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(1492–1547). Besides being recognized for her religious poetry, Italian poet Vittoria Colonna was also known for being the marchioness of Pescara. She was perhaps most notable, however, for her associations with famous contemporaries, particularly Michelangelo.
Colonna was born in 1492 in Marino, Italy. Of a noble family, she married Ferdinando Francesco d’Avalos, marchese di Pescara, in 1509. Her husband is thought to have spent most of their married life on military campaigns; nevertheless, when he died in 1525 she began a series of poems in his memory, the best modern edition of which is Rime spirituali (1882; The “In Memoriam” of Italy: A Century of Sonnets from the Poems of Vittoria Colonna).
Learned and intelligent, of a religious and emotional nature, Colonna was much respected by the poet Ludovico Ariosto and was a close friend of other literary figures, including the poet Jacopo Sannazzaro, the humanist Pietro Bembo, and the renowned author of the etiquette manual Il cortegiano (The Courtier), Baldassare Castiglione. Her most famous association, however, was with Michelangelo, whom she met in Rome in 1538 and with whom she exchanged many letters and philosophical sonnets. Michelangelo was at her bedside when she died on Feb. 25, 1547, in Rome. In his touching memorial sonnet, he wrote that on her death “Nature, that never made so fair a face, / Remained ashamed, and tears were in all eyes.” | <urn:uuid:eaeb3323-be79-4446-be6f-8b99b1c6c004> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Vittoria-Colonna/320037 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.986642 | 348 | 3.3125 | 3 |
GP practices could reduce potential harm from over-testing and save the NHS millions if CCGs helped them to cut out unnecessary liver tests in their patients on statins, a study in East London has revealed.
GPs in NHS Tower Hamlets CCG were given the option of ordering a single alanine transaminase test (ALT) to test liver function in patients on statins, instead of the usual full array of seven tests, in new local guidance put in place in 2014.
An advisory panel of GPs, hepatologists and laboratory staff developed the guidelines, working on the basis that the ALT is one of the most useful tests for determining liver disease, and that overuse of the full array of liver function tests (LFTs) could cause patients harm from false positive results.
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London observed that after a year of this intervention, GPs were ordering significantly fewer full LFTs for patients on statins.
The rate of ordering fell by almost a quarter, from 70 tests per 1,000 patients in the pre-intervention year to 58 tests per 1,000 in the year after. Meanwhile, the number of ALTs ordered increased almost 10-fold.
By contrast neighbouring NHS Newham CCG, where GPs were not advised about the single ALT test, saw an increase in total number of LFTs ordered during the observation period.
The team calculated that in Tower Hamlets the reduction in full LFTs costing £45.50 each, offset by additional ALTs costing just £6.50, resulted in an overall saving of £130,435 to the CCG.
By comparison, the cost of LFTs went up by £9,158 over the same period in Newham.The researchers estimated that the NHS could save over £8m per year if every CCG in England reduced their amounts of LFT ordering by just 20%, offset by the increased ordering of ALTs.
The team concluded: ‘For patients, fewer blood tests will result in fewer false positive results, unnecessary testing, and patient anxiety.
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A new article highlights how teachers believe they have to hide their emotions in the profession, which is correlating with both mental health problems and high rates of burnout in the sector.
In a piece published in The Conversation, Curtin University education expert Dr Saul Karnovsky argues that pre-service teachers should not only receive training in the technical and cognitive aspects of teaching, but also in how to manage aspects of their mental health, including emotions.
“Despite all the theory, training and practical experience, research shows teachers’ professional lives can be highly demanding, pressured, stressful and at times, emotionally exhausting,” Karnovsky said.
The lecturer and Bachelor of Education (Secondary) course-coordinator also referred to his doctoral research, which involved monitoring pre-service teachers throughout their degree. One of his major findings was that there appeared to be “an invisible rule book that defines what teachers can and cannot do with their emotions”.
Karnovsky found that pre-service teachers developed this “invisible rule book” for emotions very early in their careers, basing their assumptions on how teachers should behave. They then cemented these assumptions further when they began their school placements.
Some of the most insightful findings of how pre-service teachers thought teachers should behave was gleaned from the interviews, questionnaires and focus groups Karnovsky conducted, as well as diary entries.
“Don’t ever cry in front of students, because if you do, they will see you as weak and eat you alive,” one participant said.
Another stated: “Don’t show your emotional vulnerability, especially not to other teachers, because if you do, they might think you are not right for the job.”
Through comments such as these and other observations, the Curtin lecturer found that pre-service teachers thought “hiding” their emotions was an invaluable skill to develop. Failing to develop the ability to put on “a brave face” would be equated with negative students' perceptions of them being unprofessional or out of control.
“One participant experienced ‘intense frustration’ during school placement in trying to manage and engage a group of behaviourally difficult students, which led to her feeling ‘emotionally overwhelmed’," Karnovsky said.
“She hid these emotions from her supervising teacher, telling me she did not want to ‘appear weak’. So she held back her tears because she would ‘hate’ being the ‘little woman that cries at work, who gets upset’.”
Mental health concerns
One of the concerns Karnovsky holds is that teaching is “emotionally demanding”, especially when faced with “a range of emotional challenges including working with difficult students and communities, managing increasing administrative control over their work and standardisation reforms”.
These emotional challenges, if not managed appropriately, can result in significant mental health problems. To underscore this point, Karnovsky refers to a relatively recent Australian study which concluded that teachers are experiencing anxiety and depression at concerning rates and levels.
Perhaps this is why some studies show that one in every two teachers will “burn out” or “simply leave” leave the profession in the first five years of their careers.
“Because teaching is emotionally demanding, teachers experience what is known as 'emotional labour'. This is when teachers have to manage, suppress or feign their emotions as part of the work. Like other forms of labour, doing so can become exhausting,” Karnovsky states.
It’s time to address the reality
At the heart of Karnovsky’s article is not only an acknowledgement of how emotionally taxing teaching is, but also a cautionary warning of the consequences of not providing teachers – particularly those in the early part of their careers – with the tools and guidance to deal with these emotional challenges. It is also a call to the sector to begin addressing this issue now.
“If we are to ensure thousands of newly enrolled teachers are to thrive in their courses and careers, we must make the invisible emotional rules of the profession seen and heard,” the education expert states.
“I believe if pre-service teachers can come together with teacher educators to explore these emotional rules, they could build resilience to confront the many emotional challenges of modern teaching.”Do you have an idea for a story?
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Saline does not make your arm ache as mine did.In addition, the immunological reaction in the body, such as how I felt after getting the second dosage of the vaccine, is not caused by saline.Within around twenty-four hours, I started experiencing significant bodily pains, a low fever, and extreme exhaustion.
- This response was exactly the same as what we look for in mice in our prior study, and it was exactly what I had experienced.
What are saline injections and how do they work?
Injections of Saline: What Are They? In order to get the desired aesthetic result, saline was injected into the buttocks. Injections of saline, which is a mixture of water and salt, can be utilized for a number of purposes, including the treatment of acne scars, spider veins, and a variety of other operations. Saline injections are made up of water and salt.
What is normal saline injection?
A fluid and electrolyte replenisher, also known as normal saline injection (sodium chloride), sodium chloride injection is utilized as a supply of water and electrolytes. There is a generic version of normal saline available. The following are examples of common adverse reactions to normal saline:
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Hindle, C, Freethy, R, Campbell, W. D & Oliver, P. J / January 1979 – vol. 72, issue 1, pp 32–39 Success of artificial island nest-sites for divers The breeding success of divers Gavia in south mainland Argyll has been very poor For some years (e.g. one young from eight pairs): too low to ensure maintenance of the population level. The poor breeding success is probably largely due to two human activities: fishing and hydro-electric dams. Fishing creates disturbanc... This article is only available to registered users.To read more, please log in or purchase a subscription. | <urn:uuid:5fafb7ce-d3ea-4062-88d0-791827b6582a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://britishbirds.co.uk/content/notes-108 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.902494 | 132 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Thus the civilization of agricultural peoples of the temperate zone grew rapidly, yet in each community a special type arose adapted to the soil, the crop and the climate.
It is, therefore, admirably adapted for both literary and rhetorical purposes.
The breeding of cattle, adapted for the production of prime beef and of dairy cows for the production of milk, butter and cheese, has received much attention.
Squirrels of this and the' other arboreal groups have the bodily form slender and agile, the tail long and bushy, the ears well developed, pointed and often tufted; the feet adapted for 1 ' climbing, the anterior pair with four toes and a rudimentary thumb, and the posterior pair with five toes, all the toes having long, curved and short-pointed claws (see Squirrel).
High mountain levels supplied paths of communication for stocking the South Temperate region, the floras of which were enriched by adapted forms of tropical types.
Well adapted for carpeting the border or rockery.
Carolina; but, through the selection of seed from early maturing individual plants, the cotton has been rendered much earlier, until now it is thoroughly adapted to the existing conditions.
The enlargement of the horizon of knowledge by the advance of science, the recognition of the only relative validity of human opinions and beliefs as determined by and adapted to each stage of human development, which is due to the growing historical sense, the alteration of view regarding the nature of inspiration, and the purpose of the Holy Scriptures, the revolt against all ecclesiastical authority, and the acceptance of reason and conscience as alone authoritative, the growth of the spirit of Christian charity, the clamorous demand of the social problem for immediate attention, all combine in making the Christian churches less anxious about the danger, and less zealous in the discovery and condemnation of heresy.
The town has a picturesque inn, adapted from a building dating partly from the 16th century, and market buildings dating from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
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Because we often consider ‘thinking’ to be problem solving we do not think much about matters which are not problems. If there is a wide open road ahead of us we do not stop to consider the side roads. This is what I call ‘blocked by openness’. Many things continue because they are reasonably satisfactory so we never think any more about them. A classic example is democracy which is full of faults and limitations but can never be challenged. I can think of at least four ways in which democracy could be greatly improved.
Whose business is it to think about things which are not problems? EDWARD DE BONO – September 2008.
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Over the course of its 12-year life, the price of bitcoin has undergone several historical corrections.
That is to say, the current one is far from being the first, nor is it the largest or most violent.
In total, there have been 15 major corrections to date, and this one will certainly not be the last.
— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) May 23, 2021
Bitcoin’s historical corrections since 2013
Of all the 15 historical bitcoin price corrections, the largest was after the bursting of the speculative bubble at the end of 2013, when the price dropped as much as 87%.
At the time, the BTC market was still extremely immature, and just as the bear market had begun in early 2014, the biggest ever crypto exchange failure occurred at the famous Mt. Gox, which was then the dominant exchange in this market worldwide.
In the following months the price continued to fall, so much so that from the then all-time high of over $1,100 in late 2013, the price ended up as low as $152.
The most violent correction occurred in 2012, a few months before the first halving.
In just three days, the price dropped 56% from $16 to $7.
The current correction, which has been going on for over a month, has so far recorded a maximum loss in value of 51%.
By the way, during 2017, the year of bitcoin’s second big bullrun, there were four significant corrections.
The first one occurred around mid-March, lasted for about two weeks, and sent the price of BTC down 34% after recording what was then a new all-time high at $1,350.
After falling to $890, the price by the end of May had climbed back to a new all-time high of $2,700. This triggered a flash correction that caused BTC to lose 33% of its value in two days.
Something similar happened in the middle of the following month, with the price dropping 38% in five days.
Before the great speculative bubble burst, a fourth significant correction occurred again in 2017, in the first fortnight of September, with a loss of 40% that caused the price to drop from almost $5,000 to less than $3,000.
An impressive speculative bubble was then triggered from October to mid-December, taking the price up to $20,000, only to burst and leave it at $6,000 in February the following year. | <urn:uuid:0d62cd51-f99a-44f5-9d90-a0f3f131f2f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2021/05/24/historical-corrections-of-bitcoin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978945 | 519 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Private sector firms join Water ministry to plant trees
The Ministry of Water and Environment in partnership with private sector stakeholders including Uganda Breweries Limited , Stanbic Bank Uganda , TotalEnergies Uganda , ATC Uganda , among others have continued with the initiative to plant 1million trees across the country in one day , as a show of firm commitment towards the Running out of Trees ( ROOTs ) Campaign whose ambition is to plant 40 million trees per year until 2026 . The Uganda Breweries Corporate Relations Director , Julian Kagwa , said that , investing in tree growing may not be seen in the short term as good business , but it is good for business . The company ’ s commitment to ROOTs started in 2019 , so far , they have contributed over Shs500million for this cause . Meanwhile , Stanbic Bank Uganda has given cash contributions for the last two years and this year , it has contributed Shs100million toward Running Out of Trees . The Stanbic ’ s Head of Sustainability , Cathy Adengo said that the bank ’ s goal is to inspire the rest of the private sector to be part of this initiative . “ Once you have a private sector that is active , involved , and engaged on a social economic issue of this scale , this will lead to greater impact on furthering the conversation and seeking solutions to a threat ,” Adengo said . The ROOT Campaign was launched in January 2020 as a 5-year project geared towards soliciting commitment from the private sector to support government ’ s initiative to restore forest cover . Over 25 million trees have since been grown .
Absa signs MoU with Kyambogo
Absa MD , Mumba Kalifungwa hands over MOU to Kyambogo University VC .
ON May 19 , Absa Bank signed an MoU with Kyambogo University that will facilitate the students and staff of the university to acquire laptops and other related accessories on loan instalment basis . Mumba Kalifungwa , the
CSR bank ’ s managing director said , “ Despite the strong benefits of digital learning , the cost of acquisition of enabling tools like laptops remains a barrier in Uganda . “ Through this arrangement , we provide a solution that brings flexibility for laptop ownership , removing barriers and offering affordable financing of up to Shs5 million to enable students acquire laptops . As a digitally forward bank , we believe digital learning increases access to education and knowledge while empowering students with a mindset and capabilities that set them up for success in their present and future .” The loans will have a maximum tenure of 36 months depending on the student ’ s remaining study duration . The University ’ s Vice Chancellor , Eli Katunguka welcomed the move .
CNOOC holds hygiene activity at Kingfisher village
On May 20 , CNOOC Uganda Limited , an oil and gas company organized a clean-up activity in the village of Kyabasambu under the theme " a clean environment for a healthy community ." Kyabasambu village is an urbanized and densely populated settlement within Buhuka parish , but is also in close proximity with most of the Kingfisher projects . The campaign aimed at demonstrating to the communities the importance of ensuring proper hygiene and sanitation for health and
safety , encouraging the village health teams and hygiene and sanitation groups to champion efforts to promote proper waste disposal , and to support the community by exhibiting in action the value the company attaches to its host communities .
Yunus Social Business Foundation hosts investors
Robert Zziwa , the CEO Green Bio Energy explaining to the YSB investors about his business .
Yunus Social Business Foundation Uganda hosted a group of investors from Europe , Brazil and Mexico for a three-day field visit to Mukono
and Soroti from May 9 – 11 after two years of lockdown . The purpose of the visit was to assess the progress of the social businesses that had received funding in the form of loans from Yunus Social Business Foundation . A total of three social businesses were visited , and these were Green Bio Energy in Mukono , Acila Enterprises Ltd and Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd ( EADC ) in Soroti district . Social businesses in nature are set up to solve urgent human problems like wealth inequality , lack of access to education and the climate crisis . Saskia Bruysten , the CEO and Co-Founder of Yunus Social Business Foundation , commended the social business owners on their resilience andpassion for ensuring the success of their businesses amidst the challenges over the last two years .
NBL to keep beer prices unchanged
Beer maker , Nile Breweries Limited announced on May 19 that it is maintaining the prices of its beer unchanged , despite the negative economic pressures faced by businesses across the board . Executives said , this is deliberate to enable consumers continue to enjoy their favourite beers as they cope with the economic hardships . “ We understand that prices of most commodities , including the raw materials we use to make beer , have increased across the country . However , we also understand that Ugandans are still trying to recover from the upheaval that was brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown ,” said Onapito Ekomoloit , Nile Breweries legal and corporate affairs director . | <urn:uuid:892e6170-5307-41bd-9c56-dcbff176cc04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://viewer.joomag.com/issue-719/0211190001653076765?page=27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948557 | 1,092 | 1.625 | 2 |
On a Karoo farmstay you will find things that remind you of your lost and happy childhood. This is because on farms, there is no point to throwing things away just because they’re not the fashion.
Here you might find chenille bedspreads when the world has long moved into Percale cotton covered white duvets. Or an avocado coloured bath with taps are straight out of the 1960s. Or bathroom tile patterns you last saw in your grandmother’s house.
You may even encounter a Barbie Doll with a big crocheted woollen skirt that covers a roll of toilet paper resting on the cistern. Or a crocheted poodle doing the same.
Here are the potential downsides of a Karoo farmstay:
- There is a reasonably good chance that you will be woken by a rooster or a dog barking at a rooster;
- You may encounter decor items you last saw in your grandmother’s house;
- Your host might be a good storyteller and red wine drinker. Your liver might suffer;
- Sometimes the floorboards are creaky;
- The insides of kettles and cisterns and the like can be thickly coated with calcium because there is so much of it in Karoo water. Can be startling, but your skeleton will love it.
On the plus side:
- The Karoo abounds in life. You may see a ground squirrel, a dragonfly, a crazy ant nest, a butterfly, a hawk moth, a red-winged starling, a newly born colt, a lamb, a squadron of chickens, kestrels and hawks;
- You will probably regain more natural sleeping patterns. In bed by 9pm, up at dawn;
- You will regain your sense of wonder at the natural world. You will start caring anew for where your food comes from;
- You will be able to eat the farm’s meat, and sometimes prepared by the farmer’s wife’s own hand;
- Knowledge that you are contributing to farm security by being a presence on the farm and also by supporting sustainable agriculture financially and morally;
- You also contribute to food security;
- You will be helping a hard-pressed farming family survive this terrible drought.
On a Karoo sheep farm, this is your soundtrack:
When the sky is still midnight blue, you will hear a rooster repeating its refrain. Then as the sky lightens, the chirrup of birds and then the baa of a sheep, treble and bass, lambs bawling for their mothers, the ewes reassuring them.
The plaintive high sweet note of a clapper lark as it flies up to applaud the dawn.
A tractor starting up. When all that early morning activity ends, there is a golden light silence that offers time to drink coffee and quietly reflect. On why it feels so perfect right here, right now, on the stoep of your adopted Karoo farm.
If you are looking for some options, have a look here:
- For more on Karoo farmstays, see 12 Fabulous Karoo Farmstays;
- For more on farmstays in general, see The Fun of a Farmstay;
- For offgrid farmstays, see Six Offgrid Karoo Farmstays:
- For splendid vistas in the Eastern Cape Karoo: Mountain Hideaways of the Karoo Heartland;
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New Delhi: Exactly two months after the Indian Air Force’s strikes on Balakot, a spooked Pakistan continues to keep its air space closed for Indian aircraft.
Sources in the civil aviation ministry said though Pakistan has been opening its airspace in portions, it is still closed for Indian carriers. Most of the foreign airlines are also avoiding Pakistani air space while flying out from India.
Earlier this month, Pakistan opened one route to enter southern Pakistan from near Mumbai. However, this is only one of the 11 exit and entry points between India and Pakistan.
Why Pakistan is doing this
Since the 27 February announcement of air space closure, flights from airlines across the world have had to be rerouted and cancelled, with Air India being the worst-hit. The operating cost for Air India, which flies to numerous destinations in Europe and the US, has increased significantly as it has had to take longer routes due to the closure of Pakistani airspace.
Top sources in the defence and security establishment say the primary aim of the Pakistani military behind this closure is to impose cost on India.
“They also fear a second air raid by Indian Air Force. What happened on 26 February was a setback to the Pakistani military as despite a full alert, Indian fighters were able to get in and drop bombs on the Jaish-e-Mohammed training camp,” a senior officer from the defence and security establishment who did not wish to be identified told ThePrint.
Another source explained that Pakistan also wants to draw the world’s attention to its conflict with India.
Air India worst hit
Air India, the country’s flag-carrier, flies 33 weekly services to the US and 66 to Europe, most of which have had to be diverted or cancelled because a majority of to Europe and North America overfly Pakistan.
Some flights from Delhi to the US are badly hit, since they are ultra-long haul flights in any case, and have had to be diverted over Mumbai and then northwards over the Arabian Sea via UAE airspace. As a result, technical stops (for refuelling and crew change) were first introduced via Sharjah, UAE, and now via Vienna, Austria.
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The St. Louis Allergy index gives you an idea of what is blooming in the area. The index updates daily and will give you an idea if mold, mulberry, oak, ash, or sweetgum pollen is in the air. The ranges in the report go from low to very high. It also includes a soil temperature reading at the St. Louis Science Center located near Forest Park.
Allergy sufferers often have symptoms that include a runny nose, some nasal congestion, a lot of sneezing, as well as itchy eyes, nose, and ears.
Protect yourself from seasonal allergies, by limiting your time outdoors on high pollen days. When outside avoid activities that stir up pollen, like mowing or raking leaves. When you come inside take a shower and change your clothes. You can also invest in a portable air cleaner and keep inside temp comfortable with air conditioners, heat pumps, fans and window shades.
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INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — The Indiana Catholic Conference’s executive director expressed concern about the “polarization” of discussion about the state’s religious freedom law, saying the Catholic bishops’ April 1 statement “was an attempt to bring people to a dialogue to help each other know that we’re not in conflict.”
Indiana’s five bishops urged “mutual respect” be shown in the debate over the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, known as RFRA, “to ensure that no one in Indiana will face discrimination whether it is for their sexual orientation or for living their religious beliefs.”
“As the statement indicates, this isn’t an either-or kind of situation at all,” said Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Catholic conference, which represents the church in the state on matters of law and public policy.
“The church’s support for religious freedom, as well as the dignity of all persons, is a fundamental principle of the church. It’s not a matter of one or the other. It’s a matter of having both of them right beside one another,” he told The Criterion, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Gov. Mike Pence signed the religious freedom measure into law March 26.
In the days that followed, critics across the state and around the nation claimed that it would open the door to discrimination against homosexuals and others. Defenders of the law subsequently argued that its purpose was solely to protect religious freedom from excessive government intrusion.
In response, Indiana legislative leaders announced that they would consider a bill to clarify the religious freedom law and send it to Pence.
In their statement, the bishops noted that every person is created in the image and likeness of God and so has an inherent dignity — which includes religious liberty — that must be respected by all.
They also stated that “the rights of a person should never be used inappropriately in order to deny the rights of another.”
In conclusion, the bishops expressed their support for efforts in Indiana both to defend the dignity of all persons and the rights of all people of all religions to be free from “undue burden from the government” in the practice of their faith.
The statement was issued by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin of Indianapolis; Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of Lafayette; Bishop Donald J. Hying of Gary; Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend; and Bishop Charles C. Thompson of Evansville.
In Arkansas, a similar backlash has greeted a RFRA law passed by the Legislature and sent to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who April 1 told lawmakers he wants changes in the measure. According to The Associated Press, he is urging the Legislature to either recall the bill or come up with a follow-up measure so it will hew more closely to the federal RFRA law of 1993.
The federal law says that the government “shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” unless that burden is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmental interest.”
But it does not apply to states, so several have passed their own version.
In Indiana and now in Arkansas, critics contend those versions are too vague and could be used to discriminate against gays and others.
Supporters of the Indiana law disagree. Richard Garnett, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana, in an opinion column in the March 26 issue of the South Bend Tribune, called it a “moderate measure” modeled after the federal law and those of several other states and said it “does not give anyone a ‘license to discriminate.'”
Gallagher is a reporter at The Criterion, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
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Stretch Marks can ruin confidence
What are stretch marks?
Stretch marks are a form of scarring in the skin.
Stretch marks occur when collagen fibres in the lower layer of the skin (Dermis) are stretched, ruptured or torn, and the damaged collagen fibres turn into scars. These scars are visible through the intact top layer of the skin (Epidermis) and are colloquially referred to as stretch marks.
The collagen fibres are ruptured when the dermis has to stretch or shrink rapidly.
They can form anywhere on the body but are more common on areas where large amounts of subcutaneous fat is stored, or areas that grow fast during growth spurts or pregnancy. Most common areas are the breasts, upper arms, stomach, hips, thighs, buttocks, upper legs and back.
What treatments are available?
Reduction of stretch marks can be performed with Microneedling & Mesotherapy and Medical Tattooing.
Patient results and treatment experiences may vary.
Microneedling & Mesotherapy for Stretch Marks
Stretch mark scar tissue presents as thick bundles of scar collagen, causing uneven skin. Microneedling produces controlled micro-injuries which lead to minimal superficial bleeding and set up a wound-healing cascade with the release of various growth factors. The needles also breakdown the old hardened scar strands and allow it to re-vascularise, promoting smooth, ‘ideal’ lattice network of collagen and a reduced appearance of the stretch marks.
We are also able to offer the Stretch-M mesoceutical by HIKARI to be used in conjunction with microneedling treatments, designed specifically for stretch mark reduction.
Stretch-M increases the production of collagen and elastin, with peptides to ensure the collagen is unified in length and diameter, and to encourage rejuvenation of the intercellular matrix, and encourage healing post-injury.
This treatment can be performed every 4-6 weeks.
Downtime: redness and some flaking for a few days.
Cost of the treatment from £125
Find out more about Microneedling here.
Find out more about Mesotherapy here.
Medical Tattooing Stretch Mark Camouflage
Medical tattooing deposits skin coloured pigments into the stretch marks, effectively camouflaging the damaged skin.
Best results are obtained from 1-3 treatments, spaced 8 weeks apart.
Prices start from £300.
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Affect, Emotion and Emotion Regulation in the Workplace: Feelings and Attitudinal Restructuring
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[Excerpt] Almost 40 years after publishing A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations in 1965, the fields of negotiations and organizational behavior experienced an “affective revolution” (Barsade, Brief and Spataro 2003). Although Walton and McKersie could not have predicted the widespread academic and public interest in emotion and emotional intelligence, they foreshadowed this affect-laden direction in the section of their book on attitudinal structuring, which identified the dimension of friendliness-hostility as a critical aspect of the relationship between negotiating parties in the workplace and other settings.
emotional intelligence; organizational behavior; friendliness-hostility; negotiation
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Allison Schrager at Quartz: “Forecasts rely on data from the past, and while we now have better data than ever—and better techniques and technology with which to measure them—when it comes to forecasting, in many ways, data has never been more useless. And as data become more integral to our lives and the technology we rely upon, we must take a harder look at the past before we assume it tells us anything about the future.
To some extent, the weaknesses of data has always existed. Data are, by definition, information about what has happened in the past. Because populations and technology are constantly changing, they alter how we respond to incentives, policy, opportunities available to us, and even social cues. This undermines the accuracy of everything we try to forecast: elections, financial markets, even how long it will take to get to the airport.
But there is reason to believe we are experiencing more change than before. The economy is undergoing a major structural change by becoming more globally integrated, which increases some risks while reducing others, while technology has changed how we transact and communicate. I’ve written before how it’s now impossible for the movie industry to forecast hit films. Review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes undermines traditional marketing plans and the rise of the Chinese market means film makers must account for different tastes. Meanwhile streaming has changed how movies are consumed and who watches them. All these changes mean data from 10, or even five, years ago tell producers almost nothing about movie-going today.
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Latest employment data points to 'economy on downwards turn'
FRESH employment data in Northern Ireland points to the fact that a UK-wide slowdown in economic output linked to Brexit uncertainty and broader global trends are beginning to impact.
The north's unemployment rate crept up from 2.8 per cent to 2.9 per cent - which is a full percentage point lower than the UK rate and, as one economist puts it, it "still ridiculously low".
The number of people in jobs in the region also suffered its sharpest decline in months in the June-August quarter, falling back by 0.3 per cent (or 11,000 jobs) to 71.5 per cent from its previous record high.
And in another major sign of weakening in the labour market, a total of 1,452 redundancies were proposed in September - four times more than the previous month (331) and the highest monthly total since 2003.
Ulster Bank chief economist Richard Ramsey said there is a variety of indicators within the latest data to that suggest that the market is on the turn, but that the weaknesses must be put in the appropriate context - "namely that Northern Ireland's labour market has never been stronger".
He said: "These monthly statistics have provided a plentiful source of positivity in recent years. Unemployment has hit lows that no economist forecasted and employment has never been higher,and even this latest Labour Force Survey reveals some more record highs around male employment.
"Over the last quarter, economic inactivity has also rebounded off its record low. The total number of weekly hours worked in June-August period fell 3 per cent from the record highs in the first half of 2019."
He said the labour market news in September was dominated by Wrightbus going into administration with 1,200 redundancies, but it could be that many of these jobs will be saved following the proposed acquisition of the Ballymena firm by a new investor in Jo Bamford.
Mr Ramsey added: "Looking ahead, Northern Ireland's labour market is set to weaken in coming quarters given the marked deterioration in business conditions that has occurred in the third quarter.
"It looks increasingly likely that quarter two represented Northern Ireland's labour market peak for jobs and trough for unemployment. Ongoing Brexit uncertainty has been translating into negative economic and business outcomes. Ultimately these outcomes impact on investment plans, staffing levels and the labour market in general."
Among the statistics in the report, median full-time weekly earnings in Northern Ireland was £521 over the period, the fifth lowest out of 12 UK regions (the overall UK average is £569 a week).
Not unexpectedly, the highest wages are in Belfast (£565),with the lowest-paid being workers in the Causeway Coast and Glens are (£431).
Matt Hughes, deputy head of labour market statistics at the ONS, said: "Employment growth has cooled noticeably in recent months. Among the under-25s, the rate has actually started to fall on the year.
"And pay growth continues to outstrip inflation, as it has done for over 18 months now."
The GMB Union has described the latest unemployment figures Iwhich in the UK as a whole increased by 22,000 to 1.31 million) as ‘alarming'.
General secretary Tim Roache said: “At a time when the UK is standing on the brink of damaging no deal Brexit, real people's lives and families are being put in jeopardy.
“Tens of thousands of people and families will now be wondering how they're going to pay the bills, or whether they're going to have to turn to food banks.
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Security researchers have found that there are 11 years of unpatched security vulnerabilities in the counting machines used in 23 states, making the counting machines vulnerable to hackers.
The M650 high-speed ballot scanner is manufactured by Election Systems & Software (ES&S), the leading electoral equipment supplier in the United States. A technical report pointed out that the vulnerability is the most serious vulnerability in voting equipment.
When talking about the M650, Jake Braun, one of the cybersecurity experts and organizers at the University of Chicago, said: “If someone exploits a vulnerability to crack a password and tries to adjust the number of votes, it may change the count of the entire county/state vote. The opinion of another organizer and researcher is that an infected disk can take over the entire electoral system.
Broun said that ES&S continues to support and serve the M650, which reflects the current state of the national voting equipment industry that many problematic ticket holders are still on the job.
Cybersecurity experts have long been concerned that the country’s outdated electoral infrastructure is vulnerable to attack, and this is an important factor in Russia’s ability to influence elections in 2016.
A report from the National Academy of Sciences in September urged that the electoral facilities need to implement the necessary reforms by 2020, including ongoing federal funding, because the elections are governed by states and related security measures are slow to change. Other recommendations include the lack of “human-readable” paper records for retired electronic machines and the need for reliable post-election review. The Republican Party’s leadership in Congress has recently hampered the process of adopting electoral reform legislation.
The researchers’ safety testing process was also in a slump, they received more than 30 voting devices and other machines for security testing, but they could test very limited content because the vendor refused to provide proprietary equipment. Policymakers at the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security believe that the best way to ensure that equipment is elected is to have no hostile technicians attack it, but ES&S has rejected the proposal, and the current environmental exposure-specific technology will instead allow the election to be elected. Rebutted.Learn more about 360 Total Security | <urn:uuid:b9995856-adf9-4ced-bff2-e6fe63a1c27b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.360totalsecurity.com/en/vulnerabilities-discovered-in-electoral-counting-machines-in-23-states/?utm_source=Homepage.Compare&utm_medium=Button | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95642 | 448 | 2.15625 | 2 |
U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis is one of the most expensive stadiums in the world. However, it is not free from technical defects that come to light from time to time and require considerable financial outlays for repairs.
Replacing leaking facade panels
U.S. Bank Stadium has suffered from numerous defects since it was commissioned in 2016. A year and a half ago, the glazing of the façade on the west side of the building, in which trees were reflected, caused migrating songbirds to crash against the façade, mistaking it for natural habitats. This was feared by bird conservationists from the very start. To this day, this problem has not been resolved. It is considered to cover the glazed surfaces with a special matting film.
Works are currently underway to replace the leaking exterior facade panels. Until recently, they were the showpiece of the facility. From the beginning, however, they aroused controversy, because their colour was much darker than what was presented in the visualizations. The HKS Architects responsible for the design ensure they will be brighter over the years.
The zinc facade panels are to be replaced by this autumn for a total of $ 21 million. On February 28, 2020, the venue’s operator Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) reached an agreement with the stadium contractors regarding the scope of repair works.
Taxpayers will not pay a cent
According to the agreement, main contractor Mortenson Construction and seven other contractors will pay for all panel replacement costs. In February 2020, it was assumed that the works could take up to two years, but the coronavirus pandemic and playing matches behind closed doors accelerated the works.
The plan is to remove 250,000 square feet of exterior panels and replace them with new ones that would be waterproof. The panels were originally designed to allow a small amount of water to pass through. However, this assumption was wrong, as problems related to the leakage of water into the storage areas appeared at the beginning of the stadium's use.
During strong winds the panels were unstable and contractors had to add extra reinforcements to keep them in place. The agreement, which was reached in 2020, was the result of almost two years of mediation between architects, contractors and their insurance companies.
The amounts paid by each of the companies have not been disclosed. Even the contractors themselves do not know how much others are paying. It is known that HKS Architects oversaw the redesign to retain the aesthetics of the current appearance. Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger have done the engineering works and Mortenson Construction is the construction manager.
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Relationship Advice For Couples
There is no perfect relationship. However, you can try to make your partner happy. However, you should not be the one who sets rules and expects everyone else to follow them. While you may want to compromise and share your responsibilities, it will ultimately result in conflicts later on. In order to get the most out of your relationship, you should give your partner 100 percent of yourself. Your partner will struggle to maintain a strong relationship if you don’t share this attitude.
Don’t be afraid or embarrassed to show your love to your partner. You may be nervous about going on a date, but first impressions can be a good sign of things to come. Trust your gut instincts and listen to your heart. You can prevent the relationship from becoming abusive by doing this. Relationship advice should not be based on fear and uncertainty. It should be based upon mutual consent.
Your friendships should not be jealous of your partner. While jealousy is a healthy emotion you should not place demands on your partner. Many newly dating couples sacrifice their time with friends and family in order to spend quality time with each other. Backlash can result from constant texting or calling your partner. However, if your partner finds this behavior unacceptable, it may be a sign that it’s time to move on.
If you are still not sure how to start a relationship with your partner, get expert advice. Marriage counselors are trained to help couples make their relationships work. Marriage counseling should be done at least once a year. A program can be downloaded to help you create a personalized program based on your relationship. Online relationship experts and relationship counsellors are also available.
Being in a relationship is a wonderful experience, but it can also be terrifying. While you will need to adapt to the lifestyle and habits of your partner, you should be proud about your achievements. Keep in mind your goals and work towards them. This way, you can stay motivated throughout your relationship. If you follow these advices, you’ll be sure to enjoy your new relationship and get the most out of it.
When dating, remember that relationships work best when you trust each other and respect each other’s past. Do not bring up negative experiences from past relationships when you begin to talk about the future. Singles are more interested in the future than in past relationships. A new relationship can only be as successful as its future. You need to be honest with your partner as well as yourself. It will help you decide whether you should continue a relationship or not.
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This is a counter-post to the blog post "Stop worrying about blocking: the new async-std runtime, inspired by Go". As pointed out in the comments on that post, that title is misleading. You still shouldn't block in async functions. Because I feel that this issue is very important for the long-term health of the ecosystem, I'm trying to give this post as much visibility as possible.
Future trait specifies in its documentation that
An implementation of
poll should strive to return quickly, and should not block.
When you create an
async function, you're actually creating a regular function that returns a type that implements
Future. That type must uphold the
Future trait's contract. Therefore, the body of an
async function should not block.
Code that uses futures may rely on this. This is not just a theoretical possibility. Tokio's executor relies on this. Combinators like
futures::select! also rely on this. These combinators break if you give them blocking futures, even when executed in the
Encouraging people to create blocking futures or blocking
async functions is begging for a split ecosystem where some futures block and some don't, where you have to make sure that you only use futures and combinators from the right half of the ecosystem. If you use a combinator or executor, you have to know if it supports blocking futures (if you use those). If you use a combinator that doesn't support blocking futures, you have to check for every future you use that it doesn't block (not even deep inside its implementation).
Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with async-std's new runtime. On the contrary! It's a great thing that this new runtime can gracefully handle blocking futures in many common cases. Especially because accidentally blocking in
async code is a mistake that's very easy to make and very hard to detect. This new runtime is good as an extra line of defense against these mistakes, but (unless you're quickly hacking together some application) it should not be relied upon (by intentionally writing blocking
async functions), or else you risk composability issues if you ever use a combinator or executor outside of async-std.
So, in conclusion, you should (still) not block in async functions! I know it's an easy mistake to make, which is why you should definitely not stop worrying about it. I really like this suggestion by withoutboats, which is to have a
#[might_block] annotation for blocking functions, similar to
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Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, Tasmania
Final Flood Warning For The North Esk River
Issued at 11:46 AM EST on Sunday 07 August 2022
by Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart.
Flood Watch Number: 8
NO FURTHER FLOODING EXPECTED AT CORRA LINN
Flooding has now eased along the North Esk River.
In the 24 hours to 9:00 am Sunday, no significant rainfall was observed across the North Esk River catchment. No further significant rainfall is forecast for the remainder of Sunday.
St Patricks River:
River levels along the St Patricks River are likely to remain below the minor flood level.
The St Patricks River at Nunamara Offtake is currently at 1.15 metres and steady, below the minor flood level.
The St Patricks River at Nunamara Offtake is likely to remain below the minor flood level (1.50 m) overnight Sunday into Monday.
Upper North Esk River:
River levels are falling along the Upper North Esk River.
Lower North Esk River around Corra Linn:
No further flooding is expected in the Lower North Esk River around Corra Linn.
The North Esk River at Corra Linn peaked at 2.98 metres around 05:00 pm Friday 05 August and is currently at 2.50 metres and falling.
The North Esk River at Corra Linn is likely to remain below the minor flood level (2.70 m) overnight Sunday into Monday.
Flood Safety Advice:
FloodSafe advice is available at www.ses.tas.gov.au
Road closure information is available at www.police.tas.gov.au}
For emergency assistance call the SES on telephone number 132 500.
For life threatening situations, call 000 immediately.
This is a final warning, no further warnings will be issued for this event.
Latest River Heights:
St Patricks River at Nunamara Offtake,1.03,Steady,10:58 AM SUN 07/08/22
North Esk River at Ballroom,1.31,Steady,10:00 AM SUN 07/08/22
North Esk River at Corra Linn,2.50,Steady,11:40 AM SUN 07/08/22
This advice is also available by dialling 1300 659 210. Warning, rainfall and river information are available at www.bom.gov.au/tas/flood. The latest weather forecast is available at www.bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts.
Greens Beach (41.0886°S, 146.7424°E, 50m AMSL) Greens Beach,TAS set as my default location ›
7 day forecast
Greens Beach 7 day forecast
Today: Partly cloudy. Areas of frost and the chance of fog in the morning. Light winds. Overnight temperatures falling to between minus 1 and 2 above zero with daytime temperatures reaching around 12.
Forecast for Greens Beach (41.0886°S, 146.7424°E, 50m AMSL) Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Summary Minimum 2° 1° 1° 7° 7° 7° 7° Maximum 13° 13° 13° 14° 14° 14° 13° Chance of rain 5% 5% 60% 70% 60% 70% 30% Likely amount < 1mm < 1mm 1-5mm 5-10mm 1-5mm 1-5mm < 1mm UV index Low Low Low Low Low - - Frost risk Moderate High High Nil Nil Nil Nil 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm Wind speed 13
Wind direction SSE NNE S WNW ESE ENE NE NNE E ENE SE ESE SSW W Relative humidity 81% 66% 84% 67% 82% 67% 84% 83% 92% 85% 88% 84% 87% 75% Dew point 2°C 7°C 3°C 7°C 3°C 7°C 9°C 11°C 8°C 11°C 8°C 12°C 7°C 9°C
Sunrise and sunset times
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0 Monday Monday 13 1 Tuesday Tuesday 13 2 Wednesday Wednesday 13 3 Thursday Thursday 14 4 Friday Friday 14 5 Saturday Saturday 14 6 Sunday Sunday 13 7 Sunday Sunday 13
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I am Dr. Abhishek, a naturopath with over 15 years of practicing and teaching Yoga, Pilates and mindful exercises. I have this incredible talent to help you break free from pains and limitations, improve your posture and body awareness so you can live mindful life.
I believe that our body is a complex machine and we need to deal with it in the Holistic Way.
In this article, I will try to highlight a few practical ways to manage chronic pains. And If you are suffering from chronic pains and physical limitations, you are definitely going to read this.
The Pain affects everyone in one way or another. The acute pain tends to resolve in a short time but has a sharp, aching sensation associated with it. On the other hand, the chronic pain is usually a dull and throbbing ache that could last for more than six months.
All pain starts as acute pain, in the form of injury, bad posture, or repeated movements and if not treated during the early onset, it can become chronic. Chronic pain affects a person’s everyday life without them realising it.
And most people, who suffer from chronic pain, have a reduced ability to function normally and the optimal efficiency of their work and duties are significantly reduced.
Chronic pain is also linked to depression, anxiety, and sleeping disorders, and may even reduce that person’s ability to stay normal. And, some chronic pains like arthritis, could inhibit mobility and flexibility. This results in a loss of contact with friends or families because you only wants to stay home and be left alone.
You may also have difficulty walking or carrying things which make you feel like a burden because you need to rely on other people. Plus you are unable to perform activities that you took for granted, such as running, dancing, or maintaining personal hygiene. And, in long term some conditions could even cause constipation or incontinence.
Therefore, it is crucial to properly manage your pain to be able to restore the quality of your life and your loved ones who are suffering from chronic pain, and not be restrained by the pain that can cause disability.
Often the feeling and sensation of pain is the sign that there is an ongoing inflammation and may be due to arthritis, sprains, headaches, lower back issues, and so on.
Proper treatment and plans are necessary to combat the chronic pains. I mean, How long can someone rely on Painkillers? Plus, the painkillers are not the only way to tackle pain, and the good ones are costly.
I am sure you have herd this before, but its so true that, by making changes in your lifestyle, you can be free from the pain in the long term. The three major changes required to be successful in dealing with these inflammatory pains are;
- Changing your diets,
- Restoring natural body heat, and
- Proper exercise.
Changing diet, sounds simple but it’s more complicated than that. It requires a proper evaluation of your current intake of nutrient rich food.
Most researches have proved that antioxidants are known to reduce inflammation. Antioxidants can be found in deep-coloured fruits and vegetables such as blueberries, prunes, pomegranates, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, red beans, and kidney beans.
Besides that, other good sources of antioxidants are spices and herbs such as cinnamon, oregano, turmeric, parsley, basil, and curry powder. By incorporating foods rich in antioxidants into your diet, you can reduce pain without relying on painkillers.
A diet compromising of salmon, olive oil, and flaxseed oil is rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are good for cholesterol levels and reducing inflammation.
Drinking hot liquids such as hot herbal teas with peppermint or wintergreen, and hot ginger tea with honey can help expel excess wind from the stomach and restore heat to the body.
Exercising is also good for the body and improves limb function. Muscles work as shock absorbers. By doing yoga, pilates on mat or reformer and strengthening exercises, they help the body to combat pain. However, a customised exercises regimen must be done regularly to get positive results.
It is essential to be able to accept pain as a part of your life that needs to be addressed before combating it. It is not impossible to get rid of the pain. With determination, making slight changes in your lifestyle, incorporating the right mindset, and genuine support from us, you will be able to overcome anything, including pain.
Until we meet, try to take charge of your pain today with these 10 simple steps:
- Keep yourself hydrated as dehydration can aggravate the symptoms of chronic conditions such as headaches and back pain. Drink loads of water! By drinking eight glasses of water a day, you are taking a simple step to keep your body hydrated, and it will thank you for that. Chronic pain tends to get worse when the body does not have enough water. It is best to avoid coffee, soda, or tea as they have diuretic effects that can cause dehydration.
- Load your body with nutritious foods that can help combat pain and reduce fatigue. Consume lots of leafy greens, foods with Omega3 fatty acids, asparagus, low-sugar fruits such as cherries, pineapples, plums, cranberries, and soy products. They can help alleviate pain and alkalinize your body to make it less acidic. These foods help to increase chronic pain resistance and are also fatigue busters.
- Avoid processed foods and foods containing chemicals that can increase inflammation such as dairy, chocolate, eggs, citrus fruits, high fat red meat, coffee, tea, sodas, red wine.
- Incorporate turmeric when you are cooking and take a Curcumin supplement. Originating from India, this brightly coloured spice is used for cooking delicious foods, while having anti-inflammatory properties. Turmeric contains Curcumin and has been used for centuries to treat many health ailments such as chronic pain. It is a natural pain reliever without harming the liver or the kidneys.
- Keep a positive outlook. Thinking positively will help you to overcome blocks and lessen the pain you are feeling.
- Try to incorporate a form of exercise into your daily life. Exercise is beneficial by strengthening the body and increasing blood flow. Start with simple exercises or learn yoga to increase strength and flexibility. Yoga can calm the mind and reduce the stress caused by pain. You can also try pilates on mat or reformer it has low impact on your joints and will help you strengthen your core.
- Distract yourself with activities that are not stressful such as listening to music, watching movies, and so on. It is vital to engage in activities that make you feel good. Humans are not able to work all the time. It is crucial to have a hobby that you enjoy and allow yourself time to engage in the hobby to distract yourself from the stress. By doing something that makes you feel good, you are indirectly releasing endorphins, which can reduce pain.
- Maintain a proper posture. Being in a C-slump, which is a bend back with the head in front of the spine, can impair nerve and blood flow. It is best to keep a straight back with your head resting on top of your spine. Remember, you are not a question mark. This can help prevent strain on your back and neck muscles. It is important to have a good posture not just to give a good impression to other people, but also for your health. Book a free consultation with Dr Abhishek to screen your posture and analyse functional movement patterns.
- Discuss your pain with a specialist. You may be able to find solutions to problems that cause your stress and helpful coping skills. Keep a diary that can help you keep track of your pain and record down medications that can help you and any adverse effects you experience while taking them. This can help you to be in more control of your pain. Book a free consultation with Dr Abhishek to make lifestyle changes by drawing a clear path through journaling for pain.
- Take rest whenever you feel pain. Pain could be an indication of the body telling you to stop overworking yourself. Sleeping is one of the ways for the body to rest and regenerate itself. By depriving the body of it, it will have low resistance towards pain.
The pain could occur with no apparent reason which puzzles prescribers and patients. It is important to bear in mind that chronic pain cannot be treated in one quick solution but needs an extensive personalised plan to manage.
So be patient!
Thank you for reading.
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To this I answer, That as there has been a long time to answer objections, so there has been a long time to strengthen them. As there have been many ages to solve difficulties, so there have been as many to find out difficulties and inconsistencies. Besides, there has been all this time to make difficulties more plain, and bring out inconsistencies more to the light; and by thorough and exact consideration, to make them more manifest and apparent. Time wonderfully brings truth to light, and wears off by degrees false colourings and disguises. The truth will always have most advantage by time. Appearing inconsistencies being well founded, will grow plainer and plainer, and difficulties more and more evident.' Time will discover more circumstances to strengthen and confirm them, and so pretences of solution will appear more and more evidently absurd and ridiculous. When parties contend by argument and inquiry, time greatly helps that party which has truth on its side, and weakens the contrary. It gradually wears away the sandy foundation, and rots away the building that is not made of substantial materials. The Christian religion has evermore, in all ages, had its enemies, and that among learned men. Yea, it is observable, that there have commonly been some of the most subtle of men to scan the Christian scheme, and to discover the objections that lie against it, and have done it with a good will to overthrow it.—Thus it was in Judea, in the infancy of the church. The Scribes and Pharisees, and the wise men among the Jews, employed all their wisdom against it. Thus, in the first ages of the church, not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble were called. Christianity had the wisdom, learning, and subtlety of the world to oppose it. In latter ages, how many learned and subtle men have done their utmost against Christianity ? So that the length of time for persons to strengthen their own side in this controversy, brought as an objection against Christianity, is much more an argument for it, than an objection against it.
§ 43. If there be a revelation from God to the world, it is most reasonable to suppose, and natural to expect, that he should therein make known not only what manner of being he is, but also that he should lead mankind to an understanding of his works of creation and providence. These things the Christian revelation opens to us in such a manner as might be expected. This alone gives any tolerable account of the work of creation, and this reveals to us the scheme of providence, and what is God's main design in the whole, a design worthy of himself. And we are shown how these events all point to this main work of power, wisdom and grace. We have a particular account how this greatest work has actually been wrought in the fulness of time, as to those great acts which are the main
ground of it; and how that was foretold in the several ages of the world.
These things are exceedingly agreeable to a rational supposition, in case God makes a revelation to mankind. But if the scriptures are not a revelation of God, then man, the principal creature God has made in this world, the only intelligent creature, to whom he has subjected this lower part of the creation, is left wholly and entirely in the dark about God's works both of creation and providence, and has nothing whereby to judge what God's scheme is, in all the great changes he sees come to pass in the world, or what he aims to accomplish. Every thing lies in darkness and confusion before him, without any possibility of his determining any thing, or to direct him what to think of God's works which he beholds, or what affections he should exercise towards the Supreme Governor, on occasion of them.
The objection concerning the Apostles' apprehensions of the se
cond coming of Christ answered. § 1. With respect to that objection against the truth of the Christian religion, That the apostles seem often to speak of the coming of Christ to judgment, as if they thought it near at hand ; I will begin with what the apostle Paul says that may have such appearance. In the first epistle to the Thessalonians, which is reckoned to be the first of his epistles in the order of time ; and particularly chap. iv. 15–17, he says, “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive, and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep: for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we be ever with the Lord.” He speaks of those that should then be alive, in the first person plural; and of those that should be asleep, in the third person. Thus it would have been more natural for him to have said, They which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent us, who shall then be asleep.-And in the 17th verse, Then they which are alive, and remain, shall be caught up together with
§ 2. Considering the scope of the apostle in these verses, all that can be inferred from such a manner of speaking, is, that it might, for ought was then revealed, be while they lived. For the scope of the apostle was to comfort the Thessalonians concerning their friends that were already dead, with the consideration, that they should surely meet them again, at the day of the Lord's coming. And therefore, it was most proper and natural for the apostle to speak of them in the third person. And it is but just to suppose, that it was only the uncertainty of the time, that was the ground of the apostle's using such a manner of expression ; because he, in this very context, speaks
, of the time as altogether uncertain ; as it follows immediately in the beginning of the next chapter." But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you : for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night,” &c. The apostle, by the expression he uses, probably had in his mind those words of Christ in Acis i. 7. “ It is not for you to know the times and seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
3. We have an instance of a like nature with this, in the words of Joseph to his brethren, Gen. I. 25. “God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence," He does not say. God shall visit your posterity, and they shall carry up my bones from hence. Yet it cannot be argued, that Joseph concluded that the redemption out of Egypt, would be in that generation.
So the nature and design of the apostle's discourse, necessarily gave him to distinguish between those that should be alive at Christ's coming, and the deceased relations of the Christian Thessalonians. He speaks of them as already dead, and of their now living friends then meeting them risen from the dead. That the apostle did not intend to be understood, as though it were certain that Christ would come wbile they were living ; is evident, from what he himself says, speaking of those very words, and expressly denying that he intended any such thing; or that he supposed it to be certain, that the coming of Christ was at hand, in any such sense. See 2 Thess. ii. 1–3 ; where he very earnestly warns them not to understand him in any such sense. “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering to. gether unto bim, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means ; for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,” &c.
§ 5. Now it is evident, that the apostle does not thus write to them the second time, endeavouring to retract any thing he had written before; but it must be because he really did not intend so at first ; for this epistle was written soon after the other, vhile the same fellow-labourers were with him. —And both
have been supposed to be written while the apostle abode in Athens, as appears by the postcripts. And if we well observe the contents of this and the foregoing epistle, the principal occasion of the apostle's writing the second so soon after the other, seems to have been an information he had received, that his former epistle had been misunderstood in this particular: and being much concerned about it, and fearing the ill consequences of such a misunderstanding, he writes to guard them from the mischief of such a mistake, and to establish them in it, that it is uncertain when the Lord will come, as he had told them before in his other epistle. And he argues the great uncertainty there was, whether it would be in that age or not, from what the Holy Ghost had revealed about the coming of antichrist.
$ 6. That this apostle did not expect Christ's coming in that generation, may be argued from his speaking as though he expected that those that were then alive, would rise from the dead at Christ's second coming, as in 1 Cor. vi. 14. “ And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power,
And 2 Cor. iv. 14. “Knowing that he which
. . raised up the Lord Jesus, shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you."
$ 7. From what the apostle says in this second chapter of the second epistle to the Thessalonians, there appears a necessity, that those passages in any other of his epistles, that look as though he expected that Christ would come in that age, should be understood in some other sense, and that the apostle really did not mean so, as his words on a cursory view would lead us to suppose. For here the apostle is very express, and full, and earnest in it, that he would by no means be so understood. It is a further evidence, that those passages in other epistles must be understood in some other sense, that there are passages in this very epistle, particularly in the first chapter, that we should be ready to think had such a look, were it not that the apostle himself, immediately in the second chapter, denics any such meaning
$ 8. In this sense we must understand those passages, in which it is spoken of as a duty of Christians, to look and wait for the coming of the Lord Jesus ; as, Titus ii. 13. I Cor. i. 7. Philip. iii. 20. There is a necessity of understanding, in like manner, the following passages—which were all written after this to the Thessalonians-Rom, xiii. 11, 12." And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep ; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent; the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light." We cannot understand this as though the apostle concluded, the day of judgment would come while they lived: because
he had before explained himself otherwise : but only that the day of Christ's kingdom, which is the day of the salvation of the church of Christ, was at hand. And so Philip. iv. 5. “Let your moderation be known to all men : the Lord is at hand.” And Heb. x. 25. “Exhorting one another, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching."
$ 9. Christ's coming was indeed at hand in many respects ; and in such respects as might well have all that influence upon those to whom the apostle wrote that he intended. The coming of Christ at the overthrow of the Heathen empire, might well be said to be at hand ; and Christ's last coming to judgment, might well, considering all things, be said to be at hand, as the apostle Peter observes, though there should be thousands of years between. The apostle Paul speaks of ages to come, Eph. ii. 7. That it was not to be till many generations were past : yet it was at hand, in a sense agreeable to the common language of the Holy Spirit. So, Christ's first coming was spoken of as very nigh at hand, of old. Hagg. ii. 6, 7.
- For thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea and the dry land, and I will shake all nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts :" Yet there was then above 500 years to it. And when it was about 400 years, it is said, Mal. iii. 1, “ The Lord whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple ; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.” And when it was about 700 years to the gospel day, it is said to be but a very little while. Isai. xxxix. 17, 18. It is not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness." So God represents, as though he would very quickly perform all things prophesied of by Jeremiah, some of them were not to be fulfilled in many ages ; Jer. i. 10— 12. So the time is said to be at hand, for the accomplishment of all the prophecies of the book of Revelation, and Christ's last coming at the conclusion of them ; Rev. i. 3. and xxii. 7, 10, 12, 20; though the book evidently contains a series of events for many ages.
$ 10. Again, when the apostle Peter says, with respect to Christ's last coming, and its being said to be at hand, that “ a thousand
in God's sight are but as one day,” it is no new conceit of his own, to save reputation; but God's language that he had used of old justifies him in so saying.
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This programme has now closed but you may find the below resources useful. Please note the information on this webpage was correct at the time of publication.
When some patients leave hospital they may need extra support taking their medications, especially if changes have been made to their prescription. The Transfers of Care Around Medicines (TCAM), a national AHSN Network programme commissioned by NHS England and Improvement between 2018-2020, was supported by the West of England AHSN to help ensure that when a patient leaves hospital, they have access to support so they understand the medicines they have been prescribed.
When a patient moves from one care setting to another, known as transfer of care; there is an increased risk of adverse effects. 30-70% of patients experience unintentional changes to their treatment or an error is made because of a miscommunication.
This is what the TCAM programme aimed to address; it involved identifying patients upon discharge who may be at risk from adverse effects or needing support with their medicines and referring them for advice and support from their usual community pharmacy. Work in the North East has shown that patients who see their community pharmacist after they’ve been in hospital are less likely to be readmitted and, if they are, will experience a shorter stay.
The success of this programme has shaped a new service commissioned by NHS England under the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. Commenced in February 2021, the NHS Discharge Medicines Services contributes to improved cross-system collaboration to maximise the impact on patient safety and quality of care. More information about this service, including an implementation toolkit can be found here.
All five regional trusts can meet the requirements of this service following support from the West of England AHSN, alongside Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust. Timely communication of changes to medicines to community pharmacists via Discharge Medicine Service (CCG7) is included in the Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) scheme for 2022-2023 – for more information on this, please visit NHS England’s website.
TCAM project was re-oriented in response to COVID-19. It focused on discharge to care homes and new residents moving into care homes. Find out more here.
Wessex AHSN have produced a series of videos under the ‘Meet Mo’ campaign’ to encourage people, who may be struggling with medicines, to seek help.
The second Mo video is about supporting patients who’ve had a visit to hospital, where new medicines may be prescribed or where changes have been made to their medicines.
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Study recommends possible solutions to UW-Extension office odor
Improvements would address complaints of fumes in workplace
BY KEVIN BONESKE
In response to ongoing complaints about the odor of diesel exhaust in the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport basement, where the county’s University of Wisconsin-Extension office is located, the county’s Buildings and Grounds Committee agreed Monday to forward a possible solution to the county’s Administration Committee for consideration by that committee next month.
County Conservation and UW-Extension Education Committee chairman Bob Mott and UW-Extension Youth Development/4-H agent Lynn Feldman appeared Monday before the Buildings and Grounds Committee, which supported actions recommended late last year in a study the UW-Extension requested to address the odor issue.
For years, there has been an issue in the airport basement as to how to handle situations when some UW-Extension staff members report they are not able to work in the airport basement when they notice the presence of fumes from diesel exhaust, which is more prevalent during the winter months.
Diesel exhaust was confirmed in the airport basement, during time periods when a jet aircraft was on the ramp or baggage was being unloaded, in an “industrial hygiene survey” completed Feb. 9-12 by Sharon Bessa of Bessa and Associates and Daniel Karamanski of the UW-Extension.
However, that survey also found the various emissions detected that could be related to diesel exhaust, such as nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide, did not exceed allowable federal limits for the workplace.
The county Conservation and UW-Extension Education Committee last year recommended that the UW-Extension office be moved out of the airport basement, though that proposal didn’t receive the financial backing from the Administration Committee and the full County Board.
The UW-Extension last year requested an “air evaluation study,” which was conducted by R.E. “Bear” Daniel of the architectural, engineering, environmental and planning firm ISG. Daniel traveled to the airport Nov. 23 to meet UW-Extension personnel and investigate the existing conditions while also receiving input from Extension employees regarding their perception of the objectionable fumes.
The study recommended a series of measures and listed the approximate costs that include:
- Completely enclosing the three heating, ventilation and air conditioning ducts located in the baggage tunnel where they traverse from the mechanical room to the northeastern-most storage room. The anticipated cost for that work as recommended in the study would be from $3,000-$5,000.
- Install a pressurized air curtain at the point the baggage conveyor enters the tunnel. The cost would be approximately $5,000.
- Install an air filtering system on the HVAC ducts supplying air to the northern lower-level office and storage areas. A system like this would cost in the range of $6,000 to $7,000, not including the yearly cost of filters. This approach would be included if the recommendations for the baggage conveyer tunnel would not remove the objectionable fumes to an acceptable level.
The study also noted there is a chance that “under certain atmospheric conditions” objectionable fumes could travel over the wall that separates the parking lot area and the runways and get into the building’s HVAC air intake, though the study described the likelihood of that as a “rare occurrence.”
Given the estimated price tag of up to $17,000 in an effort to get rid of the fumes, buildings and grounds director Lu Ann Brunette noted that airport director Joe Brauer has offered a 50-50 split of the costs between the county and the airport to do that work.
Being that the problem with the fumes has been the most noticeable in the winter months, Brunette said she hopes the work could be put on the “fast track” so that it could take place before this coming spring.
The county’s Buildings and Grounds Department presently has a contract with the Airport Commission for a 20-year lease – which took effect March 1, 2015, and runs through Feb. 28, 2035 – for the UW-Extension to use 3,713 square feet downstairs at the airport. Though the county has been paying $40,000 annually for the lease, the contract could to be terminated with a six-month notice. | <urn:uuid:103adf6a-07fc-4403-9148-2a4bdb577a30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://starjournalnow.com/2017/01/24/study-recommends-possible-solutions-to-uw-extension-office-odor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956118 | 906 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Bible Story of the Day
Scripture is the story of Jesus, from Genesis to Revelation. There are over 400 prophecies and representations of Jesus in the Old Testament alone. The Old Testament pointed forward to the coming Christ, and the New Testament points back to Jesus. The Bible is a record of redemption through Jesus Christ who conquered sin and death when He died on the cross and resurrected three days later. The New Testament was written almost 2000 years ago. Some of the Old Testament was written over 4000 years ago. The Bible Story of the Day not only shows Jesus throughout scripture but shows how scripture is relevant to our lives today. Seeing Jesus in scripture is a major step into understanding who our God is, and how He impacts and affects our lives in every moment. I pray that the Holy Spirit opens your mind to understanding the verses and how they affect your life and gives you a better understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ. I will post a link to the chapter that each passage is from, so that you can read further on your own.
Faith in Jesus
Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him! (NASB).
Where is Jesus and What Does This Mean to Us?
The Psalmist is speaking prophetically about Jesus. Jesus is the son of God. Jesus came the first time to give us salvation through His sacrifice. The people of the Old Testament looked to the coming Messiah as their Savior even though they may not be alive when He came. Job acknowledged this fact in Job 19:25-26, ““As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will take His stand on the earth. 26 “Even after my skin is destroyed, yet from my flesh I shall see God; (NASB). This verse is giving us warning and instruction in preparation for His second coming. He came the first time to offer the grace of salvation. He will come again in judgement. Salvation has been offered, hence the “how blessed are all who take refuge in Him”. Job took refuge in Him even though He had not come during the time of Job. The second coming will be different than the first, and there will be wrath and perishing involved for those not blessed to be in Him.
John 20:31, “but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.” Everything we do should point back to Jesus. The way we live our lives should reflect Jesus. We should make our goal to live as Christ lived. Everything we speak about should point to Jesus. When we make Jesus the focal point of our lives then we can be comforted that we will have refuge in Him when the time comes that He returns whether we are alive or not at that time, just as Job.
Jesus is the centerpiece of Christianity. Every religion in the world has rules. Rules simply define a way to live life. Muslims cannot eat certain foods and must prayer a certain direction each day. Judaism maintains numerous laws from Moses such as eating kosher foods. Buddhists believe in treating people with kindness. Even Satanists believe that your good deeds outweigh your bad, which means somewhere in life you must do something considered good within the context of the faith. Being a good person or following rules will not secure eternal life. They will always come up short. The only way to ensure eternal life is through Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us such. Psalm 2:12 tells us to put our faith in Jesus, and those that do will be blessed. The saving grace of Jesus is not a New Testament concept. Jesus has always been the path to salvation. Job, Psalms, and Isaiah in the Old Testament tell us Jesus, the Son of God, is our redeemer. Below are a few verses of many that point to Jesus as being the only way to salvation and eternal life.
John3:36, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
Romans 10:9, “Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
Isaiah 44:6, “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.”
Acts 13:38-39, “Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.”
- Psalm 2 NASB - The Reign of the LORD’S Anointed.
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Ketanji Jackson, a black woman has been elected to the Supreme Court.
Ketanji brown Jackson was officially inducted as Supreme Court Justice, succeeding Stephen Breyer. This makes her the first woman of color to serve on the court.
Jackson thanked her new colleagues for their “A warm, gracious and welcoming welcome,” singling out Breyer, for whom she clerked for a year in 1999, as “For the last two decades, a mentor and friend of mine.” Like Breyer, she is expected to fill out the court’s liberal wing alongside Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
51 year old justice used to be a judge at the US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit. She was first appointed in 2021, after serving nine years as a US District Court Judge for DC. Her previous role was as vice chair of US Sentencing Commission. She is charged with reviewing federal sentence validity. Her private practice was as well as that of a public lawyer.
While Biden made it clear while searching for a replacement for Justice Breyer that race and gender were key hiring factors in her selection, Jackson insisted when she was being questioned during confirmation hearings for her previous position that she would be “Intentionally and methodically putting aside any personal opinions” and “Any other unsuitable considerations”
“My opinion is that it would be improper to use race in an evaluation of a particular case,” she said.
Barack Obama also interviewed Jackson when Jackson tried to replace Antonin Scalia in 2016. Obama chose Merrick Garland to be his nominee, an issue that the Senate rejected controversially. He was then appointed Attorney General by Biden.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, how competent is he?
The Harvard Law grad assumes her role in the midst of a tumultuous time for the Supreme Court, which last week repealed federal abortion protections in a ruling that reversed 1973’s Roe v Wade decision. One man was charged with plotting to murder conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the ruling was received in protest.
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Students in grades 5-8 who attend the Douglas campus of CAS Middle School have recently excelled in exploratory learning and educational trips. Mrs. Alvarado’s and Mrs. Peraza’s fifth grade classes conducted an elasticity experiment with eggs constructing differing surrounds which would help the egg survive a drop off a 20-foot structure. Students then had the opportunity to test their theories with an outdoor egg drop.
The sixth grade classes also continued with project-based learning in their research projects. Students researched famous inventors such as Alexander Graham Bell and George Eastman Kodak. Later, they recreated famous inventions so that the students could see what they looked like. All of the sixth grade students in Mrs. Robles’ science classes have been working hard on this project for the past two weeks, and projects are now on display for all students to see.
Finally, the students in Mrs. Gonzalez’s and Ms. Paredes’ 7th grade science class went on a field trip to the Pima Air and Space Museum. The students learned about the evolution of flight and were able to walk around and look at various types of airplanes. They saw planes that have been in various wars, as well as space. They also toured to the Airplane Boneyard viewing hundreds of planes that were previously engaged in military efforts around the globe.
We are very proud to announce that Dayra Nuno, an 11th grader at CAS High School Douglas Campus, has been accepted to the prestigious César E. Chávez Leadership Institute at Arizona State University in Phoenix this Summer! The Institute runs from June 7-13th, 2015. The César E. Chávez Leadership Institute is a week-long summer program filled with workshops, lectures and activities designed to build communication skills, develop critical thinking, and inspire a passion for community service. Students are selected for this institute based on a minimum criteria of a 3.0 GPA, demonstrated leadership capacity, community volunteerism, and a written essay submitted by the student.
Parents, Teachers, Community Members, and Concerned Citizens,
The Center for Academic Success High School is in the process of conducting a community needs assessment for the teens of the Sierra Vista area between the hours of 3:30 – 5:30 or “after school.” It is our hope to apply for and obtain a grant that would allow us to run a free and robust after school program for community teens in an effort to boost academic outcomes and responsible citizenship similar to the program we currently offer at our K-8 building. We value your feedback on how we could best meet these needs.
Would you consider responding to an 8-question survey? It should only take about 10-15 minutes of your time Please select the link to take the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7FR686Q
Thank you in advance for your help with our efforts to create a free After CARE program at our high school and meet the needs of community teens.
CAS is excited to announce that two CAS students have placed in the county’s annual Youth and Engineering Science Fair (YES Fair) for their science fair projects which were submitted for judging on Monday, March 23rd, 2015.
Ethan Johnson, 7th grade, was awarded first place in the category of Energy and Engineering for his project “Get Wired” which analyzed alternative sources of electricity. Macayla Fetting, 7th grade, earned third place in the category of Biological Science for her project “Toothbrush Invaders” which answered a household dilemma of the best location to minimize bacterial growth.
Community students grades 5-12 from Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Douglas, Nogales, and Tombstone are eligible to compete in the county’s annual YES fair. Approximately 500 students attended this year’s YES! Fair as applicants or spectators. Students in grades 5-8 may compete in the categories of Energy and Engineering, Technology, Physical Science, Earth & Space Science, and Biological Science while students in grades 9-12 compete in one division only. Those selected as winners are invited to a celebratory dinner. To learn more about the YES! Fair, please visit its website at: http://www.yesfair.com/ | <urn:uuid:ea101ff2-5d52-4152-b9e3-235a2b8f060d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casschools.com/tag/21st-century/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964774 | 897 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Is earning a college degree not sufficient? Do you wish to boost your education and capabilities? Then, it is possible to expand your information and receive additional credits by continuing education or post-secondary education. Most college graduates who undergo post-secondary education are nurses and teachers. They study to obtain a particular field based on their degree.
Instantly, some nurse practitioners continue education by applying in special programs. Continuing education is useful to nurses because it enhances their understanding of nursing and many more job opportunities may be presented. Their education level also increases; thus, enabling them to apply in unique fields in medicine like pediatrics. With added studying, nurses are competent and sufferers are handled properly.
Enrollment for Continuing Education
College or university graduates have the opportunity to take post-secondary education. You can obtain a course by taking seminars, online courses, and hands-on training. These applications differ in completion length. Most courses are completed inside a span of weeks or months. The personnel of some companies is provided the possibility to receive funding for continuing education.
They provide potential workers with additional training for a particular field of expertise. Proficient workers contribute to the growth of your business enterprise. In some parts of your world, specialists take a mandatory continuing education. This can be necessary mostly to well-being care pros. Experts should cope up with modernization. Innovations and researches are discovered by these pros to provide the best service for clients.
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The Busan Opera House proposal, by WEAVA Architects, takes full advantage of its placement within the Marine Culture District; a site advantageous for designating the building as a unique cultural landmark. Their concept embraces both the city and natural landscape by providing two distinct, yet connected faces. More images and architects’ description after the break.
With the development of North Port also comes the exaltation of the city of Busan. A resonating voice glorifies the city and its inhabitants, and the strength in the capacity of this voice to evoke thought, inspiration and emotion increases with each successive stage of development. The voice carries forward throughout the world, ushering the city of Busan into a new cultural era while recognizing the history of the people who identify with it. From the mountains embracing the city, an echo resounds across the community and recalls the beacon mounds, which have been traditionally used as a method of communication beyond large distances and are currently celebrated for awe inspiring beauty. In North Port, the mountain’s echo joins the voice of exaltation in the design of the Busan Opera House, forming a harmonious relationship composing the new cultural voice of the city.
Ever present in the distance, the distinct form of Mt. Gubong is projected onto North Port’s Marine Culture District. This natural topography is transformed to fit the urban context of Busan by using the topographic lines of the mountain to develop a series of horizontal bands modeled in the fashion of plateaus. Further transformation occurs by twisting these bands to create strategic programmatic openings within the mass. The resultant form echoes the image of Mt. Gubong while contributing to the development of the burgeoning international city.
The “city face,” or north elevation, echoes the rigidity of the urban environment through a hardscape plaza and angular entrance stair. The “sea face,” or south elevation, echoes the fluidity of the sea through the use of more organic topography and green space. The varying degrees of architecture and landscape create a gradient effectively linking the opera house to both the urban and natural environments present in Busan.
A bridge dedicated to vehicular traffic is located to the north of the building. Visitors arriving by taxi or hired car enter a roundabout and alight adjacent to the Marine Culture Plaza. Limited car parking is provided for disabled patrons adjacent to the nearest public entrance. Vehicles arriving for the delivery of stage sets, props and various goods and supplies access the loading dock through a service road separate from the main entrance. Trucks, trailers or coaches that need to remain on site are provided parking adjacent to the loading dock near both staff and public entrances. A pedestrian path is also provided within this first bridge, leading patrons into the Marine Culture Plaza, central to all development of the District.
A second bridge to the south of the Opera House is restricted to pedestrian access, providing a link from the Forest of Sea Park to the Marine Culture waterfront. Upon crossing this bridge visitors are afforded the opportunity to traverse the boardwalk, relax in the Waterfront Plaza, peruse retail shops, attend a performance at the outdoor theater, and access the Opera House.
The multifaceted program of the Busan Opera House will result in a variety of activity at the site throughout the day. Heightened activity in different locations will occur at times particular to specific programs. Activity begins in early morning with the arrival of administrative staff, delivery of stage sets and supplies, and local residents strolling along the waterfront. Outdoor and indoor public spaces such as the plazas, shopping area, exhibition spaces and restaurant will receive the majority of its use at midday and again in the early evening. Rehearsal spaces, company studios and production areas will be most active during the afternoon as performers, producers and technicians prepare for the evening performances. Increased activity will occur in the main lobby, box office and plazas in the evening hours before a performance as the audience arrives. During performances the theater and opera auditoriums and backstage areas will be the most active and at intermission the reception spaces and lobby areas will see maximum activity.
Vertical circulation is integrated within the volume of the performance halls. Stairs and elevators adjacent to auditorium seating are designated for public use those adjacent to the stage are designated for staff and performers.
The podium houses the majority of programs that support the performance halls – administrative and resident company offices, studios and workshops; loading dock, stage set assembly and storage; rehearsal spaces and dressing rooms. The remainder of support spaces such as additional dressing rooms and technical rooms are located surrounding the stage and fly loft at different levels.
A variety of reception areas, bars, restaurants and lounges are located on each level, straddling the line between public and private areas. They are adjacent to auditorium seating and public restrooms for ease of access from the performance halls, yet are also located near staff circulation for the necessary distribution and storage of goods.
The landform is a successive step in a route alternative to the lobby that connects the Marine Culture Plaza to the podium along a path located along the edge of the site. Visitors can gather here for public performances in the outdoor theater, take leisurely strolls directly on the waterfront, and invigorate their spirits in the green space by the sea.
Dramatic views from the site extend into the city from one side and beyond the port into the sea from the other side of the island. To further accentuate the experience for views, special areas offering visitors views from elevated positions have been strategically placed using terrace platforms along the edge of the building envelope.
The long tradition of opera and theater as a dramatic form of art continues on stage, escalating the emotions of those who come to see performances. This tradition calls for an architecture that not only accentuates the emotions opera draws from the audience but also brings forth emotions in a similar dramatic effect. The spirit of stage and theater resounds throughout Busan Opera House celebrating its status as a new cultural icon of the city.
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|Molar mass||232.66 g/mol|
|Appearance|| Red solid (α-HgS)|
Black solid (β-HgS)
|Melting point||580 °C (1,076 °F; 853 K) (decomposes)|
|Solubility||Insoluble in organic solvents|
|Vapor pressure||~0 mmHg|
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Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
Mercury sulfide, also known as mercury(II) sulfide or mercuric sulfide is a chemical compound composed with the formula HgS. It occurs naturally as the mineral cinnabar .
Mercury sulfide is resistant to the attack of most reagents, such as acids and bases.
It will however react with oxidizing mixtures at high temperatures, such as acidified dichromate solutions in conc. sulfuric acid, at temperatures above 100-150 °C.
However, mercury sulfide in cinnabar form will burn when ignited in air or a stream of pure oxygen, releasing sulfur dioxide and mercury vapors, which are very toxic and corrosive to many metals, like aluminium.
- HgS + O2 → Hg + SO2
Mercury sulfide is a red or black solid, virtually insoluble in water and all solvents. The black form is the beta-polymorph (cubic structure) while the red form is the alpha-polymorph (hexagonal structure). The two forms can be interconverted, for example the red form is transformed into the red form by extended heating in a polysulfide solution.
Cinnabar can be purchased from various mineral suppliers. In some countries its sale may be regulated.
Mercury(II) sulfide can be created by adding elemental sulfur to mercury metal. Zinc powder is sometimes added to accelerate the reaction. Mercury sulfide is the main product of mercury disposal, as it is inert and safe to handle.
By precipitating mercury salts with hydrogen sulfide or soluble sulfides usually the black polymorph is obtained. Heating in polysulfide solutions convert it into the red polymorph.
- Mineral collecting
- Make elemental mercury (VERY DANGEROUS)
Cinnabar is toxic and should be handled with proper protection.
In closed containers.
Should be take to disposal centers.
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Pet Trade Harming Lemur Conservation
The driving factors behind their decline include poaching for the bushmeat trade, a lack of conservation programmes and habitat destruction due to illegal logging, which is on the rise thanks to political instability and rising poverty.
Lemurs are the world’s most endangered primates, with 91% of species at risk of extinction on their native island home, Madagascar. Of 101 lemur species, 22 are classified as critically endangered, 48 are endangered and 20 are classified as vulnerable. The driving factors behind their decline include poaching for the bushmeat trade, a lack of conservation programmes and habitat destruction due to illegal logging, which is on the rise thanks to political instability and rising poverty.
Yet another factor that is threatening the lemurs’ survival is known but being somewhat ignored – the illegal pet trade. Scientists from Temple University in Pennsylvania published a paper in Oryx earlier this month in which they documented their study of pet ownership in Madagascar. They spent 3 months in the northern half of the country, surveying 1,093 households in 10 cities and 7 villages. Less than 3% of people surveyed admitted to owning a lemur at the time or in the past. Some admitted to owning a lemur but kept them only a short time – they either ate it or sold it to someone else – but many kept them for years. Scaling up these results, the scientists estimate that 28,253 lemurs were held in captivity over the past 3 years, and almost 10,000 of them were kept for 3 years or more.
Keeping lemurs as pets is illegal under Madagascar and international law, but enforcement of the law is weak. Lemurs can be obtained cheaply (for less than a typical day’s income), are kept by hotels, restaurants and, more worryingly, by government officials and those who are supposed to enforce the ban. Even researchers and conservationists who are aware of the problem tend to focus their efforts on mitigating other threats, such as deforestation.
Kim Reuters, a doctoral student who led the study, said: “We’ve been spending millions of dollars on lemur conservation in Madagascar, but despite spending all this money, no one has ever quantified the threat from the in-country pet lemur trade. If we’re spending these millions of dollars there to preserve these species, we should actually examine all the threats facing lemurs. Now that we know that lemur pet ownership is happening, and happening at this scale, it’s an issue that we can’t ignore anymore,” she said, adding that lemur pet ownership must be factored into future conservation efforts.
“If people are going to keep lemurs as pets, then more outreach, regulation and enforcement is needed to ensure healthier captivity for the lemurs, especially in the big cities. Conservation programs that don’t consider the pet trade of lemurs may unnecessarily increase their costs and risk extinction of the very lemur populations that they are trying to protect.”
Not all species are kept as pets – the aye-aye is considered a bad omen, so is avoided. But other species that are kept are especially at risk, such as the critically endangered and slow to reproduce ruffed lemur. Fourteen lemur species have populations of less than 10,000, so pet ownership could cause some populations to go extinct. And let’s not forget that lemurs are highly intelligent and social animals. Keeping them as pets is incredibly cruel. | <urn:uuid:30f8b590-e2f1-4ad1-80d7-a463fd5abcc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.conservationjobs.co.uk/articles/pet-trade-harming-lemur-conservation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967957 | 725 | 3.25 | 3 |
Are you a startup online entrepreneur or mobile app developer? A student or professional in education, marketing, web design or HR? If yes, gamification is either already a highlighted skill on your resume or tops your “to-learn list”. Here are two excellent opportunities to get introduced to the theoretical framework, best practices, benefits and challenges associated with gamification by two of its most prominent pioneers – Kevin Werbach and Yu-Kai Chou.
Some trace it back to 2002, when computer programmer Nick Pelling first coined the term, or even further, to 1981, and the release by American Airlines of the first frequent flyer program (AAdvantage). Others may associate the birth of gamification with various seminal studies and publications (e.g. Nicole Lazzaro’s Four Keys to Fun in 2004) or the founding of major consultancies and platforms such as Bunchball in 2005.
In any case, gamification has long outgrown the buzzword stage to become a tested and proven tool for reinforcing motivation, boosting engagement, and changing behaviors in the digital age. And even if we don’t necessarily identify it as such, we have all long been exposed to gamification in our daily use of popular websites and apps as diverse as reddit, LinkedIn, Tripadvisor, Foursquare, Nike+, or Duolingo (to mention just a few).
Individual researchers and practitioners of course vary as to the exact interpretation of the term and assign varying importance to its constituent elements, but seem to have reached general consensus around the following basic definition:
Gamification is the application of game-design elements and game principles in non-game contexts.
But if you really want to understand their success and make productive use of gamification in your own life, work, or business, you will need to know what these “game-design elements” and “game principles” are; to learn about the mechanics of its application, and explore the relevant “non-game contexts” where gamification is likely to produce the desired results and changes in behavior.
Underlying the above fairly straightforward definition is a vast body of theory and practice, accumulated over the past 15 years, which may appear daunting to the novice. Fortunately, the discipline not only boasts countless eager disciples, but also has its own established and dedicated gurus. Kevin Werbach and Yu-Kai Chou are two of the pioneers who have contributed enormously to promoting and advancing gamification in both theory and practice,
Penn University Gamification Course on Coursera
Created by the University of Pennsylvania and taught by Kevin Werbach, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton School, this six-week online course promises to “teach you the mechanisms of gamification, why it has such tremendous potential, and how to use it effectively“.
Kevin Werbach is an expert on the business, legal, and social implications of internet and communications technologies. He has published numerous academic and popular works on internet policy, telecommunications regulation, and legal aspects of emerging technologies. He is a pioneer in the emerging field of gamification, and the co-author of For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business, which has been translated into six languages. Over 300,000 students worldwide have registered for his Coursera Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). He has received the Wharton MBA Program Teaching Innovation and Curricular Innovation Award, and was named Wharton’s first-ever “Iron Prof”.
Week 1. Gamification and Games
Week 2. Deconstructing Games
Week 3. Motivation and Psychology
Week 4. Design
Week 5. Applications
Week 6. Gamification in Perspective
Workload: 4/8 hours/week
Next starting date: 30 January 2017
You can enroll for free and get access to all course materials. To receive feedback through the graded assignments and earn a certificate, you’ll need to purchase the course for €88.
As you will find with a quick search online, the feedback about the course is overwhelmingly positive, not only from students but also from reputed gamification experts, such as Gamification Nation’s Andrzej Marczewski who recently posted in a dedicated LinkedIn thread, “If you have any interest in Gamification, definitely take the course. It is informative and well put together.”
Click here to enroll
Yu-Kai Chou’s 21-day Gamification Course
“Gamification is the craft of deriving all the fun and addicting elements found in games and applying them to real-world or productive activities.
Since games have spent decades learning how to master motivation and engagement, we are now learning from games, and that is why we call it Gamification.”
Gamification Guru of the Year 2015, Yu-kai Chou is an author and international keynote speaker on gamification and behavioral design. He is the original creator of the behavior framework: Octalysis, and the author of Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. He is currently President of The Octalysis Group, and has been a regular speaker/lecturer on gamification and motivation worldwide, including at organizations like Google, Stanford University, LEGO, TEDx, SxSW, Gamified India, Huawei, the Innovation Center in Denmark, Kingdom of Bahrain government, and many more.
Yu-Kai Chou has designed this free course to introduce the fundamentals of gamification and human-focused design in the context of his own original framework of 8 core drives that influence human behavior and motivate us to take action.
- Day 1: Introduction to the course and what to expect
- Day 2: Human-Focused Design
- Day 3: 8 Core Drives that motivate us
- Day 4: The Octalysis Framework
- Day 5: Core Drive 1: Epic Meaning & Calling
- Day 6: Core Drive 2: Development & Accomplishment
- Day 7: Core Drive 3: Empowerment of Creativity & Feedback
- Day 8: Core Drive 4: Ownership & Possession
- Day 9: Core Drive 5: Social Influence & Relatedness
- Day 10: Core Drive 6: Scarcity & Impatience
- Day 11: Core Drive 7: Unpredictability & Curiousity
- Day 12: Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance
- Day 13: Left Brain vs Right Brain
- Day 14: White Hat vs Black Hat
- Day 15: Octalysis Tool
- Day 16: Octalysis case studies
- Day 17: Octalysis Level 2
- Day 18: Discovery Phase
- Day 19: Onboarding Phase
- Day 20: Scaffolding Phase
- Day 21: Endgame Phase
Assignments and Feedback
At each step, students are given a question to think about or some task that involves further analysis of the topic at hand, finding additional real-world examples, or possible applications of the concepts taught. They are invited to share their findings, ideas, and questions in the dedicated Octalysis Explorers group on Facebook, which is an effective feedback channel for the course.
Yu-Kai Chou’s 21-day course is completely free and open to anyone interested in gamification at any time. Upon completion students may submit a case study of a product or experience of their choice and apply for Octalysis Level 1 Certificate of Completion. which may be free (pass/no-pass) or priced at $50 in case feedback is requested.
In true practice-what-you-preach style, Yu-Kai has added a touch of gamification, tapping into some of the very core drives taught by the course – each day’s email contains a clue about the location of a “secret code”. Students who collect them all can claim a reward at the end of the course!
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The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO) states that almost all types of premises – unless these are single domestic dwellings – must be subject to a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment. It is the duty of the responsible person to take general fire precautions, as far as reasonably practicable, under part two of the FSFSO to ensure that the premises are safe for all relevant persons, and to reduce the risk of harm and prevent fire.
The term competency can have a different meaning for different roles. Referring specifically to the role of the fire risk assessor, at the Fire Protection Association we believe competency is something that is constantly evolving. A fire risk assessor may be extremely competent to carry out work on one type of building, such as a care home, but may not be the right person for the job for another type of high-risk premises, such as a manufacturing building. Part of being a responsible, competent fire risk assessor means knowing where the limits are of your own competence.
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DENTAL STERILIZATION – PATIENT SAFETY
Please do not hesitate to request a short visit to the sterilization room, where we will briefly take you through the process. For more detailed information, please see below
At LLL Dental, we have duplicates for the entire sterilization equipment, so if we run into technical problems, we won’t have to improvise. We take sterilization extremely serious, which makes us a safe dental practice.
At LLL Dental, we perform a double dental sterilization (chemical and thermal) in order to avoid any possible error.
At LLL Dental, we sterilize every instrument box individually, using chemical markers (the color changes when it reaches the optimum temperature). Moreover, we constantly use biological markers (closed containers with live biological agents). After sterilization, to test its efficiency, they are introduced in special growth environments, so the sterilization is tested on the very microbes and viruses which might affect the safety of the dental practice.
After being used, the instruments are rinsed with water and deposited in special ultrasound baths and soaked in chemical sterilization solutions, for a minimum of one hour. To genuinely grasp the importance of such solutions, you must know that HIV, Hep B-HBV and Hep C-HCV are destroyed in less than 30 seconds!
Zeta 1 Ultra is a full spectrum dental sterilization and disinfecting system. Developed and tested according to latest European standards, its formula was especially designed to sterilize surgical dental appliances and instruments, including the most delicate ones (clamps, forceps, mirrors, etc.)
The ultrasound baths increase the efficiency of chemical solutions and remove solid residue. Packaging the instruments is now completely safe.
This procedure follows the chemical sterilization. When it is performed, the instruments have already been sterilized, as an additional caution measure.
The thermal sterilization is performed using 134 degrees C steam and variable pressure (depending on the program), for an hour, in autoclave or using 180 degrees C hot air, in drying stove, for 60 minutes.
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When an accident happens, it’s often because someone made a mistake – in other words, it’s usually preventable. For a professional driver, even the smallest mistake can have a big impact on their driving career. But what does the law consider to be a preventable accident?
“Any accident involving the vehicle unless properly parked, which results in property damage or personal injury and in which the driver failed to do everything he possibly could have done to prevent or avoid the accident.”
Here are five common accidents that are considered to be preventable:
- Backing accidents. Responsibility for backing safely is entirely on the driver. Backing is dangerous only if you neglect to make sure the way is clear during the entire movement. Backing should be avoided as much as possible.
Prevention tip: Surrounding hazards can be avoided if you familiarize yourself with an area first – both when you’re pulling into a property and when you’re leaving. Fleet yards can also be optimized to help prevent backing accidents by using reflective paint and warning signs to make hazards more visible.
- Rear-end collisions. There are a number of situations where rear-end collisions may occur, whether it’s a driver colliding with the rear of the vehicle ahead or the vehicle to the rear striking the driver’s vehicle. These collisions can be the result of sudden stops at intersections, grade crossings, passenger stops, when preparing to turn or park, or when improperly parked or allowed to roll back before starting. In the eyes of the law, these types of accidents are seldom excusable.
Prevention tip: Most rear-end collisions can be avoided by foresight in controlling speed and allowing sufficient following distance. Watch the traffic situation ahead of the vehicle ahead so you can anticipate the need to stop. Stop gradually — not suddenly. Also, take steps to make your vehicle as visible as possible. Use extra conspicuity tape, lights and other reflective material to help make your truck easier to spot.
- Intersection accidents. Stop lights, stop signs or right-of-way is no protection against collision with violators, funeral processions, fire, police, or ambulance vehicles.
Prevention tip: This risk can be addressed through defensive driving courses that promote tighter turns, and proper mirror adjustments that help spot the threats coming up on the right side of the trailer.
- Parking accidents. Roll-away accidents from a parked position normally should be classed preventable. This includes unauthorized entry into an unlocked and unattended vehicle, failure to properly block wheels or to turn wheels toward the curb to prevent vehicle movement.
Prevention tip: Many fleet orientation programs are encouraging drivers to park several rows away from any active traffic lanes. Not only will this help cut down on preventable parking accidents, it also lends itself well to driver fatigue management – a quieter location to get a restful sleep and a healthy walk to the truck stop itself.
- Traffic lane encroachment accidents. Such accidents result from passing, weaving, squeeze-plays, shut-outs or entering a line of moving traffic. Such accidents are caused by trespassing on the right of others to move in a straight line without interference.
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I have read some wonderful, interesting, thought provoking books this year - thanks again to my book loving friends, family and superb local library. Here are some highlights:
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore (2021)
A serendipitous find at my local library. I fell in love with the cover and the blurb on the back. While it may be classed as "young adult fiction", I think it's for anyone and everyone - and so beautifully explores the complexities of adolescence, grief, identity and place. The 14-year-old narrator, Dylan, is quirky and refreshing. Highly recommend.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (2018)
An urgent and important read for our times. What can we do about the myriad ethical, social and political dilemmas amplified by the online spaces we occupy and the digital devices we rely on? Who has the power and what are they doing with it? I found myself disturbed by the details of deceptive and behavior-altering actions of our wealthiest companies and platforms online. It is worth reading for her final essay "Sanctuary" alone.
Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles (2021)
This is an exquisite book. Nina's prose moves like water: caressing your feet, trickling over your hands and at times rushing over your entirely. She transports the reader to beautiful, raw inner landscapes as well as the various places, cities and countries she has called home.
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (2014)
I loved this. I think my favourite novel in her Gilead series so far. I couldn't put it down. It was sad, beautiful. Evocative. Robinson is a master of prose and telling the stories of ordinary, complex human relationships. Lila is my favorite character of hers yet.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (2020)
It took me a while to get into this one - but once I did, I was completely enthralled in the bizarre and magical world of Piranesi. Humorous, dark and intriguing. I won't say anymore, just go and read it!
How to End a Story, Diaries from 1994-1998 by Helen Garner (2021)
I don't think I will ever tire of Helen Garner. This is her most recent collection of excerpts from her personal diaries through the years her marriage was ending. I loved the details of everyday life - food, music, church, swimming, conversations and observations. I recall some of the more hilarious scenes and chuckle!
To the River by Olivia Laing (2017)
This book follows Olivia Laing's journey on foot along the river Ouse in Sussex - where Virginia Wolfe lived and died and many other notable characters from literature, art and history. I enjoyed how she weaved personal memoir with travel notes, mythology, history and poetry. At times it was fast paced and refreshing and at other times meandered slowly, like the river itself.
The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo (2021)
My mum lent this to me and assured me I would love it. Which I did. A whimsical, tragic and beautiful story set in a fantastical, medieval past intended for children (and everyone) about fate, love and power of words. The child at the centre of the story is wise and curious - then there's her fierce protector goat, a kind-faced monk and a brave boy. I look forward to reading this aloud to my boys.
How about you? What have you read this year and loved?
My newly finished Steele pinafore is a labour of love! The pattern is very well written but requires careful concentration. I enjoyed the challenge of sewing it, and even though my topstitching is not perfectly even, I am happy with the results. The fabric is "Roccoco" gingham linen from Merchant and Mills and is deliciously soft and comfortable. I love that it throws navy, grey, beige and mauve depending on the lighting. I know I will wear this pinny over and over again.
I also recently made another Eva dress as a sample for a sweet fabric and haberdashery shop in Bendigo called "House of Cloth". It was a pleasure to test this pattern using their beautiful European linen which has black and green threads woven together to create this shimmery teal hue. It is a lovely pattern; enjoyable to read and follow. Once again I decided to lengthen the sleeves to 3/4 length.
The weeks of winter blur together, one after the other. The weather frames the stuff of life, work and home. We move through frost, wind, rain, sunshine, frost and rain again. I find myself with less to say, and more to listen to. We sit with big, momentous decisions and try our best to slow down, to understand each other. I walk and feel acorns crunching under my boots, mud squelching. I spy daffodil heads swelling, parrots and galas chattering. And still the the wood heater keeps us warm, my bedside piled high with books, our table laid with good food and the shenanigans of young people, the hardenbergia showers white pea flowers, the blueberry dotted with buds...
Making: a Steel Pinafore with sublime checked linen
Knitting: Rift Sweater for my (almost 40 year old) love
Baking: Frangipane tart with rhubarb and blackberries frozen in summer
Reading: Matrix by Lauren Groff and Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
Listening to: Rang Tang Ring Toon (and other whimsical tunes) by Mountain Man
"You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will grow,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will spring up;
they will make a name for the LORD,
an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
I drove the boys up to Sydney with me for the beginning of the school holidays. Our cups were filled with the sublime - cousins and family, hugs with my mum, playground adventures, Lebanese pizza, salt water, sandy feet, urban sounds, city birds and glorious sun rays. Sydney will always be the place I grew up: the city I studied and explored on train, bike and foot. It's where I got married, where I discovered Arabic and jacarandas and heavy metal. Fostered faith, found friendship. It's loud and chaotic, overdeveloped and overwhelming, and the traffic makes me want to give up driving forever - but it's gloriously diverse, colorful and exciting. It's the ground on which I lived for two thirds of my life. I am glad to return and say to my children: this is the city where I was born //
It has been so cold recently. The coldest beginning of June I can remember since we moved to these parts nine years ago. I wish I could tell you that each time the winter season comes around I am better prepared, more accepting and embracing of it's unique opportunities and prompts - but I'm not. I loathe it. My whole body seems to go on protest: sore, knotted, aching, raw, sad. I have some deeper issues with my health and specifically my thyroid that we are trying to pin down and support - and interestingly one of it's symptoms is poor circulation and an increased sensitivity to the cold. Knowing this helps, if only to remind me that my body is actually finding it more difficult to winter than previous years. I wish I could curl up in a cave to hibernate and reappear with the bright sun in spring!
I recently finished knitting a shawl using a skein of handspun and dyed wool I bought on my birthday weekend at Tarndie Farm. I used some other fingering weight yarn a friend gave me. All through the knitting process I wondered how these colours would sit together, how unusual and theatrical they seemed. I wasn't sure I would like it, let alone want to wear it. And now the shawl is finished I chuckle at it's honest reflection of winter: the brown wood for the heater, table tops and toast, the silver frost, grey hairs, woollen jumpers, and the red rosehips, beetroots, swollen fingertips, blessed life-giving blood. Best of all it's soft and warm, exactly what I need.
How are you going? Is it winter for you or is summer unfurling? If you were here I'd put the kettle on and we would pull our chairs close to fire and sip warm relief. Take care x
Here we are again in the month of me-made-May; that delightful celebration of handmade and repurposed, mended and altered garments. I love seeing and reading about other people's makes, and I celebrate the emerging diversity of body shapes, pattern styles and sizes, sustainable fibers and thoughtful conversations around it. These blog posts by Felicia Semple and Meg McElwee are well worth reading!
With each year I hope to become a better maker - with less emphasis on acquiring new patterns and fabrics and more focus on recycling and mending, improving my sewing skills, altering patterns for a more satisfying fit. Basically to make less but better garments that I will actually reach for and wear over and over again.
In no particular order, some outfits of me-made things I am wearing often this month:
Cleo Skirts + Lark Tees
The Cleo Skirt is a simple pattern, with an elastic band at the back for a comfortable fit and roomy pockets. I've now made two versions with linen-cotton blends from my local fabric and haberdashery shop. I find the Japanese printed fabric of moons and stars particularly whimsical and up lifting. I love the Lark Tee pattern, and have made a handful of them now in cotton and wool jersey fabrics. I have managed to get some very affordable merino jersey from the Fabric Store by looking in their "remnant" sale - the pattern only requires 1-1.25m of fabric so it's not difficult to find a small piece to use.
Pictured here in my green Cleo Skirt (a colour reminiscent of the Lambs Ears that are growing in my garden) and black merino wool Lark Tee // Another day in my moon-print Cleo Skirt with a grey pointelle merino Lark Tee and my many coloured Vertices Shawl.
Eva Dress + Felix Cardigan
I recently made the Eva dress using a cotton-linen chambray fabric I had stashed away as a possible quilt backing that I never ended up needing. The fabric is exquisitely soft and shimmery. The dress shape has a lovely bell shape to it, and the construction was really enjoyable. As the weather cools I am wearing it with leggings or tights underneath and my cosy Felix Cardigan over the top.
You might remember I made Felix last year by unravelling an old (ill-fitting) cardigan and knitting it together with a strand of fine mohair-silk. The result is an incredibly soft and fuzzy, hard-wearing cardigan that I reach for day after day.
Trillium Dress + Sibella Cardigan
This is one my all-time favourite outfits. I adore the combination of my blue Sibella Cardigan (you might remember I made a golden-brown version a few years ago), my Trillium Dress in painterly blue cotton gauze by Japanese artist Nani Iro and my pale green-grey seaside shawl which bunches up nicely into a scarf.
All the textures and hues together make me happy, and with some warm leggings underneath is perfect on a crisp autumn day.
Trillium Dress + Coppélia Cardigan
Another outfit I love to wear. A sleeveless Trillium Dress again - this time in embroidered cotton and a very warm and snuggly wrap top - the Coppélia Cardigan which I recently made in this grey woven/knit fabric which contains wool, silk and mohair (a wonderful remnant find from the Fabric Store). The Cardigan is a clever wrap design and one I plan to make again in a lighter stretch fabric.
How about you? What are you making, mending, altering, wearing this month?
A week of me-made 2021
winter + spring making
I feel the season turning around and within. The trees becoming golden and brown, letting leaves fall and helicopter seeds. There's woodsmoke in the air, and the sight of zinnia flowers faded after frost and the recently prolific zucchini plants all soggy and shriveled. Many hundreds of forget-me-not sprouts and honeywort and lettuce and broad beans. I walk the same farm-worn path, around and around, and watch the rabbits darting for burrows, the rosellas in the hawthorn, and hear the bok bok of frogs. Our chicken guard dog, Eva, is wise enough to lie down in the midday sun and soak up all the heat it provides. I join her on the grass. These are the weeks of big feelings, of letting go, unleaving. And also the days of making, baking, reading, rekindling the flame.
Walking in the forest on an autumn afternoon. The gentle sun filters through every crack and bug-eaten leaf. It is a lesson in shadow and light, in life and decay. Underfoot the crunch of leaves, the snap of sticks, the remains of a dead fox or two, the slow gurgle of the river. The forest is a hidden world, sheltered from the wind, and creaking with willow limbs, oak, elm, holly, hawthorn. Foreign and familiar. Stooping down we see the tiny cyclamens blooming in lilac magnificence, mossy stumps and spider threads. Three boys and a man sit perched in a high up branch. I hear them laughing as I pack my camera away and feel the dappled light on my face //
+Easter is the season my heart and soul craves all year long. I am reminded once again to slow down. To give attention to the season forming around and within. The feel of autumn sunshine on my skin, the crisp of a cool morning and the sound of trees rustling and unleaving. I know the abundance of life and love given to me, mysterious and undeserved, and am thankful. I hear the goodness of God in the sound of raindrops on the roof after weeks of dryness. And in the efforts of baking, stacking the woodpile, covering eggs with tissue paper, keeping a candle-light vigil on the kitchen window sill, holding a book in my hands, peeling a quince, hugging my menfolk tight, tasting wood smoke on my tongue, singing in jolly abandon at church. Every year I hope in the promise of Easter - in the offering and the renewing, in the recklessness and the lament, in the anticipation and the sweetness - and the hope changes me.
More scenes from a special birthday weekend away with my friends: the lovely brown faces and speckled fleece of Polwarth sheep, beautiful yarn purchases from the farm gate shop (I opted for the undyed brown and grey which I hope to make a warm sweater from), our matching Wiksten oversize jackets, paddocks studded with oak trees, farm fresh figs, apples and honey, art in the farm cottage and electric pink amaryllis blooming everywhere...
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Do You Need to Refrigerate Ketchup?
There are two types of people in this world: those who store ketchup in the refrigerator and those who don't. It might seem like an innocuous distinction, but it's actually a heated debate, and folks have strong feelings on both sides. One Twitter user even went so far as to call someone who stores ketchup in the pantry "an animal" (which, to me, seems like an overreach, but hey, we all have our priorities). But who's right? Do you need to refrigerate ketchup, or can you just leave an already opened bottle of ketchup hanging out on your kitchen counter?
Unfortunately for those looking to be proven right, there doesn't seem to be a totally correct answer to this one. Whether you should refrigerate ketchup or not depends on a bunch of different factors, starting with which brand of ketchup you buy. And most manufacturers do recommend that you refrigerate your ketchup for best results. For instance, Heinz ketchup is technically shelf-stable because of its "natural acidity," though the manufacturers add, "its stability after opening can be affected by storage conditions." Sir Kensington's all-natural ketchup, meanwhile, has no preservatives, so the manufacturers recommend always storing an opened bottle of their ketchup in the fridge for up to two months.
But according to a totally unscientific Twitter poll conducted by British supermarket chain ASDA, 54% of respondents keep their ketchup in the cupboard. So are those folks storing ketchup totally wrong by ignoring the manufacturers' instructions?
Not necessarily. It's safe to keep ketchup in the pantry because, "The vinegar and tomatoes in ketchup give it a high level of acidity, which slows down bacterial growth," explained microbiologist Dr. Peter Barratt told the Daily Mail. And as Lauren Feingold, a culinary and nutrition expert, told NBC's Today, you can store ketchup unrefrigerated for up to a month, especially if you're going through it quickly. (For what it's worth, Dr. Barratt's estimate is a bit shorter than Feingold's: only two weeks, as compared for four.) Even the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service
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BLOWER MOTOR RESISTORS AND SPEED CONTROL
HEATER BLOWER MOTOR RESISTORS
The heater resistor is also known as the heater blower motor resistor because it fundamentally controls the fan speed of the interior heater.
The VOLT range covers both traditional resistor based controllers (which typically feature 4 speed settings) and modern electronic speed controllers used in vehicles with more advanced automatic climate control systems.
PRE-RESISORS (RADIATOR FAN RESISTORS)
The pre-resistor controls the speed of the radiator/cooling fan. Using information from the coolant temperature sensor, the vehicle activates the cooling fan when needed. Power to the fan is routed through a pre-resistor, which allows the vehicle to control the speed of the fan depending on the temperature of the engine. An increase or decrease in resistance effects the voltage though the motor, resulting in the required changes to fan speed.
RESISTOR CABLE REPAIR KITS
A selection of connector/cable repair kits are available to support the range of heater/blower and fan/radiator resistors. Connectors and cables damaged by overheating are often the cause of the resistor and blower/fan not functioning. Equally, a failing resistor can cause damage to wiring and connectors. It is important to test both the resistor and the connection before replacing either component.
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VOLT branded component testing ensures operation within the manufacturer’s original parameters. This guarantees no change to the vehicles original performance.
OE MATCHING PERFORMANCE
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My husband has a new hobby– uncovering the family history. A few weeks ago a distant cousin came up with a photo of two relatives standing in front of a biplane. We knew their names and that they were from the Atlanta area. The young gentleman held a stylish straw hat with the ribbon band popular in the late twenties and early thirties.
Being a family full of pilots, we had to discover something about the plane behind them. So I posted it on Facebook, friends started passing it around (thanks to you all), and the guesses started coming in. Each time someone proposed a possible plane (Sopwith Camel (supposedly offered in jest), Travel Air, Waco, Stearman), I spent time on-line looking it up. However, biplanes are a true weakness in our household repertoire and I failed to get any kind of match.
This weekend I attended a 99s meeting (women pilot’s organization). While there I mentioned to Bobbi Lasher about the biplane mystery. Without a second thought, she said send it her way. So I did, expecting another wait and round of guessing. Never underestimate a 99. She sent the photo out to over 170 aviation friends and information started coming in almost immediately. Would these new guesses to the plane’s identity match up with the facts concerning the young couple?
Dick Peiffer, from the Melbourne Area Pilots Association, in particular mentioned taking a close-up look at the aircraft and seeing lettering on it beside the couple. He was pretty sure it said “MAIL.” I took the photo and did my best to enhance that area. Below is the photo showing my efforts where the writing and symbol on the side can now be seen more clearly. But still, I wasn’t sure of the plane’s identity.
Wayne Eleazer, an Air Force Lt. Col who retired after 25 years of active duty, came in with the first identification. Here’s what he had to say:
“My first thought was that it was a Pitcairn, since they have characteristic sleek and small rear fuselages and hefty fronts. And looking in the Juptner book (Reference: U.S. Civil Aircraft Series, by Joseph Juptner, Vol 1, P.228) at Pitcairns, I found that there is an “airfoil” symbol visible below the cockpit of one of the pictures of a Mailwing. The Juptner book has a couple of pieces on the Mailwing, one for each of ATC number assigned each version. That seemed to confirm it.”
“The aircraft appears to be a Pitcairn Super Sport Mailwing, PA-6, which was the Mailwing mail carrying aircraft modified for passenger use. Normally that big hole in front of the cockpit would be for carrying mail or in the case of the Super Sport, a covered compartment for up to two passengers. The type certificate ATC #92 for the PA-6 was issued in December of 1928 and the revised type certificate for the Super Sport was issued in April of 1929.”
Wayne also mentioned he thought the aircraft may have been modified for airshow use. I’m guessing his reasoning came from the tall pole-like object seen sticking up behind the cockpit. [Update: Wayne later checked with his radio expert friends, who believe the tall object/pole is an antenna.] To help see the Pitcairn symbol being discussed, I added the detailing in yellow to highlight the areas from two photos above.
Overlay indicating the writing and Pitcairn symbol on aircraft.
Aviation friend and pilot Bill Weiler also sent a long list of resources to check out which I’ll post at the end of the blog and he had this to say about the family photo:
“Absolutely a Pitcairn, but not totally sure of the exact model. A few confirming details are the logo markings, though faded on the subject aircraft, the elevator control wire location coming up from below, the shape of the pilot’s cockpit cut out, the windscreen, the longeron locations coming from the tail to the turtle deck behind the pilot, the bell crank location on the full span aileron, and the length and shape of the forward cockpit appears it’s a modified mail plane rather than a sport version. My guess is it’s an early PA-6 or very late PA-5 because of the lack of an engine cowling and the apparent extended fuselage.”
“Here’s a good PA-5 picture.”
“They claimed the PA-7 was the first 3 passenger, but it looks like when they created the cut out from the mail plane version there was enough room for 2 – and I’m sure no one worried about seat belts and gross weight. It does not appear to have a front windscreen like this PA-7 does.”
***So with all this good information about it being a Pitcairn, does it fit the family scenario?***
Remember back at the beginning I mentioned we believe the photo was taken in the Atlanta area? Would there have been any Pitcairn Mailwing aircraft in the region? My answer comes from Wikipedia so take it as you will. It all starts with FLORIDA AIRWAYS that Eddie Rickenbacker helped start in Florida in 1923. The airline flew to Tampa, Jacksonville and Miami. Florida Airways was the first to carry Commercial Air Mail (CAM) and eventually expanded the mail route to Atalanta in 1926. There could even be the initials C.A.M. under the word MAIL in the family photo, but it is impossible to see it.
Yea! Now we have an Atlanta connection. However, the planes they were flying were Stout 2AT’s like those pictured below.
To expand the routes and stay in business, the airline needed to fly to Cuba. Pan American Airways beat them to exclusive rights. This was the demise of Florida Airways which was bought out by Harold Pitcairn (later to become Eastern Airlines). Pitcairn had the mail contract between New York City and Atlanta, Georgia flying the Pitcairn Mailwing biplane. Again this fits with the family being in Atlanta. Pitcairn was bought out in 1929 by the company that eventually became Eastern Airlines. That would place our photo likely before 1929 (before the logo would have picked up Eastern Air Transport and be painted on the Mailwing). This photo of a Pitcairn PA-5 in the Air and Space Museum shows that newer logo.
I certainly learned something about Florida’s involvement in the early air mail service along with tying in part of my hubby’s extended family history. Thanks to everyone who pitched in with information and links. If you’re interested in seeing more photos of Mailwings or further extending your knowledge, here’s a list of additional links.
Thanks for stopping by.
Some more good links from Bill Weiler:
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You are probably feeling a mix of emotions right now from good excited to petrified. That is perfectly normal. You are about to start something new, and it will be hard. There will be times you think “I got this” and times you want to call a parent to come pick you up and drop out (don’t do that)! I have worked at several colleges, teach a new student transition course and have seen my fair share of first year students thrive and struggle (sometimes both at the same time). Here are some of my tips for doing well your first year academically, socially and mentally.
Things You Need
Buy your books: I know they are expensive but buy them. If they come with a digital copy, get that too. And use them, but we will talk more about that later.
A calendar: If you are good at using a digital calendar, great. But using an old fashioned paper planner can be really helpful. Put everything in it from when you plan to eat meals, work out, club meetings, study time, and assignments. You have a lot of free time in college but you need to use it to be successful.
A meal plan: Even if you are commuting, get a meal plan. You will want to eat with friends or grab a coffee and study with classmates. Having the ability to do this easily will help.
Attend class and sit near the front: You are paying for each class you take, so go to them. Engage with the material, pay attention, take written notes in a notebook not a laptop (it is proven writing things down helps you remember them better than typing them).
Go through ALL of your syllabi: The first day of class your professor will give you a syllabus. It has the course policies (do they accept late work and how many points do you lose), assignments and do dates, reading materials, how to contact your professor and where to find their office. Put all your assignments on the calendar mentioned above, including readings…not just tests or papers.
Go to your professors’ office hours: Don’t be intimidated by your professors. They teach at a college because they like students (at least most of them do). Going to their office hours and introducing yourself could lead to a mentor and a friend. They can explain concepts you didn’t understand in class, give you tips to prepare for exams, review drafts of your paper or suggest books that might help you complete your research, and if you are applying for a job or graduate school–they can be great references. Large colleges/classes may assign you to a graduate student. If that is the case, meet with them. Same results as above can happen. But if you can also meet with the professor, do that.
Seek Help: Everyone struggles in college. The coursework is harder than high school. I got a D in Finite Math at Indiana University. I still went on to graduate school and I’m proud to say I have never used Finite a day in my life. But, I wish I had gotten help. Start with your professor or graduate assistant. It’s helpful to know what you might need help with to give them direction. Are you not getting a specific concept and want them to explain it to you. Are you struggling to do research or write at the college level-most campus have a writing center that can help. Have you never taken lecture notes–there is probably a note writing workshop offered on campus through the Academic Support Center. Need a tutor–that is probably offered as well…check with your advisor. Campuses have all the offices I mentioned above because students struggle. You aren’t the first, you won’t be the last so don’t be embarrassed…ask for help.
Plan Ahead: read assignments before class, it helps you understand the lecture better. Download any notes are materials ahead of time so you can take your own notes on them. If you have a paper due, plan out what you need to do so you turn it on on time (week one–research topic, week two finalize books, week three write first draft and show to professor, week four revise, week 5 its due). Turn things in on time so you get all the points you can. Spend the time doing the work so you don’t need to ask for extra credit! You may have multiple exams in one week, study and stay on up on the work so you don’t have to cram.
In the world of airpods, residence hall suites, door dash and netflix–it is easy to be in your room or walking on campus and engage with no one. Don’t do that!
Go to the Welcome Week events-there are people on your floor that are new just like you. Suck it up, push past that feeling of being a dork and ask your neighbors if they want to go to events. Some schools will have you assigned to a group with a student leader/peer mentor. If they are organizing events or getting a group to go to events, go with them. You will find you have fun and may actually make some friends (and win prizes). If you are commuting, reach out to the commuter student organization or the Office of Student Life (might be called Campus Life or Dean of Students) to see if there is a group you can attend the event with.
Join a club-Colleges have a club for everything, and even let you easily start new clubs. Go to the activity fair, read the flyers on bulletin boards, check your email announcements, read the chalk messages all over campus and attend something. They will become your closest friends and maybe your future spouse is in one of those clubs.
Attend events on campus: Get a group together to go to the basketball game, see a musical performance or play. Campuses offer lots of events regularly, for a variety of interests. It is always hard to work up the courage to ask someone to go to something, but think about how good it feels when you are asked. You can do the same thing and ask someone else.
Study around campus not just in your room: See if classmates want to have a study group, you can learn thing from others. Or hang in the student center, library, a classroom building. You may run into classmates or faculty helping you feel connected.
Get a job on campus-while some campus jobs require workstudy (a form of financial aid) some do not. Ask your career services or student employment office about campus employment. Working in a campus office helps you get to know staff, faculty and other students. You also learn the ins and outs of the college helping you to better connect to resources.
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The project consists of different components; the construction of two access roads, 3 fire hydrants, an open shed, two toilet blocks and the installation of 30 solar lights at the BMZ Bakoteh Dumpsite Project.
The programme also availed the German official the opportunity to hand over 2 quad bikes, 30 fire extinguishers, and tree planting materials to KMC as part of its ongoing green zone project.
He also took part in planting of over 500 seedlings for the project’s green zone at the Bakoteh Dumpsite.
Speaking at the launch, Talib Ahmed Bensouda, Mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC), said the visit to the country by Dr. Gerd Muller demonstrates the strong partnership between Germany and The Gambia.
Mayor Bensouda described Bakoteh dumpsite as the largest solid waste management site in The Gambia and that his council has made significant investment to ensure the proper management of the dumpsite.
The council, he said, has constructed a fence at the dumpsite, which he said, is over 3.5 meters high and measuring 1.7 km.
The project, Mayor Bensouda indicated, is funded by the council.
“Today we celebrate the comprehensive efforts facilitated by the Federal Republic of Germany through the leadership of Minister Dr. Gerd Muller. The tri-lateral partnership between BMZ, SOS Children Villages and KMC is rapidly enhancing the management of the dumpsite,” he added.
He revealed that the partnership has supported over 1000 children from 200 families in the communities of Bakoteh, Dippa Kunda and Manjai Kunda.
He reassured his council’s commitment to fully utilising and maintaining the resources in sustainable waste management.
On his part, Dr. Gerd Muller, German minister for Economic Cooperation and Development said it is now time for change and people need to help and protect the future of children.
He said Germany is supporting KMC to improve the living conditions for children and adults living around the Bakoteh dumpsite, one of the largest communities in the country.
The German official revealed that they have made available 580,000 Euros to support the project which is expected to last for two years.
“My message for Gambia is the future of children and their education must be first priority in the country,” Dr. Gerd Muller said.
For Mr. Benoit Poit, International Director Regional (IDR) the project is significant to the entire Greater Banjul Area and the country at large.
He observed that pollution is a factor that affects both children and adults, saying the launch of the project is remarkable in many ways.
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In the present economic conjuncture many businessmen decide to cross boundaries: to operate in the foreign market implies the chance to catch new business opportunities, even if in a mostly unknown territory.
The professional profile of the export manager
Before engaging in a promising but nevertheless new activity, it is important to rely on an export manager or on an advisor whose expertise are the international markets. Their job is precisely that of helping small and medium enterprises to start operating in the foreign market.
What does an export manager do
The first task of an export manager is to investigate the new target market and to look for leads (agents, distributors, importers), with the aim of building a sales network which will develop and consolidate in the future.
It is not an immediate process. Once contacted the potential clients and having convinced them that the product is interesting, the distribution times can be long. For this reason it is paramount to choose a reliable partner who follows the project together with the producer, facilitating the mediation with the foreign partners.
How to choose the best business profile
There are various kinds of export manager. There is the internal export manager, who can become part of your staff, or the export manager you “share” with other businesses; there also is the possibility of choosing a business consultant society specialized in foreign sales. The important thing is to choose reliable professionals who can understand your needs and build a solid project, tailor made for your company. It is fundamental to share a good professional feeling with the person you choose, because he/she will have to follow you and work with you side by side in order to help you achieve your goal: to operate confidently in the international market. | <urn:uuid:d6a78aa7-f2c7-4015-ac27-575c7a042b0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.12export.com/en/international-market-first-steps/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95781 | 339 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Lot 309 - 1979 Triumph Spitfire 1500
|Odometer reading||37,500 miles|
|Result||Sold - £6,720|
The Triumph Spitfire was originally devised by Standard-Triumph to compete in the small sports car market which had opened up with the introduction of the Austin-Healey Sprite. Triumph's idea was to use the mechanics from their small saloon, the Herald, to underpin the new project. Italian designer Michelotti was commissioned for the new design and came up with a traditional, swooping body as well as a single-piece front end which tilted forwards to offer unrivalled access to the engine. It was a huge success and three subsequent variants ensued, the last of which was the Spitfire Mk. IV complete with a 1500cc engine. Top speed was now at the magical 100mph and 0 to 60mph was reached in 13.2 seconds. The last one ever to be produced was never used and now resides in the Heritage Motor Museum at Gaydon.
Presented in spectacular condition, this 1979 Triumph Spitfire 1500 has been the subject to a fully documented and photographed ground-up restoration and is described by the vendor as in 'as new' condition. Finished in signal red with brown and beige interior, this stunning Spitfire is supplied with a V5C registration document, an MoT test certificate which expires in May 2015 and a comprehensive file containing written details, a photographic record and invoices of the rebuild. With nearly 96,000 cars made for both the UK and USA, this must represent one of the finest; not only because it is in excellent condition throughout but also because it has been restored to the highest of standards.
Previous lotLot 308 - 1987 Jaguar XJ-S Cabriolet
Interested parties should satisfy themselves as to the description and condition of each lot prior to the sale. Accordingly, buyers are on notice that each vehicle is offered ‘as is/as seen’ subject to the Terms and Conditions for the auction. Buyers are advised to inspect the vehicle in person or use a professional to carry out this service. Historics will not entertain disputes over descriptions. | <urn:uuid:66a0c89b-2b1c-4907-8f71-f6df31e43cae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auctions/2014-06-07/car/1979-triumph-spitfire-mk-iv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961587 | 476 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it would not take on the case involving the Easton Area School District's desired ban on the "I (heart) boobies!" cancer awareness bracelets.
The justices on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling striking down a ban on the bracelets. The ban was put in place by the Easton Area School District, which says the breast-cancer awareness bracelets are lewd in their use of sexual innuendo.
In August, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the "I (heart) boobies!" slogan is protected by the First Amendment. But the school district appealed to the Supreme Court arguing the federal appeals court misapplied previous cases when it made its decision.
In its filing, district solicitor John Freund says school administrators should be able to "prohibit students from using lewd language to convey political or social messages, particularly where the ban does not have the effect of completely precluding the issue from the school forum and the same message can be conveyed in a more decorous manner."
The litigation began when two students, Brianna Hawk and Kayla Martinez, wore the bracelets at their middle school in 2010.
At the time, the pair said they hoped to promote awareness of the disease during the school's Breast Cancer Awareness Day. But school officials suspended them for defying the bracelet ban, which they argued was necessary because the bracelets distracted students and could lead to sexual harassment.
"I felt like they didn't understand what the bracelets were for," Hawk said. "They didn't really care enough to even find out or look into it. They just wanted to be right."
In a statement released by the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Hawk said she was "happy" to have won the case.
"...It’s important that students have the right to stand up for a cause and try to make a difference," said Hawk. "We just wanted to raise awareness about breast cancer."
Martinez said she is glad that her age didn't deter her from being heard.
"This whole experience has taught me that speaking up about issues that really matter to young people really makes a difference, even if you're only in seventh grade."
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The school district said it was "disappointed" in a statement released Monday.
"Local school authorities need the ability to enforce dress codes and maintain reasonable decorum of the manner of expression in an educational environment, while respecting the legitimate rights of students to express themselves," the statement read. "The Third Circuit’s decision in departing from Supreme Court precedent robs educators and school boards of the ability to strike a reasonable balance between a student’s right to creative expression and school’s obligation to maintain an environment focused on education and free from sexual entendre and vulgarity."
Hawk disagrees with the district's belief that the decision will lead to more chaos in the classroom.
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Sadaka High level Forum on Palestine 2017
50 Years of Occupation: the Roadblocks to Justice for Palestinians
Sadaka’s High Level Forum ‘50 Years of Occupation - The Roadblocks to Justice for Palestinians’ was organised by Sadaka to address the critical role of the international community in bringing about an end to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
The Forum was held on 28th November 2017 as a year of significant anniversaries in Palestinian political history: the 100th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Partition Plan and the 50th anniversary of the Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
The Forum sought to expand the debate beyond the limited confines of believing that a resolution to the Palestinian / Israeli situation lies with the people of Palestine and Israel through facilitated negotiations and instead focused the narrative on the moral and legal imperative of the international community to intervene as one state flagrantly breaches the rights of an entire nation of people.
The Forum focused on ways in which European states including Ireland should take measures legitimately available to them to compel Israel to cease and reverse its illegal activities rather than merely calling for peace negotiations between both sides to resume. It paid particular regard to the fact that Israel has used the so-called 'peace process' as political cover to enable it to continue to pursue its illegal activities bringing it ever closer to full annexation of Palestinian territory. It emphasised the imperative on the international community to apply clear and targeted actions to ensure Israel’s withdrawal from the Occupied Palestinian Territories demonstrating that in the absence of these measures from the international community – a Palestinian state will never come into existence.
The Forum was addressed by a number of eminent, expert international speakers. These included Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi (General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006 and a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council), Mr. Daniel Levy (President, US Middle East Project and former advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office), Dr. Rima Khalaf Hunaidi (former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan and former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia), Hugh Lovatt, Israel /Palestine Coordinator of the European Council on Foreign Relations and John Reynolds, lecturer at NUI Maynooth and an expert in international law in contexts of conflict, crisis and colonisation. A panel debate involving senior representatives of Irish political parties followed in the afternoon.
Opening remarks for the Forum morning session were given by Marie Crawley, Chair of Sadaka. Video
Dr Mustafa Barghouthi 'The EU Role - Counteracting US and Israeli Extremism'. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi is a Palestinian physician, social, political, human rights and peace activist and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI). He has been a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006 and is also a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Central Council. In 2007, Barghouti was Minister of Information in the first National Unity Government in Palestinian history. He was a presidential candidate in the elections of 2005 as a representative of the Palestinian National Initiative, on an anti-corruption and pro-democracy platform, achieving second place behind President Mahmoud Abbas, with almost one third of total votes. Video
Dr. John Reynolds 'Ending the Illegalities'. Dr. John Reynolds was appointed Lecturer in International Law at the Department of Law, National University of Ireland, Maynooth in 2014. Prior to this he taught at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights in Venice, and held the NUI’s EJ Phelan Fellowship in International Law. John holds Ph.D and LLM degrees in international law from NUI Galway. John's research focuses on the operation of international law in contexts of conflict, crisis and colonialism. His work appears in journals such as the European Journal of International Law, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Journal of Conflict & Security Law, the Journal of Legal Pluralism & Unofficial Law, and the Palestine Yearbook of International Law. Video
Dr. Rima Khalaf Hunaidi 'Israeli Policies and Practices and the Question of Apartheid'. Dr. Rima Khalaf-Hunaidi has served in several leadership positions in Jordan and the United Nations, most recently as the Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA). Khalaf resigned her post in 2017 when she refused to withdraw a seminal report on the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Before joining the UN, Khalaf served in senior government posts in Jordan, including Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Planning. She also served as Senator in the Upper House of the Jordanian Parliament. Video
Mr Hugh Lovatt, European Council on Foreign Relations 'Re-thinking the Oslo Middle East Peace Process. Hugh Lovatt is Policy Fellow and Israel/Palestine Project Coordinator for the European Council on Foreign Relations Middle East and North Africa Programme, which he joined in August 2012. During this time, he has worked extensively to advance the concept of 'EU Differentiation', which was enshrined in UN Security Council Resolution 2334 (December 2016). His most recent publication is 'Rethinking Oslo: How Europe can promote peace in Israel-Palestine' (July 2017). He is regularly interviewed or quoted in international media, including by AFP, Reuters, Newsweek, France24, and Al Jazeera. Video
Lord Mayor/Ardmhéara of Dublin, Mícheál MacDonncha: Welcome, Opening Afternoon Session. Mícheál MacDonnchawas elected as 348th Lord Mayor of Dublin in June 2017, having served on Dublin City Council since 2011. Video
Mr. Daniel Levy US Middle East Project, The International Community – Enabling the Occupation’. Daniel Levy is the President of the U.S. / Middle East Project. From 2012 to 2016, he was Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Daniel Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/ Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95), as well as being lead drafter of the model peace agreement ('Geneva Initiative'). Levy is a Trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in New York, a Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the European Middle East Project. He was a founder of 'J Street' and a founding Board member of Molad – the Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy. Video
Chair: Justin Kilcullen, Sadaka ‘International Action – the Possibilities’. Justin is a member of the Sadaka Board, and was previously Director of Trócaire, an organisation renowned internationally for its dedication to achieving a just and peaceful world where people are equal and rights are respected. He is past president of CIDSE , the international alliance of Catholic development organisations in Europe and North America, of Concord the confederation of European development NGOs, and the Global Council for civil society development effectiveness.
Senator Frances Black. Chair Oireachtas Friends of Palestine – Settlement Goods Legislation Frances Black is Independent Senator, Singer and Founder of the RISE Foundation, a charitable organisation working with people with a loved one in addiction. A strong advocate for social justice and equality, she was elected to the 25th Seanad in 2016, the first female Independent to do so in the history of the state. Senator Black is passionate about being a voice for the vulnerable, and continues to work with organisations in the voluntary and charity sectors.
Political Party Panel Discussion
Chair: Marie Crawley, Sadaka. A former Vice-Chair of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition, she contested elections in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone constituency following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement. For over 20 years, Marie has served on numerous NGO / statutory partnerships throughout Ireland, mainly in the areas of rural development, gender equality and the implementation of peace and reconciliation programmes. A former Chair of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Marie has a long standing involvement in Palestinian solidarity work and visits the West Bank annually. She is co-founder and current Chair of Sadaka.
Senator Mark Daly. Seanad Deputy Group Leader and Fianna Fáil Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, Irish Overseas and the Diaspora. Before being elected as a Senator, Mark worked on Election Campaigns to the European Parliament for Brian Crowley MEP in 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009 as a member of his Strategy Committee.
Senator Colm Burke. Senator Burke, Fine Gael, was a member of Cork City Council from 1999 to 2007 and served as Lord Mayor of Cork in the 2003–04 term. He was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2011 and is currently the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on Health. He was a member of the European Parliament between 2007 and 2009 where he served on various European Parliament committees including Committee on Foreign Affairs, Internal Market & Consumer Protection, and Subcommittee on Human Rights.
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School starts Monday. That’s worth repeating. School. Starts. Monday.
There’s a lot that can be said about the beginning of a new school year. Churches providing meals for staff meetings and the offering of prayers for the upcoming school year. School supplies collected. Excitement. Tears. First last days for high school seniors. First last days for the teacher who is retiring soon. And I think one of the hardest, the first days of many first days. First day of kindergarten. First day of middle school. First day of high school. First day of being the new kid in school. And first day of a new teacher, principal.
And parents it’s hard. I know. And I remember how difficult the part of ‘preparing’ my children for the beginning of a new school was, but what I often overlooked was this—others were readying themselves for my children too.
Our teachers—preparing their rooms with new bulletin boards with encouraging notes and colorful photos. Lesson plans upon lesson plans to ensure every single student in the classroom have the opportunity to learn in a safe, clean, and fun environment, attending countless summer workshops increasing their knowledge and then sharing in the coming year. Club advisors. Committees and more committees. These are our teachers.
Our principals and administrators—hiring and mentoring new teachers, many preparing to take on new leadership at different schools, attendance at summer workshops and professional development, and the list goes on.
Our athletic coaches—and like many school staff there are no summers off for our school’s athletic coaches. Summer sports camps for our youth. Summer camps and workouts for prospective players and current athletes. And the never-ending maintenance and upkeep of the sports fields.
Our bus drivers, bus garage staff, school maintenance staff and cafeteria staff—Meetings and training, repairs, installations of new equipment, every single bus inspected, cleaned, and shined.
Our custodial staff—and this week I have watched as the custodial staff along with many staff members at one of our local high schools have cleaned and walls and doors and stair railings now have a fresh coat of paint. Every light fixture has been disassembled and rid of any visible dead bugs. The buildings and sidewalks—pressure washed. And landscaping, bushes trimmed, grass mowed, weeds pulled.
And some may say, well, this is their job—but for the majority, it is their passion.
This week I am thankful for…….
Principals and administrators
School counselors, school social workers, school nurses and all student services staff
School administrative staff
School data managers
School finance managers
And so many others who work with our children
School starts Monday. Alarms will sound earlier, buses will be on the roads, there will be Mamas and Daddies shedding tears as their little ones walk away, some so excited they forget to tell their parents good-bye, Friday night football and other sporting events, homework, and the car lines will go on forever.
And in the noise and busyness of all the new school year brings, never forget to remember—our schools are filled with individuals who truly care about our children. Every. Single.Day.
Pray without ceasing
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“In the annals of wartime savagery against the Jews, there was no group as sadistic as the Croatian Ustashi.”IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, © 2001
The Vatican aided and abetted the most sadistic murderers of WWII, the Croatian Ustashi and their leader Ante Pavelic. Following Hitler’s invasion of Yugoslavia, the Catholic Croats of the Ustaše rose up against the Jews and Orthodox Christian Serbs. The church saw the situation in Croatia as an opportunity to spread Catholicism in the Balkans. Pope Pius XII personally met with Ante Pavelic, and supported his efforts to eliminate Jews and Orthodox Serbs.
“Like the Nazis, the Ustaše/Ustashi deemed Jews, Romani, and Slavs to be sub-humans. They endorsed the claims from German racial theorists that Croats were not Slavs but a Germanic race. Their genocides against Serbs, against Jews, and against Romani were thus expressions of Nazi racial ideology”Wikipedia
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Farmer Dies After Being Engulfed in Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin
Minnesota FACE Investigation 96MN047
August 23, 1996
A 71-year-old male farmer (victim) suffocated after he was engulfed in corn inside a steel bin. The bin was equipped with an unloading auger mounted between a raised steel floor and the concrete base that supported the bin. It was also equipped with a grain drying unit that included a fan that could be used to aerate the stored grain by circulating air through it. The fan was not turned on at the time of the incident. The victim was removing corn from the bin when he noticed that the flow of corn from the unloading auger was decreasing. He climbed an exterior ladder on the bin to an access opening on the roof of the bin. He entered the bin with a shovel in order to remove corn from the side door of the bin so a sweep auger could be placed in the bin to remove the rest of the corn.
When the victim began shoveling, the grain began to flow again and he became immersed up to his shoulders. The victim’s brother, who had been mowing grass in the area, noticed that the flow of grain had entirely stopped and climbed to the top of the bin to investigate. The victim’s brother attempted to move the corn away from his brother by using the auger. This caused the corn to flow, further burying the victim. The victim’s brother made a call to emergency response personnel and then entered the bin himself in an attempt to shovel corn away from the victim. The victim’s brother also became immersed in corn up to his shoulders. Emergency response workers were able to rescue the victim’s brother by pulling him out of the corn. The emergency response workers then cut holes in the sides of the bin in order to let the corn spill out of the bin. The victim was removed from the bin and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead after resuscitation attempts failed. MN FACE investigators concluded that, in order to reduce the likelihood of similar occurrences, the following guidelines should be followed:
- all equipment used to fill or empty a grain bin should be stopped, and the power source locked out, before workers enter the bin;
- workers should follow established confined space entry procedures when entering grain bins;
- grain bins should be identified as confined spaces and posted with hazard warning sign at all entrances; and
- grain bin ventilation fans should be turned on and operating properly before workers enter bins which are either full or partially full.
On June 27, 1996, MN FACE investigators were notified of a farm work-related fatality that occurred on June 26, 1996. The county sheriff’s department was contacted and a releasable copy of their report of the incident was obtained. A site investigation was conducted by MN FACE investigators on July 22, 1996. During MN FACE investigations, incident information is obtained from a variety of sources such as law enforcement agencies, county coroners and medical examiners, employers, coworkers and family members.
On the day of the incident, the victim removed corn from a steel grain drying and storage bin. The 22-year-old bin was 27 feet in diameter and 16 feet high. It had a storage capacity of 8,000 bushels and contained approximately 4,000 bushels of corn at the time of the incident. The bin was equipped with a drying unit that could be used independently as a ventilation fan. The ventilation fan, when operated, aerated the stored grain by forcing outside air into the space between the concrete bin foundation and the raised steel floor. The air was forced upward through the stored grain and escaped through seams in the bin roof. The ventilation fan was not turned on at the time of the incident. The bin had several access hatches located near the edge of the roof and evenly spaced around it’s perimeter. The bin also had a side access door that was approximately 3 feet wide by 3 and one-half feet high. The bottom of the side door was approximately 18 inches above the bin floor. The door was fitted with a hinged exterior door that opened outward and with 6-8 overlapping panels that slid into slots along the sides of the door. Each panel was 3 feet long and 6 inches wide and when in place, prevented stored grain from exerting pressure against the hinged exterior door. Grain could be emptied from the bin by sliding the individual panels upward. The bin was equipped with a 6 inch diameter unloading auger mounted horizontally below the raised steel floor of the bin. It extended from one side of the bin to the center of the bin floor where a square auger intake opening was located.
The victim was removing corn from the bin when he noticed that the flow of corn from the unloading auger was decreasing. He went to check on the reason for the decreased grain flow by climbing an exterior bin ladder to an access opening in the roof of the bin. He entered the bin with a shovel in an attempt to get the grain away from the door on the side of the bin so a sweep auger could be used to continue unloading the grain.
The victim’s brother, who had been mowing in a nearby area, noticed that the flow of grain had stopped. He climbed to the top of the bin and saw that the victim was buried up to his chin in corn. The victim’s brother left the auger on in an attempt to decrease the level of grain in the bin and prevent his brother from becoming immersed. With the auger on, more grain continued to flow and the victim became further immersed. The victim’s brother then got a wooden plank that he placed in the bin in order to be able to position himself near the victim without endangering himself. The victim’s brother then placed a cardboard box over the victim’s head in an attempt to keep the corn away from his face so he could continue to breath. He then made a call to emergency rescue personnel who arrived at the scene shortly after they were notified. After making the call, the victim’s brother re-entered the bin and also became immersed up to his shoulders in grain. Four men from the rescue squad pulled the victim’s brother from the bin. The rescue squad then cut into the sides of the bin to remove the grain. The victim was removed from the bin approximately 25 minutes after their arrival and transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead after resuscitation attempts failed.
CAUSE OF DEATH
The cause of death given by the victim’s physician was suffocation in corn.
Recommendation #1: All equipment used to fill or empty a grain bin should be stopped, and the power source locked out, before workers enter the bin.
Discussion: Workers are exposed to various hazards if they enter or work inside a grain bin while the bin is being filled or emptied. The lack of adequate ventilation inside a bin usually results in high concentrations of dusts as a bin is being filled. Workers not wearing adequate dust masks or respirators will be exposed to these dusts. Exposure to these dusts may have both short- and long-term hazardous health effects.
In addition, a worker inside a bin that is being filled is at risk of being buried alive by the incoming grain. Even greater dangers may exist when a bin is being emptied. When grain flows from the bottom of a bin, a worker inside the bin may be quickly engulfed and buried by the flowing grain. Flowing grain acts similarly to quicksand and may create forces so great that after a worker is waist deep in the grain, he or she will not be able to escape, even with the aid of a safety rope. Typical auger unloading rates are high enough that a worker will be pulled below the surface of the grain in less than thirty seconds. Because of these hazards, workers should never enter or work inside a bin when it is being filled or emptied. In addition, all power sources should be locked out to ensure that the loading and/or unloading equipment cannot start accidentally or be started inadvertently by someone else. This may require locking out all electrical circuits that operate electric motors, removing ignition keys from tractors or removing spark plug wires from gasoline engines. If the auger system involved in this incident had been stopped and the electric motor circuits had been locked out, this fatality might have been prevented.
Recommendation #2: Workers should follow established confined space entry procedures when entering grain bins.
Discussion: If entrance into a grain bin is necessary, workers should follow established confined space entry procedures such as those described in NIOSH Publication No. 80-106. Anyone entering a bin should wear a safety belt or harness and a lifeline which is attached to a fixed external anchor point. In addition, a standby person should be stationed outside the bin whenever a worker enters a bin Visual contact and/or audible communication should be maintained between the worker in the bin and the standby person at all times. Details of a rescue must be discussed and understood by the worker and the standby person before entry into a bin occurs. If established confined space entry procedures and had been followed in this case, this fatality might have been prevented.
Recommendation #3: Grain bins should be identified as confined spaces and posted with hazard warning signs at all entrances.
Discussion: Grain bins meet the NIOSH definition of a confined space. A space is considered “confined” if it has any one of the following characteristics: (1) limited openings for entry and exit; (2) unfavorable natural ventilation; or (3) is not designed for continuous worker occupancy. Entrance into confined spaces are addressed in NIOSH Publication No. 80-106 (Working in Confined Spaces). Warning signs to alert farm workers of the hazards associated with grain bins should be posted at all entrances. In some areas, signs should be printed in more than one language for workers who might not be able to read and understand English.
Recommendation #4: Grain bin ventilation fans should be turned on and operating properly before workers enter bins which are either full or partially full.
Discussion: Older grain bins typically were not equipped with ventilation fans but many grain bins built in recent years are equipped with electric ventilation fans. These fans are used primarily to circulate unheated air through the stored grain. Ventilation fans force outside air into a space between the concrete bin foundation and a raised steel floor containing small holes. The air is forced upward through the grain and escapes through seams in the bin roof. When ventilation fans are operating, they are capable of providing a continuous flow of air through the stored grain. Although this flow of air is small, it may prevent a buried worker from suffocating if the worker is located within a short time after being buried in the grain. The presence and use of ventilation fans does not lessen or eliminate the confined space hazards of steel bins nor does their use reduce the need for workers to follow the guideline provided in Recommendation 1, 2, and 3. However, grain bin ventilation fans should be turned on and operating properly before workers enter bins which are either full or partially full.
1. NIOSH (April 28, 1993). NIOSH Update: NIOSH Warns Farmers of Deadly Risk of Grain Suffocation. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 93-116.
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Have you ever wondered about God? I mean, have you ever wondered about the awesome-ness of God? To make it super clear, let me state that I am not talking about the cosmos and its amazing treasures. Actually, God does not boast so much in those things. He boasts in something far less spectacular.
Have you ever thought about how God exposes Himself? In the Bible, God has bared His entire heart. There is nothing about Him that He has hidden from us. He has made known to us all that He is. The reason for this is because God has nothing to hide. He is love.
It is we who hide. We love keeping ourselves private. If there is anything that we value above everything else, it is our privacy. Each one of us have their own private ‘chambers’ which we fiercely defend from being intruded into. Some we ‘protect’ using passwords, others (like our bedrooms) we use keys, etc. Why do we love all this secrecy and privacy?
We do all this on account of trying to become strong. We want to defend and maintain our identities. But what identities are we defending?
The Bible talks of
“the old man with his deeds” (Col. 3:9)
Unbeknown to us, that is who we are maintaining in defending our rights, territories and identities. But the Bible says to put them off. Holding on to them is the complete opposite of whom God is. God says His ways are not our ways. What does that mean?
It means that God is absolutely different from us. If, therefore we say, “strong” God says “weak”. That is what it means to be different.
The heavenly life is lived differently from our own little selfish world down here. Two scriptures come to mind in this regard. The first one is that which describes the life of the Apostle Paul.
“9 Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me… for when I am weak, then am I strong.” (2 Cor. 12:9-10)
The second scripture talks of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the eath of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name.” (Phil. 2:5-9)
In his human form, our Lord Jesus Christ became weak. He did not seek to be strong.
I believe Jesus did not have any secret thing which He kept away from His disciples. He had nothing to hide.
The Apostle Paul followed suit. He writes to the Corinthians,
“Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.” (2 Cor.3:2)
There is nothing to hide with the gospel. If we have fallen short somewhere, all we need to do is to repent.
Weakness for the gospel’s sake is our strength. Let us learn to expose our lives, that they may be shredded apart to the end that
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Unless you know otherwise your meat came from a factory farm. Factory farming is the culmination of the quest for making the greatest profits by producing the most meat possible with least amount of time and space. Everything else that does not affect the bottom line is disregarded and the public is left to deal with the problems. They are not family farms. They are not the picturesque farms in childhood books. The animals are not grazing on rolling green pastures next to a red barn with white trim. They are cramped indoors in as small a space as possible. Factory farms are large, industrial and owned by big corporations. They literally stink from miles away.
Why Haven't I Heard About Factory Farming Before?
Few people directly witness factory farming
- Locations are in sparsely populated lower income rural areas
- Factory farms and their slaughterhouses are conducted with top secret operations
- Cost cutting efficiency means fewer workers to witness their operation (not to mention fewer jobs)
Seeing is believing
In addition to the actions above, directly taken to hide factory farming, much of the human cost of factory farming cannot be readily seen with our eyes and unfortunately, as the saying goes, 'seeing is believing'. The global effects explained below cannot be simply seen, they require some background understanding of biology and climate science in addition to the direction and willingness to take the time to consider them.
What a surprise. In the US, well funded groups lobby to insure:
- Government subsidies and tax breaks increase profits from factory farming. These can be direct and indirect such as assistance to other industries that decreases the cost of corn and soy feed.
- The law is tolerant. If an illegal practice is brought to court the most common result is that the laws are changed to allow it.
- The USDA is both responsible for telling people what they should eat to be healthy AND promoting animal agriculture. Sound like a conflict of interest? It does to us.
- There is a lack of legal oversight and enforcement.
Desire for meat is personal, social and different for everyone based on taste buds, family and culture so I'll let you fill in the blanks yourself, but I'd bet it is the reason why you let the above tactics shield you from the facts for so long. This is also the reason our pledge does not require you to follow a strict vegetariain or vegan diet, but instead lets you decide for yourself what you can manage. | <urn:uuid:904eb470-9664-4ebc-98bb-d896649ed3d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://meatlessly.org/factoryFarming | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956193 | 494 | 2.375 | 2 |
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Eighty years ago, thousands of lives were lost when Japanese war planes bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The event launched America into World War II.
The sunken battleships became watery graves for thousands of Americans. In the years since, some of the day’s survivors have chosen the iron tomb at the bottom of the harbor as their final resting place.
Norfolk resident and Pearl Harbor survivor Lt. Harvey Milhorn was interred in the USS Arizona this Tuesday, the 80th anniversary of the attack. He’ll likely be the last survivor to be buried in the ship.
His daughter, Frances Goldsberry, and granddaughter, Rachel Yarasavich, took his ashes to Hawaii.
“I think he will be at peace finally” said Goldsberry. “He was hurt all through his life. You could tell that losing those people, his shipmates, really affected him.”
Milhorn’s burial was complete with a ceremonial color guard, a 21-gun salute, and taps. Milhorn was a gunner’s mate at the time of the attack. To honor him, everyone who participated in the ceremony was either a current or former gunner’s mate. This included the Navy diver who took Milhorn’s ashes down to the vessel.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Harvey Milhorn stood on the deck of the USS Arizona chatting with his friend Russ Tanner. Milhorn was just 20 years old at the time. In past interviews, he’s recalled making plans to go see a movie in Waikiki later that day with Tanner. They never made it to the theater.
Around 7:55 a.m., explosions rocked the harbor.
Before his death, Milhorn sat down with 10 On Your Side for an interview on the 50th anniversary of the attack in 1991. He recalled those moments when the reality of the day sunk in.
“We’re standing up on the boat deck, discussing going to shore,” said Milhorn. “We kind of thought it was a drill. About that time, a torpedo plane dropped a torpedo into the Oklahoma. We saw the meatballs of the rising suns on the wings and we knew it wasn’t a drill then. You know we knew it was an actual attack.”
Milhorn and Tanner separated, each running to their individual battle stations. Milhorn headed to a part of the ship called the “birdbath.” He would never see Russ again.
In an autobiography, Milhorn wrote, “I sent the other members of the gun crew to the forward magazine for ammunition. I stayed in the birdbath to operate the hoist. All of a sudden there was a terrible explosion on the ship. Our forward magazine, containing 150 tons of main battery powder, had exploded. Everything forward of the main mast was on fire.”
A fallen Marine officer stood out in his memory of these moments.
“He was in his white dress uniform. He had been hit in the stomach and his blood looked really red against the white of his uniform. I would have to step over him to reach reach the ladder. I hesitated; then went back up the birdbath. By then, the Oklahoma was bottom-up,” he recalled.
Milhorn made his way around the horrific scene.
“The crew of 5″/25-caliber #8 [gun] were lying all around the gun and they were all were dead. The ship’s cook had been blown out of the galley. He was laying on the platform with both legs missing. He too was dead … I saw the band’s musical instruments lying on deck in nice rows where they left them when they manned their battle stations… The band was to play colors; the night before they had won the battle of the bands and now they were all dead.”
Eventually Milhorn saw his commanding officer and asked permission to abandon ship. Lt. Cmdr. Fuqua said “Go ahead, son.”
Milhorn dove overboard and swam to shore and safety. He immediately volunteered for a post on the USS Tennessee and continued fighting the war.
That day, 1,177 sailors and Marines would die on the USS Arizona, accounting for close to half of the total casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Milhorn dedicated the next 30 years of his life to the Navy, but he never fully left the Arizona.
“I can close my eyes and actually see it. I can see the ship burning and the explosion. I don’t know, I guess it’s burned in my mind and my memory.” Milhorn recalled during his interview with 10 On Your Side.
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Well-Designed Bad Bank Will Improve The Efficiency Of Existing ARCs In Country: RBI Paper
One of the papers from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has stated that introducing a bad bank, as envisioned in Budget 2021, will assist in “shaping the operations” of the present asset reconstruction companies (ARCs).
The paper also noted ineffectiveness in the functioning of ARCs a significant portion of assets bought by such firms has not been resolved for a long time.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had mentioned in the budget speech that the bad bank will be created to hold the sour assets of the state-run lenders. It will then professionally resolve these assets.
However, the RBI has cautioned against a circuitous movement of funds between the banks and the ARCs.
“About 42 per cent of the outstanding SRs (security receipts) as on March 2020 were more than five years of age and would have to be redeemed over the next four years to avoid write-offs,” the central bank’s paper read.
It adds, “Going forward, the introduction of a new asset reconstruction company for addressing the NPAs of public sector banks may also shape the operations of the existing ARCs.”
However, the RBI maintained that there is a definite scope for a well-capitalized and designed institution in the Indian ARC industry. It stressed that the ARC should work towards a specific goal of resolving the non-performing assets (NPAs).
The paper also cited global experiences in laying down the necessary features of the new ARC announced by the government.
Moreover, a strong political will should support the bad bank in order to identify the problematic loans, as per the RBI. It should also have a protective legal infrastructure for bankruptcy and private property laws, Economic Times reports.
The RBI aims to strengthen the ARC industry and thereby encourage the sales of NPAs by banks that will further amplify the ARCs’ involvement in asset resolution through these changes on the regulatory front.
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After lots of research and deliberation, you have decided that a Cavapoo is a dog that will best suit your family and your way of life. But have you looked into all the generations and their differences, if indeed there are any at all?
A Cavapoo is a hybrid of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Poodle. The intention of mixing these two breeds is to produce a low to non-shedding, hypoallergenic pooch who will exhibit the best traits of both purebreds.
That said, you really don’t know what you are going to get with early cross-breeding. Puppies can and do favor genes from one parent over the other or they can have a happy mix of both. This can even differ across the same litter. As with everything, it’s all down to genetics and there is no way of determining which genes they will inherit from each parent.
A reputable breeder will carefully choose the dogs that they wish to breed from. This selection should be based on many factors including temperament and health.
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It is important to remember that all dogs need to be socialized from being very young. A consistent obedience training program should be started early using positive reinforcement. Following both these steps will be beneficial in embracing all the positive traits that the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Poodle are known for and eliminate bad behavior and timid or unfriendly nature.
Physical traits are largely genetic so it’s much easier to take an educated guess on how your Cavapoo will look based on their parents. However, temperament is not just down to the inherited factor. How you raise, train, and behave with your dog will also help to nurture their overall personality.
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Temperament
Gentle, loving, and intelligent the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is easy to train and eager to please. They are sociable with strangers and get along well with other pets. They are great family dogs as they love and need lots of human interaction and without it, they are likely to suffer from separation anxiety.
King Charles Cavalier Spaniels love to chase. Especially something that’s already running. They have a hunter’s instinct and as such may not be the most reliable breed off the leash. A bee, a butterfly, another dog. Everything and anything is good for the chase with this pooch.
Elegant and graceful, intelligent, and easy to train the Poodle has lots of great qualities to bring to the table. They are polite with strangers, are happy with other pets, and are generally good with children.
They are usually a sensitive breed, but this can sometimes spill over into being nervous or highly strung. This is something that a good breeder should be aware of in the Poodle’s lineage. Like the King Charles, they love companionship and don’t like to be alone for too long.
Purebred dogs reputably suffer from a variety of health problems which can be largely attributed to their pure lines and potential inbreeding, especially where a show winning sire is concerned. Not only are there greater occurrences of inherited diseases in purebreds but breeding to ‘improve’ their body shapes can lead to other issues such as hip and elbow dysplasia.
Different breeds will be prone to different issues. Let’s familiarise ourselves with the potential health issues in the Cavapoo history.
Common Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Health Issues
Unfortunately, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel can have a host of inherited health issues with the number one killer of the breed being Mitral Valve Disease (MVD). Mitral Valve Disease is a progressive, polygenetic* condition that is thought to affect up to half of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels by the time they reach 5 years old.
Should they reach 10 years old then nearly all Cavalier King Charles Spaniels will be affected by MVD. MVD is thought to be up to 20 times more prevalent in this breed. Mitral Valve Disease and the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is an excellent read for learning all about this condition.
*Polygenetic simply means that it can be caused by more than one gene
Syringomyelia is an inherited neurological condition that research shows has grown in its prevalence since the year 2000 and now affects up to half of all Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. It is not limited to country, lines, or breeders and it appears to be worsening with each generation of Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
Syringomyelia, meaning ‘cavity within the spinal cord’ in Latin is literally how the disease presents, with the cavities filling up with fluid. The most reliable means of diagnosis is an MRI scan. Colloquially known as ‘neck scratchers disease’ due to this being one of the symptoms, Syringomyelia causes abnormal sensations in dogs who are affected. There is no cure, but some Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are less affected than others and the condition can be managed. Unfortunately, this is not always the case and in more severe instances the dog will have to be euthanized.
Other common conditions in the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel are luxating patellas (dislocated knees), hip dysplasia, epilepsy, cataracts, and allergies.
Common Poodle Health Issues
The Poodle is generally a much sturdier breed than the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and is susceptible to considerably fewer health issues. It is suggested that the Miniature Poodle is the healthiest of the three types being that they have more genetic diversity (lower COI (see below)) than the Standard and a sturdier bone structure than the Toy. Cavapoo generations aside you may find this something to consider when researching your breeder.
Bloat is a serious condition that can escalate quickly into an emergency situation. Also known as Gastric Dilation and Volvulus (GDV) it can be a life-threatening condition and occurs when the stomach twists (volvulus) causing gas to become trapped and the pressure to build up (gastric dilation).
All dogs can suffer from bloat but deep-chested dogs such as the Poodle are particularly vulnerable. Whilst surgical intervention is often necessary research from ‘vetsnow’ in 2019 suggests that the survival rate is as high as 80% which is welcome news.
The main symptom of bloat is dry retching, but other signs can include a hard stomach and excessive drooling. Your pooch will likely be in obvious distress and discomfort. Pacing and restlessness are not uncommon. It is imperative that you act quickly should you suspect bloat in this life or death scenario.
There are a few steps that you can take to minimize the risk of bloat which include feeding little and often, limiting physical exercise after eating and ensuring that their food bowls are at floor level.
Addison’s Disease is another condition which the Poodle is prone to developing. Addison’s Disease is a hormonal disorder that affects the production of cortisol in the adrenal glands. Cortisol is a major factor in dealing with stress so should your pooch find themselves in a stressful situation you may see a flare-up of Addison’s symptoms.
Onset largely occurs in young to middle-aged dogs and symptoms can either progress over time or present suddenly. It’s important to get a diagnosis as soon as possible as even though Addison’s is incurable, it is treatable with medication. There should be no impact on life expectancy if Addison’s is treated adequately.
Signs and symptoms of Addison’s include depression, lethargy, loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea. Should you suspect Addison’s or anything untoward with your dog you should always seek advice from your vet.
Other conditions that are prevalent in Poodles are hip dysplasia and epilepsy. They are also prone to thyroid issues. Thyroxine is the hormone produced by the thyroid which regulates the metabolism. Conditions that cause an over or underproduction of thyroxine can present in the Poodle, especially in later years.
Heterosis, that’s the scientific name for Hybrid Vigor. An internet search will document lots of scientific articles that can leave the mind of the general public a little blown, so let’s simplify it. Hybrid Vigor is the action of crossing two inherently different subpopulations.
Hybrid Vigor can apply to plants and animals and the intent is to outbreed the negative qualities whilst improving on the best ones. The offspring of two purebreds is considered to be heterotic if the desired traits are more improved than those of their parents. For example, a Cavapoo being less predisposed to health issues the Poodle and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel are prone to.
There is some controversy as to whether Hybrid Vigor is effective. Whilst heterosis is not always apparent in crossbred dogs, a study in 2013 found that on average they did live longer by 1.2 years.
Coefficient of Inbreeding – COI
Coefficient of Inbreeding is a means of looking at the pedigrees of both parents and cross-referencing their common ancestors. This can then determine the probability of how genetically alike they are.
A percentage score will be given and the higher the score, the more inbred they are and more open to genetic problems. It’s all rather complicated but fascinating, nonetheless. A beginner’s guide to COI explains, in layman’s terms, how it all works.
A first-generation Cavapoo (F1), or first generation of any crossbreed for that matter should have a COI of 0% and this is why they benefit most from hybrid vigor. The more generations that are bred then the higher the COI, and the less benefit of hybrid vigor. A 5th generation dog is often considered a purebred even if they are still unable to be registered with a Kennel Club.
The American Kennel Club have a DNA resource center which hosts the world’s largest database of canine DNA. However, the UK Kennel Club has an inbreeding coefficient calculator which shows results of a hypothetical breeding of two registered dogs. This would be particularly helpful for breeders of purebreds. It would also confirm a 0% reading for anyone considering creating a crossbreed from two registered dogs.
What to Expect from your Breeder
Breeders should ensure that they have both the dam and sire DNA and health tested for common genetic conditions that relate to the breeds being used to produce their litters. Testing for MVD is especially important in the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
When researching breeders please do ask to see this documentation. Not only can this show that common issues will not be prevalent in the litter that you will choose your Cavapoo puppy from but that the breeder is reputable and cares for the welfare of both the parents and their subsequent offspring.
Now it’s time to take a look at the generations, how they are produced, the differences, and the similarities.
What does ‘F’ mean?
All the generations (until we move into the realms of calling them multigenerational) are preceded with the letter F. The F tells us that the dog is a crossbreed as opposed to a purebred. It refers to all hybrid dogs and means filial. Derived from the Latin ‘filius’ meaning son and ‘filia’ meaning daughter, if you are using the word filial to define something you are saying that it is offspring linked.
What Does the Number Represent in Cavapoo Generations?
The number simply represents the generation. An F1 Cavapoo in a first-generation cross and an F2 Cavapoo is the second generation. An F3 is a third-generation Cavapoo and so on and so forth.
However, this can become a little complicated once the backcross is introduced into the mix as an F1b is technically a 2nd generation dog and an F1bb a third generation.
What Does the ‘b’ Mean?
The b stands for backcross and this means that the first or second generation Cavapoo has been bred back to a purebred dog. This will generally be the Poodle and usually for hypoallergenic reasons but sometimes the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is used. This is sometimes known as a reverse ‘b’.
The F1 Cavapoo is the first generation. They are the result of crossing the purebred Poodle and the purebred Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. This makes their genetic make-up 50% of each purebred. A real half and half pooch.
An F1 Cavapoo will vary in size depending on whether the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel was bred with a Toy or a Miniature Poodle. Their average overall size ranges from 9lbs to 25lb in weight and 9” to 12” in height but obviously dogs can and do fall outside of these figures. Having a Toy Poodle for a parent is likely to produce offspring of under 11” whereas Miniature can grow to up to 18”.
As with all F1 crossbreeds, it’s extremely hard to determine which ‘side of the family’ they are going to take after. Your F1 Cavapoo may take on the coat characteristics of the Poodle which means they will be low shedding, considered hypoallergenic, and need much more regular brushing and grooming. Should they inherit the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel coat then the average allergy sufferer will be at greater risk of being triggered, and you may find your Cavapoo sheds more than you hoped for.
Of course, their coat may also be a happy mix of their two parents. The average F1 Cavapoo will have a wavy to shaggy coat but it is very important to be mindful of the above information regarding the unknown. Puppies also shed their initial coats and develop a lasting adult alternative.
You will not know 100% what kind of coat your F1 Cavapoo will have until this adult coat develops. If you are an allergy sufferer, then the F1 is likely to be the highest risk to you. The milder your allergy, the less likely the lower generations are to spark them.
The F1 Cavapoo is considered to benefit the most from Hybrid Vigor, as the ratio at which it should be advantageous will reduce with each subsequent generation.
The F1b Cavapoo, also known as a backcross, is the F1 Cavapoo (first generation Cavapoo with Poodle and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel parents) bred with the Poodle. Generally, the Toy or Miniature is used to create any Cavapoo.
The F1b Cavapoo is 25% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and 75% Poodle. Size-wise they fall into the same brackets as the F1’s and the determining factors will be based on the height and weight of their parents.
Bringing more Poodle back into gene pool means that your F1b Cavapoo is more likely to have a coat with tighter curls and more chance of being low to non-shedding. If you have moderate to severe allergies, then the F1b Cavapoo poses a much smaller risk. However, nothing can be guaranteed and the best advice before you commit is to spend some time with the dog.
As their coat is likely to be curlier it will need trimming more regularly than the F1 Cavapoo. 3-4 months as opposed to 4-6 months is a general rule of thumb if you prefer their coat to be shorter. However, this may not be your preference but it’s worth noting that a longer coat will collect more dirt and detritus, and also require more regular brushing.
The F1b Cavapoo, being 75% Poodle is more likely to display more Poodle traits than Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Physically this means their legs are likely to be longer and they are more likely to have higher energy levels like the Poodle. This is turn means that you need to ensure you meet their exercise needs. Behavior problems can be an issue in dogs who are not getting the required exercise.
Whilst the F1b Cavapoo is expected to benefit from hybrid vigor it will not be quite to the same level as the F1.
F1b Reverse Cavapoo
The F1b Reverse Cavapoo is again a backcross. However, in this instance, it is an F1 Cavapoo and Cavalier King Charles Spaniel cross. The ratios switch making the F1b Reverse Cavapoo 25% Poodle and 75% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
They are typically much more like the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel both in terms of looks and temperament. Their coat will generally resemble the straighter Cavalier King Charles Spaniel look although the Poodle genes can introduce waves and/or curls.
The biggest advantage of an F1 Reverse Cavapoo is that the discerning Cavalier King Charles Spaniel lover can have the looks they find desirable in the breed with the likely benefit of a healthier dog and longer life expectancy due to hybrid vigor.
NB: The term F1b Reverse is not always used. This means that some breeders or owners will refer to all F1 backcrosses by just using the term F1b. It is important that you familiarize yourself with whether the second parent is a Poodle or a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel before making any commitment to buy. This is especially important if your reason for choosing an F1b is allergy-related.
The F1bb Cavapoo is, in effect, a double backcross. The F1bb is produced by breeding the F1b Cavapoo with the purebred Poodle, hence the double b annotation. Occasionally the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel will be crossed with the F1b Cavapoo but this is unusual. It is also unlikely that a reverse F1b will be used in this scenario which would leave our F1bb make up at 87.5% Poodle and 12.5% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
With lots of Poodle genes, this generation is a low risk to allergy sufferers and are more likely to be low shedding.
The F1bb is technically a 3rd generation Cavapoo so may well be referred to as a multigenerational Cavapoo by the breeder. To know for certain what the lineage of a multigen is you will need to see paperwork from your breeder.
As a third generation Cavapoo they will benefit much less from hybrid vigor than the F1 and F1b.
An F2 Cavapoo is a second-generation crossbreed. They are produced by mating two F1 Cavapoos. This means like their F1 parents, they are still 50% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and 50% Poodle.
The F2 Cavapoo will give the most varied coat type. Some will be wavy, some straight, some curly, and all the different variations will have different maintenance requirements.
Temperament will be similar of that of the F1 and F1b. They will inherit traits from both the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and the Poodle. You won’t know exactly how their personality is going to develop until they grow but remember your input will also play its part.
The F2 Cavapoo is not as popular as the F1 Cavapoo due to the uncertainty in the characteristics that it will develop. The F2 will also not benefit from as much hybrid vigor than the F1. It can be questioned as to whether we will see all Cavapoos eventually become multigenerational when the demand for an F1 is greater.
The F2b is similar to the F1b in that they are a backcross. There are two ways that this can be achieved:
- F1 Cavapoo and an F1b Cavapoo. The F1b Cavapoo will almost always have been a backcross with the Poodle. Statistically, this will make the F2b Cavapoo 62.5% Poodle and 37.5% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
- F2 Cavapoo and a purebred Poodle. Still an F2b they will statistically be slightly more Poodle at 75% and slightly less Cavalier King Charles Spaniel at 25%
Both F2b options are predominantly Poodle so the coat is likely to have a tighter curl, shed less, and be more allergy-friendly. As we have previously mentioned though this is never guaranteed. Their hybrid vigor is likely to be lower than that of the F1 and F2 as they are technically a third-generation Cavapoo.
The F2bb is another double backcross. This second-generation backcross is achieved by mixing the F2b Cavapoo and the purebred Poodle.
Assuming that the F2b used is the one in our first example above, then the F2bb will be 81.25% Poodle and 18.75% Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Statistically, the F2bb will be the most hypoallergenic of the Cavapoo generations due to the volume of Poodle genes that they carry.
They are most likely to have the tight curly coat of the Poodle and shed little. Whilst certainly not as common as the F1 or F1b Cavapoo they would make a low-risk choice for those with allergies.
Technically the F2bb is a fourth-generation cross. After the third generation they are, more often than not, referred to as Multigenerational Cavapoos. This makes it especially important to speak to your breeder about their pedigree* to ascertain exactly how your Cavapoo has been developed down the line.
Hybrid Vigor in the F2bb is likely to be non-existent now that we are several generations into cross breeding.
*By pedigree we mean ‘Family Tree”. Parents, Grandparents, Great Grandparents, etc
F3 or Multigenerational Cavapoo
There are many ways to produce an F3 or multigenerational Cavapoo. The most obvious is two F2 parents but one of the most common ways is two F1b’s. Usually, F3’s and beyond will genetically be more Poodle. This doesn’t guarantee a Poodle typical coat though and they can present with anything from wavy to very curly. Whilst this volume of Poodle genes increases the likelihood of them being allergy-friendly it does lower their hybrid vigor based on the ratio of Poodle to Cavalier King Charles Spaniel genes.
However, some breeders do take things to the next level. By using Cavapoos who have reverse F1b’s in their lineage they can produce multigenerational offspring with a much more balanced ratio. This means that whilst the range of fur types is greater, they can support a level of hybrid vigor that is closer to that of an F1 Cavapoo.
Which is the Best Cavapoo Generation For Me?
What your preferences are will fundamentally depend on which generation you choose, whether that be coat type, allergy reasons or a preference for one parent breed over the other.
Temperament will largely be consistent across the generations. Some Cavapoos may favor traits of one parent breed over the other but this cannot be determined by their generation. Also, remember that temperament is also reliant on nurture as well as nature.
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Mastering the Art of the Interview
A few weeks ago, my friend Hollie, who is a radio broadcaster at KNCO radio 830 AM, asked me if I’d like to fill in as host for the Monday afternoon show, “On The Town–Tell Me Something Good,” which is broadcast from various locations—mostly restaurants and coffee shops. Who wouldn’t want to interview members of the community about positive activities and events taking place around town—and receive a free lunch in exchange? As someone who spends way too much time in front of her computer, the idea of getting out and talking to people is really appealing. Three weeks ago I officially went into training, and last week I conducted my first on-air interview.
Although I am not trained as a radio broadcaster, I do understand the art of the interview. During the two plus decades I spent producing corporate videos, the first step was always information gathering, talking to a wide range of employees—from factory workers to CEOs. A big part of my job was interviewing non-professional talent—making them comfortable in front of the camera, and asking the right open-ended questions. The answers would reveal pertinent facts and information that could later be edited into a training or promotional program. While I prepared in advance for these interviews, there was no pressure to get it right the first time. It didn’t matter that a CEO might require four or five takes before his statement was the way it needed to be, or that a particular question didn’t prompt the ideal response. In the final edit, everything flowed and looked flawless.
“Tell me Something Good” is a live thirty minute show, something that really hit home moments before conducting my first interview. I didn’t exactly panic, but I was worried. What if I couldn’t think of the right question? Forgot my guests’ names? Didn’t remember when to take a station break? Hollie has been doing the show for so long that she doesn’t do any prep. She books the guests, chats a few minutes before the show begins, jots down a few notes and talks like she’s known them forever. She explained her method, “Just be curious and let the questions come to you.”
Unfortunately, I won’t be booking my own guests until July, so in the meantime, I’ll be following Hollie’s method and hoping for the best. But when I’m doing the show on my own, I’ll want a strategy that makes me feel more secure. It also occurred to me that there might be others—especially article writers and bloggers—who also need to master the art of the interview. So, I did a little research to see if I could come up with a simple approach that would guarantee success.
Here is my 5-step plan for mastering the art of the interview:
- Know the guest. Pick someone who is articulate and knowledgeable and passionate about their subject.
- Learn about the topic ahead of time. Be able to answer basic questions: who, what, when, where, why and how.
- Prepare questions in advance. Ask the guest to provide a list of questions they would like to answer.
- Have relevant information on one sheet of paper. Use this information to fill air space and right before station breaks.
- Have fun. Keep it light and go with the flow. Let it be okay to make a mistake.
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Automobile Fix Information You May Use These days
Automobile Fix Information You May Use These days
Possessing a vehicle gives you the liberty to go the place you want, if you want. However, having a car does mean that you need to maintain your motor vehicle in great doing work purchase. By learning some of the basic principles of auto maintenance, you may ensure your auto is always working efficiently.
There are several how-to video clips you could use for automobile maintenance. Anything from a straightforward tire change to switching your gas filtration are available in online video kind. These videos can take you thru each and every step in producing the fix and can save you some time and the cost of consuming it to your technician.
Check with questions you may have. You should question points certain to the problem which has arisen and ways to acquire precautionary measures moving forward. Precautionary measures can save you a great deal of money in the end.
Will not give your keys to your auto mechanic well before knowing more about the expense of the repairs. If you don't comprehend anything, explain your concerns using the auto technician or assistance consultant well before they work with the auto. You don't would like to get the car rear, simply to be amazed at how much the fixes cost you.
You need to find out if the mechanic has actually done work towards the exact same sort of vehicle well before. If they have knowledge about your type of automobile, they are more inclined capable of effectively detect and correct the down sides your car or truck has.
Shop around before deciding on any automobile fix organization. Don't trust only the company's web site. Check out auto discussion boards and be cautious about any grievances you might see. Also think about any great evaluations the car store is provided with. These are typically typically purpose testimonials, so you can trust them greater than exactly what the shop's components might say.
If your vehicle demands physique function, be sure you know what colour painting you may have on your own car. These details is very important for that tech that actually works on your own auto. Also, your car recognition number is always one thing excellent to obtain readily available. In many cases, you will need to have it just to setup an appointment.
Never ever depart valuables inside your motor vehicle once you provide that it is fixed. It is correct that most outlets have really have confidence in deserving workers, but not all do, and you may not need to be a victim of robbery. Alternatively, protect yourself by cleaning your car or truck and removing whatever is not really coupled to the car.
Keep close track of the moist puddles beneath your auto. Coloration and regularity could help you determine the matter. If it's light light blue, yellow-eco-friendly or fluorescent-orange, it might be an antifreeze drip due to a bad garden hose, leaky radiator, or normal water water pump, or an too hot motor. Darker brown or black greasy puddles can mean a poor gasket or seal causes the drip. Reddish colored oily puddles are generally caused by a energy-directing or transmitting fluid drip. Clear puddles generally aren't anything to think about, as they can be moisture build-up or condensation through the car.
There are no automobile parts that will function permanently, so don't believe any states the contrary. When mechanics use this state, they are usually just looking to get one to spend more money cash needlessly. Some autos include a "life-time" fluid to your transmitting. It is true that this substance will last a lot longer than normal transmission substance, nevertheless, you will nevertheless must transform it at about 80,000 a long way.
In case you are thinking about a do-it-on your own automobile fix, make certain you are aware what you are getting in to. Get yourself a qualified quotation for having an experienced perform meet your needs, then know what it should take in components and resources to do it your self. It could very well be that you simply will not help save that much and will also be jeopardizing stuff like protection and longevity of your car.
The weather conditions conditions in the area can have an affect on your automobile. If you are living within a dusty location or should it be typically beneath very cold through the winter, you will probably have to get your car or truck serviced more often. It is best to invest in a robust car from the beginning.
For the best overall performance through your automobile, make certain that your mechanic installs original devices company elements (OEM). Even though these are more costly than generic elements, the resulting excellent efficiency will be worth the fee. In addition, manufacturer approved elements soon add up to much less deterioration on the motor vehicle in the end.
The condition a repair center is at shows you plenty concerning the services you can expect from them. If every little thing is out of spot and messy, which is the way the task might get accomplished. Try and do business with a store which is nice and neat and loaded with contemporary equipment.
If you get within an automobile accident, you need to get the speak to and insurance policy details of the other individuals engaged. This makes getting the automobile fixed less complicated. Offer these details to your repair shop if they need to get in touch with the insurance coverage of the sensible celebration.
You need to keep a modest journal with your car to report how frequently to place gas in it. Keep an eye on just how many a long way you travel in between fill-ups and the way significantly fuel you need to devote your car every time. You should get your vehicle examined when you notice any modifications in your miles.
Wonderful auto-maintenance and ideal traveling can't constantly conserve the time, that's why wonderful automobile insurance is important. Spend the time to find a reputable seller with enough protection to fix any accidents. As a wonderful motorist and residing in your lane isn't always going to keep the car secure crashes can happen.
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The Biometric Vision Facial Recognition API allows you to verify two images are the same person (one-to-one or face verification) or identify a person from a database of images (one-to-many or face identification). More features like multi-face detection and spoof detection are under development.
- Anonymizing images into an alphanumeric string (binary) that cannot be reversed engineered
- 99.99% accuracy in the most challenging scenarios
- Uses up to 180 landmarks to create a face template
- Blistering speed with a face match time of 130ms
- Algorithm that uses less memory than our competitors for enrolment of a single image at 15MB, noting industry peak-memory benchmark median was 730MB and a top-ranked with 33MB (NIST)
- AES 256+ encryption end-to-end
The following is a list of how-to and tutorial content that matched your search term. ProgrammableWeb's how-to content comes from two sources; full-blown tutorials that we publish ourselves and other highly relevant tutorials that we find elsewhere on the Web. This list represents on combination of both tutorial types and if you go to ProgrammableWeb's API University, you'll not only be able to find more, they are organized based on your role (API providers or developers who consumes APIs). If you know of a tutorial that would be of interest to the ProgrammableWeb community, we'd like to know about it. Be sure to check our guidelines for making contributions to ProgrammableWeb. | <urn:uuid:2060d174-a265-49bc-b710-b512f5a023c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.programmableweb.com/api/biometric-vision-facial-recognition-rest-api-v20/how-to | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.897874 | 320 | 1.929688 | 2 |
General figures would demonstrate that a turbocharged motor gives a further 35 percent expansion in control over a normally suctioned motor It is something we’ve all known about, a few of us utilized, and most get themselves incapable to bear the cost of the protection consequences. A turbocharger is generally known as an application underneath the cap that significantly expands a vehicles execution, yet exactly how precisely accomplishes it work?
A touch of history first people: In 1905 the first Turbocharger ever constructed was imagined by a Swiss conceived engineer under the name of Alfred Buchan. Buchan applied the turbocharger at first to diesel transports in the mid 1920’s, which at that point in the end made its presentation to the car business not long after. For the individuals who do not have the foggiest idea, motors work on an air/fuel blend premise, breathing air in and utilizing fuel to make vitality; thus running the motor and its inner parts that work the driveshaft and wheels.
A turbocharger works by attracting tej kohli london an expanded measure of air, at an a lot quicker rate permitting a speedier air/fuel blend proportion. A turbo fueled vehicle might be unmistakable by an identification put to the back boot, for instance a TDI (Turbo Diesel Injection) or recently presented TSI (Twincharger Supercharged Injection) from VW.
Presently over to the tech spec side of things, non-precisely disapproved of individuals turn away! Inside the turbocharger are a blower and turbine connected together by a mutual pivot. The turbine bay gets fumes gases through the motor ventilation system, permitting the turbine wheel to pivot. With the turbine currently turning, this at that point drives the blower, packing surrounding air and sending it directly to the air admission of the motor. With the air compacted, this takes into account the motor to take in a far more noteworthy measure of air than typical, along these lines implying that with more air included, more fuel can be utilized as well.
It is said that most turbochargers take in 50 percent more air over a standard motor. The run of the mill support made by a turbo is in around 6 to 8 pounds for every square inch. General figures would demonstrate that a turbocharged motor gives a further 35 percent expansion in control over a normally suctioned motor, which in lehmans terms implies extraordinarily improved execution! | <urn:uuid:c6f8a8f6-fbd8-4dce-ab99-379272e6219c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chasem.net/2020/wording-explained-turbocharger.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941733 | 499 | 2.375 | 2 |
Concordia Model UN takes on sky-high challenges
Concordia’s Model United Nations (ConMUN) started off 2018 with the momentum created by having successfully pitched and co-hosted a global event in Montreal at the end of November.
In collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the group invited high-school and post-secondary students from all seven continents to engage with pressing aviation challenges during the inaugural Model ICAO Forum.
Participants grappled with questions about regulating unmanned aircraft systems, dangerous air cargo, security training and more. They proposed solutions to a panel of industry experts who eventually chose one winning team: Aaron Clark-Ashe, Marwa Ahmed and Christopher Fabian from Concordia.
The Concordia student group had proposed co-hosting a model UN conference to the ICAO last year. Instead they were invited to plan the Model ICAO Forum alongside the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals Global Summit.
Andrei Bochis, ConMUN's president, and Gabriel-Louis Guppy, the group's vice-president of special projects, both addressed diplomats and other world leaders in the assembly hall room during the summit.
“Overall, this event demonstrates the potential for our students to influence local and international communities,” said Guppy.
Next up for ConMUN
This month, Concordia student delegates head to Boston and Toronto for the Harvard National Model United Nations (February 15-18) and the North American Model United Nations (February 22-25). Later this year, members are scheduled to attend conferences in Ottawa and Panama City.
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Photos: Moscow 24/Anton Velikzhanin
Experts of the Russian national Association of winter road maintenance noted methods of confrontation of ice, which are used in Russia, reports RT.
In each city, an individual approach is used in the selection of ice material. For this, the researchers analyze the climatic and infrastructural conditions of the locality. On the basis of the results choose suitable for the local application of anti-icing materials.
Also in the analysis of the created economic model on the basis of which calculate the costs for ice control. Experts select the technology of winter cleaning and materials, the use of which the city’s expenditures do not increase.
the Used methods experts called unique and noted that such an individual approach is not used anywhere else in the world.
Earlier, meteorologists reported that in the capital, adverse weather conditions will continue until Wednesday. In Moscow announced the high probability of occurrence of strong winds, ice and blizzards.
the Deputy mayor for housing, utilities and amenities Pyotr Biryukov reported on the preparation of the February cold. Experts will carry out anti-icing treatment of roads and sidewalks.
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Embrace Your Defeats, For They Are Your Greatest
Fear of defeat can be a crippling affliction.
The fear that if we take some course of action we might fail can be strong enough to cause many of us to not even start down the road leading to that action.
And what happens if we do not take action? We remain in a state of in-action. Which doesn't help move us forward in anything at all.
But is that fear really of any help to us?
What would happen if we did get it wrong?
Would the world really end?
OK, for a very small minority of actions the consequences of failure could indeed be a matter of life and death, that is true. But such actions are not ones undertaken lightly, they are ones for which one has trained extensively, for which one has significant support and backup, so total failure is very unlikely.
But for the vast majority of things that we encounter in our everyday life, fatality is not a consequence of defeat or failure.
And yet, all too often, we allow the fear of defeat to hold us back. Which ultimately harms us and our development, for we learn best not through our successes but through our failures and defeats. When we succeed at something, we discover one way of doing it; but when we fail, we learn so much more!
It is rumoured that Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light-bulb, took 10,000 attempts before he succeeded. At one stage, Edison was interviewed by a young reported who asked if Edison felt like a failure and if he thought he should just give up by now. Perplexed, Edison replied, 'Young man, why would I feel like a failure? And why would I ever give up? I now know definitively over 9,000 ways that an electric light bulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp.' And shortly after that, and over 10,000 attempts, Edison invented the light bulb.
Just imagine how much darker (quite literally) all our lives would be had Edison decided to give up after his first defeat? We are fortunate that he had the drive and determination to continue, and the intelligence to realise that defeat was not failure, it was very valuable education.
Have you ever fancied someone, but been too afraid to approach them and ask them out in case they said no? Most of us have at various stages in our lives, albeit these are situations we'd probably rather forget; I know I have been in those situations several times. I'd see them, I really wanted to get to know them better, but I was too cared to ask them out in case they said no. So I didn't get to know them better. But suppose I had asked? What's the worst that could have happened? Even if they said no, I'd be no worse off than I was before; indeed, I'd be better off because I would have learned some things about asking someone out; at the very least I would know how not to do it next time, which would put me at an advantage the next time I found myself in that position.
Think of when you learned to drive a car (if you can't drive a car then I'm sure you can think of an equivalent skill you possess); I am willing to bet that you didn't sit in the car on day 1 and drive it perfectly! No, you probably stalled it a few times, took some time to get used to the basics, made plenty of mistakes along the way. But did you give up because you couldn't drive perfectly at the start? No! You took those failures for what they were - opportunities for education, and you learned those lessons, improving your skill and ability with each step.
And so it is for all of us with anything we undertake. We are very unlikely to do things perfectly from the outset. But that's no reason to avoid taking those actions in the first place. They key is to realise that we are going to make mistakes, lots of them, and to resolve to learn everything we can from those mistakes, to make the most of the opportunities for education which they really are, and to become even better in whatever we are undertaking.
Next time you face a challenge and you are scared to do anything in case of failure, take a moment to stop and reflect. Consider what is the worst which could happen; really consider it carefully for the chances are it will be much less serious than you dread.
Next, take the preparations you need to be able to survive that outcome, bearing in mind it's not going to be as bad as you fear, and you can absolutely survive whatever the outcome is.
And then go for it with the determination to succeed knowing that any defeats you encounter along the way are nothing more than guidance, learnings and education opportunities, knowing that if you take the opportunity to learn from those then not only will you succeed, you will have far greater success than you could have ever before dreamed!
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Year / Location: 2007 – 2009 / Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden, Germany
Commissioned by: Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau (award realisation)
Using bone conduction, a technology developed for hearing devices, the touched echo installation transmits sounds of the cities which were devastated in the 1945 carpet bombing in the Second World War, through the arms of the visitors when they rest their elbows on the balustrade and hold their ears closed. Several custom-made sound conductors mounted to the railing send sounds of airplanes and bombs exploding through vibrations; it is completely silent unless you touch the railing. The installation touched echo is a minimal media intervention set within a public space. The visitors of Brühl's Terrace in Dresden are taken back in time to the night of the terrible air raid which devastated their city February 13, 1945. In their role as performer, the visitor imagines themselves in the place of the Dresden inhabitants who must have closed their ears tightly in fear to shut out the horrendous noise of the explosions 65 years ago. When one leans on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through one’s arm directly into the inner ear.
Realised with the sponsorship award of Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts, with friendly support from the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau and Schlösser und Gärten Dresden, Geschäftsstelle Zwinger / Brühlsche Terrasse.
Developed in the New Media Class at the University of the Arts Berlin.
touched echo Osnabrück
Commissioned by: EMAF Osnabrück in cooperation with COLOSSAL - Kunst Fakt Fiktion
For the exhibition Bilderschlachten, part of European Media Art Festival Osnabruck 2009, I was invited to create an Osnabrück specific version of my work touched echo. The icons show the date of the first air raid on Osnabrück during World War II: 20.6.1940. Located on a bridge in the city center of Osnabrück the public space installation is heading into the direction, where English B-25 bombers attacked from. In their role as a performer visitors put themselves into the place of the people who shut their ears away from the noise of the explosions. While leaning on the balustrade the sound of airplanes and explosions is transmitted from the swinging balustrade through their arm directly into into the inner ear (bone conduction).
touched echo at National Art Center Tokyo
Commissioned by: Japan Medie Arts Festival
After receiving the Award of Excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival, I was invited to exhibit a documentation of my site specific installation touched echo at the National Art Center Tokyo.
Bone conduction consulting
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us, every day – embedded in apps and websites, it assists in data analysis, recommends streaming content and creates personalised shopping experiences. Artificial intelligence has also made its way into publishing; yet, in concrete terms, what challenges and effects should the industry expect? That is the question that Frankfurter Buchmesse and the management consultancy firm Gould Finch have explored through an international survey with 233 participants from 17 countries. The results, along with practical potential solutions, are now being published in an extensive White Paper.
A vast majority of those surveyed – CEOs and others employed in publishing, on average 41-years-old and with 13 years of professional experience – believe that the use of AI will have a powerful impact on publishing and will continue to grow in importance. That includes Holger Volland, Vice President Frankfurter Buchmesse: “For publishing houses, the possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly transparent – all around the world. Investments in AI are expected to enhance efficiency above all but also to create opportunities in new business areas. Yet it will be a challenge to integrate new technologies whilst also respecting the specific cultural characteristics of the publishing market.”
The industry is very aware of the importance and above all the potential of AI – 25% of the publishing houses surveyed have already invested in AI, and there is a clear upward trend. Yet, at the same time, this is also where the employees surveyed see the greatest challenge: large investments which, in their view, are coupled with uncertain results and the difficulty of finding the right partners and collaborators for implementation. Colin Lovrinovic, Managing Director of Gould Finch, sees a clear trend: “The results of the study and our research speak for themselves. There is no doubt that AI will become the essential key to success for the publishing industry. However, creative minds won’t be replaced by machines anytime in the near future – rather, it is much more a question of supporting publishers through clever optimisation to enable them to strengthen their core business.”
The results of the study are now available as part of the White Paper “The future importance of AI in publishing” at publishing.gouldfinch.com
In addition, the White Paper also includes many practical examples and potential solutions for how companies can integrate artificial intelligence.
Further information and the link to the study are available here: https://gouldfinch.com/en/the-future-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-the-publishing-industry/
Colin Lovrinovic, Managing Director of Gould Finch, will also present the study on Thursday, 17 October 2019, from 12 to 1 pm at the THE ARTS+ stage in Hall 4.1.
More infos about THE ARTS+/B3 festival: www.buchmesse.de and www.theartsplus.com
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About Frankfurter Buchmesse
Frankfurter Buchmesse is the international publishing industry’s biggest trade fair – with over 7,500 exhibitors from 109 countries, around 285,000 visitors, over 4,000 events and some 10,000 accredited journalists and bloggers in attendance. It is the most important international marketplace for content – from novels and children’s books to academic databases and stories for films, games and virtual reality experiences. Publishing professionals from around the world meet here with partners from the technology sector and from related creative and cultural industries, sparking new partnerships and business models. A strong conference programme ensures that Frankfurter Buchmesse is a major source of inspiration for content experts from around the world. Since 1976, the book fair has featured an annual Guest of Honour country, which showcases its book market, literature and culture to attendees in a variety of ways. Frankfurter Buchmesse organises the participation of German publishers at around 20 international book fairs and hosts trade events throughout the year in major international markets. Frankfurter Buchmesse is a subsidiary of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association). www.buchmesse.de/en
About Gould Finch
Gould Finch supports companies as a partner in their digital evolution. The technology-driven management consultancy firm not only offers advice about the latest innovations, but actually creates these themselves through intelligent products and services. Gould Finch provides support for both complex strategic issues and the concrete development and implementation of individual tools. The company’s areas of focus are the financial, energy and media sectors.
Using modular teams composed of consultants, data scientists and industry experts, Gould Finch always tailors its work precisely to each customer’s project – not just relying on proven methods but also always proactively keeping up with the times through its own developments based on artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Gould Finch has offices in Hamburg, Berlin and Düsseldorf, an international network of competent partners in Prague, Sydney and San Francisco and is an active member of the Bundesverband für Künstliche Intelligenz (Federal Association for Artificial Intelligence). https://gouldfinch.com/en/ | <urn:uuid:8ec0e72c-c843-4d13-b4ca-8203c866107b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buchmesse.de/en/press/press-releases/2019-10-10-kunstliche-intelligenz-der-verlagsbranche-frankfurter-buchmesse-und | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917209 | 1,213 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Underground cables and wires are used mainly for places where space is limited. It is most commonly found in areas where safety is a top priority. To avoid dangers, power lines must be buried in the ground and not up in the air. Underground installation can be done with a variety of cables and wires.
Installers need to consider two factors: the safety of the cable and its size. Underground wires and cables are not only safe, but they can also be difficult to repair due to their location. To minimize the need for repairs, homeowners should make sure they have something durable. Nevertheless, there are many types of underground cables and wires that are used today.
Metal Clad, abbreviated MC, quality copper clad aluminum cable can also be used to burrow. Installers need to be aware of the differences in MCs so they can choose carefully. It is best to use an MC specifically designed for underground installations.
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This is the most used item on the list. Underground Feeder, or UF, is a specially designed product for underground use. It is durable enough to withstand prolonged periods. It can even be used in wet areas, making it ideal for urban environments. In certain cases, UF can also be used in interior settings.
Nonmetallic Underground Conductor with Conductor:
This type of wiring is mainly used by hotels and airports. This system has been used by utility companies to lay down their electrical wirings. The National Electric Code regulates the NUCC.
Installation of underground wires and cables:
If you have a basic understanding of electrical wirings, installing wires and cables underground can be done easily. It is a good idea to first plan where the wire will run. Then, make sure they have a conduit that is at least 3/4 inch wide. This problem can be easily solved by purchasing an underground cable and wires. | <urn:uuid:4651869b-2609-4eaf-a57b-7d5cbe78b9f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atcommons.com/tag/wire-gauges/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95015 | 397 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly has designed a 12ha "community park and nature preserve" for the roof of a redeveloped shopping centre in California.
The installation will have 6km network of walking trails that wind around orchards, vineyards, playgrounds and an amphitheater.
The green roof, which would be the world’s largest, is part of a $3bn plan by Sand Hill Property to turn the mall into a mixed-use development complete with 2 million square metres of office space, 800 apartments, and mall with cinema, ice rink and gym.
Reed Moulds, Sand Hill’s managing director, told Mercury News: "There will be nothing like it when we are done. We believe its community focus will make this a remarkable place to live, work, dine, play, learn and recreate."
The property to be redeveloped is the Vallco Shopping Mall is in Cupertino, a southern suburb of San Jose on San Francisco bay. Development plans will be submitted to the city authorities shortly.
Sand Hill will contribute $40m to the local community, and a further $20m if the project is approved.
Viñoly will work with OLIN Landscape Architects on the project.
London’s "Walkie Talkie", a Viñoly-designed tower in the City of London, was crowned winner of the 2015 Carbuncle Cup, a prize awarded to "the ugliest building in the UK completed in the past 12 months".
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Of course almost no politician in this country has the guts to call for increased fuel taxes, lest they be crucified by their opponent in the next election. Over at the Detroit News this morning John McCormick has a novel idea that might get around this. Instead of having an up-front gas guzzler tax as we do today, we should use some of the technology at our disposal today through telematics systems such as GM's OnStar to charge users based on actual usage, including mileage, time, location, and vehicle type.
Continue reading my analysis after the jump
[Source: Detroit News]
For example someone who buys an exotic sports car like a Ferrari or Lamborghini typically doesn't accumulate as many miles on it as people in other cars. Because of that the environmental impact is actually fairly small in spite of high fuel consumption. So charging based on that actual usage makes more sense. On the other hand using a big SUV extensively in highly congested areas might cost more. Of course driving a Ferrari in similar conditions would also cost more.
Drivers would be made aware of how much the charges for various usage would be up front and could make their driving decisions accordingly. Since drivers could be charged based on their actual environmental impact they would have a clearer picture of the true cost of their actions and could adjust their behavior accordingly.
Of course this plan isn't without flaws. While many new cars coming out now are equipped with much of the required technology, it is by no means universal. There is also the issue of the 240 million+ vehicles already on the road and the fact that many of those will still be there for many years to come.
The cost of retrofitting existing vehicles would be prohibitive and probably not technically feasible in many cases. There is also the problem of cheating. Any technological solution like this could be hacked or bypassed by enterprising users or "service" personnel. There is also the non-trivial issue of privacy. People have already gotten antsy about the idea of data being logged when their airbag system goes off. If they realize that everywhere they go will be logged, a real revolt is likely to happen. Although the telematics approach could in fact the be the fairest, the other issues would probably make it totally unworkable. | <urn:uuid:25d4506d-9dc5-4f0a-b6e2-6cdc7fcf4ba9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/20/big-brother-just-might-help-you-to-consume-less-fuel-not-a-good/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.977712 | 468 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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After the demonetisation, the banks are instructed to levy charges on cash transactions above a certain limit. Further, RBI has made it mandatory to investigate unusual cash transactions. This is because a lot of malpractices were noticed when cash deposits of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes were made during the demonetisation period. A circular was passed by the Finance Ministry describing the standard operating procedure, for assessing officers, to be followed while handling such cases. There are specific cases when a verification warrant may be issued for your transaction:
Banks and other financial intermediaries with the Financial Intelligence Unit of the government file the suspicious transaction reports.
Usually, all series of cash transactions that are related to each other which value individually less than Rs 10 lakh and have occurred in less than a month and sums to a monthly aggregate that exceeds Rs 10 lakh is considered suspicious. However, this is not the only example of a suspicious bank transaction. Reporting entities can report and raise suspicion on the basis of other grounds as well.
Value of transactions: Value when just below the reporting threshold amount can be an obvious attempt to avoid reporting. When the value is inconsistent in line with the client’s apparent financial standing.
Multiple accounts: Several accounts with a common introducer, account holder, or an authorized signatory with no rationale. Unexplained transfers between multiple accounts without a rationale.
Activity in accounts: Unusual activity has been recorded when compared to past transactions. Sudden activity has been seen in dormant accounts.
Client identity: Identification documents that could not be verified within a reasonable timeframe. On the basis of false identification documents. Accounts are opened with names that are similar to other established business entities.
Nature of transactions: Unjustified and are of unusual complexity. Recurrent purchase of drafts/other negotiable instruments via cash. The nature of transactions is inconsistent when compared to what has been expected from the declared business.
There can be many scenarios that call for scrutiny. Some of the scenarios are mentioned below:
An individual who deposits cash above Rs.2.5 lakh; a senior citizen who deposits cash above Rs. 5 lakh may be scrutinised. An amount within the prescribed limit will not be scrutinised considering that the money is via household savings, earlier income, cash withdrawals, and so on.
The online verification has been enabled on the e-filing portal which will be synchronised with the internal verification portal of the income tax department. The features of the portal are listed below:People under scrutiny can submit explanations online through their login on the e-filing portal. They do not need to visit the income tax office. PAN holders can view this information using the ‘Cash Transactions 2016’ under the ‘Compliances’ section.
An SMS and email will be sent to all persons under scrutiny directing them to submit online responses on the e-filing portal. Such persons who are not registered should register immediately under ‘Register yourself’ link. Registered taxpayers must update their e-mail address and mobile number on the portal are accurate to receive communication from the department.
Individuals can check the guides and FAQs section of the IT department’s website to submit their responses.
Low-risk cases can be closed centrally, while the other cases will be assigned to AOs for verification.
AOs will view all submissions and ask to submit further verification proofs online. The supporting documents must be submitted online.
If the documents and proofs submitted online are satisfactory, the AO will close the verification online.
If you have any sort of questions or queries during the process, you can find guidance by referring to the ‘Help’ section of the e-filing portal. You can also refer to the FAQs to find a solution for your queries. Alternatively, you can refer to a document titled ‘Cash Transactions 2016 User Guide’. You can also learn from the ‘User Guide on Verification of Cash Transactions on ITBA-AIMS module’, a guidelines document AOs abide by during verification.
Assessing officers have the liberty to close a person’s records after verification with due permission from the concerning authorities. The relevant authority for tier-1 cities is Additional/Joint CIT heading the range for transactions below Rs.10 lakh. For other cities, the AO needs to refer to the Pr. CIT.
In the case of non-compliance, the AO can view the ITS profile of the PAN holders, exercise powers under Section 133(6) with the approval of the prescribing authority, survey action under Section 133A, and more. On the other hand, the AO can consider initiating penal proceedings under section 269SS or 269T of the Act. | <urn:uuid:a51acbdb-a6d1-4d81-88d7-d50f47342162> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cleartax.in/s/itd-defines-guidelines-verification-suspicious-bank-accounts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933254 | 995 | 2 | 2 |
Seeds are self-propagating solutions to climate change if we steward them in a way that supports diversity, adaptability, and shared benefit. When growers plant their seed each spring, they rely on the genetics contained within each seed to survive pests and diseases, and to withstand variable weather.
From surviving high temperatures to the flavor and yield of the harvest, seed dictates the quality and security of our food supply, and therefore has an enormous impact on how we farm and what we eat. Thankfully members of Congress are taking notice.
Congresswoman Pingree’s Agriculture Resilience Act will result in more public cultivars that help growers adapt to, and mitigate the effects of, climate change. The bill has an overarching national goal of net zero emissions for the agricultural sector by 2040, and includes actions and initiatives in the areas of research, soil health, pasture-based livestock, food loss and waste, on-farm renewable energy, and farmland preservation and farm viability.
Sec. 206 of the bill focuses on public cultivar and breed research by creating the position of public breed and cultivar research coordinator within USDA. It also calls for the development of a strategic plan that focuses on delivering resource-efficient, stress-tolerant, and regionally adapted crop cultivars and livestock breeds that can help build agricultural resilience to climate change and support on-farm carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas mitigation.
Importantly, the bill requires increased investments in this area of research. The bill calls on the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to invest at least $50 million in 2021 in public cultivar development (increasing to $100 million by 2026).
“To address the impact of climate change on agriculture, we have to turn our attention to the first link in our food production chain – seed,” says OSA’s Kiki Hubbard. “Congresswoman Pingree’s H.R. 5861 will result in new public cultivars that help growers adapt to increasingly variable climates. Seed diversity is essential to building agricultural resilience. We applaud the Congresswoman for her leadership on climate change beginning with how we farm and the seed we plant.”
If you are a farmer, make your voice heard on this issue by joining thousands of other farmers who have signed this letter addressed to Congress and the USDA to express concerns about climate change impacts on agriculture and to call for solutions that invest in our rural and agricultural communities. | <urn:uuid:ea07968c-558a-4a0f-8975-73c8fe836338> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seedalliance.org/2020/osa-endorses-the-agriculture-resilience-act/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.93547 | 505 | 2.890625 | 3 |
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Management structure for school screening
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) will provide turn-key testing options to school districts including management of all testing. DHHR has also collaborated with the West Virginia Primary Care Association to provide outreach and education to schools to promote testing and reduce fear and anxiety associated with COVID-19 and testing.
Support provided to school districts
Screening testing guidance document was developed and shared with K-12 schools and aligns with CDC Screening Testing Recommendations for K-12 Schools by Community Transmission. This document guides schools in selecting a plan as part of a layered approach to mitigating disease transmission in the school setting. | <urn:uuid:f40aab35-00e3-47fa-a400-bd07dd18b8d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cdc.gov/ncezid/dpei/elc/covid-response/states/west-virginia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95688 | 166 | 2.3125 | 2 |
I was surprised to find out Japan leads in egg consumption. Japanese imported chickens that laid a lot of eggs and were encouraged to eat them for protein and nutrients post war to improve the health of citizens.
Meanwhile Americans went on a unscientific fear mongering of cholesterol rich foods.
Eggs are protein rich and high in choline which is good for the brain. Eggs are basically nature’s vitamins which a little bit of everything besides vitamin C. It’s something I eat everyday in my diet.
There is a strange fascination with eggs in Taiwan. Never saw any other place in the world where eggs are sold in so many different places and where you can even buy prepackaged ready-to-eat eggs in the supermarket
“A very unique thing about Korean Sauna Eggs is their egg white turns brown in color. You don’t need any special type of eggs to make them, just regular eggs It’s the special cooking process that turns the egg white brown!”
With all due respect I rather trust a multivariate scientific analysis than this overly simplistic argument. Probably the low rate of heart disease in Japan is really due to other factors such as a low rate of meat and high fish consumption and would be even lower if they also did not eat so many eggs. | <urn:uuid:588026d1-a466-4d64-9ed0-4df20ba14455> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tw.forumosa.com/t/eat-more-eggs/205178 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966428 | 269 | 2.03125 | 2 |
College Life: The Best Apps to Make It Easier and More Interesting
College is a time of exploration and growth. It can also be a time of stress and overwhelm, especially if you’re not prepared for it. One way to make college life easier and more fun is to download some helpful apps! From study apps, organization tools to relaxing app, we have you covered! So read on to learn more about the best apps for college life.
7 Useful Apps & Websites to Make College Life Easier
1. Google Calendar
As anyone who has ever tried to coordinate a meeting knows, managing schedules can be a challenge. Fortunately, there’s a tool that can help: Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a free online calendar that makes it easy to keep track of events and appointments. Students can create multiple calendars, share them with others, and receive email reminders of upcoming events.
Google Calendar also integrates with other Google products, such as Gmail and Google Drive, making it easy to add attachments or locations to calendar entries. Best of all, Google Calendar is available on both desktop and mobile devices, so users can stay organized even when they’re on the go. Whether you’re coordinating a business meeting or planning a family vacation, Google Calendar is an essential tool for keeping everyone on track.
Spotify is a music streaming service that launched in 2008. It allows users to listen to music on demand and creates personalized playlists. Spotify also has a social component, letting users follow friends and see what they’re listening to. The company has been successful, with over 406 million active users and 180 million subscribers by the end of 2021.
Spotify’s music selection is pretty staggering—according to the company, it includes more than 50 million tracks. Whether you’re looking for today’s top pop hits, or a niche band from your hometown that only released an EP a few years ago, there’s a good chance you can find it.
In addition, Spotify isn’t just about music, you can find a ton of content audio content as it has one of the widest music and spoken-word content libraries.
3. Essay Writing Help with Studyclerk
Studyclerk is an online platform that connects college students with tutors for help with homework, essay writing, and test prep. The app wants every student to have access to quality education, so they convenient, personalized services. Tutors offering Studyclerk research paper help are experts in their field and can help students with everything from math to literature. Their team of editing professionals can proofread your work and give you feedback on your progress. This can help you improve constantly and become better at what you are doing in school. Plus, for students who lack time, this is a great opportunity to set aside their time for other duties than college.
Venmo is a peer-to-peer payment app that allows students to send and receive money with just a few taps on their smartphones. It’s a convenient way to pay friends back for dinner or split the cost of an Uber ride. And because it’s linked to your bank account, there’s no need to carry around cash or checks.
Venmo is also a great way to pay for goods and services online. Many businesses now accept Venmo as a form of payment, so you can use it to shop at your favorite stores or buy tickets to events. You can even use Venmo to donate to charity. In short, Venmo is a fast, easy, and convenient way to send and receive money. And best of all, it’s shared by everyone around you.
Quizlet is a website and app that help users learn and retain information using flashcards and other study tools. It’s a great resource for students of all ages, and it can be used for anything from preparing for a test to learning a new language. Quizlet is easy to use and it’s free to sign up, so there’s no reason not to give it a try.
There are millions of existing flashcard sets to choose from, or you can create your own. You can also share sets with friends or classmates, which makes studying more fun and efficient. Whether you’re a student or just looking for a way to improve your memory, Quizlet is worth checking out.
Tinder is a location-based social search mobile app that allows users to like (swipe right) or dislike (swipe left) other users, and allows users to chat if both parties swiped to the right (a match). The app is used as a dating app or hookup app, depending on the student’s particular preference.
Also, it operates on a freemium business model; students can swipe right (like potential dates) or left (dislike potential dates). Tinder has been operational since 2012 and is currently available in over 190 countries. This app could help students get to know other people and get out of their comfort zones.
StudyBlue, founded in 2009, is a San Francisco, CA based startup providing a cloud platform and iOS and Android apps for students to create, organize, share materials, and study. Students can connect with others who are on a similar learning journey through a shared library of more than 250+ million pieces of user-generated content.
Here were our top picks for the best apps that you can use to make your college life easier and more fun. Are you using any one of them? If we miss other helpful apps for college life? Tell us in the comments. | <urn:uuid:d96d0a13-6f15-4d78-81f0-72482bcc8eab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appreview360.com/app-for-college-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937031 | 1,183 | 1.765625 | 2 |
TALKING IS TEACHING
Did you know when you "TALK, READ, and SING"—even before your child can use words—you’re building up your child's vocabulary and preparing him/her for success in school and life? We know it may not always be easy to talk to babies, especially when they can’t talk back to us. That is why Help Me Grow Allegan is excited to be joining Too Small To Fail's "TALKING IS TEACHING" campaign and offering families fun new tips, songs, books and games to better connect with their children every day. We believe ALL children can be stronger readers and writers in school!!! After all Parents/Guardians are our baby’s first and best teachers!
Free "TALKING IS TEACHING" materials are available at all Allegan County playgroups. If you are interested in receiving "TALKING IS TEACHING" materials, please visit our Family Coaches and Playgroup webpage for schedules and locations.
Parents, grandparents, and caregivers get out and explore new sites with your children. By simply asking your child questions and pointing out new things to them, you are expanding their vocabulary and teaching them new concepts. Visit parks, museums, and zoos. Walk nature trails. Go shopping or simply enjoy the sights and sounds of your backyard and neighborhood.
Through Museums for All, those receiving food assistance (SNAP benefits) can gain free or reduced admission to more than 850 museums throughout the United States simply by presenting their EBT card. Search below to find a participating museum near you!
Michigan is working towards becoming a "TALKING IS TEACHING" state. Check out Wayne County's "TALKING IS TEACHING" videos created by an amazing Great Start Parent Coalition dad.
Did you know our local libraries offer FREE story times and activities for children ages 0-5 years old? Many of them participate in 1,ooo Books Before Kindergarten and TALK (Text and Learn for Kindergarten). Visit your local library to sign up for these amazing literacy opportunities. If your library doesn't participate in TALK, you can sign up through the state at TALK (texttolearn.com).
Great Start Readiness
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Great Start Collaborative
Great Start Family Connected Liaison
"TALKING IS TEACHING: TALK, READ, and SING” is a local grassroots effort to boost child brain development and early learning in order to tackle the "Word Gap".
"TALKING IS TEACHING" takes normal, every day conversations parents & guardians have with their children and turns them into fun, teachable moments. If your agency is interested in partnering with Allegan County's Great Start Collaborative and our early literacy campaign, please fill out the form below. After all, WE are a community that ensures all children have opportunities to learn and understand the meaning and uses of new words. | <urn:uuid:cca90bbf-422e-4241-8d32-43a833a2e2e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helpmegrowallegan.org/talkingisteaching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927556 | 704 | 2.9375 | 3 |
You’ve adopted a dog… and now it’s time to introduce him to your neighbors! Here’s how to make sure he’s on his best behavior.
There are many dog lovers in the world, but not everyone is as comfortable or happy around dogs as you might expect. While introducing your new dog to neighbors may seem like a stressful task, there are some simple tactics you can use to ensure that your pup is neighbor friendly.
Keep it casual
One simple way to help your dog get used to his new surroundings and become familiar with the neighbors is to go out for a walk. Say hello to your neighbors and introduce your dog from a distance to start. This is also a good opportunity to find and meet other dogs in the community, as well as help ease any tensions or concerns that your neighbors might have about a dog living in their neighborhood.
Train your dog
If you have a well-trained dog, life will be much easier. Ensure that you take the time and effort early on to train your dog. Using positive reinforcement, teach him not to bark or growl at passing neighbors. Excessive barking and aggression are habits built over time, so do your best to shut them down at the onset. Above all, make sure that your dog knows never to jump up on a neighbor.
Get plenty of exercise
Make sure that you go for at least one daily walk with your dog. Dogs who get plenty of exercise are much happier and much more tired! No matter the age of your dog, both of you will benefit from a walk. It will allow you to bond, as well as to help familiarize your dog with the scents and people of the neighborhood. Most veterinarians recommend aiming for 30 to 60 minutes of exercise each day. This is even more important if you have an energetic pup. A healthy and well-exercised dog will be less likely to develop behavioral problems.
Ensure your dog is secure
A secure fence will let your dog play and run around safely on your property, while also keeping other pets and people out. Whenever you leave, make sure your dog is safely in your home to prevent him from wandering around your neighborhood. Additionally, you should always make sure that your dog is on a leash when you go out into the community. It will allow you to have good control, enabling you to display consideration towards your neighbors and members of the community who may not be as fond of dogs.
Treat children with caution
Children can frighten dogs, causing unwanted behavior. Younger children especially don’t always know the best way to interact with dogs, and between the tail-grabbing and ear-pulling, can put your dog in a stressful situation. Always check that a parent is with a child that’s approaching your dog, especially if they want to pet him. Remember, you know your dog best, so approach children with your dog at your discretion.
Reward good behavior
As part of training your dog, make sure that you reward him for good behavior. Whether that’s a tickle behind the ears, a treat or some kind words, these positive reinforcements can be very effective. Equally, make sure that any aggressive behavior is not tolerated. If your dog behaves aggressively, remove him from the situation immediately.
Get feedback from neighbors
Check in with your neighbors occasionally to find out how things are going from their perspective. It can particularly helpful to find out how he’s behaving when you aren’t around – can they hear him barking in the house? Asking for your neighbor’s feedback can help you diffuse any tension and resolve issues before they turn your friendly neighbors into foes. | <urn:uuid:5bbbe1f4-b1cf-413b-8975-486876019077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://animalwellnessmagazine.com/dog-neighbor-friendly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970559 | 756 | 2.015625 | 2 |
We talk a lot on this blog about training for baseball, but not much about mechanics or the actual pitching motion in general. Today I’d like to take a quick look at one part of pitching mechanics that we study: The relationship between the pitching arm wrist and the pitching arm elbow during the late-cocking phase of the pitching delivery.
In the late-cocking phase of the pitching delivery, there are very high forces placed on the shoulder and arm segments as they rotate upwards of 937 degrees/second and 1160 degrees/second, respectively. Part of what can cause the serious forces on the elbow in particular is how the arm lays back in Maximum Shoulder External Rotation (MER).
How the arm reaches MER is vitally important – in pitchers with timing flaws, the forearm violently lays back behind the elbow in rapid succession, causing significant torque on the elbow. However, this can be minimized with training and slight mechanical changes, both of which are beyond the scope of this introductory article.
One way we study the relationship between the pitching arm wrist and elbow is to perform a trajectory analysis on a pitcher, measuring the path of the pitcher’s driveline and the rate of change of various arm segments. While I can’t show you any video from my current clients (privacy reasons and all), I can show you some anonymous data from a first-time client that I have handy. This pitcher is a youth pitcher who had his recent entry evaluation with high-speed footage taken within the past month. The chart below details the relationship between the pitching elbow (blue) and the pitching wrist (red). Also shown in the chart are the rates of change (delta) between each time interval (0.00476 seconds, if you were wondering!) as well as the delta between each delta! (Absolute values were used in measuring the rate of change of the deltas.)
What does this chart tell us? Well, the red and blue numbers are measured in pixels and detail the wrist and elbow’s paths, respectively. In this student’s case, the pitching elbow rapidly outpaces the pitching wrist, causing the forearm to lay back fairly rapidly in MER. The sum of all the deltas in the right-hand column expresses the absolute difference in rates of change between the two segments of the arm and tells us something about timing flaws. While not every pitcher should be within a given range, this is but one more variable that we use to analyze a pitcher’s mechanics and can tell us a lot about how the arm is used. | <urn:uuid:30d0433e-96fe-4d3c-9a67-93bb5498ecf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/2010/01/kinematic-analysis-wrist-to-elbow-relationship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957563 | 528 | 2.328125 | 2 |
A child is not immune to the emotional fatigue that occurs with the challenging times of life.
These challenging times may include:
- A death in the family;
- Difficulties in social interactions;
- The loss of a pet;
- Peer disagreements and bouts;
- Coping with troublesome behaviour; or
- Falling behind in school work.
Hobart City Mission’s School Chaplaincy Program is there to provide support to help the child’s emotional wellbeing. HCM’s chaplains provide emotional support to students through one-on-one meetings, group sessions or during school trips and excursions.
By being there when the child needs it most, HCM’s chaplains creates a friendly connection with the school community.
Hobart City Mission’s School Chaplaincy Program is funded by State Government.
The program operates in a number of schools in Southern Tasmania. If you are interested in finding out more, or applying to have HCM’s chaplaincy program at your school, please call (03) 6215 4200 or email firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:c97475d1-c04a-4b6f-8ba5-9df5bb0b51f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hobartcitymission.org.au/school-chaplaincy-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934532 | 248 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Vladimir Zivanovic, MsC MD, Goran Vasic, MD, Radoslav Perunovic, PhD MD, Predrag Stevanovic, PhD MD, Radisav Scepanovic, PhD MD. KBC Dr D.Misovic University hospital
Laparoscopic cholecystectomie as one day procedure, we start in December 2009 and we perform 1805 operations until the end of September 2011. Out of 1805 cholecystectomies 172 was performed for acute inflamation. All patient was released next day after control US examination and blood sample for bilirubin, so thay spent less than 24 hour in hospital bed. Oldest patient was 81 year old.
At the department of surgery “Dr D. Mišovic” hospital in Belgrade, After a fire in our surgical department with 120 bads we have to close department. After a month we rearenge in near by bilding with urology department 6 bads for laparoscopic one day surgery. We have to rearenge ambulatory preparing of patients sutiable for one day surgery. We do all necessary preparation including prehospital bowel preparation and DVT prophylaxis, so patient came to hospital only one hour before the operation.
Cholecystectomie performed as emergency procedures was organised through emergency department. After examination of the patient with US and neccesary laboratory test with decision for emediate surgery and anesteziology consultation for fitting the one day surgery, patient was taken to the OR and performed emergency surgery for acute cholecystitis. After thorough rinsing of abdominal cavity et the end of procedure and one protective shot of antibiotic other outcome is same as in elective surgery. We use drainage tube in one case and their removal was next day before discharge from hospital.
Using ultrasound hook and water dissection reveal itself as an adequate tool. In same manner ultrasound dissection shorten operation time because we can dissect tissue without losing time on changing instrument. In conclusion we can advocate one day surgery in patients with acute and chronic cholecystitis.
Session Number: Poster – Poster Presentations
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When Gov. Chris Christie took office, New Jersey distinguished itself in two unflattering ways.
The state had the highest taxes in the nation and the worst unemployment in the region, according to a television ad recently released by the 501(c)(4) advocacy group Committee for Our Children’s Future. Now, the group’s ad claims, Christie is working to cast off those unfavorable rankings.
"They inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region, but Chris Christie and New Jersey reformers are cleaning up the mess," the narrator of the ad posted to YouTube on Jan. 31 says. "The result: the most job growth in 11 years, millions in new education funding, two budgets balanced. Now, Chris Christie and reformers are fighting to strengthen our economy, improve education and cut income taxes for all New Jersey families. So join our reform movement. Keep New Jersey moving forward."
PolitiFact New Jersey previously checked two ads released by Committee for Our Children’s Future. In those rulings, we found it’s true New Jersey had the most private-sector job growth in 11 years and the governor increased education funding in his latest budget. It’s also true he’s balanced two budgets, as required by law.
Now, we’re assessing the claim that when Christie took office New Jersey had the "highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region."
New Jersey’s taxes are high, but whether they are the highest in the nation is debatable.
Brian Jones, a spokesman for Committee for Our Children’s Future, cited an analysis of state and local tax burdens by the Tax Foundation, a business-backed group that studies tax issues.
New Jersey tops a list compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based group for its state and local tax burden. The Tax Foundation defines tax burden as "effective tax rates calculated by totaling state-local level taxes paid by taxpayers in each state, then dividing by their income."
In 2009, the year before Christie took office, New Jersey had a state and local tax burden of 12.2 percent. New York was a close second at 12.1 percent, followed by Connecticut at 12 percent.
So, the group is right, according to the Tax Foundation. But other studies on tax burdens show New Jersey isn’t the highest. Our colleagues at PolitiFact Ohio addressed this issue in a September 2010 ruling. They found that tax experts disagree over how best to define tax burden and "rankings can vary wildly depending on which taxes are included, which data sets are employed and which projections are applied."
In an analysis by the Federation of Tax Administrators, which provides services to state tax authorities and administrators, New Jersey ranks ninth for the percent of personal income spent on state and local taxes. Alaska ranks first.
However, Ronald Alt, senior research associate at the Federation of Tax Administrators, said there are caveats to the rankings. For example, Alaska takes in a large share of its taxes from oil revenues and Alt said, "most likely their citizens don't pay a large portion of that."
The Tax Foundation puts Alaska 50th in the nation for its state and local tax burden.
Mark Robyn, an economist with the Tax Foundation, said his group sometimes calculates total tax collections as a percent of income, but "we just don't think it is appropriate to call that a ‘tax burden’" because it doesn’t address issues such as taxes shifting across state lines.
Alt said New Jersey’s taxes are high, but "it's very difficult to come out and claim that one state has the highest overall just because there are many different ways of looking at it and there many different types of taxes."
The group also claimed New Jersey had the "worst unemployment in the region" when Christie took office.
Jones said his group was defining the region as New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware -- all of which had lower unemployment rates than New Jersey when Christie took office. "We’re not getting up into New England," he said.
In January 2010, New Jersey’s unemployment rate stood at 9.8 percent. The same month New York’s was 8.9 percent, Pennsylvania’s was 8.8 percent and Delaware’s was 8.8 percent.
It’s worth noting that the U.S. Census Bureau classifies New Jersey as part of the northeast region with Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Rhode Island. The region is split into two divisions. New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania belong to the middle Atlantic division.
So, New Jersey’s jobless rate was higher than the two other states in its Census division. But among states in the northeast region, Rhode Island had a higher unemployment rate of 11.8 percent than New Jersey in January 2010.
Committee for Our Children’s Future claims in an ad that the governor "inherited the highest taxes in America and the worst unemployment in the region."
A business-backed group ranks New Jersey worst in the nation for its state and local tax burden. The advocacy group is correct by that measure. But there are other measures of tax burden where New Jersey doesn’t rank first and there isn't clear consensus on how best to define tax burden.
New Jersey had the highest unemployment rate among its neighbors when Christie took office, and still does. Among all the states in the northeast, only Rhode Island’s jobless rate tops New Jersey’s.
We rate the statement Mostly True.
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PolitiFact New Jersey, Television ad promotes Chris Christie’s spending cuts, increased education funding, Oct. 6, 2011
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PolitiFact Ohio, John Kasich says Ohio is one of the most taxed states, Sept. 15, 2010
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Significant progress made by the government in gas infrastructure will ensure the full utilisation of the country’s indigenous gas, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, the Deputy Minister of Energy has said.
He said the infrastructure included the completion of phase one of the Takoradi-Tema Interconnection project, which would allow the country to flow up to 60 MMscfd of Ghanaian gas from the West to the East.
Another infrastructure, he said, was the successful completion of the relocation of the Karpowership from Tema to Takoradi with other accompanying infrastructure such as 330V power transmission line and a 10 kilometre gas pipeline to allow switching from Heavy Fuel Oil for powership and saving about 100million dollars per annum in fuel costs.
Dr Amin Adam was speaking on Tuesday at the Ghana Gas Forum 2019 on the theme: “Promoting dynamic policy towards the optimisation of regional gas resources” organised by the Ghana Gas Consortium.
The Minister said there was, however, the need to develop different infrastructure options to diversify gas transportation and ensure security of supply.
He urged the West African Gas Pipeline Company to consider changing its business model and to begin trade in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), taking advantage of various LNG terminals to be built across West Africa.
Dr Amin Adam said there was the need for stakeholders to consider the cost of projects and appropriately sequence them to ensure competitive pricing for downstream gas utilisation, adding that it would incentivise domestic demand to support industrialisation.
Mr Emmanuel U. Anyaeto, Managing Director, Integrated Gas and Energy Services, in a presentation, said palm oil was a great asset for the African continent but currently the continent averagely imported palm oil.
He said it was important for African governments to learn the lessons of palm oil towards maximising the profit that came with natural gas.
Mr Anyaeto said it was important for Africa to monetise natural gas because it had many components that could be sold separately to raise more revenue, adding that “never sell natural gas as a whole but sell them separately in components. He said diversifying the use of natural gas for industrial feedstock also has high potential to reduce the increasing unemployment rates in Africa.
Mr Charles Darku, the Chief Executive of the Ghana Upstream Petroleum Chamber (GUPC), said countries in West Africa ought to collaborate to create wealth for the entire region to avoid creating an island of wealth.
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Re-engineering CD4 T- Cells into Lineage Specifiic, Pluripotent Stem Cells (Tscm)
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The present invention introduces a method of re-engineering CD4 T-cells to induce stem cell like memory (Tscm) functions therein. The proposed method uses MEK 1/2 inhibitors to produce CD4 memory cells with stem cell properties. The MEK 1/2 inhibition allows naïve CD4 T-cells to become amenable to lineage specific conditioning, leading to the generation of specific effectors cells upon antigenic stimulation. Thus, the invention provides a means of generating disease specific Tscm cells, with properties including; self-renewability, robust antigen specific responses and cytokine sensitive differentiation into CD4 subpopulations.
T-cell therapy is a fast-growing area of interest in treatment approaches to cancer and other diseases. The current state of the art utilizes variations of in-vitro strategies to generate therapeutic T-cells, ultimately requiring the re-infusion of modified T-cells. These approaches invariably require a large number of T-cells to prove efficacious, and these cells undergo exhaustion and apoptosis.
Georgetown researchers herein advance an approach focused on re-engineering such cells into Tscm. This novel approach establishes significantly effective tool for the generation of high-fidelity therapeutic T cells that are robust and patient specific. Furthermore, this proposal induces pluripotency, granting T-cells the ability to differentiate into different CD4 subtypes that can be utilized in a wide range of pathological conditions.
- Enhance the therapeutic efficacy of CD4 T cells
- Ex Vivo generation of lineage specific Tscm CD4 T-cells that would give rise to specific CD4 T effector cells with specific therapeutic applications in specific diseases
- In vivo utilization of MEK-inhibitors to enhance the metabolic fitness of the CD4 T-cells
- In vivo utilization of MEK-inhibtors to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of immune-modulatory antibodies including but not limited to anti-PD1, anti-PDL1, anti-OX40, anti-GITR.
- Personalized therapy i.e., meeting the challenges of a particular patient’s conditions
- Generation of pluripotent stem cells provides the ability to create different types of CD4 T cells that can be utilized in different pathological conditions
- Cells have memory functions, making them specific to a particular antigen and can give rise to highly specific and robust antigen specific effector cells
- Solves longstanding problem of T-cell exhaustion and apoptosis, brought on by infusions of T-cell derivatized in-vitro
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Have generated Tscm CD4 cells and tested their anti-tumor potential in pre-clinical models. The methods for the generation of these cells and their application have been validated.
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President Joe Biden and the Federal Reserve face growing calls to prevent rising inflation from hurting the economy as the U.S. attempts to recover from the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Hill reports.
While some inflation had been expected as the economy reopens and customers begin spending after a widespread decline during the pandemic, the sudden increase in prices has some concerned. The consumer price index rose by 0.8% in April for a 4.2% increase in total over the past year, according to the Labor Department, the fastest annual rate since 2008.
“There's never been a time that I know of in history where you have had a significant increase in money supply where you don't have inflation,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told the Hill.
“Now people are spending again, and obviously April's numbers show that they're spending even more aggressively than forecasters, most of them, anticipated,” said George Selgin, a Cato Institute economic policy expert.
“There are some adverse supply shocks going on, some of which affected the April numbers, but the big story is the pent-up demand and purchasing power that people have finally started to dispose of,” he said.
Selgin also noted that the Fed is having a difficult time convincing financial markets about its new stance on inflation, which involves letting prices rise above the target level to make up for years of low inflation that has hurt wage growth and the Fed’s ability to raise interest rates. The central bank said it won’t raise interest rates until inflation is set to make up for shortfalls and the U.S. has reached maximum employment, which likely won’t happen for another year.
“All of these reasons make this a difficult time for the Fed to start raising interest rates, and that means we have to worry whether it will do so when it needs to do so aggressively enough to meet its targets,” he said.
Scott said that the Biden administration should cut back on the $1.9 trillion infrastructure plan, which he says is financially unfeasible.
“You have to stop the reckless spending,” Scott said. “The federal government's got to start living within its means.”
But many economists say that prices will naturally settle once the economy goes back to normal.
“We've only seen really two months of strong price increases,” said Laura Rosner-Warburton, senior economist at the research service MacroPolicy Perspectives.
“It would be premature and kind of an overreaction to look at the [April CPI report] in particular and to be overly concerned,” she said, adding that the price increase was due to three short-term causes: statistical quirks that come with a sudden increase after a year of significant decline, supply restrictions caused by the pandemic, and the pent-up demand that people are now able to release.
“Last year, we had outright declines in prices, and this year, we're not seeing those declines repeat,” she said. “So on a year-over-year basis, comparing it looks like inflation is artificially higher because of the decline last year.”
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Could This Huge Invasive Spider be Headed Here to Louisiana?
Louisiana is apparently not just a melting top for all types of diversity in cultures, but apparently we've left the Welcome Sign up for a number of unwanted invasive species as well.
We are obviously mired in the battle with the invasive aquatic weed Salvinia and it would appear it is a losing battle.
We've recently learned that another invasive species of fish, the Lowland Cichlid, has joined the ranks of the Russian boars, Apple Snails and Silver Carp, that daily threaten our ecosystem.
The newest invader comes with eight legs in the form of the Joro spider. In an article from the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, we learn that this Asian spider was first discovered in Georgia eight years ago in 2013.
The palm-sized spider, measuring nearly three inches across, has since established a well-entrenched foot print in Georgia and according to experts, will most likely spread to any area with climate like that in the North Georgia counties.
They're in Georgia. What Makes Experts Think They'll Come to Louisiana?
Guess who's climate is just like that? Yep, we do. So, Louisiana is a likely target for the spread. The biggest drawback to the Joro is its massive webs, some of which measure ten feet in diameter.
In an article from smithsonianmag.com, we get a better perspective about those webs:
"Last year, there were dozens of spiders [on my property], and they began to be something of a nuisance when I was doing yard work," Will Hudson, an entomologist at the University of Georgia, says in the press release. "This year, I have several hundred, and they actually make the place look spooky with all the messy webs—like a scene out of 'Arachnophobia.'"
Is it all bad news? Not so much. Apparently, Joro spiders really don't pose much of a threat to humans.
According to the article from the University of Georgia, Byron Freeman, director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History, says, "All spiders have venom that they use to subdue prey. If you put your hand in front of one and try to make it bite you, it probably will. But they run if you disturb their web. They’re trying to get out of the way."
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These records document the history of the Department of Aeronautics from 1966-1986, a period marked by intensive planning for the new museum, its construction and opening in July 1976, and the emergence of the National Air and Space Museum as a large and important bureau of the Smithsonian and the most visited …
National Academy of Design records
The records of New York City's National Academy of Design measure 92.7 linear feet and date from 1817-2012. The records pertain to all three constituents of the tripartite organization consisting of the Academy, a membership body of artists founded in 1825; the school, founded at the same time to promote arts education; and the exhibition program, inaugurated in 1826. Extensive administrative records include minutes, committee files, director files, annual reports, constitutions, and correspondence and subject files of council officers. Exhibition records, also substantive, date to the Academy's first annual exhibition and include gallery and special exhibitions, as well as exhibitions at the Academy's museum, established in 1979. The collection also includes gifts and funding files, especially relating to endowments and prizes; membership records; National Academy Association records; Ranger Fund assignments; extensive files pertaining to the school's administration, courses of instruction, registrations, and attendance; twenty scrapbooks containing clippings and ephemera; Society of American Artists records; correspondence and ephemera from other organizations; transcripts from oral histories with Academy members; extensive photographic material documenting artists, members, the school, exhibitions, buildings, and artwork created by Academy members; artist files containing correspondence, writings, and sketches from those associated with the Academy; and assorted printed material and ephemera.
Jacques Lipchitz papers and Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz
The Jacques Lipchitz papers and Bruce Bassett papers concerning Jacques Lipchitz measure 52.8 linear feet and are dated circa 1910-2001, with the bulk of the material from the period 1941-2001. Papers are comprised of sculptor Jacques Lipchitz's personal papers and filmmaker Bruce Bassett's papers relating to Jacques Lipchitz. Lipchitz's personal papers contain personal and professional correspondence, comprising nearly half of the series, and biographical material, writings by and about Lipchitz, printed material, and photographs documenting Lipchitz's commissions, exhibitions, friendships, and interests. Also found are records relating to the compilation and production of The Sculpture of Jacques Lipchitz: A Catalogue Raisonné by Alan G. Wilkinson. The Bruce Bassett papers relating to Jacques Lipchitz consist mainly of Bassett's extensive audiovisual documentation of Lipchitz's life and art. Also found are paper records related to the audiovisual projects, including letters, business records, printed materials, and production records. A small quantity of material unrelated to Lipchitz is also found among the Bassett material, including video and sound recordings related to Sidney Lifchez, IBM, Isamu Noguchi, the Storm King Sculpture Center, and Auguste Rodin.
Joseph Lindon Smith papers
The papers of Boston and New Hampshire painter Joseph Lindon Smith date from 1647-1965, with the bulk of papers dating from 1873-1965, and measure 8.8 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials; letters from family members, artists, museums, and art patrons; seven diaries by Smith and two by his wife Corinna, personal business records, notes and writings, files concerning charitable theatrical productions, one sketchbook and other art work, a scrapbook, printed material, photographs, and sound recordings of radio interviews and a radio program on Smith.
World House Galleries records
The records of New York City World House Galleries measure 9.8 linear feet and date from 1927 to 1991, with the bulk of them dating from 1953 to 1980. The collection documents the gallery's general business affairs, sales, and relationships with artists from 1953-1968, and later gifts and sales by founder entrepreneur and art collector Herbert Mayer. Artists for which files are found include Jean Dubuffet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee and Georgio Morandi, among many others. Additional records include correspondence, inventory records, sales and purchase records, records of gifts and auctions, and shipping and consignment records.
These records provide primary documentation of Theodore H. Reed's twenty-seven year career as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). Also included are a few records created during his tenure as Senior Advisor, 1983-1984. A small amount of material was created by Reed's predecessor, William M. Mann. Included are materials concerning …
Henri Gallery records
The records of Henri Gallery, a Washington, D.C. gallery that showed painters from the Washington Color School and emerging artists, measure 55.4 linear feet and date from circa early 1900s, 1940 to 1996, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1957 to 1995. The gallery's relationship with artists and clients, exhibitions, sales, and other business is documented in alphabetical files containing a wide variety of materials, including correspondence, sales records, printed materials, photographs, slides, and motion picture film. Additional correspondence, newspaper clippings, 114 exhibition posters, scattered drawings, illustrated cards, and photographic materials are also found in the collection.
Department of Anthropology records
Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology records contain administrative and research materials produced by the department and its members from the time of the Smithsonian Institution's foundation until today.
George Leslie Stout papers
The papers of conservator and museum director George Leslie Stout measure 6.4 linear feet and date from 1855, 1897-1978. Stout was head of the conservation department at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, director of the Worcester Art Museum and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Massachusetts, and a member of the Monuments, Fine Art and Archives (MFAA) Section of the U.S. Army during World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and professional associations. There are letters from fellow Monuments Men who served in the MFAA section such as Thomas Carr Howe, Ardelia Hall, Lamont Moore, Theodore Sizer, Langdon Warner and several other prominent arts administrators. The papers also contain biographical materials, writings, sketches and one sketchbook, military records, printed materials, and photographs. There is a 0.2 linear foot addition to this collection acquired in 2020 that includes four diaries, 1944-1946, kept by George Stout as a member of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives Section (MFAA) of the U.S. Army (known as the Monuments Men). The diaries describe Stout's experiences surveying war-caused damages in France, Germany, and Japan, and the recovery of Nazi impounded art works. Also included is a hand-made booklet that includes a "Glossary of Cha-no-yu Terms," which consists of quotes about Japanese art and tea drinking.
William Mills Ivins papers
The papers, 1878-1964 (20.5 linear feet) of museum curator, director, and art scholar William Mills Ivins (1881-1961) consist of correspondence, writings, notes, photographs, and Ivins family papers. Ivins was Curator of Prints, 1916-1946, Assistant Director, 1933-1938, and Acting Director, 1938-1940 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection contains professional and personal correspondence with art historians, art dealers, museum curators, print and book collectors, and artists concerning the history of print making, book design and illustration, print collectors and collecting, exhibitions, and museum administration. Also found are Ivins' published and unpublished writings and lectures, and notes. The collection contains some Ivins' family papers including family correspondence, genealogies, and photographs. | <urn:uuid:f3d3a4d9-06af-4e9f-bcb8-29b51fecb118> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sova.si.edu/search?s=40&n=10&t=C&q=Law+--+Antiquities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930639 | 1,673 | 1.703125 | 2 |
What is a Plunge Protection Team?
The term “Plunge Protection Team” (PPT) refers to the Working Group on Financial Markets. Established in 1988 to give financial and economic advice to the United States.
This group is led by the Secretary of the Treasury during times of market volatility. Other members include the Chair of the Federal Reserve Board, the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the aides or officials they designate to represent them).
The term “Plunge Protection Team” was invented by The Washington Post and used to the organization for the first time in 1997.
The President of the United States receives direct and confidential reports from the Plunge Protection Team, which is comprised of high-ranking government financial professionals.
How the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) Works
In March 1988, in response to the 1987 stock market meltdown, President Ronald Reagan issued an executive order establishing the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets.
The idea was to establish a knowledgeable, but informal, advisory committee for the president and regulators on the markets. Charged with “improving the integrity, efficiency, orderliness, and competitiveness of our nation’s financial markets and preserving investor confidence.”
Its intended objective was to report explicitly on the Black Monday events of October 19, 1987—during which the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 22.6%—and, if necessary, to recommend appropriate responses.
Nonetheless, the panel has continued to convene and report to many presidents throughout the years, often (but not always) amid volatile financial market conditions.
In 1999, it recommended to Congress that derivatives market laws be altered. It was assembled amid the 2008 global financial crisis. The most recent Plunge Protection Team meeting (as of March 2019) took place on Christmas Eve, 2018.
Steven Mnuchin, the Secretary of the Treasury, presided over a conference call with other members of the group, as well as officials from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Concerns About the Plunge Protection Team (PPT)
Although not technically a secret, the Plunge Protection Team is not extensively reported and does not share meeting minutes or recommendations; it reports exclusively to the president.
Observers speculate that the government’s most influential financial officials are actively meddling in the markets, as opposed to just studying and advising.
Conspiracy theorists say that the organization makes trades on many exchanges when prices are falling, in collaboration with large banks like as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, in unrecorded transactions.
They often cite a statement by former Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Robert Heller, published in The Wall Street Journal in 1989, in which he proposed the Fed might actively boost the stock market via the purchase of index futures contracts.
How the Plunge Protection Team (PPT) Might Work
On Monday, February 5, 2018, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) saw a decrease that was twice as huge as its previous record-setting point fall. The decrease, however, was halved in one day due to arbitrary and aggressive purchasing.
The markets started lower on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week, but strong purchasing supported the shares on both occasions. Some claim that the Plunge Protection Team planned their aggressive purchases.
Or, to use a more current illustration: the Plunge Protection Team’s December 24, 2018 teleconference. The reason for the team’s meeting was the S&P 500’s record-breaking decrease during the whole month, and the DJIA’s 650-point decline on the 24th.
When trading resumed after the holiday break, however, the DJIA rose by nearly 1,000 points. A late-day turnaround halted the decline and allowed the market to end 600 points higher on the 27th. Conspiracy theorists say that this is not coincidental.
If accurate, this kind of manipulation resembles the acts of private bankers and financiers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who, during financial panics, would make enormous purchases to stabilize the stock market.
The Working Group on Financial Markets is comprised of U.S. government officials, although the U.S. is ostensibly a free-market economy. And also one that is not controlled by secret powers, but rather one that is transparent.
History Of Plunge Protection Team
The Working Group on Financial Markets was founded in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan’s executive order. The organization was created in reaction to 1987’s catastrophic market volatility, particularly the historic Black Monday disaster of October 1987, which sent U.S. markets into a spiral.
Concerned about economic stability and consumer confidence, the president recognized the necessity for a working group to study methods to maintain market stability and prepare strategies for responding to emergent market issues.
Who Is On The Plunge Protection Team?
Members of the Plunge Protection Team include the secretary of the treasury, who serves as the Working Group’s chairwoman, and the chairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
They convene to evaluate prospective situations, such as abrupt drops in the stock market’s value, in order to establish the most effective reactions to these occurrences.
Rule Of Plunge Protection Team
When making suggestions, the Plunge Protection Team must consider national security and financial health without interfering with the free market’s operation.
Some opponents feel that any government action constitutes meddling and that markets should be let to self-correct during volatile times. Others favor the adoption of prudent, conservative market stabilization measures, such as the implementation of rules to avoid market abuses.
During times of economic instability, skeptical investors and other market participants may accuse the Plunge Protection Team of secretly manipulating the market to induce bad market occurrences or unexpected market increases.
In reality, the team is prohibited from market manipulation, much like investors, and it focuses mostly on decision-making and policy formulation as opposed to intervening actively in current market issues. The Plunge Protection Team participates in decisions about emergency market closures and the development of new rules to handle ongoing financial problems.
Why Is The PPT Secretive?
The media does not cover the Plunge Protection Unit’s meetings or actions, giving rise to rumors and conspiracy theories surrounding the team. The likely explanation for the secrecy of its operations is because it only reports to the president.
Some analysts believe that the team’s duty is not limited to only advising the president, but that it also intervenes in the market and artificially pushes up stock prices.
Critics of the organization claim that its members collude with large banks and benefit from stock markets by trading on several stock exchanges when prices decrease. Then, as part of their market stability efforts, they artificially inflate prices and benefit from their trades.
When Does/ Have The PPT Meet?
The team’s meetings have been reported on a few occasions, despite the fact that the group’s actions have received less coverage in the mainstream media. For instance, in 1999, the group suggested to Congress that derivatives market laws be modified.
At the time of this writing in June 2022, the group’s last known meeting was in December 2018, when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin led a teleconference with group members. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Comptroller of the Currency representatives also attended the conference.
Before the December 24, 2018 teleconference, the S&P 500 and DJIA had been under pressure for a whole month. After Christmas, however, both the DJIA and the S&P 500 rallied and reversed the majority of their losses in the following days.
The rebound and improvements in the indexes are attributed by conspiracy theorists to the participation of the Plunge Protection Team.
The slang phrase “Plunge Protection Team” refers to the Working Group on Financial Markets, a group of economists and government officials that meet frequently to explore safeguards for the United States’ financial markets.
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You have to hand it to the Brits when it comes to golf. This notice was posted in war-torn Britain in 1940 in a north-country golf club.
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Buzz·Posted on Mar 28, 201440 Weird Phobias You May Not Even Know You HaveTurns out everything is terrible and completely frightening.by Justin AbarcaBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink 1. Deipnophobia Flickr: solar_decathlon / Via Creative Commons This is why you couldn't come to my Thanksgiving dinner, you being scared of dinner parties, and all. 2. Arithmophobia Flickr: mervynchua / Via Creative Commons If you hate playing the lottery, you might suffer from this phobia, which is the fear of numbers. 3. Selenophobia Flickr: iahohai / Via Creative Commons Remus Lupin's fear, which is that of the moon. 4. Ephebiphobia Pascal Le Segretain / Via Getty Images "Get off my lawn!" is what you might say if you are an adult who loathes and fears youths. 5. Allodoxaphobia Flickr: littlebiglens / Via Creative Commons Oh, you're scared of me speaking my mind, then you might have this phobia, which is the fear of opinions. 6. Genuphobia Flickr: muffett68 / Via Creative Commons The fear of knees, or, the reason you never wear shorts in the summer. 7. Octophobia Flickr: ekilby / Via Creative Commons This one is infinitely scary, since it is fear of the figure 8. 8. Oneirogmophobia Flickr: freudianslip / Via Creative Commons All teen boys must suffer from this phobia since it is the fear of wet dreams. 9. Scriptophobia Chris Brunskill / Via Getty Images If you ask a celebrity for an autograph and they decline, they may not be jerks but suffer from this phobia, which is the fear of writing in public. 10. Anuptaphobia Flickr: instantvantage / Via Creative Commons Does this hit on your 30th birthday, since it's the fear of being single? 11. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia Bill Pugliano / Via Getty Images If you were traumatized by The Omen, then you may have this phobia and it's fear of the number 666. 12. Dutchphobia Flickr: _dchris / Via Creative Commons I guess that trip to Amsterdam will never happen, at least not with a fear of Dutch people and culture. 13. Francophobia Flickr: flod / Via Creative Commons Same goes for Paris if you're afraid of French people and culture, as well. 14. Sesquipedalophobia Alex Wong / Via Getty Images Ironically, the fear of long words. 15. Alliumphobia Flickr: francescarter / Via Creative Commons Dracula must have had this, because it is the fear of garlic. 16. Coulrophobia Jason Merritt / Via Getty Images Thanks to Stephen King's It, most of us have coulrophobia, which is the fear of clowns. 17. Acerophobia Flickr: 77568040@N08 / Via Creative Commons I guess lemons are out of the question when you have a fear of sourness. 18. Venustraphobia Ethan Miller / Via Getty Images Fear of beautiful women? Good thing I don't have this or else I would have never married my wife. 19. Sinistrophobia Fox / Via askville.amazon.com This is when you are afraid of things to your left side or just left-handed things (and people) in general. Did Joseph McCarthy suffered from this? 20. Dextrophobia NBC / Via Facebook: 2013 Conversely, this is when you fear things to your right. 21. Aulophobia Mark Metcalfe / Via Getty Images It makes it really hard to enjoy Jethro Tull when you have a fear of flutes. 22. Bibliophobia Flickr: somegeekintn / Via Creative Commons A fear of books is a sad fear, indeed. 23. Samhainophobia Flickr: fabiovenni / Via Creative Commons No, this isn't a fear of Glenn Danzig's band, but a fear of Halloween, which just happens to be Danzig's favorite holiday. 24. Porphyrophobia Flickr: danielle_scott / Via Creative Commons McDonald's Grimace must be a nightmare when you fear the color purple. 25. Omphalophobia Scott Gries/Hulton Archives / Via Getty Images You will never be accused of being a navel gazer, not with a fear of belly buttons. 26. Pogonophobia Stephen Dunn / Via Getty Images Brian Wilson was right to market "Fear the beard" since some people actually do fear beards. 27. Philophobia Flickr: miguelpdl / Via Creative Commons This is the fear of being/falling in love, so stay away, Cupid! 28. Chirophobia Sony Pictures / Via rebelinthedetails.blogspot.com The reason you will never get a massage might be because you have a fear of hands. 29. Consecotaleophobia Flickr: southpaw2305 / Via Creative Commons This makes going out for sushi difficult since this is the fear of chopsticks. 30. Euphobia Flickr: macbeck / Via Creative Commons "The good news is we pinpointed your phobia. The bad news is your phobia is a fear of good news." 31. Papaphobia Franco Origlia / Via Getty Images No matter how awesome the current one is, some people will always be frightened by the pope. 32. Ithyphallophobia Flickr: spablab / Via Creative Commons This phobia must be hard to deal with, since it the fear of having/seeing/thinking about an erect penis. 33. Paraskavedekatriaphobia Flickr: dskley / Via Creative Commons Yep, you can probably thank Michael Myers and his William Shatner mask for forever being scared of the date Friday the 13. 34. Liticaphobia Flickr: mccaffry / Via Creative Commons Can you be sued for having a fear of lawsuits? 35. Metrophobia Flickr: vhhammer / Via Creative Commons Yes, you fear and hatepoetry, which is why Imade this a haiku. 36. Peladophobia Ilya S. Savenok / Via Getty Images Mr. Clean is your enemy when you have a fear of bald people. 37. Sciaphobia Flickr: 62347689@N04 / Via Creative Commons I'm sure Peter Pan didn't have this phobia; it's fear of shadows. 38. 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Ottevanger has brought innovative technology to the market with its design of animal-feed plants that are made from units built as standard 20-ft containers.
The entire electrical installation and control are part of the design, which can be expanded to include a fully computer-controlled system. The complete installation is pre-assembled in the Netherlands in the container frames. This approach reduces assembly time by approximately 80 percent.
Ottevanger’s container plants are suitable for the production of various types of feed for cattle, poultry, pigs and fish.
- All components reliable and tested
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Ottevanger Milling Engineers is a leading European company in the design and manufacture of equipment and complete installations for the grain-processing and mixed-feed industries. Food producers throughout the world use these installations to produce food for people and animals.
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ProThera Biologics and Takeda Enter Global Licensing Agreement to Develop Novel Plasma-Derived Therapy Based on Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins (IAIP)
Early research has indicated that this IAIP technology has the potential to deliver a highly innovative, disease-modifying treatment for a range of acute inflammatory diseases. In such conditions, dysregulated inflammation plays a key role in the pathology, and there are no effective treatments available today. IAIP are naturally occurring proteins that circulate in the blood, and extensive research at ProThera has shown that these proteins play an essential role in human health by controlling inflammation. They exert their anti-inflammatory effects through multiple mechanisms and have the potential to change the paradigm of treatment for patients with dysregulated immune responses. During acute illnesses, however, the levels of these anti-inflammatory proteins rapidly decline. A replenishment strategy for patients using Inter-alpha Inhibitors is supported by numerous preclinical studies.
“Our goal is to successfully treat patients with severe inflammatory conditions and this is now possible through our alliance with Takeda,” said Denice Spero, president and chief business officer of ProThera. “Takeda’s R&D expertise is well aligned with the potential uses of our Inter-alpha Inhibitor technology. We are delighted that Takeda and ProThera are collaborating and that Takeda shares our enthusiasm for tackling unmet medical needs.”
As part of the agreement, ProThera and Takeda will work together on IND-enabling activities, with development led by Takeda’s dedicated Plasma Derived Therapies R&D organization. The broad collaboration will also explore the development of companion diagnostics with the goal of personalizing patient treatment and maximizing real-world outcomes. Takeda will assume responsibility for funding all development and commercialization activities. The financial terms of the licensing agreement are not being disclosed.
“We believe ProThera’s expertise in IAIP technology represents a potentially powerful opportunity to explore the untapped potential of plasma in order to address challenging rare and complex diseases,” commented Dr. Chris Morabito, Takeda’s Head of Research and Development, Plasma-Derived Therapies Business Unit. “Leveraging this potent technology using our deep expertise and robust dedicated plasma infrastructure, this collaboration reflects our patient-centered R&D efforts and could represent an important new avenue to deliver meaningful innovation to patient populations in need.”
“ProThera is proud to join forces with a world-class company like Takeda to tackle a number of challenging diseases. Takeda is one of the leaders in plasma-derived therapies, and we are confident that this partnership may advance this promising therapeutic into the clinic,” said Dr. Yow-Pin Lim, co-founder and CEO of ProThera. “It has been a long journey to study these extraordinary proteins, and we are excited about the possibilities of achieving positive clinical outcomes.”
About ProThera Biologics
ProThera Biologics has focused since inception on developing Inter-alpha Inhibitor Proteins for the treatment of life-threatening inflammatory diseases along with a rapid, point of care diagnostic test to determine IAIP levels for use as a biomarker for patient progression to severe outcomes. ProThera has demonstrated the potential of IAIP therapy in numerous preclinical models and the use of IAIP as a biomarker in clinical samples.
The company was co-founded by Yow-Pin Lim, M.D., Ph.D., and Douglas Hixson, Ph.D., faculty members at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, based upon research originating in the labs at Lifespan/Rhode Island Hospital, with seed funding from the R.I.-based Slater Technology Fund. In developing its technology, ProThera has collaborated with investigators at multiple academic research institutions and has been awarded in excess of $12 million in federal funding from agencies within the National Institutes of Health pursuant to Small Business Investment Research (SBIR) grants. The company has received continued investment from the Slater Fund, and has also received support from R.I. Commerce Corp. through its Innovate RI Small Business Fund.
Approximately $4M in Phase II SBIR grants from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) is currently supporting collaborative research with Care New England/Women & Infants Hospital on neonatal brain injury as well as the rapid test to assist therapy in infants with life-threatening diseases.
About Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK) is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader headquartered in Japan, committed to bringing Better Health and a Brighter Future to patients by translating science into highly-innovative medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Diseases, Neuroscience, and Gastroenterology (GI). We also make targeted R&D investments in Plasma-Derived Therapies and Vaccines. We are focusing on developing highly innovative medicines that contribute to making a difference in people’s lives by advancing the frontier of new treatment options and leveraging our enhanced collaborative R&D engine and capabilities to create a robust, modality-diverse pipeline. Our employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients and to working with our partners in health care in approximately 80 countries.
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By Frederic Tuten
His father, the county doctor, loved him. He read to him even when he returned tired from his rounds, from Miss Biddle with her gout and Judge Jackson with his ever-weakening heart and all the others in the countryside who needed him. When he turned eight, the doctor gave the boy books for his birthday.
“You have reached the age of reason,” the doctor said, “and I will leave you to tell me why I gave you these books in particular.” The History of the Earth was one, but Our Unfolding Universe was the one he loved the best. The boy looked again and again at the large color plates depicting the world from its earliest days, when the sea churned in a violet light and the sky shone with a gray-blue dullness, as if it were never sure whether it was morning or dusk.
“I think you want me to know, Father, that the world is mysterious and ever-changing.”
“You are a bright boy. Don’t let the world dull you.”
There was nothing the boy loved more than climbing the ancient oak that rose on the cliff above the sea. He went to his window the moment he woke and climbed the tree in weather both fair and nasty. He spread himself along the highest branches and took in the changing sky and the moody sea. He could see his cheerful house and the surrounding farms and he knew that wherever he went in life, he would always wish to return there.
When he was ten, the oak tree grew sick—the leaves yellowed, the trunk withered—and died. Burley men came to chop it down and cart the wood away. He cried for a whole afternoon and many afternoons and the mornings that followed until his father said, “All things die, my son, trees and people too.”
The boy’s mother had died soon after he was born and his father had never remarried. Sometimes, after dinner, his father would withdraw to his book-cluttered study and smoke a wide-bowl briar pipe and the boy could hear him speaking to someone with his mother’s name, but there was no one in the room, only billows of cherry-scented blue smoke.
“Are you talking to my mother?” the boy asked.
“Does she speak to you, even though she is dead?”
“In a way,” the doctor said, rising from his chair and hugging his son.
One day, and without fuss, when the boy had turned eighteen, his father died, leaving him the house and the land and a modest but substantial income. The will read: “My son, live, live all you can.” He had his father cremated, according to his wishes. The young man poured the ashes in an urn and buried it beside the oak stump.
“Ashes,” he said, “to think that a life ends in ashes that have no memory.”
He left his home soon after and sailed all the seven seas and the five oceans and rode over all the continents by rail and car and bus and by a plane that he himself had piloted. He traveled by foot and bike and motorcycle, too, for the intimate feel of the road. He saw towns and cities with their giant buildings pulsating with life. He saw bombed cities that had crumbled into shards of glass and bright steel and saw in everything mutability and transformation: his oak tree into a stump; his father into ashes.
Then he came home. He married a plainspoken woman and they had a son. He loved them both in a respectful way and hid his restlessness and his longing. Longing for what, he did not know.
No one knew who had constructed the tower or had witnessed it being constructed. One day, there was nothing but the green, hilly land of his childhood, and the next day, a tower arose where the oak had stood, on the edge of the cliff that overlooked the sea, a tower that pierced the clouds and that surely went beyond.
In his sleep one night, it came to him that he must climb it.
“Who told you to?” his wife asked. “Who told you to do such a foolish thing? Was it that idiot down the road who eats only plants that face the sun?”
“Not him, no.”
“Was it that bald woman who wears a cardboard sign saying that the world is doomed to suffocate itself?”
“Not her, either,” he said.
“The tower itself.”
“It spoke to you, the tower?”
“In my sleep.”
“Are you sure it was not a burning bush?” she asked, “or a talking snake?”
“The tower. And I’m going to climb to its top.”
“Maybe there’s a beanstalk and a giant up there, Dad,” his ten-year-old son said.
“Maybe Jack will be there, too, my son. I will tell him you said hello.”
His wife walked him to the door of their cottage and gave him a thermos of water and a blue sweater she had knit for his birthday. “I will have dinner ready, fool,” she said, kissing him on each cheek.
It took him hours to climb to the first tier of the tower. He rested there and took in the view. There was his teacher’s house, where she lived with two yellow dogs and a tall woman with one arm; there was the volunteer fire station where his father had played chess with the Chief, an atheist who prayed when the alarm-call sounded; there was Mary Cook’s saltbox of a house with its sugar-white clapboards and slanted chimney. She had been his first love and had gotten married when he was away on his travels.
“Come home! Come home!” His wife shouted to him from far below on the lower rungs.
“Not yet,” he said, climbing higher.
She shouted again, but he cupped his ear and waved to her as if to say: Don’t worry yourself; I will be home one day. He wondered if he had conveyed the message with his wave.
It was bracing, the land with the screen of the sky and the iron rungs with their thickness and certainty. He was sure they would never give way under his foot or break under the grasp of his hand as he reached above and pulled himself higher and higher toward the faraway turret that capped the tower.
He saw the rivers and valleys, forests laced with streams. He felt the chill of snow-capped mountains just yards from his feet. When he arrived at the next tier, he felt himself lighter and, dare he say, younger, as if the weight of the years and loss had vanished.
By his second day of climbing, he had forgotten hunger and thirst and sleep. But he had not forgotten his wife and son and their cozy home always smelling of cinnamon and baked bread. He paused to picture them.
A hot air balloon with a basket carrying a man drifted up alongside him. “Dad, time to come home,” the man said.
The man looked too old to be the boy he had left behind only days ago, and he asked, “Who has sent you?”
“We who love you, Dad. Come back to earth; come back to terra firma, Dad, and to what loves you.”
“I want to reach the top first and see what is to be seen from it,” he said, at last recognizing his son’s features.
“And to what you love, Dad,” he added, as the balloon suddenly descended in a powerful downdraft.
What did he love, or had he ever loved, on earth? The giant oak tree of his youth that he climbed on summer days and looked out to the sea in the distance. The sea that one day he had come to know like a brother from another time. His father, his father and the billowing smoke of his pipe in the room of his loneliness.
The call to return home and to those who loved him was strong, but the drive to continue was stronger. “Inexorable,” he said, as if to explain the force that propelled him.
The earth far below sent up waves of ominous heat and the rivers looked like threads of blood; the ocean had congealed into a mirror-like sheet, the winds having sanded it to a high, dead shine, although here and there a toy-like ship broke the ocean’s uniform skin, rising like a pustule.
“Beautiful,” he said, “beautiful, the world.” He had said the same at the Ganges, when he watched the dead fuel the wooden pyres and their bones and ashes scattered into the sacred river.
When he was a boy, he had asked his father, “What is the world made of?”
“Made of nothing and is nothing,” his father answered.
He knew that was not true, that the world was made of oceans and mountains and glorious trees, like the old oak he had loved.
“Then what is it that we see and touch, Father?”
“A phantom, my son.”
He began to despair that there was no end to his climb; the higher he reached the further seemed the top. It struck him, too, that he was the only one climbing the tower; he looked below and saw no one, and no one above, either. But as he went higher, he thought he had spied someone in the upper reaches, only to find a golden condor perched on a rung. It spoke to him. “Only a bit more,” the bird said in the reassuring voice of his father, “and it is done.” Then he spread his enormous golden wings and disappeared into the sky.
When he stepped on the final tier, it was carpeted with his childhood books, and scattered about, the six missing crayons from his classroom desk and his comb, with all its tines, that had dropped from his pocket in a fight on his way to school. He recognized there, too, resting on its side, his father’s briar pipe. He picked it up and sat down.
He looked out and saw that beyond the tower was a green, hilly land with a giant oak tree in full bloom on a cliff overlooking the sea.
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On December 15, 2008, Six Nations Polytechnic held a ceremony to confer the title of Professor of Indigenous Knowledge on five wise and accomplished persons who had contributed to preserving, promoting and imparting the centuries-long knowledge developed and nurtured in our community.
The ceremony marked a very auspicious occasion - to honor and recognize our Guardians of Indigenous Knowledge specific to the traditions and culture of the Hodinohso:ni’ of the Grand River Territory. In 2010, a second installment of Knowledge Guardians occurred.
The Indigenous Knowledge Guardians honoured are our experts, our knowledge authorities by their areas of expertise. They have spent a life time of learning about our traditional ways and how to talk about them in our languages.
They are the people we all go to when we need a ceremony done, need to know about our history, need to know about our traditional practices and they have demonstrated a life-long commitment to the acquisition of Indigenous Knowledge from within the Hodinohso:ni’ traditions. They have also demonstrated a commitment to passing on Indigenous Knowledge to the next generation. They have demonstrated the ways of living through good life teachings (the Good Mind) and they are fluent language speakers.
Six Nations Polytechnic acknowledges the need to focus on teaching authentic Indigenous Knowledge (values/world views) and languages. This will not involve teaching sacred practices and ceremonies as these are matters taught in our traditional learning environments.
The Indigenous Knowledge Guardians were honoured by the Six Nations Polytechnic Board as Professors of Indigenous Knowledge. In doing so, the Board would also like to acknowledge those who have gone before us, Francis Froman, Marge Henry and Harvey Longboat.
This step is one in a series being taken by Six Nations Polytechnic in pursuit of our goal to offer an Ogwehoweh Degree Program in culture and languages. This program, in turn, is one of many actions being taken in the direction of language revitalization and cultural recovery occurring in Hodinohso:ni’ communities.
Below is a list of Indigenous Knowledge Guardians and the year they were recognized:
- Ima Johnson, 2008
- Lottie Keye, 2008 - December 25, 2017
- Hubert Skye, 2008 - October 2016
- Frances Froman, 2008 - July 13, 2010
- Evelyn Bomberry, 2008 - December 13, 2010
- Nora Carrier, 2010 - October 2016
- Tom Deer, 2010
- Arnold General, 2010 - April 2016
- Ariel Harris, 2010
- Manual Johnson, 2010
- Alfred Keye, 2010
- Jim Styres, 2010 – August 29, 2018
- Germaine General-Myke, 2013
- Leroy Hill, 2013
- Amos Key Jr., 2015
- Elva Jamieson, 2015
- Betty Henry, 2015
- Art Johnson, 2015
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