explains why the power of 'digital gatekeepers' needs to be combatted with new open distribution technology marketplaces
Guest Post: Why the future of hotel distribution is open
All eyes are on airport, border and airline infrastructure struggling to cope with the influx of summer travellers now that tourism is on the move again.
Aviation will overcome this blip in a few months as it readjusts to a world reopened, but there’s a piece of travel’s infrastructure that deserves much more attention to make sure it’s fit for the long term: hotel distribution.
At the advent of digital hotel distribution, the companies who invented the technology that power it were protective of their intellectual property.
The network of behind-the-scenes systems is complex and major players with deep pockets installed costly commissions and mysterious algorithms that protected their position of power.
But as technology developed, the world has moved on, and this ‘digital gatekeeping’ now gets in the way.
As a result, the companies which were seen as disruptors at the end of the last century are now dominant megaliths.
A bunker mentality has set in. The digital walls that divide hotels and room sellers are only getting higher, tightly controlling their earnings, and perpetuating an infrastructure that demands that businesses go through intermediary systems – at enormous cost – rather than allowing hotels and room sellers to do business freely and affordably with each other.
We believe that new infrastructure can break down these walls, and through modern API technology, the world of hotel distribution can become truly ‘open’. The result is a marketplace that is easily, quickly and cost-effectively available to anyone.
Impala developed ‘Open Distribution’ to make it easy for any travel business to join. Hotels can quickly gain access to new markets, to attract more of the guests that work for their property.
Room sellers can access the technology and inventory to create new differentiated travel ideas in minutes.
Both sides can work with each other, without anybody getting in the way – with no upfront costs, and easy integration.
It’s a simple, transparent model, better for all partners’ and their revenues as well as allowing hotels and room sellers across the world to work together without exclusivity.
With Impala’s modern API, costs are sensible, meaning hotels and their sellers’ businesses are enabled, not choked.
Impala has built the new infrastructure for hotel distribution – and the industry finally has a real alternative to the now established status quo of where a small number of players collect an enormous share of the industry’s earnings.
Open Distribution allows new entrants into travel from start-ups to established global corporates.
It breaks down barriers to entry for retailers by giving them access to the inventory, rates and technology to differentiate themselves and build new products and brands as well as allowing them to adapt to major changes in traveller behaviour such as remote working and longer stays.
In this way it allows these companies to provide an offering from zero to hundreds of locations without having to spend time on integrating multiple property management systems.
We’ve found that hotels and room sellers are signing up for Open Distribution at a record pace. The beautiful thing about our approach is that it really is open.
It’s free to get started as a hotel or room seller, and onboarding is incredibly easy. Hotels and room sellers set commercial terms with each other, and you only pay a small fee when you get a booking. That means you can try it out risk-free and run it alongside your existing setup.
Focusing on growing your business without having to worry about being stalled by the booking giants’ next moves? Now that is an open world.
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Making India a “major defence partner” of the US in technology transfer and a “priority partner” in the Asia-Pacific, asking other countries to support India’s bid for admission to the Missile Technology Control Regime and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and treating the Pathankot terror attack with the same level of seriousness as the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks — these are some of the major outcomes of the Indo-US joint statement, issued hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
These, apart from the setting up of six nuclear reactors in India by Westinghouse, a separate joint document focusing on cyber security and a funding initiative towards climate change, were described as “consolidation” of the gains made over the last few years.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar called the Westinghouse decision to go ahead with six AP1000 reactors a “big, decisive step forward”.
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However, unlike the previous 2015 joint statement, two notable issues were missing from this one — a reference to the Haqqani network was quietly dropped and there was no direct reference to South China Sea in the document either.
Titled “The United States and India: Enduring Global Partners in the 21st Century”, the joint statement puts cooperation in the strategic sector — from defence to cyber security, terrorism to export control regimes, nuclear to Asia-Pacific — at the centre stage.
In the defence sector, the US gave India the status of a “major defence partner” — on a par with some of Washington’s closest allies, like the Europeans and the Japanese. The joint statement called their defence relationship an “anchor of stability”.
This means that the US is willing to transfer technology to India, just like it does with its “closest allies and partners”. India can now receive licence-free access to a wide range of dual-use technologies that are critical to defence.
“This will give us access to better quality and faster access to defence technology… and access to dual-use technology.
It will also help the Make-in-India initiative,” Jaishankar said, calling it as a “big step”. These issues were separately discussed when Defence Secretary Ashton Carter called on Modi on Tuesday afternoon.
On India’s bid to become a member of the four export control regimes, the US called on all NSG countries to support India’s application at the plenary meeting on June 24. The two countries also, for the first time, confirmed that they were looking forward to “India’s imminent entry into the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)”.
“US has been supportive of the NSG process… and we count on US’s support,” Jaishankar said, adding that there were “expressions of welcome” on MTCR.
Moving ahead from the 2015 joint strategic vision on Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean region, the two countries declared themselves “priority partners” — a move that may not go down well with China.
In a new area of cooperation, ‘Cyber’ was identified as a “common space and threat”. Again aimed at Beijing, a separate joint document was reached to finalise the framework for the US-India Cyber Relationship in the near term. “They committed to enhance cyber collaboration on critical infrastructure, cyber crime, and malicious cyber activity by state and non-state actors…,” the joint statement said.
In a veiled reference to China, they also emphasised that “no country should conduct or knowingly support online activity that intentionally damages critical infrastructure or otherwise impairs the use of it to provide services to the public”.
The US also called on Pakistan to bring perpetrators of the 2016 Pathankot terror attack and the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks to justice.
However, Washington’s selective branding of terrorists was apparent as the Haqqani network — one of the listed groups in the January 2015 statement that has been accused of attacking the Indian embassy in Kabul in the past — was dropped from the joint statement. The Haqqani network are going to replace Mullah Mansour as the next Taliban chief and the US — which is willing to negotiate with the Taliban — appears to have backed off on account of this.
The statement said that the leaders are committed to strengthening cooperation against terrorist threats from extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Jaish-e Mohammad, LeT, the D Company and their affiliates.
Both Modi and Obama affirmed their support for a UN Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism that advances and strengthens the framework for global cooperation and reinforces that no cause or grievance justifies terrorism. “There has broadly been a meeting of minds,” the foreign secretary said.
Sadhvi Prachi’s ‘make India muslim-free’ remark causes uproar in J&K assembly
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New York [U.S.A], June 6 : Hillary Clinton has slammed United States President Donald Trump over his recent tweets on London terror attack and for misconstruing London Mayor Sadiq Khan's remarks post the attack.
"This is not a time to lash out, to incite fear, or to use tragedy and terror for political gain," CNN quoted Clinton, as saying, on Monday.
Referring to Trump's tweet criticising London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Hilary said, "It's a time for steady, determined leadership -- like we are seeing from local authorities in London, including the Mayor of London." Trump launched an attack on the London Mayor, while apparently misconstruing a statement made by him post the incident.
Trump had tweeted, "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" This was in reference to Khan's statement that there was no cause for alarm.
It's being touted that he was referring specifically to "a visible increase in police activity on the streets of London in the wake of the attack." "Londoners will see an increased police presence today and over the course of the next few days.
There's no reason to be alarmed," Khan had said. Trump later branded Khan's statement on the terror attack as a 'pathetic excuse'. "Pathetic excuse by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who had to think fast on his "no reason to be alarmed" statement.
MSM is working hard to sell it!"Trump tweeted..
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Abstract: Training and qualifying are important request of international standards of ISO 9000 series, but also of other management enviroment ISO 14000 and work safety ISO 18000 standards. The paper points on significance of training and qualifying especialy on equaldistribution of knowledge in an organization. The paper also emphasiyes the connection between training and qualifying and processes, and points on the robe of management in process off all training of staff and members of management. Training of staff depends on management as well as the level of knowledge. Process improvement is knowledge dependant, and survival of organization is improvement dependant.
Recieved: 25.09.2008 Accepted: 01.11.2008 UDC: 005.6
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Can sleep improve memory?
Date Published: 23.03.2022
Why do we sleep? Considering our vulnerability to external threats while asleep, there must be great evolutionary pressure to spend roughly a third of our lives in this peculiar state, writes Wadham Fellow Bernhard Staresina.
Indeed, the global benefits of sleep for physical and mental health, as well as the debilitating effects of chronic sleep deficit, are well established by now. Consequently, today’s society has a seemingly insatiable appetite to optimise sleep – be it via smart mattresses or other gadgets telling us how well we’ve slept last night. Yet, how exactly sleep exerts its beneficial effects has remained elusive and continues to puzzle researchers from various fields. To confuse matters further, sleep is not a single monolithic state, but throughout the night we cycle through different sleep stages, each thought to serve potentially different functions.
Although deciphering the many roles of sleep is still a work in progress, one of the most intriguing effects of sleep from a cognitive neuroscientist’s perspective is the strengthening of new memories – a process called ‘memory consolidation’. Specifically, a period of sleep after learning slows down forgetting compared to the same time spent awake.
Why would sleep be beneficial for memory? A simple explanation might be that it shelters the brain from incoming information that would otherwise interfere with the process of laying down lasting memory traces. However, advances in brain imaging point to much more intricate processes than mere protection from distractors. In particular, by sticking electrodes to the scalp before letting participants go to bed, sleep Electroencephalography (EEG) has revealed that the sleeping brain is everything but switched off. Instead, it produces a mesmerising concert of electrophysiological rhythms, expressed as oscillatory activity in the EEG signal. The two most prominent among these rhythms are ‘slow waves’ (giving rise to the name ‘Slow Wave Sleep’, which denotes deep sleep) and ‘spindles’. Experimental work has consistently linked both rhythms on their own as well as their interaction to active memory processes during sleep. For example, an evening of heavy learning brings about greater levels of slow waves and spindles during subsequent sleep, and experimentally enhancing slow waves via non-invasive brain stimulation seems to bolster overnight memory retention. Current models propose that slow waves and spindles reflect the sleeping brain’s internal machinery for transporting new memories out of the brain’s early memory hub (the hippocampus), ‘parking’ them in other brain regions better suited for long-term storage.
More recently, experimentalists have homed in on these memory processes during sleep and asked whether we can give them a little nudge to boost consolidation. In brief, the idea is to deliver auditory or olfactory cues associated with previous learning material to sleeping participants. Research has shown that forgetting specific learning content can indeed be slowed down in this fashion. Effect sizes still tend to be rather modest, but there is ample room for improvement, for instance by timing the delivery of reminder cues to be in sync with endogenous sleep rhythms mentioned above (slow waves or spindles) – a protocol known as closed-loop targeted memory reactivation (TMR).
At Oxford, we are in the final stages of establishing a dedicated sleep laboratory in the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA). The building houses a state-of-the-art Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner as well as a Magnetoencephaloghy (MEG) scanner and brain stimulation suits. It is thus the ideal site to examine the role of sleep for memory from all possible angles, including the effects of experimentally enhancing endogenous sleep rhythms. Funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant, an exciting new avenue will be to link the emergence of particular sleep rhythms to structural brain changes, i.e., the physical substrate of learning and memory. For more information, visit www.staresinalab.com.
World Sleep Day on 18 March was a welcome reminder of the exciting times ahead for sleep research. Erroneously considered a waste of time in the past, there is now an ever-increasing appreciation for sleep as a window of opportunity – an opportunity not only to improve physical and mental health, but also to bolster memory and combat its decline in natural ageing or neurodegenerative diseases.
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After more than 12 years in the field of Logistics and Transport Organisation and maritime transport, I wanted to give a real meaning to my competences by working on the Environment.
Indeed, I worked for chemical companies organizing shipments of chemicals, pesticides or dangerous products, all over the world. For me, it was essential to give an answer to this by finding solutions that were in line with my personal objectives.
That is why I integrated the SECHE Group in 2016 and more specifically the International Team, as Logistics Manager.
Our mission is to carry out the safeguarding, stowage, transport and disposal of hazardous waste in several countries in the 5 continents. This allows us to be in contact with the whole logistic chain, as customers, road transporters, customs, shipping companies, carriers, competent authorities, maritime inspectors, laboratories and treatment plants.
Thus, we are learning every day and each project is a new challenge!
Fabien Martinez (FM): Our scope is very large, since we can handle all dangerous classes except class 1 (explosives) and 7 (radioactive) and under several states: Solids, liquids, gases.
Our projects involve many categories of waste, such as: PCBs, Pesticides, chemicals, brominated and chlorinated wastes, organ halogenated wastes, reagents, toxics, odorous, corrosive
FM: Although waste must be considered a hazardous product, we must comply with the Basel Convention and the European Regulation that defines the transport of waste by road. Depending on the type of waste, the country of origin, the country of destination, the type of treatment selected (disposal or recovery), we have to follow different rules. Each waste shipment is subject to the approval of the competent authorities in each country, from departure to arrival and during transport (transit countries involved). This means that we have to define a specific route for transporting the waste and the main difficulty is that we cannot deviate from the route that has been notified to the Authorities. This is really the main difficulty! In addition, all companies involved in the shipment (carriers, shipping companies, forwarders, storage facilities, customs offices, etc….) also have to be notified in advance. This is really a big problem! This leads us to prepare our routes in advance, to work together with specialized partners and to anticipate all possible changes that may occur.
FM: To transport hazardous waste, first of all we have to make sure that the selected carriers have the licenses and insurance to do so. From the point of view of transport, the transport of waste has to comply with ADR/RID/IMDG or IATA regulations, depending on the mode of transport. However, there are some additional requirements from the transport companies, such as documented cargo reports with photographs at any stage of the loading operation. This allows to confirm that all security measures have been taken to minimize risks during transportation. This procedure is very important, specifically when transporting PCB-contaminated transformers and capacitors, where tying and fastening are preliminary steps for the realization of the transport. Thus, when organizing the sea transport, with regard to the IMDG Code Packaging Instruction P906, the loading report clearly shows whether the instructions have been correctly followed. This is proof of safety, and transporting waste safely is our main objective!
FM: As mentioned above, transporting waste is not an easy matter. There are many limitations that involve transportation companies as well. Countries like Uruguay, for example, do not accept the transit of hazardous waste through their territorial waters. This means that when waste is sent from Argentina, we cannot call at Montevideo as a port of transit. Since all shipping companies pass through Uruguay, it is a real challenge to find routes to avoid this country. Therefore, the impact on the routes is a major problem. Moreover, on the same shipping line, we can have some ships that can load waste and others that are not allowed, and this for many reasons (charter agreement, liability insurance, flag of the ship, etc.). Then, as the itinerary has to be strictly followed, the ship cannot make any deviation for any reason (bunker, additional call, etc.). This can be very binding. But we have to take into account that we are all responsible and that we cannot ignore the impact on the environment. Therefore, we have to change our minds and we have to keep working on this path to realize that pollution has no borders anyway!
FM: Once we obtain all the consents from the Competent Authorities, we can start organizing the transport of the waste. TREDI ARGENTINA handles all the FOB part from the owners’ premises to the Port of Buenos Aires. Then, we start our operation once the containers have been loaded on board the ship. We continuously track the containers on their route making sure that there is no blockage at any time, neither during the transport nor at the Transshipment Ports. As soon as the containers arrive at the Port of Discharge, we perform the import customs clearance and the notified carrier takes care of the delivery to our plant in TREDI Saint Vulbas.
To give you an idea, we manage about 1000 Teus per year in several countries of the world (South America, Europe, Africa, Middle East, South East Asia, Oceania). Depending on the project, we can adapt to take care of the logistic operations at any stage: from door to door, on board the ship or just the local part in France if necessary.
FM: The most difficult thing for us is clearly to anticipate all possible changes that could occur and jeopardize the notification. Sometimes we are ready to start, or we have the containers already full and for some unforeseeable reasons the shipping company decides to omit the Port where we were supposed to load or decides to change its route. And of course, on top of that, the notification is no longer valid. More than just transporting hazardous products, transporting hazardous waste involves being well prepared and having more than one plan in your pocket – this is the key!
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Where would you use a putlog scaffold?
Putlog Scaffolds In order to use the wall as support, a putlog, a transom with a flattened end that enables it to rest solidly on the edge of a wall, is used to attach the scaffold to the wall. Putlog scaffolds can only be used on walls with adequate strength to support the weight of the scaffold and the putlog itself.
What is the maximum height of a putlog scaffold?
Design height ✓ Maximum height: 10.0 m to the top lift.
What is a putlog in scaffolding?
Also known as a bricklayer’s scaffold, a putlog scaffold consists of an outer row of vertical members (standards) joined together by ledgers fixed with right-angle couplers. These support the transverse transoms (or putlogs) which are built into the brickwork bed joints as work proceeds.
What are the 3 types of scaffolds?
Workers who use scaffolds can be divided into three groups:
- Suspended Scaffolds.
- Supported Scaffolds.
- Aerial Lifts.
What are 5 requirements for scaffolding?
Five Steps to Safer Scaffolding
- Start with training.
- Follow the instructions.
- Consider the hazards.
- Use a tagging system.
- Inspect and re-inspect.
What is a putlog in construction terms?
putlog in American English (ˈpʊtˌlɔg ) noun. in masonry construction, any of the horizontal, wood or metal pieces which support the floor planks of a scaffold and which are themselves supported at one end in holes left temporarily in a wall under construction.
What are the 3 types of scaffolding that are normally used in the construction industry?
Here are the 8 top scaffolding types and how they are being used at the construction sites to support the workforce.
- Trestle Scaffolding.
- Steel Scaffolding.
- Patented Scaffolding.
- Suspended Scaffolding.
- Cantilever Scaffolding.
- Single Scaffolding.
- Double Scaffolding.
- Kwikstage Scaffolding.
What is putlog coupler?
The putlog coupler is a non load bearing fitting that connects two scaffold tubes at 90 degrees to each other. They should only be used in the horizontal for connecting transoms to ledgers.
What is the difference between a putlog and independent scaffold?
The difference between independent scaffolding and putlog scaffold is that an independent scaffold relies on two lines of standards to support the working platform, not the building wall. This means that independent scaffolding is separate from the building, and only tied to the building for additional security.
What is another name for putlog?
Scaffolding. Scaffolding, also called staging, is a temporary structure used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other structures.
What is the difference between a putlog and independent scaffolding?
What is bricklayer scaffold?
Brick layers scaffolding or Single scaffolding. In this type of scaffolding, a series of vertical members made of bamboo or timber (named as Standards), are firmly fixed into the ground in a row parallel to the building wall. The distance in between two standards is generally kept within 2.4 to 3 m.
What is a putlog scaffold?
Putlog Scaffolds. A putlog scaffold consists of a single row of standards, parallel to the face of the building and set as far away from it as is necessary to accommodate a platform of four or five boards wide, with the inner edge of the platform as close to the wall as is practicable.
How many ties do I need for a putlog scaffold?
The same number of ties applies as for an independent tied scaffold. Reveal ties are not recommended for putlog scaffolds.
Why is it called single scaffolding?
Because this scaffolding system consists of one row of standards, it is also referred to as single scaffolding. Putlog scaffold is erected by using a single row of standards and a single ledger. Putlog itself is a component of this scaffolding system, and acts as a link between the ledger and the wall of the building.
What is the purpose of a putlog head?
The purpose of a putlog head is to turn a standard tube into a putlog, so it can be used in the scaffold system. Leave a spot/space in the brickwork at required distances for the flattened end of the transom. Insert a putlog into each space.
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Residents in the area of Dogwood Street, Cedar Street, and Western Avenue are being asked for there feedback as part of an environmental study related to an upcoming water main replacement project.The Village of Park Forest is currently working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reduce the frequency of existing water main breaks, loss of water, and to improve flow rates in the distribution system.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be assisting the village in the spring of 2021 in replacing water main spanning nearly three-quarters of a mile in the area of Dogwood Street and Western Avenue. The 71-year-old cast iron water main has led to 15 breaks since 2007 and reduced flow rates in the area. The main will be replaced with new PVC piping. This will also require the replacement of 7 fire hydrants, 7 main line valves, 42-2” water services, and sewer improvements necessary to meet current separation requirements.Waste material and excess soil will be disposed of in accordance with Federal, State, and local laws and regulations.The upsizing and replacement of the water main on Dogwood Street is anticipated to improve water flow to the other existing water mains that service further into this area.
An Environmental Assessment will be prepared which evaluates alternatives to accomplish this project with minimal impact to the environment and community. As part of the NEPA scoping process, the Chicago District would appreciate any comments or concerns Park Forest residents might have about any potential impacts from this proposed project. This could include impacts to various habitats, threatened and endangered species, or cultural and social resources. After receiving the scoping input and conducting its impact assessment, the Corps will release a draft NEPA document for a formal public review.Comments must be received by Feb. 21, 2020 and should be sent to Mr. Matthew Shanks, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 231 South La Salle Street, Suite 1500, Chicago, Illinois 60604, or by email at email@example.com. Questions should be directed to Mr. Shanks at (312) 846-5581.
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Windows & Doors
Accurate Dorwin prides itself in using pultruded fiberglass, allowing us to provide an added layer of quality to our customers. Virtually impervious to moisture, our windows won’t bend, warp, discolour, corrode, rust, fade or deteriorate no matter what Mother Nature throws their way. In fact, Accurate Dorwin fiberglass doors are 8 times stronger than PVC — the material commonly found in our competitors’ products.
Customers choose fiberglass for strength, stability, energy efficiency, durability, and to limit their environmental footprint. Our quality installation, superior materials and selection make Accurate Dorwin the best choice for your new windows and doors.
Custom Fiberglass Windows
Our windows are one fundamental mechanical design built in several popular formats with a raft of options for customization, ensuring perfect fit and performance for any project.
Custom Fiberglass Doors
Custom doors elevate the aesthetics, accessibility, and comfort of any home. Using fiberglass doesn’t just open up aesthetic possibilities–it provides durability and longevity unmatched by any other material in existence.
Being a Canadian company, we know harsh, unpredictable weather takes a toll on windows and doors, which is why Accurate Dorwin solely works with the strongest material out there — fiberglass.
Fiberglass is a material created by saturating microscopic strands of glass fiber with adhesive resins. The resulting material is so strong and durable that it is used in modern aircraft, windmill turbines, and even high-tech bridges and buildings. Unsurprisingly, Fiberglass is the strongest window framing material on the market, and that incredible strength results in thinner frames, maximizing glass surface and providing spectacular views.
In addition to strength and durability, homeowners in North America choose fiberglass for its high energy efficiency, allowing a dramatically improved building envelope and environmental footprint.
While traditional window framing materials are dimensionally stable on the shop floor, how they perform in the real world during extremes of humidity, heat, and cold is quite a different story. With metal-clad wood, PVC, and aluminum frames, the varying expansion rates between the glass and frame can result in stressed frames, air leakage, broken glazing seals, condensation, and inoperable hardware. With fiberglass, the window glass and frame materials are the same, allowing the glass and frame to expand and contract at the virtually same rate.
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Clean Feet Why You Should Be Washing Your Feet Every Day
Dermatologists say you shouldn’t shower every day, but you should definitely be washing your feet every day. Here’s why.
If you’re anything like us, you’re probably in a bit of a panic mode after reading dermatologists recommend you don’t shower every day. How can that even be real? But as it turns out, there’s actually a very good reason why you should start reducing your showering habits to two or three times per week: according to David Bank, M.D., Board Certified Dermatologist and author of Beautiful Skin: Every Woman’s Guide to Looking Her Best at Any Age, daily showers — as well as showering for too long — strips your skin of natural oils and therefore leaves it flaky and dry.
Your feet, on the other hand, are a different story. Though you should be skipping out on showering every day, you’ll definitely want to be washing your feet every day. The reason you should wash your feet on a daily basis is because they — as well as your armpits — sweat much more than your other body parts and therefore harbor odor-causing bacteria.
Things To Keep In Mind When Washing Your Feet
The key to washing your feet correctly, says Board Certified Dermatologist and RealSelf Advisor Dr. Joel Schlessinger, is to do it at night rather than in the morning. That way you rinse off all of the sweat, bacteria and sock fuzzies that have accumulated on your skin during the day. You'll also want to make sure to use a gentle foot cleanser, as some soaps can be filled with moisture-zapping chemicals that can lead to flaky, dry skin.
Of course, in order to keep the moisture level of your feet just right, you’ll want to finish your daily foot washing ritual by thoroughly drying your clean feet (be sure to get between the toes, too!) and then slathering them with a thick foot cream. Cover with cotton socks for the night and you’ll have super smooth, pretty feet in no time.
Looking for more ways to keep your feet in tip top shape? Find out why peeing in the shower may be able to help soften your feet, and why activated charcoal is also a great foot-softening product.
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Abies amabilis facts for kids
Quick facts for kidsPacific silver fir
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Abies amabilis, commonly known as the Pacific silver fir, is a fir native to the Pacific Northwest of North America, occurring in the Pacific Coast Ranges and the Cascade Range from the extreme southeast of Alaska, through western British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, to the extreme northwest of California. It is also commonly referred to as the white fir, red fir, lovely fir, Amabilis fir, Cascades fir, or silver fir. It grows from sea level to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) in the north of the range, and 1,000–2,300 m (3,300–7,500 ft) in the south of the range, always in temperate rain forest with relatively high precipitation and cool, humid summers. Common associate trees are western hemlock in northern ranges, Douglas fir in central areas, and in the extreme southern area of its range, California buckeye.
It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30–45 m (98–148 ft), exceptionally 72 m (236 ft) tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in), exceptionally 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in). The bark on younger trees is light grey, thin and covered with resin blisters. On older trees, it darkens and develops scales and furrows. The leaves are needle-like, flattened, 2–4.5 cm (0.79–1.77 in) long and 2 mm (0.079 in) wide by 0.5 mm (0.02 in) thick, matte dark green above, and with two white bands of stomata below, and slightly notched at the tip. The leaf arrangement is spiral on the shoot, but with each leaf variably twisted at the base so they lie flat to either side of and above the shoot, with none below the shoot. The shoots are orange-red with dense velvety pubescence. The cones are 9–17 cm (3.5–6.7 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) broad, dark purple before maturity; the scale bracts are short, and hidden in the closed cone. The winged seeds are released when the cones disintegrate at maturity about 6–7 months after pollination.
Pacific silver fir is very closely related to Maries' fir A. mariesii from Japan, which is distinguished by its slightly shorter leaves—1.5–2.5 cm (0.59–0.98 in)—and smaller cones, which are 5–11 cm (2.0–4.3 in) long.
The wood is soft and not very strong; it is used for paper making, packing crates and other cheap construction work. The foliage has an attractive scent and is sometimes used for Christmas decoration, including Christmas trees.
It is also planted as an ornamental tree in large parks, though its requirement for cool, humid summers limits the areas where it grows well; successful growth away from its native range is restricted to areas like western Scotland and southern New Zealand.
Abies amabilis Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.
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Local governments throughout China are at the forefront of leading a switch to natural gas fueled taxis, buses, police cars, trash trucks and other fleet vehicles. Estimates show that natural gas vehicles reached nearly 1.5 million in China last year.
As with the other facilities, the Erdos LNG plant will feature Black & Veatch’s patented PRICO® LNG technology. Chemtex provides engineering, procurement and construction services.
“We have seen the LNG industry develop rapidly in China in recent years, and its use for transportation is gaining momentum at a rate ahead of other markets we work in. This is mainly driven by local municipals and in Beijing, for example, there are plans for more than 3,000 LNG fueled public buses by the end of year,” said Edward Zhou, Business Development Director of Black & Veatch’s oil and gas business in China. “Natural gas and LNG, in particular, also play an increasingly important role in improving the lives of rural China residents where energy distribution utilities are in the early stages of development.”
“We are proud of our relationship with Erdos Huaxing Energy Co. Ltd. and the trust they have demonstrated by awarding their LNG expansion project to our team. The Chemtex / Black & Veatch team continues to achieve excellence in providing LNG project solutions in China,” said Sean Ma, CEO of Chemtex, China. “We will continue to support national and community goals to provide clean natural gas based fuel across China”.
Source: Black & Veatch.
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Seite 83 - I said; Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Seite 92 - How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue! How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung! Still break the benches, Henley! with thy strain, While Sherlock, Hare, and Gibson preach in vain.
Seite 235 - With half-shut eyes, and pucker'd cheeks, and teeth Presented bare against the storm, plods on. One hand secures his hat, save when with both He brandishes his pliant length of whip, Resounding oft, and never heard in vain.
Seite 209 - The lust of lucre, and the dread of death. In vain to deserts thy retreat is made, The Muse attends thee to thy silent shade ; 'Tis hers the brave man's latest steps to trace, Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. When Interest calls off all her sneaking train, And all th...
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Erin’s Budget Notes
Budget 2008’s minor new investments in public programs will amount to only one-sixth the value of recent corporate tax cuts during the next fiscal year. Budget 2008 (Table 1.1, page 10) proposes $1.4 billion of new spending in 2009-10, whereas the Economic Statement (Table 3.1, page 73) pegged the cost of post-2006 corporate tax cuts at $7.9 billion in that year.
The main new tax break, Tax-Free Savings Accounts, is poor policy for reasons outlined by Andrew and Marc. The budget presented these Accounts as being affordable for the public treasury by projecting their cost for only the first few years, but lucrative for individuals by projecting potential tax savings over two decades of compound interest.
The up-front cost is low because any income contributed is taxable. Tellingly, the C. D. Howe Institute introduced them as “Tax-Prepaid Savings Plans” before the Conservatives promoted them as being “Tax-Free”. However, because the interest will avoid tax as it accumulates and when it is withdrawn, this measure could burn a significant hole in future government revenues.
I like the accelerated capital cost allowance for manufacturing because it is tied to tangible investment in Canada. However, Budget 2008 extended this measure on a “declining basis” rather than continuing it at a straight-line rate. Although the manufacturing crisis has dramatically worsened over the past year, the targeted tax incentive in today’s budget is worth less than the one in last year’s budget.
Through 2013, no-strings-attached corporate tax cuts will cost twenty times as much as both versions of the manufacturing capital cost allowance (CCA) combined. As manufacturers receive the 50% CCA, the oil sands will retain its 100% CCA through 2010.
Finally, CCAs do not help manufacturers that no longer have profits against which to write-off their capital investments. A refundable tax credit would provide a much stronger investment incentive, particularly for manufacturers that have become unprofitable.
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Normally I read an article title like “San Francisco’s Difficult Path to Home Renovation” and immediately think – yeah right, someone isn’t going to get to pull out their original wood windows and put in vinyl and they are upset about it, give me a break. I am pretty unforgiving on my stance that when you buy a historic home, a home in a preservation district, a home with great historic features that you know going into the purchase that you have a responsibility to maintain that character and to be a good steward of the property. Especially if you are buying in a preservation district – find out the rules and follow them, no excuses.
Okay, blah blah blog.
After reading the article I have to say I was less able to defend the city’s preservation planners than I expected to be. As a former (and I say former with much relief) preservation planner for a municipality I was confused by a few of their decisions. Specifically their interpretation of the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation regarding additions. Standards 9 read as follows:
9. New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.
The key concept – the controversial concept – is the differentiation between the old and the new. Many preservation professionals take this to mean that an addition should not be an exact replica of the original, that you should be able to tell the old from the new without the benefit of professional training. The second part of the concept is that the addition still must be compatible – presumably compatible materials, design, etc. Not an exact copy, more of an homage. It is a fine line to design and to review.
I have seen some additions that utilize the same materials as the original structure but simplify the ornamentation. Or, on an interior space, where the original woodwork was able to be retained it was left stained but where replacement pieces were used it was painted. Is this too subtle a difference? Would the casual observer even understand what they were looking at?
At the heart of the article is whether the need for differentiation is being taken to the extreme in San Francisco. One local architect expresses a concern that the way this Standard is being implemented is leading to “architectural chimera,” a reference to the mythological creature with a lion’s head and a goat’s body. We have all seen historic buildings that have an…let’s say…unfortunate addition. Another architect was quoted as saying, “The focus is on a stylistic separation that clearly defines the old versus the new, and it comes at the loss of congruity for the structure.” He further referred to a recent addition to a stucco-Marina style house as George Jetson in nature. Here is the house and the addition –
Certainly one of the first questions has to be is the original structure historic? What is its existing integrity? Then move on the question of the appropriateness of the addition. What do you think?
Another issue was the remodeling of a carriage house for an apartment. Based on the pictures included in the article I am completely with San Francisco’s preservation planners on the decision to not allow that remodel.
posted by Rebecca Rowe, Preservation Program Coordinator for The Landmark Society
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Can I Take Ivermectin Every Day
To help clear up your infection, take this medicine exactly as directed.Ivermectin is a minor cytochrome P 3A4 substrate and a p-glycoprotein substrate.I AM Taking two notches every day now as well as sulfur and cloves alternating head to toe.2 mg/kg on day 1, day 3 and then every 4 weeks; Vitamin D3 : 1,000 to 3,000 IU every day; Vitamin C : 2,000 mg every day; Quercetin : 250 mg every day; Zinc : 50 mg every day; Melatonin : 6 mg every night; For early treatment of COVID-19, the doses go way up : Ivermectin : 0.You can take these pills with an empty stomach and a glass of water Even if you discount the mortality benefits of ivermectin by 50 percent to account for the bias and can i take ivermectin every day study design flaws, the benefit is still immense, and much better than commonly used drugs and.I would recommend nebulizing a 0.If you have the question of consuming the medicine every day, then you should know that the medicine is prescribed at least once in the day as prescribed by both the physicians and the manufacturers.They're dying because they can't breathe.A severe allergic reaction, known as the Mazzotti reaction, happens to some people after taking ivermectin (Stromectol) to treat river blindness.That is why there are such things as recommended schedules.Ivermectin is generally given on an empty stomach with water; however, administering ivermectin with food increases its bioavailability.The half-life is less than a day and you can't take ivermectin every single day for the next year.Your doctor may want you to take another dose every 3 to can i take ivermectin every day 12 months Each ivermectin dose should be taken on an empty stomach with a full (8 oz) glass of water.My last Afib episode was Feb 7-9, 2021.Take the medication on empty stomach, 1 hour before breakfast.You can take your dosage according to your physician’s suggestion.Widespread use of ivermectin can (and already has!Take the medication on empty stomach, 1 hour before breakfast.5 hour before breakfast), unless otherwise directed by your doctor.Depending on infection severity, ivermectin should be taken in three doses (approximately days 1, 2, and 8), five doses (approximately days 1, 2, 8, 9, and 15), or seven doses (approximately days 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 22, and 29) They are dormant.I saw a post from medical doctor who had them and he took ivermectin.The risks of the drug are widely known and a determination of the risk of taking Ivermectin can reliably be.Ivermectin is best taken as a single dose with a full glass (8 can i take ivermectin every day ounces) can i take ivermectin daily of water on an empty stomach (1 hour before breakfast), unless otherwise directed by your doctor.2 mg/kg, when the latest Lancet study using TRIPLE that dose for 5 days straight showed.
Does Ivermectin Kill Nits
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National elections are coming up.
I am personally interested in politics and have many complaints about politics, so of course I will vote, but come to think of it, I didn’t go to the mayoral election that recently took place.
There are always reports on national political issues, but there are no reports on issues in my own city, and since I don’t feel dissatisfied with the city I live in, I felt it was too much of a hassle to go and vote, so I ended up not going.
I felt that media coverage is very important, and the low voter turnout means that many people are not dissatisfied and that this is a peaceful country.
But I don’t think it is at all necessary to change the problems that have been pointed out in the media, such as the money problems of politicians, the sloppy policies seen in the COVID measures, and the political stance of favoring vested interests and thinking only of the votes in front of them.
Even though the current situation is generally peaceful, if these problems are left unchecked, the bill will eventually come due.
In fact, it is obvious that Japan’s population is decreasing and the country’s strength is declining, and I have heard various experts say that Japan will have a very difficult time in the near future.
So reform is needed, but looking at the current government, it seems that they have no intention of reforming at all.
If they don’t do anything, they won’t be criticized, and their approval rating remains high.
I’ve heard a lot of criticism in various places about the current government not doing anything, but I guess it all boils down to the fact that Japan is peaceful.
Even though there are voices of dissatisfaction with politics from various sources, I think it is necessary to accept the fact that our country is at peace.
Well, ideally, even in such a peaceful situation, politicians should take the initiative and do what needs to be done with an eye to future challenges. That’s the way it should be.
Because in order for them to do that, we elect them as representatives of our country.
And yet, it doesn’t look at all like the current politicians are doing what they should be doing.
They are just protecting their vested interests and have no intention of improving Japan as a whole anymore.
Well, I guess that’s just the way people are, and only when Japan starts to suffer and dissatisfaction begins to swirl in society will the reforms that have been neglected so far start to move forward.
So, irresponsibly speaking, I think it is one thing to just let things flow until then.
Or, what I have been thinking recently is that if more and more successful and famous people became politicians and became active in politics, society would change drastically.
At the very least, I think that Japanese society would be much better off if comedians ran the country rather than the current politicians.
The politicians are not funny at all, but if comedians could speak, I think that many more people would become interested in politics.
I feel that today’s politicians are like bureaucrats or are strangely logical.
I think bureaucrats and politicians are completely different creatures, and naturally their roles are completely different.
My theory is that politicians should be entertainers.
I think that a politician is supposed to inform people about the problems of the country in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way, to get people interested in the issues, and to encourage them to vote for him or her.
After all, in order to make reforms and get things moving, they need the will of the people, in other words, a large number of votes.
And in order to gather a large number of votes, unique and interesting messages from comedians, artists, etc. that are full of entertainment value would be extremely effective.
If many votes are gathered in this way, and it becomes visible that many people support what the politician is saying, it will be easier for various reforms to proceed, and I think that society will change rapidly.
That is why I think it is impossible for the current elitist politicians to change things in many ways.
If the current intellectual elite politicians are going to run the country, I think the only way is to wait until the country is suffering and the society wants reform.
Instead, I think it would be better for the country to change while having fun rather than suffering, and that is why I think comedians are better suited for politics, so I personally hope that comedians I sometimes see who say that they are interested in politics and have thought about running for office will run for office. I strongly think so.
Sometimes there is strong criticism of celebrities running for office, but I think that is not good for society.
I know it is the Japanese tendency to try to drag down those who stand out, but I don’t think this will improve society.
I think it is difficult for things to move unless people with the ability to communicate and entertain themselves play a central role.
Also, I imagine that the biggest concern of people with entertainment value is, “Will I be able to handle something as difficult as politics?”
I think it is true that comedians and artists tend to have a hard time thinking logically.
I don’t think this is prejudice, but a fact.
But I think that such difficult logic and other aspects should just be left to trusted subordinates who are good at logic.
I think that just as a warlord who has achieved success in battle had an excellent military strategist, They should leave the parts they are not good at to their subordinates man and play to their strengths (entertainment that attracts the masses).
Everything is a division of roles. They don’t have to do everything on their own.
If they don’t understand something, they can ask a trusted expert.
If they did that, I think they would be able to create a much better political system than the one we have now.
Well, if a comedian becomes a politician, and if society drags them down, then I think they should just give up and say, “That’s the kind of society we have here”
It is the responsibility of all members of society for the decline of society.
And if after the decline, people realize that the trend of dragging others down is a mistake, future generations will create a society that does not drag others down.
So, I think they should just let go of the idea that they alone are not responsible for the results of what they do, and do whatever they want during the election, such as putting on a comic show or a concert.
I think that doing a variety of interesting things in that direction would be a good way to break through the current shabby and stagnant politics.
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Austin officials are set to consider a water fluoridation proposal from a city councilman, who wants the practice to end by December.
The city has fluoridated its water for several decades, and public health officials say that it’s one of the primary ways to combat tooth decay, the Austin American-Statesman said.
But anti-fluoride activists contend that drinking the treated water can damage a person’s bones and lower intelligence levels.
Councilman Don Zimmerman said it’s “unethical” to force residents to drink fluoridated water, and his resolution is set to go before the council’s Public Utilities Committee this week. The Health and Human Services Committee also will consider the issue.
The first city to add fluoride to its water was Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945. Researchers monitored children there and in another community without a fluoridation program over 15 years, finding that those who drank the fluoridated water were less likely to experience tooth decay.
Federal officials say 67 percent of Americans drink fluoridated water, but cities across the nation have chosen not to fluoridate their water. Voters in Portland have rejected fluoridating city water four times since 1956. Residents in College Station and Elgin have voted to end the practice, and a group in San Marcos has been pushing for a vote on prohibiting water fluoridation.
Austin has fluoridated its water since 1973, after a public vote on the issue prior, though the level has changed at least once.
The Austin Water Utility last changed its target in 2008 to 0.7 milligrams per liter, which is the same level in a new recommendation the federal government finalized this summer. The previous recommendation was 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams per liter.
The water utility adds fluorosilicic acid, which is heavily diluted, to increase the naturally occurring level of fluoride in the water, said Jane Burazer, assistant director of the utility’s treatment program.
Information from: Austin American-Statesman, http://www.statesman.com
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The world of automotive care services has witnessed great development and improvements in finding ways that will ensure that a automotive retains its luster and looks all through the years. The latest innovation is the nanocoatings or paint coatings. Ceramic coating for automobile offers the best technology available within the market today. It ensures that the car paint lasts longer than ever before. For the reason that composition of the coating is Ceramic, it presents more resistance to natural components and scratches. In this article, we’re going to discuss its benefits in detail.
Ceramic coating for car is the most effective available paint protection within the market. It provides unparalleled protection to car paint from all manner of parts which can be harmful to the automobile paint. Whenever a automobile is on the road, it is exposed to a myriad of dangers such as unintentional scratches, corrosive parts, and sunlight. The ceramic coating provides a protective layer that protects against these contaminants.
Ceramic coating has been proven to be resistant to wear as compared to different coatings in the market reminiscent of wax. Since ceramic wax fuses to the paint, it may be very hard to get dislodged from the vehicle, hence providing protection for a number of years as opposed to wax that only lasts for weeks.
For any automobile detailing service, the key hindrance is sustaining the car’s external cleanliness. The filth that collects on a automobile’s surface is principally as a result of roughness and unevenness of the surface. With ceramic coating for car, this problem is alleviated. This mainly because the ceramic coating is fused to the car surface at a molecular level thus making certain a smoother and even finish.
Ceramic coating for cars could be very price effective in the lengthy run. Initially, the cost of performing this procedure might seem excessive. However as a result of the fact that the coating is fused to the paint, it takes years earlier than one other procedure is required. While with present coatings akin to wax, they wear off quite quickly, which means that your automobile requires waxing many instances in a year.
From the benefits listed, one can see that ceramic automobile coating is the perfect and essentially the most value-effective product in the automotive detailing service industry. The perfect thing of all is that some of these products could be utilized in your own garage, you can do it your self, removing the price of professional detailing.
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scuba diving in italy
Italian's have a passion for SCUBA diving. SCUBAPRO, MARES, CRESSI SUB, COLTRI SUB and other manufacturers of diving equipment are originally Italia companies. The entire coastline of Italy offers some chance to SCUBA dive. The majority of the recreational SCUBA diving to be done in Italy is deeper than 20 meters, and you need to ensure you review all your basic skills and dive safe.
SCUBA Diving in Italy is not like the Caribbean or Red Sea, the depth is deeper, the visibility could be less than 10 meters, and you need a wet suit. This style of diving means you normally only do one or two dives during the day. Which works out great considering you can dive in the morning and then visit Venice in the afternoon.
Wrecks are the main attraction (in my opinion), I have visited over 100 thus far and have another 100+ on the list to do. Some are just scrap piles and require a bit of imagination others are still fully intact and offer plenty to explore. Many of the wrecks are at the limit of Advanced Divers, and it would be best to be skilled in Extended Range or Deep Tech Certified Divers to fully enjoy.
Caves are popular in Italy and many dive area's will take you through trenches and small grotto's. You need to ensure you are properly trained to do any type of dive, in Italy they do not always control cards as closely as in US destinations, so listen to the dive plan and dive within your comfort level.
There are several national parks established and over the past few years with the warming of the water and control of commercial fishing, you can dive and enjoy underwater naturalist.
WHERE TO SCUBA DIVE IN ITALY
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We think you’re going to love this week’s episode featuring two super impressive women who, amongst other things, teach at Stanford University’s famed Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Yes, today you get two for the price of one! 😉
Despite their serious surrounds, these two are determined to bring levity and humour to the world having discovered just how powerful humour can be in dark times and at work.
Jennifer Aaker is General Atlantic Professor at Stanford’s GSB, where she has been one of the favourite professors there for around 20 years. She’s a Behavioural Psychologist and author, and her research focus areas include: purpose and meaning and how they shape the choices we make; and most recently she’s been working with our other guest today, Naomi Bagdonas on the power of using humour in a business context.
Naomi Bagdonas was a stand up comic by night and a management consultant by day, never mixing the two, until one day she realised that she was living an almost double life and decided it was time to be herself wherever she was. These days Naomi is a lecturer at Stanford, an Executive Coach, an author and she even teaches improv comedy to inmates at San Francisco’s County Jail.
Jennifer and Naomi began teaching the importance of humour to MBA students and then realised that what they’d discovered was what the world really needed right now . . . hence their new book out this week, ‘Humour, Seriously’.
In this laughter-filled episode, you’ll hear:
- Why Naomi and Jennifer believe humour is a secret superpower at work and in life,
- How we all fall off a humour cliff at the age of 23 and what we can do about it,
- Practical tips to increase creativity and innovation in your team, and
- How you can potentially gain an additional 8 years on your life!
Enjoy this episode with these two witty, wickedly smart women …
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Emerging IOL Technology in the Digital Age
Richard C. Kho, MD
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital
Taft Avenue, Ermita, Manila
Disclosures: The author has no proprietary interest in any of the products mentioned in this article. He has received travel assistance from Allergan, Santen, Microlab/Zeiss, and Alcon for talks (including on AT LISA Tri, FineVision Micro F, and Alcon Panoptix) given locally and internationally. He was a co-investigator for clinical trials with the LenSx from 2011-2012.
Cataract surgery has undergone radical leaps over the last 50 years. Concurrent technological developments and innovations in various aspects of this procedure transformed cataract extraction into the marvel of modern surgery that it is today.1 From a surgical perspective, we have refined our techniques to remove the cataract through a small, almost astigmatically-neutral incision, with the least amount of ultrasonic energy delivered in the eye. And with the advent of femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS), we can further decrease this energy delivery to produce clearer corneas immediately after the procedure.2 Creating the ideal size and shape of capsulotomies has also become the standard, as we learned how this affects effective lens position (ELP) and final visual outcome.3 Lastly, from a functional perspective, developments in intraocular lens (IOL) design have brought us closer to restoring full and functional vision after cataract surgery.4 This issue of the PJO features a comparative study of three diffractive trifocal IOLs available in the local market today5, providing local surgeons with additional options at their disposal when choosing the right IOL for their patients.
A Brief History of IOL Innovations
Design innovations in IOL technology have come a long way since the introduction of the first lens by Sir Harold Ridley in 1949.6 This is a rigid lens that dominated IOL technology and design for many decades. Having only a single focus, all cataract patients were essentially rendered presbyopic after surgery. Options for functional near vision includes aiming for monovision (emmetropia in one eye, myopia in the fellow eye) and outright aiming for bilateral myopia in patients who desire uncorrected near acuity, the latter being consigned to wearing spectacles for distance. In the succeeding years, our IOL materials became foldable to fit smaller incisions,7 acquired toricity to address corneal astigmatism,8 and attained asphericity9 and blue light-filtering capabilities.10 Eventually, presbyopia-correcting IOLs were introduced, bringing our long journey into IOL technology full circle.11
The Era of Trifocals
Presbyopia-correcting IOLs entered the local market in 2006. Interestingly around this time, the introduction of the iPhone™ in 2007 followed by the iPad™ in 2010 were game-changers in the way we function daily. Driven by an upsurge in mobile device usage during the digital age, half of our waking time is spent on gadgets, working on the near and intermediate range. Also, jobs requiring long hours working in front of the computer have increased exponentially (e.g. call center agents, information technology (IT) and related works). Moreover, the number of presbyopes (more than 1 billion worldwide) is increasing as a result of the aging world population.12 As the first generation presbyopia-correcting IOLs were basically bifocal lenses with only two foci, patients still needed spectacles for computer work, which mainly requires intermediate acuity (around 60 80 cm). Surgeons and IOL companies started employing various strategies to “mix and match” existing IOL designs (diffractive, refractive, pseudo-accommodating, and segmental refractive IOLs) to achieve a better range for near and intermediate vision.13-14 The latest iteration of diffractive IOL design aimed to address this issue with the introduction of trifocal IOLs. These new IOLs are designed to further split the two foci of light to add a 3rd focus in the intermediate distance, allowing for a more comfortable near to intermediate range.15 Interestingly, the addition of a 3rd focus was an initial design concern in terms of further degradation of acuity and potential increase in photic phenomena. Several reports (including the accompanying comparative study on trifocals) however, have shown very good clinical outcomes with these trifocals over a wider range of vision as compared to traditional multifocals.16-20
A decade later, adoption of premium IOLs is still low (at least locally)…
For the past 15 years, the Philippine Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (PSCRS) has continuously educated our members about these new and emerging IOL technologies, including strategies for optimal outcome. However, usage of premium IOLs among local surgeons remains low, ranging anywhere from 5-10% based on unofficial local surveys. In addition to cost issues, many local surgeons avoid presbyopia-correcting IOLs in practice because of perceived problems associated with their usage. Not least of these are anecdotal cases of “unhappy” patients after “unsatisfactory” surgical outcomes. It is worth noting that many of these issues can be avoided by careful patient selection and adequate chair time about the pros and cons of premium IOLs.4,13 Post-operatively, a thorough eye examination to address patients’ “complaints” is the key in handling these challenging cases. This requires addressing any corneal problems like dryness, checking for residual errors of refraction including astigmatism, looking for subclinical cystoid macular edema and posterior capsule opacity, and watching out for IOL decentration and pupillary size issues visa-vis the diffractive rings.13,21 Note that patients’ visual quality with multifocal IOLs are extremely sensitive to these issues compared to monofocal IOLs, and must be addressed early in their post-operative course.
Several ophthalmology residency training programs locally have begun to incorporate premium IOLs in surgical training. Since 2016, residents from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital-Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (UP-PGH DOVS) decked patients for premium IOL implantation. Towards the latter part of their residency (once they can produce consistent results with their phacoemulsification technique), they are trained in the nuances of incorporating premium IOLs in practice, including proper patient selection, intra-operative strategies, and post-operative care for optimal outcome. Other residency training institutions like the Eye and Vision Institute-The Medical City (EVI) have started similar programs, with more institutions following in the future. Noting the difficulties of venturing into these high-end lenses once already in private practice, the goal is to incorporate them while still under the medicolegal shield of residency training.
As we bask in the splendor of current diffractive multifocal IOL technology, we are almost certain that these will not be the last IOLs in our arsenal, as more design innovations are being introduced. The era of Enhanced Depth of Focus (EDOF) IOLs may be upon us.22 These lenses elongate the focal point and allow a wider range of foci, versus only specific foci seen with traditional diffractive lenses. These lenses are also meant to address photic phenomena associated with the latter. Whether this particular design of presbyopia-correction becomes the trend and eventual norm remains to be seen. For now, we have plenty of IOL designs and technology at our disposal to offer our patients, as they navigate today’s dynamic digital world. These choices must be individually customized to a patient’s lifestyle and daily activities for best outcome. What we now have at our disposal is excellent. What we will have in the future is going to be even better. Indeed, the future of IOL technology remains bright.
1. Masket S. The evolution of small-incision cataract surgery: A short history of ophthalmologists’ progress. Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today. March 2004:77-80: https://pdfs. semanticscholar.org/bd7e/8965fc511e0b3a04714c09887 ebdc1a8edc8.pdf (accessed Feb 4, 2019).
2. Abell RG, Kerr NM, Vote BJ. Toward zero effective phacoemulsification time using femtosecond laser pre-treatment. Ophthalmology. 2013;120:942-948.
3. Cekic O, Batman C. The relationship between capsulorhexis size and anterior chamber depth relation. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers. 1999;30:185-190.
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Hello All, I am not sure how to implement the side request to my Move_BB8 function. I am thinking of that the side = move_square.linear.x * move time (displacement = velocity * time). But I am not positive toward my thought. Here is my code shown below without the implementation of side. Appreciate anyone who could help me out!
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#repeat the robot movement for request.repetitions times i = 0 while i < request.repetitions : #move the robot in square j = 0 while j < 4: #(j=0,1,2,3) move_square.linear.x = 0.2 #go straight rate.sleep() move_square.linear.x = 0.0 #stop to attenuate the inertia effect rate.sleep() move_square.angular.z = 0.1 #make a turn rate.sleep() move_square.angular.z = 0.0 #stop to attenuate the inertia effect rate.sleep() my_pub.publish(move_square) rate.sleep() j+=1 i+=1 rospy.loginfo("Finished service move_bb8_in_square_custom") response = BB8CustomServiceMessageResponse() response.success = True return response
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What do you do with research that produces potentially harmful results? In this post Andrew Crane explores how research can produce negative as well as positive impacts on society and discusses how his own research group has approached dealing with the complex issue of ‘negative impact’. This post was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog.
“If you put these things in your report it will kill our industry”. The words – whispered to a colleague by a senior industry figure – stop me dead in my tracks. As a management researcher, I am used to my research being ignored, but here are people thinking my research can fundamentally change their lives – and not for the better.
We are at one of several round-tables in India that our team has organised to get feedback on the preliminary findings from our research looking at decent work and economic growth in the South Indian garment industry. The room is crackling with tension and it is clear the word has gone around not to cooperate with us. Our local organiser tries a joke, but there are only set faces and fixed stares. I have presented to some tough crowds – this is the hardest. They think I am here to destroy them.
Leading up to these round-tables, we have undertaken months of detailed ethnographic work on labour issues in the garment industry and how they might be tackled. These round tables are part of the consultation phase and we are keen to explore how the solutions we have identified might effect positive change. “Impact” is the buzzword guiding us. We want our research and these events to benefit the industry and improve the lives of workers making the clothes that end up in our high streets.
It is not hard to see where our audience was coming from. Local companies feared our research could be used by brands to negotiate lower prices, or to justify switching suppliers. They were also afraid western governments might encourage such switching, or even block imports from the region. They had, after all, been burned by critical media and NGO reports before. Resistance from parts of the business community was hardly unexpected. It came as more of a shock, though, when the same views were expressed by workers and unions.
“Yes, there are lots of problems here,” one union leader informed us. His colleagues agreed: “The pay rates are low, it is too expensive to live here now, and 90% of the workers don’t know their rights. But no work is worse. Don’t destroy the industry. We need it.”
Obviously, we have no intention of harming the industry, but hearing these concerns reiterated to us how careful we need to be about what kind of impact we might create and how and to whom we should communicate our findings. What would happen if critics in the media, or NGOs, took our research and used it to push for changes that we did not want to see happen? And how exactly should we highlight problems in the industry in ways that would not harm our informants?
Returning from India, these questions were paramount. We were acutely aware that although the drive to achieve research impact has been beneficial, academics are not well versed in making risk assessments and are often unable to manage the potential impacts of their research. How then should researchers approach the issue of negative impact?
One option could be to adopt some version of the Hippocratic Oath and apply the maxim of “do no harm”. This is attractive, but may also promote an overly risk averse approach to research by de-emphasising the discussion of critical, but risky findings. Our team reasoned that this would probably only raise more ethical concerns, especially if we ended up withholding or concealing our findings.
The alternative we settled on was to carefully evaluate the potential outcomes of different courses of action in order to assess which pathways to impact might deliver the most overall benefit, even if that could mean some stakeholders being disadvantaged. As a business ethics scholar, this kind of utilitarian cost-benefit evaluation is familiar, but what is also familiar, are the drawbacks of this method in terms of ignoring the effect on those who lose out. Overall, though, we were in favour, provided we could find ways to build in safeguards.
As we develop the content and approach of our final report and the communication strategy behind it, there are likely to be further decisions to make. For instance, there would be little problem, even in disclosing our most shocking findings, if all we looked to do was publish them in an academic paper, especially one wrapped in scholarly jargon and ensconced behind a forbidding paywall. However, the pathway to impact we settled on includes additional forms of public engagement and media dissemination. All of these have to be created with an eye to not just gaining attention to our findings and recommendations, but also to making sure the benefits of talking about our research continue to outweigh the costs. Even the decision to write this blog post has not been taken lightly. Should we identify the industry we are talking about? Should we specify the exploitative labour practices we have identified? Should we name names? On balance, we decided collectively to only to do so in contexts where we can apply the appropriate nuance and specificity. This blog post is not the place to do that. However, there we will be contexts where it is possible to do so and where we can, hopefully, maintain some control of the narrative.
Going forward, we know that we are going to have to continue to be conscious of how and where we communicate our research findings, more so than we might be used to. While we feel the focus on research impact has been a positive development, our experience of carrying out this project suggests to us, that there is a clear need for greater awareness on the part of researchers of the potential for negative research impact and how to handle it. Academics can’t control all the impacts that derive from their research, but they can be better prepared and supported in recognising where the wrong kinds of impact can emerge and what safeguards need to be put in place to minimise their effects. Better training for academics on managing impact would likely help. Extolling the benefits of impact is one thing, but preparing researchers for the realities of different kinds of intended and unintended impacts, especially as they play out on those most vulnerable, is a necessary step in helping ensure that our research makes a positive rather than a negative difference in the world.
This post was originally published on the LSE Impact Blog under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
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What is Won-Buddhism?
The name Won Buddhism (Won-Bul-Kyo) is a compound word in Korean for 'Truth', 'Enlightenment', and 'Teaching'. 'Won' means circle and symbolizes the ultimate truth; 'Bul' means enlightenment; 'Kyo' means teaching the truth. Therefore, Won Buddhism is the path that leads us to become enlightened to the truth.
Sotaesan, the Founding Master of Won Buddhism, realized supreme enlightenment in 1916 in Korea, after years of searching for the truth and doing many ascetic practices. He embraced the Buddha’s teaching, yet he modernized and revitalized the traditional Buddhadharma so that people in the secular world could use it to enrich their everyday lives.
"IL WON SANG"
The Il-Won-Sang (One-Circle-Image) is enshrined at the altar in Won Buddhism temples. It is a symbol of the ultimate reality; the origin of all things in the universe, the truth that all the Buddhas and sages awaken to, and the original nature of all sentient beings.
When our minds are without defilement, desires, or attachments, we are as clear as space and as clean and reflective as a perfect mirror. This is the realm before any thought arises. This is beginner's mind; this is who we really are. In this pure space, all religions, traditions, and philosophies can join together. The Il-Won-Sang represents our true home to which we may all return.
Park, Chung-bin (1891-1943), better known as Sotaesan, was born the son of peasants on May 5, 1891 in Korea. Sotaesan’s path of the awakening to the truth started with his asking universal questions about nature and human life, such as “Why do clouds and winds arise from the calm and clear sky?” or “Why are wives and husbands in such a close relationship?” At the age of 26 on April 28, 1916, he attained enlightenment after twenty years of seeking the truth and declared:
“All things are of a single body and nature;
all dharmas are of a single root source. In this regard,
the Way (Tao) that is free from arising nor ceasing and
the principle of the retribution and response of cause and effect,
being mutually grounded on each other,
have formed a clear and rounded framework.”
He offered visions and hopes for a future society of popularized Buddhist practice and living, and he made efforts for practical application, popularization, and modernization of Buddha Dharma under the founding motto:
“As material civilization develops,
cultivate spiritual civilization accordingly.”
As the spiritual leader of Won Buddhism for 28 years, including the dark period of World War II, he built a strong spiritual and material foundation of Won Buddhism from the three main undertakings of the order: edification, education, and charity. He lived as an enlightened sage and completed the basic doctrine of Il Won Sang, the Dharmakaya Buddha, the Fourfold Grace, and The Threefold Study. On June 1, 1943, he entered into Nirvana at the age of 53 after he transmitted the verse of Truth to his disciples:
“Being into nonbeing and nonbeing into being,
Turning and turning— in the ultimate,
Being and nonbeing are both void,
yet this void is also complete.”
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There has been a shift to recognize the benefits of using print and digital together. As districts invest more laptops, eReaders, tablets, and other devices, schools still recognize the need and importance of pen and paper. Looking for that right combination of print and digital resources that will keep students engaged and motivated while they continue to learn? We have what you need.
Students are familiar with digital learning, so it might make sense for them to read books on their devices. Reading an eBook and reading on paper are two different experiences, so they’ll need practice in learning the benefits and limitations of each. As teachers and students explore which mode of reading works best for different tasks, students will learn to pivot on their own between the two depending on what works for them. Some will find the embedded annotation features in an eBook helpful as they perform close reading or text analysis, while others will prefer to have a paperback open next to a notebook to record observations.
If you give your students the choice to read in print or digital, you can increase their engagement. Some students will choose to read only on devices, but many will prefer to switch between digital and paper.
Schools looking for a digital counterpart to their classroom novels will love the tools embedded in Follett eBooks – they offer display modifications that enable students to adjust font size, lighting, and contrast on the screen. These embedded digital tools make it easier for students to annotate, bookmark, highlight, and engage in deeper reading.
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About the workshop
Workshop coordinators & Orchestra conductors - Andriana Achitzanova Petala & Makis Baklatzis
The workshop aims at the acquaintance and study of the theoretical musical system of maqams through the performance and interpretation of Istanbul classical repertoire but also traditional songs of the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece. During the workshop we explore and come in contact with the organology, repertoire, rhythms, ways and improvised forms (taqsim) of this tradition, which will be assimilated through practice itself. All these will lead us to understanding the organization of the system of maqam and consequently to understanding both simple and complex maqams as well as stylistics of their tradition.
Who can participate
The workshop is addressed to anyone who is interested to get in touch with Eastern modal music and the world of maqam, whether he/she plays a musical instrument or not, and wants to form part of and collaborate with a group of both amateur and professional musicians. It is addressed to singers and people playing any instrument, regardless of their level of knowledge, without any restriction.
In February 2020, the musical ensemble TERPSIS (Terpsis Orchestra) was formed as part of the workshop.
Its object of inspiration, study and performance are works of Istanbul classical repertoire and the tradition of maqam but also traditional songs of the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece.
Terpsis Orchestra is a music group whose members are united by their common love for music, collaboration and the search for new sounds and is open to embrace anyone who wants to join in!
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1.1 power electronics for electric vehicles
In the past few decades, power semiconductor device technology has made great progress. These power devices have made revolutionary progress in power rating and performance. Among the existing power devices, the power diode is used as a free switch, while other power devices, such as thyristor, GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, Sith, MCT, etc., are externally controllable. The research on high-performance power devices is still ongoing. At present, IGBT is the most widely used in New energy vehicles.
When selecting power devices driven by electric power, the following requirements must be considered.
(1) Rating. The rated voltage is determined according to the voltage specified on the battery nameplate, the maximum voltage during charging and the maximum voltage during regenerative braking. The rated value of the current depends on the peak value of the rated power of the motor and the number of power devices connected in parallel. When these devices are connected in parallel, their conduction state must match the switching characteristics.
(2) Conversion efficiency. The high switching frequency can reduce the volume of the filter and meet the requirements of electromagnetic interference limitation. When the switching frequency is higher than 20kHz, noise can be avoided.
(3) Power loss. The voltage drop or loss during conduction shall be minimized, and the switching loss shall be as small as possible. Because high switching frequency will increase switching loss, energy density, noise and electromagnetic interference can be optimized at 10kHz. The leakage current shall be limited within 1mA to minimize the loss in the disconnected state.
(4) Base / gate drivability. The device shall consider simple and safe base or gate drive. The corresponding driving signal is either solution voltage / current or linear voltage / current. Voltage driven mode has very low energy consumption and is usually preferred.
(5) Dynamic characteristics. The dynamic characteristics of the device should be good enough to allow high Du / dt and high di / dt capability, and it is easy to parallelize. The internal freewheeling diode should have similar dynamic characteristics to the external main device.
(6) Solid. The power device shall have sufficient anti overload capacity to withstand the huge energy in case of overvoltage, and can be protected by quickly fusing the semiconductor fuse in case of overcurrent. It shall not use and minimize the use of buffer circuit. Due to the frequent deceleration of electric vehicle, the power device will cause frequent thermal shock. It should work reliably under this hot pressing condition.
(7) Maturity and cost. Since the cost of power devices accounts for most of the whole electric vehicle drive system, power devices should be as economical as possible. Some recent power devices, such as high-energy MCT, can not be applied to electric vehicles.
Considering the above requirements, people are considering the application of power devices such as GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT and MCT to the drive of electric vehicles. The thyristor is not considered because it requires additional converter devices to turn off, and its switching frequency is limited to 400Hz. Due to the on property and limited availability of sit and Sith, they are also excluded.
1.2 power converter for new energy vehicles
Power converter technology generally develops with the development of power devices. The purpose is to achieve high power density, high efficiency, high controllability and high reliability. The power converter can be AC-DC and AC-AC conversion of the same frequency, AC-AC conversion, DC-DC or DC-AC conversion of different frequencies. DC-DC converter and DC-DC converter are usually used for motor drive, respectively.
Initially, the DC chopper appeared in the 1960s. It uses the semiconductor thyristor with forced judgment, which is limited to operating under the low-frequency switch. Due to the emergence of fast switching power devices, this chopper can now work at tens or even hundreds of kHz. When used for electric vehicle drive, the two quadrant DC chopper is the most ideal, because in the motor drive mode, it can convert the DC voltage of the battery into variable DC voltage, and can reverse convert the energy during regenerative braking. Moreover, the four quadrant DC chopper is used for the reversible and regenerative speed control of DC motor.
Inverters are usually divided into voltage input type and current input type. Because a large number of inductive elements are needed to simulate the current source, the current supply inverter is rarely used in the drive of electric vehicles. Because the voltage input inverter is very simple and can carry out bidirectional energy conversion, it is almost only used in electric vehicles. According to different needs, its output waveform can be square wave, six step or pulse width modulation waveform. For example, it can output square wave for permanent magnet brushless DC motor and six step waveform or pulse width modulation waveform for induction motor. It should be pointed out that the six step waveform has been eliminated because its amplitude can not be directly controlled and its harmonics are rich. In addition, the harmonic of PWM waveform is appropriate, and its basic quantity and frequency change gently during speed control.
In the past decade, a large number of PWM switching schemes suitable for voltage input inverter have been developed. These schemes focus on resisting harmonics, making better use of DC voltage, resisting DC voltage fluctuation, and suitable for real-time and microcontroller based implementation. They can be divided into voltage control and current control PWM. At present, the most advanced voltage control PWM schemes include natural or sinusoidal PWM, regular or unified PWM, harmonic elimination or optimal PWM, triangular PWM, no carrier or random PWM and equal area PWM. In addition, for high-performance motor drive, because the torque and magnetic flux of the motor are directly related to the controlled current, the application of current control of voltage input inverter is particularly attractive. The technical development status of current control PWM scheme includes PWM with hysteresis band or band band, PWM with instantaneous current control by voltage, space vector PWM and so on.
1.3 soft switching technology of inverter for new energy vehicles
The power inverter can use soft switch instead of forced switch. The key of soft switching is to use resonant circuit to form current or voltage waveform, so that the power switching device is in zero voltage or zero current state. Generally speaking, soft switching inverter has the following advantages.
(1) Due to the zero voltage or zero current state, the switching loss of the power device is zero, so the efficiency is high.
(2) Due to low heat consumption and no buffer, the volume and mass of the converter are reduced, so the power density is high.
(3) Due to the use of soft switch to minimize the pressure of the switch, the reliability of the device has been improved.
(4) Due to the small voltage resonance pulse, electromagnetic interference and device insulation are no longer the main problems.
(5) Due to the high switching frequency, the noise is very small.
The main disadvantage of soft switching technology is that the resonant circuit increases the cost and complexity. Although soft switching DC-DC converter is widely used in switching mode power devices, its application in electric vehicle drive system develops slowly. Because the power converter with high efficiency and high power density is very ideal for electric vehicle drive, the soft switching power converter suitable for electric vehicle is still in further development.
Although many soft switching DC-DC converters are applied in the switching mode power system, these converters can not be directly used in the DC motor driving electric vehicles, because in addition to bearing excessive voltage and current, these converters can not control the reverse energy flow during regenerative braking. It should be pointed out that for electric vehicles, regenerative braking is very important because it can effectively complete more than 25% of driving range. Recently, a new soft DC-DC converter suitable for DC motor of electric vehicle has been developed. It can convert bidirectional energy during driving and regenerative braking, and there is very little hardware.
Compared with the development of soft switching inverter of AC motor, the soft switching technology of switched reluctance motor is rarely developed. A new soft switching inverter, the so-called zero voltage conversion type, is specially designed for switched reluctance motor. All the main switches and diodes of this new inverter can work in zero voltage state, the voltage and current pressure of the device are unified, and has a wide working range. Moreover, its circuit is very simple, the number of hardware required is the least, and the cost is low. It can achieve high switching frequency, high power density and high efficiency.
- Microelectronic devices
With the emergence of Microcomputer in the 1970s, microelectronic technology has developed very rapidly in the past 40 years. Modern microelectronic devices can be roughly divided into microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSP) and transmission machines.
Microprocessor technology is considered as a milestone in the development of microelectronic technology, such as 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium II and Pentium III. Microprocessor is the CPU of microcomputer, which can be used to compile instructions, control operation behavior and execute all algorithms and logic operations. Unlike microprocessors, microcontrollers such as 8096 and 80960, including all resources such as CPU, ROM or EPROM, ram, DMA, timer, interrupt source, a / D and D / a converter and input / output interface, can be used as stand-alone and single-chip controllers. In this way, the microprocessor based on electric vehicle drive system has the advantages of minimum hardware and centralized software. Digital signal processor (DSP), such as TMS320C30, 320c40 and i860, has the ability to quickly calculate floating-point data. It can meet the requirements of high-performance complex control algorithm of electric drive motor. The chip to be mentioned is the chip of Freescale, whose products occupy a leading position in the field of automotive electronics. With the gradual maturity of reference materials, its S12 series and DSC series chips will be more and more used in Chinese automobiles.
- Control strategy
Traditional linear control, such as PID, can not meet the harsh requirements of high-performance motor drive. In recent years, many advanced control strategies have emerged. It is applicable to the development status of motor drive control strategy, including adaptive control, variable structure control, fuzzy control and neural network control.
Adaptive control includes self-tuning control (STC) and model reference adaptive control (MRAC).
The parameters of STC controller can be adjusted automatically according to the changes of system parameters. The key is to use an identification module to track the changes of system parameters, and update the parameters of the controller through the self-adjusting module of the controller, so as to obtain the ideal closed-loop control performance.
No matter how the model changes, the closed-loop controller’s parameters can be used to track the ideal response of the system, regardless of the difference between the model and the closed-loop controller’s parameters. Now MRAC and STC have been used in the commutator less motor drive system of electric vehicles.
Variable structure control (VSC) has recently been applied to motor drive to compete with adaptive control. Using VSC, the system provides insensitive parameter characteristics, specifies error dynamics, and simplifies the operation. According to a series of switch control principles, the system must operate in the phase plane according to the preset track, regardless of how the system parameters change.
New technologies such as fuzzy logic and neural network have also been introduced into the field of motor control recently.
Fuzzy control is essentially a language process, which is based on the previous experience and trial rules used by human behavior. Using neural network control (NNC), the controller can explain the dynamic behavior of the system, and then self-study and adjust itself accordingly. In addition, this advanced control strategy can be combined with other control strategies to form new control modes, such as adaptive fuzzy control, fuzzy NNC and fuzzy VSC. In the near future, the controller using artificial intelligence (AI) can carry out system diagnosis and error correction without human intervention.
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The only person I know in my age group who does not own a computer also does not use a cell phone, cannot figure out how to operate the ground positioning system (GPS) in his car, doesn't understand fax machines and has trouble setting the controls on his clock radio.
His whole world is golf, a game which requires no special knowledge or abilities beyond being able to place a small white ball on a wooden tee and whacking it with a 9-iron to hell and gone.
His name is Ernie and he's 79. He retired from teaching years ago and just doesn't care about emailing anyone or posting pictures of his dog on Facebook, mainly because he doesn't have a dog. He also doesn't have a wife, whom he places in the same category as a computer; occasionally useful but mostly unnecessary.
I mention Ernie to illustrate how rare it is these days for seniors not to own a machine that allows entry into the wonders of cyberspace. I am 83 and my circle of friends range in ages from 50 on up and they all use computers---except, of course, for Ernie. They similarly own and use cell phones, iPhones, iPods, iPads, Skype and Dragon hardware and software, Nooks, Kindles and a lot of other electronic gadgetry of which I am not yet aware.
According to a study by the Pew Research Center, 72% of those in the 65-plus age bracket use the Internet daily for home businesses, general research and exploring their own histories, including past love affairs. The figure compares to 77% of those in the 50-64 age group.
As the number grows, older Americans are increasingly turning to classes in schools and private homes to learn how to use computers, utilizing a machine that features a large-letter keyboard and a mouse with a 200% zoom capability.
I am deep into the world of computers because I had to be, although I cling to the notion that no computer will ever replace the typewriter in romantic lore. I miss the clickety-clacking of my old Underwood in a calamitous newspaper city room where I composed the first words I ever wrote for public consideration.
But time marches on, and I can tell you that a lot of us older people will be marching right along with it, although some with walkers will be marching a little slower and others in wheelchairs will be rolling along with it. Look around you. We'll be there.
Except, of course, for Ernie
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The U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development distributes federal funding to communities throughout the United States each year. The allocation of those funds is based, in part, on need and population, but also on the input provided by the residents of each respective community receiving funds.
To that end, Covington is currently gathering public feedback for how it should use the federal funds it receives from HUD. In most cases communities spend the money on things like homebuyer programs, infrastructure improvements, recreation programs, crime prevention efforts, park maintenance or playground equipment.
According to Jeremy Wallace, Grants Administrator and Real Estate Specialist with the City of Covington, public input is solicited as part of Covington’s annual action plan process for Community Development Block Grant funds from HUD.
“We typically hold public hearings and have stakeholder meetings, but this year we decided to add an online survey,” Wallace explained to UrbanCincy. “We collect all the public comments from the various forms of public outreach and incorporate that into our strategies and programming of these funds to address the needs identified in the pubic comments.”
This year’s online survey will remain open until Monday, April 4, so people are encouraged to leave their feedback as soon as possible so that it can be incorporated into the public record. Once it is all compiled, Wallace says that the City of Covington will put together an action plan and submit it to HUD for their consideration and review.
The survey takes just a few minutes to complete and can be filled out online here: http://conta.cc/1SCUwZb.
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Our Industrial Hygiene team can perform hazard exposure assessments for both general industry and construction environments and provide written programs and training. Bermac strives to provide practical solutions to any hazards that we identify. Bermac provides the following Industrial Hygiene services:
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CAS Standards Contextual Statement
In the 1960’s, with its social upheaval, a movement to make the college curriculum more relevant and to apply the knowledge of theoretical disciplines to solve societal problems gained considerable momentum. As higher education institutions revamped their curricula, they began to recognize that supervised learning experiences outside the classroom were relevant to the educational process and that ways could be found to evaluate these experiences, possibly for academic credit.
In the early 1970’s, two professional associations, the Society for Field Experience and National Center for Public Service Internship Programs, were formed among those involved in college-based field experiences and those involved in policy issues and government-based projects, such as the Urban Corps. These organizations merged in 1978 to form the organization known today as the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). Other experiential education organizations include the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA), the Association for Experiential Education (AEE), NAFSA: The Association of International Educators, and the National Association of Colleges and Employers, among others. A goal of these organizations has been to advocate experiential and related forms of active or engaged learning, both within and outside the classroom or campus setting, and to establish appropriate standards and ethics in the profession.
As a result of the efforts of these organizations as well as the demand by students and parents for a more career-oriented curriculum, internships have become an integral part of a college education. What distinguishes internships from other forms of active learning is that there is a degree of supervision and self-study that allows students to “learn by doing” and to reflect upon that learning in a way that achieves certain learning goals and objectives. Feedback for improvement and the development or refinement of learning goals is also essential. What distinguishes an intern from a volunteer is the deliberative form of learning that takes place. There must be a balance between learning and contributing, and the student, the student’s institution, and the internship placement site must share in the responsibility to ensure that the balance is appropriate and that the learning is of sufficiently high quality to warrant the effort, which might include academic credit.
Major questions and concerns arise regarding how colleges and universities can provide an appropriate internship experience, given the various goals of the institution, the academic and student affairs divisions, and the student. For example, some institutions encourage internships but refuse to grant academic credit for them. Some have policies that restrict academic credit to internships only outside the major. Also, accreditation standards within a professional field may conflict with institutional policy. Some may prohibit students from receiving academic credit for internships that provide compensation, although this attitude is declining as quality placements increase. Then there are the variable standards as to what is a credit-worthy internship (i.e., how many hours equals how many credits) and concern for the liability of students and their institutions should mistakes be made.
The kinds of internship experience sanctioned by an institution may vary. Some emphasize a form of cooperative education in which compensation for professional work is a high expectation, although credit for the experience is not necessarily expected. Some may involve a heavily supervised semester or summer-long experience either for or not for academic credit, while others might utilize a form of externship, which is similar to short-term, field-based learning with minimal or limited interaction with an organization.
Setting standards for internship programs will establish a set of benchmarks that identify quality internship programs for administrators, faculty, and students. But it is important that we distinguish between an academic internship within academic affairs and the co-curricular internship found in the student affairs division. The CAS internship program standards take into account the importance of establishing standards within each of these areas to meet student academic, career, and personal goals. It also assumes that there is sufficient communication between the two areas so that the appropriate expertise can be utilized across divisions and throughout the campus.
Of considerable significance is the intent of CAS to include the notion that an internship program is not the sole purview of a career center or off-campus programs office. Academic departments that grant credit for internships that have faculty designated to oversee internships, or have faculty member who accompany students on a short-term or long-term basis to locations off campus such as Washington or London, should be expected to meet these CAS standards.
Although professionalism in experiential education has made significant leaps in the past decade, the establishment of these standards is an important milestone within the field. For the first time, a major statement is made that defines an internship within the context of an academic institution of higher education. It emphasizes that careful thought, planning, administration, implementation, and feedback are important in the entire learning process and that sufficient resources should be available to accomplish the established goals of the learning experience. Also, this professionalism must exist within both the academic and the co-curricular areas of the institution.
With the proliferation of internships at the local, state, national, and international levels, administrators and faculty have a special obligation to ensure not only the high quality of the learning environment for their students but also to assess the risk management and safety of students in these settings. Both faculty and staff need to be sufficiently trained to appropriately oversee an internship, to recognize the warning signs of problems, and to take appropriate action. Increasingly, institutions work with third-party organizations to place, supervise, and evaluate students because these organizations have dedicated personnel who are expert in these areas. Yet, similar diligence must be paid to the evaluation of their performance as well.
Internships and other forms of experiential education are much more acceptable as part of the college experience. New faculty members are often former interns who understand the value of an internship and the appropriate ways of measuring student performance. More agencies understand how to utilize interns and to give them substantive work and responsibilities. More financial assistance is available either through the institution or the placement site to help cover the student’s costs. Technology is providing career centers, internship offices, or off-campus programs with the ability to match the interests of the student with an appropriate placement more efficiently and effectively. Also, the movement toward on-line portfolio systems allows more participation in the development and evaluation of the student by all those involved in the internship experience. Such advances will very likely lead to greater advances in assessment of student outcomes in internships and other forms of experiential learning.
References, Readings, and Resources
Chickering, A.W. (1977). Experience and learning: An introduction to experiential learning. Rochelle, NY: Change Magazine Press.
Inkster, Robert P. and Ross, Roseanna G. (1995). The Internship as partnership: A handbook for campus-based coordinators and advisors. Raleigh, NC: National Society for Experiential Education.
______(1998) The Internship as partnership: A handbook for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies. Raleigh, NC: National Society for Experiential Education.
Kendall, Jane C., Duley, John S., Little, Thomas C., Permaul, Jane S. and Rubin, Sharon. (1986) Strengthening experiential education within your institution. Raleigh, NC: National Society for Internships and Experiential Education.
Kiser, P.M. (2000). Getting the most out of your internship: Learning from experience. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Kolb, D.A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.
Stanton, T. and Ali, K. (1994). The experienced hand: A student manual for making the most of an internship (2nd. Ed.). New York: Caroll Press
Sweitzer, H. Frederick and King, Mary A. (2004). The successful internship: Transformation and empowerment in experiential learning. Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole.
National Society for Experiential Education, 19 Mantua Road, Mt. Royal, NJ 08061; (1-856.423.3427; fax: 856.423.3420)
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Stars are the most basic building blocks of galaxies.
The age, distribution, and composition of stars trace the history, dynamics, and evolution of their galaxy. Stars are responsible for the production and distribution of heavy elements, such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen.
Different star types have different habitable zones. This is the area around a star where conditions are just right, neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on a planet’s surface. (For this reason, a star's habitable zone is often referred to informally as its "Goldilocks zone.")
Statistically, there should be more than 100 billion planets in our Milky Way galaxy. They come in a wide range of sizes and characteristics. Complex organisms arose on Earth only 500 million years ago, and modern humans have been here for only 200,000 years – the blink of an eye on cosmological timescales. Earth will become uninhabitable for higher forms of life in a little over 1 billion years, as the Sun grows warmer and dries our planet. Therefore, stars slightly cooler than our Sun – called orange dwarfs – are considered better for advanced life. They can burn steadily for tens of billions of years. This opens up a vast timescape for biological evolution to pursue an infinity of experiments for yielding robust life forms. And, for every star like our Sun, there are three times as many orange dwarfs in the Milky Way.
The even more abundant star type called red dwarfs (also known as M dwarf stars) have even longer lifetimes. Planets in a red dwarf's comparatively narrow habitable zone, which is very close to the star, are exposed to extreme levels of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation, which can be hundreds of thousands of times more intense than what Earth receives from the Sun. Planets in the habitable zones of red dwarfs can be baked bone dry and have their atmospheres stripped away quite early in their lives. Red dwarfs typically calm down after a few billion years, but their early outbursts could prohibit their planets from evolving to be more hospitable.
How are stars born?
Stars are born from vast clouds of gas and dust, known as nebulae, that are scattered throughout most galaxies. Over thousands to millions of years, gravity can cause denser pockets within a nebula to collapse under their own weight. As a cloud – which is mostly hydrogen – collapses, the material at its center begins to heat up. Known as a “protostar,” this hot core of the collapsing cloud will is a star in the making. Some of these spinning clouds of collapsing gas and dust break up into two or three blobs that each form stars. This would explain why most of the stars in the Milky Way come in pairs or in multiples. Not all of this material ends up as part of the star, however – the remaining dust can become planets and moons, asteroids, and comets – or may simply remain as dust.
Come along on an interstellar journey through time and scientific detective work.
What is a main sequence star?
As millions of years pass, the core temperature of a protostar reaches a point at which nuclear fusion can begin. The star then begins the longest stage of its life, called the “main sequence.” Most stars in the galaxy, including our Sun, are categorized as main sequence. This is a state in which nuclear fusion in the star is stable and hydrogen is converted to helium. This process releases a lot of energy that keeps the star hot and bright, and it supplies an outward pressure against the incredible mass of material that would otherwise cause the star to collapse on itself. Ninety percent of a star’s life is spent in the main sequence phase.What does a star's color mean?
What does a star's color mean?
When you look at the night sky, you may notice that some stars shine more brightly than others. The brightness of a star is related to how much energy it puts out, as well as how close it is to Earth.
Stars also vary in color – because they vary in temperature. Hotter stars appear blue or white, while cooler stars look orange or red. Astronomers use these characteristics to classify main sequence stars into categories by color and temperature: O (blue), B (blue-white), A (white), F (yellow-white), G (yellow), K (orange), and M (red), from hottest and biggest to coolest and smallest. Stars at the ends of their lives are out of the main sequence. These include supergiants, red giants, and white dwarfs.
What kind of star is our Sun?
Our Sun is categorized as a G-type yellow-dwarf main sequence star. It is predicted that our Sun will remain in the main sequence phase for a few billion more years.
Stars can live for billions of years, but their lives can be shorter or longer depending on their size (technically, their mass). The bigger (or more massive) the star, the shorter its life, as more massive stars burn their nuclear fuel faster.
How do planets form around stars?
The gas and dust that swirl around a star during its formation are critical to forming planets around it. The dust contains heavy elements such as carbon and iron that form the cores of planets.
Scientists think planets start off as grains of dust smaller than the width of a human hair. They emerge from the giant, donut-shaped disk of gas and dust that circles young stars. Gravity and other forces cause material within the disk to collide. If the collision is gentle enough, the material fuses, growing like rolling snowballs. Over time, dust particles combine to form pebbles, which evolve into mile-sized rocks. As these planetesimals, or planets in the making, orbit their star, they clear material from their path, leaving tracks of space empty but for fine dust. At the same time, the star gobbles up nearby gas while pushing more distant material farther away. After a few million years, the disk will have totally transformed, much of it taking the form of new worlds.The life cycles of stars
The life cycles of stars
Red giants and white dwarfs
When an average star like our Sun runs out of hydrogen to fuse, the star starts to collapse. But compacting a star causes it to heat up again and it is able to fuse what little hydrogen remains in a shell wrapped around its core. This burning shell of hydrogen greatly expands the outer layers of the star. When this happens, the star becomes a red giant. When our Sun enters the red giant phase of its life, in about 5 billion years, it will be so big that Mercury will be completely swallowed.
Our red giant Sun will still be consuming helium and cranking out carbon. When the helium is gone, the Sun will succumb to gravity again. When the core contracts, it will cause a release of energy and the Sun will become an even bigger giant with a radius beyond Earth's orbit.
After about a billion years as a red giant, the Sun will have ejected its outer layers until, eventually, its stellar core is exposed. This dead (in terms of nuclear fusion) but still ferociously hot stellar cinder is called a white dwarf. White dwarfs are roughly the size of Earth, despite containing the mass of a star. Pressure from fast moving electrons keeps these stars from further collapse. The more massive the core, the denser the white dwarf that is formed. Thus, the smaller a white dwarf is in diameter, the larger it is in mass! White dwarfs fade into oblivion over many billions of years as they gradually cool down.
This fate awaits only those stars with a mass up to about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun. Above that mass, electron pressure cannot support the core against further collapse. Such stars suffer a different fate.
White dwarfs may become novae
If a white dwarf forms in a binary or multiple star system, it may experience a more eventful demise as a nova. Nova is Latin for "new" – novae were once thought to be new stars in the act of being born. Today, we understand that they are very old stars – white dwarfs. If a white dwarf is close enough to a companion star, its gravity may drag matter (mostly hydrogen) from the outer layers of that star onto itself, building up on its surface. When enough hydrogen has accumulated on the surface, a burst of nuclear fusion erupts, causing the white dwarf to brighten substantially and eject its remaining material. Within a few days, the glow subsides and the cycle starts again. Sometimes, particularly massive white dwarfs (those near the 1.4 solar mass limit) may accrete so much mass in this manner that they collapse and explode completely, becoming what is known as a supernova.
Stars more than eight times the mass of our Sun are destined to die in a titanic explosion called a supernova. A supernova is not merely a bigger nova. In a nova, only the star's surface explodes. In a supernova, the star's core collapses and then explodes. In massive stars, a complex series of nuclear reactions leads to the production of iron in the core. Having achieved iron, the star has wrung all the energy it can out of nuclear fusion. The star no longer has any way to support its own mass, and the iron core collapses. In just a matter of seconds the core shrinks from roughly 5,000 miles across to just a dozen, and the temperature spikes 100 billion degrees or more. The outer layers of the star initially begin to collapse along with the core, but rebound with the enormous release of energy and are thrown violently outward. Supernovae release an almost unimaginable amount of energy. For a period of days to weeks, a supernova may outshine an entire galaxy. Likewise, all the naturally occurring elements and a rich array of subatomic particles are produced in these explosions.
Neutron stars and pulsars
If the collapsing stellar core at the center of a supernova contains between about 1.4 and 3 solar masses, the collapse continues until electrons and protons combine to form neutrons, producing a neutron star. Neutron stars are incredibly dense. Because it contains so much mass packed into such a small volume, the gravity at the surface of a neutron star is immense. Like white dwarfs, if a neutron star forms in a multiple star system it can accrete gas by stripping it from nearby companions.
Neutron stars also have powerful magnetic fields that can accelerate atomic particles around its magnetic poles, producing powerful beams of radiation. Those beams sweep around like massive searchlights as the star rotates. If such a beam is oriented so that it periodically points toward Earth, we observe it as regular pulses of radiation that occur whenever the magnetic pole sweeps past our line of sight. In this case, the neutron star is known as a pulsar.
If the collapsed stellar core is larger than three solar masses, it collapses completely to form a black hole: an infinitely dense object whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, not even light.
Because photons are what our instruments are designed to see, black holes can only be detected indirectly. Indirect observations are possible because the gravitational field of a black hole is so powerful that any nearby material – often the outer layers of a companion star – is caught up and dragged in. As matter spirals into a black hole, it forms a disk, called an accretion disk, that is heated to enormous temperatures, emitting copious quantities of X-rays and gamma-rays that indicate the presence of the underlying hidden companion.
Black holes that are quiet and not actively "feeding" on accretion disks can also be detected indirectly by observing the motions of nearby stars. For example, astronomers observe the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way by watching as nearby stars whip around at astounding speeds only possible under the influence of an incredibly massive, but invisible object.
From the remains, new stars and planets arise
The dust and debris left behind by novae and supernovae, as well as by red giants puffing off their outer layers, eventually blend with the surrounding interstellar gas and dust, forming new nebulae. The products created in the ends of the lives of stars enrich galaxies with heavy elements and chemical compounds. Eventually, those materials are recycled, providing the building blocks for new generations of stars and planetary systems.
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This polyhedron has been described here as a “bowtie cube.” It is possible to augment its six dodecagonal faces with additional bowtie cubes. Also, the bowtie cube’s hexagonal faces may be augmented by truncated octahedra.
These two polyhedra “tessellate” space, together which square pyramidal bifrustrums, meeting in pairs, which fill the blue-and-green “holes” seen above. This last image shows more of the “honeycomb” produced after yet more of these same polyhedra have been added.
This pattern may be expanded into space without limit. I discovered it while playing with Stella 4d, software you may try for free at this website.
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What weight is size 3 yarn?
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|Yarn Weight||Types of Yarn||Knit Gauge/Needle Size|
|#2||Sport, Baby Weight||23-26 sts to 4″ on US 3-5 needles|
|#3||DK, Light Worsted Weight||21-24 sts to 4″ on US 5-7 needles|
|#4||Worsted, Aran Weight||16-20 sts to 4″ on US 7-9 needles|
|#5||Chunky, Bulky Weight||12-15 sts to 4″ on US 9-11 needles|
What is another name for fingering yarn?
Fingering yarn often known as superfine weight yarn is a bit heavier than lace weight yarn and creates a slightly heavier fabric. It has a fine gauge and is perfect for any openwork patterns. This yarn is also known as fingering, sock and baby yarn.
What yarn weight is size 4?
Medium weight, worsted weight yarn, is the most common thickness in knitting and crochet. Yarns of this weight will print the yarn label with the #4 weight symbol and will say “medium”. Worsted weight yarn is ideal for all kinds of knit and crochet apparel, accessories, blankets and other home decor items.
What is finger weight yarn?
Fingering weight yarn is a smaller diameter yarn that usually has 400–450 yards per 100 grams. Alternatively called “Sock Yarn” this is the most common weight used for making socks because of its light weight creating a fine texture”
What weight is 2mm yarn?
Yarn Weight & Crochet Hook Size Chart
|Yarn Weight Terms||Suggested Hook Size|
|0-Lace, Thread||(No. 1) 1.50 mm, (No. 2) 1.50 mm, (B-1) 2.25 mm, 2.50 mm|
|1-Super Fine||(C-2) 2.75 mm, (D-3) 3.25 mm|
|2-Fine||(E-4) 3.50 mm, (F-5) 3.75 mm|
|3-Light, Light Worsted||(G-6) 4.00 mm, (7) 4.50 mm, (H-8) 5.00 mm|
What is the difference between fingering and worsted weight yarn?
Fingering weight is sometimes listed as “baby yarn” and is about double the weight of lace yarn. … Worsted weight yarn is the most widely available weight of yarn and the most frequently used. You may think it would be more aptly named ‘bested’ yarn, but the moniker was actually derived from an old town in England.
What is fingering yarn good for?
Fingering. Fingering weight yarn is often used for socks, lightweight sweaters and accessories, and Fair Isle or colorwork patterns. Fingering weight is sometimes listed as “baby yarn” or “sock yarn” and is about double the weight of lace yarn. Fingering weight yarns are typically knit on US 1-4 needles.
What does yarn weight 5 mean?
5—Bulky (Chunky, Craft, Rug) Bulky yarn is about twice as thick as worsted weight. It usually works up quickly when using large needles/hooks, and it’s great to use when making sweaters, scarves, rugs, and throws. 6—Super Bulky (Roving) Super bulky yarn is a thick yarn that works up quickly.
What weight is 3.5 oz yarn?
Worsted: 4.75-5.25 stitches per inch, 200-250 yards/3.5 oz. Aran: 4-4.5 stitches per inch, 170-200 yards/3.5 oz. Bulky: 2.75-3.75 stitches per inch, 140-170 yards/3.5 oz. Super Bulky: ~2.5 stitches per inch, ~120 yards/3.5 oz.
What size is medium weight yarn?
Yarn Weight (Thickness)
|Yarn Weight||US Needle Size||Knitting Stitches Per Inch, in Stockinette Stitch|
|Fine or sport-weight||3–6||5–6|
|Light worsted or DK (double-knitting)||5–7||5–5 1/2|
|Medium- or worsted-weight, afghan, Aran||7–9||4–5|
|Bulky or chunky||10–11||3–3 1/2|
Is worsted weight yarn a 4?
In North America, yarns are often referred to by their descriptive names, like a “worsted yarn” instead of a “number four yarn.” Under this system, worsted yarn is considered a medium weight number four yarn with a knitting gauge of 16-20 stitches for every four inches of knitting.
What size is 8 4 yarn?
In general, the yarn length of 8/4 cotton yarn is 170 meters, while the length of 8/8 is around 75 meters.
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Along with the pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine has increased the need to invest seriously in cybersecurity. Prior to the invasion, Russia and some Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries were typically excluded from the ransomware target list.
However, in the first quarter of 2022, Russia was the target of the highest percentage of detections (12%) in the Ransomware category, reveals the ESET.
Russia: ESET Threat Report reveals numbers in the area of cybersecurity
According to ESET, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has resulted in an increase in phishing and other scam campaigns that try to take advantage of people looking to support Ukraine. This growth was detected shortly after the start of the invasion.
The number of attacks involving a computer accessing a network without direct contact (or Remote Desktop Protocol - RDP attacks) has dropped for the first time since the beginning of 2022. The reduction of remote work, as well as the disruptions and sanctions resulting from the invasion, which conditioned access and availability to infrastructure, are likely reasons that justify this decline.
The latest edition of the ESET Threat Report describes the various cyberattacks linked to the ongoing war in Ukraine that investigators from ESET analyzed or contributed to mitigate. Among them is the reappearance of the Industroyer malware, which targeted an energy supplier in Ukraine.
O ESET Threat Report T1 2022 reviews the most important research findings of the period. ESET's investigation team further uncovered abuse of vulnerable kernel drivers, high-impact UEFI vulnerabilities, cryptocurrency malware targeting Android and iOS devices, an as-yet unattributed campaign implementing the DazzleSpy malware on macOS, and Mustang campaigns. Panda, Donot Team, Winnti Group, and the APT TA410 group.
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The "Costuma d’Agen"
A Thirteenth-Century Customary Compilation in Old Occitan
The Costuma d’Agen (customary laws of the Agenais, in south-west France) compiled in Occitan at various times in the thirteenth century and preserved in the Livre Juratoire, or swearing copy (Agen, Archives départementales de Lot-et-Garonne, MS 42), is here transcribed with an English translation on facing pages. An introduction and an index are included. Appendices provide the text of five chapters “missing” from this manuscript, along with several pertinent charters from Agen and a fuller description of the Livre juratoire by Professor M. Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh. The manuscript contains many colored illustrations and capitals.
The Costume emphasizes the power of the local city council, which often seems to override that of the local count. The laws or customs written in the book deal with many topics including jurisdiction, citizenship and military duties, crime, property, civil and criminal procedure, the local wine and salt trades, and local feudal law.
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Dialectics of interaction of the development of institutional social forms of economic systems and property relationships functioning in the agricultural sector
The purpose of the article is to reveal the dialectics of the interconnection of the development of institutional social forms of the functioning of economic systems and property relations in the agrarian sector, studying the world experience of market circulation of land. In clarifying these questions dialectical, dynamic, systematic, unity of logical and historical approaches, methods of generalization, analysis and synthesis, etc. Institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems are the real forms of organization of economic activity, norms and rules of conduct of economic entities that have developed in a given society at a certain stage of its development. According to the civilization approach, three institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems can be distinguished: pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial economical systems, which differ in their institutional frameworks for their functioning. Each of them has its own definite system of property relations, which is constantly evolving and complicated, gaining new forms of development. In general, ownership of land during the history of mankind was in its evolution, three stages (levels) of development: community - private - public property. That is, as we see, the development of property relations has an interesting tendency - in the early stages of its development, humanity used common, collective forms of ownership, later, with the development of productive forces, communal property self-denied and displaced by private property, self-development which takes place in the direction of its socialization (socialization of the nature of labor and production) and the emergence of collective forms of private property. The dialectic of the relationship between the development of institutional social forms of the functioning of economic systems and property relations in the agricultural sector is that the development of land ownership relations leads to changes and transformations in the system of economic relations, their transition to a higher stage of socio-economic development and the emergence of new social forms of functioning of economic systems. In its turn, the emergence of new institutional social forms of functioning of economic systems causes changes in the structure of ownership relations with the land, leads to the emergence and dominant position in the agrarian sector of new types and forms of ownership, reflecting the socio-economic nature of a particular economic system. On the basis of the analysis of the evolution of land ownership relations in different economic systems, one can conclude that their development is characterized by certain patterns: the development and complication of property patterns are constantly underway; Each form of ownership by its nature is historical; the emergence of a more developed form of ownership of land does not lead to the complete disappearance of the previous form of ownership; as the evolution of land ownership relations in the direction of socialization takes place, the convergence of interests of opposing classes, social groups; the development of the essential basis of property takes place in an evolutionary way, and the change in the legal form of ownership - institutional instruments; Each typical civilization is characterized by a specific for the conditions of its development, the dominant object of property, which reflects the level of development of the productive strength of human labor and the corresponding formative peculiarities of the appropriation of means and production results; the formation of private ownership of land in a post-industrial society takes place mainly through its purchase; the state regulates private ownership of land and does not allow the concentration of too large areas of land in one hand; State policy in the field of land relations is aimed at consolidating land and consolidating farms.
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4. Zinchuk, T. O. & Dankevych, V. Ye. (2016) Yevropeyskyy dosvid formuvannya rynku silskohospodarskykh zemel [The European Experience in the Formation of the Agricultural Land Market]. Ekonomika APK, 12. 84-92.
5. Konyk, O. & Martin, A. Polskyy dosvid rehulyuvannya rynkovykh zemelnykh vidnosyn [Polish experience in regulation of market land relations]. URL: http://zsu.org.ua/andrij-martin/90-2011-05-08-06-38-07.
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Aviation turbine fuel (military grades F-34, F-37 and F-44).: P29-4-3-24-2020E-PDF
"This standard applies to three grades of aviation turbine fuel (military grades F-34, F-37 as its equivalent, and F-44) consisting of conventional hydrocarbons, synthetic hydrocarbons, naturally occurring non-hydrocarbons and additives as specified herein"--Scope, page 1.
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|Department/Agency|| Canada. Canadian General Standards Board, issuing body. |
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|Title||Aviation turbine fuel (military grades F-34, F-37 and F-44).|
|Series title||National standard of Canada ; CAN/CGSB-3-24-2020|
|Publication type||Series - View Master Record|
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|Earlier edition||Aviation turbine fuel (military grades F-34, F-37 and F-44) / 2019|
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"Corrigendum No. 1, January 2021."
"Experience and excellence"--Cover.
Supersedes CGSB-3.24-2019 and May 2019 Corrigendum No. 1.
Issued also in French under title: Carburéacteur d'aviation (grades militaires F-34, F-37 et F-44).
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Phos-Chek long-term retardant has been well-known for over 50 years by state and federal agencies involved with environment preservation and wildfire prevention. But with the help of Firebreak Spray System, Phos-Chek will soon be a household name. Available to retailers, including hardware, home improvement and home and garden stores, Phos-Chek now ensures individual home owners that the vegetation and landscape surrounding their home is safe from fire. “We have yet to determine the exact wholesale pricing and marketing materials to be supplied to retailers, but those who are interested in carrying the line can inquire with a call to Firebreak Spray Systems,” explains George Roby, new business development leader for Phos-Chek Fire Safety Group (subsidiary of ICL PPLP).
The product will be available as either a clear liquid concentrate that needs to be mixed with water, or as a premixed solution. Household users only use a spray system to apply the ammonia poly-phosphate retardant. “A backpack sprayer, garden sprayer or any spraying system will work with this product,” says Roby. “All of which can be picked up at the same store Phos-Chek would be available in.” Phos-Chek long-term retardants are the safest, most effective, and environmentally friendly retardants available, he adds. No other products meet the current USDA Forest Service specification for long-term retardant. This specification includes product qualification testing for combustion retarding effectiveness, environmental, safety and health and corrosion standards.
The fire retardant consists of fertilizer type salts, corrosion inhibitors, and flow conditioners. The salts, when heated by the approaching fire, react with the woody material, grass and other organic matter, rendering it unburnable and thus retarding the fire spread. “This reaction is independent of the added water content,” explains Roby. Phos-Chek retardant is effective as long as the salts cling to the grass or woody material. The water contained in the fire retardant solution functions only as a carrier for the fire retardant, evaporating before arrival of the fire, and consequently contributing little in terms of fire retardancy.
For more information:
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Toll Free: 866-421-3473
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Many Americans may not know of Penelope Keith but for many years our British and Australian cousins have known her as one of the England's most famous actors – yes, she is of our generation.
You can read a bare bones biography about her at Wikipedia, but today we are concerned only with her rendition of The 12 Days of Christmas or, as it is titled in this case, Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree.
When you hear this you will wonder how you ever got through the Christmas holiday without it.
No video, just audio, and I promise it is worth every minute. Happy Christmas to everyone and enjoy.
At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Jeanne Waite Follett: Father Time is My Peer
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St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, St Andrews
Living with Uncertainty – The Roles of Faith and Hope in Science and Christian Theology
Our starting point is the alleged dichotomy between science and religion: the former seen as a search for certain and verifiable truth – the latter based on unverifiable faith statements. But this is a misleading and false dichotomy as a major challenge in science is how to manage uncertainty – both embedded within models and, more generally, living with the provisionality of research findings. Via a series of workshops involving both scientists and theologians we will explore living with uncertainty in science alongside the Christian understanding of hope.
The workshops will include scientists from the physical, biological, environmental and social sciences who will explore the limits posed by embedded uncertainty in models and the provisionality of current knowledge specific to their field. The theologians will outline their understanding of Christian hope in light of these summaries of current scientific endeavour. We will then jointly explore how the one can inform the other. To broaden the scope of our workshops, three outside speakers will join us to cover fields not included in the group’s expertise and help critique our emerging findings. As we jointly explore this interface, we anticipate interesting ethical questions arising from a clearer understanding of the provisionality of science viewed within a Christian understanding of hope.
- What is the nature of scientific knowledge and uncertainty?
- How do kinds of uncertainty differ both in terms of the fundamental nature of reality
- and the inexactness of the data used by scientists?
- How does a Christian understanding of hope differ from a secular one?
- What do we understand by hope in the present world and the new creation which is to come?
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All growth happens in stages. And in each stage of growth, people hit a point where they can’t grow any further using their existing set of skills and knowledge. I call this point The Ceiling of Complexity. And it happens time and time again, in every stage of growth.
As you progress in your growth, you gain experience by solving problems and transacting business. However, this experience often comes at a price: complexity. Each problem you solve, each transaction you make, and each hurdle you overcome adds to this complexity to the point where it holds you back from future growth of capability, performance, and achievement. You become overwhelmed by the messes, “stuff,” complications, conflicts, and contradictions that come from doing things a certain way for a long time.
Work smarter, not harder.
For some, this ceiling becomes a permanent fixture. And this is why many people fail to grow beyond a particular stage of development.
But when you’ve hit this ceiling, there’s a smart way to overcome it. It starts with recognizing that working harder and longer in the existing stage no longer works. You need a new set of concepts and strategies to achieve a new state of simplicity. By developing a simplified way of thinking, communicating, and performing, you’ll break through the ceiling.
All of this means that you must leave your current state of complexity behind. When you choose your future over your past, you enter a new stage of growth.
The power of goal setting.
Think of your development in terms of goals. Each stage of individual growth comes from having goals—desiring something in life that is new, better, or different. Setting higher and more demanding goals automatically forces us to develop new relationships, structures, and habits. You can then use these as the tools to take you to the next growth stage.
New relationships can provide you with larger opportunities and better results. New organizational structures can give you the support you need to achieve those larger opportunities and results. New habits will allow you to reach higher levels of performance and achievement that enable you to get there.
It’s a fact of life for everyone, everywhere.
The Ceiling of Complexity isn’t unique to entrepreneurs. Individuals, groups, organizations, industries, and even countries all over the world run into the same type of situations. They reach a plateau they must progress beyond. All current stages of growth in all areas of human activity eventually reach a ceiling. But recognizing it and knowing what’s needed to take the next step—that’s where true growth and success lie.
Learning how to break through The Ceiling of Complexity is perhaps the most important life skill that anyone can develop. And that’s exactly why I created The Strategic Coach Program—to arm entrepreneurs with the tools, strategies, and resources they need to break through the ceiling in their own entrepreneurial careers.
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Styes in the eye (also known as a hordeolum) is a bacterial infection or chronic inflammation of the entire eyelid that results in a sensitive, red lump or, say, painful red bump at the eye’s border. Blocked up oil glands, bacterial infections, or microorganisms cause the infection, which can develop at the apex of the eyelashes or one of the glands inside the eyelid.
Most styes normally only affect one eye at a time, but they can affect both eyes if the first stye isn’t treated. A stye is usually a one-time incident, and after you’ve treated it, it won’t be coming back, but it can occasionally recur. You assume an eye stye might be a chalazion that occurs as an infected internal stye that has healed, or it can be acne rosacea.
External styes appear on the outside of the eye, mainly on the upper or lower eyelid. Most external styes begin in an eyelash follicle, which is far more prevalent than internal styes. They can originate in an oil-clogged gland (sebaceous gland) on rare occasions. They can be found on the outside of your eyelid or the edge of your eyelid, or near the edge.
Internal styes are a kind of stye. Most of them start in a blocked oil gland (meibomian) within your eyelid tissue (meibomian gland). Internal styes are more painful than external styes because they press on your eye as they grow.
Causes Of Styes In The Eye
- Inflammation or infection of the eyelash follicle can produce styes.
- Small oil glands exist around the edge of the eyelid and drain into the eyelashes through ducts.
- If the duct becomes clogged, the oil is unable to drain and backs up further into glands. The stye is caused by the gland becoming enlarged and irritated.
Symptoms Of Styes In The Eye
Styes usually only affects one eye at a time; however, they can affect both eyes simultaneously. The first signs of a stye are usually minor, such as modest pain or redness along the lash line. The afflicted eye may be inflamed as well.
Other symptoms that may appear as the stye progresses include:
- A red protrusion that looks like a pimple on the upper eyelid, near to the lashes.
- The hump has a tiny yellow speck in the center.
- Sensitivity to light.
- Crustiness or ocular discharge along the upper eyelid.
- Excessive tear output.
The symptoms of a chalazion are similar; however, the lump is firm and painless.
Risk Factors For Styes In The Eye
Staphylococcal bacteria, a kind of bacterium that lives on your skin and is typically innocuous, is the most common cause of styes. Infection occurs when germs are transmitted to your eye and become stuck in a gland or hair follicle.
An infected stye in the eye can affect anybody; however, several variables might raise the likelihood of having one:
- People who have previously experienced a stye or chalazion are more prone to have one in the future.
- Some skin diseases, such as rosacea and dermatitis.
- Some medical problems include diabetes, eyelid edema, and excessive serum lipids.
- Applying old makeup or failing to remove eye makeup thoroughly on a routine basis.
Improper contact lens maintenance or usage is a common cause of eye infections. Improperly cleaned contacts are one of the reasons that increase your risk of a contact lens-related illness.
- Placing your hands on your contacts before cleaning them.
- Sleeping with contacts in place.
- Using disposable contacts over and again.
- Using contacts that have passed their expiration date.
If you’ve had a stye before, your chances of having another one are higher. After they’ve healed, styes might recur.
What Is The Duration Of A Stye?
In most situations, home therapies will clear up a stye in 3 to 5 days. After 2 to 3 days, the edema should start to subside. Even if you need to visit a doctor or take antibiotics for a more severe stye, it should disappear within a week.
If you experience recurring styes, you may be suffering from blepharitis. Adopting efforts to cure this eyelid condition as soon as possible can also assist in preventing future occurrences.
How Do You Keep Styes In The Eye At Bay?
You can help avoid styes by doing the following:
- Every night, cleanse your face and wipe your makeup.
- Each day, clean your eyes with diluted shampoos.
- Use an over-the-counter eyelid wash.
- Before touching your contacts, always wash your hands, disinfect and sanitize them per the manufacturer guidelines.
- Because bacteria may form on makeup, it is recommended that you replace your eye makeup every 2-3 months.
- If your eyes are itching, don’t massage them, particularly if you haven’t cleansed your hands recently.
- If you have a stye, don’t share towels or masks with them.
- Practicing good hygiene.
Remedies For Stye In The Eye
Even though most red spots around the eyelid border are innocuous and aren’t styes, they normally heal under their own for a week or two; a stye can be bothersome. Luckily, there are a few home treatments that can help you get rid of a stye quickly or, at the very least, alleviate some of the inflammation and discomfort that a stye can cause.
1. Make Sure Your Lids Are Clean
If you have a stye, the first thing you should do is clean your eyelids. Apply diluted tear-free baby shampoo on a cotton swab, washcloth, or makeup removal pad. Then gently massage your eyes dry after rinsing them with warm water. You can also clean your eyelashes with a gentle saline solution. Avoid touching or giving a gentle massage to itchy eyes.
2. Wash Your Hands
Hands should be washed sometimes while touching the stye and napkins; wet wipes should not be shared. Clean your hands frequently with excess water and mild soap.
3. Cleanse Your Eyelids Using An Eyelid Cleaning Pad
Another approach is to use pre-moistened eyelid cleaning pads. These non-prescription products are widely available at pharmacies.
4. Remove Your Eye Makeup
When you have a stye, it’s best to avoid applying eye makeup such as eye shadow since it might slow down the healing process. Throw away any old cosmetics or applicators that may have been contaminated.
5. Put Your Spectacles On
Until the stye cures, wear glasses instead of contact lenses. Wear contact lenses with a clean finger only after the cure of styes in the eye; otherwise, it will irritate the painful bump.
6. Warm Compresses Should Be used
Warm compresses should be used 3 – 4 times a day for 10 to 15 minutes around the affected area. This can help the painful lump and swelling heal faster. You can use a warm washcloth for better results.
Treatment For Styes In The Eye
There are various treatment options for styes in the eye. The most conservative therapy is to use warm (but not too hot) compresses regularly. A moist warm towel or clean washcloth, microwave-safe eye masks, or a plug-in electrically heated pad can all help with this. The goal is to devote as much effort as feasible to warm compression therapy.
The chances of the stye or chalazion clearing on its own will enhance if you do it numerous times a day for a few minutes at a time. A youngster may require assistance in administering the warm compress. To ensure that the compress doesn’t burn your eye or face, check the warmth of the compress against another area of your skin, such as the back of your hand.
An ophthalmologist can insert a steroid injection inside the area, which can accelerate the healing process. Nevertheless, there is a slight risk of spurting blood, skin depigmentation/thinning, scarring, discomfort, and, in exceptional instances, vision problems.
The chalazion can then be washed and incised. Most eye physicians reserve this procedure as a last resort since it is the most intrusive. A clamp is inserted all around the chalazion, and the whole eyelid is anesthetized with local anesthesia. The meibomian gland is a slit or small incision from the rear side of the eyelid, minimizing cutting the tissue on the front. A specific curette is used to remove the waxy sebum from the gland.
What Kinds Of Professionals Deal With Styes In The Eye?
Eye disorders are frequently diagnosed and treated by health care experts, such as pediatricians and emergency medical treatment. More severe instances, such as stye that seem infected or reoccur, are treated by eye experts such as optometrists and ophthalmologists.
What Tests Are Used To Diagnose Styes In The Eye?
The health care provider will look at the lids to see where the clogged oil gland entrance is. This makes it easier to tell the difference between a hordeolum and a chalazion. Scar tissue, foreign substances and associated with chronic meibomitis will all be looked for by the specialist.
Additionally, the doctor will examine the gland for any symptoms of infection. It’s especially crucial to spot an infection that’s migrated from the glands towards the eye, nearby skin, or the orbit.
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I came across a quote recently which read “be a traveller, not a tourist”. So here I am, sharing with you the main differences between a tourist vs a traveller.
Most of you reading this post have at some point been on holiday, whether abroad or in your own continent. But the question remains, are you a tourist or a traveller while on holiday? Let’s find out!
A TOURIST EATS IN FANCY RESTAURANTS – A TRAVELLER EATS WHERE LOCALS DO
Tourists tend to stick to food they know and won’t normally go out of their comfort zone. They also eat at restaurants with high quality reviews left by fellow diners.
On the other hand, travellers are ready to go out of their comfort zone and try the local cuisine. Rather than online reviews, travellers ask around for the best local restaurants.
A TOURIST STAYS IN NICE HOTELS – A TRAVELLER STAYS IN HOSTELS OR GUESTHOUSES
Tourists choose to stay in centrally located 3* or 4* hotels offering added comfort and amenities. They like to be close to the main attractions, and more so to nightlife, bars and restaurants.
Travellers prefer hostels, guesthouses or Airbnb‘s over hotels, especially those travelling alone or on a budget. They are not afraid of blending in with other tourist and making new friends along the way.
A TOURIST OVER PACKS – A TRAVELLER TRAVELS LIGHT
A tourist over packs, resulting in them travelling with at least one large suitcase, and carrying items which may not even be used during the trip.
A traveller only carries what is necessary for their journey, normally travelling with just a backpack or a carry-on, depending on the length of the trip.
A TOURIST SIGHT SEES – A TRAVELLER GOES OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
Tourists travel for leisure. Their day normally evolves around seeing the city’s main attractions and most popular spots.
A traveller looks out for hidden gems even if that means travelling farther out from the city. Travellers don’t mind breaking a sweat and going off the beaten track to discover more than just the main attractions.
A TOURIST TRAVELS WITH A GROUP – A TRAVELLER IS HIS OWN GUIDE
Travelling with a group gives tourists peace of mind when travelling. They won’t need to worry about planning out their days, what to visit next or how to get around.
Travellers prefer travelling on their own as it gives them more flexibility and allows them to visit places outside of the main attractions.
A TOURIST TRAVELS WITH AN ORGANISED ITINERARY – A TRAVELLER MAKES ROUGH PLANS
Even if travelling on their own, tourists normally have their whole trip planned out before they depart on their journey.
Travellers are OK with having a rough plan of where they will be going and the places they will visit, if they have a plan at all! They normally have the first day organised, with the remaining days planned out day after day.
A TOURIST LASHES OUT – A TRAVELLER TRAVELS ON A BUDGET
Every holiday for a tourist feels like their first or last. They normally spend up to their last penny if not more and do not care if they go over board.
A traveller is more cautious with how he spends his money, giving him the chance to explore even more. This goes hand in hand with the choice of accommodation and where he chooses to eat for example.
The traveller list ticks all of our boxes; eating local food is a must, as well as visiting places outside of the hectic cities. We always travel on our own and staying in hotels is not a must. In fact, we normally go for Airbnb or aparthotel, skipping the ‘sit-down’ breakfast and starting the day early. What about you, have you made up your mind about which category you fall into?
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Hempseed oil in a nutshell
Industrial hemp is as a class of non-drug Cannabis sativa varieties, and hempseed is technically an achene, or nut. Both the seed and hemp’s tall stalk provide significant carbohydrate feedstocks for a wide variety of industrial purposes in several countries. The oil pressed from hempseed, in particular, is a rich source of polyunsaturated omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, which are essential for human health. These same fatty acids in hempseed oil make it a fine drying oil that is used in the production of paints, varnishes, and other coating materials. Plastic flooring such as linoleum and similar materials have been made from hempseed oil, and other non-food uses of hempseed oil are similar to those of linseed oil (flaxseed oil). Flax, of course, also has a long history as a companion species that parallels hemp in the founding of our civilizations.
Unfortunately, when one reads the Latin words Cannabis sativa these days, the first thoughts that come to mind may not be of hemp, or its nutritious seed, or useful oil products, or even the durable outer bast (stem) fiber or the cellulose core from the stalk of this old-world plant. These lesser-known features of Cannabis were certainly well known to Carl Linneaus when he assigned its name in 1753. The words “canvas” and “cannabis,” for example, both derive from similar-sounding words in Greek, Latin, and Arabic for the fabric and the plant from which it is made. The second part of the Linnean binomial, sativa, comes from the Latin word sativus, which means “sown” or “cultivated.” Cannabis sativa is one of the oldest cultivated crops, and no other plants can provide such easily available food, oil, fiber, and even medicine. The largest obstacle that currently prevents hemp from fully participating in modern industrial agriculture is its botanical association with the drug cannabis. In fact, the production of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and other cannabinoids is under genetic control, so it would take an ambitious breeding project to convert a hemp variety into a drug variety, much like converting a dachshund into a Doberman pinscher. In other words, it would be much easier just to start with drug Cannabis seeds, if that were the objective.
Our historic foundations were built on the fibers of hemp
Ancient Asian mariners and more recent trans-Atlantic voyagers made good use of sturdy canvas sails made from hemp fiber. Fine linens were once made from both flax and hemp, as the fibers from the male hemp plants were well known to produce the finest linens. The oldest known paper from China was made from hemp, and many historical documents have been written and printed on paper made from hemp fibers. Even today, hemp fibers are found in such common products as tea bags, cigarette papers, and other specialty papers as well as paper currency.
The connection between Cannabis and its misuse as a drug gained official traction when the US Congress passed the Marihuana Tax Act on June 14, 1937; the Act included no practical exemption for hemp production. By that time, the United States was already importing most of its hempseed and fiber from countries with cheaper labor, and the timber and paper industries in the United States were completely invested in the Kraft process for making newsprint. In 1937, commercial wild bird feed was primarily made from hempseed, and hempseed was also pressed for oil used in the manufacture of paints, varnishes, and other coatings. Industrial-scale hemp production mostly continued in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and China until modern petroleum products slowly began to replace products previously made from hempseed oil and hemp fiber. At least in the days of the USSR, hempseed oil for human consumption was called “black oil,” because of its high chlorophyll content, which was especially used by those who were too poor to afford butter. Hempseed appears as an ingredient in many spices and ethnic foods from Eastern Europe, India, and most parts of Asia. A fine tofu can be easily made from just hempseed, water, and heat.
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 had very little impact on the use of marijuana as a narcotic in the United States, if for no other reason than the Act did not penalize the possession or use of hemp, cannabis, or marijuana. It did, though, penalize persons dealing commercially in these products. Thus, the Act effectively brought all industrial hemp production in the United States to a grinding halt by the next year. Subsequently, the United States re-introduced hemp production in 1942 for the war effort, after the Japanese had cut off hemp supplies from the Philippines and East India. (After the war, US hemp production was shut down yet again.) Petroleum-based polymers quickly replaced hemp and other natural fibers in many common products such as sacks, tarps, and ropes. In just a short time, a carbohydrate culture based on agriculture quickly shifted into a culture dependent on petroleum-derived hydrocarbons. Since then, hempseed and hemp fiber production have been excluded from the technological developments enjoyed by other industrial crops. Nor have there been any advances in nutritional research pertaining to hempseed oil. This prohibition on hemp cultivation continues to this day in the United States, even as remarkable advances are being made with medical marijuana. The irony deepens when one realizes that the main psychoactive component of drug Cannabis, THC, has been available as a synthetic pharmaceutical in the United States as Marinol® (dronabinol) since 1972.
In Canada marijuana is already available to registered patients for medical purposes. After years of prohibition, hemp cultivation was cautiously restarted there under heavy licensing in 1998. With eager markets in both Canada and the United States, hempseed oil and other hempseed food products remain in high demand, and the area devoted to oilseed hemp cultivation in Canada has continued to expand accordingly during this time. The Finola oilseed variety of hemp continues to form the cornerstone of the Canadian hempseed production because of its short stature (average plant height: 1.5 m), which allows for mechanical harvesting by a grain combine, and because of its exceptionally high seed yield (over 2000 kg per hectare, under irrigation).
Hempseed as an exceptional food and oil SOURCE
Hempseed is a rich source of easily digestible protein (ca. 20-25%) and highly unsaturated food oil (ca. 30-35%). The remainder consists of dietary fiber, mostly from the hull, various phytosterols, oil-soluble vitamins, and trace minerals (Table 1).
Aside from being extremely low in saturated fats, hempseed oil is interesting in other ways. For example, hempseed oil has a higher content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) than most other industrial food oils (Table 2). This has been known for quite a long time, as the essential omega-6 linoleic acid (18:2n-6) was first identified in hempseed oil as “sativic acid” by German chemists in 1887. More recently, presence of omega-3 stearidonic acid (SDA, 18:4n-3) has been detected in hempseed oil (Callaway et al., 1997).
Good amounts of the other essential fatty acid (EFA), α-linolenic acid (18:3n-3), and omega-6 γ-linolenic acid (GLA, 18:4n-6) are also found in this oil. Not only are both of the essential fatty acids (EFA) well represented in hempseed oil, but their direct human metabolic products, GLA and SDA, are too; the latter are not found in any other industrial oilseed crop. This is significant because both dietary EFA must compete for the enzymatic activity of ∆6 desaturase to produce GLA and SDA. As these two fatty acids are already in the oil, this enzymatic step can be bypassed, so they contribute more directly to the downstream production of other omega-6 and omega-3 metabolites.
Perhaps the really good news for consumers is that good-quality cold-pressed hempseed oil has an excellent taste that resembles walnuts and sunflower seeds. When the seeds are toasted, a savory umami flavor develops somewhere between that of bacon and fried prawns.Moreover, the balance of EFA in hempseed is considerably more nearly optimal than in most other industrial food oils, in terms of having a relatively low omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. In this regard, hempseed oil is more like rapeseed oil (also known as canola oil), yet it is still much higher in polyunsaturates. Taken together, these factors at least partly explain a remarkable number of anecdotal benefits from consuming daily hempseed oil, for example, especially marked improvements in skin, hair, and nail quality, as these fatty acids are integral in cell membrane formation and functions at the molecular level. Studies at the University of Kuopio, Finland, have investigated some of the properties, and particularly the improvements in skin quality for patients that suffer from atopic dermatitis (i.e., eczema). Improvements in strength of both hair and nail thickness are also attributed to daily use of dietary hempseed oil.
The high level of PUFA in hempseed oil is certainly a plus for health, but a considerable drawback for deep frying, not only because there is an increased risk of peroxide and trans fat formation, but also because hempseed oil has a relatively low flash point and will burn well once it is ignited. Also, the shelf life of hempseed oil tends to be rather short, because this high level of unsaturation provides more opportunity for oxidation with atmospheric oxygen. Ideally, as a food, hempseed oil is cold pressed from fresh, clean, good-quality seed and then stored in a cool, dark place before, during, and after processing. Unfortunately, much of the hempseed oil that is currently available in North America is distributed in plastic containers to reduce the costs of both production and shipping of this niche crop. Oil purchased in plastic is more susceptible to degradation with time. With a small amount of effort, the interested buyer will typically find hempseed oil in glass bottles on the European markets.
To this day, the US government continues to define hemp as the stalks and fiber of the marijuana plant, and has decided not to recognize any of the varieties that are extremely low in drug content. An analogous situation exists for poppy seed, which is legal in the United States; the seed always contains some measurable amount of morphine, but these amounts are not of sufficient concentration for drug purposes.
Due to the burden of Cannabis prohibition, there has been very little development or innovation in hemp or hempseed production during the last 70 years, and almost no research on hempseed nutrition since its incorporation into Chinese medicine thousands of years ago. It is, in essence, an orphan crop when we consider the present situation of food production in Europe and North America. While this situation began to change with the reintroduction of hemp to Canadian agriculture in 1998, the subsidy scheme for hemp in the European Union continues to favor the production of hemp fiber and not hempseed. What few results we now have from hempseed research tend to contradict the politically narrow horizon that the United States has offered the world. Fortunately, hempseed oil and other hempseed food products are legally available in the United States, either from the shelves of some natural food stores or when ordered directly online from Canada. Viable hempseed, however, remains illegal in the United States.
Leaving political rhetoric aside, there is plenty of convincing scientific evidence to show that hempseed is one of the most nutritious products that can be produced by modern industrial agriculture. As a grain, it fits into the mechanized infrastructure without retooling. Apparently, the only remaining change that needs to be made is to convince US policymakers that hemp is not dangerous.
J.C. Callaway is chief executive officer of Finola ky (Kuopio, Finland; http://www.finola.com/ ). Contact him via email at [email protected] .
For further reading:
Callaway, J.C., T. Tennilä, and D.W. Pate, Occurrence of “omega-3” stearidonic acid (cis-6,9,12,15-octadecatetraenoic acid) in hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) seed, Journal of the International Hemp Association 3:61-63 (1997).
Callaway, J.C., U. Schwab, I. Harvimaa, P. Halonen, O. Mykkänen, P. Hyvönen, and T. Järvinen, Efficacy of dietary hempseed oil in patients with atopic dermatitis, Journal of Dermatological Treatment 16:87-94 (2005).
Callaway, J.C., Hempseed as a nutritional resource: An overview, Euphytica 140:65-72 (2004).
For more information about hempseed oil, see the “Hempseed Oil” chapter by J.C. Callaway and David W. Pate in the Gourmet and Health-Promoting Specialty Oils monograph, published by AOCS Press. Edited by Robert A. Moreau and Afaf Kamal-Eldin, Gourmet and Health-Promoting Specialty Oils is the third volume in the AOCS Monograph Series on Oilseeds. Learn more at http://tinyurl.com/gourmet-oils-aocs . See a review of the book on page 164.
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CBD Extraction: How it Works on Seeds, Stalks, and Flowers
Those of you curious about buying CBD should know it’s slightly different from hemp than marijuana in that it doesn’t cause a psychoactive high. This doesn’t mean you won’t get the same health benefits from using it. It’s also produced in a similar way, though you’ve perhaps never looked into how CO2 extraction works from hemp plants.
Extraction can become complicated in its scientific explanations, but you should know the basics for an education on CBD production.
This process occurs from either seeds, stalks, and flowers. Imported hemp has to come only from seeds and stalks. However, domestic hemp can have CBD extracted from flowers as well.
Take a look at a simpler explanation on how these cbd extractions work.
Extraction from Seeds
Hemp seed oil has become a very popular product in recent years, and it involves extraction from hemp seeds. It’s a product you usually see added to CBD supplements as a base. It can also be found in many food and beauty products.
The health benefits of hemp seed oil are exponential since it offers balanced essential fatty acids that distribute in your body. It often becomes confused with regular hemp oil, something often combined with phytocannabinoids.
So what’s the extraction process involved to make these products? For hemp seed oil, it involves pressing or grinding the seeds at temperatures below 120F. It’s a technique called cold pressing, and it’s not the only method to extract hemp oil.
Some other extraction techniques:
- Using ethanol or olive oil, both of which are safe for consumption.
- Super critical CO2 extraction is more complicated, yet it’s safe and gives you high potency and purity.
How Does Super Critical CO2 Extraction Work?
If you’re more curious about the last extraction method above, it involves compressing CO2 up to 10,000 psi, something 300 times greater than normal car tire pressure.
This compression method helps make it “super critical”, or becoming liquid and gas at the same time. The CO2 becomes very cold to help preserve enzymes and vitamins and allows the CBD compound to be separated from the hemp seed oil.
Manufacturers then release and recycle the CO2 to create a more concentrated and pure extract.
Extraction Methods from Stalks
While CBD extractions occur from seeds, they can come directly from stalks as well. This involves some of the same extraction methods. Super critical CO2 is also used on stalks, and the FDA lists the method as “Generally Regarded as Safe.” A phrase like this from the FDA is always a good sign, even if it sounds tepid.
You’re starting to see super critical CO2 used often now in extraction methods for the commercial food industry. Since CO2 is non-toxic, it’s used as the main solvent in CBD industries to extract all the essential oils, lipids, and compounds.
After removal of the solvent, you get extracted hemp oil paste naturally high in CBD.
Extraction Methods on Flowers
Most CBD users prefer extractions directly from industrial hemp. It’s easier to grow legally, especially in all the legal states. Plus, it’s easier to extract from hemp because it has more CBD than regular marijuana plants.
To properly make CBD products from flowers, you have to make sure the THC levels are within the legal range in your state. Your extraction processes also have to avoid using butane or explosive solvents.
Still, many sources say the flowering strains of Charlotte’s Web produce just as much CBD as hemp. Bluebird Botanicals is another one that uses flower extract, and it’s domestic.
One critical step in extracting from plants is chromatography, a process removing unwanted phytochemicals from the extracted oil. It removes chlorophyll in particular, giving stronger purity to the CBD for greater health benefits.
Overall, CO2 extraction is the most common method used by our vendors here at Green Wellness Life.
Visit us to ask about our CBD products and how they’re made.
About Brandy Palmer
After years in banking and manufacturing management, Brandy went to work for a hemp manufacturer in West Michigan. What was intended to be a fun summer gig turned into a passion for hemp. Brandy founded GWL in 2015 and is still excited every day to share that passion. Brandy has Bachelor’s Degree in Public Relations and a Master’s Degree in Management from Grand Valley State University. Go Lakers! Her journey as an entrepreneur has been featured in Revue magazine and on investcourier.com, among others. When she’s not talking hemp, you can find her playing chauffer to her two kids or cuddling at home with her husband, Jim, and their 4 (yes, 4) cats.
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We consider the dynamic response of a single degree of freedom system with preloaded, or “setup,” springs. This is a simple model for systems where preload is used to suppress vibrations. The springs are taken to be linear and harmonic excitation is applied; damping is assumed to be of linear viscous type. Using the piecewise linear features of the model equations we determine the amplitude and stability of the periodic responses and carry out a bifurcation analysis for these motions. Some parameter regions which contain no simple stable periodic motions are shown to possess chaotic motions.
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1. If you don’t know what your RV weighs, it’s probably overloaded.
2. Two carpet samples, one placed at the base and another at the top of the entry steps, will help keep dirt and moisture out of the interior.
3. Write down your vehicle’s exact exterior height (remember to add the A/C) and GVWR and keep it inside your cockpit so you never exceed your weight or risk a nasty incident going under an overpass.
4. Never drive more than 500 miles per day. Actually, 400 is pushing it.
5. Backup monitors are wonderful, but expensive. If you’re in the market for one, make sure the camera works in the dark, since a majority of your back-ins will probably occur after the sun goes down.
6. When tackling tough ascents, go down the hill in the same gear you went up in.
7. We don’t really have to remind you to regularly check your LP gas, smoke, and carbon monoxide detectors, do we?
8. Ah, duct tape.
9. Teach your co-pilot to drive and let him or her take the wheel often. Sharing the driving duties cuts down on driver fatigue while reinforcing the notion that RVing is for both of you. Another perk? If the main driver should ever become sick or hurt, you won’t be stranded.
10. Surge protectors offer cheap insurance against power spikes for all your pricey, onboard equipment.
11. Don’t risk traveling in an overloaded vehicle. Not only does extra weight accelerate wear and tear on your RV, but if you’re involved in an accident, expect a weigh-in to be performed. An overweight vehicle may void any insurance claims and might find you liable. Don’t take chances with this.
12. Visit every national park.
13. During an argument, eliminate the words “never” and “always” from your vocabulary. A happy co-pilot is the key to a pleasant journey.
14. If you feel cramped in a 40-foot Prevost bus, RVing is not for you
15. Put a roll of quarters in your shower kit in case you’re faced with a bathroom that insists on pay showers. Believe me, it’s hard to get change for a twenty-dollar bill wearing only a robe and slippers.
16. On your way out, be sure to tell the campground owner how much you disliked paying for showers.
17. Conserving resources is a good habit. Don’t let the water just run when washing hands, dishes, or brushing your teeth.
18. If you don’t like where you are, go someplace else.
19. Compile and laminate two basic lists: one for setting up your campsite, the other for breaking camp. That way, you’ll never drive off with your antennae up again.
20. Carry a box of disposable rubber gloves for use during sewer hookups and the dump station.
21. Before leaving the dealership with your new RV, arrange for a walk-thru with your salesperson to make sure every appliance, utility, and function onboard is in top working condition.
22. Your cockpit can’t be too comfortable.
23. A good set of mud flaps should help keep debris off your dinghy vehicle. There are also a number of protective covers and shields available to safeguard the towed vehicle as well.
24. Your kids and grandkids worry about you. Leave them the names and numbers of the places you’ll be staying during your travels.
25. A partially folded paper plate makes for a usable funnel in a pinch.
26. If an extension cord is needed for your electric hookups (really any type of hookup for that matter), use the shortest length available. The longer the distance, the greater the voltage drop will be.
27. Visit Maine.
28. Trash onboard your rig is always a major hassle. Eliminate unnecessary garbage by taking food such as cereals, meat, and coffee out of their overblown packages and into smaller ones. Contribute old reading materials to the campground’s rec. room and re-use or recycle old shopping bags.
29. I see no reason to stand on top of your RV unless there’s a bucket of soapy water and a brush with you.
30. Furnace 101. Check the outside vent periodically for soot, a sure sign of faulty operation. Clean and vacuum the unit as necessary. Check hoses for kinks; replace as needed. Have the system inspected once a year by a professional.
31. Wash your vehicle in the shade. The sun quickens drying time of cleaning agents and makes waxing more difficult.
32. Ah, sway bars.
33. Use an onboard timer for lights to thwart would-be thieves, just as you might for your home while you’re away.
34. Avoid nasty spills by equipping the entryway with handrails.
35. Carrying two 25-foot hoses is better than one 50-foot hose.
36. When making campground reservations, take a few extra minutes to describe exactly the kind of site you want. If you prefer to be close to the bathroom or swimming pool, need fewer trees due an extra large vehicle, or simply want the prettiest site in the place, be sure to tell them.
37. A GPS is nice, but nothing beats a compass to keep me from driving around in circles.
38. Change your windshield wipers annually.
39. CB chatter can be crude and distracting. However, it can also be a valuable resource for upcoming traffic, weather, and area recommendations. It’s also a nice companion on a long drive.
40. Fruit and vegetables from a roadside stand always taste better.
41. Believe me; no one over the age of 13 wants to sleep in the cab-over area.
42. Make sure your RV insurance covers you during any trips abroad.
43. Good drivers should carry a higher deductible on their insurance.
44. Bring the grandkids.
45. Want better-tasting hamburgers, steaks, and poultry? Let cooked meats sit for several minutes before serving. Cooking at high heat forces juices inward, leaving your food less juicy. Waiting a few minutes prior to eating makes a big difference.
46. It’s not camping unless there’s S’mores.
47. Of course you know that your RV must be level for the refrigerator to work properly.
48. Create an emergency kit and put it in an outside storage compartment. It should include first aid supplies, a pencil and paper, flashlight, and disposable camera for capturing the scene of an accident. Compile a list of names (doctor, insurance agent, lawyer) and any medications you’re currently taking. Then hope there’s never a need to open it.
49. Once you use an electronically-deployed awning, you’ll never go back.
50. Don’t mess around with your tires. Inspect them often and replace at the first signs of cracking or worn tread. It’s also better to buy them in pairs. Check tire pressure before any big trip.
*Redacted from published piece written by Brent Peterson for KOA.com
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DGIST’s research team led by Dr. Yun-Il Lee in Well Aging Research Center has identified a new mechanism of inhibition of dopaminergic neuronal apoptosis and suggested the possibility of preventing and treating Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a typical degenerative brain disease caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in the middle cerebral blood.
It is a disease with a higher incidence in the population aged 60 or older, exhibiting symptoms such as tremor, stiffness, slow motion and postural instability.
In particular, as the majority of Parkinson’s patients suffer from the progressive neurodegenerative disease, many researchers newly started to focus on cell death, a loss of dopamine-producing neurons, to treat PD. With regard to the cell death process, in vivo cell stress and damages activate PARP-1 (Poly ADP-ribose polymerase-1) and induce excessive accumulation of PAR (Poly ADP-ribose) and those activities activate AIF (Apoptosis-Inducing Factor), a factor that induces cell death, and destroy DNA. This new mechanism of cell death (Parthanatos) has recently been known as the cause of degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, heart attack, diabetes, etc. and the mechanism has been extensively studied as previous research to treat these diseases.
Currently, medications are being used to alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. However, there are no government-approved drugs that can inhibit dopaminergic neuronal cell death. Then, the research teams have found the possibility in licorice, the herb medicine.
Dr. Yun-Il Lee carried out joint research with Professor Joo-Ho Shin and Professor Yunjong Lee from Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine to study candidate compounds for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
For example, the researchers have identified the mechanism that cortisol, a stress hormone, promotes dopaminergic neuronal activity by inducing parkin protein expression that inhibits dopamine neuronal cell death.
In this study, the research teams found the candidate drugs that induce the expression of RNF146 protein involved in the inhibition of neuronal cell death through high-speed mass screening method using the natural materials library of the Natural Medicine Bank of Korea Foundation.
As a result, the study has confirmed that liquiritigenin, a licorice extract, induces the expression of RNF146 protein and removes excessively accumulated PAR binding and modified substrate proteins using the ubiquitin proteasome system and results in inhibition of dopamine neuronal cell death.
In addition, the research teams have been working on identifying the mechanism which induces liquiritigenin’s RNF146 protein expression and demonstrated that it regulates transcription through binding and activity with estrogen receptors in cell and animal models. Consequently, it has been scientifically proved that liquiritigenin, a licorice extract, can be used as a treatment for degenerative Parkinson’s disease.
Dr. Yun-Il Lee stated “Neuronal death is involved in a variety of signaling systems in vivo. Therefore, it is essential to identify a new mechanism that is able to control the system comprehensively and we have found additional possibilities in licorice extract.” He added “I would like to contribute to the treatment of degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s disease by conducting advanced researches, comprehensive research and clinical studies.”
Source: Dajung Kim – DGIST
Image Source: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST).
Original Research: Full open access research for “Estrogen receptor activation contributes to RNF146 expression and neuroprotection in Parkinson’s disease models” by Hyojung Kim, Sangwoo Ham, Joon Yeop Lee, Areum Jo, Gum Hwa Lee, Yun-Song Lee, MyoungLae Cho, Heung-Mook Shin, Donghoon Kim, Olga Pletnikova, Juan C. Troncoso, Joo-Ho Shin, Yun-Il Lee and Yunjong Lee in Oncotarget. Published online November 2017 doi:10.18632/oncotarget.21828
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- Botulinum toxin, or Botox, is a muscle relaxer that can reduce wrinkles as skin matures.
- Common treatment areas include the forehead, eyebrows, eyes, jaw, lips, and neck.
- Dr. Onyeka Obioha and Dr. Ohara Aivaz demonstrate how botulinum toxin injections work.
Following is a transcript of the video.
Onyeka Obioha, MD: Botulinum toxin is a substance that basically disrupts the signaling between nerves in the muscle. "Botox" is often synonymously used with "botulinum toxin." However, Botox is a brand, and it was the first brand of botulinum toxin.
Ohara Aivaz, MD: So, there's Botox, Dysport, Xeomin, and the newest one, Jeuveau, that are all forms of botulinum toxin.
Obioha: By relaxing the muscles and injecting Botox, for example, in between the eyebrows in these three muscles that work together, it helps relax the muscle, so you're not contracting and thereby causing a wrinkle there. Same thing with the forehead and raising the eyebrows. By relaxing those muscles and minimizing them contracting, you reduce the wrinkles.
Aivaz: We sometimes numb patients before we do Botox based on their preference. We use the tiniest needle possible, so they feel a very small poke. There's no burning or stinging as it's done, but patients will sometimes say they feel, like, a crunching as the needle's going through the muscle. It sounds worse than it is, I think. You inject the fluid of the Botox, and patients will have a little bump in the skin, which is actually the fluid under the skin, and that absorbs after about an hour.
Obioha: So, we often tell our patients, "You're going to leave with some mosquito bites," and then by the time that they get to their car, it's down.
Aivaz: A lip flip is a great way of augmenting the lips, so to make them a little bit bigger without using fillers, and we achieve this by placing just a few units of Botox around the borders of the lip. And what that does is it relaxes the orbicularis oris muscle, which is around the mouth, and that causes an eversion, or outward rotation, of the lip, where it flips out, which is where the name "lip flip" comes from. And it creates the illusion of a larger lip without really adding too much volume.
Obioha: Botox in the jaw area, we use it both cosmetically and also for muscle pain. So, this big muscle that you have here that's responsible for chewing is also responsible for teeth grinding. So when you inject the masseter muscle, this big muscle here, what it does is it causes thinning of the muscle, so that your face can be more contoured. And then in terms of the muscle pain from TMJ, same thing. When you're relaxing the muscle, you're reducing your ability to grind your teeth at night, thereby alleviating the symptoms of the TMJ.
Aivaz: Hyperhidrosis is excessive sweating, and our body's natural response to an elevation in body temperature is to sweat. It helps cool us off. In people with hyperhidrosis, they sweat all the time, whether or not their body temperature goes up. It can be pretty psychologically difficult for people to deal with, you know, to have sweaty armpit stains all the time or shake someone's hand and have wet hands. And so, luckily, we have Botox, which helps stop sweating in the areas where it's injected. And our nervous system controls our sweat glands, and so when we inject Botox into an area, it paralyzes the nerves only in that area. And if the nerves can't signal to the sweat glands, then the sweating stops. Whether Botox is used for cosmetic purposes or for other reasons, like hyperhidrosis, the botulinum toxin lasts about three months. Our body naturally metabolizes it after that time period.
As far as pricing for Botox, it really depends on the person and what result they're trying to achieve. So, some people need not very many units; other people need a lot more because their muscles are stronger or they want to be more frozen. So, honestly, it can range if you want to do just one area. For example, just the eyes or just the forehead, it can be anywhere from $200 to $400, but if you want to do full face, maybe $600, $700, $800.
Obioha: And then also the indication. So basically for sweating, you know, some insurance companies can cover most or some of the cost, which could be upward of $1,000 per area.
A common adverse reaction to Botox would be if it was improperly placed on the forehead, then it can cause your eyebrow to droop, or what we call ptosis.
Aivaz: And then if it's done in other areas, for example, around the mouth, and it's placed too close to the corners of the mouth, there can be problems moving the mouth or sucking out of a straw. So it really is important to see a board-certified doctor to have your Botox placed.
Obioha: In terms of a treatment plan, it's often that once you start doing it, so when you do one treatment, I do advise that you maintain and continue the treatment every three months, so that we can maintain our results.
Aivaz: But if they decide not to, they're going to go back to looking just the way they looked prior to doing the Botox. It's not going to age them more if they do it once and then decide not to do it again.
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Mythological Hero (only bust) closing Jaws of Two Dragons. Hero has Curls on either side, a Horned Crown, a Tight Necklace, and Feminine Breasts. Stands on Two Crouching Antelopes back to back. The Dragons have long serpent's necks and tight necklace.
Legrain publication: "Bronze pin. The head is an elaborate version of the mythological hero between two monstrous dragons. He closes with both hands the jaw of the beasts. The dragons are reduced to a neck a head with long snout, lozenge eyes, pointed ear and a four string collar. The hero is cut at the waist and rests on two fore parts of antelopes crouching, heads turned towards him. himself has the traditional crescent horns and curled tresses of Ea-Bani, a tight necklace and, strangely enough, feminine breasts. 225 x 80 mm."
Ackerman: Gallery V, Panel 3, Object C- Pin
Bull-man, androgynous, squatting on crouching deer with heads turned back; seizing confronted long-necked lions’ heads. L. 8 ¾ in.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
|Five Thousand Years of Vanity (06 Jan 1944 - 28 Feb 1944)||View Objects in Exhibition|
|[Catalogue, Exhibition] Ackerman, Phyllis. Apr 1940. Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art.. New York. The American Printing Company of New York. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: PG 104, Object C||View Objects related to this Actual Citation|
|[Book] Legrain, Leon. 1934. Luristan Bronzes in the university museum.. The University Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pg. 14/ Pl. V, 14||View Objects related to this Actual Citation|
|[Article] 1934. "Catalogue". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. Volume Supplement. no. 1934. pg. 12-20 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pl. V, fig. 14||View Objects related to this Actual Citation|
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Medieval suits of armour were so exhausting to wear that they could have affected the outcomes of famous battles, a study suggests.
Scientists monitored volunteers fitted with 15th Century replica armour as they walked and ran on treadmills.
They found that the subjects used high levels of energy, bore immense weight on their legs and suffered from restricted breathing.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The effect of the heavy armour was so great, that the researchers believe it may have have had an impact on the Battle of Agincourt.
In this famous Anglo-French conflict of 1415, French knights were defeated by their English counterparts, despite the fact that they heavily outnumbered them.
The researchers say their study suggests that the armour-clad French, who had to trek through a muddy field to meet the stationary English line, were so slowed and exhausted by their march that they would have stood little chance.
Lead researcher Dr Graham Askew, from the University of Leeds, said: "You look at these suits of armour, and they weigh between 30 and 50kg, so it is a huge fraction of the wearer's body weight."
In the 15th Century, as the arms race progressed with the development of new and powerful weapons such as the longbow and crossbow, armour too evolved.
In late Medieval Europe, these bulky battle suits were principally constructed from interlocking steel plates, covering the soldier from head to toe.
But with the added protection came extra weight and cumbersomeness - and while researchers have always realised that this would have impaired a soldier's performance, nobody until now has quantified by how much.
To study this, researchers asked four participants, who regularly re-enact battles for the Royal Armouries in Leeds, to don their exact-replica armour from England, Gothic Germany and Italy and get onto a treadmill.
By recording how much oxygen they took in and carbon dioxide they produced, the team was able to calculate how much energy they were using. High-speed cameras also helped the researchers to study how the volunteers were using their limbs.
Dr Askew, who carried out the research with colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Milan, said: "Our main finding was that it was extremely expensive in terms of the amount of energy used to move in the armour."
The team found that walking and running with the armour used up twice as much energy as doing the same thing without any armour.
The breast and back plates of the medieval armour also affected breathing: instead of being able to take long, deep breaths while they worked up a sweat, the volunteers were forced to take frequent, shallow breaths, and this too used up more energy.
The scientists also looked at how the volunteers performed while wearing armour compared with carrying the equivalent load on their backs, which is similar to the weight a modern soldier might carry in their backpack.
Dr Askew said: "We found there was a big difference: it is much more 'expensive' to carry the load as a suit of armour than it is to carry the load in a backpack.
"We were interested to find out why that was - and one of the main reasons is that if you wear a suit of armour, a lot of the weight is carried on the legs - about 7-8kg of it.
"And this means when you walk and you swing your legs, you are requiring a lot more muscular effort, and that costs you a lot more energy."
The team said their findings had given an insight into the battlefield trade-off between added protection alongside increased manoeuvrability and fitness to fight.
Dr Askew explained: "Yes, they could have removed the leg parts of the armour, but it might have meant they would have been cut on the leg and killed that way."
He added though, that this may not have been such a problem in the 16th Century.
With the advent of guns, hand-to-hand combat decreased, and this too affected the design of the armour.
He said: "It is interesting to see though that as armour developed into the 16th Century, the part of the armour that was lost was the lower leg - the thing that we found increases the cost of movement."
Thom Richardson, keeper of armours, from the Royal Armouries in Leeds added: "It is interesting to use scientific method to answer these questions, and it confirms what we have always suspected - heavy armour would very much reduce your ability to run around.
"But no-one wears stuff on the battlefield if it isn't useful."
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Team ProgramsBuild trust. Engage your team. Have fun at work. Make a difference in the community.
- interpersonal challenges and gossip
- wasted time in meetings
- subpar performance
- high turnover and low engagement
Partnerships are created in conversations. Teams are created in conversations. Visions are created in conversations. Results are created because of conversations. Everything happens through conversations.
But not every conversation is a success. That’s why teams struggle. As a matter of fact, 9 out of 10 conversations don’t hit the mark. That means when deconstructed through research, observations, and recordings, 9 out of 10 conversations were visible and anecdotal “low-level connectivity.” Fail to hit the mark means that people walk away with different views of reality and what they agreed upon.
To restore your team, overcome challenges, and boost productivity and engagement, your team needs to have different and healthier conversation. In my programs, I help team members discover what they have in common which frees them to communicate and co-operate in new ways. They will also learn new tools and the scientific background on how their communication shapes their reality and experience. This is the gateway to creating new results. In this process, I bring emotional awareness to conversations that give courage to participants to be more honest with themselves and others. This clears the air for healthy and trusting relationships with more respect, creative problem-solving and better performance.
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RENOLIT BENDIT connects.
RENOLIT BENDIT is an edgebanded panel that can be used to create cladding around a plastic window. Its surface consists of a coating film specially developed for this application. It is available in selected colors, decors and embossings of the RENOLIT EXOFOL films and brings with it all the well-known strengths such as the low cleaning effort and the Solar Shield Technology (SST) heat protection shield.
RENOLIT BENDIT is a no-brainer.
High-quality cladding requires extensive processing? Not with RENOLIT BENDIT, the panel with that certain kink. Its new coating film can be cold-formed without any white fracture.
Simply mill a small groove on the back of the sheet, and you can bend RENOLIT BENDIT to exactly the angle you need. Anything goes up to 90 degrees. The edging sits exactly where you want it, and the beautiful surface takes it all in its stride.
The advantages of RENOLIT BENDIT at a glance
High bending stability
Low dead weight
Tilting up to 90° without white fracture
Sustainable and durable
Plane panel surface
Optics and embossing like window film
UV and weather resistant
How is RENOLIT BENDIT processed?
The cladding panel from RENOLIT BENDIT has been on the market since the beginning of 2021 and since then has made it easier for many a window manufacturer and installer to flexibly clad window corners and lintels.
Its big plus: it is available in the same colors and decors as the foiling of vinyl windows. This opens up a wide range of applications in window construction. With the aid of simple milling on the reverse side, the aluminum composite panel can be edged - and thanks to the special film properties, this can be done without white breakage.
But how is RENOLIT BENDIT actually processed?
The following video answers this question and shows how the panel is processed.
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Series consists of individual fiats for land in the Perth and Lanark Military Settlements granted to those serving in the military and to emigrants, as well as registers of these records.
Within land granting records, the code "M.E." is used to distinguish grants to military emigrants.
The series is arranged into two sub- series based on the type of record.
See sub-series descriptions for further information.
After the War of 1812, the Imperial government began a programme to encourage settlement in Upper and Lower Canada. It was decided to offer emigrants free passage on the transport ships which were being sent to Canada to bring back troops. As well, the government promised to provide each immigrant family with tools and provisions and a grant of 100-acres and undertook to settle them as a community. Safeguards were put into place to discourage re-emigration to the United States. Members of British regiments serving in Upper Canada similarly were offered land free of fees in a military settlement, as well as provisions for one year and necessary farm implements. Settlement was to be made at the direction of the military authorities. Given the requirements for provisioning, the Military Settling Department, a branch of the Quarter-master General's Department, took the lead role in locating settlers. The Surveyor General was required to provide periodic reports outlining the land available for military emigrants.
The Executive Council decided to establish these settlers in the Rideau River area and opened a number of townships to their settlement - Beckwith, Bathurst and Drummond (the Perth Military Settlement). In addition, about one-third of the those emigrating to the Perth Settlement were located on scattered lots in older townships in the area. Settlement began in earnest in the spring of 1816. Settlers were required to remain on the land for a period of three years and in that time, to clear at least four acres of land and erect a dwelling.
In early 1820, as well, the government sponsored the emigration of Scottish weavers from the counties of Lanark and Renfrewshire. As before, each family was promised 100-acres of land free of fees. This time, however, instead of offering supplies and implements, families could borrow money from the government at a rate of £10 per person, payable within 10 years (the patent could not be issued until the loan was paid off). Emigrants were responsible for paying for their own passage to Canada: many were assisted in this by private emigration societies. These settlers were largely placed in Lanark, Dalhousie, North Sherbrooke and Ramsay Townships (the Lanark Settlement). After December 1821, no new locations were made by the Military Settling Department.
Within the Surveyor General's Office, fiats issued to military emigrants were numbered and filed separately from other types of fiats and warrants.
Click on the link(s) below for more information.
Library and Archives Canada holds a register documenting "Warrants issued to troops reducted in this province since the close of the late war with the United States of American". The register (Reference code RG 1 L 7, volume 11) covers the period 1817 to 1829.
Sub-series RG 1-53-17 contains descriptions of military emigrant grants.
See sub-series descriptions.
These records were created by the following Ontario government agency or agencies. Click on the agency reference code for information about this agency and other records it created.
|Surveyor General's Office (BA84)|
|Crown Lands Department (AA100)|
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Scroll up to "Finding Aid" for more information about any available finding aids or listings.
Click on a reference code for more information about a series of records.
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The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” 1 Samuel 3:10
Had the wireless radio been on, they would have known the Titanic was sinking. Cyril Evans, the radio operator of another ship, had tried to relay a message to Jack Phillips, the radio operator on the Titanic—letting him know they had encountered an ice field. But Phillips was busy relaying passengers’ messages and rudely told Evans to be quiet. So Evans reluctantly turned off his radio and went to bed. Ten minutes later, the Titanic struck an iceberg. Their distress signals went unanswered because no one was listening.
In 1 Samuel we read that the priests of Israel were corrupt and had lost their spiritual sight and hearing as the nation drifted into danger. “The word of the Lord was rare; there were not many visions” (1 Samuel 3:1). Yet God wouldn’t give up on His people. He began to speak to a young boy named Samuel who was being raised in the priest’s household. Samuel’s name means “the Lord hears”—a memorial to God’s answering his mother’s prayer. But Samuel would need to learn how to hear God.
“Speak, for your servant is listening” (v. 10). It’s the servant who hears. May we also choose to listen to and obey what God has revealed in the Scriptures. Let’s submit our lives to Him and take the posture of humble servants—those who have their “radios” turned on.
Why is it vital for you to obey what God has revealed in Scripture? How can you stay “tuned in” to His voice?
Dear Jesus, thank You for being a speaking God. Thank You for the Scriptures that help me follow You in obedience. Speak, Your servant is listening.
In the early chapters of 1 Samuel, the author is adept at using contrast to highlight the difference between the sons of Eli and Samuel. First Samuel 2:12 notes that “Eli’s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord” and “they slept with the women who served” as worship attendants (v. 22). Samuel, on the other hand, “continued to grow in stature and in favor with the Lord and with people” (v. 26). While Eli’s sons didn’t listen to their father’s rebuke (v. 25), Samuel’s response to the Lord was, “Speak, for your servant is listening” (3:10).
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3rd Millennium BC Artificial Eyeball Discovered in Burnt City
Dec 10, 2006
Historic site of Burnt City, southeast Iran
Discovery of an artificial eyeball belonging to 4800 years ago in the historic site of Burnt City has astounded archeologists.
Tehran, 10 December 2006 (CHN Foreign Desk) -- Archeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site.
Announcing this news, director of Burnt City archeology excavation team, Mansour Sajadi, said that this eyeball belongs to a sturdy woman who was between 25 to 30 years of age at the time of death. Skeletal remains of the woman were found in grave number 6705 of Burnt City’s cemetery.
Regarding the material used to make this artificial eyeball, Sajadi said: “The material this artificial eyeball is made of has not yet been determined and will be assessed through later testing. However, at first glance it seems natural tar mixed with animal fat has been used in making it.”
Initial studies on the eyeball also suggest formation of an abscess in the eyelid due to long-term contact with the eyeball. Moreover, remaining eyelid tissues are still evident on this artificial eyeball.
According to Sajadi, even the most delicate eye capillaries were drawn on this eyeball using golden wires with a thickness measuring less than half a millimeter. There are also some parallel lines around the pupil forming a diamond shape. Two holes are also seen on the sides of this eyeball to hold it in the eye socket.
Initial anthropological studies on the remaining skeleton of the woman to which this artificial eyeball belong revealed that she was a hybrid woman who died 4800 years ago between the ages of 25 to 30.
A number of clay vessels, ornamental beads, a leather sack, and a bronze mirror have also been found in the grave of this woman.
Located 57 kilometers from the city of Zabol in Sistan va Baluchistan province, southeast Iran, Burnt City is one of the most important prehistoric sites of the country which was well developed during the third millennium BC.
Spreading over a 300,000 hectare area, Burnt City was recently recognized as mainland-Iran’s largest prehistoric site (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6811). The city experienced four stages of civilization and was burnt down three times, which is why it was named ‘Burnt City.’ Discovery of hundreds of historical sites including 166 satellite villages (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6545) together with large numbers of archeological relics, skeletons, and ancient structures in the archeological site of Burnt City makes it holder of an unparalleled record (http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6723) in the history of archeological activities in Iran.
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It took a while, but work is now underway to develop an innovative cell therapy for severe ischemic heart disease, which includes chronic pectoris. In 2017, the Centro Cardiologico Monzino and the University of Milan jointly patented a new therapeutic method called CPCPlus (short for “Cardiac Pro-angiogenic Cell Plus“). This method involves the creation of new small blood vessels (neovascularization) in the heart.
We create a new blood circulation as an alternative to the patient’s damaged circulation system that has ceased to function.
“We have discovered heart cells that we have christened CD90-negative,” says Giulio Pompilio, scientific director of Monzino. “This is a subtype of the stromal cells in the human heart which have a special ability to induce the new growth of tiny blood vessels.”
Pompilio and his team have found a way to isolate, select and inject these cells into the ischemia-stricken heart. This stimulates the creation of new blood vessels (therapeutic angiogenesis) in the heart muscle tissue. “We create a new blood circulation as an alternative to the patient’s damaged circulation system that has ceased to function.”
In chronic refractory angina, patients feel a pressing sensation or chest pain due to an insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle. Conventional treatments with medication and revascularization techniques offer either no results or inadequate results in these cases.
The Milan patent was transferred late last year to an Italian medtech investor who subsequently put in 6.5 million euros. It was announced this week that the investor has set up a company in collaboration with Monzino’s laboratories in Milan. This will focus solely on the development of the therapy. Oloker Therapeutics, as the company is called, is aiming to conduct a first-in-human study for the treatment of refractory angina within five years.
Own bone marrow
Trials have been running for years with patients who have severe coronary atherosclerosis whereby stem cells are taken from the patient’s own bone marrow and then inserted directly into the heart muscle. This is done to create tiny blood vessels in places where there is a lack of oxygen. To the best of our knowledge, there is no comparable method at this stage.
You can also read about drugs that are being developed with body cells here.
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Takakkaw Falls, also spelled Takkakaw Falls, cataract on the Yoho River, and a major feature in the northern part of Yoho National Park in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. The Takakkaw (Cree Indian for “wonderful”) Falls is formed by meltwater from the Daly Glacier in the Waputik Mountains and consists of three distinct, nearly vertical drops. The Takakkaw was long thought to be the highest waterfall in Canada, but in 1985 a new survey showed its main drop to be 833 feet (254 m) in height rather than 1,260 feet (384 m) as was previously thought. The total height of the falls was thus accepted as 1,223 feet (373 m) rather than as 1,650 feet (503 m), making the Takakkaw considerably shorter than Della Falls, on Vancouver Island, B.C.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
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Melissa Milewski earned her B.A. in U.S. History from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in U.S. History from New York University. After obtaining her Ph.D., she was a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences from 2011-2012. She then taught at Columbia University from the fall of 2012 to fall 2015, first as an ACLS New Faculty Fellow and then as a Visiting Scholar and Instructor in the Department of History and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She is currently a Lecturer in American History at the University of Sussex in England.
Dr.Milewski recently published a book examining civil cases between white and black Southerners, entitled Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights, published by Oxford University Press in 2018. Through an examination of more than 1300 cases involving black litigants from 1865 to 1950, she found that African Americans were surprisingly successful against white southerners in certain kinds of civil cases. Her book examines how black southerners negotiated the system of Jim Crow and an almost all-white legal system to at times win cases against whites. She is also the author of the award-winning book, Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris. Her work has also been published in the Law & History Review, Slavery & Abolition, Law & Social Inquiry, and in the Organization of American History's magazine The American Historian.
COMMUNITY AND MEDIA ENGAGEMENT
Dr. Milewski's work has been published in History Today and she has contributed to the BBC radio programmes Women's Hour and Making History. Her work has also appeared on the History News Network and the Blackpast website. In addition, Dr. Milewski organized a Scholar Activism in the 21st century Conference at the British Library in June 2018 that brought together archivists, activists, scholar activists and scholars from around the US and UK and beyond.
HONORS AND GRANTS
Dr. Milewski is the recipient of a BAAS/US Embassy 2018 small grant, in-kind funding and conference space from the British Library for the Scholar Activism Conference, the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Research Grant for Research in U.S. Legal History, the Joel Williamson Visiting Scholar Grant from UNC Chapel Hill, and the Archie K. Davis Fellowship from the North Caroliana Society. She has also been awarded fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association of University Women, and New York University.
Her book, Litigating Across the Color Line, was a runner-up for the 2018 Deep South Book Prize from the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South and her book, Before the Manifesto, won the Kanner Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians.
Follow her on twitter @milewskimelissa
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Reduced trophoblast breach and vascular transformation in decidua are believed to end up being the principal problem of common being pregnant disorders including preeclampsia and fetal development limit. with dNK just showing KIR2DL1. 118457-14-0 Account activation of KIR2DS1+ dNK by HLA-C2 triggered creation of soluble items including GM-CSF, discovered simply by intracellular ELISA and FACS. We showed that GM-CSF improved migration of principal trophoblast and JEG-3 trophoblast cells in vitro. These results offer a 118457-14-0 molecular system detailing how identification of HLA course I elements on fetal trophoblast by an triggering KIR on mother’s dNK may end up being helpful for placentation. Launch During early being pregnant in human beings, fetal extravillous trophoblast cells (EVT) interfere with deeply into the mucosal coating of the uterus, the decidua, to remodel the uterine get out of hand blood vessels into high-conductance boats (1). Reduced trophoblast breach and vascular transformation outcomes in poor placental perfusion, believed to become the underlying main defect of common disorders of pregnancy, such as recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction, although the timing and precise medical demonstration is definitely affected by additional genetic and environmental factors (1C3). On the other hand, overinvasion can result in life-threatening conditions such as placenta percreta, where trophoblast cells can break the uterus (4). Understanding how trophoblast attack and arterial redesigning are controlled is definitely consequently important if we are to anticipate which pregnancies are at risk and improve management of these disorders. As they invade, fetal EVT encounter maternal leukocytes, approximately 70% of which are decidual NK cells (dNK) (5, 6). These are functionally and phenotypically unique from peripheral blood NK cells (pbNK), and a growing body of evidence suggests that they play a part in regulating trophoblast attack (7C9). EVT communicate a unique array of HLA class I substances; HLA-C 118457-14-0 and nonclassical HLA-E and HLA-G, but 118457-14-0 not HLA-A or HLA-B (10C12). dNK communicate cognate receptors for these, such as NKG2A, LILRB1 and users of the monster cell Ig-like receptor (KIR) family (13). Because both and their ligands are highly polymorphic genes and trophoblast expresses both paternal and maternal HLA-C allotypes, each pregnancy will become characterized by different mixtures of maternal and fetal genes (14C16). Inhibitory KIR that situation to HLA-C are indicated at higher frequencies in dNK than in pbNK during early pregnancy, and dNK display improved joining to HLA-C tetramers (17C19). On the other hand, 118457-14-0 KIR2DL1 and KIR2DS1 Fc-fusion proteins situation to main trophoblast cells straight, showing the likelihood of allogeneic identification of fetal trophoblast by KIR on mother’s dNK (14, 18). KIR are regarded as main government bodies of NK cell function today, and all Rabbit Polyclonal to VAV3 (phospho-Tyr173) people have got HLA-C allotypes that will content to particular KIR. Inhibitory KIR2DL1 and triggering KIR2DS1 content to allotypes of the HLA-C2 group (C2) with lysine at placement 80 while inhibitory KIR2DL2/3 content to HLA-C1 allotypes with asparagine at 80 (20, 21). There are 2 simple haplotypes, and possess inhibitory receptors generally, while possess a adjustable amount of extra causing receptors. We possess proven that females with 2 haplotypes (genotype) in association with a group in the baby are at elevated risk of disorders of placentation (14C16, 22). This risk is greatest if the fetal is inherited from the paternalfather and the mother does not have herself. The telomeric area of haplotypes (where triggering is normally located) provides security from being pregnant disorders. This suggests that in females, presenting of inhibitory KIR2DL1 to HLA-C2 on trophoblast outcomes in damaged trophoblast attack. In ladies with a haplotype, activating KIR2DS1 that also binds HLA-C2, may enhance placentation by increasing attack (14, 15). The extracellular website of KIR2DS1 closely resembles that of KIR2DL1 (23) but reagents are right now available that allow discrimination of these inhibitory and activating receptors for HLA-C2 (24C26). When KIR2DS1+ pbNK situation HLA-C2+ focuses on, cytolysis, cytokine production, and cell expansion are caused (24C28). Since activating KIR2DS1 may become autoreactive in individuals, practical reactions of KIR2DS1+ pbNK are tuned down or educated in donors compared with those who are (25, 28C30). There have been no studies of appearance and function of KIR2DS1 in dNK, and we consequently compared KIR2DS1 and KIR2DL1 in dNK with pbNK from the same female. We display that, like KIR2DL1, KIR2DS1 is definitely indicated more regularly on dNK than their pbNK counterparts. KIR2DS1 is definitely practical and sets off dNK service. Using appearance microarrays,.
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Planning reforms will help build, build, build, says Federation of Master Builders
In response to the wholesale reform of the planning system in England announced by the Government, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) welcomed the much needed opportunity to speed up the planning process and help diversify the housing market, but warned that any shake-up must not compromise the quality of the homes built.
Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB, said:''Local, small builders are ready and waiting to play their part in delivering the homes, jobs, and growth we need if we are to 'build, build, build' our way to recovery. But the increasing complexities and costs of the planning system in England have held them back. Alongside struggles to access affordable land, 64% of developing small builders cite the planning system as the biggest barrier they face.'
Berry concluded:''We need a simpler and more responsive planning system, but I am clear that this shouldn't compromise the quality of the homes that are built. Master Builders compete on quality, not on price, and have an important role to play in a more diverse housing market. We must also ensure local planning authorities are supported to respond to these changes, so that any shake-up doesn't lead to further short-term delays in applications.'
'If we get this right, making it easier for SME house builders to play a role will help support jobs, provide training opportunities for apprentices, and lead to higher quality, green homes that are fit for the future.'
Article Source: Construction UK Magazine
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'We can't bear any more': US pressure makes Brussels look for SWIFT alternatives, Max Otte says
Washington's aggressive policy of sanctions makes it highly necessary for Brussels to find working solutions to protect European countries against the US' unpredictable steps, top German economist and professor Max Otte says.
"The US has put a lot pressure on various issues and it has used the sanctions weapon and the economics weapon ever more aggressively even against the European companies, against Swiss companies, and this has put a lot of tensions on European companies, especially since the financial crisis," the economist and independent investment manager told RT.
"This is too much, we have to go our own way, and we have to strike a new balance, so that might be the turning point right now, but we will only see with hindsight," Otte said.
Earlier this week, European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said the remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal – the UK, France, Germany, Russia, China, and the EU – cooperated to create a new "special purpose vehicle" (SPV) to do business with the Islamic Republic without sending money through SWIFT, the global financial clearinghouse.
The step follows US President Donald Trump's controversial decision to withdraw from the nuclear agreement and re-introduce sanctions against Tehran. Washington also threatened secondary sanctions on countries and corporations for doing business with Iran.
"Of course, Europe is stuck between rock and a hard place. On the one hand, it's the loyalty to the US, and on the other hand, it's the loyalty to the treaties and to nuclear de-proliferation and non-proliferation, and it's really choice that Trump has put the Europeans in," the analyst said.
"It's pretty amazing that such an idea is being floated."
So far, a whole host of European majors, such as Daimler, Peugeot, Renault, Volvo, Volkswagen, Adidas, Siemens, and Total, have left the ventures opened in Iran shortly after the decades-long economic sanctions were lifted.
"There's been a lot of economic warfare in the past 10 years, and it has hurt a lot of companies and a lot of countries. And this might be just turning point, because it's too much. We don't know what we will see afterwards," Otte said.
"The pressure on German diesel cars coming from the US which would benefit US car industry, the pressure on Swiss banks, the pressure on many other industries, Russian sanctions, which mostly hurt Germany and Austria on the Western side," he added.
The economist stressed that the White House has not hesitated to impose massive sanctions over the past 10 years that have had a direct or indirect impact on most of the country's allies. According to Otte, Brussels has to find its own way.
"This might just be the turning point. Washington could impose more sanctions but the allies, probably, or some allies, say this is enough, we can't bear any more, and we supported sanctions long enough. We have to find our own way," he said, adding that the measure will help create a more multilateral approach.
The EU-backed SPV, which could reportedly be available to other international partners, has evoked a fierce reaction from US officials. White House National Security Adviser John Bolton dismissed the plan and pressed the SWIFT global payments messaging system to rethink dealing with Tehran.
According to Bolton, Washington does "not intend to allow sanctions to be evaded by Europe or anybody else."
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he was "disturbed and indeed deeply disappointed" by the EU's announcement. "By sustaining revenues to the regime, you are solidifying Iran's ranking as the number-one state sponsor of terror," he warned.
"It's pretty amazing that even such an announcement is coming out and Mike Pompeo has come out that he was deeply disappointed, and that Europe might not be following through [and may well be] but his disappointment was in strong language," Otte said.
The analyst highlighted the importance of breaking the SWIFT monopoly.
"I think it's highly necessary because of course the German authorities report all passenger data to the US and there's a grip of on European data by the US," Otte said. "But we have to see if Germany and the others follow through, because this is a long shot."
For more stories on economy & finance visit RT's business section
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To promote herself and her business, JL wants to write a book.
But she isn’t quite sure how to get her book into print.
“It feels like getting a book published is challenging,” she writes. “Would it not be easier to self-publish?”
Others have asked me the same question over the years. “What’s better?” an interviewer asked me just the other day. “Self-publishing or traditional publishing?”
It’s the wrong question.
Self-publishing is not inherently better than traditional publishing. Nor is the reverse true.
Actually, there are three basic options: traditional publishing, self-publishing, and electronic publishing. And the choice of which is right for you depends on your reasons for writing a book in the first place.
Option #1. Traditional publishing
Of the three options, selling your book to a mainstream publisher is the most prestigious. So when you want to write a book to help establish yourself as an expert in your field, that is often the best option.
Most stock market newsletter editors, for example, write at least one book for a mainstream publishing house.
Reason: It adds to their credibility, helping them sell subscriptions.
The drawbacks of going with a mainstream publisher are twofold.
First, book publishers are notoriously lousy at marketing, so your book may not sell very many copies.
Second, you earn only a small royalty — on average, 10 percent or less — for each copy sold.
Option 2. Self-publishing a physical book
Self-publishing your book as a paperback or hardcover makes sense when you want to use it as a marketing tool. As information marketing pioneer Jeffrey Lant says, “A book is a brochure that will never be thrown away.”
Professional speakers, for example, typically send a free copy of their book, along with their sales materials, to every potential client.
The more professionally written, designed, and printed it is, the more impressed your prospects will be. Ideally, your self-published book should look no different than hardcovers or trade paperbacks from major publishers.
When you buy your own book from a traditional publisher, you get a 50 percent author’s discount. With self-publishing, your cost per copy is much less. As a result, authors who give away a lot of their books can save a lot of money with self-publishing.
Option 3. Self-publishing your book as an e-book
Self-publishing your book as a downloadable PDF file — an “e-book” — is the clear choice when you want to (a) sell your book on the Internet and (b) maximize your profits.
Why are e-books so profitable?
For one thing, you can charge more money for less content than you can with a regular book.
Most traditionally published business books are at least 200 pages — around 80,000 words. They sell for at least $15 in paperback or $20 in hardcover.
For an e-book, you can charge anywhere from $29 to $49 per copy. More if it is on a specialized topic. And although length varies, a $29 e-book can be only 50 pages — about 15,000 words. That means it costs as much as — or more than — a paperback or hardcover containing only one-fifth the text.
Plus, you deliver an e-book to the buyer over the Internet as a PDF file. There are no printing, storage, fulfillment, or shipping costs, so your profit margin on each sale is extremely high.
By comparison, authors who publish with mainstream publishers get a royalty averaging 10 percent of the book’s cover price. The margin in self-publishing physical books is usually about 50 percent. But with e-books, the margin can be close to 100 percent.
Option 4. Traditional publishing/self-publishing
Some online marketers, including Michael Masterson, take advantage of a fourth option.
They sell their books to a mainstream publishing house for bookstore distribution. But they retain the right to sell the content as physical books or e-books — or both — to their own customer lists.
“In golf, there’s an old saying,” says Michael. “You drive for show and putt for dough. Trade book publishing is driving. Direct marketing to your list is putting.”
In my ETR home study course, the Internet Cash Generator, I share a simple yet proven process for publishing and selling e-books online.
It has worked for me, generating a passive Internet income of more than a thousand dollars a day.
For more information, click here now[Ed. Note: Bob Bly is a freelance copywriter and the author of more than 70 books. To subscribe to his free e-zine, The Direct Response Letter, and claim your free gift worth $116, click here now: www.bly.com/reports]
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I covered one of the closest presidential elections in modern history from Florida. But even with the knowledge we gained from the brutally divisive 2000 election to draw on, I’m not sure any of us could have been ready for this one.
We weren’t prepared back then, either — not the country, and not journalists. The spectacle of Bush v. Gore, with court battles and recounts and the world watching as the American presidency hung in the balance, was like no election before. Those six weeks broke most political norms. And in the end, the election was decided on 537 votes cast in Florida.
Twenty years later, Florida is bigger but just as divided. President Donald Trump — whose hallmark has become violating norms, and who calls Florida his home — has threatened not to accept a peaceful transfer of power if he loses. The pandemic has forced a nationwide reboot on how Americans cast their ballots, and a record number of Floridians are voting by mail, despite the president casting doubt on the process. There’s a fight raging about the restoration of voting rights for felons as we barrel toward Election Day.
I’m a political editor now, planning for an election in an unprecedented time as the landscape implodes over and over. On the day the president was supposed to be in Central Florida campaigning, for example, he announced he had Covid-19. We scrapped our planned coverage of the campaign stop and quickly wrote a different story that called into question the Miami debate scheduled for two weeks later. And when Trump, that same day, bowed out of a three-day bus tour in Florida along with other events, we had another story to file on the fly about the political void left in the state.
And the stakes for the work are high. A former Florida Supreme Court chief justice, Charles Wells, has become so worried about how the election is unfolding that he wrote an email to friends, published in part by news organizations, warning that he sees Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power as a “grave and real threat to our democracy.”
Wells’ words are all the more alarming because he sat on the state’s highest court during the razor-thin 2000 election. He, as much as anyone, knows that Florida’s not just a crucial swing state with 29 electoral college votes. It’s also the intersection of so many trends that are shaping the country and roiling our 21st-century politics.
Covid-19 has certainly upended campaign season in Florida, but so has disinformation. The increasingly common accusations by Republicans that the Democrats want to turn the U.S. into a socialist state resonate strongly in South Florida, home to thousands who have escaped socialist or authoritarian regimes. In Miami, those loaded allegations are routinely raised in two — and sometimes three — languages.
And Florida’s elections remain close. It’s a swing state with close to 22 million residents from all over — Latin America, the Northeast, the Rust Belt — and voter rolls are divided more or less equally between Republicans and Democrats, with unaffiliated independents on the rise. As recently as the 2018 midterms, Florida saw races for the U.S. Senate, governor, and statewide agriculture commissioner go to recounts because they were so close, within half a percentage point or less.
The 2000 election exposed the fragility of the election system when the numbers are that tight. And it didn’t end until the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, handed the presidency to George W. Bush — a ruling with particular relevance as Trump pulls out all the stops to get his Supreme Court nominee confirmed in the final weeks of the 2020 election.
Two decades later, in a vastly changed news business, the challenge of how to cover all that — with the added financial constraints of the pandemic-era newsroom and at a time when the press is blamed and attacked like never before — is part of a daily conversation that requires creativity, mental dexterity, and deep commitment to serve the public.
Coronavirus, though grindingly hard as the months have dragged on, has raised fairly straightforward issues: how to effectively cover campaigns that have been mostly virtual and, more recently, whether it’s safe to cover in-person events. Those aren’t small questions, but they are decisions we weigh with any kind of news coverage today.
But the flow of political disinformation in this election has forced us to struggle with more basic questions: how to write about outright lies, for example, without amplifying them; how to handle reporting on unfounded allegations that could undermine the election; how to write headlines that don’t thoughtlessly repeat misleading information in the zeal to find an audience.
Those are decisions we have to make every day. The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, a Cuban American from Miami, became a focus of our coverage recently after the president wouldn’t disavow the group during the September debate. We didn’t stop there, though. We wrote about local political candidates who are members of the group and had taken photos with mainstream Florida Republican leaders. We had mentioned those connections in passing before; Trump’s debate comments elevated them to a critically important local and national story.
Wells, the former Florida Supreme Court chief justice, is among those trying to combat the rising tide of disinformation in this election cycle, including repeated unfounded comments by the president and his surrogates that the election is “rigged.” In a recent op-ed with another former justice, Barbara Pariente, Wells flatly stated that there is “no evidence of fraud in presidential elections in Florida before or after 2000.”
Wells was appointed by a Democrat but disagreed with the Florida Supreme Court majority that favored a recount in 2000, essentially siding with the Bush campaign. Wells’ dissenting opinion was cited by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark decision that shut down the Florida recount and handed the presidency to Bush.
Wells has said that a close, contested election could expose the same fault lines in 2020. The only real cure, he said, is for courts and election officials to count the votes quickly and resolve any legal challenges swiftly. And in an extraordinary request for a former justice, he asked his friends to vote for Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the hope that the margin in Florida would be large enough to make any potential litigation pointless.
“I set out my thoughts here because I am compelled to believe our country, and thus our children and grandchildren, face a grave threat to keeping the kind of representative democracy that we have experienced in our life,” he wrote. “I do not believe that we have had as serious a threat during our lives.”
In all the turmoil, though, there is still the baseline journalism work to be done. We must provide critical information for voters — who is this candidate and what are his or her qualifications? — while also trying to fact-check a torrent of false claims and deceptively edited audio and video clips, many of them amplified by anonymous actors or “bots” on social media.
Both are critical functions for the press, making for some tough decisions. But as we try to determine how best to serve readers, that tension can also lead to new ways of looking at coverage. For example, one way we are tackling the problem of disinformation is by crowdsourcing political advertising samples from our audience and then building an election ad “decoder,” an interactive feature that can help voters learn which organizations are behind misleading claims as well as identifying foreign interference.
Much has changed since 2000. We’re in a pandemic. Social media has become a dominant player for reaching voters. There are far fewer resources for journalists covering the election and far greater perils. Coverage is around-the-clock and disinformation is rampant.
We may not know what’s coming but we do know one thing. The need for smart, incisive journalism that cuts through the noise and disinformation is greater than ever.
Amy Driscoll, a 2003 Nieman Fellow, is an editor at the Miami Herald, where she leads coverage of politics and health care policy.
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